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Evening star., 1946-08-15
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Evening star., 1946-08-15
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-25
IN BOMBAY NORMAL;
 STRIFE lS OVER

L
 BOMBAL, Feb. 25.-Royal In dian sailors who participated in a mutiny last week have returned to duty, a British conlmunique says, and conditions in Bombay are now practically normal"
 Strikes have ended at shore in stallations, dockyards and all but one of the city's 66 cotton mills are operating, the communique said, all though Royal Indian Air Force per- sonnel here still refuse to work.
 A police statement said the road barricades had been removed by recruiting residents of the area as laborers, and that only few minor incidents had been reported.
 A British army communique to- night said latest figures on civ ilian casualties admitted to hos- pitals since the beginning of the dis turbance totaled 228 killed and LOAF injured
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-25
ARMY MERGER SIGNED, CHINA
TiqhtIy Knit Defense Force Planned : Demonsfrd-
 lions Against Russia

CHUNGKING, Feb. 25.-Chinese government and Communist mili- tary representatives signed a mer- ger today which calls for gradual reduction of the army into mod ern, tightly-knit. national defense force which may aid in the na- tion's rehabilitation.
 The agreement, signed in the presence of General Marshall, pro- yides for the reorganization of government forces into 50 divisions and Communists troops in 10 divis- ions within IS months, embracing 20 armies of three divisions each and with the President of the Re- public as commander-in-chief.
 While Chinese officialdom thus was taking another strike toward unity, agitation for withdrawal of Soviet troops from Manchuria ap- peared to be mounting steadily. In Shanghai, demonstrators plastered the door of the Russian consulate with posters demanding that Red Army troops quit the sprawling territory.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-25
D00lITTLE SAYS
 PLANES WILL FLY
 THOUSAND MpH

BOSTON, Feb. 25.-Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle, asserting planes now building will fly very shortly" at speeds approaching 1000 miles per hour, forecast today that the air weapons of the future would he atomic-propelled, long-range stratosphere rockets speeding fast CT than sound probably with atom bomb warheads.
 "Pilotless. wingless, gyro-stabiliz- ed, rocket-propelled air weapons al ready have achieved speeds of around 2,500 miles per hour and we may anticipate that the air weapons of the future will also be adio-controlled and radar-direct- ed," the one-tlme Tokyo raid lead CT said in a speech prepared for Massachusetts Institute of Technol- ogyS Commencement.
 Doolittle, wartime head of the Eighth Air Force in Europe and the Pacific, is now a Vice President Of Shell Union Oil Company.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-25
GOLD, SILVER PRICE BOOST
 IS PROPOSED
Three Bills to Improve Mining Industry Pre-
 pared for Congress k

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-Three bills intended to improve the posi- tion of the gold and silver mining industry have been prepared for in- troduction by Rep. Bunker D-NeU :.
 One would establish a price of $1.29 an ounce for silver, and s56 an ounce for gold. The producer now receives Till cents for silver and $35 for gold.
 The $56 figure for gold has the same logic behind it, Bunker said in an explanatory statement, that was used to justify the reduction from 40 to 25 percent in the amount of gold backing needed for Federal Reserve notes"
 Another measure would remove the ceiling on the price. of silver. This, Bunker asserted. would have more effect in raising the price of silver than all the monetary legislation introduced along those lines to date"
 Bunker's third proposal would re- move the tax of 50 percent of pro- ceeds from silver sales.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-25
BR0WNELL TO QUIT
 AZ COP CHAIRMAN

WASHINGTON. Feb. 25.-Herbert Brownell, Jr., has notified party leaders that he intends to resign as chairman of the Republican Nation- al Committee.
 Tie resignation will be submitted formally at meeting of the com- mittee here April 1.
 Brownell, political associate of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey for more than IA years, has decided to give his whole time to prscticing law in New York ys q,
 He has been working without sal ary as national chairman since the i944 election when he was elected to run Dewey's presidential cam paign. He is reported to have told Congressional leaders that he either had to resign to replenish his pri- vate finances or accept a salary from the committee, which he pre- ferrcd not to do.
 Brownell, 42. will continue active in politics. but only as an indivi- dual. He has said he will not man. age Deweys or anyone else's cam paign this fall.
 Brownell is known to feel that among the national party organ ization right now John w. Bricker of Ohio stands in the No. 1 posi- ton for the l948 presidential nom- ination.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-25
BARTLETT OPPOSES FISH TRAP MOVE
S.E. Alaska Limestone 10 Be Used in New Industry
 Established in Northwest

