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| Van Fleet Details
U.S. Ammunition
Shortages In Korea
WASHINGTON, UP) — Some sen
timent for a more aggressive strat
egy in the deadlocked Korean
war was evident today among
senators who heard Gen. James
A. Van Fleet detail his complaints
that American forces there don’t
have enough ammunition.
Van Fleet, former commander
in Korea, called for harder-hitting
attacks on the Reds, but he said
he doubts United Nations forces
v have enough ammunition to re
pel any major offensive the Com
munists might mount.
“Sure, if there is a sitdown and
no fighting,” Van Fleet said, “there
is no ammunition requirement;
therefore, no shortage.”
But, he added, “Should the en
emy start something, which is un
predictable, then do we have
enough to meet his offensive, and
I say ‘No’.”
Van Fleet said stocks were so
t
low at times that he issued orders
to cut down on artillery fire, and
that the troops “have to be in
trouble in order to shoot” the
heavier mortars and howitzers.
The general spoke out in testi
mony heard by the Senate Armed
Services Committee behind closed
doors earlier this month. A trans
cript, with security information
deleted, was made public by the
committee last night.
Queen Narriman Returns
To Egypt as Private Citizen
CAIRO, Egypt, Iff) — Queen
Narriman returned to her native
Egypt before dawn, giving up the
faded splendors of royalty in
exile for life as a private citi
zen.
' Egypt’s government allowed the
19-year-old estranged wife of for
mer King Farouk to come home
only on condition that she enjoy
no special privileges, even though
her 14-month-old son, Fuad II, is
King of Egypt.
When she stepped, pale and
tired from an India airliner from
Geneva, Narriman ended 23 hec
tic months that saw her elevated
from a commoner to queen of
Egypt’s 20 million people, and de
posed by popular anger against
her playboy husband.
Trumans Leave Frisco
For Hawaii Vacation
SAN FRANCISCO, UP)—Citizen
Harry Truman avoided political
talk at a press conference yester
day—until the name of Charles E.
Bohlen was mentioned.
Then the former president
praised the controversial nominee
for ambassador to Russia as “a
very capable person ... a fine
man. I know him well.”
Truman, his wife and their dau
ghter, Margaret, then sailed for
■a vacation in the Hawaiian islands
aboard the liner President Cleve
land.
The ex-chief executive declined
to appraise anyone in or out of
government. “That’s your busi
ness,” he told reporters. “You
didn’t have any trouble apprais
r ing me.”
S3 Million School
Appropriation To
Face Senate Test
By JIM HUTCHESON
JUNEAU, UP> — A bill for a
$3,000,000 appropriation for school
construction passed the Senate by
a narrow squeeze late Saturday
but it is due to return for a
second run today.
The Senate debated the issue
at length, rejected a proposal by
Sen. Mark Jensen, to raise the
amount to four million and an
other by Sen. Howard Lyng to
cut it to $1,500,000.
Supporters argued the schools
are the territory’s greatest need
and an election referendum show
ed the people want action. All
Third Division senators led in the
debate for the full three million.
Opponents contended that con
struction in boom times is not ad
visable and that the best overall
procedure is to include an accept
able item in the general appro
priations bill after the budget is
framed.
Meanwhile, the House passed a
bill for varied salary increases for
most territorial administrative
heads and assistants after getting
into a hot wrangle over the Alaska
Development Board head.
The biggest boost approved is
for the attorney general, from
$10,000 to $13,500. The Ways and
Means Committee bill cut the De
velopment Board manager from
the present $12,000 to $9,000. As
finally approved the figure read
$10,800. p
House and Senate committees
worked overtime on the budget
bill, which is expected to total
around 25 million dollars, and
scheduled Sunday sessions to have
it ready by Monday.
Argentine Cyclist Taking
35,000 Mile Ride From
Buenos Aires to Alaska
VICTORIA, Tex., UP — A well
muscled and weather-burned Ar
gentine is bicycling from Buenos
Aires to Alaska.
Francis Elias, 26, pedalled into
this south Texas town over the
weekend, A flashlight, bedroll and
canteen were strapped to his body.
