States Get Alaskans
Cold And Snow
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*By The Associated Press*
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A swirling white preview of
winter banked five-foot snow |
drifts in Montana yesterday and
dipped temperatures in the Rocky
Mountains area as low as 12 de
grees.
The windy snowfall was in con
trast to the pleasant autumn wea
ther which prevailed over most of
the eastern half of the country.
North winds, recorded at 55
mile speed in top gusts, piled the i
snow which fell mainly on the
eastern slops of the Northern
Rockies and in the northwest
plains adjacent. The actual fall
ranged from six inches at Cut
bank, Mont., and five inches in
Yellowstone National Park to ap
proximately one inch in most of
the area.
No emergency conditions were
caused by the storm, authorities
said. The early morning minimum
of 12 degrees above zero was re
ported at Cutbank. The mercury
was under the freezing mark at
most Montana points.
Washington state thermometers
dropped like a bearish stock mar
ket early today, but the weather
man held out hopes that the cold
snap soon would give way to
warmer readings.
Early morning readings showed
a nippy 20 at Yakima in central
Washington and 23 at Olympia.
Walla Walla and Spokane regis
tered 24 and Tacoma 25. It was 26
at Hoquiam, a degree warmed at
Bellingham, and the 29-degree
reading at the Boeing airport in
Seattle was the season’s lowest to
date.
• The temperature in Nome at
7:00 a.m. this morning was 38 de
grees above zero.)
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Visliinsky Falks
Of “Gentlemen’s
Agreement”
WASHINGTON, </P>—Secretary
of State Acheson said today Soviet
foreign minister Vishinsky is
wrong in claiming that election of
Yugoslavia to the U. N. security
council would be illegal and con
trary to a gentlemen’s agrement.
Acheson drily told a news con
ference that as an eastern Euro
pean Slav communist state, Yugo
slavia appears to be fully quali
fied for a council seat, except that
—from Russia’s point of view—it
presently lacks complete domina
tion by the Kremlin.
Acheson discussed the Ameri
can-Russian row over Yugoslavia
as a result of statements made by
the Soviet foreign minister at a
news conference in New York
yesterday.
Vishinsky said that what he
called Anglo-American backing
for Yugoslavia as a small nation.
Eastern European member of the
council would be illegal, would
violate a gentlemen’s agrement
and would have “painful effects"
on United Nations affairs,
Acheson said he thought that
Vishinsky had implied that there
was an understanding—evidently
among the great powers—that he
would be able to name a member
of the council. Achesos asserted
that was an agreement that he had
never heard of.
In response to a question, he
said that there had been a kind
of practice of selecting small na
tion members of the council on a
regional basis and more or less by
agreement among the nations in
each region.
The council has 11 members in
all—five are the so-called great
powers which hold their seats per
manently and six are elected every
two years.
LONDON, (JP)—What does the
well dressed man wear to the
South Pole country?
Gay woolen plaids and stripes
in bright warm colors—that’s the
stuff chosen by an Anglo-Swedish
Norwegian expedition ‘leaving for
Antarctica next month on a three
year expedition.
“Patterns have been selected to
relieve the monotony of the polar
snows," said a member of the ex
pedition.
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; NOME GRILL
HALLOWE'EN SURPRISE
FOR NOME KIDS
A big surprise is in store for all
the "‘Kids” of Nome, big and
small, on the evening of Hallow
e’en.
Through the generosity of some
of our local merchants a real treat
is promised. We have been asked
not to reveal the surprise at this
time, but will have more to say
Friday.
Secy. Symington
Opens Barrage
On Navy Critics
r
WASHINGTON UP)—Air Secre
tary Symington, hitting back at
navy critics of the air force, ac
cused them yesterday of peddling
old, “false” tales and of letting
possible enemies know “how this
country would be defended.”
Symington, hinted, too, that the
navy is circulating a second anon
ymous document. He said one is in
circulation that attempts to rip
apart strategic bombing and is
“far more dangerous than the
| first.”
Symington was before the House
armed servoces committee, lead
ing off the air force rebuttal to
navy complaints against defense
policies.
