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NEWS IN BRIEF
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BERLIN </P)—A telephone mes-,
sage from a German translator for I
the U. S. army newspaper Stars!
and Stripes, said yesterday Joseph j
Fleming, Berlin correspondent for !
that newspaper, and Henry Bur- j
roughs, Associated Press photog
raphed, had been arrested in the
Soviet sector of this city.
Fleming and Buroughs had gone
to the Soviet sector to obtain a
feature story on the Russian bar
ter center.
A U. S. liaison officer was as
signed by the provost marshal’s of
fice to investigate.
BASEL, Switzerland, 1/P) — A
ban on bathing has been lifted
here because recent rains replen
ished city water supplies.
SYRACUSE, N. Y. </P) — Lee
Buchsbaum, Syracuse fullback,
starred for Lew Newton at White
Plains High. Both are at Syracuse
where Newton coaches the Orange
line.
BRAY, England, 1/P)—The Rev.
E. S. C. Lowman, whose church
collection box was pilfered re
peatedly, put out a public state
ment asking the thief to come and
have a talk with him.
“There is no sin so great that it
is beyond forgiveness,” he said.
LONDON, (/P)—An epidemic of
cat flu has hit London. Animal
hospitals are overcrowded.
NEW YORK, iJP) — Harold E.
Stassen, asserting that he is “run
ning for first place,” said last
night that he would not accept the
Republican vice-presidential nom
ination in 1948.
Asked whether second place on
a ticket headed by either Generals
Dwight D. Eisenhower or Doug
las MacArthur would be accept
( able to him, the former Minnesota
governor replied:
“No, I am running for the Pres
idential nomination.”
JABLONEC NAD NISOU,
Czechoslovakia, (/P)—This north
Bohemian town, well known for
its glass and fancy jewelry indus
tries, still has the largest percent
age of Germans of any community
in this country. Out of its 60,000
inhabitants, 15,000 are Germans.
LUGANO, Swittzerland, (/P) —
Lifting of restrictions against the
casino at Campione, Ialy, near
here, is reported to be imminent.
The Swiss and Italian govern
ments has compromised differ
ences which arose over Swiss con
tentions that Swiss citizens were
spending too many Swiss francs at
the gaming tables.
LEWISTON, Me. </P)—A woman
returned her new electric iron to
a store with a complaint that “it
doesn’t hold heat properly.”
The service department tested it,
found it in good order, and sug
gested that she have her home’s
wiring checked.” -
“Oh,” she replied. “I don’t have
electricity. I take the iron across
the street to my sister’s home, plug
it in until it gets hot, then take it
home. But it doesn’t seem to hold
the heat long enough for me to do
much ironing.”
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Reverse Examiners
Contention In
Lighterage Case
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SEATTLE — The Territory of
Alaska won a round this week in
its battle against high transporta- !
tion rates.
Alaskans gathering for a hear
ing here on ocean steamship
charges learned that the U. S.
Maritime Commission has revers
ed its own examiner’s contention
in the Bering Sea lighterage case
and has ordered the case decided
on its merits.
After exhaustive hearings last |
summer and fall at Nome and
Seattle, Examiner F. J. Horan had
submitted to the commission a
; proposed finding that because of a
' flaw in basic legislation, the Mar
! itime Commission could not con
! trol lighterage rates. His position,
! opposed by the Alaska Develop
| ment Board, has now been over
■ thrown by the members of the
Commission, who will decide whe
j ther Alaska lighterage rates are
; unreasonable and will enter an or
der correcting such unlawful prac
tices as it may find to exist.
The development board contend
ed lighterage rates at Nome, Kot
zebue and other ports were so
i high as to discourage development
J and to place an undue burden up
j on residents of the Second Divi
| sion of Alaska. Witnesses con
! tended large sums from the Nome
I operation were being diverted to
pay salaries, bonuses, annuities
and dividends to four members of
the Lomen family listed as com
pany officers. If this administra
tive expense could be reduced to a
reasonable level, the Development
Board contended, rates could be
reduced by as much as 35 per cent.
Lighterage rates at Nome ad
vanced again after Examiner
Horan submitted his report sug
gesting the Maritime Commission
had no jurisdiction over lighter
age operations.
