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Congress Discusses
Truman’s Message
With Dept. Heads
* <By Jack Bell)
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Heads of
the state, navy and war depart
ments discussed with the Senate
foreign relations committee behind
closed doors today President Tru
man’s appeal for $400,000,000 cash
and indirect military help for Tur
key and Greece.
War Secretary. Patterson, navy
secretary Forrestall and acting
state secretary Acheson brought
along top aides to explain details
of the proposed moves which some
members of Congress openly de
clared might lead eventually to
war with Russia.
To report on the military aspects
of the President’s proposal to help
train and sustain Greek and Turk
ish troops, Forrestal had vice ad
► miral F. P. Sherman, deputy chief
of naval operations with him.
Vandenberg said the session was
called “to canvess the whole situa
tion,” but that any action might be
delayed for some time.
“It is my understanding.” he
said, “that the House will be asked
to act first of this legislation.” He
referred to measures to carry out
Mr. Truman’s proposals.
Actually, Vandenberg said the
Senate group has not yet received
any bills dealing with the subject.
“The plain truth is that Soviet
American relationships are at the
core of this whole problem,” Van
denberg declared. “Every effort
should be made to terminate these
controversies. This effort must oc
cur in plain understanding of basic
principles which we shall not sur
render.”
Asserting that the independence
of Greece and Turkey must be pre
served “not only for their own
sakes but also in defense of peace
and security for all of us” Vanden
berg added that in this critical mo
ment “the President’s hands must
be upheld.”
Mr. Truman told Congress.grim
ly Wednesday that armed Com
munists and political infiltrations
threaten the “very existence” of
Greece and Turkey.
LEE O. TEAGUE, FBI AGENT
SPEAKS TO ROTARY CLUB
The Rotary Club of Nome held
its regular Thursday noon lunch
eon meeting in the Bering Sea
Club rooms. Following the lunch
eon and business meeting, Lee
Teague, FBI agent from Anchor
age, told the Nome Rotary Club of
the activities of the Federal Bur
eau of Investigation in Alaska. He
stated that the purpose of this visit
to Nome was to hold a school for
police in this area.
NEWS IN BRIEF
GENOA, Italy. (/P)—Two heavy
explosions aboard the American
motorship Edmund Fanning at her
dock here today were reported to
have killed one man and injured
10 of her crew of 60 and left her
in flames. The prow of the vessel
was badly damaged. There was no
immediate explanation of • .the
blasts. tLloyd’s, register of shipping?
lists the Edmund Fanning as a
7,176-ton vessel built in 1943 and
registered out of Los AngelesL
BOSTON, (>P)—The racy novel
“Forever Amber” was declared fit
for Massachusetts readers today by
Superior Judge Frank J. Donahue
who said it was condusive to sleep
—not immorality. “I find that the
book ‘Forever Amber’ is not ‘ob
scene. indecent or impure’,” he
said.
VICTORIA, B. C\, bP)—The 313
foot luxury yacht “Vixen,” the
former flagship of two command
ers-in-chief of the U. S. Atlantic
fleet, arrived here today to be re
! converted into a deluxe passenger
vessel for the Pacific Cruise Lines;
at a cost of $200,000.
DETROIT, (A3) — Employees of
the Mt. Clemens Pottery Co. today
appealed to the circuit court of
appeals in Cincinnati the historic
decision denying them portal to
portal pay.
The move is the first step in any
appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court.
—
ATHENS, (A3)—'The Greek press
office announced today that a i
United Nations investigating com
mission team was fired at by guer-'
rillas today while enroute through j
western Macedonia to Albania. No
one was hit.
The announcement said army
units dislodged the Guerrillas from
mountain heights dominating the
road into Kastoria and dispersed
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NEW YORK, I/P) -rr Barring a
“spontaneous draft,” Sen. Arthur;
Vandenberg of Michigan says it is
unlikely that he will be a Presi
dential nominee in 1948 because:
• 1. “I am not a candidate.
2. “I shall seek no convention
delegates nor approve the efforts
of others in this behalf.
3. “I think by place of service is
in filling out my tenure in the
Senate.”
WASHINGTON (/P)—'The House
labor committee debated today a
motion to bring perjury charges
against Harold Christoffel and
Robert Buse, leaders of the local
CIO-UMW on strike against the
Allis-Chalmers plant in Milwau
kee.
Christoffel and Buse, in an ap-1
pea ranee before the committee, de-1
Europe Joyous
Over Truman’s
Message Of Aid
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, (,/P)—Britain today
officially welcomed President Tru
man’s declaration on Greece and
Turkey, and the President’s recom
jmendations to Congress were re
ceived in Greek and Turkish offi
cial circles here with expressions
ranging from “profound satisfac
•t on” to “extreme joy.” . % .
A British foreign office spokes
man told a crowded news confer
ence:
“The. British government. wel
comes Mr. Truman’s statement to
Congress. The views he expressed
on the quest.on of governments be
ing imposed on sovereign States
iii Europe are very much in accord
with our own views. And, on a
number of occasions? we have con
veyed those beliefs to certain gov
ernments whose elections have not
been carried out in line with their
pledges.”
In Istambul, Premier Recep Pe
ker of Turkey said the President’s
“American and human speech” in
dicated the United States had
awakened to the world situation.
