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VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,665_ JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS
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18 Soldiers Die in Splintered Train Wreckage
SUPPLIES
ARE FLOWN
TO BETHEL
Emergency Aerial Line Es
tablished to Town Hit
by Hospital Fire
ANCHORAGE. Alaska, Nov. 22—
OTl—An emergency aerial supply line
has been established to the western
village of Bethel, where fire de
stroyed the Alaska Native Service
hospital.
The flames drove 70 persons into
^ the near zero cold late Monday.
The only persons injured was a
Native employee of the hospital. He
said the last he remembered was
an explosion as he clung to a sec
ond floor window ledge of the
$300,000 structure.
Dr. Duncan M. Chalmers, head
of the hospital, advised the Asso
ciated Press from Bethel that the
hospital staff evacuated the nur
f sery, surgical patients and tuber
cular cases within 20 minutes of the
fire’s outbreak.
Smouldering Ruins
He said: “Bethel townspeople re
sponded at once and cooperation
was magnificent from all sources.
Maintenance personnel worked all
night to protect out-buildings. The
hospital was in smouldering ruins
Tuesday morning. Church groups
, are taking care of some of the per
sonnel, the Territorial and ANS
schools are housing patients and
evacuation is progressing rapidly.”
To Evacuate Patients
While planes carried supplies and
medical aid to the stricken village,
others started the evacuation of
patients. Four were flown here.
They said bed patients were taken
to a nearby Native Service (ANS)
school. Other buildings also were
used as emergency wards to get the
patients out of the cold.
The injured employee was Fran
cis Aloysius, 25. He was flown here
* yesterday with three patients.
Most of the hospital patients
were described as tuberculosis cases
or crippled children, but none of
the three flown here v'?.-: in those
categories.
Pulls Own Teeth
They were:
Mike Hoocjj, 57, of Bethel, suf
fering from a mouth infection after
pulling his own teeth; (he was un
* able to talk);
Mrs. David S. Rodgers, 31, Bethel,
a post-operative case;
Alice Keeley, 26, of Seattle, a
nurse at the hospital who was re
covering from an operation.
Dr. Chalmers advised the ANS
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The Washington
Merry - Go - Round
Copyright. 1850, br Bell Syndicate, Inc.I
By DREW PEARSON
WASHINGTON — Some people
will hardly believe it, but herewith
is a bouquet to my old deep-freeze
pal, Gen. Harry Vaughn.
Ever since the Korean war, 10,
000 servicemen have been wandering
the streets of Washington with no
place to go anjl none of the hos
pitality shown them during World
War II. For the nation’s capital
like a lot of other cities—hasn't
realized that with the cold war
now warm, we civilians ought to
shift our hospitality from cold to
warm.
An exception is General Vaughn.
! who has been quietly raising cain
with the Treasury and Jess Larson,
chief of the General Services of
Supply, in order to pry loose the
old Belasco theatre for the use cf
the American Legion and other
veterans’ groups in entertaining
servicemen.
The Belasco theatre enjoys one
of the most central locations in
Washington. Diagonally across La
fayette Square from the White
House, it is adjacent to the, old Dol
ly Madison house where the wife
of the fourth President of the
United States entertained in the
early days of the Republic. But be
cause legitimate theatres have long
been closed in the nation’s capital,
the Belasco—believe it or not—is
filled with old government files
and canceled checks.
And the Treasury Department,
whose files are chiefly concerned,
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INJUNCTION
BLOCKS TIEUP
OF AFU-ILWU
i SEATTLE, Nov. 22——A move
I to take the Alaska Fishermen's
! Union into the Harry Bridges-led
International Longshoremen’s and
Warehousemen’s Union was blocked
J by court order here last night.
Superior Judge Chester A. Batch
i elor granted a temporary in
i junction against it. The order Is
j effective until a suit to block the
! affiliation move can be decided on
its merits.
Both unions are independents.
The Longshoremen were ousted this
year from the CIO and the Alaska
Fishermen’s Union voted by refer
endum to withdraw from the Inter
national Fishermen and Allied
Workers of America, which since
has merged with the Longshore
men’s union. The AFU claims more
than 5,000 members in Alaska and
in Pacific coast cities.
Suit Filed Nov. 7
The suit to block the affiliation
with the Longshoremen was filed
Nov. 7 in behalf of 14 AFU mem
bers. The 14 included three port
agents—Hans Ostraat of Portland,
Jim Downey of Bristol Bay in
Alaska, and E. M. Berg, Bellingham.
