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, NEWS IN BRIEF
BUENOS AIRES (/P)—Mrs. Ma
ria Eva Duarte Peron, Argentina’s
First Lady, was.resting yesterday
from an attack of acute appendi
citis.
The wife of Argentine President
Juan D Peron suffered the attack
Monday night while she was offi
ciating at the opening of a new
taxi union headquarters and social
center.
CUMBERLAND, Md. (£>)—“The
lights on that other car blinded
me,” Walter S. Nycum, 39, told
police yesterday after his car had
struck and killed 64-year-old
Abraham Teter who was walking
along the side of a road about a
mile from his home.
The driver of “the other car”
was identified by police as Byron
Teter, the victim's 22-year-old son.
No charge were filed pending a
further investigation.
TUCSON, Ariz. (/Pi—Directors
of the Associated Press from all
parts of the nation arrived here
for the three-day annual meeting
which opened yesterday morning
at the Arizona Inn.
A majority of the 20 directors,
many with their wives, came
Monday, some by air and others
by train.
SEATTLE, (/P)—A nose wheel
collapsed on a Northwest Airlines
DC-4 early yesterday during its
takeoff run for a flight to Anchor
age. The four-enginer plane skid
ded to a stop with its nose down.
Twelve persons were aboard.
No one was injured. An airline
spokesman said the accident oc
curred at 7:45 a’.m., after a run of
about 1,500 feet at the Seattle
Tacoma International airport. He
said the plane had not attained
much speed and damage to it was
minor.
The pilot was Capt. Art Walker.
The passengers were changed to
another plane for a later takeoff.
DAVENPORT. Ta. (/P) — The
death toll in the Mercy Hospital
mental ward fire rose to 41 yester
day.
The hospital reported that Ruth
Finnerty of Ottumwa, la., died
Monday night of injuries suffered
before rescuers could remove her
from the blazing ward building.
She was the second to die among
the 24 who were rescued.
As the investigation of the dis
aster continued, meanwhile, it
was announced survivors will not
be questioned by investigators.
BALTIMORE, (/P) — President
Elpidio Quirino of the Philippines
'landed here yesterday on his way
to Johns Hopkins hospital for an
operation.
FAIRBANKS, (JP) — Floyd W.
Avery has been re-elected man
ager of the Ice Pool at Nenana.
Ken Wilson was re-elected as a
committeeman fo rthe organiza
tion that conducts the annual ice
breakup guessing contest. Frank
Turner and Al Wright were elec
ted as new committee members.
Holdover members are Fred Muel
fContinued on Page Two)
U. S. Destroyers
Will Escort ‘Flying
Arrow’ To Port
<By The Associated Press)
Two U. S. destroyers prepared
last night to escort the crippled
American freighter Flying Arrow
to any port but her destination—
Shanghai.
The ship was battered Monday
on the high seas by shells from a
Nationalist gunboat. Wayne Rich
ardson, Associated Press corre
spondent aboard the Flying Arrow,
said she was hit between^O and
40 times.
Her master, Capt. David Jones
of Chicago, pronounced her un
seaworthy and asked to be escort
, ed by U. S. naval vessels to the
nearest port for repairs. That’s
communist Shanghai.
Captains of the two destroyers,
the Stickel! and the Bausell, said
they would not escort the Flying
i Arrow there. Other communist
| held ports are nearer the ship’s
j position than any port claifning
j friendship to western powers.
A Chinese Nationalist gungoat
| lurked in the distance from the
| Flying Arrow as dusk settled over
. the Orient.
At Taipei, Formosa, Chinese Na
tionalist capital, a spokesman said
the freighter was fired upon to
keep her from a mine field that
I would have meant her certain de
struction with a possible large loss
i of life. The ship carries a crew
of 43 plus 12 pasengers, seven of
them women, bound for Shanghai.
The merchantman is unarmed.
The Nationalists have slapped a
blockade on all Chinese ports held
by the Communists. Sea and air
patrols have been maintained off
Shanghai.
In Hong Kong a sister ship of
the Flying Arrow, the Brooklyn
Heights, was loading cargo for
, Shanghai. She is tentatively sched
uled to sali today with a crew of
42 and one passenger. One mem
ber of her crew has signed off
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Committee Urges
Statehood For
Alaska and Hawaii
WASHINGTON, (/P) — A special
House public lands sub-committee
today issued a strong recommen
dation for immediate statehood
for Hawaii.
The sub-committee, headed by (
Rep. Miles 'D.-N. M.), urged in a
report to committee chairman
Peterson <D.-Fla.) “that the prom
ise of statehood lond held out to
the people of Hawaii be promptly
fulfilled. It 'the subcommittee*
believes that action at this time is
in the national interest.”
The seven-member sub-com
mittee spent six days in Hawaii
this fall en route to and from a
i tour of Guam, Samoa and the
trust territory of the Pacific Is
i lands.
“The committee found Hawaii
more aggressively determined to
' achieve statehood than at any time
in the past,” the special report
said.
