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, NEWS IN BRIEF
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San Juan Capistrano, Calif, (tf*)
—Right on schedule, the hundreds
of swallows who make their sum
mer home at mission San Juan
Capistrano, began arriving today
—St. Joseph’s Day.
Annually the birds return, pre
sumably fi'om their winter quar
» ters in Central and South Amer
ica. They have maintained the
practice, with but few exceptions,
lor probably hundreds of years.
NEW YORK, <£>)—'The fine art
of beer-brewing will be taught in
the city’s public school system.
The course, with three classes
weekly, will open tonight at the
Brooklyn evening technical high
school. About 30 fledgling suds
makers, who must be 18 or older,
are expected to attend the classes,
the board of Education says.
PHILADELPHIA (/P)—For sev
eral years U. S. district judge
George A. Welsh has been carry
ing lumps of sugar to satisfy the
sweet tooth of a mounted police
man’s horse in front of the federal
building.
This morning an excited police
man burst into the jurist’s cham
bers.
It seems Judge Welsh had for
gotten his daily gift and 'the po
liceman’s horse refused to pass the
federal building entrance until
properly sugared.
MOSCOW, (/P)—A new medical
research expedition into the arc
tic was reported yesterday In Iz
vestia, Soviet government news
paper. The story said a special
staff equipped with the latest
medical devices had left Arch
angel to fly to Naryan Mar for a
study among for northern people.
Naryan Mar is beyond the Arc
tic Circle about 400 miles north
east of Anchangel.
SEATTLE, UP) — Cap. Larry
Parks, skipper of the new Alaska
Transportation company vessel
George Washington on its trip
here from New York, gave a first
hand account of its performance at
a meeting of Seattle and Alaska
officials of the line.
4 VANCOUVER, B. C., UP) — A
five-ship fleet—a cruiser, three
destroyers and a frigate—will pa
trol the west coast of Canada.
The announcement was made
yesterday by Vice Admiral Harold
T. Grant, chief of the Canadian
naval staff. He said the five ves
sels are considered “standard
equipment” Tor the British Colum
bia coast under the present navy
establishment.
ROME, (A*)—A young men yell
ed “Viva n Duce” at a leftist rally
in Milan Last Night. He yelled it
just once. The crowd seized him.
stripped him of everything but his
shirt, then hoisted him up to the
top of a monument and jeered
him.
TACOMA (JP)—Washington and
Alaska residents either are richer
—or earlier—this year. Clark
Squire, collector of internal rev
enue, isn’t certain yet which is the
case. •
Income tax collections from the
Mixed Foreign j
Reactions To
Truman Talk
(By The Associated Press) j
LONDON, </P)—Europe divided j
on familiar lines yesterday in its!
reaction to President Truman’s j
preparedness speech.
Non-Communinst newspapers—
and officials who would talk—
hailed it generally as a forthright
statement in defense of freedom
against communism.
Communist newspapers and ra-i
dio stations for the most part took
the line that it was threatening
talk intended to create “war pan
ic.” But the eastern press gave it
little space.
Moscow broadcast a Tass dis
patch from New York saying the
President’s speech “has evoked
anxiety even among conservative
American politicians.” The Soviet
news agency quoted Rep. Dewey
Short (R.-Mo.) as decrying “an at
mosphere of hysteria,” and Henry
A. Wallace as saying the speech
was a “shameful call for world re
mobilization.”
: Russian-controlled newspapers
in Berlin characterized the ad
dress as “firebrand talk” and a
“panic speech.”
The bannerline of Vapaa Sana,
Helsinke newspaper of Finland’s
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! Congress Prepares
•To Draft Men;
‘When’ And ‘If’
(By Jack Bell)
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Senate
Republican leaders seemed near
agreement today on a plan to reg
ister—but delay drafting—the na
tion’s young men for military
service. ,
The wait-and-see proposal un
der study by Senators Vandenberg
(Mich.) and Taft (Ohio) would
call for speedy passage of laws to
revive selective service in the face
of stepped up communist pressure
in Europe. Selectees would be
chosen and put on notice.
But Congress would not push
the button for inductions unless or
until: (1) voluntary enlistments
continued to lag or (2) the world
situation grew so grave as to call
for partial or full mobilization of
a citizen army.
