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The Nome nugget., 1947-04-07

the army had no operational plans for use of the forces immediately available in case of attack.
 Admiral Chester w. NimitZ chief of naval operations, told the Senate armed forces committee that defense plans have been de- veloped by the joint chiefs of staff and approved by the secretaries of war and navy.
 PattersonS aides said it is safe to assume that not only have such plans been formulated but that, following a long standing custom, they are constantly revised and that the planning is based on as
The Nome nugget., 1947-04-07
Army Developing Defensive Warfare
(BY Elton C. FaY)

WASHINGTON, (P)-The army has plans ready for deploying its troops and planes to fight the first phase of a defensive war, highly placed war department officials said today.
 This statement was made in re- ply to questions about testimony by Secretary of War Patterson be- fore Congressional committees in the last several weeks that the armed services have no overall plan for national defense
 Officials who work with the sec retary said his reference was to coordinated planning for the whole military establishment - army, navy and air - including plans for mobilization of the na- tion's industrial and manpower re- sources and laws for unified oper- ation of the services.
 He did not intend to convey the idea officials told a reporter, that
The Nome nugget., 1947-04-07
Monday. April ?. l947
Huks Escape POliceC Gordon


 MANILA (P)-A member of the Hukbalahap armed peasants said Saturday that nearly 2,000 Huks surrounded by Philippine military police on Mount Arayat slipped through the government cordon to safety.
 The source denied a report that Hukbalahap leader Luis Taruc narrowly escaped capture on the central Luzon volcano. The Huks were well-informed of military po- lice plans and Taruc left several days before the cordon was com plete, the source said.
 The Hukbalahaps, wart m e guerrillas who now demand ag- rarian reforms, have refused gov ernment orders to turn in their arms.
The Nome nugget., 1947-04-07
NEVADA HAS PARORAM MOVIES

Don Cross of the Nevada Bar stated today, that beginning tomOr- row, the huge panoram movie ma chine which was recently set Up will be in operation.
The Nome nugget., 1947-04-07
BADMINTON TO BE DISCONTINUED

The Arctic Club has announced that badminton will be discontin- ued for the balance of the season.
The Nome nugget., 1947-04-07
MRS. PARKER OF CAMBEI ARRIVED IN NOME

The Presbyterian missionary at Gambel, Mrs. Parker, came to town last week for medical atten- ton.
 many possible forms of attack by as many potential enemies as can be logically assumed.
 However, they added, these plans must be considered as only field plans" for the use of men, guns, ships and planes ready at the time of attack.
Evening star., 1947-08-23
Pioneering in Space

Amazing as was the record breaking
speed attained by Commander Turner
Caldwell in the Navys latest Jet plane, the
D-55S Skystreak, the prospect is that his
feat will not long remain unduplicated or
unexcelled. Things are moving SO fast on
the air speed front these days that records
are being made and broken with bewilder-
ing rapidity.
1t was only little more than month
ago that Colonel Al Boyd of the Army was
being hailed as the worlds hottest" jet
pilot He broke all existing speed records
at that testing ground for fast flyers, the
Muroc Army Dir Base in California. Com
mander Caldwell, gladly taking vacation
from his hated paper work at the Navy
Department, now has hung up new
record of 6407 miles an hour over the same
course. And the Navy thinks its we'll
named Skystreak is capable Of even greater
speeds.
To push the plane further is not just
simple matter Of giving the gun to the
ship for all she Is worth, however. The
Evening star., 1947-08-23

American citizens: not merely citizens but
Americans in their country's uniform. The
commanding general nearest the scene has
written sharp notes" and gotten not so much
as an acknowledgment
When another nation can treat American mil
itary personnel in such cavalier fashion, Is it
to be wondered that it likewise has little respect
for our diplomatic leadership in international
matters?
There was all era when the Russian Ambas-
sador would have spent a bad 10 minutes at
the White House within "a hours after such an
occurrence; and action would have been taken
quietly and effectively, that would quickly have
registered in Moscow.
But that was before the advent of "appease-
ment," preserving the delicate diplomatic
picture" and notewriting. Twice in a quarter
century note writing has taken us, note by note,
into wars.
The big stick (and it wasn't military big
stick at that didn't take us into war, but 1t
entitled us to considerable respect. Isn't It
about time our top officials were oriented in how
to use 1t again? PAUL EDWARDS.
Evening star., 1947-08-23

