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WASHINGTON, (/P)—Commun
ist leader Eugene Dennis today
was ordered to jail immediately
for contempt of Congress in 1947.
Federal judge David A. Pine di
rected that Dennis, secretary gen
eral of the American communist
party, start at once to serve a one
year prison sentence.
Dennis had asked the court to
delay the commitment until June
22. On that date the court of ap
peals in New York is scheduled
to hear an appeal by Dennis and
10 other communists convicted of
conspiring to advocate the over
throw of the government.
In 1947, Dennis was convicted
by a federal court here on charges
of contempt growing out of his re
fusal to testify before the House
Un-American Activities commit
tee.
Dennis appealed the conviction.
The Supreme Court upheld it
last May 1.
While the appeal in the con
tempt case was pending, the gov
ernment had brought the case
against Dennis and 10 other com
munist leaders in New York.
Dennis was given a five-year
sentence on his conviction in New
York. He is free under bond pend
ing hearing of the appeal.
Dennis acted as his own attor
ney in the New York case. Joseph
Forer, his attorney in the con
tempt case, argued to Judge Pine
that Dennis should have a chance
to prepare his appeal in the New
York case and for that reason
should not go to jail now.
Forer said it would be “unfair”
to commit Dennis now because of
the fact that he will represent
himself.
Judge Pine told him:
“If I followed your suggestion
a criminal could stay out of jail
for ever by committing another
crime and then representing him
self.”
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WASHIN GTON, (/P) — Rep.
Young <D.-Ohio> suggested Mon
day" a United States warship may
have “engaged a strange subma
rine and sunk it with depth
j bombs.” I
Asked about Rep. Young’s
statement, a navy spokesman said
the navy has investigated all re
ports of foreign submarines in
, coastal waters and has yet to con
firm that a submarine was actu
ally present in any case.
The spokesman declined to
make any further statement.
Young’s comments were in a
prepared statement, which he
elaborated orally to a reporter:
“I didn’t dream this. I didn’t
get it out of my mind. But that’s
all I’ll say further on the subject.”
Under a caption “Soviet Union
aggression,” Young said that “War
is being waged against us by the
Soviet Union” and wrote crypti
i cally:
“Submarines have been recon
J noitering our radar defenses in
Alaska and further south on our
West Coast. If it is a fact that one
of our warships engaged a strange
submarine and sunk it with depth
bombs, a policy of silence is in
contrast with Soviety policy.”
That was reference to a Russian
announcement of firing on an
American plane which Moscow
said was over Latvia. This coun
try in a counter protest said the
plane was unarmed and over the
open Baltic Sea. Ten Americans
were lost and Young called them
i “war casualties.” Young has been
i suggesting that the plane was on a
reconnoitering mission tes t i n g
Russian radar defenses.
“Are you talking of something
you believe may have happened
within the past six months?” a re
porter asked Young in reference
to his mention of bombing a sub
marine.
, He nodded his head affirma
tively but declined to talk about
it.
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CASPER, Wyo. (A*)— President
Truman pledged today a fight to
push development of the west
over the opposition of “reaction
ary forces” whoch he linked to the
“Teapot Dome” scandals which
centered around an oil area north
of here.
The 13-car Presidential train
pulled into this bustling center of
Rocky Mountain oil activity short
ly after 7 a.m. And the chief ex
ecutive quickly was surrounded
by a light-hearted crowd of chil
dren and adults as he took a six
block stroll through the streets.
In his speech delivered here,
Mr. Truman blasted at “privilege
and greed” as the main obstacles
to western deevlopment and point
ed to the new Kortes Dam, €0
miles south of here, as an example
of government enterprise which
will be a source of “wealth and
strength for the people of the
world.”
The President scoffed at those
who cry “socialism” and "regimen
tation” at such government efforts
toward water and land resource
development.
He was met at the station by
two of his World War One com
panions, Gilbert Houseley, an auto
dealer, and James F. Hook, state
director of veterans’ employment.
