POST NEWS
Captain Moulthrop arrived on
the post from Camp Lee, Va. He
will assume the duties of the
Quartermaster and replaces Lt.
Finlayson who is returning to his
home in Baltimore, Md. Lt. Fin
layson has completed 30 months
of service and will once more be
come associated with the National
Central Bank of Baltimore. He
was employed by this financial in
stitution prior to his induction
into the Army.
The Military Police is now com
manded by Lt. Doke who recently
arrived from Anchorage. He re
places Lt. Bassett whose injuries
in a recent plane accident required
his evacuation to a general hospi
tal for treatment. He left on the
eve of the completion of the new
post MP station which had been
under construction for several
weeks and is now occupied by his
detachment.
Miss Mildred Steffner, real es
tate clerk in the post Engineer's
office, left for Fort Richardson
where she will be employed by
the department Engineer. She has
served here for 10 months and
was previously on the Canol pro
ject at Norman Wells and other
points in Canada.
Another contingent of enlisted
men will wing their way south
ward to the U. S. and ultimate
separation after serving in various
capacities for nearly 30 months.
The group includes S/Sgt. Jerry
K. Hicks, Kansas; T/4 James E.
Holland, Montana; Andrew J. Fe
dor, Pennsylvania; Lawrence A.
Warren, New’ York; Charles P.
McCarthy, Massachusetts; Ray
mond H. Rinne, Illinois; T-5 John
G. Loltus, Pennsylvania; Cpl. Gas
pare Mirabile, New York 'Brook
lyn); Cpl. Henry D. Starnes, North
Carolina; Pfc. John F. Schmidt,
New Jersey 'Hoboken*; and Pfc.
James W. Gill, Texas.
They will leave tomorrow’ for
Anchorage, the first leg of their
homeward bound journey.
New Engine Plant Features
Caterpillar Expansion Program
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just announced by Caterpillar Tractor Co., is the modern, 22-acre
Diesel engine factory shown in top photo. Lower view shows location
of new factory in relation to present buildings at Peoria, Illinois.
The entire program will increase plant area by nearly 50% and it is
expected that tractor production will be increased substantially by
September, 1946.
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WA S H INGTON — There’s a
young fellow in town here you
should meet, if you haven’t al
ready. He’s Paul A. Porter, recent
ly appointed director of OPA to
succeed his economic comrade in
arms, Chester A. Bowles.
Porter, at 41, is a New Deal and
Democratic party veteran. He's a
tall, slightly stooped, bespectacled
fellow with slick black hair, loud
ties, a oerpetual grin and a fund
of stories that makes him the best
of good company.
There probably isn't any one in
the administration’s key positions
now who can pick up so much
good will in such a short time as
Porter.
\ Missourian by birth, he work
ed his way through the University
of Kentucky law school as city
editor of the Lexington Herald.
While he was practicing law, he
wrote a farm editorial that caught
the eye of Henry A. Wallace, then
secretary of agriculture. Wallace
sent for him. His first job was
selling the Agricultural Adjust
ment Administration, particularly
the part that applied to cotton
farmers.
By the time of the 1936 cam
paign, Porter was concentrating
on midwestern farmers, address
ing them every morning at 6 from
a Chicago radio station—no slight
political assignment for a young
man just wheeling into his thir
ties.
In 1937, he took a fatter job as
attorney for a major broadcasting
chain and held it five years—
gaining experience that equipped
him for the job of chairman of the
Federal Communications Commis
s on, to which the late President
Roosevelt eventually appointed
him.
However, President Roosevelt
had called him back to Washing
ton before that. In 1942, he took
over OPA’s rent control branch.
He served for a time in the War
Food Administration and later un
der Fred M. Vinson in the Office
of Economic Stabilization. In these
jobs. Porter gathered his battle
s-ars in the fight against inflation.
In 1944, he was made publicity
director for the Democratic Na
tional Committee. After that,
President Roosevelt appointed him
to the embattled chairmanship of
FCC, an agency which, please
note, has had very little public
truoble these past two years.
As head of OPA, Porter will be
just as tough a hold-the-liner as
Bowles has been, but everybody’s
betting that he will work with a
good deal less friction than two
fisted Mr. Bowles. Bowles uses
cold facts and figures to batter
down opposition. Porter has a way
of telling the right story at the
right time. That takes a lot of
sting out of an adverse or compro
mise order. Many business men
may go away from Porter confer
ences disappointed with the price
rises they have obtained but few
will ’eave with any personal
grudge against Porter.
Hospital Notes
Patients in the hospital this
week are Emma Millagruk and
Albert Iyatuk. Nome patients
were Axel Warner and Alex Mc
Ginnis.
OPA PREPARES RATE !
HEARING EXHIBITS
Feeling the people of the Terri
tory would be interested, the
Alaska OPA has just announced
completion of the extensive ex
hibits they have prepared to pre
sent in opposition to the proposal
of increased shipping rates to
Alaska. At present it is not known
when hearings on this issue will
be resumed, as they have been set
and postponed several times since
adjournment of the opening ses
sion in Seattle last November. But
the Alaska OPA will be right in
there representing Alaskan con
sumers and merchants when they\
are reopened, according to this an
nouncement from their Juneau
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headquarters.
George Rogers, Territorial Pric6
executive, explained that data his
office requested and received
within the last few months from
Alaskan merchants and Chamber
of Commerce groups has been
analyzed and included in the final
exhibits, proving of invaluable as
sistance in presenting Alaska’s
case against the threat of increase.
Also expected to carry much
weight in the final decision are
the findings of OPA accountants
who have conducted thorough ex
amination of the steamship com
panies’ books in the interests of
Alaskans who have so much at
stake in this matter of shipping
rate, Mr. Rogers said.
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