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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. XLVIII. No. 156 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAyTdECKMBER 30, 1946 ~PER COPy^TfrT
Russia Intends
To Keep Control
Of Dairen
(By William H. Newton)
'Representing the combined world
press,'.
DAIREN, Manchuria, 'Delayed)
(/P)—Soviet Russia, I learned to
day, intends to retain full control
of the city of Dairen—gateway to
Manchuria—and will keep her
military forces there until after
the peace treaty is signed with
Japan.
This will be done under a tech
nical definition of a clause in the
C inese-Russian pact concerning
Liiren, which says ‘in peacetime
D.airen is not included in the
here of efficacy of naval base
r .gulations determined by agree
ment on Port Arthur of Aug. 14,
1945, and shall be subject to mili
tary supervision or control in this
zone only in the case of war
against Japan.”
“In peacetime” is the catch.
Technically, China and Russia still
are at war with Japan until a
peace treaty is signed.
Despite the fact that two Amer
•
ican correspondents who visited
Dairen aboard a U. S. navy cour
ier ship were refused permission
to enter the city by the Russian
commander, Maj. Gen. V. U. Korz
hanoff a comprehensive picture of
conditions under the Soviet rule
has been obtained from neutral
afid Chinese sources.
Dairen is a cold, depressed, dis
mal city. Life is almost as closely
regulated as behind the Iron Cur
tain.
The only currency is Soviet mil
itary script. Industry is paralyzed.
Hunger and unemployment is
widespread.
Only three buildings in the city
are heated against the freezing
cold. Prices are wildly inflated.
Russian and Chinese civilians
who lived there before and during
the war eke out an exstence of
privation and fear. None dares to
be intimate with the Anericans,
Summary arrests and iiprison
ment are the rule rather han the
exception.
There is no freedom o speech
or the press. One Chinese lnguage
newspaper is published infre-!
quently, wherever its Cormunist
publishers “can think of some
thing to say against the United
States," according to ’liable
i sources.
Petty curelties to the hinese
I and White Russians are anlmost
daily occurrence. Many roung
Chinese students have bci ar
rested for expressing belie that
full Chinese sovereignty shdd be
restored.
Soviet propaganda posrs—
■ featuring portraits of Stali and
8INC ENTERTAIN S—Prior to a Sister Kenny Foundation fund appeal, Bing Crosby
(left) croons for Wayne Nadorf and Sandra Levy, who recovered from polio after treatment by the
Kenny method. Lucy Lewandowska (right) is one of the few Kenny technicians.
Autos Offered For
Sugar Iiowl Tickets
NEW ORLEANS, <#»)—'You can
get some Sugar Bowl football tick
ets if you can spare some good
whiskey, and you can get three
new automobiles for as many tick
ets.
The city police and U. S. Collec
tor of internal revenue have
warned against cash scalping of
tickets for the New Year’s Day
football contest between Georgia
and North Carolina but the tickets
have a high value on a new barter
market which doesn’t fit under the
ban.
The classified advertisements of
the New Orleans newspapers are
carrying some attractive swap of
fers working both ways. One man
offers a new radio “or anything’’—
those are his words—for ten tick
ets.
People who have surplus tickets
are offering to exchange them for
items ranging from typewriters
and washing machines to whiskey
for pool tables.
other Soviet dignitaries—are ev
erywhere. Other posters advise the
hungry and jobless Chinese people
in the Soviet controlled city that
if America would get out of China
there would be peace and prosper
ity.
At the same time the Soviets are
making full use of American lend
lease equipment, including Liber
ty ships, planes and motor vehi
cles of all sorts. The only observ
able transport the Soviet army has
in Dairen is American.
Alaska SS. Appeals
For Settlement Of
Ketchikan Dispute
SEATTLE, (/P) — The Alaska
Steamship Company appealed Sat
urday to the Maritime Commission
for action to settle a jurisdictional
union dispute that spread from
Ketchikan to Seward Alaska.
