CONGRESSIONAL J, V.
JBHARY
A'ASaiNOTON, D. 0.
THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”
VOL. LXXIX., NO. 11,972 _
JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1951
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE TEN CENTS
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE
Fourth Report of the
Senate Fact-Finding Committee
On Un-American Activities
1948
COMMUNIST
FRONTaORGANIZATIONS
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MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE
Senator Nelson S. Dilworth Senator Louis G. Sutton
Senator Fred H. Kraft Senator Clyde A. Watson
Senator Huch M. Burns, Vice Chairman
Senator Jack B. Tenney, Chairman
LiNNIE Tenney, Secretary Murray Stravers, Executive Secretary
R. E. Combs, Chief Counsel
PUBLISHED BY THE SENATE
Lieutenant Governor Goodwin J. Knicht
President of the Senate
Senator Harold J. Powers Joseph A. Beer
, President Pro Tempore of the Senate Secretary of the Senate
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UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES IN CALIFORNIA 145
Miss Else Schilling, Prof. John S. P. Tatlock, Dr. E. B. Towne, Rev.
Dillon W. Throckmorton, Prof. B. C. Wong, Rev. Daniel G. C. Wu, Mrs.
Warren Gregory, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Selfridge, Mrs. James Ellis
< Tucker, and Sirs. Edwin R. Sheldon. Prof. Alexander Kaun is listed as
the San Francisco branch chairman.
The San Francisco headquarters is listed as 628 Montgomery Street,
Room 431, telephone EXbrook 5961.
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA
This front organization became active in June of 1944. Its head
quarters is located at 8 West 40th Street in New York City, and the
organization is under the leadership of William J. Schicffelin. It has a
connecting link with various other alien Communist fronts through Dr.
Frank Kingdom
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SOVIET UNION
(See Friends of the Soviet Union.) _
AMERICAN FUND FOR PUBLIC SERVICE
f This fund was established by Charles Garland, the son of James A. \
T Garland. He established the fund in 1922 with $900,000. The fund grew l
to $2,000,000. |
Among the board of directors who handed out the money to left
wing organizations are Sidney Hillman, Roger N. Baldwin, William Z.
Foster, Lewis Gannett, James Weldon Johnson, Robert Morss Lovett,
Scott Nearing, Mary E. McDowell, Jud di L. Magnes, Norman Thomas,
Harry F. Ward, Morris Ernest, and Walter Nelles.
Some of the beneficiaries of the American Fund for Public Service
are as follows: the Daily Worker, New Masses, Vanguard Press, Feder
ated Press, Russian Reconstruction Farms, International Labor Defense,
Commonwealth College, International Publishers, Workers Library Pub- |
lishers, Young Worker’s League (the Young Communist League, now 1
American Youth for Democracy), All-America Anti-Imperialist League, I
Trade Union Unity League, Labor Research Association, Novymir, t
League for Mutual Aid, and Manumit School.
AMERICAN JEWISH CONGRESS
On the national level this organization has enjoyed a clean bill of
health. In 1936 the American Jewish Congress and the World Jewish
Congress refused to admit to their organizations such Communist
dominated groups as the International Workers Order and the Icor.
Thig refusal gave rise to the Communist inspired and dominated Jewish
People’s Committee.
In California, and particularly in the Southern California Division,
there has apparently been a quiet Communist infiltration into the Amer
ican Jewish Congress. The laudable efforts to screen Communists on the
national level has not been noticeable in the organization’s activities in
Southern California.
Rabbi Franklin Cohn, Pacific Coast Vice President of the American
Jewish Congress, addressing the Southern California regional convention
XI—L-7088-D
UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES IN CALIFORNIA 247
lie was one of the signers of a petition demanding that the ban
Against the Communist Party in the Philippines be lifted.
He has been a member of many Communist front organizations.
The Friends of the Soviet Union ultimately became the present
Communist front, National Council of American Soviet Friendship.
FRONTIER FILMS
This organization is closely interlocked through its personnel with
the Film and Photo League, a Communist front for revolutionary films.
