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Alaska Resources
Subject of Public
Forum Tomorrow
Oil, power, natural gas, min
erals, agriculture and other re
sources of Interior and North
western Alaska will be subjects
of progress reports by a group of
experts who will take part in an
Alaska Development Board public
forum at Fairbanks tomorrow.
The Armistice Day public meet
ing in the Fourth Division court
chambers will be part of a two
day session of the Development
Board at Fairbanks.
Speakers will include Com
mander Albert J. Seeboth, U.S.
Navy, who will describe work
done in U.S. Naval Petroleum Re
serve No. 4, of which he is com
manding officer; E .S. Marvich,
senior biologist of the Alaska De
partment of Fisheries, who will
report on possibilities for devel
opment of a whitefish fishery in
the interior, and Robert H. Saun
ders, associate mining engineer of
the Territorial Department of
Mines, who will discuss the out
look for mining in the Second and
Fourth Divisions.
Others taking part in the forum
program will be Joseph M. Mor
gan, district manager of the Bu
reau of Reclamation; A1 Seeliger
of the Fairbanks Chamber of
Commerce; George Sundborg and
Ralph Browne of the Develop
ment Board; Clyde Sherman,
Territorial Commissioner of Agri
culture; John Brennan of Fair
* banks, and Larry- Galvin and
Terry Jackson of the Northwest
ern Alaska Chamber of Commerce
of Nome.
Representative-elect Ted Duf
field left today to attend the for
um, in place of Galvin and Jack
son, who due to unavoidable cir
cumstances were not able to go-.
* Hiss’s Lawyers Appeal
Denial For New Trial
NEW YORK, (/P>— Alger Hiss
says the federal judge who denied
him a new trial earlier this year
did so “without fair hearing.”
Counsel for the former State
Department official Friday ap
pealed a court order by Judge
Henry W. Goddard refusing an
other hearing based on what the
defense called new evidence.
Hiss, 47, was convicted on Jan.
25, 1950, on two counts of per
jury in denying before a federal
grand jury that he gave secret
government papers to Communist
spy-ring courier Whittaker Cham
bers. A first trial resulted in a
hung jury.
Chester T. Lane, attorney for
Hiss, had argued before Judge
Goddard last January that Hiss
had been framed by Chambers
through “forgery by typewriter.”
' Hiss’ attorneys applied in Wash
ington on Thursday for his parole
from the Lewisburg, Pa., federal
penitentiary. Hiss is serving a
five-year sentence.
The appeal for setting aside the
new trial denial said Goddard
“accepted the government’s un
substantiated gossip and rumors
as sufficient to controvert sworn
statements of defense witnesses
who were presented as ready and
able to support their affidavits in
open court.”
Gen. Van Fleet To Give
Up Command 8th Army
SEOUL, (/P)— Gen. James A.
Van Fleet plans to give up his
command' of the U. S. Eighth
Army within two month's, it was
learned authoritatively.
His plans are uncertain. They
may hinge on talks with Dwight
Eisenhower when the President
elect visits here before the end
of the year.
Van Fleet, a hard-fighting vet
eran of World War II, the Greek
campaign against the Communist
guerrillas and 19 months of the
Korean war, is 60. There have
been frequent reports he would
retire from active duty early next
year.
Gruening Goes To
Wash i ngton, H i s
Future Undecided
JUNEAU, (/PI — Democratic
Gov. Gruening left by plane for
Washington, D.C., Saturday to be
gone “several weeks,” his per
sonal plans for the future still un
decided.
The governor, whom Alaska Re
publican leaders expect to be re
placed in view of General Eisen
hower’s election to the presiden
cy, did not state what his busi
ness would be at Washington. He
said he did plan to attend the
Western Governor’s conference at
Phoenix, Ariz., Dec. 7-8-9.
Asked Friday if he plans to
resign when General Eisenhower
is inaugurated, Gruening replied:
“I would say that the question
is still to’ be left to future de
termination. I haven’t made any
decision yet.”
He was also asked if he has
made himself available to the
University of Alaska regents for
president to succeed Dr. Terris
Moore, who is resigning. He re
plied:
“I believe that is one of the
bridges to be crossed if and when
one comes to it.”
