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England Objects
To Sharing j
Atomic Bomb
LONDON. Nov. 7— UP) —Win
ston Churchill expressed convic
tion that Soviet Russia would not
share the atomic bomb secret if
she alone held it and urged Prime
Minister Attlee in his forthcoming
Washington talks to bring no
"pressure” on United States to di
vulge the bombs’ production de
tails.
Churchill said “I’m sure were
circumstances reversed, and we
or the Americans asked for sim
ilar access to the Russian arsenals,
it would not be granted. Churchill
mentioned assistance furnished
Russians during the war, includ
ing radar, and other matters,” and
said he “was not conscious of any
considerable reciprocity,” but he
declared that “any idea of Britain
deliberately pursuing an anti-Rus
sian policy was thoroughly op
posed to British thought and con
science.”
Scorched Money
Leads To Arrest
Of Suspects
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 7—(/P>
—Currency scorched when a
stolen safe was opened with an
acetylene torch, led to the arrest
of two men here on charges of
burglary and larceny at Kodiak,
Alaska. The FBI filed removal
complaints against Harrison Lee
Barber, and Edward A. Kubillus.
Barber had been a jockey’s agent
at Bay Meadows and Kubillus
tended bar at Oakland.
The complaint said the men
had been indicted in Alaska for
burglary on October 21, 1942. Bail
was set for five thousand dollars
each. The FBI said the safe was
stolen from the restaurant of Bill
Schultz, and taken away in a taxi
while Barber entertained the
Schultz family at dinner. The FBI
said that Kubillus and a taxi
driver took the safe away and
buried it. Later the safe was cut
open with a torch, and some of
the currency was scorched.
The indictment charged that
thirty-two thousand dollars and
some jewelry ware stolen. Some
of the burned money was found
in the possession of Alvin E. Co
petti of Kodiak, who is serving
time.
NEVADA FOUNTAIN
LUNCH REOPENS
The Nevada Fountain Lunch re
opened last Monday evening al
though the ice-cream department
was not ready, Mrs. Harry Ga
brielson, manager, announc e d .
Competent help was not avail
able to make the necessary con
^ nections to the refrigerating unit.
Mrs. Chester Milligan is the new
, cook, and it putting out mum
very fine lunches.
RECORD-BREAKING BOEING C-97
Exceeding all Army Air Force transports in range, payload and size, the new Boeing C-97 set a
transcontinental speed record recently when it flew from Seattle to Washington, D. C., in 6 hours
3 minutes, 50 seconds. The huge plane, which is a transport counterpart of the Boeing B-29 Super
fortress, covered the 2,323 miles between the two cities at an average speed of 383 miles per hour.
The C-97’s wings, landing gear and tail surfaces are identical to those of the B-29, but its fuselage
is longer and consists of two decks.
Democrat Wins
Mayoralty Election
In New York City
*
Democrat William O. Dwyer
swamped his two major opponents
and won the election for mayor
of New York. His vote which far
exceeded the aggregate of his op
position, prompted Democratic
leaders to see good things ahead
for the party in the state, and na
tionally. They saw in it the de
cline of the political fortunes of
Governor Dewey. Republicans
withheld comment.
Mayor Edward Jeffries was
elected to the fourth term in De
troit’s non-political mayoralty
race against Richard Franken
steen, CIO union leader. The
Democrats elected these mayors
elsewhere: David Lawrence in
Pittsburg; Thomas Burke in
Cleveland.
Republicans elected Congress
men from the Fourth New Jersey,
and the twenty-fourth Illinois Dis
tricts.
Reading Of Peace,!
Japs Surrender
PEARL HARBOR, Nov. 7—(/P)
—Fleet headquarters reported
twenty-two Japanese soldiers and
an eighteen-year-old Geisha girl
came out of the wilds of Guam
and gave themselves up Novem
ber second, after reading in a Life
magazine that Japan had surren
dered.
