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NEWS IN BRIEF \
ST. JOSEPH. Mo., i/P> — The
shortest street in St. Joseph is
Long Street. It is 110 feet long.
But there’s another Long Street
in the city, too. It’s about the same
length as Short Street, but none of
the three is a block long.
That’s what city engineers, who
measured them, reported,
SEATTLE, (/P)—Thomas Wolfe,
vice president in charge of the Pa
cific-Alaska division for Pan
American World Airways, has re
signed, effective April 1, Juan
Trippe, Pan American president,
announced yesterday. Wolfe,
whose headquarters have been in
San Francisco, resigned to enter
private business.
SEWARD, f/P)—Morris Gilbert,
18-year-old youth paralyzed s:nce
Jan. 23. 19-17, when he was shot
in the back, died veesterday.
Last July, Lester Rafter was
found innocent by a Seward jury
of a charge of assault with a dan
gerous weapon in connection with
the shooting. Testimony at the
trial was to the effect that Rafter
admitted firing the shot from his
bedroom window, claiming that
Gilbert was peeping into a bath
room window at Mrs. Rafter.
The boy’s mother. Mrs. Elizabeth
Wood, was awarded $8,500 last
October in a civil suit in District
court against Rafter.
PORTLAND, (/P) — General Air
Cargo, Inc.,, a Portland firm flying
freight to Alaska, was suspended
until Feb. 29 yesterday by a civil
aeronautics board examiner.
The firm’s operating license *o
fly outside the continental U. S.
was suspended on charges >f vio
lating cargo loading and pilot
hour regulations of the CAB. The
company has made 170 flights be
tween here and Alaska without
mishap.
ANADARKO, Okla. (JP) — The
baby business is booming. Dr.
John B. Miles, Anadarko physi
cian, can testify that the barom
eter has gone sky high in the stork
enterprises.
He delivered six babies here
over a span of 20 hours and 10i
minutes.
Anadarka had 5,600 people—to
day. _
SEATTLE, -The Most Rev.
Francis Doyle Gleeson, newly ap
pointed Bishop of Alaska, will be
consecrated in St. Aloysious
Church in Spokane April 5.
Bishop Gleeson, Superior of the
Jesuit Indian mission at Omak, re
ceived word of his appointment by
Pope Pius XII, on Feb. 10.
His Excellency Edward H. How
ard, Arch-Bishop of Portland,
Ore., will consecrate Bishop Glee
son.
ANTWERP, Belgium, <£>)—Bel-|
gium police last night seized 117;
boxes of rifles from Czechoslova-!
kia. destined for Callao, Peru.
The boxes were marked “Eisen-|
waren” (iron goods). They were to
be loaded aboard the Dutch ship
Helder when one qase crashed, re- j
vealing the contents. It is not il-j
legal to send arms through Bel
gium, but the confiscation was
P.O. Dept. Trying j
To Belter Service
SEATTLE. bP) — Paul Aiken,
second assistant postmaster gen
eral, arrived here Monday enroute
to Alaska, Japan and the Philip
pines on a mission to improve
mail service to the Territory and
the Orient.
Aiken, who is in charge of all
mail transportation, said he will
deliver a postal agreement to the
Philippine government restoring
rates in effect before the islands
won their independence.
In Japan he will confer with
army authorities on future carri
ers of overseas mail, and during
an Alaska stop will investigate the
possibilities of replacing boat mail
with air mail in the Aleutians.
Aiken said the United States
will start international air parcel
post service in May, and by mid
summer such packages should be
routed to Japan through Seattle.
He will remain here for a few
days before continuing his trip.
Paul Aiken, second assistant
postmaster general, from Wash
ington D. C., passed through
Nome yeste”dav on a charter flight
from Unalakleet, cn route to Kot
zebue and Barrow.
Mr. Aiken visited the local post
office and conferred with Post
master Mazen. Tie Stated that the
department is working out a sys
tem by which Nome can have par
cel post the year around. They are
also working on a zoning system
for the Territory for parcel post
and it should not be long before
plans are completed. He compli
mented the postmaster here for
the condition of the department
here.
