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NEWS IN BRIEF
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.
i/P) — When Katherine Nelleson,
10, won second prize in a soap
drawing contest, she showed up
for her judging with a black eye.
She’d picked up the shiner in a
football game with neighborhood
kids. Her prize—a football.
HAMBURG, Germany, f/P)—A
Bremen department store adver
tised a sale with a window poster
which read: “And now off with
the goods.”
Next morning the window pane
was smashed, all the goods were
gone an dto the poster two words
were added: “It’s a Deal.”
LONDON (TP)—State ownership
of Britain’s huge steel industry
became law yesterday, but the La
bor government will have to win
the next general election to take
over the key plants in the na
tion’s economic structure.
The House of Lords put its seal
on the disputed bill and the King
signed it a few minutes later.
Thus the government of Prime
Minister Clement Attlee has ful
filled the last of the campaign
promises it made in the 1945 elec
tions.
HOLLYWOOD. </P)— Hopalong
Cassidy usually handles theorner
iest of varmints with ease. But
two boys with slingshots—that’s
different.
The screen and television star
(real name Bill Boyd) had to call
on two policemen to round up two
teen-agers before a parade last
night.
They were peppering Hoppy’s
horse with tapioca pellets from
atop an ice cream shop.
“It made the horse awfully ner
vous,” the officers reported, “and
Hopalong awfully mad.”
FAIRBANKS, (TP) — They may
be playing football in the Ice
Bowl game here Jan. 1 in frigid
tempartures, but the customers
can get the hot seat.
At least, that’s the plan of Ladd
Air Force Base officials.
They’re going to install aircraft
heaters under the bleachers, with
canvas ducts carrying heat the en
tire length of the stands.
The University of Alaska will
clash with an air force eleven.
PHILADELPHIA, (ff) — A 12
year-old girl in a state of nean ex
haustion was found Thanksgiving
Day besi.de the dead body of her
younger sister under a 100-foot
high trestle.
The girls apparently t had fallen
from the railroad bridge. In a mo
ment of consciousness the injured
girl said her sister fell “through
the trestle. I heard, her scream and
ran to help her and I fell through
too.”
Their discovery by five boys
playing on the brink of the ravine
the tresde bridges ended an all
• search for the girls.
BUENOS AIRES. kP)—An op
position member of the congres
sional committee on anti-Argentine
condemned tod vas ‘unauthorized”
the seizure of business offices of'
Appropriation Will
Relieve Alaska
Housing Shortage
ANCHORAGE, </P)— More than
half the $48,834,770 appropriated
for U. S. air force construction in
Alaska and Okinawa will be used
to help the critical housing short
age in those areas.
The Alaska Command public
information said yesterday the
balance of funds would be used
! fo rconstruction of operational fa
' cilities at both places.
1 The Alaska housing shortage
has been felt for some time. The
Okinawa shortage was made more
I acute last July 23 when a typhoon
destroyed most housing at Okin
awa’s Kadena air force base.
Approximately 130 familyapart
; ment units, costing $6,002,880, will
be constructed at Eielson air force
base near Fairbanks. In addition,
batchelor officer quarters and bar
racks for enlisted men, to cost
$6,526,500, also will be built there.
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Territory Should
Take Over Schools
In Future: Warne
A plan to eventually turn over
all primary schools in Alaska to
the Territorial government within
ten or twenty years should be
worked out. according to the opin
ion of undersecretary of the inte
rior William E. Warne.
Warne brought out this view at
the meeting of the Alaska Field
Committee, minutes of which were
released recently through the of
fice of Kenneth J. Kadow, chair
man.
Warne said this shoud be done
if Alaska could foot the bill. To
help bring this consolidation about,
it was suggested a contract be con
summated with the Territory
whereby subsidies to the Alaska
Educational system would be
made.
Kadow recommended, and was
concurred with by Don Foster,
Alaska Native Service superin
tendent, that the ANS should de
termine which schools were to be
turned over to the Territory, in
any plan for so doing.
The interior department’s com
missioner of education, vigorously
opposed to vocational training in
any primary or secondary school
system, was felt by Kadow to have
not put forward a flexible enough
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newspapers and news agencies in
Buenos Aires. .
Acting in the name of the full
f immittce. ^a two-mnn subcommit
tee of Peronist deputies, Jose Emi
lio Visca and Rodolfo P. Docker,
took over the account books of the
Associated Press, the United Press
and seven Buenos Aires newspa
pers.
The subcommittee announced
its purpose was to ascertain the
source of funds supporting the co
alition which tried to defeat Juan
D. Peron for the Presidency in
1946.
New 25 Cent Air
Mail Stamp To He I
Issued Nov. 50
The eyes of the post office de-1
partment, international air lines
and philatelists in all parts of the
world will be turned toward Seat- j
tie November 30 when a new 25
cent air mail stamp is offered for
sale here for the first time, Post- i
master George E. Starr said today, j
The selection of Seattle as the
city where the new stamps will1
first go into use is appropriate,'
the postmaster said, because their i
design depicts a Seattle-built Boe- '
ing Stratocruiser in flight against
a background map of the Pacific
Ocean.
