“World Blackmails
England**
LONDON, I/P)—Lord de Law
Warr told the House of Lords that
Britain was obliged to buy food
abroad in a “blackmail market.”
Wheat from Canada, the Con
servative peer said in a discus
sion of Britain’s food shortage, “is
costing as much as we are paying
our own farmers in this country.”
“Wheat from America is costing
even more and wheat from the
Argentine, so far as it is avail
able. is a great deal more,” he
said. “At the present moment we
are buying whatever we are buy
ing on a blackmail max’ket.”
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Phone Strike Ends
In Places
NEW YORK, </P> — Groups of
long distance telephone employees
returning to work following set
tlement of the long lines phase of
the nationwide strike refused to
day to cross picket lines of other
unions still on strike.
The workers were members of
the American union of telephone
workers whose 20,000 members
from coast to coast were slated to
begin returning to work at 6 a.m.
.n the various time zones across
the country, but remained “pledg
ed to honor the picket lines of any
affiliated union.”
The Russian Republic covers
more than 75 per cent of the urea
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PIONEERS HOLD
REGULAR MEETING
The Pioneers of Alaska held
their regular meeting last Wed
nesday evening at their Igloo with
i large attendance. Members are
r^porte 1 very interested «n mak
n h?; new Igloo comfortable
and well equipped. A rapidly in
c casing library is being built up
with donated books to replace the
b:.g library which the Order had
before the fire in 1934. Chairs are
being ordered to take care of the
card parties and meeting for the
earning season. It was agreed that
each member of the Order would
donate the amount necessary for
the purchase of one chair.
A party is planned in the near
future for the members of the
men’s and women’s pioneer or
ganizations.
MR. AND MRS. CHARLES
O'LEARY ARRIVE IN NOME
Charles O’Leary and his bride
ar ived from Montana last eve
ning. They will depart soon for
their mining claim near Teller.
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Helicopter Over
Lake Explodes
SEATTLE, (/Pi—Civil Aeronau
4ics Administration officials and)
••enresentatives of the Central (
Aircraft company sought yester
day to determine the cause of the
^idair explosion late Wedsenday
of one of the company’s helicop
ters over Lake Union.
Two men drowned when the
plane plummeted into the water.
They were identified as Angus E.
McArthur, 24, of Yakima, Wash.,
the pilot, and Walter A. Storck, of
Washington, D. C., a CAA em
nWee. Their bodies have not
been recovered.
Eve witnesses said the plane
exploded at an altitude of about
°.V) feet while coming in for a
landing.
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si -, for all I know.
Professor — Oh, don’t mention
such a trifle.
To Protect Japan
Until Peace Treat v
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TOKYO, t/P>— Genera* Mac Ar
thur gave the Jaj t ie.se their !
official assurance vestc day t.m'
the Allies would p otect them un
til a peace treaty is signed, but
vigorously denied >rom :.->•> ' ml
“the United State w >u under
take future defense” of the coun
try.
The supreme commander issued
a special statement which obvi
ously referred to reports following
his meeting Tuesday with Em
peror Hirohito. He did not spe
cifically mention ‘he conference.
Neither Allied headquarters nor
Japanese government officials
would discuss the matter further.
Mac Arthur said ‘.he future de
fense of Japan would depend
upon the provisions in the peace
treaty.
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ter in Pacific Grove, in California,
are protected by city ordinance.
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