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Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1951-07-20
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A-Write to VA district office ham
ding your account Be sure to in
clude all necessary information so
that office can readily locate your
file, such as full name and address,
insurance number and service Sc
rial number.
Q-In 1913. l reeeiped an bon
orable disebarge IS an enlisted
man TO accept d commission, and
bare been on aetipe dirty eper
since. Am eligible ubile still on
active duty for 81 bill schooling
benefits on The strength OF that
disebarge:' L.G.R.. Lincoln. Neb.
A-No. A discharge granted mere
ly for the purpose of changing mill
tary status is not sufficient under
the law to qualify you for CT bill
benefits.
o. entered military service in
1913 after World War II. and
was discharged recently. Would
be entitled to GI bill benefts'
DOL, Deland. Fla.
A-No. One of the qualifications of
CT bill benefits is World War II
service.
Q-Can you gipe me any intor-
nation on boW many peteraus
bare obtained loans under the CT
bill? T.L.W.. Van Buren,, Ark.
According to record of veterans
administration approximately $780,
900 veterans have obtained CT guar
anteed loans for homes, farms and
businesses The loans total approx
mately Sl5,6O0, 10000 with VA be-
hind half that amount through guar
antees and insurance. About 80 per
cent have been homes, or 2,480, 900;
81 COO for farms and farm equipment
and 14l,000 were business loans.
Only one-half of one per cent have
been defaulted where VA has had
to make good guaranteed portions.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1951-07-20
Bosic Training Increased to Is Weeks

cal problems of special weapons
and radioactive isotopes. The course
is conducted at the naval medical
center in Bethesda, Maryland, and
is in cooperation with the atomic
energy commission and the nation
al security resources board. The
course creates an available pool of
personnel trained in medical aspects
of atomic warfare and special
weapons. Ninety-five per cent of
graduates have returned to inactive
duty in their home communities.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1951-07-20

(Send your questions about The armed
forces or any aspect of military serpiee
to: Walter Sbead, Armed Services Qnes-
ton Box, 1857 National Press Building,
Washington 4, DC. Answers wiH be
gipen in this eoiumn.)
BARRING unforeseen contingencies,
- release of some 100000 enlisted
reservists who entered military
service involuntarily from inactive
and volunteer reserve ranks will
get underway in July and will be
completed by the end of December.
Personnel released will revert to
their former status in the enlisted
reserve corps pending expiration of
reserve enlistment periods. Release
will be in the following order: Cd
Veterans of World War II with 80
days or more service; (2) those
with other prior military service;
and (3) those with no prior service.
o. was separated, but not
divorced from my husband.
" ora " " veteran, AZ bDe bWe
of bis death. His serpice-eonnected
disability. incidentally did not
cause bis death. If meet ehgibiL
ty requirements Wonld I be en-
titled to pension even though
Ve Were separated? MIS-. Hail..
Lebanon. Ind.
Ayes, if you can establish that
the separation was due to the mis-
conduct of or procured by, your hus-
band with no fault on your part.
Also, you would have to meet the
income requirements and have not
remarked
o. reeentI received my
NSLI dividend from Va and I'm
sure The amount is tUrong. Where
do I tVrite to get ibis Strengthened
out? A.. akron. Ohio.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1951-07-20

