Alaska Will Never
Have Large Seale
Ilia tiles; Too Small
(By Clarke Beach)
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Men who
led the recent mock warfare in
the Alaskan sub-Arctic agreed
that large masses of men never
could be pitted against each other
in Alaska as they were in the
last war, but they couldn’t agree
on why this is so.
This correspondent, covering
the Canadian-U. S. joint maneu
vers, heard from various com
manders two theories why the
forces that could be employed
would be relatively small.
One was that only a limited
I lumber of them could be supplied
there because of transportation
difficulties. This is the accepted
view of the National Military Es
tablishment, according to officers
w'ho help do the planning in
Washington.
Another view, expressed by a
high ranking officer with import
ant experience in military trans
portation, was that there just was
not room enough, not enough bat
tleground, for masses of men to
fight. He said he could transport
■ample supplies for all the men
who could be used in the region.
A third opinion about limita
tions on Arctic warfare was ex
pressed by a Canadian ground of
ficer in a high responsible posi
tion, He said air power would be
decisive. Without air superiority,
he said, either big or little armies
in Alaska could be quickly wiped
out because of the limited space
in which men and equipment
could be deployed.
All mese men were looKing ai
the same picture, a land just un
der the Arctic Circle which has
been developed relatively little.
Few people or towns are found
anywhere but in the area south
east and southwest of Fairbanks,
in south central Alaska.
The men who see the problems
of supplies and transportation as
most important believe that the
limited roads and railroads would
be strained to the limit in provid
ing all the paraphernalia of mod
ern warfare to even a relatively
small force. They are thinking in
terms of 21,000 army and airforce
troops in Alaska by the time
bolts-in \ warehouses and other
'facilities can be provided—they
estimate by June 30, 1952.
They believe that force will be
sufficient to defend Alaska, ac
cording to theories of military
strategy, an invader would have
iShooting <If
o
Anchorage Man
Held Accidental
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — A coron
er’s ’iir.v Friday found the fatal
shooting of Paul K. Gunn, 26
year-old taxicab driver, to have
been accidental. The decision end
ed a two-day hearing.
Gunn was shot with a P-33 Ger
man pistol. He was from Boise,
j Idaho.
T il 'rrn Barbeau, 27, another
cab driver, was charged with
l mansl ughter prior to the coron
1 er’s ury finding. He is out on
$2,500.01 bail. The district attor
i ney first charged him with first
! degree murder but later reduced
I the ch-rge. Dropping of the man
slau"v'*or charge is expected in
view of the coroner’s jury verdict.
The shoo+ing was at Barbeau’s
homn, Tack Howe, a mechanic and
Barbeau were trading pistols
when ‘he P-38 went off in Bar
beau’s hands. Gunn dropped to
the floor with the fatal wound.
Frmk Jones, cab company
owner, testified that Gunn, on the
wav 4o the hospital whispered to
him that Barbeau was not at
fauP.
R- rbeau told the jury earlier:
“Paul’s eyelids fluttered ard his
lips moved but there was no sound
from him.”
Dr. James O’Malley, city physi
cian, testified that Gunn probably
died almost instantly.
to use three times that many men
to defeat the American force as
long as the Americans defended
well fortified, well supplied posi
tions.
They doubt that an enemy
could employ effectively even a
small fraction of that number in
the region as long as the United
States held the railroad, the high
ways and the three gerat airfields
—one at Anchorage and two in
the vicinity of Fairbanks.
The officer who said he could
supply all the troops that could
i be employed said that with un
| limited funds and equipment the
I roads and railroad could be made
At
I to work miracles. Also, he would
count on gigantic airlifts. In win
ter, when the ice is deep, he point
ed out, each of the thousands of
lakes and rivers is a potential air
field.
But, he declader, masses of men
can’t be deployed through frozen
jungles of spruce, tamarack and
low willows and alders, so thick
in many places that men can't see
more than 10 yards ahead.
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Medical Care
One man’s dream and the work
and planning of many organiza
tions and individuals were cli
maxed this week when Dr. Adolph
W. Vogels completed a six-months
field course in eye, ear, nose and
throat work in the Territory of
Alaska. A senior resident of the
house staff of Duke University
Hospital at Durham, N. C., Dr.
Vogel spent the six months on a
tour which brought him in con
tact with natives who needed the
care of a specialist, from Point
Barrow to Sitka.
