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thus obtain vital bases in Spitz-
bergen and Iceland for q strike
against this country.
Russia may strike in Iran and
expand later toward the oil fields
in Saudi Arabia and Iraq. which
our top war planners consider vital
to any global operations in which
they may find themselves involved
Reports From Siberia
Finally. Russia may decide to re
cover" Alaska. For the last few
months there has been persistent
propaganda from the Moscow-con-
trolled radio stations in the U. S.
S. r. to the effect that the Amer
lean Government obtained Alaska
by trickery from the venal and cor
rupt CzariSt administration. But
what is more important. Washing
ton has positive information from
a number of persons who have
escaped from Siberia that there is
an important concentration of para
troopers and aircraft of all types
in the eastern extremity of Siberia
The Bear and Ayon Islands in the
Siberian Sea, hitherto uninhabited,
now are believed to have been trans
formed into military bases, while
larger Wrangel Island, formerly
populated by only few fishermen,
has become an important airbase
within easy striking distance of the
Alaskan peninsula.
Important military work also is
being done in the Kurile Islands,
which were handed to the U. S. S. R.
The modern Japanese war plants
in Manchuria were moved lock,
stock and barrel to Siberia, where
they are now working overtime to
supply war equipment to the large
Soviet force in Eastern Siberia as
well as the reorganized japanese
kwantung army.
Provocative Attitude
This is only a sketchy picture of
what the information received by
the Joint Chiefs of Staff reveals. It
was only by difficult and dangerous
work, in which some of recent AL
lies participated, that we have been
able to obtain such information.
We still know little about the true
Soviet industrial potential, except
that about 30 per cent of the fac
tories are working for war prepara-
tion. We know almost as little about
the real efficiency of the new Soviet
Army and particularly the air force,
which during World War II was
considered far below par.
What little information we have,
however, takes on more meaning
when we add to- It the provocative
attitude of the Politburo.
All doubtful characters, such as
the able Marshal Georgi Zhukov,
have been removed from places of
direct responsibility because they
were suspected of having become in
fected with western ideas"
Our minded brass" can
not possibly refuse to give the
necessary warning to the executive
and legislative branches of the gov
ernment when they are convinced
by facts that our most pampered
Ally in the last war is about ready
to jump us.
There is no longer any doubt in
their minds that war with Russia
is question OF when" rather than
If"
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before going to the ETO, was hit in
the stomach.
For several minutes, few men
were standing; prisoners tried to
hide behind the inadequate cover
on the few acres of ground. Then
curiosity got the best of prudence.
Several of the more reckless began
risking glances around the corners
of barracks. Few were hit and
courage grew with curiosity. Thou
sands gradually appeared from hid
ing and sought the roofs of bar
racks or other points that offered
an unobstructed view of the battle
beyond the locked gates.
SIS men were retreating through
the fields along the road leading into
Moosburg from the north. Ameri-
can tanks were spearheading the
drive against them. Occasionally
a trench mortar was brought into
action. To the prisoners, the battle
was unreal, movie battle between
figures tiny with distance in the
April sunshine.
The unreality was increased when
prisoners noticed their German
guards appearing from camp head
quarters, marching in precise mill
tary order and carrying white flags.
No one enjoyed that scene more
than the Air Corps men who
had been evacuated from Sagan.
"Goldie," the gold-toothed Haupt-
mann who led the formation, had
commanded their camp at Sagan
and taunted them with stories of
his two wives in Vienna. The Air
Corps began getting its revenge.
Don't be easy on 'em, Goldie.
Clamp down on them boys in the
tanks" Yes. junior, you may be
excused" Want me to carry a
message to your mistresses, Goldie
tell 'em you'll be a little late9"
SIS Fires on Own Men
All the while the little group,
suddenly transformed in the eyes
Of the prisoners they had dominated
so long, marched silently and
methodically toward one of the
camp gates, opened 1t, and walked
out. That was a mistake. Some
Of them fell from SIS fire.
In the meantime the battle was
moving past the camp gate toward
Moosburg. Shots from embittered
SIS men sprinkled the camp and q
(see LIBERAT1ON Page CAD
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the pine forests as two P-51s rushed
in to share the show. Roaring over
the tops of barracks and tents. they
snapped into victory rolls.
Every one was now certain that
friends we're close, but suddenly the
camp hysteria frightened as men
remembered their doubts as to what
would happen when the retreating
IS reached the camp. Staccato
bursts of machine-gun fire told
them that they would soon know
Heavy firing broke out barely be-
yond the gates Of the camp, and
there was a mad rush for cover. A
captain from Louisiana, who had
been On the Doolittle, raid on Tokyo
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Greeley. Colo. was the first man in
one part OF the camp to hear the
roar of a small plane motor. D
if that doesn't sound like a Piper
Cub" he almost screamed. AL over
the camp other aircraft identifica-
tion experts obviously thought the
same thing. Waves of uproar surged
and died as men yelled, Shut up
and listen, you fools!" Even the
old kriegies couldn't quen the ex-
cltement.
Every American in the camp be-
came hysterical when, over the Ba-
yarian evergreens surrounding the
camp, chugged the little American
craft every combat CT
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dence in the story that McGuffy
made that statement about Patton's
forces-or that American forces
were nearby, even if McGuffy had
handed out that information.
That did not stop the men from
gathering in whispering huddles
around the "kriegy burners" the
tiny stoves fashioned from tin cans
through which air was forced by
a hand-cranked propeller to get
the utmost from scraps Of wood
and paper, and heat water for weak
coffee.
Paul Sumner, a bombardier from
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fourth-grade geography student.
Few of them could conceive of
liberation; virtually all were pes
simists.
That was partly because the old
"kriegies" dominated the camp.
Years of life behind barbed wire had
taught them the secrets of turning
tin cans into everything from tools
and utensils to weapons and radio
parts. They had learned how to
make German rations edible and to
turn Red Cross food into diminutive
banquets, so they received the
respect the veteran generally gets
from the novice.
These men who knew all Of the
tricks of survival and ruled the
camp, had learned to shy away from
optimism. They had "sweated out"
each victory and reverse of the war
from North Africa through Bas-
togne. Hopes had risen frequently.
only to be shattered. Air Corps
officers, who made up half of the
American prisoners, had listened to
the thudding of Russian guns less
than 20 miles from their former
camp at Sagan, then were evacuated
through blizzard to the even worse
camp at Moosburg. Infantrymen,
including Gen. Patton's son-in-law
Col. Waters, were liberated from
their camp near Heidelberg by an
armored force of the Sd Army,
but the spearhead was cut off and
all but the wounded. like Col
Waters. were evacuated to Noes
burg.
Men Refused to Hone
These men knew l..v dlsmay
overwhelms when h1pes are de-
stroyed, so they refused to let them
selves hope. Instead they readily
believed the rumors that they faced
another evacuation-this time into
he Alps near Salzburg. They
rengthened their belief with the
report that politically important
prisoners like 1t. John c. Winant.
jr.; Viscount George Laceiles,
nephew of King George VI; Capt.
Lord John Buller-Fullerton- -Elphin-
stone, nephew of Queen Elizabeth,
and 1t. Felix du Hamel, a relative
Of Winston Churchill, already had
been moved into that area.
So, in spite of the excitement that
April 2s, no "kr1egy" was willing
to admit that he placed any ere
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knew. 1t was in those mad moments
that the fences started going down
in spite of the German guards.
The little plane few over the
camp wagging its wings. The pilot
didn't seem worried about gas, so
the line couldn't be more than a
few miles away.
Over 100000 voices roared up to-
ward the little craft as the excite
ment of the Americans swept
through the camp, inf1aming men
Of other nations who had never
seen Cub before.
Then z powerful roar shattered
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Liberation in the Day Beyond Which No One Planned

