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NEWS IN BRIEF I
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The nation observed Washing-1
ton’s two hundred fourteenth
fcbirth birthday anniversary in tra
ditional fashion. Both houses of
Congress setting the pace by lis
tening to the reading of the famous
farewell address in which he de
clined to be considered for a third
term. President Truman left the
White House for a three day cruise
on the Potomac. Before he left a
military aide placed the Presiden
tial wreath at the base of the
Washington monument.
CAIRO, Feb. 22, (/P)—Order has
been restored in troubled Egypt as
British troops and Egyptian police
kept a close guard on British es
tablishments which were attacked
in violent rioting yesterday. A
Committee representing student
and labor groups appealed to the
Egyptians to avoid further vio
lence, but denounced the British
troops for firing on demonstrators
who supported the demands that
the British troops be evacuated
from the country.
PRINCETON, Feb. 22— i/P) —
John Foster Dulles, member of the
United States delegation to the
UNO, said that the first meetings
of the United Nations made it per
y fectly clear that the big nations
“do not feel it very important to
settle their difference.” He spoke
at the annual Washington Day ex
ercises. He was awarded an hon
orary degree of doctor of laws.
JERUSALEM. Feb. 22—(/P)—A
British communique said “armed”
Jews attacked three mobile police
camps at midnight with bombs
and dynamite. Three terrorites
were killed.
OTTAWA. Feb. 22 — (/P) —The
* Canadian cabinet, after a four
hour session is reported to have
decided to issue a brief reply to
the Russian charges that the Do
minion government acted in a
manner unfriendly to the Soviet
Union, in the disclosure of a leak
age of secret information. There
is no indication when Russia, who
frankly admitted its representa
tives, had obtained the secret data
in Canada, but Russia said it was
insignificant information, and ac
cused Canada of fostering an “un
9 bridled anti-Soviet campaign.”
BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 22—(/P)
Argentine police said a number of
men have been arrested and a
large quantity of arms seized in
what was described as a “terroris
tic plot,” to cause trouble before
the Sunday general election.
Authorities said captured docu
ments showed the group planned
a series of terroristic uprisings.
The Communist party is support
ing Jose Tamborini, and his op
ponent is Col. Juan Peron, for the
presidency.
Mutiny and Riots i
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Rage In Bombay j
BOMBAY, Feb. 22—(/P)—City-1
wide civilian riots, touched of by
the seamen’s mutiny, flamed amid
machine gun fire from British
troops, planes and warships in this
city of 1,400,000, which deputy po
lice commissioner Caffin declared
to be in a state of “absolute rebel
lion.” The Royal Indian navy mu
tiny continued here.
At Kajachi, parachute troopers
with artillery, fired twenty-five
minutes on the Hundustan thou
sand ton sloop, seized by rebellious
seamen and forced the mutineers
to run up the white flag.
In Bombay rifle and machine
gun fire crackled in many sec
tions against mobs which beat,
stoned and knived victims and set
fire to many police and military
trucks and private cars; smashed
| stores and barn windows and went
on a looting spree.
30 were killed and 500 wound
ed. A heavy force of bomber
planes arrived from airfields ring
ing the city. Prime Minister At
! lee in London told the House of
j Commons that the All-India Con
gress party had officially disclaim
ed participation in the mutiny.
Questions Pour In
On 4Atom Playboy’
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 22—(/P)
—For the particular benefit of
i worried letter writers, Vice Arm.
W. H. P. Blandy itemized “some
things the atom bomb will not do.”
The commander is at an “opera
tions crossroads”, specifying he is
not an “atomic playboy,” and sat
isfying a whim in conducting the
Bikini Atoll tests.
He said he had been getting
questions in his “fan mail” ask
ing if the “bomb would not kill
half the fish in the sea and poison
the other half so that they would
kill all people who eat fish here
after; if it will not start a chain
of reaction in the water, convert
ing it all to gas and letting all the
ships in all the oceans drop to the
bottom; if it will not blow out the
bottom of the sea, letting all the
water run down the hole; if it will
not cause an earthquake or push
up new mountain ranges; if it will
not cause a tidal wave; if it will
not destroy gravity.”
Blandy answers “no” to all these
questions.
TWO YUKON VICTIMS MAY
BE ENTOMBED IN CAVE
It is believed that two of the
persons missing from the Yukon
sought refuge in a cave opposite
where the Yukon crashed, and are
buried in a snowslide at that point.
Army searchers said the cave is
now sealed with snow.
The ship has been abandoned
and declared open for salvage, al
though most of the mail has not
been recovered.
//T HE preservation of the
f sacred fire of liberty
and the destiny of the re
publican model of govern
ment are justly considered
as deeply, and perhaps ;
finally staked, on the ex
periment entrusted to the
American people
—G. Washington
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I Hiroliito Sees
Wreckage of Japan
(/P)—Emperor Hirohito walked
! among his downcast people for a
, firsthand look at the wreckage of
the whirlwind reaped by the once
proud Japan.