Frontier Films bus faithfully followed the Communist Party line in
its productions. As soon as Hitler attacked the Soviet Union, the organ
ization ceased its attacks on American conditions and government. The
following deseriptioiL of Native Land, produced by Frontier Films,
{CIO News, May 11, 1942) is as follows:
“A motion picture designed to create afresh those feeljngs of
basic American patriotism has just been completed by Frontier
Films * * *. The picture was directed by Leo llurwitz and Paul
Strand, who have been in the advanee guard of documentary film
production since 1931, having collaborated on “Heart of Spain,”
“The Plow That Broke the Plains” and “China Strikes
Back” • * * The great actor and baritone, Paul Robeson, well
known and beloved by millions for his life-long struggle in the cause
of democracy, has narrated the deeply moving commentary written
by the fine American poet, David Wolff.”
GARLAND FUND
f This source of revenue for Communist causes is generally referred |
|to as the Garland Fund, although it was legally constituted as the Ameri- 1
lean Fund for Public Service. |
s Among those who have served as directors and officers of the Garland I
Fund or its subsidiaries, are the following: Roger Baldwin, William Z. "
Foster, Lewis S. Gannett, Sidney Hillman, James Weldon Johnson,
Robert Morss Lovett, Scott Nearing, Mary E. McDowell, Judah L. Mag
nes, Norman Thomas, Harry F. Ward, Morris L. Ernst, Walter Nelles,
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Clinton S. Golden, Freda Kirchwey, Leo Wol
man, Clarina Michelson, Benjamin Gitlow, Robert W. Dunn, Harry
Elmer Barnes, E. M. Borchard, Emanuel Ccller, Paul II. Douglas, Ken- 4
| neth Durant, Edward Meade Earle, Ernest Gruening, Manley O. Hudson, I
I Charles Clayton Morrison, Kirby Page, Otto Schoenrich, Henrik Ship- I
I stead, Edgar Speyer, Moorfield Storey, John F. Sinclair, Oswald Gar-J
( rison Yillard, and Arthur Warner.
GARRISON FILMS DISTRIBUTORS, INC.
This Communist front acts for films produced in the Soviet Union
as well as for Communist propaganda films produced in the United States.
It has followed the Communist Party line and the expediency of Soviet
foreign policy in the type of films distributed during a given period.
Commenting on a so-called documentary film “400,000,000,” pro
duced by Joris Ivens and John Ferno, and distributed by Garrison
Reproduced herewith are three pages from the Fourth Report of the California Legislature’s Committee on Investigation of Un-American Activities which was published in
1948. Read them carefully, for they describe the personnel and activities of an organization whose aims and interests are inimical to those of every free American. We refer to j
the “American Fund For Public Service”, better known as the “Garland Fund”. . , , , I
ThHitle page identifies the committee and its members. These are the men who heard the testimony of countless witnesses and examined reams of documentary evidence.
Their findings are revealing. They have compiled an authentic list of Communist Front organizations and persons who are either members of these organizations or who have
ICnt Page H ^rep^rod ueecT a bo v^'d esc°r Uies^th e “American Fund for Public Service” and some of its beneficiaries, notably the Communist “Daily Worker”, “New Masses” and,
Young Communis*! League (now called American Youth For Democracy). The page also lists some of the directors of the fund—who took part in the distribution of money to the
^^Abov^^arnTtoSju: right, is shown Page 247 of the same report which describes this same outfit as the “Garland Fund”. Listed here are the directors and olficers of the j
F“" Ihc “'mediated with Ik. “Garland Fund” in Ik. belief that the report apeak, for itself. We do, however, believe that
Almkins and others who read these words will want some explanation on the part of the persons named in connection with the Fund. ... ... ,
4 In fairness to those named, opportunity should be afforded them to affirm or disclaim their connection with the “Garland Fund” and its activities. Accordingly, we will be
Pleased to publish explanatory statements by any of the persons named so long as they confine their remarks to the matter of the Fund and their association with it and refrain
from the employment of indirection and generalities. Straightforward statements are invited and will be given page one position in this newspaper.
TheWashington
Merry-Go-Round
(Copyright. 1951. by B*’’ Syndicate. Inc.)
By DREW PEARSON
BOSTON—This column is written
from within a few miles of the
famous rock where the pilgrim
fathers landed and later gave
thanks for being delivered into a
new land of freedom.
