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NEWS IN BRIEF
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KODIAK, </P)—-Lt. Edward W.
Jackson, executive officer of the
coast guard cutter Cedar, will re
tire from the coast guard on Dec.
31 after 26 years service. He has
been stationed here the past two
and a half years, completing 10
years Alaska duty. He and Mrs.
Jackson will leave for Seattle the
first of the year.
SEATTLE i/P)—The coast guard
reported yesterday the 66-ton
freighter Kasilof, though disabled,
reached the port of Hoonah with
its tow yesterday.
The freighter was slightly dam
aged when it ran aground in Dry
Bay, 120 miles northwest of Jun
eau, Sunday. It was bound for
Seattle with a 100-foot scow. A
tug will tow the ship to Juneau
for repairs.
OTTAWA, (/P)—Canada is not
considering peacetime conscription
defense minister Brooke Claxton
said yesterday.
He was commenting on reports
that Canada’s obligations under
the North Atlantic Security Pact
might make it necessary for the
government to give renewed con
sideration to some form of com
pulsory service.
LONDON, </P) — Buckingham
palace announced today that Prin
cess Elizabeth is now getting up
each day and her son, born Nov.
14, is gaining weight.
JUNEAU, (#*)—The coast guard
vessel Unalga arrived here Wed
nesday after a two months’ trip to
the Aleutian Islands carrying sup
plies to outlying districts. It will
take on mail and sail for Seattle.
SEATTLE, <£>)—Ingvald Stam
nes, a fishing boat operator, died
Wednesday. He was 62.
Born in Trondheim, Norway,
Mr. Stamnes had lived in Seattle
10 years and in Ketchikan 20
years.
JUNEAU, <;P)—Mrs. Nola Ari
sen, a widow about 65 years old,
was found dead in her beach cabin
near here yesterday.
Coroner Felix Gray said appar
ently she froze to death during the
recent cold spell. She had been
dead about a week, the coroner
said.
MANILA, </P) — A three -day
strike by 1,000 oil company work
ers was settled today by govern
ment mediators. A compromise
was reached on wage demands and
union grievances about the hand
ling of personnel.
BERLIN <>P)—A passenger train
crashed into a suburban local in
the Soviet occupation zone west of
Berlin today, killing 16 Germans
and injuring 15 others.
Railway authorities said fog or
poor lighting may have caused
the accident.
MOSCOW, <>P)—'The presidium
of the Supreme Soviet today an
nounced award of the Order of Le
nin to Col. Gen. T. F. Shtikov,
Soviet ambassador to the ‘People’s
Republic’ of Northern Korea. He
International News
At A Glance —
Thursday, December 2. 1948
<By The Associated Press)
Chinese communists announced
today the capture of Suchow, big
nationalist base 211 miles north
west of Nanking.
I s garrison of 250,000 had been
ordered southward to rescue the
trapped 12th Chinese army group
earlier in the week. Pilots drop
ping rice to the city reported tne
communists within a mile of Su
chow, so there was no reason to
doubt the report.
The victory exposed the rear of
three outnumbered • government
army groups to the advancing
communists. The commun i s t s
,claimed the government’s 110th di
i vision, trapped with the 12th army
group, had gone oyer to the Red
side.
i In Berlin, Col. Frank Howley,
U. S. sector commandant, said the
! Russians have broken so many
i agreements he doubts whether it is
j wise to try and reach another ac
cord in the continuing German cri
sis. He said the communists who
set up a rump city government in
the Russian sector to replace the
elected Berlin regime are “crim
inals.” #
J Howley said the communists
acted with full Russian accord and
this was “just one more step in the
long line of broken agreements”
over the last two years .
Efforts were renewed today to
mediate the East-West Berlin
blockage deadlock despite com
munist strongarm efforts to seize
the whole city.
A high state department offi- 1
cial in Washington said the elec- |
tion of a separate communist gov- i
ernment in Berlin—by a show of 1
hands rather than by ballots—!
made a solution more difficurt, if '
not impossible.
Neutral financial experts were j
instruc*jbd by the six “neutral” I
powers of the U. N. security coun
cil to draft Berlin currency regu
lations acceptable to all four occu
pation powers this month. A
French official said, however,
“Something new” will be needed
to end the crisis now that the
communists, at Russian bidding,!
have divided the city entirely.
The currency issue was raised
by the Russians as an issue after
they blockaded Berlin in June.
Actually they are trying to chase
the U. S., Britain and France from j
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was former Soviet commander of
occupation troops in Korea.
MONTREAL, (A5) — Former
prime minister W. L. MacKenzie
King last night entered the Ross
Memorial pavilion of the Royal
Victoria hospital for a checkup.
LIMA, Peru, (JP)—Gen. Manuel
Odria’s military government to
day extended Peru’s state of siege
(martial law) for 30 days. Deposed
President Jose Bustamante de
clared the state of siege Oct. 16
and it was retained by Odria’s re
gime when Bustamente was over
thrown three days later.
Pioneer Roof
Garden Dec. 18
Jim Walsh, general chairman of
the Roof Garden committee has
announced the following sub-com
mittee appoinments:
Finance — Nels Swanberg, Jr.,
chairman; Tolbert Scott, Gus
Bjorns!adt, A Polet, Robert Bald
win, and M. J. Walsh.
