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derstatement.”
The Delegate said the question
of Indian reservations in the,
Southeastern Alaska region was
of vast importance to the people j
and the final decision will have i
much to do with the economy of
the region.
The Alaska Native Brotherhood,
representing the Indians of the re
gion, has gone on record as oppos- j
ing reservations, Bartlett said.
He continued:
“Unhappily there remains a1
class of people motivated doubt
less by the best intentions in the
world who believe they and they '
alone are qualified to take the In
dians by the hand and lead them
through the pitfalls of our modern
life with the white people. . . .
“So far as I know there has (
never been previously in the.
whole history of the interior de
partment an attempt made to ef
fect such a far reaching change in
Alaska’s status without at least in
forming the Alaska representative
in Congress of what was contem
plated.
“Emphatically I wish to sugges*
thai no proclamation creating a ly
reservation at all in the Territory
be signed until the interested pc'-- j
pie there of both races have an
opportunity to make their views
known.”
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Industry Pledges
35,000,000 Bushels
To Aid Europe
WASHINGTON, f/P>—The citi
zens food committee yesterday es-1
timated that it is 35 per cent along
the way toward President Tru
man’s goal of saving 100,000,000
bushels of grain for the relief of
winter distress in Europe.
Industry pledges will account;
for some 35,000,000 bushels in the
next 90 days, a committee official
said, but most of the rest must
come from public self-denial and
in farm savings of grain fed to
livestock.
In the hope of tapping another
industry source, committee chair
man Charles Luckman will meet
shortly with meat packing repre
sentatives, the official disclosed.
Meanwhile the White House
and legislators of both parties
made plans for the Nov. 17 special
session of Congress which Mr.
Truman hopes will furnish about
Patton Blamed
Gen. Montgomery
For War Slow-Up
NEW YORK. </P»—Gen. George
S. Patton, Jr„ stormy wartime
commander of the United States
Third Army, vigorously criticized
Britain’s Field Marshal Montgom
ery and also directed barbs at top
American officers in an abridge
ment of his war journal published
yesterday.
In pungent, crisp phrases, Pat
ton declared his belief the war m
Europe would have been shorten
ed and thousands of lives saved
but for “the tremendous error ol
the war” which he blamed or.
Montgomery’s influence with
SHEAF, Gen. Dwight D. Eisen
hower’s headquarters.
Excerpts from the informal
journal, written during the Third
Army’s campaigns, were publish
ed posthumously yesterday in the
Saturday Evening Post. They cov
ered only the fighting in France
and Germany.
Supporting views of some other
officers and observers who have
written of the Third Army’s his
toric dash across France as far as
Verdun in August, 1944, Patton
asserted his forces would have
pushed across the Rhine in 10 days
had it not been for a change in
high command strategy “imple
mented, in my opinion, by Gener
al Montgomery.”1
“The twenty-ninth of August,
U944) was, in my opinion, one of
the critical days in this war,” Pat
ton wrote. “It was evident at this
time that there was no real threat
against us as long as we did not
allow ourselves to be stopped by
imaginary enemies.”
He reported ordering attacks on
Verdun and Commercy, then con
tinued:
“Everything seemed rosy, when
suddenly it was reported to me
that 140,000 gallons of gas we
were to get that day had not ar
rived. At first I thought it was a
back-handed way of slowing up
the Third Army. I later found that
this was not the case, but that the
delay was due to a change of plan
by the high command, implement
ed, in my opinion, by General
Montgomery.
“It was my( opinion that this
was the momentous error of the
war.”
$1,000,000,000 to get the grain and
other products overseas while set
ting up controls against inflation
at home.
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Patton’s Charges
NEW YORK, </P)—Strategy pro- j
posed by the late Gen. George S. J
Patton, Jr., and subsequently al- j
tered by^he Allied high command1
over his protests “would not have j
shortened the war but would j
have made it more difficult to
win,” the war-time chief of staff I
to field marshal Viscount Mont-!
gomery said yesterday.
The change in battle plan which
called for an all-out thrust of his I
Third Army armored columns;
across the Rhine into Germany,
Patton said, was in his opinion
“the momentous error of the
war.”
