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stigmatize the traitors.”
Hungary’s communist dominat
ed government has charged the
defendant with treason, .pyng
and black market money dealings.
The trial, now in its third day, is
drawing toward a close. A verdict
may be reached by Monday, per
haps tonight.
Prosecutor Elapi said the Hun
garian people demanded the re
moval of Cardinal Mindszenty as
one of ‘‘the last remnants of re
action.” Speaking along the linens
of the government’s yellow book
on the case, the prosecutor attack
ed the United States government
and its representatives, Francis
Spellman of New York and
others.
A major shakeup of leadership
has occurred among Greece’s com
munist guerrillas who have been
fighting for three years against
the national greek government.
A underground radio broadcast
said guerrilla chieftain Markos
Fafiades has been “seriously ill”
for several months and has been
relieved of his political leadership
of the rebel forces.
In Athens the broadcast was
taken to mean that Markos had
been dismissed as commander of
the rebels and possibly has been
execu'.ed by his fellow commun
ists for failing to “conquer
Greece.”
Security police in Warsaw an
nounced the arrest of “several
scores” of former members of Po
land’s home army on charges of
planning acts of terror. The police
said those held were involved in a
plot against the lives of govern
ment chiefs.
An unconfirmed report said au
thorities found a time bomb near
a government building where the
council of ministers meets. The
home army fought the Nazis du '•
ing the 1944 Warsaw uprising.
Tehran, the capital of oil-rich
Iran, was placed under martial
law after an unsuccessful attempt
was made to assassinate the coun
trys’ young pro-western ruler,
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi.
The Shah escaped with slight
injuries when five shots were
fired a him yesterday. Authori
ties identified the attacker as
Fakhr Raiee, a newspaper re
porter. There was no indication
o fthe reason for the attack.
China’s nationalist government
opened its provisional capital in
Canton nad began improvising a
defense by bringing down an
army of 15,000 men from Shang
hai. Canton i self was a gloomy
ri’y. Few ministries were ready
to begin functioning.
Monday' February T, 1949
Norway turned to the United
States for guidance today despite
renewed Soviet pressure.
Should she espouse the Russian
or the' American plan for guarding
her borders again t aggression?
This in substance was the Ques
tion Norwegian foreign minister
Halvard M. Lange was expected to
nr*fs to secretary of state Dean
Acheson in Washington, as con
cern mounted in ‘.h? little Scandi
navian nation over Russia’s sud
den offer to conclude a non-ag
g essjon pact with the Norwegian
government.
Russia got a very bad press in
all the Scandinavian countries to
day, with anti-communist papers
frowning at the whole idea of non
aggression pacts with the Soviets.
Acheson is expected to urge
Lange, in effect, to lineup wKh the
United States, Canada and West
FIRES SWEEP FIRE HOUSES.
FIREMEN CAN'T USE TRUCKS
UMATILLA, Ore., </P) — This
city’s fire department was put out
of business yesterday when an oil
[ stove exploded and flames de
stroyed the fire station and all
equipment.
Fire chief Gene Hiatt said a new
truck was included in the equip
ment loss. City officials estimated
damage at $15,000.
Volun'eers were unable to nave
the new truck. The blaze was dis
covered too late for firemen to
reach the truck cab and get the
motor going. Attempts to pull it
out failed.
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NUNN, Colo., {/P)—Fire swept
i the Nunn municipal building
which houses the town’s fire
truck. But firemen couldn’t use
the truck to help fight the fire.
They couldn’t get the engine start
ed.
ern Europe in a firm North Atlan
tic alliance.
It looked like the Norwegians
felt the same way.
In Oslo, most papers said the
Soviet offer could not alter the
i country’s determination to partici
pate in a western pact. Swedish
papers declared Russia already
had dishonored non-aggression
pacts with Lithuania, Finland,
Estonia, Latvia and Poland.
Foreign observers in Moscow
said Russia might match the Nor
wegian offer by making similar
suggestions to Sweden and Den
mark.
Pressure against the western
pact mounted as the controlled
Soviet press unleashed its strong
est blast yet on the North Atlantic
Alliance. The communist party or
gan Pravda assailed ti as the “most
important lever for preparing a
new world war.”
Millions of Catholics throughout
the western world raised their
voices in growing protest against
the treason trial of Josef Cardinal
Mindszenty as the Hungarian pri
mate sat in his Budapest cell
awaiting the court’s verdict tomor
row (Tuesday).
If found guilty, the cardinal
could be sentenced to death by
hanging.
The official Hungarian newspa
per, Szabad Nep, described the
cardinal as “a wretched worm, a
frightened scoundrel who aban
doned his principles and aims and
is scared only for his miserable
life.”
In Moscow, Pravda called the
trial a triumph over a “monarch
ist Catholic” plot and “reactionary
propagandists.**
t.i ,no *jn;».ec! :->:n;cs. i. a-nones
! observed a nationwide day of
“prayer and protest” yesterday
; (Sunday) along with others of the
faith in other lands.
Francis Cardinal Spellman and
other Catholic leaders denounced
the trial as a “mockery” and con
demned “atheistic communism.”
i China’s refugee government in
! Canton warned communists over
! the week-end they must soften
their peace demands or nationali
sts will continue the war.
President Li Tsung-Jen objocte:'
particularly to Red demands tha
communist-listed “war criminals”
I be handed over. Chiang Kai-Shek
: tops the list.
