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Polish People
Protest Against
U. S. Decision
WARSAW, Sept. 9,—i/P>—Shout
ing “Down with Miolajczyk—down
with the defenders of Germany!,”
Polish demonstrators milled in
front of the residence of U. S.
Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane,
yesterday and then set fire to part
of the newspaper plant of vice
Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk.
The demonstration followed a
gathering at the Roma Auditor
iujn. where a crowd of 5.000 heard
vice Premier Wladislaw Gomulka
assail U. S. Secretary of State
Byrnes for having the ‘‘audacity”
to give the Germans any hope for
revision of their eastern border.
Lane was reported to be away
in the country when a crowd of
2,000 gathered in front of the Pol
onia Hotel where he resides, while
about 200 demonstrators paraded
with clenched fists.
^Dispersed by militiamen, the
demonstrators moved on to the
headquarters of the Polish Pea
sant Party, which also houses
Mikolajczyk’s Gazeta Ludowa.
The newspaper has refrained from
joining in editorial attacks upon
Byrnes’ statement that the United
States does not consider Poland’s
Western borders to have been fixed
permanently upon the Oder river.
Squatters Seize
Luxury Apartnrts
LONDON, Sept. 9,—(£>)—'The Brit
ish Cabinet met in special session
today and mapped strategy to
check a Communist-led squatter
campaign to seize public and pri
vately owned buildings for hous
ing 10,000 persons.
4Even as Prime Minister Atlee
and his ministers were meeting,
squatters who took over two lux
ury apartment buildings and eight
other dwellings yesterday extend
ed their “invasion” to four addi
tional houses in the swank Ken
sington district.
±*any of the more than 1,000
men, women and children who
took part in yesterday’s mass
move-in—pan. of a Communist
direct action campaign—declared
they would not budg*
Authori!ative souses said the
opinion i* governmflt circles was
that thesquatters te now taking
over pvate propeiy, rather than
disusec army caaps as in the
past nnth, and that “normal pro
f cess daw” mus be used to get
them t.
Many Volunteers
*
In Regular Army
Since War’s End j
HEADQUARTERS ALASKAN DE-|
PARTMENT, Sept. 9,—With more;
than 900,000 volunteers having en- j
listed in the new peacetime Regu-i
lar Army since the cessation of (
hostilities a year ago, the United
States now has the largest all
volunteer army in the history of
the world, Grig. Gen. B. M. Fitch,
Acting Assistant to the Adjutant
General for Military Procurement,
announced recently.
Recent enlistment totals *Gen.:
Fitch said, show a sharp rise in;
thd number of enlistments, that
is, men who have had no previous'
military service. The class of i
enlistments embraces primarily IT
and 19 year olds.
“It is a tribute to the youtn
: af our country.” Gen. Fitch said,
i “that they not only appreciate the
educational advantages available
to them under the GI bill of rights j
after they have served their per-1
iod of enlistment, but that they1
also recognize the Army's need
for their services at this time.”
I
Gen. Fitch said that he believes
that the recent increase in en
listments in due in considerable
measure to the cooperation of sev
eral national civic and fraternal
organizations. For several months'
he said, the American Legion
Posts, Elks Clubs, and Kiwanis
Clubs have worked closely with
recruiting personnel by agreeing j
to secure one Regular Army vol
unteer per 100 members.
| Army’s Task Force'
Frigid, E^iroute
To Alaska
OAKLAND, Calif., Sept. 9—(/P>—
The 1,500 men of the army’s task
force “FRIGID” embarked Satur
day for winter operations in the
far northern reaches of Alaska.
“Task Force Williwaw” isn’t quite
ready.
Task force Frigid boarded the
Sea Star which will proceed to
Whittier, the army port near An
chorage. Alaska. The men will
then travel by rail to Ladd Field,
at Fairbanks, to set up winter
headquarters.
The purpose of the army ground
forces winter test program, offi
cers said, is to test equipment and
assemble information on problems
and difficulties that arise from
winter conditions.
