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Russia Disagrees
About Control
Of Europe
^ LONDON, Oct. 3—{#*)—Byrnes
and Molotov were brought into
open disagreement among the ma
jor powers whether the Big Three
understanding existed that a blan
ket participation by all five of
the principal powers in European
^ peace settlements.
Molotov, outlining at a press
conference, the Soviet stand. The
twenty-two day conference broke
down last night in a debate over
the procedure. He disclaimed any
knowledge of an agreement of
blanket participation of all five
powers.
Earlier Byrnes said that Truman
and Attlee had left the Potsdam
conference with the understand
ing that France and China would
- be permitted a full share in the
« discussions of the treaties. But
Stalin apparently understood the
two nations would be barred from I
such discussions.
Byrnes said the deputies of the
council would continue their work
here. In some aspects the confer
ence ended without an agreement
on any major issue. JVIolotov ad
^mitted the existence of disputes
within the council but expressed
hope that future collaboration
would insure world peace.
O’Kane Says Prison
Guards Are
Dope Fiends
# OAKLAND, Calif., Oct. 3—(/P)
—Commander Richard O’Kane,
skipper of the submarine Tang,
arrived home today aboard the
Navy transport plane. The Tang
was sunk a year ago. He described
the months of brutal treatment in
the torture camp Ofuna, where
he guards were “dope fiends.”
British Columbia
* Wants Alaska
Highway
i -
SEATTLE, Oct. 3 — (JP) — Pre
mier John Hart of British Colum
bia, announced, according to the
Seattle Post Intelligencer the “de
sire for his government to cooper
fate with the American govern
ment and the Canadian Dominion
in the location and construction
of a highway through British Co
lumbia and Yukon Territory to
Alaska.
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BARROW CELEBRATING FIRST
WHALE CATCH OF SEASON
Sig Wien of the Wien Airlines
; wired his office today that Bar
' row is celebrating the catching of
Us first whale of the season. The
whale was caught by the Brower
*grew, and was a young whale,
probably about a year old.
THROUGH CULEBRA CUT — With elevator (right)
blown up on her flight deck by a Jap suicide plane, the escort
carrier USS Sangamon passes through Culebra Cut in the Panama
Canal en route to Norfolk for repairs.
Poles Try Vainly
To Lynch Nazi
At Reburial
LEUENEBERG, Oct. 3— </P) —
An angry throng of displaced
Poles, watching the reburial of
two hundred forty-three mur
dered victims of the Nazis, in a
pine forest on the outskirts of
Luneberg tried vainly to lynch one
of -the Germans forced to do the
job.
While twenty-four ofLuneberg’s
leading Nazis were completing the
burial, one was identified by a
Pole as Kurt Kautsch, formerly
deputy commandant of the Lodz
concentration camp in Poland. A
Pole screamed “This is a murder
er, this is the man who beat my
brother.”
The crowd picked up clubs and
started closing in. The Belgian
military police fired over the
head of the Poles and the crowd
fell back. Kautsch was arrested.
Poll Picks Detroit
Tigers To Win
World Series
DETROIT, Oct. 3—(/Pi—In one
of the closest votes in history the
annual Associated Press world
series poll of baseball writers here
for the annual classic, today
picked the Detroit Tigers to whip
the Chicago Cubs this year, when
forty-five writers voted for and
thirty-five voted in favor of the
Cubs.
HOME ARTS CLUB
HOLD MEETING
The Home Arts Club met at the
home of Mrs. Duke Mitrovich,
acting president, for its regular
meeting. Mrs. Andy Nerland, who
had the program for the evening,
gave a very interesting paper on
toys and playfield equipment suit
able for the home. The program
was enjoyed by all members.
Congress Exceeds
Truman's Plans
In Tax Reductions
WASHINGTON. Oct. 3— </p) —
Congress appeared to be going
considerably beyond the adminis
tration’s five billion dollar tax cut
recommendation. In an expansive
mood the House Ways and Means
committee yesterday voted indi
viduals reduction for next year of
almost half a billion dollars more
than Vinson proposed.
