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NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1— UP) —
The Senate confirmed the nomina
tion of Patrick Gilmore as U. S.
Attorney for Division Number 1,
in Alaska.
PORTLAND, Feb. 1— f/P) —A
marine salvage judgment of forty
three hundred dollars against Tom
Rusad, owner of the fishing ves
sel Melody of Petersburg, Alaska,
was entered by Federal Judge Mc
Colloch. The Melody was taken in
tow by the fishing vessel Stam
pede on last July 22, after a freak
wave capsized her off Northhead,
near the Columbia entrance.
Charles Auori, owner of the Stam
pede, received twenty-three hun
dred dollars expenses and the
crew five hundred dollars each.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1— (/P) —
President Truman declined to
comment on the suggestion of In
terior Secretary Ickes that Alaska
be opened to immigration. When
questioned about the article Ickes
••wrote on the subject, the Presi
f dent replied he had not read it.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1— (>P) —
The Senate Territories committee
approved a bill authorizing Alas
kan municipalities and public util
ity districts to issue bonds for the
purchase of public works.
SEATTLE, Feb. 1— (£>) —Presi
dent Leslie Yaw of Sheldon Jack
son Junior College at Sitka, left
Thursday night by plane for San
Francisco, to claim the body of his
son, who disappeared from the
^transport Torens during a heavy
fog as she lay at anchor on Janu
ary 11. The body was found Mon
day near Alameda, Calif., air sta
tion. President Yaw made the trip
to Seattle in a large fishing boat,
which was built by students of
Sheldon Jackson Junior college of
cedar and Alaska spruce.
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TOKYO, Feb. 1—(/P)—The gov
ernment tentatively drafted a new
constitution stripping the Emperor
of his military command, but spe
cifying that Japan retain the
^hrone, the newspaper Mainichi
said.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1— (/P) —
Vice Admiral William Smith told
the Senate and House inquiry
committee he doesn’t believe the
Japs would have attacked the U.S.
fleet in 1941 if it had been based
on the Pacific Coast. The former
chief of staff to Admiral Kimmel
explained he thought even the
Japs would have felt it too risky
Ifo attempt to send a task force
■through waters where they might
fhave been discovered by Ameri
Jcan merchant shipping.
ICE JAM ON DELAWARE RIVE R—Jagged cakes of Ice are piled high beneath
this bridge across the upper Delaware River in the vicinity of Trenton.
Yalta Kuriles
Agreement To Be
Made Public
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 1— f/P> —
President Truman said the 1945
Yalta agreement under which
Russia has occupied the Kuriles is
a formal document and is now in
the private files of the President.
Replying to a news conference
question concerning the secret
a g r eement between Roosevelt,
Churchill and Stalin that there
would be British and American
support for such Russian occupa
tion, President Truman said the
state department was making in- j
quiries in Moscow and London,
and if they had no objection, he
said the document would be made
public.
Asked whether there were any
more secret agreements of this
kind, the President said he could
not say, but added if there were'
they would be made public in
time. He said the Kuriles agree- j
ment was a wartime understand-,
ing between the Allies as to the
best method of using the combined
forces to win the war,’ and was
reached before Russia entered the
war in the Pacific.
As early as the ninth century
books were engraved in stone; ink
was spread upon these forms and
rough prints taken by hand from
them.
Russia Dreams Of
Bering Tunnel
LONDON, Feb. 1—M3)—Robert
Magidof, NBC commentator, said
over the Moscow radio that Rus
sian scientists are “dreaming” of a
Bering Straits tunnel to connect
the Soviet mainland with Alaska.
The broadcast was recorded by
the Soviet monitor, and said Sov
iet scientists hope it will “become
a reality in the not too distant fu
ture.”
He said the Russians envision
“chains of motor cars streaming
back and forth.” The commentator
said Vladimir Obraztov, academi
cian, whom he listed as Russia’s
leading railway expert, sponsored
the idea.
Blizzard Halts
Aircraft Rescuers
ELK MOUNTAIN, Wyo.t Feb. 1
(JP)—A screaming blizzard on the
perilous sides of eleven thousand
foot Elk Mountain prevented new
efforts to scale the peak on which
a United Airlines transport ap
parently crashed yesterday with
twenty-one persons. Eight men in
the search party fought to within
three feet of the summit last night
but the climbers were forced back
by the seventy-five mile an hour
gale and the forty degrees below
zero cold.
1 Thirty-One Boys
Stowed Away On
American Ships
Thirty-one boy stowa ways,
ranging from eight to sixteen
years of age, have been appre
hended by the Immigration and
Naturalizaiton Service since the
end of hostilities in Europe, ac
cording to a report issued today
by Attorney General Tom C. Clark
: of the Justice Department.
Twelve of the boys are in the
custody of the Immigration Serv
ice; the rest have either been re
turned to their homelands or have
been paroled to responsible spon
sors in the United States pending
final disposition of their cases.
Most of the boys who are in cus
tody are being held at Ellis Island,
New York, in quarters which
have been made suitable for per
sons of their age.
The Immigration Service re
ports some of the boy stowaways
arrived in troop ships carrying
returning members of the Ameri
can armed forces and had, in sev
eal instances, served as “mascots”
to our fighting men in Europe. A
number of the stowaways have
been persons who have run away
from their families.
The first comedy was performed
in Athens about 550 B. C. on a
movable scaffold.
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May \\ ithhold
Foodstuffs Until
Strikes Are Ended
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The nation’s labor disputes keep
idle approximately one million,
three hundred eighty thousand.
, Major developments are:
Steel—Federal seizure of strike
bound plants is not planned now,
the President says, but White
House advisers reportedly are pre
paring plans for ending the na
tionwide walkout of 755,000 CIO
workers and shutdowns in related
: industries which are idle. CIO
president Murray says the next
move in the wage dispute is up to
President Truman.
Automotive—The federal medi
ator continues his effort to effect
a settlement in the seventy-three
day old General Motors strike, but
no progress has been indicated in
the wage issue. The union reports
that $319,000 have been sent to
GM locals since the walkout of
175,000 employees.
| Meat Packing—The meat fact
finding board concludes public
hearings as spokesmen for th«
meat packing industry urge the
1 board to make price recommenda
! tions along with recommendations
! for wage increases in the industry.
The report is expected over the
week-end, as the government ends
| one week of control in 134 plants
following the eleven day strike of
250,000 AFL and CIO employees.
Farmers — Nebraska Farmers
Union urges support of the pro
posed strike by farmers in with
holding foodstuffs from the mar
kets until settlement of industrial
l strikes. A union spokesman says
the proposal is favored throughout
the country.
Interior Dept. To
Hold Hearing On
Fishing Laws
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JUNEAU, Feb. 1—The Interior*
Department will hold hearings in
Washington on February 21, with
respect to the proposed amend
ments to the Alaska fishing regu
lations, which would limit trap
, sites to a maximum of twenty, and
forbid the acquisition of new trap
sites by those holding more than
ten, and establish priorities in the
choice between two or more per
mit holders for the same site
which would give preference to
those holding a small number of
traps and to residents of Alaska,
Governor Gruening announced in
a communication to his office to
day.