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NEWS IN BRIEF
CAMREN, N. J. (/P) —Reports
that the National Boxing Associa
tion would make the winner
heavyweight champion today
strengthened the likelihood of an
October match between Jersey
Joe Walcott and the victor in the
Ezzard Charles-Jimmy Bivins
bout.
The reports came from Game
Memendez, Washington promoter
seeking to present the fight in the
» nation’s capital in October, and
from Leon Rains, chairman of the
Pennsylvania Athletic commis
sion.
WASHINGTON, </P) — Presi
dential press secretary Charles G.
Ross said yesterday that a pub
lished report secretary of state
Marshall had threatened to resign
•“is certainly news to me.”
A reporter told Ross the story
said Mr. Truman has proposed a
three-point program for Israel
and that Marshall had threatened
to resign as a result.
SANTA MONICA, Calif. </P)—
Gov. Earl Warren, who soon goes
vote-fishing as Republican Vice
Presidential nominee, gdt in a
good practice lick Monday.
He caught a 23-pound albacore
to top a fishing party that includ
ed two of his sons, Bob and Earl,
Jr., and actor Leo Carrillo. Three
halibut was the best the others
•could do.
• LONDON, (/P) — A Russian
sports official said yesterday Rus
sia intends to participate in the
1952 Olympics ‘if we are invited.’
Evan Nikolacewicz Pietuchow,
head of the three-man Soviet del
egation to the international ama
teur basketball federation said
the Russians thought their invi
tation to form an Olympic com
mittee and participate in the 1948
games came ’’rather late.”
JUNEAU, (/P) — An economic
survey of seven Southeastern
Alaska native villages is being
made for the department of the
interior and the Alaska Native
Service by Dr. Varden Fuller of
the University of California.
He is seeking information on
incomes, living standards and
family expenditures. The data
w^ill be used in establishing loan
funds and in planning other as
sistance for the natives.
JUNEAU, The Alaska Re
publican central committee enter
ed Donald MacDonald II, of Fair
banks yesterday as its candidate
for Territorial engineer in the
fall elections.
^ He replaces Ira T. Farnsworth
of Anchorage, who recently with
drew from the race because of ill
ness. MacDonald was one of the
early proponents of the Alaska
Highway.
JUNEAU, (/P) — Four Pacific
Northwest doctors have arrived
here enroute to hold clinics and
examine medical facilities in
seven Alaska communities for
the department of the interior.
• They will visit Juneau, Mt.
Edgecumbe, Tanana, Bethel, Kan
akanak, Fairbanks, and Anchor
age.
U. S. Will Protect j
Un-American Ac- i
tivities Witnesses
WASHINGTON .(/P)—Secretary
of state Marshall today made it i
plain the American government,
will protect any individual testi
fying in the communist spy in
vestigation if he complies with
the United States laws.
Marshall stated this flatly as a
general principle at his news con
ference. He did not specify that it j
applied to any particular individ
uals.
The secretary’s remarks were
interpreted to mean that Michael
Ivanovitch Samarin, a Russian
school teacher, can expect full
protection of the U. S. govern
ment.
Samarin and his wife have been
subpoenaed to testify before the
House committee in connection
with its investigation of commun
ist espionage operations. The sub
poenaes were served yesterday.
Soviet ambassador Alexander
Panyushkin has demanded for
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U. S. Gives U. N.
Large Loan
WASHINGTON (/P)—President
Truman today signed legislation
authorizing a $65,000000 loan for
erection of United Nations head
quarters in New York.
The measure, Mr. Truman said,
demonstrates the United States’
faith in a peaceful future.
He called it “another example
of the solidarity of the American
people “behind a bi-partisan for
eign policy to strengthen the U.
N. and the cause of world peace
and security.
Internationa News
At A Glance —
■ ' ■ ■
(By The Associated Press)
TUESDAY
The Moscow radio urged closer
collaboration yesterday between
Russia and the United States to
assure a lasting peace.
Ordinarily for the last year or
more, the radio has devoted itself
almost exclusively to assailing the
western powers, usually the U. S.
A.
But yesterday after the third
meeting Monday night within a
week between envoys of the U.S.,
Britain and France with Foreign
Minister Molotov, Moscow radio
declared:
“Collaboration between the two
countries is just as essential to
day as it was during the war. . . .
Just as it was collaboration of the
great powers that made possible
complete victory over the aggres
sive forces of fascism and mili
tarism, so collaboration can as
sure a lasting peace at the present
' time.”
