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NEWS IN BRIEF
PALMER,, (ZP)—Plainer is way
ahead .of the nation in blood-typ
ing for civil defense purposes,
public health nurse Marjorie My
ran, said yesterday.
Miss Mvren said this little Mat
anuska Valley town has already
set pu its blood-tvping program
and the voluntary program will
start in public schools early next
month.
After parental permission is ob
tained. student fingers will be
pricked and identification cards
issued. Miss Mvren said.
CHICAGO, (ZP) —A mother of
seven children says her landlady
has created a bathing crisis by
keeping her goldfish—all 40 of
them—in the family’s bathtub.
Mrs. Emily McDermed, 40,
whose family rents three of the
five rooms in the home of Mrs.
Anna Starkuh, obtained a disor
derly conduct warrant from
Judge John Zuris.
She told him she couldn’t pull
the plug because it was sealed in.
She couldn’t make it hot for the
fish, she added, becaues there was
no hot water and no faucets.
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A N C H O RAGE, (/P) — Alaska
played host to a record number
of motorist visitors this summer
dspite an obvious drop after < the
outbreak of war in Korea.
William Wallace, published of
the Guidbook, The Mileporst, re
ports a total of 15,617 persons
traveled to Alaska over the Alas
ka highway from January 1 to
October 1, compared with 11,000
for all of 1949.
The 1950 total may hit 17,000,
although traffic slumped from
nearly 3,000 in July in less than
2,000 in August, according tor cus
toms officials.
ANCHORAGE, {/P) — A thou
sand power consumers on Anchor
age outskirts will receive rural
Electrification Administ ration
power from a subsidiary under
terms of a contract completed this
week.
For a sum of $71,000 the Chu
gach Electric Association pur
chased the Mountain View Power
and Light Company, CEA man
ager Merrill Chittv announced.
This gives the REA-sponsored
CEA over 2,000 customers, 90
miles of power line and several
diesel power plants.
W A S H I NGTON, (/P) — Four
Alaska cities have applied for 325
housing units under the 1949 Pub
lic Housing Act.
The applications, to the Public
Housing Administration, have all
been approved.
The number of units and the
preliminary loans are:
Anchorage 150 units and $55,
000: Fairbanks 75 and 330,000;
Juneau 50 and $20,000; Ketchikan
50 and $20,000.
The report covers the period
from Aug. 16, 1949 tcf Sept. 30,
1950.
TEL AVIV, Israel, (/P)—Com
munist demonstrators hooted a
United States information service
j Discover Red Plan
iTo Overthrow
| Philippine Gov't. |
i -
j MANILA, (iP) — The national
| defense department says it has
; discovered a secret communist
i master plan to overthrow the
, Philippines government. It said
| the Reds planned an army of 116,
i 000 to begin the revolution next
year.
1 Discovery of the asserted plan
at communist headquarters re
i suited in suspension of the writ
of habeas corpus for all suspected
subversives by President Quirino.!
i Many foreign diplomats today (
unofficially requested—and were
given—copies of Quirino’s procla
mation.
The defense department today j
said the secret Red plan called
1 for 35 divisions totalling 116,000
! men trained to overthrow the gov
1 ernment in November of .next
I year.
Experts said the plan was well
suited to conditions in the Islands.
Military intelligence agents at
tributed the language of the plan
to Luis Taruc, Red leader of the
Hukbalahap guerrillas.
The government is holding
without charge and without bail
99 of 105 persons arrested in raids
! on communist headquarters.
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Forecast Statehood
By Christmas
PORTLAND, Ore. {^—State
hood for both Hawaii and Alaska
by Christmas was forecast yester
! day by Sen. Gug Cordon (R.-Ore.‘,
member of the Senate interior and
insular affairs committee.
He said in an interview that if
he were overly optimistic on that
date, then statehood surely would
come “some time during the 82nd
Congress.”
