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NEWS IN BRIEF
SUN VALLEY, Idaho, bP)—His
Imperial Majesty, the Shah of
Iran, will spend five days here,
starting today, officials at this re
sort announced Monday.
They said the Shah, now in
California, will wind up his na
tionwide tour here before return
ing to Washington for departure
to Iran.
Good skiing snow blankets
Boulder Basin, 16 miles north of
here, resort officials reported.
They said the Shah would be
flown to Gooding in President
Truman’s plane and would be
taken from Gooding to the resort
by car.
BUENOS AIRES id1)—Suffering
from chilblains? Pity the poor Ar
gentians. Forty of them were
treated here for sunstroke Mon
day. It was hot for December in
the Argentine capital, even though
summertime has started. Temper
atures got up to 100.76 degrees fa
ll renheit.
MEDELLIN. Colombia, (/P). —
Quintuplets—five boys and all in
good health—were born several
days ago to Mara Arroyave in the
little town of Angostura.
Report of the births arrived by
telegram from the mayor of An
gostura only Monday.
The quintuplets have been bap
tized Fermin, Ramiro. Rodrigo,
Nabor, and Francisco. Their fa
ther's name is Alfonso.
FAIRBANKS, '(/P)-Two dam
age suit totaling $75,000 were
brought to trial in district court
Monday.
Herman Ross, Anchorage attor
ney, and his wife, Martha, are
suing the British Navigation Co.,
as outgrowth of a highway acci
, dent involving a company truck
near Edmonton, Alta., Jan. 29.
Ross is suing for $45,655 for
-pinal injuries. His wife seeks
$30,775 for head injuries.
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FAIRBANKS, f/P)—Brig. Gen.
Dale V. Gaffney was scheduled to
leave here yesterday for his new
post as deputy commanding gen
• eral of the Air Forces Proving
Grodnd Command at Eglin Field,
Fla. Commander of the Ladd Air
Force Base here since June, 1948,
Gaffney will be succeeded by Col.
John R. Kane, Ladd Chief of Staff
und#r the departing general.
JUNEAU (/P)—Rogers Construc
company and Babler Brothers of
Portland, Ore., were successful bid
ders Monday on the construction
and repair of 44.35 miles of high
way between Palmer and Glenal
len. The Alaska road commission
awarded the contract on a bid of
SI,223,057. Six bids were submit
ted.
HONOLULU (/P)—Clinton Stein,
head of the federal bureau of in
vestigation at Anchorage, Alaska,
for the last two years, arrived
Monday to take over the bureau
here. He replaces John K. Mum
ford, who has been assigned to
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W allace Ordered
Atomic Materials
Sent To Russia"
(By Douglas B. Cornell)
W A S H I NGTON, (/P) — The
House un-American activ i t i e s
committee eyed former Vice Pres
ident Henry A. Wallace and many
others yesterday in a suddenly
revived hunt for people who push
ed wartime uranium shipments to
Russia.
Wallace commented that a state
ment that he was involved is false,
and part of “an unremitting effort
to tarnish the name of Franklin D.
Roosevelt.”
Chairman Wood (D.-Ga.) prom
ised there “isn’t going to be any
avenue left untouched” as the
House committee digs into the
story that persons in high places
helped Russia get uranium and
1 atomic information.
i
For the sake of the American
people, Wood told reporters, “the
i story must either be corroborated
| or disproved.”
Much of it is old, particularly
jthe part about several shipments
I of uranium compounds to Russia
back in 1943, by way of Great
Falls, Mont., and the Alaskan air
1 route.
But now big names are being
i brought into it:
! Wallace, who was fired from
| the cabinet by President Truman
for siding too much with Russia
on international policy, and Harry
L. Hopkins, the late intimate and
adviser of President Roosevelt.
And today Wood’s committee
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19 19 Properly Tax j
Law Challenged
FAIRBANKS, (/P> — Alaska’s
new Territorial property tax law
has been challenged in the dis
trict court here.
Luther Hess of Fairbanks filed
the challenge yesterday against
the law enacted by the 1949 legis
latude. His attorneys disputed the
legality of the law on numerous
grounds.
The law is the fourth by the
1949 legislature to come under
fire in courts. Those previously
challenged were the income tax,
fish trap tax and fishermen’s li
censing acts.
