Navy Suspends
Cap. Crommelin
WASHINGTON, <£»)—'The navy
yesterday suspended Capt. John
G. Crommelin from duty and de
nied to Congress that the morale
of naval officers and men is in
sad shape.
These developments piled up
quickly in the wake of Crommel
in’s admission that he is the man
who gave news reporters on Mon
day official correspondence about
navy morale:
1. The navy suspended Crom
melin, 46-year-old aviation veter
an, from duty and ordered him re
stricted to his home. That is a pre
liminary action pending final dis
position of his case. There is the
possibility of a court martial.
2. Secretary of the Navy Mat
thews went before the House
armed services committee and
said he believes navy morale gen
erally is good. Without calling
Crommelin’s name, Matthews in
effect accused him of disloyalty,
faithlessness and insubordination.
3. President Truman told a news
conference he has instructed Mat
thews to get to the bottom of the
controversy swirling about charg
es that the navy is not being given
a fair deal in present military uni
fic.'.tion policies.
Mr. Truman declined to com
ment on Crommelin’s release of
private navy correspondence crit
ical of defense policies.
Crommelin himself was the first
to disclose the navy’s action.
He told reporters of it when he
came out of the office of Vice Ad
miral John Dale Price, vice chief
of naval operations. The action
was taken by Price.
ASHEVILLE, N. C. (/P»—Ranger
Tom Huffman reported today that
all nine men aboard an air force
C-47 transport that crashed in he
mountains near here were dead.
The wreckage of the plane was
found six miles from the Blue
Ridge Parkway, three-quarters oi
a mile down on the east side ox
Mount Mitchell, highest mountain
east of the Mississippi.
The plane was found as ground
Committee Asks
Navy to Fire Worth,
B-36 Note Author
WASHINGTON (/P>—'The House
armed services committee yester
i day recommended that the navy
fire Cedric R. Worth, author of the
now notorious memor andum
! which touched off a Congressional
inquiry into the air force’s B-36
bomber program.
The committee approved a re
j port saying oWrth should be per
manently discharged from navy
employment. A civilian aide to un
I dersecretary of the navy Dan Kim
! ball, Worth has been suspended
since his authoriship of the B-36
memorandum came to light,
i The committee announced it
| will open an inquiry into reports
! that navy morale has sunk to a
low point as a result of the way
the law unifying the armed serv
1 ices has been administered.
Chairman Vinson (D.-Ga.) said
the first witnesses will include
, three admirals whose names were
i signed to papers that a navy source
gave secretly to reporters on Mon
day.
They are Adm. Louis Denfield,
chief of naval operations; Adm.
Arthur W. Radford, Pacific Fleet
commander, and Vice Admiral
Gerald F. Bogan, commander of
the first Pacif ictask fleet.
The papers were a letter from
Bogan to secretary of the navy
Matthews with forwarding en
dorsements from Radford and
Denfeld.
Both inquiries are expected to
spotlight—as did the B-36 inves
tigation—the bitter quarrel be
tween the navy and the air force
over their respective roles in mil
I itary planning.
Thus far President Truman has
kept hands off the inter-service
! row.
and air groups began their second
day of searching.
| The plane, enroute from Wash
ington to Brookley Air Base at
I Mobile. Ala., had been missing
more than 42 hours.
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Fishermen Vote
Against Split
Halibut Season
JUNEAU, (tP) — Alaska resident
fishermen have gone on record
against the proposed split season
for halibut fishing at a series of
three Southeastern area hearings.
The hearings weer conducted by
the International Fisheries com
mission. The final hearing was in
Juneau.
The commission advanced the
split season suggestion as a means
of inceasing the take through late
season fishing. They say there is a
large escapement through the ear
ly season closing.
Fishermen and buyers here ex
pressed preference for resumption
of the old curtailment plan, under
which fishesmen would restrict
their own operations by alternate
ly fishing and laying up their
boats.
The commission wants to sec
about 4,500,000 more pounds of
halibut taken from Area 2, and
also more from Area 3. It says it
can be done ony lby fishing later.
The split season—10 days of
1 fishing and 20 days of layup un
til the limit is caught—would ex
tend the season, but Alaskans con
tend it would favor the larger
Seattle and British Columbia
boats, which could make their
catches and then utilize the 20-day
I gap to return to their ports and
i outfit for another sortie.
The Alaskans testified here to a
| belief that such a split season
; would cause hardships on Alaska
fishermen and processors.
Governor Gruening said in a
statement to the commission that
the split season “would work
hardships in Southeastern Alas
ka.”
C. L. Anderson, head of the Ter
i
| ritory’s new fisheries department,
l said:
, “Alaska has no authority in the
matter until we become a state.
The split season would drive peo
ple aw’ay from here, and we must
have more folks to give impptus to
1 our Statehood desires.”
Anderson made three alterna
tive proposals: 1. A shorter lay
over; 2. Division of the areas into
subdivisions with different open
ings for each one: or 3. Leave it as
it is until the commission gets au
thority to enforce the curtailment
plan.