Mr. Truman served with these
men when he was a lieutenant in
the 12th Field Artillery and they
matched his old army pace of 120
steps a minute in a walk through
clear, brisk air.
This struck the same informal,
folksy note that marked the prog
ress through Nebraska where he
told an agriculture-minded audi
ence at Lincoln that the contro
versial Brannan farm plan would
help assure "peace ad prosperity
for ourselves and the world."
Throughout the day. he contin
ued to talk to large and apparent
ly happy trackside crowds in the
same chatty, neighborly fashion
that marked his successful vote
appeal in 1948.
Truman Raves At
Isolationists
Aboard Truman Train, i/P) —
President Truman declared yes
terday that the decision the United
States make in the months ahead
will determine whether there will
be a “third world war.”
In a talk to a train side crowd
at Galesburg, 111., the President
assailed “isolationists” who would
| “lot the rest of the world be swal
lowed up by communism.”
These men, Mr. Truman assert
ed, cannot “see beyond their
noses” and forget “the terrible
price” this country would have to
pay for such a course.”
“These same men who teP you
we should economize by an isola
tionist policy,” he said, “did the
same thing after World War One
and brought on “World War Two.”
The President, traveling in cam
paign style through the midwest
on his fifith birthday, led news
men on their toughest walk to date
at Chicago yesterday.
It was 6 a m., Chicago time
when the President’s train reached
ihc Rockwell yards.
Ed McKim, Omaha insurance
man, met the train, and Mr. Tru
man took a walk with him and Bill
Mox, a circulation official of the
Chicago Sun-Times, during the
hour and 10 minute Chicago stop
over.
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PHILADELPHIA, <£>*— Gover
nor Ernest Gruening of Alaska
said Wednesday that ‘Statehood is
indispensible for the progress and
development of Alaska.”
Gov. Gruening brought his plea
for Alaskan statehood to Philadel
phia in an appearance before the
Women's Television Club.
The Governor said a populated,
thriving, strong Alaska . as our
northern and western rampart
cannot be achieved under Terri
toriality.” He pointed out that
Alaska is the “only part of the
continent under the American
flag which fronts the Arctic
Ocean, one of the great airways
of the future.”
Gov. Gruening said that “from
the defense standpoint alone, the
! nation would be immeasurably
: strengthened by having in the
Halls of Congress two United
States Senators and a Represen
tative with a vote intimately fa
miliar with Alaska’s vast terrain,
and its immediate potentialities.”
Superintendent B. P. Gerard, of
the Mansen Osberg Construction
Co., states that 16 trucks are now
making regular hauls from Cape
Nome with core rock and the road
is in good condition for the work.
The core rock is being used to
i fill and top the section of the
i breakwater which was put in last
; fall.
JUNIOR SENIOR CLASS
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was Ralph Bingham and grace
was given by instructor Olaf Hal
vorsen.
Junior Class President Alice
Miller welcomed the Seniors and
other guests and Olga Hay, Senior
class president responded for the
Seniors.
Superintendent W. Angell gave
a three-fold address as a farewell
to the seniors, including special
remarks to the juniors as well as
the parents.
Juanita Fagerstrom, talented
musician of the junior class pre
sented several musical numbers
including: Fragment from Sonata
No. 1, by Mozart; Excerpt from
the Andante of the “Surprise Sym
phony by Haydn; Prelude Op. 28
No. 7 by Chopin and Ave Maria
by Gounod.
The Class Will was given by
Dean Bronson; Class History by
Harold Bell and the Junior Pro
phecy by Alice Miller.
Members of the Junior Class
are Thelma Cobb, Ralph Bing
ham, Juanita Fagerstrom, Vincent
Ahkolik, Shirlee Fricke, John Bell,
Alice Miller, Lois Swanberg.
Class advisor, John Aimquist.
Senior Class members are Olga
Hay, Harold Bell, Dean Bronson,
Irene Gray.
More than $13,000,000 has been
spent on research by the Ameri
can Cancer Society during the
past five years.
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