Russian Professor Labels
Owen Lattimore Writings
“Distortions of Truth”
WASHINGTON, (/P)—A former
* Russian professor told senators
today that some of the writings
of Owen Lattimore about Outer
Mongolia were “either superficial
or distortions of the truth.”
The witness was Nicholas Pop
pe, now a professor of Far East
ern language at the University of
Washington in Seattle. The son
>> of an official in the Czarist for
eign service, he taught Oriental
languages in Leningrad and Mos
cow under the Soviets but said
he never was a communist.
Poppe said he was an expert
on Outer Mongolia. The Senate
Internal Security subcommittee
called him particularly to testify
about the writing of Lattimore, a
Johns Hopkins University profes
sor who has . published many
books and articles on the Orient.
* Senator McCarthy has called
Lattimore a Red, a charge Latti
more has denied.
Poppe said Lattimore wrote
that Outer Mongolia had a demo
cratic form of government in the
1930’s and that great advances
had been made there. The profes
sor said Lattimore apparently was
talking about “democracy’ in the
» sense the Soviets understand it.
“You can’t call such a system
a democratic one,” he commented.
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Alaska Troops
Wage Sub-Arctic
Mock Battle
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — Large
scale winter maneuvers involving
many of the Army troops sta
t i o n e d in Alaska have been
launched for training under se
vere sub-Arctic conditions, the
Army’s Alaska Command an
nounced Monday.
The exercise, dubbed “Opera
tion White Sox” will center along
the Anchorage - Fairbanks High
way.
In the first phase, a battalion
combat team of the 4th Infantry
Regiment at Ladd Air Force Base,
Fairbanks, will advance by truck
and on foot down the highway
toward Anchorage.
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Later, units of the 196th Regi
mental Combat Team at Fort
Richardson, Anchorage, will stage
an attack up the highway toward
Fairbanks.
Troops will be supported by
trucks, bulldozers, tractors for
hauling two-ton sleds, and by ski
equipped planes for reconnais
sance, artillery observation and
scouting of the attackers’ flanks.
Army officials said the tests
will determine the capabilities
and limitations of ground forces
operating in the bitter cold of an
Alaska winter.
January Weather Summary
January was very near normal
in most respects. The largest de
parture was precipitation which
was 0.*3 below normal.
Winds were quite strong with
velocities exceeding 25 miles per
hour on all but eight days of
the month. The highest velocity
of 59 miles per hour occurred on
the 26th.
Temperatures ranged from 32
degrees above on the 15th to 30
below on the 8th.
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Admiral Kirk Terms
Soviet People Potential
Allies of Free World
NEW YORK, (JP)—'The Soviet
people are potentially the No. 1
allies of the free world in its fight
against communism, says retired
Adm. Alan G. Kirk, ambassador
to Moscow.
“If the Stalinist regime is our
enemy, then the peoples enslaved
by him in the Soviet Union are
our friends,” Kirk said Sunday
night after accepting chairman
ship of the American Committee
for Liberation of the Peoples of
Russia, Inc.
“They are, indeed, the first
and most persecuted victims of
communism and potentially the
first allies of the free world in
its struggle against the commun
ist menace,” he added.
19 SKIERS KILLED, 10 HURT
AS AVALANCHE BURIES HUT
VIENNA, i{JP)—Nineteen skiers
were killed and 10 injured early
Monday when a huge avalanche
buried an Alpine hut near the
Arlberg Pass, the Austrian News
Agency said.
Twenty other persons in the
hut were dug out from the snow
mass by mountain rescue squads.
Most of the dead and injured
were German skiers.
The avalanche occurred on the
slopes of Hohe Ifen Mountain,
which marks the border between
Austria and Germany southwest
of the German town of Oberst
dorf.
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WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by U.S. Dept, of Commerce.
Weather Bureau
Cloudy with occasional light
snow, becoming part cloudy to
night and Thursday. Light vari
able winds. Low temperature ex
pected tonight -25, high Thurs
day -10.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: Temperatures: high
-15, low -29. Maximum wind 14
mph. from the NE. Sunrise 8:06
a.m., sunset at 4:28 p.m.
Temperatures one year ago to
day: high 28, low 13. Extreme
temperatures this date since 1907:
high 43 in 1927, low -28 in 1907.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
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Pt. Hope -14 Cloudy
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Shishmaref -19 Part cloudy
Wales -25 Cloudy
Gambell -18 Snow
Nome -15 Cloudy
Unalakleet -18 Cloudy
Bethel -22 Cloudy
McGrath -17 Cloudy
Anchorage 26 Cloudy
Fairbanks -21 * Cloudy
Whitehorse 20 Cloudy
Edmonton 26 Part cloudy
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Ketchikan . 38 Rain
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Husband Now Prefers
Mother-in-Law to Wife
CLEVELAND, (/P)—The pretty
22-year-old wife of an Air Force
private demanded to know whom
he loved.
“Your mother,” was his reply,
Mrs. Rosemary McDonald testi
fied in an uncontested divorce ac
tion Monday.
The blonde bride of 13 months
said Pfc. Kevin McDonald, 30,
also told her he wanted to marry
her mother, Mrs. Mary Jane Nye,
a 42-year-old widow.
Interior Dept. Supports
Bill for 3^ Lb. Tuna Duty
WASHINGTON, (JP)—'The De
partment of Interior has given its
support to a bill, already passed
by the House and now before
the Senate, to impose a duty of
three cents a pound on imported
fresh or frozen tuna.
Passage of the House bill has
been urgently asked by United
States tuna boat owners, some
American tuna canners and sev
eral labor unions with member
ship in tuna fishing and canning.
It is opposed by some U.S. can
ners and by importers.
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Bigamist Cashes Bonds
To Keep Wives Content
WASHINGTON, (JP)— Congress
heard Monday about a bigamist
who had had to cash his defense
bonds every 60 days “to save my
life.” ;
The story turned up with the
release of hearings by the House
Appropriations Committee on the
budget of the Treasury Depart
ment’s savings bond division.
Robert W. Coyne, unpaid busi
nessman consultant to the divi
sion, said he ran into the case
while conducting a check in an
unidentified eastern city into why
people were cashing their bonds.
He said one man, after exacting
a promise that his name would
never be disclosed, told investi
gators:
“The fact is, gentlemen, I am
married to two women. I buys the
bonds and gives them to my first
wife and after 60 days I sneak
them away and cashes them and
gives the money to my second
wife. So you see the box I am in
That is why I cashes bonds.
Light travels mighty fast until
it encounters a human mind.
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