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The Nome nugget., 1947-01-22
Russia COvets Spitzbergen As Needed Base
(BY J. M. Roberts. Jr.)
(P) Foreign Affairs Analyst

 the Evalbard group toward which Moscow is making passes, had been operating as an organized community for only IF years when the Russians first began to covet it.
 That was during the first world war, when the last Car wanted to buy out the private Norwegian coal owners, who had gone in along with British and American developers after 1900. The only ob- jective then, for a Russia which was only slightly interested in the northern shipping routes, was the nine to ten billion tons of coal which are estimated to lie beneath the frozen surface.
 Now Spitzbergen, which be- came a legal entity for the first time in 1921 by treaty under which the world powers accepted Norwegian sovereignty, reflects the impact of world affairs from several facets.
 Soviet Russia first asked Nor, way to cede parts of Spitzberger in 1914 for bases which could have been important then. NorWay's ex- fled government in London de clined to act on such a matter un- til it was back home, since then important political angles have entered the picture.
 Spitzbergen lies northwest ot Iceland about halfway between Iceland and Greenland. It lies along the discussed rocket route across the Arctic. It is be- tween Russia and Greenland, that enormous island on the Atlantic s northern fringe which was pene- trated by the Germans so recently, and whose staging stations be- tween Europe and America will be more important in any future con- flict.
 In the last war planes and ships from Spitzbergen could have met the German planes and ships from Norway which so harrassed the Allied conveys to Murmansk.
 But much as this little spot may lie across the communication lanes of the modern world from which 1t was so long isolated, the recent Russian moves have placed it even more squarely across the path of American policy.
 The United States wants a sys- tenn of bases which, coupled with the availability of British strong points, can be used to help keep any future war at distance. She is working hard to develop Alaska and the northern Pacific, plans bases in far northern wastes, di- rectly across the pole from Rus s;a's own Arctic outposts, retains north Atlantic bases under long, term lease from England, wants to work out better security with re- gard to such places as the Azores, and is continuing civilian aviation operations in Iceland, near those same northern sea routes to Rus sia, on a basis which contains an open implication of what will hap pen in war.
 Russia probably sees Spitz- bergen as an opportunity to meet
Evening star., 1947-01-21
$50 Seubees Build Tent City
On Edge of Ross Ice Shelf
By Thomas R. Henry
Stor sioff Correspondent

He said he saw the tops of the
Adolph Ochs radio stations, with
three towers still spaced in a rough
triangle. This was taken as an
indication that the buildings below
perhaps had not been crushed out
of existence by the ice, as was orig
inally thought probable.
! It's lucky for Capt. George Dufek
and 1t. Comdr. Walter M. Sessums
that a Navy crashboat was nearby
when their helicopter crashed into
icy polar waters Sunday.
| Within five minutes after the ship
struck, the crashboat crew had the
two aboard the seaplane tender Pine
Island where a doctor administered
stimulants.
Comdr. SeSSumS, whose home is In
New Orleans, was pilot of the hell
copter and Capt. Dufek, commander
of the Eastern Task Force in the
Navy's Antarctic Expedition, was a
passenger.
The helicopter plunged into the
sea after its rotors became iced. The
crashboat was only four lengths
away.
Comdr. Sessums, using his head
as battering ram, smashed the
plexiglass covering on the submerged
cockpit. He and Capt. Dufek crawled
through the top and Seaman Will
liam Young of New York City
grabbed them and pulled them
aboard the crashboat.
Thanks, that waters cold!" Capt
Dufek said.
The helicopter sank.
Evening star., 1947-01-21
Bank Soon 10 Open
Branch in Bethesda

The Suburban National Bank, Sill
yer Spring, soon will open a branch
Office in Bethesda, T. Howard
Duckett, chairman of the board, an
nounced today.
The Bethesda branch has been au-
thorized by the controller Of the
currency and will be opened as soon
as temporary quarters can be ar
ranged, Mr.. Duckett stated. The
management has two tentative loca-
tions under consideration.
Efforts will be made to staff the
Bethesda Office with residents Of the
Bethesda Chevy Chase area, the an
nouncement said. 1t is proposed to
add businessmen from the area to
the banks directorate in the near
future, the board chairman said.
With the opening of branch in
Bethesda, the Suburban National
Bank will have Offices covering the
entire suburban area of Montgom-
cry County. 1t already has banks
at Takoma Park and Silver Spring,
The Bank of Bethesda is the only
one in the community now. Some
months ago a State bank, to be
known as the Merchants Bank OF
Bethesda, was authorized, but has
not yet set up Offices.
Evening star., 1947-01-21
Marshall
Continued From First Page.)

