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NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman and his Democratic high
command today discarded sugges
tions of a stop-gap extension of
the reciprocal trade agreements
law. They elected to fight for the
full program at this session.
PORTLAND, Ore. </P) — Alaska
Airlines plans unscheduled service
from here to Anchorage and Fair
banks via Seattle.
President J. A. Wooton arrived
yesterday in a DC-4 that will take
off for Alaska tomorrow. He said
the company plans about eight
flights a month linking the two U.
S. cities with the Territory.
The civil aeronautics board has
been asked to approve regular
scheduled service by the company
as far south as Los Angeles.
JUNEAU (iP)—Voters decided at
a special election yesterday that
Juneau mayors will serve two
year terms instead of one. At the
same time, however, a proposal
that councilmen serve for three
years instead of one was defeated.
The vote count was not given.
KETCHIKAN (^—Thunder and
lightning—unusual in this area—
knocked Ketchikan radio station
KTKN off the air for an hour -and
12 minutes last night.
A bolt of lightning struck the
stations tower. It caused no wide
spread damage, but a shattered
condenser had to be replaced.
The tower was struck at 7:04 p.
m. The station returned to the
air at 8:16 p.m.
JUNEAU, (/P)—An Alaska state
hood committee was organized
here Monday with Delegate E. L.
Bartlett in attendance.
Bartlett plans to visit Anchor
age, Fairbanks and other interior
points before returning to Wash
ington, D. C., Sept. 21. He is sched
uled to make a Labor Day address
in Fairbanks.
VANCOUVER, B. C. </P> — A
strike vote among 32,000 coastal
loggers was approved Monday by
the Canadian labor relations
board. Date of the balloting will
be determined within the next few
days.
The employees, members of the
international woodworkers of
America <CIO>, have rejected a
majority report of the conciliation
board that they be given no pay
increase. The union has asked a 15
■cent hourly boost.
SEATTLE, (&)—'The Seattle fur
exchange reported yesterday it
will have 25,000 Alaskan muskrat
skins on the auction block at its
Sept. 8 sale. There also will be 20,
000 Alaska beaver pelts and 1,500
marten, labeled as mostly Alas
kans.
NEW YORK, f/P)—Rep. Frank
lin D. Roosevelt, Jr., 35, son of the
wartime President, will be married
to socialite Suzanne Perrin, 28, of |
New York, his office announced.!
Roosevelts first marriage to the J
former Ethel du Pont ended in a
Nevada divorce last May. They j
have two children, Franklin D.
Hawaiian Strike
Will Be Mediated
In New York City
HONOLULU, </P> — Hawaiian
employers pessimistically accepted
an invitation today to enter New
York negotiations on Sept. 7 to end
1 the 123-day old dock strike.
Acceptance of federal mediator
Cyrus Ching’s Washington request
for the September meeting was
voiced by chairman W. Russell
Starr of the employers’ negotia
tors.
Union acceptance is assured. A
meeting of the CIO ILWU strike
strategy committee will be held
I today, spokesman Robert McEl
I rath said.
In a statement last midnight
Starr said:
“The strike is going to be settled
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Civil Air Patrol
Formed In Nome
—
Monday evening an interested
group of flyers met with Col. D.
C. Jamison, commanding officer
of Marks Air Force Base for the
! formation of a Civil Air Patrol for
i Nome. Other groups have already
been formed in Fairbanks, Anchor
age and Kotzebue, and an increas
j ing interest in the fast growing or
S ganization which works with the
j U. S. Air Force is anticipated as it
has become a strong organization
throughout the States.
Officers selected for the group
are as follows:
Major Les Bronson, who has
been very active in the formation
! of the group;
, Capt. Maxwell Kennedy, execu
tive officer; Adjutant Ike Jenson;
| 1st Lts as follows: Personnelle Of
' ficer Bob Emmons; Operations,
Bob Anderson; Public Informa
tion, Tex Zeigler; Supply Officer,
Earl Coulthard; Medical Officer,
Dr. Fred Langsam; Engineering
Officer, Hank Miller; command
ant of Cadets, Ted Duffield;
Training Officer, Bob Murphy;
C o m m u nications Officer, Bob
Knight; 2nd Lts are Fiscal Offi
cer, Haymond Tveter; Photograph
ic Officer Woodbury Abbey.
