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NEWS IN BRIEF
SEATTLE, (/P) — Funeral serv
ices will be held at Winslow today
for Lucas A. Rodel, 77, longtime
Bainbridge Island resident and a
veteran of the Alaska gold rush.
He returned from Alaska in 1906
and lived on the island until his
death last Thursday. He was the
postmaster of Rolling Bay, a small
island settlement, until his retire
ment in 1940.
CAIRO, Egypt, (/P)—The widely
circulated weekly newspaper Akh
bar El Yom quotes on “informed
source” in Washington as saying
mideastern countries “soon will
benefit from a plan similar to the
Marshall plan for Europe.” The
dispatch describes the informa
tion as the “first official confirm
ation.”
HAM BURG, Germany, (IP) —
Some Germans filling out ques
tionnaires under the recent pantry
law calling for*listing of all pri
vate food stocks have been reply
ing merely with a reference to
Psalm 109 verse 24.
It reads: “My knees are weak
through fasting: and my flesh fail
eth of fatness.”
VANCOUVER. B. C.; — No
change has been reported in the
six-day-old strike of marine en
gineers and radio men on Canadi
an deep sea ships. Six vessels here
and in New Westminster were
tied up by the walkout.
MERCEDES. Tex. (/P)—Mr. and
Mrs. Emilio Tamez. rx*e the parents
of twins—for the fifth time in 10
years. The latest additions to the
family arrived Thursday.
The 26-year-old mother and the
two boys are doing nicely in a hos
pital here.
SEATTLE, 17P)—Mrs. Victorine
de Vouches Marion, who came to
Seattle in 1877, died in her sleep
yesterday. She would have been
101 on April 29.
Mrs. Marion came west with her
husband, the late Dr. Alfred N.
Marion, in 1865.
SUNNYSIDE, Wash. (/P)—Ken
neth Strickley, 7, was fatally in
jured Saturday when buried be
neath heavy concrete blocks by a
m collapsing wall.
The boy had been climbing on
the unfinished wall of the family’s
new home when it collapsed.
MOSCOW, (A*)—This is women’s
day in Russia—an occasion cor
responding roughly to Mother’s
Day in America.
Pravda, organ of the Commun
ist party, observed the day by
commenting that 47 per cent of all
workers in Soviet economy are
women. In 1940, the figure was 40
per cent.
TOKYO, (>P)—’Tokyo will start
rationing water Wednesday. Allied
headquarters said reservoirs sup
plying this city of nearly 5,000,000
will be dry by mid-April unless
heavy rains fall.
Under the rationing plan, wa
ter will be turned on only two
hours daily in Tokyo’s eight
wards.
CIO Ousts Bridges;
FBI Seeks His
Deportation
SAN FRANCISCO, {&) — The
CIO ousted Harry Bridges as
northern California regional di
rector Friday.
And, newspapers reported, a
third attempt is to be made to de
port the Australian-born long
shore labor leader.
In Washington, however, aides
of Attorney General Tom Clark
said “the Bridges case has not
been reopened.”
The CIO fired Bridges as north
ern California regional director
yesterday because he went con
trary to national CIO policy by
supporting Wallace’s third party
and opposing the Marshall plan of
aid to Europe.
He was warned two weeks ago
to get in line with policy of the
CIO executive committee on the
issues or face ouster from the ap
pointive director’s position. He
! was silent on his ouster.
Bridges retains two elective
posts. He is president of the CIO
international longshoremen’s and
warehousemen’s union and a vice
president of the national executive
CIO council.
Tim Flynn, former member of
.the board of the CIO industrial
union of marine and shipbuilding
workers and member of the CIO
organizing staff, was named
Bridges’ successor as director for
northern California.
The climax of the CIO family
fight came as newspapers report
ed a iustice department investi
gator had been sent here “to seek
evidence on which to base a third
formal effort” to deport Bridges,
a native of Australia. He now is a
U. S. citizen.
Bridges took note of the reports
in a statement expressing no sur
prise at “my contemplated arrest”
and hotly attacking the Truman
administration for “political in
timidation.”