papers. That the Yangtze Development Cor
poration and other corporations had violated
the import regulations was also denied by DR..
Hollington Tong at his press conference in
Marking on August 6, quoting the official re-
lease of the Ministry of Finance of August /,
that no article was imported into China by the
said corporations in contrayention of import
regulations. Recent investigations of import
figures show that these firms actually handled
only 141o of Chinas total imports.
Col. Allen reported that the Nationalist
Army in Shanghai is "levying tribute on
every bushel Of rice entering Shanghai. This
is refuted by official information Just received
from Mayor K c. WI of Shanghai, that all
rice and cereals entering Shanghai are free
OF all duties and taxes. The only levy on them
Is wharf due to defray the cost Of the i'm
provement work on the Whangpoo River.
Col. Allen also referred to the alleged "loot-.
ing and spoilage" of large quantities of UNRRA
supplies, giving an estimate by "UNRRA
authorities that less than $50 of UNRRA
rehef supplies has reached the interior of
China. But, according to UNRRA authorities
IN washington, up to June 80 of this wear,
1850 OF the relief supplies received by the
Shanghai Depot and 98.29o of the supplies re-
ceived by the Kowloon Depot were distributed
10 regional ofi1ces which in turn, as of June 7,
had distributed ss% to secondary regional
warehouses in the interior for distribution to
end-users. I am sure these figures easilv can
oe confirmed at the headquarters of IJNRRE
B. A. LIU,
Director, Chinese News Service
Evening star., 1947-08-23

speed attained by Commander Cald al
was perilously close to that of sound, which
means that by stepping up the rate few
miles an hour more, his plane would have
encountered that mysterious air-wall
which so far has been barrier to faster
than-sound flight in planes. The flyers
who venture close to this trans-sonic
frontier are pioneers in the fullest sense
The man who first succeeds in crossing
the frontier and lives to tell about it will
have achieved more than a newsworthy
and historic exploit. He will have paved
the way for others to come after him.
first probably in new types of jet planes
and later in that much faster space ship,
the rocket An article in Golfers discloses
that by next year the Navy will be ready
to launch the Neptune, rocket expected
to ascend at peak rate of more than
five thousand miles an hour.
In such a ship man some day will smile
at today's brave efforts to pierce the sound
wall, as he looks forward toward other
alluring goals. There seems to be no
barrier forbidding enough to discourage
him from carrying his explorations into
space to the ultimate degree.
Evening star., 1947-08-23
In Foirness to Career Employees

The stern measures being taken by the
Civil Service Commission in an effort to
find jobs for displaced career employees OF
the Government are fully warranted. From
all reports there has been continued re-
luctance on the part of some departmental
officials to cooperate in the program. IL
is evident from csc figures that the Varl-
Gus agencies have been deliberately 1gnor-
ing csc policies and regulations designed
to give long time, regular employees priority
over war service employees as to job
security.
Congress established this priority in the
Veterans Preference Act. This act re-
quired that regular employees OF the old
line departments should be the last class
of nonveteran employees to be displaced
by veterans claiming preference under pro-
visions of the statute. The commission
subsequently ruled that this general policy
should be applied in principle In easing
the blows of the congressional economy
AK 1t properly held not only that war
service employees should be the first to be
fired, but that such employees should be
displaced to make room for career en-
ployes from other agencies who were left
without jobs by appropriation cuts.
While this program for the benefit of
valued and faithful workers has been car
ried out with reasonable promptitude in
field organizations, the personnel authori-
ties in Washington have been rather un-
enthusiastic The best indication OF this
apathy here is the fact that although more
than four thousand displaced regular en-
ployes have been given jobs in field Offices
since last March, less than two hundred
have been re-employed in local Offices.
Yet there are more than fifty thousand
war r-service employees still on the job In
Washington. Meanwhile, approximately
fifteen hundred experienced, highly ca
pable men and women, many OF whom
have spent fifteen or twenty years in eff
cient Federal service, have been off the
payroll for weeks or months. 1t is small
wonder if some of them are confused and
embttered by this apparent ingratitude
and callousness of their Government.
The csc move to force warservice en-
ployes off the rolls to make way for the
disillusoned old-liners is drastic, but the
situation requires drastic steps. The COM
mission seeks to force compliance by ar
ranging to stop the pay Of certain war
service workers selected for replacement
by regular employees. There Is no doubt
as to its authority to take such measures,
and the end justifies the means. The COM
mission, as matter of fact, may not have
to carry it's breakdown program very far.
The probability is that once the depart
ments understand that the commission
means business, the local apathy toward
the re unemployment program will disappear
Evening star., 1947-08-23
Red Plot Against Trujillo?