The prime object of such a law
would be to spur immediate en
listments of those subject to call,
thus filling vacant ranks in line
with President Truman’s plea for
Continued on Page Three
district totaled $101,989,718
through Wednesday, as compared
with $93,098,053 for the same pe
riod last year, he reported.
Collections of all federal taxes
in the district also are up, he said,
from $150,518,978 in 1947 to $.166,
113,245 this year.
NANKING, {IP) — Scientists at
the Academia Scinica observatory
are looking for a new location for
their seismograph. The instrument
has been recording a tremor every
half hour—tremors caused by
trains downhill from the observa
tory—hot by earthquakes.
Congress Divided
Over Truman’s
Two Requests
(By Jack Bell)
WASHINGTON (ff) — Congress
split down the middle yesterday on
President Truman’s plans for
shoring up the nation’s military
strength with universal training
and revival of the draft.
Party labels were lost in the
shuffle 'as leaders divided over the
two measures Mr. Truman said
are needed to flex the muscles of
a country that has become “the
principal protector of the free
world” against communism.”
The upshot seemed to be a trend
toward giving the President one—
but not both—of the manpower
raising laws. Universal military
training looked like slightly the
better bet although the cards are
stacked against UMT in the House
right now.
As a third step to halt the ag
gressive march of “one nation”—
Russia—Mr. Truman also called
for quick and final approval of the
$5,300,000,000 Marshall plan for
European recovery.
The Senate already has passed
its bill. And, within four hours of
the President’s address to Con
gress, the House foreign affairs
committee stamped its okay on a
similar program.
Congressional leaders in both
major political camps agreed on
one thing—they want to do some
thing to stop the spread of com
munism across not only Europe
but the world.
But there the agreement stop
ped.
Chairman Vandenberg (R.
Mich. of the Senate foreign rela
tions committee said that if this
country does not now have the es
sentials of national armed security
“we must provide them by the
most available immediate means.”
Senator Taft of Ohio, A GOP
Presidential candidate, indicated
he may fight the draft, as well as
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Forrestal Calls
For Draft To j
Build-Up Army
WASHINGTON, (A>)—Secretary |
of defense Forrestal indicated yes
terday that the armed forces want!
to add more than 350,000 men to
their strength, but did not say how
many ljaore. He said a draft is the
only way to get them.
Forrestal was before the Senate j
armed services committee sup
porting President Truman’s plea
for a revival of the draft and for
universal military training.
He told the Senators he will ap
prove recommendations for in
creases in the authorized strength
of the army, navy and air forces,
but would not make public the
figures.
The “authorized strength” of
each service is a “ceiling” Con
gress has put on the number of
men it can have. The present
“ceiling” for army, air force, navy
and marines adds up to 1,732,000
men. Actually they have 1,392,000
men.
B-29’s Prove They
“Can Take It”
Over North Pole
SALINA, Kas. </P)— B-29’s have
proved that bombers can operate
over the Arctic ice cap, the com
mander of the 97th bomb wing
said here yesterday.
The fifteen B-29’s of the 97th
were the first fully-equipped com
bat planes to fly over the north
pole.
The 97th is returning to the
Smoky Hill air force base here
from six months of training and
tests in Alaska. Most of the 1,700
men in the Wing have returned by
air, and 500 are en route by ship.
Col. George L. Robinson, 36, of
Los Angeles, commander of the
97th and veteran of 25 World War
II combat missions, talked about
the arctic flights today before
leaving with his wife for her home
in Jacksonville, Fla., to absorb
some sunshine. •
“The tests were completed suc
cessfully and the equipment was
proved,” he said. “No special prob
lems were found, although north
ern lights (aurora borealis) upset
magnetic compasses so they were
useless for navigation.”
Flights of 3,500 miles over the
north pole from their base at Eiel
son Field were made during the
darkest part of the long winter
nights, Robinson said.
“The weather,” he remarked, “is
not unusual on top of the world
Just about like it is here. Only no
' thunderstorms. It was not a prob
lem.”
