Communist Probe !
Just ‘Red Herring’
Says Truman
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pounds, and the other 1,000
pounds. McDowell said. They
went, he added, “from a small
obscure airfield in this country.”
The subcommittee also has es
tablished “almost beyond ques
tion.” McDowell continued, that
shipments of heavy water were
made to Russia during the war.
Heavy water, he expalined, is a
substance used in atomic re
search.
McDowell also said he had a
telephone call this morning “from
a conscience stricken government
employee* regarding the transfer
of U. S. currency plates to Soviet
authorities in occupied Germany.
He did not discuss this transfer
further.
The President’s remarks on the
communist investigations were
delivered off-hand at a news con
ference. He said neither Senate
nor House inquiries have devel
oped anything not already known
to the FBI. What has been brought
out in testimony to the commit
SAN BERNARDINO. Calif. <JP)
Mrs. Roland M. Vallet told police
that for six months her husband
had been working in their garage j
on something. She said he refused
to tell her what it was except that
it was “important,”
Vallet, 61, was killed Wednes
day by a home-made cannon, the
“something” he had been work
ing on for so long. Police said he
left a note complaining of ill
health.
tees proved insufficient to indict
those accused, he remarked.
This was in reference to the
fact that a New York grand jury
has heard most, if not all, of the
stories now being unfolded before 1
the Congressional committees.
The President said that all but
two of those named as commun
ists in the hearings have left the
government’s service. And those
two, he said, have been placed on
leave without pay pending in
quiries.
The committee probes, he con- j
tinued, are serving no useful pur- j
pose whatsoever.
Mr. Truman allowed reporters 1
to quote the words “red herring”
he used to describe the hearings.
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Alaska'Gets Many
Electric Poles
SEATTLE, OP) — With a deck
load of more than 800 new power
line poles for the Golden Valley
Electric association at Fairbanks,
steel Barge 897 was en route for
Seward today with a capacity
cargo. The barge was towed by
the ocean-going tug Mundos, skip
pered by Capt. Phillip Sullivan.
The barge line will take the
poles to Seward for rail connec
tion to Fairbanks. To be used in
construction of approximate 1 y
100 miles of new rural electrifi
cation association power lines,
the poles are being shipped by
the Cascade Pole company, Ta
coma. Logged in the State of
Washington, the western red ce
dar poles are creosote-treated to
one foot above the ground line
and are from 30 to 50 feet in
length.
Cascade pole company has a
plant at Wrangell, in addition to
its Tacoma headquarters.
In addition to the deck-load of!
power-line poles, cargo in the j
897’s lower holds and ’tween I
decks included 420 railroad car
wheels from Tacoma for the Alas
ka Railroad shops at Anchorage,
40 tons of structural steel for the
Alaska Railroad construction pro
ject at Fairbanks, mining sup
plies, 50 tons of feed for the Mat- j
anuska Valley and 11 vehicles. t
Originally scheduled to sail at
midnight Friday, the 897 was de
layed by heavy freight bookings
at cargo deadline time.
A second shipment of poles for
the Golden Valley Electric asso
ciation will be shipped aboard the
August 10 sailing of steel barge
730.
SEATTLE, i/P)—Sid Hayman of
Alaska Steamship company re
ports that “10 miles of poles” are
going to Alaska Friday aboard
the freighter Square Sinnet.”
“I mean if you laid them end
to end they’d reach 10 miles,” he
explained.
The poles include pilings and
power poles. The power poles, 790
of them, are consigned to the
Homer, Alaska, electric light and
power company.
Also in the cargo will be two
huge fuel tanks, weighing 108 cu
bic tons each. They’ll go to Stand
ard Oil plants at Hoonah and Pe
tersburg.
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WAVY SUPPLY SHIPS
DISCHARGING AT BARROW
POINT BARROW, </P) — Fol
lowing the breaking of a passage
way to Point Barrow by the ice- j
breaker Burton Island, the nai^r
i3 today discharging material and
supplies for its oil explorations
here.
A constant wary eye is kept
trained on the ever-shifting ice
pack which has several times in
the past few days drifted toward
shore. The arrival of the ships
was like Christmas in August to
the natives as well as to the navy
personnel here.
TRUMAN MAY START
CAMPAIGN IN DETROIT
WASHINGTON, (tfV- President
Truman said yesterday that De
troit is among the cities he has
under consideration for opening
his Presidential campaign.
Mr. Truman told a news con
ference he has not mapped out
his campaign plans—the program
is just not ready yet.
A group of labor leaders have
invited the President to open his
campaign with a Labor Day
speech in Detroit, and he said he
is considering it.
He couldn’t say whether he
contemplates a speech in Wiscon
sin.
SERVICE CLEANERS
WRECKED BY AACS
MAN WHILE DRUNK
Early this morning the Service
Cleaners on Fourth and B streets
was broken into and very thor
oughyl wrecked by a berserk
young G. I., from the Marks Air
Force Base, a mile east of town.
The serviceman, Pfc. Steve a
Milstead (18 years old), of the
A.A.C£. at the Base, went crazy
drunk early this morning and
broke into the establishment,
broke windows, pulled clothes off
the racks, smashed bottles of sol
vent filter compound and tramp
led the whole house from front
to rear, then went to sleep in the
back room. When discovered by
police he was still asleep and
knew nothing of where he was.
According to local officials the
youth was drinking at May’s
Tavern and was later taken out
of the place for being drunk.
Verna Mickelson, owner of the
cleaning establishment, stated
there would be no civil charges
made againts the young soldier.
TERMINAL KNOT
DISCHARGING AT TELLER
The Terminal Knot, motorship
of the Alaska Steamship company
is today discharging cargo at Tel
ler, on its northern voyage.
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