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VOL. L. No. 15 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1948 PER COPY —He
NEWS IN BRIEF
SAN DIEGO, </P) — There was
no bitterness, only tears, as a 17
year old girl returned to a sob
bing mother the six months old
baby boy she had taken from a
parkdd automobile 24 hours be
fore.
“I’m sorry. I knew it was wrong
to take him, but I felt sorry for
him there alone in the car, cry
1 ing,” Mrs. Dorothy Parker, a
childless child-bride of two years,
told the mother. She added that
she lost a baby a year ago; could
n’t have another.
“I said I wouldn’t prosecute
anybody that brought my baby
back and I won’t,” replied the
mother, Mrs. Louis B. Anders, 27.
She and her husband were danc
ing when their son was taken from
their car, parked outside, Satur
day night.
HOUSTON, (/P)—Ever yearn for
a title? Here’s one for sale:
“King Cockalorum, Lord of
Turkey, Prince of Fryerland, King
of Poultry, Master of Henzia and
Emporor of Caponia.”
The Houston fat stock show and
livestock exposition will bestow
the honor on the high bidder for
the grand champion capon today.
The bird goes with the title, too.
WASHINGTON, OP)—'The Sen
ate interior and insular affairs
committee approved Monday a
bill which would permit compe
tent natives of Alaska to be given
unresticted deeds for homesites
in villages.
SEWARD, (/P) — Funeral serv
ices will be held Friday for Joseph
P. Doshen, 32, joint owner of the
Palace Bar, who died Sunday af
ter a brief illness.
Doshen, regarded as one of ..he
outstanding basketball players in
the Territory, attended Franklin
high school in Seattle. He was a
former city councilman of Seward.
He leaves his widow and two chil
dren here and his mother, Mrs.
Martin Doshen, and two sisters in
Seattle.
LONDON, (/P) — The Earl of
Derby, British war secretary dur
ing the first world war, died today
at his country home near Prescot,
Lancashire. He was 82 years old.
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WASHINGTON, </P)—Secretary
of the interior Krug assigned to
assist Secretary C. Girard David
son today responsibility for de
partment programs in the Pacific
.Northwest, including Washington,
Oregon, Idaho and western Mon
tana.
Assistant secretary William E.
Warne, Krug said, will have sim
ilar supervision for activities for
Alaska.
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Consoli
dation of the air transport com
1 mand in the naval air transport
service with Maj. Gen. Laurence
l S. Kuter as chief was announced
I today by secretary of defense For
1 restal.
£ The deputy commander will be
r Rear A dm. John P. Whitney.
I Kuter is the air force general
fc whose nomination to head the
civil aeronautics board was
Truman May Seek
Running Mate
From Solid South
WA S H INGTON, (/P) — Politi
cians wondered today whether the
cries of Dixie Democrats outraged
by the racial issue might influence
President Truman to choose a
southerner as his running mate.
The speculation among some
Democrats here runs this way:
1. The revolt against Mr. Tru
man’s 10-point civil rights pro
gram may never bring about the
electoral college results its spon
sors predict, but it could hurt the
President in border states.
2. The late President Roosevelt
was sufficiently concerned in 1944
by an even weaker Dixie protest
to toss Henry Wallace overboard.
He picked Mr. Truman, a Missou
rian, for the vice presidential
nominee.
3. Someone like House minority
leader Rayburn of Texas could be
; chosen without serious offense tc
\ either racial or labor groups in the
i north. He would give southern
i Democrats a voice at court.
The politicians who talked ol
these things emphasized that they
are only speculating. President
Truman alone knows how serious
ly he regards the southern com
plaints. His party leaders are in
clined to discount them.
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PA A Pilots Report
Flares In Atlantic
I
NEW YORK, (/P)—Pilots of twc
, Pan American World Airways
• planes early today reported sight
I ing a green flare and a white life
raft in two separate Atlantic ocean
areas between 655 and 750 miles
j south of Bermuda, a spokesman
! for the air line said.
