Great Falls Works j
To Achieve
> Alaskan Trade
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the “circuitous route” north from
Seattle and from Minneapolis and
Winnipeg. It cited the traffic in
crease—most of it by truck—in
recent years.
At present, continued rail lines
extend from Butte north through
Helena and Great Falls to Dawson
Creek, the petition asked that a
meeting be -arranged to set up
joint rail-truck service to haul
commodities to Dawson Creek by
rail, then to Alaska by truck. It
also asked passenger train service
nortfy of Great Falls with connec
J lions with east-west service both
in Montana and Canada.
Among suggestions was one for
shipping less-than-carload freight
in a sealed truck trailer body for
the rest of the trip.
Conferees said the right kind of
service would enable these articles
to move quickest to Alaska:
Lumber and materials, agricul
ture implements and road machin
ery, iron and steel and other
freight from Great Falls; oil well
supplies from Casper, Wyo., and
Oklahoma City; dried peas and
beans from Idaho Falls and Poca
r
tello, Idaho, Bozeman and Missou
la, and canned fruits and vege
tables from Ogden, Utah.
It was suggested that special
rates ba set up. But rail represen
tatives said present combination
rates, or the lowest local rates
added together, apply here and in
other border traffic along the Ca
nadian line.
“We are going to do business
with Alaska,” Nichols sair, “and if
i it has to be by truck, it will have
to be by truck.”
However, he urged a change in
rail rates to facilitate northbound
traffic.
H. B. Brownell of Butte, repre
Truman Signs Vast
Natl. Housing Act
WASHINGTON, (A*)—President
Truman signed the long-range
housing bill Saturday and said it
must bo put into operation quick
ly
Passage of the legislation a
week ago gave Mr. Truman his
first major victory in the present
Congressional sessions.
The most controversial provi
sion of the bill authorizes con
struction of HI0,000 public hous
ing units during the next six
years.
It also provides for slum clear
ance and aids to farm housing.
Housing administrator R a y
mond M. Foley has promised a
‘‘rapid start” ol the public housing
features. He said he hopes to get
50,000 publicly-owned dwelling
units under way within the first
year.
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Labor Party Names
Wallace for Senate
NEW YORK. (/P>—'The Ameri
can Laboy party reportedly was
ready today to name Rep. Marcan
tonio and Henry A. Wallace as its
candidates for mayor of New
York City and the U. S. Senate in
next November’s election. The
designating committee meets to
night.
Marcantonio, head of the party
I and representative from New
i York’s 18th Congressional district,
I has said he would be a candiate
against mayor William O’Dwver
! should the latter seek re-election.
O’Dwyer recently announced he
would run for another term.
seating the Milwaukee Road, ask
ed proponents to submit rate sug
gestions for consideration—rather
I than a “blanket proposal.”
Catholic Information
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Let's pretend for a minute or so
It’s cold and blowy outside and
you and I are lolling lazy-like in ,
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my cozy den. Your thoughts are i
on me. a dim. misshapen figure1
screwed up in my deep chair be- J
fore the fire. You know me as a J
good business man. a fab’ bridg°'
player, and a hopelessly poor goit
er. You agree I’ve a sense of hu
mor. but—I’m a Catholic.
Of course you arc no bigot. You j
don’t even care what tool belief'!
these Catholics have; but it does I
arouse a bit of resentment to think j
such fanatics could be so normal
in other things. At last you blurt
out rather suddenly:
‘‘Say, old chap, how c;.n you a.*- j
a subject of a foreign ruler, be a
hundred per cent citizen of this
country?”
“The Pope?” I ask. "He shoulcl
► n’t bother you—npt a fellow with
your strict conscience. Your c >n- j
science dictates your action in rc- j
lig;on and morals, but you do no4 !
find those dictates conflicting cm
with your duties as a citizen. It’
the same with Catholics and th i
Pope. He dictates in civil matters
to a few hundred people living on
about 160 acres. He has nothing to:
do with civil affairs in America,
Canada, England, or any other
country. In spiritual matters he
rules ove* 338.336.000 Cathol'C'
throughout the world somewhat
as your conscience rules you, only
his authority comes from God
whilo yours comes from an innate
sense of right and wrong.”
“Humpf!” you exclaim. ‘‘Some
sense to that; but tell me how long
a soul must stay in Purgatory if
his family has no money to bail
him out? Why confess to a more
man when God’s right at hand?
Why ask favors of the Virgin and
the Saints, when God hears your
every word? How about these di
vorces that you call annulments,
and that terrible doctrine of celi
bacy? Why I’ve heard the orphan
asylums are fulj of . . . ”
But here you stop. Perhaps you
have gone too far. However, I am
serene and unperturbed and you
find by answers straightforward
and really quite reasonable. So
much so that you arc glad to take
home with you a few pamphlets
on these an dothcr subjects.
