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Yugoslav Mob
Kills Priest And
Inj ures Prelate j
^ ROME, I/P) — An Italian news
agency dispatch from Trieste to- i
day said a mob in the Yugoslav
zone of Venezia-Giulia inflicted |
grave injuries yesterday on a Vat-j
ican prelate sent to confirm chil
dren in the area, and killed a lo
cal priest who tried to defend him.
The agency, Ansa, said the pre
late, Msgr Giacomo Ukmar, was
taken to a Fiume hospital suffer
ing from a skull fracture and seri
ous knife wounds in the region of
the kidneys. It said the Rev. Miro
Buleisch tried to guard Msgr. Uk
mar and was cut so seriously he
died almost immediately.
The attack was at Lanische, in
that part of the Istrian peninsula
known as Zone B, occupied by
Premier Marshal Tito’s forces.
Ansa said the Vatican sent Msgr.
Ukmar, a native of Trieste, to the
f area after hostile manifestations
prevented Msgr. Antonio Santin,
bishop of Trieste and Capodistria,
from conducting confirmations.
Bishop Santin was treated
roughly at Capodistria two months
ago, but escaped serious injury.
He informed the Vatican in June,
1946, that “Slav Communists’ werei
preventing him from exercising,
his ministry in the zone.
4 When Msgr. Ukmar reached
Lanische Sunday, Ansa said, part
of a crowd advanced upon him
with knives bared. The priest,
moving to defend him. was slash
ed and his body tossed aside, and
the prelate was assaulted.
States Cooler;
Hurricane Hits
Galveston, Texas
(By The Associated Press)
The mid-west’s week-long heat
wave was vanishing today in a
flood of cool air from Canada
which brought rain to much of the
parched corn belt.
H. S. Kenny, government wea- j
ther forecaster at Chicago, said j
1 the rainfall, ranging from very
* light to moderate, brought mois-'
ture to more of Iowa, south and
eastern Nebraska, northern and
western Missouri, and northern
Illinois and^ Indiana.
Extensive showers were forecast
for the central and lower portions
of Illinois and Indiana today.
The rains had sharp repercus
sions on the corn futures market,
September quotations at Chicago
breaking the limit of eight cents
before rallying slightly.
A howling tropical storm which
caused widespread but generally
• •
minor property damage at Galves
ton, Texas, yesterday was playing
itself out in heavy rainfall today
* as a broad wedge of cool air poked
eastward across the north central
states.
Whistling along at 68 to 70 miles
an hour, the storm blew into Gal
veston and neighboring Texas
f City yesterday afternoon. Some
homes were unroofed, house and
store windows blown in, and com
munication and power lines ripped
down.
Doukliohors Burn i
Homes Protesting
World War III
SOUTH SLOCAN, B. C„ (/Pi
Five men and a woman were un- ^
der arrest Saturday on charges
connected with a reign of arson
and terror in the Kootenay valley
which some officials arributed to
a fanatical Doukhobor sect pro-1
testing the “coming of a third
world war.”
These authorities expressed the
belief that some of the nude,
chanting, praying radicals were
burning their own homes to em
phasize the nature of their sacri
ficial protests against war.
Police reinforcements were mov
ing into the fertile valley—250
miles east of Vancouver—Satur
day at the request of other Douk
hobors who feared further burn
ings and terrorism. Attorney gen
eral Gordon S. Wismer appointed
W. W". Ferguson of Nelson, B. C.,
a special prosecutor to act against
the terrorists.
Police identified two of the
Doukhobors in custody as Nickoll
Boriskoff and Annie Kostinoff and
said they are the others — who
were not identified by name —
were taken into custody after
farmhouses flamed as separate
sects of the Russian-ancestored re
ligious group put the torch to
homes.
More than a score of homes,
schools and community buildings
have been burned since the terror
first began several weeks ago.
Last night, police said, Anista
Arishinkoff, a Doukhobor house
wife, knelt in prayer with her 21
year-old daughter and watched
flames consume her home at
Shoreacres, B. C., as a group of the
sons of freedom—one of the Douk
hobor sects—chanted in frenzy.