Job of directing American efforts
to win the peace as tough as his
work during the war as Army Chief
of Staff, Gen. Marshall replied:
Tougher, I imagine military af-
fairs were my business and now ]
am learning a new business"
Gen. and Mrs. Marshall and Col
Caughey were Joined aboard gtheiI
railroad car for breakfast by Mrs
Caughey.
Gen. Marshall was reported still
asleep when the train arrived or
schedule. He arose after the trair
was in Union Station and sat down
to a breakfast of bacon and eggs
at about 8 am.
On advance word that Gen
Marshall did not desire any fan
fare on his arrival, no White House
or top State Department officials
were on hand to meet him. Michael
J. McDermott, in charge Of State
Department press relations, was or
hand to assist newsmen.
The only foreign diplomat putting
in an appearance was Shao-hws
Tan, Minister of the Chinese En-
bassy. He departed before Gen
Marshall alighted from the railroad
car when told of the generals de-
sire not to be greeted officially.
Gen. Marshall's changing status
from military to civilian was indi-
Gated by the police arrangements
On guard before his railroad cal
were three Army military police
men, two State Department specia
agents. in plain clothes, and two
uniformed Washington Termina
lonlicpnnen
Evening star., 1947-01-21
Stationery
Continued From First Page.

than some of them needed" a Re-
publican chieftian said. "Yet in
some cases it may not have beer
enough and the member may have
had to shell out of his own pocket
for his full needs" ~
One suggested solution, he said
is to prohibit accumulations of sta.
tionery allowances from year tt
year. In other words, if a member
didn't use his entire allowance, the
unexpended part would revert tx
the Treasury.
'The difficulty here" he added
is that many members, finding
themselves with a balance at the
end of the year, would use it tc
purchase Christmas gifts, such, as
fountain pens, rather than allow il
to revert to the Treasury"
An added inducement in this di-
rection is that the House stationery
room sells its goods to members al
discounts ranging up to 40 per cent
AS one of its first tasks, the
newly created House Administra-
ton Committee plans to inform all
representative about allowances TO,
mileage and kilograms.
The new committee, headed by
Representative LIE Compte, Repub-
lican, of Iowa is to be divided into
four major subcommittee. Designa-
ton of their chairmen and mem
/ hers was to be made TODAY bv Chair
man LIE Compte.
The four subcommittee. will han
die House printing questions, ac-
counts, elections and enrolled bills
The last subcommittee will handle
the Library of Congress, Botanic
Gardens, memorials, disposal of use.
less Government papers, as vel
as the enrolling of Congressional
measures.
Evening star., 1947-01-21
U. 5. Steel and Clio Start
Contract Talks Friday
BY the Associated Press

PITTSBURGH, Jan. al The
CIO- United Steelworkers and the
big Steep' of the industry will
meet over conference tables here
Friday to open negotiations on a
1947 contract for some 175,000 work.
ers in five subsidiary companies.
The United States Steel Corp
disclosed the new date for the dis
cussions - postponed from last
Thursday-as union negotiators
held series of preliminary meet
ings here.
The union has announced Is
point program of general objectives
which include these goals: "A size
able wage increase" portal-to-portal
pay, a guaranteed minimum annual
wage, improved social benefits, pre-
MUM pay for week ends and holi-
Gays and other points.
Philip Murray, president Of both
the CIO and the steelworkers, will
head the union delegation, while
management representatives will be
led by John A. Stephens, vice pres
ident in charge of industrial rela-
tions for the United States Steel
Evening star., 1947-01-21

