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JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1951
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DISCOVERED
Report Highly Organized
Criminals Financed by
Illegal Gambling
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 — (tft—
Senate crime investigators today
pictured Charles “Lucky” Luciano,
deported New York vice overlord,
as the czar of a vast and secret
underworld government.
That secret government, they
said, could easily become the basis
for a subversive movement which
could rock the nation.
Luciano, now in Italy, settles dis
putes between two of the nation’s
major crime syndicates, the sena
tors declared.
In a preliminary report on its
far-flung probe, the senate com
mittee said the nation is menaced
by highly organized criminals fi
nanced largely by illegal gambling.
It said they cooperate in many
places with the connivance and
protection of law enforcement of
ficials at all levels of government.
The committee estimated "con
servatively” that $20,000,000,000
changes hands every year in the
United States as a result cf or
ganized. illegal gambling. It added
that millions of dollars of this are
paid out as “ice” or protection
money, in various forms.
From the thousands of pages of
testimony it took from some 500
witnesses, the committee said the
conclusion is inescapable that there
is a second government within the
country—a government by the un
derworld.
The five-member committee is
headed by Senator Kefavver <D
Tenn).
SO. CALIF.
SHIVERS
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 22 — itf —
Southern California shivered today
In the wake of a rain and snow
storm yesterday. The Weather Bur
eau forecasts more showers today.
Tee was reported on auto wind
shields in Inglewood and Sherman
Oaks today as the mercury dipped
to 38 in downtown Los Angeles—
coldest of the- season.
Snow up to 20 inches whitened
the mountains.
HOTELMAN HEBE
Bruce Kendall of the Arctic
Hotels, Inc., from Anchorage, Is a
guest at the Gastineau Hotel.
CALIFORNIA VISIT OR
G. M. Pettet of Laguna Beach,
Calif., is registered at the Gastineau
Hotel.
The Washington
Merry - Go - Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Copyright. 1951, oy Bell Syndicate. Inc.,
TFaSHINGTON.—Drew Pearson,
departing for a news survey of
gathering European war clouds, left
the following instructions for his
staff:
To the Staff:
I shall be traveling in Europe and
countries adjacent to the iron
curtain for the next two or three
weeks. During that time you may
have to write an occasional emer
gency column in case I get too far
away from a cable office or the
going gets tough.
In writing such columns please
bear in mind the following:
Don’t hesitate to admit an error.
Double and triple check in order to
avoid errors, but if you find you
are wrong, say so. It is only fair
to the man you have wronged, in
addition to which the public will
respect you for being fair.
If you are sure you are right,
however, stick to your guns and if
necessary we will battle it out.
Never bear grudges. If a Presi
dent or a Senator calls you a name,
don't call one back. Because he is
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TRUMAN, MARSHALL
OFFICIALLY OPEN
RED CROSS DRIVE
NEW YORK, Feb. 28.—1*1—Presi-1
dent Truman and Defense Secre
tary George C. Marshall have
launched the 1951 Red Cross fund
campaign with appeals to the na
tion to put the organization on a
wartime looting.
The President said the Red Cross
must “be prepared to meet any
eventuality in the event of armed
attack on this country.”
They spoke last night on a radio
and television program, broadcast
by all four netwoiks, opening the
Red Cross drive for ?85,000,000 for
1951.
BONUS FOR
DISCOVERY
OF URANIUM
By FRANK CAREY
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 ——
To pep up domestic prospecting for
uranium, the precious A-bomb ma
terial, the Atomic Energy Commis
sion today offered new jackpot
prizes as high as $35,000 for uran
inum hunters.
Applying such pay-offs even to
very low grade ores, the AEC said
the new bonus offer will not take
the place of its long-standing —and
still-uncollected — prize of $10,000
for prospectors who deliver 40.000
pounds of very high-grade ore from
a newly-discovered deposit.
At the same time, the AEC an
nounced it would pay substantially
more than it has in the past for
certain uranium-bearing ores of the
Colorado plateau, the richest known
U. S. source of the metal.
The commission said it would
continue to pay for acceptable uran
ium ore at so much a pound where
ever it is found and that the jack
pot "bonuses” would be paid over
and above the regular payments.
Thus, a commission spokesman
said, it would be possible for a pros
pector to sell 10,000 pounds of a
certain grade of uranium for $35,
000 — and then collect a bonus of
$35,000 on top of that.
