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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-28
Firm Policy of U. }.
 May Force Russia 10
 Give Ground, Belief

WASHINGTON, April 28.--lR-- American hopes for an easing in U. S.-Soviet tensions were buoyed today by reports that Secretary Of State Marshall believes this country's firmness on European peace treaty issues may lead Rus sia to give ground.
 Marshall's view was laid before Congressional leaders at White House conference in advance of his radio report to the nation at 8.3o D. nj. tEST) tonight on the re- suits of the Moscow Foreign Min ister's conference.
 Some of those who attended the two hour session with the Presi- dent and his cabinet officer last night said they came away with the impression that Marshall be- lieves the unbending attitude he displayed at the Big Four meeting already has had the effect of mak- ing the Russians less sure of them serves III IIlelI dtIItdiiuS dlitStii6 the future peace of Europe.
 The soldier diplomat was said to have counseled patience with the Soviets in the hope that as they digest the American position in the next few months, they may go to London for the next foreign ministers huddle in November more amendable to suggestions from their wartime allies on vital points involved in proposed Austrian and German peace treaties.
 Marshalls broadcast tonight will be carried by the National, Amer ican and Mutual Networks.
 The White House huddle came on the eve of fresh House debate on the $350.00o,o00 relief bill.
 House leaders expected final vote Tuesday. The .bill then will go to the Senate
 The House shunted aside for at least another week vote on the Greek Turkish aid measure, which already has gained top-heavy Senate approval.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-28
.pHY(H05
 IN ESCAPE,
 HOSPITAL
Triekery and Force Used- Three Quickly Rounded
 Up . One al Large

SAN FRANCISCO, April 28.-(R Three of four dangerous mental patients who escaped from the Army's Letterman Hospital by trickery and force yesterday were back in custody today while search widened for the fourth escapee and a hospital orderly they took as a hostage.
 Still at large, more than 24 hours after the escape, was Frank R. Wallrath, "A, of Long Island City, N. Y. The orderly is Wallace Williams of Fort Worth, Texas.
 Wallrath, paratrooper with the 11th Airborne Division during the war, was convicted by an Eighth Army court martial last August B for deserting under fire and for es- caping twice from Army confine- ment. He was sentenced to death and the Division Commander up- held the sentence, but President Truman later commuted it to life imprisonment.
 The four patients made their es- cape from the doubledecked' psy- chopathic ward at 2 a. m, after slugging four orderlies who were summoned one by one. They op7 ened the ward doors with keys taken from the orderlies, and than slugged a guard, taking his .45 caliber pistol.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-28
JEW ISSUE
 COMES UP,
 LIN SESSION
Palestine Question Main Topic Before Big
 Organization

NEW YORK, April 28-Dr. Os- waldo Aranha, former foreign min ister of Brazil, was elected president of the special Palestine session of the United Nations Assembly to- day.
 The official Jewish agency de- clared itself absent unless it is formally recognized
 This was the position of the par ties directly concerl4~1.
 A British spokesman said Great Britain, which holds a League of Nations mandate over the Holy Land is ready to accept any decis- ion the United Nations makes on the Palestine question, but will in- sist that the world organization en- force all of it's own recommenda- tions.
 The Arab League. which is rep resented by five Arab states in the U. N, announced after a cau- GUS that it would stand firm on it's demands that Britain end her mandate and that Palestine be de- clared an independent country at this special session.
 The Jewish Agency, official rep resentative of Palestine Jews under terms of the mandate, called up- on the United States delegation to take the lead in advancing it's de- mand for a Jewish national home in the Holy Land.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-28
MARSHALL'S MOSCOW STAND APPROVED
Owner ofFamous Hope,
 MI -Reputed Diamond, Dies; Funeral Is Secret

WASHINGTON, April 28.-IR- Mrs. Evalyn Walsh Mclean, who in life loved parties and large gath erings, will be buried secretly Tuesday to avoid crowds.
 Only survivors and closest friends will be told the time and place of funeral services for the central character of Father Struck It Rich owner of the ill-reputed but magnificent Hope diamond and, almost to the end, hostess to the worlds most famous names.
 Her death Saturday at the age of 50 during recurrence of pneumonia ended an era of Ameri- cana.
 Mrs. Mclean, on most of the oc- casions on which she, entertained, wore the famous Hope diamond, a 441s carat stone with strange and beautiful blue lights.
 Said to have been stolen from the forehead of Hindu idol, leg
 
 end has it that the gem brought violent death or misfortune to at least six of its owners, among them Mime. De Montespan, Louise XIV and Lord Francis Pelham Clinton.
 It was her favorite jewel, but she would never permit her chil- dren to touch it, especially after her son, Vinson, was killed in a traffic accident at the age of 10. Exactly what is to become of the diamond will not be known until her will is filed for probate by her attorney, former circuit judge Thurman Arnold.
 Mrs Mclean is said to have pais Sl8o,oo0 for the diamond, but is said to have refused offers up to $2,000,000 for it.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-28
kAKE VOTES Al TO
 4F0R SCHOOL DIST.

