E. Haddock, president of the Van
couver Yukoners’ association,
and B. R. Dusenbury, past inter
national president, are co-chair
men of activities.
A Sourdough special train,
headed by C. C. Silverstein, past
international president, Oakland,
will bring former Sourdoughs
from San Diego, Los Angeles,
San Francisco, and Oakland to
the convention city. “No Bound
ary Line Here,” 50-year slogan of
the Argonauts of the Klondike
Trail which has served as a gold
en tie of friendship throughout
the years, will bring together
around a thousand oldtimers, it
is expected, as the pioneers of
Alaska and the Yukon relive the
greatest northern gold rush in the
history of the continent.
IRA Farnsworth WITH
DRAWS FROM RACE
- N
JUNEAU, (/P)—Ira Farnsworth,
Republican candidate for Terri
torial highway engineer from
Fairbanks, has withdrawn from
the race because of illness.
His physician said Farnsworth
was ill in the hospital, would be
unable to campaign and unable to
serve if elected. ^
Farnsworth issued notification
of his withdrawal to Elton Eng
Communication
Veterans Administration
Anchorage, Alaska
July 30, 1948
j W. A. Boucher,
Editor, Nome Nugget,
i *
i Nome, Alaska.
Dear Mr. Boucher:
A visit is planned ta Nome to,
assist veterans with any prob-,
lems they may have coming un
der the jurisdiction of the Veter
ans Administration.
I will be available at the Wal
lace Hotel Tuesday, August 10
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
It will be greatly appreciated
i if you will give notice of my
‘ pending visit in your paper.
Thank you for your past cour
' teous* cooperation.
Very truly yours,
Harold E. Kenney,
Senior Contact Representative.
l
strom, chairman of the central
Republican committee who noti
fied the clerk of the district court
to withhold Farnsworth’s name
from the published ballot.
The Republicans can name a
candiate to oppose Frank Met
calf, Democratic candidate.
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have control of it short of war.
The Russian land blockade there
must be lifted before any talks
about solving other differences
over Germany, Austria, China,
Japan, Korea, Trieste and the
like.
Cautious optimism prevailed in
London. But there was caution
against wishful thinking and false
hope.
BERLIN
Tension continued in Berlin.
The Moscow radio kept drum
ming hate against the west and
the multi-billion dollar Marshall
plan. The official Russian news
paper in Berlin asserted the Rus
sians alone filfilled the Potsdam
agreement and demanded that all
Germany be modelled after the
Russian zone; that is, turned over
to the communists.
German civilians stoned Rus
sian secret police who pursued a
black market operator over the
British line in Berlin. Soviet sec
tor police were arresting on sight
police of the western zone who
operated under the successor to
the communist-trained police
chief the city government fired.
The air lift supplying of Ber
lin continued. The U. S. air force
took in 40,411 tons of food and
supplies last month and the Bri
tish were not far behind. The ex
pense was enormous, and coal
movements were a trickle. The
British-American zone signed a
trade agreement with Holland.
The Stalin talks Monday night
may lead to a four-power confer
ence and to an immediate lifting
of the blockade, a necessary pre
lude to the talks. It might even
lead to a Stalin-Truman-Attlee
Marie meeting.
VATICAN CITY
A tiny grenade was found in
Vatican City near the entrance
to St Peter’s Square.
BUDAPEST
The communists of Hungary
| put in Arpad Szakasits as presi
dent after ousting Zoltan Tildy.
TOKYO
Japanese communists stepped
up attacks on the U. S. and Gen.
MacArthur, who had forbidden a
government strike.
ATHENS
Greek troops, with their army
command reshuffled on sugges
tion of the U. S., captured the
southern anchor of communist
lines in the Grammos mountains
near Albania.
BELGRADE
The British quarreled with the
Russians at the Danube confer
ence in Belgrade, accusing them
|of dominating the meeting through
control of seven states.
JERUSALEM
Details of the Jerusalem truce
were discussed there by the U. N.
mediator with the Israeli military
governor of the Jewish part of the
city. •
LAKE SUCCESS
Syria watched the results of
the Moscow talks to see whether
to put the Berlin question before
the security council. Russia and
the U. S. disagreed on arms lim
itations plans.
Tight secrecy prevailed today
in Washington London and Paris
about the possibility of a rap
proachement with Russia on the
basis of talks Monday with Prime
Minister Stalin.
A Moscow dispatch indicated
the ambassadors of the western
(Continued on Page Seven)
Communists Jam
Red Convention
(By John Wallace)
NEW YORK, (>P) — American
communists jammed into Madi
son Square Garden Monday night
for a noisy, demonstrative nation
al convention of their own—high
lighted by censure of both Demo
crats and Republicans and praise
for both Russia and Henry A.
Wallace.
j Speakers at the opening session
! of the convention, the first to be
held by the group since 1945,
were high party chieftains, all of
whom are under federal indict
ment on charges of advocating
the overthrow of the U. S. gov
ernment by violence and force.
j
William Z. Foster, national
chairman of the party in this
country and the top leader of the
group of 12 arrested two weeks
ago on grand jury’s charges, was
the convention keynoter,
j He told the estimated 20,000
persons, in a fiery speech that
bristled with attacks on “Fascist,
Wall Street imperialists,” that a
vote for either President Truman
or Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, Re
publican presidential candidate,
“means a vote for eventual fas
cism or war.”
: Foster’s endorsement of the
Wallace group is expected to be
followed by a formal decision of
the communist executive board
0
not to nominate a Presidential
candidate of its own.
I
Expose More High
Govt. Officials
As Communists
(Continued from Page One)
William W. Remington.
Ferguson called it an adminis
tration-imposed “handicap” on
Congressional efforts to get to
the bottom of the spy story.
Chambers, now a senior editor
of Time magazine, said in a pre
pared statement read to the House
committee that he himself “served
in the underground, chiefly in
Washington.”
He said there was an under
ground organization developed, to
the best of his knowledge, by
Harold Ware, one of the sons of
the communist leader known as
i “Mother Bloor.”
He went on:
“I knew it at its top level, a
group of seven or so men, from
among whom in late years, cer
tain members of Miss (Elizabeth
T.) Bentley’s organization were
! apparently recruited.”
“The head of the underground
group was Nathan Witt, an attor
ney for the national labor rela
tions board. Later John Abt be
came the leader.
| “Lee Pressman was also a mem
ber of this group, as was Alger
Hiss, who, as a member of the
state department later organized
the conferences at Dumbarton
Oaks, San Francisco and the U. S.
side of the Yalta conference.”
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