A large slice ol anticipated rev
enue for the financially hard
pressed territory will be at stake
in the court battle. The territorial
senate finance committee estima
ted at the time of enactment, that
the general property tax law—
Alaska’s first on a territory-wide
scope—would yield about $2,000,-!
000 during the biennium.
The suit asks a preliminary in
junction to restrain at once the
further collections of the property
tax. It asks for a permanent in
junction after a final ruling on
the validity of the act.
Named as defendents in the
suit are territorial tax officials,
headed b y commissioner M. P.
Mullaney who are responsible fori
collecting the tax in the fourth
division and in the city and school
district of Fairbanks.
The suit asks the court to hold
the tax law null and void.
It is the first test of a tax law
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WAHRINGTON. (/P)—Lt. Gen.
Leslie R. Grove- testified today
that Russia got some atomic ma
terial from this country during
the war, but he doesn’t know how
many shipments “because we
don't know how many leaked
through.”
Groves told the House un-Amer
ican activities committee that
within a month after he took
charge of the atomic bomb project
in 1942 he knew personally that
the “Russians were engaged in es
pionage on that project.”
The committee is trying to find
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Crark Alien
Smuggling Ring
WASHINGTON, UP) — The jus
tice department reported yester
day it has cracked a Havana-Mi
ami alien-smuggling operation and
is rounding up 26 aliens slipped,
into this country since September.
2 Attorney general McGrath an
nounced the arrest of two Grand
Rapids, Mich., men in Miami.
They are accused of flying the
aliens into this country.
The accused men are Gaylord
Saxton and Charles Cramton, both
26.
In addition, McGrath said, three
of the aliens have been picked up
in New York City. He added that
the justice department hopes to
have the others in custody shortly.
SINCE PEARL HARBOR—DECEMBER 7. 1941
(/P) Newsfeatures
IF THE WORLD ever sees another Pearl Harbor, the results may dwarf those of the "day that
will live in infamy" eight years ago today. World War II stimulated development of methods
and materials for war. That development is still going on. Here are two big examples:
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t LaHlS—The B-17 Flying Fortress, left, was tjps in the bomber field in 1941. It proved itself
in the tough campaigns in Europe, Asia and the F'ccific. But there have been many bomber de
velopments since. Just now the B-36, right, is top bomber of the U. S.
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BOMBS—This type of blockbuster was just coming into gen
eral use in 1941. It has since been superceded by—
A-BOMB — This is whai now
jitters the world.
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Tuesday. December 6, 1949
<By The Associated Press*
Political chaos appeared* to be
enveloping what was left of na
tionalist China today as commun
ist armies neared Chengtu, the
refugee capital.
In the jittery cify, there was 'a
noisy clamor for Chiang Kai-Shek
to resume the Presidency. In Hong
Kong. President Li Tsung-Jen or
dered Nationalist officials at
Chengtu to carry on under his or
ders. Li is flying to the United
States for a month and said he
would telegraph his instructions.
Meanwhile communist armies
approached within 90 miles of
Chengtu.
In the United Nations the Chi
nese Nationalists were offered a
face-saver., The delegation has
! been urged not to press its de
mand that U. N. members com
mit themselves to non-recognition
of the communist regime.
The face-saver for the Nation
1 alists was introduced yesterday by
Cuba, Ecuador and Peru. It would
refer the Chinese case to the year
arond little assembly for “contin
uous examination and study.” The
little assembly would report its
' findings to the general assembly
in the autumn of 1950.
Non-communist nations, despite
their sympathies, have made it
clear they believe Nationalist Chi
na is on the ropes. Several nations
including the British Common
wealth group are expected to ex
tend a form of recognition to the
communists soon.
The U. S. state department’s
chief troble-shooter, Dr. Philip K.
Jessup is leaving for China this
month to make a lost-mmute sur
vey of America’s Far East diplo
matic problems in view of the mil
itary victories of the Chinese com
munists who are now reported
within 90 miles of the Indochina
border.
The West German press today
came out strongly against the cre
ation of an army of Germans as a
western bulwark against the Rus
sians. Western Allied officials
have said publicly they have no
present plans for rebuilding a
German army.
The Soviet bloc in the United
Nations charged yesterday that
Field Marshal Montgomery, mili
tary chief of the Western Alliance
Command advocates a West Ger
man army. West German newspa
pers in Berlin charge Russia is
building an East German army.