Soviet Journalists
Protest Stoning
Near Hannover
DUESSELDORF. Germany, tjp)
—Seven Soviet journalists tour
ing the British zone have pro
tested to Lt. Gen. Sir Brian Rob
ertson, British zone commander,
that they were stoned du> ;ng a
visit to a displaced persens’ camp
yesterday near Hannover.
Asserting the British gave them
inadequate protection, the jo tr
nalists said that Ukraine displaced
persons hurled stones as the party
was leaving the camp in auto
mobiles. One journalist received
a cut on the face as a rock smashed
through an automobile window,
the Russians said.
MacArthur Creates
30,000-Man Rural
Police In Japan
TOKYO, Japan, (/P)—General
Douglas MacArthur has author
ized creation of a 30,000-man
national rural police force in Jap
an to fill the gap left by the pro
hibition of armed forces under
the new constitution.
Simultaneously MacArthur or
dered the government to take im
mediate steps to decentralize To
kyo control over the nation’s law
enforcement agencies and to pre
vent resurrection of a “police
state.”
MacArthur’s decisions were con
tained in a letter to premier Tet
su Katayama. The government
said appropriate legislation was
being prepared for presentation
to the current diet <parliament*
session.
The present legal limit for Jap
an’s police is 94.000 men.
Four Gold Miners
Killed In Explosion
TORONTO, Ontario. i/P>—Com
pany officials said today Four
gold miners were killed yesterday
in what appeared to have been
a premature -explosion in the Cen
tral Patricia mine, in Red Lake
mining district about 175 miles
northwest of Port Arthur.
Three other men who lived
through the blast, more than a
half mile below’ the surface, were
still in the mine.
The blast blocked their passage
up, however, and gas hampered
rescue squads.
Some 220 miners are employed
in the* pit.
Taft and Stassen
Ask Republicans
Push Labor Plank
DES MOINES. Iowa, i/P>—Sup
port of the Taft-Hartley labor act
will be one of the platform planks
to be urged upon the Republican
national convention next year by
former governor Harold E. Stas
sen of Minnesota and Senator Ro
bert A. Taft of Ohio, each regard
ed as aspirants for the party’s?
presidential nomination.
Both declared here yesterday
when they appeared on the same
platform at a Republican rally
without precedent in Iowa that
the new labor law of which Taft
was co-author had produced re
sults toward greater stability in
i
labor management relations.
Both speakers told about 1,000
Iowa Republican state-officials,
committeemen and party workers
that the information they picked
up in recent trips about the coun
try pointed to- a Republican vic
tory in 1948.
Navy Officer Freed
In Court Martial
■ ■ ■ i ■
SAN DIEGO, Cal., OP)—Richard
F. Gascoigne was ready to re- j
turn to duty today after a N ivy!
geiicM'al court martial acquitted;
him of charges of mistreating fel
low war prisoners in Japan.
The supply corps officer was
found innocent yesterday of all
four specifications 'that he struck
three fellow prisoners and in
formed to the Japanese on anoth
er’s salt thefts' and of the gen-,
era! charge of “Conduct to tne!
prejudice of good order and dis
cipline.” I
The seven officer trial board1
reached its decisions in the sec-1
ond day of deliberations, ending
the public trial which started on
Sept. 2.
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HOMESTEADING ON
THE ALCAN HIGHWAY
i
Veterans will be given prefer
ence in filing for homesteads on
unsurveyed public lands along the
Alaska Highway according to a
recent order of the interior de
partment.
The order clarifies the prefer
ence rights status of veterans who
! desire to file for homesteads on
I the two and three-quarter mil
lion acres recently thrown %open
I for settlement under the public
! lands laws. The ruling was an
j nounced following representations
I made by Delegate Bartlett tnat
I veterans should have the same
! right of priority in filing on un
surveyed land along the highway
as they do on land already sur
veyed.
!
The opening date for filing by
veterans along the highway has
begun October 2, with the lanq*
subject to settlement by others
on February 2. 1948.
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ALASKA REINDEER
TO FEED EUROPEANS
Alaskan reindeer from Nuni
vak Island will help feed the
hungry people of Europe.
Enroute east by rail is a ship
ment of 378 frozen reindeer car
casses which came down to Seattle
last week on the Alaska Steam
ship Company freighter Termin
al Knot. They are destined for
Antwerp, Belgium.
The shipment, sold by the Al
aska Native Service to Anglo
American Meat Company of Ne\ ■
York, will be kept in storage n
the East until negotiations and
arrangements for shipping space
are completed.
Whether this is the beginning
of a steady flow of reindeer meat
to Europe could not be asot* -
tained, although some shipping
men believed it a definite possi
bility. Reindeer meat has never
been in great demand in Amei;
can markets, they pointed out.
Meanwhile the vessel North
Star, operated by the government
in Alaska Native Service, report
edly left Nunivak Island after
loading a quantity of reindeer
meat. The vessel is expected in
Seattle sometime in November, but
it was not definitely known if
the meat was destined for Seattle
or some Alaskan port.
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