The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 19, 1951, Page 1

e HE DAILY ALAS “ALL-TIIE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXVI, NO. 11,761 EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCI{ 19, 1951 Allied Patrols Are A ELECTIVE GOVERNOR AT ISSUE By BOE DE ARMOND ‘Whether a House memorial asking that Congress enact legislation to provide for the election of the Gov- ernor of Alaska should go to Con- gress as just that, or whether it should be cluttered up with refer- ences and requests regardiné public lands, control of fisheries, elimina- tion of fish traps and other matters was the issue before the House of Representatives during much of its forenoon session today. Rep. McCutcheon’s motion to table the memorial when it came up for consideration was defeated by a 10-14 vote. All except one of the proposed amendments were de- feated by votes of 10-14 or 11-13. An amendment by Rep. Metcalf to include a request that the Secre- tary of Alaska or lieutenant-gov- ernor also be elected was adopted by a 13-11 vote, Amendments to include requests regarding fisheries and fish traps were opposed on the grounds that these subjects had been covered by other memorials to Congress. Opposing changes, which they as- serted would confuse the issue, were the 10 Republican members of the! House and Democrats Franklin, Degnan, Wells and Madsen. Slap at Gruening “I am beginning to feel that this memorial is intended as a slap at Governor Gruening,” said Rep. Mc- Cutcheon after several of the amendments had been voted down. “There is no such intention,” re- torted Rep. Barnes, “and I do not see that there can be any such feel- ing since Governor Gruening him- self dictated a very similar memor- jal in 1943 and it was passed by both the House and Senate. An amendment seeking to strike out a portion of the memorial re- ferring to a bill now before Con- gress was offered and defeated. Rep. Kay and McCutcheon partic- ularly objected to this portion of the memorial, contending that it endorses Senator Butler’s bill to provide for an elective governor. The memorial does not specific- ally mention the bill introduced by Senator Butler, whom Kay and McCutcheon termed “the arch en- emy of statehood.” A bill for the election of the governors of both Alaska and Hawaii has been intro- duced in the House of Representa- tives at Washington by Congress- man Miller. The memorial was held over for at least one more day when Rep. McCutcheon gave notice of his in- tention.to reconsider his vote on one of the amendments. Bills Passed The House this morning passed two of its own bills: H. B. 118, pro- viding that half of the wolf bounty appropriation for the next biennium is to be expended by the Fish and partment of Fisheries, effective May 1 of this year. ¥ At the time of the noon recess the House had under consideration S. B. 92, amending the law relating to qualifications of the Commis- sioner of Education. Saturday Session In morning, afternoon and eve- ning sessions on Saturday, the House passed two of its own me- morials and one of its own bills, passed 12 Senate bills and killed oné Senate bill by indefinite post- ponement, It also held a joint session with the Senate and confirmed 44 of 4€ appointments by the Governor to Territorial boards and commissions. During the joint session the Joint Rules were amended to permit con- sideration of bills for two additional doys—today and Tuesday. The rules had prohibited consideration of any except revenue and appropriations bills after 56th day of the session, which was yesterday. Earlier in the day the House had adopted the 1949 House Rules as the Permanent Rules for the 1951 session. It has previously operated under temporary rules, Liquor Bills For the most part, the House Rules Committee placed on Satur- day's calendar only the less con- troversial Senate bills, but two bills amending the liquor laws got mixed jin with the others. Both bills stirred up debate. One was amended and held for further consideration; the other was killed by indefinite post- ponement, S, B. 86, making it a misdemeanor for a minor “to solicit the purchase of or in any other way to attempt to purchase or otherwise secure any intoxicating liquors, including beer and wine.” “This bill goes much too far,” asserted Rep. Wilbur. “It would punish a child if the parent were to give it a sip of wine or beer.” “I don’t believe a youngster should be punished for being baited into these traps,” said Rep. McCutcheon, speaking of bars and nightclubs. He toffered an amendment to provide { that the parents of minors attempt- ing to purchase liquors would be guilty of a misdemeanor. The amendment was defeated but other amendments striking out the