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. NEWS IN BRIEF
HOLLYWOOD, (/P) — Actress
Lana Turner was hospitalized Sat
urday with back and arm injuries
after a fall on the set.
Her studio said that in a scene
being filmed Friday she was
whirled through a doorway. As
she went through the door she
m tripped and fell.
TOKYO iJP)—Japanese weather
men planned to strike today, for
24 hours. Wage demands of the
national employees union of wea
ther bureaus were rejected Satur
day by the Japanese government.
The strike will not affect forecasts
of the occupation forces.
LONDON, (/P)—Princess Helena
9 Victoria, a cousin of King George
VI and a granddaughter of Queen
Victoria, died in her London home
Saturday. She was 77.
Buckingham Palace sour c e s
said she had been in poor health
for some time.
She was the daughter of Prin
cess Christian, third daughter of
Queen Victoria.
CORPUS CHRISTI. Tex. </P)—
A former army air forces chief of
staff has predicted war with Rus
sia wihin three to five years. Ll.
Gen. Ira C. Eaker, now a Houston
industrial executive, said here last
night Russia will attack the United
States as soon as Stalin is certain
^ such action would result in a
quick, cheap victory.
KETCHIKAN, </P) — Ketchikan
won the high school basketball
> championship of Alaska Friday
night with a 34-33 victory over
Fairbanks.
It was the second win in a row
in the best-two-out-of-three series.
Fairbanks had an opportunity in
the last second of the game to tie
up the game on a gift toss but cen
9 ter Ronnie Coble missed.
WASHINGTON, (^—President
Truman Saturday nominated An
thony J. Dimond of Alaska to be
federal judge, Third Division, for
the Alaska district.
He also sent to the Senate for
confirmation the nomination of
Rear Admiral Herbert C. Lassiter,
4 a native of Norfolk, Va., to the
permanent rank of rear admiral in
the navy’s supply corps.
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ELIZABETH, N.‘ J., (£>)—Mrs.
John Banyasz and Mrs. Swen
Swenson became friends on Christ
mas day, 1946. They occupied ad
joining beds in the maternity sec
tion of the Elizabeth General hos-i
pital.
That friendship blossomed anew
today. Both women were back in
the same beds—and for the same
reason.
WASHINGTON, (;P)—Secretary
of Stale Marshall told Senators to
day that if the United States stops
aid to Greece the consequences
will be "swift and tragic."
I
DETROIT, (&)—Robert C. Gas
* co is the resuscitation expert of
suburban Berkley’s fire depart
ment.
A call for help sent him racing
to his own home yesterday to find j
Truman Orders
Loyalty Records
Kept Secret
WASHINGTON, {^—President
Truman today ordered federal
agencies to turn down any re
quests from Congress or the courts
for secret papers on loyalty inves
tigations of government employ
ees.
He instructed agency chiefs to
refer any demand, including any
subpoena “to the office of the
President for such response as the
President may determine to be in
the public interest in the particu
lar case.”
The order in effect backed up
secretary of commerce Harriman
who has refused to give a House
committee papers dealing with the
department’s investigation of Dr.
Edward U. Condon’s loyalty.
The House un-American activi
ties committee asked for the pa
pers after a subcommittee reported
that Condon had associated
“knowingly or unknowingly” with
suspected spies.
Condon heads the national bur
eau of standards, which deals with
some of the government’s top-se
cret inventions.
As a result of Harriman’s stand,
Rep. McDowell (R.-Pa.) has pro
posed that Congress give its two
top officers power to compel any
government agency to hand over
secret papers.
Czar Lewis Calls
Soft Coal Strike
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i WASHINGTON, (/P) — John L.
Lewis hurled an implied threat of
a soft coal strike at the govern
ment and mine owners Saturday,
then waited for something to hap
pen.
The united mine workers chief
declared in a letter to the union’s
400,000 members that their em
ployers in the past eight months
“have dishonored the 1947 wage
agreement and defaulted under its
provisions affecting the welfare
fund.”
