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NEWS IN BRIEF
BULLETIN
WASHINGTON, </P) — General
Dwight D. Eisenhower said flatly
today: "I am not available for and
could not accept nomination to
high political office."
JUNEAU, (&)—The man who
shined the shoes of virtually all
celebrities visiting Juneau in the
past 35 years is dead. Henry Olive
65, was found dead in bed yester
day. He was one of the city’s most
enthusiastic baseball fans.
JUNEAU (/P)—'Territorial treas
urer Oscar Olson reported yester
day the paying of vouchers total
ing $250,000 as a result of receiv
ing recent receipts. He said the
action takes the Territory out of
the hole for the present but that
possible gloom lies a few weeks
ahead, when commissioner of ed
ucation James Ryan will present
several large vouchers for teach
ers' payments.
WASHINGTON, (iP) — The air
force announced Wednesday new
assignments for seven of its gen
erals in what it designated as a
routine shift. They include:
Brig. Gen. Frank A. Armstrong,
senior air instructor at the armed
forces college in Norfolk, Va., ap
pointed as chief of staff of the
Alaskan air command with head
quarters at Fort Richardson. Arm
strong is a native of Hamilton, S.
C.
MILWAUKEE, (JP) — Funeral
services for Edmund C. Nordyke,
89, federal judge in Alaska during
the administration of President
Benjamin Harrison, will be held
tomorrow in Pittsburgh. He died
Tuesday night.
CHESTER Pa., {£>)—Fire swept |
through the block-long garage and
offices of the Southern ' Pennsyl
vania Bus Co., yesterday wreck
ing 33 buses and causing a loss of
$750,000.
The blaze was confined to the
building but the danger from 20
separate explosions was considered
• so great that police ordered more
than 3,000 persons from homes in
the midcity area.
P. T. Reilly, vice president and
general manager of the company i
who made the estimate of damage, j
said the fire apparently started1
when a bus being filled with gaso- i
line burst into flames after an ex- j
plosion.
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JUNEAU, (i*P)—Frank A. Boyle,
Territorial auditor for the past 16
years, filed yesterday for re-elec
tion on the Democratic ticket.
JUNEAU, (/P)—A demand that
the Territorial department of
steamboat inspectors, recently re
moved to Ketchikan, be returned
to Juneau was made yesterday
following a meeting of Juneau
vessel and boat owners.
COLUMBUS, (ff)—Kay Francis!
the actress, became seriously ill |
under mysterious circumstances
today and her stage manager, |
Howard Graham, 37, was booked
at police headquarters “for inves
tigation of assault to kill.”
Third World War j
Is Inevitable
Says Bevin
LONDON, (#>) — Foreign secre
tary Bevin said yesterday that
Soviet Russia is making a ruthless
drive to dominate Europe, and
that this will lead inevitably to
another world war.
“We are driven to that conclu
sion,” Bevin told the House of
Commons.
“The Marshall program has
brought to light vividly what must
have been under the surface all
the time.”
Evolution of the Yalta deci
sions, Bevin told the House of
Commons, “reveals a policy on the
on the part of the Soviet Union to
use any means in their power to
get Communist control on eastern
Europe and, as it now appears, in
the west as well.”
“We have seen the game played
out in Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary
and more recently in Romania
and, from information in our pos
session, other attempts may be
made elsewhere,” he said.
“Yet all the evidence is that
she is not satisfied with this tre
mendous expasion.
“It has been quite clear, I
think, that the Communist pro
cess goes ruthlessly on in each
country. It therefore matters lit
tle how we temporize and maybe
appease, and try to make arrange
ments.”
Bavarian Labor
Goes On Strike
For More Food
MUNICH, Germany, (/P) — The
Bavarian trade union federation
called yesterday for a 24-hour
walkout of virtually all workers
in Bavaria to begin at midnight
last night. I
The strike, protesting food
shortages, could affect nearly one
million workers in this American
zone state.
