Author Of “B-36”
Note Suspended
WASHINGTON, <£*>—'The sus
pended navy official who wrote
the ananvmous memo that touched
off the B-36 investigation ack
nowledged today he put “confi
dential data” into it.
Cedric Worth also told the
House armed services committee
he had given a copy of the docu
ment to plane manufacturer Glenn
Martin without knowing whether
Martin was entitled to secret in
formation.
The document now has reached
many hands.
Committee counsel Joseph B. Kee
nan suggested that parts of its re
lating performance figures of the
giant, six-engine intercontinental
bomber, “might help an enemy or
potential enemy.”
“I don’t doubt that they had it,”
Worth said.
The exchange of confidential
material came shortly after Worth
had backed down on part of Wed
nesday’s testimony.
At that time he told the House
armed services committee, making
the investigation, that he told his
boss, navy undersecretary Dan
Kimball, four or five days ago
that he wrote the memo.
Yesterday Worth said what he
actually told Kimball was that
chairman Vinson of the commit
tee was saying Worth was the
writer.
The whole situation was em
barrassing to the defense depart
ment in its efforts to smooth out
friction between the supposedly
^unified army, navy and air force.
The navy and air force in partic
ular have had disagreements,
mainly over strategic bombing as
signments.
The 48-year-old Worth was un
cloaked Wednesday as the author
of a memorandum which chair
man Vinson tD.-Ga.) said reflect
ed on the integrity of highgovern
men officials. The memorandum
implied that, the air force’s billion
dollar B-36 bomber program was
a mistake, deliberately fostered by
politics.
Following the disclosure. Worth
was suspended from his post by
secretary of the navy Francis P.
Matthews, pending a department
al investigation.
Military Cut
Sq ueezes Congress j
WASHINGTON, </P)—Members
of Congress found themsel v e s
squeezed yesterday between a mil
itary economy drive many of them
had demanded and the outraged
cries of constituents affected by
the proposed suts.
A typical example was offered
by a western House member. He
said he has been deluged up to
now with letters urging him to
vote for cuts in appropriations.
Now, he said, the same people are
complaining bitterly against mili
tary cutbacks in his district.
The predicament resulted from
Secretary of Defense Johnson’s
announcement Wednesday th a t
the armed forces plan to fire 135,
000 of their 905,000 civilian em
ployees. while returning 12,073 re
serve officers from active to inac
tive status.
That program aims at a $200.
000,000 saving during the fiscal
year which started July 1, and
savings of $500,000,000 a year
thereafter. It would help bring
next year’s military budget down
to $13,400,000,000. The 1949 bud
get totals $14,900,000,000.
Despite Congressional protests,
Appeals Court
Upholds Overtime
Suit Dismissal
_
SAN FRANCISCO, </P) — The
Ninth United States Circuit Court
of Appeals has upheld the Seattle
federal court’s dismissal of over
time wage suits brought against
three contractors by six wartime
workers on Aleutian island air
bases.
The court said it was convinced
that the portal-to-portal pay act of
1047 “was intended to cover a sit
uation such as here presented.”
The suits, consolidated before
federal district judge John C.;
Bowen at Seattle, were those of
H. A. Lassiter and others against:
the Guy F. Atkinson company;
Vernor O Tyler, William Leslie
Cole, Owen McNally and Arthur
Sessing against S. Birch and Sons; |
and Raymond M. Naylor against
the Western Construction Co.
The workers sued for overtime
and attorney fees under the fair
labor standards act for work done
in 1944 and 1945. Originally, they
won judgment, but the employers
appealed to the circuit court and
the case was remanded to Seattle.
On March 2, 1948, the Seattle dis
trict court held the employers had
proved proper defenses under the
portal-to-portal act.
The employees appealed, hold
ing the portal act, as applied to
them, was unconstitutional This
claim was rejected by the ninth
military officials were reported
pushing ahead with plans for the
cutdown.
As the first step, they were pre
paring quotas to be used as a
guide by unit commanders order
ed to cut down reserve officer
strength.
LEAVE UNALAKLEET
FOR BOARDING SCHOOLS
Mr. Wurbelow, principal of the
L’nalakleet Day School has been
advised by Mr. Hill, principal of
the White Mountain Boarding
School that Henry Otten, Henri
etta Nanouk, Clara Eakon, Leon
ard Brown, and Ebba Asicksik
have been accepted as Boarding
School students for the coming
school year.
Gerald Degnan, Vernon Aulyie,
Stanley Ryan, and Peter Roger
Nanouk have been accepted asstu
dents at the Mt. Edgecumbe
Boarding School at Mt. Edge
cumbe, Alaska.
Students for Mt. Edgecumbe
and for White Mountain are ex
pected to leave Unalakleet en
route to their respective schools
about September first.
George Francis Train, six times
legally declared insane, had a
brain which weighed 50 ounces,
the 27th heaviest known to sci
ence.
circuit court, one or seven of the
country’s 10 circuit courts which
has upheld constitutionality of the
portal-to-portal act.
Cordova Will
Refuse To Join
Bridges-Led Union
n
CORDOVA. </P) — Cordova dis
trict leaders of the CTO fisheries
union declared yesterday it would
refuse to join in any merger with
the Harry Bridges-led longshore
men’s union.
The local has directed a circu
lar to all other affiliates of the
international fishermen and allied
workers of America.
It stated that if the international
votes for a merger with the CIO
longshoremen, the Cordova union |
will withdraw from it.
M. J. Lannen, agent for the Cor
dova district union, said one of the
prime reasons for the decision
against the merger was the re- i
luctance of the group to submit to
the leadership which the long
shoremen’s union has. He said the
Cordova action against any mer
ger was taken May 7, but had not
been made public until balloting
1 of other units of the international
fishermen’s union was nearing
! completion.
He said other Alaska units of
the union will complete their
votes within another week or two.
Despite the unwillingness to
submit to the longshoremen’s un
ion leadership, the Cordova union
said in the statement that it would
continue to support the CIO long
shoremen.
“Our members are not trade
unionists in the strict sense of the
word,” the statement said.“Rather
they are groups of rugged indi
vidualists banded together to ad
vance their mutual aim of prog
ress. The fishermen now largely
deal with the employers’ repre
sentatives in negotiations. With
merger, we think the boat owners
would deal with the employers’
representatives and then, in turn,
deal with the fishermen.
“Instead of simplification, addi
tional and increased labor trouble
would result.”
A key figure from longshore
leader Bridges’ San Francisco
headquarters, Germain Bulke, was
a Cordova visitor this week. He
said he was “on an inspection
tour."
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I OPERATING COST, 1941
OPERATING COST. NOW j
4.3 CENTS A MILE
$900 COST OF CAR
8.5 CENTS A MILE
$2000 COST OF CAR
$90 DEPRECIATION
$94.50 GASOLINE
$38.50 REPAIRS
$25 INSURANCE
J
Brookings Institution figures
Per
year
$400 DEPRECIATION
$180.3 GASOLINE
$68 REPAIRS
$85 INSURANCE
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