From Barrow, Mr. Aiken will
return to Fairbanks.
New Pledges Will
Keep U. of A. Open
FAIRBANKS, UP) — Pledges of
money to help keep the University
of Alaska operating were boosted
to $120,000 yesterday with the an
nouncement that the Standard Oil
Company will contribute $25,000.
Governor Gruening has set a
goal of $200,000 in private non
interest loans to assure reopening
of the University in September.
In a letter to Capt. Austin E.
Lathrop, Fairbanks industrialist,
S. E. Stretton. Seattle district
manager of Standard Oil, pledged
$25,000. The pledge was contin
gent upon the full $200,000 being
raised.
Earlier pledges for $25,000 each
were received from Alaska Air
lines, Alaska Steamship company
and Capt. Lathrop.
Pledges of $10,000 each were
made by E. H. Stroecker, presi
dent of the First National Bank of
Fairbanks and Andrew Nerland,
4th Division Senator and Fair
banks furniture dealer.
Lathrop and Nerland are both
members of the university board
of regents. Lathrop had been asked
by Gruening to use his influence
sagpaid ajeAUd guijtotios ut
based on failure of the senders to
label the shipment properly.
Shakeup Due In
Democratie Party
•
(By Jack Bell)
WASHINGTON, f/P)—A shake
up in the embattled Democratic
party alter the Presidential elec
tion was predicted today by Sena
tor George D.-Ga.)
Without passing on President
Truman’s chances in November,
George said he believes southern
opponent of Mr. Truman’s civil
rights program are going to have a
great deal to say about the future
complexity of their party.
As he spoke Dixie Democrats,
fought a delaying ac’ion in Con-,
gress against enactment of the
civil rights plan. But in the south
ern states themselves, the drive to
; bar Mr. Truman’s name on the of
ficial ballot gained momentum.
“I think that as a result of this
1948 campaign we will have a
chance to reorganize the Demo
cratic party on a basis of sound
economic and good government
principles,’’ the Georgia Senator
! told a reporter.
Reds Want Balkans
To Plan Future
Of Germany
•/
LONDON. UP)—’The Moscow ra
dio said today Russia wants the
three western powers to let Czech
oslovakia, Poland and Yugoslavia
participate in planning the future
of Germany.
She sent notes to the United
States, Great Britain and France
asking that they be permitted to
sit in, the broadcast reported,
i The western powers have been
in conference here since Monday
on Western Germany. A delega
tion from Belgium, the Nether
lands and Luxembourg—members
of the Benelux Customs Union—
joined the talk yesterday.
Before the three western pow
ers met, the Soviet Union protest
ed that their conference would
violate the Potsdam provision for
big four control of Germany. The
U. S. and France replied that Rus
sia herself had violated the agree
ment for economic unification of
Germany.
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Young Girls Make
Good Bootleggers
OKLAHOMA CITY OP)—Police
today were hot on the case of two
young girls—nine and eleven —
who were telephone stooges for an
Oklahoma City bootlegger.
Oklahoma still has prohibition
and the local rum-runners use
phones to take orders for home
delivery.
The law found out about it
when police went to a house to
check complaints that the girls’
grown-up sister was abusing her
baby.
Juvenile officers R. M. Goff and
T. T. Hutchinson said the tykes
could rattle off bootleg prices of
popular brands and had been
trained to jot down customers ad
dresses.
“You see,” explained the elder
sister, “mother isn’t home much.”(
The officers want to meet her. ,
Allies Condemn
Red Dictatorship
In Czechoslovakia
WASH ING TON, i/Pi — The
United States, Britain and France
'
yesterday jointly condemned as a
"disguised dictatorship" of Com
munists the new government set
up in Czechoslovakia.
In a declaration issued at the
State Department here the three
governments, also said the com
munists seized power through "a
crisis artificially and deliberately
instigated.”
With an apparent reference to
earlier Communist pnver grabs,
such as in Hungary, the three
western powers charged that the
crisis served as a cover for “the
use of certain methods already
tested in other places.”