That contract, signed last July 8,
pledged the miners to stay on the
job as long as they are “able and
willing.” Lewis told a news con
ference Friday he did not know
how much longer they’ll be “will
ing.”
The agreement—which runs un
til June 30—can be ended by
either miners or operators on 30
days notice.
The fiery mine leader did not
say flatly that his miners will stop
work. Instead, he asked the public
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his three-year-old son, Roger,
strangling on a penny balloon.
The efforts of both Gasco and a
physician, however, were fruitless.
“I’ve handled hundreds of such
cases and this is the first one I’ve
lo$t,” said the heart-broken father.
LOUISVILLE, Ky., (/P)—An ex
plosion at the plant of the Inter
national Harvester company here
today killed at least two persons,
injured 26 and trapped 25 others
in debris, company officials re
ported.
; Capt. Lathrop
Issues Blasts At
Gov. Gruening
FAIRBANKS, (/P) — Alaska’s
foremost industrialist, Capt. Aus
tin E. Lathrop, charged today that
Territorial Gov. Ernest Gruening
“has tried to use the power and
prestige of his office and the re
sources of the federal government
' to transfer to himself the initia
; tive and lawmaking powers of the
citizens.”
1 The assertion was contained in
a front page editorial in the Fair
banks Daily News-Miner, which
he edits.
At the same time, the Fourth
Territorial Division Republican
Club was on record demanding
that the Senate reject Gruening’s
nomination for another term in
affice.
Gruening has been governor of
Alaska eight years.
In his editorial, Capt. Lathrop
said:
“During the five sessions of the
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Chile Demands U.N.
Investigate Czech
Communist Coup
LAKE SUCCESS, (/P) — Chile’s
demand for United Nations inves
| tigation of the communist coup in
, Czechoslovakia pushed Russia Sat
urday into the role of a defendant
j before the world.
It also opened the way for ais
! ing of conditions in at least one
part of Soviet-dominated eastern
^ Europe. Many saw the possibility
j of an east-west showdown.
The security council put the case
' on its provisional calendar for
Wednesday. The Russians then
I must meet head on the Chilean al
legations that the methods of Nazi
Germany are being used by “a
member state against another
member state” and that “the ex
tent and magnitude of the plans of
the U.S.S.R. stand revealed.
This was the first time Russia
has been called directly to account
since the Iranian case in early
1946. The feeling here was that
the current case presages a test be
tween Russia and the western
powers over expansion of Soviet
influence.
The United States delegations
cautiously refrained from early
1 comment. However, on the basis
of recent statements by President
Truman and secretary of state
George C. Marshall, strongest
American support for the Chilean
case could be expected.
In filing the case Friday, Chil
ean delegate Herman Santa Cruz
emphasized that he had not dis
cussed the plan in advance with
any other delegate under strict or
ders from President Gabriel Gon
zalez Videla in Santiago. This ap
parently was to forestall any
charges that the move was dictat
ed by the United States. i
Action by the government of
Chile forced consideration of the
once rejected case. Secretary-gen
eral Trygve Lie had ruled out the
same charges presented by Dr. Jan
Papanek, Czechoslovak anti-com
munist delegate.
Revolutionists
Isolate Capital
Of Costa Rica
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, (A*) —A
desperate Costa Rican government
tried today to stem a revolution
sweeping the nation. The opposi
tion has virtually isolated the cap
ital.
I Seventy-five per cent of San
Jose’s power plants have been
| blown up and opposition forces
j said they were trying to cut the
i remainder last night. The city’s
I industry is at a virtual standstill.
; A general sit-down strike has been
I called for today.
i Underground sources say the
: government has appealed to Gen
eral Anastasio Samoza, former
president and now strongman of
Nicaragua, to send help as soon as
possible.
Three Nicaraguan planes are
! here at the Sabana airport with
! their wing insignia painted out
1 with yellow paint.