The suit was filed after a stormy
AFU meeting here Nov. 3 at which
the Longshoremen’s union faction
contended a charter from that in
ternational had been accepted by
the AFU group.
Vote Salary Cuts
The Seattle Times said today that
the Seattle headquarters branch
voted at a Nov. 10 meeting to cut
the salaries of the three protesting
union agents—Ostraat, Downey and
Berg—to $1 a week. The Times said
the vote was taken at a meeting at
tended by only about 100 of the
nearly 2,000 Seattle members.
The temporary court injunction
restrains any transfer of AFU
assets to the Longshoremen’s union
or any acts to give effect to the
Longshore union charter to the
Seattle branch of the AFU.
The defendants in the suit include
Bridges; Longshore leader William
Getting; Joseph Jurich, President
of the Fishermen’s Division of the
Longshore union (formerly
IFAWA); and officers of the AFU.
Attorneys Argues For AFU
Attorney John Geisness of Se
attle argued in court that the good
reputation of the AFU was being!
undermined by the move to get it
into the Bridges union. He said that
was the effect because the Long
shoremen’s union had been expelled
from the national CIO on a charge
of too closely paralleling the Com
munist party line in its policies.
The complaint lists $120,000 in
Alaska Fishermen’s Union assets,
including $70,000 in cash.
DELUDE APPOINTED
MATERIALS ENGR. IN
LOCAL OFFICE OF ARC
The Juneau office of the Alaska
Road Commission today announced
the appointment of Leon M. DeLude
as Materials Engineer in the head
quarters here. DeLude was trans
ferred from the Anchorage district
where he has been District Ma
terials Engineer. He succeeds Tho
ralf I. Rivenes who has gone to
Anchorage as District Engineer.
Now established in the Juneau
office DeLude will have charge of
all foundation and borrow pit in
vestigations for the ARC highways
program.
DeLude had many years experi
ence in the highway construction
for the state of .Connecticut and
subsequently as regional engineer
with the Texas Company asphalt
department in Boston. He also
served as consultant in the con
struction of four military bases in
Greenland.
Mrs. DeLude plans to come to
Juneau from her home in Hingham,
Mass., shortly after the first of the
year. A son, Anthony M., is a stu
dent for the present at the Gun
nery School in Eashington, Conn.
MISS JOAN LINGO WILL
SPEND THANKSGIVING HERE
To spend the Thanksgiving
weekend with her aunt, Mrs. Alf
N. Monsen, Miss Joan Lingo will;
arrive in Juneau by Pacific North- 1
ern Airlines Thursday from An-1
chorage.
FIRE IN SKAGWAY
DESTROYS BUILDING
OWNED BY VETERANS
SKAGWAY, Alaska, Nov, 20—
(Special Correspondence)—Fire ct
undetermined origin completely des
troyed the interior of a building
on Third Street behind the Igloo
Cocktail Bar early this morning.
The fire was discovered about
1:30 a m., and with a severe wind
blowing, took serious fighting on
the part of Skagway's fire fighters.
The building destroyed was being
used by Morgan Reed, Mayor of
Skagway, as a warehouse, and is
owned by the Veterans’ Bureau.
Mr. Reed said that his loss was
approximately $3,000—part of which
,vas covered by insurance.
Superforls
Are Pounding
Enemy Bases
UN Forcse Making Cautious
Advancs Along Border
of NE Korea
(By Associated Press)
United Nations forces made a
cautious advance along most North
Korean fronts today while Ameri
can Superforts pounded Commun
ist bases and troop concentration
in the northeast.
Allied intelligence showed that
the Communists are massing troops
and equipment on both sides of
the border in the areas of Musan
and Tumen. These are in the far
northeast panhandle of the Korean
peninsula.
Should the Reds break out from
this area they could cut off the
U. S. Seventh Division’s armored
spearhead which yesterday planted
the United Nations flag on the
south bank of the Yalu River at
Hyesanjin.
Commies Build
The build up of Communist Chin
ese and Korean forces in the Mu
san staging areas may be primar
ily to block the United Nations
march towards the Soviet Siberian
border.
South Korean capital division
units pushed up the east coast
to eight miles south of Chongjin, 55
miles from the Soviet border where
the Reds were preparing to make
a stand.
t raiser uun-forc
Heavy gun-fire from the U. S.