EXCEPTIONS FILED
BARGAINING ISSUE,
CANNERY WORKERS
SEATTLE, Feb, 28—Iff)—An A FI,
attorney has filed exceptions to
a recommendation that local 7-C
of Harry Bridges’ Longshore Union
be certified as bargaining agent
ior 3,000 non-resident Alaska sal
mon cannery workers.
The action was taken by John
Gelsness, counsel for the AFL Al
aska Fish Cannery Workers Union.
He filed the exceptions with the
National Labor Relations Board,
whose regional director, Thomas P.
Graham, Jr. had recommended
certification of local 7-C, Interna
tional Longshoremen’s and Ware
housemen's Union (Ind).
The AFL union and local 77 of
the CIO United Packinghouse
Workers Union were defeated by
local 7-C in an election last year
to determine which would repre
sent the Alaska no-resident can
nery employes.
Graham said the NLRB will sus
tain him in his recommendation,
overrule him or call a hearing.
Oregon Fish Law
Is Refused Ruling
By Supreme Court
WASHINGTON, Feb, 28 —Uf>—
The Supreme Court has refused to
rule on the validity of an Oregon
law which prohibits the taking of
Columbia River salmon by fish
traps.
Pete Anthony and other owners
of such traps questioned the law
but the high court said no sub
stantial Federal question was in
volved.
FROM SEATTLE
John E. Putnam of Seattle is re
gistered at the Baranof Hotel.
WAGE FREEZE
PUTS LABOR
IN QUANDRY
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 —(A>V—
The nation’s top labor leaders de
bated today whether to fight the
government's new wage ceilings or
to cooperate in the hope they will
be relaxed as retommended by Sta
bilizer Eric Johnston.
Johnston, alter almost two weeks
of deliberation, signed the wage
board's regulation No. 6, limiting
wage increases to 10 per cent above
Jan. 15, 1950 levels. Simultaneously
he asked the board to soften that
formula in seven important ways.
A meeting was called by Board j
Chairman Cyrus S. Ching to con- '
sider Johnston’s recommendations, j
and — if necessary to avert the re- i
ported crises building up over new j
increases due March 1 — to act
today or tomorrow.
The Big Question
The big question mark was: How j
would labor react? Initial comment j
of labor leaders was unfavorable to j
the Johnston solution to the de
limma which has vexed them all
since the three labor members
walked out of the wage stabilization j
board Feb. 15 in a huff over the;
formula. The ceiling was proposed
by a 6 to 3 vote, with public and
industry members in the majority.
None of the labor union chiefs
would predict what their United
Labor Policy Committee would do.
Labor Not Satisfied
AFL President William Green
said yesterday that if Johnston
signed the order and left the amend
ments to the board, labor would not
be satisfied.
Stabilization officials took an
other big step last night, announc
ing a new7 system of price controls
which will apply to more than 200,
000 retail stores selling clothing,
shoes, furniture, rugs and textile
commodities. It replaces the Jan.
25 price freeze with controls over
mark-ups allowed retailers.
The Office of Price Stabilization
expected the action to bring about
both price rollbacks and advances.
Officials said they couldn’t be suje
which would predominate but many
price changes w7ere certain.
MRS. ZEUSLER IS
HONORED GUEST AT
TUESDAY LUNCHEON
Mrs. Frederick A. Zeusler of Seat
tle, was the honored guest at a
luncheon given in compliment to
her by the member of the Wives
of the Seventeenth District, U. S.
Coast Guard at 1 o’clock yesterday
afternoon on the Terrace in the
I Baranof hotel. Mrs. Zeusler is in
Juneau with her husband. Admiral
F. A. Zeusler, executive assistant to
the president of the Alaska Steam
ship Company, here on business.
Twenty-two places were laid at
the beautifully appointed table, on
which bowls of spring daffodils and
tulips, and yellow tapers were ar
ranged.
At the luncheon for Mrs. Zeusler
were Mrs. Henry E. Green, wife of
the Alaska Steamship Company
Juneau agent, and Mrs. Ralph E.
