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NEWS IN BRIEF i
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► LONDON, <;P> — A 12-year-old
girl in the tower bridge juvenile'
court on a charge of waywardness
suddenly recognized one of the
court’s visitors.
The child clung to her mother,
pointed to the visitor, and wailed:
“Whatever will she think of me?,
I’ll never be naughty again.”
The visitor was Princess Eliza
A beth.
TOKYO, </P)—Increased Amer
ican demand for Japanese silk has!
prompted a plan for doubling the (
output by 1952. •
Japanese government officials
said production this year is estim
ated at 140,000 bales. Improved
techniques and use of reclaimed
lands for mulberry trees — on
which silkworms feed—are plan
ned.
DUBLIN. (/P) — Eamon de Va
lera was defeated by five voles in
Parliament today for re-election
as Eire's prime minister.
FORT LEWIS, Wash. (JP)—Fort
Lewis authorities said today that
a plane which crashed in a takeoff
from the Great Falls, Mont., air
base early Monday was not one
returning Second Infantry sol
diers back here from “Exercise
Yukon” maneuvers in Alaska.
Twenty-five persons on the
plane narrowly escaped injury,!
Great Falls reports said.
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BUTTE, Mont., UP)—An army
C-82 cargo plane, piloted by Capt.
Fred Pierce, Jr., of McChord
Field, Wash., made an emergency
landing with 28 men aboard here
last night.
The plane, of the troop carrier |
command, was en route from Ladd
Field, to Los Angeles when trou
ble developed in the port engine.
W A S H I N GTON, UP) — This
year’s incubator chicks have rea-1
son to wish for the old-fashioned
sitting hen.
The agriculture department re- ‘
ported today that the modern, me- j
chanical “mothers” aren’t doing
so well—the fuel oil shortage,
you know.
That, coupled with a drop in de-:
mand, caused commercial chick
output in January to drop nine
f* per cent below that of January,
1947, the department said.
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NANKING, UP) — The Chinese
government today announced it j
would refuse to recognize any gov-1
ernment for Korea “not establish-;
ed in accordance with decision by
the United Nations or procedure'
established by the Moscow confer-1
ence.”
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JACKSON, Miss., </P) — The
Mississippi Senate passed. a bill
yesterday allowing women to
serve on juries.
Passage on a 25 to 17 vote, came
despite warnings of opponents that
the bill might make it necessary
for women to serve with Negroes
on the juries.
^ CAIRO, Egypt, UP)—Mohamed
Wagdi of the Associated Press
Egyptian staff has won the Edgar
Gallad Bey award for the best
Truman Asks Aid |
For China
WASHINGTON, UP)—President
Truman asked Congress for $570,
000,000 today for aid to China.
In a special message to the leg
islators, Mr. Truman said that the
aid would be conditioned on Chi
na’s taking adequate measures to
achieve “economic stability and
recovery.”
The help would begin when
Congress voted it and would con
tinue until June 30, 1949—roughly
a one-year program.
Mr. Truman said the economic
situation in China now is getting
worse in spite of the aid the
United States has given the Chi
nese in the past.
The Chinese government and
people, he said, “are still laboring
under the double and inter-related
burden of civil war and a rapidly
deteriorating economy.”
See Stalin Author
Of Red Charges
MOSCOW7, (/P) — Experienced
observers of the Moscow scene
professed today their belief that
the hand of Prime Minister Stalin
definitely can be detected in au
thorship of recent Soviet accusa
tions against the western powers.
They said the tone particularly
of the fourth and last section of
the Soviet information bureau’s
statement entitled “falsifiers of
history” was highly authoritative.
This section, they added, seemed
to show decided traces of the
phraseology usually associa ted
with Stalin.
Stalin has been exceptionally
busy since he returned to Moscow
in December from his vacation.
The Soviet leader, who celebrated
his 68th birthday Dec. 21, has ap
peared in public twice and re
ceived foreign guests five times in
the past month.
He has been seen with more fre
quency than usual by foreigners.