The army's basic training period
in replacement training has been
increased from IA to 16 weeks. Addi-
ton of two weeks will result in an
increase in the number of hours de-
voted to combat skills, the use of
weapons and conditioning.
More than 2700 certificates Of at
tendance have been issued to mill
tary medical men and civilian
scientists who have completed
special course in the study of medi-
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1951-07-20
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there is little evidence federal board
will ease credit terms purchases these
items. There may be some modification later, par
t1cularly If Korean situation looks brighter, since
there is tremendous pressure being brought bear
much of 1T coming from congress. As Of looks
like FRB Will stand its ground in its
fight against inflati onary credit pur- l
ehases. 9a1lsafI
. Controlled Materials plan, an ss.sM-1
nounced some time ago by ional pro- SYNGEI
duction authority, officially gets FEATUREj
under way Sept ember with strict
rat1oning of copper, steel aluminium.
connection, department of labor announced relax
alton of Walsh-Healey public act, lifting
requirement that contracts be awarded only to
manufacturers" or regular dealers" to permit
contracts be awarded directly to associations
pools formed by small manuf acturers. Secretary
Of Labor Maurice Tobin said action would be of
great Importance to small manuf acturers who pool
their Facilities in order to get stable govern
ment contracts.
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES SALES DECLINE
. Several weeks ago this column reported
television and radio appliances drug
market This fact is borne out this week by
u S. department of commerce report which shows
sales of retail radio and appl lance dealers were
estimated at $2l6, 900, 900 for May, decrease of
S43, 900, 900 below previous month $27, OOO,-
600 less than Inventories of all
electrical goods at end of April increased l6 per
cent above March level and per cent high
er than same month year ago. Total wholesale
sales OF electrical goods estimated at $780,
600 900 for the month, drop Of $780, 900, 900 be-
low March and ss7, 900, 900 more than a year ago.
FEEDERS AGAINST PRICE CONTROLS
. Because a goodly portion Of business on
Main Streets In home towns Of country depend
ent on live stock sales of farmers CONNIE rcial
feeders, this column conducted private survey
Of midwest country from which a large pro-
portion of tally fed cattle are shipped.
We found this to be Farmers and commercial
feeders are against price controls live cattle,
UNLESS THERE is ACRoss-THE-BoARD CONTROL OF WAGES
AND THINGS THE FARMERS AND FEEDERS BUY. There
IS no producers strike" and net result Will be
NOT FEWER CATTLE, but MORE GRASS FED CATTLE MAR
KETED AT LIGHTER WEIGHT. In view of fact that 90
per cent of crop is fed livestock in mid
die west, and prediction Of another record-break-
Ing corn crop by department of agriculture, the
question artses-if farmers feeders do not feed
out to good. choice and prime grades which
there are incentive ceiling prices, What will
they do With their crop?
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-06-14
ATOM BLAST E TERRIFIC SAYS HERBERT
Had Feeling of Standing ai Cafes of Hell Says
 Congressman

NEW ORLEANS, June IA -R- The mightiest atomic explosion yet seen by congressional observers va porized the steel tower on which the bomb was mounted and blasted everything except a few charred palm tree stumps from an Eniwetok Atoll island.
 This picture of the power of a new series of A-bombs was pre- sented today by Rep. F. Edward Hebert, recently returned from the Eniwetok experiments. He attended as an official observer for the House Armed Services committee. Of it Hebert said.
 T had feeling I was standing at the gates of hell looking into etern- ity."
 He gave a graphic account of the test in the first of series of arti- cles he wrote for the New Orleans States and which that paper made available to the Associated Press.
 The Congress member wrote guardedly that the bomb he saw detonated was several times the power of the bomb dropped on Hiro- shima."
 (There was some question whe- ther Hebert saw the last and pos sibly biggest test blast set off at Eniwetok. He and other congress sional observers returned to the United States about May 12.
 (Ten days later there were un- official reports in Washington that still another explosion was to oc- cur, and it was not until May 25 that the government announced the conclusion of the mid-Pacific ex- periments. That announcement in- cluded hint that some type of hy- drogen bomb - perhaps on small scale for an H-bomb but on a mann moth scale for conventional A. bomb = was tested.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-06-14
TESTIMONY SHOWS DOPE,
 WA5H., DC.
drlotitsBoughf There" As Easy as a Soft Drink"
 Is Report Made

WASHINGTON, June IA -tR- Senate crime investigators today made public testimony describing drug addicts' parties in the nations , capital and relating that dope"
 could be bought here "as easy as a soft drink"
 The testimony was taken from in- mates of the House of Correction for Men and the Reformatory for Wo-
 men, both at Jessups, Md. Most of the witnesses said mar cotics are cheaper in Washington than in Baltimore, but readily avail- able to adults and tenn-agers in
 both cities.
 Names of the witnesses, questioned at the two institutions May 29 and June 2, were withheld. A 23-year-old Washington woman told of earning money through prostitution to buy dope. The report quoted her as saying she went as girls do on the street to get needed funds"
 She said that quite few of the girls she knew had to do that to
 take care of their habit" the re- port added.
 Release of the report coincided with demand by Fairfax County supervisors in nearby Virginia for a state law providing mandatory life Imprisonment without parole for persons convicted of peddling dope to minors.
 Supervisor Robert Dye sponsored
 resolution directed to Gov. John $. Battle asking him to recommend such legislation to the l952 general assembly.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-06-14
TOP FOUR FLOORS
 MENDENHAlL APIS.
 OCCUPIED MID-JULY

