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...your May 26 "News in Pictures" spread: a little late, l take the liberty of calling to your attention that the picture captioned "Arctic Cache" does not show "supplies left by Peary's 1909 North Pole expedition" but shows the remnants of a depot placed ten years later by the Danish explorer (my father-in-law), the late Admiral Godfred Hansen. The depot was placed in 1919. . . approximately 700 feet north of Peary's old post . . . and was laid out by the third Thule expedition as fourrage for Roald Amundsen in case he should succeed in flying over...
...front line he talked of is one of the richest areas in Asia-Manchuria. In the 2½ years since Mao Tse-tung's Communists captured China, it has become Red China's breadbasket, industrial heart and political bellwether. It is also the arsenal, supply depot and staging area for Chinese armies in Korea, and the constantly expanding haven of the 1,500-plane Red Chinese air force which hovers buzzard-like over the stalemate in Korea...
...When Malaya's new British high commissioner, tough little General Sir Gerald Templer, heard the news, he sped to the barbed-wire village in his armored car, assembled 300 village elders in a school auditorium, and meted out punishment. Tanjong Malim had long been a supply and information depot for the Red guerrillas, he said. "It does not amuse me to punish innocent people," snapped Templer, "but many among you are not innocent. You have information which you are too cowardly to give . . . Have some guts and shoulder the responsibility of citizenship." Templer slapped a 22-hour curfew...
Roughage. In Tokyo, after several sticks of dynamite disappeared from a munitions depot, cops combed the city for suspected terrorists, finally caught a rosy-cheeked lad who confessed to the theft and explained: "I ate them...
...Sergeant First Class Delbert Jenkins holds the unofficial title of oldest enlisted man in the U.S. Army. Last week, at an Engineer depot in Yokohama, Jenkins explained his unusual position. He saw 16 months of service in World War I, then left the Army to earn more money (as a railroad man and part-time farmer). After raising a family of nine children (he now has 15 grandchildren), Jenkins wangled his way back into the Army in 1942. "I pestered the Army until they let me in again," he said, "to free some younger man for a job where youth...