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Evening star., 1951-12-26
Doyd Lawrence:
Hardship Imposed on Workers
Jam in Office of Salary Sterilization Moy II
Of Dollars of White-CoIIor Pay Increases
Dovid Lowrence:

There is no way to estimate
the hardship being imposed on
millions of white-collar workers
as a result of the jam that has
developed in the Office of Salary
Sterilization here. It may run
into hundreds of millions of
dollars of withheld increase in
salaries. 1t means that workers
who come under the Wage Stab
ilization Board are having their
cases processed much faster
than are the white e-collar work.
ers.
Thus, there is now a backlog
of more than 6,700 cases await
ing action by the Office of Salary
Sterilization. The intake of
cases is much faster than the
output.
The reason for this congestion
is the failure of Congress to
provide funds to hire an
adequate staff and to set up
the necessary branch offices
throughout the United States.
There are only seven persons
on the staff here to handle in
coming telephone calls from all
parts of the country, and to
listen to the petitioners who
come in person from far and
wide to discuss their cases. A
recent telephone check showed
that there were 1000 busy sig
nails in one day in the six tele-
phone lines of the Office OF
Salary Sterilization here. The
industry relations staff of seven
were able to take only SO of
these calls. There are only 80
analysts to read the 6,700 cases
and others coming in daily from
all over the United States.
When the matter was up be-
fore the Senate Appropriations
Committee last October, Con-
gress voted SIS million for the
Salary Sterilization Board, but
in contrast voted $13.5 million
for the Wage Sterilization
Board.
The employer has both kinds
of problems, because regulations
Evening star., 1951-12-26
Eisenhower and the S64 Question
Toft Lieutenant Raises the Big ISSUE Should We Have
A Professional Military Man in the White House,
Thonoos [. Stokes:

Sooner or later the General
Eisenhower for President pro-
moters will have to meet what
may become the $64 issue. 1t is:
Should we have a profess
ional military man in the White
House?"
That it may be sooner rather
than later is suggested by the
fact that it is being projected
already by responsible lieu-
tenant in the camp of Senator
Robert A. Taft. Representative
George Bender, Republican, of
Ohio. In his current weekly one
page report for his constituents
and any one else who might be
interested-titled This Week in
Washington" the Ohio Repre-
sentative is so inhospitable as
to point out the generals own
publicly expressed doubt about
military men in the White
House. He slipped in only a sin
gle provocative sentence, with
out mentioning the general by
name, in a section of his weekly
essay devoted to the 1852 presi-
Dental contest.
Perhaps as good an answer
as the Eisenhower managers
will find is that already given,
as If in anticipation, by Sena-
tor James H. Duff. Republican,
of Pennsylvania, leading Eisen-
hover booster, who said simply a
few days ago that the country
"is fed up with politicians" +"
Maybe SO, especially so long as
the odor of recently revealed
scandals clings to the political
fraternity.
The current dilemma of the
Eisenhower-for President move
ment, which goes chiefly to the
uncertainty still surrounding his
candidacy-if and when-he-
comes more acute with the ap-
proach of the fateful year 1852.
1t is cogently put, with the
usual discount for partisanship,
in George Bender's ruminations
for the folks back home, to wit:
I'm the seventh month of 1852,
the Republican and Democratic
Evening star., 1951-12-26
By the Assoeiafed Pres,

