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Army Underscores
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Arctic Route
Across Pole
WASHINGTON, June 10, —</P>—
The Army underscored its inter
est in the arctic short route be
tween Europe and America with
its announcement of a special
task force to make tests in the
Alaska and Aleutian winter of
tactics, weapons and equipment
lor sub-zero weather.
4,d00 ground troops, who will
begin assembling in July, will test
tanks and self-propelled guns,
radar, clothing and other items
of military gear “under all pos
4ble winter combat conditions.”
The air forces disclosed earlier
that a squadron of converted sup
erfortresses have fceen assigned to
Alaska to make frequent weather
flights over the arctic, which is
termed by military men as the
world’s most strategic stretch of
^Mograph in the age of atom
bombs.
The 10,000-mile-planes of task
force “Frigid" and one of the
ground force units, will operate
for seven months from October 1,
until April 30, from Fairbanks,
where temperatures as low as 66,
t Jkhave been recorded.
The “Williwaw” force will base
at Adak, where fogs and freak
ish storms blow.
The Third task force “Frost”
will test equipment under more
temperate climate conditions at
Camp McCoy, Wisconsin.
4^he “Frigid” task force will
be based at Ladd Field army air'
base, near Fairbanks, Alaska.
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Brother Succeeds
Brother as King |
Siamese Throne j
BANKOK, Thailand, June 10,—
(/P)—Prince Adulet, 18, was named
king of Thailand, (Siam), while
the nation mourned the death of
his brother, king Ananda, who
^j^vas found in the royal palace
yesterday with a bullet wound
between his eyes.
The new king, who became
ruler of more than two hundred
I thousand square miles of terri
tory and some eighteen million
subjects, was (unanimously sel
ected by an extraordinary ses
sion of the legislature in meeting
ft hours after the brother’s death.
The Siamese Police Director
General told the legislature that
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NEW AIR FORCE STAF F_Gen. Carl A. Spaatz (third from left, seated), Array Air
Forces chief, meets with his new staff in Washington. Seated, I. to r.: Lt. Gen. John K. Cannon,
Barksdale, Fla.; Gen. George C. Kinney, Andrews Field, Md.; Gen. Spaatz; Lt. Gen. Harold L. George,
Washington; Lt. Gen. George E. Stratemeyer, New York City; Maj. Gen. E. R. Quesada, Langley
Field, Va. Standing, I. to r.: Lt. Gen. Nathan F. Twining, Wright Field, O.; Maj. Gen. Donald Wilson.
Eglin Field, Fla., and Maj. Gen. Muir S. Fairchild, Maxwell Field, Fla. _
Sixteen Dead
23 Missing
Dubuque Fire
DUBUQUE. Ia., June 10, —(A11)—
Death toll in the tragic fire in
the Canfield Hotel went to 16 as
a three-pronged investigation was
started to determine the cause of
the blaze which swept the 201
room structure shortly after mid
night yesterday.
Three of the dead have been
identified, 23 are still reported
missing. The Red Cross has tak
en 15 more to hospitals, while
officers held off further search
for bodies by orders of Deputy
State Marshal Cook, who said
the walls were “dangerously sag
ging.”
The Red Cross continued its
radio appeal for all persons reg
istered at the hotel to report to
the Red Cross.
The blaze was fought for two
and one half hours by 75 fire
men. Scenes of horror and hero
ism, while many inmates made
their own escapes, one making
his escape down a rope made of
bed sheets.
John Snyder Is New
Secretary Treasury
WASHINGTON. June 10, —(^)—
The Senate Finance Committee
approved President Truman’s
nomination of John Snyder as
Secretary of the Treasury.
