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Gen. Kinney Says
U. S. Will Be Hit
From Polar Region
*ln Next War
Many Casualties
(By DeWitt MacKenzie)
(Ah Foreign Affairs Analyst
General George C. Kenney,
chief of the strategic air command
at Andrews field, Md., tells us that
in a future war our United States
^C’ould be the first target and
would be reached by a trans-polar
assault which might “result in a
casualty list of 25,000,000 men,
women and children in the first 24
hours.”
The general thus bluntly advis
ed the Women’s Patriotic confer
ence on defenses yesterday in
Washington. He asserted that,
above all, the enemy would strive
^ for a quick knockout, the attack
coming over the shortest air route
from the European-Asiatic lane
mass across the north polar basin.
Apropos of this, Jt s less thar
four months ago that the Pacusor
Dreamboat—the giant B-29 of the
U. S. Army Air Forces flew non
stop from Honolulu over the Arc
tic to Cairo. General Carl Spaatz,
AAF commander, stated at the
fme that this proved “the feasi
bility of flight across the polar
wastes.”
Kenney said the attack would be
made “by both piloted and pilot
less aircraft, by radio-controllec'
missiles, by rockets—all loadec
with atomic bombs, super-explo
sives, super-incendiaries, basteria
weapons or whatever means o
mass destruction happens to be ir
vogue at the time.” Just to make
sure that he got his idea home, the
general added that “four atomic
§bombs of the old Hiroshima-Naga
saki type, properly placed, would
knock New York out of commis
sion.”
That’s strong mustard, and ob
viously is so intended by General
Kenney. He has deliberately em
phasized one of the gravest lan
ifcTs of the day—the development
of another global conflict ^which
would bring into play not only the
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PRINCE AND 'MONTY’ —Prince Bernhardt (left) of the Netherlands rides in a car with
Field Marshal Montgomery on occasion of decorating “Monty" with Royal Order of the Lion.
Alaska SS. To Sell
Two Ships
SEATTLE, (/P) — The veteran
Alaska Steamship Co., vessels
Cordova and Lakina, comman
deered by the government during
the war soon will be returned to
the company and sold, it was an
nounced over the week-end.
The Cordova was built in 1912;
the Lakima in 1913. The company
also will receive the steamship
Victoria, now moored here.
The company will return to the
Maritime Commission the freight
er Oduna, and the Clove Hitch,
both to be tied up at Olympia, and
the Santa Cruz and the Cape Vic
tory.
PRESIDENT NOMINATES
NENANA POSTMASTER
The President has nominated■
Mrs. Lilly V. Clark as postmaster
at Neana, and it is believed the
Senate will confirm the appoint
ment at an early date.
Senator McMahon Charges Russia
Is Developing Atomic Fission Plant
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WASHINGTON, (tf*)—Senator McMahon (D.-Conn.) said today
he suspects Russia is developing an atomic Fission plant in the
Ural Mountains while American and Soviet officials are debating
* plans for world wide atomic control and disarmament.
The former chairman of the special Congressional committee
on atomic energy added in a speech prepared for Senate delivery
that this country must "swap atomic knowledge for atomic con
trol" immediately or face eventual destruction by the awesome new
weapon.
McMahon, who three months ago proposed a compromise con
trol plan designed to get around Russia's insistence upon the right
of veto, pleaded anew for its acceptance, declaring:
"It is in the interest of our own security, to get inspectors be
hind the high walls now so that we may know what is going on
now, before it becomes possible for us to be shocked into awareness
* by the sudden explosion of an atomic bomb in our midst.
"Today we have no way of knowing what other countries are
4ftoing about atomic weapons or how far they have advanced. But
this much we do know. Other nations are working night and day
on the problem. So long as we do not have exact knowledge we
become prey to fear end suspicion."
Many Killed
In Air Crashes
Over Week-End
<By The Associated Press*
Airplane crashes at home and
aboard over the week-end caused
the deaths of 54 persons, including
American soprano Grace Moore
and Sweden’s Prince Gustaf Adolf.
In China, search planes were
sent out today ,to find a Chinese
National Aviation Corp. passenger
plane missing since Monday on a
flight from Conton to Chungking.
The Chinese Central news agency
once reported the plane had been
found, with 18 aboard dead, but
later said the report was incorrect,
based on a mistranslation of a
coded message from its Chungking
bureau.
Miss Moore and the prince were
among 22 persons killed at Copen
hagen, Denmark, when a Royal
Dutch <KLM> plane crashed and
burned yesterday at its takeoff for
Sweden.