PUSAN. Korea, Dec. 26.-Police
today said two South Koreans lee
Maj. Gen. William F. Dean into
Communist captivity in August
1850, for SIS apiece.
Chief Investigation Officer Yoor
Myung Woon said the two hao
been arrested and freed on bail
He did not give the amount. Yoor
said Cholla Province police had
orders to keep the men under
strict surveillance"
The officer said the two received
10000 won ($5) each from the
Reds for enabling the Red army
to capture the United States 24tt
Division commander near Gilman
about IS miles south Of Taejon
Yoon said the men are Han Doc
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a traditional instinct for civilian
supremacy in our government.
The issue goes beyond that, too.
to one of suitability for the Of
flee. 1t is obvious that one un-
accustomed to dealing with peo-
pie In a political capacity
which is true of military men
as well as Observation-Disclosures
face that initial handicap in
assuming a political role.
Both facets of the issue were
treated explicitly by Gen. Eisen-
hover in his one full discussion
of the subject. That was in his
letter Of January %, 1948, ad-
dressed to Leonard v. Finder,
publisher of the Manchester
IN. HI Evening Leader, in
which he refused to be a can
didate for the Republican nomi-
nation in 1948. He said, among
other things:
ut is my conviction that the
necessary and wise subordina-
ton of the military to civil
power will be best sustained,
and our people will have greater
confidence that it is so sus-
tanned. when lifelong profess
sional soldiers, in the absence
Of some obvious and overriding
reasons. abstain from seeking
high political Office. Politics
is profession; a serious, COM
plicated and. in its true sense, q
noble one.
In the American scene see
no dearth of men fitted by
training, talent and integrity
for national leadership. On the
other hand. nothing in the
international or domestic situa-
ton especially qualities for the
most important Office in the
world man whose adult years
have been spent in the military
forces. At least. that is true in
my case"
The generals promoters find
an escape clause in the "ob-
vious and overriding reasons"
which they profess to see today
as calling for his leadership.
Evening star., 1951-12-26
By GouIt MocGowon

PARIS, Dec. 26 (NANA1 Or
ders for secret weapons cannot be
given to French armament fac
tories because of the high Commu-
mist content of the technicians and
workers. according to reports laid
before the Western Allied De-
fense Production Board.
England, Belgium and Western
Germany are considered safer
risks than France for the produc-
tion of highly classified material.
An estimate by Irving Brown,
European representative of the
American Federation of Labor,
that aNhard core of $4,000 trained
Communists is entrenched in the
strategic industries of France,
was confirmed at SHAPE head
quarters as probably not far
out"
Brig. Gen. Anthony j. Drexel
Biddle, Gen. Dwight D. Eisen-
hower's contact man with Euro
pean nations. said: I'VE are not
saying very much about it, but
obviously. the situation is diff
cult. Not only do reports on highly
classified material leak out to Mos
COW. but more dangerous still, is
the risk Of sabotage.
In the field of electronics, for
example. it is possible very simply
to insert defective parts into con-
struction costing millions of dol
lars so that they will not work
when completed"
The cause of Communist power
in the French key and nationalizeo
industries dates back to the liberia.
ton, when Communist resistance
leaders were given high posts ir
the defense and reconstruction
ministries. When they were moved
out of office. they left behind ke,
men In major technical posts.
Subsequent ministers have beer
unable to detect and evict all ot
them, because of the complexities
of the French civil-service system
Evening star., 1951-12-26
Korean Betroyers Got SIS Each
For Leading Gen. Dean to Reds

IKyoo. 80. and Chloe Chong Bong,
20.
He said they admitted receiving
the reward for Gen. Deans cap
Iture but declared they turned the
money over to an identified Red
organization.
Yoon quoted the men as saying
they had tried only to help Gen.
Dean.
Yoon said Korean police are
seeking Park Whan Saing. for
mer South Korean official, who is
reported to have served as inter-
prefer for the Reds IN conversa-
| ton with Gen. Dean. Yoon said
Park was picked as interpreter
from among 1000 South Koreans
the Reds held in Chonju prison.
Park later escaped, Yoon said.
Evening star., 1951-12-26
German Reds Ban
On Foreign Words
Violates Party Order
By the As,ocioied Press