They have reported him in excell
ent health.
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FIRE DESTROYS BASE
MOTOR POOL
A disastrous fire at the motor
pool on the Nome Air Base last
Sunday evening destroyed about
six cars including a command car
and other army equipment, it is
reported. The building was a total
loss due to the fact so much gas
and oil made it impossible to check
the fire. It is understood that the
bus narowwly escaped destruction
which is fortunate as transporta
tion would have been seriously
handicapped.
news story of 1947 on an Oriental
subject written in a foreign lan
guage.
Wagdi won the award for two
stories, one: an interview with■
Abd El Krim last July in which
the exiled Moroccan tribal leader
vowed*to wage war again on the
French to free North Africa and, I
two: An article on the Arab inde-1
pendence movement in northwest:
Africa, written in June, 1947.
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Third Party First
In Bronx Election
NEW YORK, </P)—The smash-1
ing, unexpected triumph of a
Henry A. Wallace-backed Ameri
can Labor party candidate in a
special Bronx Congressional elec
tion handed Democratic party
leaders a severe jolt today.
Third party strategists, on the
other hand, were elated. Wallace
himself, in Tampa, Fla., on a
speaking tour, declared: “This
proves that the so-called third
party can become the first party in
1948.”
Leo Isacson, the ALP nominee,
captured yesterday’s 24th District
contest easily by rolling up more
votes than his three opponents
combined.
The victory, and especially its
size, was amazing to political ob
servers w.ho had eyed the election
( closely for a hint as to Presiden
tial candidate Wallace’s power to
| win votes in this national cam
: paign year. The Democratic can
| didate was expected to win hand
; ily, since the 24th District has sent
members of that party to Congress
for years.
Isacson, a 38-year-old attor
ney who will become the second
ALP member of Congress, won
22,697 votes. Karl Propper, Demo
crat, got 12,578; Dean Alfange,
Liberal party, 3,840; and Joseph
de Nigris, Republican, 1,482.
The District is in the stronghold
of Edward J. Flynn, Bronx county
Democratic leader and former
1 party chairman, who put his or
ganization^ solidly behind Prop
per.
Mayor William O’Dwyer and
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke
j in the district for the Democratic
candidate.
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Alaska SS. Protests
Canadian Vessels
In Alaska Trade
SEATTLE, (/P) — Details of a
protest against pending Senate
legislation which would permit
transportation of passengers by
Canadian vessels between Alaska
ports were revealed by F. A. Zeus
ler, executive assistant to. the pres
ident of Alaska Steamship Co.
The legislation, Senate bill 1834,
also would permit transportation
of merchandise via Canadian rail
and water routes from the Contin
ental) United States to Alaska
ports.
Zeusler’s protest was made in a
letter last December to Sen. Hugh
Butler of Nebraska, who intro
duced the bill following a tour
last summer of Alaska.
Because Canadian labor costs
are much lower than those of
American vessels, the bill would
result in driving American passen-1
ger ships from the Alaska trade,
Zeusler wrote.
He outlined the long-established
national policy of excluding for
eign ships from participating in
coastal trade; sketched the war
time service of the Aleska Lines,
under government control; and
pointed to their efforts to re-estab
lish themselves on a compensatory
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Large Seale
Air Maneuvers I
Over Nome
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(By Capt. Keith Angwin)
(Special to The Nome Nugget)
First of a series of articles dur
ing the course of maneuvers at
Nome Air Base.
NOME, </P)—In this fabulous,
far-flung northland, dotted here
and there by little cities with fa
mous names and picturesque na
tive villages, people watched with
open-mouth wonder, as fifteen
giant B-82 cargo planes of the
Twelfth Air Force approached the
Seward Peninsula, from the Ber
ing Sea, carrying two hundred
fifty Second Infantry Division
troops in the first large scale man
euver ever held in the integral
part of the largest outlying pos
session of the United States.
