The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 3, 1950, Page 1

» THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,468 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Forezgn Sub Believed Operating Off Coast Mental Hospital Proposed For Alaska; Interior Dept. Committee Hands in Report ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 3—® —A 350-bed mental hospital at An- | chorage and a blast at the Fed- | eral jail here as a “fabulous ob-! scenity” are items included in an| Interior Department investigating commiittee report. The hospital was recommended to serve this area as a component | of a major medical center, It was given top priority in a mental health program mapped | for the territory in a 25-page re- port which finally reached here Saturday by boat mail. It had been dated Feb. 10 and released in | Washington, D. C., March 17. The committee, headed by Dr. Winfred Overholser, Superinten- dent of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in ‘Washington, D. C., labelled the An- chorage Federal jail a “fabulous obscenity.” “Our committee was astounded. to discovér that sick persons, espec- jally those who are charges of the government, are in this age placed in fire trap quarters as unsafe, unsanitary and generally demoral- izing as the present building main- tained as a Federal jail in An- chorage, the largest city in Alaska. Fabulous Obscenity “Use of this fabulous obscenity as | a place to house mental patients is nothing short of barbaric, des-| pite efforts of the United States! Marshal3 staff to render decently humane treatment. It must be said that this facilitiy is fully as un- suitable for prisoners as for the mentally ill.” The experts who prepared the report spent three weeks studying| Alaska’s mental health last sum- mer. At Mt. Edgecumbe They also recommended estab- lishment of a 50-bed treatment center at Mt. Edgecumbe Health Education Center at Sitka, for cas- es from southeastern Alaska on a short term basis, and that an agreement be worked out with the Territorial government to take over and operate both facilities| after they are completed. | In urging Anchorage as a location for an Alaskan center for long term mental care, the committee said the mental hospital could be- come a coordinated part of medical facilities being developed here. Medical Center “A 400-bed tuberculosis hospital now being constructed by the Bur- eau of Indian Affairs, a military hospital being planned for Fort Richardson, as well as Providence | Hospital, a well-designed gener-| al hospital, would be other com-| ponents of a major medical center.” While construction is under way | on the ANS hospital, military au- | thorities commented that no appro- priation yet has been made for .the new station hospital at Fort Richardson. An appropriation for $400,000 has been made for de- The Washingion Merry - Go- Round iCopyrieht. 1950. by Bell Syndicate, Ine.) Bv DREW PEARSON ashington—In Baltimore, a] weather-worn but merry-eyed Mon- golian oracle, swathed in oriental | robes, is saying “fierce prayers”| for his friend, Owen Lattimore, as he arrives from Afghanistan to| face the charges of Senator Mc- Carthy. The old man is the Dilowa Hutu- khtu or living Buddha, spiritual| leader of Mongolia’s Buddhists, whose flock now consists of two| Mongolian refugees. These three are the only foreign “agents” the| FBI has been able to- find who | landed on the West Coast and got| in touch with Lattimore. But instead of being Soviet Bgellta I the three Mongolians are actually | refugees from Communism with & price on their heads. They were | persuaded by Lattimore to flee to! this country instead of Tibet, and | are now cooperating with the State Department in the cold war against Communism in the Far East. * When the living Buddha learned of McCarthy’s Red charges against Lattimore, the old oracle asked Mrs. Lattimore: “Are these accu- sations fierce?” “Yes,” admitted Mrs, Lattimore. «Then I will say fierce prayers for Mr, Lattimore,” he promised. |cluded Dr. Dale C. Cameron, | Alaska residents who pecome men- NATIONAL | | instead of condoning it. signing the hospital, but actual con- struction funds are not expected to be ferthcoming until 1952. Psychiatric Unite At Nome The committee found that of the present general hospitals, the Maynard McDouglas hospital at Nome would lend itself most readily to addition of a psychiatric unit “No other general hospital ap- peared to have space currently available for such services. All either are too overloaded, as Pro- vidence Hospital in Anchorage, or of inadequate construction or both.