LETTER TO LT. GEN. C. P. CABELL FROM HARRIS B. HULL

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Approved For Release 2002/11/13 : CIA-RDP80601676R001200p40070-2 I 23-14& HEADQUARTERS PACIFIC AIR FORCES U. S. A. F. APO 953, San Francisco, Calif. 23. March 1958 \ BXOCulive Registx Zes -.3 a f I Lt. Geo. CO P. Cabello USAF 2430 no Street, 11.W. Washington ? D. C. Hy Dear Peorres Lt we the PACO' Diforastida'Serwices ?Mort Colonel C. D. Whitehead, ran au *open house, for the lepol press. The guests were the editors of the papers - we have tool* Advertiser and Star Bulletin, - and the he of the lath* ail T. V. Stations in Hawaii. Also? of course, a number of working reporters from the papers and the Radio sod T.T. Statues attai, These are the nen who regularly sever PACO' Ind Hiekait. The Press and United Press Correspondents also *flooded. linelosed is the stogy written up in the Star Bulletin. It occurs to ne that you night like to see it. Possibly? as the Directors nano is nenticeed, Hr. Dulles end Hr. Wisner would, enjoy seeing it. General Muter is an a trip now. He spot** at the Air War College on the 27th of March and will be is Washington around April 1st or 2ndo I believe, for a couple of days. Let us know when you are coning this way and silos a little tine for the 'beach*. AU the best to you acklyn, and tbill idnatirekTI -5/41-eisik-Ldi HARRIS B. ROLL Colonel, USAF ,,!LCS/Intelligence 1)4 dt; 3FrP____:: Approved For Release 2002/11/13 : CIA-RDP80601676R001200040078-2 9 111 alld "Surgical stimulatljon of 11 the endocrine glin , cor7r rection of certain imb ances that exists in all of us, may some day lead the human race to perfection." Dr. Grana is professor of surgery at San Marcos Uni- versity in Lima, Peru, the oldest medical school in the Western Hemisphere. He is here to address the 11th biennial congress of the International College of Sur- geons. "There is hope even today that surgical modification of endocrine glands may lead to the cure of cancer," he told an interviewer. ? "We know that there is some connection between the endocrine system and Wall Street Notes Fractional Losses In Heavy Trading NEW YORK, March 12 (AP) ? Steels and motors backed away from recent gains as the stock market turned generally lower in heavy early trading today. The ticker tape fell be- hind the pace of transactions for a brief three minutes in the opening rush as the mar- ket's upward drive of the past eight sessions seemed to have reached a temporary halt. Key stocks showed losses ?ranging mostly from frac- tions to about a point. Lorillard and Lukens Steel, favorites in the recent recovery drive, jogged up- ward at the opening then fell back. Lorillard showed a net loss of more than a point and Lu- kens a major fraction. Polaroid, another recent favorite, dropped about two points. Youngstown Sheet was off around a point. U.S. Steel, Bethlehem and Republic Steel lost major fractions. General Motors dropped a bit. Chrysler and Ford eased. Goodrich was off around a point. Losses were taken by U.S. Rubber, Boeing, American Telephone, Du Pont, Royal Dutch and Chesapeake and Ohio. West Germany's shipyards launched 323 ships with a total tonnage of about 1,100,- 000 tons in 1957. 611U11UUL1 iiieg 1 d 11 U LU 'AMU ell CUL Ull LUC V 1:111UL10 ......????????? proper functioning, it may I functions of the body. Miss Sasaki, on Septem 4, 1956, , robbing her au 1?billOgiitiehrObtl*, stroy evidence of the crone The Japanes prosecutioo, in demanding convibtion, recommended a Lfe sen- tence, but the Sendai Dis- trict Court rejected it and sentenced both to death. The prosecution joined the defense in appealing the judgment to the Sendai High Court. Irene Dunne Targain"Ttilt Heard by G.O.P. on Maui WAILUKU, Maui, March 12 ? Motion picture actress Irene Dunne?who described herself as a saleswoman for the United Nations ? spoke to and charmed 241 local residents at a Republican luncheon yesterday noon at the Wailuku Hotel Gardens. Colin, Cameron, Maui County Republican Party chairman, in his introduction of Miss Dunne said she was making her "bargain base- ment