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VOL. LII. No. 47 NOME, ALASKA. FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1950 Per Copy— 15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
JUNEAU, (/P), Dr. Terris Moore
president of the University of j
Alaska, was stopped by bad wea
ther in his goodwill flight through
the Territory, a brief report from
the civil aeronautics administra- !
tion disclosed here yesterday.
The CAA report said the uni
versity president and Mrs. Moore
were forced to land their Piper
Supercruiser plane at Yakataga,
on the Gulf of Alaska coast ap
proximately 100 miles east of
Cordova.
The couple left Fairbanks April
13 en route to Anchorage, Kodiak,
Cordova and other points in
Southeast Alaska.
SITKA, (/P)— The chamber of
commerce is sponsoring a gala 24
v
hour fishermen’s festival next
Wednesday and Thursday as a
kickoff for the opening of the
halibut fishing season.
Southeastern Alaska and West
Coast fishermen are invited.
Crowning of a festival queen and
a dance will feature the opening
night.
The next day a special fisher
men's worship service will be
held at the Lutheran church.
SITKA, (TP)—Two youths waiv
ed preliminary hearings in U. S.1
commissioner’s court yesterday
and were bound over for grand
jury action on burglary charges.
They were Keith Thurman, 21,
and Julian M. Porter, 15.
A complaint signed by Fred
Geeslin chafged they broke into a .
government storehouse at Mt. i
Edgccumbe June 22 and stole ra- j
dio equipment.
Six other members of a juvenile
crime ring were bound over for
grand jury action last month.
WASHINGTON. (TP), The United
States today ordered communist
Czechoslovakia to shut down its
consulate general in Chicago not
later than May 1.
The action, announced in a
note to the Czech government, was
in direct retaliation of an order
closing the libraries of the U. S.
Information Service in Czecho- j
Slovakia and the American con
sulate general in the city of Brat
islava.
FORT BENNING, Ga. (JP) —
President Truman arrived here
today by plane for a review of (
army and airforce troops in ac
tion. His personal plane, the “In
dependence,” arrived at Lawson
Field. The trip from Washington
required only two hours and 23
minutes.
President Truman and several
members of his cabinet will re
view ground forces and watch an
infantry-artillery team attack at
this infantry fort.
Later today the party will fly
to Eglin Field in Florida to wit
ness a live ammunition display of
modern air force firepower.
—
SEATTLE (/P)— It was summer
time in much of Washington Wed
nesday.
Temperatures of 78 degrees
were reported at Olympia and at
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w< Jhservers" Against
Reservations Leave
For Shungnak
Wm. Beltz, candidate for Sena
tor, through whose efforts the
Territory was aroused to the state
of affairs at Barrow and Shung
nak at the time of the Barrow
rejection of a reservation, and
who made a trip to Shungnak at
that time and reported that the
natives were being intimidated
into voting for the reservations,
is again enroute to Sungnak to be
present for the election scheduled
for Monday.
He is accompanied by Rusty
Heurlin, well known Rrctic artist
who is well known to the native
people in that area, and who has
strongly urged them to reject
reservations for their own sakes,
both privately and by public ad
dresses. In a recent appeal to them
he said:
“You people from the Kobuk
and the high Arctic—Canada.
Greenland, and the vast provi
sional districts of Franklin and
Siberia—come from the strongest
and hardiest race of peaple that
ever lived on this earth. By your
God-given aboriginal rights the
whole Arctic is yours—to have
and to hold. So hold on to it! Vote
“no” against reservations. You
will hold on to your land and your
freedom—freedof to do what you
want to do—freedom to go where
ever you wish, freedom to say
what you want without fear.
"This is democracy/' Huerlin
concluded. "There is no democracy
on a reservation."
Also in the party was Fran
Malloy, feature writer for the
Fairbanks News-Miner.
Truman Plans
“Great Campaign
Of Truth”
WASHINGTON, </P)—President
Truman disclosed plans yesterday
for a “great campaign of truth” to
convince the world the United
States has “no purpose of going to
war except in defense of free
dom.”