She told newsmen: “I protest the
coming of world war III.
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Chinese Ban
Dairen Shipping
SHANGHAI. r/P>—'The Chinese
government’s order banning for
eign shipping to and from the Sov
iet-controlled port of Dairen was
regarded in some quarters Satur
day as possibly foreshadowing the
detention of Russian ships entefing
other Chinese ports.
If such becomes the case, the or
der—which the government is
powerless to enforce directly—
would not be as meaningless as it
appears.
(The U. S. state department pro
tested Aug. 14 for the second time
against Russias failure to turn
Dairen back to Chinese control
and open the port to international
trade in accordance with the 1945
Sino-Soviet treaty).
At Galveston, one man was
killed by electric shock from a
falling power line and the three
man crew of a small boat was
feared lost.
Texas City, where 500 persons
were killed in a ship explosion
about four months ago, appeared
to have suffered no extensive dam
age.
Forest Service Will
Call For Oral Bids
On Timber Oct. 1
(By Vern Haugland)
iI/P) Special Washington Service’ j
WASHINGTON, (/P) — F r a n k
Heintzelman. chief of the Alaska
forest service, said today the Fed-1
eral government will call for bids j
October 1 on eight billion board
feet of pUlp timber near Thomas
Bay, Alaska.
Because of the huge investment
that would be involved—$30,000,
000 to $40,000,000—the forest serv
ice took the unusual step of call-!
ing for oral bids, the auction to be«
held here in the south agriculture]
building.
Candidates will be screened—
|
before being allowed to take part j
: in the auction—as to their finan- ]
cial resources, and knowledge of
timber, water power and other op
erating conditions in Southeastern
! Alaska.
i Each bid for the 50-year eon
t tract must be accompanied by a
bank draft or certified check for
$25,000. and the successful bidder
■ must show evidence that he has at
least $8,000,000 for plant construc
! tion. ,
Secretary of the interior Krug
told reporters one U. S. pulp pa-1
per mill already has a survey par
ty in the area and two other com
panies have survey teams on the
way.
“The outlook is very encourag
ing.” he said.
Meanwhile Irwin W. Silverman,!
acting director of the interior de^
partment’s territories division,
pointed out these additional indi
cations of forthcoming rapid de
velopment of Alaska:
1. The opening to homestead
settlement of 45,000 additional
acres of agricultural land in the'
Matanuska Valley, in the Wasilla-j
Goose Bay region 48 miles from
Palmer, headquarters of the pres-,
ent Matanuska project. War veicr- •
ans may start applying Oct. 17,
and the first grants will be made
six months later.
2. The opening of 2,750,000 j
acres along the Alaska highway
for use as tracts of five acres or
less for houses, camps, gasoline
stations, restaurants, hotels and j
other facilities to serve all enter-1
tainment motorists in Alaska. Set- i
tlement on these small tracts will
begin Oct. 2.
3. Development of Chilkoot war-,
veterans settlement during the
past summer. One hundred fam
ilies belong to the Alaska Coopera
tive company which purchased
the former army camp a mile from
Haines and 75 miles northwest of
Juneau for $105,000.
4. Inauguration by Congress of
a five-year, $34,000,000 program
for the rehabilitation of the Alaska
Railway.
5. Increased agitation for state
hood for Alaska.
Silverman said the Alaska Road
Commission is spending $3,753,000
this year for development of a sys
tem of highways in the Homer
Seward area to stimulate agricul
tural development of the Kenai
peninsula. ^
He added that the Seward-An
chorage line; the most expensive
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United Nations
Branded A Failure
In Indonesia
(By John A. Parris, Jr.)
LAKE SUCCESS. (/Pt — The
United Nations security council,
its efforts to halt hostilities in In
donesia branded a failure by the
Netherlands, appeared headed for
trouble Saturday in its efforts to
reach a decision on the problem.
Dr. Eelco N. Van Kleffens, the
Netherlands representative, deliv
ered a virtual ultimatum to the
council Friday, demanding that
the council either “send troops” to
Indonesia to police its cease-fire
order, or keep hands off and let
the Dutch handle the situation.