Occupancy of the new Mendenhall Apartment buildings top four floors is expected by mid-July, according to Ken Eskestrand, construction superintendent of the Anderson Construction Company
 The building will be completed by the end of July and will be ready for occupancy by then. One elevator will be completely finished in one week with the second fin- ished in three weeks. The tower that has been used to carry build ing supplies to the various floors of the building will be demolished by next week. Painting of the struc- ture will then proceed to com pletion.
 Kenneth Anderson, permanent manager of the Mendenhall Apart ments, is expected to arrive July l with his family. The rental office is now located on the east side Of the first floor of the building.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-06-14
The W ashington Merry Go Round
By. DREW PEARSON
ny D1SEV E-x1~HO-N (Copyright. 1851. py Bell Syndicate. Inc.

tcopyright. 1851. py Bell Syndicate. Inc. WASHINGTON. = There is no quicker way to get woman riled than tell her she isn't good look ing. Yet Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg, himself good looking man and eff ficient chief of the air force, has let himself be put in exactly that position with air force women.
 What General Vandenberg did was to bring ayiatrix Jacqueline Cochran, wife of finance wizard Floyd Odlum, into the air force as special adviser on the WAYS and later to accept her advice.
 Miss Cochran, after an investiga- tion at Lackland Air Base, Texas, reported that the WAYS lacked glamor. She went further and even advised General Vandenberg that the WAYS were too short, too fat and too unattractive. The air force, she said, should pay more attention to shapely figures in recruiting women
 Vandenberg agreed that the Navy seemed to be getting better looking females into the WAVES. and that the WAYS could go in for taller women. The chief of the air force
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-06-14
RUSSIANS
 KILL IRAN
 5ENTRYMAN

TERRAIN, Iran. June 14-tR-An authoritative government source says an Iranian frontier patrol soldier was shot and killed by Russians along the border east of the Caspian Sea.
 The informant said an Iranian Military Commission was sent to the frontier to investigate the t1- cident, which took place three days ago. He said the Russians reported the soldier was shot because he was found on the Soviet side of the frontier.
 There have been a number of clashes between Soviet and Iranian troops in the past few years in bor- der areas.
 The new incident came. however. at time of great tension in Iran. where such agitation against all foreigners is being carried on. The British Ambassador. Sir Francis Shepherd. has just warned Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh that continued Iranian propaganda against the British may touch off a powder keg of violence against all foreigners in the southern oil field areas.
 Shepherd disclosed his warning as top officials of the British-owned Anglo -Iranian Oil Company pre- pared to start negotiations. perhaps today, with Trans government on the naturalization of the com- pany's vast holdings centered at the Persian gulf port.
 From Abadan Associated Press correspondent Fred zusy reported the situation there appeared ex- tremely delicate,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-06-14
MatARTHUR WELCOMED
 BY TEXANS
Record Crowd Greets Fired General; Appedsemenf
 Accusation Made

HOUSTON, Texas. June IA ---lR-- Gen. Douglas Macarthur brought his administration stand tc Texas largest city today after draw ing a record crowd at Houston welcome parade. sa
 His speech tonight in 70,000-seat football stadium will give the de- posed Far Eastern commander an opportunity to develop these argu- ments he voiced on arriving in Texas yesterday:
 1. U. s. policy makers are guilty of appeasement in Korea-appease- ment that could lead to war with Russia.
 9. The administration is guilty of moral weakness" in talking o1 a peace settlement.
 The biggest crowd ever seen ir Houston turned out but cheereo only with marked restraint - to see MacArthur's arrival parade late yesterday.
 Appeasement Charges
 Mayor Oscar Holcombe estimated the crowd at around 440,000, almost double the previous record 250,D0f drawn by President Franklin D Roosevelt in 1886. Other estimates ran considerably lower.
 MacArthur made his appeasement accusation from the steps of the state capitol in Austin. About 20.000 Texans listened as the 7l-year-old general declared Americas first line of defense is on the Yalu river at the Manchurian border and not tae Eibe liver in Europe 'The policies of appeasement on which we are now embarked carry within themselves the very incita- ton to a war against us," he said. If the Soviet does strike. 1t will be { because of the weakness we now dis play rather than the strength we of right should display" He blamed the moral weakness of the freed world" not Soviet military strength - for Russian advances.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-06-14
Ship Movements


 Alaska from Seattle scheduled to arrive sometime Saturday after noon
 Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle Friday
 Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver Saturday. Prince George scheduled to sail from Vancouver Saturday. Chilcotin scheduled to sail from Vancouver 8 pm. Monday. Princess Kathleen scheduled to sail from Vancouver June 20. Aleutian scheduled to sail from Seattle June p.
 Denali from westward scheduled to arrive pm. Friday southbound.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-06-14
PRETTY WIFE OF
 BRITISH OFFICER HIT(HH|kE5. KOREA