Cruiser St. Paul prepared the way
for the South Korean advance. Al
lied officers said the South Kor
eans so far have been up against
a retreating and disorganized ene
my.
Meanwhile, the 17th Regiment
of the U. S. Seventh Division—the
first American force to reach the
Manchurian border—dug in at Hy
esanjin. Other division elements
—15 miles to the south attempted
to wipe out two Communist bat
talions endangering the Allied flank.
The Reds were reported at Samsu,
10 miles southwest of Hyesanjin
but the Allies were having diffi
culty with faulty road maps and a
wintry mountain terrain.
All Allied mmoves were cautious
because of the uncertainty of ene
my strength. Earlier, a South Kor
ean force that moved to the bor
der had to pull back and parts of
it were severed by overwhelming
Communist strength.
• ••••••••••
• WEATHER REPORT •
• Temperatures for 24-Hour Period •
• ending 6:20 o'clock title morning •
• In Juneau—Maximum, 19; •
• minimum, 13. •
• At Airport—Maximum, 20; •
• minimum, 10. •
• •
• FORECAST •
• (Juneau and Vicinity) •
• Cloudy with snow tonight •
• and Thursday. Lowest tern- •
• perature tonight near 21 de- •
• grees, highest Thursday near •
• 28. •
• •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today •
• City of Juneau — Trace; •
• since Nov. 1 — 3.99 inches; •
• since July 1—33.02 inches. •
• At Airport — Trace; •
• since Nov. 1 — 1.95 inches; •
• since July 1—23.00 inches. •
• ••••••••••
THREATS
OF FLOOD
CONTINUE
Avalanches Now Feared
Situation Critical—
Reno Cleaning Up
(By Associated Press)
Two north central California
areas today faced new threats
from avalanches of muddy, debris
filled flood waters that had begun
a general recession elsewhere In
California and Nevada.
The floods have caused at least
nine deaths and more than $20,
000,000 damage in three days.
Army engineers warned residents
along the Sacramento River be
tween Sacramento, Calif., and its
mouth to watch for possible levee
breaks as the crest of the combined
Sacramento and American Rivers
surges downstream. The engineers
termed the situation critical and
ordered out 150 men to patrol lev
ees near Sacramento. The Sacra
mento River flow reached 100,
000 second feet, greatest volume
since 1907. A second foot is a flow
of one cubic foot per second.
The second danger area was near
Modesto, where runoff waters from
the Don Pedro dam are expected to
invade lowlands and residential
areas today.
Reno faced a tremendous clean- i
up job.
The waters of the rampaging \
Truckee River are once again re- ,
taincd by their banks after a 12- j
hour flood termed "the worst in i
Reno's history” by the mayor, j
Most of ihe $2,000,000 to $3,000,- |
000 loss estimated by the Reno j
Chamber of Commerce was suf
fered in damaged hotels, stores and
merchandise.
Muktuk Hash,
Not Turkey
For Eskimosj
a By Lachlan MacDonald)
BARROW, Alaska, Nov. 22—iff)—
The whole United States will be
talking turkey tomorrow but here
on the shores of the Arctic Ocean
the main topic will be whale.
Several hunded Eskimos are gath- j
ered here for the Thanksgiving j
Day celebration tomorrow and a i
traditional feast of muktuk (whalei j
and jerked caribou.
For weeks the gathering has been ]
the chief topic of conversation j
along the Arctic rim as hundreds !
of nomadic Eskimos converged on
this farthest-north town from hunt
ing camps and village in the bar
ren lands.
Party in new Karigee
They will gather in their new
40 to 100 foot karigee for three
days of celebration. Two gigantic
whales will provide the menu for
the feast. And they will celebrate
construction of the $30,000 karigee,
or men’s meeting place, by the
labor of their own people.
The meeting here will be one of]
the largest indoor gatherings of j
Eskimos in history. They will give I
thanks for a good hunting season
and plentiful jobs with Navy's!
oil exploration crews based a few
miles north of here.
I
Marston Honor Guest
Among honored guests at the j
feast tomorrow is to be Lt. Col. j
M. R. Marston, Alaska National!
Guard officer who works with the
famed Alaska Scouts. It was the
Guard which furnished the Kari-1
gee flooring and paid for the
transportation to this remote vil
lage.
Today a sign proclaims the build
ing as “Top-of-the-World Karigee,
Barrow Alaska" and a bearskin oil
the floor lends the final touch.