Portland, Ore. Feb. 25.-Contin- ued experimentation in extraction of alumina and iron from Oregon laterite and plans to bring high grade Alaskan limestone into the Portland Vancouver area are an- nounced by the Aluminium Company of America.
 Possibility that marketable iron can be produced from the laterite-- residue from rock decay--was re- ported by c. s. Thayer, manager of ALCOA's Vancouver, Wash. works He said that test drillings show the alumina content is lower than in the lowest grades of buaxite used for alumina reduction in Arkansas during the war, but it has a high percentage of iron ore.
 Production of alumina from laterite probably will be limited by the quantity of iron which can be disposed of, Thayer said. with ship ments of high-grade bauxite con- tinuing to supplement the Oregon supply
 ALCOA reports limetsone from Southeast Alaska would be brought here for the manufacture of alum mum at it's Vancouver plant and other industries. will provide "the impetus for a rapid expansion of the chemical industry here" Chest CT A. Moores, Chamber of Commerce president, said.
 Elimination of long rail shipment costs of limestone will put Oregon and Washington carbide and acety- lene manufacturers in better com petitive position, Moores said, and permit expansion of various sym thetic fields.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-25
BOW OF RUSSIAN TANKER SIGHTED
 OFF ALEUTIAN
Sixteen Men Are Believed Aboard Pari of Ill-Fdted
 Ship-Sfern Picked Up

KODIAK, Alaska, Feb. 25.-The Naval operations base at Adak in the Aleutians radioed yesterday that the bow of the ill-fated Rus sian ship Donbass, which broke in two February 1T, had been sighted south of the Aleutians.
 It was believed the ships captain and Is officers and men were on board the floating forepart. The survivors probably have been with out food for seven days.
 The stern of the Donbass already was in tow of the SS Puente Hills. Twenty-three Russian crew mem- bers refused to leave the stern, but 23 others had been taken aboard the Puente Hills.
 The U. s. Fleet tug gear was dispatched to the scene to take of personnel on the floting bow, and to attempt to tow it to port.
 The commander of the Alaska Sea Frontier here said the Navy radio reported the Russian tanker SS Belgorod had sighted the bow at latitude 45 degrees AS minutes north, longitude l72 degrees 22 min utes west
 Discovery of the ships forepart ended a Navy search conducted with all available facilities in the area during the last 48 hours despite adverse Aleutian weather.
 The area commander said there were no details regarding the con- dition of the Donbass' crew, but it was hoped that both the fore and aft sections of the ship could be lowed safely to Adak.
 The Donbass was enroute from Long Beach. ,CaIif- to yladiyostpk with a cargo of gasoline.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-25
The W ashington Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON - Public memory is short, so perhaps it is not out of order to recall that exactly one year ago man who had served e1ght years. in the Cabinet and four years as Y ice President was so pilloried before the Senate that Roosevelt finally withdrew the name of Henry Wallace as head of the Reconstruction Finance Corpor- ation
 But, last weeK. delightful George Allen, who has back-slipped and se-cracked with every Senator on Capitol Hill, was confirmed as Di- rector of the REC after very little ross-examination almost no de- bate, and, in the end, without even a roll-call vote. " Most remarkable thing about the George Allen vote was that Senator Alben Barkley, who knows better, cnampioned Aliens right to con rinue holding jobs with private corporations while Stiii serving Tn this vitally important Government post.
 One corporation of which George Allen is vice president is the Home Insurance Company. It so happens that this company figures largely in the scandalous graft which sent Harry Truman's old friend, Boss Tom Penderga5t of Kansas City. to jail.
 Background of this affair is inn portant. The fire insurance com panies operating in Missouri had been forced 70 lmpound S9.676,O02 while the question of new rate in
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-25
 IS SOUGHT
 AS WITNESS
Nazi Defendant al Nuern. berg Trial Makes De-
 mand with Others

