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The frontiersman., 1953-02-19
LETTERS TO TINE
 EDITOR
Statement of John D. Shaw to
 to the Froutie1sman

am charged by the Assistant United States Attorney with highly technical violation of a l948 Act of Congress designed to protect the government against the prosecution of law suits by former employees, within a peri cd of two years after such en- ployee ceases his employment, where the subject matter of such law suit is directly connected with such persons employment.
 Before I became a member of the Alaska bar, I was employed as assistant chief train dispatcher for the Alaska Railroad. I was so employed in March of 1850 when the tragic Rainbow passenger train-gas car train accident oc- cured. Neither l nor any of the other train dispatchers were in- volved in the events leading up to inc crash. There is an official rec ord of report rendered by me immediately after the accident stating that to my knowledge no Alaska Railroad employee was at fault in regard to the accident. Soon after the accident number of the injured men retained at- torney Harold J. Butcher as their counsel. He was their attorney and counselor and I had no con- nection with the case. I left the government service on November 15, 1851 and subsequently, in March of 1852 when MT. Butcher filed suit in the Rainbow case, through my acquaintance with him, he caused my name to be entered as co-counsel in the Rain bow case. Shortly thereafter I moved to Palmer where I have been practicing regularly since. Because l was not available to assist in the case, another attor- ney was entered as co-counsel and l withdrew from the case. I did not appear in court nor assist in the trial of the Rainbow case. The record of the trial in the Rainbow case will surely show there was no subject matter introduced therein material to the case and involving my employment or that of the other train dispatchers. It is upon the technical matter of my name appearing for a time as attorney m the case before trial of the ease, and notwithstanding the fact that I withdrew from the case before the trial began, that the charge has been made against me. Certainly I had no intent to violate the law at any time and l am certain l have not done so.
 l at no time counselled any of the plaintiffs nor accepted any money from them as an attorney or otherwise and have not had at any time any claim upon a fee which might result from the Rain bow case.
 am confident that if my case goes to trial it will be found that am innocent of violating the law knowingly or otherwise.
The frontiersman., 1953-02-19
MANY THOUSANDS VISIT UNIVERSITY MUSEUM

Visitors at the University of Alaska Museum this past year totaled 23,400, according to a summary released by the museum this week. Included in this figure were 107 Palmer visitors.
 Every state was represented as well as g foreign countries; 10 Canadian Provinces; 12 Central and South American countries; Hawaii; District of Columbia and 35l persons who gave no address.
The frontiersman., 1953-02-19
WEDDING PLANS TOLD

Mir and Mrs. John Serley have announced the coming marriage of their niece, Lyla Jean Rapley to Norman France, son of Mrs. Grant France.
 The ceremony will be held Sat urday evening, March 2 in the United Protestant Church at pm. Rev. Brian Cleworth will officiate.
 A reception will follow in the church parlors. Friends of the couple are invited to attend.
The frontiersman., 1953-02-19
ANOTHER MOOSE KILLED

Another moose was struck and killed by a motorist near Moose Horn Trading Post last week, AL aska Highway Patrol reported. This is the third moose-auto ac- cident in the area in less than two weeks.
 Motorists are warned again by highway officials to be on the alert for moose crossing the high way. At the present time there
The frontiersman., 1953-02-19

eligible and are urged to attend. The next meeting will be held March g in the Karla Duff home at 8 pm.
The frontiersman., 1953-02-19

are three large moose and two calves who are staying around
Evening star., 1953-01-30
Thomas L. Stokes:
Thomos [. Stokes
Case Of Four Big-Business Men
Top Eisenhower Appointees Failed to Realize Impact
On Public Mind in the ConfIict-of-Interests Issue

The conf1ict-of- interests is
sue over four top Eisenhower
Defense Department appoin-
tees is on the way to final
solution with the decisions of
each to dispose of stocks in
companies which do business
with the Government.
But the last will not have
been heard of this issue with
confirmation of the three who
were involved with Charles E.
Wilson, now in Office as De-
fense Secretary, who followed
his example and also agreed to
sell their stocks.
The first reason that the
issue will survive is that DEM
ocratS see in 1t a political
issue which they intend to
keep alive. It developed far
beyond what they had antici-
pated because it caught Re-
publicanS by surprise and a
way out was delayed by reluc-
tance of the principals to di-
vest themselves of their stock
holdings. The consequent day
after-day airing of the case
for two whole weeks, in fact
dramatized for the man in the
street how such managers of
our business economy fare, and
their identity with the Repub-
lican administration lends it
Evening star., 1953-01-30
Doris Fleeson:
EorLs EIeeson:
Only Stubbed Their Toes
Eisenhower Team Underroted Strength Of System Here
Their Political Injuries Con EosiN Be Repaired