BERLIN. Dec. 26.-If the Ger
man Communists take their own
prescription, they'll stop shouting
Ami, go home!"
This propaganda jibe coined by
Gerhart Eisler In his campaign
against the Americans violates a
new instruction in Red Germany
It contains foreign words"
The Socialist Unity Party Com
munist) has opened a drive for
pure German speech. The chief
party paper is urging the public to
clean up it's German, weed out the
foreign phrases and also to drop
government talk" the kind of
bureaucratic language called "gob-
bledegook" in Washington.
The program was introduced in
the party press with long editori-
ais paradoxically quoting Stain
as advocating nationally pure
speech. The fact that the Soviet
Union has more than 200 dialects
was studiously ignored.
More MARKHAM Doubletalk.
That old master of doubletalk,
Karl Marx, was quoted as saying
pure speech is the highest form of
national culture. The Communist
authors of the campaign said "it
is no accident that the great poll
ticians of modern history, Marx,
Engels, Lenin and Stain were
masters of words"
The "unforgivable sin the the
Soviet Union" the East Germans
were told, sis to speak without
clarity"
The Communists pull on the
authority of such men as Goethe
Schiller and Martin Luther-who
wouldn't have touched Commu-
nism with a forty-foot volume
to prove their point.
Luther, founder of the church
that represents 80 per cent Of the
population in what now is the
Soviet zone, is quoted as object
ing to Latin and insisting or
German speech and writing in the
church.
If Propaganda Chief Eisler fol-
lows suit, however. he'll have tc
drop some of his favorite phrases
Whenever Eisler unloads his
sarcasm Westward, he tries to in
ject a purely Western word fol
tronys sake.
Generals Called mister"
The Soviet-controlled press
eagerly reporting brawls between
American soldiers and Germans
often calls them gum -chewins
boys" In many purely German
"stories," the American wore
yankee" is injected.
When Foreign Minister Andre
Vishinsky gave the Soviet Union
answer in the United Nations t.
a British proposal, the headline
were "A. j. Vishinsky Answer
Minister Lloyd" To be snide. tn
Communists often refer to Allie'
generals. including Ger. Eisen
hover, as Mister"
Like a lot of other Communis
ideas, however, this one fails t
take into account ingrained Ger
man habit. Since Frederick tn
Greats time, the German peopl
have prided themselves on knowl
edge of foreign tongues. The por
ter, the gardener and even tn
policeman delight in speakin
the few words of English the
phrase is posted throughout Eas
Germany on billboards, painte
on walls, and is the title of
popular" Communist jazz tun,
The Nome nugget., 1951-02-28
GAASLAND co. OFFICES NOW ON FRONT STREET

Gaasland Construction Go. have opened their offices today at the corner of Front Street and Lanes Way in the building formerly oc- cupied by Jack Lencer.
 During the winter months they have been operating from the for mer Coast Guard Station at the west end of 1st Ave. w.
The Nome nugget., 1951-02-28

The Pioneer Card Party Com mittee has announced that last Saturdays party, which was post poned due to weather, will be omitted for the time being as there are too many conflicting dates this week. A special party will be announced later. The next Sched- uled party is on March 15.
The Nome nugget., 1951-02-28

Notable historical and literary figures who played the flute were George Washington, Lord Byron, Dr. Johnson's Boswell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rous- seau, Schopenhauer, Casanova, Cellini and Leonardo da Vinci.
The Nome nugget., 1951-02-28
Wednesday. February 28. 1851

Korean Fighting Front, (P) - Two US. divisions seize eight mile section of main communist supply road in central sectorr. South Korean Marines make more landings on islands off east coast go ashore near 33th Parallel on west coast and come back with captured documents, and equip ment.
The Nome nugget., 1951-02-28
Korean Situation At A Glance -.
Tuesday. February 27. 1851 By the Associated Press

