Unknown Star
Boarder In Tavern
SAN FRANCISCO (A*)—1Thomas
Sullivan, owner of a Market Street
tavern .noticed quite a few things
missing from his bar the past
month. Included were:
Bottles of good whisky each
night plus some bottles of beer.
Hard boiled eggs, ham sand
wiches, peanuts and potato chips.
Nickels from the juke box,
which had been jimmied.
Loose change from cigar sales.
Sullivan was unhappy and his
nerves were on edge—until yes
terday morning.
A customer went into the bar’s
washroom and noticed a leak in
he ceiling. But it wasn’t water. It j
was bourbon. He called Sullivan.
The bar owner called the police.
And officer John Nyland found 1
Patrick J. Fleming, a 23-year-old
West Virginian who had found a
trap door in the ceiling and de- 1
nded he’d become a border for a ,
while.
Fleming, now lodged in a dif
ferent abode, the city jail, said:
“I stayed there for a month . . .
drunk good whisky, too . . . slept
m the floor . . . and lived good.”
Nyland said, “He’d be in that
)ar yet if that whisky bottle had
tot tipped over.”
“Sure would. That was good
U. S. Fur Imports
Drop Drasticlally
WASHINGTON. </P)—'The tariff
commission reports a sharp de
cline in imports of furs since De
cember, 1946.
A Tariff commission committee
—which studies exports and im
ports under the trade agreements
act—wrote -Senator *-Wiley <R.
Wis.) that total imports of un
dressed furs during 1947 dropped
to $122,000,000 compared with
$240,000,000 in 1946.
Wiley’s office, which made the
letter public yesterday, said the
Senator asked the information j
“with a view to determine whe- j
ther he will introduce legislation
in the next Congress for the pur
pose of protecting the domestic
fur farmer.”
The reciprocal trade agreements !
come up for review by the new
Congress.
The tariff committee said impo
sition of a duty on undressed furs
would be in conflict with the trade
agreement signed at Geneva last
year. This preserved the duty-free
status of most undressed furs,
while the duty on silver and black
fox furs was fixed at 37 per
cent.
whisky,” said Fleming.
He was booked on petty theft.
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Alaskan Command
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Plane Over Alaska
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FAIRBANKS, </P)—Have Rus
sian planes been flying over the
western tip of Alaska? Not that
the Alaskan air command knows
about.
The air command issued a mat
ter-of-fact explanation yesterday
of a report that a four-engined
plane with red painted wing tips
and tail had been seen last August
over Alakanuk, 150 miles south
east of Nome.
That kind of a paint job is on
most American military aircraft in
Alaska, including B-29’s which
frequently fly the Bering Sea;
coast on training missions.
The reason is easier spotting in '
case of a crash.
An Alakanuk merchant, John
Emel, was quoted in Seattle last;
week as saying a red-tipped plane !
resembling a B-29 had circled
over his village in August. He said
two villagers also reported seeing j
a re dstar on the fuselage, giving
rise to the belief the plane was
Russian.
The public information office of
the 5001st wing at Ladd Field here
denied any knowledge of the inci
dent, although Emel was said to
have notified army authorities.
Wing officers said a report of
that kind would have been given
widest circulation in intelligence
reports to all Alaska bases.
—
Navy To Stage
Mock Battle In
North Atlantic
BOSTON, (/P)—A hundred ships
manned by 36,000 men plowed
northward yesterday toward the
Arctic and a mock battle to test
the U. S. navy’s postwar strength.
Meanwhile 17 sub marines
moved for position in the simu
lated warfare and 543 aircraft
were assigned to take part in the
engagement.
The surface craft are directed
by Admiral William H. P. Blandy,
commander in chief of the Atlan
tic fleet.
The 17 submarines, commanded
by Rear Admiral James Fife, Jr.,
will attempt to “destroy” or way
lay the surface fleet. The planes
will assist operations of the un
dersea and surface craft.
Operational control is scheduled
to pass to Vice Admiral Donald B.
i Duncan Thursday for a combined
I attack against Argentia, New
foundland, ending in an amphibi
ous offensive Nov. 8.
All phases will be conducted
under wartime conditions, with
black-outs, radio silence and sub
marine and plane warnings.
The second task fleet is slated to
enter Davis Strait, dotted with
wolfpacks, and into waters of
Greenland before returning to its
Norfolk, Va., base.
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Military Sums Up
Potentialities Of
Atomic Bomb
(By Elton C. Fay)
i <(/P) Military Affairs Reporter)
WASHINGTON,/ (/P)—1The na
i lion’s military planners—guided
i by two wartime uses and six
; peacetime tests — have decided
about where the atomic bomb fits
in the rack of weapons for fighting
a possibl future war.
One authority summed up the
official attitude by saying the
United States is not putting all its
eggs in one basket. His figurative
expression indicates this is how
the nuclear fission bomb is view:
ed:
1. It is the deadliest weapon in
the national arsenal, but it by no
means has displaced all others.
2. It may or may not be a deci
sive weapon in another war, but
used alone it is improbable it
could mean victory in a matter of
days or even weeks.
3. Because of its broad area of
destruction, it is not a selective
weapon and its use must be guid
ed accordingly.
The wartime uses and non-com
i bat tests of the atomic bomb have
convinced military leaders that it
! would be of very limited, if any,
tactical use—that is, for direct at
tack on front-line troops. This is
because such troops are so dis
persed that it would require many
bombs to destroy effective num
bers of them.
The bomb thus becomes essen
tially a strategic weapon, to be
used for two general purposes.
1. destruction of cities in which
war goods are produced or dis
tributed, together with the people
producing them.
2. Breaking the will of civilian
populations to continue a war.
In considering all the possibili
ties of atomic weapon attack, mat
ters of policy beyond the purely
military aspects have been given
grave consdieration by national
defense officials. This is one of
them:
It is quite possible that an all
out atomic war eventually could
destroy the economy of even the
largest nation. When that military
victory had been achieved, the
victor might have to support the
vanquished—even as in Germany
and Japan.
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