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NEWS IN BRIEF
LOS ANGELES. i/P> — George
Godfrey, Negro heavyweight boxer
once considered a title contender
and who was reputed to have;
earned a half million dollars in
* his palmy days, died in poverty
in his dingy little room Wednesday
with only his large black dog by:
his side. He was 50 and was born
in Mobile, Ala., as Feab S. Wil-|
hams. Dr. Darring said he died of
a heart ailment.
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FAIRBANKS, </P) — Veterans
eager to stake out land along the
Alaska Highway when it is
thrown open October 2 were told
yesterday that the 90-day priority
is not generally applicable. Fred
Weiler of Fairbanks, manager of
the bureau of land management,
said the 90-day head start for vet
erans applies only to surveyed
land. Most land in the area to be
released along the Alaska Highway
and other Territorial roads is un
surveyed.
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BULLETIN
WASHINGTON (/P> — The
United States has rejected firmly
a Soviet demand that the job of
drawing up a peace treaty for
Japan be left to the Big Four Pa
cific powers—The United States.
Britain. China and Russia.
KAAUIZAWA, Japan. (/P)—Mt.
4Asama, 90 miles northwest of
Tokyo, erupted suddenly this af
ternoon, probably killing four of
a party of 20 Japanese mountain
climbers near the summit.
The 8.315-foot volcano sent
clouds of smoke and ash thousands
of feet into the air in six separate
eruptions within four hours. There
was no lava.
FAIRBANKS, (/P)—A Grumman
amphibian plane which sank in
the Naknek River last week was
raised Wednesday, but officials of
the Northern- Consolidated Air
lines said it was beyond repair.
Pilot Orville Tosh of Fairbanks
and his co-pilot escaped unin
jured when the plane hit the rive'.
The plane had been used to ferry
cannery workers and fishermen.
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NOME—A group of high rank
ing naval officers stopped yester
day at the Nome Air Base. The
group included: Vice Admiral Od
dendorf, Rear Admiral Strukle and
a party of seven. The party stop
ped at the base for lunch and re
fueling. The party is enroute to
Kodiak via the Pribilofs.
TOKYO, UP)—U. S. Navy and
air forces in the Far East marked
“well done” today on the first
combined training exercises con
ducted by the two services in the
Japan area since October, 1946.
Superfortresses, attack bomdbrs,
jet fighters and carrier planes
joined American and British ships
in the exercises, which ranged
from Okinawa to Japan.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman met with his cabinet for
nearly an hour today in their reg
ister Friday session. Secretary • of
Labor Schwellenbach told report
ers it was largely routine. Other
members were silent.
Russia Charges I
U. S. Interferes
In Greek Affairs
—
LAKE SUCCESS, (A*) — Russia
charged yesterday that “the crud
est interference into the internal
affairs of Greece emanates at pres
ent from the United States."
This was interpreted immediate
ly as a reference to the Truman1
aid program.
Giving the United Nations se- j
curity council what he termed “an
answer to the American speech
made Tuesday, Soviety deputy
foreign minister Andrei A. Grom
yko said foreign interference was
worsening the situation daily in
side Greece. ^
He also charged that former
Axis collaborators were holding
prominent positions in the Athens
government.
Gromyko told the council:
“The situation in Greece wors
ens with every day because this
foreign interference into the in
ternal affairs of Greece not only
is continuing but is also strength
ened. All the world knows who is
really interferring into the inter
nal affairs of Greece and from
what side Greece is threatened
with real danger.”
Rejecting American charges that
Albania, Yugoslavia and Bulgar
ia were supporting Communist
bands, Gromyko laid the blame at
1 the door of the present Greek gov
ernment in which he said “prom
inent positions are being occupied
by people compromised in the past
by their collaboration with the en
emy.”
Rio Conference
May Ask American
“Marshall Plan’*
RIO DE JANEIRO, (/P>—Secre
tary of State George C. Marshall
of the United States was due here
yesterday for an inter-American
conference on hemisphere defense
and delegates eagerly awaited his
reaction to an Argentine proposal
to include economic subjects in
the talks, which began today.