Publicity—A Polet and M. J.
Walsh.
Program and Entertainment—A.
Steinwandel, chairman; Pearse
Walsh, Chas. O’Leary, Robert
Baldwin, Henry Ulrich.
Amusement and Games—Chas.
Pennycook. chairman; A. Polet,
Henry Ulrich, Fred Rohn, Chas.
Jones, W. E. H. Cremer.
Refreshments — Peter Olsen,'
chairman; John Kost, Geo. Wald-!
helm, George Geamalis, A. Castel.
Executive Committee — Nels
Swanberg, Jr., A. Steinwandel,
Tolbert Scott, A. Polet, Chas. Pen
nycook, Peter Olsen, Pearse Walsh
Henry Ulrichf.
All above committees are re
quested to meet at Pioneer Hall
next Sunday, at 2:00 p.m. A com
mittee from the Ladies Auxiliary
will also be present. „
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Military Budget
Will Depend On
Unified Savings
WASHINGTON, {&) — Senator
McKellar (D.-Tenn.) advised the
armed services yesterday their fi
nancial rating with the new Con
gress may rest on whether they
can show a unification savings l
dividend.
The veteran lawmaker is slated
for a key role in settling the
mounting dispute over how much
this country will spend on defense
next year. He is due to become
chairman of the Senate appropria
tions committee, which must give
clearance to federal spending re
quests.
A staunch administration sup
porter, McKellar indicated he is :
backing President Truman’s plan
to hold military outlays within a
fifteen billion dollar limit in the
fiscal year starting July 1. Secre
tary of defense Forrestal had pro
posed a budget allotment ranging
up to twenty-three billion.
McKellar told a reporter he is
“greatly interested in learning if
consolidation of the army, navy
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Ship Strike Ends;
Jurisdiction Talks
Still Hang Fire
SAN FRANCISCO, </P)— Agree
ment was reached today with th<
last of five striking maritirm
unions to end the west coast strike
Omark Hoskins, federal concil
iator, said the CIO radio operators
and the Pacific American Ship
owners association came to terms
after an all night conference. Both
sides were to hold ratification
meetings today.
Earlier the other unions and em
ployers reached agreements to end ,
the three-month strike.
Even before the radio operators
and shipowners reached terms, i
the unions had agreed to a limited
work schedule today, with four
ships freed for work in this port so
that Christmas cargo could start
moving to Hawaii and the Philip
pines.
The radio operators new con
tract would run for three years,
with annual wage reviews. It pro- j
vides for a 10 per cent pay in- i
crease, bringing the basic freighter !
wage from $295 a month to $325. [
Operators will receive pay for,
shifting ships in port. ,
Two unions, the CIO murine
cooks and stewards and the inde
pendent marine firemen, made
peace with the employers yester
day. The CIO longshoremen and
CIO marine engineers previously
had agreed on terms.
There is an adiitional dispute to
be ironed out. The non-striking
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Truman Leaves
Cabinet Intact
(By Marvin L. Arrowsmiih)
WASHINGTON, <£>)—President
Truman is making no changes in
his cabinet at this time.
That’s what he said yesterday at
his first White House news con
ference since the election. But he
left the way open for some chang
es later by saying he reserves the
right to shuffle the cabinet mem
bership at his pleasure.
The news conference was a live
ly one. The Presdient employed a
fast change of pace, at times seri
ous and sharp, but often drawing
hearty laughter from the 225 news
men—the largest crowd since his
first conference as President in
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Philip Martin, who has been
held as a suspect for the murder
of Mrs. Luella Grant, although ap
prehended for a different crime,
' was charged with murder in the
first degree yesterday morning in
the U. S. District Court by the
. Grand Jury.
? A true bill was brought in
? ' against Clyde Gray, former Chief
of Police of Nome, for receiving
. bribes <on two counts) and for of
fering a bribe to a U. S. Official.
A true bill was also brought in
against Francis Ramirez for po
lygamy.
This morning two secret indict
ments were brought in by the
Grand Jury.
Clyde Gray was arraigned, hav
ing been charged with accepting m
bribe and offering a bribe to an U
S. official. The charge further read
that he had accepted a $50.00 bribe
from May Bale; a $30.00 bribe
from Vincent Moder and had of
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Miss Amarok Tells
Of Honolulu Trip
Mary Ann Amarok, who return
ed Wednesday from her ten-day
trip to Honolulu as guest of the
Pan American Airways says 3he
had a w’onderful time and can
find only one fault with the trip.
“It was too short, there were so
many things I wanted to do.”
Mary Ann who left here a week,
ago Sunday stopped in Seattle
where she was met by Marie
Swanson, representative of the
Pan American, and taken to tte
Olympic Hotel after much photog
raphing was done. After a two
hour rest she went through to
Portland where she was met by
Bonnie Ann Dunbar, daughter of
Mayor and Mrs. Luther Dunbar,
who took her to St. Helen’s School
for the night and downtown shop
ping in the morning.
A banquet of Pan American of
ficials was given in her honor af
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