TOKYO, June 14-tR-The young wife of a British Army Captain, with an enterprise which will make her the envy of many an Army wife,, spent three days with her hus- band near the fighting front in Korea
 Pretty Mrs. Benita Lassetter ,27, mother of a seven-year-old son, willingly acknowledged she had made the unauthorized journey. But she would not tell how because she did not want to kick up fuss" for others involved.
 She probably hitchhiked plane rides both ways. She returned to- day.
 Her husband is Capt. Matthew Lassetter, 29, of the Northumber- land Fusilliers, an Army regular for 10 years. Mrs. Lassetter came here from her home at Roque Brune, Southern France, and saw him five or six days in ToKyo Tn May.
 After he returned to the front, she wanted to see him again be- fore she goes home.
 She was in Korea four days but it took one day to get the word to her husband.
 "A friend put us up," she said, but she wouldn't elaborate.
 We went for walks and I saw many friends
 No one, apparently, told her to leave.
 "They all seemed to think it was jolly fun
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-06-14
SHOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, June IA = Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 21a, American Can 1l1h, American Tel and Tel. l53 $ Anaconda 41%. Douglas Aircraft AT General Electric 54ai, General Mot ors 48A, Goodyear 785s, Kennecott 74%, Libby. McNeill and Libby 81s Northern Pacific 42as, Standard Oil of California ATS, Twentieth Cent ury Fox 18, U. s. Steel Al, Pound $2.80A, Canadian Exchange 9325.
 Sales today were 100000 shares
 Averages today were as follows Industrials 252.46, rails 79.38, utih- ties 4243.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-06-14
JOHNSON DIvULGE5
 SECRETS
Former Defense Secretary Reveals More Info on
 Formosa, Korea

WASHINGTON, June IA -lR- Louis Johnson, former secretary of defense, testified today he wanted to send U. s. military mission to Formosa in December, 1949, but President Truman over-ruled him because of political protests from the State Department.
 Testifying at the Senate's Mac Arthur inquiry, Johnson said it was only after the fighting began in Korea that the State Department shifted its position and mo longer opposed doing things to keep For mosa from falling into unfriendly hands"
 Formosa is the big island off the China coast where Chiang Kali Shek's Chinese Nationalists took refuge when driven from the main- land by the Communists. .-..
 The question of it's importance strategically to the United States has figured repeatedly in the hear ihgs by the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations com mittees on the dismissal of Gen. Macarthur.
 Guarding of Formosa
 Johnson, who left the Truman cabinet last September, said the de- cision to send the Seventh fleet to guard Formosa = after the outbreak of the Korean war-was taken after the President and others listened to a brilliant memo on the subject by MacArthur.
 Johnson told the committees that there had been a difference of opin- ion between the State and Defense Departments late in 1949 about For moSa
 Acheson's Opposition
 He said the Joint Chiefs recom- mended in December of that year that a military mission be sent to Formosa to aid Chiang Kai-Shek's troops there but Secretary of State Acheson objected.
 A military mission was actually sent a few months ago.
 Johnson also gave the senators their first intimate story of the sending of troops to Korea.
 He said the decision to intervene militarily in Korea was made at a White House meeting on motion of Acheson.
 But he told the senators he would not indulge in personalities or violate any confidence in his tes- timony. #s r3s% AK
 Not Ready to Fight
 Leading up to this, he said the American troops in the Far East were not ready for a fight when the war came, and that he had re- ceived no intimation of possible trouble in Korea when visiting Mac Arthur's Tokyo headquarters only days before the North Korean:
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-06-14
FISHING
 BOAT |5
 DISABLED
Graft With 26 Persons Re. ported Aboard Taking
 Water, Kodiak Bound