Protected by American military
police, the well-dressed little man
' motored from Tokyo to Yokoha
ma. He saw miles of bomb-shat
tered industrial and residential
areas. His shivering subjects, awed
by the unprecedented absence of
ceremony marking his unexpected
! appearance, bowed stiffly, hat in
hand.
; He visited repatriation camps in
South Tokyo and talked briefly
with their forlorn occupants. One
dirty faced little girl broke into
sobs when the Emperor asked if
she was cold.
Premier Kijuro Shidehara pre
dicted in an interview with three
! American newspaper executives,
that it would take between 20 and
30 years to rebuild the crushed na
tion. He said that Japan’s liveli
hood depended on the swift resto
ration of foreign rtade.
MAURICE KELLIHER NEW
FEDERAL JAILER
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Maurice Kelliher, son of the late
James Kelliher, has been appoint
ed chief jailer at the Nome Feder
al jail. He was recently released
from the Army, where he served
in France, England and Germany.
He has quite a bit of mining prop
erty in the Kougarok area, and
mined there before serving in the
Army. Mr. and Mrs Kelliher will
arrive on the Pan American to
night. They were married in Ne*vj
York.
Wrecked Russian
Tanker Near Adak
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. (/P)—
The Navy said the Adak office
had reported a Russian tanker
with men and women aboard had
broken up about 360 miles south
east of that Aleutian base. Half
of the vessel was reported still
afloat. The American tanker Puen
tehills sighted a section of the
ship, with at least twenty-five
aboard and reported it was at
tempting to tow the wreck to port,
but was unable to learn the name
of the tanker, or whether the for
ward half might still be afloat.
The Adak base ordered salvage
vessel gear to proceed to take the
tanker in tow. Search for other
survivors is being conducted by a
fleet tug, Sarsi, a nevy seaplane
and two army bombers. The wea
ther is difficult.
Chi nese Rioters
Wreck Building
CHUNGKING, Feb. 22—(fl*)—
The three-story downtown office
and book store of the Communist
New China Daily News was
wrecked by intruders. More than
ten thousand Chinese students
marched the streets demanding
that Russia "quit Manchuria.”
Five Chinese newspapers car
ried a joint protest of twenty
scholars, charging the late Presi
dent Roosevelt traded Manchuria
for Russian support in the Japan
ese war. ‘‘It was a tragic mistake”
and could not be excused, despite
his contributions toward victory.
Mil Uncovered
Huge U. S. Fifth
Column Movement
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22—l/P)—.
The FBI disclosed the smashing of
America’s wartime fifth column.
It uncovered huge stocks of wea
pons, thousands of shortwave ra
dios, photographs of Panama
Canal defenses and other vital in
j stallations.
The Federal Bureau of Investi
' gation instelf used the words “fifth
i column,” in making available to
reporters these figures to show
how dangerous had been the ali
ens with their weapons, sabotage
and espionage.
From January 8 to the present
the FBI has recovered from
homes and businesses of these ali
ens 307,506 rounds of ammunition,
4,626 firearms and related items.
In addition supplies of buckshot,
j shell caps and reloading devices.
The FBI seized 2,340 sitcks of dyn
amite, 2,800 dynamite caps and
3,700 feet of dynamite fuse, along
with 1,700 pieces of other explo
sives. More than 3,000 contraband
shorewave radio receiving sets
were uncovered, along with more
than 4,000 cameras and all kinds
j of photographic equipment.
Other contraband articles nab
bed from enemy aliens included
code books, hydrographic, naviga
tion and aeronautical maps of alF
sections of the United States coasts
and Panama.
Chinese Not Bound
j Bv Yalta Parts
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An Asiatic Chinese government
I spokesman declared his nation
| was not a party to the Yalta agree
ment and not bound by it inso
far as Manchurai is concerned.
“Nothing but the Sino-Soviet
treaty js binding upon both China
and Russia.” said Ho Fengshan,
director of the foreign office in
formation section.
The Yalta agreement gave Rus
sia control of Port Arthur and
Dairen, which was declared a free
port. It provided joint Sino-Soviet
operation of certain Manchurian
j railroads.
The spokesman told reporters in
j Chungking that he had not been
; authorized to say whether China
I intended to place the Manchurian
situation before the United Na
tions Organization.
Meanwhile reports of renewed
fighitng in the big northern terri
tory were circulated in the Chi
nese capital.
SCANDINAVIA
AIDS POLAND
WARSAW, Poland — </P>— The
government has announced that
J it intends to lease 12,000 railway
i cars and to buy outright another
I 200 from Sweden to help relieve
! Poland’s acute lack of transport
I Four hundred cars and twelve lo
i comotives are to be leased from
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I Norway.