Unloading of the steamship Ba. -
anof in Seward was held up by
the controversy between Sewaro
CIO longshoremen and the deck
department of the AFL sailors’
union of the Pacific.
The trouble started in Ketchikan
Dec. 17, company officials said,
when longshoremen demanded to
drive winches in all hatches they
were working.
Steamship company spokesmen
said members of the AFL-union
were entitled under contract agree
ment to handle winch-driving in
Alaska ports.
J. Fred Zumdieck, superintend
ent of the Alaska Steamship Co.
said he had been informed that
one hatch still was being worked
on the Baranof, presumably the
hatch manned by the deck crews.
The Baranof and North Sea, af
fected by the Ketchikan woi k stop
page, carried much needed cargo
north after the prolong’d mari
time strike.
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BENNINGTON, Vt. (/P)—Hugh
Robert Wilson, 61, the last United
States Ambassador to Nazi Ger
many, died Saturday night at his
Bennington home following a long
illness. ,
Search For Missing
Plane Near Seward
Unsuccessful
SEWARD. (/R) — Aerial and
ground searchers failed today to
uncover any trace of Dr. O. Ray
Bannister and school superintend
ent Harold Roth, missing since
Thursday on a flight in Bannis
ter's plane, bound for Homer.
The plane was last seen flying
low over Seward. It has been
snowing almost continuously but
planes have been up during every
break in the weather. About 125
Seward men were in the Sunday
ground posse, two army boats were
dragging the bay.
Bannister is superintendent of
the Seward hospital and Home in
the Woods Sanatorium. Roth has
headed Seward schools for four
years. He formerly taught in Jun
eau. Both men are married and
have children. Bannister’s wife is
an amateur pilot and has been
participating in the search.
WOODBURY, N. J., (/P)—Jack
Bitting, manager of a liquor store,
sold a case of beer for $3.65 Sat
urday. After the customer left, i
Bitting remembered he had placed
a paper bag containing $1,700 inj
cash and checks in the beer case
which was taken away. The money
was put there because he did not
want to take the store receipts j
with him overnight. Bitting has!
appealed to the customer to put in
another appearance—with the
money. 1
Russia Charged
\\ ith Breaking All
"Four Freedoms”
(By Alex H. Singleton)
WASHINGTON, (/P> —Charges
of economic enslavement, political
terrorism, religious repression,
broken promises and ambitions for
military power were leveled
against Russia today by the special
House committee on postwar eco
nomic policy.
The committee report — the
sharpest official criticism of Rus
sia on Capitol Hill since the Soviet
Union went to war with Germany
—demanded that the United States
assert “positive leadership” in Eu
ropean economic affairs.
Simultaneously it asserted that
if Russia actually is found to be
using German war plants to re
arm, the Western Allies should de
nounce the entire Potsdam Big
Three agreement and demand that
the Soviets “evacuate Germany
completely.”
First reaction to the committee’s
document came in the form of a
protest against “Headline Hunt
ers” by Rep. Sol Bloom iD.-N.YJ,
retiring chairman of the House
foreign affairs committee.
Bloom told reporters the com
mittee should have submitted its
evidence, “if it has any” to the
Senate and war departments for
investigation. He contended the
report would do “far more harm
than good” in current diplomatic
negotiations.
The state department declined
any immediate comment.
The unanimous committee re
port offered a number of specific
recommendations, among them:
1. A review of the financial as
pects of American occupation pol
icy in “order to substitute produc
tive and self-supporting economies
in ex-enemy countries for the
present method of supporting
them with American money while
they, in turn, are being drained by
Russia and France.”
2. Loans to American occupation
authorities through the export
import bank to start the flow of
raw materials necessary for in
dustial production.
3. An inquiry into restriction on
the movement of American busi
nessmen and the freedom of access
into foreign countries of American
information agencies, including
books, magazines, papers and
movies, as well as our reporters
can be facilitated.”
4. A specific study of safeguard
ing the trade recommendations
‘‘with respect to the abuse of state
trading practices, particularly by
the state monopolies of nations
who are not members” of the
world bank, monetary fund or
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