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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
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FOUR-STAR PLAYMATE Gen. Jajnes A. Van Fleet, com
manding general of the U.S. 8th Army, seems to be enjoy
ing his young Korean "passenger" as they watch entertain
ment at the Columbian Children's Home in Seoul, Korea.
Gen. Van Fleet and other United Nations officials visited
the home to present $11,000 worth of clothing purchased
by the Far East chaplains with money contributed by the
U.S. 3rd Army.
Air Force Maintaining
Island Near North Pole
Weather Station On Ice
ANCHORAGE, Alaska HI Two
Air Force officers and a civilian
scientist are maintaining a weath
er station on a floating ice island
60 miles from the North Pole.
They're living in tents In 50-below
zero weather on an ice mass nine
miles long and 4 Vi mUes wide that
moves through the Arctic Ocean
about a mile a day.
Maj. Gen. William D. Old. head
of the Alaska Air Command, who
landed with the weather party
Wednesday, gave more details of
the project Saturday.
The three-man crew planning to
spend the summer on the ice is
land is composed of Lt. Col. Joseph
O. Fletcher, Shawnee, Okla.; Capt.
Marlon F. Brinegar, Houston, Tex.,
and Dr. Kaare Rodahl, civilian
scientist from Ladd Air Force
Base. Fairbanks. Alaska. 1
Capt. Paul L. Green, Zenla, Ohio,
Is expected to Join the group soon
to handle communications, and 10
General Mum
On Ike Plans
WASHINGTON HI Gen. Alfred
M. Gruenther flew in Saturday
.from headquarters of the Allied
Powers in Europe, bringing re
norts of improvement in European
defense against Communism but no
news on wnen uen. uwigni jj. Ei
senhower may come home.
Gruenther, chief of staff In El
senhower's command of the mili
tary forces of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO) is
here for testimony to congressional
committees. He was Invited to
testify on President Truman's re
quest for $7,900,000,000 in mutual
security ffcnds.
A laugh and an "I don't know"
was Gruenther's reply to reporters
who asked bim when Eisenhower
might return, to take a more active
part in the campaign to make him
the Republican presidential nomi
nee. Asked whether Eisenhower him
self knew, Gruenther said that
"if he does, he hasn't communi
cated it to me."
or 12 others mav be lnndwf inter
Piloting the C-47 which landed on
the ice island wns Pant t
Ephart of the 10th Air 'Rescue
Souadrnn T.nriri Aiv -ct.
General Old as co-pilot.
Three other Air Force planes
accompanied the C-47 but did not
land. Thpv nnr f. iu.i..
Greenland, thence to the North
"oie area, because the Greenland
base used is 200 miles nearer the
floating island than Point Barrow,
northernmost Alaska point. (
A Navy exposition now is based
at BaiTaW And nlannmn .........
t..u.u.U,K V CMfllh
iisn a research base nn nnnthor
ice island.
General Old. at a news -nnfr.'
ence, gave details of the landing.
'Into the sun m,l1 cm
25 miles " h eoiri .,.!
from it only about 10 miles. There
woo oo similarity oeiween the Ice
island and the ice pack. The island
is nerfertlv flat n'hiltt tha nnv
cut up and full of ridges."
iuc maue a rest run, toucn-
ing Skis liffhtlV tn rietormin tnna
condition; then returned and land
ed. The other planes. C-54's.
dropped supplies by parachute but
did not land because of ridees on
the snow.
It was 50 below when the party
landed, with a light wind. The ice
iwas covered yith one to two feet
of snow.
Korean War
Quiet; Jet
Battle Won
By STAN CARTER
SEOUL. Korea Wl U. 8. lei
pilots Monday destroyed or dam
aged 14 Russian-made Communist
MIO-lSs In four clashes over North
west Korea.
Comparatively slow F-4 Thun
dcrjets damaged two of elulit
swept - wing MIGs that attacked
them while they were cutting rail
road tracks In the Sonchon area
Monday afternoon.
The U.S. Fifth Air Force said
the Thunderjets escaped damage.
