than the continent the base of op
erations in the event of a war
with Soviet Russia.
The French have not forgotten
Dunkirk. The British, on the other
hand, feel that had the remnant of
the British forces not withdrawn
to their island bastion at that time
but h ad continued to squander
their substance on the continent
the war would have been lost.
The old debate has now been
revived and in a new form since
in everybody's mind is the horri
fying thought that in the next war
nations in the path of an invading
force will also be in the path of
atomic bombs.
Unless and until this quarrel
over strategy is resolved, and it is
a quarrel that greatly concerns us
as well as the immediate partici
pants, American military assist
ance to the nations belonging to
the western union might prove to
be a wasteful expenditure of ma
teriel and productive power as
military aid to China has so far
Bill Gillis has a demolition .
crew busy at the old hospital
which is being torn down and the j
site cleared before winter snows l
cover the area.
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The last boat of the season, the
Square Sinnet, finished discharg- j
ing last evening and departed for
Seattle stated the local Alaska
Steamship agent, Bill Wood.
Mr. Wilfred Boucher, publisher
of the Nome Nugget left yesterday
for the States on business in Seat
tle and California.
proved to be.
The complexity of the problem
confronting us of making western
Europe militarily strong does not
mean, however, that we can shirk
the job. As long as we live in a
state of uncertain peace of a peace
that is always at the mercy of an I
incident, delay in grappling with'
the problem is little short of sui
cidal.
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cil would meet to talk over the
whole German question.
Warren Austin, chief U. S. dele
gate, demanded in the U. N. po- ,
iitical commi tee that the dead
locked atomic energy problem to
oe turne dover to the big five
powers and Canada for mediation.
He said the U. N. could go no fur
ther in efforts to control atomic
energy until Russia agrees to “par
.ic.pa e in the world community
on a cooperative basis.”
He said of the Russian proposal
destroy all existing atom
oombs and then set up a control
agency:
"This ... is not a concession. It
s s imply a maneuver to provide
for the destruction of a'omic wea
pons in one country before—and
probably a long while before—
there had been any determination
of whether or not atomic weapons
xisted in another country.”
Russia retorted that “no fairy
ales about alleged closed doors
and iron curtains can show that
the Soviet proposal is inaccept
able.”
The Russians imposed sharp
new traffic inspection to tighten
their blockade of western Berlin.
Telegraf, a Socialist newspaper in
Berlin, said big police actions are
being conducted in East Germany
agains. non-communists, dozens
of whom are fleeing to the west.
John Foster Dulles, American
U. N. delegate, said morale has
reached a new low in the Russian
zone of Germany. He said Austria
feared a communist coup.
The American military govern
ment said German steel produc
tion in the U. S. and British zones
set new highs last month and now
is running six months ahead of
! schedule. The Russian zone re
ported last week its production
i records were not being met, in
part because of the western coun
i ter blockade.
Three more Americans died on
the air lift to Berlin. The crash of
their C-54 plane brought to 13 the
number of American lives lost
since the Russian blockade forced
starting of the air lift in June.
Secretary of State Marshall left
Greece after checking the desult
ory Greek military drive—financ
ed by the U. S. treasury—against
the rebels. He kept silent about his
conclusion. The Greek government
said, as expected .that a top com
munist killed George Polk, U. S.
radio broadcaster, last May in an
attempt to discredit the Greek re
gime.
President Chiang Kai-Shek put
a new military commander in
charge in Manchuria in an effort
to stem the Communist drives. He
is Gen Tu Li-Ming.
French communists polled only
one vote in ten in electoral college
voting yesterday, preparatary to
selection of the upper French
house. Gen. Charles de Gaulle’s
rightist RPF got only 13 per cent,
far less than they expected. The
Socialists led with 26 per cent.
Communist-led French coal
miners continued into a third week
the strike which is crippling
French recovery. Two non-com
munist mine groups sadi they were
ending their part of the strike, but
the gesture did not seem likely to
break the walkout.
POINT MUGU, Calif. (/P)—Nine
persons were killed and one in
jured in a head-on automobile
crash on U. S. highway 101—three
miles south of here yesterday.
Presidential I
Poll Round-up
<By The Associated Press)
Results of latest newspaper polls ,
in the Presidential race follow:
New York Daily News (state
wide): Dewey 50.1 per cent, Tru
man 43.5, Wallace 6.4.
Chicago Tribune (Cook county;:
Dewey 9,939 votes, Truman 4,495,
Wallace 214.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat (St.
Louis): Truman 54 percent, Dewey
38, Wallace 3, undecided 5.
Jacksonville, Fla., Journal: <20
counties): Dewey 43 per cent,
Truman 30,; Thurmond 24, ‘Wal
lace 3.
Miles City, Mont., Star (State
wide*: Dewey 50 per cent, Tru-1
man 48, Wallace 2.
Cleveland Plain Dealer (Cuya-1
hog a County*: Truman' 1,443
votes, Dewey 1,394; Wallace 213.
Spokane, Wash., Spokesman
Review (three North Idaho coun
ties): Dewey 57.3 percent, Truman
38.8, Wallace 3.8.
President Orders
Military Reserve
Units Organized
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ing action “without delay,” called
for establishment of “vigorous
and progressive reserve training
programs.”
It was directed to defense sec
retary Forrestal and the heads of
the armed service departments un
der him.
The President told Forrestal to
assign “an active, capable, high
ranking officer” to head the re
serve program in each department
of the national defense establish
ment.
Mr. Truman signed an executive
order aboard his Washington
bound campaign train shortly be
fore midnight, to carry out the
program.
It says the national security re
quires that “reserve component?
of appropriate strength and maxi
mum effectiveness exist through
out the nation.”
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