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‘NEWS IN BRIEF
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DENVER, UP) — An early-No- !
vember blizzard, which all but
paralyzed the Denver area with a
24-inch snowfall, showed signs of
abating today and the metropoli
tan area began the task of digging
out. It was the worst snowstorm
in Denver since 1913.
The storm left six persons dead
and the city’s transportation was
snarled badly, with some trolley
lines down and the remaining
pstreet car and bus service taxed j
far beyond capacity.
—
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P) — A
strike toy about 2,000 CTO union
fishermen against the Northern
California Fisheries association to
day idled some 800 boats from
Santa Cruz to Crescent City.
4 The fishermen, demanding price
increases of from 20 to 25 percent,
said the association had refused to
negotiate new price tables.
STOCKHOLM, Elliott Roosevelt
and his wife arrived here by plane
today and said they planned to
continue later to Paris and Mos- S
cow. '
# PHILADELPHIA, (/P) — The!
navy’s newest aircraft carrier, the
USS Valley Forge, rode at anchor
in the Delaware river today pre
paratory to embarking on its
shakedown cruise.
Financed by a $76,000,000 war
bond drive conducted herein 1945,
the carrier was commissioned at
the Philadelphia navy yard yes
^ erday by Admiral Dewitt C. Ram
sey, vice chief of naval operations,
who dedicated the 27,000-ton ves
sel to the “cause of peace.”
BALTIMORE, <£>)—'The myste- j
nous bombing of a waterfront
rooming house last Thursday
claimed its fifth victim last night
with the death of another seaman j
injured in the blast, Antonio Ma-!
riano. Four seamen were killed in
the bombing and five other per- |
ifons were injured, four critically. I
SEATTLE, (/P)—Col. C. S. Ir-1
vine and his crew of the Arctic
hopping B-29 Pacusan Dreamboat
are back in Seattle today.
The men and their plane, in
, which they flew from Hawaii to
[ Cairo non-stop last month, ar
| rived here yesterday on a nation
wide tour and will take off on a
Me -stop hop to Miami, Fla., Wed- j
nesday.
Ketchikan
Mortician Worried
SEATTLE, f/P)—A letter report
ing there is no embalming fluid
and only one casket remaining in
Ketchikan, because of the ship
ping strike, was received here to
day by Robert D. Seal, business
BRan.iger of the Alaska Fisher
man’s Almanac. Seal, a Ketchikan
resident, is visiting in Seattle.
Mrs. Ballard Hadman, editor of
the almanac and only woman com
mercial troller in Alaska, wi ote
Collapse at Niagara Falls
NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y.— (Soundphoto) — Aerial photo of Niagara Falls showing heavy mass
of broken rock at foot of falls after a huge section of the brink of the American side of the falls collapsed.
1,200 Refugee Jews
Deported
—
HAIFA, (#*) — Despite defiant
screams and intermittent violence.
1,200 Jewish refugees were trans
ferred today from the crowded al
most foundering immigrant ship
San Dimitrio to two British vessels
for deportation to Cyprus.
The transfer followed by only a
short time a general strike and
mass meeting at which the depor
tation of the refugees was pro
tested by Haifa’s Jews. Two thou
sand Jews, leaving the mass meet
ing, marched on British street bar
ricades but dispersed before any
violence occurred.
The marching Jews, facing
signs in Hebrew and English read-;
ing “Disperse or we fire,” broke
up and went away singing Jewish
anthems and carrying black
mourning flags.
Haifa’s 60,000 Jews stopped,
work at 8:30 a.m. for a two and a
half hour general strike and a
mass meeting was held at which
speakers cried, “Our brothers al
ready are starving in Cyprus.”
Bandits Rob Store
And Escape
■
SPOKANE, Wash. t/P)—Police to
day sought two armed bandits who
escaped yesterday with $11,260 in
cash from a cigar store and sport->
ing center after holding nine men
captive for more than two hours.'
Walter Sly, store employee, said
the bandits, masked, called their!
captives by name, indicating they
were familiar with the store, but
left a safe in the front of the store
containing “more than $100,000.”
The bandits entered with a key.
Sly said.
The looted safe contained
$6,700. the remainder being taken
from the nine captives.
that the situation has become crit
ical and the proprietor of the
Home Undertaking Co., only
Ketchikan mortuary, is “frankly
worried.”
Assembly Will Try
To Head-Off World
Armament Raee
—
LAKE SUCCESS, (JP) — A de
termined effort to head off an
atomic armaments race and slash
military establishments the world
over appeared to be in the making
today as United Nations delegates
tu ned from oratory to discussion
of the issues.
