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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Sept. 19, 1952
Air Chief Denies Large Bomber Loss
At a UN bomber base, Japan—(U.P.)-The chief of the Far East Air Forces' bomber command denied today that the United Nations stopped daylight B-29 raids last year because Communist jets were shooting down too many of the superforts.
"We can hold our own against MIGS," said Brig. Glen. Wiley D. Ganey, Andalusia, Ala., who had just returned from the first daylight B-29 raid since Oct. 28, 1951.
A week before the Oct. 28 raid, Communist MIG-155 downed five B-225s and damaged five others during a daylight raid.
Ganey also disclosed that the RB-45 four-jet bomber is being used regularly and has proved itself as a reconnaissance plane in Korea but has not yet carried bombs
"It is not capable of the bomb load of a B-29," he said. But it is used to observe results of air strikes and to scout potential targets. In that role, Ganey said, it is "working out very well."
Ganey flew today in the first of 33 superfortes that struck in the Hambung-Hungnam area in northeast Korea.
He said there had been no reason to risk planes in daylight because targets could be hit just as easily at night. The choice of day or night, he said, "depends on the type of target, the type of bomb used and what you're trying to achieve."
Today's targets, he said, could best be hit in daytime.
The B-29s, he said, "always had the capability of daylight bombing."
Hughes to Relinquish RKO-Radio Stock
Chicago—(U.P.)—A once obscure Chicago salesman has announced that a syndicate he heads will purchase Howard Hughes' interests in RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., for $7,-350.000.
The sale includes 1,050,000 shares of RKO stock, approximately 30 per cent of the outstanding stock in the motion picture studio.
Crews who flew the mission seemed unconcerned about the switch to daylight.
"Under normal conditions," said radar officer Ist Lt. William Nero, Concord, Calif., "there's no sweat."
He said he saw several American sabre jets during the flight, on guard against Red interceptors.
The RB-45 first was sent to Japan more than a year ago, but details of its activities have been scarce.
Goebel Gathers Oil, Gas Material
Gathering information concerning recent oil and gas developments in central, southwestern, and southeastern Kansas is the purpose of a field trip by Edwin D. Goebel, in charge of the oil and gas division of the State Geological survey this week.
Data now being collected on the field trip will be incorporated in a new edition of the map, "The Petroleum Industry in Kansas" to be published soon by the State Geological survey.
The map will be a comprehensive one-sheet, up-to-date presentation of the Kansas oil and gas picture. All known oil and gas pools (together with their names); existing pipe lines (identified as to type and company name); oil refineries; natural gasoline, carbon black, helium, propane, ammonia, pressor and pumping stations; and other information pertaining to the Kansas petroleum industry will be located on the map.
Mr. Goebel's itinerary for the week is: Wichita and vicinity, the southwestern Kansas Hugoton area, and then southeastern Kansas.
Thule Air Base, Greenland—(U.P.)
American officers believed today
Russia may be keeping watch by
air on the far northeastern
approaches to North America.
U.S. Suspects Red Activity in Arctic
The disclosure coincided with announcement that this mammoth U.S. air base has become "operational" within the Arctic Circle through a record-breaking $13\frac{1}{2}$-month construction effort.
Although further work still remains to be done on the $263,000,-000 top-of-the-world base, it now could launch the biggest strategic bombers toward the heart of Russia on brief notice.
Reds Assail U.S. On Indo-China
United Nations—(U.P)—The Soviet Union today accused the United States of planning to intervene directly in the Indo-Chinese civil war.
Russian delegate Jacob A. Malik told the United Nations Security Council that that "The United States ruling circles attempt to set up a pretext for an open, flagrant intervention by U.S. forces in Vietnam-"
the pretext, Malik said, is the French-American effort to obtain UN membership for Cambodia, Laos and Viet-Nam. The Soviet diplomat said Russia will veto the three application for that reason.
Malik argued forcefully for the admission to the UN of the Red-controlled Viet-Nam regime which is described by the Russians as the "Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam."
But the council was certain to reject his proposal by a majority vote.
jessica proposes diplomat yesterday The burly diplomat yesterday vetoo the application of Japan to become a member of the International body. It brought his personal veto score to 16 and the Russian total to 53. Today's expected vetoes would bring the Soviet total to 56.
Hisanaga Shimadzu, Japanese UN observer, said the Soviet veto of Japan's application was "not unexpected but still disappointing."
The U. S. Northeast Air command is "rapidly building up" its ability to handle bomber operations and at the same time defend America's northeastern approaches through a system of seven major arctic and sub-arctic bases.
At Goose Bay, Laborador, headquarters of the Northeast Air command, Air Force Lt. Gen. Charles T. Myers explained earlier this week his command's "strategic importance" to reporters.
He said it is unique in being situated entirely on foreign soil. Without a specific geographic limit, it includes an American sector of the Royal Canadian Air Force base at Goose Bay, three bases in Newfoundland and three in the Danish colony of Greenland.
Col. Charles R. Bond, Jr., deputy commander, indicated the suspicion of Russian activity along the command's northernmost fringes. When a reporter recalled reports of unidentified but presumably Russian aircraft vapor trails near Alaska, Bond said:
"We think from time to time we perhaps have seen them, too."
Bond gave no indication of the possible origin of such planes, if they exist in the arctic skies. Russia has had an air base on Franz Josef land since 1934. Franz Josef is 1,300 miles across the polar noun's land from Thule air base.
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