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NEWS IN BRIEF
DIJON, France, UP)—Rene Ma
lette had a stomach ache for 34
years, but it is gone today.
The 64-year-old farmer under
went an operation which rid him
of a German bullet he received at
the front in 1914.
_ I
OSAKA, Japan, UP)—Despairing
of more modern methods, the
Osaka prefectural industrial effi
ciency research institute is going
to select workers by the bumps on
their heads.
The institute has asked Prof. Hi
sao Waria, an expert on phrenol
ogy, to train a class of examiners
in the head-bump science so they
can pick employees for industrial
firms.
EDMONTON, Alta., UP) — Lt.
Gen. N. F. Twining, commander
in-chief of the United States Alas
ka Command, Friday stressed in an
intreview here the need for more
defensse in the north.
Gen. Twining, whose headquar
ters are located at Anchorage, said
that defenses are far from com
plete.
Training under Arctic conditions
has progressed favorably in the
last year, he said.
—
JUNEAU OP)—William A. Holz
heimer. 78, former federal judge
of the Second Division, Alaska,'
with headquarters at Nome, died ]
this weekend in a local hospital.
He was assistant United States
attorney and later United States
attorney, First Division, head
quarters in Juneau.
JUNEAU, (&) — K. J. Kadow,
field staff director, leaves for
Washington today to help set up
interior department policies. Gov- j
ernor Gruening may also be pres- 1
ent.
Kadow just returned from Sitka, j
where he took part in discussions !
of the development of the Sitka
Pulp Co., with officials of the
Alaska Industrial corporation. He
also conferred with Sitka city of
ficials.
SEATTLE, (/P)—Its rudder man- j
gled by a storm, the small tug
Chilkoot was reported adrift in
gjheavy seas last night between
Wales and Warren Islands, about
100 miles northwest of Ketchikan.
.Four crewmen were abord. The
cutter Hemlock was en route to its
aid.
CALGARY, Alberta, (/P)—Edgar
Williams was brought to the hos
^pital minus one ear yesterday. He
told police it was chewed off in
a street fight. An ambulance rush
ed to the scene and picked up the
ear. Doctors sewed it back on.
FAIRBANKS, </P) — An over
heated stove was blamed for a fire
here which destroyed a home occu
pied by Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Eaton
and their month-old daughter yes
terday.
* The Fire Department was called
out this morning to Wallace House
/ No. 3 on tod Ave. The stove which
had become clogged with soot
blew back causing considerable
dirt but no real damage was re
ported.
International News
At A Glance —
Saturday, December 4, 1948
• By The Associated Press'
Chinese nationalists and com
munist armies moved toward a
head-on collision south of Suchow
today. The coming battle may de
termine China’s fate.
Five communist columns eased
their pressure on the government’s
Hwai river defense line, 100 miles
northwest of Nanking, and were
heading north to meet the three
nationalist army groups that aban
doned Suchow Wednesday.
Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek is ex
pected to meet President Truman
early next week. She told Wash
ington reporters she was encour
aged after her visit Friday with
Secretary of State Marshlal.
She gave no indication whether
Marshall had given some hint that
the United States definitely would
aid the Chinese nationalist gov
ernment or whether she simply
had found his attitude toward
China’s plight sympathetic.
In Paris, the United Nations po
litical committee narrowly ap
proved a watered down British
plan for Palestine. The British
resolution as a whole received 25
affirmative votes to 21 against
with nine abstentions and three
members marked absent.
This margin was far too narrow
to assure its adoption by the gen
eral assembly where a two-thirds
majority is necessary.
Western Berliners vote tomor
row fo ra new city administration
in their “island of freedom” 100
miles inside the Soviet army’s
ramparts in Europe. The western
sectors of Soviet divided and
blockaded city are going to have a
legal election that the Russians i
could not stop.