Rake with a toUai voting popula- tion Of ITO, became the first inde- pendently incorporated school dis trict for all Native children in the Territory, when measure to in corporate the district passed Al to at the recent election.
 Four men and one woman were elected to the newly created school board-Thomas L. Jackson, Henry Davis, Ernest Williams, Walter Williams and Martha Shaquanie.
 Most of the 29 eligible voters ab- sent from the polls had not yet re- turned from beaver camp at close of the trapping season.
 Upon announcement of returns villagers voted unanimously to em- power their town council to peti- tion the Alaska Native Service at Juneau for withdrawal of Federal government aid in their school. They requested only that present building and equipment be turned over to village use, which request will be granted.
 Pending for nearly a year, the action was delayed until settlement of protesting appeal filed by the P. E. Harris O., salmon packers, >last Oct '. which was dismissed by U. s. District Court of Appeals on March ' last.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-28
BUSINESS IS
 STARTED AT
 vFW SESSION
Eneampment D e eg les from All Parts of Alaska
 Are Now Present

With III delegates registered from Alaska posts, and more ex- pected before late afternoon, and with 35 members of auXiliaries in attendance, the Second Department Encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars meet at 930 o'clock this morning in the Elks Hall for the first business session. The High School band gave a short concert at the opening session.
 Main occupation oI the meet was the selection of standing commit tees on nominations, by laws and resolutions, and then adjournment was taken until 1 80 pm.
 Members appointed to the Reso- lution Committee are J. F. Van Glider and John Elliott from Ketch- ikan, Hunt Gruening and Charles T. Smith of Juneau, Ivan E. Rezek and John w. Ryan of Sitka, J. Macdonald and T. Gates of Sew ard; William H. Olson and Charles A. German of Anchorage, Gray s. lilly and John B. Pin man of Fairbanks, Charles Wilson of Nenana and Robert Johnson of WaSilla.
 Members of the Nomination Con- mittee are John Elliott of Ketch- ikan, Hunt Gruening of Juneau, John w. Ryan of Sitka, c. J. Da- wis of Seward, Arthur Brown of Anchorage, M. D. Williams of Fair banks, Charles Wilson of Nenana and Robert Johnson of Wasilla. On the Bylaws Committee are Cecil A. Roley and William H. Olson of Anchorage and Charles T. Smith of Juneau
 Afternoon Session
 At this afternoons session all committees were scheduled to re- port, and the regular order of busi- ness will be taken up.
 Senior Vice Commander ir Chief Ray T. Brannaman, of Posv 212l, Greeley, Colorado, was scheduled to give a speech for the Command CT in Chief of the VFW, Louis E. Starr
 This afternoon at o'clock, Ma jor Gen. Howard s. Craig, Com manding General of the Alaskan Command of the United States Army, with his headquarters at Fort Richardson, is expected to ar rive aboard an Army plane with his personnel. He will be in the re- viewing stand tonight during the parade.
 Alaskan posts represented at the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-28
The W ashinqton Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON Diary Notes From The Byrd Expedition: Admir- al Byrd was chatting with New Zealand's Prime Minister Peter Frazer T guess" said Byrd, you wouldn't like to see my brother Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia President of the United States" Replied diplomat Frazer: Admiral, if it were you instead of your bro- ther, I would feel differently" 5. Byrd was genuinely popular in New Zealand, though New Zea- flanders were certain he was pri- marily hunting for uranium. U. s. officials were equally suspicious of the Russians, which was why the Byrd boys hopped off one year early when they learned the Rus sians were preparing whaling expedition" Funny thing was that the Russian whalers actually turned out to be exactly that. One of the worlds most critical shor- tages is fat, and whale oil is es- pecially needed for certain deli cate war instruments.
 Admiral Byrd got the publicity, but real hero of the expedition was Adm. Richard CruZen. He did a great job of piloting the ships through the ice. :. While his only son was killed in a Washington, D. O., motor accident, Cruzen stayed on the bridge, didn't take minute off as the expedition grazed past deadly ice barriers. :. . .Cruzen and Byrd had the same rank, though
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-28
TO
 WORK FOR
 ANS FUNDS