He said 10 persons had been ar
rested recently and held without
bail for deportation.
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Military Aid For
China Urged
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Military
aid for China was urged today by
the director general of the United
Nations relief and rehabilitation
administration.
Lowell W. Rooks, the UNRRA
chief, told the House Foreign af
fairs committee that economic aid
is “useless” unless the Chinese
central government can win its
war with the Communists.
He said the United States should
send American military men to
China to equip, train, organize and
direct Chinese forces “even down
to tactics and strategy.”
BELMONT, Calif., (/P) — Irate
citizens sped a deputy sheriff to
the airport io arrest a pilot for low
flying. Pilot J. E. Flynnn just
grinned. The city had hired him to
spray for mosquitoes — and that
; meant skimming house tops.
Krug Just Wants
“Fast Development
Of Alaska”
WASHINGTON, (/T*)—Secretary
of the interior Krug and some
members of the Senate interior
committee agreed late Friday on a
common purpose—the quick de
velopment of Alaska.
Krug said that has been his ob
jective since he became head of
the interior department.
Senator Butler <R.-Neb.>, who
has been critical of Krug’s Alas
kan policy, promptly agreed that
rapid growth of the Territory is
also the Committee’s aim.
Senators Watkins (R.-Utah) and
Malone (R.-Nev.) shared Butler’s
opinion.
Krug testified against bills to
cancel Alaskan Indian reserva
tions established by former secre
tary Ickes, forbid establishment of
others and to transfer Alaskan du
ties of the Indian bureau to the
Territory.
He also denied charges in a let
ter from Butler that his depart
ment or its employees are blocking
the development of Alaskan tim
ber resources.
Krug told a sub-committee he
had not found any persons in his
i department who had told Alaskan
Indians they had a right to sell
timber they claimed unSer abor
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Partition Up To
U. S. And Russia
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i LAKE SUCCESS, (/P)—Solving
the Palestine problem seemed Sat
urday to have been left mainly to
the United States and Russia.
After two weeks of coutious de
bate, the United Nations security
council late Friday called on the
five major powers to find a meth
od of carrying out partition of the
Holy Land into Jewish and Arab
nations, recommended by the as
sembly Nov. 29.
Britain announced off the floor
that she would not take part in
the consultations. China has ab
stained from much of the U. N.
voting on Palestine. France has
been reluctant to take a stand.
This prompted the general view
that the future of the Holy Land
rested on the doorsteps of Wash
ington and Moscow.
The first big-power meeting was
set for Monday morning in the
New York offices of Soviet dele
gate Andrei A. Gromyko. A 10
day limit was put on the sessions.
Jews Fire Mortars
At Haifa
JERUSALEM, </P) — Jews in
Haifa killed five persons and dam
aged three buildings severely by
firing three-inch mortar shells at
Arabs in the harbor area Satur
day, police said.
The police report said the fire
came from Hadar Hacarmel, all
Jewish business and residential
section halfway up the Carmel
mountainside. It ripped into the
Arab business district near the en
trance to Haifa port.
Eskimo Show
Very Successful
■The Arctic Native Brotherhood’s
presentation of the first all Eski
mo cast show which was held last
Saturday evening drew -a full
house and a big hand with every
well enacted performance.
The audience was welcomed by
master of ceremonies William
Beltz and an address of welcome
by Sam Mogg, president of the or
ganization, who in turn introduced
Robert Okpealuk to whom was
given the credit for making the af
fair a huge success.
The first number on the pro
gram “Po-Alluk” or invitation to
dancers with the native musicians
and singers set in a background of
native skins of wolverine, seal,
wolf and foxes. In the center of
I the background was a large saddle
. or ribbon seal, rarely found in
these waters but quite common on
the Greenland side of the Arctic.
All furs were loaned by Polet’s
Store.
Frank Moses, assisted by
Messrs Green, Egelik, Oksuktaruk
and Richard Scott presented a mu
sical number accompanied by
Bunny Fagerstrom at the piano.
