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NEWS IN BRIEF
NEW YORK, (/P)—The United j
States, urging that Trygve Lie be,
continued as U. N. secretary gen-!
eral, appealed to the general as
sembly yesterday to override Rus
sia's efforts to oust him.
“The issue that confronts us
now is part of the struggle for
peace,” U. S. delegate Warren R.
Austin told the assembly, “We
cannot permit our efforts to be
undermined, sabotaged, or attack
ed indirectly by a veto of the man
who had the courage to take his
stand against aggression in Korea
on the 25th of June.
BOSTON, (/P) — A 57-year-old
Boston housewife was injured in
an automobile accident Monday j
night even though she was in her
second floor apartment.
John Gintalis, 61, South Boston,
was struck by a car as he was
crossing Dorchester Street. He
suffered a fractured left leg.
His left shoe was wrenched lose
by the impact. It was hurled 25
feet through a window in the
apartment of Mrs. Catherine Hee
nan.
The shoe hit her on the head.
She suffered scalp cuts.
MOSCOW, (JP) — The Soviet
press today claimed a new long
distance record for four Soviet
balloonists.
The newspapers said the aero
nauts took off Oct. 25 from Mos
cow and landed more than 1,900
miles away in Central Asia after
a flight of 81 hours and 29 min
utes. They floated over the Cas
pian and Aral Seas and Lake Bal
kash en route.
The press said this set not only
a distance record for all classes of
large balloons but also a record
for both distance and elapsed time
for balloons of 2,500 cubic meters
capacity.
TOKYO, <7P) — A typhoon with
winds up to 115 miles an hour
near its certer veered away from
the main Japanese island of Hon
shu yesterday and is expected to
pass east of the northern island
of Hokkaida.
It had been feared the typhoon
would hit the Tokyo area.
TOKYO, OP) — Comedian Bob
Hope and his 40-member troupe
left Monday for Alaska after en
tertaining troops on the Korean
war front.
Hope and his party made an
impromptu stage appearance at
Toky’s largest theater, Nippon Ge
kijo, just before departing on an
“icebox’’ tour of Alaskan military
outposts.
Two of Japan’s baseball idols,
Frank “Lefty” O’Doul and Joe
Dimaggio, are due Nov. 1 for a
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Will Transfer Some
Anti-Trust Cases
To Other Courts
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—Faced with
the heaviest court docket on rec
ord in the Third Division, federal
judge Anthony J Dimond. paved
the way yesterday for transfer of
11 anti-trust cases to other courts
throughout the Territory and to
Seattle.
The court granted motions to
move both the civil and criminal
cases against the Alaska Steam
ship Company elsewhere. At the
same time it upheld the validity
of 10 criminal indictments re
turned by last summer’s unprece
dented grand jury investigations.
Government attorney says the
steamship cases, along with that
of the K & L and other intra-Alas
ka liquor distributors, will be
tried in Seattle’s northern divi
sion court of the Western Wash
ington District.
Dimond granted the transfer in
the interest of justice declaring
“weighty considera t i o n s out
weight in my opinion the consid
eration of public interest.”
The jurist pointed out that if
the case were brought to trial here
it would be 1600 miles from where
the defendants live in Seattle,
where company offices and rec
ords also are. located.
“If there was a conspiracy the
principal acts must have taken
place somewhere out at Alaska,” j
Judge Dimond said.
Government attorneys opposing
transfer of the Alaska Steamship
and K & L cases declared that “if
theer was an unlawful conspiracy
the people of Alaska are the only
ones who are really interested.”
To which Dimond asserted:
“Taking into consideration all
facts including the factor of pub
lic interest, I am forced to the
conclusion that strongly favors
the defendants’ motion for trans
fer of the case to Seattle or out
side Alaska.”
\
Citing the heavy calendar, the
court also called for and received
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WASHINGTON, (AP) — White House guards
shot down two men who rushed Blair House, Tru
man’s temporary residence. The men carried pis
tols and three officers were wounded in the gun
fight. President Truman was in Blair House at the
time. The Secret Service called it a wild attempt
at assassination. Witnesses said the shooting start
ed when two men armed with German-type pistols,
tried to force their way into Blair House. President
Truman was unhurt.
Obstinate Stewards
Still Halt Passenger
Sailings to Alaska
SEATTLE, (iP)—A new effort
has failed to end the Seattle-Alas
ka passenger ship service tie-up.
Alaska Steamship Co. announced
that the former passenger steam
er Baranof will continue to sail as
a straight cargo ship.