He told the’ American Society
of Newspaper Editors he has di
rected secretary of state Acheson
to develop a strengthened nation
al information program to over
come Soviet Russian “deceit, dis
tortion and lies.”
He invited the continued co-op
eration of American newspapers
in spreading the fact that this
country is “wholly dedicated to
the cause of peace.” Mr. Truman
declared:
“We must make ourselves
known as we really are—not as
communist propaganda pictures
us. We must pool our efforts with
those of the other free peoples in
a sustained, intensified program
to promote the cause of freedom
against the propaganda of slav
ery.
“We must make ourselves
heard round the world in a great
campaign of truth."
The President’s address, pre
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Budenz Testifies
Lattimore \\ as A
Communist; Names
Two Associates
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Louis F.
Budenz, former communist, testi
fied yesterday that Owen Latti-,
more was a member of a “com
munist cell” in the Institute of
Pacific Relations.
Budenz told Senate foreign i
relations sub-committee that he
knows Lattimore, Far Eastern ex- j
pert, was associated with two men i
who were “Soviet agents.”
Budenz named these men as j
Frederick Vanderbilt Field, an of
ficial of the Institute, and Philip
Jaffzen former editor of the mag- I
azine America. *
The witness, testifying under
oath in the Senate investigation of
charges by Senator McCarthy,1
said the Institute of Pacific Rela
tions was not a communist organ
ization.
He said, however, that it con- j
tained a communist cell, which
had been able at one time to gain '
I control of the organization. Latti
more, a Johns Hopkins university
professor, has denied that he ever
has been a communist or that he
helped the communist cause in
■ any way.
i Lattimore was close by as Bu
denz testified. With him were Mrs.
Lattimore and his lawyers, Abe |
Fortas and Thurmond Arnold.
They sat directly behind Bu
denz, so close they could have,
reached out and touched him.
Budenz told the committee that
evidence can be obtained to sub
stantiate his testimony.
MvCarthy (R.-Wis.> had said
he would be willing to “stand or
1 fall” on the Lattimore case in his j
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Officials Urge
Additional Third
Division Judge
M/P) Special Washington Service"* ;
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Alaska ;
officials urged a House judiciary !
i sub-committee Wednesday to ap-1
prove an additional judge for the
Third Alaska Judicial Division.
Gov. Ernest Gruening of Alas-1
[ ka, District Judge Anthony J. Di-|
mond and Delegate Bartlett re- ]
minded the sub-committee that
district judges in Alaska have |
broader duties than do similar i
judges in the States. They said,
therefore, that the growth of pop
u 1 a t i on in the Division has
brought about an exceptionally
large increase in both federal and
Territorial cases.
During the 1940 fiscal year -in
the Third Division, the commit
tee was told, 198 civil cases were
started, 193 were terminated, and
118 were pending when the year
ended.
In comparison, the witnesses
said, theer were 546 such cases
started in the 1949 fiscal year, 414
were terminated, and 466 left
pending.
Bartlett pointed out that the
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Browder and Field
Bolli Deny Budenz
Testimony Charges j
(By Marvin L. Arrowsmith)
WASHINGTON, (IP) — Senator
McCarthy (R.-Wis.) today chal
lenged Senate investigators to dig
beyond Louis Budenz’s sworn tes
timony that Owen Lattimore was
a member of a “communist cell.”
McCarthy noted that Budenz, a
former communist, testified that
his information about Lattimore
came from men he said were high
in the party—Earl Browder, Fred
erick Vanderbilt Field and Jack
Stachel.
“I think the investigating com
mittee ought to subpoena those
men and get their story,” McCar
thy told reporters. Attorneys for
Lattimore already had asked that
Field be subpoenaed so his testi
mony could be matched against
Budenz’.
McCarthy has accused Latti
more, Far Eastern affairs expert,
of being Russia’s top spy in this
country.
