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VOL. L. No. 64. NOME, ALASKA. FRIDAY. MAY 28. 1948. 15c Per COPY*
NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON,— </P) — The
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee said yesterday that United
States-backed regional defense
pacts offer the best immediate way
to prevent World War III.
The Committee urged the Sen
ate to adopt a resolution intro
duced by Senator Vandenberg
(R-Mich). The resolution would
record the Senate as believing
such pacts are a “desirable ob
jective,” provided certain safe
guards are established.”
The United States and Latin
American countries have made
a defense agreement of this na
• ture.
WASHINGTON, — (JP) — The
Senate Finance Committee today
approved 12 to 0, the House-passed
Oleo Margarine Bill.
Chairman Millikin (R-Colo)
said today the committee wrote
in an amendment to require that
public eating places which serve
colored margarine must post a
sign saying so. He said the vote
on this amendment was 10 to 2.
WASHINGTON, — (iP) — The
Geqlogical Servey received a pat
on the back and a financial boost
from the House Appropriations
Committee yesterday.
Tha Committee recommended
$11,456,998 for the agency during
the coming year. This is $4,548,002
less than the Budget Bureau felt
the agency should have, but $880,
more than Congress appropriated
last year.
The Committee recommended
$3,034,800 for gaging streams—
$75,200 under this year and $461,
900 under the budget.
The cut for gaging streams in
cluded $100,000 for water sur
veys in Alaska.
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WASHINGTON,— </P) —Thirty
two organizations were tagged
“subversive” today by Attorney
General Clark.
The 32 are in addition to a list
of approximately 90 groups so
designated by Clark last Novem
ber.
The new names were announced
by the federal loyalty revie .v
board.
The board has the job of
checking on the loyalty of fed
eral employes. President Truman
ordered the check. The president
has said that membership in an
orbanization designated as “sub
versive” should be considered as
one basis for investigation of a
government worker’s loyalty.
Prominent on the original list
were the Communist Party and
numerous alleged Communist
front organizations, as well os i
many defunct groups like the (
German-American Bund.
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LOUIS NASHENWENG AND
CREW LEAVE FOR CAMP
Louis Nashenweng and his crew
of miners, left for his camp in the
Kougarok mining area.
BOYD HARWOOD AGAIN
UP AND AROUND
Boyd Harwood, local druggist,
is out of the hospital and back
• at work in the Nome Drug Stose
following a recent serious illness.
Kehoe Orders
Ship To Port For
“Floating Court”
KETCHIKAN, — <JF) — The
| “Floating Court” waited today at
Dutch Harbor for arrival of the
' government research ship Pacific
1 Explorer with the body of a ship
I board slaying victim and his slay
i er.
District Judge Joseph Kehoe, of
of Nome, now conducting court
aboard the Coast Guard ice-break
er Northwind at Dutch Harbor in
the Aleutians, ordered the Pacif
ic Explorer to put into port im
mediately.
Word of the slaying was re
layed here yesterday by the Cut
ter Bittersweet. The Cutter said
1 it had received a message saying:
j “There has been a murder aboard
' the Pacific Explorer.”
The message said the slayer
had surrendered his gun to the
Captain. It did not identify either
the victim or his slayer.
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Communists Said
I They Will Not
| Comply With Law
WASHINGTON, — (/P) —Wil
liam Z. Foster, American Com
munist Party leader, said today
the party will not comply with
! the House approved Communist
control bill if it becomes law.
Foster told the Senate Judiciary
I Committee that the Mundt-Nixon
bill would create a “Facist Police
State” in this country. He said
his party would not perjure it
self by admitting any resemblance
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U.S. - West Europe1
In Agreement For j
Gov’t Germany i
—
UNDATED INTERNATIONAL
The United States .Britain,
France and the Benelux countries
appeared headed for full agree- j
ment for a provisional govern- j
ment for Western Germany.
A deadlock among the six na-!
tions was broken in London last
night when France agreed to'
broad powers for the International1
control board for the Ruhr. The
French had asked military guar-,
antees from the U.S. for the new
ly formed western alliance as a
price for allowing German indus
trial expansion.
Moscow—Russia published more
“captured” documents asserting
Britain in August. 1939. offered
Adolph Hitler a free hand in Eur
ope in return for a British-German
alliance. A British spokesman in
return said the papers are sheer
nonsense.