The new stamps commemorate
the 75th anniversary of the Uni
versal Postal Union, the organiza
tion which governs and makes
possible rapid interchange of mail
between all the principal coun
tries of the world.
Pan American World Airways
and Northwest Airlines officials
will join with Assistant Postmas
ter General Joseph J. Lawler, who
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Civil Righters
Attack Judge In
Bridges’ Case
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P) — The
Civil Rights ‘Congress wants a
federal judge to reverse his sen
tence on Harry Bridges’ attorney
to six months in jail for contempt
of court.
“Your ruling is a violation o
the guarantee of a fair trial as em
j bodied in the Constitution” the
I San Francisco chapter of the Con
I gress wrote to Federal Judge
George B. Harris.
It characterized the sentence of
Vincen Hallinan. effective at the
end of Bridges’ current perjury
trial as setting “a dangerous pre
cedent leading to the intimida
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Leon Jones Gets
Twenty Years
I or Axe Slaving
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FAIRBANKS, opi—Leon Jones, j
former Vancouver, Wash., resi
dent. will be returned to McNeil
Island federal penitentiary — but
for a maximum of 20 years rather
than the life sentence originally
imposed.
Jones was sentenced to the max- ,
imum 20 year term on Wednesday
by District udge Harry E. Pratt.
He was convicted last week of
manslaughter growing out of the
axe death of Carl Ahnstrom at
Little Gerstle July 10, 1947. He
was acquitted in connection with
the death of Donald Harris.
The manslaughter verdict re
sulted from his second trial. Ear
lier he had been convicted of first
degree murder of both men but
the circuit court at San Francisco
ordered a new trial.
Locomotives To
Get Taste of Alaska
After Trying Iran
SEATTLE. (/P) — Locomotives
which once hauled lend-lease sup
plies to Russia through the 130
degree summer temperatures of
Iran soon will plow through snow
on the Alaska Railroad, where
the thermometer occasion ally
registers 50 to 60 below zero.
The engines, paradoxically, are
being dressed for the cold weather
by shipfitters. A workman is like
ly to refer to a tail light as a light
aft.
The first of seven 1,000-horse
power diesel-electric road switch
ers will be ready for shipment
north by early next month. Roy
G. Holmertz, ship repair superin
tendent for the Puget Sound
Bridge & Dredging Company, said
today.
The firm is converting the loco
motives as part of a $1,500,000
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Friday. November 25, 1949
<By The Associated Press)
Over bitter Socialist opposition,
the West German Parliament to
day and approved a new Allied
German agreement which relaxes
conquerors’ controls over the de
feated nation.
The Socialists opposed the
agreement, which recognizes in
ternational control of the indus
trial Ruhr. The Germans previ
ously had said they would boy
cott international authority over
this key industrial area.
All-night debate on this issue
had parliament in an uproar. So
cialist leader Kurt Schumacher
taunted Chancellor Konrad Aden
auer for signing the agreement. He
called him the “Chancellor of the
Allies.” The controversial issue
apparently has split West Ger
many down the middle on straight
right-left party lines.
For hot words and declared in
sults Schumacher was burred
from the assembly’s next 20 ses
sions.
France struggled through a 24
hour general strike without much
hardship. The strike was called
by two of the biggest labor unions
as a demonstration for higher
wages. Transportation was dis
rupted. Most big industries closed,
but effects of the strike on normal
life were not very noticeable.
The British Labor Government’s
controversial bill to nationalize
the steel industry has become law.
But it will not go into effect until
alter next year’s general elections.
If the Conservatives win, they
have announced they will nullify
the legislation.
In London, a Communist diplo
mat from an eastern European
state said the Chinese Communists
plan to take the island of Formosa
and push their control over Tibet
by next summer.
Red mastery of Tibet, land of
the world’s highest mountains,
would bring the Communists to
India’s borders and give them
control over her northern trade
routes.
In Washington. United States
officials were reported increas
ingly concerned over the fate of
strategic Formosa.
The island juts into the Ameri
can Western Pacific defense chain.
Chiang Kai-Shek’s forces are not
expected to hold it against strong
Red opposition.
Washington observers said the
possibility that a future war with
Russia might find Formosa :n
Coijnmunist hands has U. S. mili
tary and diplomatic authorities
deeply worried—and groping for a
solution.
SOUVENIR OPIUM PIPE TABOO
BANGKOK, (TP)—An American
visitor who purchased two silver
motmtcd or um pipes as curios
was fined -10 b iht $''2- the <Chcr
day and the pipes, costing 2,000
baht ($100-, were confiscated.
The tourist was charged—to his
surprise—with possession of opi
um pipes without a license.