Li’s associates said, however, he
, has no thought of abandoning his
peace efforts. •
In Cairo, Egyptian foreign min
ister Dessouki Abaza Pasha said
six o'her Arab states might await
the results of the Egyptian-Isr^el
armistice talks on Rhodes > before
answering acting mediator sRalph
Bunche’s invitation to begin join*
I negotiations with Israel. 4*
B-29’s Get Nine
Direct Hits On
Ships At Kodiak
KODIAK, (/P)—Four air force
B-29’s scored direct hits on nine
fighting ships attacking Kodiak
Island in the navy’s North Pacific
war games, defending forces
claimed today.
An airman aboard one of the I
bombers said they spotted the nine
ships 250 miles southeast of Ko
diak and registered their bombing
hits in three runs at 20,000 feet.'
The invaders claimed they were
still coming on at undiminished
speed, however.
Lt. Thaddeus A. Brzywszy of1
Pitsbturgh, lead navigator, said i
besides two carriers, the fleet con
sisted of a light cruiser, four de
stroyers and two smaller vessels.
The ships are part of a navy |
task force attempting to “retake” I
the island from a theoretical en- I
emy. Their mission is to “soften !
up” the island for an invasion.
B-29 superforts shuttling over
the 1,500-mile route from the base
of the 72nd reconnaissance squad
ron at Ladd Field, sighted the
naval force at 7:15 a.m., yesterday
and radioed its position back to
the base. .
The bomber first sighting the
invasion force was flvvon by Capt.
W. R. Vaughan of Taft, Calif.
Col. Charles S. Overstreet, who
is directing the overall bomber de
fense of Kodiak led the first flight
of B-29’s from Ladd Field Satur
day immediately after the mock
alert had been flashed across the
Aleutian chain.
Attacking forces, meanwhile,
claimed their planes had “bombed
and strated” the naval base and
air station on the island yesterday
noon.
Though outmaneuvered by the
few pets the island was able to
get aloft, the attacking planes
claimed they accomplished their
mission by weight of numbers.
The island's air force totals
about 40 planes while the attack
ing force has 206 available, includ
ing a squadron of jets.
The severity of the blow was
minimized by Rear Adm. Alfred
E. Montgomery, commander of the
Alaska sea frontier.
(“I do not even consider this an
attack,” Montgomery said.
Heavy seas made the launching
of sufficient carrier-borne aircraft
impossible, he said.
Observers, who were here dur
ing tne war note an air of reality
about the operation, because it
was from here that B-17’s took off
on June 3. 1942, when a genuine
Japanese fleet sent bombers over
Dutch Harbor, only 600 miles from
the present war rehearsal.
There are many at Ladd Field,
including Brig. Gen. Dale V. Gaff
ney, commander of the 5001st
Wing, who were here then and
took part in the preparation and
the actual battle which marked
the beginning of the 15-month
Aleutian campaign.
Thirty to 40 ships and 18,000
men are taking part in the navy’s
maneuver, known as Operation
Icicle.
The Fixa Department respond
ed to a call from the Cyril Seeds
residence Saturday evening where
an overstuffed chair was ablaze.
The chair was quickly removed
and dumped in a snow bank be
fore additional damage could be
done. It is reported the cause was
due to something inflammable be
ing left in the chair.
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Mexican Mob Kills
U. S. Inspector
MEXICO, CITY, Robert L.
Proctor, foot and mouth commis
sion inspector of Tucson, A*iz.,
was killed by a native mob Mon
day at a mountain village 75 miles
northwest of here.
Proctor was thought to have es
caped after he and three others
were attacked by about 600 men
and women as they rode horse
back into San Pedro del Alto, five
miles from Temascaltzingo.
Proctor, the commission learned
today, was killed and buried at
the village and later that night,
his body was taken into the hills
and reburied. Today, Mexican
troops brought the body here.
Proctor was 23 and spoke Span
ish fluently and apparently got
along well with the Mexican pea
sants. He joined the joint U. S.
foot and mouth disease commis
sion here Nov. 11, 1948.
This is the third clash in which
men of the joint U. S.-Mexico
commission fighting the livestock
disease have been killed.
Opposition to vaccination con
tinues in some isolated districts
but the commission generally
finds farmers cooperating. The
slaughter of animals was aban
doned a year ago except in ex
treme cases and vaccination sub
stituted.
HOSPITAL NEWS
Maurice Degnan of Unalakleet
is a new patient in the hospital.
Gregory Ayac was transferred
t othe Kotzebue hospital.
AFL Leaders O.K.
Trumans New
Labor Law
MIAMI, Fla. (JP)—From every
indication AFL leaders feel they
have a bargain package in the ad
ministration’s proposed new labor
law.
Several said privately theii
main concern now is getting it ap
proved in Congress without too
many changes.
Members of the AFL executive
council, in annual midwinter
meeting here, have avoided public
comment until attorneys finished
poring over the Taft-Hartley law
repealer clause by clause.
Significantly the AFL men have
had scarcely a word of criticism
for the bill even in hotel lobby
conversation.
Today the council called in its
lawyers for a detailed explanation
of the bill’s terms. Their reaction
will form the basis for the testi
mony AFL president William
Green gives to the Senate labor
committee within the next week
or so.
This morning the Fire Depart
ment put out a fire on the roof of
the Frank Martin residence on 1st
Ave. W. The fire was caused by
an overheated stack.
Irvin Kile, well known oldtimer
who has been living at Bellevue,
Washington, arrived today to as
; sist Scotty Paterson at Scotty’s
and see his many friends.
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LeRoy Ashenfeller arrived from
( Council enruote to Seward to have
a tonsilectomv.
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