Gen. Lucius D. Clay, U. S. mili
tary governor, spiked a commun
ist election eve scare campaign by
assuring Berliners the United
States will not be forced out of the
city. He added:
“My own headquarters will con
tinue in Berlin and there will be
no departure of our families, ex
cept in normal routine as staff
members leave and are replaced.”
Cairo’s police chief, Selim Zaki
Pasha, was injured fatally when a
hand grenade exploded as students
rioted at Fuad university. The
blast occurred in the vicinity of
the school o<f medicine where strik
ing students shouted slogans
against the Egyptian government
of Premier Mahmoud Fahmy No
krashy Pasha.
Monday, December 6, 1941
Western Berlin handed Russia
and communism a stinging rebuke
• today in rolling up a great election
triumph Sunday for anti-Soviet
Socialists. •
Complete returns showed 86.2
I per cent of eligible Western Ber
i lyiners voted. The Social Demo
! crats got an absolute majority of
1 64.5 per cent; the Christian Demo
crats 19.4 per cent; and the Lib
eral Democrats 16.1 per cent. Ev
ery one of the 1,330,820 votes cast
! was a protest against Russia.
Communists, knowing they
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Communist Spy
Hunt Turns Up
Valuable Evidence
WASHINGTON (/P)—'The House
un-American activities committee i
said Saturday it had dug up evi
dence identifying the person who
slipped secret state department pa
pers to a self-described communist
agent before the war.
Robert E. Stripling, the commit
tee’s chief investigation told re
porters:
“We expect to show conclusively |
the source of these documents
from the state department to
Chambers.”
Whittaker Chambers, now a se
nior editor of Time magazine, told
the committee last summer he was
an agent for the Red underground
in Washington in the 1930’s.
1 Stripling said that “very import
ant” new documents have been
seized. He said these are in addi
tion to microfilms of state depart
ment papers Chambers had secret
ed in a pumpkin on his Maryland
i farm and to more documents ob
tained from Chambers Friday
: night.
Stripling said the committee has
, served a subpoena on Chambers’
lawyer, Richard F. Cleveland of
Baltimore, for documents and
sworn statements taken in connec
tion with a libel suit pending
against Chambers there.
This $75,000 damage suit against
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Rescue Operations
On For Survivors
Of Ditched C-54
JOHNSON, ISLAND, P—An un
determined number of survivors
from an air force C-54 transport,
forced down in the mid-Pacific,
were placed under constant air
watch today while a rescue ship
sped toward the scene.
The plane enroute to Spokane
with 37 air force personnel on
board, was ditched early Sunday
478 miles southwest of this tiny
island and about 1,200 miles south
west of Honolulu.
The navy patrol craft PC-1141
from Johnston Island was due to
reach the survivors about 11 p.m.
The escort aircraft carrier Rendo
va and the navy freighter Zelma
were due at the scene about the
same time.
Flares were sighted late Sunday
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Mail Christmas
Packages Early
WASHINGTON, </P) — Unless
you mail your Christmas packages
righ now they may arrive after the
holiday.
Postmaster general Donaldson
said in a statement last night:
“This year’s Christmas mail
added to the present everyday rec
ord volume has created the most
acute mail congestion and trans
portation problem in the entire
history o fthe postal service.
“Only by the immediate mail
ing of Christmas parcels can the
senders be assured that their gifts
will arrive prior to Christmas.”
Fii*ik Destroys
Home At U. of A.
FAIRBANKS, (/P) — Fit* that
spread rapidly after a cellar ex
plosion of undetermined origin
early Sunday destroyed the home
of Loren T. Oldroyd, director of
extension services at the Univers
ity o fAlaska.
Frozen water pipes and 37 be
low zero weather prevented volun
teer fire fighters from the faculty
and student body from saving the
dwelling. Fairbanks and Ladd
Field fire departments prevented
the blaze from spreading to nearby
structures.
No estimate of the loss was im
mediately available. The house,
leased to the university, was the
property of the Alaska Raliroad.
