MODROWS GO TO KOTZEBUE
TO VISIT SON'S FAMILY
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Modrow,
parents of Jerry Modrow who is
in chharge of the Kotzebue office
of the Wien Alaska Airlines, wen
through Nome enroute to that
point to visit with their family
and see the new grandchild.
GIRL SCOUTS GO TO CAMP
NEXT WEEK AT DEXTER
Over twenty Girl Scouts are
looking forward to summer camp,
which starts next week. Mrs. Mark
( Early, wife of Sgt. Early, will be
in charge of the camp and Mrs.
James Walsh will do the cooking.
MRS. E. W. QUIGLEY HERE
FOR MEDICAL ATTENTION
Mrs. E. W. Quigley arrived last
night from Solomon with Kirk
Jackson for medical attention and
plans to return home this after
noon. She was very happy to dis
cover that a pair of glasses she
had lost had been turned in to
the Nome Nugget “lost and found”
department.
HOWARD GREEN HOUSE IS
SOLD THROUGH NUGGET ADV.
The house which was advertised
for sale in the Nugget by Howard
Green, which he built, has been
sold to Chris Simeon, one of the
owners of the Glue Pot.
RCMP DISCLOSE
NARCOTIC HAUL
VANCOUBER, B.C., — (/P) —
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
today disclosed seizure of Mexican
narcotics valued on the black mar
ket at more than $400,000.
Two men, oharged with posses
sion of narcotics, were being held.
They were identified as Ronald
Douglas Dean, 24, of Toronto, and
William Kushnik, 32, a Vancouver
mechanic.
Officials said they believed the
seizure was the largest of its kind
ever made in Canada.
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The Arabs are prepared to die.”
SEOUL
The Russian-controlled radio in
north Korea threatened to “crush”
the government in south Korea,
established by the U.S. after free
elections.
BERLIN
The Western Powers cut dras
tically the use of electricity and
gas in blockaded Berlin. There
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were unconfirmed reports the
Kremlin has called in Marshal
Vassily Sokolovsky, the Russian
military governor of Germany,
to talk over the tough notes from
the U.S., Britain and France de
manding an end of the blockade.
WASHINGTON
The U.S. State Department said
the “intransigeant attitude” of
Russia is the cause of the division
of Germany and Europe.
PRAGUE
The Communist Czechoslovak
government, after puzzled hesita
tion for two days, decided to in
vestigate the Sokol Congress which
cheered former president Benes
and treater! Communist president
Klement Gotlwald with scornful
silence. Enthusiasm for Benes con
tinued yesterday and last night
but police broke up the demon
strations. The Czech army also
seemed to be going through a new
purge.
ROME
The Communist-led unions of
Italy took 700,000 metal work
ers out on strike, just as Italy
was trying to speed its recovery
with Marshall plan millions.
PALESTINE
An Albanian Communist walked
j out of a Belgrade meeting, when
a speaker criticized the Comin
form, which had virtually read
premier Marshall Tito and the
Yugoslav Communists out of the
party.
AMSTERDAM
Communists lost two of their
ten seats in the Dutch parliament.
HELSINKI
Finnish Communists, fresh from
a trouncing at the polls, supported
the Cominform.
TEL AVIV
Air raid sirens sounded in Tel
Aviv. No planes appeared. The
United Nations began withdraw
ing the 100 or more truce observ
ers in Palestine, many of them
Americans.
CAIRO
Count Folke Bernadotte, the U.
N. mediator, pleaded for three
days of peace at least to get out
his men of peace.
LAKE SUCCESS
The Arab delegates walked out
of the U.N. Security Council in
an argument over recognition of
Israel. Russia asserted that Berna
dotte acted as a front for Britain.
JERUSALEM
The Jews were on a spy hunt
in Jerusalem. The Israeli army
convicted a Palestine Jew of spy
ing and allowed him to kill him
self. The Stern gang executed a
pretty Jewish woman. Irgun zvai
Leumi held five Britons.
CAIRO
Arab chiefs of staff ended a war
parley in Cairo. King Farouk
| prayed to “give the Egyptian ar
my victory after victory.” The
Jews said a jewish civilian plane
was shot down over the Lydda
region which the Arabs hold.
BERLIN
One American plane crew re
ported strange radio interference
while flying the air corridor to
Berlin, the only access to the city
through the Russian blockade. The
British sighted five Russian fight
er planes in their air corridor but
attached no importance to it.
Although the Americans flew
in 1,000 tons of food and supplies,
the American Col. Frank Howley
said:
“The air lift cannot at present
meet all the requirements of the
<2,000,000 Western Zone) people
of Berlin.”
The Russians protested about
the halting of deliveries from the
American and British zones to
' theirs.