speech" here. Her other two talks in Ha- waii for the G.O.P. were at $100-a-plate Lincoln dinners in Honolulu and Hilo. Maui's was a $1.50-a-plate luncheon. When the guest of honor received the key to the Is- land from County Chairman Eddie Tam, a Democrat, she reminded the "mayor": "I just want you to know I, too, come from a long line of Democrats ... who knows, some day maybe you will see the light." Speaking before a back- ground of United Nations flags, she proved not only to be a good saleswoman for the U. N., but for President Ei- senhower and Republican Party policies, too." Miss Dunne spoke from a script which followed the same general lines as the talks she made elsewhere in the Territory. She also stressed the im- portance of retaining the two-party political system in the United States. "It is very important we retain this two-party sys- tem," she said. "The greatest thing you can be doing is to work for your party, whichever party you may belong to." As a U.S. delegate to the Lauren Bacall Hints She Will Wed Sinatra HOLLYWOOD, March 12 (UP)?Actress Lauren Bacall hinted last night that she and Frank Sinatra will be married but added that any announcement would have to come from the singer. ment. U.N., Miss Dunne said con- siderable gloom fell over the Free World part of the or- ganization when Russia suc- cessfully launched its first Sputnik. SEES NO DECLINE "But resulting reaction in the U.N. toward the United States was not that of one towards a country whose prestige had sunk," she said. "The record will show that the U.S. accomplished more in the U.N. and received more support from other countries after Sputnik had been launched." County Supervisor Han- nibal Tavares served as master of ceremonies for the luncheon. Capitol Pro oosed For Ward Site Part of the 23-acre, City- owned Ward property might be a good capitol site, Supe visor Masato Doi said yeste*- day. Doi spoke in opposition to a proposal that part. of the Ward property be used for police station purposes. The land was purchased by the City for an audito- rium site. Counterattack Mounted African Snail Establishes Beachhead on Garden Ne The pesky giant African snail has spread its forces to Kauai. The first infestation of the troublesome snail on the Garden Island has been discovered in a garden area in Mana. And Board of Agriculture and Forestry officials aren't losing any time in going to battle against the new snail outbreak. CANNIBAL FOE Alan D. Thistle, head of the entomology division, is going there tomorrow armed with snail-poison and 300 enemies of the African snail ? the cannibal snail, Euglandina rosea. The carnivorous Euglan- dina will be released around the perimeter of the infest- ed one and one-half acre area. Residents are urged tn recognize the rose-tinged cannibal snail and spare his life so he can fight the African snail?the notorious pest of gardens and farms on Oahu and Maui. HOPES FOR CONTAOL Thistle said he "has hopes" of eradicating the Garden Island snails before they can spread further. It is believed the snails were taken to the Island purposely as a possibility of food, Thistle said. However, he cautioned that it is against the law to have African snails in pos- session or to transport them across the Islands. Kuter Tells of Nuclear War YA-MePd8FIP rA7411001200040078-2 that the strength and disposition of U.S. force has been a deterrent to war so far. The general said that this force takes two-thirds of his time and said the other third goes to the important work of developing "indigenous air forces" in the coun- tries of our allies in the Pacific?Nationalist China, Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Thailand. 