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! Margaret And
i Daddy Play Duet
WASHINGTON, UP)—The piano
team of President Truman and
daughter Margaret wowed ’em.
They played a duet Friday night
—“The Jenny Lind Polka”—at a
national press club dinner for
fathers and daughters where they
were honor guests.
The crowd loved it. And no one
had a better time than the Tru
mans.
“Daddy taught me this when I
was about 10,” Margaret explain
ed, “and I don’t think we have
played it since.”
Introduced as the “Traveling
Truman’s,” the President and his
daughter were only one of a num
ber of acts in the two hours of en
tertainment.
Secret service agent Henry
Nicholson convulsed the crowd
and Mr. Truman, too, with an imi
tation of the President’s standard
back-platform campaign speech.
MINNIE MUNZ WRITES
FROM HOLLYWOOD
Nome’s Hollywood star, Minnie
Munz, writes from the Knicker
bocker Hotel that the whole trip
“seem like a wonderful dream”
and although she works all day it
is all so very interesting that she
hasn’t time to get tired. She states
that the picture she is in is called
“Arctic Manhunt,” and she has
been filmed already with the lead
Mickel Conrad.
One of the publicity stunts in
cluded a pose on a cake of ice in
a ‘bathing suit “and was I em
barrassed” she stated, followed by
rubbing noses with the leading
man.
All her spare time is spent ans
wering questions, even while eat
ing.
She strolled down Hollywood
Blvd.. with parka and mukluks,
and has been to the Brown Derby.
Her biggest thrill was a visit
from her oldest brother Tom,
whom she had never seen as he
had been away from home for
many years in the navy. He lo
cated his sister through the pub
licity on her trip, and Minnie says
they had a wonderful visit.
H. O. Erickson, radio mainten
ance operator for the Pan Ameri
can arrived yesterday to work
with the equipment of the Nome
department.
Ship Strke Ends;
All UnionsOrdered
Back To Work
(Special lo The Nugget)
SAN FRANCISCO </P)—The 97
day west coast maritime strike of
ficially ended Sunday night as Pa
cific American shipowners associ
ation and waterfront employers
association announced jointly
work would be resumed in all west
coast ports at 8:00 a.m. this morn
ing, ‘ depending only on the extent
and readiness of men and ships.”
At the same time the CIO long
shoremen’s union and waterfront
employers issued a joint request
that radio stations and newspapers
urge all stevedores to report to
the hiring halls this morning.
Some 185 ships idled in west coast
ports and a total of 280 in all
United States ports as a result of
the strike. How many will have
steam up by 8 a.m. is uncertain, as
was the number of workers reach
able by the back to work call.
In Seattle the Alaska Steamship
company announced full scale op
erations would start this morning
on all ships idled since the strike
began Sept. 2. Alaska Steam offi
cials said all personnel were or
dered to report for work at 8:00
a.m. to unload strikebound cargo
from the holds.
Loading for north-bound service
will be started as soon as possible.
The passenger steamer Barinoff
is scheduled to sail at 10 a.m., Fri
day for Ketchikan, Juneau, Cor
dova, Valdez; returning to Seattle
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Thousands Drown
In Explosion Of
Chinese Ship
SHANGHAI, <JP)—A small ship
crammed with Chinese war refu
gees exploded and sank just out
side Shanghai late Friday night,
with a toll expected to exceed
3,200 lives.
If reports are even approximate
ly accurate, it was the worst civil
ian marine disaster in modern his
tory. (The loss would be about
twice the 1,517 who perished when
the Titanic went down in 1912).
Some 4,250 Chinese were report
ed aboard the ship, the China
Merchant Steamship company’s
2,099-ton Kiangya. It blew up
amidships and sank in less than
an hour near the mouth of the
Vangtze river.
A company spokesman said the
Kiangya had a capacity of 1,186
passengers but that it was “offi
cially” carrying 2,250 — mostly
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