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(,R.-N .H.) that President Truman
call a special session of Congress
to rush aid to the Chinese govern
ment. Bridges said in a statement
that unless something is done in a
hurry the communists will take
over “the whole of China, lock,
stock and barrel.”
Paris was crippled by a com
munist-called 24-hour ge n e r a 1
strike. Garbage collection was halt
ed and the water supply was cut
off in at least one section of the
city.
Rioting strikers attacked a gov
ernment-held coal mine in South
Central France and kidnapped
three policemen. The fighting
broke out at Brassac-les-Mines, 25
miles southeast of Clermont Fer
rand. The communist-led coal
strike now is in its sixth week.
In London representatives of
Britain, France, The Netherlands,
Belgium and Luxembourg — all
members of the western European
alliance—studied at least two pro
posals for a military pact with the
United States and Canada.
The problem of the conferees
was to frame a pact which the
United States .traditionally cold to
military alliances, would find ac
ceptable.
Winston Churchill, Britain’s
wartime prime minister, expressed
the fear that prime minister Att
lees’ attitude toward western Eu
ropean unity “will exercise a de
pressing effect upon the move
ment.”
In the United Nations meeting
I in Paris, Soviet deputy foreign
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minister Andrei Y. Vishinski asked
J the United States: “You are pre
paring a Pearl Harbor for the
Soviet Union, aren’t you?”
Vishinsky spoke before the as
sembly’s political committee which
is debating a Soviet proposal that
the United States, Britain, France,
Russia and China slash their arm
aments by one-third wi hin a year
and outlaw the atomic bomb.
The security council committee
approved a plan apparently in
tended to demilitarize virtually all
of southern Palestine’s Negev des
ert. The area has been the scene
of recent figh ing which resulted
in Israeli victories over the Egyp
tians.
Assembly President H. V. Evatt
of Australia and U. N. secretary
general Trygve Lie made a per
sonal appeal to the chief execu
tives of the Big Four powers to
settle the Berlin crisis at once.
The dispute now is before the
security council. The six “neutral”
nations on the council and the big
western powers were said to have
opposed efforts to move the Berlin
deadlock from the council to the
58-nation assembly.
Monday, November 15, 1948
Mechanized Chinese troops were
reported by pro-government
sources today to have broken
through Red line around Suchow,
200 miles northwest of the capital
of Nanking.
The communist victors over
Manchuria were trying to forge an
enormous trap which would give
them Central China. Some Shang
hai accounts said Chiang Kai
Shek’s troops turned the tables
against the communists at Suchow
Sunday. The reports lacked con
firmation.
In the northwest, the commun
ists claimed the capture of Cheng
teh, seat of Jehol province. The
fall of Paoting, capital of Hopei
province, was reported near.
An informed source at U. N. ses
sions in Paris said secretary of
State Marshall will answer for
President Truman an appeal of
secretary general Trygve Lie and
assembly president Evatt of the U.
N. for a meeting of big four execu
; tives to settle the Berlin crisis.
Lie and Evatt sent letters Satur
day to Mr. Truman, Prime Minis
ter Stalin of Russia, Prime Minis
| ter Attlee of Britain and Premier
Henri Queuille of France suggest
ing talks. They acted under a re
cent Mexican resolution calling on
j the big powers to settle their dif
ferences.
Secretary of defense Forrestal
estimated in Berlin that the Berlin
- airlift is costing U. S. taxpayers
$100,000,000 a year. Since the Rus
sians blockaded Berlin in June, the
U. S. and Britain have been sup
plying the western zones by air.
The Russians flatly and finally
rejected plans for a city wide Ber
lin election Dec. 5. They said they
would not recognize results nor al
low voting in their sector. There
appeared little doubt the commun
ists would have suffered serious
losses.
i U. S. army sources said they are
puzzled because Russian deserters
have suddenly ceased fleeing to
the western zones of Germany.
The British said about 12,000 de
serted since 1945. One officer said
the Russians probably had moved
in new troops. Another said the
soldiers were kept practically un
der key at night.
, The United States was reported
i by an informed source in Paris
planning a new move in an effort
to end the war in Palestine. The
Jews were protesting against an
order of the acting mediator, Dr.
1 Ralph Bunche that the Israelis
withdraw from positions won in
Col. Balchen New
Head 10th Rescue
_________
ANCHORAGE, I/P) — The new
leader of the air force’s 10th res
cue squadron is ice-wise Col.
Bcrnt Balchen, who has seen both
poles from the air and spanned the
Atlantic with Admiral Richard E.
Byrd in the days of perilous
crossings.
He arrived at Elmendorf Field
Friday, and will take command of
the squadron when Lt. Col. Bev
erly Carmack, now in charge, re
turns to the States.
! Colonel Balchen has been serv
ing since 1946 in Norway as di
i rector of the Scandinavian airlines
which he organized during the
war to smuggle interned pilots
from Sweden to England.
He was recalled to active air
force duty at his own request.
i
the Negev since Oct. 14, during
fighting in violation of the U. N.
truce. The area involved totals
! about 500 square miles.
Prime minister W. L. MacKen
zie King ended a record of 21
years, five months and five days
as head of the Canadian govern
ment. The new Canadian leader is
Louis St .Laurent, a Quebec law
yer and past foreign minister.
Poisoned Blubber
For Wolf Bail
ANCHORAGE, UP)—Seal blub
ber poison bait pellets, holding a
crystal of strychnine poison, have
been authorized for use in western
Alaska against wolves.
Seventy pounds of the specially
scented blubber has been sent
here from Southeastern Alaska
where it has been used with con
siderable success, Maurice Kelly,
fish and wildlife service official,
said.
It will not be eaten by fur bear
ing animals sought by trappers,
he said he was informed.
The blubber is cut into small
one-inch squares to hold the crys
tal of poison and is dipped in seal
oil before being used. Four wolves
were killed by use of the po son
near Fairbanks, recently, Frank
Glasser, a hunter reported.
Mrs. Denny Ost and son Joseph
arrived from Seattle to visit with
members of the Ost family in
Nome and then to Council with
Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Ost.
Denny Ost expects to join his
family in a few weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Pete Curran of
I Solomon are the parents of a son
1 born November 11 at the hospital.
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