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Hearing On
O'Harra Purchase
Closed Today
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. (/P)—;
A decision on whether Kenneth B.
O’Harra of Anchorage, will be
given permission to purchase the
historic Chilkoot barracks in Alas-!
ka as surplus government prop
erty will be made next week.
Warner Gardner, assistant sec
retary of the Interior Department,
who head protests against the sale i
t<* O’Harra from the Veterans’
Alaska Cooperative company ot
Washington, D. C., closed the
hearing today. He said he would
try to announce a decision by next
Wednesday.
O’Harra, a World War II veter
an, and the Cooperative, organ
ized by World War II veteans.
each bid $105,000 for the barracks,
comprising a complete city. A
drawing was held to determine
^ie purchaser, and O’Harra won.
The Cooperative contested the
award to O’Harra on the ground
he was not a “small business” as
required by the surplus property
disposal law.
At the hearing yesterday O’Har
ra told how, after attending Ohio
State University and working in
j|Jichigan, he went to Alaska and
started a bus line in 1937 which
he built up until he now had 36
buses and grossed about $200,000
income in each of the last two
years.
He described his business as a
“small business” and said he be
lieved having Chilkoot barracks
would increase his revenue from
passengers and freight
Seattle Looks To
Alaska Tourist
Promotion Plan
SEATTLE, Sept. 20. (^>)—The
governor’s advisory commission
today was designated by Gov.
Mon C. Wallgren as the medium
#>o work cooperatively with the
Alaska Development Board on
matters of mutual interest in the
development of a long range in
dustrial and tourist promotion
program.
Herbert M. Peet, commission
secretary, said that on Monday he
will hold a preliminary “explora
tory” meeting with George Sund
berg, newly appointed manager of
the Alaska Development Board,
•and Dr. Henry W. Clark, the
board’s retiring manager here.
^ On Tuesday and Wednesday the
commission’s executive committee
will meet with the northern emis
saries.
Cold Weather Test
Forces Arrive
In Alaska
Headquarters Alaska Depart
ment, Sept. 20. (iP)—Under com
mand of Col. Paul A. Reichle, task
force frigid, comprising approxi
mately 1,600 officers and men
representing all branches of the
army’s ground forces, is ready for
its assignment.
The mission is to conduct a se
ries of tests at Ladd Field during
the fall and winter months to de
termine the value of the American
equipment in frigid weather.
The troops arrived at Whittier
aboard the transport Sea Star
Sept. 13 and were greeted upon
arrival by Maj. Gen. Howard A.
Craig, commanding general of the
Alaska Department.
In addition to the soldiers and
their personal baggage, the Sea
Star brought 100 pieces of field
equipment.
The force will operate as an in
dependent unit during most of its
field tests, with a minimum of
garrison duty. All types of army
ground forces equipment will be
subjected to field conditions in
extreme low temperatures.
The army hopes to determine
definitely whether present equip
ment and material is suitable for
use in the Arctic or whether it will
be necessary to develop new types
for such operations.
It took approximately 450 ve
hicles, believed the longest con
voy ever to move over Territorial
highways, to move the force from
the debarkation point to its new
garrison.
Brown Family To
Return To Alaska
SEATTLE, Sept. 20. (/P>— Fif
teen-day-old Eskimo baby Kouk
Brown’s first look at ice meant
little to him.
But soon he will be back north
of the Arctic Circle with his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Brown,
and three brothers and sisters,
where there's more ice. They will
fly north to Nome, enroute to
White Mountain, about 60 miles
east of there.
“Things down here are too fast
for me,” Brown, whose Eskimo
name is Bumaroon, said today. “In
New York, people are going places
like they don’t know where they’re
going—crowds and crowds of
them.”
The Brown family was brought
to this country eight months ago
to appear at the National Sports
men’s show in New York. A ho
tel manager procured the ice yes
terday to show the children.
Ex-Marine Officer now a "Guardian of Victory"
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Jock K. Wilson, former Marine officer who won the Navy Cross, Silver
Star, and Purple Heart with two Oak-Leaf Clusters, is shown being sworn into
the Regular Army by Captain Stanley Peck. Wilson, who was a former
members of Carlson's Raiders, enlisted for three years of service with the
Infantry in Germany.