“Atom Bomb No
Longer Secret”
Says Molotov
LONDON, (£*) — Foreign minis
ter V. M. Molotov of Russia as
serted yesterday that the secret of
the atom bomb “has long ceased
to exist.”
Molotov, speaking on the eve of
the 30th anniversary of the Rus
sian revolution, told the Russian
people in a speech broadcast from
Moscow:
“It is interesting that in the ex
pansionist circles of the United
States a hew, peculiar sort of illu
sion has been formed about their
internal strength—a belief in the
secret of the atom bomb, although
this secret has long ceased to ex
ist.”
A Moscow radio commentator
said cheers greeted this remark.
“Evidently the imperialists need
this faith in the atom bomb, which
as is known, is not a means of de- ]
fense but a weapon of aggression,”
Molotov said. “Many are indignant
that the U. S. A. and Great Bri
tain hamper the United Nations
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Congress To Hold
Hearing On Alaska
T ransportalion
(By Charles D. Watkins)
<(/P) Special Washington Service*
WASHINGTON, (/P) — A Con- j
gressional hearing on Alaskan
transportation problems was pro- !
posed today by Rep. Tollefson «R - ;
Wash.) for Nov. 20.
Tollefson wired Rep. Allen <R.
Calif.), chairman of a special
House committee, urging a hear- ■
ing be called for that date as many
persons interested in the Terri- |
tory’s transportation plight will be j
here Nov. 19 for a maritime com- J
mission hearing involving Alaskan i
shipping companies.
The committee was appointed;
! last summer to work out plans for !
| service to Alaska to replace the in
i terim service now operating with
i government vessels, authority for
which expires next June 30.
The maritime hearing will be on
a petition of the Alaska Transpor
l tation Co., for denial of operating
! rights under the interim agreement
i to the Northland Transportation
; Co., a subsidiary of the Alaska
! Steamship Company.
i The petition charges that North
! land had violated the agreement
i that the Alaska Transportation
| Co., and the Northland company
serve only southeast Alaska.
It contended Northland took on
cargo at ports in other sections of
the Territory.
The petition also asks that the
government vessels allocated to
Northland be assigned to the Alas
ka Transportation Co., and the
Alaska Steamship Co.
Tollefson said officials of the
three steamship companies, repre
sentatives of the Territory, of the
Alaska Railroad and others inter
j ested will attend the maritime
! commission hearing,
i This will give the committee, he
said, an opportunity of hearing
from both sides without requiring
witnesses to make a special trip to
| Washington.
Byrnes Demands
Russia Return Jap
Prisoners To Japan
WINSTON SALEM, N. C. </P>—
Former secretary of state James
F .Byrnes called on the United
States to demand the immediate
return of an estimated 828,000
Japanese prisoners which he said
Russia is holding in violation of
the Potsdam agreement.
In an address Wednesday night
before the House of Bishops of the
Protestant Episcopal church,
Byrnes also was strongly critical
of the time France, Belgium and
Britain are taking in repatriating
prisoners held by them.
“Our good faith is involved,” he
asserted, because we took the ini
tiative in the Potsdam declaration
that promised Japanese troops a
safe return home to encourage
them to surrender.
Russia, he said, is bound by the
pledge, but the Soviet government
nevertheless has taken hundreds
of thousands of prisoners into
Russia.
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President Full Of
“No Comments** At|
Press Conference
(By Douglas B. Cornell)
WASHINGTON, (^(—President
Truman said yesterday he is hap
py over the big election turnout
last Tuesday because it shows peo
ple are learning their responsibil-!
ities as citizens.
But the chief executive again
declined to bite at a news confer-;
ence question which would have
shown his own political intentions
for next year.
That was an inquiry as to whe
ther he has made his “choice for
a running mate” in the 1948 Pres
idential election.
Mr. Truman laughed and said
that was a leading question and he
had no comment. He likewise had
no comment on a lot of other
things. In a lengthy discussion of
the coming special session of Con
gress and its related problems,
however, he said:
The question of emergency aid
to Europe and inflation at home
are of equal importance.