Diplomats have anticipated that
the Argentine proposal, made in
brief Wednesday, may develop into
a demand for a “Marshall plan”
for the western hemisphere like
that in the making for Europe.
Informed American sources, who
said Marshall probably would
state his views at the opening ses
sion, expressed belief that the
United States would stand pat on
its original intention to confine
the parley to defense matters.
SEATTLE, (£>)—A self-labeled
“flying newsroom” of the New
York Herald-Tribune arrived here
I tonight enroute to Alaska.
: The newspaper plane carried
three members of the New York
paper’s staff—aviation editor An
sel E. Talbert and reporter John
H. Durston, who willl make an
aerial tour of Alaska, and Walter
| Hamshar, shipping news editor,
i who said he would remain in
! Seattle.
U. S. Insists On Full
11-Nation Parlev
On Jap Treaty
W A S H I N G T ON. (/P) — The
American position was disclosed
in a note made public today by the
state department. It was delivered
to Semen K. Tsarapkin, Russian
charge d’affaire., by Charles E.
Bohlen, departmental counselor,
two days ago.
In the note, the United States
maintained its unbudging position,
that the treaty should be drafted
by an eleven-nation conference, j
And it made plain that this;
country will proceed with that
work even if Russia refuses to at- •
tend.
However, it expressed its hope,
that the Soviet Union would par
ticipate in the Japanese peace;
treaty conference to be heid “in;
the near future.”
There has been no definite ctate
set as yet for the conference but
the eleven nations whicn have
been invited to aftend are this
country, Britain, China, Russia,
Australia. New Zealand, the Neth
erlands, France, The Philippines. I
India and Canada.
Illinois Mine
Explosion Kills 3
WEST FRANKFORT. 111. t/P>—'
Three men were killed and two
others slightly injured last night
in a mine explosion which brought
hundreds of people to the shaft
fearing it was a third major disas
ter in southern Illinois within five
months.
For more than two hours, a
crowd of about 2,000 milled around
the property in the belief that
many of the night crew of about
100 men had been killed or trap
ped.
Not until about 11 o’clock when
many of the workers came to the (
surface, unaware of the blast, was
the worst of the shock and two
hour suspense dispelled.
The dead, members of a drilling!
crew, are Charles H. Clark, Wal- j
ter Clements, Jr., and George L. i
Filkins, all of West Frankfort. Tb#
injured who were treated at the;
mine for minor burns and sent;
home are Mike Stinkiewicz and
W. A. Blair, electricians of nearby
Benton.
Harold Walker, state superin-,
tendent of mines and minerals,
said the blast “probably was a lo-1
cal gas explosion.” One man,,
working in a neighboring entry- j
way, said he saw a cloud of smoke
and dust in the area but that he
did not know there had been an
explosion until he reached the sur
face after the night’s work.
Mine company spokesmen said j
only the five men were in the j
blast area, and that all other;
j
wormen had been accounted for <
and were not injured.
GREEN'S FURNITURE STORE
TO BE ON FRONT STREET
Howard Green, local contractor
and owner of Nome’s only furni
ture store has purchased part of
the Bon Marche lot next to Glenn
Carrington where it is understood
he plans to move his furniture
store which is now on B Street.
India—As Two
Dominions—Gains
Her Independence
(By G. Milton Kelly)
NEW DELHI. (/P) — India
achieved independence today as
the ,'eparate dominions of Moslem
Pakistan and Hindu India, with
great throngs of the 400,000,000
people celebrating joyously and
lessening in some troubled spots
the bloody communal warfare.
Lord Mountbatten transferred
British authority at midnight to
the larger dominion of India,
whose 277,000,000 residents are
overwhelmingly Hindu. He chang
ed title from viceroy to governor
general.
M. A. Jinnah, the monocled Mos
lem league leader whose adaman
dant stand largely caused division
of the country, became governor
general of Pakistan and its 70,000,
000 Moslems, at Karachi.
Mohandas K. Gandhi, the frail
little lawyer who became known
as the “architect of India’s free
dom” by his lengthy, mild cam
paigning. began fasting, praying
and spinning at his Belliaghatti
“peace mission” in East Calcutta.
