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NEWS IN BRIEF
AKRON, O. (/F*) — Good year
Tire & Rubber Co., Saturday
announced price reductions on its
premium brand tires, effective to
day. The cuts were set at 5 per
cent for Double Eagle and Super
Cushion tires and at IVz per cent
on Deluxe tires and conventional
intertubes.
VANCOUVER, B. C. (&)—Mrs.
Constance McLeod told a court
her husband tore a piece out of
the middle of their marriage li
cense and ate it. Then he “threat
ende to make me eat the rest of
it.” She got a divorce.
MOUNDSVILLE, W. a.. (JP) —
Four of the 14 long term prisoners
who broke out of West Virginia
state penitentiary were rounded
up Saturday a little more than 24
hours after they had sawed their
way to freedom.
JUNEAU, </P)—Territorial Rep.
Clarence B. Keating of Anchor
age arrived Friday to set up an
office and staff in his new job as
director of the census for Alaska.
He will be taking business and
per capita statistics for the next
two years. The count is expected
to start next April 1.
POTTSVILLE, Pa., (JP) — The
Tremont Township high school
held commencement exercises Fri
day night and 17-year-old Marian
Agnes Kohr took all the honors.
She also held every senior class
office — salutatorian, valedictor
ian. president, vice president, sec
retary and treasurer.
Marian was the lone graduate.
Tremont township, an isolated
farm and mining community in
Schuylkill county, has lost most of
its population in recent years.
PARIS, </P)—A responsible East
European diplomat said today
Soviet deputy prime minister
V. M. Molotov has been placed in
■charge of Russia’s policies in
China and elsewhere in the Or
ient. The informant forecast an
early change in Russia’s attitude
of diplomatic aloofness toward the
Chinese communists.
No official confirmation was
available from Russian sources in
Paris.
SEATTLE, (/P) — Charles S.
Wood, 43, head of the Industrial
Loan department of the Ballard
branch of the Seattle First Nation
al Bank, died Saturday at his
home. He was born in Nome.
NEW YORK. UP) — The New
York Giants today traded infield
er Bobby Rhawn and pitcher Ray
Poat to the Pittsburgh Pirates for
pitcher Kirby Higbe. The Giants
announced it was a straight trade
with no cash involved.
SEATTLE. UP) — Washington
State counted at least 12 violent
deaths this weekend — seven by
drowning, three by fire, one traf
fic. And one in a railway accident.
SEATTLE, i/P) — Funeral serv
ices were held here Saturday for
Capt. Samuel E. Lancaster, veter
an Alaska mariner who died
Russia In Not
Interested in Peace
! NEW YORK, (/R> — Lt. Gen.
Walter Bedell Smith, former am
bassador to Russia, says prime
minister Stalin once told him:
“We do not want war any more
than the west does, but we are
less interested in peace than the
West and therein lies the strength
of our position.”
Smith told the chamber of com
merce of the State of New York
that “the Russian people have
what they want politically.”
“They have no real understand
ing of democratic processes and
J the secret police is much more ef
I ficient than it ever was during
; the czarist regime—or anywhere
I in the world.”
Smith, now commander of the
' first army, said any uprising
against the present Soviet regime
I is unlikely.
Army Tug Escorts
Six Vessels
i SEATTLE <SP)—The coast guard
I reported Saturday that a tug,
army landing craft and four towed'
; barges are being escorted to Cor
dova Bay by an army tug from
Whittier.
A call for assistance was sent
out after the landing craft devel
oped engine trouble and the tug
[Chilkoot broke part of its towing
j gear when it attempted to haul
, the barges to port.
The army tug Pvt. Herbert G.
i Goldman radioed Friday evening
1 it was shepherding the vessels to
Cordova Bay at half speed by way
of Montague Strait. The flotailla
then was about 60 miles south of
I the bay in the Gulf of Alaska.
| No other information was avail
able on the condition of the barges
'and their two craft, their original
destination and their cargo, if any.
