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NEWS IN BRIEF
VIENNA, (/P)—Hermann Goer
in.,'s brother-in-law, Dr. Franz
Hueber, was sentenced to IB years
at hard labor by a Viennese Peo
ple’s court yesterday.
Hueber, 54, minister of justice
before the Anschluss, was found
gulity of high treason and illegal
membership in the Nazi party.
The court also ordered confisca
tion of all Hueber’s property.
TOKYO, (/P) —Japanese army
► lieutenants Noboru Hashiyama
and Teruo Akamine yesterday
were sentenced to life imprison
ment for beheading captured
American B-29 pilots after Em
peror Hirohito had announced
Japan's decision to surrender.
FRANKFURT, Germany, i/P>—
American occupation forces in
Germany will test their ability to
operate under winter conditions in
training exercises next month.
U. S. army headquarters said
w last night the exercises will con
centrate on speedy movement
through snow and cold.
NEW YORK. i/P) — President
Truman is Time magazine’s “man
of the year” for 1948. It is the sec
ond time he has been so honored
by the news magazine.
Time said in its Jan. 3 issue—
• released yesterday—that the Pres
ident's election “was a personal
victory almost without historical
parallel; a victory of the fighting
spirit.”
Mr. Truman was selected by
Time as “man of the year” for
1945, the year of the atom bomb,
JUNEAU, {IP)—Yes, boys’, they
olay the game up this way, too.
^ The Columbia Lumber five of
Juneau tripped a visiting Priest
River, Idaho, quint, 43-37, here
Wednesday night.
Bad flying weather prevented
the Idaho squad from moving on
to Sitka. If conditions permit, the
team may go to Petersburg for
^ames tonight and to Wrangell
^Saturday. Sitka will get the go-by.
NEW YORK, (/P) —-New York
City is going to skip such chores
as sweeping streets and hauling
garbage on New Year’s Day.
Sanitation commissioner William
-J. Powell announced yesterday
that for the first time in the sani
tation department’s history, all of
its 12,000 employees will be off
Sew Year’s day — because they
d such a good job of cleaning up
the lflVfe-inch snow of 10 days ago.
♦» _
FAIRBANKS, (JP) — The Boy
Scout winter camp session is over,
and Mrs. Nick Eidem breathes a
steamy sign into the 37-below-zero
(ibiatig Offers
Intolerable Terms
For Peace Pact
NANKING, Generalissimo Chi
ang Kai-Shek declared tonight his
government was ready to discuss
ending the war with *the Chinese
communists—but set up condi
tions which appeared to rule out
any possibility of such a settle
ment.
In a written New Year’s state
ment to the Chinese people, the
Chinese president declared:
“If negotiated peace is not detri
mental to national independence
and sovereignty, but will contrib
ute to the welfare of the people,
and if the constitution is not vio
lated, constitutionalism is pre
served, a democratic form of gov
| ernment is maintained, entity of
! the armed forces safeguarded and
if the people’s free mode of living
and minimum living standard
are protected, then I shall be satis
fied.”
It seemed to observers in this
! communist-threatened nati o n a 1
capital that these requirements
[outlawed the slightest possibility
I of a settlement if Chiang insisted
[ they be followed.
“If the communists are not sin
cerely desirous of peace and will
insist on continuing the armed re
bellion,” Chiang continued, “the
government shall have no alterna
tive, but will fight them to a fin
ish.”
Internationl News
At A Glance —
Thursday, December 30, 1948
(By The Associated Press)
Peace or war talks dominated >
China today while Chiang Kai-1
Shek conferred with his leading
generals, who have failed to stop
the Communists.
A government spokesman de
nied the meeting in Nanking was
to discuss the overall future of
China. The approaches to the cap
ital, plus the great cities of Peip
ing, Tientsin and Taiyuan, all are
beseiged by the communists. There
were abundant signs that peace
talks were in progress.
The war itself was comparative- j
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_ .
She took over the paper routes
for her two boys while they were
away at camp.
And how was the paper-ped
dling business?
“C-c-c--cold,” Mrs. ^Eidem d-d
' d-d-eclared.
Project Gigantic
Plutonium Plant
WASHINGTON, </Pi — A new
plutonium production plant being
built at Hanford, Wash., will cost
an estimated half billion dollars,
chairman David E. Lilienthal of
the atomic energy commission has
disclosed.
The project, Lilienthal told
newsmen, is “the largest peace
time construction job in American
history.”
“We are now considering in our
report to Congress just how much
may be said about production ca
pacity,” he replied, “but certainly
it is intended to increase the pro
duciton of plutoniuum as well as
to assure continuity of production.
Weather Promises
To Be Good-Cold
At ‘Ice Bowl’ Game
FAIRBANKS, </P) — Fears that
the “Ice Bowl” game here tomor
row might turn into a “Sherbert
Bowl” affair were quieted by the
weather bureau today with a
promise the temperature wouldn’t
get hotter than minus 20.
Degrees, that is—below zero.