The Baranof has been sailing as
a freighter, carrying no passen
gers, since early October. The
company suspended passenger
service after Marine Cooks and
Stewards Union members delayed
several sailings with disputes over
Coast Guard screening program,
D. E. Skinner, vice president
and general manager of the Alas
ka line, said Monday that the
company had made a new effort
Friday to settle the dispute. Skin
ner said thet company again asked
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Strike Oil At
Kotzebue
C. W. Swanson and Dan Ral
ston, Fish and Wildlife officials
from the Juneau office who were
in town recently looking for a
site to build a permanent Fish and
that while in Kotzebue they
learned oil had been struck.
They stated that while drilling
was underway to find water on
school reserve lands for the hos
pital, oil was found. Oil has been
known to exist in that area, but
how extensively has not been an
nounced.
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Pope Proclaims
Catholic Dogma
VATICAN CITY (ff) — Pope
Pius XII formally proclaimed be
fore one of the most spectacular
assemblies of the Catholic church
today the dogma that Mary,
Mother of Jesus, went to Heaven
in body as well as in soul.
This, he said, had been Divinely
revealed. The new dogma thus be
came part of the church creed
which 400,000,000 Roman Catho
lics throughout the world must ac
cept or risk exposure to heresy.
The last dogma added to the
church doctrine was in 1870.
The pronouncement, contained
in a long Papal bull, was read
from a temporary throne before
the central doors at St. Peter’s
Basilica. In front of the Pontiff
stretched a throng of holy year
pilgrims and Romans said by Vat
ican historians to be the greatest
they could recall in Christendom’s
history. The event, they added,
was the crowning act of the 1950
holy year.
Loudspeakers and radio car
ried the Pope’s Latin words to the
outer fringes of the assemblage
and to the far corners of the
world.
Church leaders were loath to
even estimate the size of the
throng than extended to Castel St.
Angelo on the banks of the Tiber,
three-quarter sof a mile away.
But they said about 300,000 holy
year pilgrims were in the crowd,
and perhaps almost as many citi
zens of Rome.
John Boettinger,
Leaps To Death
NEW YORK, (JP) — John Boet
tinger, former son-in-law of Pres
ident Roosevelt, leaped to his
death early yesterday from his
seventh-floor hotel suite.
The 50-year-old newspaperman,
who married the late President’s
only daughter, Anna, in 1935 af
ter a White House romance, dodg
ed past a male nurse and jumped
through an open window.
Associates said Boettinger had
been mentally depressed recently,
and four days ago took an over
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Korean Situation
At A Glance —
Tuesday, October 31, 1950
(By The Associated Press)
North Koreans — aided by an
undetermined number of Chinese
communist troops — stepped up
their resistance today against
United Nations forces or a 250
mile northern peninsula front be
low the communist Manchurian
border.
The mountainous front, easily
penetrated by Allied spearheads,
has now become a blazing check
erboard. The communist air ap
parently is to stall United Nations
forces until wintry blasts freeze
the campaign into another year.
A. U. S. army spokesman in
Washington said the belated ap
pearance of Chinese troops shows
Red China’s determination to pro
I tect the huge Soiho-Supong power
dam on the Yalu River which sup
plies electicity for Manchurian
points as distant as Harbin and
the Dussian naval base at Port
Arthur.
Field dispatches indicated the
Reds have thrown scores of tanks
and heavy guns into the fighting
in all sectors.
Against this mounting resist
ance, the only impressive gain of
the day was made by an armored
column of the U. S. 24th Division.
It skirted the British Common
wealth 27th Brigade and pushed
northwest from Chongju through
Sanction and reached within 33
miles of the border.
No high Allied commander has
stated that Chinese communist
troops are in North Korea in force.
A captured Red Korean officer
said two Chinese divisions were
attacking in northeast Korea.
An intelligence officer at Gen.
MacArthur’s Tokyo headquarters
confirmed that ten Chinese Reds
were captured in North Korea.
He added that there is no conclu
sive evidence that organized Chi
nese units have entered the fight
ing.
The spokesman said headquar
%
ters is awaiting a definite state
ment from the U. S. Eighth army
and 10th Corps commanders.
However there was this indica
tion of Chinese communist partici
pation:
Chinese prisoners were cap
tured in four widely separated
areas. Resistance has stiffened
tremendously, and there is evi
dence the North Koreans have re
ceived powerful reinforcements
and additional armament.
The reinforcements that have
come into the fighting are well
trained, the intelligence sopkes
man said. The sudden flury of
counterattacks indicates that the
North Koreans are again being
directed from a general headquar
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