No signs of life were seen, pi
lots of the two planes said.
The sightings were reported six
days after the disappaerance of a
British South American Airways
! plane, carrying Sir Arthur Con
ingham, British aiv hero of World
War II and 28 other persons, on a
i flight from the Azores to Bermu
I da.
The air liner was a four-engined
. Tudor IV. Its last radio message
| was sent when the plane was
about 380 miles east northeast ol
: Bermuda.
Ku Klux Klan
Comes To Life
SWAINSBORO, Ga. (/P)—Hood
ed night riders of the Ku Klux
Klan. 189 strong, rededicated
themselves “to the protection of
white womanhood” here last
night.
There would have been more
Klansmen present, said a leader,
but others were unable to obtain
sheets.
In single file the white-robed
klansmen marched around the
town square and through the resi
blocked by a Senate committee.*
The combined transport service
will be called “the military air
transport service,” and will be es
tablished under the United States
air force.
3,000,000 German '
Workers Strike
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HAMBURG, Germany, (#*) — |
Nearly 3,000,000 German workers'
went on a 24-hour hunger strike
yesterday. The walkout stalled in
dustry in the entire British zone
and the State of Wurttembergba
den in the American sector.
Three simultaneous strikes be
I gan at midnight over an area
reaching from Hamburg to Stutt
gart. It was the greatest mass
demonstration of this type yet held
in Germany.
Streetcars and trains stopped
running at the appointed hour in
Stuttgart, Heidelberg, Mannheim,
and other major cities of Wurt
i tembergbaden. In factories night
shift workers left their machines.
Only vital utilities continued to
I operate.
' About 1,000,000 workers were
; involved in the Wurttemberg
baden tie-up. The strikers adopted
| the slogan the “unequally laden
table.” In both zones the walk
outs appear to be aimed against
German food officials rather than
the occupying powers.
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Partition Commis
sion Will Soon Go
To Palestine
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LAKE SUCCESS, (/P) — The
United Nations Palestine partition
commission will send an advance
party into the Holy Land, possibly
within 10 days.
i A source close to the five-nation
! commission said the party would
; go to Jerusalem first to lay
groundwork for the splitup of Pal
estine.
; The commission made the deci
sion yesterday but did not decide
on the composition or date of en
try of the group. It was stipulated
however, that the party would not
include any of the delegates. A U.
N. official said the move from
here might be started within 10
days.
Sir Alexander Cadogan, the
British delegate here, told the
commission previously he would
agree to sending ahead a small
staff of one or two persons. At the
I time, delegates raised an immedi
ate objection to the small number.
Cadogan hinted the issue could be
worked out.
dential section, ending on the
courthouse lawn where they sang
"America.” On the last note a
masked leader shouted:
‘‘May we rededicate our lives to
the protection of white woman
hood?"
A torch then was put to a 10
foot cross and as it burned there
were cries of ‘‘Where’s Drew
Pearson? Where’s Walter Win
chell?”
The syndicated columnists both
have written anti-Klan stories.
REV. G. E. KNIGHT
HERE ON SURVEY
Rev. G. E. Knight, superintend
ent of the church work of the
: Methodist Church in Alaska ar
; rived from Anchorage on a sur
' vey. This Is not his first trip to
! Nome as he has made many
friends on previous trips.
Hindus Seek
Plotters of Gandhi
Assassination
(By G. Milton Kelly)
NEW DELHI, UP)—A high po
lice official said today an inten
sive roundup is under way
throughout India of prominent
member sof the militant Hindu or
ganization, RSSS.
The RSSS—Rashtriya Swayam
Sweak Sangh—has, long, with the
equally militant Hindu Mahasaba
party, been the target of irate
mobs since the assassination last
Friday of Mohandas K. Gandhi.
The accsued slayer is described as
a member of Mahasabha.