In three morning fights, the Fifth
Air Force said, U.S. F-86 Sabre
Jets shot down three Red Jets,
probably destroyed two and dam
aged seven. Allied losses if any
are reported weekly.
Only small partol actions were
reported across the 155-mile ground
front.
The U.S. Eighth Army said three
Communist platoons fired on U.N.
positions northwest of the Punch
Bowl on the eastern front Sunday,
but the Reds withdrew under heavy
Allied artillery fire.
U.S. B-29 Superforts dropped 30
tons of air-bursting bombs on Com
munist front line positions Sunday
night. Night-flying B-26 light bomb
ers and shore-based Marine planes
attacked Communist trucks mov
ing troops and supplies to the front.
Pilots said they destroyed 45
trucks.
The Navy said the Carrier U.S.S.
Bairoko returned to action olf
North Korea a West Coast Sunday.
Its planes destroyed or damaged
26 buildings, three bridges, one gun
position, six small craft and five
boxcars.
Allied warships continued thoir
patrol and blockade activities on
the East Coast.
The Navy reported a sharp in
crease in Communist shore battery
lire along the East Coast.
The Reds opened fire on the
minesweeper u.s.s. osprey Friday
and shelled Allied warships inter
mittently for the next 24 hours.
Counter-fire silenced the Commu
nist guns.
The Navy said there were no
casualties and no damage to any
Allied ships.
Tough Time
For Manager
LOS ANOFt ira in Aril,,,- v
Douglas Is a native California!, and
president 01 the new Los Angeles
Statler hotel, nearlng completion,
but he hnri A tnlioh ntwlttir
his cltlBenshlp.
uougias chuckled Sunday in tell
ing how his difficulty turned up
When he mnriM imillnailiw ti.
hotel's bar and cocktail lomige
licenses. A birth certificate whs required.
"I was born In 1902 In Estrella,
Calif., a hamlet near San Miguel,
but When I Wmti. thur mv IkMk,
was returned, unopened." he snld.
i vne to uie county sent at Sun
Luis Obispo and it had no record
of my birth. . . . My mother and
father ar rienri and all i.n
of Estrella la one school, one
cnurcn and one farmhouse. The
farmer who lives Uiere never heard
of me."
But, finally, a brother, who was
four when Arthur was born, lur-
nisneo, acceptab.e proof.
The brother is William O. Doug
las. assnrlntA 1iiuti.-j nf th it c
Supreme Court.
Sled Dogs In
Alaska Die
IV 200 vnlnnhtn kIaH Hnna .n... jtA
I ill a swift distemper epidemic in
uuiusi Ainsna, oui atroorne
drugs lielped save 300 others.
only two animals have died since
.MH.uii- it ui uie wave oi disease
which began Feb. 8.
al for native dogs, occurred in the
ruiiu narrow area on tne Arctic
coast where travel in winter is
mrgeiy aepenoent upon dod tennis.
Military authorities announced
earlier this week that drugs rushed
to the Barrow area by combined
efforts of the Army. Air Force
and Navv checked sm-enri nf thp
disease.
BREAK
TOKYO HI Crown Prince Aki
hito, who ' graduates from high
school next week, will break a 2,-600-year-old
imperial tradition by
enrolling in a co-educational uni
versity April 21.
It will be the first known time
in the history of Japan that an
heir to the throne has begun his
higher - education with both com
moners and girls for classmates.
The devout followers of the Aga
Khan, Moslem leader, number
more than 20 million.
HOTELS
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Red Underground
Said Operating
TAIPEH. Formosa Wl The Na
tionalist Defense Ministry Saturday
said Vyacheslav Molotov. former
Soviet foreign minister and premier
is supervising operations of a re
organized and expanded Commu
nist underground in Japan, Indo
china, Burma, the Philippines and
other parts of the Far East.
The ministry said, in a statement
issued through its military informa
tion service that Molotov had his
main base at Chita In Siberia and
that he traveled occasionally to
"such key points as Peiplng and
North Korea."
Utah Reopens Battle To Sell Congress
On Program of Small Reclamation Unit
Work With State-Federal Plan
WASHINGTON HI Rep. Bosone i
(D.-Utnh). hones she can sell Con
gress this year on her Idea of a
program for the development of
smalt reclamation projects.
