THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1950
PAGE SIX
Arctic Warfare
Breaks Morale,
Reporter Finds
IThe following was carried by tiiiatrh
rider frum the "front" tit Kxerrise Hwevt
briar where United 1'rcM .tuff correion
der.l Nuel Miiatert it) tin only reitorter thu,.
far to have acromiMtnit! trooiw directly
, into mock warfare in the combined Cunu-
UIUD-Unlted ntatea war yunun.)
By Noel Mostert
(United i'reaa muff CorrewitomWnt
With Defending Force in the
Yukon, Feb. 17 Three days in
the Sweetbriar front line con
vinced this reporter that Arctic
warfare will demand the toughest
indoctrination yet devised and
that the troops here still had a
lot to learn.
The experience was morale
shattering, bitter, and utterly de
pressing.
For 72 hours I alternately
crouched In or drove a snow
mobile, built camp on three-fool
deep snowbanks, and joined snow-
shoe patrols scouting for the
"enemy." I played the full role
or a member or Canada s tough
est winter-trained force, the Prin
cess Patricia's Canadian light in
fantry of Calgary.
Would Halt Invader
The regiment was pushing up
the Alaska highway to hold the
invader at cay. t,ven tne rigor
ous training which had prepared
these men for the exercise didn't
prevent some from collapsing
with fatigue over the wheels of
their vehicles, retching with nau
sea after traveling three days
ana nights with little food and
sleep, and suffering acute head
ache from the general strain.
. Arctic fighting takes more than
ordinary guts and brawn. It calls
lor nerves as hard as the moun
tains which rear above this north
ern highway and emotion as cold
as the snows which cover them.
In other words, the soldier must
build a bulwark against despair.
Princess Pais Move
This operation started mid
night Sunday when the Princess
Pats left Whltehorse in a long
convoy of trucks, jeeps, snowmo
biles and artillery transports. I
was the only correspondent to
accompany the move and filied-in
on a snowmobile where two men
were short. The troops work in
five-man teams.
There followed a long night In
the darkened vehicle, skirting
, cliff faces and straining to keep
attention on the road and not on
the cramped compartment and
Canadian Plane
Hits Ice, Crashes
Snag, Y. T., Feb. 17 'lit A Roy
al Canadian air force Dakota
plane particiapting In exercise
Sweetbriar crashed when it
struck a chunk of ice as it came
in for a landing yesterday. None
or the 14 persons u Hoard was
killed.
Radio communications from
the downed plane failed a few
minutes after the crash. Before
the signals faded, however, the
radio operator reported no one
was killed.
The message said one man was
believed to have a broken leg but
it was not known if the others
were injured.
Earth Menaced,
Scientist Holds
Ottawa, Feb. 17 'II'' Explosion
of the first hydrogen bomb might
cause the world and all in it to dis
integrate in less than a minute,
Dr. Allan Munn, one of Canada's
foremost physicists, saia today.
The super-bomb, If big enough,
could set off a chain reaction that
would encircle the globe and an
nihilate it, Munn said in an interview.
the dull ache of limbs.
Penguin, as the snowmobile Is
known, had been arcticized. This
word Is a new contribution to the
modern vocabulary and means
that the vehicle was equipped
to withstand the northern cold.
Along the way, several vehicles
lay nose-deep in drifts where they
had careened off the road when
the drivers fell asleep. One stood
on a pass blazing furiously. It
caught fire when troops, against
orders, attempted to light a stove
In the rear.
I came close to the breaking
point on the rare occasions when
we pitched camp. Generally, it
was around two or three in the
morning after spending the day
on the road and when the mer
cury was at its lowest. The night
temperature averages 30 to 40
below zero.
The snowmobile ploughed off
the road into the drifts. We clam
bered out, fiddled at lashings with
half-frozen hands to loosen equip
ment and then shovelled snow
aside over a 12-foot square for
the tent.
The lowest ebb reached was in
"going to ground," as the army
put it wading, sometimes waist
high, through the white stuff to
chop down a spruce or fir, the
branches of which were stripped
for tent-floor insulation.
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Yields Snowfa
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Rishop, Calif.. Feb. 17 'II' A
California company said today it
had made artificial rain and snow
making a "paying commercial
proposition."
