unv Miners Die
J
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BERLIN, i/P) — The British-li
cesed newspaper Telegraf said to
day 2,000 persons perished in a
uranium mine fire in the Soviet
zone last Thursday. The paper
said it was one of the worst mine
disasters in history and charged
that it was due to negligence.
In an early edition, Telegraf said
400 German miners died in the
blaze, which occurred in a mine in
the Erz mountains, on the Saxony
Czechoslovak border, near Johan
nesgeorgenstadt.. In its evening
edition, it said later reports had
revised the casualty list upward
to 2.000. Only 300 miners were re
ported rescued. The bulk of the
workers, said Telegraf, were po
litical prisoners.
The American-sponsored Berlin
radio, RIAS, said it has received a
report from a reliable source that
hundreds of miners had burned or
suffocated in a Johannesgeorgen
stadt uranium mine fire.
American intelligence officers
said they had not heard any re
ports yet of such a disaster.
Dan Jones, local engineer in
charge of the Territorial Bureau
of Mines has received word that
the R. F. C. has reduced the price
of tin as of November 21st from
95c per pound to 85c cents per
pound.
Truman Cracks
Down on “Telling”
Defense Secrets
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atomic program?”
Johnson, a member of the joint
atomic committee, argued that
there is not enough secrecy. But
during the debate he asserted that:
1. This country’s scientists have
developed an a-bomb which has
six times the effectiveness of the
bomb dropped at Nagasaki in
1945.
2. The United States is working
—and has made considerable
progress — on an a-bomb 1.000
times more powerful than the
Nagasaki weapon.
3. American scientists have gone
far toward finding a way to ex-j
plode an enemy bomb before it
reaches its target.
Johnson said later that he dis-i
closed nothing that was not al
ready public information.
Legal Blanks at The Nugget office
Gus Steinwandel, resident en
gineer at Marks Air Base, just re
turned from a business trip to An
chorage. was surprised to learn
of the number of Anchorage peo
ple who are planing to attend the
Roof Garden. . —Adv.
News of thfe World
At A Glance - - -
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predicted the United States would
recognize him “sooner or later.”
An assassination attempt on lib
eral party leader Dario Echandia
was reported in Bogota, Colombia.
The nation is under a state of
siege — modified martial law —
pending tomorrow’s election in
which a conservative is the only
candidate for President.
Monday. November 28. 1949
Red armies knocked on the door
of Chungking, Chinese Nationalist
capital, today. Chinese commun
ist spearheads smashed to within
20 miles of the isolated mountain
stronghold. Japanese forces were
never able to wrest it from Chiang
Kai-Shek in World War II.
The U. S. state department,
meantime, announced that a new
communist deportation order for
Americans in China probably
meant that Consul General Angus
Ward and his vice consul, William
N. Stokes, would soon be en route
i home. Both men were reecntly re
leased from a Red prison.
The United States demanded to
day that the Uited Nations appeal
to all countries—including Russia
—to keep hands off China and let
the Chinese settle ther iown prob
lems.
The American proposal was laid
before the 59-nation political com
mittee of the general assembly by
U. S. ambassador-at-large Philip
C. Jessup. It did not mention Rus
sia by name but Jessup spoke at
length on Nationalist China’s
charges of Soviet interference.
Jessup, speaking in a calm
voice, expressed regret at the de
cision of Soviet foreign minister
Andrei Y. Vishinsky not to partic
ipate in the debate on China’s
charges against Russia.
Vishinsky himself continued to
boycott the discussions, leaving
only low-ranking members of the
Soviet delegation at the table.
The American proposal is much
more mildly worded than a reso
lution introduced by China Satur-j
day calling on all countries to re
frain from recognizing the com-1
munist regime of Mao Tze-Tung
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Rridws* Attorney
Demands Removal
(>f Judge Harris
SAN FRANCISCO, UP)—Harry
Bridges’ attorneys had their legal
guns trained on Judge George
Harris today.
Trial of the west coast CIO
longshore leader w a s recessed
lust Wednesday until today be
cause of the Thanksgiving holi
day. Chief defense attorney Vin
cent Hallinan filed a motion Sat
urday with the U. S. district court
clerk to disqualify Judge Harris
from hearing the case.
“If Judge Harris on Monday
does not admit our point, then
we’ll take appropriate steps.” Hal
linan said.
Judge Harris has sentenced [
Hallinan to six months in jail for
contempt of court. The jail term |
is to begin at the end of Bridges’
trial.
Bridges, who came to the United
States from Autsralia, is being
tried on charges growing out of
his naturalization in 1945. He is
accused of perjury and conspir
acy. Two other longshore union
officials, J. R. Robertson and
Henry Schmidt, are being tried
with him on charges of conspiracy.
Assistant U. S. Attorney R. B.
McMillan said last night that the
government will oppose the move
to disqualify Harris.
“We’ll fight this motion, of
course,” McMillan said. “There
are a number of technical points
involved. We do not agree with
Mr. Hallinan.”
In an affidavit filed Saturday
with the disqualifying motion,
Bridges charged Judge Harris
“expressed bias and prejudice
against the defendants.”
Bridges said in the affidavit:
“Judge Harris has engaged in
consistent and repetitive criticisms
of the theory of the defense . .
and of the counsel employed by |
the defendants.”
based at Peiping.
The Nationalist delegation,
which is not recognized by Russia,
submitted a formal resolution last
Saturday charging the Soviets
with obstructing Nationalist con
trol of Manchuria, and helping
Chinese communists. They said
this violated the U. N. charter and
a Chinese-Russian friendship
treaty.
In Europe, as in Asia, the con
tinuing of Russian aggression was
the big topic.
The chiefs of staff of the U. S.,
Britain and Frence met in Paris
to plan how to spend almost a bil
lion American dollars for Atlantic
Union defenses.
Present at the conference was'
Gen. Omar Bradley. In Frankfurt,
defense secretary Louis Johnson, j
who will attend later sessions at
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Paris, took the occasion to set
French fears of a re-armed Ger
many at rest, by declaring:
“Our government does not think
of re-arming Germany at this
time.”
In Colombia, quiet elections yes
terday followed weeks of cam
paign violence in which at least
500 persons were killed.
Conservative candidate Laure
ano Gomez won in a walk as his
Liberal opponents boycotted the
election. The Liberals withdrew
their candidate after the Conserv
atives proclaimed a state of siege
three weeks ago.
Nearly complete retums an
nounced by the Conservatives for
yesterday’s balloting gave Gomez
950,315 votes.
Schooner Tim talus
Reaches St. Louis
ST. LOUIS, f/P)—Warren Chris
tianson, 29, and his wife, Faith,
27, docked their homemade
schooner, the Tantalus, here today
after an 11-day trip down the
Mississippi from St. Paul. They
are bound for Alaska, eight
months and 15.000 miles away.
Dick Edwards, 20. of Winches
ter. Ky., and William Kellar, 25.
of Nevada, Mo., are passenger on
the long voyage. A black cat and
a police dog also are on board.
Christiansons said they under
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Memphis next weekend.
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