Four Women Died
In Thanksgiving
Fire At Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—Army pub
lic relations officials today re
leased the names of four young
women killed in a Thanksgiving
day fire which destroyed the wo
men’s barracks at nearby Fort
Richardson. They are: Retta E.
Smith of Encino, Calif.; Doris M.
Earley of Clinton, N. Y.; Elizabeth
A. Bell of Anchorage, and Alice
Ryan of Palmer.
All were civilian employees of
the war department with the ex- '
ception of Miss Ryan who was vis
iting in the barracks at the time
of the fire. Twenty-two other
young women, four of whom suf
fered minor injuries, escaped from
the blazing building but were un
able to save their belonging.
Cause of the fire has not been
determined by the army investi
gating committee.
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Ministers In
Private Meeting
NEW YORK, (/P) — A private
huddle between British foreign
Secretary Ernest Bevin and Sec
retary of State James F. Byrnes
touched off today a concentrated
drive to speed completion of peace
treaties for the Axis satellites and
a bilateral pact for economic mer
ger of the Anglo-American occu
pation zones in Germany.
There was no official statement
on the nature of the conversations,
the meeting between the British
and American diplomatic chiefs
was held at Bevin’s request. Ob
servers in a position to know ruled
out the possibility that the confer
ence dealt with the ticklish Pal
estine question.
Belief prevailed that Bevin and
Byrnes got together to seal a long
pending agreement to blend eco
nomic policies in Germany in a
move designed to make their zones
self-sustaining at the end of a
three-year period.
SEATTLE, (/P) — Sixteen-year-,
old William L. Jenkins looked1
back remorsefully today on the
events which led to his confine
ment on open charges in the city
jail for the Saturday night slaying
of his father.
“Now, I wish that I had only
taken my clothes and started
walking when dad told me that I
was no longer wanted at home,”
Police found the father, Charles
F. Jenkins, 62-year-old Seattle
port of embarkation janitor, dead
when they responcfed to the boy’s
telephoned request to give himself
up.
Webb reported that the boy said
the shooting climaxed a bitter fam
ily quarrel during which his
father, while drinking, had struck
and knocked down his mother a
short time before the shooting.
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Russia Desires
To Get Rid Of
Atomic Bomb
LAKE SUCCESS, N. V. </P> —
The United States charged today
that the primary object of Soviet
Russia’s arms limitations program
seemed to be to get rid of the
atomic bomb and then place all
other arms questions under the
United Nations security council,
where they would be subject to
the “atom bomb of the veto.”
Sen. Tom Connally <D.-Tex.>,
continuing the arms reduction de
bate before the 54-nation political
committee of the general assem
bly, bluntly rejected the Soviet
proposals as “too narrow and too
circumscribed.”
Connally made it clear that the
United States was opposed to any
injection of the veto into the in
spection and control machinery
which would be set up to make
sure that no nation violated the
proposed international agreements
on arms limitations.
“We do not want to turn it all
over to the Security Council for
its unbridled action,” he declared.
He said the Soviet proposal,
while emphasizing that the atomic
bomb must be outlawed, made no
mention of jet-propelled weapons,
poison gas or other weagons of
mass destruction, and added:
“We think a man dead of poison
gas is just as dead as if he were
struck by an atomic bomb. We
think other weapons must be in
cluded—all forms of these extra
ordinary weapons of mass destric
tion.”
Then referring to the veto ques
tion, he said:
“The United States will not
agree to any plan unless . . . there
is inspection machinery to see that
all nations which get the atomic
secrets shall rigidly observe the
regulations without a veto.”
SEATTLE, C/P)—Sen. Warren A.
Magnuson (D.-Wash.) said today
he has been informed by Warren
A. Austin, permanent American
delegate to the United Nations Or
ganization that the UNO will con
sider only four United States cities
—Boston, New York, Philadelphia
and San Francisco — as possible
sites for the organization’s perm
anent home.
Sen. Magnuson recently invited
consideration of a Pacific north
west site and suggested Fort Law-,
ton, Victoria, B. C., and several
others. The Senator said Autsin
also indicated final consideration
will lie between Philadelphia and
San Francisco.
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THEATER
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1 Show, Dec. 2 and 3, 7:30 P.M.
Monday and Tuesday
HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO
Eddie Bracken - Ella Raines
Also "Popular Science"
—•—
1 Show, Dec. 4 and 5, 7:30 P.M.
Wednesday and Thursday
"CRY HAVOC"
Margaret Sullavan - Ann Sothern
Also "Baby Puas"
Arctic Test In
Full Swing
In Aleutians
WASHINGTON (A*)—The army’s
first major post-war test of tac
tics and weapons for fighting in
the Arctic went into full swing
yesterday as a hand-picked task
force in the Aleutians started three
months of strenuous operations.
Foil owing amphibious war
games in warm southern Califor
nia, “Force Williwaw” wil con
tend with rain, snow, sleet and
hurricane winds which sometimes
reach 110 mile san hour on the
island of Adak.
Two other groups of 1,200 or
more men each meanwhile will be
operating in other types of cold
weather—“Task Force Frigid” in
the sub-zero cold of the Fairbanks
area, and “Frost” at Camp McCoy,
Wis.
The war department reported
the Aleutians force in a five-day
preliminary field maneuver this
month was given a foretaste of
worse to come by a sudden 75
mile storm which ripped tents.
A medium tank which under
took to cross frozen tundra was
mired for nine hours.
With army, navy and marine
corps officers as observers, the
Adak force will undergo three ten
day maneuvers beginning Dec. 9.
Jan. 6 and Feb. 6. Artillery wea
pons, including self-propelled
guns, will be tested along with ve
hicles, field equipment and ra
tions.
The group is commanded by
Col. Joseph D. Raney, a veteran
of two years’ wartime service in
Alaska.
The ground forces’ operations at
Adak and Fairbanks coincide with
army air forces training with su
perfortress bombers and P-51
fighter planes over an area which
army and navy officials deem the
world’s most strategic region in
*the event of another war.
The 28th Bomb Group was or
dered last month to Elmendorf
field, Anchorage, and a squadron
of P-51’s from the 56th Fighter
group is due at Fairbanks in De
cember. Each will train about six
months.
One of the peculiarities of the
ruffed grouse is the odd drum
ming noises it produces in the
springtime to attract attention.
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