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NEWS IN BRIEF
ANCHORAGE, (Ah —Runways
of the new Anchorage airport will
be longer than those at the Los
Angeles or the Seattle-Tacoma
airports.
Engineers who made the com
parisons said they would be com
parable to the San Francisco mu
nicipal airport runways.
Resident engineer R. W. Strong
said the international airport here
will be half again as big as the
one being built near Fairbanks.
The $8,000,000 job is scheduled
for completion next year.
Strong said the silty soils re
quired special compaction treat
ment not previously used in Alas
ka construction.
WASHINGTON, (A*)—President
Truman barred questions on the
national defense controversy at
his news conference yesterday.
At the opening of his weekly
meeting with reporters he said he
wanted to make it clear that he
did not intend to answer any ques
tions at this time about the row
among the armed services.
NEW YORK, (A*)—An issue of
$4,000,000 in City of Fairbanks
bonds reached the market here
Wednesday.
They are 4Vfe per cent munici
pal revenue bonds, priced at 105V£
and accrued interest to yield about
...14 per cent to maturity in 1975.
The underwriters said the bonds
are the first major straight rev
enue issue to be launched in Alas
kan public finahce history. The
underwriters are a banking group
headed by B. J. Van Ingen & Co.
SEATTLE, UP\—Isaac D. Kra
mer. 94, who spent three years in
Alaska in the gold rush era, died
here Wednesday after a six-week
illness. He has been in the mill
work and cabinet business for
many years.
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WASHINGTON. UP). The House
completed action Wednesday on a
bill authorizing $7,663,212 worth of
construction by the Alaska Com
munication System. The bill now
goes to the White House.
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WASHINGTON, UP\— Congress
has approved $1,000,000 cash and
$4,000,000 contract authority for
a public works program in Alaska.
Senate-House conferees on the j
second supplemental appropria
tions bill finally passed Wednes
day night agreed on the figures or- j
iginally' voted by the House. The
Senate had doubled the amount,
but backed down.
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Alaska
farmers would be permitted to
form their own national farm-loan
associatioss under a bill Congress
sent to the White House shortly
before adjournment.
At present no land-bank loans
are being made in Alaska. The
bill granted association forming
privileges to Puerto Rico and
Alaska.
WALLA WALLA, Wash. </P)—
The best land plans of mice and
man offtimes . . .
Victoria Penlick, nurse at the1
Audit Shows
Olson Accounts
$43,351 Short
JUNEAU, f/P)—An audit report
released yesterday showed the to
tal shortage of the Territorial
treasurer’s office from April 1,
1935 to May 7, 1949, totaled $43,
351.91.
The audit was made by Arthur
Anderson and Co., of Seattle.
It was ordered by the last Leg
islature to cover the entire term of
Oscar Olson, Territorial treasurer
j who resigned May 7 and subse
quently was charged on two counts
of embezzlement and released on
§10,000 bond.
j The audit attributed the losses
to unauthorized disbursemen t s
from Territorial bank accounts by
means of checks signed by Olson.
At the time Olson was arraign
ed. the shortage was given in an
audit report, as $23,237.65, cover
ing the period from Dec. 31, 1946
to March 31, 1949.
A further audit completed in
August and covering the period
| from Oct. 1, 1944 to May 7, 1949,
was $31,015.97.
U. S. Attorney P. J. Gilmore
said the latest information, adding
$12,335.94 to the previous total,
would have no material effect on
criminal prosecution already insti
tuted.
He said all information will be
presented to a grand jury at the
end of the present year unless Ol
son chooses to waive prosecution
by indictment.
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No Settlement In
Costly Strikes
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(By The Associated Press>
Coal operators walked out on
contract talks with the United
Mine Workers Friday. But there
was a flicker of hope that a break
may come in the steel strike.
Northern and western mine op
erators left White Sulphur Springs, |
W. Va., where negotiations design- j
ed to end the five weeks old coal
strike, were being held.
They accused John L. Lewis of
being willing “to destroy” the coal
industry “in his mad race for
power.” They said they would
meet with union leaders again
when the union leaders show they
are ready “to consider our em
ployees and the industry.”
The situation in the costly, 21
day steel strike, says Cyrus S.
Ching. federal mediation chief, “is
not hopeless.”
But, Ching said in a statement
in New York last night after con •
ferences with U. S. Steel corpora
tion officials, “We do not want to
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Walla Walla Veterans hospital,
and Dr. W. A. Millington, also a
staff member, were married last
night, seemingly with all the se
crecy they had requested.
What they and Chaplain Law
rence Cousins didn’t know was
that the microphone near which
they stood for the ceremony was
on.
All 400 persons in the hospital
were tuned in.
Morton Talilor To
Keep Date Here
Morton Tahlor arrived this noon
with Wien Alaska Airlines from
California to keep his blind date
with a Nome girl made last Sat
urday on the “Truth or Conse
quences” radio program.
He was joined in Seattle by Da
vid Tewkesbury, publisher of the
Alaska Almanac, who has been
helping make the arrangements
for the broadcast tomorrow.