NUREMBERG, Feb. 25.-Joachim von Ribbentrops attorney told the International Military Tribunal to- day an alleged pre-war declaration by Winston Churchill that Britain would form a coalition of nations to destroy Germany if she should Lecome too strong" may have in- spired Adolf Hitler to rearm Ger many and to play aggressive wars.
 The attorneys statement was made during arguments on Ribben- trop's request that Churchill be summoned to testify at Nuremberg. Acting Chief British Prosecutor Maxwell Fyfe insisted that the former Prime Minister held no of- flcial position at the time Ribben- trop was the German Ambassador in London, when the Churchill de- claration allegedly was made.
 Ribbentrop's Plea
 In a written plea, Ribbentrop as- serted Churchill visited the En- bassy in London and told him that England was intelligent and ex- berienced enough to get other pow CTS on England's side if Germany should become too strong
 "On this occasion Churchill stated it was unmistakable that England would destroy Germany if she should become too strong the plea added
 Dr. Martin Horn, Counsel for Ribbentrop, told the Tribunal today that Churchills alleged declaration was relayed nt once by Ribben- !: trop to Hitler
 Another Alibi 1 Horn asserted it is highly prob- , able that this statement was one of the reasons that Hitler began what the prosecution charged was a Nazi conspiracy to wage war. ] Field Marshal Gen Wilhelm Keit- el today requested that Hermann Goering and eight other of his , fellow defendants testify in his be- half and announced his intention of taking the witness stand him. self.
 Keitels request for witnesses and documents to support his defense VII be argued before the Tribunal after defense and prosecuting at 1, torneys complete their debate on : the list of witnesses demanded by Ribbentrop.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-25
(anada'sSpy Probe UnioIds
 Many Details
Eleven Men. Two Women Held Without Habeds
 Corpus Rights

OTTAWA, Feb 25.-Both the FB1 and British intelligence authorities are being given complete details of Canadas spy" investigation.
 It is being unfolded in secret be- fore two man Royal Commission, An idea of the scope of the investi- gation was given by one Royal Can- adian Mounted Police official who estimated that the mass of docu- mentary evidence already gathered weighs four tons. Much of this Is said to be scientific data pertain ing to atomic and other wartime discoveries high on the secret list.
 Two of the B persons now de- tained without habeas corpus rights are women. All 13 are suspected of betraying secrets to Russia. One of the women detained is under stood to have been cipher clerk. And at least one of the men is said on good authority to be high ranking government official. Others are said to include scientific work CTS and at least one was connected at one time with the wartime in- formation board.
 Meantime, Canadian and Russian relations are strained. The Can- adian government is said to be still undecided whether to reply formally and publicly to Moscow's charge that Canada was conduct ing an anti-Soviet campaign in it's handling of the spy case.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-25
ELECTION IN
 ARGENTINA IS ORDERLY ONE.
Results Will Moi Be Known Perhaps for 40 Days
 Who Is President

BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 25.-It may be at least 40 days before Argen- tina will know whether Iron Man Col. Juan Peron or Liberal and Left Wing candidate Jose Tambori is to be the next President.
 All ballot boxes have to be trans ported to Provincial capitals for tabulation and barring a landslide, the poor transportation, long dis tances and counting time rule out any early indications of the vote.
 Harmony reigns for the first time in many months Both sides say the elections were orderly, thanks to Army vigilance at the ballot box es. On the outcome of the vote hinges Argentina's future relations with the United States.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-25
MARRIAGE MIxUp OF MAJ. WERMUTH
 TAKEN TO COURT

MANILA, Feb 25.-The Philip pine court today issued summons to Maj. Arthur Wermuth to answer within 90 days the complaint by Olivia Josephine Oswald that he was already married when in De- cember, l941, he allegedly married her
 Miss Oswald made the charge in filing for an annulment. Wermuth had denied the marriage.
 Meanwhile, the dark haired, beauteous Olivia is not wanting for suitors, what with every arrival of the Pacific mail bringing stacks of proposals. Tanks from almost every state in the Union have asked her to marry them. Today's mail brought 25 new proposals address ed in care of the Associated Press office alone.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-25
JAP DIEHARD5 STILL
 FIGHT NEAR MANILA