And now you have gone and I'll
hove to stop p c. ending. My deep
regret is that. I shall probably
never experience any such fireside
eh: t with you. But I am hopin
that thi; little make-believe epi
sode will arouse in you a desire to
know the true Catholic answers to
the questions I hr ve made you ask
here, or to any other Catholic
questions.
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News of the World
At A Glance —
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Archbishop Josef Beran and the
Vatican in the church-state war
there.
At Sunday morning masses
throughout the country they read
a defiant resolution declaring their
continuing loyalty to church au
thorities and willingness to “bear
with them whatever consequences
they may face.” The priests ac
cused the Czechoslovak govern
ment of violating constituional
guarantees of religious freedom.
Palmiro Togliatti, Italy’s lead
ing communist, told 2,500 of hi>
followers in Rome they could be
communists and good Catholics at
the same time.
The Vatican has a decidedly
different view. It has issued an
edict declaring that all Catholics
who support communism will be
excommunicated and deprived of
| the church’s sacraments and asso
ciation with the faithful.
French communist party lead
ers made it clear they will attempt
to persuade Catholics to work
; with the communists on the po
litical and labor fronts.
Pope Pius XII told German
Catholics yesterday no govern
ment that denied God can survive,
i Speaking by radio from the Vati
i can the Pontiff avoided any direct
reference to communism,
i Russia celebrated Aviation Day
: yesterday by showing off four
new planes officially described as
“superspeed .iet aircraft.” Hun
dreds of fighters and bombers
streaked across the Moscow sky.
Foreign observers, high Soviet
' leaders and the general public
watched the impressive display of
Soviet air might.
After a weekend rest, 7,000 sol
diers returned to work today on
London’s strike- bound docks.
Workers, employers and govern
ment experts considered ways of
i ending the long walkout.
Official sources broadcast re
ports that ailing Sir Stafford
Cripps is through as Britain’s eco
nomic pilot. The chancellor of the
exchequer is going to Switzerland
tomorrow for treatment of a stom
ach ailment. ,
The Greek general staff banned
American and other foreign cor
respondents from territory com
prising half the total land area of
Greece. Generalissimo Alexander
Papagos, Greek army commander,
said tho order was issued because
reporters had violated censorship
eguia lions.
American reporters said the or
, der apparently violated the Amor
, iean aid agreement under which
i correspondents are supposed to
' have freedom to report how aid
funds and material are used in
Greece.
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Monastery Yields
To Jap Labor Law
TOKYO, <&) — The eight-hour
day, six-day week has penetrated
the walls of a Buddhist monastery
atop 7,000-foot high Mt. Schichi
monzan, the newspaper Yomiuri
reported today. ,
Until this month, the priests got
up at 5 a.m.. and worked until 5
p.m. But now, said Yomiuri, they
have recognized Japan’s labor
standards law. Nuns have been
given eight days off each month.
Lay employees of various Jap
anese temples have been organiz
ing unions and improving their
hours and working conditions.
Priests and nuns have not joined
the movement, however.
U. S. Claims Green
land Naval Base;
Denmark Denies
trol ol those regions.
The navy, since the war, has be
gun building or conversion ol
ships and submarines into special
ly designed radar picket craft.
Their mission is to watch for
strange planes stealing in across
the top of the world. The work of
these craft operating on ordinary
survey missions along the lonely
coast lines of the of the Far North.
Landing craft and vessels up to
50 tons do much of this coastal
survey work.
The air force already has asked
Congress for fund.-? to build a net
work of radar aircraft detection
stations along the northern rim <
I the North American continent. I
also is seeking funds to improve
| aerial navagation of its planes.
COPENHAGEN, </P)—The Dan
ish foreign secretary denied any
knowledge today of a small Amer
ican naval operating base in a
i fjord near the southwest tip ol
I Greenland, as reported by official
quarters in Washington.
The Greenland Administration
Authority, a government agency,
i took the same view.
“I think there must be some
misunderstanding here,” an agen
i cy spokesman said.
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In Sorry Plight"
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with maintenance there of forces
sufficient to repel any intruder.
Hoffman said the nation’s first
line of defense in a transpolar war
is in Alaska and that an enemy
capturing foothold in the Territory
could attack large cities on the
Pacific coast and farther inland.
Hoffman said the Russians are
persistently trying to collect in
formation about the Alaskan de
fenses.
He said Russia has detailed in
formation about Alaska derived
from the days when Russian pilots
came there to ferry American air
planes to Siberia and the Euro
pean war fronts during the world
war.
Hoffman testified it might be
wise to blow up a, number o! un
guarded and abandoned air bases
in Alaska. He said it would be
ea-v for Russia to make a surprise
air invasion of Alaska and use
these World War II airfields as
bases for attacks on the United
States .
Delegate Bartlett <D.-Alaska)
agreed with Hoffman that present
U. S. military forces in the vast
Territory are inadequate to meet
i a strong attack. With ba.'es in
I Alaska, Bartlett said Russia or
other major powers could ’’strike
: at the industrial heart of Ameri
j cu.’’
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