Mav Maintain
Sheniya Jointly
WASHINGTON, (A1) — A plan j
may be worked out for joint main- j
tenance of the air force base at j
Shcmya in the Aleutians, Senator
Magnuson <D.-Wash.) said last'
week.
Delegate Bartlett of Alaska char
acterized the air force decision to
abandon its westernmost base as
a “phychological” as well as a
military mistake.
Magnuson told a reporter he is
investigating several pos s i b 1 e
ways of keeping the base in oper
ation. He said it is too valuable
from a military standpoint, for
handling mail for the Far East,
and as a stopover for commercial
flights, to be abandoned.
He said he plans to discuss the
matter with the state and post
office departments, with the Civil
Aeronautics Administration and
with commercial airlines to see if
a cooperative plan can be worked
out.
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If necessary, Magnuson said, lie
will take the problem to the
White House.
Bartlett already has protested
to the defense department, calling
it a “mistake” to withdraw from
the Aleutians and Nome.
“These bases,” he said, “would
have to be reactivated immediate
ly in case of war to make them
••Just Tired Being
Rich "Ian’s Son”
LONGVIEW, Wash. (/P)—A 14
year-old boy who identified him
self as Richard Dix, Jr., son of the
late movie star, was cnroute back '
to Los Angeles today, accompan
ied by a juvenile police officer in
the Dix family car.
The youngster wTas picked up
with a 16-year-old Portland com
panion because officers thought
they looked too young to be driv
ing. Police Sgt. Ralph Benefiel
said the boy told officers he left
school because he was “tired of
being a rich man’s son.”
Benefie! said the boy talked to
Mrs. Dix in Los Angeles by tele- ;
phone Wednesday. The car in :
which the two boys were riding
was registered to the Los Angeles
woman. Friends of the family de
nied in the California city, how
ever, that young Dix was out of
town.
Neither boy had any money
W'hen stopped.
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Mrs. Kirk Jackson and daugh- I
ier left for the States Sunday for
medical treatment.
available for anti-submarine pa
trol and for other purposes and
the cost would be tremendously
greater than regular mainten- j
ance.”
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Hoodlums “Beat '
[]|)“ Vancouver
VANCOUVER, B. C. </P), Gangs
of teen-age hoodlums, who take
delight in a fight and do not hesi
tate to use a knife of a blackjack
on their opponents, are getting
special attention from civic au
thorities.
Some groups, including the Ca
nadian Legion, have offered to
form vigilante groups to meet the
hoodlums “fist to fist.”
Their offer has been rejected,
however, by Mayor Charles
Thompson, who directed the city
police to detail a special, squad to
handle the gang wars that have
reached a new tempo in the past
month.
The gangs, numbering from 10
to 200, identify themselves in bat
tle by various insignia. Some
shave their heads apache style;
others wear a single ring in one
ear; others simply don jackets
with the gang name.
Many of their all-out battles
have resulted in knife wounds and
body and head injuries from
boots and lead-weighted black
jacks. Stolen cars frequently pro
vide the transportation.
News of the World
At A Glance - - -
(Continued from Page One)
land. The new premier outlined
his policies in a report to the leg
islative Yuari, the Nationalist Par
liament.
Monday. April 3, 1950
Chinese Nationalists celebrated
today the biggest morale boast
they have had since the Reds
swallowed China—their smashing
of a communist invading force on
Hainan Island off South China.
Thousands of joyful National
ists paraded through Hoihow, cap
ital of Hainan, as firecrackers
sputtered all over the city. Red
prisoners were marched through
the streets. The nationalists claim
ed 5,000 Reds were killed in Sat
urday’s fighting and more than
2,000 captured.
“We have destroyed the com
munist dream of conquering Hai
nan,” said Gen. Li Yang-Ching,
chief of state of Hainan.
It was the Chinese communists’
second attempt in six days to land
a force on the big island, separ
ated by 10 miles of water from
Luichow peninsula. The National
ists said they wiped out 4,000 Red
invaders on March 27.
The Truman administration,
spurred on by the President’s or
ders, undertook today to find a
way to prevent a drastic 'dollar
gap” crisis when Marshall Plan
aid to countries abroad halts in
1952.
The problem of finding some
way in which foreign countries
can obtain the necessary dollars
or ‘hard currency” to pay for
American exports, rests with
scholarly Gordon Gray.
Gray iq leaving his post as sec
retary of the army to undertake
the assignment as special assist
ant to the President.
U. S. Senators predicted today
that Congress will act quickly to
strengthen the weak links they
said Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
has pointed out in American de
feses.
Eisenhower urged among other
things that defense of Alaska be
bolstered at once, that the air
force be given at least a billion
and a half a year to keep up its
fighting strength, and that ‘‘our
anti-submarine facilities” be rein
forced.
95 Scholarships
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A total of 95 scholarships at the
University of Alaska are available
to the young men and women of
the Territory during the 1950-51
academic year, according to an
announcement made today by Dr.
Terris Moore, president of the
University. The scholo r s h i p s
range from $500 in cash, sufficient
to pay all normal school expenses
for one year, to amounts covering
dormitory expenses for the year.
“Scholarships are financed by
public-spirited individuals and
companies for the purpose of en
couraging outstanding students to
continue their educations,” Dr.
Moore said. “Winners of Univers
ity of Alaska scholarships are
chosen for leadership, grades or
other achievements.”
Among the awards are Territo
rial scholarships given to out
standing students in the graduat
ing class of every high school in
Alaska. These awards cover dor
mitory expenses at the University
of Alaska.
Other scholarships are: Stand
ard Oil Co. of California Scholar
ships, Sears, Roebuck and Co.
Scholarships, Fairbanks Mer
chants Assn. Scholarships, Rooert
C. Reeve Aviation Scholarship,
TIN PRICE CUT
HITS EXPORTERS
BANGKOK, i/Pi—A decline of
world tin prices has severely hit
Siamese tin exporter?- Tin dealers
who sold tin to the Reconstruc
tion Finance Corporation when
the price was $1.03 per pound
and received advances of 85 per
cent now find they have to make
refunds because the price is down
to 74*/£ cents.
The R.F.C. makes its purchas
es on the consignment basis pay
ing at the price ruling 30 days af
ter arrival of the shipment at
Galveston, Texas. Ship m e n t s
from Bangkok take about two
months in transit.
There are about 10 billion uni
verses such as that of which the
sun is a part.
Greimann Scholarships, Richard
C. Rothenburg Memorial Scholar
ship, A.A.U.W. Scholarship, Mar
garet R. Phipps Scholarship, P. E.
O. Educational Scholarship, Atlee
Burpee Award, and the U. S.
Smelting, Defining and Mining
Co. Scholarships.
Tfigh school seniors in Alaskan
schools will be informed of the
scholarships available at the Uni
versity of Alaska, Dr. Moore stated.
Full information on all awards
may be obtained by writing tg- the
University.
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