Jose Figueres, leader of the rev
! olutionary forces, said over the
underground radio he had wiped
out half of the mobile unit sent to
force him from his hidden moun
tain stronghold south of Cartago.
| This unit had been trained by the
U. S. army.
Government troops earlier re
ported the capture of 11 men at
Figueres’ stronghold.
Truman Nomin
ates Gruening
JUNEAU, (/P)—Ernest Gruening
said Saturday he was “grateful”
for the action of President Tru
man in nominating him to serve
another four-year term as Gover
nor of Alaska.
Republican leaders said they
had no comment on the namina
tion pending the outcome of the
Presidential election.
Democrats likewise had no com
ment except to point out that dis
patches had indicated that Tru
man intended to reno m i n a t e
Gruening.
I
16 Europe Nations
Meet In Paris
PARIS, (iP) — French foreign
minister Georges Bidault told the
Marshall plan conference today
that “Europe has been reduced to
the 16 nations here.”
He told the delegates opening
conferences on the European re
covery plan that “the rending
apart of Europe” by countries boy
cotting the Marshall plan has be
come fearsome.
Russia and her satellites have
spurned participation in the Mar
shall plan for which the U. S.
Senate early Sunday voted $5,300,
000,000 for its first year.
At the present session proposals
are expected for inclusion of Spain
and Western Germany under the
Marshall plan, spreading the pro
gram over all Western Europe
right to the Russian demarcation
line.
Bidault, as host, welcomed *he
delegates in the name of liberty.
Group Meets To .
Discuss Possible
Hospital Site
A group of citizens was called
to meeting by acting chairman
Keith Hedreen, (City Council
member) in order to get the ball
rolling on a temporary location
for hospital facilities since Nome’s
only hospital burned to the ground
last week.
Of several proposals brought to
the attention of the group only
three were seriously considered;
one, the Alaska Native school
building; two, the army wartime
j hospital buildings; and three, the
three lodge and club buildings on
Third Avenue, owned by the Odd
fellows, American Legion and the
Arctic Club.
The army buildings were re
jected through discussion, as being
too expensive to put into opera
tion.
The other two proposals were to
be investigated by a committee to
assist Dr. J. B. Tucker in the ap
proval of one of the two sites. The
committee composed of Dr.
Tucker, Howard Green, Bill Gillis,
A. (Gus) Steinwandel, John Hu
dert, Carl Glavinovich.
Mr. Glavinovich offered the
services of the U. S. Smelting Co.’s
engineering department to draw
plans and estimates for the recon
ditioning of the building or build
1 ings to be approved by the com
mittee, which will report back to
another general meeting agreed
for tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the City
Hall.
Dr. Tucker stated he had re
ceived a telegram from the Wo
l men’s Division of the Methodist
I Board of Missions which in effect
stated that the board would meet
on Monday (today) and would au
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30 Killed In Plane
Crash Near
l
Anchorage
ANCHORAGE (>P)—'The wreck
age of a Northwest Airlines plane,
missing with thirty persons
aboard, has been sighted on Mount
Sanford, the army’s public rela
tions officer reported.
Officials said an army B-17
spotted the wreckage on the 8,500
foot level of the mountain, about
two hundred miles northeast of
Anchorage.
The plane, a chartered Shang*
hai-to-St. Paul Northwest Airlines
DC-4 plane, with 30 persons
aboard vanished on the east flight
Friday night. The last radio con
tact with the big craft was at 11:03
p.m., when it passed over the Gul
kana range station, approximately
150 miles northeast of Anchorage.
The station reported it was flying
at 11,00 feet. It had been sched
uled to make its first stop at Ed
monton, Alta.
Gulkana reported early Satur
day morning that a fir$ had been
seen of Mt. Sanford, which towers
high in the Wrangell range to the
right of the plane’s normal course
through Nabesna Pass. Weather
conditions were reported good at
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