America Lacking j
In Aerial Attack
•Warning System
—
WASHINGTON <7P)—An agency
of the national defense establish
ment is looking for means of
mending a critical gap in the na
tion’s defenses—lack of any ade
quate system to warn of a sudden
<air or guided missile attack.
Dr. Vannevar Bush, chairman of
• the research and development
board, said today two committees
of his board ai*e seeking ways of
integrating the radar warning net
work with the normal navigation
al aids used for peacetime civilian
air operation.
Bush said, in reply to news con
ference questions, that there is no
existing nation-wide “early warn
ing network” (a tied-in system of
radar stations on shore, in the air '
and at sea by which fighter air
craft forces of the country could
be warned if enemy aircraft
started winging in on the United '
States.'
It also was disclosed that a sim
ilar gap in the warning system ex
ists in the vitally important polar
outpost of Alaska. A recent state
ment by the United States air
force said plans are underway for
the location of strategic defense
elements in Alaska, including an
. “interdependent system of early
. warning sites.”
Air force officials said, in ans
wer to questions after the Bush
comment, that this system is still
in the planning stage. There is
very little radar warning equip
ment in Alaska, they reported,
and it is mostly material left over
from the war.
Secy, Anderson
Presents Awards
WASHINGTON, </H)—Secretary
Anderson presented special serv
ice awards yesterday to 50 em
ployees of the agricultural depar
ment for distinguished and superi-1
or service in the fields of agricul- !
ture, science, writing, public ad-!
ministration and heroic action.
The awards were presented in
special ceremonies which the de
partment plans to repeat in May*
of each year hereafter to honor
special effort.
Among those receiving distin
guished service awards was the
Alaska spruce log program, forest
service, Tongass national forest:
for providing supplies of spruce!
for airplane construction at a lime
of critical shortage.
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MRS-. LAURA HAGBERG WINS
TRIP TO NEW YORK
Mrs. Laura Hagberg, formarly
Laura Beltz of Haycock and sister
of the Beltz boys of Nome, was the (
lucky winner of a queen contest
in Fairbanks at the Central Labor
Council’s Labor Day celebration
in Fairbanks.
As winner she receives a free
round trip to New' York. Mrs. Hag
berg, who is the mother of six
children ranging from 10 to 20
years, will visit her father’s fam
ily in Pennsylvania and have
Thanksgiving dinner with her hus
band’s people in New York. She
will also visit in Minneapolis and
Chicago. In addition to the trip
she receives a purse of $500.00.
She is taking fur parka and
mukluks and a quantity of movie
film on Alaska, which she plans
to show on her trip.
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'Britons Protest
Tax Increasss
LONDON, (/P)—Britons of all
classes grumbled yesterday over
terms of the Labor government’s
interim autumn budget calling for
new curbs on spending power to
reduce inflationary buying, but
newspapers generally protest e d
that the measures were not suffi
ciently severe.
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Hugh Dalton’s budget proposals,
submitted in the House of Com
mons Wednesday, would affect
rich and poor alike. The budget
demanded twice as big a slice of
company earnings, higher pur
chase taxes and other revenues.
It also slapped taxes on dog rac
ing and football pool betting and
upped the cost of a pint of beer
one pence (two cents'.
I don’t expect this to be a popu-1
lar budget,” Dalton said Wednes
day night in a radio address ex
plaining the fiscal proposals to the
British people.
Dalton said the proposed reven
ues would mop up an additional
$832,000,000 in annual surplus
spending power, estimated at
around $3,200,000,000.
Lord Beaverbrook’s Daily Ex
press greeted the proposals with |
the headline “Everything Up ♦Ex
cept Smoke)”, but many leading
editorial writers assailed them as
halfway measures.
Only the Laborite Daily Herald
expressed outright approval, com- i
Sundborg Says
Sale Of Timber
“Not Orderly”
JUNEAU, (/P) — George Sund
borg, executive assistant to Terri
torial Governor Ernest Gruening,
said yesterday the reported sale of
timber by Kake and Kasaan com
munities to the Timber Develop
ment corporation of New York
“doesn’t appear to be the orderly
way of going about disposing of
timber.”
“We thought it had all been
taken care of under the Tongass
Timber act passed by Congress
last session,” he added.
Forest service officials here es
timated that at present stumpage
rates the reported $20,000,000 sale
of Tongass National Forest timber
rights would amount to approxi- j
mptely one-sixth of all the mer-!
chantable timber in Southeast1
Alaska.
The sale was reported Wednes- (
day by Mrs. Ruth Bronson, secre
tary of the National Congress of
American Indians in Washington,
D. C. j
meriting that the “measures which i
the government has taken So far.
have prevented ‘that breakaway!
inflation’ which afflicts many
other countries.”
The independent Times criti
cized Dalton’s “half measures” for
failure to strike a note of urgency, j
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