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Egypt to Study Mediterranean

Set Up Department Of Oceanography

By Science Service

LA JOLLA, Cal, Apr. 20—The world's most-travelled sea,

fed in the light of modern oceanography for the first time. Dr. Abdel

University of California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, has’

the! Mediterranean, will soon be stud-|

Fattah Mohamed,’ now a graduate student at the

been chosen to set up an ocean-

ographic institution in his native Egypt. It is designed to play much fthe same role in the eastern Mediferranean as the Scripps Institution does in the Pacific. | The new institution is to he the Alexandria Royal Institute Oceanography, and Dr. Mchamed is to be its first director. It will be a branch of Farouk J University in Alexandria. Part of Broad Pregram It is but part of a broad oceanographic program infstituted by the Egyptian government to learn more about the conl/rasting seas which border Egypt on the north and east—the Med’ terranean and

Red seas. A secon] oceanographic pioneer educator in her homeland, pal of the Keisen Girls’

Leonard McCleaster A promotion and an appoint-

Cadillac Co. were announced today by Bert Donovan, president of the firm. C. J. Hannon, with a ‘background of more than 235 years in Cadillac service has been named service manager of the distributorship, and Leonard McCleaster, former service manager, has been

THE INDIAnA~~LIS TIMES FRIDAY, APR. 20, 1951 Danger From the Air— 4

U. S. Girds In Alaska Against Russian Siberia Threat

Commadnder Cites Weakness to Airborne like a threatening thumb, it B-36s carrying atomic bombs the ocean lie thousands of miles

. Te isn't saying. |could—and probably would—take of trackless tundra and jagged | Attack, Relies Heavily on’ Air Power

off for such Siberian industrial “But,” sald Gen. Kepner with Baikal o saw - tooth mountains inhabited By KEYES BEECH centers as the Lake regi ne!

: a glance at the polar map on his| ‘Could Land Tomorrow’ jonly by Eskimos and animals. ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Apr. 20 (CDN)—"T don’t want to try to gpruce-paneled wall, ‘“‘we . know! Th uld be t | In the defense concept this sea tell Joe Stalin what to do,” sald Lt. Gen. Willlam E. (Bill) Kepner, |, Have enough. planes’ over. e second reason wou } 0 of tundra is considered as effec“but if I were going to try to take Alaska I'd do it with paratroops.” |" o> Bh : panes ? [use Alaska to mount an air attack| "0 0 Lo 0s the ocean itself. The Russians pioneered paratrooping and just in case Stalin there to put 15 or 20 to one of|on the U. 8. The “islands” of defense in the ® has something like that in mind, Gen. Kepner wants his Alaskan|ours. They've done it.” { “The Russians could land in peartland form a triangle, They “% command to be ready. : It is also reported the Russians| Alaska tomorrow if they wanted! are Elmendorf Field at Anchor- : age, the island naval base of Ko-

Aimed at Invasion | |are building up fuel supplies onto, just_as we could land in 8i-| That's the reason for “Opera- the Bering Straits is Russia's Chukotakiy, | beria,” sald Gen. Kepner. “We |giay in the southwest and Ladd

tion Firestep.” These maneuvers, shortest bomber run to such ripe, There are two reasons why the have thousands of miles of coast-|ma1q at Falrbanks in the north:

Russians might attack Alaska. Inline. But ‘whether they wolud £0 |, iv 90 miles from the Arctic which got under way early this targets as West Coast aircraft h i ter they Landed is an jonly month and will continue through plants, the minds of military Planners, anywhere after they la Circle.

the Hanford plutonium the first would be to deny us its other matter.” | | | > To avoid spreading himself too apr. 25, abe Himed at repelling an, ..¢ and upper Midwest indus- offensive use as a takeoff point| The defense of Alaska is built thin Gen, Kepner has concentratFor the first time in the history trial centers like Detroit. (for long range bombers headed around the heartland concept,ieq his forces in these three areas. { If the Air Force knows what | for Russian industrial and popu- which was supposed to be secret But the idea is to defend all of Alaskan war games airborne | troops will take part. A battalion the Russians are up to on Chuk- lation centers. until a news magazine published| j35ka from the heartland—not of ; |otskly Peninsula, which juts out Alaska has one of the largest the whole plan five months ago. | t the heartland itself {of paratroopers will be flown up| ) [Jus e he s trom Ft. Bragg, N. C., in a test from the Siberian land mass airfields in the world. From it] Between Alaska's heartland and !copyright, 1951, for The Indianapolis Times

C. J. Hannon

elevated to the new car sales de-

run to see how long it takes to

of ment to a key position in Hoosier partment.

Mr. McCleaster joined the service department in 1945 and advanced to head the division in 1948.

Mr. Hannon started his career

with Cadillac factory branch in New York City, and since 1940 ‘has been service manager for ‘the |distributorhip in Cincinnati.

Tokyo Educator To Speak Here

Miss Michi Kawai of Tokyo,

Hanna of Indianapolis, is princiHigh

institute will be ‘established later Will speak several times in Indi- School and Junior High School in

at Suez. Dr. Mohamed, who is a professor in the department of oceanography, Faculty of Science, Farouk I University, came to the United States; as recipient of a Fulbright travel grant and Smith-Mundt grant-in-aid. At the Scripps Institution he has been working with Prof. Norris Rakestraw and Dr. Edward Goldberg on his specialty, chemical oceanography.

Grandson of Procter

Firm: Founder Dies

PALM BEACH. Fla. Apr. 20 (UP)—Dr. William Procter, 78. noted biologist and grandson of the founder of the Procter and Gamble soap firm at Cincinnati. O., died at his winter home here

last night. Mr. Procter maintained 100 per cent more real estate ad2 summer home at Bar Harbor, vertising than in any other In-

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anapolis Apr. 29 and 30.

Miss Kawai will give the following talks on behalf of the Japan International Christian University Foundation: On the morning of Apr. 29 in the Second Presbyterian Church; that night in a city-wide meeting in the Third Christian Church; at a noon luncheon sponsored by the Council of Churchwomen Apr. 30 in the Roberts Park Methodist Church, and at 1:45 p. m. the same day at a ministers’ and laymen’s meeting in the Second Presibyterian Church. The speaker, a classmate at Bryn Mawr of Mrs. Agnes M.

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Tokyo. She serves as a member of the International Christian University Board of Trustees and is here to study western educational methods. She is giving special attention to American junior colleges. She is traveling under the auspices of the Civil Education and Information Division of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in the Pacific.

Child Health Day Set WASHINGTON, Apr. 20 (UP) —President Truman, designating May 1 as Child Health Day, has called upon the nation to determine how it “may carry out the objectives of the mid-century White House conference on chil-

dren and youth held here last year.”

get reinforcements up here from the States in case they're needed. The Army, Navy and Air Force En route home on leave from Tokyo, Keyes Beech paused in Alaska to survey defenses in America's “backyard.”

He found a uniquely unified | | of America's three | | services engaged in “Operation

command

Firestep” in what is called the “Heartland.” What was once “Seward’s Folly” is today one of America’s best outposts, an “airman’s theater” alerted against a possible sneak attack from nearby Red Siberia.

are participating in this uniquely unified command. That this is an airman’s theater is recognized by the fact that Gen. Kepner is an Air Force officer. But he has Naval officers in top staff positions and his chief of staff is an army general. You Can't Tell “You never can tell when a fellow is going to try to come in your back door,” said Gen. Kepner. “Or start a fire in your back yard to divert your attention from the front of the house.” Alaska, in our over-all strategic planning, is America’s back yard. From Siberia which lies only 40

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