SEATTLE, June IA - Alaska bound fishing vessel with 26 persons aboard reportes today it was dts abled in the North Pacific and talk ing water over it's stern.
 The Coast Guard said the vessel the Sea Lark. messaged at 9:28 am PSF today that was taking water over it's stern, with it's engines dead. It was reported 300 miles due west of Queen Charlotte Sound, off the British Columbia coast
 The manager of the Global Pack ing Co.,, owner of the Sea Lark, said there was no reason to believe the vessel to be in any immediate danger The manager. w. H. Lilly. said talk ing water over the stern was noth- ing unusual for the loaded vessel because it rides low in the water.
 He said the vessel has a crew o1 10 under Capt. Ben Bandickson of Seattle. He described it as tuna type fishing vessel, making it's sec ond annual trip to the northern fishing grounds.
 It is a 165-foot craft with nine smaller fishing boats lashed to the deck. It is headed for Kodiak.
 The cutter Winona and Canad- ian frigate were reported speeding toward the vessel.
 The first distress call was re- layed to the Coast Guard by the marine operator shortly after mid night.
 Water in the fuel oil was blamed for the vessels trouble.
 The Global Packing Company Seattle, was listed as the owner.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-06-14
NO" SAYS
 MACARTHUR
Answer is Emphatic Re- gdrding Whether He
 Would Run for Pres.

AUSTIN, Texas, June IA -tR- "Emphatically mo-" was Gen. Doug las MacArthur's answer when asked if he would run for president
 Would you run for president?" the war hero was queried by a Dallas news staffer yesterday.
 No" MacArthur said.
 The reporter was not sure he had heard right, so he asked the general to repeat his answer to the question.
 ''The answer was emphatically mo-" Macarthur said.
 When asked if his Texas trip was linked with political ambitions, Mac Arthur gave this explanation of his Texas tour:
 When first came back to the United States, I went to my own ancestral home and then to Mrs MacArthur's. And then l came tc where I was a boy - Texas"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-06-14
NAVY RESERVE TO HEAR LECTURE
 ON ELECTR0MICS

Juneau's U. s. Navy Reserve unit will hold a meeting tonight at the National Guard offices at 7:30.
 It. Andrew Moe, of the Kodiak Naval Base, will give lecture on modern electronicS devices used by the Navy and show a film on the subject.
 All members of the unit are urged to be present.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-06-14
COLUMNS OF TANKS ROAM
 UN0pp05ED
Small Red Forces Hdrdss Allies in One Sector,
 Fight in Others
By Associated Press

Allied tank columns roamed at will over the Reds shattered iron triangle in Korea Thursday. but small groups of Chinese bitterly op- posed infantry attempts to mop up the area.
 A late field dispatch said that al- though the Reds had apparently abandoned serious efforts to defend their former supply center, small forces up to company strength (150 or so each) remained behind to harass the advancing Allies. Despite small local setbacks. how ever, the Allies were able to push ahead in that Central sector. Reds Turn, Fight Farther east the Communists turned and fought LIN patrols probed through intense artillery fire to outpost of the new Red defense line north of Yanggu and Inje on the East Central front. Tn some sectors the Allies were kept busy Thursday beating off series of North Korean counterat- tacks. The U. s. 9th Army reported only one advance of as much as a mile.
 On Eastern Line
 The picture along the east was in marked contrast to the situation in the west. Gisnt tanks, Utterly covered with riflemen, rumbled the length, of ths triangle Wednesday to Pyonggang. They were almost un- opposed.
 The two big columns of more than 100 tanks returned at night after sweeping beyond the bomb shattered city.
 Tank forces and infantrymen again made little or no contact" with the Chinese in the triangle area Thursday, the 8th Army re- ported.
 Enemy Silenced However, the Fifth Air Force said "a large concentration of enemy troops" poured heavy fire into LIN troops in the Pyonggang sector. Jet pilots roared in with fire bombs and blasting machineguns. The Ar Force said they "silenced the en- emy."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-06-14
DISAPPEARING COOK

Levi DeBord, about 34, was re-
 ported to U. s. Coast Guard head quarters here yesterday afternoon as having disappeared from the , motor vessel Sally s, at Rake.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-06-14
WEATHER REPORT

. WEATHER REPORT , Temperature for 24Hour Period , ending 6:20 o'clock this morning
 . In Juneau - Maximum, . 54; minimum, A. . At Airport Maximum, . 56; minimum, 43. . FO RE c A s T . Partly cloudy with scat
 , tered rain showers tonight
 , and Friday. Lowest temper , ature tonight near 45. Warm , CT Friday with highest temp
 , erature near 58. , PRE- IPI T A T l o N , tPast "A hours ending 7:3o am. today } City of Juneau = TT inches; , Since June 3.99 inches, , Since July - 76.18 inches. , At Airport .67 inches; , Since June 1 PAS inches,
 , Since July l = 4388 inches. , .
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-06-14

.... FROM SEATTLE
 E. c. Baker of Seattle is at the Baranof Hotel