That was the costliest of the
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Funeral Services
For Ruby Oldtimer
SEATTLE, (/P) — Funeral serv
ices will be held Thursday for
Thomas Hamilton Long, 76, dep-,
uty U. S. marshal at Ruby, Alaska,
from 1912 until he moved here in
1945.
He first went to Alaska in 1898,
reaching Dawson, Y. T. via the
Duryea Trail, he left the next year
and sailed for the Philippines.
Later he worked as a government
engineer on the Panama Canal be
fore returning to Alaska.
He was an honorary life mem
ber of the Igloo No. 5, Alaska Pio
neers. His widow, a son and name
sake, and two grandchildren sur
vive him.
Jews Kidnap
Two Britons
i- . i
(By Carter L. Davidson)
JERUSALEM, — Two kid- j
napings of Britons resulted in tne
placing of 90,000 Palest.ne Jews
under house arrest today, and
British military forces postponed
the hanging scheduled tomorrow
of an alleged Jewish underground
terrorist.
Police officials said the kidnap-1
ings of a British banker and a
British judge apparently were ef
forts by the Irgun Zvai Leumi, un
dergiound organ.zation, to head
off the execution of an alleged Ir
gun member convicted of partici
pating in an attack on a police sta
tion.
Lt. Gen. Sir Evelyn Barker or
dered an indeterminate delay in
the hanging of the man, Dov Bela
Groner 33. The delay was granted
when a Palestine attorney acting
on behalf of Groner’s sister in
Lancaster, Pa., Mrs. Helen Fried
man, took steps to appeal pie case
to the Privy Council, Britain’s su
preme court.
The military clamped a strict
house-to-house curfew on 90,000
Jews.
LONDON (/P)—Dr. Jamal Ef
fendi Husseini, vice chairman of
the Palestine Arab higher execu
tive rejected partition today as a
solution of the Palestine problem
and warned that creation of a Jew
ish state there would be a “perm
anent source of trouble in the
Middle East ”
A fresh outbreak on anti-British
violence in Palestine by the Jew
ish underground dimmed hopes
for a satisfactory settlement.
PITTSBURGH, (/P)—Pittsburgh
Pirates bought pitcher HI Bithorn
from the Chicago Cubs for the
$10,000 waiver price today.
NEWS IN BRIEF
ARCADIA, Calif. fAh—See-Tee
See, $11.60. won the $50,000 Santa
Catlina handicap at Santa Anita
par* Saturday with Pere Time
second and Sierra third in the mile
and an eighth race. Honeymoon
finished ninth. A crowd of 53,000
wagered $3,410,409.
DURHAM, N. C. (A*)—Judge W.
G. Bramham, retiring president of
the National Association (minor
leagues), today placed five Evan
geline league players on baseball’s
ineligible list following an inves
tigation of alleged irregularities in
the loop’s post-season series be
tween Houma, La., and Abbey
ville La.
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. (/P)—A
B-29 crashed shortly after leaving
Kirtlund field and the public rela
tions office there announced it be
lieved most of the “12 or 14 men
aboard” were killed.
COLUMBUS, O. (TP)—Columbus
Rcdbirds of the American associa
tion signed Hal Anderson, former
Columbus outfielder, as manager
for 1947 today,
CINCINNATI, (A1) —Agreement
on a company-wide contract to
cover some 30,000 U. S. Rubber
Co. employees in 16 plants was an
nounced today by officials of the
company and the CIO United
Rubber Workers.
It was the first company-wide
contract in the rubber industry
and union officials said it might
be the first negotiated by a CIO
union.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (JP)—Mrs.
E. M. Rase, mother of Mrs. Mickey
Rooney, confirmed reports today
that the motion picture actor and
her daughter “have agreed to live
apart.” Mrs. Rase said Mickey, Jr.,
15 months, and Timothy, born here
three weeks ago, would remain in
Birmingham with their mother.
“Nothing else has been settled
and no legal action has been
taken,” Mrs. Rase said. Property
settlement discussions are under
way.
OAKLAND, Calif. (/P) — Two
special air-sea rescue planes flew
seaward today to escort a four
engine Trans-Pacific airliner with
17 persons aboard to the mainland
after one engine quit 350 miles off
the coast. Ten passengers and a
crew of seven were on the crip
>led plane, operated by Trans
ocean airlines under charter to the
Philippines Air Lines. They were
on the final leg of a flight from
Manila.
WASHINGTON (/P)—Chairman
Knutson (R.-Minn.) of the House
ways and means committee today
introduced legislation to prohibit
recovery under the portal-to-por
tal pay suits. In a statement, Knut
son said treasury estimates indi
cate the federal government may
have to pay as much as four bil
lion dollars if pending portal suits
are adjudged in favor of the com
plaining unions.