A King Island dance was pre
sented by Mrs. Bob Omak and
Olaf Piscoya portraying the land
ing of a kyak in a rough sea.
William Okpealuk accompanied
by Holgen Jorgenson on the steel
guitar, presented a song number.
' A group of native women, pre
sented “Taliktuat,” a dance by
women celebrating the catching of
a whale. This dance was most in
teresting because of the intricate
motions by the dancers who were
seated. Each motion of body or
hand was given in unison showing
painstaking and careful training
of the group. Taking part were
Mesdames Mogg, Elsanga, Okpe
aluk, Washington, Imana and Syn
gyke. 0
An exhibition of native high
kicking was held with Albert
Martin, who holds the world’s rec
ord participating. Other contest
ants were his younger brother
Frank Martin and Jim Adloat. The
match ended in a tie between Ad
loat and Albert Martin although
the height of the kick was not an
nounced.
One of the most interesting acts
of the evening was enacted by Sam
Ailak who “Stalked a Seal.” Sam
put on a real dramatic act. with a
real kyak, harpoon, real ice cakes
and snow hummocks and most in
teresting of all a real seal. He por
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trayed the hunter carefully ap
proaching the unsuspecting seal
and how the animal is finally har
pooned after it has been exhaust
ed from fighting.
Mrs. Elmer Elesanga, James
Iapana and Mrs. Syngyke pre
sented a Diomede Island dance
called “Ingaleet,” which was a
welcome to visitors from other vil
lages and a challenge for them to
enter into the dancing. The young
est daughter of Joe Amarok, about
three years old, almost stole the
show with her dancing on the
sidelines.
A musical number was present
ed by Holgen Jorgenson, who was
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German Pilot Says
He Flew Hitler
Out Of Germany
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MUNICH, Germany, (;pwU. S.
army officials Saturday checked ;*
former German pilot’s claim that
Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun es
caped from Germany near the end
of the war.
One American official described
as “fantastic” the signed state
ment by Arthur Friedrich Rene
von Angelotte-MacKensen that the
couple flew to Denmark in a Jun
kers 52 transport shortly before
Germany surrendered in May,
1945.
In December, 1947, Capt. Peter
Baumgart, a former Luftwaffe pi
lot, told a district court in Warsaw
that he flew Hitler and a women
he believed to be Eva Braun from
besieged Berlin to Denmark on
April 2tf, 1945. >
U. S. officers began questioning
MacKensen Friday when they re
ceived a tip from a former girl
friend, who said she did not be
lieve him.
The 26-year-old MacKensen,
who claims to have been a body
guard of Hitler, said the last he
saw of the Fuehrer and Eva Braun
was when they took off by plane
for Spain. He said he followed
but crashed in southern France.
MacKensen said that he was in
the Reichchancellory air-raid shel
ter in Berlin when Hitler told as
sociates:
“A new German government
has been formed which is ready to
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“Situation Bad*"
Says Churchill
LONDON, l/P) — Winston Chur
chill said Saturday:
“Any thinking man can see
that we are all moving into a ter
rible situation at home and
abroad. Not only bankruptcy and
privation approach us in this is
land, but the menace of a third
world war rolls toward us with
every act of Russian imperialist
aggression and communist vio
lence and intrique.”
The former prime minister gave
these views in a letter to Frank
Harris, conservative candidate in
a by-election at North Croydon.
Will Filibuster
Civil Rights Bill
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Dixie
Democrats mounted guard in the
Senate Saturday ready to filibus
ter at a moment’s notice against
any civil rights bill.
Eighteen southern Sen a t o r s
agreed at a secret session to keep
one of their number on hand at all
times the Senate is in session. He
will keep watch against any sur
prise move to call up one or an
other of President Truman’s race
equality proposals which have
split party ranks.
The group arranged, it was dis
closed, to have speakers ready to
start talking whenever any of the
anti-dfscrimination measures is
brought up.