Govt. Outlines
Master Civilian
Defense Program
WASHINGTON, (/P)—'The gov
ernment unwrapped a master civil
defense plan telling states and
cities that home front casualties
can be cut in half with trained ex
perts and millions of volunteers.
President Truman approved the
plan, which lacked any price tag
or timetable. Along with a bill to
create a new, separate federal
civil defense administration, Mr.
Truman sent it to a Congress
which probably will do nothing
about authority or money for the
program before next year.
The program is built around:
1. Cooperation on a big scale be
tween federal, state and local gov
ernment, with each sharing some
of the responsibility and expense.
2. Providing pre-attack precau
tions and post-attack help mainly
for some 140 “critical target areas’*
—cities and installations an enemy
almost certainly would hit first
and hardest. (The target areas
were not named in the report).
3. Mutual air pacts among cities
and states.
4. Mobile civil defense teams
House Passes
Subversives Bill
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Disre
garding the chance of a Presiden
tial veto, the House today passed
a subversives control bill calling
for peacetime registration of com
munists and wartime internment
of potential spies and saboteurs.
Agreeing to a Senate-House
; compromise on conflicting ver
sions of the bill, the House sent it
i back to the Senate for expected
speedy concurrence.
By completing Congressional |
action at once, the Senate could
send the bill to the White House
in time for President Truman to
act on it before Congress begins
a hoped-for adjournment or recess
this week-end.
Should President Truman de
cide to veto it, today’s top-heavy
vote made it almost certain that
the House would over-ride it by
the necessary two-thirds vote.
The bill is one of three measures
standing between congress and a
vacation.
that coul^d speed to stricken cities. |
4. Establishing govern ment|
schools to turn out civil defense!
experts as the British are doing, j
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Alaska War
Maneuvers End;
Invaders Repulsed
ANCHORAGE, {JP) — A batter
ing, month-long “battle” for Alas
ka’s major air bases has ended
with the repulse of “invading”
forces.
, Umpires who judged the realis
tic maneuvers favored the defend
ers who repulsed invading forces
at Fairbanks’ Ladd and Eielson
fields during the first stage of the!
operation and twice recaptured
heights overlooking Anchorage’s
big Elmendorf air force base.
The operation, termed “Opera
tion Dutchdoor,” was ordered by
Lt. Gen. William E. Kepner, com
mander-in-chief, Alaska, to test
Alaskan defenses. Even before the
operation was ended Kepner said
that any enemy attacking Alaska
would “receive! a jolt.”
Infantry, tanks, artillery and
aircraft were used in the games
which centered around America’s
farthest north air bases.
Officers said the maneuvers
showed that efficiency of Alaskan
troops had increased despite hous-!
ing shortages which have resulted
in numerically fewer troops than
were believed required to defend
the Territory.
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shown by the maneuvers remain-1
ed restricted information.
Military officers said it is suf-,
ficent to say that the Territory’s i
forces can hold off invasion
should aggressor forces strike.
Report Stassen To
Be Navy Secretary
SPOKANE, (/F) — The Spokes
man-Review says navy secretary
Francis Matthews “is expected to
resign shortly” and that the job
has already been offered to Har
old Stassdn, the Republican Pres
idential aspirant.
Stassen is reported to be con
sidering the qffer from President
Truman, the paper said.
The Review quoted an unnamed
‘(prominent figure in the business
world,” who it said has just re
turned here from meetings in
Washington, D. C., and New York.
In Washington, Presidential sec
retary Charles G. Ross was asked
whether Stassen was coming into
the government and told report
ers: “To the best of my knowledge
and belief he is not.”
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'DAREDEVILS OF THE CLOUDS'
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In The Roadstead ‘
The Standard Oil tug and barge
arrived early this morning and
gas is being discharged by the Lo
men Commercial Co.
Theer are also other vessels in
the roadstead which we would
like to mention, and farewells we
would like to say to fhose who are
departing on these vessels, but be
are not permitted to mention
names, so we can only bid you all
“Bon Voyage” and happy land
ings at your new assignments.
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Frank Whaley and Sterling
Montague, operators of Railbow
Mines, arrived yesterday, having
closed dowr\ operations for the
season.
Mr. Whaley, who makes his
home in San Diego, stated that the
season was spent mainly in prep
arations for a big season next year
with considerable maintenance
and preliminary work being done
this year.
Banana is a harbor town in the
Belgian Congo, one of the coun
try’s most important trading cen
ters.
Pan Am Shatters
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18-Year Records
Eighteen-year records of pas- *
senger traffic between Seattle and 1
Alaska points were shattered by
Pan American World Airways in
August, D. E. McMorran, Alaska
Region traffic superintendent of
the airline announced today. Dur
ing the month, Pan Am carried
2,296 passengers north and 3,083
passengers south into Seattle, com
pared with 1,992 northbound and
| 2,115 southbound passengers durwt
ing August last year. The airline
already has broken all volume
records for 18 years of Alaska op
eration during the first six months
of 1950. McMorran said that if
i present trends continue 1950 un
j doubtedly will be the biggest year
i to date for Alaska air travel.
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