words “or otherwise secure” and making the proposed law appiicable only to minors in the 19-20-age group were adopted. The bill was sent to the Engrossment Committee and will come up for final consid- I eration at a later date. License Petitions Indefinitely postponed by a 14-10 vote was S. B. 10. The bill would i eliminate the present requirement |I,hm. liquor establishments outside ‘of incorporated towns must file pe- titions with each renewal applica- tion. The petition must be signed by a majority of the persons over 21 living within two miles of the liguor establishment. “The present law shackles private enterprise — some of these places have to secure as many as 3,800 names and the cost of circulating the petitions is enormous,” said Rep. Metcalfe. “There are ways of drying up an area by local option,” said Rep. Scavenius. “There is no need for placing this burden on the liquor | | H I wildlife Service for wolf cont!®l; | dealers.” H. B. 164, repealing the balance of | “I am not so much concerned with the 1949 appropriation for the De-|th burden on the liquor dealers as z s o e soria ey, R The Washington ve o Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright. 1951, by Bell Syndicate. Inc., (Ed. Note: Drew Pearson is on a flying tour of Europe and the middle East, surveying the world situation.) ~ FRANKFORT—The No. 1 Amer- ican mystery of Europe continues to be the sudden and unsolved dis- appearance of four Americans in the Noel Field case after Field was named by Whittaker Chambers as a member of the Communist cell in the U. S. State Department. This case is now being linked for the first time with another unsolved mystery in the United States—the strange death of Laurence Duggan, found in a snowbank 16 floors be- said. “The dealers have to circu- late these petitions year after year, even when there is no demand for local option, and the courts spend much of their time counting the names on the petitions.” Other Burdens “The liquor industry places a great many burdens on the courts in other ways,” contended Rep. Barnes. “Perhaps if there were not so many crimes that .result from liquor, the courts would have plenty of time to count names.” “It is difficult to get any liquor law enforcement outside of munici- palities and the present law is about the only check we have,” said Rep. Hendrickson. Said Rep. Hope: “Since I came ; to the Legislature in 1945 we haven’t passed one law to tighten liquor control. Frank Metcalf admitted that the Highway Patrol does very | LEGISLATURE HEADING INTO FINAL 4 DAYS By JIM HUTCHESON Alaska’s 20th Legislature down the four-day home today. Thursday will be its 60th and final legal day but by the law of averages it probably will carry, into Friday. One of the big remaining ques- tions is what new taxes, if any, may be enacted. The House is still considering the Senate-approved boost in the canned salmon tax and the increase to five cents a pack in the cigarette tax. Warning Sounded Rep. Glenn Franklin (D-Bound- ary), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, sounded a warning Saturday, however, that some new revenue measure might have to be rushed through in the final hours to balance the budget which presently shows signs of a deficit exceeding $2,000,000. An increase in the Territorial in- come tax, possibly to 12 per cent of Federal income payments from the present 10 per cent, has been mentioned by some legislators as one possibility. Defense Bill Up Major bills still awaiting action include the $1,100,000 civilian de- fense bill, to undergo its first legis- lative scrutiny in the Senate today. Evan its supporters are predicting the appropriations probably will be less than $500,000. The House-approved Government Reorganization Bill is on the Senate calendar today. The $18,300,000 Gen- eral Appropriations Bill is also in the Senate after having passed the House with record speed but some extensive overhauling is expected. Another major bill hanging fire is the lengthy banking code revision which passed the House once but was returned to it with many amendments by the Senate, The Wage-Hour Bill also is still in free conference committee and both Houses must act on the final re- port. Tables Property Tax Bill The Senate tabled on a 7-6 vote Saturday night a House-approved bill by Amelia Gundersen to ex- tend the general property tax ex- emption for new industry to five years, from the present three. The exemptions were proposed primarily as an incentive for the projected Ketchikan pulp mill. Dr. R. M. MacKenzie, Ketchikan Democrat, said he moved to table because the property tax law is presently involved in a court test. Members of the Senate Finance Committee have predicted the civil- ian defense