President Eisenhower's early
troubles with Washington
have been real but they are
not necessarily permanent.
Perhaps UNDERSTANDABLE, the
Eisenhower team, which swept
into power in a crusade against
the evils of Washington, under
rated the strengths of the
system. Conscious of their
own rectitude, they flexed their
muscles against the evildoers,
forgetting that a large part Of
their troops were already here,
entrenched upon Capitol Hill.
Their failure to inform
themselves and simply to get
acquainted with Washington,
its laws, customs and wise
men, led to their present
stubbed toes. Their injuries
are not vital and can easily be
repaired from the great reser-
voir of political strength and
honest good will which is still
the Presidents.
The misunderstanding have
not all been, in the Wash
ington vernacular, unilateral.
Republicans in Congress are
showing a tendency to forget
that they are now the majority,
that the President and the
executive branch bear their
label, with the chances being
that all will stand or fall
together.
The Senate stood pat-as
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Iron Curtain among the free
peoples supposedly bound to-
gether by an alliance.
Some idea of the weakness
of the alliance Of the free ma
tions can be gained by looking
at the behavior of Britain and
other countries in still sending
strategic materials to the
countries behind the Iron
Curtain at a time when Ameri-
can boys are being killed and
wounded by Communist
supplied armies in Korea. To
Britain, the affair in Korea
apparently is a matter of "col-
lective security" in theory only.
1t doesn't seem to apply to sac
rifices of pounds sterling for
its merchants and traders.
No better illustration of this
sentiment could be given than
is to be found in the remark
ably frank article in the Sat-
urday Evening Posts January
"a issue, by E. L. Hauser, who
writes from London as follows:
Moral scIuples? This fall,
when a London purchasing
agent for the Peking govern
ment (Red China) sent form
letters to over 1000 British
firms asking whether they
would like to be in on the
China business, only nine re-
piled they did not favor the
idea. And at a social gathering
OF Britain's most prominent
motorcar manufacturers the
other night, a wistful chorus
could be heard: The China
market! The tractors and the
trucks We could sell!' The i'm
plication was all too obvious:
If only Uncle Sam would let
uSi'"
On top of this comes the
British Board of Trade survey
the other day which shows
that Britain exported $14O
million worth of rubber and
other goods to the Communist
world last year, and, of this
total, rubber alone accounted
for about $98 million of Brit
aims total sales. Rubber is a
strategic item. It can be used
in military supply vehicles like
trucks and in airplanes. It
has countless other military
uses. Russia needs rubber
badly.
Now. entirely apart from
Britain'S own trade. Ceylon, a
member Of the British family
OF nations, has just concluded
an agreement to sell $4,000
tons of rubber a year to Red
China for the next five years.
The recent report Of Aver
ell Hartman to Congress
shows that an attempt to
blackmail America was first
made by Ceylon, which de-
manded a $50-million-a-year
aid program and refused to
sell the rubber to the allies at
world market prices unless this
was granted.
Ceylon isn't q member Of
Evening star., 1953-01-30
David Lawrence:

