Army Doesn’t Want
Base On Mars
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(By Elton C. Fay)
WASHINGTON, (A*)—The army
doesn’t want a base on Mars or i
even the moon; it will settle for'
just a good guided missile.
Ordnance and research officials
who read the prediction today of
Maj. James R. Randolph, a reserve
-officer, that a rocket race to build
military outposts on neighboring
planets might come sooner than
expected, decided their own ideas'
sum up this way:
“The cold practical people here
are working just to get a guided
missile. Any flights to the moon
or Mars are so far in the future
that we give them no study or at
tention. We are interested only in
staying ahead of competitors in
time and design.”
Randolph, writing for the army
Ordnance Association Journal, a
non-technical publication, suggest
ed that in World War III an attack
launched from an outpost estab
lished on Mars would have “vastly
greater opportunities for secrecy
and surprise.”
He urged peacetime studies of
“these other worlds, sending ex
peditions to them and devising
equipment to meet their special
needs.”
Randolph, author of several
Alaska Fish
Industry Depends
On Adequate Price
SEATTLE UP)—I. A. Sandvigen,
business agent for machinists lo
cal 79, said today the fate of Alas
ka’s fish canning operations de
pends upon the payment of ade
quate prices to the fishermen of
the western district.”
The union official said negotia
tions with the Alaska Salmon In
dustry wer.> deadlocked and that
he saw no hope of an agreement.
He said prices paid fishermen in
the western Alaska district are
“100 per cent below those paid in
other districts.”
In response to a telegraphed
plea for settlement of the dispute,
union officials advised Territorial
Governor Gruening that the prin
cipal deadlock results from the
“discrimination against approxi
mately 250 resident independent
fishermen of the westward district
of Alaska.”
“The prices offered these fisher
men for their labor range from
half to one-third the prices paid
other speculative articles on rocket
travel, said the problem of space
navigation was pegged to develop
ment on a multi-unit rocket to pro
duce the desired size and speed.
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lor salmon caught by identical
methods in the Kodiak Island dis-'
trict,” the telegram said.
“The prices paid in 1946 to the
westward district fishermen ap
proximate those paid company en
pioyee fishermen in Bristol Bay,
who also receive transportation,
board, and use company boats and
gear. Westward fishermen receive
no transportation or board and
provide their own boats and gear.”
The telegram was signed by of
ficials of the Alaska Fishermen’s
union, Machinists’ union, Copper
River "and Prince William Sound
fishermen’s, International fisher
men and Allied Workers of Amer
ica, and the Cannery Workers
union.
Walter Fuhrer, manager of Alas
ka Salmon Industry, Inc., said i‘
had been agreed that any state
ments on the controversy would
be made by the conciliation service
and declined to comment on the
union’s statement.
In the first airplane flight at
Kitty Hawk in 1903,Orville Wright
flew 120 feet—les than the wing
spread of a large modern airplane.
Try Five Soldiers
For Murder
TOKYO, (A3) — Five American
soldiers—all 18 and 19 years old—
pleaded innocent today befcic an
American army court martial to
charges of murdering four Japan
ese and a Korean and beating five
others on a drunken rampage last
January 31.
The prosecution charged the vic
tims were clubbed and consider
able property was smashed as the
soldiers ran amok in a jeep from
Tachikawa air base to the tov/n of
Haehioji, about 20 miles .vest o<"
Tokyo.
The clubbing spree, the prosecu
tion charged, started after two of
the five, Pfc. Carl J. Havalda, of
Owosso, Mich., and Pvt. Edward
W. Smith of Savannah, Ga., both
19, quarreled with two Negro sol
diers in a truck and started out to
“get” the Negro soldiers with the
aid of the other three defendants.
The defense is expected to base
its case on the mentality record of
Jap Officers Guilty
Of Mass Slaying
SINGAPORE (jPj—Seven former
Japanese army officers were con
victed by a British military tribun
al today of responsibility in the
slaying of 5,300 Chinese here in
1942. Two were sentenced to death
and five to life imprisonment.
Sentenced to hang were Lt. Gen.
Sabura Kawamura, former com
mander of the Japanese “thought
police,” who admitted issuing the
order for the executions, and Lt.
Col. Masayuki Oishi.
Lt. Gen. Takuma Nishimura, Lt.
Col. Yoshitaka Yokota, Maj. To
matntsu Jyo, Maj. Satorou Onishi,
and Capt. Haruji Hismatsu were
given life imprisonment.
the five defendants and on the
contention they were so drunk
they were not conscious of their
actions.
Army records showing low score
intelligence tests—from 64 to 62—
were read into the court record.
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