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• ■ _' OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. L. No. 98.NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1948PER COPY 15<t
NEWS IN BRIEF
MOSCOW, </P)—Pravda charg
ed Saturday that American in
telligence agents wearing New
York police uniforms violated in
ternational law by entering the
Soviet consulate in New York af
ter the plunge of a Russian school
teacher.
The communist party newspa
per said the American intelligence
service is guilty of a “crude vio
lation of the immunity of the Sov
iet consular building in New
York.”
WASHINGTON, </P) — The
States Rights Democrats can’t
challenge President Truman in
his home state of Missouri next
November. The new party’s head
quarters was informed it can’t
qualify its Presidential ticket for
^jthe ballot by the Aug. 23 dead
line.
NEW DELHI, (/P) — A United
Nations commission Saturday pro
posed a cease fire agreement be
tween the dominions of India and
Pakistan to open the way for a
settlement of the righting in
Kashmir. Pakistan has denied
she has troops fighting in Kash
mir, which now actually is part
of the Indian Union. India has
charged that Pakistan has an ex
peditionary force in that northern
state.
SEATTLE, (JP) — Up for city
council consideration are petitions
for and against extension of day
light saving time here until Sept.
26. Fast time currently is sched
uled to end Aug. 31. The petition
favoring extension, submitted to
the council Friday, said the bal
ance of the country, including
Portland and other Pacific Coast
cities, will remain on daylight,
time the extra four weeks.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—“Citizens
radios” — camera-sized priv ate!
broadcasting stations—will be on
the market soon.
Patterned after the wartime
“walkie-talkie,” the two-way ra
dio is expected to reach quantity ,
production in the near future, i
and the federal communications
commission has said it will begin ,
» licensing citizen-broadca s t e r s ;
shortly.
—
SEATTLE, </P)—Seattle district
Coast Guard headquarters report
ed that a pian drowned Friday in
the Ketchikan area when he fell
from the fishing boat Welcome.
He was identified only as Ed Bur- .
ton. Radioed advices said the
Keachikan Coast Guard base sent
. out a boat to drag for the body.
SEATTLE, (JP)—Nineteen per
sons lost their lives in Washing
ton State’s week-end accidents.
The state patrol called it the
state’s “blackest week-end” of the
year.
Sixteen persons were killed in
a series of automobile accidentj
Three were killed in a three-car
accidnt in Snoqualmie Pass. Two
drowned and one suffocated in a
home fire.
Heavy rains and slick highways
contributed to the traffic toll.
Espionage Charge
Just ‘Red Herring’
In Witness Case
(By John M. Hightower)
WASHINGTON, <JP) — Russia’s
belated spy blast at an American
naval officer is viewed by offi
cials here today as an attempt to
cover up waning Moscow interest
in the Kosenkina-Samarin school
teacher cases.
Moreover, the state department
insists that the espionage charge
against Lt. Robert Dreher is i de
liberate Soviet frameup.
The department disclosed that
Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith
bluntly told Soviet deputy foreign
minister Andre Vishinsky last
April that the considered the evi
dence against Dreher had been
“arranged” with the connivance
of the MVD—Russia’s famous se
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Russians Leaving
United States
NEW YORK, (/P)—Soviet cit*
zens are returning to Russia
from the New York area in such
numbers that it “savors of an
evacuation” the New York Daily
Mirrow said Saturday.
The back-to-Russia movement
began two months ago, the paper
said, adding:
“Since that time, incomplete
reports disclose that more than
500 Russians have left for home. ’
The Mirror said most of those
leaving “are top-ranking engin
eers, technicians and professional
men and women, many of whom
have been in this country for
years.”
Ask Repayment Of
Loan To Co-Op Of
Matanuska
ANCHORAGE, (JP) — Directors
of the Alaska Rural Rehabilita
tion corporation voted last week
to recommend that the Farmers
Home administration call imme-:
diately its loan to the Matanuska
Valley Cooperative Association, j
Of the original loan about
$225,000 remains outstanding.
The Co-Op borrowed $292,000 at
i the time of establishment, signing
demand notes.
A. 'R. R. C. manager C. W. Pe
ters said the corporation board’s
action was taken because of a
breach of a loan agreement
among the three agencies.
He emphasized the corpora
tion’s action is not an attempt to
undermine the co-operative ef
fort. “We’re not trying to kill the
Co-op,” he said. “We just want it
! to break from the deadlock which
has throttled it recently.”
The directors expect action on
i the corporation recommendation
i to the F. H. A. within a month.