The temporary end of the for
mal assembly sessions—now in
recess for at least a week—found ,
Russia and the United States com
peting for leadership in the dis
armament undertaking.
American officials described the
United States proposals for safe
guarding arms control by an in
ternational inspection system as a
revolutionary idea that, if adopt-,
ed, would result not only in a
constant watch over atomic re
sources of all nations, but also put
an end to secret weapons of all
kinds.
While the Soviet Union, which
took the initiative in demanding \
an arms cut, has consistently op
posed inspection proposals as ap
plied to atomic energy alone,
there was some hope here that a
formula might be worked out,
which would be acceptable to both
America and Russia and result in
concrete proosals for bringing all
types of armaments under strict
control.
GUS CREMIDAS DIES
OF HEART ATTACK
Gus Cremidas, well known pio
neer of Nome passed away Satur
day of a heart attack. He was a
cook for the North Pole Bakery
for many years, and also mined
near Teller with his brother Har
ry, who died a few years ago.
Gus, who was a Greek, is sur
vived by 2 brothers in that coun
try and a brother who is reported
enroute to Nome to settle his af
fairs.
Delegates Pay
Tribute To FDR
HYDE PARK, N. Y., (/P)—Dele
gates from the 51 United Nations
paid tribute to the memory of
Franklin D. Roosevelt yesterday
at ceremonies during which Rus
sian foreign minister V. M. Molo
tov and other high ranking diplo
mats placed wreaths on the grave
of the late president.
Molotov, in a statement to the
press following the ceremony,
said:
"I feel that the sentiment of the
Soviet delegation can best be ex
pressed in the following terms:
'Eternal memory to the great
President Franklin D. Roosevelt.’
These are the words I would like
to utter in Hyde Park.”
China, Venezuela, Canada, Yu
goslavia and Nicaragua also had
floral pieces on the grave. Paul
Henri Spaak, president of the
United Nations assembly, placed
flowers for the U. N.
PAA To Construct
!\ew Hanger
SEATTLE, (/P>—Pan American
World Airways soon will begin
building a $1,000,000 hangar at
the Seattle-Tacoma airport at Bow
Lake, president E. H. Savage of
the port of Seatle announced.
The line will use the new han
gar to house a fleet of clippers op
erating to Alaska and its signing
of a long-term lease completes ne
gotiation with the three major
airlines for use of the airport.
'The annual income from leases
with Pan American, United and
Northwest Air Lines will more
than pay for the annual interest
rate and redemption of the $3,000,
000 in airport bonds we are asking
voters to approve Tuesday," Sav
age said.
Northwest Airlines already Ls
constructing hangars at Bow
Lake.
OPA Faces Election
With Half Of Its
Price Controls
WASHINGTON, (/P» — OPA,
caught in the crossfire of politi
cal campaigning, came up to elec
tion eve with about half its price
controls still in effect.
Here is what s left after 30 de
control orders issued since Presi
dent Truman's Oc’ober 14 deci
sion to remove ceilings from meat
an order an accelerated return to
a free economy:
Food—Onlv su"ar, syrups amf
rice under price lids.
Clothing and textiles — Mostly
still controlled although ceiling
lifted on shoes, hats and many mi
nor apparel items.
Rents—At peak control, with
more areas than ever under price
restraints.
Also contolled—Building mate
rials, automobiles, major home
furnishings and appliances, most
farm and industrial machinery.
newsprint and paper products, and
basic metals.
At its wartime peak, OPA said
’■) cents of the average cost of liv
ing dollar was spent for items un
lor price control. Today the figure
1 is 4') cents, agency statisticians
I contend.
Slates Voting
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!n General
Election Today
nv Assoc a ted Pres
The balloting in 16 key states
appears likely to chart the nation’s
legislative course for the next two
years when upwards of 35,000,006
voters choose tomorrow among
more than 1,000 candidates for na
tional and state offices.
These 16 states, stretching from
Massachusetts to California, hold
the major share of close contests:
which will determine Democratic
or Republican control of the House
and Senate in the 80th Congress.
Many of these same states also
are among the 33 where governor
ships are at stake in this off-year
election.
With both major parties making
their usual last-minute victory
claims, attention centered on a
final Republican drive to wrest
nine Senate seats from the Demi>
crats .Added to those which they
claim already are in the bag, the
nine would give the GOP control
of the Senate for the first time
since the New Deal came into
power.
Seward Man
Found Dead
SEWARD, (/P) —Robert (Rob>
Guest. 73, Seward’s first chief
of police, was found dead in his
kitchen of a bullet wound Mon
day noon by his son. Allen, who
lives next door.
Mr. Guest had been dead for
several hours. By his side lay his
30-caliber rifle.