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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-14
Great Northern Noi
 Interested in Buying
 Provincial K. R. Line

SEATTLE, Jan 14- The Great Northern Railway is not interested in purchasing the Provincially- owned Pacific Great Eastern Rail- way in British Columbia, Frank J Gavin, President, said on a visit here.
 He also said he was not aware of any other American railroad in- terests that might be considering a development into the North Coun- try from the lines northern term mus at Quesnel, B. c.
 Certainly, we don't want it. he said in reply to reporters query. Neither do I know of. any other western railroad which is currently interested in it."
 A similar disclaimer of interest was made here last year on the part of the Northern Pacific Rail- road by c. E. Denney, President The line has been considered ir oft-recurring rumors as start or railroad connection north tc Alaska from the states.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-14
BI-pARTISAN TALKS PLAN
 OF TRUMAN

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14-Presi- dent Truman has decided to call Republican Congressional leaders in for frequent consultations, Rep. Rayburn lD-TeX) said today after a White House call.
 Rayburn, former speaker and now leader of the Democratic minor ity in the House, said no date has been set for the first bipartisan conference.
 What the President has in mind Rayburn told White House report CTS, is joint consultations with Re- publican and Democratic party lead CTS in Congress.
 These conferences, Rayburn said will not be the regular Monday morning get-togethers the President had with Democratic leaders last year when his party controlled both houses.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-14
3 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR HIGH TREASON
By LARRY ALLEN

WARSAW, Jan. 14--A Polish military tribunal today sentenced Count Kawery Grocholski and two other men to death for high treason on charges they were members of an organization which sought to overthrow the Warsaw government by force.
 During the trial, one of the de- fendantS testified that the British Ambassador to Poland had received state and military secrets from the underground organization, known as WIN.
 Condemned with Grocholski were Waldemar Baczak, "A, former em- ployee of the Polish foreign minis try. and Capt. Withhold Kalicki, 36 of the Interior Security Corps.
 Dark-haired, attractive Chrystina Kosiorek, g, the fourth defendant, was sentenced to 10 years imprison- ment.
 Another military court sentenced to death five members of the NSZ underground organization on charg- es of attacking the Krakow prison last August and freeing 80 political prisoners. Five others were given long prison terms.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-14
CONDEMNED MAN
 FACES REPEAT
 WALK 10 CHAIR

NEW IBERIA, La. Jan. IA. = Lanky Willie Francis is rubbing el- bows with death today but he's right interested to find out if can die like the man I thought was"
 Francis, who once cheated the electric chair when mechanical malfunction allowed him to walk away from it alive, was singularly cool when he learned that the United States Supreme Court had ruled him subject to another trip to the echair
 'I always sort of wondered if was brave man the tall, cocoa colored negro said in an interview here.
 Now I gues maybe I'm gonna find cut. And I'm gonna find oul the hard way boss, so there won'l be no doubt in my mind when leave. A lot of men never find out A lot of men die still wondering i they was the men they though they was"
 Told by his attorney, Bertrand S De Blanc, that motion will b. filed for another Supreme Cour hearing, Francis said simply:
 Its the same thing The sam' old thing. A mans got to die some time and I reckon my time hal plumb done come"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-14
BIG FOUR DEPUTY
 FOREIGN MINISTERS
 MEETING IN LONDON
Starf Work on German and Austrian Peace Treaties
 Ready for Moscow

LONDON, Jan. 14-The Big Four deputy Foreign Ministers set tied down today to do the spade work on the German and Austrian peace treaties with British and American quarters hopeful that the blue print for an independent Aus tria would te ready for discussion in Moscow in March
 Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin planned to welcome the diplomats of the United States, Russia and France at the opening session and then leave the deputies to the five week task of hearing Territorial separations claims against the two defeated countries and trying to smooth out Big Four differences over peace terms.
 Britain and the United States were reported to have the drafts of tenatiye treaties on Austria ready for study by the Russian and French deputies. Some informed quarters expressed belief the United States would waive separations claims against that nations totter- ing economy, but the biggest ques- ton centered around Russias de- mands.
 Territorial claims against Ger many by at least six of her one time victims posed an immediate major problem for the deputies. Faced with such diplomatic stumb- ling blocks as economic unification, Russian repatriation demands and French insistence on the economic absorption of the Saar, the deputies were expected merely to survey peace proposals for Germany and report to the Big Four Foreign Ministers in Moscow March 10.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-14
WORKERS IN LONDON MAY
 LEAVE J0BS
Protest Made in Use of Troops Moving Strike
 bound Food Supplies
By TOM WILLIAMS