The speaker, of course, includ
ed an assertion that “reactionary
circles” in the U. S. oppose this
and are undermining collabora
tion. But he gave the U. S. a lit
tle credit for victory over Japan
in a “fighting friendship and part
nership” with Russia. The broad
cast commemorated Russia’s de
claration of war against stagger
ing Japan, already reeling under
two atom bomb blows.
Things were no better in block
aded Berlin.
W. T. Babcock, U. S. deputy
commander in Berlin, reported
that a fairly accurate German'
source said the Russians have or
dered German rail officials to
stand by for a possible reopening
of the railroad from Berlin to the
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Russian Embassy
Awarded Miss
Bentley A Medal
(By Douglas B. Cornell)
WASHINGTON, (/P)—1The Rus
sian embassy today was drawn
directly into Congressional hear
ings of alleged communism war
time spying.
Elizabeth T. Bentley, who says
she is a former Red spy returned
to the witness chair of the House
un-American activities commit
tee and testified that Anatol Gro
mov, first secretary of the em
bassy, paid her $2,000 in October
l 1945.
j She also said he told her the
Soviet supreme council had
! awarded her a medal.
! Her story of the money and the
medal had been disclosed by com
mittee members earlier, but she
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Can Subpoena
Russian Woman
WASHIN GTON, (IP) — The
| state department ha sadvised the
House un-American activities
committee it can serve a subpoe
na on the Russian woman school
teacher currently in the Soviet
consulate in New York.
Press officer Michael McDer
;mott told a news conference the
.state department has advised the
has given acting chairman Mundt
(R.-S. D.) of the House committee
this opinion in answer to his re
quest for an official ruling.
McDermott said the Russian
school teacher, Mrs. Oksana Ste
panovna Kosenkina, “has no im
munity at all. She is not a mem
ber of the arbassador’s staff and
is subject to our laws.”
Philippine’s War Heroine In U. S.
Mr*. Josefina Guerrero, (center) 30, Filipino war heroine who received the U.S. Medal of Free
dom for aiding American soldiers during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, arrived in
San Francisco on the Transport General Pope enroute to Carville, La., for treatment for leprosy.
Greeting her (1-r) are Father Clement Berberich, head of the lay group of the third order of Francis
cans; unidentified army officer; Roberto Regalo, Philippines consul-general in San Francisco, and
Dr. J. C. Geiger, San Francisco health officer. C(/P) Wirephoto)
Shi ring Strike
Set For Sept. 2
SAN FRANCISCO, <JP)—A fact
finding board prepared a report
for President Truman on the com
plex Pacific Coast maritime labor
situation today as three unions
re-affirmed Sept. 2 as a strike
deadline.
A federal injunction prohibits
a maritime strike until then.
The Presidential board wound
up its hearings late yesterday
amid charges and countercharges
of “communism” and “fascism”
hurled by both sides.
Spokesmen for four unions
turned down an employer wage
offer as inadequate.
Officials of three of the unions
—the CIO longshoremen and ma
rine cook sand stewards, and the
independent marine firemen—
said the members would definite
ly strike September 3.
CIO marine engineers demand
ed further negotiations.
President Truman will get the
fact-finding board report Friday
from chairman Harry Shulman,
Yale university law professor.
Union members still must vote on
: the employer wage offer as re
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Seek To Avert
Tieup Of Shipping
To Alaska
■ SEATTLE, (JP) — Seeking to
| avert a tie-up of Alaska shipping
• on September 2, Harry H. Lewis,
federal mediator, leaves this
morning for San Francisco and
negotiation between the long
shoremen’s union and Alaska
shippers.
He will return tomorrow.
Lewis will meet with represen
tatives of Alaska shipping’s “big
three” — Northland Transporta
tion, Alaska Steamship company
and Alaska Transportation com
pany — and the CIO longshore
men’s union.
A coastwise — and Alaskan —
shipping tie-up is threatened on
September 2 when an 80-day
Presidential injunction prohibit
ing a strike expires. Both employ
ers and union representatives
say the strike is inevitable.
DEVELOPMENT BOARD AP
PROVES 2ND DIV. SURVEY
The Alaska Development Board,
which is meeting in Anchorage
this week has adopted a resolu
tion to bring up to date the pre
liminary survey of the Second
Division.
It was announced today by A.
Polet, Second Division member of
the board that personnel will be
furnished to assist in the devel
opment program for the Division
and the program for the board.
Yesterday the board met with
officials of the interior depart
ment and today ended the session
with public forum and broadcast.
Polet announced that telegrams
from all the chambers stressing
the immediate needs would be a
big help.