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IT’S THAT MAN AGAIN
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IF IKE IS ELECTED
If Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected Presi
dent, one of his first tasks will be to conclude the
Korean war. Because he is a successful military com
mander, many Americans are hopeful that Eisenhower
may be able to bring the war in Korea to a successful
conclusion.
Although there is a slight chance that an armistice
will be signed before the election, these prospects now
are as dark as they have been over the past four or
five months. If the present command reaches a truce
agreement in Korea, it will be a direct relief to the
present administration and constitute a removal of
one of the most troublesome campaign issues for the
Democrats.
If no truce is reached by the time of the election,
and Eisenhower is elected, the General will be faced
with the alternative of stepping up the war in Korea
or maintaining the present stalemate. There is some
indication General Eisenhower will favor a change in
tactics, in an attempt to end the costly fighting.
If he is able to bring the war to a conclusion, it
will be a significant victory for the new President,
but if he only succeeds in enlarging the scope of hos
tilities and U.S. losses, the General might wonder why
he ever got into politics in the first place.
ANZUS Ministers Launch
Pacific Defense Plans
HONOLULU, (JP) — Foreign
ministers of the U.S., Australia
and New Zealand launched
Thursday the first formal peace
time system of military coopera
tion among the three nations.
However, they adopted a “go
slow” policy on bringing other
non-Communist nations in the se
curity organization.
The foreign minister of one in
terested nation not present, Joa
quin Elizalde of the Philippines,
said in Manila his country and
Japan may join the Anzus pow
ers soon in a five-power confer
ence to coordinate Pacific defense
against Communism. He did not
say who would take the initia
tive.
U. S. Secretary of State Dean
Acheson told reporters the Anzus
meetings had been “very inti
mate, very informal,” and “we
are all very happy.”
U.N. Asks Information
On Prison Camp Markings
MUNSAN, (JP) — With United
Nations warplanes pounding
North Korean military targets in
redoubled fury, the U.N. Com
mand asked the Reds Friday for
more information on how they
mark their camps for U.N. pri
soners of war.
The Reds have declared that all
their prisoner camps are marked
properly.
But the senior U.N. truce dele
gate, Maj. Gen. William K. Harri
son, has told them that U.N. re
connaissance planes have been
unable to find camps marked as
described.
A note from Harrison 'asking
more information was given the
Communists at Panmunjom.
In a second note Harrison re
jected a Red charge thait a U.N.
warplane flew over the Panmun
jom neutral zone Aug. 4.
Tony Schwamm Surveys
Aviation Work in North
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the 40x60 buildings will be moved
to Kotzebue by Jack Bullock for
a community center.
He reports that Quartz Creek
Airfield has not only been de
layed by lack of equipment but
also by frost. However, 2400 feet
of the runway is now complete.
At Point Barrow a public air
port is being built as the U.S.
Navy Field limits commercial
flights, handicapping travel.
More money has been spent in
the Second Division, he 9tated,
than in any other division be
cause the need is so much greater
here where there is no other
means of travel.
The Department of Aviation
has acquired 20 radio beacons and
will furnish them to airlines for
them to maintain in areas such
as the lower Yukon to create air
ways.
By the end of this construction
season Alaska will have 300 air
fields and approximately 40 sea
plane facilities. During the past
three years, since the organization
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of the Department of Aviation,
135 projects have been construc
ted or improved. An interesting
factor in this department of which
Mr. Schwamm is proud is that
only 5 percent of the funds used
have gone to administration.
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Special Session
May Be Called
If Prices Skyrocket
WASHINGTON, (^—President
Truman, in a wide-ranging news
conference, said Thursday he is
considering calling a special ses
sion of Congress and plans a thor
ough canvass with Gov. Stevenson
next week on what’s needed for
a Democratic victory this fall.
The President made the state
ment to a news conference to
questions about Price Stabilizer
Ellis Arnall’s statement that a
special session may be necessary
“if food prices continue to get
out of hand and skyrocket.”
On politics, the President Said
he would discuss with Illinois
Governor Stevenson, the Demo
cratic presidential candidate, ev
erything that is necessary to* elect
the Democratic ticket in Novem
ber. #
To Meet With Stevenson
Stevenson will come here at the
President’s invitation to sit in at
a cabinet luncheon Tuesday. He
said Stevenson- had suggested to
him in Chicago that it would be
a good thing if they could get
together to discuss campaign
plans.
Truman opened the conference
by reading two statements. One
urged all qualified American cit
izens to register to vote in the
coming election. He said when it
comes to voting “many other
countries put us to shame.” He
urged newspapers, magazines,
radio and TV, to arouse interest
in the subject.
The other statement said “a
terrible drought” exists in sever
al states and Thursday he alloc
ated 3 million dollars for emer
gency funds for feed to save dairy
and beef herds in Kentucky and
Tennessee.
Asked whether he was pleased
that the South Carolina Demo
cratic convention had endorsed
the Stevenson-Sparkman ticket,
he replied he is always pleased
when Democrats vote as they
should. He added with a smile
that he is gl&d Gov. datnes F.
Byrnes has befen converted.
Heart Specialists To
Attempt Record Heart
Beats of Beluga Whales
ANCHORAGE, (JP) — Does a
whale’s heart work as hard in
proportion to its size as the heart
of a man or a mouse?
Does it beat as fast?
These are the questions two
noted heart specialists are trying
to answer by taking electrocar
diograms of Alaskan whales. 1
Dr. Paul Dudley White, Boston,
and Dr. Robert King, Seattle, are
at Clark’s Point on Bristol Bay
where they hope to record on
paper the heart beats of the bel
uga whale.
Through their studies of oppo
site extremes in size, the scientists
hope to establish some sort of a
scale which will help to under
stand heart functions in relation
to the size of man.
In order to record a whale
heart in action, they will load
their equipment into a small boa*
and travel into the nearest school
of white whales.
The metallic contact of a cardio
graph which normally is placed
on the skin, will be incorporated
in the point of a light harpoon.
Wires leading from the contact
will transmit heart beats along
the harpoon line to the electro
cardiograph. A sty-his in the ma
chine will record heart action on
a sheet of graph paper—if the
whale cooperates.
It’s a. new experiment and no
one knows whether the whale will
swim undistrubed, or whether he
will take off at the first contact
in a dive to the bottom or a
speedy flight to the open sea.
Labor Unions Demand
Steamship Rate Probe
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Anchorage Central Labor Coun
cil. asked that future hearings be
held before the increases are
granted. “I find this hearing far
cical,” he said, “in that it is held
at short notice after increased
rates have been granted. It seems
that Alaska Steam merely is try
, ing to legalize action that already
is a fact.”
i
Edward Aptaker, attorney for
the Maritime Board, assured Paal
that the hearing “is not for the
purpose of ratifying a rate al
ready in effect.” And if the board
came to the conclusion that a
change is necessary, there will be
action, he said.
It is only in comparatively re
cent times that it was known
there is no Antarctic ocean.
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