LONDON, Jan. l4.-A mass meet ing of London dock workers vot- ed today to join some 30.000 union lahorers in a walkout protesting the use of troops to move food supplies help up by a nine-day strike of London truck drivers.
 The decision, which may effect all of London's 24,000 organized dock workers, was reached at 40- minute noon hour meeting attended by between 200 and 400 men who ignored appeals of union leaders to remain at work
 With. food distribution throughout England threatened by the spread ing walkouts, government officials, employers representatives and an- ion leaders hurriedly set up fast moving machinery to negotiate 8 settlement.
 More than 1000 soldiers-angri- ly termed "blacklegs (strike break ers) in uniform by the strikers and 800 service vehicles meanwhile tegan their second day of Juggling meat and other food to retailers serving 10,000,000 inhabitants of the Greater London area.
 With the soldiers taking over de- livery duties, food in limited Quan titles began re-appearing in Lon don shops that had been almost drained of supplies during the work stoppage.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-14
H. TALMADGE SPECIFYING TO
 BE GOVERNOR

ATLANTA, Ga, Jan. l4.-Herman Talmadge, heir to the political pow CT of his late father. put his claim to the governorship of Georgia be- fore the legislature today.
 A roll-call vote of the combined House and Senate was expected to settle the bitter controversy over succession, which has torn Georgia since death of red-gallussed Eugene Talmadge g days ago.
 Herman Talmadge has argued he is entitled to legislative election to his fathers term by virtue of an estimated TOO write-in votes cast by Talmadge faithful as insurance" in case his father died.
 Lieut. Gov. elect M. E. Thomp- son, Doctor of Philosophy and for mer educator, has contended the constitution never contemplated such alternative if governor elect died, and insists he should become acting governor pending the next general election in l948. He would have succeeded automatically, had Talmadge lived to be inaugurated.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-14
AIR CRASH pR0BINGT0
 BE STARTED
Senate Commerce Commit fee Plans Investigation
 -CAB Summoned

WASHINGTON, Jan. IA. - The Senate Commerce Committee called in the Civil Aeronautics Board to- day to discuss "the whole air pie ture" in the light of recent crashes which some Congress members say have shaken public faith in com- mercial flying.
 Senator Brewster CR-Me), com mittee member, told reporters, i've have got to see if we can find out what the difficulty is"
 "The situation is destroying pop ular confidence. There won't be anybody flying if this keeps on. People are getting afraid to fly and that's bad thing" Brewster said.
 He predicted a government air safety board separate from the CAB may be proposed, and another committeeman, Senator Capehart (R-Ind), declared that such mov7 may be necessity"
 This would remove crash investi- gation authority from the CAB, which also makes the rules for fly ing.
 People Are Scared
 In the House, Rep. Rivers D- SCI, said the American people "are mortified and scared to death. If there is something wrong with the whole dog -goned set up. then some thing should be done
 w. G. McGrath, General Man ager of Trans World Airline's Eastern Division, said in New York %chere can be no question that the recent unfortunate series of avia- ticn mishaps has contributed to the present air travel situation" He blamed it mainly, however, on "a temporary lull in business activity
 The airline safety figures from
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-14
.BARAN0F SCHEDULED
 IN SEATTLE TODAY

SEATTLE, Jan. 14-One of the vessels involved in jurisdictional dispute at Seward, Alaska, IS scheduled to dock here today. The Baranof will bring in 281 passeng- CTS and a cargo of canned salmon, frozen fish and general freight.
 Tomorrow afternoon the Lakina is slated to arrive from Kodiak af- ter it's second start from that port The first time the Lakina nearly sank when only 20 miles out, but managed to make it back to the city dock where she was pumped out. Company officials said ap- parently crewmen neglected to close some opening in the ship before departure. The Lakina is carrying 25 passengers, canned salmon, fish oil and general cargo.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-14
The W ashington Merry Co., Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Ed. note-This is the second of Drew PearsOn's columns giv- ing the background of the new Secretary of jtate, George c. Marshall.)

