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NEWS IN BRIEF
CONCORD, Mass. (JP) — The
birth of triplet girls “flabbergast
ed” their father.
Attorney David Glass said he
and his wife had expected twin
boys to match a set of girl twins
born two years ago.
“Now we’ll have to think up a
set of new names,” he said.
The heaviest triplet weighed
four pounds eight ounces and the
smallest three pounds 13 ounces.
They were born Wednesday at
Emerson hospital.
SAN PEDRO. Calif. (/P) — Full
financial and moral support of
Harry Bridges' fight against his
recent perjury conviction was
voted late Wednesday by dele
gates representing 10.000 CIO
longshoremen.
A resolution unanimously ap
proved by 90 union leaders hurled
charges of "frameup" and "gross
miscarriage of justice." It said the
San Francisco verdict was "based
upon the testimony of paid in
formers and self-admitted per
jurers."
MANILA, (jP)—The Philippines
government said “No, thanks” to
a Canadian with 12Vi tons of gold
for sale.
Governor Miguel Cuaderno of
the Philippines Central Bank said
George A. Mackay of Toronto, of
fered to undersell the black mar
ket.
The black market price for 400,
000 ounces: $20,000,000. Mackay’s
price: $15,600,000.
The U. S. price for the same
amount of gold is $14,000,000.
EDMONTON, Alta., (/P) — Cecil
(Mush) Moore and his 12-dog
team hit the road again Wednes
day. They are en route to Lewis
ton, Maine, on a 5,000-mile sled
trip that strated Nov. 14 in Fair
banks, Alaska.
The remaining 2,900 miles will
include stops at Saskatoon, Winni
peg and Chicago.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The Fish
and Wildlife Service said yester
day Hugh W. Terhune, adminis
trator of its Philippine fishery
program, will become assistant
chief of its branch of Alaska fish
eries July 1.
Terhune will succeed C. How
ard Baltzo, recently named as the
service’s assistant regional direc
tro in Alaska.
Terhune has spent twelve years
in Alaska.
He was appointed administrator
of the Philippine fishery program
in 1946.
WASHINGTON, OP)—President
Truman asked Congress Wednes
day for an extra $176,606,194 to
meet government expenses this
year. He said the money is needed
principally for increased pay and
travel costs.
The requests include: $4,500,000
for building airports at Anchorage
and Fairbanks; $1,110,000 for the
Bonneville power transmission
system; $750,000 for construction
work on the all-American canal
system, and $7,000,000 for grants
(Continued on Page Seven)
Jap Subs Roamed ,
Pacific At Will
Early In War II
(By O. H. P. King)
TOKYO, (JP)—A leading Japan
ese commander of World War II
said yesterday that plane-carrying
submarines crossed the Pacific at
wil! early in the war.
Meiji Tagami, a former subma- 1
rine commander who made three
such trips, told the Associated
Press in an exclusive interview
that the submarines and planes
made attacks all the way from
Alaska to southern California.
The main purpose, he said, was
to sink as much U. S. shipping as
possible, harass West Coast ports,
and stir up the citizens. But at
least one mission he described as
a “retaliation for the Doolittle
bombing of major Japanese cit
ies.”
Tagami claims his submarine
sank a heavy cruiser and shelled
Port Stevens at the mouth of the
Columbia River, while his subma
rine’s plane flew over Oregon to
i attempt to set forest fires.
(The forest service in Oregon
said one fire was set and easily
put out. The shells aimed at Fort
Stevens landed far from any in
stallations*.
He declared at least 12 other
' Japanese submarines carried
, planes to the West Coast and at
tempted missions.
Tagami said the Doolittle re
taliation mission required the con
struction of six special incendiary
(Continued on Page Four)
| Alaska Road Com
mission Program
For 1950
The work of the Alaska Road
Commission for 1950 will include
a large program of road mainten
ance, reconstruction, and new
construction in most of the inhab
ited regions of Alaska. Funds for
carrying out the program are con
tained in the department of the in
terior appropriation act (not yet j
passed by Congress), together with
Alaska Territorial road funds un
der a cooperative agreement, and
funds contributed by private in
terests for specific road purposes.
The program contemplates an
increase of approximately thirty
six per cent maintenance over last
year. As the mileage of roads is
increased year by year and as the
standard of the roads is improved,
more money is required for their
maintenance. Also, traffic has
greatly increased and most of the
rdads must be kept open in winter
as well as in summer. Year round
maintenance is planned for the
Alaska Highway, Glenn Highway,
part of the Richardson Highway,
and many local roads.
Maintenance and snow clear
ance on some of the local roads
cannot be assumed with Federal
funds of the Alaska Road Com
mission, because of lack of money.
The largest single improve
ment now under way is the pav
ing program. In 1949. 145 miles
(Continued on Page Three) 1
Dulles Named |
Consultant To
Secretary of State
WASHINGTON, (/P)—'The state
department said yesterday John
Foster Dulles, New York lawyer
and foreign policy expert, had
agreed to serve as consultant to
secretary of state Acheson.
A formal announcement said the
Republican leader was asked to
take the position by both Presi
dent Truman and Acheson.