WASHINGTON, —Charles Bo
len, U.S. state department coun
selor. pinned a “propaganda” la
! bel on Russia’s spring peace of-'
fensive. , I
PRAGUE, —The Czechoslovak j
government denied a report in
* London by a Czech diplomat that j
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MEMORIAL DAY
HOLIDAY
MONDAY, MAY 31st
Most of the business houses of
I
Nome are observing the Memorial
Day holiday next Monday, along
with the Federal offices, and will
be closed for the day.
There will be no paper pub
lished on that day.
Northwest Floods
Continue To Take
Toll, Life, Property
By the Associated Press—Flood
waters—the worst since 1894—
drove new hundreds from their
homes in three Pocific Northwest
States and Canada today (Friday).
Damage mounted into the mil
lions and the death toll from the
floods and accompanying storms
rose to 13.
Newest victim was Ludvig Brun
ner, 11, who was carried away
to his death in a flood-swoolen
stream at Spokane, Wash., while
swimming.
Worst hit was the Frazer valley
of Western British Columbia. The
Canadian navy was prepared to
launch all available small craft
for a huge "Dunkirk” evacuation
of flood-swept Frazer valley in
habitants.
Naval officials said they also
were ready to send big units
from the Esquimalt base near
Victoria, B.C., if the critical flood
situation worsened.
Scores of persons were being
driven from their homes in Wash
ington State. Earlier thousands
of persons—families of Hanford
Atomic Plant workers—had to
move their trailers away from the
rivers.
With the crest yet to come in
Washington and northern Oregon,
the Army Engineers ordered their
emergency flood control plan into
effect for the entire area.
In eastern Oregon, Union Coun
ty damage alone was estimated
at $500,000. Kimberly, B.C.. es
timated $1,000,000 damage from
water racing through its streets.
A steady stream of women and
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FIRST MARSHALL PLAN SHIP IS GREETED
U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffe ry (on rostrum, left) addresses a
throng which gathered at pierside at Bordequx, France, to greet the
steamer John H Quick, first ship carrying Marshall aid plan supplies
reach France. Behind Caffery, with backs to side of the Quick is a de
tail of Frence Sailors. (AP Wirephoto)
Arabs Attack Jews
In Jerusalem
U.N. Faces Crisis
—By the Associated Press—Arab
shells pounded the Jews in old
and new Jerusalem today while
King Abdullah prayed at Moslem
and Christian shrines in the Holy
City.
His Trans-Jordan troops and
Egyptians attacked on the south
ern outskirts of Jerusalem. They
struck from much-exchanged Ra
mat Rehel against the Katamon,
Talpiyot, Mekor Haim and upper
Baqaa regions of New Jerusalem.
Jews cornered in the old walled
city were pressed even tighter.
The pace of fighting appeared
I to increase since the rejection by
Arabs yesterday of United Nations •
j peace overtures. The U.N. itself
I was in a crisis, its potency chal
I lenged as never before.
Abdullah commands the armies
of Trans-Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Le
1 banon and Yemen. He made de
votions at the Holy Sepulchre,
Calvary and the Mosque of Omar,
| shrines of Christendom and Is
lam. He was cheered by 25,000
Arabs as he toured Old Jerusalem
within 300 yards of the beleagu
i ered Jews. Arabs demolished more
buildings near the big Hurva Syn
agogue, where most Jews in the
old city were holed up.
Abdel Rahman Azzam Pascha,
secretary general of the Arab
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Am. Legion Asks
Speedy Enactment
Communist Bill
WASHINGTON, — (,P) — An
American Legion leader told Sen
ators yesterday “100,000 trained
and seasoned quislings in the Com
munist front” now threaten the
United States.
Paul Griffith, past national Le
gion commander, made the state
ments before the Senate Judiciary
Committee. He asked speedy Sen
ate approval of the House-passed
Mundt-Nixon Bill to curb Com
munists.
“We have today in our midst
the largest fifth column of po
tential spies, saboteurs, demoral
izers, traitors, and wreckers ever
seen in modern times. Griffith
said.
He said the 100,000 “quislings
are aided and protected” by an
‘estimated million or more fel
low travelers, sympathizers and
dupes.”
As the three-day hearing op
ened, chairman.. Wiley (R-Wis)
ruled out “any political speeches”
—by Henry A. Wallace or any
body else. Wallace, third party
presidential candidate, has asked
to testify against the measure.
Wallace has repeatedly blasted
the House-passed measure. He is
scheduled to appear before the
Committee on Saturday. He said
in Coeur d’Alene, Ida., Wednes
dan night:
“I am going to those hearings
to uphold the old-fashioned fun
damental principle of free
speech.”