NW. Boy Scouts
Receive Award
NEW YORK—Region Eleven of j
the Boy Scouts of America, com- j
prising 26 Scout councils in Alas- I
ka, Idaho, Oregon, Washington
and the western half of Montana
was awarded the Lorillard Spen
cer Award of the Boy Scouts of
America Tuesday at the 37th an-,
nual meeting of the national coun
cil at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in
New York. Alton E. Baker is Re
gional committee chairman and O.
D. Sharpe is region Scout execu
tive.
Region Eleven has won this
coveted trophy for the second time
by recording a 11.1 per cent in
crease in total membership in
1946, which was the largest per
cent increase made by any of the.
twelve Boy Scout regions in the
United States.
The Region grew in total mem-1
bership from 88,472 Cub Scouts, J
Boy Scouts, Senior Scouts and
adult leaders at the end of 1945 to
98.263 on December 31 last.
Region Eleven has had its name |
inscr'bed on the award and will
keep it on display in its regional i
headquarters. 312 Failing Build
ing. Portland, Oregon, for one
year.
The lorillard Spencer Award
has a unique history. It is a silver
pitcher, one of a pair given to
Mrs. Lorillard Spencer, Sr., of
New York, as a wedding gift in
1882. She presented it to the Na
tional Council, Boy Scouts of
America in 1940, as a trophy in
hono" of her son, the late Major
Lorillard Snencer, a member of
the national executive board from
1912 to 1914 who was president
and Scout commissioner of New
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Head Of “Carlson
Raiders” Dies
PORTLAND, Ore. (>P) — Brig.
Gen. Evans F. Carlson, 51, famed
leader of the Marine unit known
as Carlson’s Raiders in the Pacific
war, died in a Portland hospital
at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday.
The Emmanuel hospital report
ed the famed veteran of two wars
was admitted at 7:30 p.m. He was
stricken at his mountain lodge re
treat in the foothills of Mount
Hood where he has made ivs
home since retirement from active
service in 1946.
Gen. Carlson suffered two ear
lier heart attacks, both critical,
and was released Jan. 3 from the
Astoria, Ore., naval hospital where
he was a patient for two months.
Former vice-president Henry Wal
lace visited at the Carlson home
Sunday.
The general won recognit:"-> m
the Pacific warfare leading Ma
rine battalions behind enemy
lines and in pre-invasion exploits,
first at Kakin Island the summer
of 1942, and then at Guadalcanal
Terata and Saipan. His retirement
was due to wounds received in the
Saipan campaign.
York City scouting in its early
days. The other pitcher she pi*e
sented to the Boy Scouts of the
Philippines.
Mrs. Spencer lived in the Phil
ippines for more than 25 years
where she devoted her energies *o
the uplift and welfare of the
Moros, wielding a tremendous
power in the Sulu Peninsula. 'Mrs.
Spencer, who was called “the best
friend the Moros ever had,” in
tervened on numerous occasions in
trouble between the authorities
and the Moros, arranged settle
ments and prevented bloodshed.
Mass Execution Of
War Criminals
T.A'TDSEERG. Germany, </P)—
’’’wnnly-two operators of the in
f tp ii? Nazi concentration camp
~t Mauthausen were hanged Tues
day. with 27 others scheduled to
follow them today in the biggest
*v,as.! executions of war criminals
y«* carried out by any allied
nower.
All were convicted by an Amer
ican war crimes court of murders
and atrocities against inmates at
the big camp near Linz, at which
more than 700,000 Nazi victims al
legedly were exterminated during
the war.
On two gallows in the yard of
Landsberg prison, where Adolf
Hitler was once incarcerated,
three U. S. army executioners
dropped the first 22 of the 49
doomed camp operators to their
deaths in two hours and 37 min
utes.
A muscular Austrian snapped
the cords binding his wrists as he
plunged through the trap and
grabbed the rope above his head.
Kicking and struggling violently,
he managed to forestall death for
18 minutes.
The convicts included Austri
ans, Czechs, Hungarians and Yu
goslavs as well as Germans. Most
were members of the SS Elite
Guard. Their ^ges ranged from 22
to 63.
LANES'RERG. Germany, (>P>—
U. S. army executioners hanged 26
more Elite Guai'd administrators
of infamous Mauthausen concen
tration camp today, completing
the execution of 48 of the camps’
guards and foremen for. war
crimes. *
Today’s executions of 26 men
occupied three hours and 30 min
Navy Takes Much
Tonnage to Barrow
SAN DIEGO, Calif. f/P)—Carry
ing twice the tonnage that the
first expedition transported three
v-'ars ago, a squadron of navy
ships will leave here July 1 lo de
liver supplies at Pt. Barrow, Alas
ka, for workers on the Navy’s
lonely Arctic petroleum reserve,
the navy announced Tuesday.
The squadron, commanded by
Capt. Byron S. Anderson' of Coro
nado, Calif., will carry 16,000 tons
of cargo ranging from canned
beans to construction equipment
—a full year’s supply for the in
habitants of scattered camps on
naval petroleum reserve No. 4, a
35.000-square-mile area lying
north of the Arctic Circle.
To serve as beachmaster, the
navy has recalled to active duty
Comdr. Glen Whaley of Seattle,
who has had previous Arctic ex
perience. Capt. Leonard Fitch,
Bronx, N. Y., another veteran of
Arctic operations, will serve as
technical advisor.
Ships leaving from San Diego
will be the attack cargo ships
Seminole, Union, and Muliphen
and the ice breaker Burton Island.
They will load supplies at Port
Hueneme, Calif., and Seattle, and
will be joined at the latter port
by the LST 642.
utes.
One man received a last-minute
stay of execution. He was Otto
Striegel, 32, the Mauthausen mess
sergeant A final decision is ex
pected from U. S. army headquar
ters within 24 hours.
When informed of the reprieve,
Striegel defiantly demanded to
know why he was not being hang
ed with his comrades.
Underground Blast
Railway Station
JERUSALEM, (/Pi — The rail
way station at the all-Arab town
of Ramie whas blasted by a heavy
explosion, and a freight train was
mined at Banyamina Tuesday in
new outbreaks of violence. Unoffi
cial reports said one person was
missing.
The Stern group, a Jewish un
derground organization, issued a
statement saying it had carried out
both attacks in reprisal for “Brit
ish violation of United Nations in
structions to suspend belligerent
activities” during the U. N. inves
tigation to the Palestine problem.
The communique said the depor
aation of 1,500 uncertified Jewish
immigrants from Haifa to Cyprus
last week was such a violation.
Govt. To Create
Housing Agency
! WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman Tuesday proposed to Con
gress the creation of a completely
new' housing and home finance
agency to handle virtually all gov
ernment activities in that field.
In a special message, Mr. Tru
man said such an agency “will un
au^tionablv make for greater ef
ficiency and economy.”
His plan would scrao the exist
ing National Housing Agency
which coordinates present housing
functions. It was created under
the President’s wartime powers
and will go out of existence six
months after the declared end of
the war.
Mr. Truman said the proposed
new agency should be a perman
ent part of government.
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