to the Chrysler Corp. Indeed, Judge
Picard later granted new trial and
among the reasons which he gave
was that his comments favorable to
the company's position may have
influenced the jury's verdict"
Mr.. Goodman said the attack on
Judge Picard by the Chrysler coun-
sci "can only be regarded as an
effort to improperly influence the
decision in the Mount Clemens pot
terry case now pending before Judge
Picard"
The Supreme Court, in upholding
Judge Picard's ruling favoring the
Mount Clemens workers claims tt
back portal pay, remanded the case
to the District Court to determine
the extent of the liability.
Judge Picard commented in New
York he is both ''pro-labor" ane
"pro-capital" and that his decisions
"have never at any time been in
auenced by those feelings"
Concerning Mr.. Iserman's charge
that he asked the jury to change its
verdict, the Michigan judge said:
"That is not true. sent it bach
to the jury to have them clarity
their verdict"
Evening star., 1947-01-21
French Attempt 10 Clear
Rebels in Hanoi Suburbs
BY the Associated Press

PARIS, Jan. 21.-French armored
columns. in a pincers maneuver3
supported by planes and heavy ar.
tillery, have moved westward from;
Hanoi in an attempt to clear Wet
Namese forces from the enyirons,
of the city, dispatches from Indo-,
China reported today. !
Two detachments of armored cars,
and tanks, which began their adj,
vance yesterday morning, were only
one mile apart at the end of the,
day, threatening insurgent troops
remaining in the vicinity Of Hanoi,
with tighter enlightenment, the
French general staff said.
The French command hopes to
seize control of the area north of
the Dong road to the Rouge River,
along the outer belt highway to the
village of Yenthai. The bulk of the
Wet Namese formes were reported
to have withdrawn before the
French columns, leaving only small
groups to fight delaying actions.
Land mines placed by the Wet
Namese in their retreat slowed up
the French, the general staff COM
mented.
Evening star., 1947-01-21
Dress Given to European Relief
|SoIdbyChicoqoMuiIO Order Firm

cents each after answering an ad-
vertisement.
Mr.. Forkney said the firm selling
the dresses was the v. Portnoy Mai
Order House, Chicago.
Nathan Portnoy, owner of the
firm. said he couldn't explain "this
particular case" but that his COM
pany bought salvage throughout the
country.
Maybe this discarded dress was
donated to some charity, which later
picked out the best of the dresses te
send overseas and sold the rest" he
told a reporter in Chicago.
An official of UNRRA, which han
died the overseas distribution OF
clothing donated in the drive, said
he couldn't explain how the dress
reach the mail-order company
Clothing collected, he said, was ham
died by local committees and then
turned over to Treasury warehouses
where it was cleaned, baled and de-
livered to UNRRA.
Evening star., 1947-01-21
Portal Pay
Continued From First Page.)

under control of their employers
was defended from an attack made
on him by an attorney for the
Chrysler Corp. yesterday.
The attorney, Theodore r. Iser-
man, told the committee that Judge
Picard had made prejudicial re-
marks in a suit filed by plant guards
against the Chrysler Corp.
Mr.. Iserman's remarks led Sena-
tor Eastland, Democrat, of Missis-
sippi to say that the House should
investigate Judge Picard with a
view to impeachment" He said he
expects the subcommittee to refer
his suggestion to the full Judiciary
Committee.
Chairman Donnell of the SUBJ
committee today made public a
telegram from Ernest Goodman
Detroit attorney who represented
the Chrysler plant guards in the
suit in which Mr.. Goodman referred
to the charge against Judge Picard
as "brazen and unwarranted
attack upon the integrity of the
judiciary"
"As attorney who tried the case
for the workers." Mr.. Goodman's S
message read, "I can state that my
impression was that Judge Picard's
numerous observations during the
trial were in most cases favorable
Evening star., 1947-01-21
u. 5. Officials Prepare
For Chinese Outbreaks
III Marine Is Freed
By the Associofed Press