1
He said he would press for
statehood for both Territories
; when Congress reconvenes Nov.
| 27. The bills could have been
passed earlier if the administra- i
' tion had pressed for them, he said,
adding that Democratic leader
Lucas of Illinois failed to help
Sen. O’Mahoney (D.-Wyo.* who
wanted to get them before the
j Senate.
“And some Republicans were
of no help either,” he said.
Cordon said he long had favor
ed statehood for Hawaii, and last
month reversed his stand on
Alaska. He said he formerly be
lieved the bill for Alaskan state
hood failed to give the Territory
enough natural resources from
which it could gain revenue for|
! state use. But he said he now
i
thinks that can be worked out af
ter statehood.
film on Korea off the screen in
two Tel Aviv theaters.
Showing of the film has been
approved by the Israeli censor
ship board. But the cinema own
ers, fearing the Communists might
rush up and try to damage their
screens, ordered the projection
stopped.
British A-Expert
Had No Passport
To Russia
(By Anne Marie Snellman'
HELSINKI, Finland, {JP) — If
Britain’s missing atom expert, Dr.
Bruno Pontecorvo, has left Fin
land for Russia, he went without
any passport.
Official sources disclosed that
the passport of the Italian-borrn
scientist, whose disappearan c e
was reported Saturday, still is in
the custory of the Finnish minis
try of interior.
The Stockholm correspondent of
the Rome newspaper II Tempo re
ported Monday that Pontecorvo
sailed Sept. 2 aboard a Russian
ship from Finland to Leningrad.
Italian newspapers earlier had re
ported that he and his family had
slipped off to Russia while on va
cation from England, where Pon
tecorvo had worked for two years
at the British atomic research
plant at Marwell.
The scientist was described by
European colleagues as a leading
researchers in tritium, basic ele
ment of the hydrogen bomb.
P9ntecorvo arrived here on
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No Contest For
Demo. Nomination
Of Truman
(By The Associated Press)
Senator Clinton Anderson (D.
N. M.) believes President Truman
will win the 1952 Democratic
Presidential nomination without a
contest.
He said so on a television pro
gram. Anderson is head of the
Democratic Senatorial campaign
committee and executive vice
chairman of the Democratic Na
tional committee.
Asked if he thought the Demo
crats would consider nominating
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, An
derson said he doubted it—that
“I think President Truman will
be the only man considered by
the Democrats in ’52.”
He said he thinks New York
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey’s endorse
ment of Eisenhower was designed
to take the general out of consid
eration by the G.O.P. If Dewey
had wanted to support Eisenhower
Anderson said, “He’d let him lay
bask awhile while some of the
brighter young men ran and then
would have had Eisenhower to
the front.”
A Senate subcommittee prom
ised an early discussion, mean
while, on whether to go ahead
with a formal inquiry into cir
cumstances surrounding Dewey’s
decision ter seek a third term as
New York Governor following the
withdrawal of Lt. Gov. Joe R.
Hanley.
Hanley last week made public
a letter in which he said he had
been assured he could clean up
personal debts within 90 days if
he agreed to run for the Senate.
He did, withdrawing as a candi
date for the GOP governor .nom
ination, and Dewey then an
nounced he would run again.
A1 Jolson, Stage
And Screen Star,
64, Passes On
\ SAN FRANCISCO, (/P)—A1 Jol
| son, the veteran jazz singer who
j was the first U. S. star to enter
| tain troops overseas in both the
Second World and Korean Wars,
died unexpectedly Monday night
with a quip on his lips:
“Hell, Truman had only one
j hour with MacArthur. I had two!”
Then ...
“I’m going, boys,” the famous
; Mammy singer told two longtime
j friends with whom he was play
I ing gin rummy in the St. Francis
Hotel. He died quickly, of a cor
onary occulsion . . . And without
pain, said the house physician.
] Jolson, 64, had returned only
two weeks ago from Korean where
he sang to Allied troops. He had
a two-hour luncheon chat with
General MacArthur in Tokyo en
! route. President Truman and Mac
! Arthur talked privately just an
hour on Wake Island a week ago
| Sunday in their historic get-ac
’ quainted meeting.
