Committee Will
WASHINGTON (/P>—1The House
un-American activities committee
said today Mrs. Oksana Stepanov
na Kasenkina will be questioned at
a public hearing in New York
next Wednesday.
Mrs. Kasenkina is the former
Russian school teacher who jump
ed from a window to escape from
the Soviet consulate in New York
last month. Her testimony is want
ed in connection with the commit
tee's investigation of Soviet espion
age in this country.
Chairman J. Parnell Thomas
(R.-N. J.) said a sub-committee
would question Mrs. Kasenkina at
Roosevelt hospital, where she is
recovering from injuries suffered
in her leap.
“She has some material we be
, BALTIMORE. </P)—Mrs. Rita N.
Franke, 24, ran screaming up the
street yesterday, holding to the
coattails of a burglar who had
looted her house of $12.
By the time police came on the
scene, the robber ha'd broken away
and escaped. They asked passers
by why they had not come to Mrs.
Franke’s assistance.
“We thought it was just a hus
band-wife spat,” they said.
lieve will be of interest to the com
mittee in its espionage investiga
tion,’’ Thomas said.
Her leap from the consulate cre
ated an international incident.
As a result, Jacob Lomakin the ,
Soviet consul in New York was re- 1
called by the Russian government |
at request of the state department. ;
President Truman subsequently
revoked Lomakin’s papers under t
which he was permitted to serve as i
consul in this country.
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Unknown Planes
Drop Flares Over
Russian Ship
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mission said it received the report
from the Shepard Lines’ Boston of
fice and that it mentioned "an ex
plosion 100 feet above the vessel,”
but that it wasn’t clear whether it
was a star shell or parachute
flare.
• Anyhow, the commission re
layed the report to the state de
partment, which said it had a re
port the Moses Brown was fired
upon, but that the department had
no details.
Skipper Frye, still proceeding
smoothly from the port of Toro on
Sakhalin island to a port in Rus- j
sian-occupied North Korea with a !
cargo of coal, reported the ship
was not fired upon.
A spokesman for the Fair East
air force said emphatically that no
American planes had dropped
flares over the ship. Which would
indicate they were dropped by
Russian planes.
(In San Francisco, the Shepard
Lines west coast manager, F. C.
Ninnis, boiled the whole thing
down to a “routine report.” He
said the Moses Brown was in an
area where illuminating a ship for
purposes of identificatiori happens
often.
DR. JAMES RYAfJ
SPEAKS TO ROTARIANS
At the regular Thursday Rotary
luncheon, Dr. James Ryan, com
missioner. of Education, told Ro
tarians that Alaska’s schools are of
the highest quality and compare
favorably with any other schools
with the exception of the variety
of subjects taught.
He stated, however, that the de
partment of education was in the
red for the biennium’s operation
and that money is of prime im- i
portance in the operation of Alas- ,
ka’s school system. Money can and
does buy education, Dr. Ryan said,
and schools must be built and en
larged.
*• Although an expenditure of over
$4,000,000 was approved in the last
legislature, the funds were frozen
and only vital necessities were al
lowed. The coming biennium will
require for educational purposes,
building and operation, some five
to seven million dollars, Ryan
stated, to mairitain the high stand
ards of education in Alaska.
The doctor stated that the board
of education will meet soon to
draft the budget for the following
two years. I
The entertainment committee of
the Rotary Club showed moving
pictures of Air Force develop
ments in honor of Air Force Day
which will be Saturday, Septem
ber 18th.
Somebody is being paid real
money for knowing the things
you never bothered to learn.
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Army Transports
Being Loaded
Despite Piekets
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tackle the job in San Francisco and
Los Angeles. It said the army had
asked it to bid on those jobs, too.
Unlike members of the waterfront
employers association, Griffiths
and Sprague has signed a contract
with the CIO longshoremen.
WEA members have refused to
handle army cargo so long as it
means dealing with the CIO long
shore union, whose chiefs have not
signed non-communist affidavits
under the Taft-Hartley law.
CIO national president Philip
Murray urged army secretary Roy
all in Washington yesterday to use
such firms as Griffiths and
Sprague, rather than hire its own
stevedores outside the union. Mur
ray, in a letter to the secretary,
also urged “appropriate measures”
to compel all steamship companies
to observe their contracts to move
army cargoes.
Murray said army hiring outside
union channels “precipitates the
army into the dispute on the side
of the employers.” In the past, he
added, the army has used union
hiring halls.
In Seattle, a WEA spokesman
was equally critical of the prospec
tive employment of Griffiths and
Ex-Army Flier
Bombed U. N.
MINEOLA, N. Y., (/P)— An ex
army flier who dropped a home
made bomb over United Nations
headquarters today pleaded inno
cent in Nassau county court in an
indictment charging two felonies
and three misdemeanors. No trial
date was set.
The indictment against Stephen
J. Supina, of Ashford, Conn., was
returned yesterday by a Nassau
county grand jury.
Supina has said he dropped a
dynamite stick from a plane last
July to “wake up” the U. N. to the
need for world peace.
The felony charges listed in the
indictment are 'possession of a
bomb and possession of explosive
with intent to use it to inflict in
jury upon a human being.
Sprague (and union labor). Said
he: “If this goes through, it is a
complete backdown by the army. -
The army, fighting communism
overseas, now breaks down the
united front of waterfront employ
ers fighting communism on the
waterfront.”
The dispute which precipitated
the Sept. 2 strike was over a union
demand to boost the $1.67-an-hour
wage scale to $1.82 and control of
union-operated hiring halls which ^
assign dock workers to jobs.
AN
ECONOMIC SURVEY
IS UNDERWAY
IN THE
SECOND DIVISION
Read About Your Division
/
in the following Alaska Books
Alaska The Last Frontier
By H. W. Clark
Opportunities In Alaska
By George Sundborg
Alaska Now
By Herbert H. Hilscher
NOTE—You may also borrow a copy of the
Preliminary Survey held in 1940 for study
purposes.
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