PE1P1NG, Jan. 21-In an at
mosphere so tense that Amer
lean Marine officials predicted
violent anti-American outbreak.
would follow in case of an &C.
quittal, a United States Navy
court tonight deliberated Chi.
nese coed's charges that Marine
Corpl. William G. Pierson twice
assaulted her.
Marine officials said their COM
pounds would be safeguarded imme-
diately and all military personnel
alerted If Pierson is acquitted.
They refused OF name the source
of their information on threatened
outbreaks, but it was understood to
have come from municipal as well
as Peiping National University Of
ficials. Similar threats were made
by university students in Shanghai
Previous Demonstrations.
Three weeks ago the assault
charge was used by Chinese students
in several cities, including Shang-
hal, Nanking and Peiping, as the
springboard for "get out of China
demonstrations and vitriolic insults
against Americans.
1t. Col. John H. Masters of An
derson, S. c., Persons attorney, told
the court the girl, 19-year-old Shen
Chung, made the assault accusation
ito get out of an embarrassing po-
sition in which she had beer
caught"
In his final argument, Col. Mas.
ters said no charge was made unit
the day following the alleged Incl.
dent and mot until after she haC
talked with her brother-in-law."
1t. Col. Paul A. Fitzgerald, thu
Judge advocate (prosecutor) arguee
that the evidence proved Piersor
assaulted the girl and said she "die
all reasonable to manifest her op.
position"
Conviction Demanded.
He demanded conviction on fou
charges, two of criminal assault ant
two of misconduct. They carry, re
Spective maximum sentences of lif,
imprisonment, 20 years and thre,
and six months. plus dishonorabl'
discharge.
Col. Masters argued the co-ed'
testimony was not corroborated anc
that she bore no marks of vic.
lence; that no one, not even Chinese
soldiers and police who testified
they were within 20 feet of the
couple, heard an outcry; that there
were no marks on Pierson, despite
the girls testimony that she strug-
gled three and a half hours.
The court will inform Pierson o1
any charges of which he has been
acquitted-but not any of which
he has been convicted, as is Navy
court-martial custom. Sentences
would not be announced until ap-
proved by higher authorities.
Evening star., 1947-01-21
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Evening star., 1947-01-21

BAY OF WHALES, Antarctica,
Jan. 21.-America's most distant
outpost is rising on the edge of the
Ross Ice Shelf. It is tent city
where $50 Seabees will live for the
next month or two while building
an air strip.
It is nearly seven years since the
American flag flew over any part OF
the far southern continent.
The men are improvising many
conveniences of home or shipboard.
One of the first jobs was to erect
4,00O-cubic refrigerator for
fresh meat. It was made from
blocks saws out of ice.
This natural icebox was made
by four men in II hours, under the
direction of Chief Storekeeper Earl
Kolb, Hagerstown, Md.
Among his aides was Andrew
Trent, Emmitsburg, Md.
Unloading nearly 1000 tons OF
equipment on relatively thin Ice
and hauling it up across an Ice
crevasse and over steep grade to
the safety of the high ice shelf
forming the barrier is a herculean
task. The men work in 12-hou1
shifts through perpetual daylight
to finish before the bay ice breaks
The new settlement IS about 8
miles nearer the shelf edge than the
abandoned Little America camp
now buried feet in solid ice. The
latter will be used as an emergency
camp If it is necessary to leave any
personnel over the winter.
The Seabees' job is very difficult
because of the type of snow they
have to work with. It is like fine
grained dry sand instead of packing
like wet snow. Consequently, it is
impossible to build hard roads for
sledges from the Antarctic snow.
The sledges are drawn by small
snow tractors which are used for all
transportation. Feet sink 6 inches
in the neve, as sand-snow is called,
with every step.
The city will be dismantled en-
tirely when the expedition winds up
its task.
Evening star., 1947-01-21
.CIapp Denies IVA
Ever Had Any Direct
Dealings With Soviet
By tho Assoeioied Press