He hopes Congress will act on
European aid first. He will make
that clear in a message at the Nov.
17 opening of the session.
A long-range plan for helping
Europe, after the stop-gap pro
gram, will be sent to Congress
when it is ready—either before or
after the regular session beginning
in January.
On other subjects:
Taxes—The administra t i o n's
views will go into the annual mes
sage to Congress on the state of
Union at the start of the regular
sesion in January. As for vetoing
another Republican tax cutting
bill, as he did twice last session,
that will be decided when the sit
uation comes up.
Food—The President has no ex
pectation that Charles Luckman
will resign soon as chairman of the
citizens food committee, even
though a reporter said the agricul
ture department estimates that all
the hundred million bushels of
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Canada to Demand
Recall Of “Offen
sive” Russians
OTTAWA, (J-P) —Canada—char
acterizing a recent address by a
Soviet embassy employee as
“clearly offensive”—has served
notice on the Russian embassy that
henceforth it will demand the re
call of any foreign diplomat vio
lating “diplomatic propriety” in
speeches or public addresses.
Laurent Beaudry, acting under
secretory of state, stated the Ca
nadian position in a memorandum
to Soviet charge d’affaires M. V.
Degtiar. Calling attention to a
speech last July by I. O. Scher
batiuk, an embassy exployee.
Scherbatiuk—addressing the as
sociation of united Ukrainians of
Canada—was reported to have as
sailed certain Ukrainian groups in
Canada who are seeking to bring
over Ukrainians from European
displaced person camps rather
than see them teturned to Russia.
Russia Shows Her
Military Might On
••Bolshevik Day”
LONDON, fyp)—Russia paraded
her military might through Mos
cow’s Red Square in commemora
tion of the Bolshevik revolution’s
30th anniversary today amid re
newed cries that “warmongers”
are calling for a campaign against
the Soviet Union and “making
plans for a new imperialist war.”
In a special broadcast beamed
directly at the United States and
Great Britain, the. Moscow radio
quoted Marshal Uikolai Bulganin,
Soviet minister of the armed
forces, as saying just before the
i parade began to the accompani
1 ment of martial music by massed
( bands, that:
! “After the second world war es
j sential changes have taken place
i in the international situation. As a
result of the war the system of
capitalism has suffered a serious
; loss. The forces of democracy
j 'communism' and socialism have
strengthened, but the forces of
| capitalism have weakened.
"The successes of the demo
cratic camp (communists) give the
' warmongers no rest. Forgetting
| the lessons of the recent war, they
are calling for a campaign against
democracy 'communism), against
| the Soviet Union, and making
plans for a new imperialist war.”
| Bulganin was extravagant in his
j praise of prime minister Stalin,
! who apparently was still on vaca
tion at a Black Sea port, and of
the armed forces of the U.S.S.R.
"The Soviet people and its arm
j ed forces, under the leadership of
their leader and teacher of genius.
Comrade Stalin, routed Hitlerite
Germany and imperialist Japan,’
he declared from the tribune atop
the tomb of Nikolai Lenin.
"This historically unprecedent
ed victory proved that the Soviet
army, armed with the most ad
vanced, Stalinist military science
and supplied with the most mod
ern military equipment, is a first
class army of our time.”
The Soviet Union, Bulganin con
tinued, “will continue to pursue
its consistent policy of struggle
for the peace and security of the
peoples. The foreign policy of the
Soviet Union finds ardent support
from the whole of progressive
mankind which does not want a
ne.w war and is striving for a last
ing peace.”
“Our glorious armed forces
stand, on guard for the October
(1917 revolution) gains, on guard
for the peaceful labor of Soviet
peoples and the state interests of
the motherland,” the Marshal de
clared.
SCOUT EXECUTIVE OF MID
NIGHT SUN DISTRICT IN NOME
Russ Apple, Scout Executive of
the Midnight Sun district of Boy
Scouts, with headquarters in Fair
banks, arrived on official Scout
business today with Alaska Air
lines. He will meet with the local
Scout leaders and other people
interested in Scouting, and possi
bly will go camping with Troop
666 over the week-end. He will
give as much service to Troop 666
during his stay, as is possible.