A0SOOoyS ' VII S04 SSs ASSA
 By the Associated Press | United Nations troops smashed back five vicious Red counter attacks on the central front near Hoengsong today as the whole AL lied line, spearheaded by the US. First Marine Division, moved cautiously forward through mud and bowling winds.
 It was first report that the First Marines-the battle-hardened he roes of the fighting withdrawal from Changjin reservoir last De- cember-were in the fighting line agin.
 In today's action the Leather necks seized commanding hills south and southeast of Hoengsong. This has become no-man's-land, with the Chinese communists and north Koreans ringing it to the north on the approach to their key strongpoint of Hongchon.
 On the west-central and west -ern sectors things were relatively quiet, although the US. First Cav- airy and British elements ran into stiff Red resistance 15 mi. north west of Hoengsong, near Yongdu.
 Reponse from the front said the Red pre-dawn counterattack were among the sharpest actions met in the week-old renewal of the Allied offensive. The US. Second Division drove the enemy back. A US. Army spokesman said the new forward push had thwart- ed or delayed a Chinese: counter offensive by four to six armies. He said 100000 Chinese Reds had been shifted into defense positions and it would take them several weeks to regroup for any drive southward again.
 Communist tauthorities in Czech oslavakia announced they have arrested former foreign minister Vlado Clements and four other top Red officials on charges of plotting to assassinate President Element Gottwald and to turn their country to the west "like Yugoslavia.
 The news of the arrest on such "Titoist" charges was the first that had been heard of the Com- munist Clements since he disap- peared Jan. 27. At the present time he vanished there had been rumors that he had fled to the west or to Yugoslavia.
 As was Marshal Tito of Yugo- slavia, Clements was charged among other things with taking an anti-Soviet stand and of plot ting with Nationalist groups to overthrow the government.
The Nome nugget., 1951-02-28

$0,lUU,UUU QeIlclt IS Iaclng the leg islature on the basis of present budget proposals.
 Franklin, chairman of the House ways and means committee which has been working since the ses- sion's opening week on the bud- get framing job, argued that eve have to start saying No some where and this is a good place to start" ;
 Franklin figured the looming deficit this way: A $2,00O, ,000 deficit at the end of the current biennium; budget requests ex- ceeding anticipated revenue by $2,OOO,O0O more; a board of educa- ton request for $1,200,000@' above it's original budget estimate. .:
 "When you have to raise that much," he said, "You've got a job."
 He pointed out previous appro- priations for a similar purpose have been frozen year after year and this one would be certain of the same fate.
 Franklin's $5,20O,O0O estimate did not include $1, 100000 for civil ian defense requested in bill in- troduced in the Senate yesterday.
 Third Division representatives carried the ball for the health fa- cilities bill.
 Rep. Jack Scavenius, Anchor age Democrat and author of the bill, argued that "health consider ations are paramount. If we are not going to get enough money for health needs and schools we might as we'll fold up." ',
 Rep. Stanley McCutcheon O. Anchorage labeled it foolish approach to economy to say no when we can get federal match ing funds for free"
 Rep. Alden Wilbur R.-Fair-: banks) retorted "you can easily match yourself to death in Alas ka:"
 Party lines were broken on the vote, with Third Divisional Demo- crats voting solidly for the bill.
 The Senate approved Scaveni- us bill to provide for city annexa- ton elections on a petition by 30 per cent of the residents of adja- cent areas, instead of majority, and providing that 55 per cent of the voters could carry the cleo ton, instead of two thirds.
 The Senate passed 13-3 bill to remove the Governor from the board of public welfare, after the bill to reduce the board from five to four members. The House also passed bill to put children's homes under the public welfare department and approved two memorials. The vote for 22-2 for a memorial by Rep. James Simpson MacKinnon R. .-JuneaW for a tax incentive program for new industries com ing to Alaska.
 The memorial proposes that in- dustries coming for a new line of resources development should get a moratorium up to IS years on federal income taxes because of the extra risk involved and the Territory's need for incentives to get developments.
 The House approved unani- a second MacKinnon me-
The Nome nugget., 1951-02-28
Lifting The Lid At Juneau
Continued from Page One,

