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NEWS IN BRIEF
FRANKFURT, Germany, (/Pi
Turkey dinners on Thanksgiving
were assured today for American
troops in Germany and Austria.
The army announced that 383,
395 pounds of turkeys have ar
rived in Bremerhaven. They will
be distributed in time for Thanks
giving.
LONDON, (/P)—The George S.
Kaufman comedy, “George Wash
ington Slept Here,” opens in Lon
don’s Strand theater tomorrow.
The British title: “Queen Eliza
beth Slept Here.”
JUNEAU, (/P)—Next May’s con
vention of the Alaskan department
of the Veterans of Foreign Wars
will be held in Juneau, it was an
nounced yesterday.
JUNEAU (/P)—A Juneau squad
ron of the Civil Air Patrol is being
organized and activated by Col.
Jack Carr of Anchorage. Carr is
commanding officer of the Alaska
CAP Wing, an auxiliary unit of
the air forces.
SEATTLE (/P>—A superior court
jury acquitted Mrs. Rosemany L.
David, a member of Alaska’s
prominent Lomen family, Wednes
day of a charge of negligent homi
cide arising from a traffic death.
An automobile driven by Mrs.
David fatally injured an 8-year
old boy in a daylight accident last
May. Jurors said they were unani
mous for acquittal on the second
ballot. Mrs. David said she never
saw the boy as he dashed into the
street.
One of the witnesses in her be
half was Ralph Lomen, her father,
of Nome and Seattle. She is the
wife of Cmdr. Warren David of
the coast guard. Mrs. David is the
mother of two children.
STOCKHOLM, UP)—The Swed
ish Academy decided yesterday to
shelve this year’s Nobel prize for
literature because it was hope
lessly deadlocked over four top
candidates, including Winston
Churchill and the Italian philoso
pher Benedetto Croee.
The tug-of-war on the prize de
cision was reported to have been
greater than any time during the
half century in which the 18
member academy has been mak
ing the award.
CHICAGO, </P)—James S. Kem
per resigned yesterday as treasur
er of the Republican national com
mittee because the GOP's reserve
funds have fallen below $125,000.
Kemper, a Dewey delegate at
the 1949 GOP convention, also
said he has been handicapped by
a difference between his opinions
and those of “the party—officially
or unofficially”—on political is
sues.
SEATTLE, <;P) — For the fifth
consecutive such month, Pan
American World Airways report
ed yesterday more than half a mil
lion pounds of Clipper cargo be
tween Seattle and Alaska cities in
October.
Traffic supt. E. E. McMorran
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| Alaska Legislation
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First Session
Second in a series of three ar
ticles.
Four bills sponsored by Dele
gate Bartlett affecting public land
in the Territory are now law.
They will permit the Secretary of
the Interior to sell land in the Ter
i ritory at public auction in tracts
of 160 acres for commercial and
industrial purposes, allow the sale
; of five acres of land to Ford J.
Dale of Fairbanks, permit the
sale of 240 acres of land to the
Boy Scouts of America in Alaska
and direct the secretary of the
interior to sell certain land at
South Naknek to the Russian Or
thodox Greek Catholic Church of
North America.
The Alaska Railroad employees
were brought within the benefits
of the Civil Service Retirement
Act and the 13-year-old Alaska
Railroad Retirement Act was abol
ished, with one of the main bene
fits making annuities available to
widows and children. Another
Bartlett bill will permit Alaska
Railroad employees to sue in the
Court of Claims in an attempt to
recover overtime compensation
covering the past 15 years.
Other bills on the credit side in
troduced by Delegate Bartlett will
allow until June 30 of next year
the carriage of passengers between
Haine sand Skagway and other
Alaska ports on Canadian vessels
and merchandise and passengers
between Hyder and other Alaska
ports and the continental United
States, will permit business license
taxes collected in Alaska to go in
to the Territorial treasury instead
of the federal treasury, as in the
past, and effected certain resi
dence requirements in the matter
of hunting in the Territory. Still
another measure, applies the rules
of the Supreme Court governing
pleading, practice and procedure
to the District Court of Alaska,;
with an additional law on the
books allowing the Civil Aeronau
tics Administration to incur cer
tain obligations for purchasing
and transporting supplies and ma
terials prior to the time Congress
appropriates the necessary funds.
Four of Delegate Bartlett’s bills
for the reimbursement of Alaska
residents became law. One paid
Mike Clipper of Seward $3,700
for loss of his vessel DORA dur
ing the war, the second reimburs
ed the Bank of Kodiak in the
amount of $3,000 for loss of mu
tilated currency when the SS Yu
kon sank, the third paid Jacob
Johnson $15,103.94 for fox losses
incurred in his operations near
Kodiak and the fourth will allow
three Anchorage residents, Hilda
Links, E. J. Ohman and Fred
Kroesing, to bring suit in the Dis
trict Court of Alaska in an at
tempt to recover mink ranch losses
due to armed forces activities.
Half the battle was won on nine
more Alaska bills introduced by
Delegate Bartlett with House ap
proval given and Senate action ex
pected early in the second session.
They would authorize the con
struction of a $20,365,400 hydro
electric plant at Eklutna Lake to
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Work Starts On
Nome Breakwater
Monday trucks of the Mansen
Osberg Construction Co. started
rolling into town regularly with
i loads of heavy rock from Cape
| Nome, which was dumped on the
i the east side of Snake River re
vetment, marking the official start
of the city’s breakwater.
