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U. 8. - Russian
Delegates Clash
In Conference
LONDON, Oct. 24—OP)—Snag
ged on a question of parliamen
tary order, the United Nations
executive committee postponed a
vote on the Russ ian request that
the nominations committee of the
organization’s general assembly be
abolished. The Soviet delegate.
Gromyko, reversing his stand in
the subcommittee, made the pro
posal during a discussion of a re
port on general assembly dele
gates, who interpreted this move
as aimed at strengthening the
proposed central committee.
Postponement of the vote was
preceded by a brush between Rus
sian and United States delegates
over the phrasing of the question.
Adlai Stevenson, United States
delegate phrased the question so
that it required only a simple ma
joriyt to carry. Gromyko insisted
he had phrased it so as to require
a two-thirds approval.
“I’m surprised at you,” he told
Stevenson, who replied ‘‘I don’t
think we should alter our proced
ure from item to item, at least I
don’t propose to do so as long as
I’m chairman.”
The committee was unable to
determine what the question was
they were to vote on and decided
to postpone the balloting.
House Approves
Naval Strength
Of Half Million
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24—bP)—
The House Naval committee ap
proved legislation to fix the per
sonnel strength of the post-war
Navy at half a million enlisted
men. Legislation still to be con
sidered by the House provides for
a Marine Corps of one hundred
thousand enlisted men and nine
ty-two hundred officers. The of
ficer strength of the Navy to be
about forty thousand.
Fire Guts Hotel
In Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS, Oct. 24 — (/P) —
Rupert Dvorak, 43, carpenter and
ex-fireman was suffocated when
fire gutted the entire third floor
of the Hotel Fairbanks here Tues
day morning. The blaze caused
about thirty thousand dollars
damage and is believed to have
started when Dvorak, who was
known to have been been drink
ing, fell asleep while smoking a
cigarette.
No others were injured, but fire
and water damage drove 145 peo
ple to other quarters. The City
and Ladd Field firemen fought
the blaze for an hour and a half
in a snow storm.
.22 RIFLES COMING BACK — Charles Larson
(above), veteran maker of Garand stocks for the Army, is back
at work turning out walnut stocks for .22 rifles in the Winchester
plant at New Haven, Conn.
Chinese, Russians
Negotiate Landing
| Of Troops
CHUNGKING, Oct. 24 — (/P) —
j Russian and Chinese officials are
| negotiating whether Chinese na
tionalists and occupation troops,
destined for Manchuria, may land
I at Dairen and Port Arthur, it was
learned from authoritative quar
ters.
The fact that this question will
have to be the subject of negotia
tion is considered highly signifi
cant here. The dispatch didn’t
elaborate on this angle, but it de
ported the two governments al
ready had agreed that Chinese
troops could be landed at the
ports of Antung, Yungkow and
Halutao. China’s Thirteenth and
Fifty-Second armies are to be
transported to Manchuria by U. S.
Admiral Kinkaid’s Seventh Fleet.
Canton and Haophong will be
among the ports of embarkation.
Award Buckner
Distinguished
Service Medal
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct, 24—(/P)
—The Navy Distinguished Service
Medal has been awarded posthu
mously to Lieutenant General Si
mon Bolivar Buckner, who was
killed in action while leading the
Tenth Army on Okinawa. The
medal was presented to his wi
dow by Admiral Royal Ingersoll,
commander of the Western Sea
Frontier, at a ceremony at the
Presidio. General Buckner al
ready had a similar Army medal
for services in the Aleutians.
British, Dutch
Use Lend Lease
Against Nationals
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24—(JP)—
Secretary Byrnes said United
States objects to the use of lend
lease arms for political purposes,
as they have been employed by
British and Dutch forces in the
Far East. All that has been done
about the objection, Secy.. Byrnes
told a news conference, was to
ask the British and the Dutch to
remove the United States emblem !
from the military equipment they
are using against nationalists in |
Indo-China and Java.
The policy of objection applied
everywhere, Byrnes said. Assert-,
ing if it had not been invoked
the arms could be used in South
America or any other section of
the world.
Lucille Lomen Is
Assistant State
Attorney General
OLYMPIA, Oct. 24—(/P)—Lucille
Lomen, Seattle member of the
Lomen family, widely known
in Alaska, was appointed assist
ant state attorney general. She
was born in Nome. She has served
the past year as a law clerk for
Justice Douglas of the United
States Supreme Court.
