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NEWS IN BRIEF
FAIRBANKS, (/P) — The City
Council has signed a cooperative
agreement with the Alaska hous
ing authority for government con
struction here of 10 low rent hous
ing units of standard permanent
materials.
The units will be available to
low income families on a salary
percentage basis. Approval was
given last night.
FAIRBANKS, (£>)—Lillian Tur
ner, 18, a native girl from the
lower Yukon, was in critical con
dition last night from a gunshot
wound above the left hip. which
perforated the intestines.
She told authorities the wound
was self-inflicted while she w'us
visiting Pete Turner, a Tanana
native, in a basement room of the
Igloo Supper Club, where he is a
janitor.
Turner, 28. is held on a reckless
use of firearms.
SEATTLE, (/P) — Bids for the
purchase of the Pacific Explorer, a
fish processing vessel which was
converted from a freighter at a
cost of $3,200,000 by the Recon
structin Finance Corporation, wPl
be received by the U. S. Maritime
Commission, Washington, D. C.,
until Dec. 8.
The ship, formerly the freighter
Mormacray, is now at Astoria,
Ore It has been operated by the
Pacific Exploration Company.
WASHINGTON, (JP)—1The fed
eral Security Agency announced
today a $9,212 grant to Alaska for
studies of stream pollution.
It was included in grants of
nearly $1,000,000 to the States.
Other grants included: Wash
ington $13,473; Oregon $12,208.
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Victor
C. Rivers, chairman of the Alaska
Democratic Central Committee,
conferred yesterday with secre
tary-designate Oscar Chapman of
the Interior Department and Na
tional Democratic chairman Wil
liam Boyle.
Rivers, an Anchorage engineer
architect and a member of the
Territorial Senate, said he dis
cussed Statehood for the Territory
and other Territorial matters.
He planned to leave for the
west today by automobile.
SEATTLE, (,/P) — Ten Alaska
sailings have been scheduled for
December by Alaska Steamship
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\V it ness Testifies
Bridges Was Dues
Paying Communist
SAN FRANCISCO, </P)—A one
time associated of Harry Bridges;
threw the government’s “Sunday i
punch” at the CIO longshore
leader Monday.
Heralded as the person through
whom the government hoped to
establish Bridges’ entrance into
the communist party, witness1
Jdhn H. (Big John) Schomaker
told a federal court jury that
Bridges had been a dues paying
member of the party.
Schomaker, a member of the
group which in 1933 put Bridges
into power in the longshore union,
testified he was a section organ
izer for the communist party on
the waterfront as his territory.
Then he testified:
He was present when an appli
cation for membership in the com
munist party was given Bridges
in 1933; he subsequently saw the
application, filled out in what he
isaid was Bridges’ handwriting; he
and Bruce B. Jones, who also was
I
present when Bridges was given
the application, handed the appli
cation to Sam Darcy, then head of
the party in California.
The 1934 waterfront strike, he
said, was guided by communists
and “was largely Sam Darcy’s
brain child.”
Schomaker said he saw Bridges
pay party dues to at least three
different persons. He told of a
speech in 1938 in which he said
Bridges solicited membership in
the communist party.
Schomaker said he attended
numerous communist party meet
ings at which Bridges and Schmidt
were present.
Sam Darcy, the witness went on,
periodically sent orders to Brid
ges through Schomaker, during
the 1934 strike. “Mr. Bridges,” the
witness testified, “was under the
discipline of the communist party
and he had to carry them out.”
One of the communist meetings
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BULLETIN
Word has been received by
Mayor Anderson that John Auget
singer of the Bureau Community
Facilities Committee, accompan
ied by Joe Flafkne of the Interior
Department will arrive this week
with application blanks for Nome,
in connection with the $70,000,000
Public Works Appropriation bill
passed recently by Congress.
At a special meeting of the
Nome City Council this noon, the
Nome Planning Commission was
named by vote of ordinance, who
will work on the projects to be
covered.
They are: Luther Dunbar. Rob
ert Long, John McNees, Jerome
Trigg and Councilman Lester
‘’Bronson.
28 Killed In
Plane Crash At
Dallas. Texas
DALLAS. (/P> — An American
Airlines plane plowed into a;
chemical plant at the end of Love
Field and burned before dawn
yesterday. Twenty-eight of the 45;
persons aboard were believed
dead.
Seventeen persons were hospit
alized from the big DC-6, enroute
to Mexico City from New York'
land Washington. They appeared
to be the only survivors.