Gordon r. Clapp, President Tru-
mans nominee for chairman of the
Tennessee Valley Authority, denied
today that iva ever had any direct
dealings with the Russian govern
ment.
The issue arose as the Senate
Public Works Committee opened a
hearing on the nomination of Mr.
Clapp to succeed David Lilienthal
as head Of the power authority.
| With other Senators refusing to
question MIR. Clapp, Senator Nc
Kellar, Democrat, of Tennessee took
over the cross-examination.
Senator Mcclellan read to the
committee a reply by Mr.. Clapp to
a letter from the Senator asking a
series of questions on iva admin
istration.
The Senator said he had received
no reply to his letter of January II
until S pm. yesterday.
No Empl0ye Sent to Russia.
In his reply, dated January 18,
Mr.. Clapp declared IVA had never
sent engineers or other employees to
| Russia.
The authority's only dealing with
the Soviet Union, Mr.. Clapp wrote,
was to design 13 power houses for
Russian dams at the request and ex-
pense of the Treasury Departments
Procurement Division.
Total cost of the work for Russia,
done in 1912, was $452 ,014. Mr.. Clapp
reported, and was paid by the
Treasury.
Mr.. Clapp, now TWAS general
manager, told Senator McKellar in
answer to questions, the power au-
thority was acting under specific
provisions of the IVA Act in setting
up its own civil service, retirement,
flood control and accounting sys-
TENS. F..
Charges Misrepresentation"
Asked by Senator McKellar in the
letter if he would follow IVA policy
of not turning into the United
States Treasury its power receipts,
Mr.. Clapp replied the IVA Act
| P4otAAC0 4oA PdyAACAlv. VI NONCCuo
into the Treasury except such pro-
ceeds =, as shall he necessary
- in operation of dams and res
ervoirs, conducting its business in
=" electric energy and in manu-
featuring fertilizer"
Mr.. Clapp said an estimate of the
Edison Electric Institute, cited by
Senator McKellar, which showed
that IVA operated at loss, was
"a gross misrepresentation of fact.
He sent Senator McKellar a tabu-
lation of iva proceeds and expenses
which, he said, showed that the
Edison Institutes recent estimate
was pure propaganda"
Senator McKellar has repeatedly
attempted to win Senate approval
of a law to require the Authority
to turn over its receipts to the
Treasury Department and then
come to Congress for an appropria-
tion.
Evening star., 1947-01-21
BY the Assoeiaied Press

The Senate Expenditures Com
mittee interested itself today in a
secondhand dress.
Donated by a North Dakota wom-
an in a ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS for
eign relief drive, the dress later was
sold by a mail-order house.
Senator Young, Republican, told
the Senate about the dress yester-
day and said the committee will
investigate.
This is the story of the dress as
related by Dick Forkney, Langdon
N. Oak, publisher, in letter to the
Senator:
Mrs. Lars Midjaas, Fairdale, N
Dak., donated the dress last Janu-
ary, first pinning a note in the
sleeve. The dress then went to a
collection depot at Grand Forks.
Next Mrs. Midjaas received letter
from Elizabeth Ohlhouser, Hazleton,
N. Dak., who said the dress-still
carrying the note-was among 100
used dresses she purchased at 18
Evening star., 1947-01-21
Marshall Statement
Recalls Shermon's
Refusal Of Office
By the A,socioted Press

Gen. George G. Marshall's
fiat statement today that he
''never could be drafted" for
the presidency or other politi-
cal post compares with that
made by William T. Sherman,
Civil War general.
Gen. Sherman was quoted as
having said:
''If nominated I will not ac-
cept. If elected I will not
serve"
No other statement by any
presidential possibility since
has had the ring of finality in
it as that one except one by
Gen. Macarthur in April, 1914,
when after an original remark
regarded by some as equivocal,
the Pacific commander said:
IT request that no action be
taken that would link my name
in any way with the (Republi-
CAM nomination. I do not
covet it nor would I accept it."
Evening star., 1947-01-21
Third of Nine Brooklyn
JuiI-Breukers Caught
By the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Jan. 21.-Anthony
Abbandola, one of nine fellows who
escaped from Brooklyn's ancient
Raymond Street Jail, January 7, was
captured by police in Brooklyn last
night.
The 28-year-old jail-breaker was
picked up by detectives who were
searching Brooklyn Oceanview Sec
ton on the tip that Abbandola was
hiding out there with friends.
He had been convicted of robbery
and was awaiting sentence at the
time of the escape.
To other escapes had been caught
previously, but six still are at large.