In continuing their precedent
of giving thanks, it is important
to remember the conditions under
whir'll they helped to establish
a new nation, and also to draw
some parallels between what hap
pened then and what is happen
ing today.
When the pilgrim fathers left
England there was a new surge
on the part of the common people
for freedom. For the first time the
people of England were learn
ing to read and write. For
the first time the Bible had begun
to circulate among commoners
instead of being read only in the
churches. People read it avidly,
were stirred by it, sought the
freedom to think and worship for
themselves.
There was in England, at that
time a system of thought-control
not unlike that existing behind
the Iron Curtain today. Whereas
the thought-control in Russia is
political, the thought-control in
England was religious. People were
expected to follow the religion of
the monarch, who one day might
be Catholic, the next day Prot
estant.
Eventually they rebelled. They
organized a 17th century crusade
for freedom and established a free
nation of their own.
Restlessness Behind Iron Curtain
Today one of the things we can
be thankful for is that a some
what similar surge of restlessness
is reported from behind the Iron
Curtain. It is too early yet to call
it a surge for freedom, but it
could be.
Conditions in Russia are not
unlike those existing in England
300 years ago. Under the Czar on
ly 25 per cent of the people could
read or write. Today perhaps 80
per cent of the Russian people
are literate. Though they have
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Stabbed Body
Of Wrangell
Man Is Found
WRAN(jr&Lilj, Aiassa, Nov. 23—
Of)—The body of Henry Bradley,
about 40, the father of seven
children, was found in the bay
yesterday after he vanished from
a house party sometime last Sun
day morning.
Marshal’s deputy Jack Krepps
said several stab wounds in the
body indicated Bradley had been
slain with a knife.
Krepps said Bradley last was
seen about 2 a.m. Sunday at a
house party at the home of Mrs.
Bess Gross. About 40 persons who
attended (he party all were being
questioned.
Representatives of the district
attorney’s office in Ketchikan
were flying here today to carry
on the investigation.
Krepps said an arrest could be
expected “momentarily.”
The widow and seven children
survive Bradley, a Wrangell fish
erman.
P. J. Gilmore, Jr., U. S. Attor
ney, and Walter Hellan, of the
U. S. Marshal’s office, said in Ju
neau today that few details have
been learned, but Gilmore said it
was “probable homocide,” and Hel
lan said a “suspect” was being in
terrogated.
Gilmore said that a coroner’s in
quest has been set for 10 a.m.
Monday in Wrangell.
JOHN DUNN JOINS
ANCHORAGE LAW FIRM
John Dunn is leaving Juneau
Saturday for Anchorage where
he has joined the Cuddy law firm.
He will be accompanied by his
■wife, CoriUne and 114-year-old
son, Trace.
For the past 214 years he has
been associated with Faulkner,
Banfield, and Boochever here. Or
iginally from West Virginia and
a graduate of Stanford University,
Dunn made a trip to Alaska and
liked It so much he stayed and
passed his bar examination here.
Ketchikan Meal
Dealers Pay Fines
Totalling $2,800
Individual meat dealers of Ket
chikan paid fines totalling $2,800
to the government in a compro
mise settlement of anti-trust char
ges against them heard before the
U. S. District Court in Ketchikan,
according to P. J. Gilmore, Jr.,
U. S. Attorney.
The settlement was reached af
ter the meat dealers had entered
pleas of nolo contendere (no cdn
test).
In the anti-trust case against
the Ketchikan Liquor Dealers As
sociation, a nolo contendere was
made this afternoon and this
means the court’s session will end
and the officials will be aboard
the ■ weekend steamer arriving in
Juneau Monday or Tuesday.
ARC Man Given
Award for Duty
William Hammer, now of Che
halis. Wash., a retired foreman of
construction with the Alaska Road
Commission, has been granted a
Meritorious Service award by the
Department of Interior.
Hammar first entered federal
service in Alaska in 1916 with the
Alaska Railroad and worked as
brakeman and baggageman until
1924. He was employed by the
ARC in 1925 and worked as fore
man or timberman until 1927. He
again entered employment with
the ARC in 1935 and was employ
ed until his retirement in Sep
tember, 1951.