WALRUS CLUB BALL
IS HUGE SUCCESS
The Walrus Club big Gold Rush
i Ball held Saturday night in the
Nome high school auditorium was
I a grand success.
Everyone enjoyed dancing to
the music of Bob Stringer, Hobo
Jo, Roger Squire and Joe Carlton,
who donated their music for the
entire evening.
j Costumes of the era when Nome
I was young were the theme of the
(evening. Mrs. Reca Godsbe was
chosen as the best dressed lady
and Mr. and Mrs. Wes Welsh
were chosen as the best dressed
couple.
Cpl. Joseph Kleibert, of the
Marks Air Force Base was award
ed the twenty-seven gold nuggets,
donated by Mr. and Mrs. Harry
I Gottschalk.
I < _ _ |
'Tuesday after a brief illness.
Capt. Lancaster was port cap
j tain and inspector of boats for the
Alaska Railroad for several years
: before his retirement in 1932. He
J formed the Alaska Transportation
and Mining company in 1898. He
was a member and former north
ern chief of the Alaska-Yukon
Pioneers, and of the Arcana
Lodge, No. 87, F and A M.
Judge Orders Wit
nesses To Appear
In Bridges’ Trial
SAN FRANCISCO, UP)—Eleven
witnesses who fought to avoid ap
pearing before the federal grand
jury which indicted Harry Brid
ges have been ordered to show'
up today.
Federal Judge Michael J. Roche
Friday upheld the validity of the
subpoenaes, after a day of legal
argument in which attorney Her
bert Resner contended his clients
had been subpoenaed illegally. He
said they do not intend to “assist
the government in framing Harry
Bridges.”
Australian-born Bridges, head
of the CIO longshoremen and
leading force in West Coast water
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I
j‘Doubtful’ Persons
Employed In
Atomic Work
WASHINGTON, f/P> — Senator
Hickenlooper <R.-Iowa- said today
that the man who drafts top se
cret atomic reports to Congress
once was suspended because the
; FBI questioned his loyalty.
When Hickenlooper tossed this
at a Senate-House investigation of
the atomic energy commission,
AEC chairman David E. Lilien
thal demanded that the person in
volved be summoned for testi
mony.
Hickenlooper told his Congres
sional colleagues that the AEC
employee had been hired origin
ally under an “emergency” secur
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Judge Jails Three
In “Red” Trial
NEW YORK. (/P) — Jailing of
j three defendants in the communist
[ conspiracy trial has produced
sharp protests in some quarters.
Henry Wallace called the action
“shocking" and a threat to Amer
ican political liberties.
The American labor party said
that federal judge Harold R. Me
I dina, in revoking bail of the three
men Friday, was guilty of “judi
cial tyranny and gross abuse of
power."
The Civil Rights Congress, a
group called subsersive by attor
ney general Tom Clark, termed
the ruling an “attempt to com
pletely stymie the defense.” The j
congress planned a protest dem
onstration today.
Those jailed—three of 11 com
munist leaders on trial for con
spiring to advocate the forcible
overthrow of the government—
are:
John Gates, editor of the Com
munist Daily Worker; Gus Hall,
Ohio state chairman of the party,
and Henry Winston, organization
al secretary of the party.
Gates was ordered jailed after
he refused to answer a question
that would have reuired him to
name party members not on trial.
The others were remanded to jail
when they protested.
Lewis’ Contempt
Conviction Upheld
'By The Associated Press)
John L. Lewis’ contempt of
court conviction for failure to call
off a strike last year was upheld .
today as Lewis began new coal
contract talks.
Elsewhere, the CIO united auto
workers opened serious bargain
ing with the first of the car in
dustry’s big three—Ford Motor
company. The union is driving
for a fourth round postwar wage!
increase in the form of pension
and welfare programs.
In Washington, the U. S. circuit j
court of appeals upheld the con-:
tempt conviction of Lewis and his
united mine workers union. The
court ordered the UMW chief and
! the union to pay fines totalling
1-1,420,000. The fines were imposed
: by federal district judge T. Alan
' Goldsborough April 20, 1948, be
j cause Lewis refused to carry out
ja court order to halt a 1948 strike
over miners’ pensions.