The plane struck as it approach
ed for a landing. A crew member
who staggered, dazed and bleed
ing, to a nearby house, said one of
the engines was afire and he had
stopped the other three.
Colored flames from burning
chemicals lit up the scene eerily.
Nearly two hours after the crash
officers described the situation as
“organized chaos.”
Firemen were *till pulling char
red and rigid bodies from the
j twisted wreckage.
Three of the five crew members
were among the survivors, Ameri
can Airlines said. There were 40
passengers aboard.
A blue-uniformed representa
tive of the lines stood by the
plane, weeping unashamedly as
he kept count of the bodies
brought out.
Flames licked the one-story gal
' vanized building into which the
larger part of the plane crashed
i for hours after it hit. Firemen
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L. S. Protests
Chinese Firing
<)n U. S. Ships
WASHINGTON, (/PI—The state
department drafted an “energetic
protest” to the Chinese nationalist
government yesterday as a result
of a second attack on an American
merchant ship.
The skipper of the vessel, the
Sir John Franklin, declared shells
from two Nationalist warships
struck his ship 12 times during a
barrage of about an hour.
The incident, piling up new
troubles for the U. S. add China,
occurred Monday at the mouth of
the Yangtze River, near commun
ist-held Shanghai.
It was virtually the same spot
I where another ship of the same
line. The Flying Cloud, was shell
j ed by a Nationalist warsh'p on
Nov. 15. An American protes* at
i that time has produced no reply
from the Natnonalist government,
i which at the mement is shifting
capitals again to escape the ad
vancing communists.
The new attack brought new de
mands from the ships’ operators,
the Isbrandtsen Co., of New York,
that the U. S. government protest
American commerce.
Captain Warren Hardy, master
' of the Sir John Franklin, radioed
J in a message, relayed to the state
department from Shanghai, that
the two warships opened fire from
j a distance of 500 yards without
the traditional preliminary of a
warning shot across the bow.
Hardy reported that the war
ships were destroyer escorts.
Unchanging Churchill —
</P) Nawsfeatures
WINSTON CHURCHILL, 75 years old today, shows little
change id these pictures taken nine year apart. At the left he is
shown as he appeared in 1940 when he became prime minister of
Britain. At the right he is shown in 1949. The similarity is em
phasized by hat, bow tie. cut of coat and watch chain. But where
is his cigar?
News of the World
At A Glance - - -
Tuesday. November 29. 1949
(By The Associated Press*
Moscow may have set the stage
today for the decisive assault
against the festering sore of Tito
ism in Eastern Europe’s solid com
munist bloc.
The cominform (Communist
International Information Bur
eau* issued what unquestionably,
was a long though-out blast, call
ing upon all communists in the
world to help overthrow the re
gime of the rebel of Belgrade,
Premier-Marshal Tito of Yugo
slavia.
“A decisive struggle is neces
sary against the intrigues of these
: agents of the imperialists (Tito
; ists< wherever they try to work in
the workers and democratic or
: ganizations,” said a resolution
adopted by the cominform at a
meeting in Hungary in the latter
part of this month.
This apparently is a call by
Moscow to other communist par
ties making up the cominform—
Poland, Romania, Hungary, Cze
choslovakia, Bulgaria and the par
ties of France and Italy—to finish
the job of housecleaning begun
with the recent purges of those
suspected of leading Tito factions.
Only last week in New York
foreign diplomatic quarters said
they had heard reports an anti
Tito coup was planned for some
! time between Christmas and Eas
ter. These reports, necessarily un
confirmed, speculated that a coup
against Tito would start with a
staged revolt in Belgrade, brought
about by infiltration from Yugo
slavia’s cominform neighbors.
In New York, Soviet foreign
minister Andrei P. Vishinsky pre
pared a final effort before the
current session of the United Na
tions general assembly toco, '’ince
the world the United States and
Britain are plotting a new war
and the Soviet Union wants only
peace.
Against this nervous background
the 12 top generals of the North
Atlantic Alliance met In Paris to
map plans for defense of Western
Europe. They are to outline a
3,000-mile defense barrier from
the Norwegian Arctic to the Ae
gean Sea, past which no attacker
from the east could march with
out fighting the combined forces
of all 12 member nations. The mil
itary chiefs’ civilian counterparts
—ministers of defense of the 12
nations—meet in Paris Thursday.
The immediate result of these
talks will be to empower Presi
dent Truman to release nearly a
billion dollars worth of arms aid
funds recently approved by the
U. S. Congress.
France’s private cold war with
Poland continued. The French
foreign office said the arrests of
Frenchmen in Poland have
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