80 SQUADRONS PLANNED Eventually, he said, these air forces will total 80 squadrons against our 40, adding to the deterrent force. He said Nationalist China now has the biggest and best-trained of the friendly air forces but said Japan's eventually will be bigger. At the end of the briefing, one of the guests asked Kuter what he thought all-out thermo-nuclear war would be like. Many civilians believe, said the questioner, William H. Ewing, the Star-Bulletin's managing editor, that war will wipe out both sides. In answer to Mr. Ewing's question, General Kuter said: "I don't feel that they or we will have had it on the first wave. FORESEES A SHORT WAR "The war we have in mind will be short, a matter of a few days. "With our chances for strategic warning, I am con- fident we will get off our own first strike even if the Reds hit us first." He said the response would carry a lot of devastation. It would be followed, he said, by a smaller second Pave attack and a still smaller third wave, both still devastating. The whole war, he said, would last only a few days, in histopinion, and would hinge upon who had the strength left to fight on after the first exchange of blows. It would be problematical, he said, whether the en- emy would hive enough of a government left to formal- ly surrender or whether the war would dribble to an end. *After the second and third wave, we will have the predominant strength to go on," the general said. OTHER AMERICAN FORCES Besides the blows launched by his Air Force, he said, the American reply would be mounted by the Pacific Fleet and by the Strategic Air Command, which in the Pacific is based on Guam. "Our present deterrent forces are effective and we should be able to retain the necessary deterrent," Kuter said. "I can't imagine the Soviets attacking the U.S. with less than full power." To another question as to whether he thinks a war might be fought without nuclear weapons, he replied no. He said he could not imagine a side going down to defeat without throwing its hardest punches. But he said he feels war limited to a confined area is still a possibility. DATA TACKED ON RED MISSILES It was pointed out at the briefing that the United States "has no firm intelligence" on Soviet missile strength "but that there is no doubt about their capa- bility." The newsmen were told that missiles would be added to the Soviet arsenal in the Far East at an early date. "It is known that substantial numbers of defensive missiles are in use in Moscow and elsewhere," a brief- ing_oificer said. Approved For Release 2002/11/1 : ciA 1"?WMPFAMMIRQQ140.44197?t4he best invest- A giant African snail, right, and its enemy, the ,1 ment now made of American tax dollars is in the Cen- Euglandina rosea.?Star-Bulletin Photo. tral Intelligence Agency headed by Allen Dulles. A U.N.C. spokesman said aerediked, Allied newsmen " re free to go anywhere nd talk to whomever they please." An Army information of- ficer, Lieutenant Colonel Ben Legare, told newsmen at a briefing last Thursday that any reporter caught en- tering a Communist build- ing would be barred from all future military armistice commission meetings in the neutral zone. "That's right," the Army spokesman said today when reminded of Legare's warn- ing. "But the colonel's instruc- tions then were different than now." Legare said yesterday that four South Korean news- men, whose neutral zone passes were lifted Thursday after M.P.'s spotted them Bernard Kinney Of Kamuela Joins Race for Senate KAMUELA, Hawaii, March 12?Bernard Kinney of Ka- muela announced today that he will be a candidate for the Territorial Senate. A Republican, Mr. Kinney was elected to the House of Representatives two years ago, when he made his first bid for elective office. He is athletic director for Parker Ranch and a deputy district governor of Lions International. In past years he has been Kohala district magistrate and a police captain. ranking Congressmen' aod brought fresh demands from leftwing elements in Britain for banning U.S. guided mis- sile, bases there. " British papers headlined the accident in South Caro- lina. "This incident is a clear indication of the dangers in- volved in stationing the H- bomb here," Sir Frederick Messer, leader of the Labor- ite faction which opposes the /1-bomb, said in London. Two other Laborites an- nounced they would bring up the question in Parlia- ment. Bits of torn and twisted metal from the "Florence bomb" were being hunted by Air Force searchers and ap- peals went out to souvenir hunters