Many Killed In
Rioting In
Tripolitania
CAIRO, Nov. 7—|7P)—The Brit
ish Ministry of Information an
nounced that seventy-four Jews
and one Arab had been killed in
anti-Jewish outbreaks in Tripoli
tania. Police in Tripoli, metropol
itan center of the Italian colony
in North Africa were ordered to
“shoot all looters, and fire if
necessary to disperse groups of
more than five persons.”
With the support of the Arab
League, the Libians are seeking
independence from Italy. Russia
openly expressed interest in some
form of control for Tripolitania
during the conference of the five
foreign ministers in London, indi
cating she might ask for a share
in administering that colony in
Eritrea.
Miss 6Shang-Ri-La’
Wishes To Marry
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 7 — (/F)
—Winsome WAC Cpl. Margaret
Hastings, who survived the Shan
gri-la valley plane crash in New
Guinea last May, confided today
she would like to find a good man
and get married. She said that
changing from a corporal to Mrs.
has top priority on her post-war
planning. ,
China’s silk culture has flour
ished for 4,000 years.
I I
Jap Police
Departnienl
Gets Shake-Up
—
TOKYO, Nov. 7—(/Pi—Hirohito
! called a regular meeting of the
Diet for December twenty-fourth, >
Kyodo news agency said, but:
there are indications that it might 1
be superseded bv an extraordin-!
i
ary session expected to begin De
cember tenth for considering elec
tion law revisions.
Japan’s once domineering police j
system, meanwhile, got another
rough shake-up. The nation’s po
lice chiefs met to discuss the es
tablishment of the “peoples po
lice” collection of civilian wea
pons.
The police are charged with con
trolling the black markets at the
command of General MacArthur.
The Jap government released five
hundred seven political prisoners
and discontinued “protection sur
veillance” over two thousand
other individuals.
The Jap government fired more
than fifty-eight hundred enforce
ment personnel and announced it
would appoint civilian advisory
boards to the major Tokyo police
districts with unpreced e n t e d
power to criticize the public ac
tions of the officers.
SAM AILAKS PARENTS OF
BABY CTRL
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Ailak are the
parents of a baby girl born No
vember 6. The young lady has
been named Sally Viola.
Stalin Fails
S o Attend
Moscow Festivities
MOSCOW, Nov. 7—CP>—Stalin,
for the first time since he became
leader of Soviet Russia, failed to
attend the massive parade of sol
diers and civilians celebrating the
Socialist revolution in Red
Square. The Premier broke a pre
cedent earlier by allowing Molo
tov to deliver the “state and na
tion” address in Standrew Hall
in the Kremlin last night. Stalin
didn't attend.
Stalin was reported yesterday
to have returned to Moscow from
a month-long vacation in South
Russia. Newspapers carried greet
ing from world leaders, on this,
the twenty-eighth anniversary of
the revolution, but messages from
President Truman and Secretary
Byrnes were conspicuously miss
i ing. In past years messages from
Roosevelt have been among the
most prominently displayed.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7—(/P)—
The White House said President
Truman sent a message to Mos
cow congratulating the Russian
government on the anniversary of
the revolution. At the State De
partment it was said Secretary
Byrnes didn’t send a message be
cause the occasion called for a
greeting to the Chief of State
rather than Secretary of State.
Assistant Press Secretary, re
plying to questions about reports
on the West Coast that Stalin Ls,
or has been, in United States, said
“If it is so, we know nothing
about it.”
Chinese
Communists Seize
American Seamen
SHANGHAI, Nov. 7—(/P)—Re
ported seizure by Chinese Com
munists of several American
crewmen of a Liberty ship in the
Chinwangtao area brought a
prompt news blackout in U. S.
Army headquarters in Shanghai.
Newsmen of dependent British
sources told that some seamen
were seized by Chinese Commun
ists, but some were released with
apologies.
American Army spokesmen re
fused to discuss the matter. The
U. S. Consul General’s office here
said only “vague” reports had
been received. It is a known fact
that the presence in North China
of American Marines and the op
eration of several liberty ships is
arousing considerable resentment
among the Communists.
EXPRESS APPRECIATION
The Catholic ladies of the St.
Joseph’s Altar Society wish to
thank all those who assisted in
making their bake sale a finan
cial success.