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testify and Schoeppel will be in
vited to attend.
“We'll let the chips fall where
they may,” O'Mahoney said.
Democratic Senators had term
ed Schoeppel's accusations “poli
tics.”
Schoeppel told the Senate Chap
man’s record “is replete” with
preferences which show conclu
sively the strong and close per
sonal alliance between the Russian
Soviet cause and the present sec
retary of interior.”
*, O’Mahoney said Schoeppel’s
charges were similar to ones
checked in 1948 by a House labor
subcommittee which, he said, gave
Chapman “a clean bill.”
In his remarks on statehood,
Schoeppel accused Alaskan Gov
ernor Ernest Gruening and Dele
gate E. L. Bartlett, who repre
sents the Territory in Congress,
of having been instrumental in
hiring to lobby for Alaska state
hood a former public relations
counsel for communist Poland. He
identified the lobbyist as John
Hamption Randolph Feltus who,
he said, was a registered “agent
of the Kremlin via Warsaw” for
three years before taking the
Alaskan job.
The Senator said he has learn
ed that the Alaska statehood com
mittee, using Territory of Alaska
funds, hired Feltus as its public
relations counsel. Schoeppel iden
tified him as a man who was“reg
tered as an agent of the Soviet
Republic of Poland” for three
years from Oct. 15, 1946, to July
1, 1949.
Feltus, he said, was hired by
the statehood committee and Gov
ernor Gruening of Alaska and
Delegate Bartlett, respresenting
the Territory in Congress, were
members.
Schoeppel said he had been ad
vised that employment of Feltus
was arranged between Chapman
and Gruening, and demanded:
“I wonder if the people of Alas
ka know that the man they em
ployed to lobby for their statehood
had been for three previous years
the Washington agent for the
Kremlin, via Warsaw?”
Bartlett told repor t e r s the
statehood committee employ e d
Feltus for “about three months”
but dropped him in July after
learning of his former employ
ment by Poland.
Bartlett offered to appear be
fore O’Mahoney’s committee to re
ply.
William Dougherty, interior de
partment spokesman, character
ized Schoeppel’s remarks as an
attack on Alaska statehood. He
said Chapman was studying the
speech and would have a “full
statement” today.
Dougherty said that Chapman:
1. Had nothing to do with the
appointment of Feltus, and didn’t
even know him.
#. Never was a member of the
American League Against War
and Fascism, one of the groups
named by Schoeppel.
3. Was a member of the Con
gress of American-Soviet Friend
ship at a time when Russia was an
ally, but resigned 13 months be
fore the time when Schoeppel
said the organization was listed
by a House committee as a Red
front.
Signed loyalty oaths in 1933
and 1946.
Schoeppel also demanded an in
vestigation of Michael Straus,
commissioner of the bureau o re
East Germany
Purges High Reds
BERLIN, (>P) — East Germany’s
j communist rulers rocked their
party and government yesterday
with a startling purge of highly
placed officials*
Six party members including a
former Politburo member were
thrown out of the Socialist Unity
(communist) party, the official
party newspaper Neues Deutsch
land announced.
Four more were ejected from
jobs in the Russian-backed East
German government.
More expulsions were predict
ed.
The party newspaper gave two
reasons for the purge—associating
with “American spies” and exhib
iting anti-Russian feeling.”
Those ejected from the party in
cluded:
Paul Merker, state secretary in
the agriculture ministry.
Leo Bauer, chief editor of Ra
dio Berlin.
f
Bruno Goldhammer, deputy to
propaganda chief Gerhardt Eisler.
Robert Baker of the Fish and
Wildlife Department and Helen
Lundberg, nurse, were married at
Kotzebue last Saturday at the
ANS hospital with Joe Minor and
Alice Connolly in attendance.
Following the ceremony a de
licious wedding supper was served
after which the young couple took
off for the Noatak mountains for
their honeymoon.
clamation, a branch of the inte
rior department. He accused
Straus of being instrumental in a
series of events which, he said,
blocked some important proposed
economic aid to Formosa.
Truman Asks For
Army Of 3,000,000
_
j WASHINGTON, (^P)—President
Truman announced Friday night
that American fighting strength
will be doubled to nearly 3,000,
000 men to meet the threat of
communist aggression,
i The plan for a broader mobili
zation, announced in a worldwide
broadcast Friday night, drew
quick pledges of Congressional
support.
Mr. Truman said “further in
creases may be required.”
And to “arm ourselves more
quickly,” he said, we must step up
sharply production of guns, tanks,
planes, and other military equip
ment, increase stockpiles of vital
materials, expand war production
capacity, work hard and sacrifice,
give up many things we enjoy.
With this Program, the Presi
dent coupled a warning to Russia
against underestimating American
might the way Hitler and the Jap
anese generals did. We have the
ability and the resources, he said,
and let no “would-be aggressors”
make any mistake about that.
If aggression weer allowed to
succeed in Korea, Mr. Truman ex
plained, it would be an “open in
vitation to new acts of aggression
elsewhere.”
“Korea,” he said, “is the front
line in the struggle between free
dom and tyranny.”
There was an assurance that
the Korean conflict will not flame
into a general war—unless “com
munist imperialism” pulls in other
armies and governments.
The magnetic north pole is
about 1,400 miles away from the
geographical north pole.
Many Dead, Hurt
In Railroad Crash
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MILWAUKEE, (/P)—Two inter
urban excursion trains, carrying
80 model railorad fans each, col
lided head-on Saturday. An (^P)
staff reporter counted five dead
as they were removed from the
wreckage and said “there were
more.”
The forward car of one train
telescoped into the first car of the
other, trapping many of the pas
sengers. The second cars of both
trains remained upright on the
tracks.
The crash occurred about nine
miles from downtown Milwaukee
on a straight stretch of track.
There was no immediate cause
given. Nine ambulances answered
the first call from the Milwaukee
sheriff's department and others
responded as the injured, estim
ated as high as 50 persons, sped
back and forth between Milwau
kee county general hospital and
the scene. The hospital is only a
few miles away.
Cutting tools were rushed to the
scene to help remove trapped per
sons from the wreckage. A Roman
Catholic priest administered the
last rites of the church.
Hurricane Hits
Southern Florida
MIAMI, Fla. (/P)—The scream
ing winds of a tropical hurricane
bore down on mainland cities yes
terday, toppling trees and send
ing residents scurrying for storm
shelters as its center crossed the
coastline from the Gulf of Mexico
a* Cedar Keys, 52 miles southwest
of Gunesville.
Heaviest winds reported 80
miles an hour at Cedar Key,
where the storm started inland.
The erratic storm left a 50-mile
stretch of resort coastline dam
aged and soggy.
Tides from six and a half to
eight feet above normal swept the
pretty resort area frqm Clearwa
ter to Sarasota, washing out roads,
toppling beachfront houses, sink
ing a few small boats, putting a
tug into distress and piling sea
water like lakes around homes
and hotels.
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