She Introduced a bill a week ago
to set up a five million dollar
lorn fund for the building of amull
irrigation projects in cooperation
with Uie sutcs.
The measure is a successor to
one that got stuck In Uie federal
Budget Bureau last year, and It
has been refined in the hope of
getting the bureau's approval and
of heading off a conflict between
two departments.
Under the bill, federal and stale
governments would go 60-50 In Dul
ling up money for projects each
costing up to one million dollars
and covering up to S.uoo acres.
The Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration, acting as agent for Uie
Interior Department, would lend tne
federal money, and the states
would make repayment arrange
ments with farmers and guarantee
that the federal money is put bnck
in the treasury within 40 years.
Mrs. Bosone says her bill Is
aimed at removing a "no-man's
land" from the nntlonal reclama
tion picture nn area of possible
conflict between the Agriculture
and Interior Departments.
Through lis water facilities pro
gram, the Agriculture Department
has been doing some reclamation
work on pro eels costing up to tou.-
000. Interior deals mostly with prot
ects costing more than a minion.
Mrs. Bosone says both depart
ments "are making a studied ef
fort to avoid competition, but there
is possibility of conflict there, not
necessarily because of the two fed
eral agencies but because of laws
which establish conflicting pro
grams." This possibility of conflict prob
ably Is one reason for the Budget
Bureau's refusal to approve the
bill Mrs, Bosone introduced last,
year.
The 1051 bill would have nrovlderi
Uint the secretary of the Interior
lend the money. The Budget Bu
reau balked at the idea of setting
up ins interior Department as a
lending agency, while Uie Agricul
ture Department has lending func
tions under several of Us agricul
tural programs.
So the 1053 bill designates RFC
as the lending agency.
The Agriculture Department's
water facilities program orluinnlly
Included only projects Involving
inrmsiena use oi wnter uy Iiumucs
and livestock.
In recent years the Agriculture
Department has expanded Its pro
gram to take in some Irrigation
projects, which previously had been
considered within the Held of the
Interior Department's Reclamation
Bureau.
Department officials are anxious
to avoid any conlllct like the cur
rent dispute between the Interior
Department and Army Engineers
over tho proposed upper Colorado
River storage projects' engineering
and economic feasibility.
Mrs. Bosone says President Tru
man has approved Uie Idea of a
program for development of small
reclamation projects.
She predicts her bill will win
approvnl from the House Interior
Committee, of which she is a mem
ber. She expects to get help from Utah
nnd Montana members of Congress
since those two states probably
would be the first to benefit from
the bill.
Utnh nnd Montana have been
operating small project programs
for several years, so their laws
could be readily adapted to the co
.operative federal-state program,
The small project conuultlce of
the National Reclamation Aaindic
Hon. which In bucking Mis,
Hosone's Iclt'ii, has enllrd Utnh and
Montana accomplishments "hIkiiIU
cant developments."
Among those on Uie rommlttee
are Htnto Engineers Fred Buck of
Montanu nnd T, W, Jensen of Utah.
The number of smalt projects
proposed nationally In Uie pnsl few
years nuggests the proponed pro
gram would bo used. Tho Itei-liunn-tlon
Bureau reports 4311 small proj
ects Imvo been proposed by var
ious nlnlo and federal agencies In
the west nt an estimated cost of 300
million dollars.
Our airnrv devoir Iturtf eirlu-
lively to the liuliir of liinuraiiuf.
IVf III NUT nave any iiiuriiiirn.
11 ui Innure you rla lit. Hans Nor
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Unions Dicker
For Wage Increase
SEATTLE I A 25-cent hourly
wage increase and improved work
ing conditions were souRm oy iuin
locnls of the AFL-Intcrnatlonal
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
as negotiations opened Friday with
the Northwest tne Constructors
Association.
, , c...iti. v.,iclnc mflnnoer
Ltiuyu dill. ii.
of Local 77, said 1,200 linemen and
helpers In locals here, at Ta
coma. Portland and Medford, Ore..
are represented. Journeymen wage
scales are now $2.75 an hour.
General
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