Meeting the large cargo planes
at Norton Sound a squadron of
P-51 "Mustang” fighters, com
manded by Major W. A. Norris,
Tampa, Florida, from the 57th
fighter group, Alaska Air Com
mand, escorted the troop carrier
planes who were flying in “tight
battle” formation to Nome Air
Base, which hugs the shoreline of
the Bering Sea at Nome,
j As the giant planes landed at
Nome Air Base, infantrymen of
the Second Infantry Division, Fort
Lewis, Washington, emerged from
the planes with full fighting
equipment, combat loaded sleds,
and moved into a tactical position
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Reds Continue To
Make Spurious
Wartime Charges
MOSCOW, (/P)—Russia has ac
cused the United States and Bri
tain of conducting secret talks for
a separate peace with Germany in
the middle of World War II.
The Soviet Union made the
charge last night in the fourth in
stallment of its reply to U. S. state
department disclosures of docu-!
ments regarding Russian-German
relations.
A statement said Allen W. Dul
les, a brother of John Foster Dul
les, represented the U. S. in talks
with a German spokesman in 1942
which touched on the question of
concluding a separate peace with
Germany.
It also charged that the son of
Lord Beaverbrook, a British pub
lisher, represented Britain in sim
ilar peace talks with a German i
representative in September, 1941.
The statement further accused
Britain and France of seeking to
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start war with the Soviet Union in
1940 instead of fighting Germany.
(Allen Welsh Dulles, former
chief of the U. S. office of strate
gic services in Europe worked
with underground forces seeking
to overthrow Hitler from 1942 on.
He wrote a book called “Ger
many’s Underground.” It was pub
lished last April.
(Dulles also arranged for the(
surrender of the German armies
in Italy. Later he helped prepare
the case against the Nazis at
Nuernberg.!
Alaska Statehood
(iets First Hearing
In ( Congress
(By James Marlow)
WASHINGTON, UP) — In Con
gress Alaska has been given its
first push toward statehood.
That doesn’t mean it will be
come a state this year or next.
But any push in that direction is
more than it’s had before.
Alaska, twice the size of Texas,
has a population of about 90,000—
60,000 whites and 30,000 Eskimos
and Indians.
It’s 89 times bigger than Hawaii
which has a 500,000 population.
Hawaii may have a better chance
of getting statehood this year.
That’s partly because the House
has approved Hawaiian statehood.
Now it’s up to the Senate. Neither
House or Senate has acted on
Alaska.
But Monday a Congressional
group, the sub-committee of the
House committee on public lands,
told the full committee it thinks
Alaska should be a state.
The sub-committee held hear
ings here and in Alaska last year
on the question.
Bills to make Alaska a state
have been kicking around in Con
gress for years. This is the first
time a hearing ever was held on
one of them.
Now if the full committee ap
proves, and tells the full House,
and if the House approves, then
it’s up to the Senate.
All that’s needed to make Alas
ka a state is an okay by both
Houses. But the Senate may not
approve, even if the House does.
The Senate has a busy year.
None of its committees has held
hearings on Alaska. And, besides,
the Senators may think twice
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relief son Favors
Immediate Alaska
Statehood
WASHINGTON. (/P)—Rep. Tel
lefson (R.-Wach.) came out yes
terday for statehood for Alaska.
He also favors giving the new
state control of fisheries in Alas
kan waters.
Tollefson, chairman of the
House subcommittee on salt water
fisheries, disclosed his views in a
statement explaining he had not
reached a decision on a bill to li
cense fish traps in the Territorial
waters.
“I favor statehood for Alaska at
the earliest possible date,” Tollef
son said, ‘‘and that with statehood
should go all the rights accorded
other states upon their admission
to the union. Included, of course,
would be jurisdiction over its own
fisheries.”
Control of Alaska fisheries now
in held by the interior department.
Tollefson said.neither he nor
any member of his sub-committee
has announced for or against the
trap bill.
Tollefson agreed with the recent
statement of Senator Magnuson
(D.-Wash.) that there will be no
action on it during the present ses
sion.