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Soviet pressure applied on Nor
way, pressure interpreted in the
west as designed to push that
Scandinavian country toward the
east.
The Communist news paper
Pravda devoted nearly two col
umns today to this reaction .
The seven nation group neogti
ating the North Atlantic Security
Pact in Washington took little
note, and let it be known it ex
pects soon to invite a half dozen i
more nations, including Norway,
to become full partners in the pro
ject.
Officials in Washington inter
preted the Russian blast at the al
liance and Stalin’s statement yes
terday as past of the same pattern
of attack on the growing unity of
the non-communist western
world. Some have called it a
“peace offensive.”
Norway, Sweden and Denmark
found themselves unable to agree
on a joint attitude toward the pro
posed Atlantic pact.
Months of negotiation ended
yesterday with Sweden insisting
on preserving her neutrality, Nor
way in favor of joining the west
ern defense system and Denmark
in doubt. The Russian pressure on
Norway became public only a
few hours before the negotiations
collapsed.
In China, Gen. ’Hseuh Yueh,
new governor of Kwangtung pro
vince, said at Canton he would
lead China’s four southern pro
vinces in a last ditch stand against
the communisms.
Hseuh, who succeeded T. V.
Soong a few days ago, said in an
interview that he was ready to
lead the people of Kwangoung,
Kwangsi, Hunan and Fukien pro
vinces against the Reds regardless
of the outcome of peace bi.ds oy
the nationalist government.
The city of Nanking appeared
to be moving toward the status of
an open city, although there has
been no official move to declare
it such.
The city is practically defense
less, armed units, once to have
been the defenders o/ Nanking,
have pulled out.
Paraguay acquired a new gov
ernment over the week-end. A
bloodless coup unsea‘ed the five
month-old regime of President J.
Natalicio Gonzalez. The nat on u
assembly last night elected Brig.
Gen. Rtymundo Rolon, defensj
minister under Gonzalez, to head
the provisional government. The
revolt is he sixth in Paraguay in
13 months.
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Tuesday. February 1. 1949
United States officials held out
hope today that a settlement of
the Arab-Israeli dispute may be
nearer now with full American i
recognition of both Israel and
Trans-Jordan.
Then also looked for the dual
recognition ,to increase Israel’s
chances for early election o mem
bership in the United Nations.
Prime minister David Ben-Gu
rion said 5r> Tel Aviv last night
that Israel intends to seek friend
ship with both the Unite.! States
and Russia.
Tn a broadcas', short’y after
President Truman welomed Israel
into the world family of nations,
Ben-Guiron declared that the
Jewish state also intends to seek
an alliance with Arab ^states and
suppor* the United Nations.
In Nanking Li Tsung-Jen’s gov
ernment talked back to the Reds
today, declaring it was still able
to fight. China’s government
warned the communists to lay off
irrelevant demands if they want
peace.
Li’s government was angered by
three recent demands of the Reds.
These were for the re-arrest of Lt.
Gn Yasutsugu Okamura, former
Japanes ecommander in China ac
quitted by a Chinese military
court last week; the detention of
all described by the communists
as “war criminals” and complete
recognition of the local Peiping
peace pact.
Sweden. Norway and Danmark
remained deadlocked over what
they would do about the North
Atlantic security pact.
Norway, which has favored
joining the western powers de
spite Russian pressure, may be
the first to make a decision. Swe
den is expected to stick to her pol
icy of neutrality. Denmark has
wavered between the two.
Hungary’s No. 1 communist,
deputy premier Mathias Rakosi,
announced today that Hungary
had become a people’s republic
and that a new constitution would
be written. It was the republic’s
third anniversary. Presumably the
shift removed the last obstacle to
full fledged treaties with Czecho
slovakia and other people’s democ
racies, a term used by East Eu
rope nations for communist-dom
inated governments.
The latest issue of the Cornin
form bulletin went on sale in Bu
charest today. It contained the
usual blasts against the usual tar
gets.
In Berlin the American military
government’s German newspaper
—Neue Zeitung—said the Rus
sians were plotting a putsch to
unseat Yugoslavia’s premier, Mar
shal Tito, before March 15. Tlae
paper said its information came
from “Balkan experts.”
Wednesday, February 2, 1949
Western diplomats predicted to
day the nations negotiating the
North Atlantic pact would lose no j
time in making Norway one of
their group, despite Soviet pres
sure.
The Norwegian reply to a Sov
iet note asking about her position
on the Atlantic Alliance said Nor
way felt it necessary to seek “in
creased security” through defen
sive cooperation, such as ties with
•the western powers.
Norway added, however, that
she would not grant bases on her
soil to foreign powers, unless she
is attacked or threatened with ag
gression.
Acting president Li Tsung-Jen
of China may fly to communist
'.erritory to try for peace, Nanking
informants said, but only if all
other peace efforts collapsed.
Chiang Kai-Shek’s plan to light
on in South China if peace efforts
fail, appeared to be getting snarl
ed in a tangle of intrigue. All par
ties appeared bent on trying to
split the others into factions.
The formal inclusion of the
modern part of Jerusalem within
he sovereign boundaries of Israel
may be annoimced soon.
In Berlin the German commun
ist peoples council called upon the
German people, to stage a mass
dem^nstf-ation against the western
powers.
In Buenos Aires the majority
Peronista par y decided in favor
of retaining a constitutional pro
vision which would prevent Pres
ident Juan D. Peron from sue. cod
ing himself.
Reversing their previous stand
the party agreed to continue in j
force a provision of the 1353 con-,
stitution providing the President
may hot serve consecutive sixyear j
terms. 1
Alaska Airlines
Greatly Aided In
Developing Alaska
(New York Times)
NEW YORK—At a time when
most of the airline companies are
singing the blues, or just emerg
ing from a holiday of the pittery,
it is refreshing to find one skywise
transport system that has buckled
down to opening up new avenues
of revenue.
