Military Decision Implied to Guard North America
i With Unified U.S.-Canadian Air Defense Command
MONTREAL, (#>—The chief of
Canada’s air force strongly im
plied here Wednesday that there
has been a military decision—but
no political action—to guard
North America with a unified
U.S.-Canadian Air Defense Com
mand.
The Canadian commander, Air
Marshal C. R. Slemon, told visit
ing U.S. and Canadian aviation
writers that Canada’s Air Defense
Command and that of the United
States already are moving in the
direction of a single, over-all unit.
Headquarters of Canada’s air
defense is at St. Hubert, near
here. The U.S. command operates
at Colorado Springs, Colo.
“All the planning, development,
selection of weapons, and all the
decisions are aimed at the ulti
mate position of a supreme com
mand and everything that goes
with it,” Slemon said.
He added that while there has
been military action in this direc
tion, “the decision has not been
taken politically—but it will be
taken.”
Slemon said that even though
the two air defense commands
work together closely and har
moniously, a unified superior
command is essential to adjust
conflicting interests and to pre
vent the possibility of conflicting
orders.
“You cannot divide the prob
0
lem of the air defense of Canada
and the United States,” he said.
The remarks of the air chief, at
a briefing on defense activities of
the Royal Canadian Air Force,
came as a surprise. Little has been
said publicly on the subject.
A spokesman for the U.S. Air
Defense Command declined com
ment. He pointed out that his
command has released nothing in
this regard and said the matter
would involve the U.S. State De
partment and the Canadian De
partment of External Affairs.
Slemon also declared that Can
ada, specializing in fighter de
fenses. is relying on the United
States to develop long-range
bomber power—through the U.S.
Air Force’s Strategic Air Com
mand.
The head of Canada’s Air De
fense Command, Air Vice Marshal
L. E. Wray, told the writers that
militarily the United States and
Canada are proceeding “as if the
border between them did not ex
ist.”
Wray’s chief staff officer, Air
Commodore C. L. Annis, told the
briefing audience* that enemy
bombs may be expected to contain
a hydrostatic device to detonate
them as they near the ground.
For this reason, he said, it will
be more than ever important to
shoot down aircraft approaching
from the north while they are still
“well outside the populated area.”
He added that if the first warn
ing of invading jet bombers
should come as enemy craft reach
the mid-Canada radar line now
under construction, the planes
would be almost to the Pinetree
Radar Line, just north of Canada’s
populated areas, before they were
first intercepted.
The enemy bombers would be
almost to the U.S. border before
fighters made their second inter
ception, in the event of such a
delayed warning, Annis said.
Progress also was reported on
the northernmost radar network,
the Distant Early Warning (DEW)
Line being located across the Can
adian arctic.
Wing Cmdr. J. A. Wiseman,
RCAF liaison officer on the proj
ect, said that the first phase—site
surveys preliminary to permanent
construction—was completed last
week.
Wiseman said the first DEW
radar stations are being built on
“permanent ice fields 10,000 years
old.”
He added that 22,500 tons of
equipment and 1,500 personnel
had been airlifted for the project
between March 1 and May 15 and
“there is every indication that the
Dew Line will be completed and
operating on the planned date.”
Unique Yank
Apologizes for
Kissing Blonde
SYDNEY, Australia, UP>—Air
man 1/c Preston Gregory, 21, of
La Junta, Colo., won a headline
in the Sydney Sun as “the only
Yank of his kind.”
The Sun said that Gregory,
handsome and shy, apologized for
kissing a Brisbane girl.
Gregory flew in to Brisbane
from Japan Wednesday in a plane
sent to pick up the American
basketball team that has been
touring Australia.
Gregory told a newsman he for
got himself and kissed a girl be
cause she was the first blonde he
had seen in a year.
“There are millions of women
in Japan but they all have black
hair. It gets you down after a
while,” Gregory was quoted as
saying.
“We had a party and when I
was leaving, that girl was so
darned attractive I guess I forgot
myself and just took her in my
arms and kissed her. But I apol
ogized right away.
“I don’t know whether I needed
to because she seemed to like it
all right.”
Bad acoustics can be corrected
in a theater by means of felts,
wires and sounding boards, but
the best material for the interior
of an auditorium—wood—gener
ally cannot be used because of
fire laws.
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Statehood Ballots
Held Up Pending
Ruling June 13
An order restraining Governor
Heintzleman and other territorial
officials including the election
canvassing board from preparing
or printing ballots for the state
hood convention was issued by
Judge J. L. McCarrey of Anchor
age district court this week.
The order is temporary in na
ture since the court at the same
time set June 13 as the final hear
ing on the Kederick vs. Riley case
in which Bob Kederick of Juneau
challenges the right of members
of the last legislature to hold dele
gateships in the statehood con
vention at Fairbanks next fall.
However, a temporary restrain
ing order obtained by Kederick
to prevent Burke Riley of Juneau
(a member of the 22nd legislature)
from filing as a candidate was va
cated. Riley was given seven days
in which to answer Kederick's
complaint.
Judge McCarry said that the
case, which may decide the legal
ity of the entire statehood conven
tion law, would be decided at “an
early date” so that the printing of
ballots would not be interfered
with.This date was subsequently
set for the 13th. Atty. John Man
ders is representing Kederick.
During World War II, in one
busy day, an American transport
plane crossed “The Hump” be
tween China and India every two
and a half minutes.
