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Showd^Wn Vote
(By John A. Parris, Jr.)
LAKE SUCCESS, (jP) — The
United States and Russia headed
today toward a showdown on the
question of the veto in atomic con
trol.
The controversial issue is whe
ther all functions in the atomic
control.
The controverted issue is whe
ther all functions in the atomic
* field will be subject to the major
power veto of the United Nations
^ security council.
The pattern for the fight was
set yesterday when Russia gained
a minor decision in the U. N.
atomic energy commission.
The Soviet edge came when the
commission’s working committee
adopted unanimously a Russian
sponsored re§olution‘V re-affirming
a general assembly decision that
any international system of atom
ic control should operate within
the framework of the security
council.
Although U. S. deputy delegate
Frederick H. Osborn voted for the
resolution, he had repeatedly in
sisted its adoption left the way
open for the Russians to claim that
all functions in the atomic field
should be made subject to the
veto.
Osborn tried unsuccessfully to
insert an amendment specifying
that the resolution “in no way
modifies the commission’s first re
port.” This report recommended
an international atomic control
agency free of big power veto.
But Osborn’s fear that the Sov
iet resolution would place atomic
matters within reach of the secur-,
* ity council veto was not shared by
many of the other delegates.
They agreed with Soviet deputy
foreign minister Andrei A. Grom
yko that the committee could ill
afford to refuse to pass something
already approved by the 55-na
tional general assembly.
Truman Back
In Washington
* _
WASHINGTON, (^—President
Truman spent a quiet Memorial
Day “catching up on his work” in
the White House, after receiving
word that his 94-year-old mother
had a restful night in her home at
Grandview, Mo.
Press secretary Charles G. Ross
said Mrs. Martha E. Truman is
I ‘‘seemingly on the mend.” The
President returned to Washington
yesterday after 12 days at her
bedside.
Mr. Truman kept up with im
portant duties during the bedside
vigil but on his return to the
White House found a good many
papers to be signed and reports to
be read.
ROTARY CLUB
* ELECTS OFFICERS
At the regular Thursday noon
luncheon the Rotary Club of Nome
elected its officers for the coming
year.
The following members were
elected: Christian Roust, presi
dent; John McNees, vice presi
dent; Murlin Day, secretary ;Wil
liam Cameron, treasurer; Stanley
*> Bartlett and Boyd Harwood, board
members.
—
MRS. MARIE SAMP80N
LEAVES FOR FAIRBANKS
I*- Mrs. Marie Sampson, who has
been in charge of the Paterson
Hotel, departed for Fairbanks last
| evening.
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U. S. To Seek
Greenland Bases
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(By John M. Hightower)
WASHINGTON, (^—Diploma
tic authorities said today Secre
tary Marshall faces an extremely
difficult and delicate task in try
ing to negotiate a new defense
agreement for the strategic island
of Greenland.
While Marshall himself care
fully avoided stating that the ob
jective of the approaching negoti
ations with Denmark will be to re
tain American military bases on
the island, other officials made it
clear privately that the United
States would like to have contin
ued in peacetime at least the right
to such establishments.
Twice before the United States
has sought to maintain bases on
Atlantic islands — Iceland and
Azores—and twice it has failed to
gain its full objective.
Greenland is regarded as pos
sibly more important than the'
other two because it is closer to
home.
A combination of nationalism
and communist agitation is re
garded as the main difficulty in
the case of the huge island off the
shores of North America.
Democracy Is
Constant Struggle
WASHINGTON, (/P) —Attorney
General Clark said today the
"great values” of the American
way of life "can be maintained
only by constant struggle.”
“The fight for democracy is a
continuous one,” he said in an ad
dress prepared for the annual Me
morial Day exercises at'. Arlington
Cemetery. “Never have its defend
ers been able to rest from a com
pleted task.
“There is still a clash of ideolo
gies in the world today. However
it may be camouflaged, we ca©not
hide the fact.
“When democracy, as we know
and li\£e it, is chained, when
thought is rigidly channeled, when
news is suppressed, when misrep
resentation supercedes truth, when
individual liberty is dethroned,
then aggression, despotism and
slavery follow in their train.
“We cannot be indifferent to the
tragic problems facing the world
today. That means indifference to
the future of America and our
own posterity.”
Seattle Halibut
Strike Still On
SEATTLE. UP)—With only nine
days of the fishing season left in
the lucrative North Pacific areas,
Seattle halibut fishermen remain
ed in port today, standing pat on
their refusal to grant pay raises
to the employees.
There was some hope early to
day that the dispute between the
deep sea fishermen’s union and
the fishing vessel owners’ associa
tion would be settled and the Seat
tle halibut fleet could get in on
the tail end of the season in the
two important fishing areas be
tween Cape Spencer and Cape
Blanco.
Late today the fishermen’s union
announced it had flatly rejected
the owners’ latest proposal. The
vote was “about 500 to 1” against,
Harold Grotle, secretary of the
union, said.
There are about 624,000 types of
insects in the world.
Rocket Wanders;
Goes Visiting
EL PASO, Tex. (^P)—One of the
U. S. army’s captured German
V-2 rockets wandered south of the
border last night and exploded
harmlessly on a knoll three and
one-half miles south of the
crowded downtown district of
Juarez, Mexico.
The explosion blasted a crater
50 feet across and akout 20 feet
deep, but no injuries were report
ed. Both Juarez and El Paso,
across the Rio. Grande, were
rocked by the concussion.
An airplane which had just
landed at the Buena Vista airport,
a half-mile away, was tipped over.
The occupants had left the craft.
Lt. Col. Harold R. Turner, com
mander of the army’s proving
ground at White Sands, N. M.,
where experiments with modified
V-2 rockets have proceeded for
many months, blamed failure of
the missile’s German-made gyro
scope for its departure from its
set northerly course.
Servicemen Honor
i
Fallen Comrades
<3y The Associated Press)
American servicemen stationed
on Pacific outposts and in Asiatic
lands stretching from Japan to the
Philippines honored their fallen
comrades on this Memorial Day
as their leaders emphasized that
the last war “must stay won.”
Philippines President Manuel
A. Roxas declared in Manila that
the United States must lead free
dom-loving peoples of the world
to achievement of “a people’s
peace.”
In Yokohama, Lt. Gen. Robert
L. Eichelberger, commander of
the U. S. Eighth army, told his
troops that “our only insurance
against war will be to keep our
nation so strong that potential ag
gressors will not dare attack us.”
He asserted that the United States
“almost certainly” would be the
first target of any aggressor na
tion able to produce atomic wea
pons.
Senate Will Uphold
Income Tax Veto
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several times in the past few
months that this is not the time to
lower taxes.
Both Houses are set to ratify
on Monday the agreement reached
by the conferees in less than two
hours yesterday. The President
has 10 days from the time the bill
reaches him to approve or veto it.
Meanwhile, the internal revenue
bureau rushed to the printer—
just in case—the new tax with
holding tables to be used if the
bill becomes law.
The tables would guide employ
ers in adjusting the amount of
tax reductions from pay checks.
The 52 to 34 vote by which the
bill passed the Senate Wednesday
virtually ruled out any possibility
that advocates of the tax cut could
assemble the two-thirds vote
which would be needed in each
' House to override a veto.
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