John Foster Dulles, the new
Secretary of State, is going to
Europe not a moment too soon.
For the tragic fact is
that, despite the Sugar-coating
of high-sounding diplomatic
phraseology in recent months
about allied solidarity, there
is no effective alliance in ex-
istence today as between the
United States, Great Britain,
France and Germany.
All the talk about the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization
and its growing pains, and all
the discussion about the Eu-
ropean Defense Community do
not erase the sad truth that
the European allies give the
impression they really intend
to go their separate ways"
precisely as Mr.. Dulles phrased
it in his warning speech last
Tuesday.
The failure of the European
defense pact to be ratified and
the failure of Britain and the
United States to see eye to
eye on Far Eastern policy have
resulted in such a breakdown
among the allies themselves
that the Secretary of State is
setting off for Europe even
before he has a chance to Or
ganize his own personnel situ-
alton in the Department Of
State. For he knows that the
problems abroad are critical.
What the Europeans, and
particularly the British, don't
seem to understand is that
there really has been a change
of administration here. Even
some Washington observers
who are thoroughly imbued
with the policies of Stagnation
Of the previous administration
do not understand what has
happened, and they look ask
ance at the Dulles speech of
last Tuesday and ask for a
blueprint to tell them in detail
how a cold war" can be won.
They still echo the artificially
stimulated fears of European
foreign Offices that a war of
liberation" to help the peoples
under the Russian yoke in the
satellite countries or a bigger
propaganda drive are about
the only instrumentalities left
for the Eisenhower-Dulles adj
miniStration to follow.
But the situation really
stands out clearly. Stain, like
Hitler, sees the free world
broken up instead of firmly
allied in the cold war" The
So-called alliance in the free
world. whether it be through
NATO or the special pactS for
a European defense army, isn't
worth the paper it is written
on today. Until a new and
stronger alliance is built, Stain
will continue to win in the
"cold war" There is no use
thinking of applying moral
force to persuade allies behind
the Iron Curtain when moral
force isn't having the slight
est effect on this side Of the
Evening star., 1953-01-30
Allies Going Separate Ways
Dulles Trip to Europe Is Not Moment Too Soon;
No Effective Alliance Among kATO Nations

the U. N, but has trade ties
with Britain that could be
used to bring it into line. AS
1t is, the Ceylon incident is
no different from the trade
being carried on by Britain
herself with Iron Curtain coun-
tries. Mr.. Hartman made
this significant recommends
ton:
THE solution of Ceylon's
new, relationship with Com
munist China must remain a
matter of critical concern to
the United States. Controls
over shipping and the fueling
of vessels calling at free world
ports may provide one salu-
tary course of action"
This is a form of blockade.
It would provide a realistic
solution. Ceylon cannot send
the rubber to Red China ex-
cept by seagoing vessels. It is
in the interest of the Ameri-
can boys dying in Korea that
trade to Red China in stra-
tegic materials be stopped by
one means or another.
These are some of the prob
lens that face Secretary
Dulles-how to convince our
own allies that we are really
allied in Korea, too. The
Secretary might tell the
European statesmen, Incl
dentally, that, so far as the
American people are con-
cerned, there is no more reason
for American boys to die in
Korea than to die in Europe,
and that the converse is true
the American people will not
go it alone in the Far East
and will not go it alone in
Europe.
Sooner or later an isolation
ist political sentiment may de-
velop in both the Republican
and Democratic Parties to urge
that the United States get out
and stay out of both Asia and
Europe altogether if the other
nations of the free world are
really not interested in firm
alliance. Each nation in a
true alliance must exhibit the
utmost fidelity instead of try
ing to retain commercial ad-
vantages while blood is being
spilled supposedly for the
cause of collective security"
That's the essence of the
Dulles mission to Europe. It
is a good sign that Europeans
already are being shaken out
of their complacency by the
Dulles speech. They will not
like what the Secretary will
tell them. But that's the
objective of his trip-namely,
to build a firm alliance and
present Stain with a stronger
free world combination than
we have had heretofore. It's
the way to avoid World War
III.
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Evening star., 1953-01-30
Fletcher KnebeI:
Potomac Fever

Air secrearydesgnae Harold Talbot to sell
shares of ChrySler 5000 Electric
Republicans making good their promise rewrte
language of poticShey speak only in market quotations
Army Secretary designate
holdings in his famys textile Republican crusaders
have slogan: Eve had it good-unl met Ike
Latest Pentagon communique the cold E.
Wilson glt-edged opened closed
preferred and th Robert Stevens opened rch passed
dividends and closed with prayer
Former Democratic Treasury Secretary John Snyder
becomes vice president Of WysOverand that
to avoid Conflict Of interest," Snyder will Immediately
his defense bonds.
Former President Truman blasts "pin heads squirrel
heads in Congress How refund can't hear
what the actors the stage sayng-too
from that little guy in the back
The Senate Relations approves Banker
Winthrop Aldrich Ambassador to Great Britain
what color knee britches with black hoburg?
Democratic Senator Johnston Of South Carolina demands
the firing of 100000 Federal employees abroad way
to treat bunch OF fellow Democrats who did their best keep
the Truman administration from wasting all the taxpayers
money at home
Evening star., 1953-01-30
Massacre at Kotyn Recalled
Whot Happened to Thousands Of American POs in Korea
Moy Be Revealed by Probe Sought in Congress