A few other essentials were at
tached to his bicycle. He is hand
some, wearing white shorts and T
shirt and a padded head protector.
The former Argentine marine
went to the Red Cross office to
ask treatment of a knee injured
months ago when a car struck his
bicycle in the Bolivia mountains.
Elias said he rubbed the injury
with liniment and it had not both
ered him until Thursday night
when he slept on the cold ground
alongside the highway.
The Red Cross arranged for- a
doctor to examine the knee, but
before the doctor arrived the
cyclist had found some more lini
ment and was on his way again.
Elias says he will pedal 35,000
miles to break the world record
for bicycle touring. He left Buenos
Aires in February, 1952, and hopes
to be back by June of 1954. Next
stops are Houston, New Orleans,
Washington, New York, Ottawa,
then Alaska.
Air Force Accused
Of “False Report’*
In Latest Incident
WASHINGTON, UP— Sen. Flan
ders (R-Vt) says the Air Force
probably meant to influence pub
lic opinion in issuing what he
termed a “false report” about the
mission of a U.S. plane fired on
by a Soviet fighter off Siberia.
Flanders told the Senate Friday
he had reliable information that
the American bomber would not
have flown within 400 miles of
Russian Kamchatka if it was on a
routine course.
The Air Force said Friday it had
nothing to add to its original an
nouncement “except to emphasize
the fact that at no time was the
B-50 (the U.S. plane) closer than
25 miles to Kamchatka, and was
not in air space claimed to be
under any national jurisdiction.”
The White House, Secretary of
Defense Wilson and Lt. Gen. Jo
seph H. Atkinson, commander of
the Alaska Defense Command, all
declined comment.
An Air Force announcement
Tuesday said the Alaska-based
U.S. craft was on “a routine
weather reconnaissance flight”
when the Soviet plane fired on it
25 miles east of the Siberian pen
insula of Kamchatka.
“That reconnaissance bomber was
not just there on weather busi
ness,” Flanders said. “It may
nevertheless have been engaged
on a useful mission.
“The serious thing about this
incident is the false report given
to the American people by the
Air Force. It tended and probably
was intended to influence public
opinion by making the third inci
dent into an act of agression.”
Construction Ban Lifted
WASHINGTON, The Army
has announced lifting of bans on
construction projects in 14 states
and Alaska, totalling $44,381,500.
Suspension of all new contracts
and of all projects less than 20
per cent completed was ordered in
early February by Secretary of
Defense Wilson, pending a review
of their urgency..
Army officials said that after
the review, projects in Alaska to
taling $5,510,200 and 19 other pro
jects have been cleared for work
to continue.
Aii* Force officials said some of
their projects now under review
are to be cleared soon but no an
nouncement can be made now.
PLAYBOY PUT IN PEN
FOR POSSESSING PISTOLS
NEW YORK, — Minot F.
(Mickey) Jelke, cafe society vice
figure and oleo heir, was taken in
a police van Saturday to Rikers
Island to begin serving an eight
month workhouse sentence for
possessing two guns.
One gun was found in his auto
mobile and one in his apartment
when the 23-year-old playboy was
arrested in the vice case last Aug
ust,
He had pleaded guilty to the
gun charges and was sentenced
Friday.
A jury has convicted him for
procuring women for wealthy
friends and he is due to be sen
tenced March 27 for this offense.
Gov.-Designate Heintzleman Arrives
Juneau and Reiterates His Primary
Goal Will be Industrial Development
$56,500,000 Pulp
Plant Proposed to
Use Alaska Timber
By FRANK W. VAILLE
<AP Special Washington Service'
Construction of a $56,511,000
pulp and newsprint plant near Ju
neau has been proposed by the
Georgia Pacific Company of New
York.
The proposed newsprint plant
would include a chemical pulp
plant, ground wood pulp plant,
paper mill and power plant.
It was the second recent devel
opment in use of Alaska’s vast
timber resources.
Pacific Northern Timber Co., of
Portland, Ore., has received a
certificate of necessity and been
granted tax amortization on 40
percent of the proposed $4,502,570
cost of a saw mill and pulp chip
plant near Wrangell, Alaska.
