U. S. To Protest To
Bulgaria Over
Death Sentence
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WASHINGTON, </P>—'The state
department said today it will pro
test directly to Bulgarian govern
ment leaders in a new effort to
save the life of Nikola Petkov,
top-ranking anti-Communist lead
er, under sentence of death.
John Evarts Horner. U. S. po
litical representative in Sofia, will
place before Vasil Kolanov, Bul
garian chief of state, the objec
tion to the death sentence imposed
on Petkov last Saturday as a con
spirator against the Communist
dominated fatherland front gov
ernment.
The action will be taken in the
face of rejection of United States
and British demands for a review
of the case by Russia’s represen
tative on. the Allied control com
mission.^Decisions of the commis
sion must be unanimous and Rus
sia’s refusal ended possibility of an
Allied review of the case.
Just what move this country
can make to strengthen the new
approach is uncertain. Trade rela
tions between the two nations are
small for example, and the United
States does not have a weapon she
has used in other instances—tl^at
of relief food.
Navy Pilot Sets
New Speed Record:
640.7 Miles an Hour
MUROC, Calif. </P) — A slim,
wiry naval pilot flying a trim,
j stub-winged experimental air
plane yesterday held the interna
| tional air speed record after hav
! ing bulleted four times over a
three-kilometer <1.863 mile* course
at an average of 640.7 miles an
j hour.
The mark was set with a Doitg
i las built jet-propelled Skystreak
D-558, flown by commander Tur
ner F. Caldwell, 33, of Arlington,
Va., a former Pacific combat pilot.
After traveling at a higher speed
than man had yet attained, he
' shrugged his trim shoulder and
! said:
! “It was a great relief from the i
! paper work I’ve been doing in
j Washington. It’s a great day and
i a great ship.”
i The navy pilot beat the former j
! world mark which had been set
i last June 19 by army man, Col. j
I Albert Boyd, who flew' the sam?
I course at an average of 623.8 miles
I an hour in a Lockheed P-80-R jet
plane. Boyd’s flight had broken
| the British-held record of 612
miles per hour set by a Gloster
; Meteor IV plane in 1946.
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Revolutionary I
Activity Spreading :
In Korea
SEOUL, (A1)—Lt. Gen. John R.
Hodge said today “widespread ac
tivity of a revolutionary nature”
had been uncovered in southern |
Korea and some ringleaders ar-1
rested—action which the Russians
charged was aimed at disrupting;
the work of the joint commission
on this occupied country.
Hodge, commander of the Amer
ican occupation zone, said Korean
government authorities made the
arrests after learning of a plot by
leftist employees of the Korean
broadcasting system to inject Com-j
munist propaganda into network
programs and sabotage rightist po
litical speeches.
He said also that more than 100
rioters had been arrested for at
tempting to interfere with the gov
ernment’s rice collection program
—but that those arrests “had no
political significance.”
Col. Gen. Treanty F. ShtikovJ
chief of the Soviet delegation to'
the Korean joint commission.!
charged that the “mass arrests of
leftists” was apparently aimed at
disrupting the commission’s work.
Hodge said ringleaders in the
propaganda plot had been und^r
observation for some time “to pre
vent out of hand disorders.”
“The repression,” charged the
Russian delegate, “occurred in a
responsible, tense moment” in
deadlocked deliberations of the
commission and included “mass
arrests of leaders and the actual
closing down a democratic parties
and social organizations of leftist
trend.”
He said also arrested were
“workers of the leftist democratic
press.”
U. S. Protests
Soviet Occupation
In Dairen
WASHINGTON, i/P> — A new
United States protest to Russia
against the continued Soviet occu
pation of the Chinese port of Dai
ren was disclosed yesterday by the
state department.
A note delivered to Moscow
Aug. 14 said that this government
“will of necessity hold the Soviet
govern ment responsible” for
treatment accorded American in
terests in the port city while it is
under Red army rule.
Under a 1945 treaty. Dairen was
to be returned to Chinese admin
istration and opened to world
trade. Russia, however, has banned
from the port all foreign shipping,
including American naval vessels
taking mail and supplies to the U.
S. consul general there.
Youthful Huntress
Bags Big Game
NEW YORK, (/P)—A 14-year
old Memphis, Term., girl has just
returned from an African safari
in which she brought down an ele
phant in her first big game hunt
ing expedition.
The youthful Annie Oakley is
Miss Virginia Walton Brooks,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Berry
Boswell Brooks, also members of
the hunting expedition. Her father
is a Memphis cotton merchant.
She also bagged a grevy zebra,
a blond-maned lion, a kongoni,
water buck two hyenas, gazelle,
cheetah, two gerenuks, wildebeest,
oryx, jackal, bat-eared fox, rhin
oceros, four zebra, two topi, an
impala, two dik-diks. a baboon
and a klipspringer.
Juneau Asks j
U. S. Attorney To
Sue Longshoremen
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JUNEAU, i/P) — A resolution
urging the United States attorney
to charge local longshoremen with
criminal conspiracy to violate the
Taft-Hartley labor law was adopt
ed unanimously yesterday by Jun
eau’s junior chamber of com
merce.
The alleged conspiracy involves
the current work stoppage here and
in Ketchikan which union leaders
have said are in support of a de
mand for safeguards under the la
bor law.
The junior chamber also pro
posed that the city of Juneau seek
a court injunction against individ
ual members of the striking union
to enjoin them from continuing the
strike, and that the chamber* con
sider supporting formation of an
other longshoremen’s union as a
rival to the CIO-affiliated union
in Alaska.
MISSING PERSON
Anyone having information con
cerning the following missing per
son is asked to communicate with
the Governor’s office in Juneau:
Peter Guslaf Magnusson. about
69 year old. Born in Sweden. Pre
sumably came to Alaska about
eight years ago.
British sailors often call them
selves “merry matelots.”
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to other ports and firms if foremen
were discharged as the new law
went into effect.
An arbitrator ruled last week
that CIO longshoremen were not
violating their contract in observ
ing such picket lines. The ILVVU
last night advised all lengshore
and checker locals “to begin full
defense preparations.’’
Meanwhile, Michael J. McCar
thy, secretary-treasurer of the Pa
cific Coast Customs and Freight
Brokers association, said his or
ganization was considering an em
bargo on perishables, pending
clarification of the situation. He
said the association represented 75
major Pacific Coast forwarding
firms.
In Seattle, union officials an
nounced last night that AFL walk
ing bosses would be covered by
extension for one year of existing
AFL waterfront contracts. Em
ployers confirmed the extension,
which applies to longshoremen in
Tacoma, Port Angeles and Ana
cortes, and to walking bosses and
checkers in all Washington State
ports north of the Columbia river.
• Seattle’s longshoremen are CTO
members.)
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