to return the scraps they picked up late yester- day in the minutes after the accident happened. The Air Force said it merely wants to investigate the pieces and insisted there is nothing radioactive about them. WILL CLOSE AREA Major General Charles B. Dough of Hunter Air Force Base said the entire area around the blast would be closed off for several days. He said a study is being made also of the bomb-lock- ing device that malfunc- tioned on one of the Hunter B-47s, causing the bomb to be dropped over South Caro- lina. What happened in Flor- ence could happen any- where in the land, and that's one thing that was certain to bother Americans seeing the swept-wing 111-47s flying the skies on training missions as was the plane which? dropped the bomb. Marine Tumbles 30 Feet, Escapes With Broken Ribs A young Kaneohe Marine ic confined to Tripler Army Hospital with rib fractures suffered last night when he fell from the fourth floor of a Kapiolani Boulevard apart- ment building. His condition was listed as "satisfactory." Police said Corporal Gor- don Singleton, 21, of the Ka- neohe Marine Corps Air Sta- tion apparently slipped from a railing at the Shirai Apart- ments, 2512 Kapiolani Boule- vard, around 9 p.m. He tumbled more than 30 feet, landing in a flower bed VISITING FRIEND Singleton and another Ma- rine had gone to the apart- ment building earlier, police said, to visit friends. Corporal Singleton had been drinking, police said. He apparently leaned over, or crossed, the railing in an attempt to get around a low partition that divides the apartment building into two sections. L.P. 4, ? 0 Meanwhile, the rebel forces grouped in Central Su- matra were reported braced for an expected onslaught by local forces against Pa- dang, one of the principal centers of the insurgent "counter-government." NAVY GUARDS PORT Two corvettes from Jakar- ta's small navy were patrol- ling the approaches to Pa- dang harbor, on Sumatra's west coast. Rebel leaders ex- pressed the belief that attack is "imminent." A small government force seized one or more towns on Bengkalis island, off the Su- matran east coast, after a week end landing which was the principle military action DIRECTORY Page Bulletin Board 9 Business 42 Classified Ads 46-49 Comics 36 Editorials 8 Food Section 23-37 Garden 4041 Hobbies 40 Obituaries 12 Radio-TV 20 Society 15-18 Sports 43-45 Theatre Guide 21 ? Tide Tables 42 Visitor's Guide 22 Waikiki Page 22 Japan -Court Cuts Sentence Of 61 to Life SENDAI, Japan, March 12 (UP)?A Japanese Appeals Court today reversed a low- er court judgment that would have sent an American sol- dier to the gallows for the first time in Japanese penal history. The Sendai High Court re- duced to life imprisonment the death sentence passed last year by the Sendai Dis- trict Court against Private Orvis Boone, 25, of Galves- ton, TeNas. Saved with the soldier was his 22-year-old Japanese sweetheart, Shigeko Sasaki, LIFE SENTENCE Boone, who deserted his unit, was already under life sentence by a U.S. military court for the bludgeon slay- ing of Specialist Third-Class Edward K. Maunakea, 19, of Honolulu on July 31, 1956, when he was tried for a sec- ond murder last year by the Japanese court. Boone and his girl friend were charged with strangling Turn to Page 1-A6 Column 4 tee contracts win provide 112,000 jobs on the construc- tion sites as well as boost employment in thArgilcis trades. HOUSE MEETING Deputy Defense Secretary Donald A. Quarles was ex- pected to outline what the Pentagon is doing to speed up its construction program at. a meeting of the House Armed Services Committee. The controversial part of the housing bill would au- thorize GI housing rates to raise the present 41/2 per cent to 4%, and could boost rates orf military housing interest rates from 4 per cent to 41/2 per cent. OTHER PROVISIONS Non-controversial sections - would provide $1,500,000 for discretionary F'ederal mort- gage buying to sPur home building; $300 million for direct GI home loans; $50 million for Federal buying of military housing mort- gages. It also would extend di- rect and guaranteed