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WALTHAM, Mass. (A1);—George
Bell’s kitten ran up a tree and
couldn’t come back down again.
Its tail was frozen to a branch
in Monday’s freezing rain and
there the kitten sat until discov
ered yesterday.
LONDON, — The condition
of Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin
who is ill with pneumonia, was
described yesterday as “satisfac
tory” by a foreign office spokes
man.
PASADENA, CaUf. (IP) — The
# atomic blast in Nevada Sunday
gave Adolph Schleicher a big
boost.
Schleicher, who two years ago
found a bat cave full of guano
worth perhaps $500,000, reported
that the explosion started an earth
slide that opened up another
chamber of the cave. This recess
is even bigger and richer in guano
than the first, he said Monday.
Guano is used in making com
mercial fertilizer.
LONDON, {JP) — A judge has
ruled that a man wrestling his
wife for a kiss is not guilty of as
sault.
The plaintiff was Mrs. Betty
Woolf, who is separated from her
husband Jack. She testified he lay
in wait for he ras she left a movie,
seized had and tried to put his
4 lips to hers. She tore free and ran.
Said Joudge Seymour Collins:
“Tfiey are still one in law until
there is a legal separation order,
and how can you assault your
self?”
He dismissed the case.
WASHINGTON, (^ — Delegate
Farrington (It .-Hawaii) introduced
a bill Monday to authorize the
Secretary of the Interior to inves
tigate and report to Congress on
the conservation, development
and utilization of Hawaiian water
resources.
SEATTLE, (/PV-A petition for
a collective bargaining election
among 1,400 Bristol Bay fisher
men was filed Monday with the
National Labor Relations Board'by
the Bering Sea Fishermen’s union,
a new group.
The fishermen have been repre
sented by the Alaska Fishermen's
Union. The recently-organized
Bering Sea Fishermen's Union is
4- an independent group.
BETHLEHEM, Pa. (;P) —Bishop
John Taylor Hamilton, 91-year
old Dean of Bishops of the Mora
vian Church in the United States,
died at his home Monday.
Born in Antigua, British West
Indies, Bishop Hamilton's mission
ary work included service in
Alaska, the West Indies, Nicara
gua, and Dutch Guinea.
WASHINGTON, (iP>—President
Truman has sent to the Senate the
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nomination of Clarence T. Larsen
as postmaster at Seward, Alaska,
to succeed C. A. Sheldon, retired.
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THE HAGUE, The Netherlands,
{/P)—A concert audience wept last
night when the Dutch radio's
Lifting The Lid
At Juneau
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(By Jim Hutcheson)
-Tuesday* January 30* 1951
JUNEAU, </P)—A House labor
committee recommended a “do
pass” yesterday for two bills that
would increase unemployme n t
compensation in the Territory and
the Lower Chamber of the Alaska
Legislature approved two mea
sures—both dealing with money.
One of the unemployment com
pensation measures would raise
benefits to $30 weekly from the
present $25. The other would al
low persons with dependents to
draw additional total benefits.
They can draw more weekly now
than a single person, but they are
limited to a $625 total for the
I year.
The proposed change would al
low a person with three or more
, dependents to draw maximum of
! $1,000 on the present $25 a week
i basis. If the $30 proposal was en
acted it would allow a single per
son a maximum of $750 for 25
‘weeks and a maximum of $1,200
for those with three or more de
! pendents.
The two measures were intro
duced iby Rep. Wendell P. Kay, an
Anchorage Democrat.
Committee approval followed a
hearing with unemployment com
! pensation officials and labor lead
: ers.
The major measure approved
by the House earlier was a resolu
tion providing $124,661 for the
Session expenses, including $15
per diem allowance for the !Leg
lislators themselves. This does not
1 include the $15 daily plus mileage
travel allowance which the feder
i al government pays.
The House also approved a me
morial by C. Chester Carlson,
Cordova, Democrat, to federal of
| ficials asking the reinstatement of
|a proposed $2,000,000 road com
mission item for a 130 mile link
between Cordova and the Rich
ardson highway.
Wednesday, January 31. 1951
JUNEAU (JP)—The Alaska Leg
islature reached the halfway mark
of its second week today with
calm on the surface but a heated
fight brewing in the House over a
bill to create a four-member in:
vestigating committee to function
on a year-around basis.
The bill, sponsored by Rep.
Glen Franklin, <D.-Boundary),
has been in the hands of the ju
diciary committee for nearly a
week.
If the committee, composed of
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philharmonic orchestra play e d
Verdi’s “requiem mass.”
The tears stemmed not from
the mournful music but from
teargas bombs tossed from the au
dience in protest against the
Dutch-born German conductor,
Paul Van Kempen. He had been
accused of collaboration with the
Nazis, in World War II.
A doctor and four students, one
of them a girl, were taken from
the auditorium by police and
charged with having hurled three
bombs.
