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NEW S IN BRIEF
LAKE HUGHES, Calif., (7P) —
Store teeth are no' for George W.
' vBisley, 94. He grows his own.
Risley produly displayed two
new teeth today, and he says more
of his third set are on the way, be
cause he’s still teething. He lost
his second set about 20 years ago.
BOSTON, (#*) — The day of
hearts and flowers—Feb. 14—
doesn’t stand out in the mind of
bachelor governor Paul A. Dever.
Ready to sign a measure Mon
day, Dever looked at the calendar
to check the date, then comment
ed wryly:
“Imagine a bachelor having to
look to. see what day this is."
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Houst
speaker Rayburn (D.-Tex.) said
yesterday “in all probability we’ll
have to have" an increase in taxes.
He made the statement shortly
B after a group of top Democrats
left a White House conference
with President Truman.
Rayburn told reporters he was
making the statement to deny re
ports that tax legislation has been
pushed aside because the House
ways and means committee decid
ed to take up social security legis
lation ahead of taxes.
WASHINGTON, (£>)—President
Truman yesterday created an
emergency board to investigate a
l dispute between the railroads and
the brotherhood of locomotive en
ginmen.
Involved is a demand by the
union for additional firemen on
diesel locomotives.
The same board is now investi
gating a dispute between the
roads, represented by the eastern,
western, and southastern carriers
4 conference committees, and the
brotherhood of locomotive engin
eers involving a demand for an
additional engineer on multiple
unit diesels.
WASHINGTON, (tf>) — Baranof
Enterprises, Inc., applied to the
communications commission yes
terday for a new standard radio
station at Sitka, .Alas_a
The company proposed opera
tions on 1400 kilocycles, 250 watts,
unlimited time.
LONDON, <iP)—Tom Hampson, i
the singing star of the No. 11 bus,
moved a step closer to hsi goal to
day.
Hampson, a 27-year-old bari
tone, was discovered last summer
by a lady passenger who heard
him burst into song as he collect
ed fares on his bus. London’s
Guild Hall of Music accepted him
for part time training on her
recommendation.
Today the school announced
that he had won a full time paid
scholarship.' •
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FORT LEWIS, Wash. ^—Mil
itary authorities pondered two so
lutions today to the problem of
bringing back the pilotless plane
which flew itself across the Cas
cade mountains:
Should they send a truck, or
just a man with a bucket of gas?
The little L-16 liaison plane
with a mind of its own needed
Senate Will Not
Sign Treaty to Send
U. S. Into War
(By Jack Bell)
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Senator
Hickenlooper (R.-Iowa) said today
the United States should be “mor
ally committed” to act under the j
North Atlantic Alliance only in
cases of unprovoked aggression
against a member.
Hickenlooper’* observation came
after Chairman Connally 'D.-Texd
0 fthe foreign relations committee
and Sen. Vandenberg (R.-Mich.)
had made it plain the Senate will
not approve any treaty language
which would morally commit this
country to go to war.
The Connally-Vandenberg state
ment was made in response to
questions Monday by Senator
; Donnell (R.-Mo.). It generally was
regarded on Capitol Hill as in
volving a setback for the state de
partment in its efforts to negoti
ate the proposed alliance with
friendly European nations.
Later the two Senators went to
the department for a conference
with secretary of state Acheson,
lasting nearly two hours. Neither
would comment afterwards.
Hickenlooper, a foreign rela
! tions committee member, told a
1 reporter he agrees that this coun
I try ought not to make a blanket
commitment to fight.
“We must reserve the right to
decide for ourselves whether there
has been actual, unprovoked ag
gression against a signatory coun
try,” he said.
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LIFTING THE LID
AT JUNEAU
(Tuesday, February 15, 1949)
(By James Hutcheson)
JUNEAU, (/P)—'The Alaska leg
islature’s House cleared the way
Monday for its approval of a bill
to establish a Territorial fisheries
board with broad powers of con
trol and regulation.
