Czechs Gave In To
Goerring’s Threat
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NUERNBERG, Dec. 5— </P) —
Marshal Goerring shattered Czech
oslovakia’s last will to resist Hit
ler’s war machine with the ulti
matum that “half of Prague will
lie in ruins from aerial bombard
ment within two hours,” the Inter
national Military Tribunal was
told.
American prosecutors at the
trial of Goerring and nineteen
other Nazi leaders accused of war
crimes, laid before the court offi
cial German records, and French
and British Diplomatic reports dis
closing the Hitler pattern of
threats, treachery, broken prom
ises which crushed the Czechs
only five months after the Munich
pact which led Chamberlain to
proclaim “Peace in our time.”
Senate Votes Full
U. S. Participation
In United Nations
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 — The
Senate passed by a sixty-five to
seven vote Wednesday legislation
to give United States full active
participiation in the United Na
tions organizaiton in accordance
with the San Francisco Charter
that it ratified eighty-nine to two
last July.
Voting for the implementing
measure, which now goes to the
House, were forty-one Democrats, J
twenty-three Republicans and one
Progressive. Opposing its passage
were six Republicans—Senators
William Langer, North Dakota; E.
H. Moore, Oklahoma; Chapman
Revercomb, West Virginia; Hen
rix Shipstead, Minnesota, Robert
A. Taft, Ohio; and Kenneth S.
Wherry, Nebraska, the minority
whip—and one Democrat, Senator
Burton K. Wheeler, Montana.
Senators Langer and Shipstead
were two who voted against rati- j
fication of the Charter.
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American Navy To i
Train Chinese !
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With U. S. Fleet off Manchuria;
Dec. 5—American naval personnel [
will begin training Chinese crews
December tenth to operate and
maintain amphibious vessels, Sev-1
enth Fleet commander Vice-Ad
miral Daniel E. Barbey anounced j
Sunday.
The school, which will be held
at Tsingtao, will be for the “pur
pose of providing Chinese crews;
for ships employed in effecting;
the surrender terms of Japan,”;
Barbey said.
COES TO STATES
TO VISIT DAUGHTER
Mrs. Emma Rowe will leave on
the Pan American plane this eve
ning to visit in the States with
her daughter Margaret Haines, in
Kirkland, Washington.
SON BORN TO MR. AND MRS.
0 ALFRED LOMEN. JR.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Lomen, Jr.,
k are the parents of a son, Alfred,
III, born at Seattle, Wash. This
child represents the fourth gener
ation of a pioneer Nome family.
Asks Congress To
Continue Alaskan
Oil Search
WASHINGTON. Dec. 4— (VP) —
The Navy has asked Congress to
permit its continuance of the
search for new oil sources in its
Alaskan reserve. Comm odore
Greeman, director of Naval pe
troleum reserves told the House
Naval Affairs committee it would
be necessary to carry on explora
tions by private contract because
of impending demobilization of
naval personnel now engaged in
the work.
He estimated the cost and tech
nical work of drilling wells for
the next three years at eight mil
lion, nine hundred thousand dol
lars. He said the costs run at least
sixty-six per cent higher than the
original estimates based on the
use of Navy personnel and equip
ment.
The committee reaffirmed its
approval of the project and rec
ommended for the appropriations
| committee to approve the neces
j sary funds. Greeman reported five
separate oil bearing sands found
in the test well at Umiat Moun
tain. "Although none of them
proved of commercial value,” he
said ,their discovery indicates be
yond question that drilling should
Ceilings Suspended On
Imported Liquors
The local OPA has received that
ceiling prices on all imported
liquors have been suspended un
til further notice.
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