I
Greek Army Traps
Guerrillas
ATHENS (/P)—The Greek army,
■ exploiting a break-through on the
guerrillas’ southwestern flank,
advanced nearly two miles today
to within 67000 yards of the main
Grammos summit along the Al
banian border.
A general staff spokesman said
national forces are now turning
back to snap a trap on the guer
rillas in the southwestern and
central areas of the Grammos
mountains front.
Seal Herd Built
Back Up To
Normal Size
WASHINGTON Wl—'The Prib
ilof Islands seal herd at last has
been built back to the size it was
when purchased from Russia 81
years ago, the fish and wildlife
service said today.
The United States has made
more than twice as much off the
herd, director Albert M. Day of
the agency said recently, as the
$7,500000 paid to Russia in 1867
for all #of Alaska. The Pribilofs
are in the Bering Sea west of
Alaska.
Milton C. James, acting direc
! tor of the service said the 1948
fur seal population of the Pribil
ofs is 3,837,131, six per cent more
than the 1947 total which, in turn
was 6.72 percent higher than th(
1946 figure. The 1946 total waj
7.31 per cent above that for 1945
Seton H. Thompson, directoi
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Sitka May Get
Rayon Industry
JUNEAU, (JP)—1The Alaska In
dustrial corporation, said to be fi
nanced by Belgian interests, has
announced it plans to establish a
plant in the Sitka area to produce
raw material for the rayon indus
try.
Vice president Ben Mullen said
[ the plant would have a daily ca
pacity of about 200 tons and
would call for an investment of
between $18,000,000 and $20,000,
000. The company plans to bid on
a stand of one billion cubic feet
of pulp timber in the Sitka area,
on which it said a call for bids
was expected soon.
Load “Shooting Star’ On USS Sicily For Germany
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A complete U. S. Air Force F-80 jet-propelled "Shooting Star" of the 36th Fighter Wing, wea
therproofed for ocean transport comes over edge of flight deck of escort carrier USS Sicily at Naval
station pier, Balboa, Canal Zone. The 36th Fighter Wing comprised of 75 jet fighters, is being
taken to Germany on the Sicily and the Army Transport Kirschbaum. (</P) Wirephoto)
Moscow Charges
Naval Attache Is
Espionage Agent
(By Thomas P. Whitney)
MOSCOW (i^P)—Pravda charges
' that an assistant naval attache in
Moscow was nabbed receiving
secret military information from
a Soviet official and was hustled
out of Russia by demand of the
Soviet government.
The assistant naval attache, Lt.
[Robert Dreher of Oil City, Pa.,
was “caught with the goods in his
hand,” Pravda said yesterday.
Both Dreher and the Russian of
ficial involved confessed, the
newspaper said.
The United States embassy was
I told that Dreher “had been caught
in espionage,” Pravda said, add
ing:
“The evidence was so indisput
able that the Embassy did not
, even try to conceal it and, with
out protest, fulfilled the demand
of the ministry of foreign affairs
that Dreher immediately leave the
Soviet Union.”
U. S. Ambassador Walter Be
dell Smith and the U. S. naval at
tache, Rear Adm. Leslie C. Ste
vens, refused to comment on the
accusation.
j (In Washington, however, the
state department charged that the
Russian authorities framed the es
pionage charge against Dreher.
The department said the evidence
was planted by the Russians after
Dreher had applied for a Soviet
visa to leave the country.”)
Dreher, 32, left Moscow May 1.
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Maritime Battle
\ow Before Judge
SAN FRANCISCO, iJP) — An
other round in the long Pacific
Coast maritime labor dispute
comes before federal judge
George B. Harris today with each
side accusing the other of con
tempt of court.
The CIO marine cooks and
stewards charge the Pacific
American Steamship association
with failure to bargain in good
faith as directed under Judge
Harris’ 80-day injunction expir
ing Sept. 2. The injunction staved
off a threatened strike.
The association contends the
union has violated the injunction
by delaying three Alaska-bound
ship sailings.
The union is one of five bound
by the injunction. The others are
the CIO longshoremen, CIO ma
rine engineers, independent ma
rine firemen and AFL radio of
ficers local.
Meanwhile, the national labor
relations board regional office
here prepared to poll members of
the unions on management offers.
Ballots will go out late this week
or early next week.
The principal issue in the dis
pute is control of the hiring hall.
Employers insist on an impartial
hiring hall dispatcher; unions de
mand that they be allowed to con
tinue selecting the dispatcher.