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Senate Raises
Appropriations
For Alaska
WASHINGTON, June 10, — f/P)—
The Senate Appropriations Com
mittee today announced that it op
poses the restriction adopted by
the House, that Alaska put up a
dollar for every three dollars the
federal government expends for
highways in Alaska. The com
mittee voted to strike this clause
from the Interior Appropriations
Bill, and also voted an extra $2,
037.500 of Interion Department
funds for the Territory during the
coming year, and rejected the
House cuts, restoring to the bill
nearly all sums asked for Alaskan
purpose by the Budget Bureau
for the fiscal year beginning July
and included an increase of $ 1 ,
537.500 for construction and re
pairs to roads bridges and fer
ries, boosting the figure voted by
the House to $3,790,400, and auth
orizes the Alaska Railroad to
spend $400,000 for construction
of facilities at Mt. McKinley
National Park inserted in Parks
Appropriations; 250,000 for im- i
proving Glacier Bay National
Monument. Funds for Native
Service were increased to $3,- j
264,400. Authorized transfer from i
the War and Naby Departments to
the Bureau of Indian Affairs with
out cost, the entire Sitka naval
base on Japonski Island and the
Army installations of Charcoal
and Alice Islands. Funds were
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Marshall and Chou
Discuss Conditions
Permanent Peace
NANKING, June 10, —</P>—Gen.
George Marshall and Communist
General Chou discussed condit
ions of a permanent peace for
China while the government made
new charges that Red Army for
ces violated the current truce by
attacking several cities.
General Chou reported on the.
week-end discussions held by par
ty leaders at Yenan headquarters.
The Yenan decisions and Chou’s'
conversations with General Mar
shall were kept secret as well as;
all recent negotiations.
The government controlled Cen
tral News Agency charged that
200 national officers and men
were killed or wounded as 12
communist brigades assaulted
government positions at Lafa and
Kiu, railway stations east of Yun-i
gki.
There is no indication when Gen. i
Marshall will confer again with!
Chiang Kai Shek, who is person- j
ally negotiating for the govern-1
ment.
PAA Flies Butter
From Missouri
LIBERTY, Mo., June 10, — OP)—
The Tom G. Andersoa Dairy, of
this city, today signed a contract
to ship 25 pounds of butter weekly
via air express to PAA’s base on
Annette Island, Alaska.
BELGRADE, June 10, —(VPi—Ti
to’s Yugoslav government opened
General Draja Mihailovic’s trea
son trial, as American officers
sat in conference between the for
mer Chetnik leader and the Ger
man commander.
The indictment was read at the
opening of the trial by a man left
behind by former king Peter’s
government, announced the pur
pose of waging underground war
against the gennans, and also
charged that Mihailovic sent word
by British officers to Cairo, to
liquidate the communists as soon
as possible..
13 other co-defendants are also
accused by Tito’s government of
treasonable relations with the
Germans, along with 10 others on
trial in ‘absentia’.
The general, dressed in a plain
brown uniform and heavy army
shoes, came into the court with
quiet dignity. He was unguided
despite the fact that his near
s:ghtedness has grown to near
blindness in recent months.
The government asserted that in
the summer of 1944 “An Ameri
can, Colonel McDowell, Chief of
the American military mission to
Mihailovic’s headquarters, arriv
ed at the air field at Pranjina, and
as soon as he met Mihailovic, told
him, ‘we Americans are not inter
ested in your fight with Germany
they must be put out of Yugo
slavia by action of the allies'."
The indictment stated McDow
ell took part in the meeting in the
village of Focsi, between Mihail
ovic’s chief administrative staff
and the German military com
mander of Serbia, Hans Neubach
er.
Pres. Truman
Sends Message
On Case Bill
WASHINGTON, June 10, — (/P)—
President Truman told Congress
ional leaders that he would send
a message to Congress tomorrow
on the Case Labor Disputes Bill,
but apparently didn’t say whether
he would veto or sign it.
Speaker Rayburn told reporters
after the conference with Truman,
that “whether it would be a veto
or message of approval, I don’t,
know.”
Rayburn said, “Administration,
leadership will try to get a rule
in the House to send the Presi
dent’s own emergency strike con
trol proposal into conference."
The two houses this week each,
passed a different bill.