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Nome, Alaska, Wednesday. July 13, 1949
UNIFICATION CAN PROVE EXPENSIVE
(Hugo S. Sims)
The creation of a national defense establishment,
with a single military figure at the head of the three
services, is in line with the effort to “unify” the serv
ices and to “economize” on the cost of national prepar
edness.
Herbert Hoover, former President, recently told the
House Armed Services Committee that the provision
for a single military head is “not only unworkable, but
might be dangerous to the country.
We do not have the full statement of Mr. Hoover
available for study, but, apparently, he has in mind the
possibility that the mistake of a single military leader
could have disastrous consequences for the nation in
case of war. We have repeatedly expressed the same
idea in connection with discussions over unification of
the armed services.
We are not willing to risk the future security and
safety of this country in the effort to save money on
our preparedness activities. It is quite possible that if
the future defense of this country depends upon a single
plan for war the nation might find itself in the position
of France after depending upon the Maginot Line.
While it may not be cheaper, it will be safer to let the
Army, the Air Force and the navy plan the tactics and
strategy of their respective fields of service. Thus, the
three services will not necessarily develop identical
plans, procedures and programs but, in the event of
war, one of the three will have someting capable of de
fending the nation.
“MY HATRED FOR THE WHITE MAN WENT ’
(By Louis Bvles, Town Clerk, SL Ann’s Bay, Jamaica)
For the last 100 years the colored people of the world
have searched deeply for an answer to their hates and
hurts, and two roads have been offered to us. There has
been the way of Godless materialism with its program
of class warfare. But we are essentially a religious peo
ple. The spirtiuals which our forefathers sang and wc
sing today are proof of that. So we do not take easily to
class warfare, but we have been very confused and dis
illusioned people.
And now cut of this fog has come Moral Re-Arma
ment. I remember two years ago Dr. Frank Buchman
said something that has meant much to my race. He
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Cook Inlet Fishing
Strike Settled
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per inlet.
Alfred Owen, business agent for
; the AFL United Fishermen .of
Cook Inlet, said the new prices
automatically will be paid to
; members of his union.
CIO cannery workers accepted
i the across-the-boards wage raise
of 7 cents an hour offered by the
i salmon industry before the strike,
but the agreement settled two
other major points at issue.
A proportionate increase in sea
sonal guarantees was granted,
along with the stipulation that
resident cannery workers will
have their guarantees applied in
full to the remaining five weeks
of the season.
Wage scales for cannery work
ers now will start at $1.52 an
hour, or $229.50 where they are1
employed by the month subsist
ence and travel pay also is pro
1 vided.
i While some canneries along the
; inlet operated on a reduced scale
during the strike, most of the in
dustry was tied up as tendermen
respected the picket lines of the
fishermen and cannery employees.
Cook Inlet Basin
First On Army
Engineers Survey
SEATTLE. i/Pl—The 47.500 sq.
rruie Cook Inlet basin will be the
first section of Alaska to be cov
ered in the army engineers sur
vey, looking to a large scale de
velopment program for the Terri
tory.
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This announcement was made '
by Col. O. E. Walsh, new division
engineer, at Portland.
Hearings are to be conducted at
Anchorage. Kenai, Kasilof, Ho
mer. Seldovia, and other points by
Col. Lyle E. Seeman, district en-;
gineer at Anchorage, Col. Walsh
said.
Actual preparation of plans will1
be under Col. James G. Truitt,;
head of a special survey division,
operating from the Portland divi
sion ••ffice.
The Cook Inlet basin studies
will include proposed navigation
improvements and the possibility
of multi-purpose projects involv
ing large hydroelectric develop
ments. These studies are part of
‘he preparation o;' a "308 report.”
covering general development of
natural resources of Alaska, sim
ilar to the recent report proposing'
a multi-billion dollar program for
the Columbia River basin.
Walsh recently succeeded Col.
Theron D. Weaver as division en
gineer in charge of army engin
eer operations in the Pacific
Northwest and Alaska. Weaver
has been transferred to Germany.
Under the new program most of
the Alaska work previously done ;
from the Seattle district office j
will be transferred to Alaska. The
Seattle office, however, will com
plete work on the various pr >jects
“ it now has underway.
News of the World
At A Glance —
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! servicemen on the docks since last
Thursday.
I Under the emergency proclama
j tion men may be arrested without
warrant if they are suspected of
trying to keep others from work
1 ing. But they may not be drafted
to work or prevented from peace
| ful picketing.
Britain is reported to be getting
| up a list of things she thinks the
commonwealth could do without
to save dollars. Sir Stafford
Cripps, chancellor of the exche
quer, is said to be ready to ask
the finance minister of the seven
British Dominions to approve the
list at their meeting with him in
London tomorrow.
Trucks piled up at Helmstedt
gain today as a result of Russia’s
“little blockade” of Berlin. Four
trucks an hour were allowed to
pass over the superhighway from
Helmstedt to Berlin. Otherwise
truck traffic from Western Ger
many was banned for the third
day. Thus far the Russians have
given no explanation for their ac
tion.