There are indications that it
might go beyond the repeal of the
ninety-five percent excess profits
levy as Vinson suggested. The Ad
ministration won one major point
as the Ways and Means group
voted yesterday to relieve twelve
million low-income persons of in
come taxes after this year, but the
committee brushed aside Vinson's
proposal for the outright repeal
of the three percent normal tax.
Instead it adopted a Republican
sponsored compromise of keeping
the normal tax, but on a more lib
eral basis of exemptions for de
pendents. This plan also reduces
the individual surtax rates by four
percentage points in each of the
graduated brackets.
Sentence Three
Sergeants For
Shooting Of Jap
TOKYO, Oct. 3— I/P) —Three
American cavalry sergeants were
convicted in a court martial of
manslaughter in connection with
the fatal shooting September fif
teenth, of a Jap.
Each was sentenced to ten years
in prison at hard labor. The three
are Staff Sgt. Sherman Huffman,
19, Pittsfield, Illinois; Sgt. Ray
Oroark, 25, Los Angeles; and Sgt.
John Nimits, 24, Wilmore, Pa.
Specifications allege they shot
Katsuki Tanaka and his son Osa
mu, 16, with rifles in the climax
of a drinking bout in Tanaka’s
shop.
Golbester Behind
On Scheduled Time
KWAJALEIN, Marshall Islands,
Oct. 3—</P)—The Army Transport
Command’s first world circling
Globester in flight was driving to
make up nearly three and a half
hours lost time. It left Kwajalein
for Honolulu shortly after seven
p.m. today.
ATC officials said the plane
would skip the scheduled stop at'
Johnston Island and make the l
twenty-two hundred mile trip to
Honolulu non-stop.
GEORGE LEMMON REPLACES
DAN KENNEDY ON FORCE
Mr. George Lemmon has been
hired by the city for the Police j
Department to replace Mr. Dan
Kennedy who left for the States
last Monday evening.
Govt. Rushes
Goncilution In
Mounting Strikes
The government is going with
full steam ahead on the track of
conciliation in an effort to catch
up with the mounting labor strife
across the country as strike lines
were expanded in the past twen
ty-four hours by fresh labor dis
putes. A survey disclosed some
four hundred fifteen thousand
idle.
New trouble threatened as a
strike vote called for Friday to
pull two hundred thousand tele
phone workers off their jobs for
four hours.
The hottest spots along the
troubled labor front are in the
coal and oil fields. Labor depart
ment officials, headed by Schwel
lenbach gave the oil controversy
full attention. Workouts in these
two key industries affect about
one hundred thirty thousand
workers and seriously curtailed
production.
Striking AFL. lumber workers
in the Pacific northwest halted
operations in CIO operated mills
as picket lines were established.
Some four thousand unorganized
workers in two big mills at Long
view went back to their jobs un
der the terms of a temporary in
junction. The union is demanding
an industry-wide dollar ten per
hour minimum for some sixty-one
thousand workers on strike in five
Pacific northwest states.
Russia \\ ants Four
Power Control
Of Japan
LONDON, Oct. 3— (JP) — The
Moscow radio announced that Rus
sia had informed the United States
that the formation of a four power
control of the government of
Japan should precede the organ
ization of the Far Eastern Consul
tative Commission to direct a long
range policy toward the defeated
Pacific enemy.
The Russian view was set forth
by radio and said a letter had
been handed Byrnes by Molotov
in London yesterday.
Byrnes announced on Septem
ber twenty-ninth the formation of
a consultative Commission in
which other countries would be
given a voice, and was agreed to
by Britain, Russia and China.
Molotov’s letter, the broadcast
said, reaffirmed Russia’s agree
ment to such project, but added
that Byrnes announcement ‘ does
not reflect the present position.”
HARVEY GRANT AND HENRY
WHURMAN RETURN TO NOME
Harvey Grant and Henry Whur
man are in from their mine at
Coffee Creek where they have had
a busy summer. They report a dry
season but a reasonably good
clean-up.