In cooperation and through the
sponsorship of the Alaska Depart
ment of Health, headed by Dr.
Earl C. Albrecht, and Duke Uni
versity Hospital, arrangements
were made whereby Dr. Vogel
spent one week out of five collab
orating with Dr. Milo Fritz, eye,
ear, nose and throat specialist of
Anchorage, on his regular field
trips throughout the Territory,
and operating together on the
more difficult cases collected dur
ing the four-week period. Dr. Vo
gel traveled with instruments and
equipment sufficient to set up a
complete? eye, ear, nose, and throat
clinic in whatever public or pri
vate building was available. Be
, tween 130 and 140 operations re
quiring general anesthesia were
done during the six months, using
whatever local facilities were
available and enlisting the help of
the most responsible adults in the
village for aid in the clinic and in
operating.
During the six-month period
1100 patients were examined with
the most modern eye equipment
which was furnished by the Alas
ka Department of Health and in
cluded such items as a slit lamp,
(an instrument for eve examina
tion, which magnifies the surface
of the eye 20 times*, an ether ma
chine, and instruments for al
most any type of operation in the
eye, ear, nose and throat field.
Most common complaints were
corneal scarring and chronic run
ning ears, as well as a variety of
other diseases.
During July Dr. Fritz, gave up
his practice for a month to collab
orate with Dr. Phillips Thygeson,
world renowned authority on dis
eases of the eye, of San Jose, Cal.,
to do research devoted entirely to
studying the eyes of some 300
children at Mt. Edgccumbe. The
j idea of extending specialized med
I ical care to people who would
! otherwise not obtain it due to
lack of access to established clin
ics and insufficient means to pay
for transportatio nto a medical
center such as Anchorage, is
unique in that it has never been
tried to this extent before. Dr.
Fritz, who tok his medical train
ing at Duke University Hospital,
conceived the idea five years ago,
and the successful completion of
Dr. Vogel’s six months tour has
proved the plan eminently prac
ticable.
Using only facilities and organ
izations already functioning, such
as the various health departments,
and university medical centers,
the plan migh conceivably be ex
tended to all specialties and to all
rural districts where trained and
capable specialists are otherwise
not. available.
Dr. Vogel is the first of pros
pective qualified man who will
take similar tours, after being ap
proved by Duke University Hos
pital.
Itobbers Gel Gar«*e
Haul Of “Keep
Sake** Jewelry
CLEVELAND, (A>)—Six hooded
bandits boldly burst into the spa
cious home of multi-millionaire
William G. Mather early yester
day, slugged his wife and got
awajr with jewelry valued at be
tween $200,000 and $800,000.
Moving with commando-like
precision, the robbers were armed
with a sub-machine gun and re
volvers.
Mather, 93-year-old honorary
board chairman of the Cleveland
Cliffs Iron Co., slept through the
entire operation.
Stationing one man outside in
case the burglar alarm went off, i
the robbers entered the main
residence through a servants’ en
trace. None of the seven servants
heard them.
Then! they sauntered into a sec- j
ond floor bedroom, where the 60-1
year-old Mrs. Mather was asleep ]
and flashed the beam of a flash- j
1 light in her face. She awoke to
find an man standing over her
with a sub-machine gun. She
| screamed.
I After some difficulty, the ban- !
dits and Mrs. Mather opened a
safe and then found it contained
only “gold antiques.” The robbers
then threatened her with further
violence and she told them her
regular jewels were in a dressing
room cabinet just off her bedroom.!
They got the jewelry and es- '
! caped.
“The jewelry doesn’t mean
much,” she said later. “It is pure
ly sentimental. We have no insur
i ance on it.”
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ANCHORAGE, f/P> — An air
plane crash late Thursday killed
a passenger and seriously injured
the piolt. The wreckage was spat
ted from the air Friday on lonely
Point McKenzie on Knik Arm
near here.
Walt Nygard, 28, was injured
fatally and pilot Joe Vanderpool,
about 30, suffered serious leg and
back injuries. Nygard succumbed
to his injuries before rescuers
could reach the scene. It was in
freezing cold.
Vanderpool said in a hospital
here that the men left late Friday
from Merrill Field to go wolf
hunting. He said his small plane
spun out of control onto the
beach. He was flown here by hel
icopter.
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