About 200,000 workers staked
a 24-hour strike Wednesday in
Nuernberg and Cologne. It was
the largest walkout in western
Germany since last April.
The strike call affected such
large cities as Munich, Nuernberg,
Augsburg, Regensburg, Wuerz
burg and Coburg.
Trade union leaders arranged a
broadcast to all union members
throughout Bavaria, appealing for!
a strike between midnight Thurs-1
day and Midnight Friday.
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WASHINGTON, (/P)—Gen. Lu-|
cius D. Clay, American military j
governor of Germany, predicted j
yesterday an early improvement,
in the food supply situation which
has touched off protest strikes in
the British and American occupa
tion zones.
To meet the crisis, he said, both
the military government and the
German administration, “are tak
ing vigorous measures.” He also
told reporters it would help if the
United States*would ship more!
food to the occupied areas.
Western Europe
Must Unite Against
Communism
LONDON, (iP)—Winston Chur
chill declared today Western Eu
rope must unite quickly and de
mand a showdown with Moscow
before the Russians develop atom
ic weapons, possibly in a year or
so. Even an early showdown
“would not guarantee that war
would not come,” Churchill said.
“I believe it would give the best
chance of preventing it and, if it
came, we would have the best
chance of coming out of it alive.
“I believe the best chance of
preventing war is to bring mat
ters to a head and come to a set
tlement with the Soviet govern
ment before it is too late” Cnur
chill told the House of Commons.
“You may be sure the aresent
situation cannot last. The.*? are
very grave dangers in letting ev
erything run on and pile up un*il
something happens, and the mat- j
tre passes all of a sudden out of
your control.”
The conservative party leader
endorsed the labor government's)
proposal for unification of West
ern Europe as a barrier to the
spread of Communism. But he ap
pealed to his political opponents
to rise above party in fostering
the plan:
“In trying to make a united so
cialist Europe, you are on the
same level as trying to make a
united communist Europe.”
State Dept. Not To
Run Foreign Aid
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Senators
Vandenberg and Taft appear to
day to be nearing agreement on a
plan to run the European recovery
program outside the state depart
ment with the President umpiring
foreign policy decisions.
Taft, head of the Senate Repub-1
lican policy committee, told a re
porter he is favorably impressed
by a series of suggestions chair-1
man Vandenberg has made to the
Senate foreign relations commit-!
tee.
In questioning a witness yester- .'
day. Vandenberg asked about the
possibility of having a separate
Marshall plan administrator who
would sit with a committee con
sisting of the secretaries of state,
treasury, commerce, agriculture
and defense on all matters of pol
icy.
If this group disagreed, the
Michigan Senator said, the Presi
dent would become the “ultimate
umpire.” But Vandenberg said the
administrator must have “a very
large area of independent deci
sion” in actual operation of the
European aid program.
RELICS EXHIBITED IN
NUGGET WINDOW
On display in the window of the
Nugget is an old newspaper of
1913, “The Industrial Worker” of
Nume. Among the advertisers are
A. Polet, Miners and Merchants
Bank, Alaska Steamship Co., and
North Pole Bakery. Also exhibited
are two Democratic political cards
af 1906 with pictures of the can
Eisenhower Will
Not Accept
Nomination
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WASHINGTON, f/P)—'The army
chief of staff flatly stated today,
in a reference to his being entered
in the New Hampshire Presiden
tial primary March 9, “I an not
available for and could not accept
nomination to high political of
fice.”
“Ike” wrote Leonard V. Finder,
publisher of the Manchester
Union-Leader, that for two rea
sons he had heretofore “refrained
from making the bald statement
that I would not accept nomina
tion.”
The first, Eisenhower said, was
that such an expression would
smack of effrontery.
A second and deeper reason, the
general added, was a “persistent
doubt that I could phrase a flat
refusal without appearing to vio
late the concept of duty to country
which calls upon every good citi
zen to place no limitations upon
his readiness to serve in any des
ignated capacity.”