WASHINGTON-A with Jimmie Byrnes, the toughest job facing new Secretary of State George Mar shall will be ironing out our snarled relations with Russia.
 When Marshall was Chief of Staff in the fateful days of 1941 as Hitler marched into Russia, he made the mistake of telling a press conference that the Nazis would reach Moscow in about six weeks While the estimate was informal and off-the- record, naturally it got back to the Russians. Naturally, al- so, they did not like it.
 The probabilities also are that the Russians won't relish General Marshall's appointment as Secre- tary of State. It will be interpreted as a semi-military threat against them and not only in Russia, but in leftist France, Italy, Czechoslova- kia and England, it will be con- strued as a further move of the conservative USA toward the con- servative right.
 If the Russians have objective memories, however, they will also recall that it was Gen. Marshall who consistently urged a End front across the English Channel, and who backed up Stalin every inch of the way in his rows with Churchill Furthermore, it was Marshall who cast the die with Stalin and against Churchill in decreeing that the British and American armies should not go into the Balkans but through France.
 If George Marshall had looked at the 2nd-front problem through the eyes of a future Secretary of State rather than a soldier, his present job of ironing out the Balkans would be far easier.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-14
STEEL STRIKE NOTICE FILED
 T0DAYBY(I0
Coniraet Negotiation Open Thursday : 72,OOO
 Workers Involved

PITTSBURGH, Jan. l4.--CIO- United Steel Workers today an nounced 30-day strike notices were filed in Washington with the Ma tional Labor Relations Board, Wage Sterilization Board and the De- partment of Labor.
 The action involved approximate ly 720,000 workers at TOO plants, whose contracts expire between Feb. Is and April 1. The steel workers Union and U. s. Steel are schedul- ed to open contract negotiations here Thursday
 Among basic firms named in the strikes notices were Carnegie Illin- ois, National Tube, Columbia Steel, American Steel and Wire, and Ten nessee Coal, Iron and Railroad, all subsidiaries of U. s. Steel Corp. :, Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp, Bethlehem Steel Corp. and Repub- lican Steel Corp.
 Philip Murray, President of the SteelWorkers and of the CIO, said the filing of strike notices is a mechanical procedure and should not be taken as an indication that the union plans t0 strike if no contract is reached by expiration date.
 U. S. Steel, considered the bell wether of the industry, will be the first to hear the United Steelwork- CTS r-unannounced demands Negotiating conferences with other basic steel firms are being arrang- ed.
 The Union has asked steel fabri- cators to extend their agreements until a contract has been wiked out with Big Steel"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-14
CLOSED SHOP BILL NOW up
 IN CONGRESS
By MARVIN L. ARRowsM1TH

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.-Sena- tor Mccarthy R-Wis) proposed a modified closed shop bill today saying that legislation offered by Senator Ball (R-Minn.) is 'un- necessarily drastic"
 Mccarthy, a freshman Senator said in statement that his bill would provide for continuance of closed and union shops but with restrictions that will modify them to prevent abuses"
 Ball has proposed outlawing labor contracts which make union mem- bership a condition of employment as in the closed and union shops
 McCarthy's proposal, as he out lined it, provides:
 IA mooiiied closed S o r would be mandatory after two thirds of the employees voted fol it by secret ballot at supervised election.
 "2.-The modified closed shor would be open only to the extent that anyone who is refused mem bership in labor union or who is expelled from membership in un- ion would not be denied the right to work.
 "3.-Outlawing of the permit sys- tenn, whereby employees in closed shop are denied union membership but forced to pay ice to work. { With labor matters getting toI consideration on Capitol Hill, Sen ator Morse (R-Ore) urged tha Congress give first priority to per fecting" the Wagner Labor Act i Morse is member of the Senate Labcr Committee who has spli with Republican colleagues on labol policy.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-14
SAYS LEWI5'
 GOAL STRIKE
 WAS INSULT
U. 5. Attorney General Makes Argument Be-
 fore Supreme Court