appropriation proposal will be cut drastically. Col. Joseph Alexander, acting ad- jutant general of the Alaska Na- tional Guard and civilian defense head, on the Senate stand, Satur- day night, emphasized the military didn’t want to be involved in a major civilian protection problem in case of hostilities, which would keep it occupied. Martial Law Maybe Senator Howard Lyng, Nome Democrat, tried to bring out that in case of attack the military would probably declare martial law and take over anyhow. “If we are not attacked, we won’t need civilian defense anyhow, will we?” Lyng asked. Alexander replied: “I think we are in the path of flights to the United States. I think an enemy would drop bombs at key spots in Adaska.” Amendments to the Civilian De- fense Bill adopted by the Senate included one to exempt newspapers and news services from seizure at the governor’s order in case of ene- my action against Alaska. Lyng. questioned Colonel Alex- ander closely about civilian defense needs, and said he would have amendments to offer today, “If we had no civilian defense or- starts stretch H low his New York office. Duggan |little along the line nf liquor law i 1 , o ganization at all what would we - | enf m S also was named in the State De orcement. If circulating these| jiom pe asked fhe colonel, partment investigation, though cleared by the Justice Department. The 2mazing thing is that a total of seven people have now died mysteriously or disappeared even more mysteriously following revel- ations in the Alger Hiss case. The four people who have disap- peared behind the Iron Curtain|shows that it contains hydrogen.| He said a decision had been made | . (Continued on Page Four) petitions costs the dealers money, it helps create a payroll. They pass along the cost anyway.” Hydrogen Bomb “I don’t’ believe in loosening any resrictions on people who sell liuor,” anncunced Rep. Pollard. “The chemical formula for alcohol “The military can’t properly do these other things,” Alexander re- iplied. “In case of an emergency, it would be engaged in winning a war. The aid of civilians is needed be- cause wars are becoming more and more peoples’ wars.” Evacuation Maybe * (Continued on Page Two) i (Continued on Page Two) | TERRITORY GETS BILL FOR $2,350 FOR CONSULTANT A bill for $2,350 for the expenses and services of H. Clyde Reeves ir drafting the government reorganiz- ation bill was received by the Sen- ate today. It was from the Council of State ! Governments. Reeves, the Kentucky state revenue commissioner Whe also goes out on such advisory proj- ects, was sent here by the Council. The bill read in the Senate pro- vides $1,600 for the consultant’s services and $750 for his expenses. The Senate passed a resolution this morning for an -appropriation of up to $2,500 to pay the bill b 4§ passed the House previously. The reorganization bill has passec the House but it has not come up on the Senate floor for debate yet It was on the Senate calendar Fri- day, Saturday and today, but it re- mained 17 bills from the top at noontime. The Senate passed this morning the House-approved bill setting forth legal procedures for assign- ment of accounts receivable. It made no amendments so the bill now goe. to the governor. Elmer Rasmuson, Anchoragt banker, took the witness stand for the measure. He explained that onc of the greatest needs for it is ir helping Alaska sub-contractors i their financing under the presen military construction program, He said it would “permit small ac counts to get on the same basi with larger ones.” The Senate refused to receivc numerous bills from the House, be- cause it was after the deadline for the non-appropriation variety, but it voted 11 to 5 to accept a “sea- sonal wage credits” bill. It was House Bill No. 120, by Rep Wendell Kay (D-Anchorage), anc supported by labor groups. It pro- poses opening the doorway to allow workers in seasonal industries tc qualify for some unemploymen: compensation benefit if they earr up to 20 per cent of their year' wages at work outside the seasonal category. Sen. Howard Lyng spoke strongly for acceptance of the bil on the contention that anything that would help Alaska’s seasonal in- dustry workers get a few chips out of the unemployment compensatior fund was desirable. Sen. Ed Ander- son, another Nome Democratic sen- ator, expressed the same thought. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Denali from Seattle in port and scheduled to sail for westward this afternoon. Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle at 4 p.m. Friday. Princess Norah scheduled to ar- rive at 12:30 a.m, tomorrow and sails south at 1:30 a.m. STOCK OLOTATIONS NEW YORK, March 19 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3'%, American Can 1073, American Tel. and Tel. 155%, Anaconda 39%, General Electric 537%, General Motors 52, Goodyear 72%, Kennecott 71, Libby, McNeil O'DWYER HAS NEW VERSION RELES DEATH | NEW YORK, March 19, —(P— Former Mayor William O'Dwyer ‘old the Senate Crime Committee Soday the! he visited gambler Frank Jostello in 1942, “I saw Costello definitely at his home — possibly twice,” O'Dwyer said. O'Dwyer said he was in the Army it the time. The former mayor said he went 50 Costello’'s home to talk to him wbout Air Force contracts. O'Dwyer was serving the Army in an in- sestigating capacity. O’Dwyer said other visitors in the Jostello home at the time included rving Sherman, Bert Stand, “Judge 3avarese and Congressman Mike Kennedy.” O'Dwyer, now ambassador to Mexico, said he didn't expect to e the men there. “I had approximately one-half 1our of conversatoin with Costello,” he former mayor said. Underworld Leader O'Dwyer’s story of his visit to Costello came after the former nayor reeled off a list of names of ‘ive underworld leaders he said he arded as “big” figures in Ameri- :an crime. This was in response o committee questions concerning 1 “big six” crime directorate. The former mayor said his in- vestigation into Murder, Inc., while 1e was Brooklyn District Attorney ‘evealed to him that a nation-wide rime syndicate with no single eader conducted its own court ses- sions and passed death sentences. Earlier, Sen. Charles W. Tobey (R-NH) today told former Mayor Wwilllam O’Dwyer that his version of the death of a key “Murder, Inc.” witness varied from other estimony before the Senate Crime Committee. ODwyer said the witness, Abe Reles, was trying to escape when ne was killed in a plunge out a sixth-floor window of a Coney Is- land hotel in 1941. Tobey informed O'Dwyer that Sank S. Bals, a former Seventh Deputy Police Commissioner, told the committee that Reles was try- ing to lower himself to a fifth-floor window to play a joke on his police suards. “How could anyone tell what was in Reles’ mind?” asked O’Dwyer| Millions Attend Via TV The national television audierice for today’s hearing was estimated MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS 'New Bombers Can Hif Reds Via Arctic WASHINGTON, March 19 —(®- Col. Bernt Balchen, the Air Force's Arctic expert, says this country’s latest type bombers are capable of flying the Polar route to attack strategic targets in Russia. In any future war, Balchen said, | it is reasonable to assume that the | first and perhaps decisive air at- tacks might start from the Arctic | or sub-Arctic regions. He added, in a talk prepared for the NBC television program “Battie Report:” “The shortest route — the great circle tracks — between a number of industrial centers and military bases in North America and the Soviet, particularly points in the Ural and Siberian industrial com- plexes, are all passing through the Arctic regions and some of them nearly across the geographical North Pole, “This strategic problem is very convenient for the Air Forces’ strategic bombing of industrial tar- gets with modern types of high ef- ficiency projectiles. Wiping out the war production potential of an en- emy should greatly reduce our loss and costs of any future war.” | Balchen quoted Gen. Carl Spaatz | (retired), former chief of staff of |the Ajy Force, as saying: “Acrdss the Arctic any industrial target (country) is within the reach ) of our Air Force. The United States | is similarly exposed. We are really | all open across the Arctic.” MINNIE FIELD | DASSES AWAY IN | SEATTLE HOSPITAL Word was received here this morning by Mrs, Peggy McIvor o!' the death of Miss Minnie Field at 7:55 o'clock this morning at| Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle. | The message was from Mrs. Frank | Pearce of Douglas, who took Miss | Field south about ten days ago, for medical treatment. Minnie Field was among Juneau's | best-known citizens, having made an esteemed place in the commun. ! ity through her work in establish- | ing Minfield Home for children. She | operated the home herself for 16| years until last November 9, when PRICE TEN CENTS — | pproaching 38th Pa SMASHING MIDWEST BLIZZARD 'Highways Med, Planes| Grounded, Trains Stall- ed by Snowdrifts By Associated Press The Northern Middlewest was hanging on the ropes again today, virtually knocked out by another smashing blizzard, From the appearance of many snow-blocked sections and the hard- ship of its victims, winter is still more like a lusty young arrival than a feeble, dying season. Throughout the area many high- ways were blocked, planes were i grounded and even some trains were stalled by mountainous snow drifts. Although the fury of the storm was not