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Russian Reply To
Blockade Notes
Given To Marshall
By John M. Hightower
WASHINGTON, — (/P) —Rus
sia replied today to the American,
British and French protests ag
ainst the Soviet blockade of Ber
lin.
Soviet Ambassador Alexander
S. Panyushkin delivered Moscow’s
response personally to Secretary
of State Marshall at the State De
partment at 12:30 a.m. Nome time.
He acted within a few hours
after similar replies had been de
livered by Soviet envoys in Lon
don and Paris.
Panyushkin told reporters who
talked to him outside Marshall’s
office that he had delivered a note
to the Secretary and that it was
an answer to a note of the State
Department dated July 6.
On that day, in separate but
simultaneous dispatches, the three
Western Powers sent notes to Mos
cow condemning Russia’s policies
in shutting off all service travel
to the Western sectors of Berlin.
They warned the Soviet Union
that they would not be forced
out of Berlin by threats or pres
sures, insisted on their rights not
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SCH. SEATTLE IS
DISABLED NEAR
KODIAK ISLAND
SEATTLE, — (/P) —The two
masted schooner “Seattle” radioed
early today she was “completely
* disabled” some 200 to 300 miles
southeast of Kodiak, Alaska.
The message, relayed by a sec
ond schooner, the “Mitkol,” said
the vessel carried 10 men, but
gave no further details, the Coast
Guard reported.
The Cutter Bittersweet and a
PBY aircraft from Kodiak were
sent to the vessel’s aid.
GOV. DEWEY
CHRGES DEMOS.
FOREIGN PLANK
NEW YORK, — {J-P) — Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey, Republican can
didate for president, charged to
day the draft platform of the Dem
ocratic Party contained “extreme
ly partisan and provocative as
sertions concerning foreign af
fairs.”
After a conference with John
Foster Dulles, his international
affairs adviser, Dewey issued this
statement:
“Mr. Dulles and I have can
vassed the tense Berlin situation
and the problems which may re
sult from the extremely partisan
end provocative assertions con
cerning foreign affairs in the draft
platform of the Democratic Par
ty.”
Maritime Comm.
Says SS. Cos. On !
“Gravy Train”
SEATTLE, — (i*P) — Any change
by the Maritime Commission in the
recently expired Alaska shipping
program probably will result in
increased rates to Alaska, G. W.
Skinner, president of the Alaska
Steamship Company said today.
Skinner, who also is part owner
of the Northland Transportation
Company made the statement in
connection *with a flat denial of
assertions that the recent program
had been a “gravy train.”
Benefits from the program have
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Raw Steak And
Salty Oratory
Pleases Democrats
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By Reiman Morin
PHILADELPHIA, — </P) —This
is about a raw steak, held aloft
in the dainty hands of a lady
wearing diamonds.
The Democrats are feeling a
little stronger today because of
this steak, plus some salty oratory
and 28 minutes of strenuous ex
ercise in the steam room.
Of course, they still lack presi
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International News
At A Glance—
UNDATED INTERNATIONAI_
(By the Associated Press)
A highly places Israeli inform
ant predicted today that a new
truce in the Palestine war by Sat
urday.
Abdel Rahman Azam Pascha,
secretary general of the Arab
League, said in Amman, Trans
jordan, however, that he is meet
ing with Iraqi, Syrian, Lebanese
and Trans-Jordan officials “td in
tensify the Arab war effort.”
“There is no question of a truce,”
he asserted, “we discussed closer
coordination of Arab forces in
the field and a speedup of the
drive against the Jews.”
| LAKE SUCCESS
British sources at the United
Nations said Britain is now ready
to join in strong U.N. action to
stop the war. The British are
allied with most of the warring
Arab nations and until recently
supplied them with money, war
materials and officers. If such
aid is not forthcoming from Brit
ain, the Arabs’ war effort will
be crimped considerably.