The technique, under experi
mentation for two years, involves
sprinkling dry ice pellets on
clouds from an airplane.
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Use of the method increased
snowfall in the upper Bishop
creek region of the high Sierra
mountains by more than 10 pet
cent during the 1947 to 1943 seas
ons .company sources said.
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be done successfully along the en
tire Sierra range and anywhere
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The company piane made more
than 40 seeding runs in the two
year period over a watershed area
only 20 miles long and five miles
wide. A large percentage of those
were experiment or "dry" runs.
Results, Cundiff said, proved
the method was "a paying com
mercial proposition."
Each seeding flight brought
down an average of about .15 of
an inch of snow. The company
engineer said only a tenth of an
inch of rainfall was necessary to
make enough electrical power to
supply 510 homes for a year.
Soldier Killed
By 'Unloaded' Gun
Camp Stoneman, Calif., Feb. 17
HI') Pvt. Charles F. Burrows, 18,
Snohomish, Wash., was killed yes
terday when ho was hit in the
back of the head by a bullet acci
dentally fired by Pvt. J. C. Bailey,
18, Warren, O.
The two men were unloading
their carbines after completing a
period of guard duty. Bailey pull
ed the trigger on his weapon be
lieving it was unloaded, authori
ties said. The gun discharged.
Burrows died 12 minutes later.
Burglar First
In Use of Ladder
Portland, Feb. 17 mi Mrs.
Marguerite E. Loisli left her keys
in her locked home.
She got back in after climbing
up a ladder and through an un
locked window. The ladder had
been left behind by a burglar who
ransacked the dwelling for $11.
Asia Leadership
Held U. S. Need
New York, Feb. 17 HPi The
United States needs a "supreme
commander" in the far east to
block the Russian sponsored drive
of communism on southeast Asia,
according to Major Gen. William
J. Donovan, head of the wartime
office of strategic services.
His remarks were generally in
terpreted to mean that Gen.
Douglas MacArthur was the man
for the job.
Donovan said last night that
there is an "urgency" for leader
ship now that the Russians are
picking up momentum "from
their speedy victories in China."
"This victory now makes Rus
sia the dominant power in Asia
as well as Europe," he said.
The former head of the U. S.
wartime "cloak and -dagger"
agents said the situation requires
"a leader whether you call him
a supreme commander or a high
commissioner with the authority,
the experience and the ability to
deal with political as well as mili
tary problems."
Court Nears End
,0fW Inquiry
Norfolk, Va., Feb. 17 "1 A
l navy court today neared the end
!of its blame-fixing inquiry in the
battleship Missouri's 13 days
aground.
The court still has to hear
Capt. William D. Brown, who was
skippering Big Mo for the first
time when it ran on a Hampton
Roads mudbank Jan. 17. -
A navigation expert told the
board yesterday that he would
have handled the voyage through
the acoustic range differently.
Cmdr. J. M. Wood, operations
and training officers for cruisers,
Atlantic fleet, said he first would
have laid out an alternate plan to
skip the secret range in case of
poor visibility or channel traffic.
Wood said he also would have
studied tide and current charts,
cheeked all navigation equipment
aivl studied any changes reported
by hydrographic publications.
Would ( heck Buoys
Asked what he would have done
had lie learned of discrepancies
in the buoys marking the range,
Wood replied:
"I would have obtained the very
latest information from the
branch hydographic office of the
United States coast and geodetic
survey, and also would have gone
out in a small boat to verify
their positions."
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Safe Crackers
Loot Offices
Aberdeen, Wash., Feb. 17 "lit
Police searched a seven-story
building today, for additional clues
to the identity of a band of ama
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looted 38 offices of hundreds of
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Police chief A. M. Gallagher
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"The loot 13 expected to run
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Veteran Collapses
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New York, Feo. 17 IP) Civil
war veteran Samuel Bennett, 102,
of Miles City, Mont., was hospital
ized today after a bus ride from
Washington, D. C, to visit a
friend.
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lapsed in Times Square last night
just as he was about to hail a
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after walking up the steps from
the subway.
He was taken to St. Clare's hos
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