According to A. P. Ghiglione,
head of the Alaska Road Com
mission, Hammer’s loyalty and de
votion to his official duties be
yond normal requirements contri
buted materially to the develop
ment of the road program in Al
aska.
ARRIVING ON ELLIS
Four passengers arrived on Ellis
Airlines Friday flight with seven on
interport. Arriving from Ketchikan
were Les Hunsperger and John
Ross; from Petersburg were H. N.
Peterson and O. S. Duryea.
Death Toll
On Holiday
Is Low
By the Associated Press
The nation’s accidental death toll
over the Thanksgiving holiday was
the lowest since 1948 and far below'
last year’s record 201.
Traffic accidents, as usual dur
ing a holiday period, took the heav
iest toll.
A survey showed that since 6 p.m.
Wednesday until midnight Thurs
day (local time) 90 persons lost
their lives in motor mishaps. An
other 30 persons were killed in mis
cellaneous accidents.
The total of 120 compared with
last year’s record 201 violent deaths
and the previous high for the
Thanksgiving holiday of 181 in 1949.
The 1948 toll was 114.
A year ago 79 persons were killed
in a collision of two Long Island
railroad commuter trains in New
York City. Yesterday two holiday
crowded trains collided in a New
York City tunnel but no one was
killed. Twenty-seven of the 1.000
passengers were injured.
California led the nation in ac
cidental deaths over the holiday
with 13 killed in traffic mishaps.
Slock Quotations
NEW YORK. Nov. 23—CA*)—Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 3, American Can
106%, American Tel. and Tel. 156%,
Anaconda 49, Douglas Aircraft
56 4, General Electric 55,4, Gen
eral Motors 49%, Goodyear 41%,
Kennecott 87%, Libby McNeill and
Libby 8%, Northern Pacific 58%.
Standard Oil of California 48%,
Twentieth Century Fox 20, US.
Steel 39%, Pound $2.80%, Canadian
Exchange 95*7%.
Sales today were 1,210.000 ■'v'»r<'«.
Averages today were as follows:
industrials 256.95, rails 78.63, util*
itiea 46.14, ____
Air Transport
To Take CAB's
Ruling to Court
SEATTLE, Nov. 23 — Of) — Air
Transport Associates, Inc., a non
scheduled air carrier flying between
Seattle and Anchorage, Alaska, will
appeal to the courts the Civil Aero
nautics Board’s refusal to recon
sider its order that Air Transport
Associates suspend operations.
Duncan R. Miller, general man
ager of A.T.A. said yesterday a brief
is being prepared and the case
probably will be filed by the middle
of next week.
Commenting on the C.A.B. rul
ing, Miller said ‘‘this is In keeping
with C.A.B. policy over the .years.
We’ve been expecting it.
In the past four years the C.A.B.
has put out of operation virtually
every independent carrier serving
Alaska either through economic
regulation or other strangulation
rules.”
The C.A.B. ruling, announced
Wednesday in Washington, D.C.,
gives the air line 30 days in which
to wind up its affairs, unless it
should appeal to the courts. The
board said A.T.A. had violated the
terms of its permit by establishing
a regular schedule between Seattle
and Anchorage. Commenting on
claims that Alaska would suffer
hardships if A.T.A.’s permit was
revoked, the board said it had re
cently authorized two additional
airlines to fly to Alaska. The board
said other non-scheduled lines "can
and undoubtedly will” provide the
necessary air service.
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Ship Movements
Alaska scheduled to sail from Se
attle today.
Baranof scheduled to arrive
southbound Sunday morning.
Freighter Yukon Princess sched
uled to arrive Monday morning from
Vancouver.
FROM FAIRBANKS
Willard J. Bergstrand of Fair
banks is stopping at the Hotel Ju
neau.
Dr. Allen
Resigns,
U. Wash.
SEATTLE, Nov. 23—Wl—Dr. Ray
mond B. Allen has resigned the
University of Washington presi
dency to take the not-yet-vacant
Job of director of the government’s
psychological strategy board.
Dr. Allen confirmed -the move
last night after published reports.
There has been no announcement
yet from the White House.