Hundreds of thousands of Hin
dus and Moslems made what they
called a “holy pilgrimage” to Gan
dhi’s residence. Occasionally he
presented himself on his veranda
and received deafening cheers and
slogans such as “The Hindu and
Moslem are one.” Gandhi had de
sired a united, independent India.
The 3.000.000 Hindus and 1,000.
000 Moslems of Calcutta ended
suddenly their year long warfare
under the emotional upsurge of
independence. They joined freely
together in celebrations with ex
uberance unbelievable before yes
terday. But a senior police officer
said: “If anything goes wrong, God
help us.”
The sorest spot appeared to be
Lahore, capital of partitioned Pun
jab, where communal violence
continued. The unofficial toll in
three days of rioting there mount
ed to 268 dead and more than 200
injured. At least 36 fires blazed in
Lahore and mobs were reported,
looting. #
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Juneau Youth To
Race In Akron
Soap-Box Derhv
SEATTLE, (/P)—When the trim,!
home-made racers go hurtling
down the hill at Derby Downs
Sunday in the National Soap-Box
Derby at Akron, Ohio, many of
the thousands of spectators un-,
doubtedly will be cheering for the
youngster who traveled the farth
est—14-year-old Frank Maier ofi
Juneau, Alaska.
In Seattle Wednesday on his
way to Akron, young Maier was;
accompanied by Waino Hendrick-'
son, the Mayor of Juneau.
Over a breakfast of canteloupe
and waffles at the New Washing
ton Hotel, Mayor Hendrickson ex
plained that, besides accompany
ing the Alaska champion on the
trip “Outside,” another purpose of
his trip is to present a 20-foot
totem pole to the Mayor of Akron.
Underground Jews
"Execute" leven
Arab “Brigands"
TEL AVIV, Palestine, </P) —
Eleven Arabs were killed today in
a bomb and machine gun attack
on their shanty six miles from Tel
Aviv. Hagana, the Jewish under
ground defense organization, an
nounced it had “executed” seven
of these in reprisal for brigandism.
A Hagana communique said the
dynamited house was headquar
ters “for the brigandism which
has been responsible for recent
attacks on Jewish settlements.”
The toll of dead and wounded
mounted steadily in the bloody ra
cial clashes between Jews and
Arabs in the area of all-Jewish
Tel Aviv and its neighbor city,
all-Arab Jaffa.
Two more Arabs were found
stabbed to death in the Shiek Mu
rad quarter of Jaffa, and another
Arab watchman was found dead
near Ramat Gan in the Tel Aviv
area.
The Palestine government, an
nouncing new security measures
in attempts to halt the conflict,
said “there is no reason whatever
to suppose that the riots are part
of a concerted plan or that vari
ous outrages which occurred in the
last few days are anything more
than a series of disconnected inci
dents confined to the limited area
where Arabs and Jews live side
by side."
The Jewish agency asked the
government to gain control of the
situation before “irresponsible ele
ments plunge the country into a
blood bath.”
The bullet-riddled bodies of
four of the Arabs slain in the at
tack on the shanty were found
sprawled in the yard. Two of them
were Egyptian Arabs, one was
from Hejaz, Saudi Arabia, and
one was a Palestinian.
Seven other bodies were recov
ered from the debris by authori
ties.
Navy In Pacific*
To Be Sharply
Curtailed
PEARL HARBOR. (/P) — Adm.
Louis E. Denfeld announced yes
terday that operations of the U. S.
Pacific fleet, including units in
Chinese and Japanese waters, will
be curtailed sharply the next few
months because of the expiration
of 240,000 two-year enlistments.
This will be a critical period in
Pacific operations and personnel
will be shuffled about to keep fleet
units in operation even on the cur
tailed basis, said Denfield, who is
commander of the Pacific fleet.
“This second demobilization/’
Denfeld told a press conference,
will create problems that will not
be solved until new enlistments
build up fleet strength. The first
demobilization followed V-J day.
He said task force 38, operating
out of Guam, may be based either
at Pearl Harbor or a west coast
port and much of the fleet training
will be done from west coast ports.
Task force 38 already has been re
duced to one carrier, the Anteitam
and one destroyer division.