Editors note: The author, an
Air Force Navigator in World War
II, landed in Stalag VIA in 3D.
Daria and WoS liberated BY the
nduance OF Gen. Patton's forces.
He is currently associate editor
OF Rural Electrifcution Mnga-
eine and liDes in Arlington, Va.)
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f1stful of trumps which a state trade
monopoly can take into competitive
world markets?
These questions. so vital to ma
tions whose foreign trade can mean
the difference between welfare and
poverty-order and chaos-have
been raised anew by an expert on
international trade. They loom up
at a time when the non Communist
part of the world is in a critical
period of flux-into an unknown
future.
Consults Russian Sources
TIE European Recovery
Program is being launched.
=. The United States Congress
must decide by mid-June whether to
renew the 1884 Reciprocal Trade
Agreements Act-America's biggest
effort to unclog the channels of
global commerce and the flow of
goods to all who would buy.
.. Congress also must decide
whether TO ratify the charter, writ
ten at Havana, of the new Inter-
national Trade Organization.
-. So must the majority Of the
Parliaments of IS other signatory
nations.
Russia Is not among these. Just
what Russia can and will do-if she
chooses-to thwart such a program
is a question explored in some
detail by j. M. Letiche of the De-
partment of Economics at the Uni
versity of California.
In a study soon to be published
by the Carnegie Foundation for
international Peace, Mr.. Letiche
consults Russian sources for hints
Of what is to come.
They are not encouraging. They
add up to this:
To Soviet Russia, foreign trade is
just another part of the state trad
ing monopoly, the purpose of which
is to further the chronological and
industrial development OF the Soviet
Union.
Another Serious Question
Mr.. Letiche's study, entitled Re
ciprocal Trade Agreements in the
World Economy" lists the question
of Soviet sabotage-or- cooperation
as only one of several critical prob
Elens-political and economic-which
must be solved II the world is to
live In peace.
Another Is the need to make the
Havana trade charter work. This
lneans-among other things-over-
taking the complex system of bilat-
eral trade pacts which have grown
up in postwar Europe. Mr.. Letiche
finds that there are 113 of these
pacts out of a possible 23l combi-
nations.
Another serious question is the
willingness of the United States tc
buy abroad at the same time il
seeks to sell, thus giving other
countries the necessary dollar bal
ance to pay for American exports.
The answer to this question may
emerge in the congressional debate!
over renewal of the 1884 Reciprocal
Trade Agreements Act.
Mr.. Letiche devotes chapter
however, to this question: Car
trade relations between diverse
economies be reconciled?" 1t may
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Military Leaders Admit
Mounting Danger Signs
Joint Chiefs of Staff Convinced Russians
Plan to Use Force if Political Ways
Fail to Conquer Western Europe
By Constantine Brown