OPA RENT INSPECTOR
IN TOWN ON SURVEY
A. H. Moeller, rent inspector
for the OPA, from the Fairbanks
office, arrived in town on a sur
vey for his department.
The silkworm and the honey
bee are domesticated insects.
Quisling Executed
As Arch Traitor
In Norway
•>
OSLO, Oct. 24— i/P) — Vidkun
Quisling, Norway's arch traitor,
was executed by a firing squad
before dawn today; paying the fi
nal price for dealing with the en
emy and defying his King and
countrymen throughout the bitter
years of the war.
Greatest secrecy surrounded the
execution. A Foreign Affairs
spokesman said Quisling was
awakened in his cell about 2:00
a.m. and rushed quickly before
a firing squad of ten Norwegian
military police. The only witnesses
were an unidentified member of
the state prosecution, a clergy
man, and the officer who gave the
order to fire.
The youths who formed the fir
ing squad were forced to flee the
country during Quisling's puppet
regime. The members of the squad
had been alerted for the past
week for their task. Quisling
stumbled through a murky
drizzling rain to the dismal exe
cution square in the ancient Aker
shus fortress. To the very end he
maintained he was a patriot. He
sent a letter protesting his inno
cence to King Haakon.
Food Situation
Critical In Japan
TOKYO, Oct. 24—(/P)—Direc
tors of Japan’s biggest multi-mil
lion dollar family monopoly was
prodded by Sigma as being linked
to the war effort, wrestled with
reorganization, while the harassed
government prepared to beg out
side aid to meet the food crisis
problem.
Directors of the Mitsui com
pany, which dates back to 1673,
are at a loss to know what to do
with their holdings, which arei
frowned on under the present set
up by General MacArthur.
The problem before the welfare
minister Ashida, on how to feed
the people through the crucial
months of November and Decem
ber, until transportation deficien
cies are overcome to permit ade
quate distribution of the currently
harvested rice crop. Ashida said
his govenment plans to negotiate
with the United Nations Relief
Administration.
D.A.V. Endorse
House Committee
CHICAGO, Oct. 24—(^—Dis
abled American Veterans declar
ed: “Many subversive organiza
tions and individuals are again
becoming openly active.” They
expressed this view in a resolu
tion adopted at a convention en
dorsing the work of the House
Un-American Activities commit
tee.
Human Guinea
Pi<* Aids Cold
\Y eather Fliers
BOSTON, Oct. 24——A mu
seum director served as a human
guinea pig in subarctic Alaskan
temperatures so that American
Air Force crews were able to sur
vive as many as ninety missions
at thirty thousand feet over the
Western Front last winter. Back
at the New England Museum of
Natural History, after nearly four
years in cold climate the equip
ment consultant to the Army Air
Forces, Bradford Washburn, 35,
fervently praised the fliers who
benefitted from his below-zero
tests.
Having helped test more than
ninety items of flying clothing for
air corps emergency equipment,
for months at a time under winter
conditions in Alaska, Washburn
discovered the greatest problem of
the air forces was “how to be
comforably clothed while sitting
still.”
Congress For And
Against Military
Training
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24—(£>)—
Congressional reaction to Presi
dent Truman’s recommendation of
one year’s military training for
young men ranged from outright
disapproval to wholehearted en
dorsement. The American Legion
and the Veterans of Foreign Wars
endorsed the proposal the Presi
dent recommended yesterday in
his address to Congress for mili
tary training for all young Amer
icans, to show any future war
maker that United States intended
to remain tough and strong.
Price Controls
WASHINGTON. Oct. 24—(VP)—
Price Administrator Chester
Bowles told Congress the coun
try is heading for a foundation
shaking boom and bust, unless it
keeps price controls for many
months.
I WEDDINGS IN NOME
! MONDAY AND TUESDAY
On Monday afternoon there
were two weddings, Alberta
Schenck and Frank Rotter, both
of this city, and Francis Mayer
and Celia Small, both of Anchor
age.
Tuesday evening Law r e n c e
Morris and Virginia Weokoluk
were married. The groom is a sol
dier at the Nome base, and the
bride is a Nome girl, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. George Weokoluk.
The English language has been
renamed “Koango” in one Japan
ese Malayan area.