This traditional holiday feasting
will mark the formal opening.
And it may, incidentally, solve
a question of how many people a
whale will serve. One thing is cer
tain: Those won’t be drumsticks
left over after the feast.
at HOTEL JUNEAU
Ethel McNair of Sitka, private
teacher, has moved into the Hotel
Juneau.
May Decide
Statehood
Next Week
O'Mahoney Predicts Pass
age-But Bitter Fight Ex
pected by Opponents
By CHARLES D. WATKINS
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 — (A>) —
Alaska’s 34-year fight for statehood
may be decided in the Senate next
week.
It all depends on whether the
Democratic leadership is able to
keep its promise to bring up the
statehood bill, already passed by
the House, in the short session
starting Monday.
Before Congress adjourned Sept.
23 for the election campaigns, Ma
jority Leader Lucas (D-Ill) told the
Senate that when it resumed work
“there will be a motion made to lay
aside whatever is pending so as to
take up Alaska statehood. ’
Such a motion may be fought bit
terly by opponents of statehood for
Alaska and Hawaii.
Predicts Passage
But Chairman O’Mahoney <D
Wyo) of the Senate Interior Com
mittee, which approved statehood
bills for both territories, has pre
dicted Senate passage this year of
both bills.
This would make states of both
territories. The House passed the
Hawaii bill last March at about the
same time that it approved state
hood for Alaska. If the Senate does
not act this year, the legislation
will have to start all over again
in the new Congress.
Delegate Bartlett and Gov.
cfruening of Alaska recently voiced
hope that the Alaska bill will win
Senate approval.
The territory, they said, will be
greatly disappointed if it doesn’t.
Introduced First, 1916
The first bill proposing statehood
for Alaska was introduced in the
House October 18, 1916, just fifty
years after the United States pur
chased the territory from Russia.
It was offered by Alaskan Dele
gate James Wickersham. No action
was taken.
The question of statehood came
up frequently in succeeding Con
gresses but the proposal failed to
get very far until House passage
this year of Bartlett’s bill.
HUNDRED PER CENT
KIWANIS SUPPORT
ACCA: $737 FOR TB
Dr. Henry Harris reported at a
regular luncheon meeting of the
Juneau Kiwanis Club today that the
club had 100 percent membership
in the Alaska Crippled Children’s
Association. He also revealed that
the Klwanians had raised $737 in
the Tuberculosis Association drive
and hoped it would reach the $800
mark when all contributions were
in.
Dr. Ted Oberman' delighted the
club with his humorous lecture,
"How To Be Deliriously Happy,”
leaving his listeners completely
confused in just how that state is
to be accomplished.
Chester Zimmerman will be in
charge of the program for next
Wednesday.
Son of Fairbanks
Parents Wounded
In Korean Fighting
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 — <PI —
The Defense Department today re
ported Frank Allen Britt of Fair
banks, Alaska, among the wounded
in Korea. He is a Navy hospital 11
orpsman and the son of Mr. and ■
Mrs. Robert Waskey, Box 201, Fair- j
banks. His name was included on :
Casualty List No. 158.
TANKER IN PORT
The Standard OH Co. tanker, .
Alaska Standard, docked this morn- 1
ng at the company’s dock at 7 and 1
.ailed at 1:15 this afternoon on a
•outlne delivery trip.
•i PORTLAND VISITOR
Walter E. Hutchinson of Portland
s at the Baranof Hotel. j ■
21 KILLED
IN CRASH
OF PLANE
Craft with Missionaries
Aboard Hits, Burns on
Wyoming Mountain
MORAN, Wyo. Nov. 22—Pour
skilled mountaineers started at day
break climbing cloud-shrouded Mt,
Moran in search of a missionary
plane that disappeared near the
peak last night with 21 persons
aboard.
Forest Ranger Blake De Water
and three ski-shod alpinists started
trudging through snow toward a
spot where watchers last night
<aw a huge fire. Heavy clouds cloak
’d the scene this morning. Winds of
30 to 40 miles an hour whipped
the area but there was no snow
fall. The temperature is around
freezing.
Plane Crashes. Burns
Only faint hope was held by
Forest Service officials that there
were any survivors if the plane
crashed and burned on the moun
tain. The four mountaineers car
ried radio and light signaling equip
ment but it was expected to take
them six to eight hours to reach
the scene of last night's fire.