WASHINGTOE, April 28.-tR- Rep. Mundt (R-SD) says he will carry to the Senate his efforts to restore $2.C00000 cut from funds for Indian education in the h. terior Department appropriations bill.
 He attempted unsuccessfully in the House Friday to raise the amount for education of Indian children from $8,000,000 to the $l0,000.000 recommended by the Bureau of the Budget.
 I'm going to take this before the Senate committee when the bill reaches .there,' he told re- porter.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-28
CUB POLAR BEAR
 I5 FLOWN SOUTH

SEATTLE, April 28.-(R-Cap- tured by an Eskimo hunter on the Arctic ice off Point Hope, Alaska, Polar bear cub arrived in Se- attle yesterday enroute to the Oklahoma City zoo.
 The cub, now three months old, was purchased from the Eskimo by Dr. C. von Wedel an Okla homa City resident who recently visited the north. Bush pilot Ar chic Ferguson flew the cub to Kotzebue, Gene Jack of the Arc tic Commercial Company flew the Lear into Fairbanks, and a Pan American World Airways clipper brought the animal to Boeing Field yesterday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-28
TRADE AGREEMENT, BRITAIN, POLAND,
 TO BE SIGNED NOW

LONDON. April 28.-tR-A Board of Trade spokesman said today that Great Britain and Poland had agreed to sign $232 ,000, 900 trade agreement.
 Poland thus would become the first nation in the Soviet sphere to agree to major trade accord with the Western Powers, and both Polish and British sources said the agreement had far-reaching politi- cal implications.
 A well informed Polish source, sympathetic to the Communist dominated Polish government. said the agreement could be interpreted as "a thin edge of the wedge coming between Poland and Rus sia
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-28
KR0NBERG CASTLE JEWEL THEFT CASE
 ENDED IN GERMANY

FRANKFURT, Germany, April -tR-After nearly five months of stormy hearings in Germany and the United States, a military court today concluded the trial of Col. Jack w. Durant on charges of stealing $l,500,000 worth of jewels from Kronherg Castle and announc- ed it would begin deliberating on verdict tomorrow.
 In the closing argument, Durant was described by the prosecution as the mastermind behind this whole foul piece of thievery"-in connection with which two other U. s. Army officers have already been convicted.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-28
OTHER DEVELOPMENTS

NEW YORK, April 28.-LR-As telephone workers in Iowa rejected a $250 wage boost offered by the Northwestern Bell Telephone Com pany today Joseph A. Beirne, President of the National Fedora ton of Telephone Workers, said he expected major break" in the telephone strike, possibly today or tomorrow"
 The S2.50 offer was made last night to workers in five states Minnesota, the Dakotas and Ne hraska, as well as Iowa.
 Earlier, Henry Mayer of New York, business agent of Is striking unions, said that if accepted, the offer would set the pattern for set clement of the three week-old na- tionwide phone walkout
 However, Mayer said a $6 a week wage increase was the minimum we'll consider at present" The un- ion originally demanded SIP.
 In Pittsburgh, Beirne told news men he expected "a major break soon because there have been some favorable developments" He did not elaborate.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-28
PLANS TO BRING
 ANGLERS NORTH,
 15-DAY OUTING
Be attIe Newspdpermdn Leases Ghost Town of
 Loring for Purpose

SEATTLE, April 28-lR-A new service for anglers-a 15-day all- expense outing in Alaska-has been inaugurated by Fred K. Ross, Seattle newspaperman.
 He has leased the ghost" town of, Loring, 25 miles north from Ketchikan, and will open sports mans camp there on May IS. Ross has chartered several Seattle yachts and will offer trips from Seattle every five days during the summer for parties of ten. This outing will include a ten-day cruise through the Inside Passage and five days of fishing at Loring.
 Ross will leave his position as chief of the news division in the Veterans Administration office in Seattle soon to devote all his time to the enterprise.
 Heretofore only millionaires could afford a fishing trip to AL dohd, AiC SdlQ. ll1Cy Ciidl ICl yacht for $500 to s4O0 day and cruise to isolated streams where the trout never have seen an arti- ficial lure. I can offer the same kind of an outing from my camp at Loring at a price the ordinary fisherman can afford"
 Ross said trout and salmon fish ing around Loring is the best in Southeast Alaska.
 He plans to build lodge near Loring and have it ready for oc- cupancy about July l. Meanwhile the guests will be taken care of in five houses he has leased at Lor- ing.
 The new business venture is call ed Alaska Outings.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-28
STERLING ON TRIP