When Gen Omar Bradley told executive
Armed Forces Committee that he
be away he
ion experienced soldier the
also the views all torankng
who have been dealing with the Russian problem
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Soviet Trade Monopoly
Part of Economic War
Russia's Stake in Foreign Commerce Now Is
Relatively Small, But Gould Develop
Into homeopathic Weapon
By jones D. White

BERKELEY. cafWhat kind power
state trade monopoly bring to the cold
Is adaptable to saboagng the
declared OF which
Rssias current stake foreign
just how potent that stake become
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1948-04-26
BRITISH ROYALTY
HAS ANNIVERSARY
AS CROWDS CHEER

LONDON, April 26-lR-K n g
George vi and Queen Elizabeth,
whose domesticity has endeared
them to home-loving Britons, cele-
Grated their 25th wedding anniver-
sary today amid Empire-wide re-
joicing.
AS congratulations poured in from
far-oft dominions, London plunged
into the biggest display of Royal
pageantry since Princess Elizabeth
married Philip last November.
From early morning thousands
streamed into the capital to watch
the Royal Family drive in state from
Buckingham Palace to st. Paul's
Cathedral for national service OF
thanksgiving.
Flags of virtually all nations deck
ed the silver bridal path where
thousands waited to cheer their
rulers.
Two 41-gun salutes signalled the
start Of the procession.
Radiant with happiness, Queen
Elizabeth acknowledged the cheers
with white-gloved hand.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1948-04-26
STASSEN
In FIGHT
In OREGON
Makes Bid for Preferential
Vote-Re Hot P0Iiti-
cal News Given
BY JACK BELL