A resort owner said he saw a
burning fuselage in the flames far
above the timberline on the pre
cipitous east face of the mountain.
When the fire subsided, he could
see nothing resembling a campfire.
Missionaries Aboard
The missing plane was bound
from Chico, Calif., to Billings,
Mont. Owned by the New Tribes
Mission, a religious organization, it
was on the first leg of a flight to
South America.
Passengers included two young
mothers with their children, wid
owed in the crash of another Mis
-:ion-owned plane in Venezuela last
June which killed 15. Also aboard
vas Dr. Paul W. Flemings of Chico,
Mission director.
Reports By Radio
The new, twin-engine DC-3 last
reported by radio over Idaho Palls.
Idaho, at 3:48 p.m. MST. That was
SO miles west of here. The plane
was due at Billings at 6:30 p.m.
It was about that time that re
sidents of this picturesque area 25
miles south of Yellowstone Park
heard a plane overhead. It was
far off usual air lanes. And it was
flying west, Just opposite the di
rection of the California plane
should have been headed. There
was speculation it was lost and
hunting landmarks.
Fire Is Seen
Half an hour later, acting Teton
Park Superintendent Paul A. Judge
said a fire was reported about 1,000
feet from the top of Mount Mor
an.
‘ There were no mountain climb
ers out,” Lodge said. "We assumed
it could be nothing but a plane
wreck. A little while later the Civil
\eronautics Authority said the
Chico plane was overdue and to
watch for it. We reported it must
be on Mount Moran."
Clarence Harris, an owner of
Signal Mountain Lodge, eight miles
across Jackson Lake from the
mountain, took out a pair of pow
erful field glasses.
“I saw what looked like a burning
fuselage way up there in the snow,”
he said. “I don't think anybody
could be alive.”
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, Nov. 22 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2%, American Can
101, American Tel. and Tel. 151%,
Anaconda 38%, Douglas Aircraft
B6%, Oeneral Electric 50. General
Motors 47%, Goodyear 60, Kenne- !
cott 72%, Libby McNeill and Libby!
9, Northern Pacific 28%, Standard
Oil of California 82, Twentieth Cen
tury Fox 21%, U.S. Steel 41, Cana
dian Exchange 96.12%, Pound
12.80%.
Sales today were 2,720,000 shares.
Averages today are as follows: in
dustrials 233.81, rails 70.76, utilities
10.36.
FLOWN TO KETCHIKAN
Gus Olln of Meyers Chuck was i
transported to Ketchikan by a U.
S. Coast Guard plane this noon,
headquarters here reported. He had
suffered a heart attack. j
War Goes On
As Americans
Give Thanks
| Every Soldier fo Get Tur
key, Trim min's, Even
Those in Sight of Reds
(By the Associated Press)
As a year of stfife and anxiety
draws toward a close, the American
people take time out tomorrow
(Thursday) to count their blessings
and to return thanks.
It won’t be a holiday for fighting
men in Korea, and there will be
vacant chairs at many Thanksgiv
ing tables.
And yet for millions of families
it will be a day of reunion and quiet
comfort—begun in many cases with
an offering of gratitude at a special
service in the family church.
The weather will give a foretaste
of Christmas in many areas. Strong
winds are driving sub-zero cold
down across the Rockies to chill
the mountain and plains states.
But most American homes will be
warm and snug as the familiar
aroma of roasting turkey drifts in
from the kitchen.
President Truman, like most
Americans, will spend a quiet
Thanksgiving Day with his family.
He’ll have a turkey dinner at Blair
House with Mrs. Truman, their!
daughter Margaret and Mrs. Tru
man’s mother, Mrs. David Wallace.
The center of. attraction will be
a 35-pound White Holland tom tur
key.
There’ll be turkey, too, for service
men in all parts of the world—even
for those within a few thousand
yards of the front line in Korea.
The Armed Forces ordered up a
man-sized dinner, complete with
sage dressing and giblet gravy, for
every man who can possibly be
served—and promised to repeat the
feast later for those too busy fight
ing to reach for a drumstick to
morrow.
DISABLED B36
CRASH LANDS;
2 DIE IN JUMP
PORT WORTH, Tex. Nov. 22—OH
—A giant B-36 bomber trying to
struggle home with half its six
engines out crash-landed today on
a farm 25 miles south of here. Two
men were killed in balling out.
