SCHOOL NOTES ,
HIGH SCHOOL _
On Nov. 5, 1892, China passed
the Exclusion Act. China remain
ed scornful of western civilization
fc and changed very little. By 1898,
it was plain that the great powers
of Europe were about to dismem
ber China and partition her terri
tory among themselves. Her
wealth and her weakness tempted
them. The United States, however,
stepped forward in the interest of
China and advocated the “epen
door policy.” This meant that all
parts of China should be open, on
equal terms, to the citizens of all
foreign countries for commerce
ad investment. Thus China nar
rowly escaped from being dismem
bered and partitioned by the Eu
ropean powers.
The first Lettermen’s Club of
Nome High School was organized
on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 1949. The
officers elected were Harold Bell
for president, Clarence Willoya
vice-president, and Dean Bronson
secretary-treasurer. A meeting will
be held later to determine the re
quirements for membership.
English II students are having
an interesting study of Silar Mai
ner written by George Eliot.
Geometry students are studying
theorems dealing with parallel
lines.
At seven o’clock tonight, the
High School plans to have their |
• skating party on a tundra lake be
neath the light of a hunter’s moon.
Transportation, refreshment, en
tertainment and bonfire commit- ,
tees are planning the make the
event a happy one.
The hunters’ moon will be at
full Saturday evening. Like the
harvest moon a month earlier it is
large on the horizon. Because the
jingle it makes with the horizon
is small, it rises less than a half
hour later each evening while or
dinarily it is fifty minutes. The
apparent enlarged moon on the
horizon is an optical illusion i
caused by numerous intervening ;
objects on the landscape. If a pa
per is rolled around a pencil and
the moon viewed through it, the
illusion disappears.
Govt. May Take
Hand In Coal Strike
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Reports
that the government may soon
step into the coal strike revived
yesterday with word that Indiana ;
operators have refused separate
peace talks with John L. Lewis. ,
One highly-placed official close
ly watching the steel-coal strike
crisis said: “We can’t let Lewis go
much beyond this week-end.”
He indicated that unless there
is some progress toward settling
foe 46-day coal strike the govern
ment will invite Lewis and opera
tors to Washington negotiations,
probably some time next week.
Failure of such federal talks
would put the coal problem up to
President Truman. Up to now, Mr. j
Truman has held that neither the I
coal nor steel strikes has reached !
the national emergency stage.
The Indiana operators Wednes
day night turned down a proposal
of Gov. Henry Schricker of Indi
ana for a separate coal pact cov
ering that State. Lewis had ac
cepted the idea, saying he would
submit any tentative offer to his
union’s policy committee at its
meeting in Chicago Monday.
An appeal similar to Gov.
Schricker’s was made by Gov. Ad
lai Stevenson of Illinois. But Ste
venson confined himself to a plea
to both sides for a quick peace
plan.
Minnesota’s Gov. Luther W.
Youngdahl also called for an end
to the strike, but he addressed his
appeal to President Truman.
There are almost a million men
on strike in the coal and steel
stoppages. The steel strike has
been going on since Oct. 1.
CIO president Philip Murray,
directing the steel strike, has won
a pension-insurance settlement
with the Bethlehem Steel Corp.,
the nation’s second largest pro- l
ducer. While presiding over the
annual CIO convention at Cleve
land, Murray is tryilng to get other
steel firms to take the Bethlehem ^
terms.
The soap operas have many lis
teners who won’t admit they listen.
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Naval Agency !
Engineered Navy
Attack on Pentagon
(By Jerry Korn)
WASHINGTON, if?)—“OP 23,” j
a naval agency said to have mas
ter-minded the admiral’s bitter
Congressional attack on defense
policies, has been junked by Adm.
Forrest P. Sherman, new chief of
naval operations.
Sherman, a strong supporter of
armed forces unification, cracked
down on the 30-man unit less than
24 hours after taking over from
Adm. Louis Denfeld as the navy’s
top uniformed officer.
There were reports some days
ago that the navy’s inspector gen
eral, Read Adm. Allen R. McCann,
had seized the group’s records and
was investigating its activities.
“OP 23” was what the navy
called its Operations Division 23.
Actually, its full title was Organ
ization, Research and Policy Divi
sion of the Office of the Chief of
Naval Operations. It was headed
by Capt. A. A. Burke, who testi
fied in Congress against present
Pentagon policy.
Sherman’s order dissolved the
group—which consisted of 13 offi
cers and 17 enlisted men — and
handed its work to other navy
agencies. OP 23’s ‘“principal func
tions have been completed,” a
statement said.
The unit was said to have map- |
ped strategy for the broadscale j
barrage laid by top navy officers i
in sensational hearings before the
House armed services committee
last month.
The unit’s junking came hard
on the heels of another blow
aimed at the position that Ameri
can seapower is becoming danger
ously weak.
Senator Tydings <D.-Md.) chair
man of the Senate armed services
committee, declared yester day
that the U. S. navy is “three times’'*
as strong as the combined navies
of other nations.
O nthe other hand, Tydings told
reporters, “Our army with only a
few divisions is pitifully below
the comparable strength of the
other great country.” That was
obviously a reference to Russia.
Tydings recently returned to
this country from a series of con
ferences with European military
leaders. i
In air strength, he said, Russia
and the United States are about
equal.
Truman To Stump
Country For Tair
Deal” Congress
(Continued from Page One)
campaign he made in 1948 through
back platform appearances in key
states, one close adviser told re
porters.
Mr. Truman stressed two pre
dictions in his talk last night—
that the 81st Congress will enact
a “good deal more” of his “fair
deal” before quitting its next ses
sion and that there will be a heav
ier vote in 1950 elections for those
with his views.
He called his civil rights, feder
al aid to education, national health
insurance and other “general wel
fare” proposals the path to future
growth.
He said the people were behind
him.
“I am not too much worried by
those who oppose those policies,”
Mr. Truman declared. "Between
the reactionaries of the extreme
left with their talk about revolu
tion and class warfare and the re
actionaries of the extreme right
with their hysterical cries of bank
ruptcy and despair, lies the way
LITTLE DAMAGE IN TWO
SMALL FIRES
There was a fire in the projec
tion room of the Dream Theater
Wednesday evening during the
showing of Ronald Coleman in
“Arrowsmith.” Some film was
burned but there was little other
damage as the projection room is
fireproofed.
Thursday morning an overheat
ed oil stove alerted the fire de
partment to George Hit’s apart
ment at the foot of C Street. There
was no damage.
of progress.
Mr. Truman spoke on the anni
versary of the day last November
when he received the word of his
victory over Thomas E. Dewey in
the bitter 1943 campaign. It was
“Truman Day” in Minnesota’s cen
tennial observance.
Republican Gov. Luther Young
d*ahl was one of his hosts. The
President called it a “bi-partisan”
visit but laughed every time he
did so.
President Truman conferred
ferred with Illinois political lead
ers at an unusual hour today
when they boarded his private car
at 5:05 a.m. in Chicago.
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