as widespread as the two earlier blizzards that already had hit the region this month, it was more intense in spots. In Southern Min- nesota, Southeastern South Dakota and Northern Iowa highway traffic was blocked in many places. Trains stalled in Northern Iowa. The storm’ left as much as 19 inches of new snow in the area. Winds up to 45 miles an hour whipped it into deep drifts. The storm began Saturday and continued through most of Sunday. It marooned scores of families in Western Minnesota. At St. Paul and Minneapolis, where the snowfall measured near- ly 10 inches, airlines cancelled most of their flights. Bus lines had re- sumed some operations from there today, but secondary highways stilt were blocked. A Northwest Airlines plane ar- riving from Portland, Ore,, with 17 passengers and crewmen bogged down in a snowdrift on Wold Cham- berlain Field here. But all the per- sons escaped injury. 9 FREELE TODEATH, BLIZZARD EDMONTON, Alta., March 19 —(® she retired and sold it to Mr. —Nine persons were known dead at 15,000,000 to 20,000,000 persons|and Mrs. Peter J. Nickel of Auk; .4 one was still missing today as by WPIX, the New York News Sta- tion which is originating the tele- Bay. | Coming to Alaska about 30 years | ! | the prairie provinces began digging themselves out following one of the casts. for itself as well as other[ago, Miss Field was employed as | yjgeqt March blizzards on record. stations. The audience in the Greater New York area was estimated at 4,500,000 to 5,000,000, The hearings are being telecast in 19 cities. As O'Dwyer testified beads of per- spiration dotted his forehead under the warm television and moving pictures lights. He halted occasionally to wipe his brow. At times his voice broke slightly, but recovered when he took drinks matron at the federal jail under; four different marshals-— Tanner, The storm, completely spent, had lashed the western prairies with rallel ROK FORCES SWIMRIVER FOR ATTACK |Central Front Drive Also Made by U. S. Eighth Army-Jets in Action « By Associated Press South Korean troops swam the chilly Hongchon River in Central Korea today in pursuit of Com- munist forces pulling back toward the 38th Parallel. The Republic of Korea (ROK) soldiers were spearheading the Cen- tral front drive of the U. S. Eighth Army which has set up strong forces in a holding line only 17 miles south of the politically sensi- tive parallel, “There was no stopping those | ROK troops,”” said a military | spokesman, “They swam the cold river rather than wait for boats to | ferry them across in the northward drive. “They were just a lot of eager beavers.” Battalion Annihilated The same ROK troops trapped and annihilated a Chinese Com- munist battalion Sunday. American liaison officers with the South Koreans counted 231 dead Chinese after the battle. The ROKs captured a battery of {76-mm. Howitzers, several mortars and rifles, and large quantities of ammunition, It was the” first action of any size along the Korean front in 83 hours. U. 8. Jets Busy U. 8. jet pilots Monday killed or wounded 300 of 1,500 Reds concen- trated in the village of Kapyong, 32 miles northeast of Seoul. On the Eastern front, Allied pa- trols probing within a few miles of the 38th Parallel moved northward .ngamst Red small arms and mortar fire. The Army broke a three-day si- lence to announce that holding ele- ments were 17 miles from the par- allel at five undisclosed points and patrols were probing “miles north” of these points and in all other sectors. _ 38th Parallel Issue Shouid the UN try to cross the 38th Parallel in force once more? The question is a knotty one for the UN. Britain is urging cautious consideration with the hope o achieving a peace. UN Secretary- General Trygve Lie thinks that it may be possible to get a cease-fire now without linking it to Red Chi- na’s demands for admission to the UN or surrender of Formosa. The UN victories in the field may Beaumont, White, and the late Wil- | hyrricanelike winds and snow for | strengthen its hand in any nego- liam Mahooney. She started her | children’s home projert even before | leaving the federal service, and | earned for herself the name,. “Alaska’s greatest mother.” two days, paralyzing snarling communications. Winds with gusts reaching 80 miles an hour swept Calgary during the height of the storm. traffic and i Only known relative surviving is| still missing was a 70-year-old a sister; Mrs. William Reid of | farmer south of Saskatoon, Sask. Vancouver, B. C., and funeral ar- | Search parties were hampered by rangements will he announced later snow drifts as deep as 12 feet. pending word from Mrs. Reid. | Thirty-eight persons aboard a and Libby 9%, Northern Pacific of water from a glass. 