The Kotzebue group, which is
smaller is called a Flight Level
with the commanding officer a 1st
Lt.. assisted by five 2nd Lts. In
charge of that group is Archie
Ferguson.
Of great assistance to the group
, on Monday evening was Lt. Lillian
Southwich, of Rochester, Pcnna.,
who helped organize the group
1 there.
The organization which oper
ates directly under the U. S. Air
Force will have its own Stimson
L-5 plane which is due to arrive
soon.
In addition to a very full pro
gram for the members a special
program will be worked out for
Air Cadets which will be for stu
dents between the ages of 15 and
18 years.
Roosevelt 3rd, now 10, and Chris
topher, 7.
It will be a first marriage for
the blonde Miss Perrin.
Worst Typhoon In
Eleven Years
Lashes Toyko
TOKYO, i/P)—Tokyo’s worst ty
phoon in 11 years roared across
this teeming area tonight killing at
least five persons, injuring 35 and
loosing 14 ships in Yokosuka har
bor.
The second h-alf of the storm
seemed worse than the first. Tokyo
i houses were demolished, several
: fires raged and streets were lit
tered with debris.
Communications with large
areas around Tokyo were out.
An 80-mile an hour wind whip
ped the seas into a fury. Fifty-foot
waves lashed the low shoreline.
First Japanese reports said a
I steamer with 50 passengers aboard
1 was lost off the China coast across
Tokyo Bay. More than 200 fish
ing boats were swept away from
the western shore of Sagami Bay,
| Japanese police reported one
dead and four injured at Odawara.
Forty homes in Odawara were de
stroyed and 600 flooded. The town
I is on a river in the flats near the
bay.
The barracks of the U. S. Fifth
Cavalry regiment on a peninsula
j between Sagami and Tokyo Bays
| were damaged. No troops were re
ported hurt. But soldiers were
alerted to move to safer ground if
' the typhoon got worse.
Soviet Pilot Volun
tarily Returns To
Russia And ?
' VIENNA. Austria, </P) — Soviet
pilot Anatole Barsov voluntarily
i returned today to the Red army
from which he fled as a political
refugee last October.
In a brief ceremony at the zonal
demarcation line, American au
thorities handed him over to a
group of Russian officers.
The transfer was made on the
bridge linking Linz in the U. S.
! zone with Urfahr in the Russian
! zone. The transfer took place only
a few miles from the American
i airbase where Barsov and two
! other Russian airmen crash-land
ed in a twin-engined bomber last
; Oct. 9.
j Before formally turning Barsov
over to the Russians, the Ameri
cans gave him a final chance to
change his mind. The Russian flier
stuck to the decision he had made
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Co-Pilot Dies
In B-29 Crash
SPOKANE, Wash. (£>)—'The co
! pilot o fa B-29 bomber died in the
j flaming wreckage when the big
' ship crashed and exploded near
here yesterday.
Lt. Jack Gillard of Spokane, the
co-pilot, was the only member of
a 15-man crew killed in the crash,
the Spokane air force base said.
The 14 other fliers floated safe
ly to earth by parachute after an
engine on the big plane caught
fire.
Great Benefactor
Also Purchased
Fine Automobiles
WASHINGTON, </P»—The FBI
1 once investigated Maj. Geu. Harry
H. Vaughan after he had been ac
cused of accepting a bribe to fix
an income tax case.
An aide declared he was exon
erated.
i Vaughan, President Truman’s
military aide, told about the in
( vestigation today to the Senate
committee looking into “five per
center” activities in Washington.
Senator McCarthy <R.-Wis.>,
one of the members of the com
mittee, had asked Vaughan whe
i ther the FBI had not taken an in
terest in his activities. Specifically,
McCarthy asked whether the FBI
I had not looked into a charge tha1
Vaughan applied “pressure and in
fluence” on the agriculture depart
ment on behalf of liquor com
panies.