Canadian Ship Will
Survey Arctic for
New Radar Sites
HALIFAX, N.S., W—'The Royal
Canadian navy’s 6,500-ton re
search ship Labrador sailed Wed
nesday for a six-month arctic
voyage on which a score of Cana
dian and U.S. scientists will make
surveys for North America’s new
radar defenses.
The expedition will complete
beach surveys in the Davis and
Hudson Straits regions prepara
tory to the landing of men and
supplies for building the eastern
end of the U.S.-Canadian Distant
Early Warning (DEW) radar sys
tem.
The surveys will be made in a
vast region which Capt. O. C. S.
Robertson said is more intimately
known to the Russians than to the
Western powers. He said the So
viet Union’s superiority in the
arctic has put their specialists
“ahead of ours.”
Robertson said the arctic may
hold untold mineral wealth as
well as strategic military position.
He said an American expedition
told him last year it had spotted
three major oil reservoirs and
what could be “the world’s big
gest deposit of copper” 1,500 miles
north of Winnipeg.
Royal Mounties Job:
Find Those Buildings
FLIN FLON, Manitoba, (*>—'The
Royal Canadian Mounted Police,
who traditionally get their man,
have a real assignment on their
hands—to find two missing build
ings. The buildings disappeared
from the almost-isolated camp of
the Wildnest Mines Ltd., about 15
miles northwest of here.
Officials of the company said
when the drill camp was closed
in March there were five build
ings on the site. Now the mess
canteen and the engineer’s cabin
are missing
Girl Scouts To
Camp At Dexter
June 13 to 19
Plans are shaping up for the
Girl Scout encampment which
will be held from June 13 until
June 19 at Dexter, stated Jeannie
Jenkins, Girl Scout leader.
Brownie Day will be Saturday,
June 18. ^
The camp program is being
planned by the Girl Scout Com
mittee with the following mem
bers taking special work: Mildred
Harwood is in charge of trans
portation; Marguerite Glavino
vich, food planning and registra
tion; Jeannie Jenkins, program
supplies.
Volunteer camp leaders are:
Linda Kennedy, Omie McCarthy,
Audrey Bayer, Margaret Mozee,
Dorothy Emmons, Alma Glavino
vich, Dorcas Brown, Lou Oliver.
Evening and night camp leader
is Barbara Carlson and Rita Mc
Nees is emergency night leader.
More volunteer camp leaders
could be used, especially in case
of emergency and those interested
may contact Mrs. Jenkins at
Main 18.
Donations of prepared food are
most welcome and contact may
be made with Mrs. Glavinovich
at Black 142. Supplies of brown
wrapping paper, crayons, pen
cils, drawing paper, rope for knot
tying are also needed and donors
may contact Mrs. Jenkins at Main
18.
All girls interested in attend
ing camp should call Mrs. Gla
vinovich at Black 142 before June
8 as registration will clos^ on
that date.
A meeting of the entire camp
staff will be held at the home of
Mrs. Jenkins at 8 p.m. on Wed
nesday, June 8.
Juneau Daily Empire
Publishing Company
Sold to Coloradan
JUNEAU, (J’l—Sale of the Em
pire Printing Co. which publishes
the Daily Alaska Empire, to Wil
liam Prescott Allen of Montrose,
Colo., was announced this week
by Mrs. Helen Troy Monsen, pres
ident of the company.
Negotiations for the sale were
completed this week. The pur
chase price was not disclosed.
Allen, who plans to make his
home in Juneau, publishes the
Montrose (Colo.) Press and the
Laredo (Texas) Times with his
sons, William Prescott Allen Jr.
and Allen Tish Allen.
The Daily Alaska Empire was
established in 1912 by the late J.
A. F. Strong, who later became
governor of Alaska.
The Empire has been in the
Troy family since 1912, when the
late John Troy purchased it. Troy,
who also later became governor of
Alaska, published the paper until
he assumed the governorship.
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ALASKA AIRLINES
From Gambell to Anchorage:
Dan Harry Unglowruk, Harry At
taaka, Davis Moakiyuk, Harry
Koowaata, Peter Okinallo, Frank
lin Kiyuklook, Emma Aseak.
To Anchorage from Nome: Lt.
and Mrs. Frank Foster, Sherman
Jackson, Sfc. Paul McElroy, Eric
Radhe, Jack Jenkins, Stanley
Johnson; Airmen First Class An
thony Barbaris, Aker, S. Edwards
and Ray Burns; Mrs. Lydia Heald,
Lucy Beltz.
Anchorage to Nome: Margaret
Astonia, Virginia Brown, Sgt.
Paul McElroy, Eric Radhe, Sher
man Jackson, William S. Watkins.
Nome to Northeast Cape: Col.
Porter, A. H. Leviero.
WIEN AIRLINES
From Deering: Bessie Moses.
From Kotzebue: Wayne Yates,
Blanche Lincoln, Mr. and Mrs.
Guy Elim.
Scheduled to depart for Fair
banks today are: Dean Kepner,
Paul Lorre, R. S. Ludwig, J.D.
Crawford, Harry Knudson, Mar
garet MacDonald, Elizabeth Ed
wards, Viola Sowerwine, Rev. A.
O. Tostad, Mr. and Mrs. E. Mit
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C. Carpenter and two children
and a U.S. Marshal's party.
To Kotzebue: E. Pessik.
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