A newsman also inquired of the
governor if he intends to stay
here if a successor is appointed,
and he answered:
“Yes, I have been a resident of
Alaska 12 years and I would be
inclined to' stay.”
Prominent Republicans
Think Eisenhower Should
Cancel His Trip to Korea
TOPEKA, Kas., (/P) — Alf M.
Landon and Harry Woodring,
both former governors of Kansas,
think President-elect Dwight Ei
senhower should cancel his pro
posed trip to Korea.
Woodring, Secretary of War in
the early part of the Franklin D.
Roosevelt administration and for
mer Democratic governor, sug
gested Eisenhower send top rank
ing representatives in his stead.
Landon, Republican presiden
tial nominee in 1936, said he be
lieves Eisenlyjwer is committed by
his campaign promise to go to
Korea, but he added:
“It is too great a risk for the
welfare of the American people
for what can be gained by mak
ing the trip.”
Landon suggested that mem
bers of Congress, as representa
tives of the people, ask the Presi
dent-elect not to make the trip.
Eyewitness Report
Says H-Bomb Blast
Vaporized Atoll
LOS ANGELES, 1/P) — The
“first eyewitness account of a hy
drogen bomb explosion at Eni
wetok,” carried Saturday by the
Los Angeles Examiner says the
H-bomb makes the A-bomb look
like “a runt.”
The Examiner’s story, written
by Science Editor Chris Clausen,
says the H-bomb test took place
on a small atoll in the Eniwetok
group recently. It did not give the
date.
“It is - likely,” Clausen wrote,
“that the tremendous unparal
leled force of the H-bomb—the
world’s first—vaporized into gas
and dust the atoll, a half mile
wide and three miles long, on
which the detonation took place.”
The eyewitness account of the
big explosion, the Examiner said, i
was furnished by a Los Angeles
resident who received a letter
from a friend at the Atomic En
ergy Commission’s Pacific prov
ing grounds. The AEC has kept
mum thus far on the scheduled
autumn tests.
The blast, the letter writer said,
was viewed through dark glasses
and “appeared a huge orange ball,
which grew larger and brighter
until it appeared as if no dark
glasses were there at all.”
The Examiner withheld the
names of both the writer and the
donor of the letter.
The H-bomb has been esti
mated at up to 1,000 times more
powerful than the A-bomb.
Sen. Wayne Morse
Says He Will Vote
With Democrats
WASHINGTON, W - S e rt.
Wayne Morse of Oregon has cast
just a flash of light on how he
intends to vote in he 83rd Con
gress: for the Democratic plat
form and against the Republican
platform.
Morse, who bowed out of the
Republican party to back Demo
cratic presidential nominee Adlai
Stevenson’s unsuccessful cam
paign, appeared Sunday on two
television shows — CBS “Man of
the Week” and NBC “Youth
Wants to Know.”
With Morse as an independent,
the Republicans hold a 48-47 edge
in the Senate over the Democrats.
If Morse votes with the Demo
crats, however, the 48-48 tie could
be broken by Republican Vice
President-elect Richard Nixon,
who will be Senate president.
Morse was asked how he would
vote. He first declined to say, ob
serving, “That’s what a lot of
people would like to know.”
But later he said he would
vote against the Republicans if
they try to enact their platform,
with the Democrats if they try to
put their platform across.
The Oregon legislator said he
cannot envision himself return
ing to the GOP or joining the
Democratic party, adding: “The
kind of liberalism I believe in is
dead in the Republican party—at
least for the immediate future.”
Sailors Union Walkout
Enters Sixth Day
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P)—Repre
sentatives of the AFL Sailors
Union of the Pacific and the Ship
owners’ Pacific Maritime Associ
ation met Monday in an effort to
settle a six-day walkout by some
15,000 sailors.
At least 28 ships in Pacific
Coast and Eastern ports have
been blocked from sailing since
the sailors stopped signing aboard
commercial ships last Tuesday.
The sailors are protesting the
Wage Stabilization Board’s failure
to approve a strike-won five per
cent wage increase boosting base
monthly pay from $288 to $302.
The board, which has taken
two indecisive votes on the in
crease, will discuss the matter
again in Washington Wednesday.
Expect Ike Name
South Democrat
To His Cabinet
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Presi
dent-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower
is expected to name a Southerner
—and possibly a Democrat—to his
cabinet in recognition of the un
precedented vote he rolled up in
Dixie.