Robertson, wife of the Juneau at
torney, and members of the wives
of the Coast Guard the Mesdames
Joseph Greenspun, Fred Detterick,
Victor Tydlacka, Donald Morrison,
Fred Statts, Edward P. Chester,
Wayne Goff, Garth Reed, Arnold
Larson, Eldin Hawley, Robert Bec
ker, Stanley Puttzke, Howard Sch
leiter, Thomas Prather, Louis Tib
bets, Charles Freymueller, Charles
Rudolph, Hawlett Allen, Suell
Grimm.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, Feb. 28 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 3%, American Can
107. American Tel. and Tel. IS?**,
Anaconda 43%, Douglas Aircraft
104, General Electric 55%, General
Motors 50 >4, Goodyear 75, Kenne
cott 74%, Libby, McNeil and Libby
9%, Northern Pacific 34%, Stand
ard Oil of California 93, Twentieth
Century Fox 23%, U. S. Steel 44%,
Pound $2.80, Canadian Exchange
95.75.
Sales today were 1,040,000 shares.
! Averages today were as follows:
Industrials 252.05, rails 85.10, utili
: ties 43.62.
I
SENATORS OKAY
3 MEMORIALS
IN QUIET DAY
The Territorial Senate passed
three memorials at a quiet morning
session today.
It was just a warmup for a "spe
cial order of business" at 2 p.m.—
a continuance of the hearing on
the controversial 40-hour 'veek sec
tion of a house-approve. wages
liours bill.
The th 'ee memorials passed unan
imously this morning were:
SM2 (by R. M. MacKenzie), crit
icizing top Federal officials for al
leged failure to view Alaska’s re
sources realistically and to make an
effort to utilize them in the na
tional emergency. The measure
cited chromite ore ivaste on a Kenai
peninsula beach and numerous in
stances in which it said Alaska
lumber possibilities have been ham
pered.
HJM7 (By El Locken and J. S.
MacKinnon), asking Congress to
exampt Alaska fishing vessels from
a proposed Federal act to put ves
sels of 15 tons or more under the
Coast Guard inspection service if
they are going into offshore waters.
The memorial said such action
would seriously hamper Alaska fish
ing.
HJM3 (By George Madsen), ask
ing full support of the Defense
Minerals Administration and the U.
S. Bureau of Mines in exploration
and development of Alaska’s strate
gic mineral deposits.
Three bills of wide interest came
out of Senate committees witn no
pass" recommendeds. Two of them
are house-approved bills. One would
increase unemployment compensa
tion benefits from $25 to $30 a week; *
the other would increase depend-1
ents’ allowances. Both were approv- !
ed by the labor committee. Both
bills are by Rep. Wendell Kay.
The taxation committee recom
mended “do pass” on Sen. Gunnard
Engebreth’s bill to allow independ
ent and incorporated school dis
tricts to levy 2 per cent sales tax !
if the people vote for them.
Engebreth introduced a bill to
create a mineral resources board
to “promote and develop the min
ing industry.” It carries a $40,000
appropriation.
Engebreth and Sen. Walter Hunt
ley introduced another bill to allow
school boards more independence
from city councils in handling
school budgets.
Sens. Elton Engstrom and Percy
Ipalook joined on a bill to reduce
the hair seal bounty from $6 to $4.
It also would reduce the bounty |
waters off western coast where Es
kimos have had much of the kill I
that has run the bounty fund $138,
000 into the red.
Senator MacKenzie introduced an
enabling act which would open the
way for territorial or municipal or
other public employes to qualify for
benefits under the Federal Social
Security program.
The house-approved legislative
investigating committee bill had a
close shave yesterday afternoon
when its head popped up on the
Senate floor for the first time.
Sen. R. M. MacKenzie (D-Ketch
ikani moved to table the Glen
Franklin-fathered bill. The motion
failed on an 8-8 vote.
Sen. Howard Lyng (D-Nome)
called attention to the fact it would
take nine votes later to get the bill
off the table if it once got there.
The rollcall was:
For tabling — Democrats Barr,
Beltz, Huntley, MacKenzie, McCut
cheon and Republicans Garnick,
Ipalook and EngeDrem. i
Against tabling — Republicans I
Butrovich. Coble, Engstrom, Lha
man and Snider; Democrats Ander- |
j son, Lyng, Nolan.
Then the bill was kept in second',
j reading until after the legislature
I could hear from H. Clyde Reeves,
I who is here from the Council of
j State Governments to advise on
j government financial problems.
The Senate passed two bills at the
I afternoon session. One would re
l move the governor from the board
: of Public Welfare. The other would
make annexations by cities easier.