™ Other Additions Other possible locations for acute treatment centers suggested were in a contemplated addition for St. Joseph’s Hospital, Fairbanks and Mt, Edgecumbe ANS Hospital. Other committee members in- As- sistant Director of the National Institute of Mental Health of the U. S. Public Health Service; Dr. C. Earl Albrecht, Alaska Com- missioner of Health; Dr. James Googe, former ANS Medical Direc- tor and M. W, Goding of the In- terior Department. The report stated that the pre- sent method of detaining, commit- ting, transporting and treating of tally ill is highly unsatisfactory. “It is archaic and ufterly out of line with present coucepts and methods of psychiatric treatment. “No situation comparable to' the one which pertains with respect to treatment of Alaska patients exists elsewhere in the nation,” the report concluded. PLATFORM OF GOPERS ‘WASHINGTON, April 3—#—The Republicans have boiled down their recent statement of party prin- ciples and objectives to 99 words—to get it over to the voter. The official digest includes ten points. And here’s how the GOP lists them: One—Reducing taxes. ! Two—Balancing budget. ‘Three — Eliminating government waste, especially along lines of Hoover commission reports. Four—Fighting Communism here Five—Providing fair market prices i on farm products, aided by prlC\.] supports, cooperative marketing, | soil conservation, reclamation, rural electrification—no Brannan plan. | Six—Continuing and improving | Taft-Hartley law to protect public | from excessive power of labor and management, Seven — Developing an adequate Social Security System that does not | limit opportunity nor discourage | initiative and saving. Eight—Protecting rights of wet- erans and minorities. Nine—Developing a united Ameri- can foreign policy for peace—world | trade without undermining Ameri- | can living standards. ‘Ten—Safeguarding liberty against Socialism. Well, those are the Republicans’ 99 words—the brief version of the| recent statement issued to supple- ment the 1948 party platform. GOVERNMENT IN ACTION 10 PUT STOP, GAMBLING (By Associated Press) The government is recommend- ing new action against organized gambling, which has been called the | underworld’s biggest source of rev-| enue, Attorney General McGrath sent two bills to Congress today.| Both are designed to smash or-| ganized gambling. One measure\ | “architect” | policy. The State Department declined | would halt the shipment of slot | machines to states which outlaw | them;. The other bill would bar\ interstate transmission of gambling (Continued on Page Four) ‘ information on all sporting events. McCARTHY ASKS SECRET MEMO AIRED Wants Ach&n‘r to Reveal Report Made by Owen Lattimore WASHINGTON, April 3— ® — Senator McCarthy (R-Wis) de- manded today that Secretary Ache- son make public a secret memor- andum on Far Eastern policies ziven the State Department by Owen Lattimore last summer. He said that if Acheson does not “it will be my duty as a United States | Senator to do go.” McCarthy fired his at Lattimore and Acheson in a statement issued at Bethsesda (Md) Naval hospital where he is under- | j0ing treatment for a sinus con- dition. He has contended that Lattimore, a Johns Hopkins University profes- sor, is (1) a Ru n agent, and (2) the real architect of American foreign policy in the Far East. Lattimore’s Reply Lattimore has called McCarthy's charges false and irresponsible. Acheson has denied that Lattimore | has shaped foreign eastern policy and said that he does not think,| in fact, that he has ever met Lat- timore. McCarthy said the State De- partment regarded the Lattimore memorandum as so important “and of such a confidential nature that the American people were not entit- led to know-its content.” He added: “On this I heartily differ be- cause I feel the Ameérican people should know to what extent Lat- timore is dictating State Depart- ment policy. Promises More Trouble “I feel, therefore, that if the Se- cretary of State does not immed- iately make the Lattimore recom- mendations known to the American | people it will be my duty as a United States Senator to do so.’ .Along with McCarthy's statement, there were these other develoments in the controvsery over the Sen- ator’s charges that Communists have infiltrated the State Depart- ment: 1 President Truman lormully not- ified the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee investigating Mec- Carthy’s charges that he has in- structed Federal agencies to ignore subpoenas for loyalty files of in- diyiduals accused by McCarthy. 2. The Senate group _discussed without .taking action the questmv whether it should subpoena from | McCarthy documents he says he |has to back up his charges. Act- ing Chairman Green (D-RI) an- nounced the question will be con- sidered further at a meeting to- mOTrow. 