for rehabilitation of the Alaska
Railroad. Committee members
said privately they would approve
appropriations of $15,000,000 for
that purpose.
Speaking of the armed services
the general said the rehabilita
tion program would care for civ
ilian and military needs.
“We consider the rapid accomp
lishment of the rehabilitation pro
gram and reequipping of the Al
aska Railroad as essential to the
progress of the military develop
ment program and as a primary
requisite for the security of Al
aska,” General Craig said. “In
addition to the necessity for the
rehabilitation of the railroad, we
feel that the construction of a
pipeline for movement of petrol
eum products from tidewater to
the area north of the Alaska
Range is also essential.”
The general said the armed ser
vices feel that the Alaska Rail
road will be inadequate to carry
the needed petroleum require
ments and added it feels it is un
sound to rely on a single line of
communication for movement of
supplies. A pipe line, he said,
would provide a separate supply
line for our most vital require
ments.”
The general urged that Alaskan
roads be improved as they are not
susceptible to continued operation
over an extended period with
heavy traffic.
"It is the considered opinion
of the Army and the Air Force,"
1 he said, "that improvement and
i hard surfacing of the Alaska i
road net is essential to the sec
urity of Alaska."
Craig said it had been proposed
to put the pipe line from Valdez
to Fairbanks over the Richardson
and Alcan Highways.
He said if oil is found in com
mercial quantities at wells the
Navy is drilling near Point Bar
row it is proposed to pipe it to
Fairbanks and to construct a re
! finery there.
i He said time is important in
| completing the Alaskan programs.
"I think we all realize that
there are clouds on the horizon,
dark clouds, becoming darker ev
ery day,” he told the committee.
’’This place, Alaska, in my opin
1 ion is one of our most important
j countries, one of our most import
ant possessions I should say. It
' does not require negotiations with
i another country for its use, our
; people are up there. It is a real
outpost. It is the place, in time
of emergency. In time of attack
on the United States I think it
will be the place that will pro
bably be hit first. That being so,
it becomes necesary for us to
do all that we can to make it
strong, and by making it strong
I mean as quickly as we can.”
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No Compromise
Arab-Jewish War
As Deadline Ends
(Continued from Page One)
ab acceptance of the cease fire
order.
King Abdullah’s Trans-Jordan
Legion said it killed 600 Jews in
a 24-hour battle for Latrun, key
point on the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem
supply road, and won control of
the town.
Russia agreed to exchange dip
lomats with Israel.
Numerous German army vet
erans were reported trying to en
list in Jewish fighting forces in
Palestine, but they were turned
down.
The American embassy in Cairo
delivered a protest to Egypt
against its warning all ships ap
proaching Palestine. Egypt and
Syria in effect had declared a
blockade, which the U.S. rejected.
HELSINKI, —Finland was in
i the throes of a political crisis to
day. Her government was re
ported split in an effort to solve
the Communist strikes called to
protest the dismissal of Communist
interior minister Yrjo Leino.
From 30,000 to 100,000 workers
were out, depending on whether
i one believed the Communists or
i
i the conservatives.
BERLIN,—Russia informed U.S.
I authorities in Berlin the Soviets
are willing to arrange a suitable
exchange of publications between
the Soviet and U.S. German zones.
The U.S. banned Russian mater
ial last week in retaliation for
confiscations and discriminations
in the Russian zone.
The deputy U.S. commander
I in Berlin said the Russians have
seized 200 Germans at Oranien
burg and transported them to
uranium mines in Saxony.
CHINGCHUAN, —General Ma
Wen-Tung in Chinchuan told of
masacre of 500 Chinese Commun
ists captured at Ningshien in a
Nationalist victory. The Nation
alists 'chopped off heads with
broadswords for a while and fin
ished off the others with grenades,
he said. The general said the Com
munists became unmanageable
and, “we were forced to kill
them.”
A.T.A. Reports On
Activities of Year
(Continued from Page One)
ard Sanatorium. Because of the
success of the plan, eight more
towns have now joined the move
ment and will be ready to re
port activities at the end of the
next fiscal year.
Mrs. Bess Winn, executive sec
retary of the Association, states
tjiat many of the above expendi
tures rightly belong to the wel
fare office but that since ade
quate funds are not available,
the Association is trying to pro
vide some temporary aid. “How
ever,” she adds, “this appalling
lack of relief funds has created as
much of a crisis in the tuberculo
sis program as it has in other
fields. Too often,” she says, “fath
ers and mothers refuse to enter
hospitals because if they do there
is no one to care for the children.
So,” concluded Mrs. Winn, “un
til we have sufficient welfare
funds to provide aid for depend
ents otrphanqd by tuberculosis,
the whole program is jeopardized.”
MR. AND MRS. L. HALL
ARRIVE FOR ACS
Mr. and Mrs. L. Hall and two
children arrived yesterday to make
their home here. Mr. Hall is with
the ACS.
Plane Crash Victim
Name Revealed
Today at Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS, — (JP)—The Ladd
Field information office yesterday
identified the victim of a plane
crash last Wednesday as Cpl. Ed
ward J. Bustynowicz of Camden,
N.J.
Injured in the same crash was
Cpl. Jamen C. Clemens, Jr., whose
wife, Betty, lives at Dayton, O.
He was injured critically but was
reported improving at Ladd Field 1
FIRE DEPARTMENT ALERTED
CALLED TO SEIFFERT HOME
The Fir* Department was called
out to the home of Binks Seiffert
this morning at 11:00 a.m. when
smoke was seen billowing from
behind the Seiffert home. Binks
was burning off the high grass
from around his back yard and
residence. *
Hospital.
The two crashed in a rentei
plane ten miles south of here.
Bustynowicz died the day afte
the two were rescued from the
wreckage of the craft by heli
copter pilots.
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