MANILA, Feb. 25.-A battle be- tween Japanese richards and Amer ican-led Philippine Army troops near the mouth of Manila Bay is announced as the Commonwealth government estimated that at least 4,000 Nipponese soldiers still were terrorizing the back country.
 Two Filipino soldiers and at least six Japanese were killed when the Philippine First Tarlac regiment en- countered 30 or more Japanese skulking in the jungles of Lubang Island, only TO miles southwest of Manila, on Friday, headquarters of the U. s. 86th Division announced.
 American officers with the Fil- ipinos said that possibly five more Japanese were killed or badly wounded and appealed for 10000 additional rounds of ammunition, indicating the battle still was in progress or would be resumed. {.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-25
APT PUPIL

CHICAGO, Feb. 25.-Hildebrando Nicosia's father sent him from Pan- anna to the United States. to study three years ago, advising him to learn American ways.
 Hildebrando was an apt pupil.
 Selected by the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce as one of it's five delegates to the organization first international conference, Hildebrando has good chance to show his father how well he has learned American ways.
 The conference is in Panama City.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-25
SHOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Feb. 25.--Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine .tock today is 9h, Alleghany Cor poration 6x, American Can 93, An- aconda 44%. Curtiss- Wright 9ss International Harvester 88la, Jones, Laughlin Steel 44M, Kennecott 49, New York Central 28h, Northern Pacific 28a, United Corporation 5A, U. s. Steel 82h, Pound $4.03is
 Sales today were 2,390.o00 shares.
 Dow, Jones averages today are are follows: industrials 1872l, rails 61.03, utilities 38.01
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-25
Army and Navy Bulletin His. Out ai Russia

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-Tne unofficial Army and Navy Bulletin said editorially today that Russia, despite the very generous Yalta concessions, has been suspicious, de- vious and strangely ungracious.'
 Under the circumstances, the Bulletin said the United States had acted wisely in the perpetuation of close relationship with Britain The publication, which is privately owned and managed, added:
 Russia is not only hostile to cap- italists but to the British Labor government because it creates a false feeling that the people are being. treated fairly"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-25
PROPOSED TRAP REDUCTION HITS
 INDUSTRY HARD
Many Packing Plants Would Be Forced 10 Close
 Russian Competition

WASHINGTON. Feb. 25. The sale of salmon trap sites in Alaskan coastal waters. part of the public domain, was criticized by Acting Under Secretary of the Interior Warner w. Gardner at a Depart inent hearing.
 E. M. Brennan, General Mana ger and Vice President of the P. F. Harris Company of Seattle tes- tified his company operated a trap site in partnership with an undis- closed individual. He said check was sent annually to Seattle institution by the company for the man." He declired to say how much vas paid and said he did not know where the mar. lived
 Tt is a bad situation" Gardner commented, when a man can take part of the public domain, force you to. send him a check for using it and never come near the place" :"
 The hearing is on a Department proposal to reduce to 20 the num- per of fish traps which may be held by firm or person in Alaskan waters. The holdings would be re- duced to 10 three years later.
 Friele Testifies
 H. B. Friele, Seattle, vice-Presi- dent and General Manager of the Nakat Packing Company. related that his company had purchased IS trap sites for approximately S200,0o0, but aGded, the government had closed six of them.
 Both witnesses contended the proposed regulation would be in furious to the salmon packing in dustry and force the closing of many packing plants.
 Friele said the industry fears Russian competition after the war reconstruction days are over. He said Russia packs 1.500,0o0 cases of salmon each year. Japan 100000 and Canada 1000 900. The industry believes he said, that Russia may take over the Japanase fishing in dustry and export salmon to the United States.
 New Information Sought
 Meantime Rep. Jackson tD- Wash.) announced the War De- partment had notified him fishery experts of the Japanese Govern ment are being required to com pile all data concerning past Jap- anese fishing activities in the Arc tic, Antarctic, Bering Sea, Gulf of California, water of Argentina, Asiatic Russia the Kuriles Islands and the China Seas.
 He said he felt certain the in- formation would help the American industry. w. A. Esters Cook Inlet tAlaska) Packing Company, operator of a small cannery. said small packers fear that if large canneries are limited to 20 fish traps, the small ones will find the number of their traps reduced in few years If we lose sny traps 1t will put ils out of business" he asserted We can't seine fish in Cook Inlet. /
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-25
MatLEAN FIRST
 WIT NESS Al MEEkS TRIAL
Defense Probes Minufesl Details of Finding of
 CampbeII's Body