Seven others were injured iri
jumping from the huge craft, which
is the world's largest land-based
bomber. The other seven of the
16-man crew were not immediately
located. The parachuting crewmen
were scattered over an area about
four miles.
The plane burst into flames after
'anding, detonating ammunition
md hampering efforts of firemen
from surrounding towns and Cars
well Air Force Base here. Cars
well is the home base of the
Eighth Air Force, of which the
plane was a part.
Carswell officers said the plane
left at 5:05 a.m. today for a
gunnery mission at Matagorda, an
island off the Texas Coast. Two of
Its engines became inoperative on
the southward flight. A third fail
ed as the plane struggled homeward, j
prevented by heavy fog from using !
coasting landing fields.
Ouly twice before has one of
the fair-Ranging gle| ts. crashed. |
Last Feb. 14 one crashed along the I
British Columbia coast. Seventeen I
airmen parachuted and 12 later |
were rescued from coastal islands.1
On Sept. 18, 1949, five airmen!
were killed when a B-36 failed
to complete a take-off from Cars-!
well and roared into a nearby lake
at 100 miles an hour.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
'rom Vancouver 8 tonight.
Denali scheduled to sail from Se
attle 5 p.m., Friday.
Baranof from west scheduled
southbound Sunday.
FROM HAINES
M. E. Riley of Haines is stopping
it the Baranof Hotel.
53 INJURED,
COLLISION
OF TRAINS
(Accident Occurs on Curve
in Snow-Covered Sec
tion of Wyoming
EDMONTON, Alta., Nov. 22—<44—
Rescue teams dug today for missing
victims in the splintered wreckaga
of two trains which crashed head-on
yesterday 312 miles west of Edmon
ton. Eighteen persons—including 14
Korea-bound Canadian soldiers —
were believed dead, and 53 others
were injured.
The bodies of 12 soldiers have
been recovered, but searchers still
probed beneath the debris for two
other soldiers and four trainmen—
the engineer and firemen aboard
both locpmotives. Most of the in
jured were soldiers. Four of them
were railway employees.
i'wenty-two of the injured were
reported in a serious condition.
One train, carrying 340 officers
and men, was bound for Fort Lewis,
Wash., where 10,000 Canadian sold
iers will be trained to fight with
United Nations forces in Korea.
Hit On Mountain Curve
The troop train, running slightly
behind schedule, and a trans
continental limited collided on a
mountain curve on the main line
of the Canadian National Railways.
They were near a siding at Canoe
River, British Columbia, where they
were scheduled to pass.
Both trains were' travelling at
reduced speed, but tbere was a half
foot or snow on the ground and
the temperature was near zero.
Spilled Off Tracks
As the 17-car troop train and
the 10-car limited collided, cars
from both trains spilled off the
tracks, ripping up the right of way
and tearing down communications
lines.
An official of the Canadian Na
tional Railways said the ommlssion
of the words "at Canoe River” in
a message given the conductor of
the troop train may have been re
sponsible for the wreck. The drop
ping of the words caused the troop
train crew to believe the trains were
to meet at Oosnell, 10 miles west of
Canoe River, rather than at Canoe
River, the official said.
2 ARRESTS TODAY
IN ASSASSINATION
PLOT ON TRUMAN
NEW YORK. Nov. 22—Oft—'Two
more arrests are expected to be
made this aftetmoon In the recent
plot to assassinate President Tru
man, an Assistant U. S. Attorney
said today.
Assistant U. S. Attorney Frederick
H. Block told of the expected ar
rests in Federal Court where he
asked for a two weeks adjournment
in a hearing for the wives of the
two Puerto Rican Nationalists who
futilely tried to storm Blair House
to kill the President.
ARRESTS MADE
NEW YORK, Nov. 22—OP)—'The
Presidenth and former President
of the Puerto Rican Nationalist
Party in New York were arrested
today on a charge of conspiracy
to assassinate the President of the
U. S.
• •
• NO EMPIRE ON •
• THANKSGIVING •
• - •
• As has been customary for •
• years, there will be no issue •
• of The Empire tomorrow, •
• Thanksgiving Day. If any •
• important news develops, •
• bulletins will be placed in the •
• windows. •
tVALSII RETURNS FROM
REGIONAL CONFERENCE
Walter Walsh. Rent Director
attorney for the Rent Control Of
fice in Alaska, returned on the
Pan American clipper from San
Francisco where he attended a
egional conference on the Hous
ng and Rent Act.