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Soviets Propose
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(By Tom Lambert)
SEOUL. UP) — Simultaneous
withdrawal of American and Rus
sian occupation forces from Ko
rea at the beginning of 194!! was
proposed today by Col. Gen. T. F.
Shtikov, chief Russian delegate to
the joint commission on Korea.
The proposal, made at a com
mission meeting called at Shtikov’s
request, was regarded by some
Americans here as an attempt to
avoid consideration of the Korean
issue by the United Nations. The
United States has placed the issue
before the U. N.
American authorities here had
no immediate comment on the
proposal.
Shtikov said at the meeting that
“The Soviet delegation believes
we may give Koreans the oppor
tunity to form themselves the gov
ernment with the help and assist
ance of the Allies, under the con
dition of withdrawal of American
and Soviet troops from Korea."
If the withdrawal should be af
fected, the Russians would leave
in North Korea a Communist gov
ernment backed up by an estimat
ed 200,000 trained, armed soldiers.
The Americans would leave in
south Korea—barring an election
before withdrawal—a predomin
antly rightist interim legislative
assembly and an estimated 50.009
policemen, constables and coast
guardsmen.
Some high-placed Americans
here immediately speculated that
the Russians thought north Korea
Reds were ready to attempt to in
stall a Communist government for
all Korea.
Two Tots Die In
Seattle Accidents j
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SEATTLE. (/P) — Two Seattle
children, each 18 months old. died
in separate mishaps here yester
day.
Anthony Arthur, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Bernard Arthur, choked to
death on a bite of apple. The boy
died as his father, an Associated
Press teletype operator, rushed
him to a doctor’s office in a neigh- j
bor’s car.
Sandra Gill, daughter of Mrs.
Elsid Gill O’Rourke, toddled from
her south end yard and fell into
the Duwamish river. The baby's
father was killed prior to her
birth in a motorcycle-automobile
accident on the Seattle-Tacoma
highway.
Canadians Not To
Unify Port Rates
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VANCOUVER. B. C. (/Pi — Any (
coastwise unification of port ter-j
minal rates such as has been un-1
dertaken in U. S. ports would <
threaten to destroy the competi-!
tive position now held by British ,
Columbia ports, delegates to the j
Pacific Coast association of port i
authorities were told here yester-1
day by K. M. Fetterly, general
freight agent for the Canadian Pa-!
cific railway here.
To Help Administer The Taft-Hartley Labor Law
WASHINGTON, D. C.—(Soundphoto)—Three new members of the National Labor Relations
Board, recently appointed to help administer the Taft-Hartley Labor Law, are sworn in by Judge Geo.
D Neilson nf the D. C. Municipal Court. Left to right: NLRB members J. Copeland Gray, Abe Mur
dock, NLRB General Counsel Robert N. Denham and Judge Neilson officiating.
Britain To Give
Up Mandate
In Palestine
LAKE SUCCESS, UP)—Britain
announced today that she had de
cided to end her 25-year mandate
rule over Palestine if the United
Nations failed to find a settlement
of the Holy Land problem accept
able to both Jews and Arabs.
Colonial secretary A r t h u r
Creech-Jones advised the general
assembly’s 55-nation Palestine
committee that the problem of en
forcing any unpopular settlement
would have to be handled by the
U. N. itself—and not Britain.
This was seen as a virtual dec
laration that Britain would be
ready to pull out on a fixed date,
since there appeared to be little
chance of the U. N. finding a solu
tion acceptable to both Jews and
Arabs.
Creech-Jones also declared that
Britain was ready to surrender her
League of Nations mandate over
the strife-torn Holy Land regard
less of the nature of the assem
bly’s final decisions.
A British spokesman made it
clear that the question of termin
ating the mandate and the ques
tion of withdrawing entirely from
Palestine were separate matters.
He explained that Britain would
be willing to continue in Palestine
a different status after the man
date was ended if Arab-Jewish
agreement could be reached. This
could take the form of a United
Nations trusteeship administered
by Britain in place of the man
date.
Wieners (lost More
Than Turkey
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PITTSBURGH, f/P) — Turkey,
regal adornment of many a holi- j
day table, was advertised at one
downtown market today for 53
cents a pound.
Lowly “hot dogs” in the same1
store cost 62 cents a pound.
MISS LOIS JUND ORGANIZES
GROUPS FOR MASS X-RAY
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Miss Lois Jund, who has been
in Nome for the past week organ
izing the various groups for the
mass x-ray survey leaves today
for Unalakleet to make the pre
j liminary preparations for an x-ray
| survey there.
The technicians and equipment
for the local survey is due to ar
rive in Nome from Point Barrow
today, she states. They were un
; able to make a survey at Kotze
i bue, it was reported as the power
J was not available for the ma
: chines.
The canvassing committee of
the mass TB. Survey composed of
i members of the Home Arts Club,
assisted by Mrs. David Mercer,
Mrs. W. McCarthy and Father)
Anable are now completing their;
work and distributing appoint
ment cards.