In long hearings, the navy has
complained that present policy
puts too much stress on the air
force B-36 big bomber and cut
' down on the navy.
Admiral after admiral has taken
the stand to belittle the possibili
| ties of the bomber. Their general
contention has been that the big
plane could not get through an
J enemy’s defenses and would ac
complish little if it did.
Symington said the B-36 still is
! “the best long-range bomber
j known.”
He added:
“The ability to fight from our
own shores at the start of any war
should not be looked on with con
tempt.”
The B-36 was designed with the
idea that it would be able to fly
from bases in this country on mis
sions against an enemy in any
part of the world.
Major missions would be hitting
war production centers of the en
emy. This type of air war is called
“strategic bombing.”
Symington, when he told of the
new ananymous document, said it
I is entitled “the strategic bombing
1 myth.”
' He said it is circulating around
I the country and has a “disturbing
! similarity” to arguments the com
mittee has been hearing from the
navy—even identical quotations.
It is far more dangerous than
i the first document, Symington
went on, because it attacks mcth
i ods, principles, and objectives up
[ on which the country must rely in
! the event of war.
The first anonymous document
which has figured in the navy-air
force row was circulated on Capi
tol Hill last summer. It suggested
that the B-36 procurement pro
gram was surrounded by irregu
larities and instances of political
pull.
It touched off an investigation
by the House committee. Finally,
Cedric Worth, then a navy depart
ment official.fi admitted he wrote
it.
Ice Cream Center, owned by
Nels Swanberg, Jr., moved its lo
cation ytseerday and is now be
tween Munz Airlines and Vi’s Ap
parel Shop. Their former location
was vacated as Cavota’s is re
ported to be moving into that lo
cation from Third Ave.
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Nominate Wall
gren To Power
Commission
WASHINGTON, </P)—President
Truman today named former Gov.
Mon. C. Wallgren of Washington
State as a member of the federal
power commission.
The President, at the same time,
nominated James M. Mead, for
mer Democratic Senator from
New York, to be a member of the
federal trade commission.
Wallgren was chosen to succeed
Leland S. Olds, whose nomination
for a third term on the power com
mission was rejected by the Sen
ate in one of its major rebuffs to
the President. The term expires
June 22, 1954.
Wallgren’s own nomination to
the post of chairman of the Na
tional security resources board
, was shelved last March by the
i Senate armed services committee
j in another setback for Mr. Tru
man. The President two months
I
j later withdrew that nomination.
Wallgren’s new nomination also
, is subject to Senate confirmation,
i However, Senators who opposed
I him for the resources board said
I they would have no objection to
his appointment to another post.
Both Wallgren and Mead are
former members of the old Senate
war investigating com m i 11 e e
when it was headed by Mr.
Truman, then a member of the
Senate.
Mead was named to the trade
commission to succeed Garland S.
Ferguson for the term of seven
years from Sept. 26. 1948.
Proposed L:md
Not Suitable
For Agriculture
PALMER. Alaska, </P>—'Territo
rial conservationist Charles Wil
son of Palmer explained last week
why the interior department has
called the Dunbar withdrawal
area near Fairbanks unsuited for
mass agricultural development.
He said studies made by the soil
conservation service and the U. S.
Geological survey disclosed that
30 per cent of the land in the area
is permanently frozen swamp; 30
per cent is mountainous and un
suited to farming other than graz
ing, and that of the remaining 40
per cent possibly fit for farming,
only 15 per cent has definitely
been proved free of ice.
Wilson said the report did not
mean independent farming could
not be carried on in the area.
“Theer’s some mighty fine land
in there on which a hard-working
farmer no doubt could earn a good
living," he declared, adding the
land probably will be reopened
to independent settlement in the
near future.
He said the main agricultural
drawback was that ice masses
form through alternate periods of
severe freezing and thawing, caus
ing the earth to shift and settle un
evenly.
Wilson said he expected reports
on the Ninilchik, Fritz Creek, Ke
nai and Kasilof withdrawal areas
S to be made public by Dec. 1.
In the first 90 days of the inva
sion of Europe, the Army issued
• 125 million maps.
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