As a result, the statement said,
Czechoslovakia has suffered “the
suspension of the free exercise of
parliamentary institutions and the
establishment of a disguised dic
tatorship of a single party.”
Communists
Capture Yinishow
In Manchuria
PEIPING, (/P) — Chinese com
munists .smashed into the Yingkow
airport today amid intensified
fighting for that vital government
seaport in southern Manchuria
(Capture of Yingkow was re
ported by the Chinese Communist
radio in a broadcast hear 1 by the
Associated Press in San Francisco.
• The broadcast said the seaport
fell yesterday after “the entire
Kuomintang (government) tempo
rary 58th Division with over 10,
000 troops went over to the north
east people’s liberation (Commun
ist) army.” Casualties among
Yingkow’s "jxjliee and gendarmes”
were placed at 2,000.
'The Communists said Yingkow
airport was taken Wednesday
night and a government plane was
captured as it landed'.
Investigating
Gangster Paroles
CHICAGO f/P)—Paul Dillon, St.
Louis attorney and one-time cam
paign manager for President Tru
man, has been served with a sub
poena to testify before a federal
gr^nd jury investigating the pa
roles of four former Capone gang
sters.
This was announced today by
Otto Kerner, Jr., United States
district attorney in Chicago. FBI
agents served Dillon, absent from
his home and office for weeks, in
Newton, Mass.
At a House sub-committee in
vestigation of the paroles, Mrs.
Charlotte Campagna, wife of one
of the gangsters, said she paid Dil
lon $10,000 for his help in obtain
ing release of her husband.
Mrs. Campaigna, wife of Louis
• Little New York* Campagna, said
Dillon billed her after he had ap
peared as a witness before the
sub-committee last fall.
Communists Have
Complete Control
Of Czechoslovakia
(By A. I. Goldberg)
PRAGUE. (/I*) — Czechoslovakia
is completely under communist
control and the way is clear for
transforming the republic, model
led at birth after the United States,
into a copy of Soviet Russia.
The pattern for the minority
parties will be to purge their
ranks of all persons who have fal
len into Communist disfavor. Com
munist sympathizers now are in
control of those parties.
The weapon is ready — the
charge of conspiracy against the
government by “agents of reac
tion." This was provided by Com
munist Premier Klement Gottwald
himself. Now in complete control
of the press and propaganda out
lets. the Communists have all
means at their disposal to drive
home this campaign.
Columns of Czech students at
tempted to march to the palace
Wednesday night to see President
Eduard Benes. who capitulated
Wednesday to Communist de
mands after holding out for al
most a week. Police arrested 50 of
the students. Efforts to reach Pres
ident Benes for an interview have
been unavailing.
Up until this morning there has
been no censonship of the Associ
ated Press. Other foreign news
men also appeared to be working
without restrictions on what they
wrote.
Benes Swears In
!\ew lied Cabinet
PRAGUE, (/P> —President Edu
ard Benes today swore in a new
government loaded with Com
munists—a cabinet he is reported
to have said “could have only evil
results.”
The frail, weary president re
ceived Communist premier Kle
ment Gottwald and the 12 new
members of the cabinet at the
presidential palace and told them
"the decision to accept you was
difficult personally for me.”
The meeting was polite and
stiffly formal. As the president
spoke. Communists throughout the
country were going ahead with
swift determination to reorganize
the country’s entire industrial, ed
ucational and everyday life:
A presidential secretary said
Benes has not resigned.
CARNIVAL AND QUEEN
CONTEST PLANNED
The board of directors of the
Arctic Club recently elected, held
a meeting this week and elected
the following officers; Gordon Os
borne, president; Kirk Jackson,
vice president; Ted Duffield,
treasurer; Mary Ellen Walsh, sec
retary.
The board got off to a good start
by making plans for the annual
carnival and queen contest; choos
ing the date of April 3rd for the
event.
Neva Whaley was appointed
chairman for the queen contest
and Frank Bingham manager for
♦he carnival.