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At A Glance —
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lie.
Police were alerted to watch for
trouble as authorities predicted a
vote of more than 500,000 may be
cast.
The problems of race and reli
gion, main issue ever since the six
counties of Northern Ireland re
fused ot join southern Ireland 28
years ago, have been the danger
points of the campaign just ended.
Votes will not be counted until
tomorrow.
Anger over Hungary’s sentenc
ing of Josef Cardinal Mindszenty
continued to swell today.
American officials foresaw a
new clash between Russia and the
western powers growing out of
the treason trial. Authorities pre
dicted the clash will come when
the United States and other west
ern nations try to call Hungary to
account for its actions against the
primate.
United Nations officials are con
vinced the Mindszenty case soon
will be brought before the U. N.
for a full hearing.
Yugoslavia sent a spokesman to
the London meeting o l'the Rig
Four foreign ministers deputies to
press her Soviet-supported claims
on Austria.
Some observers were surprised
as Russia ignored her family
squabble with Yugoslavia to back
the country’s demands.
Scandinavia moved a step closer
to a tie up with the North Atlan
tic defense alliance oday. Swe
den, cocking an eye for signs laid
dawn a defense policy aimed at
delay ng any aggressive action by
any foreign power until outside
help coul darrive.
Rep. Henry Jackson (D.-Wash.)
said today he is confident Norway
already has “cast its lot with the
west” and will join the alliance.
Jackson made the statement af
ter an off-the-record talk with
Halvard M. Lange, Norway’s for
eign minister, now in Washington
to confer with secretary of state
Dean Acheson on the alliance.
Friday, February 11, 1949
Protestant leaders behind the
iron cur'ain came under commun
ist pressure today.
Communist-led Bulgaria an
nounced she will place 15 Protest
ant ministers and officials on trial
soon on charges of treason, violat
ing currency laws and spying for
Airmen Pursue Coyotes For Sport, Cash
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SPOKANE. Wash.—An unusually hard winter which has kept res
idents of eastern Washington hugging the fireside as the snow piled up
outside, also brought sport for airmen with a good aim.
Flyers have been scanning the rolling farmland of the Spokane
valley for coyotes driven into the open by hunger. Spotting one of the
grey-crown predators fmm high in the air, the hunters pilot their ski
equipped plane low over their prey. It takes a quick trigger finger to
bag the fleeing animal.
Coyotes, always a menace in the chicken yard, have invaded farm
yards in packs during the sub-zero weather. They also prey on small
wild animals and game birds.
A state bounty of five dollars fo reach coyote carcass helps tbc
hunters meet operating expenses.
Usually the coyote starts runninq when it sees the plane swoopinc
down on it. But the bolder ones try to fight off the plane, jumpinc,
many feet into the air in an attempt to snag it. Either way, the huniec
animal has little chance of escaping the plane travelling at 100 mile;
The dead animals are bound to the airplane struts, four ot a trip
an hour.
Animals that are friends to the farmer have an easier lot. Tht
flying hunters also carry sacks of grain to feed the starving birds.
Five Spokane Valley hunters stand beside the ski-equipped planes with which they bagged the 30 coyotes shown. Farmers
have been plagued during the hard winter by the hungry predators. The flyinq hunters are. left to right: Loren Lemen, Chet
Utechl, Darrel Wods, Gene Wing and Miles Courchaine.
Britain and the United States.
Deputy foreign minister Vladi
mir Topencharov said the church
men already had “fully confess
ed” to the spy charges.
The government named 12
American and British churchmen,
educators and officials who it said
acted as “contacts” in the spying
activities.
A Baptist official in New York
said the charges were a “terrible
thing” and linked them with the
treason trial of Josef Cardinal
I Mindszenty, Roman Catholic pri
mate of Hungary. It is part of a
| communist persecution of all reli
gions, he said.
! The 15 indicted are leaders of
the United Evangelical church.
Represented in the church are the
Methodist, Baptist, Pentacost and
Congregational faiths.
Norway’s foreign minister Hal
vard Lange arranged to leave
Washington tonight, taking with
him secretary of state Dean Ache
son’s final word on the benefits
and responsibilities in the Nor h
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PERISH IN HOME FIRE
j CLAYTON, N. A
mother and seven of her eight
children perished early today in
a fire that destroyed their three
room house near this St. Lawrence
River village.
Mrs. Clifford Conant, 29, and
the children, ranging in age from
one year to 11, apparently were
trapped in their beds. The struc
ture burned to the ground.
The husl^and, 39, and a daugh
ter, Susan, 13, escaped.
Conant was treated by a physi
1 cian for hysteria and shock and
cuts of the hands and arms.
! Firemen said they believed the
blaze originated in a kerosene
heater.
Atlantic Defense Alliance,
i The treaty is intended to bind
the United States, Canada and
Western Europe into a tight ring
against communist expansi o n .
Russia, strongly attacking the
whole idea, has made Norway a
counter-offer for a non-aggression
pact.
, A multi-million dollar British
American plan for development of
African jungle land was unveiled
by Marshall Plan officials in
Washington.
, The idea of the plan, which
would cost about $10,000,000 is to
tap fresh sources of scarce mate
‘ rials and improve transportation
in Britain’s 2,000,000 square miles
of African colonies.
The United Nations securi v
council once again rebuffed Rus
sian demands for American n o '
ic bomb secrets. The latest test
came last night wh"i rtujsia tri'd
to push through a resolution call
ing on the big five powers to tell
the U. N. by March 31 how many
a omic bombs they now have.
Only Russia and the Soviet
Ukraine voted for the proposal,
the other nine council niemoer
abstained.
An overwhelming conservative
majority has reelected Shigeru
Yoshida as prime minister of
Japan. Yoshida, who resigned this
morning to comply with constitu
tional procedure, received 350 of
i 451 house of representative vo cj.
Alaska SS. And
Rivers Battle Over
Income Tax Law
SEATTLE, i/P) — The Alaska
Steamship company Wednesday
denied a reported assertion by
Alaska attorney general Ralph
Rivers that the company did not
ask “proper Alaska authorities”
for an opinion on the new Terri
torial income tax law.
F. A. Zeusler, executive assist
ant to the president issued a state
ment declaring that Rivers’ as
serted charge was ‘‘not consistent
with the contents of the law, nor
with the substance of the commu
nications had with his office.”
Zeusler’s statement outlined an
exchange of messages between
the company, its agents, various
Territorial officials and the attor
ney general himself, concluding:
“We were under the impression
that attorney general Rivers was
the proper Alaska authority. So
far we have been unsuccessful in
obtaining a definite decision from
him. Under the circumstances we
have been obliged to comply with
the clear letter of 'he law rather
than subject ourselves to the pen
alties prescribed for lack of ob
servance, and we shall continue
to do so until there is proper au
thority for doing otherwise.”
The controversy arose after
Alaska ship union members pro
tested withholding of Alaska
taxes from their wages by the
steamship line. A federal court
case to test constitutionality of
the law as it affects merchant sea
men is pending in Seattle.
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