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NEWS IN BRIEF
MONTE CARLO, Monaco, (JP)—
Poet Robert Service, author of
“The Shooting of Dan McGrew,”
and other longtime favorites, was
robbed of more than $7,000 worth
of jewels and cash Monday night,
police reported yesterday.
Burglars entered Service’s villa
here during the night, the report
said.
ATLANTA, (/P)—Six members
of a Negro family were burned to
death when trapped in a flaming,
two-room farm house early yes
terday.
Three others—a 21-year-crld
man and a woman and child he
dragged from the blazing house—
weer burned seriously.
The dead were Willie Meadows,
25, a construction workers; his
wife, Mamie Lou Meadows, 26;
and their children, Diane, 5; Rob
ert, four; and Norris and Doris,
two-year-old twins.
Wylie Martin, 21, told investi
gating officers he was visiting
Mrs. Meadow’s sister, Nettie Sims,
20, when an oil stove exploded.
RANGOON, Burma, (/P)—A spe
cial tribunal yesterday reduced
treason charges against American
Dr. Gordon S. Seagrave, making
him subject only to banishment
for life or a prison sentence if he
is found guilty.
One treason charge previously
against the 53-year-old surgeon—
% accused of aiding rebel Karen
tribesmen—carried the death pen
alty on conviction.
The tribunal after a three-week
hearing framed three new charges
of abetting the commission of trea
son by giving comfort (showing
sympathy) to the rebels. The
maximum penalty is transporta
tion for life, the minimum 10
years imprisonment.
HONOLULU, UP) — Republican
Joseph R. Farrington won his fifth
term as Hawaii’s Delegate to Con
’ gress with a five-to-three margin
over Democrat William B. Cobb.
With 80 per cent of the ballots
in Tuesday’s election counted, the
vote was Farrington 55,612, Cobb
33,252.
Farrington appeared assured of
continued control of the Territori
al Legislature.
The vote for ratification of Ha
waii’s State Constitution was
24,137 to 8,188.
SEATTLE, (/P) — Dr. Terris
Moore, president of the University
of Alasa, arrived by plane last
night en route to Washington, D.
C., where he will interview can
didates for the Dean of the School,
situated at Fairbanks.
The former dean, William E.
Duckering, died last month.
While in Washington, Dr. Moore
will attend a convention of land
grant college presidents.
(By Jack Bell)
((^P) Political Reporter)
Democrats held onto* shaky
control of Congress tdoay after
Republicans mowed down Senate
administration leaders in a stun
ning vote assault on President
Truman’s policies.
So strong was the GOP come
i back from the Presidential year
defeat of 1948 that the new Sen
ate, meeting in January, will line
pu with 49 Democrats and 47 Re
publicans.
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That change represented a gain
of six seats for the Republicans—
in California, Idaho, Illinois,
Maryland, Pennsylvania and Utah
—offset in part by the loss of that
held by Senator Forrest Donnell
; of Missouri. The Senate division
was the closest since 1930.
A few House races remained to
be decided, but the Democrats had
won mathematical control and
seemed to be pointed to a major
ity over the Republicans of about
20 seats.
In an anti-Truman administra
tion phalanx, Republican oppon
ents bowled over Senators Scott
W. Lucas of Illinois, the Demo
cratic leader, and Francis J. My
ers of Pennsylvania, his assistant,
in a sweep that saw only one GOP
Senator defeated.
He was Senator Donnell, who
lost to Thomas C. Hennings, Jr., in
Mr. Truman’s home state. The
President had given belated sup
port to Hennings after opposing
his in the primary.
The GOP victories—which in
cluded the re-election of “Mr. Re
publican,” Senator Robert A. Taft
of Ohio—were variously attrib
uted to the adverse turn of the
Korean war, criticism of the Pres
ident’s foreign policy decisions,
opposition to his domestic “fair
deal” program and reaction to
communist-in-govemment charg
es.
Along with Lucas and Myers,
veteran Democratic Senators Mil
lard E. Tydings of Maryland and
Elbert D. Thomas of Utah went
down to defeat before Republican
opponents. '
All four Democrats have been
strong supporters erf the Presi
dent’s foreign policies, with only
Tydings wavering at times in sup
port of administration domestic
proposals.
Thomas, as chairman of the
Senate labor committee, had led
a futile administration drive to
repeal the Taft-Hartley labor act
—erne of Mr. Truman’s pet legisla
tive aims.
Other seats which had been
filled by Democrats were won by
Republicans Herman Welker in
Idaho and Rep. Richard M. Nixon
of California. Nixon beat Rep.
Helen Gahagan Douglas, Demo
crat, recently praised by the Pres
ident for her support of his for
eign policies.
Along with Taft, Senator Eu
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Northwest Plane
Missing In Flight
Over Montana
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HELENA, Mont., (/P) — State
aeronautics director Frank Wiley
said yesterday a Northwest Air
lines plane bound from Chicago to
Seattle with 17 passengers and a
crew of four aboard, is missing on
a flight over the Continental Di
vide between here and Butte.
The plane left this civil aero
nautics administration radio con
trol area at 7:53 a.m. (MST), offi
cials of the CAA tower said.
At 7:11 a.m., the CAA said, the
'pilot of the Martin 202 radioed
that he was over Whitehall about
30 miles southeast of here. He
was at 10,500 feet, starting his
descent.
He was about 10 minutes out of
Eulte, 66 miles southwest of here.