Harold E. Stassen pressed his bid
in Oregon today for the Republican
preferential vote, at start of another
cusy week of national political par
leying.
The Presidential aspirant said at
Portland last night he was enthu-
siastic over his prospects, twelve ma
tionaI convention delegates are at
take, with Governor Dewey of New
York his opponent. He will return
east tomorrow and. Governor Dewey
will arrive in oregon May l for a
Today tour.
Stassen also takes time out this
week from his Ohio battle with Sen
ator Robert A. Taft to bid openly
or the backing of New Jerseys 81
delegates to the COP national con-
vention.
Senator H. Alexander Smith said
Stassen's visit is part of plan tc
BRING all of the Republican Presi-
Dental possibilities in for talks with
his states unpledged delegates.
The across the-counter bidding
for New Jerseys support seemed
likely to have no counterpart ir
,ither Pennsylvania or Massachu-
sets, where COP convention dele
cations will be chosen in primaries
somorrow.
Pennsylvania 70 notes.-the tast-
lest plum outside of New York-will
be unpledged, but behind Senator
edward Martin as a fayorite son or
the early ballots.
Massachusetts Republicans will
lex 35-member delegation due tc
support Senator Leverett Saltonstall
IN the first vote. House Speaker Jo-
ieph w. Martin is reported in line
FOR backing if he develops IS g
.arkhorse candidate, with senator
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr in the
BACKGROUND as another possibility
Rhode Island Republicans pick
eight delegates at a convention to-
day.
Dewey's hackers bia at a state
meeting today for sweep of the
Oklahoma delegation. They already
have cinched several district dele
ate posts.
In husy political week, Delaware
and New Mexico Republicans will
choose delegations wednesday, Ten
aessee and Mississippi Friday, ano
Missouri and Colorado Saturday. BY
then TIT of the 1904 COP conven-
ton delegates will have been cho-
sen.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1948-04-26
ALEUTIAN HERE TODAY;
TAKES n TO SEATTLE

The Aleutian locked in Juneau
from Seward at $3.50 O'Clock this
morning with seven passengers for
here and sailed at 11:15 o'clock for
Seattle with "a persons. Passengers
were as follows.
From Seward. Mrs. Edna Land
and family, Miss Dorothy Morgan.
Robert E. Sheldon and C. A. Smith.
From Valdez: Connie Palmer.
To Seattle: Mrs. j. A. Werner,
Rub Erickson, P. r. Hamp, Anna
Stewart, Mrs. W. ]. Perry, Virginia
Hutte, Mr.. and Mrs Ted Philip and
son, A. w. Beerli and family, Clar-
ence Walker, Helen Meyers, B. w.
Lueter, Bernie Acheson, K. A. Men
arc, S. w. Lane. L. A. Kippenham,
Thomas j. Dugan and F. A. Valen-
tine.
To Ketchikan: Charles Kuipple
and Margaret Butt.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1948-04-26
CHARGES ARE MADE
IN PRESENT STRIKE
ON BOEING COMPANY

SEATTLE, April 26.-R,-A back
to-work" drive got under way today
at the strike-idled Boeing Airplane
Company, but officials of the Aero
nautical Mechanics Union Qnd)
predicted the effort would be "fu-
tile"
The strike, affecting $4,000 work.
ers, now is in its fifth day. 1t is an
outgrowth of union demands for a
wage increase of 80 cents an hour
and eight paid holidays.
The company launched its drive
in newspaper advertisements charg-
ing THAT two-thirds of the striking
workers did not vote for the walkout.
The strike vote was taken in May
1947 when, the company said, less
than one-third of the unions pre-
sent membership was employed at
Boeing.
At the same time, William M. AL
len, company President, dropped a
not too-veiled hint that the firm
might move its key bomber factories
in oraer to restore production.
"Bocing is going to continue to
build planes" he declared, IF not
in Seattle, then somewhere else
He declined to amplify the state
ment.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1948-04-26
- FROM ANCHORAGE
WITH pAC. NORTHERN

Thirteen passengers arrived in Ju-
neau from Anchorage by Pacific
Northern flights over the weekend
as follows:
From Anchorage. George Schmidt,
George Matson, Harry Munson Mar
tin Rigney and wife, L. A. Kippen-
han, X. j. Sommers, Vernon Joyer
Peggy Holbrook, William Hilbert.
Title Hilbert, A. A. Lyon and c. A.
Sandeii.
From Yakutat: v. Vale and child.
e. Vale. Wayne Axelson and family.
To Cordova. C. II. Kiel.
To Anchorage: Fred Garrison,
George. Root. c. Watson. Archie
Jenkins, Bob Hawke, william Har-
ris. j. Lying. Gus Anderson, Ted Is
realson F. Fuller Tom Mortar. O.
H. Mcdonald. Adolph Hirsch.
". Holstrom. Harry Nygard. d.
Craig, H. C. Newman, Rufus Big
nell. Cecil Mattson. M Holmstrom.
H Burg, o. Wick. M Peterson, Mel
Lackin, M. Black, AL Anderson, j.
Martinson and II. Evevold.
Thirteen men were flown to Ko-
diak for cannery work.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1948-04-26
Will Fight
Fish Trap
Licensing