' Lewis’ share of the total fine is
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i_
"Hawaii Has Passed
Acid Test For
Statehood*’
CEDAR RAPIDS, la. (/Pi—The
president of the Hawaiian Terri- j
torial Senate says that Hawaii has
“more than passed the acid test of
[ statehood, economically, socially
j and politically.”
Senator Wilfred C. Tsukiyama
' told the annual alumni banquet of
Cot college that the United States
has never been “so closely on the
verge of admitting a 49th State”
as it is now.
He said the 81st Congress should
pass the statehood bill now before
it “os that Hawaii can emerge
from its nebulous status as a gov
ernment orphan and take its place
in the constellation of States.”
The original concept of a Ter
ritory, Tsukiyama said, was that
it was “an ephemeral form solely
designed to prepare a Territory
for statehood.
“Hawaii has been on probation
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Huge Crowd Sees
Nimbus Cop The
Ep som Derby j
EPSOM, England. i/P>—Nimbus
won the 1,70th running of the Ep
som Derby Saturday in a photo
finish with two other horses.
The French invader, Amour
Drake, was second while Swallow
Tail was third in the mile and one
half classic.
Nimbus, owned by Mrs. M.
Glenisteg and ridden by Charlie
Elliott, thus took down a record
first money of $56,680.
It was another bitter disappoint- |
ment for Gordon Richards, cham
pion British jockey who never
has won the coveted derby.
He was aboard the favored |
Royal Forest in a field of 32 three- j
year-olds.
Amour Drake, owned by Leon
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News of the World
At A Glance ---
Saturday. June 4, 1949
• By The Associated Press'
Restricted optimism prevailed
in Paris today as Russian and
western foreign ministers sat
down for their second day of pri
vate talks on the Berlin problem.
U. S. secretary of state Dean
Acheson has invited Andrei Vi
shinsky, Soviet foreign minister,
to dine with hirn tonight. He will
be Acheson’s only official guest.
The representatives of the two
major powers will continue their
talks over the dinner table in the
hope of finding a way for East
and West to cool off tension in
Germany.
Both sides apparently hold a
sincere belief that a solution can
be found. There is a news black
out during these meetings. All
four foreign ministers are pledg
ed to secrecy. However, observers
say the talks revolve around at
tempts to persuade Russia to re
strict veto powers. Another prob
lem the four ministers are believ
ed to be discussing is how a sin
gle Berlin administration can
function without harming the in
terests of the four occupying pow
ers.
In Moscow, the newspa per
Pravda charged that the four
power meeting in Paris is stymied
by refusal of the western allies to
adhere to the Potsdam agreement
of 1945. The newspaper said the
west is anxious to partition Ger
many while “every one knows”
that Russia works for a united
Germany.
From Nanking, the communist
held former capital of nationalist
China, came estimates of the
strength of warring armies. The
Chinese communist armies march
ing south were said to number
600,000 men. Their main objective
now is to seize Canton, the ref
ugee capital of the nationalists.
Nanking reports said the national
ists had 300,000 men defending in
the south and another 250,000 de
fending the approaches to Chung
king. This wartime capital may
become the nationalist capital
again, if Canton falls.
The British-controlled newspa
per Social Democrat said in Ber
lin today that the Russians are
prepared to use force, if neces
sary, to resume traffic on Berlin’s
strike-disrupted railways. Four
power representatives met in Ber
lin yesterday without finding a
solution to the railway problem.
Britain faced the possibility of
a paralyzing week-end strike of
her state-owned rail systems. Rail
workers defied both labor govern
ment and union leaders in their
efforts to avoid a strike. It is
Whitsuntide, the big early summer
holiday in Britain, when hundreds
of thousands leave the cities for
country nad beach resorts. The
workers are protesting against
schedules which require them to
send a night away from home.
Monday, June 6, 1949
The four-power council of for
eign ministers prepared today to
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