Ira Mason, chief of the Forest
Service’s timber management div
ision, said both compainies have
held discussions with the Forest
Service but that progress has not
developed to the stage where a
block of timber has been set up
for bid.
Rep. Westland (R-Wash) said
all important West Coast cities
north of San Francisco started
their growth by the judicious use
of timber resources, and added:
“Their is reason to believe that
in the not too distant future the
forests of Alaska, with assistance
of capital from the United States,
will supply lumber, pulp and
paper for a multitude of consum
ers throughout the world.”
Such developments as those
proposed, he said, “will prove to
be an effective answer to the
feared possibility of Japanese ex
ploitation of these Alaska forests.”
This referred to hopes of the
Japanese lumber industry to tap
Alaska’s forest resources as a
means of bolstering its own dwin
dling supply. Northwest lumber
men have opposed the Japanese
aim. The Alaska legislature, how
ever, has endorsed it as a means
of improving Alaska’s economy.
Red Shore Fire Hits
Missouri and Los Angeles
SEOtlL, UP—South Korean raid
ers roasted Red bunkers and
gasoline bombs Monday in two hit
and run raids on the far eastern
Korean front.
The deadly jerry-built bombs
were metal ammunition boxes fill
ed with jelly-like napalm, the
clinging core used in aerial fire
bombs.
Heavy weather pinned down
Allied warplanes with the excep
tion of some light bomber strikes
on the western and central fronts.
At sea, the battleship Missouri
and cruiser Los Angeles were
fired upon as they steamed close
in to bombard Wonsan harbor.
The ships were reported hit.
Later the Missouri steamed
south to Kojo and fired on shore
gun positions and buildings.
/
By JIM HUTCHESON
JUNEAU, UP\ — Gov. designate
B. Frank Heintzleman landed here
by plane Sunday and said after a
brief talk with legislative lead
ers that he had received no in
formation indicating a need of any
immediate special session of the
legislature.
“I have no specific immediate
legislation in mind,” he said, “and
won’t have until after fuller talks
with the legislators, who are elect
ed representatives of the people.
I feel I am here somewhat as the
chairman of the board.”
He reiterated' that one of his
primary goals will be the indus- •
trial development of Alaska’s vast
potentialities. And he commented
that although his authority as
regional forester for Alaska has
.been concentrated in the south
east, “I have always been keenly
interested in all the territory.”
He said further:
“I will devote a major effort to
ward promotion of permanent in
dustries in other parts of Alaska.
I will give much attention to in
dustrial development in the An
chorage and Fairbanks areas with
the aim of being able to take up
the slack when defense spending
decreases.
“I will investigate power possi
bilities in the- Susitna and other
streams and how they could be
harnessed for processing local
minerals and for possibly im
ported minerals such as bauxite
for aluminum.
“On the coast and interior there
are possibilities to be explored.
Gas would be an economic fuel
which would be a great asset to
the Fairbanks area if it could be
brought there.”
Hentzleman said it “looks as if
there will be 3 long investigation
by Canada before any decision is
made” on whether Canadian head
waters will be available for a
half-billion dollar aluminum plant -
near Skagway.
Heintzleman’s plane slipped
down under heavy skies while this
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Eisenhower Upholds
Nomination of Bohlen
Ambassador to Russia
WASHINGTON, (fl —Sen. Taft
reported Monday that President
Eisenhower is standing pat on his
nomination of Charles E. (Chip)
Bohlen to be ambassador to Rus-H
sia.
Taft, the Senate majority lead
er, and Chairman Wiley (R-Wis)
of the Foreign Relations Commit
tee had a private meeting with
Eisenhower after the regular Mon
day conference of top congres
sional leaders with the President.
Afterwards Taft told newsmen
there had been “no change” in the
positions of the President, Wiley,
or himself on the controversial
nomination.
The nomination has been under
fire by GOP senators McCarthy of
Wisconsin and Bridges of New
Hampshire. It also has been sharp
ly criticized by Democratic Sen
ator McCarran of Nevada.