The United States launched its first degree murder prosecution ot George Harrison Meeks, in U. D. District Court here this morning by calling Kenyon (Spike) MacLean, local sheet metal, ventilating and heating contractor, as first witness.
 It was MacLean, together With one of his workmen, Chet Ellis who found the slashed body ot Clarence J. Campbell in exclusive Scatter Tract here last December 10. to open the investigation that has led to the accusation of Meeks as Campbells alleged murderer.
 During brief direct examination conducted by U. S. Attorney Pat rick Gilmore, Jr., MacLean related the circumstances of his finding of Campbell's body, at about five mln- utes before noon on that dreary, December Monday. His testimony today repeated in all significant points that which he gave at the Coroner's inquest two months ago: That he saw no hat near the body; a description of how the body was lying with relation to the road along which it was found, a description of Campbells clothing, with pockets turned out: the purplish blotch by the murder victims right eye; the several cuts about the head and the deep throat gash that ended Camp bells life; the blood clots and spat- ters on the victims clothing, face and on the surrounding icy ground
 Grues0me Discovery
 It was raining slightly at the time he and Ellis made their gruesome discovery, the witness replied to the District Attorneys question. In conclusion, the direct examination of MacLean brought out that the murdered mans body was left un- touched until after the arrival oi City authorities, called by MacLean by telephone from a nearby resi- dence.
 Cross examination of MacLean conducted by Chief Defense Coun- sel William L. Paul, Jr., was ex- haustive, continuing the remainder of this mornings session and still not completed when the noon re- cess was taken till o'clock this afternoon. At one point. the cross examination was broken by a 15. minute recess to permit MacLear to sketch the vicinity where tht body was found; a sketch latel marked for identification as De fendant's Exhibit A but not intro. LCnuffnned on Pdae Efdhf
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-25
DELEGATE IS
 AGAINST ANY REDUCTIoN'46
Declares Action Would Cause Confusion-6ruen-
 ing Gives testimony

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-Dele- gate Bartlett of Alaska urged the Interior Department today not to put into effect It's proposal to limit fish traps in Alaska to 20 to one person or firm during the coming fishing season
 If the regulations are promul- gated for the l946 year" Bartlett testified at Department hearing, Tt will cause confusion in the in- dustry and the Department should take that into account. The hearing should be recessed and continued in Alaska next summer and no effort should be made to put the regula- ton ifsf2 effect this year"
 Bartlett and Crvv. Gruening of Alaska asserted the salmon indus try did not pay sufficient taxes in the Territory and took too much wealth from Alaska Both insisted that residents of the Territory should have preference for trap sites and declared that if it were left to the recidents of the Terri tory, all trap sites would be abol- iShed.
 Grucning's Legislation
 Gruening said he favors legisla- ton defeated at the last session of the Legislature to increase the s2o0 license for trap sites by s1oo each and set up a commission to allo- cate them. He declared the indus try should try to improve condi- tions in the Territory and devise means of giving a greater return to Alaska for the salmon 1t takes out He said he believed the Territory's entire tax structure should be re- ,ised.
 Delegate Bartlett said he did not believe reduction of fish traps in the long run would injure or wreck the salmon packing industry as ar sued by industry representatives. He criticized holding the hearing in Washington instead of Alaska where Territorial residents could have testified. He said the Terri tory's development will be spceded up If resident Alaskans are given preferential status in obtaining trap sites.
 No Politics Says Gov. Gruening denied that politics had entered into preparation of the proposed regulations as suggested by fishery representatives. He said efforts of the Territorial Legislature to enact laws to in- crease trap sites had been defeated by the industry after members of :he Legislature ln favor of the bills i had been swung over to oppose 1t by industry representatives. William Brophy, Indian Affairs Commissioner. asserted concentra- ton of traps in the hands of a few oig packers had occurred in spite of l laws to the contrary. He said few companies control the majority of the traps and declared residents and non-residents of the Territory should have equal opportunity in getting trap sites.
 On cross examination by w. c, Arnold of the Alaska Salmon h. dustries, Inc, Brophy said he be- l.eved the salmon fisheries were natural resource owned by all the people of the country and not just hy Alaska. s