MacARTHUR OFFERS REDS
USE OF U. S. ICEBREAKERS
TOKYO, (A*)—General MacAr
thur has offered the use of Ameri
can ice breakers and cold weather
facilities to the Russians in the
hope they won’t stop repatriating
Japanese prisoners again this win
ter.
Last wirfter the Russians stop
ped repatriation Dec. 1 and uid
not begin until May. They gave
difficult climatic conditions as the
reason.
Japanese, including left wing la
bor unions, have been urging the
return of all Japanese held by the
Russians. At least 470,000 are still
in Russian hands, allied headquar
ters estimated.
Mr. and Mrs. William Wood of
the Alaska Steamship Co. office
departed yesterday for the winter
home in Seattle.
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the federal government should ap
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He said c\t a press conference
Friday that tho most effective way
to stop inflation is to check the
rise of commodity prices.
If voluntary efforts to check
soaring prices proves ineffective,
he declarde, “then government ac
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j to the danger point.
Tex Ziegler, owner of the Igloo
Commercial Co., accompanied by
Orwan Scovill, are in town for a
few days on business and will be
returning to Igloo soon.
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commander in chief.
One major consideration*- re
mains. How will such a treaty
fare in the United States Congress?
France moved closer to martial
law as the cabinet ordered more
troops into strife-torn coal fields.
Casualties in three days of fight
ing neared 200. At least two min
ers were killed Friday.
The s rike began Oct. 4. Since
that time France has suffered
monetary losses from the strike
just about equal to the contribu
tions to France under the Euro
pean recovery program. The g v
arnment has charged the comin
l'o:m fomented the s rike with the
avowed aim of wrecking the ERP.
The United Nations political
committee approved an Arab move
to postpone consideration of the
Palestine problem for one week.
The United States voted with he
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Arab States. Israel protested the
! delay.
In an encyclical made public to
day Pope Pius XII recommended
internationalization of Jerusalem
and nearby Holy places.
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The chance that Russia might
agree to a compromise and lift the
Berlin blockade was reported
“slightly better” today.
Foreign minister Juan a Bra
muglia, the acting security coun
cil president who made that fore
cast, delayed for two hours the
meeting of the security council to
give the big four diplomats a
chance for last moment talks. The
answer from the Kremlin to the
) proposal probably will be decisive.
The compromise, put up by six
lesser powers, called for immedi
ate removal of the blockade; the
use of the Russian mark as the
sole currency for Berlin by Nov.
20; and a meeting by Nov. 30 of
the big four council of foreign
ministers to talk over all German
problems.
The issue has been before the
U. N. since the three western pow
ers accused Russia of endangering
1 peace by blockading Berlin.
Washington and Paris dis- ■
j patches spoke of impending moves ;
I for a military alliance of the
United States, Canada and the
western European union of Bri
tain, France, Belgium, Holland
and Luxembourg.
Foreign ministers of the western
' European uriion met in Paris and j
I were reported to have this atop
j their agenda. There also seemed a
j chance that a French and Belgian
| plan for a western Europe parlia
jment, with consultative authority,
1 might be adopted.
It was reported in Washington
that the union or the United States
might issue bids to a conference
soon after the Presidential elec
tion next week to talk over a mili
tary alliance between North
America and the union.
Italy, Iceland, Norway, Den
mark and possibly other coun
tries, where the communists are
not in control, may join the talks
at some time. The U. S. Senate
passed a resolution last spring ad
vocating the association of the
United States with nations having
common security interests.
The security council called a
meeting for tomorrow to take up
Egypt’s complaint that Israel is
continuing fighting in the Negev
desert of southern Palestine, de
spite acceptance of a U. N. cease
fire order. U. N .truce observers I
said the Jews were attacking on i
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Walter Thompson, who had a
shop here a year ago to repair
glasses and sell curios returned
alter an absence of over a year,
during which time he has exhib
ited his watch collection, which
has been his hobby for many
years, all over the country. He has
eceived recognition for the fine
antiques which he has acquired,
all of which are reported to be in
working order.
Mr. and Mrs. Nick Ezukameuw
are the parents of a baby girl born
Wednesday at the hospital.
Walter Dowd is in receipt of a
letter from his father Jack Dowd,
now with the ACS in Seattle stat
that young Jack Dowd, who was
a senior in high school this year
has enlisted in the U. S. Air Corps
and is now receiving his basic
training in San Antonio after
which he will go to a special Air
Corps school in Illinois for train
ing as aviation mechanic.
William Reese has been added
to the police department last week
and will act as desk sergeant to
assist the ci'y police in their work.
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