Anyone who has not been con-1
tacted is urged to make an ap-1
pointment in the lobby of the Fed-!
eral building today and Saturday j
morning.
Volunteers at the appointment
desk under the chairmanship of
Mrs. J. Kehoe are: Mrs. Jim Me
Alee. Mrs. Carl Lomen, Mrs. O. S.
Weaver, Mrs. R. E. Casey, Mrs. (
Maurice Kelliher. High School i
girls, Mrs. W. McCarthy.
12 Homes Being; j
Built At Barrow !
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FAIRBANKS, (/P)—Working by i
lantern light to beat winter’s ar-j
rival, Eskimos at Barrow are en
gaged in the first major building
boom in nr^any years at North;
America’s northernmost village.
Twelve new homes are under
construction and 28 others are be-1
ing improved with n'ew lumber
brought north by navy vessels in j
space allotted for civilian cargo.!
It is the first new lumber re-1
ceived by the natives since before I
the war, but the navy has previ
ously given the Eskimos scrap
board from the annual supply
ships for Petroleum Reserve No. 4.
Hoover Denies
Statement Made In
Magazine Article
NEW YORK, IP)—Herbert Hoo
ver says that he was misquoted by
a magazine writer who wrote that
1 the former President told him this
country “would never have been
! attacked by the Japanese if we
had not given them provocation.”
Hoover, in a letter to Sumner
I
N. Blossom, editor of the Ameri
can magazine, suggested last night
that since the article in the Sep
tember issue of the magazine had •
been quoted in the press, the state-1
ment “requires specific correc-,
tion.”
The former President said that
the writer, Sidney Shallet, “must j
have confused this with statements ,
from interviews with someone1
else, as not only would I not have
made such an indictment of a
whole nation including myself,
but also it is a contradiction to
many other places where 1 am on
public record.”
In Washington. Shalett said that l
“The statement was made to me
by Mr. Hoover, and the quotation ■
exactly as I wrote it appears in
my notebook. I am quite sure,
however, that Mr. Hoover is per
fectly sincere in his statement that
he did not say it.
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Bush Pilots Take
New Kind Of Job
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FAIRBANKS. I/P) — Pilots Or
ville Tosh and Jerry Church have i
added another to the list of unique j
aerial missions of Alaska’s bush
pilots.
Because the Kuskokwun river
is encroaching on a cemetery at
Bethel. Henry Dimentoff of Holy
Cross worried about the grave of
his mother there. So the two
Northern Consolidated Airlines
pilots flew to Bethel, exhumed the!
casket and delivered it to Holy j
Cross for re-interment.
Taft To Got Little
Support I rom
Northwest Slates
'By Jack Bell)
PORTLAND, Ore. f/P)—Repub
lican politicians of Washington
and Oregon credited Senator Taft
<R.-Ohio> today with only an out
side chance to obtain more than
scattering support among the two
states' 31 delegates to the GOP
nominating convention next year.
Taft, who talks tonight at a
Young Republican meeting in
Gearhart, Ore., has been holding
conferences with leaders of the
two states in between a series of
speeches topped by last night’s
proposal in Tacoma that the
United States take the lead "to
perfect a United Nations” without
Russia.
His appearance in Tacoma was
accompanied by the picketing to
which he has become accustome 1
but without the noisy display en
countered at Seattle. About 60 pla
card-bearing pickets marched in
a circle, singing but orderly while
Taft entered unnoticed by the
stage entrance.
He told the Tacoma World Af
fairs council that if Russia con
tinues to make it “difficult” to op
erate the present international or
ganization in the interests of peace
and justice, “I believe we should
proceed without Russia to perfect
a United Nations that will operate
in a limited field.”
“We have perfected such an or
ganization with the Latin-Ameri
can nations which may serve as
an example to . the rest of the
world,” the Ohio Senator declared
in a speech setting out the full
outline of his views on interna
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Jewish Gunmen
Kill Four Britons;
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JERUSALEM. (TP)—A band of
Hebrew-speaking gunmen killed
four British constables in the busy
streets of downtown Tel Aviv to
day during a daring armored car
holdup which netted the robbers
$180,000.
They took $600,000 from the
closely guarded car outside Bar
clay’s bank but dropped one bag
of money containing $420,000 dur
ing their getaway in a white jeep.
A J e w i s h policeman was
wounded in the gunfighting which
accompanied the holdup and a
bank official was smashed in the
face by members of the robber
band.
Five Jews who were passing by
were injured, two seriously, dur
ing the exchange of shots.
Police officials said two of the
robber band were believed to have
been wounded.
The attack on the armored car.
which was loading two sacks of
money from Barclay’s bank in
crowded Allenby Road, was pre
ceded by the bursting of a bomb
against the Palestinian Economic
Corporation building across the
street. This apparently was in
tended to distract attention from
the holdup.