A road has been made from the
west side of Cape Nome to the
beach where the trucks are being
; loaded.
Parents of small children in the
east end of town are urged to keep
j their children off the street for
! safety’s sake during working
| houfs of the company.
Work is expected to continue as j
long as weather conditions permit
so that as much of the breaKwa'er
as possible can be completed this
winter.
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Two Ships Catch
Fire At Sea;
Both Ci *ews Safe
SEATTLE (/P)—An engine room
fire drove the freighter Andalusia
to ground on a northwestern
Washington beach early today. A
crew of 27 was safe aboard.
The coast guard reported later
that the fire was out. The ground
ing ended two hours of uncertain
ty after the first fire alarm from j
the 7,117-ton Panamanian regis
tered freighter. The fire was re
ported extinguished by the crew.
It rammed aground a few miles
from the most northwestern tip of
the Continental United States.
The coast guard cutter Fir
reached the scene shortly after the
grounding and anchored 500 yards
from the beached ship, four miles
west of Neah Bay on the Strait of
Juan de Fuca. The ship asked the
cutter to stand by until commer
cial tugs can get lines aboard.
The coast guard said the ship
was taking water in No. 1 and 2
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200 Killed \\ lien
Typhoon Hits 1
Negros Island
—
MANILA, UP) — The Manila
Chronicle last night reported 200
persons were killed or drowned at
Kabankalan, Negros Island, in the
Philippines worst typhoon in I
years on Oct. 31.
The report, the newspaper said,
was given to the Provincial Gov
ernor’s office by Esteban Ababa,
a Senatorial candidate who came
from Kabankalan yesterday.
Previously 57 persons officially
had been reported killed on Ne
gros and Cebu Islands.
Additional storm damage was
reported from the islands of Leyte
and Mindanao.
In Manila the Philippines wrea
ther bureau was asked to explain
to the President’s office why its
storm warnings were 12 hours
late.
Truman To Stump
Country For “Fair
Deal’* Congress
(By Ernest B .Vaccaro)
Aboard Train enroute to Wash
ington, (/P) — President Truman’s
determination to stump the coun
try again next year to elect “Fair
Dealers” to Congress was strength
ened today by his reception in
Minnesota.
White House aides said he was
elated by his welcome yesterday
at Minneapolis and St, Paul where
police estimated 400,000 persons
lined the sidewalks to cheer him
along a 20-mile parade route.
An applauding crowd the police
estimated at 12,000 whooped it up
again last night in St. Paul’s civic
auditorium when he gave a fore
taste of the 1950 campaign with
a slashing attack on “the propa
ganda of the reactionaries.’
The President is convinced that,
he can help elect liberals to Con
gress by conducting the sort of
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A MIRACLE DRUG MIGHT HEL
H.5.T
News of the World
At A Glance - - -
Thursday, November 3, 1949
(By The Associated Press'
The problem of uniting Western
Europe is being considered today
by the foreign ministers of 12 na
tions.
The twelve, members of the
guiding ministerial committee of
the Council of Europe, are meet
ing in Paris.
They are considering resolu
tions passed by the council’s con
sultative assembly, which met at
Strasbourg in September. These
called for a European economic
union with preferential trade
links.
Paul G. Hoffman, Marshall Plan
administrator, earlier this week
called for economic integration of
Western Europe. The only way *4>
lasting prosperity. Hoffman said,
lies in the creation of a single Eu
ropean market.
Progress along this line was
made yesterday when the general
council of the European Economic
Cooperation Organization agreed
to eliminate national “restrictions
on 50 per cent of the international
commerce of Marshall Plan coun
tries.
In London, the British defense
ministry announced that North
Atlantic Treaty powers have start
ed work on an integrated plan for
meeting arms requirements. The
plan called for stepped up arms
production.
At Lake Success the United Na
tions considered a four-power
resolution declaring that Albania
and Bulgaria endanger peace in
the Balkans by aiding Greek guer
rillas. The resolution, introduced
by Australia, China, Britain and
the United States, was expected to
be carried by a big majority.
The resoluton also calls on Al
bania and Bulgaria to stop sup
porting the communist-led guer
rillas. The two Russian satellites
have ignored similar resolutions
passed by previous U. N. assem
blies.
One of the Vatican’s leading ad
ministrators, Francesco Cardinal
Marmaggi, died today. He was 73.
On the even of the celebrations
marking the 32nd anniversary of
the Russian October revolution,
Moscow made further claims to
scientific advancement. Serg e i
Vavilov, president of the Academy
of Sciences of the U. S. S. R., said
Soviet scientists have discovered
hitherto unknown characteristics
of radiation from atomic nuclei.
In Batavia, a government spokes
man said the Dutch administration
is granting amnesty to most polit
ical prisoners in Indonesia. This
was the first fruit of the agree
ment signed yesterday at The
Hague giving Indonesia sovereign
ty. The agreement must be rati
fied by both the Netherlands and
Indonesian governments to become
effective.
In a speech at Addis Ababa
opening the Ethiopian parliament.
Emperor Haile Selassie said his
country insists on getting posses
sion of the prewar Italian colonies
and Eritrea and Italian Somalia
land.
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