The Premier said he believed the
speech reflected American public
opinion in a day when security
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Big 3 Won't Discuss
Chinese Problem
(By John M. Hightower)
MOSCOW, UP) — Prospects for
Big Three talks concerning the
Chinese crisis, with China present,
dimmed today despite Russian in
sistence, as an authoritative source
said it was highly unlikely China
would agree to participate.
The Chinese maneuvers started
with Soviet Foreign lyiinister V. M.
Molofov’s written request for such
conferences last night.
The impression was growing
strongly that Soviet ancj U. S. com
petition for world leadership* was
boiling down to naked power di
plomacy in which China, Greece
or Turkey, are or may become
points of conflict such as eastern
Europe has long been.
The Chinese seem anxious to
keep out of the current situation,
and the authoritative source said
the Nanking government was al
most certain to reject a prospec
tive invitation to sit in on the
talks Molotov urged.
nied being Communists. Yesterday
Jhe committee received testimony
that they were. It came from Louis
Budenz, once a Communist party
leader and now a professor at
Fordham university.
New Foreign Policy
Demands Present
Armed Strength
<(/P) Military Affairs Reporter*
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman’s newly enunciated for
eign policy confronted the United
States today with the problem of
deciding quickly whether to con
tinue reducing its 'armed strength.
The address to Congress carried ,
no implication that an armed clash
is expected or contemplated. How
. ever, the armed forces are main
| tained for the support 01 foreign
policy in time of peace.
At the war arid navy depart
ments no one was prepared to say
immediately what impact any new;
fore gn commitments might have
on the planned si/.c of tne armed
.services. It was pointed out, never-j
thele.ss that a critical time element i
is involved in at least two phases
'Continued on Page Five)
Turn Down Russia
Lend-Lease Pipe
WASHINGTON, f.P)—Chairman j
Taber 'R.-N.* Y.» said today the i
House appropriations committee
has rejected a state department re-,
quest for authority to send $25,
000,000 worth of oil refining equip-!
men! to Russia.
The Senate appropriations com
mittee turned down the request
earlier.
“We can’t do such a thing. That’s
appeasement,” Taber told report
ers.
The chairman said the equip
ment, mostly pipelines; was ob
tained for shipment to Russia un
der lend-lease agreement but had
not been transported prior to last
Dec. 31.
Russia Says U. S.
Meddles In Balkans
MOSCOW, (A*)—The Soviet gov
ernment newspaper Izvestia ac
cused the United States today of
interfering in the internal affairs
of Greece and Turkey and of be
having in a manner that couid not
have been expected frogn a mem
ber of the United Nation.-..
It was the first real Russian edi
torial reaction to President Tru
man's speech to Congress uring U.
S. aid for Greece and Turkey. .
“In Washington,” said the edi
torial, which was eagerly read by
foreign delegates to the Big Four
foreign ministers conference, “they
obviously do not want to consider
the obligations adopted by the
United States government before
the United Nations organization.
“Expressing unusual nervous
ness, President Truman did not
even deem it necessary to wait for
the results of the work of the se
curity council’s commission sent to
determine the Greek situation.”
Delegates, and this certainly
must have included U. S. secretary
of state George C. Marshall and
British foreign secretary Ernest
Bevin, read in this attack on Wed
nesday’s Presidential request for
$400,000,000 to aid Greece and
Turkey that the United States “de
sires to go over the head of the
United Nations.”
From one end of Moscow to the
other this editorial, which in size
alone was one of the longest to ap
pear in many months—is stretched
from the masthead to the bottom
of the front page through two col
umns—was read with avid interest
by all who could get a copy and
read Russian or prevail upon the
already burdened translators to
read it to them.
Highlighting The Legislature
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‘‘Mostly About Taxation”
(By Mildred Hermann)
I A familiar cry heard at every
session of the legislature, within
the memory of this writer, has
teen gathering volume the past
few days and bids fair to swell in
to a Vast cacophony of sound, as
we travel down this last stretch nt
the legislative session- That cry is
“We can’t afford it.”
For the “Economy Boys" arc rid
ing again and, like the Four Horse
men of the Apocalypse, they are
bringing destruction with them as
they clatter down the track, backed
by a cheering section made up of
swarms of registered and unregis
tered lobbyists.
Health, Education, Redef to Des
titution are only three of the cas
ualties of this holocaust of econ
omy—human sacrifices made to
the gods of political expediency
f -'-— — _
and personal ambitions. This cry,
“We can’t afford it,” already has
been heard -many tipacs in our leg
islative halls this year. Piles of
•bills, carrying appropriations, un
acted upon after gathering dust
for weeks in the files of the Ways
and Means and Finance Commit
tees, attest the effectiveness of that
cry.
It was heard in the Senate when
consideration of the bill providing
for an increase in salaries for
Alaska teachers was under way. It
reappeared when, in committee of
the whole in the Senate, Dr. E.
Earl Albrecht, Territorial Health
Commissioner, and Dr. Dwight L.
Cramer, chairman of the Teritori
al Board of Health told of the Ter
ritory’s health needs. It bobbed up
when the Board of Education, in
Session here last week, was asked
to revise its budget estimate for
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