In this connection, Eisenhower
said it is his conviction that “un
less an individual feels some in
ner compulsion and special quali
fications to enter the political
arena—which I do not—a refusal
to do so involves no violation of
the highest standards of devotion
to duty.”
“It would seem almost super
fluous for me to add that as long
as I live I shall hold myself in in
stant readiness to respond 'o any
call by the government to military
duty.”
No New Anti-Infla
tion Bills Until
Old Are Followed
(By Marvin L. Arrowsmilh)
WASHINGTON, — Senator
Taft <R.-Ohio' indicated today he'
may insist that President Truman j
meet the terms of the Republican !
cost-of-living law before Congress
acts on any more anti-inflation
legislation.
The Ohio Senator, chairman of,
the Senate’s GOP policy commit
tee, noted that the measure which
he steered through the special ses
sion of Congress last month lays
down a step-by-step pattern for
the administration to follow in
presenting any new control pro
posals.
Taft told a reporter he is “in
clined to believe” the President
should be required to observe the
procedure outlined, rather than to
expect any final action on the
standby wage-price control and
rationing bills now being consid
ered by the Senate banking com
mittee.
The law Taft mentioned is the
one Mr. Truman in signing termed
‘pitifully inadequate’’ to deal
with inflation. It provides for in- j
iustry-wide voluntary agreements
designed to hold down prices by
dividing up scarce commodities.
didates. These are the property of
5/Sgt. John Holm who found
them on the Sandspit.
Russia Tried To
Sell Out To Hitler
WASHING TON, (JP) — The
United States uncorked a major
propaganda blow against Russia
today by officially revealing a
Soviet offer in 1940 to join the
German-Italian-Japanese axis at
a price Adolf Hitler refused to
pay.
Already the government’s infor
mation mouthpiece to the world,
the “Voice of America” short
wave radio, is pouring into Russia
and the rest of Europe the factual
story told in a fat volume of long
secret German foreign office rec
ords suddenly published by the
state department.
The book’s 362 pages disclose
the minutest details of the two
year Moscow-Berlin honeymoon
which began when the men who
now rule Russia negotiated a non
aggression pact with Hitler and
which ended with Hitler’s treach
erous attack on the Soviet Union
June 22, 1941.
It gives the word-by-word deals
which led to the 1939 friendship
treaty as well as the texts of the
then top secret additions under
which Germany and the Soviet
Union carved Poland and north
eastern Europe into spheres of in
fluence or outright control.
Truman Has Less
Chance Than
“Snowball In Help
(By Jack Bell & Norman Walker)
WASHINGTON. (VP)—'The CIO
split wide open, but only political
ly, today over Henry Wallace’s
third party bid for the Presidency.
The executive board of the la
bor organization which gave solid
support to help elect the late
President Roosevelt to a fourth
term in 1944 voted 33 to 11 to re
ject Wallace’s entry into the 1948
campaign as “politically unwise.”
And the dissident group)—repre
senting about 1,250 of the organi
zation’s claimed 6,000,000 mem
bership—gave every indication of
plugging for Wallace anyway.
Harry Bridges president of the
intern ational longshoremen’s
union and leader of the so-called
left-wing element which opposed
the anti-Wallace resolution, told
reporters the Democrats won’t
stand “the chance of a snowball
in Hell” of electing President
Truman.
Approves Bevin’s
Proposal
LONDON, </P)—Foreign secre
tary Ernest Bevin’s proposal for
a consolidation of western Euro
pean countries to stem communist
expansion found quick and warm
support today in the French and
Italian governments.
Leaders in Belgium Holland
and Luxembourg, spoke cautious
ly but favorably of the British
diplomatic move. Comment in
Scandinavian newspapers pointed
up the reluctance of Russian
neighbors to comnYit themselves
to an outright cleavage between
the east and west.