Harry Sperling, U. s. Forest Ser vice Administrative officer, left Jul neau today for a three weeks field trip to Cordova and Seward With Sperling. is James Clough, new Timber Management Assistant, who will be stationed at Cordova. Clough is recent graduate of the Color ado A & M College of Forestry.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-28
CALIF0RNIANS ENTER PROTEST
 T0BEz CANNERy
Kick, However, Apparently Doesn't Register as
 Proposal Rebuffed

WASHINGTON, April 28.-tR- The California Fish Gamers Asso- ciation has demanded the govern ment provide it with floating can neries or force the Pacific Explor- Ier,' such a cannery operating off Costa Rico, to confine it's activ- ities to unexplored fishing grounds ] The demand was presented to ia House Merchant Marine and Fisheries subcommittee investigat- ing complaints the Pacific Explor- ation Company is operating the Pacific Explorer in violation of terms of its agreement with the Reconstruction Finance Corp
 The REC financed the operation at a cost of about $3,000,000 The company is headed by Nick Beg of Seattle.
 Arch Ekdale of San Pedro, Calif. counsel for the Californians. said the governments contract with the Pacific Exploration Go. did not visualize the ship operating in proven fishing grounds.
 Was For Boring Sea
 He said the contract required it to confine its activities to the Boring Sea and Western Pacific waters for exploration purposes. He testified Southern California fishermen could compete with anybody on earth except our gov |ernment." He said they were not asking for advantages, but sought ithe same privileges granted the Pacific Explorer.
 If you give my brother candy Ekdale said. give me candy or take it away from my brother"
 CaIii0rn.ans Kick
 The witness said Californians were not given a chance to operate such a floating cannery and if Beg was permitted to continue the commercial fishing in the South Pacific, they must have ten or more of them furnished by the gov ernment.
 Ekdale asked that the contract with Beg be modified, cancelled, that Beg be confined to purely exploration work, or the Califor- nians be given similar government financed vessels.
 The witness nnaintained the Pacific Explorer wouia deliver tuna to the Columbia River packers who can take loss on the opera tion to get established in the tuna business"
 Initiated By Beg
 Rep Jackson (D-Wash) said Beg was the only fisherman who showed enough initiative to start the operation of floating can- nery.
 In answer, the witness said in quiry of the REC as to whether it would give a similar deal to the Californians had met with rebuff.
 James L. Killihan of the REC said that when the war drew to a close the organization questioned the wisdom of concluding the deal with Beg, and that the Agricul- ture Department had withdrawn it's approval, but that other de- partments had urged it be conclud- ed.
 Many Urged Deal
 He said it had been started as a war emergency measure at the request of Marvin Jones, then War Food Administrator
 He said that at that time form CT Senator Mitchell of Washing ton, Secretary Ickes of the Inter for Department, the State Depart ment and the Fish and Wildlife Service all urged that the deal be carried through at cost of nearly $5, 900, ,00O.
 He read a statement from the REC saying the primary purpose of the project was recovery Of protein food through the catching of crab and ground fish in the Rarip0 Cao
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-28
SHOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, April 28-Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is AS, American Can 90A, Anaconda 35h, Curtiss- Wright 47s, International Harvester 80A Kennecott 437s, New York Central 14M, Northern Pacific 157s, U. S. Steel 68A, Pound $402A.
 Sales today were 590,000 shares
 Merrill-Lynch averages today are as follows: industrials l6885, rails 4457, utilities 33.8l.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-28
FLYING BOX CAR"
 OF ARMY TAXES OFF

FAIRFIELD, Calf. April 28.-tR A C-82, nicknamed the fly ing boxcar" by the Army, will take off tonight for the first trans Pacific flight by that type of plane to demonstrate its cargo and troop potsntialities to Pacific area occupation forces.
 It. Col William F. Mandt will pilot the C-82.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-28
MAJOR BREAK IS INDICATED, HELLO STRIKE
Favorable Developments Seen = Workers Re-
 jeet Iowa Offer