Budenz said on the witness
stand yesterday that McCarthy’s
accusation on that score was not
technically accurate. But he did
back up the Senator’s contention
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Delegate Bari let l
Baps Native
Reservations
'Fairbanks News-Miner)
Calling on the natives of the
Kobuk region to reject the reser
vation proposition “by a bib vote,”
Delegate E. L. Bartlett has issued
a grave warning to Alaskans
against becoming ’’vassals of a
bureaucratic government.”
Bartlett spoke on a transcribed
radio address which was broad
cast over station KFAR last
Thursday evening.
“The press release from the in
terior department requested res
ervations by a petition to the gov
ernment,” said Bartlett, “and I
have no doubt that you did.
What Happened
“But,” he continued, “what ac
tually happened was that a gov
ernment employee or employees
came to you and suggested the
idea. Did you come out with the j
proposal that 2,300 square miles
of land would be the exact
amount necessary for the 150 per
sons in your area.”
“Of course you didn’t. And that
same government agency will in
the future tell you what you
should and should not do — and, '
most important, it will tell you
what YOU CAN’T DO!”
Bartlett lauded the 10-1 vote
against reservations registered by
the people of Barrow, and he
urged the Kobuk natives to go to j
the polls on April 24 determined
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Maurice T. Johnson. Fairbanks’
mayor is visiting in Nome until
Sunday and this is his first visit'
to the Arctic coast, although he
has been in Fairbanks for the past
13 years where he is an attorney.
Ne HS of the W or i<i
At A Glance - - -
Friday, April 21, 1950
Russia seized the offensive in
the cold war again today, de
manding that Britain and the
United States withdraw their
troops from Trieste.
In a note delivered to the am
bassadors of the U. S., Britain
and France in Moscow, the Soviet
government charged the three
western nations were “grossly vi
olating" the provisions of the
Italian peace treaty. These pro
visions called for making Trieste,
former Italian Adriatic port city,
a free territory.
In Washington. United States
officials said Russia herself was
to blame for the delay in setting
up the free territory because Rus
sia would not agree on a governor
to administer Trieste under a
United Nations mandate, in ac
cordance with the Italian peace
treaty, signed in 1947.
The Russian note demanded
immediate appointment of such a
governor and “liquidation of the
illegal Anglo-American naval
base” it said had been established
in the port city.
The note made no mention of
Yugoslav forces, which control
zone B of the Trieste territory.
Three years ago, when Yugosla
cia was in the Russian camp, the
Soviet Union backed Yugoslav
claims to annex part of Trieste.
Now Yugoslavia is at outs with
the Kremlin. U. S. officials said
any settlement of the Trieste
question must take into account
the interests of Yugoslavia. Bri
tain, France and the United
proposed in 1948 that Trieste be
returned to Italy, but Russia re
sisted the suggestion.
The whole issue must be settled
by the U. N. security council,
which Russia is now boycotting
because of the presence on the
council of a representative of Na
tionalist China. Russia insists a
communist China delegate should
replace the Nationalist.
The official communist China
radio claims Red troops are ad
vancing steadily against the Na
tionalist defenders of Hainan Is
land off the South China coast.
The broadcast said Red troops
smashed 10 miles inland and
were within 25 miles of Hoihow,
the capital.
In Taipei, Formosa, Chiang Kai
Shek’s capital, Nationalist dis
patches boasted Hainan was be
ing stoutly defended. But there
was an uneasiness over the fate
of the island.
The Library of the U. S. Infor
mation Service in Prague has
been ordered closed down at noon
tomorrow by the communist-dom
inated Czech government. Berlin
reports said Czechoslovaks liter
ally stormed the library in a last
chance rush to obtain American
books, magazines and phonograph
records.
In Brussels, opposing political
parties attempted to resolve their
differences over the method in
which exiled King Leopold will
return to the throne. The King has
agreed to a temporary transfer of
powers to his son, Prince Bau
douin.