Little did Morton Tahlor, a
waiter by trade in Brooklyn, ex
pect to come to Alaska while on
his vacation in Los Angeles, and
was he surprised to learn that his
date was Miss Nome of 1948. Vera
Nelson, who used Mollie White
Bear as her native pseudonym.
The handsome young radio
Romeo, slight of build, dark curly
hair and blue-eyed, will sing to
gether with his queen, on tomor
row’s broadcast to the States, from
the Bering Sea Club at two-thirty.
Manager Joe Wallace states that
anyone wishing to witness the
broadcast is invited to be present.
Two Children Die
In Burning House
BREMERTON, </P)—Two sleep
ing children died Wednesday night
when fire destroyed their small
home in which they slept alone.
The victims were identified by
police as Raymond and Nancy
Kelly, ages 7 and 8. Firemen said
they believed the children were
overcome by smoke in their sleep.
Th house was full of smoke and
the roof of the wooden structure
was in flames when firemen re
sponded to the alarm of neighbors
and carried the children from
their beds.
The mother, Mrs. D. J. Kelly,
was located by the navy shore pa
trol and a taxicab driver after ra
dio station KBRO broadcast an
appeal for anyone who knew the
residents of the burning house to
notify them.
Auto Industry
%0
Faces Shutdown
Due To Strikes
PITTSBURGH. f/P)—Major au
tomobile producers are planning
cutbacks unless the nation’s first
twin steel and coal strikes are set
tled soon.
There’s no indication of a settle
ment in the walkouts which have
idled around a million workers.
Everythisg points to skyrocket
> ing unemployment.
1 Only direct government inter
vention seems likely to end the
stalemate which is costing an es
timated $58,600,444 a week in lost
wages.
The loss to business firms is
staggering but there’s no way of
arriving at the exact amount. As
one example, the coal-carrying
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad said
strikes had cost it $1,500,000 al
ready this month.
Ford, General Motors and
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First Session Of
I Congress Adjourns
Much Work Ahead
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WASHINGTON, </P) — With a
75-day breather ahead, members
of Congress went home yesterday
to listen to the voters’ ideas about
how to run the country.
Behind they left, along with
their accomplishments, an impos
ing array of issues settled only
temporarily—or not at all—in a
189-day session of the Democratic
controlled Congress.
But it had been a busy, if
sometimes acrimonious, session,
and the lawmakers greeted ad
journment joyfully on both sides
of Capitol Hill.
There was some horseplay;
there were a few notes of criti
cism. And there was a congratula
tory message from President Tru
man to send the legislators on
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.. IT WAS QUITE A CLASSIC
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News of the World
At A Glance - - -
Friday .October 21. 1949
• By The Associated Press'
The monthly Journal of the
Cominform carried an article to
day predicting civil war in Yugo
slavia, butt of Moscow’s rage.
The article, signed by a refugee
Yugoslav general, was being read
in the light of Russia’s stinging de
feat in the United Nations yester
day and her ominous prediction of
“painful consequences” over the
election of Yugoslavia to the U. N.
security council.
The prediction of civil war
came from Maj. Gen. Pero Popi
j voda, who fled from the Yugoslav
army to Romania last year. He
i said Premier Marshal Tito of Yu
goslavia had allied himself with
‘ imperialists and thus “Yugoslav
patriots’ resistance to the traitors
will inevitably grow into an armed
struggle and will destroy the im
perialist plans which already have
been exposed.” ,
In the United Nations, where
the Yugoslavs, with American
support, won the council seat by
a bare two-thirds majority, the
delegations went their routine
ways today, but there was much
speculation over what Soviet for
eign minister Andrei Vishinsky
had meant by “painful conse
: quences.” Yugoslavia takes the
seat at the end of the year, leav
ing Russia a lonely minority of
one on the powerful council. Rus
sia still retains the veto, of course.
As for armed conflict in Yugo
slavia, you can pick your own ru
mor today. There have been re
ports of Soviet troop movements
in the countries of the cominform
ringing Yugoslavia, reports of in
filtrations of potential guerrilla
fighters against Tito, reports that
the Green communist guerrillas
withdrawn from the written-off
Greek civil war were preparing to
duplicate their tactics inside Tito’s
territory.
The rebel Greek communist re
gime broadcast last night that its
guerrillas still were ready to fight
the Greek army again, and that
their struggle goes on.
U. S. secretary of state Acheson
| summed up the Russian situation
by describing Russia last night as
“the aggressively imperialist pow
er of our times, seeking to expand
its dominion where its grasp and
its reach coincide, and to cause
confusion and disintegr a t i o n
where its grasp falls short.” In a
New York speech, Acheson urged
Americans to face the facts of the
world fearlessly, to realize that
the problems of “Soviet imperial
ism” in Europe and Asia and in
terlocked.
In Asia, Chinese nationalist
troops battled a communist drive
to clear out southwest China, and
the nationalist defense ministry
said a Red drive on Kweilin had
been halted. The nationalists said
their troops blunted a communist
surge into Kwangsi province from
Hunan—toward the heart of
southwest China—on the outskirts
of Lingling, 110 miles northwest
of fallen Canton.
But with Canton gone, national
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