The vote was 13 to 3 on a Senate
substitute to a house-approved bill
to remove the governor from the
board. The Senate also voted to cut
the board from five to four after
Sen. John Butrovich argued strong
, ly for a one member from each
i division makeup. He said the nam
ing of one at-large actually meant
I only that one division would have
j two members.
i Lyng, who has been a long-time
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BONDING OF
TERRITORY
IS DEBATED
House Passes Amendment
to Relax Child
Labor Act
By BOB nr ARMOND
The issue of bonding the Territory
of Alaska in order to construct and
repair school facilities, previously
debated in the Senate, was before
the House of Representatives at the
end of a three-hour session this
morning and had not been conclud
ed at the time o' the noon recess.
There were indications, however,
that a compromise might be reached
in the form of a bill providing for
a referendum at the next General
Election, with approval by the vot
ers to be a petition to Congress.
Rep. Barnes opposed the memor
ial asking for the right to bond the
Territory on the grounds that it
would adversely effect statehood.
“We have a deficit now and a
bond issue would add to it,” Mrs.
Barnes said. She favored a refer
endum by the people.
Rep. Kay, on the other hand,
said he favors a request for a $12,
500,000 bond issue instead of the
$9,000,000 provided in Rep. Con
right’s memorial.
“Our school houses are falling
down and the only way we can
meet our obligation is to raise a
large sum of money by bonding,”
Kay asserted. “It is not right that
tb» Territory be denied the privilege
of bonding.”
No Security
Rep. Locken, Petersburg banker,
contended that the Territory would
not be able to furnish security for
a bond issue and that in view or
the Territory’s present financial
condition it would probably be im
possible to sell the bonds if they
were authorized.
He pointed out that interest on
the issue would amount to half a
million dollars a year and retire
ment of the bonds to another half
million.
II we couia anora a uuuu issue
we could afford to appropriate a
million dollars a year for school
construction,” Locken said.
Picturing schools where ‘ you can
throw a cat through the cracks in
the walls,” Rep. McCutcheon said,
"Rep. Locken’s suggestion that we
appropriate a million dollars a year
is the most sensible thing I've heard
from a Republican during this ses
sion.”
"Anybody here who has guts
enough to face the issue squarely
will vote for this memorial," Mc
Cutcheon said.
"It doesn’t take any guts to vote
for this memorial," contended Rep.
Stepovich. "It takes guts to vote
‘no’ and to face the fact that some
one is going to have to pay for these
bonds if we issue them. We aren't
going to get this money free.”
Rep. Kay charged that it is the
legislature’s duty to provide school
houses and other educational facil
ities. Rep. Hendrickson took ex
ception, asserting that “it is unjust
to infer that the legislature is not
caring for school needs. The school
budget this year is over nine mil
lion dollars and about 75 per cent
of our budget goes for education
and health.”
Kep. scavemus ciaimeu unu
of deficiencies in the Territorial
budget are exaggerated. “I am sure
there are banks and bonding houses
in the states that would be willing
to take up an entire issue of Terri
torial bonds,” he said.
Passed by the House this morning
on a 19-3 vote was the Hope-Sca
venius child labor bill which would
permit minors over 16 to work dur -
ing school vacations in certain in
dustries and under conditions pro
vided by the Federal Fair Labor
Standards Act.
Also passed, but held over an
other day on a notice of reconsid
eration, was H. B. 66 which penal
izes employers who do not meet
payrolls by providing that wages
shall continue to accrue until paid,
with a limit of 30 days for the ac
crual.
Rep. Carlson’s bill to provide as
sistance for sick and disabled fish
ermen went through second reading
and was continued until tomorrow
for possible amendments.
Another of Carlson’s bills — to
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Shakeup in lerriloriai
Financial Operations
Suggested by Reeves
By JIM HUTCHESON
Bot.h houses of the legislature
voted today for a joint session to
morrow morning as the first step
toward possible overhauling of ter
ritorial financial operations.
The 9 a.m. session will be open,
with the governor and heads of all
departments invited.
A special committee recommend
ed the Joint session, after a confer
ence last night, to allow all legis
lators to hear the report and recom
mendation of a consultant from the
Council of State Governments.
The committee acted after hear
ing a report by H. Clyde Reeves,
Kentucky revenue commissioner
who was sent here as a consultant
by the Council of State Govern
ments.
