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ily.
“The situation in Alaska is
good,” he said, “except that in
. some places housing and recrea- j
tion for the service men should be
improved.
“Should Russia parachute i
troops and take some of our mili- i
tary fields, they could not main- j
tain a line of supply, which would !
be a minimum of 1,000 miles long.;
And the worst handicap — the |
weather, works against foe as
well as defender.”
* He said he feared decay from
within the Territory far more j
than possible invasion from with-!
out.
“The vastness and imperetrabil
ity of Alaska are already strong
defenses,”’ he said. “As an offense
base, it has bases with runways
nine miles long—two near Fair
banks and one near Anchorage.
We’re ready for any kind of an air
strike against Russia.”
The priest said he is opposed
to statehood for the Territory be
* cause of possible exploitation of
the area’s rich natural resources.
“It has too few legitimate tax
payers to become a state. In the
wrong hands it would make the
Pendergast and Hague political
machines look like peanut sell
ers,” he said.
“I’m not nearly as afraid of
penetration from without as 1 am
of decay from within. If we ever
have any real fear of the Russians
coming into Alaska, we already
will have been so hopelessly be
trayed from within that it won’t
much matter.”
Husband Will Tes
tify In “Mercy
Death" Slaying
j r
MANCHESTER, N. H., I/P) —
Counsel for Dr. Hermann N. San
ders threw a block Friday against
state efforts to prove that the
husband of the woman he is
charged with slaying had nothing
to do with her “mercy” death.
The block was thrown up short
ly before the murder trial of the
41-year-old country doctor re
cessed for the, week end. Dr. San
der is charged with killing Mrs.
Abbie Borroto, 59, a cancer
doomed patient, with lethai air
injections.
Chief of defense counsel Louis
E. Wyman bounced to his feet the
instant Sheriff Thomas E. O’Brien
testified the prosecution had a
signed statement from Borroto.
The statement said that Bor
roto claimed he had “nothing to
do with Dr. Sanders in this.”
Testimony had been presented
earlier quoting Dr. Sander as say
ing he yielded to Borroto’s plead
ings to end his wife’s suffering
even if it meant “eliminating her
life.”
Judge Harold E. Westcott sus
tained Wyman’s objections and
ordered the sheriff’s testimony
stricken from the record.
Wyman told newsmen later that
Borroto would be called as a de
fense witness if the state doesn’t
place him on the stand.
CHICAGO, i/P) — Chicagoans
get used to sharp drops in tem
perature but usually the change
isn’t so fas as it was for ten cus
tomers in Stein’s Food Mart. A
gunman walked in, took, $600 and
herded all of them into the walk
in ice box.
Bartlett Stales
Opinion of Closing
Marks Air Base
*“As Delegate in Congress from
Alaska I have a responsibility, it
seems to me, in conveying to you
my thoughts on this despite the
absolute conclusion which appears
to have been reached by the De
partment of the Air Force regard
ing Marks Base,” Delegate Bart
lett declared this week to Secre
tary of the Air Force Symington
when he was informed that Marks
Air Force Base at Nome will be
inactivated.
The Department of National
Defense announced in January
that the field at Nome would be
closed, but action was withheld at
the request of the Delegate and |
Governor Gruening for a review
of the situation at high policy lev-1
els.
“The United States Air Force
personnel stationed at Marks Air
Force Base, Nome,” Secretary
Symington stated in making the
final decision known to Delegate
Bartlett, “have been limited for
some time to those required to op
erate an airway station and an
Arctic Indoctrination School.
These forces have little or no com
i bat capability and their with
drawal will have no appreciable
effect on the defense of Alaska.”
In response, Delegate Bartlett
pointed out: “We are said to be
engaged in a cold war. A cold war
is carried on in many ways. Build
ing up of morale among people
disposed to be friendly and giving
them economic assistance are cer
tainly two approaches. Concomi
tantly, the United States, I should
think, cannot well afford to leave
itself undefended physically. I
charge that the withdrawal from
Marks Air Force Base at Nome
could well be termed a confession
of weakness on our part and may
so be regarded not only among
our own people but those living
in other lands. It is not so much
that Marks Base is a great mili
tary installation but it possesses
a significance aside from size and
strength in that it is our only mil
itary establishment on the entire
Arctic coast. It is only minutes
away from Siberia by plane, and
it is probably entirely safe to say
that no bases are being abandon
ed on the Siberian coast.”