When the mercury started i
climbing out of the bulk (it was
37 below today) the sponsors of
the game began to worry that the
ice goal posts might melt, not to
mention the ice throne for Queen
Kathy Daly.
The squads of the ice bowl op
ponents—the University of Alaska 1
and the Ladd Field Air Force— j
scrimmaged today just to prove
that football was possible in sub
zero cold and foot-deep snow.
Spectators decided the game un
der such conditions would be
more spectacular than proficient. |
SUP, Employers
Reach Agreement
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P) — The
settlement of a wage dispute be
tween the Pacific American ship
owners association and AFL Sail- j
ors of the Pacific yesterday ended
a strike threat.
Terms of the agreement were,
not announced, but spokesmen for
the employers and the union pre
dicted their respective member
ships would accept the settlement.
They have been negotiating for
three weeks.
The SUP was not a participant
in the recent, lengthy waterfront
strike but asked for the wage
boosts after sea-going members of
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President Makes
Plans For “New'
Deal ’ Program
WASHINGTON, </P>—President
Truman called a strategy huddle
with top lieutenants today to chart
1 the course of the “new deal” pro
j gram he plans to lay before the
81st Congress Wednesday.
Feroign policy, which dominat
ed Mr. Truman’s news conference
yesterday, was expected to weigh
heavily in his discussions with
four Congressional leaders.
Invited to the White House talks
were vice-President elect Barkley,
who will preside over the new
Senate, Rep. Rayburn <Tex.> slat
1 ed to be House speaker, Senator
Lucas '111.' due to become Senate
majority leader, and Lucas’ House
counterpart, Rep. McCorm a c k
j ' Mass.h
Barkley has just returned from
| a trip to Europe, and Mr. Truman
' was likely to want a first-hand re
1 port on his observations there.
! But domesticvmatters appeared
| to be up for review as well.
Barkley arrived at national air
port yesterday in an air force
plane with Ambassador to Mos
cow Walter Bedell Smith and sec
retary for air W. Stuart Syming
ton.
Smith told reporters he hopes
Mr. Truman will accept his resig
nation as ‘envoy to Russia.
Smith, asked whether he agreed
with Mr. Truman’s Kansas City
statement this week that some
Soviet leaders would like to be
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Alaska S. S. Not
To Raise Freight
Rates At Present
SEATTLE, </P) — There will be
no immediate raise in Seattle
Alaska freight rates, Alaska
Steamship company said yester
day.
The company is the only major
steamship line to remain in serv
ice to the Territory following the
west coast shipping tie-up.
An increase in passenger tar
iffs to provide a 15 per cent boost
in revenue went into effect De
cember 20, but there was no
change in freight rates.
“Passenger rates were revisd
in an effort to have passenger
service carry itself and not depend
on the general revenue as hereto
fore,” explained F. A. Zeusler, ex
cutive assistant to the president.
“We have not filed for a freight
rate increase, however, despite
higher operating costs. We a^e de
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Major lax Pro
gram \\ ill Be
Given Legislature
• By The Associated Press*
What new tax recommendations
will Governor Greuning make to
the Alaska .-.ession when it con
venes next Thursday in special
session? His message to the last
legislature may provide a clue.
The Governor has remained si
lent on what his proposals will be.
He said in Washington, D. C\, that
their disclosure will have to wait
his message to the legislators.
That major taxation proposals
will be made is considered a cer
tainty, since the session was called
to cope with the Territory’s emer
gency. The special session call
cited the inability of the treasury
to pay S750.000 in claims, while
more claims are accumulating.
Governor Greuning’s message to
the 1947 legislature may be a
weathervane of what’s in the
wind. He showed in that message
the lines of taxation he considered
feasible for the Territory'. In the
absence of indications to the con
trary. there is a strong possibility
they will form the basis for his
recommendations to the special
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Airlift Pilot Can Go
"Back To Alaska”
BERLIN, </P> — An American
plane from a British loading base
landed at a French airfield in Ber
lin today, completing the 100,000tb
flight of the airlift. The l5ft over
the Soviet blockade, began June
26.
As the pilot, 1st Lt. Robert W.
McGuire of Clifton Forge, Va.,
turrfed over a ten-ton load of coal
to German police guards, he grin
ned:
‘•Now I can go back to Alaska.”
It was McGuire’s 161st sortie
with food and fuel for Berlin since
his squadron, the 29th troop car
rier. joined the airlift last July.
Tomorrow McGuire is scheduled
to leave for the United States on
rotation, en route to a reunion
with his family at Fort Richard
son, Alaska.
He was accompanied on his last
airlift mission by his squadron
commander, Capt. Gene M. Patton
of Harlingen, Texas, who acted as
co-pilot, and his crew chief, S/Sgt.
Richard Hosmer, as New Haven,
Conn. Both also are eligible to re
turn to Alaskan duty In a day or
two.
Tegel Field artists proudly
painted 100,000th Vittles" on the
nose of McGuire’s craft. Otherwise
there was no ceremony.