U. N. Committee
Brands Red China
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LAKE SUCCESS, i/P) — The
United Nations political commit
tee labelled Communist China an
aggressor in Korea at an emoticm
charg^d session late last night, but
left wide open what new steps, if
any, to take against the Peiping
regime.
Forty-four delegates including
those of Britain, France, Canada,
the Latin American States and all
of America's Atlantic Pact Allies,
shouted “yes" after their names
were called.
“I thank God," said U. S. deel
gate Warren R. Austin turning to
embrace Britain's Sir Gladwyn
Jebb. Jebb's last-minute support
had swung many wavering coun
tries into line.
Seven nations — India, Burma,
Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia,
White Russia and the Soviet
Ukraine voted “No.” Afghanistan,
Egypt, Indonesia, Pakistan, Swe
den, Yeman and Yugoslavia ab
stained.
Saudi Arabia did not take part
in the vote.
Before the American triumph—
marking the end of the hardest
fight the U. S. ever has waged in
the U. N.—the committee trounc
ed paragraph by paragraph an
Arab-Asian call fo ra new peace
appeal to Peiping. It never got
more than 18 approving votes.
India’s Sir Bengal N. Rau, who
led the fight for its adoption, de
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A good crowd turned out last
night for the Benefit Dance spon
sored toy the (March of Dimes com
mittee, it was reported, who
danced until midnight when a
drawing was made for two special
1 prizes. *
A beautiful cake made and dec
orated toy Mrs. Margaret Russel,
was won toy Don Ford of the U. S.
Weather Bureau. The cake was
made like a (basket of flowers and
covered with lovely edible tolos
: soms of all colors.
A large nugget was also given
away tout the winner has not
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What To Unfreeze.
Is The Question
(By Harold W. Ward)
WASHINGTON, (IP)—A plan to
control prices by limiting profits
was under government study yes
terday while wage stabilizers
pressed for their first major pol
| icy statement designed to free
| large blocs of wage earners from
the pay freeze of last week.
I A new “margin of profit” sys
j tem of price controls was ad
vanced as one way to replace the
dead-halt ordered last Friday on
price mark-ups. Price Administra
! tor Michael V. Di Salle said the
plan, under which sellers would
have to peg prices at cost plus a
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Vitamins For Engines!
Cold weather starting is no longer a problem for those using this
power-filled “vitamin" capsule known as Chevron Starting Fluid. Per
fected by research workers of the California Oil Company, this capsule
is dropped into a small holder. Diesel and gasoline engines start and
purr in less than ten seconds at 50 below.
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Korean Situation
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Tuesday, January 30, 1951
Allied forces pushed cautiously
north of Suwon on the western
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front, meeting moderate but. in-r
| creasing resistance from Chinese
land North Korean troops. The
Reds are believed to have 60,006
troops entrenched between Su?
won and Seoul; but U. N. dough
boys have met no major enemy de^
fense line.
A 35-man Allied patrol was res
cued today after 15 hours '6t
steady fighting against Chinese
Reds who had surrounded it
The patrol drove into a suspect
ed Chinese build-up area 18 miles
northeast of Wonju Monday. It
was attacked shortly after noon,
just after it got out of trucks.
The patrol withdrew to a hill, .
i established a perimeter and radi
! oed for help. It was surroundecl
by an estimated batallion of Chi
nese.
The Reds attacked throughout
the afternoon and into the night.
An Allied rescue force fought its
way through teh the besieged men
early Tuesday. The whole Allied
force then withdrew.
The situation was so confused,
that when the Allied troops pulled
out the Chinese were firing at
each other.
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U. N. forces, backed by war
planes and artillery, assault the
main Chinese Communist line
south of Seoul, leaving an estim
r ated 3,700 dead Reds tsrewn along
I the 40-mile front. The battleship
Missouri led Task . .Force 77 to
blast with guns and carrier-based
planes at Kosang, 45 miles north
of Parallel 38.
The United Nations political
committee, at Lake Success,
branding Red China an aggressor
in Korea, left the door open tyr
a possible peaceful settlement.
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Chamber Protests4
3rd Division Grab
Of Representation
In Statehood Bill
The Northwestern Alaska Cham
ber of Commerce went on record
yesterday at their regular nooR
meeting, as protesting the insignif
icant representation provided the
Second Division in the new state
hood bill, and the inconsistency of
the monopoly given to the Third
Division.
The statehood bill gives the
Second Division only two dele
gates to the Statehood Constitu
tion Convention; 5 each to the
First and the Fourth Division. The
Third Division gets ten to start
with and a good chance of a large
percentage of the nine delegates
at large.
Statements were read in protest
from both the First and the Fourth
Division against the injustice of
this change in the statehood bill
and they urge a revision fbe made
immediately.
Larry Galvin was appointed to
make arrangements for the annu
al dinner meeting for Feb. 13th.