ton to investigate the crimes
against American GIs feel that
there are many more witnesses
available to prove beyond any
doubt that the Reds have re-
peated their crimes in the
Korean war. Not only is the
pattern the same as that Of
Moscow during the last war,
but there are already witnesses
available who can testify to
what they saw with their own
eyes.
The committee win have the
power to subpoena members of
the armed forces wherever
they may be and also docu-
ments such as reports from
commanding officers. photo
graphs and other papers which
are still being kept top secret
by the Pentagon.
The many Congressman who
are backing the Sheehan res
olution feel that in the war we
are now waging no crimes
against humanity must be overs
looked. regardless of whether
hundreds or thousands of cap
tured soldiers have been muir
dered.
Evening star., 1953-01-30

Of course, but there is a prin-
ciple at stake which our people,
from experience. and some of
it sad and some of it recent,
want to see embodied in law.
The central issue, that of keep
ing any sort of influence, ia
voritism or special privilege out
Of Government contracts, is
more in the minds of the peo-
pie now than ever because Of
the staggering size of the de-
fenSe program, the billions that
go to a few individual powerful
corporations, and the fear, not
unfounded. that little business
may. not get its share.
The issue Of favoritism and
influence was, IN fact, empha-
sized over and over by Republi-
cans, themselves, in their sue
cessful campaign to win con-
troll of the Government, and
the party therefore is espe-
cially vulnerable and on trial.
1t pledged a new broom"
Republicans now realize how
ineptly the case of the four big
business men was handled from
the purely political standpoint.
Somebody slipped up at the
very outset by not recognizing
the existence of the law and
not foreseeing what a public
issue would bloom up once the
story got into the open. Some
Republicans also realize some
thing else now, which was the
failure to appreciate the i'm
pact on the public mind of four
big managers of industry being
appointed to run one depart
ment Of Government, and two
OF them from one of the
worlds biggest corporations.
MIR. wilson and the Deputy
Defense Secretary-designate,
Roger M. Keys, were from Gen.
eral Motors which, itself, has
the single biggest volume Of
defense contracts. The fifth
appointee. Robert B. Anderson
of Texas, designated as Sec
retary Of Navy. escaped much
attention because he had no
stock interest in companies
that do business with the De-
tense Department.
The lineup was, in fact, big
business with a vengeance.
The architects Of the new ad-
Evening star., 1953-01-30

tor, Joseph Dodge, had pro-
tested the change, apparently
unaware that his chief had
raised no objection.
House leaders are also reas-
suring the White House that
Chairman Reed of House Ways
and Means and his tax cuts
can be handled.
In the Reed matter, the most
Illuminating sentence was
spoken by Mr.. Reed himself.
Discussing his plan to blitz
through a tax cut regardless of
whether the budget was bal
anced, he said it wasn't per-
sonal to Eisenhower. II have
never even met him."
Despite their great power,
other committee chairmen
haven't met their President
either. The Presidents burdens
are heavy but somehow, some
where, he must remedy that
and they won't care about see
ing Sherman Adams, his prin-
cipal aide, in his place.
Even the frugal Mr.. Coolidge
undertook to give every mem
Der of Congress at least one
meal in the White House with
him. OF course, as one Of them
recalled today, it was usually
the cheapest one-breakfast.
Evening star., 1953-01-30

recommend his confirmation.
But he was still inSistent that
the committee give very care
full consideration to the alter
native he had offered in the
light Of the fundamental prob
lem involved, which will con-
tinue to exist and continue to
be a handicap for businessmen
with large interests.
Harold e. Talbot, nomi-
mated for Secretary of the Air
Force. saved himself any fur
ther difficulty when he an
nounced, as he appeared before
the committee after Mr.. Ste
vens, that he would sell his
stock in enterprises where
there would be a conflict.
There is q real problem, as
Mr.. Stevens argued. Some
people viii give it thought. and
some certainly will propose So
lutionS. But it is forecast
here that the law, which has
been on the books almost q
century and was re-enacted as
recently as 1948 by q Republi-
can Congress, the 80th, will
remain on the books. The
problems will have to be met
case by case as they arise
hereafter, as they certainly
will.
You can't legislate morals.
Evening star., 1953-01-30
Constantine Brown:

What has happened to sew
eral thousand American pris-
onerS of war and more than
$4,000 South Koreans who fell
into the hands of the enemy
and have not been accounted
for in the lists presented to us
by the North Korean and
Chinese Reds? This matter
soon will be investigated by a
select committee of the House
of Representatives.
Representative Tim thy
Sheehan, Republican, Of Illi-
nois presented on January 13
a resolution calling for creation
of a committee like that which
investigated the massacre Of
some $4,000 Polish prisoners in
the Katyn woods in 1910.
The resolution is now before
the Rules Committee and is
expected to be reported out in
the near future. Speaker
Joseph Martin, jr., is said to
favor an early report.
The first authentic report
of the Katyn mass murder was
available to our Government
in 1945. but for international
political reasons it was sup
pressed. The true story Of the
greatest massacre of prisoners
since Attila came to light last
year through a congressional
investigation.
When the allied and Red
delegates discussed the ex-
change of prisoners at Pan
munjom in 1850 the Reds pre-
sented lists showing that they
had only some $500 Americans
in their compounds. The
American lists estimated about
1900 as prisoners or missing.
The South Korean high
command estimated the num-
ber of it's own prisoners and
missing at 10000. At Pan
munjom the Red delegate,
Gen. Nam II, accounted for
only 1000. Allowing for err
rors and other miscalculations,
the discrepancy between the
allied and enemy lists is still
glaring.
Gen. Matthew Ridgway, who
was then in command, figured
at one time that about $500
Americans had not been ac-
counted for. This figure was
revised downward later be-
cause, it is believed in con-
gressional quarters, the effect
on the American public would
have been such as to cause
a break in the negotiations
which our political leaders
Evening star., 1953-01-30

usual when a Senate right is
at stake-to instruct the new
Defense Secretaries that the
law will not be bent to favor
the newcomers any more than
it was their predecessors. In
the fact that their friends.
both Republicans and Demo-
Gratis, took the Senate's side
is the lesson for the new
administration.
The Eisenhower setback on
reorganization is already in
the process of repair.
Senators are being quietly
modified for reconsideration
of the Simple majority" con-
gressional veto plan which un-
expectedly passed both Senate
and House Operations Com
mitteeS. What made it the
more embarrassing was that
Democrats voted to retain for
President Eisenhower greater
power to effect governmental
reforms.
Speaker Martin has given
unofficial assurances that If the
Senators clear the way, the
House committee can be
brought into line or their
action overridden.
What happened in this in
stance was conflicting signals
from the Eisenhower camp.
The Eisenhower budget direc-
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hoped would eventually be
concluded.
In of -the-record discussions
1t was argued that nothing
should be done to. injure the
chances Of an armiStice and
possible peace agreement. The
men who may have been lost
forever could. not be revived
and an angered American pub
lie might have prejudiced the
possibility of stopping further
bloodshed.,
The Sheehan resolution pro-
vides for creation of a select
committee to investigate thor
oughly the alleged atrocities
perpetrated by the enemy
since June 25. 1850. This
committee will be patterned
after the one which proved
that it was the U. S. S. r. and
not the German army which
was guilty in the Katyn crime.
There is more than mere
suspicion that the Pyongyang
and Peiping puppets have fol-
lowed the methods of their
Kremlin masters. Besides the
Ridgway report showing the
discrepancies between the
allied and Communist lists, the
Army Department has in its
files a still-reStricted film taken
under the supervision of the
former supreme allied COM
mander showing the atrocities
perpetrated by the Reds against
American soldiers who had
fallen into their hands. The
reasons why this film is not
publicly shown are obvious.
The Pentagon did exhibit it,
however, to a group of 200
mayors who visited Washing
ton last year.
There are some who believe
that such a congressional in
vestigation may not succeed in
proving anything definite. Yet
a similar investigation was
able to prove the Kremlin's
guilt in a crime committed IL
years ago.
The sponsors of the resolu-