WASHINGTON, April 26.-tR-
Delegate Bartlett of Alaska said to-
day Alaska will continue to fight
all legislation to license fish traps
in the Territory.
He made the statement after read
ing report of joint Houses Senate
Fisheries Committee recommending
no licensing legislation be enacted
this year. The committee proposed,
however, that legislation defining
the governments position on fish
traps in Territorial waters be even
tually enacted.
Bartlett said the position of the
committee and of the Interior De-
partment supports that of the sal
mon packers and is contrary to sug-
gestions of Alaskans.
There is no basic reason at all
why Alaskans themselves should not
have control over this basic re-
course Bartlett said, "the recon-
mendations of the committee, If
adopted, will perpetuate Federal
absentee control. 1t demonstrates. the
terrific odds faced by Alaskans in
trying to overcome absentee govern
ment and absentee industry
Bartlett added he will oppose any
attempt to enact legislation licens-
ing fish traps. He said Alaskans
should have control over their natur-
al resources and. by next year they
will have a chance to express them
selves on the subject
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1948-04-26
NAzI 5AB0TEUR5
FREE OF PRISON
RETURN, GERMANY

WASHINGTON, April %. ~
Ernest p. Burger and George John
Dascl. convicted Nazi saboteurs
who landed from submarines on the
east coast in June, 1912, have been
freed from prison and allowed to re-
turn to Germany.
The White House said today that
President Truman approved JUS
tice Department recommendation
for clemency for the two men. They
were taken to Germany under Army
custody and will be permitted to live
in the American occupation zone
under conditions imposed by the
commanding general.
Burger and Dasch were among
eight men rounded up by the FBI
as saboteurs put ashore from subs
with instructions to cripple Ameri-
can war industries
They were tried by military COM
mission and all were convicted. Six
were executed.
President Roosevelt cut death sem
fences for Burger and Dasch to i'm
prisonment because they gave in
formstion on the details OF the con-
spiracy. Burger got life imprison-
ment and Dasch 80 years.
They had served approximately
five years and seven months oil
their sentences.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1948-04-26
Many Meet Death
Over Weekend in
Northwest, Canada
(By The Associated Press

Two small boats capsized in the
Vancouver, B. c. harbor and al
Lake Goodwin, north of Marys-
Vile, Wash, Sunday. carrying five
persons to their death.
Seven accidental deaths were re-
corded. all in Washington State
and British Columbia yesterday
Two youths were killed in an ex-
plosion near Vernon, B. c.
Three of the five water victims
drowned at Vancouver when small
seas. whipped by strong north
west wind, overturned their small
motorboat under the Lions Gate
bridge. They were Steve Glow
Jean Harjie and Mitchell Eliuk, all
of Winnipeg. A fourth man, Eu-
gene Mundry of Vancouver, was
rescued after clinging to the over
turned boat as it drifted half
mile with the tide.
AT Lake Goodwin, Is miles north
Of Marysville, Robert Berg, 80, OF
Everett, drowned when rowboat
capsized within is feet of moor
ed float. His sister, Mrs. Lillian
Rcckness, 33, SWAN to the float
out collapsed and died there. With
them in the boat was a neighbor
Mrs. Joyce Kanaby. She swan to
safety. Husbands OF the two
women were fishing across the
lake.
Two boys were killed and two
other injured at a World War II
army firing range near Vernon
B. c., where they had gone to get
garden topsoil. A pile of discard
ed two-inch mortar shells neal
their truck and a chisel and ham,
mer handle were found by the
police, who expressed belief one OF
the boys might have set off the ex-
plosion by hammering on shell
The victims were Samuel Kashuba
and Mike Chudyk, both l8- Alec
Chudyk. ID. and Mike Kashuba, Is
brothers, were injured.