Vaughan said he never had
heard of that charge. Then he went
on to tell of the tax investigation,
although he couldn’t recall exact
ly when it was. He said he under
stood the FBI looked into his af
j fairs at the "request of a member
of the press.”
Vaughan, on the stand for the
second day, previously had ack
nowledged that he helped business
friends in dealings with the gov
ernment. He said, however, there
i was nothing improper in what he
did, and he didn’t take any pay
for it.
He testified today that he ac
1 cepted a campaign contribution
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Soviets Hold Two
U. S. Students
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Secretary
of state Aeheson today denounced
Russia’s holding of two American
students in Eastern Germany as
I outrageous, illegal and improper.
Aeheson told a new conference
the Americans wandered into the
Russian zone illegally but said
they were doing no harm and
should be released promptly.
The students he referred to are
. Peter Sellers, 18, of Radnor, Pa.,
| and Warren Oelsner, 21, of Oyster
Bay, N. Y. They have been miss
ing since July 29.
The secretary acknowledged
that the youths did not have cre
dentials permitting them to enter
the Russian zone. But, he said, no
one accuses them of being spies.
Aeheson reminded that the
United States does not engage in
the practice of holding people who
have committed no crimes.
Because of that principle, he
said, the United States refused to
use as a hostage for trading pur
poses a Russian flier who deserted
the Soviet Air Force and then
wanted to return to his homeland.
The flier, Anatole Barzov. was
taken to Austria and turned over
today to the Red army. American
authorities in Vienna indicated
they would have liked to trade
him to the Russians for some half
dozen Americans being held by
Soviet authorities.
News of the World
At A Glance —
Tuesday. August 30. 1949
<By The Associated Press*
A plot to overthrow the com
I munist government of C’zechoslo
i vakia by armed revolt has been
smashed, the Prague government
' announced today.
Six of the alleged plotters have
been condemned to death after a
secret trial. Ten persons have been
given life sentences and an un
specified number, lesser prison
terms. They were accused of high
treason and spying for an undis
t closed western power.
The government claimed the
plot was well planned by an un
derground group which has been
j under police surveillance for some
time. The group had even "set the
day and hour for their armed re
volt,” according to the official
jstory.
One of those sentenced to death
was Josef Charvaux identified by
friends as chief of security police
in Prague under the government
which was overthrown by a com
munist coup in February, 1948.
The government said the master
mind of the plot was the brother
of a prominent Prague police of
ficial who was ousted when the
| communists seized power.
The plot, the government said,
called for the liquidation of key
communist figures, the seizure of
public offices, dismissal of the na
i tional parliament, and suppression
of newspapers. “They intended to
| return all nationalized factories
1 and other enterprises to the origin
al owners,” the government said.
President Truman’s Philadelphia
speech yesterday was music to the
ears of Britons. Speaking before
I the American Legion on the eve
of a full dress Washington con
ference on Britain’s crisis, the
President said Britain's plight
would be considered “in a spirit of
friendliness and helpfulness.”
The British press echoed thanks
today.
London observers said the
speech was hailed on all sides as a
good omen for the dollar crisis'
1 talks w’hich open Sept. 7. The la
bor press was particularly jubilant
over Mr. Truman’s implied asser
; tion there would be no interfer
ence with Britain’s socialist pro
gram.
Chinese communists stepped up
their drive towards Canton, nation
alist provisional capital. The na
tionalists said the communists
were driving toward Lungchuan,
which is 145 miles east northeast
of Canton. The communists aim
to cut the Canton-Hankow rail
road, thus severing nationalist sup
ply lines.
Washington informants said Bri
tain may benefit by a speedup in
American strategic stockpi ling
during the next few months. Large
tin and rubber purchases from
British areas would aid Britain’s
dollar position.
Wednesrday. August 31. 1949
Two key members of the British
cabinet sailed from Southampton
today for talks in Washington
aimed at easing the British finan*
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