GI loans for two years and re- duce down payments on Federal Housing Adminis- tration home loans to permit down payments of only 3 per cent on homes valued up to $13,500 instead of the pres- ent $1.0,000 limit. Convicts-. DP80601676R001200040078-2 Riots End at Tennessee Prison PETROS, Tenn., March 12 (AP)?Rioting prisoners at Brushy Mountain State Pris- on?their disturbances end- ed by gunfire and tear gas? told newsmen today they were ready to return to work, A spokesman for the con- victs, peering through the shattered glass of a window in his riot-wrecked ;ell block, said the men were satisfied with the agreement made last night with Keith Hampton, coMmissioner of corrections. Kenneth Ray Lawson, the rioters' spokesman, said, "They gave ds everything we asked for except two things ?they couldn't give us a five-day work week in the' mines and they wouldn't agree to stop- using the_ strap." The prison has one of, the state's largest' mining oNra- tions and coal from the pits Is used exclusively for state institutions. None is sold commercially. Lawson's -reference to the "strap" was used in connec- tion with the use of a leather strap on prisoners for infrac- tion of prison rules. The men began demon- trating Monday night Arneng -other things they tomplained of What they Called cruelty of the guards -end the "unequal treatment Of prisoners." About 300 prisoners, most- ly white, were involved in the rioting. A gunfire barrage halted their second night of demon- strations last night. Later, Hampton met with the rioters. Shortly after 7 a.m. today the men began an orderly procession from their cell blocks to the prison mess hall. After the men had re- turned to their cells, news- men in the prison yard called for a convict spokesman. Lawson came to a window and said the men had decid- ed to return to work. , i The Board of Supervisors roted 6-1 yesterday to ac- uire the Sears building for 2,137,500. ears Building Purchased by City; o House Police,Other Departments \City Attorney. Norman K. hung will negotiate a for- Mal contract, including pro- yisions for at $25,000 down pay ,itt and possession by Jun 30, 1959, to be sub- mitted to the board later. SupeAisor Richard M. ageyama, the lone holdout, wanted a study mktle of the Ward property as- a possible site before making a deci- sion. Necessary building reno- vations to house the Police Department and sever al other City agencies will cost an estimated $927,000 at to- day's prices. The Hawaiian Land Company is sales agent. Chief of Police Dan Liu appeared before the board to spike rumors that some Gen. Kuter Describes War of Future, hing Nudear Anis Exchange of Punis General Lawrence S. Kuter, who wears four stars as the commander of the Pacific Air Force, was asked yes- terday what he thought all-out nuclear war would be like. And he answered in terms that kept Honolulu news- paper, radio and televisionrmen straight, tense and silent In their chairs. General Kuter had invited them to a briefing at his new command headquarters at Hickam Air Force Base, a building that still bears scars left by Japanese ma- chine guns on December 7, 1941. Before the general answered, officers of his staff had outlined for the guests their analysis of the relative strength and positions of the air forces in the Pacific. TM types, speed- and capability of Soviet bloc planes were outlined. Pictures of the planes were shown. Exact figures were offered as to their range, maxi- mum altitude and weaponry. The biggest and longest-ranged planes could fly all the way to Hawaii from Asia and return, an officer stated. In general, the Soviet planes and the American planes, for which figures were also given, fit in the same performance level. A map showed where the Soviets and their allies are believed to have 200 jet airfields along the Pacific shores and some 300 more fields of limited jet capa- bility. Maps showed opposing U.S. fields with Air Force units in the Philippines, Okinawa, Japan and Hawaii. They showed the first Allied missile base on Formosa, pointed at the China mainland. ' The capability of delivering atomic