Military Chiefs
To Tour Alaska
WASHINGTON i/Pi, Announce
ment yesterday that the nation’s
military chiefs will make a first
hand study of Alaska army, navy
and air bases raised speculation
that they might keep going south
westward and visit General Mac
Arthur’s Far East command.
The announcement said the
Alaska trip continues a policy for
the joint chiefs of staff to “visit
unified commands together.”
It served to point up the in
creasing attention being given to
the Far North defenses of the
United States and Canada.
The chiefs who will leave Tues
day for the flying trip to the north
are' Gen. Omar Bradley, chairman
of the joint chiefs; Air Gen. Hoyt
S. Vandenberg; Army General J.
Lawton Collins and Vice Adm. Ar
thur D. Strubble, deputy chief of
Alaska Fund
Art Repealed
JUNEAU, (/P) — Delegate Bart
lett says he has been informed the
Senate has passed and sent to the
President a bill repealing the so
called Alaska Fund act.
The act resulted in business li- ,
censes collected by clerk of dis- j
trict courts being turned over to i
the treasury, ther> being appropri- !
a ted out of Congress for special
j activities.
Bartlett said he assumed Presi
! dent Truman would sign the Alas
ka business license act passed by
j the last Legislature and designed
i to replace the Alaska fund act. It
' sets up a schedule of license fees
| effective Jan. 1.
operations who will substitute for
j Adm. Louis Denfield.
They expect to be in Alaska
i about 10 days.
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B47 s To Be Built
In Seattle
SEATTLE. (TP)—Defense secre
tary Louis Johnson answered pro
tests against transfer of military
aircraft production from Boeing
Airplane company to the midwest
last night with the assertion that
it’s all a misunderstanding.
I na signed statement to Senator
Cain (R.-Wash.*, Johnson said that
B-47 production now being done
at Wichita, Kas.. by Boeing “was
not transferred from the Seattle
plant.”
“It was never intended to manu
facture this airplane at Seattle, j
Johnson asserted. “The air force
gave this matter grave considera- |
tion from the very beginning and
decided that this should not be
done. The Boeing company origin
ally advocated the Seattle locaiton,
but later agreed with the air force
position that the work should be
undertaken in Wichita.”
Johnson’s statement was imme
diately attacked by E. L. Skeel,
chairman of the chamber of com
merce steering committee fighting
to retain the Boeing payroll.
. ‘I surmise that Boeing did not
think it best to build' B-47’s at
Wichita, but was told that it would
have to build them there or not at
all,” Skeel said.
The defense secretary said econ
omy and “completion of commer
cial orders for transport aircraft”
were responsible for the impend
ing curtailment of Seattle opera
tions.
He predicted the Boeing-Seattle
work force would be cut to about
10.400 workers with the comple
tion of the air force B-50 contract
in September. 1950. The capacity
workload has been around 26,000.
WASHINGTON, (/P) — A tenta
tive plan for helping Britain out of
its financial crisis is expected to
day from final discussions of
American, British and Canadian
fact-finding officials.
Representatives of the three gov
ernments have been meetting
twice daily for th past week to ex
plore the problem. Tehy hope to
complete an agenda today that
will permit their foreign ministers
next week to discuss stop-gap
measures to ease teh drain on Bri
tain’s dwindling reserves. But of
ficials agree they will not by them
selves solve Britain’s long-range
problem: its inability to earn
enough dollars to pay for what it
buys from the United States and
Canada.
The basic solution to this is be
lieved to be an intensive drive by
the labor government to reduce
British production costs and thus
make it easier for British products
to compete in the world market.
SEAWALL CONTRACTOR
REPRESENTATIVE TO BE HERE
Allan Osberg ol the contractors,
Manson and Osberg who were
awarded the contract for the con
struction o fthe seawall here is
scheduled to arrive this week end
in connection with the project.
Mr. Gilpam, civilian engineer
for the U. S. Engineers is also
scheduled to arrive in connection
with the project.
It is reported that the contrac
tors have asked for an extension
of time for the completion of the
seawall due to the delay in start
ing the work.
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ROBERT PHERRIN —
DIES IN ANCHORAGE
Word has been rece ve 1
death of Robert Pherrin in A
chorage. Mr. Pherrin was st
tinned here with the C.A.A. f
several years and with his wi
made many friend-. He work*)*
with the C.A.A. in Ancho age P*
some time, bought a home ard
went into business for himself Y
a battery shop.
He had been hospitalized from t
heart attack before his death an
is survived by his \\ ife and n:n
year old daughter.
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