JERUSALEM
Fighting in Palestine increased
in violence on the ground and a
loft.
LAKE SUCCESS
Count Folke Bernadotte, the U.N.
mediator, asked the Security Coun
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Generals Of Army
High Command
Visit Nome Base
MARKS AIR FORCE BASE—
General J. Lawton Collins, Deputy
Chief of Staff, Department of the
Army, and his party visited this
Air Force Base overnight Mon
day (12 July 1948) during an in
spection tour of Territorial mili
tary Air Force installations.
Mr. James F. King, Special Con-1
sultant to Mr. Gordon Gray who
is Assistant Secretary of the De
partment of the Army, indicated
that the primary purpose of the
tour throughout the Alaskan Ter
ritory was to permit members of
I the inspection party to gain first
: hand, personal understanding of
general conditions at installations
throughout the Territory as an
aid in determining the needs of the
Army. The tour in the Territory
should prove very helpful in con
nection with requests for appro
priations placed before Congress.
Members of the inspection par
ty were:
Mr. Gordon Gray, Assistant Sec
retary of the Department of the
Army.
General J. Lawton Collins, Dep
uty Chief of Staff, Department of
the Army.
Lt. Gen. Raymond A. Wheeler,
Chief of the Corps of Engineers.
Maj. Gen. Spencer B. Akin,
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U.S. Constabulary On Alert In Berlin
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An armored car and a jeep mounting a machine gun are manned by
members of the U.S. Constabulary on a street corner in the American
sector of Berlin after Russians had cut off electric power to the Allied
zones of the City. The use of armored cars and jeeps was called a pre
caution against "possible unrest" by Col. R.A. Willard, post commander
of the constabulary in Berlin. (AP Wirephoto.)
V
A
Binding Moving
Ordinane Passed
By City Council
The City Council passed a reso
lution and an ordinance at the
regular meeting Monday night.
The resolution was pertaining
to funds available in the McDou
gall Memorial Fund totaling ap
proximately $65,000, and notified
the trustees of the fund, that the
City of Nome, through the Coun
cil desired that the fund be used
in conjunction With other funds
already appropriated from other
sources in construction of the new
hospital, the Maynard-McDougall
Memorial Hospital, in Nome.
A refund on Income Tax for
the McDougall estate to the City
of Nome in the amount of $13,
601.07, brought the total of the
estate to the present figure of
$66,429.70. The fund is slated for
use in the new hospital for Nome.
The resolution is a request to
the trustees to approve the use
of the money in the fund for the
hospital use.
An Ordinance on moving of
building and such property ac
ross the city streets, sidewalks,
and etc., was passed. It prohibits
moving of a building without first
obtaining a permit for shch mov
ing and the designation of the
procedure to be taken in such
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Politics Get Hot
Also Dampened
GLENDALE, Calif.,—(/P)—Poli
tics get pretty serious here, too.
Albin Nelson, 42, a Democrat,
was listening to his party’s con
vention broadcast from Philadel
phia last night when a stream
' of water struck him in the ear.
The sputtering Nelson called po
lice and accused his neighbor, Miss
A. C. Madsen, 64, of thrusting her
, garden hose through his window
j and letting fly.
Moreover, he said, her radio
kept him awake during the Re
publican convention.
After talking it over, officers
' said, Nelson decided nol to press
I charges.
Miss Madsen’s only comment:
"I’m a good Republican.”
IJET FIGHTERS
ON MASS FLIGHT
TO BERLIN
BANGOR, Me., — UP) —Two
jet fighter planes hopped off from
Dow Base today to join 14 others
waiting at Goose Bay, Labrador
to resume a pioneer west-east
trans-Atlantic flight.
The 14 other ships of the 56th
fighter group made the 714-mile
flight from Bangor to Goose Bay
in two hours Monday.
Bad weather also held up, in
Iceland, six Royal Air Force jet
fighters on an east-west crossing.