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Northwest Airlines
To Spend Millions
For Development
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 20. (TP)
—Northwest Airlines, Inc., St.
Paul, Minn., filed today with the
Securities and Exchange commis
sion a registration statement for
271,935 shares of $10 par value
common stock, initially to be of
fered to present stockholders in
the ratio of one share for each two
held.
Northwest stated that at least
$2,000,000 will be used for devel
opment of its routes to Alaska and
the Orient.
Navy “Turtle”
Test Flight Monday
PERTH, Australia, Sept. 20. (TP)
U. S. Navy officials said the Nep
tune plane Turtle would be given
a test flight Monday and prob
ably would take off Wednesday
on a 9,000-mile non-stop flight to
Seattle if weather permitted.
The South Perth Zoo said ar
rangements had been made *o
present the crew with a baby kan
garoo to be carried to Seattle.
Cmdr. T. D. Davis said the route
would be over Milne Bay, New
Guinea, Bikini and Midway.
Lake George rises 2,000 feet
above the Adirondack mountains.
Army Conducts
Guided Missiles
Experiments
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 —
Army Airforces disclosed they are
conducting experiments with
guided missiles at Ladd Field
near Fairbanks. No details were
given but the experiments were
described as part of the elaborate
cold weather maneuvers to be
conducted by two ground force
task groups this winter in Alaska
and Adak.
California Firm
Gets Domhass
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20. (/P)
A salvaged tanker which split in
two in the Aleutians will be towed
from Seattle to Eureka to supply
the northwestern California coast
al city with additional electrical
energy.
The Pacific Gas and Electric
company, successful bidder for the
stem portion of the tanker, Don
bass 111, announced the plan to
day. The company bid $125,000
for the boilers and generators,
capable of supplying 4,000 kilo
watts.
Once the section is moored in a
waterfront slip at Eureka, a short
transmission line will carry the
energy to consumer outlets. I
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(By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. (/P)—
President Truman today ousted
Secretary of Commerce Hemy
Wallace from the Cabinet and
threw his support solidly behind
Secretary of State James Byrnes
in his message to the American
people.
The dramatic action removes
from the Cabinet the last of the
late President Roosevelt’s original
“New Deal” secretaries and a man
on whom the Truman administra
tion has counted heavily to at
tract large sections of the labor
and so-called “Left Wing” vote in
this November’s Congressional
elections.
At a news conference whic/i
broke up as soon as the President
finished reading his terse formal
statement, Mr. Truman also laid
down a flat rule that no member
of the executive branch of the
government may hereafter make
any statement in conflict “with
our established foreign policy.”
Without any equivocation, the
t'resident said that the po’ic'es
guiding Secretary Byrnes and the
peace conference delegation in
Paris “have my full endorsement.”
“Our foreign policy a estab
lished by the Congress, the Presi
dent and the secretary of state re
mains in full force and oftcct
without change,” Mr. Truman de
clared.
Since cabinet members serve
only at the pleasure of the Presi
dent, a request by the latter for
a secretary's resignation automat
ically ousts him—he has no choice
in the matter.
Wallace bowed out of the cab
inet with the terse announcement
that “I shall continue to fight for
peace.” His aides told reporters,
however, that he “will make no
campaign speeches this fall.”
While solidifying American for
eign policy abroad, the cabinet up
heaval was viewed as presaging a
possible split in the Democratic
party’s fight for Congress .ona!
seats this November.
This turn of events caught the
Capital by such surprise that no
one would venture a guess imme
diately as to Wallace’s successor.
Until one is chosen, the depart
ment will be in charge of under
secretary Alfred Schindler, who
is now on the west coast.
Norway Sentences
Collaborators
OSLO, Norway, Sept. 20. UP)—
Eleven Norwegians were sen
tenced to death and 19 others
given prison terms at Trondheim
today on charges of Quisling ac
tivity during the German occupa
tion .It was Norway’s biggest mass
trial of collaborators.