The Dominican governments formal re-
quest that an international commission in
vestigate its charge that armed Commu-
nists plan to invade the republic from
Cuba raises to the diplomatic level con-
troversy hitherto cloaked in mystery.
For several weeks, rumors have been
flying about the Caribbean that an Inter
national Brigade" built around Communist
veterans Of the Spanish civil war, but also
including party members from various
Latin American countries, vas being as
sembled for an invasion of the Dominican
Republic and the overthrow of the govern
ment headed by General Rafael Trujillo.
Those rumors all pointed to Cuba as the
base from which this novel type of fill
clustering was to be launched. Yet diligent
sleuthing by alert newsmen and airplane
reconnoiterings failed to disclose the ex-
istence of the rumored Red base.
Lack of positive evidence, however, does
not exclude the possibility of its existence.
The long coasts of Cuba and adjacent keys,
much of it primitive country, afford
many hideaways where bands of men could
effectively conceal themselves, especially
with the connivance of the local authori-
ties. 1t is known that communism is strong
in Cuba, particularly at it's wilder east end.
At any rate, the Dominican government re-
Gently made the specific charge that such
a Red base existed in Cuba and that the
Cuban government was not investigating
the matter as it should The present Do
minican pronouncement sharpens the is
sue, and will probably be carried before
the current Inter american Conference in
Brazil
President Trujillo and his government
have long been on the black books of Com
munists, radicals and left-wingers gener-
ally as Fascist dictatorship" This, in
Communist jargon, means a. regime in
which radical agitation is summarily
squelched. That is the root of its Offend
ing, in radical eyes.
In the present instance the domestic
character of the Trujillo regime is some
what beside the point. Charges of its au-
thoritarian and oppressive character prob
ably are true but that does not excuse
or palliate an attempt to overthrow it BY
Communist revolutionary tactics which, If
successful, would merely replace one type
OF dictatorship by another.
Evening star., 1947-08-23
Not the Proper Yurdstick

Ine department. OF commerce has
taken proper pains to see that the public
is not misled by the latest production
figures, just released. The production re-
port shows that the Nations output of
goods and services during the second
quarter Of this year was stepped up to
reach an alltime record annual rate of
two hundred and twenty-six billions of
dollars That total is four billions higher
than the previous wartime record attained
during the first quarter Of 1s45.
Of hand. that would seem to be very
encouraging production feat for country
struggling to reconvert from a wartime
to peacetime production basis. But there
Is Joker in the figures. The increase,
department. officials point out, is largely
an increase in dollar values not in actual
volume OF goods produced. In other words,
the declining value OF the dollar has
seriously affected its reliability as q yard
stick for sales Of manufactured products
or Of services.
Even judged by the inflated dollar
measuring rod. some types of production
fell of during the second quarter of 1947.
Investment In new construction, for ex-
ample, dropped billion dollars from the
nrst-quarter total of ten and half billion
dollars. And inventory accumulation de-
clined materially. However, the average
person continued to spend his money
faster, despite the growing evidence that
ne was getting less for his money than
ever. The spending spree was accompanied
by only moderate" wage and salary rises
In industry during the three month period.
In this connection 1t is significant that
individual savings dropped as the spend
ing rose.
Further complicating the domestic SUM-
ply problem was the fact that exports for
the second quarter amounted to twice the
dollar total for the last quarter of 1946.
The exports may decline. however, if
Europe's economic troubles continue to
grow worse. Any immediate advantage
gained by the American consumer would
be more than offset, however, by the long
run blow to industry of collapse of for
eign trade. The prospect is that goods
WILL continue to be scarce for an indefinite
period-and prices are likely to distort
production total figures as long as todav's
inhationary trends are present
Evening star., 1947-08-23
Aggression Is Aggression