Frank Barr, Fairbanks Democrat, declared failure to pass the bill would in effect be "santioning il- legitimacy; to make it a crime to sell mortgaged personal property such as an automobile without ad- vising the buyer of the existence of the mortgage; to shift super vision of weights and measures from the treasurer to the tax com missioner; to appropriate $566 to the widow of late highway engin- ger w. Leonard Smith for termin- al leave due when he died in of flee in 1947.
 Alaska's legislators are consid- ering a clampdown on two tradi- tional outlets of boyhood enthusi- asm-firecrackers and dogs.
 Rep. Waino E. Hendrickson (R- JuneaW has introduced a bill in the House to outlaw importation or sale of fireworks. The only eX- emption is for civic groups or for cap pistols.
 Sen. Walter Huntley, Third div ision Democrat and chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee, announced a bill would be ready soon against rowing dogs.
 Senators have received a steady string of letters protesting rowing dogs or bands of them as a men, ace to children. The writers asked legislative action.
 The Senate instructed the com mittee to bring out control bill. 2 Huntley said the measure would provide a license of $5 for all male dogs and $25 for females. He predicted this would reduce the dog population because "un- less dogs are really valuable the owners won't pay the fec"
 Wednesday. February 2e. 1881
 JUNEAU, P)-A special legis- lative committee voted last night to request a joint session of both Houses of the Alaska Legislature Thursday in a move to overhaul Territorial financing operations.
 The committee acted after hear ing report by H. Clyde Reeves, a Kentucky revenue commissioner who was sent here .s a consultant by the Council of State Govern ments.
 Ten Legislators of the session expressed themselves as in favor of proposal which would create a department of finance, headed by an executive who in effect would be a general financial man. ager for the Territorial Govern ment. '--'.'
 The plan would bring all offices and departments under closer fi- nancial supervision and create an independent auditing section as watchdog. All budgets would be closely scrutinized.
 Possible revision of the board of to include legisla- tive leaders instead of elective officials whose budgets come un- der. the boards scrutiny also was suggested.
 If the legislature takes the same favorable view as the special com- mittee did in three-hour session, legislators will instruct Reeves to draft bill for legislative action this session. .~..
The Nome nugget., 1951-02-28
COAL AS A DEFENSE FUEL BV Harlan TrOtt

Defense officials are keenly interested in the coal n- dusry these days This may surprise of us who gard coal household item that has to angush in the limbo of folklore along with the kerosene lamp and the cracker barrel.
 Despite the greater convenience of gas and oil, de- fense production experts realize that coal is an indis pensibe part of the national fuel economy.
 To begin with, the countrys steel output is tied to coal For every ton of steel industry produces it sues about two tons of coal And coal still constitutes 95 per cent of the nations known fuel reserves
 Even the air force is interested in coal-from the standpoint of developing synthetic oil for empowered aviation Military authorities estimate that jet plane from five to times much fuel cOmpar able propellor-driven plane. And the principal known source of synthetic motor fuel is coal
 The Germans getting 50 percent of their oil from coal during the closing years of World War H. And if the western military partnership should be cut off from Middle Eastern oil fields in the event of war; the western hemisphere would be subjected to heavy drain of its petroleum resources.
 Still ct e important new uses are looming up through the sudden large demand for certain chemical derivatives of coal This week defense production off ca]s reported shortage of benzene This is byproduct of coal tar and is essential in ak ing synthetic rubber --* ->'..
 Bringing the matter closer to home it is interesting to note that North Americas great coal fields lie in Northwestern Alaska which, according to the recent news, will not be defended should the enemy across border attack That coupled with the badly needed tin which lies also in this area should make it valuable to Uncle Sam.
 Why do congressional leaders prefer to be blind the wealth of material and cast off as worth ing? We live in complex world today but would
 like to have faith in leaders and feel that they see the picture more clearly than we do
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-11-10
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-11-10
Soldiers Three Coming Sunday, Capitol Theaife

The adventures of three of the most hilarious Priyates ever to play havoc with His Majesty's service are brought to the Capitol screen tomorrow in M-G-Ms Soldiers Three"
 Suggested by the famous Rudyard Kipling stories of the Rutlandshire Infantry of the British Army in India in the 1390s, Soldiers Three not only packs the dramatic ad- venture wallop of Kipling's Kim, '' one of M-G-M's biggest successes, but also adds barrage of laughs in the story of three rowdy buddies who can't stay out of trouble even if they have to prove themselves heroes in the attempt!
 Stewart Granger, the brilliant English star who skyrocketed to American film popularity with King Solomon's Mines" now enacts Pvt. Ackroyd, leader of the rollicking trio of infantrymen.
 It is Ackroyd who gives his regi- mental commander, Walter Pidgeon, and the latter's aide, David Niven, the most trouble, but he is ably