Northwest Airlines at Seattle
announced the crew members
were Capt. Lloyd Lampman, co
pilot James Huss and stewardess
es Laurine Nohr and Mamie
White, all of Seattle. Miss White
was aboard as a “check steward
ess. to train Mis Nohr, a new em
ployee.
BUTTE, Mont. (£>)—Butte po
lice chief Bart J. Riley said at
9 a.m. today that a ‘helicopter is
circling the wreckage” of a North
west Airlines plane missing with
22 perosns aboard in the moun
tains east of here.
Riley said the plane is over
Nine-Mile Canyon, which cuts up
the main range of the Continental
Divide near Homestake. He said
there “was no sign of life.”
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EMMA WILLOYA COMMENDED
BY LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Emma Willoya, manager of the
Nome Skin Sewers, has received
a letter from the Library of Con
gress complimenting her on the
splendid job she did of compiling
the history of the Eskimos of the
Nome area for a Committee of
Congress.
This was done at the request of
the Library of Congress, who are
compiling a history of various In
dian tribes. It was not an easy
task as Mrs. Willoya had to use
much material that has been
| handed down for generations from
word of mouth.
This is not the first recognition
Mrs. Willoya has received from
Washington, we understand she
has received a merit award from
two Presidents: Roosevelt and
Truman.
Mrs. Willoya is well known in
the community, having reared
twelve children of her own as
well as three which she adopted,
and is one of our most respected
citizens.
Will New Balance
Affect Present Bi
Partisan Policy
(By Francis M. LeMay)
WASHINGTON, (#>)—The elec
tion slash of Democratic strength
in Congress threatened today to
put on ice—for at least two years
—the remaining major portions of'
President Truman’s “Fair Deal”
domestic program.
The narrow margin of Demo
cratic victory opened the way for
a new coalition of Republicans
and Southern anti-Truman Demo
crats which may promptly seize
legislative control when the 82nd
Congress convenes in January.
Southern anti-Truman Demo
crats are put in the position where
they again may wield the balance
of power in the House and Senate.
In the past when Republicans
were fairly close to numerical
control, Southerners in the House
often threw a bloc of 30 or more
votes to the support of the GOP
leadership to defeat administra
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United Nations
Ponders Korean
War Dilemoa
LAKE SUCCESS, (JP) — United
Nations diplomats conferred yes
terday on how to handle General
MacArthur’s charges that com
munist China has sent her troops
into Korea.
They had only twenty-four
hours to make one of the most
significant decisions in the history
of the world organization. The se
curity met in an emergency ses
sion to consider the charges.
There was the fear that World
War III might erupt if they label
the Chinese Reds aggressors and
authorize U. N. military action to
combat them. Such a war seemed
inevitable if Russia supported her
ally—the communist government
in Peiping.
On the other hand was the
knowledge that the world looked
to the U. N. to take a clear-cut
stand opposing aggression.
Diplomats, in the face of these
alternatives, were puzzled. Two
basic facts which could decisively
sway their decisions were miss
ing:
1. How deeply committed Red
China is to the Korean war.
2. What Moscow’s attitude
would be in case of a war involv
ing the United Nations against
communist China.
They sought a resolution to pre
sent to the Security Council, ful
filling the U. N.’s anti-aggression
aims and yet not leading directly
to an irrevocable war commit
ment.
Korean Situation
At A Glance —
Tuesday, November 7, 1950
(By the Associated Press)
United Nations forces expand
ed their slim bridgehead north of
the Hongchon River today as some
communists mysteriously with
drew on the northwest Korean
warfront.
Two U. S. 24th Division regi
ments and the British Common
wealth brigade moved ahead two
and one-fourth miles after a heavy
bombing in the Pakchon area
northwest of the bridgehead at
Anju. There was little opposition
on this front although Red con
centrations had applied heavy
pressure as late as Monday.
U. S. propellor-driven Mustang
fighters routed speedier Russian
built jets in an 85-minute air bat
tle—longest of the war—over Si
nuiju just across the Ya'u River
from Manchuria. Three of the Red
jets were reported hit. Spokesmen
said no U. S. planes were lost.
In the north-central sector, Chi
nese Red resistance eased sudden
ly in front of U. S. Marines driv
ing through frigid mountain pass
es toward the Changjin reservoir.
Allied warplanes began burning
all villages to flush out Cninese
Red soldiers.
U. S. First Cavalry Division
troops reported they had seen
Chinese trocrps change into civil
ian clothing and loll around in vil
lages during the day while Allied
planes buzzed overhead.
Communist dead with revers
ible uniforms were found in the
Anju-Kunu area. The uniforms
were grey-green oh one side, ci
vilian white on the other.
Allied officers were perplexed
at the Chinese withdrawal in ar.
area where they had forced U. N.
troops back as much as 50 miles.
They speculated the Chinese
either were regrouping for a
large-scale attack or were deploy
ing new lines.
In the latter event, officers
said, it was possible the Chinese
only intended to hold a buffer
area guarding the Yalu River hy
droelectric power grid, vital to
Manchurian industry.
In Washington, United States
policy was being shaped cautious
ly on the explosive Korean situa
tion. Informed officials said the
contemplated course would not
now include any direct charge of
aggression against China and
would not irrevocably link the
Peiping government with the dis
patch of Chinese military units.
The United States has main
tained a steady course of doing
everything tc prevent the spread
of the Korean war to involve the
huge land armies of Red China.
(P) correspondent Jack Macbeth
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