33%, Standard Oil of California O'Dwyer was Brooklyn District 45%, Twentieth Century Fox 21%,%Attorney at the time of Reles’ death. U. S. Steel 42%, Pound $2.80%, Ca-|He is now ambassador to Mexico. nadian Exchange 95.56%. Testimony Contradicts. Sales today were 1,120,000 shares.| Tobey quoted Bals as saying that Averages today were as follows: Reles intended to enter the fifth Industrials 248.06, rails 82.04, utili-|floor window and then go upstairs ties 42.87. and tell his guards “peek-a-boo.” “Your testimony contravenes that e\ 0f Mr, Bals, whose testimony was .'thn he was not trying to escape,” o) Tobey added. The Reles case came into the picture after Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Ténn) interrupted \O'Dwyer in a lunieswry of petty crime condi- tions had observed as a police- man, magistrate and mayor. O'Dwyer had told of slum condi- tions and of pinball and mint machines that he said encouraged children to gamble and steal. Kefauver broke in to suggest that the former mayor “get down to details of organized crime in this | section.” WEATHER REPORT Temperature for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau Maximum, 41; minimum, 37. At Airport — 38; minimum, 34. Maximum, FORECAST Cloudy with intermittent e rain tonight and Tuesday. o’ Lowest temperature tonight near 36 and highest tempera- ture tomorrow about 41 de- grees. Sen. and Mrs. W. L. (Dan) Lha- mon and their daughter arrived by plane from' Seattle Sunday after- noon. The Fairbanks senator had ‘ been excused from the Senate Fri- o |day and Saturday to fly south to e meet his wife, who was receiving o | medical treatment. Mrs. Lhamon . l had driven north from California. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau—1.31 inches; Since March 1—3.64 inches; Since July 1—54.53 inches. At Airport—47 inches; Since March 1 —2.02 inches; Since July 1 34.50 inches. e e 0 000 0 00 ) ¢ | calgary-bound train which became E WEATHER HIT. JUNEAU AT WEEKEND The weekend weather in Juneau | was wet. The rain came down and how. And the downtown streets were miniature rivers and if one crossed them they found Franklin and Se- | ward streets ankle deep and Main | Street about that toe. And talking about washing sand | from the ice. No autos, private or | taxis were operating to the hill sections until late in the afternoon | when ruts had been made in the street ice. Church attendance was | cut 25 per cent, it is said. The streets were glare ice and walking | was impossible except in the snow | heaped on the sidewalks, and that | disappeared rapidly under the rain, Bert Lybeck said this morning that it “looked like the tide had gone out and left Juneau on a sand- bar.” City trucks were out early covering slippery sidewalks with sand which remained when the rain eased up. FROM MT. EDGECUMBE | Co. snowbound Friday near Oyen, Alta., were rescued late Sunday. The intensity of the storm was indicated by the death of 14-year- old Armand Lassauntier who be- came lost in the backyard of his parents 'farmhouse near Cadillac, Sask., Friday night. The boy went out to empty a pail and did not re- turn. His frozen body was found Sunday. Six persons died in Alberta and three in Saskatchewan, Nearly all froze to death. SENATOR LYNG WILL TALK TUESDAY ON REORGANIZATION Senator Howard Lyng (Democrau of Nome) will speak over KINY to- morrow, Tuesday, night, March 20, at 9 o'clock on House Bill 141, the “Reorganization Act,” he announced today. JERRY NOONAN HERE Jerry Noonan of Anchorage, with the Morrison-Knudson Construction of Seattle, arrive gesterday | is stopping at the Baranof Hotel. lthe Baranof Hotel. tiations. The Chinese Reds appear to have iglven up Chunchon, their last main i military base south of the 38th | Parallel, and well-prepared defenses along the Hongchon River south of Chunchon, Sailor Was On Alert And How HONOLULU, March 19 —(®— Sailor Edward C. Burt, Jr., of Hib- bing, Minn, thought he found a Communist on a Waikiki street in the early morning hours. The man, in civilian clothes, was asking a group of sailors if they were happy, and advising them to “join my group.” v Burt recalled the Navy program: “Be alert for anyone running down the Navy or trying to get service- men into a subversive group.” He slapped the man, dumped him into a taxi and pulled him off to a police station. The man identified himself as Maj. Gen. David M. Schlatter, com- manding general of the U. S. Air Force Research and Development section. He was enroute to Washing- ton from Korea, General Schlatter declined to press charges. Burt was released with a Navy “commendation for his | | | | | Helen Puljn of Mt. Edgecumbe |from Seattle and is stopping at motive but a reprimand for his , course of action.” [