The attempt by the Argentine delegation
two standards of aggression in the Western
Hemisphere is wholly without merit and
should be firmly rejected.
Argentina derees that the nations of
this hemisphere should act collectively
to repel aggression from the outside. But
the Argentines are not willing to apply
the same principle to aggression within
the hemisphere. They say that if one
American nation should attack its neigh
Dor, settlement should be sought only
by peaceful means. In other words, they
would deny to the nations of the hemi-
sphere the right to act collectively against
an aggressor from within their own ranks.
The lack OF logic in such proposal is
self evident, yet it cannot be assumed that
the Argentines are merely being illogical.
There must be a reason behind this effort
to shield aggression within the hemisphere
from concerted military counter action,
and the reason will seem obvious to that
not inconsiderable number of people who
still suspect the Peron government of
entertaining aggressive designs on its
neighbors.
This may do an injustice to the Argen-
tine government. 1t seems highly improb-
able that Argentina, which is not strong
military power, would run the risk of
launching an aggressive war against any
of its neighbors. The fact remains, how
ever, that the proposal which has been
made at Rio can be interpreted as point
ing to design on the part of the Argen-
tine government to establish legal basis
on which it might attack weaker neigh
Dor with impunity. And no agreement
coming out of Rio which sanctioned, or
seemed to sanction, such a possibility
would be worth putting into effect
After all, aggression is aggression, and
there can be no valid distinction between
an American aggressor and an aggressor
from outside the hemisphere. If Argen-
tina does not contemplate aggression it has
nothing to fear from an agreement to take
common action against any aggressor.
And the best way for Argentina to convince
her Western Hemisphere neighbors that
she does not harbor some unstated aggres-
Sive aim would be to withdraw this pro-
posal
If she does not withdraw it, however,
then 1t Is imperative that the other ma
tions reject the proposal. For the Amer
ican nations cannot possibly subscribe to
two standards Of aggression, and then ask
the rest of the world to believe either in
their good faith or their good intentions.
Evening star., 1947-08-23
Letters to The Star
Readers Take Stand Against New Women's Styles and
Demand Effective Tax Relief
Veteran Writes About Housing Need

Veteran Writes About Housing Need
To the Editor Of The Star:
Your column is an outlet for me to air some
pent-up thoughts on the housing situation. I
also want to find out what others think along
these lines and perhaps out of it all may come
concrete suggestions.
I have spent five months of searching for
place for myself and family to live. am on
every Federal housing list in the area and
have been for over seven months. I am at
tending engineering school during the day. so
that my time for house hunting is confined to
evenings and week ends when am not work.
ing
Yes I have located several apartments that
will accept children at $13O to 5000 month.
But how can I pay such rents on $50 subsis-
tence? Other than thosesplaces the usual re-
ply is: 1--WE 90 not take children or pets"
have written to my Congressman. He re-
ferred me to the deputy director, general
field Office, Federal Public Housing Authority.
The latter writes: "It is regrettabe that there
is not al adequate supply of housing to &C
commodate the large number of servicemen
and veterans who like yourself, are in need of
places to live" When the Federal Public Hous-
ing Authority and Congress, too, for that mat
ter, admit that the situation is regrettable theH
think 1t is time for something constructive to
be done
This problem of housing did not arise over
night. 1t has been with us since VI dayA And
has been getting worse
We do not need public housing admins-
traitor just to keep lists of applicants and to
notify applicants when some one moves out of
Federal housing. That is elementary. We
need some person or organization to tackle this
national problem and do something to relieve
the situation.
lean have to be re-educated to the fact that
we fought for something very dear to all of us
in 1941-1s45. They gave us the CT Bill, which
is great help to many, myself included But
what good is all that if we cannot have homes
in which to raise children?
F. GEORGE DUNHAM, Jr.
Evening star., 1947-08-23
Tax Relief Through Politics