This position has been “strength
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Benefit Basketball
Game Thursday at
*
Nome High Gym
Another benefit game of basket
ball between the outstanding
Nome High School team and the
! Base Fire Dept, is scheduled for
I Thursday evening at the school
! gmynasium.
It is reported that the Rotary
Club members have pledged them
selves to attend the game not only
because it is sure to be a good and
exciting game but because they
wish to aid the High School team
financially with their support.
According to Coach Urick,
Nome’s team has a fine chance of
a good place in the All Alaska
league at Anchorage, which is why
the boys are out to raise funds at
this time.
THE NEW MAN
*'
wage: ,
§
Will Congress Use i
Axe Or Talk On
Truman’s Budget?
WASHINGTON, \/P) — A Con
gressional economy clamor grew
louder yesterday around Presi
dent Truman’s $42,000,000,000,
out-of-balance budget.
Nearly all the Senators and
House members were saying open
ly or behind their hands that
spending will be too high, the
deficit will be too big and they
ought to get out the ax and go to ;
work on the budget.
Yet in years past all that talk of
| economy in January often has
i turned out to be still just that in
' June—stil just talk. And some
j lawmakers are aware that this
' year's economy campaign also
j could turn out to be more talk
I than action.
Senator Aiken <R.-Vt.> summed
up that point of view
“I had been anticipating a defi
cit. And it is going to be difficult
to pare it any in this election year.
We may be able to make some re
duction but not to any great ex
tent.*'
Nor were there any loud calls
for a hefty tax increase, or even
for the “moderate” one Mr. Tru
(Continued on Page Eight'
Shipload ()f War
Vehicles Seal To
Nationalists
PHILADELPHIA, (/P) — Ninety
carloads of tanks and armored
cars consigned to the Chinese gov
ernment at Formosa were loaded
aboard a Turkish freighter at a
Philadelphia pier today.
Officials of the Reading Com
pany disclosed that the tanks and
cars were transported over Read
ing lines from “somewhere in
Ohio” to a pier along the Dela
ware River in Port Richmond, lo
cated in the northeastern section
of Philadelphia.
Loading was begun yesterday
morning aboard the 8,077-ton
freighter, S. S. Mardin, owned by
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Philippines <)pens
Gold Market
MANILA, (/P)—The Philippines
government which banned the ex- ;
port of gold a month ago, an- j
nounced today that gold mines
may sell 75 per cent of their pro
duction on the island’s open mar
ket.
When the ban was clamped on,
gold was selling on the open mar
ket as high as $57.50 an ounce.
The official price still is $35 an
ounce, the same as in the United
States.
Politically powerful gold min
ing companies complained they
could not operate at the official
price.
Most of the gold sold at premi
um prices here has been smuggled
out to China where the wealthy
have been trying to convert their
holdings into gold. |
News of the World
At A Glance • • •
Tuesday. January 10. 1950
(By The Associated Press)
The Soviet Union is continuing
her diplomatic campaign to un
seat Nationalist China in the
United Nations.
The U. N. holds its first 1950
meeting today and with National
ist China’s T. E. Tsiang in the
chair. Russia, it is anticipated,
will let fly a barrage of objec
tions.
The Chinese communist regime
in a series of messages has asked
the council to expel the National
ist delegation.
Five of the 11-nation council
have recognized the Chinese com
munist regime—Russia, Britain,
Yugoslavia, India and Norway.
The United States, although still
recognizing the Nationalists, is in
the midst of a controversy with
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek’s
Formosa regime over the shelling
of the American freighter Flying
Arrow Monday by Nationalist
warships off communist -held
Shanghai.
In Washington the Senate for
eign relations committee was eager
i to hear an analysis of American
J foreign policy by secretary of
state Dean Acheson. He is expect
ed to outline government policy
on Formosa and the administra
tion’s attitude on recognition of
the communists.
In Colombo, Ceylon, Indian
prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru
told the British Commonwealth
foreign ministers that countries
recognizing the communist Chi
nese Peoples’ Republic must also
extend cautious friendliness to the
new regime.
Among the Commonwealth na
tions, India, Britain, Ceylon, Pak
istan have recognized the com
munists. Recognition has not yet
been extended by Canada, South
Africa, Australia and New Zea
land.
Moscow announced last night
that voters will elect members of
the Suprere Soviet of the U.S.S.R.,
the nation’s two-house parliament,
March 12. The last election was
Feb. 9, 1946. It is a single slate of
communist and non-party Bolshe
vik bloc candidates.
Japan’s communist party today
expelled Ko Nakanishi, a top lead
er, following the recent comin
form Journal blast at Japanese
communist leadership. Nakanishi,
one of the six communist mem
bers in the upper house of parlia
ment, was charged with having
made “an open attack on the par
ty.”
Wednesday, January 11, 1950
The Soviet Union apparently is
seeking to make propaganda cap
ital o fthe presence in the security
council of a Nationalist Chinese
delegate.
Before walking out of the first
security council session of 1950
yesterday, Soviet delegate Jakob
Malik read into the record a letter
to the U. N. from Peiping’s foreign
minister, Chou En-Lai, calling for
the expulsion of the Nationalists
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