Elton Engstrom and Wallace
George, major buyers and cold
storage operators, said the split
! would result in a large lay-off of
Alaskan workers. They said large
i boats would go to Seattle. They
favored staggering of trips.
George Sundborg, executive of
ficer of the Alaska Development
board, said a split season would
increase the tendency “to get it
and get out.” He proposed a re
quirement for Seattle boats to in
clude their traveling time in the
10-day fishing period.
G. R. Clark, a commission mem
ber from Ottawa, said the com
mission probably will announce a
decision at its January conference.
SECURE DATA ON ARCTIC
INDOCTRINATION SCHOOL
William Davidson, writer for
Collier’s Magazine and Don Knud
sen, free lance photographer from
Anchorage, were at Marks Air
Base last Wednesday collecting in
formation and pictures on the Arc
tic Indoctrination School to be
used in a feature article soon.
They left Thursday for Anchor
age.
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PHOTOGRAPHY TEAM VISITS
MARKS AIR BASE
An Air Force three-man photog
raphy team was at Marks Air
Force Base and in Nome October
6-7 under order from Secretary of
Defense Louis Johnson to collect
] pictures of the housing conditions
in the Nome area.
Under the direction arid super
vision of 1st Lt. John G. Morris,
, the two cameramen, S/Sgt. Don
i Bates and S/Sgt. Luvern E. Barry
! made interior and exterior shots
of some of the houses in Nome
that are inhabited by Air Force
personnel. The pictures will be
used in Washington, D. C., to de
termine the actual needs of Air
i Force housing in Alaska.
The team brought some 400
pounds of camera equipment with
| them and were provided with spe
cial transportation. The group
also conferred with public health
officials in Nome in connection
with living conditions in town.
PIONEERS DONATE TOWARD
! "SOURDOUGH" MEMORIAL
The Pioneers of Alaska, at their
i regular meeting last Wednesday
donated $25.00 toward the pur
chase of the 14-foot bronze statue
known as the "Sourdough” whjch
will be unveiled at Sitka on Alas
i ka day, in front of the Pioneer
j home.
A committee was appointed to
take up a voluntary contribution
among members of the organiza
tion who were not present at the
meeting.
The committee is composed of:
Charles Jones, A. Polet, Pearse
Walsh, Binks Seiffert, Rube
Cremer.
Mrs. E. K. Johanson and Mrs.
Henry Wuhrman of Coffee Creek
and Macklin Creek, returned to
town yesterday and plan to be
here for a week or more before
i departing for the States for the
winter.
i
Catholic Information
Money, maids, and Catholic priests
Let a Protestant gentleman tell
it:
On my way from the garage to
the house I saw a young Catholic
priest approaching the kitchen
i door. I had heard of this practice,
so I called a bit coolly: ‘Anything
I can do for you?”
He stopped, not at all embar
rassed, and said: “I’m Father Bis
sell. I came to see Maggie.”
“Well, Maggie is busy. She can
not see you. Father . . . Father
Chisel.”
I “That’s perfectly all right,” he
answered with a smile. ‘T il come
again, Mr. . . . Mr. Hammer, or is
it Knox?”
“Fair enough.” I replied, for this
priest seemed interesting, “but tell
me do you get money from all the
servant girls?”
“Religion, like water,” he stated,
still smiling, “is free; but also like
water, it costs something to pipe it
to you. All Catholics get their re
ligion through their Church and
when they can afford it, are glad
to pay for the piping.”
“Glad?” I questioned. "Then
why do you invade homes via the
back door?"
“We invade the front doors of
C’atholic homes,' answered the
priest, "and some non-Catholic
homes, too. Perhaps, it is a sixth
sense that warns of certain un
friendly front doors. But either
entrance suffices for this yearly
parish visitation, when we come to
offer spiritual help to those who
need it and to accept the offering
customary on such visit-, from
.hose who wish to give it.
“But don’t think.” he went on,
"that we ask for money but once a
year. At all Masses on all Sun
days we take up collections. Some
times we remind our people as a
whole of their duty to support
their church and school asd parish
charities. But we never tell an
individual what he should give or
if he should give at all. That is
up to him—according to his means
and his conscience.”
“But." I asked, to try him out,
"surely the more you collect, the
more goes into your own opcket?”
“You know,” he replied a lit*lo
whimsically. “I'm weak enough
sometimes to wish that were so.
But mind you. I’m not complain
ing. I get my keep, just as your
Maggie does: and regular pay a
bit under hers. My pastor’s pay is
regular, too, but not quite so hand
some as that of your chauffeur. So
if I were out for a racket I think
I could do better than this.”
“That does put a different light
on it,” T said. “I'm afraid you’re
a poor racketeer. And I do know
how Maggie prizes her Church. So
come around to the front door with
mo and Maggie w'l! le* uc in.”
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