Navy Plans Vast
Arctic Experiment
. WASHINGTON, (/P>—The navy
plans a §55,580,000 experiment in
new phases of undersea warfare,
including the use of submarines to
detect airplanes over the Arctic
Ocean.
The department asked Congress
Friday night for authority to con
vert nine destroyers, four sub
marines and two other ships for
operations in the Polar regions.
Three of the submarines would
be made into troop or cargo car
riers and the fourth would become
an Arctic “picket” or reconnais
sance craft.
The destroyers would be equip
ped with latest anti-submarine de
vices, some on the secret list, pre
sumably to cope with such fast,
long-range undersea boats as were
put into action toward the end of
World War II.
The two other ships are a speedy
attack transport, to be equipped
with icebreaking equipment for
carrying troops and cargo in Arc
tic waters, and one LSD (landing
ship, dock' which can be modified
into a type capable of carrying
heavy construction cargo through
ice fields.
Military strategists have been
placing increasing emphasis on
the “polar concept” of a possible
future war because the shortest
way for aircraft and guided mis
siles to reach this country torn
Europe is over the North Pole.
The navy’s request was only for
authorization for the program, not
actual funds. The plan calls for
spending the money in three years,
including $5,030,000 in the 12
months starting July 1.
The department also asked au
thorization for a ^127,800,000 out
lay to build and improve installa
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Must Consult All
Korean Parties
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Secretary
of State Marshall advised Russia
Saturday the United States will
insist that all Korean political
elements be consulted in the for
mation of a new government.
Unless Russia specifically agrees
he hinted in a letter to foreign
minister Molotov, this country
may boycott a scheduled May 20
meeting of a joint U. S.-Russian
commission at Seoul.
The commission, charged with
setting up a provisional govern
ment for Korea, has been idle
since last May when the members
failed to agree on just what “po
litical” means.
Korea since has been split
along the 38th parallel of lati'nde
into tight American and Russian
occupation zones.
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In his new letter to Molotov
Marshall noted, "to avoid any fu
ture misunderstanding,” that the
United States holds firmly to its
contention that no representatives 1
of Korean democratic parties and
social organizations should be
barred from consultation by the
commission because of any ex
pressed opinions concerning their
country’s future government.
Russia insisted last year on ex
cluding all parties critical of the
Four-Power Moscow agreement in
1945 by which Korea was to be
run for not more than five years
under a trusteeship. The effect of
the Russian move was to bar vir
tually all but the pro-Communist
parties.
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SEATTLE, (A’i — The scales of
the Seattle area will be applicable
hereafter to war department con
struction work in Alaska by the
Ci.ch-Johnson-Lytle syndica t e ,
genera! manager I). L. Cheney an
nounce i todpy.
Hj said the had been informed
of the agreement from Washing
ton, D. C„ where the wage issue,
had been under consideration fori
several weeks.
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over-all war department contract
for $51,000,000 for permanent air I
base construction at Fort Richard- |
son. Ladd Field. Mile 26 'an air
base on the Alaska Highway out
of Fairbanks* and Nome.
Cheney said a mass movement
of close to 2.000 additional work
ers to the Alaska projects by air
will start in about a month, to join
the approximately 2,500 currently
employed. They will get board
and barracks lodging, be said, for
$1.50 a day.
Cheney also reported the letting
of three sub-contracts: plumbing,
steam fitting and sheet metaH
work at Ladd Field and Mile 26 to
Harry A. Bell company of Fair
banks: for the same work at Fort
Richardson to Clifford Hohn
Plumbing Co., Anchorage: moving
250,000 yards in excavation at
Mile 26 to Green Mathis of Fair
banks.
OLYMPIA, i/P) — There can be
drawbacks to teaching an inmate
to read and write, Supt. Ray Ryan
of the state reformatory told a
group of legislators.
"We had an inmate recently
who couldn’t read or write.''
“In six months at the institution
he learned to write. Now we have
him back as a forger.”
Aquatic Meet
Sets New Records
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ords were established. A world
rnr’: equalled, a queen of a van
ish'? I era and a queen of 1940 de
posed as America’s finest swim
noi's opened the women’s national
senior indoor AAU swimming and
diving championships Friday at
the University of Washington
pool.
Ann Curtis, veteran free styler
from San Francisco, took the
heaviest crac kat the records and
the reigning titlists when she
slashed to the 100-yard sprint in
59.4 to equal the world’s standard
set in 1944 by Denmark’s F. Na
thansen.
Her record chalked up in the
preliminary heat bettered the
American mark ol one minute flat
set in 1931 by Helen Madison of
Seattle.
In the finals, Miss Curtis won in
1:00.3 in beating the defending
champion, Brenda Helser ol Los
Angeles, whose meet record of
1:00.4 also had been smashed by
her earlier effort.
Nancy Merki of Portland, Ore.,
Multnomah athletic club, erased
the American and meet records of
3.59.1, both held by Helene Rains
of New York when she swam the
300-yard individual medley n
3:53.4.
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