Pentagon Cripples
Marine Corps
Is Charge
(By Howard Dobson)
WASHINGTON, </P)—-Gen. Clif
ton B. Cates, head of the Marine
Corps, accused the army high
command today of trying to wipe
ou the “combat power of'the ma
rine corps.”
Cates told the House armed
services committee that the com
bat morale of his fighting forge
still is high.
But substantial harm has been
done to the national defense, he
said, by crippling handicaps” in
flicted on the marine codps
through Pentagon policies.
Severe and telling blows are be
ing struck into the “bone and
muscle” of the marines, Cates
said. Reductions, he said, are
“striking into the heart of our
combat forces.”
Cates was a witness at the House
group’s hearings on the rows
within its armed services. The
navy is battling against policies
which, it contends, builds up the
air corps at the expense of the
navy.
The admirals argue that in
high defense councils the army
and the air force have joined up
to out-vote the navy 2-1.
Cates and Gen. A. A. Vande
grift, a former commandant of
marines, were called as the last
witnesses for the navy. Next the
committee will hear the other side
of the dispute from air. force and
army men.
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Chinese Reds
Enter Canton
Sans Resistance
HONG KONG, UP) —- Chinese
communist conquerors walked in
to Canton Saturday. Their spear
heads shot beyond the late nation
alist capital toward the boundar
ies of Britain’s Crown Colony of
Hong Kong.
The pro-communist newspaper
Wen Wei Pao said green-clad red
troops “completely liberated” Can
ton Saturday morning after an
“orderly and peaceful” entrance
into the South China metropolis,
cradle of the revolution that over
threw the imperial Manchus.
Hong Kong was flooded with re
ports of Canton’s occupation. But
full details were not available be
cause normal communications
have not been restored.
Communist troops slashed down
the Contan-Kowloon railway lead
ing to the mainland borders of the
Crown Colony. Hong Kong calmly
awaited the approach of the Reds,
and no trouble was expected.
Military dispatches repor ted
the communists weer at Cheung
miktau, a rail town only 20 miles
from the British frontier.
Over 32,000 British troops were
on guard in a broad security belt
just south of the frontier. They
were backed with tanks, artillery,
naval power and air cover.
Nationalist troops garrisoning
the Kowloon border Friday night
began withdrawing in the familiar
pattern just enacted by Canton’s
defenders and before that at
Shanghai, Nanking and many an
other city. They fled westward,
apparently hoping to escape by
sea.
The fate of the 80,000 national
ist troops who had been garrisoned
at Canton was not known.
As Nationalist South China
died, acting president Li Tsung
Jen pledged to “fight to the fin
ish” from the new refugee capital
at interior Chungking. He talked
about a counteroffensive against
the Reds in the great southwest.
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Loral Girl In On
Truth Or Conse
quences Program
The popular “Truth or Conse
quences” radio program, which
goes in for novel and unusual pen
alties for its participants, reached
out to Nome Saturday, when one
of the participants, whose name is
still unknown here had to make a
date over the long distance phone
from Los Angeles with an un
known girl, in an unknown place.
Arrangements had been made
through Joe Wallace for a local
native girl to be on the long dis
tance phone last Saturday. The
girl, who for the present will be
known as “Kiana White Bear,”
talked with the Los Angeles man
on the Truth and Consequences j
program, and was dated for next j
Saturday in Nome, at which time
he is scheduled to arrive and take
her out for dinner.
It is reported that the man who
made the date left California to
day and will arrive here later in
the week. Next Saturday he and
his date will sing “It’s Cold Out
side” over the long distance phone
as part of the Truth and Conse
quences program.
The names of both participants
will be announced by Joe Wallace
; later in the week when all details
j have been worked out.
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North China proper, between
the fabulous Great Wall and the
Yangtze River, lies in latitudes
corresponding to those of the
United States.
Russia (amid Have
sions in 60 Days
WASHIN GTON. f/Pi — Gen.
Omar N. Bradley was quoted Sat
urday as saying that Russia is
capable of putting 300 divisions
into combat within fit) days.
Bradley gave this estimate of
Russia’s military strength, a Sen
ator said, in urging the Senate ap
propriations committee to approve
the $1,324,010,000 foreign arms
money bill. The measure approved j
bythe House Friday on a voice
vote.
“Bradley told us Russia could
put 300 divisions into combat in
60 days and could muster 502 divi
sions within a few months,” a
committee member said.
He qouted the chairman of the
joint chiefs of staff as saying a
total of $1,000,000,000 worth of
arms for Western Europe would
be worth the cost if only to boost
the morale of the European coun
tries.
The general spent an hour with
the committee discussing the mil
itary situation in Europe.
The committee turned to the
foreign arms bill as this nation’s
own armed forces went technical
ly broke in a stubborn row be
tween House and Senate over a
$735,000,000 Senate cut in air force
funds.
The defense department said it
had money to meet the regular
Oct 15 payroll but things might
be different next month.
Senate* Approves
Alaska Bill With
Bi" Slash
WASHINGTON, (7Pj—The Sen
ate armed forces committee ap
proved the Alaska defense con
struction bill Friday, but chopped
$37,000,000 off the House-approv
ed measure.
The House Tuesday voted SI 30,
000,000 for military public works
including housing for service men.
The Senate committee cut $20.
397,345 from the army’s proposed
program and $16,365,066 from the
air force program. Navy projects
totaling $25,164,000 were not al
tered.
Specific cuts were:
Eielson Air Force Base—Petro
leum terminal storaage reduced
from $6,800,000 to $2,000,000.
Housing, quarters and utilities
from $28,156,200 to $19,292,880.
Fort Richardson—Housing quar
ters, hospital and utilities from
$46,730,000 to $34,253,655.
Whittier—Housing and utilities
from $12645,700 to $9.514700. Air
craft warmup shelters were cut
from $1,000000 to $300,000.
Ladd Air Force Base—Family
quarters and utilties from $5,610,
000 to $2,472,854.
Elmendorf — Utilities from $3,
664,600 to nothing.
A committee spokesman said
the armed forces submitted the
list of cuts after being asked to
scale down their requests to
amounts necessary for expendi
tures within the next few months.
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