With Jolson were two old
friends, Al’s accompanist and ar
ranger. They had come with him
from southern California for a
scheduled guest star spot on a
Bing Crosby radio show, to have
been recorded here last night.
They telephoned Jolson’s fourth
wife, Erie Galbraith, whom he
married in 1945. She was at En
cino Calif. She was reported to
have collapsed with grief.
Jolson was riding the crest of a
popularity wave for the second
time in an entertainment career
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U. S. Rejects Red
Proposal For One
German Governm’t
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Secretary
of State Acheson turned down/ to
day a Soviet bloc proposal for a
new Big Power effort to establish i
a single German government.
The proposal was made Satur
day following a two-day confer
ence at Prague of Russian reputy
premier V. M. Molotov and for
eign ministers of seven satellite
nations.
_ i
Acheson in a statement blamed
Germany’s plight on Russia’s post
war actions. The proposals made
at' Prague, he said, “should be di
rected to the government of the
Soviet Union.”
Russia, he declared, could! make
the postwar Potsdam agreement
“one hundred per cent complete
in Germany by taking the re
quired steps in the Soviet zone.”
“The time has long since passed
when the world can be stirred to j
hope by geenral phrases from the I
Soviet Union about disarmament
and peace and German unity,”
Acheson said.
“We who have striven so hard
\ .
want actions, we want the threat
ening East German army disband
ed, an dthe capricious restraints
on internal German trade remov
ed, and free democratic elections
held in all Germany.” i
Korean Situation
At A Glance —
Tuesday, October 24, 1950
<By The Associated Press*
Two American obser v a t i o n
planes flying inside North Korea
were reported fired on today by
Chinese communist guns shooting
across the manchurian border.
The incident was reported by
two U. S. Marine pilots as United
Nations forces raced to within 30
miles of the border to seal off dis
organized remnants of fleeing
North Korean communists.
It was exactly four months to
the day since the powerful North
Korean armies invaded South Ko
rea. Today also is United Nations
Day, the fifth anniversary of the
U. N.’s founding, being observed
around the world.
The North Korean aggressors
were crushed by combined forces
of the United Nations sparked by
Americans. The Korean war was
the United Nations first peace en
forcement action and wac backed
by 53 non-communist nations.
A marine spokesman said the
border incident took place late
Monday near Manpojin, Korean
stronghold near the border-mark
ing Yalu River. It occurred 20
miles northwest of Kanggye, re
ported new command post of Red
Premier Kim 11 Sung.
The officer said the communist
Chinese guns fired 40 rounds of
heavy anti-aircraft shells at the
two planes but neither was dam
gaed. The ack-ack apparently was
radar controlled.
The Chinese communists have
complained to the United Nations
in the past that American planes
have violated .their territory. They
announced today that a nine-man
delegation is leaving lor New
York to attend a U. N. Security
Council session when their com
plaints will be aired.
The incident erupted along the
uneasy border as South Korean
forces chased a remaining 25,000
Red Korean troops northward in
the final roundup of the war.
Asa precaution against similar
incidents a new United Nations
bomb line only 12 miles south of
the Manchurian border was estab
lished. A bomb line is usually
kept 20 miles ahead of forward
troops.
Organized resistance on a large
scale ceased—although there still
were remnants of 16 Red divisions
to be dealt with in the north.
The U. N. counted 323,000 pri
soners.
Highlight of the United Nations
anniversary celebrations was the
speech of President Truman to the
general assembly—a major for
eign policy speech. Church bells
rang in many comruu n i t i e s
throughout the Continent and in
Europe. Schools planned special
ceremonies,
The French Parliament in Paris
debate dthe announced policy of
the French government which
calls for a unified West European
army with Germans in it, to de
fend Western Europe against com
munist aggression. The cabinet
was said to have agreed to inclu
sion of German units in the new
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