There was a new, ominous over
tone to the church-state fight in
Czechoslovakia. An official of the
communist government accused
Roman Catholic bishops and
clergy in Czechoslovakia of “es
pionage for unfriendly foreign
countries” and demanded that
they be subject to the same penal
ties as soldier spies, including
death.
The charge was made by Prof.
Alexander Horak, commissioner
of transport in Slovakia. Horak is
a former priest who was suspend
ed by the church lor disobeying
its ban against participation in:
politics. He now is a leader in the
government-sponsored separatist j
Catholic Action movement.
The Czechoslovak government
also has made a veiled threat to
stop government donations to
Catholic charities unless the bish
ops give up in the church-state
battle.
Nationalist China, the Ph lip
pine and South Korea have got
ten behind a proposed Pacific
front against communism. The
Philippines and nationalist Chin.',
initiated the idea in a three-day
conference in Baguio, the Philip
pines. The conference was attend
ed by President Elpidio Quirino!
and Generalissimo Chiang Kai
Shek. Southern Korea quickly ap- 1
proved of the idea.
The big question now is: Will
the United States come in Wash
ington will be asked to line up
with countries of the Far Pacific
in a political and economic—but
not a military—alliance.
Advocates of the proposed union
hope to enlist Siam, Indonesia,
and possibly Burma right away.
Australia and New Zealand are
among other countries which will
be invited to join.
Bats’ limbs are not adapted for \
walking.
said: Moral Re-Armament is for everyone, every
where.” And in that moment my hatred for the white
man went and I felt that together we could bring the I
world back to sound relationships. Today I am tremen
dously grateful for this inspired ideology of Moral Re
Armament which is bringing a new spirit to more than
half the world.
The world has not begun to realize what the colored
races can give to it. Moral Re-Armament is the inspired
medium through which we are finding all the ways o'
contributing.
Forty-Five Die
In India Air Crash
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recovered by nightfall, approxi
mately 14 hours after the crash.
The plane struck a rocky hilltop
while approaching the Santa Cruz
airfield, 15 miles north of Bom
bay. It hit a hill near Ghatkopar,
on the opposite side of the 30
mile-long island from Santa Cruz.
Two Americans originally in
the party—Mrs. Dorothy Brandon
of the New York Herald Tribune
and William R. Mathews, Tucson,
Ariz., publisher—had decided not
to return aboard the ill-fated Con
stellation.
Mathews said on his arrival at
Manila that Mrs. Brandon had re
fused to fly on the KLM aircraft
because she feared it would be
sabotaged. He quoted her as say
ing the plane would be “sabotaged
as sure as your life.” No evidence
that the plane was sabotaged has
been uncovered thus far.
The Constellation was en route
from Batavia to the Netherlands.
BOMBAY, India UP)—'The rain
soaked underbrush on Ghatkopar
hill today yielded the bodies of 40
of the 45 persons killed yesterday
in the flaming crash of a Royal
Dutch 'KLM» airliner on Bombay
Island.
Thirteen of the dead were
American news correspondents.
The bodies of all but one of the
correspondents — Fred Colvig of
The Denver Post—have been iden
tify 1.
Hundreds of police slogging
through monsoon rains continued
the search for the five missing
bodies.
The plane, a Constellation,
crashed on the 800-foot high hill
while preparing to land at an air
field 15 miles north of Bombay.
Controller of airdromes Sumshere
Jung said the field was “perfectly
okay” at the time of the crash
and that other aircraft had made
takeoffs a short time before.
Three other widely scattered
plane c“ashes Monday took an ap
parenf toll of 21 perosns.
A F cnch military plane plung
ed info the sea just off French
Morocco. Eighteen persons were
’ ed.
A U. S. C-54 airlift transport
crashed Monday night in the Rus
-ian zc.nc near Berlin. Air search
( s could see no sign of life near
the wreckage and the three crew
men were believed dead.
A coast guard seaplane cracked
up in the Pacific about 480 miles
uor.hwest of San Francisco Mon
day night, on a rescue m'ssi >n,
out all 11 persons aboard were
saved. The plane was trying to re
move an ailing passenger from a
steamer.
ALASKA SS. DICKERS FOR
DIAMOND CEMENT CHARTER
SEATTLE, i#*) — Negotiations
between Alaska Steamship com
pany and Seattle agents for the
SS. Diamond Cement reported'y
were in progress Monday for pos
sible charter of the freighter by
the Alaska line.
The vessel is owned by'Perman
cnte Steamship Corp.. of Oakl;>’.
Olympic Steamship Co. is se , .la
agent for the firm.
The Diamond Cement, a veter
an in coastwise and Alaska t ad?,
recently concluded a serson of
hauling Alaska limercck to Seattle
for Permanente. Trie ship carries
about 5.000 tons of cargo.
There was no immed'nt? coif.r
mation on the charter report.