Deny Report Of
Engagement
WASHING TON, (JP) — The
White House said yesterday Presi
dent Truman’s daughter, Margaret
is not engaged to be married.
Presidential press secre t a r y
Charles G. Ross was asked about
a published report that Frank
Handy of Ypsilanti, Mich., would
become engaged to Margaret soon.
Handy is the son of G. C. Handy,
publisher of the Yysilanti Press.
“The answer is positively no”
f Ross said.
“Is she about to get engaged?”
a reporter asked.
“Not to my knowledge.” Ross
said. “Margaret is not engaged to
be married.”
Mrs. Reathel Odum, secretary
to Mrs. Truman, also said the re
port “definitely is not so.”
Communication
I
Koyuk, Alaska.
February 2, 1948
Yesterday we had an overflow.
The water was deep enough to
have a boat ride. Edward Kimok
took had a speed boat ride.
Four teams came back from
hunting and couldn’t cross; they
had to get them with the boat.
Last month Archie Henry
caught a wolverine. He had no
gun and had a trap in his pocket.
He ran after the animal and he
clubbed it was a trap. He trapped
the wolverine on the leg and drag
in homeward.
Soon the animal start moving
quick. He stepped on it with his
feet, and put it in his bag. He tied
| it on his bag.
Charlie Henry
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Communist Leader
To Be Deported
WASHINGTON, (A1) — The jus
tice department today announced
the arrest for deportation of John
Williamson, labor secretary of the
Communist party in the United
States.
A department official described
Williamson as “the most import
ant figure in the communist party
against whom the justice depart
ment has taken action thus far.”
The department said William
son, a member of the communist
party’s national committee, “has
been posing as an American citi
zen for many years, whereas he is
on alien.”
FBI records showed he was
born in Scotland 45 years ago.
in Scotland 45 years ago.
Immigration service officials
and FBI agents took Williamson
into custody yesterday morning as
he was leaving his home at New
York City. He was taken to Ellis
Island and held there without
bond to await deportation pro
ceedings.
Williamson has repres e n t e d
himself as a native of California,
department officials said. He
claimed, they added, that he was
born there in 1902 or 1903 but that
his birth records were destroyed
in the San Francisco earthquake
and fire.
Department officials described
Williamson as a member of the
’’high policy board” of the com
munist party in this country. They
said he had been active in party
affairs since he was a 15-year-old
youngster in Seattle, Wash., in
1918.
Govt. Will Not
Permit Goal Strike
(By Harold W. Ward)
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Cyrus S.
Ching, chief federal labor concil
iator, said Monday night the gov
ernment won’t permit a soft coal
shutdown this spring.
Members of the Southern Coal
Producers Assn, were still yelling
“foul” yesterday.
They said Ching has practically
handed John L. Lewis a loaded
gun if a strike is what the UMW
has in mind.
Ching said flatly the nation
“will not tolerate a coal stoppage.”
If a strike develops, he told the
southern producers at a dinner
meeting, “the government will
step in.” He added: “In that case,
it will be settled by somebody who
does not know as much about the
situation as you do.”
Lewis already has taken what
many coal operators regard as a
possible first step to end his pres
ent contract April 1.
Call for Permanent
U. N. Police Patrol
In Jerusalem
LAKE SUCCESS, (/P)—A draft
statute submitted here yesterday
calls for a permanent internation
al police patrol in the Jerusalem
zone of partitioned Palestine.
The 45-article statute, drawn up
by a six-nation committee, pro
vides that the special force be or
ganized by a U. N.-appointed gov
ernor to. maintain internal law
and order. The strength of the
force would be left to the gover
nor with the stipulation that mem
bership should not be drawn from
citizens of Jerusalem or the pro
posed Jewish and Arab nations.
Grain Market
Still Unsettled
NEW YORK, (AP)—Grain prices
which rallied Monday from last
week’s break, resumed sharp
drops yesterday and livestock was
selling at around Monday's lowest
prices. Meanwhile there were
scattered reports of further de
clines in cost-of-living items.
The grain market at Chicago
had hardly more than opened
when wheat and oats were down
three cents a bushel and corn
dropped as much as 4Vt> cents.
Hog prices were at Monday’s
lowest quotations at Chicago as
suppliers put only 5,000 hogs on
sale. The trade had expected
15,000 would be available to pur
i chasers. At New York, stocks
were lower all along the line and
cotton prices fell more than $1 a
bale in early dealings,
Consumers were hopeful of
Ask For Name
Of Speculator
WASHINGTON, (A3)—Rep. Au
gust H. Andresen <R.-Minn.) said
yesterday he has asked secretary
of agriculture Anderson for the
name of a man who sold 1,000,000
bushels of wheat shoit and made
$400,000 during last week’s mar
ket break.
Andresen is chairman of a spe
cial House committee investigat
ing market speculation.
He said Secretary Anderson
told a news conference yesterday
that he knows the name of the
trader. The man is not a govern
ment official. Anderson said.
meat bargains after Monday’s
sharp drop in livestock prices, but
economists warned them not to be
too optimistic.
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