However, Gordon Gray, who holds
the psychological strategy board
post, said today in Washington that
he expects to return to his duties
as president of the University of
North Carolina about Jan. 1. Gray
is a former Secretary of the Army.
The board is the government’s
top planning agency in the cold war
with Communism. The chairman's
salary is $16,000.
Dr. Allen came to the University
of Washington presidency in 1946.
He had been executive dean of the
University of Illinois’ Chicago col
eges (medicine, dentistry and phar
macy) and dean of the college of
medicine.
GUEST OF INTERIOR
FAIRBANKS, Alaska. Nov. 23-W
—Dr. Raymond B. Allen, president
of the University of Washington, is
due to be the guest of Fairbanks
and the University of Alaska Nov.
30 and Dec. 1 and 2.
i Dr. Terris Moore, University of
Alaska President, announced the
visit Wednesday.
He will be the official guest of
the university during his stay.
Speeches and receptions have been
arranged.
A flight to Fort Yukon, above
the Arctic Circle, is planned. He
will be the guest there of the Rev.
Wilfred Files of the Hudson Stuck
Memorial Hospital.
Dr. Moore said thfe University of
Alaska is interested especially in
| the program of community better
I ment promoted by Dr. Allen at the
U. of W. He Mid Alaska’s univer
Reach Korea
Buffer Zone
Agreement
MUNSAN. Korea, Nov. 23—
Truce negotiators reached agree
ment on a buffer zone clause today,
opening the way for a possible
armistice in Korea by Christmas.
"We have reached agreement in
so far as the wording is con
cerned," Rear Adm. Arleigh A.
Burke, U.N. Command subcom
mlttecman told correspondents.
"The only thing left now is for
the liaison officers who are work
ing on the map to finish."
Agreement on the buffer zone
issue came at the 29th subcommit
tee meeting in Panmunjom.
If agreement is approved by the
full truce delegations, as ex
pected, negotiators would have
30 days in which to solve three
other tough problems — super
vision of the armistice, exchange
of war prisoners and recommen
dations to the belligerent gov
ernments.
Fighting will continue in the war,
now 17 months old, until all of
these points are settled.
Maj. Gen. Henry I. Hodes, chief
U.N. Command subcommitteeman
indicated the full five-man delega
tions could meet Sunday to approve
the buffer zone agreement worked
out by subcommittees.
Lt. Col. Howard S. Levie, U.N.
Command spokesman, said the
Allies will present a full program
for solving the armistice supervi
sion clause as soon as the full del
egations approve the buffer zone
plan.
Levie said Hodes has suggested
that two subcommittees be put to
work simultaneously on separate
problems to speed a truce agree
ment.
Staff officers started mapping the
actual line of battle contact Friday.
Levie said only two or three major
differences developed along the en
tire battlefront. Hodes said they
may complete the Job Saturday.
The line they draw is to become
the formal cease-fire line if an
armistice is signed within 30 days.
Jels (lash
Over Korea;
Base Bombed
SEOUL, Korea, Nov. 23—(M—Jets
clashed over Korea today for the
first time in five days. The fight
came Just 12 hours after Superforts
bombed a new Red Jet base two
miles from Red China's Man
churian frontier.
Two MIG-l&s were damaged in
a battle in bright sunlight be
tween about 30 Red Jets and 30
American F-84 Thunderjets, the
U.S. Fifth Air Force reported. It
said all Thunderjets returned
safely.
During the night twelve B-28
Superforts ignored an angry cordon
of Red Jets and roared through in
tense flak in the first bomblnf
raid on the Communists’ Uiju Je
base.
The strike was effective. Far
East Air Forces said. It reported
all B-29s returned from the raid
two miles south of the Yalu river
boundary.
ThW strike so close to the "sanc
tuary of Manchuria” pointed up
the mounting Allied effort to block
off the growing Communist air
threat and keep the Reds from set
ting up bases in North Korea closer
to the battle line.
Gen. Hoyt 8. Vandenberg, chief
of the U.S. Air Force, warned in
Washington that Red China has
emerged suddenly as a major air
power. He said this new-born air
force with Russian type Jets and
Russian speaking pilots has broken
Allied air supremacy in Korea al
though the United Nations still
holds superiority.