He said that killing had increas
ed in Indonesia since the cease-fire
order and implied that further in
tervention would intensify the
conflict.
On the basis of statements made
by the various delegates at two
sessions Friday it appeared the
council might find it difficult to
work out an acceptable solution
of the difficulty.
Soviet deputy foreign minister
Andrei Gromyko said he was un
able to accept proposals which had
been submitted by Australia, the
United States and China. These
proposals would call for commis
sions either of three members or
of consults in Batavia to super
vise the U. N. cease-fire order.
Tailor Designs
Hot Weather Pants
CHICAGO. (/P) — A 50-year-old
Chicago tailor Friday bowed to the
heat and raised his hemline.
Stanley Tomal designed himself
a pair of tropical worsted knee
length pants and strode through
the loop.
“Sure, people stop and say, ‘look
at that guv’,” he said. “But after
a minute, when they’re through
wiping the sweat off their fore
heads I hear them add, ‘He’s got
the right idea at that; gotta hand!
it to him’.”
Tomal figures it will take an
other year before his keep-cool
Russia Balks
Balkan Proposals;
Greek Govt. Falls
•Bv The Associated Press*
The government fell in Greece
Saturday, four days after the
United Nations security council,
balked by Russian vetoes, admitted
its inability to resolve the Balkan
problem.
The immediate cause for the
resignation of Demetrios Maxi
mus’ cabinet was three leading
ministers’ insistence on a reshuf
fling of the government “in order
to slrengthen confidence external
ly and increase creative output in
ternally.” Behind the immediate
situation, however, were other fac
tors:
1. An inflation-ridden economy
which the United States, with part
of its $300,000,000 Greek-aid pro
gram. is pledged to improve.
2. Guerrilla warfare against the
Athens government, which it has
attributed largely to its neighbors,
Yugoslavia, Albania and Bulgaria.
A United Nations investigating
commission found those three
countries responsible, in varying
degrees, for troubles on Greec’s
northern border.
Efforts to condemn these assert
ed “acts of provocation” and to set
up a border watch were thwarted
in the U. N. security council Tues
day, at the end of the council’s
60th meeting on the Balkan ques
tion, president Faris Bey El Khou
ry, of Syria, declared the U. N.
body could do nothing—that it must
refer the question to the general
assembly, meeting next month.
In another aftermath to Wond
War II. Romania ratified her peace
treaty Saturday but it will not be
effective until Russia also ratifi.s.
Britain and the United States
sealed the treaty several weeks
ago. •
In neighboring Bulgaria, Russia
refused Friday to intercede in
plans to hang Nikola Petkov, op
position leader convicted as a con
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campaign takes hold.
“You watch,’ he predicted, “next
year the loop will be full of sen
sible men.”
The Spark Now Flaring In Greeee
Gould Start World Conflagration 111
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NEW YORK, (JP) — National
commander Paul H. Griffith,
sounding a serious warning amid
the festive preparations for the I
American Legion’s 29th annual (
convention opening Thursday,
said that “the critical situation
which has developed in Greece
within the past few hours . . .
could spread into world conflagra
tion on a moment’s notice.”
Griffith called a news confer
ence late yesterday soon after his
arrival from Washington, D. C.,
where he said he had talked to
President Truman. Asked by a re
porter if he favored sending
troops abroad to support the Tru
man doctrine, the Legion com
mander replied:
“I don’t see how you can en
force anything without using po
lice. If it takes troops we should
send troops.
“If and when Greece is invaded
there’s no use to wait like we
waited before. If there is no other
way to stop them but to send
troops, then we should send
troops.”
Griffith, who lives in Union
town, Pa., said that the Legion’s
executive committee, which begins
pre-convention sessions today, was
“almost unanimously in favor" if
the Truman policy “of aid to
Greece and Turkey” and any other
small countries having “a foreign
ideology forced upon them.”
Asked if he thought the United .
Nations could resolve the situa
tion in Greece, where a govern
ment crisis developed over ths
week-end, Griffith replied:
“If the United Nations is ma
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