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Geoi *»r(» Marshall
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Resigns Post As
Defense Secretary
WASHINGTON, (/P) — George
C. Marshall resigned today as Sec
retary of Defense. He will be suc
ceeded by the present Deputy Sec
retary Robert A. Lovett.
Marshall, 70, was appointed de
fense secretary one year ago to
day. He is quitting “for very per
sonal reasons.”
The soldier-statesman, a five
star general, was army chief of
staff in World War II and later
was Secretary of State. He spon
sored the European Recovery Pro
gram which became known
throughout the world as the Mar
shall Plan.
Upon the resignation of Defense
Secretary Louis Johnson a year
ago, Marshall came out of retire
ment to become the first profes
sional military man to head a U.S.
military department since 1916.
President Truman accepted
Marshall’s resignation “with great
reluctance” and effective im
mediately.
Marshall said of his term as
Defense Secretary:
“When I took this job it was my
understanding I would remain
only until June 30.”
Marshall’s letter of resignation
was dated Sept. 1.
In accepting it, the President
paid new tribute to the general
whom he has often described as
one of the greatest generals of all
time and one of the country’s out
standing patriots,
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Crash Survivors j
Laud Pilot Of
Crippled B-17
FAIRBANKS, Sept. 12, {/P) —
Skillful piloting by a veteran of
the Berlin airlift helped save the
crew of a falling B-17 bomber
which crash-landed 150 miles
south of here after an aerial ex
plosion, two member of a para
medic rescue team said today.
One man was killed but six
others survived the emergency
setdown Monday in a dense for
est between Summit and Tal
keetna.
Staff Sgts. R. P. Whirlow and
H. W. Rushing, the first two para
medics to reach the wrecked B-17
said expert maneuvering by the
pilot, identified by the Air Force
r last night as Capt. Fred Grindle,
Jr., a Berlin airlift veteran, and
the courage of badly burned
crewmen prevented additional
casualties.
Whirlow and Rushing bailed out
of a rescue plane when the B-17
wns sighted.
“They told us the plane was fly
ing along normally when suddenly
an engine exploded with a terrific
blast and burst the side of the
ship, killing one man,” Whirlow
* and Rushing said.
“The pilot brought the plane
down into the trees in a wonder
ful landing,” the survivors said.
“No one was hurt by the crash
landing but the flames had burned
some of us.”
$100,000 For Veterans'
Housing In Alaska
SEATTLE, </P) — The Veterans
Administration office here said it
would continue four percent di
rect government housing loans to
second world war veterans.
A new allotment of funds un
der the Defense Housing Act of
1951, signed nearly two weeks
ago by President Truman, makes
extension of the direct loan pro
gram possible, the VA said.
H. J. Hoffman, VA loan guar*
unty officer, said $100,000 has
been earmarked fen* loans in
Alaska. /
Thus far the VA has made 307
direct housing loans to veterans
in Alaska, totaling $2,650,700.
S6 Million Allotted
14 Alaska Public
Works Projects
JUNEAU, (/P)—Fourteen allot
ments for Alaska public works
totaling $6,435,000 were announ
ced by the Interior Department
yesterday.
Donald R. Wilson, Alaska Pub
lic Works Director, said here the
awards were on a 50-50 basis,
with the community or school dis
trict to pay half the cost of the
projects.
The allotments:
Juneau—$579,000 for a muni
cipal building to replace the city
hall removed for the new Alaska
Office Building.
Wrangell—$223,400 for im
provements to water system and
streets.
Kodiak—$600,000 for school.
Ketchikan—$500,000 for arterial
street along waterfront.
Seward—$263,700 for exten
sions to sewage system.
Palmer—$500,000 for improve
ment to water distribution sys
tem and streets.
University of Alaska—$657,000
for dormitory.
Fairbanks—$700,000 fcrr school.
Valdez—$206,300 for sewage
system.
Sitka—$500,000 for grade school.
Anchorage—$700,000 for school
and $173,000 for fire station.
Sand Point—$233,000 for school.
Fairbanks—$600,000 for streets
and sewers.