The U.S. Eighth Army reported
there was no other significant ac
tion Friday morning except a series
of small Chinese probing attacks
along the western front, west of
Korangpo and southwest of Chor
won.
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WEDNESDAY FIRE CALL
An over-heated stove at 903 West
Ninth street called out the fire de
partment at 10:20 p.m. Wednesday.
There was no damage reported by
firemen.
sity wants to develop a similar pro
gram of “taking it to the people.”
Dr. Moore commented: “I deem
it a great honor to have the presi
dent of this great sister university
take time from his many duties to
pay us a visit." _
Navy Plane
Is Missing;
Suspect Russ
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 — UPI —
A U.S. Navy plane with a crew of
10 Is missing. There appear to be
strong reasons for presuming it was
shot down by the Russians.
In succession today:
1. It was learned that Moscow,
in a formal protest on Nov. 7,
charged that an American plane
crossed the Siberian border and
was turned back by the gunfire
of Soviet fighters.
2. The Navy said a twin-engine
bomber “on United Nations
weather reconnaissance” patrol
has been missing since Nov. C and
is presumed lost.
The Navy statement was in an
swer to press inquiries about the
Soviet protest.
However, the Navy itself did not
say the Russians had shot down the
plane.
The Navy said three officers and
seven men were aboard the plane,
and that search for survivors "has
been negative,” meaning none have
been found.
“The matter is still under search
ing investigation,” the Navy said.
The Navy, in its initial answer to
questions, did not identify the exact
type of plane except to say it was
a twin-engine bomber. Nor did it
say where the plane was missing.
All the circumstances here, how
ever, implied that this was the same
matter the Russians referred to in
their Nov. 7 protest—one day after
the U.S. plane failed to return from
its mission.
If the plane was Indeed shot
down by Soviet fliers. It is the
second Incident of that nature.
In the spring of 19M, Russian
airmen downed a Navy patrol
plane in the Baltic. Its 1# crew
men perished.
At that time, with much fanfare,
the Moscow press announced award
of decorations to the Red fliers.
Similarly, there were stories in
the Moscow papers today of the de
coration of two Red Navy fliers for
outstanding services. What they
had done was not detailed, but the
way the matter was handled paral
leled last year’s awards,
FLIERS DECORATED
MOSCOW, Nov. 33—(PI—All Mos
cow front pages today carried an
announcement — without explana
tion—that the Soviet government
had decorated two Navy filers with
the Order of the Red Banner for
"exemplary fulfillment of their
service duties."
The awards were made to Lt. Ivan
Lukashcv and Lt. Moisei Shchukin
by special action of the Presidium
if the Supreme Soviet (parliament).
The accounts did not say what the
two lieutenants did to merit the
medals.
While the Order of the Red Ban
ler is often awarded, lt is rare
vhen all the newspapers record this
>n their front pages. It seemed
jbvious the two fliers participated
n some outstanding service.
The last similarly publicized
iward was In April, 1950. when the
Order of the Red Banner was given
o fliers who shot down an un
armed American patrol plane over
he Baltic Sea, with the loss of 10
:rewmen.
FRIDAY FIRE CALL
An over-heated furnace at the
Henry Roden residence on Sixth
treet brought out the fire depart
ment at 10:30 o'clock this morn
ing. There was no damage repor
ted by firemen.
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• WEATHER REPORT •
• (D. 8. WEATHER BUREAU •
• At Airport: Maximum. 37; •
• Minimum, 35. •
• •
• FORECAST •
• (Juneau and Vicinity) •
a Mostly cloudy with occa- •
• slonal showers at rain mixed a
• with snow tonight and Sat- •
• urday. Lowest temperature •
• tonight about 34 and highest •
• Saturday near 38. •
• •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 34 hours audios 3:30 a.m. todar •
• At Airport — 0.13 Inches; •
0 since July 1—17.36 Inches. a
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• NOVEMBER 24 a
• Low tide 3:37 a.m.. 4.1 ft. a
a High tide 10:08 a.m., 15.3 ft. a
a Low tide 4:15 pjn., S.l ft. a
a High tide 10:40 pjn.. ISA ft a
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