The principal ame n d m e n t,
adopted after heated debate, re
duced the size of the proposed
board from seven members to
five, cutting out two representa
tives of the salmon industry.
Neither the House nor the Sen
ate adopted a single measure Mon
day, and only one minor bill was
introduced in each chamber.
Meanwhile, the Senate proceed
ed in the afternoon with a hear.ng
on the general property tax bill.
After two hours it was continued
until today to await a new pro
posal, from the Ketchikan Pulp In
dustry on a tax exemption incen
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only a slight shove to begin an un
guided odyssey Monday, that car
ried it on a lazy flight over the
Fort Lewis-Tacoma area, through
a sweeping snowstorm in the tow
ering Cascades and to a better
landing than many guided planes
have made on a hillside near El
lensburg, Wash. An enlisted man
started the plane on its way when
he accidentally jogged the throt
tle. As the ship started down the
runway, he jumped out.
Soviets Will Deport
American Author
On Spy Charg es
(By Eddy Gilmore)
MOSCOW. (Ah —The Moscow
press announced today that Anna
Louise Strong, well-known Amer
ican author and correspondent,
has been arrested on charges of
spying and will be deported.
Miss Strong, formerly of Seat
tle, Wash., has been in Russia
most of the time since 1921 writing
books and articles which reflected
a strongly pro-Soviet viewpoint.
She has been one of the seven
American correspondents in Mos
cow. She was listed as represent
ing the Allied Labor News.
The Soviet newspapers dis
closed her arrest in the following
announcement:
“The well-known intelligence
i operator, the American woman
[journalist, A. L. Strong, who got
into the U.S.S.R. as a consequence
of the carelessness of certain for
eign relations officials. Monday
was arrested by state security or
gans.
“Miss Strong is accused of espi
onage and undermining activity
against the Soviet Union. They re
J port that in the next few days she
will be sent outside the boundar
i ies of the Soviet Union.”
i The deportation of the 63-year
old writer leaves the following
American correspondents in Mos
cow: Eddy Gilmore and Thomas
P. Whitney for the Associated
Press; Henry Shapiro for the
United Press; Joseph Newmon,
New York Herald-Tribune; Ed
mund Stevens, Christian Science
Monitor; and Andrew Steiger,
Overseas News agency.
A visa for a seventh correspon
dent, Marrison E. Salisbury who
will represent the New York
Times, was authorized by Soviet
authorities about three weeks ago.
The Times has not been represent
ed her since the spring of 1947
when Drew Middleton left on
home leave and was not granted a
re-entry permit.
Miss Strong, who married a
Russian in 1932 but continued to
use her maiden name, is the sec
ond American correspondent in a
year to be charged with spy activ
ities.
Robert Magidoff was ordered to
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BULLETIN
(Special to The Nugget)
The House passed unanimously
this morning a bill to increase li
quor taxes by as much as fifty
per cent. The bill was whisked
through under suspension of rules
after being reported back by the
ways and means committee. The
bill carrier an increase from ten
to fifteen cents a gallon on beers,
twenty-five to thirty-five per cent
on wines and three dollars to four
dollars on hard liquors.
The bill originally introduced
by Rep. Percy Ipalook of Wales
proposed doubling all levies. The
committee whittled down the in
creases. The bill now goes to the
Senate.
International News
At A Glance —
(Tuesday. February 15, 1949)
• By The Associated Press*
Another iron curtain country is
bn the prowl for spies.
In Czechoslovakia new trials of
Czech officers on spy charges are
announced almost daily. Uncon
firmed reports say several hun
dred officers have been arrested
j since December on charges of
plotting to overthrow the com
munist government.
A new trial of six officers, in
cluding Gen. Rajmund Mrazek.
began yesterday on charges of
spying and plotting with the Brit
ish and Americans.