1911 and 1913 Autos,
Driven by 70-Year-Olds
In Chicago to N.Y. Race
DETROIT, (JP) — Still plagued
by tire troubles, two vintage
autos wheezed off from Detroit
this morning enroute to Toledo,
next leg on their race eastward.
The two, a gasoline-engined
1911 Stoddard Dayton driven by
Rube De Launty, 70, and a 1913
Stanley Steamer driven by Jack
Krause, 76, are racing from Chi
cago to New York. They hope to
make Cleveland by tonight.
The start from Detroit was held
up this morning on several counts.
First of all, Krause couldn’t
find a proper funnel to pour gaso
line into his burner tank.
“These old things take a half
day to start—just like a modern
car,” he exclaimed disgustedly.
De Launty’s right rear tire was
leaking at the rate of about 20
pounds of air every 10 minutes.
It holds 10 pounds.
Kehoe Named To
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Replace Williams
Secretary of Alaska
WASHINGTON, l/P) — A White
House spokesman announces Tru
man has fired Lew Williams as
Secretary of Alaska, and named
Judge Joseph Kehoe of Nome, as
his successor. The dismissal was
disclosed by Irving Perimeter, a
member of the press staff, but
he said he didn't know the rea
sons for the action.
Rumors that the Williams ouster
was pending have been circulated
in Alaska and Washington for sev
eral pionths.
In response to a question Peri
meter said Williams "Did not re
sign.
Britain Exerts
Economic Squeeze
Nationalist Iran
TEHRAN, Iran, (/P) — Britain’s
economic pressure in the oil na
tionalization dispute pushed the
black market dollar rate up 20
percent yesterday, amid talk of an
Iranian financial crisis.
The spurt in the dollar rate
came as the result of a British
treasury announcement restricting
the use of Iranian-held sterling
and stopped the conversion of
Iran’s pounds into dollars.
The British financial squeeze
brought trouble for Premier Mo
hammed Mossadegh, who already
faced a growing revolt in Parlia
ment over his ultimatum to Brit
ain to reopen talks on the nation
alization of Anglo-Iranian Oil
Company holdings. He has told
the British to resume talks in two
weeks or have their technicians
ousted from Iran.
The British answer, apparently
aimed at unseating Nationalist
Mossadegh, was to cut off Iran’s
dollar supplies, stop her trans
actions in sterling, end her right
to convert sterling into dollars,
and halt the export of scarce
goods from Britain to Iran.
Premier Mossadegh’s ultimatum
to the British to resume talks is
being forwarded to Britain by
way of Washington, but the pre
mier meanwhile has been unable
to get parliament . approval for
his move.
Pitching Stands Out In
Coast League Playoffs
(By the Associated Press)
Pitching prevailed as Seattle
and Hollywood, the No. 1 and No.
2 teams erf the Pacific Coast Lea
gue, won their opening games of
the semifinal series playoffs for a
$20,000 players’ pot.
Seattle, led by Harold Brown,
shut out Los Angeles last night
7-0, and Hollywood with Ben
Wade hurling five-hit ball, turned
back Portland, 6-2.
The semi-final series is two
out-of-three, the winners to meet
in the finals in a best-of-five
series. The playoffs winner gets
$10,000, the runnerup $5,000, and
the semifinal losers $2,500 each.
The attendance was poor for
last night’s games, 3,583 at Seat
tle and only 1,058 at Hollywood.
Alaska Tax Collections 34
Percent Over Last Year’s
JUNEAU, (/P) — A 34 percent
increase over last year in Alaska
tax collections was reported by
Territorial Tax Commissioner M.
P. Mullaney.
Mullaney said gross collections
to Sept. 1 were $9,505,962.68, as
compared to' $7,040,585.16, the to
tal on the same date in 1950.
The commissioner said 1951 col
lections accounted for almost one
fourth of the $38,460,789.60 col
lected since the department was
created Jan. 1, 1946.
The income tax, Alaska’s great
est source of revenue, already has
exceeded the 1950 tcrtal, he said.
For the first eight months of 1951
the total was $3,412,326.27 as com
pared to $3,302,077.76 for all of
1950.