The official said the defendants
were being charged with belong
ing to an unlawful organization
Rumors swept the capital that the
RSSS had been outlawed by gov
ernment decree.
Yesterday the government is
sued a decree banning private
armies and organizations t h al
preach violence and communal
hatred.
BOMBAY, OP)—Reliable police
sources said today Madan Lai, z
j Hindu youth accused of exploding
a homemade bomb near one ol
j Gandhi’s last prayer meetings
I has been brought here from New
Delhi by plane.
Although police officially main
tained strict secrecy, they said in
! vestigation of the assassination ol
the Indian leader last Frida}
would center in Bombay, where
they say a plot on Gandhi’s life
was begun.
Police sources said Madan Lai
a West Punjab refugee, is being
asked by police to identify person*
arrested on suspicion of conspir
ing in the assassination.
Asks U. S. Warships
Not To Visit Italy
WASHINGTON, (vP) — Italy is
reported to have suggested infor
mally to the United States that it
would be politically smart to ease
up on visits of American warships
I to Italian ports.
The presence of United States
Mediterranean fleet units in Ital
| ian harbors recently has been at
tacked by Russia. Italian Com
munists have been making politi
cal capital of it.
A struggle now is getting un
derway between Communists and
non-Communists preliminary to
the Italian general elections in
April. The Italian government
doesn’t want the warship visits to
become an issue.
Aid To Cats
Causes Fire
GREENSBORO, N. C., (A3) —
Two strange and cold cats were
sheltered today by the sympathet
ic Joseph Heplers.
The shivering animals cuddled
near an electric light on the back
porch, caused a short circuit and
caught on fire.
One, howling with pain, jumped
j to a nearby sofa, setting it afire
The flames spread to the attic ol
Senate Sidetracks
Tax Slash Bill
WASHINGTON, (VP)—The Sen
ate put the Republican tax cutting
bill on ice yesterday.
The bill may stay in the cooler
for two months or more. And
when it does come up for a Senate
vote, it probably will call for less
than the $6,560,000,000 cut over
whelmingly approved by the
House.
The GOP measure rocketed
through the House Monday by a
197 to 120 count. That is 19 votes
more than the two-thirds majority
needed to override a veto.
Action by the full Senate prob
ably will be delayed until after a
vote on the Marshall plan for Eu
ropean recovery. This may put off
a final tax showdown until April.
GOP Senators said they must
hold the revenue loss to some
where near $4,500,000,000 to get
the Democratic votes necessary to
override an expected Presidential
veto.
Making the taxcut a six-month
affair would take $3,250,000,000
off the taxpayers’ bills for 1948.
But that might not satisfy the
Democrats over the long run be
cause they estimate the House
measure will cut federal revenues
a total of $7,100,000,000 in the 12
full months after July 1.
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England Halts
Rising Wages
And Profits
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i LONDON (iP)—The British gov
ernment called today for a halt on
i increased wages and profits. If
was a move to check inflation.
Prime minister Attlee’s labor
i government issued a white paper
j saying:
“It is essential that there should
be no further general increase in
the level of personal incomes
without at least a corresponding
increase in the volume of produc
tion.
“Unless we are prepared to
I check such a tendency, we shall
1 find ourselves unable to fulfill our
|
j export task, owing to the rise in
costs, which will be reflected on
the home market.”
The pronouncement urged strict
adherence to collective bargain
ing, with workers and employers
observing terms of agreements
loyally.
“In present conditions and until
more goods and services are avail
able for the home market,” the
i white paper continued, there is no
; justification for any general in
' crease of individual money in
i comes. The word general was em
phasized.
The statement said exceptional
' cases for increased incomes will
| be considered, particularly when
! it is necessary to build up the
staff of an undermanned industry
contributing to the national inter
‘ ests.
the Hepler’s garage apartment be
fore controlled.
The torch carrier was put to a
mercy death and the other, Hep
ler said, was “running north the
1 last time I saw him.”