A prominent communist in Bud
apest said Hungary had been will
i ing to let Josef Cardinal Minds
i zenty leave the country “for the
sake of a reconciliation between
the state and the church, but the
Vatican did not care a bit about
this.”
j The statement was made by Jo
self Revai, a deputy in the Hun
garian parliament ,who has made
i many speeches against the Catho
lic primate. Vatican informants
said Pope Pius XII is expected to
make a major speech on the
Mindszenty case at a demonstra
tion in St. Peter’s Square Sunday.
Russia’s twice-beaten plan for
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Gen. Clay Closes
Soviet Mission
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FRANKFURT, Germany, {/P)—
Gen. Lucius D. Clay has requested
the official Soviet repatriation
mission in the U. S. zone to leave
American occupied territory, it
was announced today.
The “request” virtually amount
ed to an order, it was said. Army
authorities say Clay, U. S. mili
tary governor for Germany, had
asked the Russians to leave, but
they had contended the mission
'was “indispensable.”
Following this, the army an
nounced:
“Because the voluntary repatri
ation of displaced persons who
are Soviet citizens has virtually
ceased, the Russian repatriation
mission in the U. S. zone will not
operate affer March 1.”
TANANA RIVER ICE AT
NENANA 36 INCHES THICK
A letter has been received from
the new manager of the 1949 Ne
nana Ice Pool Classic stating that
the ice on the Tanana River is 36
inches thick at the present time
and was 32 inches thick at the
same time last year.
The snow is four feet deep
which stated Mr. Avery, in his
opinion has a lot to do with the
break-up as the more water there
is, the more it raised the ice at
break-up time.
He also states that the river
froze at a lower level this year
than it ever has before.
Mr. Avery says that he looks
for an early break-up, but that
is only his guess and as no one in
Nenana has ever won the pool he
might be way off.
Refuse To Send
More Troops To
Gen. MacArthur
WASHINGTON, UP)—The army
has turned down a request by
General Douglas MacArthur for
more troops.
Secretary of the army Royal!
said today the supreme allied com
mander in Japan had been told it
would be “impractical” to send
him any more.
Royall made the statement to
reporters on returning from an in
spection trip to -Japan where he
conferred with MacArthur.
'At San Francisco Monday be
j fore flying east, Royall said that,
living conditions for U. S. troops
in Korea and Alaska “leaves much
to be desired.”
Alaska is “immensely import
ant” but the current cutdown in
army strength will not permit
troops there to be augmented. He
said, however, he will recommend
construction of more facilities to
take care of present needs.’
At the time of Royall’s visit in
the Far East, dispatches from
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“Next War Will Be
In Cold Weather”
I
—
| SAN DIEGO, (/P)—The Pacific
fleet’s commander returned from
Alaska maneuvers Monday and
1 said the next war “probably will
be fought in damn cold weather.
Rear Adm. Bertram J. Rodgers
prefaced the remark with “we
I don’t know where it’s going to be,
but ...” He added: “We want to
' be prepared.”
He said that exercises at Kodi
ak Island had given 20,000 men
training—so that “they aren’t
i afraid of the cold and know how
to take care of themselves.”
The men included nearly 2,000
marines who invaded the island,
their supporting navy force and
army and air force units which
' resisted the invasion.
Rodgers, who returned by air,
had special praise for the marines
and for Navy Seabees who “beat”
the ice and snow of Kodiak.
“They demonstrated they car*
do anything under those condi
tions they can do here,” he said.
It Rains Cows
In England
. BRISTOL, England, {/P)—Rain*
ing cats and dogs is nothing. At
John Tout’s house it rained a cow
—right through his kitchen ceil
ing.
The cottage is built into a hill
side and one of the eaves touche*
the ground on the slope side.
The cow chomped her way
through Tout’s terraced cabbage
patch. She stepped on the roof.
Crash.
Tout took his back door off the
hinges, shooed Daisy out of his
home, put on his hat and went to
see his lawyer.
Yesterday a court awarded him.
25 pounds ($100> damages against
Daisy’s owner.