3. The subcommittee set Thurs- day at 10:30 a.m. as the time, it will hear Lattimore reply to McCarthy. LATTIMORE GIVES VIEWS WASHINGTON, April 3 — @ ... Owen Lattimore disclosed today he | advised the State Department seven months ago that the United States should “avoid premature or ex- cessive strategic deployment in the Far East.” Lattimore’s view was given in a confidential memorandum he sub- | mitted to a State Department ad- visory group last Aug. 18. It was made public today follow- |ing a demand by Senator McCarthy (R-Wis) who has charged Lattimore with being a “Soviet agent” and the of American Far East to make the Lattimore recommen- dations public, saying they were “so- licited in confidence.” But Latti- more gave the material out himselt. Lattimore’s -memoranda included the advice that the United States should abandon further support of Chiang Kai-shek, avoid trying to bring trade pressure on Communist China, and withdtaw as soon as possible from “entanglements” in South Korea. His agvice against “premature or excessive” commitments in the Orient was given in connection with a recommendation on dealing with Soviet Russia. “If there is to be war, it can only be won by defeating Russia—not Northern Korea, or Vietnam, or even China,” Lattimore said. latest shot | in a public | FLYING BIXBYS GIVE UP HOPE, WORLD RECORD ' GIobe-circIHg_M an and| Wife Delayed by En- gine Trouble CALCUTTA, India, April 3—(®— The flying Bixby's—Bob and Dian- na—gave up hope today of breaking | the globe-girdling record set by !the late Bill Odog. ! Engine trouble caused the Bixby’s |to turn back to Calcutta about an hour after they left Dumdum Field here for Tokyo. { The cooling system on one engine jof the Bixby's twin-engined British Mosquito bomber went haywire. They had landed in Calcutta at 11:40 am. and took off for Tokyo, 12:54 p.m. They still had a chance to beat Odom’s 1947 mark of 73 hours, five minutes and 11 secends, { provided they could get their ma- chine repaired in time, but this proved impossible. The Bixby’s had been shooting {at a 66 hour round-the world flight. Their return here put them four | hours behind schedule. The hus- band-and-wife team left San Fran- |cisco at 6:03 am. (PST) Saturday, | making the trip “for the fun of it.” The Bixby's first reached Cal- cutta, past the halfway mark in their flight, at 6:11 am., GMT. They refueled the Huntress II and took off after slightly more than one hours But just one hour out they were forced to turn back. They plan to resume the flight FOUR DONATIONS IN CHARACTER LOP $300 OFF LIBRARY DRIVE | Impetus given the Juneau Me- morial Library drive the past sev- ! eral days went forward another notch on the speed lever today with four contributions totaling saon‘ announced by B. D Stewart, uctmr.‘ ! chairman of the drive. | In fact, this sum brings the| { | amount needed now to a hair” breadth of another “platform” there’s just $4,005.84 needed to com plete the job of getting $70,000 fo | erect the structure. This money wiil | be matched by federal funds. | Naturally interested in statistics is Francis Kester, vital statistics man at the Department of Health— | he wants to see the figures on the | needed cash drop as fast as pos-| | sible. | So Kester donated $100 to the fund. Now that is a statistic! And of course the Snow White Laundry wants the money to get down to the zero mark quickly, b { cause the handling of all that “tilthy lucre” is against their principles. So Snow White donated $100 to the find. Good clean money, too. ‘Then there’s Connors Motor Com- | pany, who are vitally interested in keeping the drive charged full ot gas, and running like a clock—just like their automobiles. So Connors donated $50 to the {fund. That’s a good grease job. And the Jupeau Florists want| very much to be able to wave a lily over the fund drive when it hits the zero mark and they hit upon a way to get it dying as fast as possible So Juneau Florists donated $50 to the fund. Sweet smelling dough. Now, the question is—who's got $5.85 to put the drive under the $4,000 mark by one penny? For some reason the sum of $3,999.99 would look a lot smaller. Incidentally, in case you've for- gotten—Dr. James C. Ryan, com- missioner of education, is third-in- command of the fund-raising pro- Ject, and his office is on the first floor of the Federal Building. De- spite his pressing school duties, he can always take a few moments to accept library donations, he says. FISHING VESSEL OVERDUE The Coast Guard cutter White Holly