Potato Growers
\\ ill Have Govt.
IVire Supports
WASHINGTON, (/Pi—Most po
tato growers can count on con
tinued government price supports
of this year’s crop, despite efforts
to halt them in a move to prevent
future surpluses.
A combination of 28 Republi
cans and 15 Democrats Friday
night beat down a proposal of
Senate leader Lucas (D.-Ill.) to re
move potato price props until
Congress and growers agreed to
rigid planting and marketing con
trols.
Instead the Senate approved 43
to 35 a plan which its author, Sen
ator Aiken <R.-Vt.>, said would
“continue potato price supports in
almost all commercial areas un- i
less growers reject marketing
agreements and orders.”
Lucas had threatened earlier to
keep Senators in session far into
the night to complete action on
the potato price props as well as
the cotton acreage measure to
which it was attached.
But after defeat of his proposal
he postponed final action on the
farm bill until today. I
SEEK MISSING PEOPLE
Anyone having information on
the following missing persons is
urged to communicate with the
Governor’s Office in Juneau.
Gust Johnsson — <Gustaf Adolf
Johansson > Born in Sweden.
About 63 years of age; known to
have been in Juneau from 1918
to 1921 .
Victor Swanson—(John Victor
Fartensson> Born in Sweden.
About 75 years of age; known to
have worked for U. S. Smelting &
Refining Co. in 1927; at Kenne
cott from 1921 to 1926; used a
post office box at Cordova once.
Conrad Anderson — Born in
Norway in 1891. Last heard from
in 1940, Juneau.
Ole Karl Johanson—Left States
I to reside in Alaska.
I Nils Lanseih — Born in Dram
men, Norway, June 1904.
Peter I. Bioum—Born in Nor
way 1875. Living in Minnesota
many years; left 4 or 5 years ago
for Alaska.
Knud Damgaard Pedersen —
Supposedly in Alaska.
Knut O. Dalsbo — Last known
address was Juneau Hotel but no
AND THAT AIN'T CABBAGE
LOS ANGELES (A1)—Such cab
bage Mrs. .John O. Peterson had
seldom seen.
She didn’t realize what a bar
gain she got at George Munson’.1
grocery until she arrived home
and opened her shopping bag.
Out popped a paper sack full of
greenbacks—with enough change
to bring the total to $86.75. An
absent-minded clerk had stuffed
it in her bag. Mrs. Peterson turn
ed it over to police, who gave it
back to Munson.
forwarding address there.
Thomas Douglas Hogen — for
merly of Valdez, Illiamni Penin
sula, etc. Prospector and free
lance missionary. Last known in
Seattle in 1929.
James Winifred O'Neil—About
54 years of age. Last known to
live in a rooming house in Fair
banks two years ago.
Per Evert Westman — Born in
Sweden in 1905; believed to be
working in Fairbanks area.
Thomas N. Rogers—Left North
Carolina for Adak in April, 1949
Not known if he arrived there.
Spies Steal Army
See ret 8 in(ierman\
*
HEIDELBERG, Germany, l/P) —
The LT. S. army says a well-organ
ized spy ring apparently has been
masterminding the theft of secret
i papers from the homes of high
army officers here over the past
seven months.
Authorities said thieves have
entered the homes of 30 officers
in this U. S. army headquarters
city and made off \ftth confiden
tial documents, usually ignoring
jewelry, cash and other valuables.
“Either foreign agents, or some
one trying to peddle secret docu
ments to a foreign power is re
sponsible,” one afficial comment
ed Friday.
He said the ring apparently re
ceived tips from inside the Euro
pean command’s headquarters on
which officers, disregarding a se
curity warning, took confidential
papers to their homes.
Iraq is somewhat larger than
i Arizona.
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