Ten legislators at the bi-partlsan
session expressed themselves favor
ably on a proposal which would
create a Department of Finance,
headed by an executive who in ef
fect would be a general financial
manager for the Territorial Govern
ment.
Proposed Plan
The plan would bring all offices
and departments under closer fi
nancial supervision and create an
independent auditing section as a
watchdog. All budgets would be
closely scrutinized.
Possible revision of the Board of
Administration, to include legisla
tive leaders instead of elective of
ficials whose budgets come under
the board's scrutiny also was sug
gested.
If the Legislature takes the same
favorable view as the special com
mittee did in a three-hour session,
legislators will instruct Reeves to
draft a bill for legislative action
this session.
Reeves will remain here thiough
next week.
Reeve* — Who Is He?
Which raises the question: Who’s
Reeves?
rteeves was named rv-eneucay rev
enue commissioner in 1939 and has
filled the appointive job under four
governors. He took time out for
four years as a Coast Guard officer
and his only previous visit to Alaska
was in September 1945. He left his
ship in the Aleutians and stopped
off at Ketchikan on the way home
to put his lieutenant commander’s
uniform into mothballs.
He also took more than a year
off to manage a transportation com
pany.
He is a part-time professor of
government economics at the Uni
versity of Kentucky. He has been
consultant to two state govern
ments, a couple of Federal agencies,
and has gone ovei seas twice in con
sultant roles. One. he went to Paris
as a fiscal adm nlstration adviser
to a United Nations group. Last
year he went to Guam to assist in
BILL SMITH HERE
William P. Smith of Sitka is a
guest at the Baranof Hotel.
SIMMER MOVEMENTS
Princess Norah scheduled to sail
from Vancouver 8 tonight.
Denali scheduled to sail from
Seattle 4 p.m. Friday.
Baranof from westward scheduled
to arrive Sunday morning south
bound.
weather report
Temperatures for 24-Hour Period
ending > 20 o'clock this morning
In Juneau — Maximum
32; minimum, 26.
At Airport — Maximum,
32; minimum, 23.
FORECAST
Partly cloudy tonight. Low
temperature about 26 deg.
Cloudy Thursday with inter
mittent light snow. High
temperature about 34 degrees.
PRECIPITATION
(Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today
City of Juneau — .16 Inches;
Since Feb. 1 — 4.75 inches;
Since July 1 — 46.83 inches;
At Airport — .07 inches;
Since Feb. 1 — 2.25 inches;
Since July 1. — 32.50 inches.
| setting up the tax system in the
switch from naval to civilian con
trol.
Called To Alaska
The 37-year-old financial adviser
came to Alaska after numerous leg
islators had expressed the hope of
getting an outside consultant but
had learned that the Arthur Ander
son Company auditing firm would
not be able to have anyone here
until March. Then Senate President
Gunnard Jfngebreth communicated
with the Council of State Govern
ments; Gov. Gruening did likewise,
and the council sent Reeves.
One of his observations on the
Alaska situation, after his first
round of checking, was:
"The territory's problem is pe
culiar in its having NO elected gov
ernor. Because of that, the govern
ment is substantially in the hands
of boards that have little effective
responsibility to anyone.
"The board system once was com
mon in the states but it is not rec
ognized as good practice.”
In one way, he observed, Alaska
is better off in starting from
scratch.
“The territory is lortunate in not
having some of its administrative
monstrosities written into a consti
tution,” he explained. “The legisla
ture has an opportunity to establish
the most efficient government ad
ministrative organization in the
world.”
“Man-Killing Duties”
In discussing the plan for an
over-all financial head, Reeves said
it would be a job with “man-killing
duties" for the first few months of
operation.
His No. 1 suggestion was that such
a finance manager should be ap
pointed, probably by a reconstituted
board of administration. Another
key man would head an auditing de
partment which would be engaged
continually in checking government
department books. The office would
take over the Jobs now done by
outside auditing firms.
Reeves said such an office should
be completely free from the admin
istrative departments. He said the
audit department head probably
could best be elected by the legisla
ture. He advised a comparatively
long term so the man on the job
could step on toes freely without
worrying about losing his job by
making people mad.
Could Be Ousted
The finance department uu.->»
the other hand, would be remov
able by the appointive head —
whether that be the board of ad
ministration or some other author
ity. In states where there is an
elected governor, he said, it would
be the governor’s responsibility.