began a search this morning for the 33-foot fishing vessel 31B980, reported overdue om a trip from Baranof to Tyee on '.he south tip ot Admiralty Island. The fishing vessel was reported missing by Walter Sperle of the mailboat Yakobi. It was said to have departed from Warm Springs Bay on Baranof Island for Tyee about March 20 with its owner, Nick Gerich aboard, p AlASI(A AIRLINES PUTS IN PLUG TO GET LARGE ROUTE CAB Hearmg Takes Place| in Washington-Mt. Mc- | Kinley Airways, Too WASHINGTON, April 3 — (¥ Counsel for the Alaska Airlines told | the Civil Aeronautics Board today it is the company best equipped to give | Alaska the kind of air service it needs and deserves. Parker McCollister, counsel, spok. for Alaska Airlines as the board heard arguments on the adequacy of Alaskan air service. He and L. Welch Poague, assoei- ate counsel, said Northwest Airlines and Pan American World Airw could not give interior Alaska the direct service to the United States to which the area is entitled. They asked that the board grant Alaska Airlines a certificate to op- erate directly to Seattle, Portland, Great Falls, Minneaepolis-St. Paul and Chicago. They said the line has done more than any other carrier to develop Alaska. The Territory, they argued, depends upon air service beca surface transportation is inadequate. John J. Klak urged the board to permit Mt. McKinley Airways to operate direct to Seattle. This line discontinued business after an examiner ruled it must drop several stops and that as an unscheduled carrier it operated too frequently and too regularly. Amos C. Heacock, for Mt. Mc- Kinley, said it could carry passen- gers and cargo cheaper than the two scheduled lines. Gerald P. O'Grady, counsel for fhe Pacific Northern Airlines, asked the board to grant it & certificate to operate from Kodiak, Cordova, Homer, Juneau and other small towns to Seattle. He said the linc, if granted a certificate, would be wililng to drop Juneau from its route, HAWAII TO SHAPE UP CONSTITUTION WITH HOPES HIGH By Stnn Carter HONOLULU, April 3—(®—Like a girl hopeful of a®@proposal from ‘that man,” Hawaii will begin fill- |ing her hope chest tomorrow. “That man” is Congress. Sixty-three delegates elected by the people of Hawali will convene | tomorrw to prepare the hope chest —a state constitution. They want it ready if Conrgress invites the | territory to become one of the United - States. The delegates include doctors lawyers, teachers, wives, to pine- apple company presidents, two labor union business agents and a bar- tender, Twenty-nine are Republicans, 21 are Democrats, and 13 have not been identified with either party. The election was nonpartisan but party politics is beginning tc become epparent. There may be a tussle for power, The .convention is expected to last two months. The legislature has appropriated money to pay each delegate $1,000 for 60 days' work. CREATIVE WRITERS TO MEET M.E. PARSONAGE The creative writers will meet as usual tonight at the Methodist church parsonage instead of with Mrs. Dawes, owing to illness. This announcement was made this fore- noon. ® € ® 7 o ® o o o WEATHER REPORT In’ Juneau—Maximum 47; minimum 32. At Airport—Maximum 46; minimum 29. I" ORECAST 4 Vielnity) Mostly cloudy with oc- casional light snow tonight " Variable cloudiness Tuesday. Lowest temeprature tonight near 30 degrees. Highest ‘Tuesday near 40. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 nours ending 7:30 & m. toda. City of Juneau—.03 inche: since April 1—.06 inchese since July 1—60.63 inches. At Airport—.10 inches; since April 1—10 inches; since July 1—4021 inches, ® 0 0 00 0 0 0 0 NATIVERIGHTS STUDY ASKED BY CHAPMAN Secrefary Makes Annual| Report - Tax Revision |- Termed Biggest Item | | | -| | | WASHINGTON, April 3—@—Sec- retary of the Interior Chapman in his annual report today called for further investigation and Study ot the question of aboriginal rights in Alaska. “There is not yet unanimity ot opinion on the method of handling this problem,” Chapman said, “and further investigation and study of native rights undoubtedly will be; required.” The Secretary said the fiscal year ending June 30, 1949 saw greater tprogress in and for Alaska than for many years. He reviewed President Truman’s request for development of the Territory and its admittance to statehood. Chapman said the most signifi- cant development during the year was the revising of the Territory's tax system. He said it could not be put into effect until Congress ap- proved. it. This lag, he said, faced the Territory with a shortage of funds until actual collections started after the first of the current year and added that