The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-17

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y.-Thirty-
 seven year old Andrei Gromyko of : Russia today inherited the Presi- dency of the United Nations Secur- ity Council and the dubious honor
 oi presiding over the defeat of his
 effort to indict British Greek policy ] in the Balkans.
 i HONOLULU-An Australian Ma 1 tional Airways DC-4 Skyliner was
 scheduled to leave for Oakland, Calf, today on the inaugural trip 1 of new Australia Canada run. It made the trip here from Mel
 bourne in PIP hours.
 | BRISBANE The "Squatter" movement. launched recently in Britain, spread to Australia today [ when more than 100 families mov- f ed into vacant military camps in two Brisbane suburbs.
 ! HARTFORD, Conn.-Lieut. Gov
 ernor Wilbert Snow, Wesleyan Uni
 versity English professor, received {. the Democratic gubernatorial nom- | ination today after first ballot ! test gave him the lead over four rivals, among them Chester Bowles wartime OPA chief
 I LONDON-Bruce Woodcock, Bri-
 tish heavyweight boxing champion, knocked out Gus Lesnevich, world tight heavyweight titleholder from i uiiffside, N. J., in the eighth round
 of a scheduled ten-round non-title 1 ngnt at Hari1ngay Stadium here !, tonight. Wo cock weighed 192 . pounds and Lesnevich 18ll2. i FRANKFURT, Germany-Ameri-
 cans in the U. s. Army's European Theatre were given permission to- l day to marry Hungarians, Bulgar-
 ians and Rumanians-bu they still
 may not marry Germans.
 BERLIN-Senator Elmer Thom-
 as C-Okla) today denounced as just politics and publicity de-
 mands made by certain U. s. Sen-
 ators for Senatorial investigation ] Of the conduct of American occu-
 patton forces in Germany.
 :, LOS ANGELES-The U. s. Coast 1 Guard announces it has seized Tony 1 Cornero Stralla's floating casino Lux at orders of the Department
 of Justice and that the ship will | be interned by the Customs Office. /, NEW YORK-Striking members
 of the Brotherhood of Teamsters
 Union (AFD accepted wage pro-
 posal today which brought par l tial solution to a general trucking strike in New York City which had stifleo business and industry for IT
 days.
 i VANCOUVER, B. C.-The Adams
 River sockeye salmon run hit the 1 Fraser River today and some gill retters caught as many as 200 fish in a two-hour period. The salmon
 sold at an average of $l each. :: MIAMI BEACH, Fla.-Sen. Claude
 Pepper, D., Fla, has endorsed the
 stand of Secretary of Commerce
 Henry Wallace on American For
 eign policy, and he joined Presi- dent A. F. Whitney of the Broth erhood of Railway Trainmen in a stinging rebuke of President Tru- mans handling of labor.
 WASHINGTON-Lt. Col Gregory (Pappy) Boyington, Marine aviator who bagged 28 Japanese planes be- i! fore he was taken prisoner, will be retired soon for physical disability,
 Marine Corps headquarters an-
 nounces.
 SHANGHAI . Charges of em- ! bezzling two bathtubs full of gold bars valued at $20,000,000 were
 brought today against two Chinese
 UNRRA officials. The officials were
 accused of seizing the gold bars while taking over the Japanese
 Fishing Administration in Shang- hai. The gold had been buried in bathuubs in an air raid shelter. [ WASHINGTON-The Army has
 announced that Republic XP-84 Thunderjet plane has broken all American air speed records. The
 Thunderjet was timed unofficially
 at 6l9 miles per hour and officially
 at ell miles per hour.