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Working-from the data gleaned
from the Biltmi bomb tests* the,
navy is beginning to redesign its
surface ships. Guns will be aimed
from below decks—as larger guns
have been for quite some years
anyway. Ammunition will ,be fed
up to them automatically. Naviga
tion and the entire handling of to
morrow’s man of war will be car
ried on from protected spaces.
All this is to avoid personnel
losses from radio-activity in
atomic war. It may so change the
* silhouettes of our conventional
ships of war as to give them all
the contours of submarines. And
that will be deplored by a good
many traditionalists with a fond
ness for the characteristic silhou
ettes formed by guns and turrets,
bridge structure, stacks and other
^ long-established topside gear.
But they should not mourn un
duly. For the change in ships of
war from the age of TNT to the
age of atom will be very material
ly less of a wrench than was the
transition from sail to steam. One
might go back through the dec
ades, and not so very far, to find
plenty of old salts who had only a
sullen disapproval for the sleek,
steel ships of our own time.
For them, billowing white sails
were the only proper silhouette of
• a fighter ship. And yet sea-going
men of these years are equally de
voted to the grim outlines of tur
rets and stacks.
A letter received by Mr. An
thony: “I am a mother of four
children. My husband wants an
other one, but I have heard that,
every fifth child born in the U. S.
is Chinese. Shall I take that
chance?
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Paper, Pulp Would
Bring Population
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JUNEAU, (>P) — Establishment
of an Alaskan pulp paper industry
would increase the Territory’s
population by more than 50 per
cent, Territorial Senator Norman
R. Walker said yesterday.
Now touring Southeast Alaska
cities to rally support behind
pending Congressional legislation
to open timber lands to private de
velopment, Walker said the Alaska
forests would support six mills.
Each, he said, could employ 2,000
workers in its operations.
Workers and their families,
Walker • estimated, would total
36,000 new residents, as compared
with the 70,000 persons living in
Alaska at the last census.
Recommend Gov
ernors Of India
LONDON, (TP) — Mahomed Ali
Jinnah, India’s Moslem League
leader, has been recommended as
governor general of the new do
minion of Pakistan to be created
Aug. 15, and Viscount Mountbat
ten, present Viceroy, as governor
general of India, prime minister
Attlee announced yesterday.
Attlee made his announcement
in moving the second, decisive
reading in the House of Commons
of the government bill to grant a
divided dominion status next
month.
He said that while the formal
announcement could not be made
until the act was formally passed,
the King had intimated he would
be prepared to accept the recom
mendations of Jinnah and Lord
Mountbatten as governors gener
al.
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Priest Asks For
High School
Military Training
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Compul
sory military training in high
schools was urged at a House
armed services committee hearing
yesterday by the Rev. Dan A. Lan
ing, Catholic priest of Mission,
Tex.
A buck private in World War I
and a chaplain in the last war,
Father Laning was one of two
witnesses who supported the prin
ciple of universal military train
ing advocated by a special Presi
dential commission.
The other was Blake R. Van
Leer, president of Georgia Tech
university, Atlanta.
Opposing the proposal as the
committee continued hearings that
! may run into next year were Ker
mit Eby, director of education and
i research for the CIO, and Rabbi
Ahron Opher of New York, repre
senting the Synagogue Council of
America.
‘Tut military training in all our
i high schools, colleges and univer
sities,’ Father Laning urged the
committee. “Why begin at the
age of 18? ... By commencing
military training in the high
! school, the nation would be get
, ting the benefit of from four to
eight years of continuous training
as compared to six months or a
1 year “ as advocated by the Presi
dent’s commission.
Rabbi Opher called for a
strengthening of the United Na
! tions as the most effective way to
maintain peace. Universal mili
; tary training, he said, runs “coun
ter to the intent and purposes” of
the U. N. and should be resorted
to only when there is an “immin
ent threat” to national security.
Van Leer told the committee
universal military training “will
unquestionably improve the edu
cation and training of our people”
and is necessary now.
Eby claimed the President’s
commission was “biased from the
very beginning” and said its re
port was “virtually a call to arms”
and “an acceptance of war as in
evitable.”
Big-City Doctors
Will Work For A
Month In Alaska
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Dr. Morgan is executive secre
tary of a medical association ad
visory committee, set up at the re
quest of secretary of the interior
Krug, to survey health problems
in the Territories and island pos
sessions, and in Indian areas.
The committee also selects ih'c
teams that will sample the rugged
life of the country doctor in the
remote areas. Its other members,
all doctors, are R. L. Sensenirh,
South Bend, Ind.; Elmer L. Hen
derson, Louisville, Ky.; William
F. Braasch, Rochester, Minn., and
George F. Lull, Morris Fishbein
and E. E. Irons, Chicago.
The first team will set out from
Anchorage^ Alaska, to treat tuber
culosis-ridden natives in such
communities as Tanana, Point
Barrow, Kotzebue and Bethel as
well as in Nome, Juneau and An
chorage.
MRS. BUD RICHTER TO
VACATION IN KOUGAROK
Mrs. Bud Richter and child left
today for the Kougarok to spond
a month with her father. M'\
Geo’-gc Waldheim.
Bartlett Blasts At
“Unjust Increase”
In Shipping Rates
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test by Alaska against the pro
posed rates and said the commis
sion denied the Territory a hear- ]
ing because of threats by the com
panies to refuse the service if the
rates were suspended pending a
hearing.
“Now with the zealous protec
tion of the maritime commission
the carriers have one hand in the
federal treasury for their capital:
costs,” Bartlett said, “and the'
other in the pockets of Alaska for
$4,000,000 more than they justly
deserve.”
Bartlett said that the principal
owner of two of the Alaska ship J
lines is a large scale fish canner.'
“He has seen to it that he and
his fellow canners will pay only a
small part of the increases,” Bart
lett said. “He does not have to jus
tify a rate for canned fish south
bound from Kodiak to Seattle that
i
is one-half the rate for dry gro
ceries north-bound to Kodiak.”
I Bartlett asked the House to keep
! the Alaska situation in mind and j
said he feared that not much could
be done to aid the Territory.
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I POTSDAM, N. Y. UP)—James j
J. Doyle, Jr., chief of the Potsdam
volunteer fire department, led the
1 way to the scene of a blazing au-;
tomobile.
Doyle stepped out of his car
and discovered his own auto was
burning. Firemen extinguished
both blazes. (
Committee Okays
Vet Settlement
Of Alaska
WASHINGTON (TP)—The House
public lands committee approved
yesterday legislation authorizing
settlement of war veterans on
Alaska farming, grazing, timber,
fuel and other claims ranging in
size from 320 to 1,920 acres.
The secretary of interior would
determine the size of the claim but
it would have to be large enough
to support a family of seven “on
an American standard of living.”
The claims could be located in
Southeast Alaska, south central
Alaska, or in areas within 30 miles
of the Alaska and Richardson
highways and the Alaska railroad.
To make final proof of his claim
a veteran would have to live on
the land for three years but those
who served two years during the
war or were wounded would be
allowed credit for two years in
proving his residence require
ment.
The reconstruction finance cor
poration could make loans to the
veterans and they would be given
first priority to surplus govern
ment property in Alaska and boats
and other equipment surplus in
the Seattle, Wash., area.
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Simpson working in this store.
May I see him? I’m his grand
father.”
“You’ve just missed him. He’s
gone to your funeral.”
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