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Tito Government
Frees Archbishop
Msgr. Stepinac
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, (;P)—
Communist Yugoslavia today
gave Msgr. Stepinac his condi
l tional freedom, making it clear he
could not, with government ap
proval, resume his duties as Ro
man Catholic primate of Yugo
slavia.
Msgr. Stepinac was sentenced
five years ago to 16 years in pri
son. He denied -the charges of
wartime collaboration with the
Axis and postwar plotting to over
throw the regime of Premier Mar
shal Tito.
* At his trial, the Archbishop re
peatedly told the three-man com
munist court “my conscience is
clear.” In denying all the charges
against him he condemned com
munism and pointed an accusing
finger at the court, saying the
trial was against the Roman
Catholic Church.
There has been increasing pres
sure in the United States and
elsewhere for the churchman’s re
lease, since the Tito regime be
gan moving closer to the West in
» matters of defense. Several U.S.
congressmen had pleaded with
T to to release the cleric. The ar
rest and trial aroused Catholic in
dignation throughout the world.
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Russia and Western
Nations Clarifying
Their Positions
PARIS, (JP) — United Nations
Assembly president Luis Padilla
Nervo said today Russia and the
* Western powers are clarifying
I ftheir positions as never before in
* secret disarmament talks here.
But as the fifth session of the
Big Four disarmament conference
ended today there was no indica
tion that West and East had
reached any substantial agree
ment on their poles-apart views
on how to end the world’s arms
race. •
At the close of the meeting,
Nervo told reporters:
“It is my personal opinion that
never before in discussion at
which I was present have the
problems been so clarified.”
The Mexican diplomat is pre
siding over the sessions attended
by Soviet Foreign Minister An
drei Vishinsky, U.S. Ambassador
Philip Jessup, British Minister of
State Selwyn Lloyd and French
delegate Jules Moch.
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BASKETBALL SCORES
E Tuesday Night
Community Church 45 — Blue
Devils 23.
High School 44—CAP 28.
The next games in the series
will be played Friday? between
the Blue Devils and the 142nd,
and in the second game the 32nd
plays the AACS.
TRUMAN NAMES
VON DER HEYDT
NOME D. A.
tAP Special Washington Service)
KEY WEST, Fla., (/P) — Presi
dent Truman gave a recess ap
pointment yesterday to James A.
von der Heydt as United States
Attorney for Alaska’s Second
Division.
Von der Heydt, 32, has been
living in <the Cape Nome Precinct
where he is serving as U. S. Com
missioner — ex-officio, justice of
the peace, probate judge, coroner
and recorder.
He was bom in Miles City,
Mont.
Tennessee Football Team
Named No. 1 in* Nation
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., (JP) —
Tennessee’s football team—No. 1
squad in the nation in the Associ
ated Press poll—has been award
ed the Father Hugh O’Donnell
Memorial Award.
Presentation of the trophy, em
blematic of the national collegi
ate football championship, came
Monday night at the squad’s an
nual banquet.
The award is based on the
Associated Press season poll
which was released yesterday.
The presentation was made in an
ticipation of the team winning the
top position.
7.706 of Gambling
Fraternity Buy
$50 Tax Stamps
WASHINGTON, (£>)—'The gov
ernment says some 7,706 gents
accustomed to more favorable
odds have offered to pay a “heads
you win, tails I lose” federal tax.
That many, Internal Revenue
Commissioner John B. Dunlap an
nounced yesterday, have applied
for the new $50-a-year profes
sional gambler’s stamp. The occu
pation stamp does not legalize
gambling — that’s the rub, from
the gambler’s point of view—it
just puts the gambler in compli
ance with the stamp tax law.
Officials have estimated at lfeast
17,750 persons, probably more,
are subject to the gambler’s tax.
Dunlap said 2,300 special revenue
agents organized in 117 “racket
squads” throughout the country
have been ordered to go out and
collar the delinquents. The dead
line for filing applications was
Dec. 1.
Salmon Industry Pays
Fifty Cent Dividend
SEATTLE, (/P) — Directors of
Alaska Pacific Salmon Co., have
declared a dividend of 50 cents a
share out of earned income. The
dividend is payable Dec. 20 to
stockholders of record Dec. 10.
The action was taken here yes
terday at a board of director’s
meeting.
Kefauver May
Seek Nomination
For President
SEATTLE, (P) — In a speech
billed as a “reply” to General
MacArthur, Sen. Estes Kefauver
of Tennessee declared last night
that “a strong United Nations” is
the world’s only real chance of
preserving peace.”
“The only way to win World
War III,” he added, “is to pre
vent it.”
The crime-investigating Demo
cratic senator addressed the West
ern Washington Jefferson-Jack
son Day dinner.
Turning to the domestic front,
he warned against the danger of
“the growth of crime and corrup
tion,” and asserted “honesty in
government is certainly not the
monopoly of any political party.”
Kefauver, who may seek the
Democratic nomination for presi
dent, praised the administration’s
policies in the Korean crisis. He
told a press conference yesterday
that if he decides to seek the
nomination, he will do so regard
less of whether President Truman
decides to run again.
Democratic party leaders had
listed the speech as a reply to
General MacArthur’s bitter de
nunciation of Truman administra
tion policies in his Nov. 13 ad
dress at the opening of Seattle’s
Centennial Celebration.