In his outline of "the best thing
that could be done about the or
ganization for financing adminis
tration” Reeves listed:
1. Require all agencies of the
territorial government to submit to
financial supervision.
2. Establish a department of fi
nance and place in it the functions
of budgeting, pre-auditing (to make
sure spending is authorized); ac
counting, centralized purchasing,
property control and treasury man
agement.
3. Appoint a well qualified, well
paid commissioner as head of the
department of finance; give him
adequate authority to do his job.
4. Reconstitute the board of ad
ministration to get legislative repre
sentation.
Responsible Agency
5. Provide an agency responsible
to the legislature or the electorate
to do auditing of all transactions.
When asked about the cost of
such governmental revision, Reeves
said he did not think it would be
much more, if any. than the pres
ent system at the start, and that it
would save money in practice.
Some territorial offices would
have to be embraced or absorbed
in the revamping.
Legislators who sat in on the spe
cial committee conference with
Reeves were:
Senators Engebreth, John Butro
vlch, Steve McCutcheon, Anita Gar-,
nick, William Beltz and James No
lan.
House Speaker William Egan and
Reps. Glen F. Franklin, Mike Step
ovich, Andrew Hope.
The proposed 9 am. Thursday
session Is planned as an open one.
RED SUPPLY
ROUTE NOW
ATTACKED
Commie Force Reported
Moving in 'Utter Confus
ion” on 1 Korean Front
By Associated Press
Tank-led American forces punch
ed six miles into the battered East
ern flank of the Red battleline to
day on the Central Korean war
front.
The armored patrol of the U. S.
Seventh Division was within sight
of Amidong 31 miles south of Par
allel 38 — the northernmost pene
tration by American forces on the
East-Centrol front.
Other division elements pushed
westward from the anchor point of
Pangnim and linked up with the
U. S. Second Division on the vital
lateral highway to Hoengsong 28
miles to the west.
The link-up broadened from 8 to
13 miles the American control of
the Red supply route.
Reds In Confusion
The Seventh Division patrol
thrusting six miles north of Pang
nim reported the Reds were disor
ganized and moving In all direc
tions. One officer told AP Corre
spondent Tom Stone the Reds might
be attempting to regroup but "more
likely” were moving in “utter con
fusion.”
The officer said the Reds were
surrendering in ever increasing
numbers. He added: "They’re Just
getting a bellyfull.”
Amidong is six miles south of
Changdong and some 40 air miles
inland from the east coast. Aerial
spotters i eported Changdong may
be an assembly point for the Kor
ean Reds.
Spring Push Reported
It was the major ground action
in the eight-day-old "operation kil
ler” offensive aimed primarily at
wiping out the Communists and up
setting their timetable for a possible
spring counteroffensive.
Chinese prisoners reported the
enemy plans a major push next
month by 33 divisions of Red
China's third field army — 300,000
men backed by 1,000 planes. Allied
Intelligence officers gave the re
port considerable credence.
S. K. Marines in Raid
A delayed announcement said
South Korean Marines stormed
ashore near Ongjin, within five
miles of the 38th Parallel northwest
of Seoul Sunday. They reported
killing a Red brigade commander
and 20 other officers and capturing
equipment and documents before
returning to their ships.
South Koreans captured their
fifth island in two weeks in and
near Wonsan harbor on the east
coast.
A U. S. Third Division patrol
stabbed into Seoul last night and
killed six Reds and captured an
other before pulling out again.
The Far East Air Force blasted
Communist supply lines and rail
. centers.
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VAHDENBURG HAS
RELAPSE AFTER
TWO OPERATIONS
Cf.AND .IAPIDS, Mich., Feb. 28
—Uf, - Sen. Vandenberg (R-Mich),
sufftring from complications that
followed two tumor operations, was
reported today to have had a re
lapse that will prevent his return
to Washington any time soon.
The 66-year-old Republican For
eign Policy leader has counted on
returning to his Senate seat early
this year.
But his personal physician Dr. A.
B. Smith, acknowledged yesterday
there had been “unforseen develop
ments" in his condition in recent
days.
"The Senator’s condition is not
as favorable as it has been," Dr.
Smith said.
FROM KETCHIKAN
J. L. and Faith Sherman of
Ketchikan are registered at the
Baranof Hotel. Sherman arrived
hers yesterday to attend the Rotary
traveling library delation here
last nisht.