Soviets Have Large
Armored Forces In
Eastern Germany
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WASHINGTON, (A5)—The Sov
iet Union now has a fully armored
or mechanized force of 35 divi
sions in East Germany and Pol
and, the state department says,
and has restored East Germany
railways which would serve as
supply lines from Russia in the
event of war.
Additionally, the state depart
ment report based on “current in
telligence” said, the East German
communist party on Jan. 15 began
a large scale purge of its ranks
aimed at eliminating weak links.
The department’s office of pub
lic affairs gave this information
in an official publication picturing
the background of recent Scfviet
pressures on Germany.
The report came just when the
Big Four powers appeared to be ,
nearing agreement on plans for a j
“peace” conference. It questioned
whether Russia really wants a Big
Four meeting. Unless the powers
can agree on discussing their dif
Three Killed In
Small Plane Crash
PAXTON, (£>)—Three preemin
ent Minnesotans flying to a Colo
rs d o skiing resort were killed
yesterday when their plane
crashed into a tree at the edge of
Paxton.
The dead were:
Ednfund P.Pillsbury, 37, Minne
apolis, vice-president of Pillsbury
Mills, Inc., and son of Pillsbury
board chairman John S. Pillsbury;
Alfred D. Lindley, 47, Minnea
polis attorney, former Olympic
skiier and recently unsuccessful
Republican candidate for Con
gress;
Dexter L. Andrews, 38, secre
tary and director of Earl Part
ridge Co., Minneapolis general
merchandise wholesale firm.
Apparently Pillsbury was bring
ing the plane in for a landing in a
field near the Psxton railroad
depot when the little ship plowed
into a grove of trees.
ferences' other than Germany,
there would be little point in
meeting, it said.
“Somebody Is A
Liar” In RFC Loan
Influence Hearing
WASHINGTON, (£>) — William
E. Willet, a member of the Recon*
struction Finance Corporat ion
board, swore to Senate investigat
ors yesterday he “never conscious
ly yielded” to influence in his de
cisions on RFC loans..
“I yvant to point out that every
one in government service is oc
casionally subject to influence
and probably on occasion to im
proper influence,” he told a Sen
ate banking sub-commitee.
“Rut I have never consciously
yielded to such influence in any
respect.”
Willett denied specifically that.
Donald Dawson, a White House
aide, or E. Merl Young, whose
v/ife is a White House stenogra
pher, can or do influence him.
The ban king sub-commitee,
headed by Senator Fulbright (D.
Ark.), said in a report to the Sen
ate earlier this month that Wil
elt and some other RFC directors
had been influenced by Dawson
and Young. President Truman
THIRD PARTY IN PIONEER
CARD SERIES TOMORROW
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The third party in the popular
whist series being held by the
Pioneers of Alaska is scheduled
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for tomorrow evening with a large
crowd anticipated to enter the
games.
Th^ committee stated that any
one who has not attended the first
two parties and wishes to compete
for the grand prizes may still do
.so tomorrow night as they will be
given a start equal to the lowest
score of the trophy players.
I
called the report asinine. The sub
committee hen ordered the pres
ent hearings, frankly as a rebuttal
to the President.
Young swore he has never re
ceived a fee or commission in con
nection with any RFC loan. He
denied under oath testimony by
Ross Bohannon, a Texas lawyer,
that Young once asked him for a
$85,000 fee to “be influential”
with the RFC.
“One of thees two men is a
liar,” stormed Senator Tobey (R.
N. H.), participating in the hear
ings. |
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Antifreeze Drink
Kills 50 Soldiers
SAN FRANCISCO, <yT>>—Offi
cers of a navy-chartered freighter
said antifreeze smuggled from Ko
rea’s Hungnam beachhead killed
perhaps 50 U. S. soldiers and
crewmen aboard evacuation ships.
Capt. A. Roy of Mobile, Ala.,
said two evacuated GI’s and three
crewmen of his ship, the Triana
ron, died after drinking the poison
solution in the December evacua
tion. The soldiers were from the
U. S Seventh Division.
Other Trianaron officers said
an army investigator told them:
Antifreeze for the troops' vehi
cles was smuggled aboard several
evacuation ships. About 50 soldiers
and crewmen died after drinking
it. . . . Scores of others were made
violently ill.
The story came out when a life
insurance examiner questioned
Tianaron officers about deaths of
the civilian crewmen.
Seek to Ban Russia
Fur Imports
((/P) Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON </P)—Rep. Mack
(R.-Wash.) asked treasury secre
tary Snyder to ban the import of
Russian furs into the United
States.
The Washington Congressman,
who led a successful fight ta ban
imports on Russian crab, contends
the same slave-labor provisions
should apply to furs.
In response to an earlier letter,
the department said it had no evi
dence that the furs were being
produced by slave or forced labor.
Mack today cited, commerce de
partment figures which he said
showed that approximately 90 per
cent of U. S. fur imports from
Russia in the past 11 months have
been Persian lamb.
“Inasmuch as these are raised
commercially instead of being
trapped,” he wrote Snyder, “it
tends to the belief that the ques
tion of indentured labor should be
studied very carefully.”
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