Mullaney said the cost of col
lecting each dollar during the
more than five years of his tax
office operaticm has been 1.9 cents.
The department now has 60 em
ployes in Juneau and four field
offices.
Veteran Helicopter
Rescue Pilot Killed
On Search Mission
FAIRBANKS, Sept. 12, (/P)—A
veteran helicopter pilot who had
participated in many Alaska res
cue missions was one of the vic
tims of two separate but related
fatal air crashes last week.
The crashes were Nos. 11 and
12 in a series of plane accidents
which have claimed nearly 100
lives in Alaska since July 21.
Officers identified Capt. Frank
A. Alden, a member of the Tenth
Rescue Squadron here since Sep
tember of 1949, as the helicopter
pilot. He was killed Saturday
when his helicopter crashed while
enroute to the scene of a C-47
air transport crash in which three
died Friday night.
The Air Force said Alden was
due to return to the states on ro
tation Sept. 16. He is survived by
his widow, Rose, and two chil
dren, at Ladd Air Force Base.
The Air Force said Cpl. Joe K.
Allen of Versaille, Ky., was Al
den’s companion on the fatal
flight. Allen was also killed.
Voice of America To Get
One of Most Powerful
Radio Stations In World
ABERDEEN, Wash., </P)—Voice
of America radio programs will
ride a beam over the top of the
world to Asia from a huge trans
mitting station to be constructed
near this western Washington city.
Rep. Russell V. Mack (R-Wash)
disclosed plans for the radio sta
tion Monday.
Mack said the station, which he
described as one of the two larg
est and most powerful in the
world, will be built at a cost of
$5,000,000,000. A sister station will
be constructed in North Carolina.
Turpin in Middle Title Go
Tonight With Sugar Ray
NEW YORK, <JP) — Randolph
Turpin, the surprising British
middleweight champion of the
world, weighed in at 159 pounds
for his 15-round title defense to
night against Sugar Ray Robinson,
who weighed 157 V^.
Reds May Reject
Allied Apology For
Strafing Truce Site
TOKYO, Thursday, </P) — The
Peiping radio hinted today the
communists might reject an Allied
apology for the accidental strafing
of the Kaesong neutral zone Mon
day.
It carried a dispatch from a
communist correspondent at Kae
song saying the Allied “claim**
that the strafing was a mistake
“is absurd.”
While this was no official state
ment, the dispatches of commun
ist correspondents frequently fore
shadow the line official reaction
will take.
The home of peace for Korea
balanced gingerly on the Red re
action to the apology. There had
been considerable optimism here
that the Reds would accept the
apology and get back to the ne
gotiating table.
The Reds broke off truce talks
Aug. 23, charging that an Allied
plane had bombed the neutral
area. The Allies flatly denied this
charge.
There was the possibility that
the Reds would agree to resume
peace negotiations only if the
Allies apologize similarly for the
10 other alleged violations of the
neutral zone.
HST Denounces
Charges of Govt.
Extravagance
By ERNEST B. VACCARO
WASHINGTON, </P)—President
Truman denounced as “just a
pack of lies” today charges that
waste and extravagance are run
ning wild in the government.
Such charges are based on
meaningless “butterfly statistics,”
the President said.
And he declared that those who
claim the government is spend
ing itself into bankruptcy are do
ing so “to frighten voters—parti
cularly as visions of elections
dance through the heads of gen
tlement who are politically in
clined.”
In a bristling speech dedicating
the new seven-story limestone and
granite building for the general
accounting office, watchdog
agency for Congress on federal
spending, the President said em
phatically that the United States
is stronger economically than ever
before.
He singled out for special crit
icism a recent magazine article
purporting to show government
waste and extravagance. He did
not mention the magazine by
name, but plainly referred to the
Readers Digest, which carried a
table of figures supposedly show
ing that non-defense expenditures
had increased anywhere from 100
percent to 1,000 percent between
1940 and 1950.
Mr. Truman departed repeated
ly from a prepared text.
He defended the right of Am
ericans to grumble about paying
taxes, but went on to say:
“A man will go into a night club
and throw away 40 or 50 dollars
and think nothing of it, but let
him get a tax bill for $30 and
hear him scream!**