pressure on the Ter- ritorial treasury now will be relieved. Chapman said that while 7,500 vehicles crossed the Alaskan border on the Alaska highway during 1948 “it may still be said that the tourist potential is almost undeveloped.” He said the great bulk of people ar- riving are either new settlers or| workers looking for jobs. He said facilities along the high- way are not adequate to accommo- date any sizeable number of tourists. “It seems likely that the lead in developing such: accommodations may have to be taken by the gov- ernment,” he said. Chapman said that road building has been accelerated. He hailed thcl Alaska housing program as a means of improving living ‘conditions and the Public Works program, now threatened with reduction by the communities to improve community facilities. He said he believed actual work toward construction of pulp and paper mills in the Tongass forest area should begin this year and bring to the Territory its first year- around payroll. He said that for the first time isolated sections of the Aleutians are zetting regular mail service while use of Canadian vessels has im- proved transportation between Alas- kan towns. He said the Alaska Railroad re- habilitation program is progressing well and the Civil Aeronautics Ad- ministration is planning to con- struct additional airfields in the lerritory. i The agricultural program, heé said, is of great importance. His re- port estimated there are' 12,000 acres of crop lands in the Territory and last year's agricultural production was valued at $2,500,000. (LAREWOOD TOWED HERE BY SENER NEBRASKA The seine-boat Nebraska, skip-| pered by Harry Douglas, mayor ol Hoonah, arrived here yesterday with the seine-boat-Clarewood in tow. The Clarewood, owned by the Icy Straits Salmon Company, was taken | to the Northern Commercial Com- | pany for repair work. ! Douglas expects to be in Juneau for several days, during which time he will see officials here regarding | public works for Hoonah and a road between the town and the cannery FIRE ALARM | A five-three alarm called the Ju- neau Fire Department to the small boat harbor at 1:30 a.m. Sunday morning. A small galley fire aboard one of the 'vessels was extinguished with damage limited to a scorched wall.’The vessel was the Eliza M, Lars Sorensen, fire truck driver, said. HERE FROM WRANGELL Mrs. James A. Simmons arrived here this weekend from' Wrangell. She is visiting her husband who House as another step toward aiding | | is connected with the Bureau of Public Roads. Double Mystery Develops : On Coast; Convided Man * Disappears; Sub Reported AVALON, Catalina Island, Calit,, April 3—(P—A man identified from a photograph as one convicted of JURY STILL OUTIN CASE OF BRIDGES SAN FRANCISCO, April 3—M-- Unsmiling and obviously weary, the eight men and four women jurors in the Harry Bridges perjury trial still hadn't reached a verdict at noon to- day. As they left for lunch at 12:05 p.m. PST, they had spent 21 hours and 45 minutes trying to determine whether Bridges, CIO longshore union president, lied when he swore in 1945 he wasn’t a Communist. Bridges was indicted last May on a charge he perjured himself at his 11945 citizenship hearifig. Two union aides, Henry Schmidt and J. R. Robertson, his witnesses at the nat- uralization hearing, were indicted for conspiracy. A third count named all three as conspirators. Conviction on all counts could mean a maximum penalty of seven years in prison-and a fine of $15,000 for each man. Further, Bridges would be subject to cancellation ot | citizensiaip and. deportation to Aus- (ralia, where he was born. ENGINEER IN JUNEAU ON WAY T0 WESTWARD Glen Neitzert, engineer, who ar- rived here on the Denali last week, is renewing acquaintances in Ju- neau where he lived for eight years while connected with the Bureau of Public Roads. In 1936 he left to go to Anchorage with the Civil - Aeronautics Administration and lived in the Hub City until 1946. Neitzert has just returned from a year spent in Turkey with the J. S. White Engineering Corporation of New York. He conducted sur- veys for his company in small and remote villages and towns. Before going to Turkey Neitzert spent two years in the South Pa- cific. He visited Canton, Samoa, Palmyra, the WFHawailan Islands ind Midway for CAA. He is leaving on the Barano! today for the westward, his future plans keing as yet indefinite. « Mrs. Neitzert, who has accom- panied her husband on all his travels is well known in Alaska having conducted a radio program in Anchorage for several years. Al present she is in New York City studying television, MRS, KADOW RETURNS Mrs. Kenneth Kadow, wife of the head of the Alaska Field Commit- tee, returned to Juneau yesterday via Pan American plane after a vacation trip of six weeks in the states. Mrs, Kadow accompanied her husband to Washington, D.C, then went to New York City for o visit. Returning w the west coast she stopped in Everett, Wash., to see her mother. * Mr. Kadow, who is at present in Portland, Oregon, will return to Ju- neau Saturday. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Baranof from Seattle scheduled to arrive at 2 o'clock Tuesday af- ternoon Denali scheduled to sail Seattle Saturday. Princess Norah scheduled to ar- rive at 7 am. tomorrow and sails south at 8 a.m. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, April 3—Closing quotation of American Can today is from 115%, Anaconda 28, Curtiss- Wright 8%, International Harvester 26%, Kennacott 49%, New York| Central 147, Northern Pacific 16, U. 8. Steel 31%, Pound $2.80%. Sales today were 1,570,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 208.40, rails 56.42, util- ities 42.82. wartime treason, vanishes from a small boat at sea. A few hours later, a mysterious submarine is sighted off the South- ern California coast. B And the convict, tall, saber- scarred Theodore Donay, 651, De- troit, is reported missing from his home since Wednesday. These coincidences were pieced together today by authorities inves- tigating the disappearance of a man who rented a boat here Saturday and never returned. Constable K. McDavid said Ray Dodge, boat rental dock attendant, had identified an Associated Press wirephoto of Donay as his myster- ious patron. A wallet left as security for the rented vessel contained a driver’s license issued to Donay, Mc- David said Several hours after the man was due to return with the boat, a search was begun in waters surrounding this island 20 miles off the Los An- geles harbor. McDavid said the boat had its running lights on but the ignition was off when found eight miles northeast of Avalon. The boat contained only a clothing-filled suitcase, he said. The drifting vessel was found some 125 miles south of Point Ar- guello, where coastguardsmen re- ported seeing a surfaced subma- rine at 6:20 am. yesterday. The Navy said no American submarines were in the area at the time. McDavid said officers had noted the coincidence of the two events, but there was “no concrete evi- denee™ they ‘weie: n any wvay. In Detroit, Donay’s brother Felix told newsmen he had not see Theo- dore since last Wednesday. Donay, he said, left to go to Caro, Mich, .0 see his former wife and son. Donay, born in Germany, was the first man in history of the United States to be convicted of misprision (concealment) of treason. He was accused of failing to report the presence in Detroit in 1942 of an escaped Nazi flier, Hans Peter Krug. He was convicted there in 1943 and sentenced to six and a half years. SUBS CONTACTED SAN FRANCISCO, April 3—P— The Captain of a United States de- stroyer reported today possibly mak- ing contact with one or more un- \dentified submarines off the Cali~ fornia coast. Capt. J. A. Holbrook, himself a former submarine officer, said con- tacts with what he believed to be submarines were made twice last week. Captain Holbrook was in com- mand of the destroyer Colohan, which was dispatched to search the area off Cape Mendocino after several reports had been received that underseas craft had been sighted. The Navy sald no united States submarines were operating in the area at the time. The Colohan left here Thursday afternoon, under forced draft, and with a hastily assembled crew. I‘ returned to San Francisco today. “We reached the area assigned a‘ 9:30 p.m. Thursday,” Captain Hol- brook said. “We immediately began search with electronic equipment. At 1l p.m. we had radar indications which we tracked until 12:20 a.m. Two Submarines “From all indications it appeared that there were two submarines op- erating in the area. One dived and the other conducted evasive tactics which we tracked for about one hour. “I would evaluate this contact as possibly one or two submarines. “The next possible coalact was at 12:10 p.m. Friday, when we picked up a sonar contact. “It is my opinion, as a former submarine officer, that we probably had contact with one or more sub- marines in the area.” Captain Holbrook said planes co- operated with the destroyer through- out the search, ranging as far north as Crescent City, Calif., near the Oregon line, and 200 miles out to sea. Operation of foreign submarines is entirely legal outside the three- mile territorial limit. The hunt was ordered by Vice Adm. George- D. Murray, commander of the Western sea frontier.