Only Wednesday night, Presi
dential press secretary Charles G.
Ross denied reports that Mr. Tru
man proposed to name Dulles to
a top policy post with the rank of
Ambassador At Large.
The state department yesterday
said Dulles “will advise Secretary
Acheson on broad problems in the
field of foreign affairs and on spe
cific line sof action which this
government should follow.” It
added:
“His work will not be confined
(Continued on Page Four)
I
Lattimore \\ ill Try
To Sue McCarthy
For Libel
WASHINGTON (JP), Owen Lat
timore denounced as “base and
contemptible lies” yesterday the
charge that he is a Russian spy
and swore that he is not and never
has been a communist.
From the witness chair of a
Senate committee, the 50-year-old
Johns Hopkins professor said <A)
he intends to talk with his law
yers about suing Senator McCar
thy (R.-Wis.) for making the ac
cusations and <B> he hopes to be
the “instrument” of McCarthy’s
resignation from the Senate.
Lattimore testified before a
%
packed hearing room to the Sen
ate foreign relations sub-commit
tee investigating McCarthy’s gen
eral charges that the state depart
(Continued on Page Five*
Christians World
Over Observe
Good Friday
• By The Associated Press'
It’s an old story, and most peo
ple heard it when they were so
young it seemed like just another
story, but it was a story they
would never forget. And especial
ly today, they were remembering
it.
All over this land, and in coun
tries across the seas Christians
paused to give renewed homage to
the man of Galilee who on this
day 19 centuries ago died on a
wooden cross on a hill outside
Jerusalem.
There were special prayers on
the lips of many today, and ser
mons from high prelates and from
country preachers. There were
ceremonies and candle-lightings,
processions and plays and heads
bowed together.
Business houses in many cities
ordered their doors closed, at least
(Continued on Page Four)
FBI Clears Balti
more Of McCarthy
‘•Keep Charges
(By Marvin L. Arrowsmiih)
WASHINGTON, (JF) — Senator
Tydings' assertion that FBI rec
ords fully clear Owen Lattimore
of “communist spy” charges left
Seantor McCarthy completely dis
satisfied today.
Tydings, Maryland Democrat,
heads the Senate committee in
vestigating the contentions of Mc
Carthy, Wisconsin Republic a n,
that Lattimore is Russia’s top es
pionage agent in the United States.
Lattimore, an American author
ity on Far Eastern affairs, yester
day spent more than three hours
in the witness chair blasting at
McCarthy's accusations. The hear
ing later adjourned until Tues
day. His sworn testimony boiled
(Continued on Page Five)
SWIVEL CHAIR JOB
News of the \\ orhJ
At A Glanee - - -
Thursday, April 6, 1950
(By The Associated Press)
Nationalist Chinese predicted
today mainland communists will
soon leach for two vital islands
—Chusan and Quemoy—as step
ping stones to Formosa, Chiang
Kai Shek’s last major bastion.
The Nationalists at Taipei, For
mosa, charged yesterday that the
Russians are supplying warplanes
and airmen to bolster the Chinese
communists’ air force. They ex
! pressed fear the Reds would have
an effective air umbrella when
they start their long-threatened
invasion of the islands still in Na
! tionalist hands.
Indonesian soldiers who revolt
ed against the federal Indonesian
I government at Makassar, Celebes,
appeared today to be still in con
trol of that famous spice island
[ port. East Indonesia’s Premier
, Diapari has been ordei’cd to Ja
i karta to report to the federal gov
ernment on the revolt in which
15 federal soldiers were killed
yesterday.
The outbreak is due to the in
ability of the federal government
i and the Dutch-sponsored state to
j reconcile their differences and
share authority.
The United States has turned
down a Czechoslovakian request
that eight fliers who engineered
| a mass escape of Czechs in three
planes that reached the American
j zone of Germany be returned for
trial.
In a note to the Czech foreign
ministry at Prague the U. S. em
bassy said the eight are legitimate
political refugees and have been
given asylum in the west “in ac
cordance with humanitarian prin
ciples.”
Parisians last rxight witnessed
the most bitter sti'eet clashes be
tween communists and police
i since the end of the war. The
1,500 communists were demon
strating against the publication
in a conservative newspaper of
the diary of the former nazi Col.
Otto Skorzeny.
Anti-communist newspapers in
Paris today demanded that atomic
scientist Federic Joliot-Curie be
fired from his job as head of
Fra nee’s energy commission. He
is an outspoken communist who
said yesterday that “communist
scientists will never contribute a
particle of their science to a war
against the Soviet Union.”
DON FOSTER ENROUTE NORTH
FOR SHUNGNAK ELECTION
Don C. Foster, of the ANS ar
rived from Juneau enroute to
Shungnak for the coming election
being held for a reservation
there. He is accompanied by Mills
Aspin, chief clerk of the Territo
ries and Insular Committee, who
is going to Shungnak to “observe”
the election, due to the recent
criticism of the department in
connection with the reservation
elections being held in Alaska.
Mr. Aspin is also interested in
the opinion of the people of this
area on Statehood. He plans to
leave this afternoon, weather per
mitting, for Teller and may possi
bly go on to Barrow.