Two other ships, the Clarks
dale Victory, and the Trinidad
1 III
SIAMESE ROYALTY — King Ananda Mahidol of
Siam and the queen mother, H. R. H. Srisangwan, walk about the
grand palace grounds at Bangkok, at a tea for members of
royal household given by the king.
A dm. Halsey Says
Hiroshima Bomb
Was A Mistake
BUFFALO, N. Y„ Sept.—[JP)—
The dropping of an atomic bomb
on Hiroshima was a “mistake,”
in the opinion of Fleet Admiral
William F. (Bull) Halsey, Jr.
‘‘The first atomic bomb was an
unnecessary experiment,” he said
Saturday night at a news confer
ence. “It was a mistake to ever
drop it. Why reveal a weapon like
that to the world when it wasn’t
necessary?”
Halsey asserted that the scien
tists “had this toy and they want
ed to try it out, so they dropped
it.”
Victory, will carry Frigid’s equip
ment and supplies.
Task force Williwaw will sail
in about a week for Adak in the
Aleutians to conduct similar tests.
Both units have been at Fort Ord,
Calif., for preliminary training.
I Closing Date On
Salmon Run To
Be Held Off
BELLINGHAM. Sept. 9—./Pi—'The
International Salmon Fisheries
Commission met here Saturday to
review conditions in the sockeye
salmon run and decided to hold
off for a time the setting of a clos
ing date on fishing. Director B.'
M. Brennan of Blaine said the date
would depend upon conditions
within the next few days.
Naval Academy
May Be Established
On Pacific Coast
SEATTLE, Sept. 9—(/P>—'The Sen
ate sub-committee here to inspect
Washington sites for possible es
tablishment of a west coast naval
academy will make its inspections
“with an open mind,” Senator J.
report not yet rmde public had
i California.
Four ocupants of a Mount Mc
Kinley Air Freight, Inc., plane
were killed here Saturday when
the plane crashed into the side
of Anvil Mountain, five miles
north of the town, while circling
the fog shrouded airfield.
The wreckage was first sighted
by Louis Kiyutelluk. a native of
Shishmaref, Alaska, about 5:45
p.m. Saturday, while tending the
penstock on the ditch owned by
the U. S. Smelting Refining and
Mining Co.,
Kiyutelluk reported the find to
Gus Wheeler, one of the company
officials, who in turn phoned the
Army Base, assuming it to be an
army plane.
The victims were Capt. Marvin
L. Pratt, pilot, and his wife, of
Bellingham. Wash.; John Camp
bell of Anchorage, Alaska, co-pi
lot; Lee Chesterfield, Anchorage,
company vice president.
The plane and crew were mak
ing their first flight to Nome for
the newly-organized air line and
had taken off from Fairbanks. The
craft reported to the control tower
and was instructed to make a left
turn over the sea and to come in
on the field. Nothing further
was heard until late afternoon
when the plane was sighted on
the hillside by a miner and report
ed to the Army air base. Search
ers who located the plane said
it had plowed a furrow up the
side of the sloping hill, breaking
off a wing and catching fire.
The Rescue squad was ably as
sisted by men from the nearby
mining camp. Men were station
ed at intervals up the side of the
mountain to the wreckage to guide
the rescuers in the thick fog which
hung over the area.
The Captain’s mother, Mrs. Etta
Pratt, lives in Bellingham and his
wife Roberta’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. C. F. Reynolds, live nearby
in Laurel.
Relatives of the captain and his
wife in Bellingham said that he
was 25 years old and Mrs. Pratt
was 24. They leave a son, Darryl
just a year old.
Capt. Pratt was said by line
oficials to be one of the best pilots
in Alaska, both the pilot and co
pilot were navy fliers during the
war and had had considerable
flying time and experience in the
Territory.
Jack Scavenius, president of the
company organized by veterans
only three and one-half months
ago, left Seattle yesterday for Al
aska to conduct an investigation
and arrange for removal of the
bodies.
Scavenius also announced the
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