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Pebble Beach, the golf course laid out along Carmel Bay on California's windswept Monterey Peninsula, has tricky traps, yawning water hazards and yapping sea lions which have plagued the world's best golfers. There last week 164 golferines gathered for the 44th U. S. Women's Amateur. To make the course less formidable, four of its holes had been shortened-paring 113 yards off the dog-tiring, 6,661-yd. course...
Brusquely they issued an ultimatum demanding air and naval stations in French Indo-China and the right to transport more troops across the peninsula for a backdoor attack on China. There were rumors that they wanted to subdivide the country into a northern, Japanese-controlled state, a central buffer, and a southern, French-controlled section...
There is a further threat since Russian naval and air establishments have been built on the Kamchatka Peninsula (which wanders off the western edge of the map), since the Russians are reported to have constructed bases at East Cape, Anadyrsk, and other nearby points on the Asiatic mainland...
...Army Air Corps is going further, readying plans for fields at Point Barrow (where Will Rogers and Wiley Post were killed), at Nome and probably another near the Canadian border, against the possibility of an air invasion across the top of the world. Advance fields will dot the Seward peninsula back of Nome, the lower Yukon Valley back of Bethel and the tundra south of Point Barrow. This summer the U. S. Army landed at Anchorage the first big contingent of troops the territory had seen in 40 years. The only other sizable garrison in Alaska consists of some...
...recently made to bristle with R. A. F. land ing fields (military and naval airfields indicated by red and white windsocks, commercial airfields by blue and white), would probably have to be left until later; but in any case it is on the wrong side of the peninsula for naval action...