NEWS IN BRIEF
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SEOUL, {/P)—Japaese B type en
cephalitis, which broke out last
month at Kaesong on the border
with North Korea, now has ap
peared in all eight provinces of
South Korea.
At noon today 3,788 cases and
908 deaths had been reported to
the health bureau.
WASHINGTON, </P)—President
Truman nominated Virginia E.
Tousiant today as postmaster at
Fort Yukon. Alaska, to succeed
the late E. O. Bergman.
SEATTLE, .(iP)—Austin E. “Cap”
Lathrop, Alaskan capitalist, has
been elected to the board of direc
tors of Pacific Northern Airlines,
Inc.*
^ Lathrop is . -eading figure in
the development of the Territory
of Alaska whose interests include
banking, newspaper, theaters and
mining.
He has lor^ advocated increased
air transportation for Alaska.
Yellowstone Natl. Park, Wyo.
(JP)—Burns received when she fell
into a Yellowstone Park hot water
pool were fatal yesterday to four
year-old Karen Anderson of Grand
Coulee Dam, Wash.
Park Officials said she tumbled
into the pool after breaking away
from her mother, Mrs. Theodore
Anderson. Karen was taken to a
hospital at Livingston, Mont.,
where she died of second and
third-degree burns. Her father is
a reclamation bureau employee.
Communists Have
“Trouble Shooting
Unit’ In U. S.
WASHINGTON, </P) — A self
styled charter member of the U. S.
communist party says that Russia
has sent a secret ‘trouble-shooting
unit” to this country. He explained
communists think the party is in
danger of being driver under
ground.
Maurice Malkin, the author of
this statement, was a witness be
fore a Senate judiciary sub-com
mittee. He said the three men from
Moscow attended a meeting of top
layer American communists a few
weeks ago in a farmhouse at Bea
con, New York.
Malkin described himself as a
Russian-born machinist of Brook
lyn, N. Y. He said he helped or
ganize the communist party in this
country in 1919, changed his mind
about it while in Sing Sing prison
for activities in a furriers’ strike,
and left the party in 1937.
During the last year, he added,
he has been employed off and on
by the immigration and natural
ization service as an expert wit
ness in deportation hearings.
Recently Malkin testified at a
closed meeting of the sub-com
mittee studying legislation to keep
subversive aliens out of the United
States. Thirty-eight closely typed
pages of his testimony were made
public by the sub-committee last
night.
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Pier Fire Arson
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. UP)—
Police today said the $300,000 fire
on the million dollars pier may
have been set deliberately.
“We have every reason to be
liev it was arson,” dtective Robert
O’Keefe said after an initial in
vestigation yesterday while the
43-year-old boardwalk landmark
still smouldered. O’Keefe is the
polce department’s arson special
ist.
Sheets of flame mushroomed
from the 1,700-foot structure just
before dawn yesterday and were
fanned down the beach by a north
east wind.
MARVIN TROUTMANS TO
LEAVE FOR ST. LAWRENCE
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Troutman
and child are making their home
temporarily in the mission house
of the Seventh Day Adventists,
and plan to leave in the near fu
ture for St. Lawrence Island.
Marvin Troutman is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Troutman who
spent several years on St. Law
rence Island where Marvin spent
several years of his childhood.
Mr. Troutman states that his
parents are now located at Doug
las and that he is looking forward
to meeting his many friends on St.
Lawrence Island.
CARD PARTY TO
BENEFIT PLAYFIELD
The Home Arts Club is sponsor
ing a card party Saturday evening
at the Pioneer Hall for the benefit
of the playfield, which has been
their civic project for the last fif
teen years.
The committee in charge of the
party at which both whist and
bridge will be played is Mrs. Elmo
Miller, chairman; Mrs. Frank
Bingham and Mrs. Clement Bou
cher. Many fine prizes have been
obtained and refreshments are be
ing served by the club members.
MR. AND MRS. NAY TRANS
FERRED TO ANCHORAGE
Mr. and Mrs. W. Nay, who have
been stationed here with the Alas
ka Airlines for the past two years
have been transferred to the An
chorage headquarters, where Mr.
Nay will be field ticket office man
ager for the company.
Mr. and Mrs. Nay have been ac
tive in the community and con
scientious in their work both for
the company and for the commun
ity and will be missed.
Replacing Mr. Nay is Tex Zeig
ler. well known bush pilot who
operated the Igloo Commercial Co.,
last year.
ROSARY CRUSADE
RALLY
Archbishop O’Neill of Canada
and Bishop Francis Gleeson, S.
J. of the Victoriate of Alaska will
be in Nome September 15 and 16.
Thursday evening the Rosary
Crusade Rally will be held in St.
Joseph’s Church at 7:30 p.m.
The purpose of the Rosary Cru
sade is to get all individuals of
each family to pledge to say the
Rosary every day for peace in the
world.
All people of Nome have been
cordially invited to attend the
Rally.
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WASHINGTON, (/P)—Maj. Gen.
Anthony C. McAuliffe, who said
“nuts” to a German demand for
surrender at Bastogne. was tapped
today to be chief of the army
chemical corps.
President Truman sent the nom
ination of the 51-year-old officer
to the Senate.
If the Senate approves, McAu
liffe will succeed Maj. Gen. Alden
H. Waitt who w’as suspended from
the job last July after his name
cropped up in the Senate’s “five
percenter” investigation. Waitt, 56,
was restored to active duty last
week but immediately reired.
Along with McAuliffe’s nomin
ation, Mr. Truman sent to the Sen
ate that of Stanton Griffis to be
ambassador to Argentina.
“By the sword we seek peace,
but peace only under liberty” is
the state motto ot Massachusetts.
Use Boulevard
As Speedway
LOS ANGELES, i^Pi-^ome 15Q
“hot rod” auto racers early today
terrorized motorists on busy Se
pulveda Boulevard, forcing many
off the road.
Police managed to capture eight
of the wild speeders but only after
two of the stepped-up home made
racers had crashed, injuring the
two drivers. The others easily got
away.
Police chief John H. Stroh of
suburban Torrance said the youth
ful speed demons, doing 85 miles
an hour or better, out raced six pa
trol cars from Torrance to Redon
do Beach.
Sepulveda Boulevard in that
area is the heavily-traveled U. S.
Highway 101, the Pacific Coast
highway.
Stroh said the mad racing has
been a problem for sometime in
the area but that the super-fast
racers always manage to flee
squad cars.
JACK LENCER
Watchmaker
Box f>25 Nome, Alaska
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