Labor Party Is
Against War
LONDON, (/P) — Labor party
leaders, girding for a showdown
with a leftist rebel bloc at next
week’s annual party conference in
Margate, declared yesterday that
the aim of British-American un
derstanding is to prevent war.
“The labor government,” the
ruling party’s leadership said in a
booklet published today, “does not
propose to take sides in a lineup
for the next world war.”
The oooklet—entitled “Cards on
the Table”—a phrase much fav
ored by foreign secretary Ernest
Bevin—was designed in part to
disarm caustic left-wing critics of
British foreign policy, who con
tend that Britain is snubbing Rus
sia and aligning herself too closely
with the United States.
Konni Zilliacus, one of the lead
ers of the “rebel” parliamentary
delegation in the Labor party, dis
closed yesterday that five party
units had drafted an anti-Ameri
can resolution for submission at
next week’s five-day conference
in Margate.
Appropriations To
Be Cancelled
WASHINGTON. (/P) — Senator
Bridges <R.-N. H.> said today Re
publicans intend to cancel $1,000,
000,000 in appropriations voted by
the last, Democratic-controlled
Congress in the GOP drive to cut
1948 federal spending at least
$4,500,000,000 below Presid e n t
Truman’s estimate.
Bridges, chairman of the Senate
appropriations committee, told a
reporter a $641,832,000 fund trans
fer the Republicans got through
Congress yesterday by some fast
financial footwork “will help out.”
But he added the proposed $1,000.
000,000 cutback in old appropria
tions will be needed to make the
savings the Senate has pledged.
“I believe we can show a reduc
J. W. THOMPSON
HERE ON BUSINESS
J. W. Thompson, who was su*'
perintendent of the Nome school
last year and who has been teach
! ing at Seldovia this year, return
ed yesterday on a business trip
and plans to be here for about a
j week.
FORREST WOOD TO FLY
FOR ALASKA AIRLINES
i Don Travis, manager of Alaska
Airlines office in Nome, announc
es the arrival of Forrest Wood,
! company pilot from Anchorage
.rea, who will fly bush equip
ment for Alaska Airlines in the
Nome area. Mrs. Wood will join
her husband as soon as living
quarters can be found. She is at
present in Anchorage. Wood was
formerly on the Seward-Kenai
Ninilchik-Homer run.
—
CHARLES TRAEGER
HERE ON BUSINESS
Charles Traeger, pioneer busi
nessman from Unalakleet is in
town for a few days on business.
MRS. PETE READER
LEAVES FOR NORTH FORK
Mrs. Pete Reader and three chil
dren left last evening to spend the
summer at the North Fork dredg
ing camp.
I '
CARL DEWEY ANDERSON
BACK IN NOME
: Carl Dewey Anderson, legisla
tor from Second Division, return
ed last evening on the Pan Amer
ican.
1 tion ot $4,500,000,000 under the
President’s $37,500,000,000 figure
: if. we can hold the economy line
on army, navy, agriculture and
| other appropriations that are
! coming along,” the New Hamp
shire Senator said,
i • The old appropriations which
| the Republicans hotfe to cut repre
sent money which the last Con
gress approved in advance for ac
tual spending in the year begin
ning July 1.
JACK LENCER
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President's Mother
Still Gravely 111
GRANDVIEW, Mo. i/P)—Presi
dent Truman’s “very weak”
mother showed no improvement
today, raising the possibility he
may remain here indefinitely un
less there is a decided change for
the better.
Mr. Truman told reporters that
94-year-old Mrs. Martha E. Tru
man’s condition was “just about
the same” this morning and that
she “didn’t have a very good
night.”
The President, tense and emo
tional after a week made up of
long hours of anxious vigil at her
bedside, was torn between two
roles. He had important affairs
awaiting him in Washington, yet
he feared the effects of his de
parture on the tired heart of his
mother.
His daily presence at her bed
side since a dangerous relapse a
week ago has been a principal
hope for a continuance of her will
to live.
War Criminal
Fugitive Captured
MUNICH, HP)—Brig. Gen. Eric
Neumann, principal adjutant to
Nazi Gestapo chieftain Heinrich
Himmler, has been captured in
Bavaria after a two-year search
by American war crimes investi
gators, it was announced today.
The SS <Elite Guard) general
had been one of the most eagerly
sought of German fugitives. He
had been commander of secu?ity
police in Holland and Belgium
and was combat commander of
Nuernberg. He was found using
an assumed name and working as
a farmer near the Austrian bor
der in the neighborhood of Berch
tesgaden.
It was assumed Neumann would
be held for trail either at Dachau
or Nuernberg as a war criminal,
but there was a possibility that
the Dutch or the Belgians might
ask his extradition.
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Balkan Raiders
Threat To Peace
t
(By Ernest Fischer)
GENEVA, (yp) — The 11-nation
Balkans investigation commission
today formally signed a report to
the United Nations security coun
cil recommending that support of
armed bands violating Balkan
frontiers should be considered a
menace to world peace, subject to
action by the U. N.
American and Russian sources
said there was no formal vote on
this conclusion, but that nine na
tions favored it. Russia and Po
land were opposed.
The informants also said that
the commission approved 8 to 2 a
section blaming Yugoslavia, pri
marily, for the support of guer
rilla warfare in northern Greece,
and declaring that Albania and
Bulgaria were blameworthy to a
lesser degree. Conditions within
Greece were declared a contribut
ing factor.
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