Writing in his war journal, pub
lished in ‘part yesterday by the
Saturday Evening Post, Patton
declared his belief that the change l
in strategy was “implemented’ by I
Montgomery, resulting in length
ening the war and the loss of
thousands of additional lives.
War office spokesman in Lon- j
don delined comment on Patton’s
charges but in Capetown, South
Africa, Montgomery’s f o r m e r 1
chief of staff, Gen. Sir Francis W.,
de Guingand, disputed the color
ful American commander’s
claims.
“I think that if Patton had been
allowed to go rushing into Ger
many on the axis proposed by
him, a very awkward situation
would have developed despite pos- :
sible initial successes,” de Guin-!
gand commented.
“Such a move, leaving very vul-;
nerable flanks, would not nave
shortened the war but would have
made it more difficult to win."
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (/Pi^School- i
teacher Elmer ~L. Stewart lost or ;
mislaid his No. 8 iron on the Hi 11
view golf links a year ago, but
never bought another.
Finally there came a spot where
only a No. 8 would do, so he bor
rowed from his constant golfing1
companion James Kershaw. Turn
ed out to be his own. which nei
ther knew had been in Kershaw’s
bag for a year.
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MISSING PERSON
Anyone having information con
cerning the following person is
asked to communicate with the
Governor’s Office in Juneau:
Raymond C. Stanton—Age 33,
height approximately 5 feet 9
inches. His mother, Mrs. R. C.<
Stanton, 908 W. 22nd Street, Chey
enne, Wyoming, is seeking him.
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SUPPER ,AT FEDERATED
CHURCH WELL ATTENDED
Tuesday evening the soc dl
rooms of the Federated Church
were filled to capacity for the first
church supper of the season,
which was prepared under the
chairmanship of Mrs. H. Harper,
who was assisted by Mrs. R.
Webb and Mrs. R. Baldwin. Many
volunteers gave generously of
their time for which the commit
tee is most grateful.
About 150 persons were served
during the evening.
Mrs. Luther Dunbar and Mrs.
M. Day, accompanied by Mrs.
Wm. Cameron entertained the din
ers with a group of old-time fav- j
orite songs. A grqup of young peo
ple under the direction of Mrs.
Cameron rendered two musical
selections.
George Beacom brought out j
many laughs with his comedy
monologue.
Navy To Train
In Aleutians j
—
SAN FRANCISCO. i/P) — Adm.
Louis E. Denfeld, U. S. Command
er-in-chief in the Pacific, said
yesterday “minor” naval maneu
vers will be staged in the Aleu
tians next February to “familiar
ize personnel with cold weather
operations.”
The exercises will be held near
the inner end of the island chain
that arcs from the Alaska Penin
sula toward Russia’s Kamchatka
Peninsula.
The admiral told a reporter the
operations call for “probably only
CAA Suspends
Charters Of Four
Air Carriers
4
SEATTLE, (A*)—Suspension of
two Seattle irregular air carriers,
operating large aircraft, was an
nounced Monday by the Civil
Aeronautics Administration.
The board charged the carriers
with “failure to file tariffs and
otherwise to comply with . . .
economic regulations.” Suspend
ed were:
Arctic-Pacific, Inc., and Stand
ard Air Cargo, Seattle.
Suspension, by cancellation of
the letters of registration, also
was imposed on two other carri
ers for similar reasons. They are:
Arnold Air Service, Inc., Box
15, Anchorage, and Western Sky
ways Service, Portland-Troutdale
airport, Troutdale, Ore.
The board stressed, however,
that the filing of an affirmative
showing of'compliance with the
regulations could rescind the sus
pension orders. .
Before the time of Columbus
the western Atlantic was known
by European sailors as the “Sea
of Darkness.”
one” aircraft carrier as part of the
naval force. Amphibious person
nel also will participate.
Denfeld, also commander of the
Pacific fleet, described the Aleu
tian manuevers as routine, similar
to operations for cold weather
training scheduled for the Atlan
tic.
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