It’s a long jump from New York
or Berlin to Anchorage. Alaska,
and one wouldn’t expect an air
line berthed in this nation’s farth
ermost northern outpost to brush
with the climates of the rest of the
universe.
There is quite a unique and
purely American story behind the
operations of Alaska Airlines un
der th edirection of Raymond W.
Marshall, chairman of the board
of directors, and Jimmy (James)
A. Wooten, president.
Mr. Marshall had had more than
forty years of experience in trans
portation—until he took over the
Alaska job—mostly as a manufac
turer of railway equipment and an
operator of several sizable trans
portation companies. He put to
gether the various and sundry
small lines which now comprise
Alaska’s sky network. Most im
portant, he has gathered together
a group of highly experienced spe
cialists. They can operate in the
freezing conditions of the North as
well as the unbearable torrid
weather of the tropics.
In Jimmy Wooten, a comparitave
newcomer to the Alaska family,
Mr. Marshall has an able partner
with seventeen years of air trans
port experience and one who flew
cargo all over the globe for Amer
ican Airlines, Where he organized
the first domestic air freight sys
tem within the United Sta.es. This
embraced practically every spot in
the world.
Probably no other company has
contributed to the opening up of
Alaska as has this air-transport
system. It pioneered in the bring
ing of fresh meats and produce to
the Territory and “staked” busi
ness men with the necessary
“goods” to sell. It opened up many
new markets for air cargo within
Alaska and forced reductions of
prices on perishable items. In
May, 1947, the vo.lume handled by
the company was roughly 60,000
pounds of cargo a month. Today
it is fourth among the nation’s air
lines in ton-miles of air cargo
handled, or more than 1,000,000
pounds a month.
Using Anchorage as the gate
way, it has opened up innumer
able spots previously inaccessible
for human travel. But, despite its
operation over 6,000 miles of certi
fied routes, Messrs. Marshall and
Wooten found that -this contract
cargo carriage did not remove
Alaska’s major problem; namely,
the seasonal curve, wherein, in
wintertime, the 100,000 migratory
workers left the Territory and, as
a result, left Alaska’s economy
practically at a standstill.
So in order to flatten out the
seasonal curve and keep the ships
operating throughout the winter
and its entire personnel employed
the company sought charters on a
world-wide basis. The first sizable
charter was ten planeloads o'.
Army wives and children from
Seattle to Japan. This was follow
ed by an operation for a South Af
rican airline from London to Jo
hannesburg. Concurrently with
these two operations, twelve loads
of seamen were transported from
all parts of the globe to their own
The USS Burton Island held
! open house for the people of Nome
Sunday. Regardless of the incle
ment weather the well beaten trail
became a regular boulevard with
a steady stream of Nome’s resi
dents going and coming all day.
At times the ship was invisible
from shore with snow blowing, but
the traffic continued. It is estim
ated that several hundred people
took advantage of the invitation
extended by the USS Burton Is
land.
Monday morning the ship got
under way for other Alaskan
ports and was still visible on the
horizon Tuesday .
home ports.
The ships were then returned in
time to transport the itinerant
fishermen and cannery employees
from the mainland to Alaska. Nine
hundred of these cannery employ
ees were flown on one three day
weekend from San Francisco to
Naknek. Alaska. When the can
nery movement was finished the
Army Air Force requested the use
of Alaska’s DC-4’s from Westover
Field at Frankfort and Berlin to
support “Operation Vittles.” When
the deadline neared for the re
moval of war brides from Europe,
Alaska Airlines was called upon
! to assist in the return of more than
10,000 women and children to
America.
Alaska Airlines, in addition, is
engaged today in handling such
movements as 2,500 refugees from
Aden to Haifa, and 2,000 passen
gers from Shanghai to southern
Europe.
Pioneering ability and know
how have transformed a loss of
$700,000 for its 1947 year in o a
sizable profit for 1948, this not in
cluding three awards in back mail
pay from the Government in ex
cess of $800,000.
Air transport companies which
have found “tough sleddin’ ” in re
cent years could well take a chap
ter from Alaska Airlines ’experi
ence.
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Police Capture*
Priest Attacker
After Gun Battle
NEW YORK oPj—Wouoded an 1
captured in a blazing gun battle
with police, a 40-year-old man
was under arrest charged with the
bizarre shooting of a Roma \ Cath
dice priest in a confessional
booth.
About 100 policemen closer! in
to blast the man out of his room
in an east side rooming house.
The prisoner, Elmer Stamord,
was identified as a relied client,
collector of religious tracts, anrl
would-be waiter.
Police quoted neighbors as say
ing Stanford had told them he did
not like priests.
An intensive search had been
conducted since late Saturday,
when a gunman rose from a pew in
the quiet church of St. John the
Martyr, unwrapped a pap*1.-cov
ered rifle, fired into the confes
sional booth and fled.
The Rev. Vincent J. Campbell,
inside the booth, was wounded in
the leg, but not seriously.
RECLAMATION WORKER*;
TAKE A.I.D. COURE HERR
Three field workers for the bur
eau of reclamation returned re
turned to their otfice at Juneau
after completing a course of Arc
tic survival with the A.I.D. here.
The purpose of their experience
was to enable them to meet emer
gencies should they arise while on
field trips into teh Interior ft r the
department who are studying sites
for hydroelectric power.
The three who participated in
the A.I.D. were Daryl Roberts, di
visiin engineer, “Smoke” Thomas,
and A. E. Jaskar. geologist.
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The telephone pole of tin North
ern Ligh and Power Co., on the
corner of 1st and C street** was
split in half last Saturday evening
during the snow storm by a bull
dozer owned by the City of Nome.
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