I Although temperatures as low
i as 40 below zero on the ground
and 75’ below in the air were en
countered, the young wing com
mander said planes wrere able to
take off any time a mission was
scheduled. Four hours were re
quired to warm up the engines.
Col. Robinson credited success
of the tests to indoctrination,
training and equipment.
He had liberal praise for ground
crews who changed engines on
ramps at Eielson Field, near Fair
banks, in temperatures as low as
35 degrees below zero.
Communism
’Round The World
(By The Associated Press)
Opposition to Communism
sounded through the Netherlands,
Sweden, Norway and Denmark to
day.
Government and opposition
parties in Holland unanimously
affirmed their determination to
boycott communist representa
tives. Premiers of the three Scan
dinavian countries spoke out con
demning communism.
Czechoslovakia, latest country
to go Red, named a communist as
foreign minister to succeed Jan
Masaryk, the non-party leader
who fell to his death ten days ago.
The American embassy said
Czechoslovakia had barred from
the mail the U. S. information
service bulletin carrying the text
of President Truman’s address to
Congress.
Fighting broke out on a leftist
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HOSPITAL BENEFIT
DANCE BIG SUCCESS
Wednesday evening the Hospi
tal Benefit Dance sponsored by the
American Legion was a huge suc
cess and shows in all ways the
splendid co-operation of all busi
ness houses and individuals in the
all out project to start the ball
rolling for funds for the emer
gency hospital.
A peppy orchestra composed of
| Sgt. Bill Bailey, “Red” Tyler, Bob
Carlson, W. Abbey, Sgt. Case and
Helen Nordlind donated their
services and won the hearty ap
plause of the dancing crowd which
filled the hall.
Our Fire Chief Brown displayed
a talent as autioneer which was
an entertainment in itself. He was
ably assisted by Clyde Kammerer.
The following donations were
sold to the highest bidder: A fresh
chicken donated by Juniors Me it
Market went to Ben Young who
redonated it to the cause; a beau
tiful cake from the North Pole
Bakery to Jimmy Van Der Heydn;
cake by Mrs. Willie Foster to
Clyde Kammerer; cake by Mrs.
James Walsh to Ted Duffield;
candy by Alaska States Mart to
Mrs. Keith Hedreen; candy by
i Glue Pot to Ben Young, Mrs. Hed
reen and Ted Duffield; Nut Bread
and Biscuits, donor unknown to
Helen Nordlind; Red Fox by A.
Polet to Sgt. McNally; Wood Socks
by Trading Post to Dr. M. Ken
nedy; three girls dresses by Doro
thy’s Gift Shop to Mrs. Bulygo;
i Boys Pants and Sweater by Dor
othy's to W. Boucher; Boy’s Trous
sers to Sgt. Schall; Figurines l**om
Dorothy’s to Keith Hedreen; Dres
ser Set from Nome Drug Store to
Mr. Jones; Fur Muff from T7. S.
Mercantile to Clyde Kammeier;
Fur Kitten from U. S. Mercantile
to Steve Glaziski; Juice-o-Mat
from Northern Light and Power to
Dr. Kennedy; Coffee Maker from
Nome Hardware to Chuck O’
Leary; Fishing Reel from Glenn
! Carrington to Mr. Jones; Mittens
and Ear Muffs from Vi’s to Del
Fitch; Fishing Basket and Eggs
from Nome Motors to Dr. Ken
nedy; Resale of chicken from Jun
j ior’s Meat Market to Mrs. Hed
jreen; Two Sacks of Groceries do
nated by Fire Station to Ernie
Ball; 2 cans Candy Cookies, donor
unknown to Ted Duffield; Choco
late Cake, donor not named to
Clyde Kammerer; Card Table
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HOSPITAL GENERAL
COMMITTEE MEETING
CALLED FOR TONIGHT
i
The general citizens committee
I which has been working on the
preliminary arrangements for the
I temporary hospital will hold a
short business meeting in the City
Hall tonight at 7:00 o'clock. The
main purpose of the meeting is to
appoint specific committees to as
sist with finances and the recon
struction work. Members of all or
ganisations, and individuals are
requested to attend. The business
is very urgent and needs your im
| mediate consideration. The meet
ing will necessarily be short be
cause of the school play which is
scheduled for 8:00 o'clock.