The $25-a-plate Democratic
crowd of more than 600 last
night gave its fullest applause to
the several barbs the senator
tossed directly at the former Far
Eastern commander.
Kefauver* asserted:
“It is interesting to note that
your centennial speaker did no»t
mention the United Nations once
in his speech—and yet he was the
first commander of that great
army of the United Nations.
“To me this indicates either
lack of understanding of the role
of the United Nations or a path
etic display of vanity.
“This is not MacArthur’s war.
This is not the United States’ war.
This is free men everywhere say
ing to Joseph Stalin:
“Thou shalt not tresspass
again.”
Freak Tornado Hits
New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS, (IP)—A freak
ish tornado ripped through the
uptown industrial section here
early today and caused damages
estimated at more than $1,000,000
but no one was reported injured.
Tornadoes are extremely rare
in this area aften frequented by
hurricanes.
George L. Canady of the U. S.
Weather Bureau, who made the
damage estimate, said the tornado
was about 400 to 600 feet wide
and about 1200 feet long.
Alaska’s First Eskimo
Language Broadcasts
Scheduled By KFAR
Alaska’s first Eskimo-language
news program will be inaugu
rated next Tuesday night over
Fairbanks radio station KFAR.
A1 Bramstedt, KFAR manager,
announced that Robert Mayokok,
of Wales, Alaska, will be the new
“Eskimo Reporter,” a weekly fea
ture for Tuesdays at 9:45 pm., as
sponsored by the Mukluk Shop.
“KFAR has a total of 42 news
casts each week,” said Bramstedt.
“Our Eskimo population certainly
deserves a quarter hour of their
own—and I think Robert Mayo
kok will do an excellent job,”
he added. The program will be
delivered in three segments, with
the first five minutes devoted to
world and national news events,
translated into Eskimo tongue
from the latest United Press and
Associated Press reports as re
ceived at KFAR.
The second 5 minute portion
will have to do with territorial
news of interest to Eskimos. The
third segment will consist of an
Eskimo feature each week, with
Mayokok choosing an Eskimo
guest interview, an Eskimo musi
cal artist, or one of the tribal
legends of the Eskimo.
Reds Lose 64 Jets
In 10 Days -- Allies
Lose Six Planes
SEOUL, Korea, (/P) — U. S.
pilots today reported shooting
down five Red MIGs and damag
ing five in the 10th straight day
of jet warfare over North Ko
rea.
The U.S. Fifth Air Force said
no U.S. jets were lost or dam
aged. The Wednesday bag raised
the U.S. toll of Red jets in the
10 days to 64—32 shot down, one
probably shot down, and 31 dam
aged. Announced Allied losses are
six jets.
The communists put about 230
MIGs into the air Wednesday.
They far outnumbered U. S. jets.
Ground action Wednesday was
minor. United Nations forces
threw back squad and platoon
sized Red probes on the central
sector, an Eighth Army communi
que said. No significant action
was reported from the western
and eastern front.
An Allied announcement said a
U.N. raiding party stormed ashore
deep behind Red lines on the
east coast Monday in the second
hit-and-run raid in two nights.
Black-faced American marines
and British commandos scaled a
cliff and attacked a vital com
munist rail line south of Songjin,
about 185 miles north of Paral
lel 38.
Allied naval headquarters in
Korea said the night raiders left
an unknown number of commun
ist dead.
UN Ask Questions
But Reds Don’t
Answer in Korea
MUNSAN, Korea, (/P) — Allied
negotiators asked questions for
two hours and a half at an arm
istice at an Alice-in-Wonderland
sort of Korean truce session to
day—and got the answer to just
one question.
The Reds defined what they
meant by a neutral country and
gave examples: Communist
Czechoslovakia and Poland, or
non - communist Switzerland,
Sweden and Denmark.
The communists want neutral
teams to supervise any truce
reached, and only at “ports of
entry.”
Allied subcommitteemen at
Panmunjom asked 30 times what
the Reds meant by “ports of
entry.” They didn’t get an answer;
the Reds said they already had
answered clearly.
A Tokyo broadcast by the
“Voice of the United Nations
Command” said the Red proposal
to bah all troop replacements
would have the effect of remov
ing foreign troops from Korea.
This was one of the Red’s first
political demands. Under the Red
plan troops leaving for sickness,
injury, rotation or expired enlist
ment couldn’t be replaced.
The broadcast also charged the
communists “are more interested
in building airstrips for war than
in rebuilding the country for
peace.”
Newsweek Replies
To Willoughby
NEW YORK, (/P) — Newsweek
magazine, replying to charges by
Maj.'Gen. Charles A. Willough
by, says its job “is to report the
facts, however unpleasant they
may be.”
“It has always been our convic
tion, General Willoughby not
withstanding, that a well-inform
ed public is America’s greatest
security,” the magazine adds in
its first public reply to the gen
eral.
Willoughby, who was General
Douglas MacArthur’s intelligence
chief in the Pacific, accused some
correspondents and magazines
last week of “inaccurate, biased,
prejudiced, petulant” reporting in
Korea.
News week’s reply is contained
in its Dec. 10 issue, out; tomor
row.
KARACHI, Pakistan, (JP)—Rep.
Peter F. Mack, Jr., CD-Ill), circl
ing the globe on a one-man good
will tour, arrived here today in
his single - engine plane from
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. As in
other capitals on his 32,000-mile
tour, Mack will present a friend
ship scroll to the city of Karachi.
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