So President Truman is now Dragging how
he and his fellow bureaucrats successfully pre-
vented the Republicans from reducing the OUT
rageous expenditures Of this administration by
more than one and one-half billions-mere
chickenfeed. What victory to brag about!
OF course. 1t is well known that the entire
effort of the administration has been exerted
to prevent the Republicans from reducing ex-
penditures. Practically every Government
agency whose budget was cut complained and
plenty Of the taxpayers money was spent con-
trary to law, to pressure Congress to restore
every cut
The President also insists at this time that
taxes must not be reduced, even next year, but
politics doubtless will change his mind shortly
before the election. Evidently, the President
thinks that the public loves to pay taxes and
to have the New Deal bureaucrats spend the
money as fast as it comes in. This merely goes
to show that the only way available to the
voters to have their taxes reduced is to oust
the entire New Deal from the top down.
can scarcely wait! HENRY c. PARKER.
Evening star., 1947-08-23
This and That
BIZ Charles E. TrdceUeI

How to get really dry, after bath, in hot,
sticky weather. was the problem put up to
Templeton Jones.
He had an answer for this one as usual
Jones is an odd fellow. with an unusual fund
of information, most of 1t on commonplace
subjects.
He is seldom at a loss to tell you how to do
things, because he has experimental, himself.
As for this bath business, Templeton Jones
is an old-time bather who gets as much
kick out OF his tub as some people do from the
ocean.
The harnessing of river and the bring
ing of it straight to the modern home is
something that has never been praised enough.
according to Jones.
But even the most complete bath cannot
show one how to really get dry in muggy
weather.
So the man who wanted to know finally put
1t up to Jones.
That's easy" said that worthy.
TITS all matter Of towels.
Most people, even the afluent ones, don't
use enough towels.
They have en- inferiority complex, when
1t comes to dragging em out Of the closet.
Just because the old folks used one towel,
or at most two, for bath, they do the same,
or, in cases Of extreme daring, require three.
The man who asks for four probably will
be thrown out of the house.
yet really good drying job cannot be done
In one Of these hot sticky summers with any
such paucity of toweling.
"A man needs four, to start with
The second section of my own drying
process calls for at least two more towels.
I'm most households this would point
squarely to wasteful man.
The ladies, 1t appears, are not at all waste
ful. They dry, or at least pretend to dry, in
dainty manner on one or two towels
If had to wash them, 7 am told, maybe
/ wouldn't use so many, but that is beside the
point.
The point is simply to get dry Ordinarily,
especially in winter when the heat is on, there
Is no trouble. One may use fewer towels.
But in this soggy summertime, no sooner
has one gotten out of the shower and dried,
than perspiration breaks out again.
That is precisely where my system comes
in," continued Templeton Jones.
Il am like Father, in Days book, who
wanted plenty of ice. want plenty of towels,
not only to begin drying with, but, more i'm
portant, to end with.
This is the way do it:
Il use one towel for my feet and lower
legs, one for back and arms, one for the rest
Of me, and then the fourth one to finish up
with.
Then I start to perspire again, and here is
what I do:
Il take at least two more towels-big ones
and sometimes three and retire to the bed
room, where I spread out one of the towels
crosswise on the bed
"On this I lower myself to the supine posi-
tion-back down, face up-and apply the
second towel very calmly.
mo haste, my friends. Just rub lightly, and
then repose, with towel held in allegiance.
Now count slowly, as photographers do. one
and, two-and, three-and, and so on, for 60
full counts. Then start over again, and
keep on until one has dried.
IN tha fnripht O0Siti0O and
gently apply the towel to the back.
You are dry at last!
How long will you stay dry?
@That, my friend. is another question en-
tirely All can do is get you dry. can't keep
you that way-not In Washington summer. /"