PITTSBURGH, April 2S-lR- Joseph A. Beirne, president of the National Federation of Telephone Workers, said here today he ex- poets a major break, possibly to- day or tomorrow, in the three week-old telephone strike.
 T expect a major break soon because there have been some fav- orable developments he told news men, without elaborating on the developments"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-28
NO FIRE CONTROL FUNDS

Fire control funds for Alaska have been axed by House Appropri- ations Committee and there will be no money to fight forest fires dur ing the fiscal year beginning July l, according to Roger R. Robinson, acting chief Of the AFCS at An chorage.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-28
HOME FROM COLLEGE

Kenneth R. Allen, son of MT. and Mrs. Glen Allen, arrived by PAA plane yesterday, after making an unexpected visit to Whitehorse while enroute home.
 Kenneth has been attending Farragut College (The U. s. Naval Training Center during the war) at Farragut, Idaho, and now plans to spend the summer here at home.
 There are about 26 million dairy COWS in the United States.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-28
FARMERS START PLANTING

Aided by extraordinarily good weather, farmers of the Matanuska Valley are getting in some of the earliest planting in the 12-year-old history of the colony.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-28
LESTER BUCEY DIES

Lester Bucey, wellknown newspa- perman of the westward, Seward and Anchorage, died recently at Anchorage after brief hospitaliza- tion.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-28
JANE WILLIAMS WEST

Miss Jane Williams, daughter of MT. and Mrs Lew Williams, will be employed at Fort Richardson dur ing the summer and attend the University of Alaska in the Fall.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-28
STEAMER MOVEMENTS

Sailors Splice, from Seattle, in port.
 Aleutian scheduled to sail from Seattle April 29, calling at Ketch- ikan, Juneau, Yakutat, Cordova, Valdez and Seward.
 Northern Voyager, from Seattle due April 30
 Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver April 30.
 Palisano scheduled to sail from Seattle May 2.
 Square Sinnet scheduled to sail from Seattle May 2.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-28

Garter snakes have been report ed as far north as the Yukon.
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-08-14
Berlin Beggggars
Help Criminals,
Police Report
Fashion .

AP NeWsfeQtures
DERLIN.-Beriin's police have
I'D declared war on the begg0I
nuisance which is plUquinq the
city. because many Of the beg
qors have been found 10 be
making q hcndsome living by
doubling as blockmorketers end
spoilers" for burglary qonq3.
A directive from the police
Headquarters warned household
crs in all four occupation sectors
of the city to beware the harm
less bcGear." because a large per
centagc of the thousands which
infeSt Berlin's streets and squares
had been proved to be engaging
IN criminal activities.
Often. police found, a beggar
was offering blackmarket wares
for sale to the very persons
from whom he was taking aims.
As special peril police warned
against the house-to-house beg
.5rs be2gars u.ha made the
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-08-14
BY DOROTHY ROE
Associated Press Fashion Editor

TODAY'S college girl vents
IL simple, we'll tailored
background" clothes which can
be dressed up or down as the
occasion demands.
That's the conclusion reached
by the st. Louis Fashion Crea-
tors, specialists in junior styles,
after a recent poll of collegiate
opinion.
Extremes IN style are black
listed by the young. They don't
want elaborate drapery, droop-
ing shoulders or skirts long
enough to hamper their brisk,
free stride.
Following the dictates of the
girls. the St. Louis manufacture
ers have turned out fall col
lection tailored to their tastes
zee of gadgct and Whimpsy,
with smooth. rounded. but still
padded shoulders, skirts that may
be straight and slim, gracefully
f!ared or pleated, coats that
stick to the classic line, with
new touches evident in collars
and pockets.
The all-important black date
dress, without which no college
wardrobe is complete, receives
careful attention from the ST.
Louis designers. who find many
now ways to make them look
rieht for 1947, yet retain beloved
hV the young.
Wool dresses and suits for
campus wear 90 in for vivid col
ors, with blue and green in high
favor.
Skirts are slightly longer, but
not radically so. Many coats are
hooded. Faille and taffeta find
high favor for evening and date
dresses. There's a new, softer
look 10 the Silhouette But basic
civ the clothes that will go to
~~ilese this fall remain simple,
Youthful and uncluttered.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-08-14

sion is to case a house for a
nighttime break-in.
Police discovered also that in
many cases professional beggarS
were carrying faxed workers
registrations which entitled them
10 the food ration of heavy work.
ers while they were plying their
dishonest profession in the
streets. In taose cases, what the
beegars achieved in aims they
peddled in the black market.