and in some cases Pacific Air Force-128,000 Men . General Laurence S. Kuter offered these statis- tics yesterday on the size of the Pacific Air Force. Some 128,000 men, 11,000 of whom are in Hawaii. A capital value of about $1.5 billion with a quar- ter-billion of this in Hawaii. Daily expenditures of about $1 million with about $2.5 million a month spent in Hawaii. - nuclear weapons lies with the planes on both sides, it was stated. The missiles on Formosa also ean deliver atomic war- heads. General KuterAffirEegaffcisNesiranie11111,03 Turn to Page 1-A, Column 5 IA- DP801301676R001200040078-2 Stor-Bu Heti& Photo General Laurence S. Kuter pglice officials preferred a new building. He said that although sub- stations may be required in the distant future, his de- partment needs a central ad- ministration building now. Chief Liu also said he felt a police station on the Ward property might conflict with proposed auditorium uses on the/same land. WANTS NEW BUILDING Watters 0. Martin, a Ho- nolulu businetethan Who bp posed the Sears ptirchase "as a taxpayer," showed up with Attorney Howard W. Hoddick to state the case for a new building. Hoddick said the City would lose some $23,000 a year in taxes on the Sears property and quoted a con- tractor who claimed a new building could be erected for $1.5. J. Russell Cades, who was chairman of a special com- mittee which recommended a municipal auditorium on Turn to Page 1-A,-Column 4 1 with nuclear accidents. .4, The on2b's trigger, a dev- astatif thing in its own right, exploded when the bomb plowed into the earth i n railroadman Walt er Gregg's back yard. 35-FOOT CRATER The blast bored a hole 35 feet deep in the ground. Gregg and five members of his family were injured. But Captain James J. Brady, public information of- ficer at S.A.C. headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska, said the bomb that was ejected by ac- cident from a Hunter Air Forge Base B-47 jet bomber was a "nuclear component." He explained there was no radioactivity because there had been no fission of the uranium in the device. Brady said, however, that the bomb lacked only the fuse that is necessary to create the fission to make an atomic explosion. The incident brought im- Turn to Page 1-A, Column 8 Navy Cancels CAPE WAVE: re, noon Rocket Firing March 12 )?The Navy , tg canceled ' er attempt to fire its , nguard satellite rocket shortly before today after hours sg trying. - The effort twice came within three or four minutes of launching, only to ' be frustrated by technical dif- ficulties, the nature of which were not immediately dia.- closed. Weather Forecast Honolulu and vicinity? Clear tonight and tomorrow morning. Increasing cloudi- ness tomorrow afternoon with a few scattered showers mauka sections. Gentle vari- able winds. Temperatures last 24 hours: High 85; low 66. No rain. Hilo Policeman Accepts $10, Holds Driver on Bribe Count HILO, Hawaii, March 12?Fearing he was flunking his driving test, a Honomu man allegedly tried to get a passing grade by bribing a policeman yesterday. Sergeant Martin Kaaua, who was conducting the test, accepted $10, he said, and then arrested. John Soares, 31, of Gym Camp, Honomu, for bribery. Soares was later released on $500 bail. "He said he regarded it as a gift, and didn't know it was a violation of the law," said Detective Sergeant Joseph Correa. App I. a Env D E i:i W ii7C 8 HICk-ci.:4.441 g. : a.? : an. 674 1K b'E4 WrYclini " "1 ' UNCLASSIFIED CONFIDENTIAL SECRET CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY OFFICIAL ROUTING SLIP TO NAME AND ADDRESS 1 0?411A r:DAT4 1 .7) C. / "i A 1958 2 ed , ...-, 5 6 ACTION DIRECT REPLY PREPARE REPLY APPROVAL DISPATCH RECOMMENDATION COMMENT RETURN CONCURRENCE ?7),ILE INFORMATION SIGNATURE Remarks : ? FOLD HERE TO RETURN TO SENDER FROM: NAME, ADDRESS AND PHONE NO. DATE :i 14 I I 1 i C-..-?-? "la rlilljS 4d ? 1 ? III ''? - ::::::?' -''' -6% i 4 i ' C P-1 EOPMEI 0 I ? 7 6 RO 8 t280:04 0 FORM NO. .137 Replaces Form 30-4 I APR 55 4 which may be used. 07 78 (40) . U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1955-0-342531 *)..'