While the general hardly has
had time since his landslide vic
tory in last Tuesday’s election to
make progress toward picking any
cabinet member, friends here said
they believe he will make it clear
by such an appointment that he
intends to deal them in on his ad
ministration.
Eisenhower’s three top support
ers in the South were Governors
James F. Byrnes of South Caro
lina, Robert Kennon of Louisiana
and Allan Shivers of Texas. None
of them may want a cabinet post,
but all might be consulted about
the selection of a Dixie colleague.
A Texas woman, Mrs. Oveta
Culp Hobby, co-publisher of the
Houston Post, already has been
mentioned as a possibility if a
woman is chosen.
Eisenhower strategists are look
ing at the vote polled by the gen
eral in Dixie as the possible basis
for revival of the Republican
party in an area where it has
been only a skeleton organization
in the past.
Eisenhower carried Virginia,
Florida, Texas and apparently
Tennesse and these states are re
garded as the best bets for start
ing a rebuilding program.
—
Marines to Use Helicopters
In Paratroop Operations
BALTIMORE, (/P)—Helicopters
may largely replace paratroop op
erations for the Marines, says
Major Victor A. Armstrong, heli
copter project officer of the Ma
rine Corps Equipment Board at
Quantico, Va.
He told a Baltimor Association
of Commerce helicopter confer
ence that the Marine Corps be
lieves transporting men to battle
areas by helicopters is superior to
dropping them there by para
chute.
Armstrong said the big advan
tage in the use of the helicopter
is in bringing a unit to its desti
nation intact rather than dis
persed.
Sen. Lodge Named
To Liaison With
Truman Admin.
AUGUSTA, Ga., (/P) — Presi
dent-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower’s
choice of Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge
and Detroit banker Joseph M.
Dodge for key pre-administration
assignments appeared today to
assure them major posts in the
new Republican administration.
Eisenhower yesterday named
the Massachusetts GOP senator
his liaison man to work with the
expiring Truman administration
in all federal agencies except one.
To the Budget Bureau as his
personal representative the gen
eral appointed Dodge, a Republi
can with a long record of fiscal
and other service in the outgoing
Democratic regime.
Both men told a news confer
ence they hope to have prelimin
ary reports ready for Eisenhower
when he confers at the White
House next week with President
Truman. That session, suggested
by Truman, will deal with inter
national and domestic problems as
they relate to the forthcoming
change in administrations.
Truman also had urged Eisen
hower to name liaison men. The
President singled out the Defense
and State Departments and the
Budget Bureau, but Eisenhower
dsignated Lodge to work with all
federal agencies “where such liai
son may prove useful in facilitat
ing the transfer of public busi
ness from the old to the new
administration.”
Lodge, defeated last Tuesday in
his bid for a new Senate term, is
regarded as a likely Eisenhower
choice for a cabinet post. He has
been mentioned for Secretary of
Defense or Secretary of State.
Truman Satisfied With
Eisenhower’s Choice Of
Liaison Representatives
WASHINGTON, ,(£>)—President
Truman told Gen. Dwight Eisen
hower Monday that his choice of
liaison representatives with the
federal government is “emminent
ly satisfactory.”
Eisenhower has named Sen.
Henry Cabot lodge, Jr., of Massa
chusetts and Joseph M. Dodge of
Detroit as his personal represent
atives to observe government ac- ^
tivities pending the general’s in
auguration as President Jan. 20.
Lodge will be Eisenhower’s
representative in all government
departments except the Budget
Bureau, in which Dodge will be
stationed.
The White House disclosed Tru
man expressed satisfaction with
this arrangement in a telegram to
Eisenhower at Augusta, Ga.
Socks Former Top Kick
But It Costs $35.80
FRANKLIN, Ind., (TP)—Judson
Hendricks did what a lot of newly
discharged soldiers have dreamed
of—he socked his former top kick
oh the jaw.
Sgt. Jack B. Meyer of Camp
Atterbury thereupon filed assault
and battery charges against the
20-year-old ex-soldier from Mo
bile, Ala. Judge Oral Barnett of
Johnston Circuit Court fined Hen
dricks $35.80 and gave him a 30
day suspended sentence.