 BULLETIN Washington,
 Jan. l4.--Supreme Court argu-
 ments on the appeal by John l..
 Lewis and the United Mine
 Workers from $3.5l0,000 in con-
 tempt fines were completed late
 today. It may be several weeks
 before the High Tribunal rules.
 WASHINGTON, Jan. l4.--Attor- ney General Tom c. Clark contend ed in the Supreme Court today that John L. Lewis course in last falls soft coal strike was "an in- suit to the United States itself"
 Asking the high tribunal to up- hold the $3,5l0,000 in contempt fines imposed on Lewis and the United Mine Workers. Clark argued the government sought only to maintain governmental functions when it turned to the courts for an order against coal strike.
 When Lewis disregarded that ord CT, he said, it was contempt" that was an insult" to the coun- try and that compromises all law and invites mob rule"
 Surely" Clark said, government has the authority and the power to defend itself against destruction from within--as 1t has the duty to defend the country from de- struction from without"
 When that issue is involved no one is inmunized-no person or group is beyond the reach of the arm of the court. No person is above the law--and this is coun- try and government of laws.
 Clark led off for the government in case expected to set far-reach- ing precedents in interpretations of laws applying to organized labor. One is whether the Norris-La- Guardia Act, which has been on the statute books for many years. lars the government from seeking an injunction against union.
 The law outlaws injunctions (ord- CTS to do this, or not to do that against unions in labor disputes with private employers.
 Lewis attorneys contend the law also applies to the government and that hence the miners union chief tain was within his legal rights when he ignored an order by U. s. District Judge T. Alan Goldsborough against a strike. They said Colds borough had no right to issue the order.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-14
FRENCH ELECTION

PARIS, Jan. 14-Socialist Vim cent Auriol was elected President of the lower house of the French parliament today by comfortable margin. A member of the Popular Republican movement, Vaugust Champetier De Ribes, was selected President of the upper hourse = but it was a close shave. The M- RIP candidate and his Communist opponent, George Marrane, each received 129 yotes-but the form CT won out by virtue of seniority.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-14
SHOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Jan. l4.-Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 5ls, American Can 92%, Anaconda 38as, Curtiss- Wright 5a. International Harvester II, Kennecott 46A, New York Central ITS, Northern Pacific 1872. U. s. Steel 697s. Pound s4.03is
 Sales today were 850,000 shares.
 Dow, Jones averages today are as follows; industrials l7263. rails i8, utilities 3603.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-14
WARTIME TAX MAY
 BE EXTENDED NOW

WASHINGTON, Jan. IA de- cision that wartime tax rates on liquor. furs. jewellery and some other items should be extended in- definitely was reported reached to- day at a meeting of Republican members of the writing House Ways and Means committee. One member, asking not to be quoted by name, told reporter the feeling was that continuation of these leyies may be necessary to grant reduction in taxes on individual incomes.
 The extra rates imposed during the war brought in about sl,500,- 100000 year.
 President Truman urged in a message to Congress last week that the wartime rates be continued.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-14

WASHINGTON-With the nation facing another coal strike deadlina in only II weeks, the legal battle between the United Mine Workers (AFL) and the Government reaches a showdown before the Supreme Court tomorrow.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-14

NEW YORK; Whitelaw Reid, son of the late Ogden Reid who died Jan. 3, assumed the editorship of the New York Herald Tribune to- day, succeeding his father as fifth editor of the. paper since founded by Horace Greeley.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-14
GENERALS RULE WORLD

Actually, the chief risk incurred in Gen. Marshalrs appointment is not that he will be anti-Russian;
 because he will lean over backward to be fair. It is the danger that
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-14

In the dry season, camels drink about five gallons of water day, even when not working.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-14

Nickname, the most plentiful of all gases is generated in marshes, in sewers, and the human intestines.
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Laurel outlook., 1947-11-12

Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Marker and
son Bill of Wenatchee, Wash, were
guests of Mrs. Markers nephew,
Fred Getz and family.
Mrs. C. r. Robson was hostess
Tuesday evening to her pinochle
club and awarded first and second
prizes to Mrs. Walter Bird and
Mrs. William Roberts. The next
meeting of the club will be Monday
evening with Mrs. Merle Bramhall.
: The regular meeting of the Lau-
rel assembly of Rainbow for Girls
held last Wednesday evening
at the Masonic temple with Char
lene Gass, worthy advisor, presid-
ing. Entertainment was a number
OF songs by four DeMolay boys,
John Bradford, Jim Chitick, Clyde
Cromwell and Jim Wilcox. Re-
freshments were served by a COM
of Rainbow Girls. The next
meeting will be Wednesday, Nov.
10, at the temple.
Laurel outlook., 1947-11-12
Detention by SovietS
Termed Like Movie
Trio on Vacation Cruise Taken
Into Custody in Finland.

STOCKHOLM.-"It seemed like g
movie" said Anne Blumenfeld, 20,
of San Rafael Calf, in describing
her experiences when she and two
companions were held incommuni-
cado almost four weeks by the Rus
SLAMS in their leased Porkkala mill
tary zone in Finland.
Her companions, Robert Storch
of Newark, N. j., and Gordon
Thomas McGill Lawson of Glasgow,
Scotland, said she did not lose cour-
age when the vacation cruise to Hell
sinh that was planned for a month
lasted nine weeks because of their
detention.
mot one did she fall down."
said Storch and Lawson. "She
served us three meals a day includ-
ing Russian 'Korsha,' or mush if
you will, in a new way every day."
The trio set out about July IS
from Stockholm, where Anne and
Bob were exchange students and
Lawson an artist, aboard Lawson's
3O-foot yacht Smeorach. BY accident
they landed in the Russian military
zone,
Russian soldiers took them into
custody. Storch said they were
stripped of belongings and every
thing was taken away including
their belts.
sit was quite embarrassing to
have to hold up your pants with your
hands. They feared we were going
to hang ourselves"
Il was petriied they were going
to strip me, too" said Anne. "But
they left me with Stacks and
sweater"
They were questioned thoroughly
by the Russians. "Some sessions
were rather long" Storch said, "but
they were lenient and courteous.
They put ~cigarets on the table and
told us to help ourselves"
He added that afterwards the Rus
slams "let us live aboard the Smeo-
rach where they brought us all
kinds of food, including apples and
cucumbers. Anne even made JAM"
Laurel outlook., 1947-11-12
Toy Train Travels Over
100000 Miles in "a Years

OMAHA, NEB. "A freight train
that has travelled more than 200, 900
miles in the last "a years without
running on a single length of rail
that never carried a pound of cargo
or consumed a lump of GOALS the
priced possession of Union Pacific
railroad.
The rolling paradox is a miniature
freight train, built in 1923 for a
Safety Day parade.
Originally constructed on a "tem-
porary' basis for the one parade
only, the train subsequently was re-
quested by first one community then
another for various parades, rodeos
and celebrations.
BY 1929 the demand began to pour
in to the point where it became nee
essary to maintain detailed booking
records. Today the books show a
total of 1896 miles in addition to
numerous unlogged trips.
The situation was not eased dur
ing the subsequent years when the
railroad constructed a miniature
passenger train and a miniature
streamliner.
Both of the latter, after a number
of heavy years that saw them trun-
ding from the midlands to the Pa
cifc coast and back again, were
scrapped. But the hardy little freight
train still is wowing them, whether
it be a sophisticated city or a sleepy
hamlet.
Since the train is as tall as a man,
the word miniature" is perhaps
too weak an adjective to describe it.
The locomotive superstructure is
mounted on a tractor, the cars on
tractor trailers. The engine pulls a
tender, stock car, box car, coal car,
tank car and caboose.
Laurel outlook., 1947-11-12

Hotel, Berger & E~ltzroth, proprie-
tors, Anderson's Market, Trower
Drug Co., F. C. Scheidecker, o. M,
Void Company, T. R. Holmes Lum-
Der Co., and the Laurel Auto Sup
ply Co.
The fourth in a series of child
welfare clinics, given by the Wo-
mans club was held Monday after
noon, at the library.
The first ball given by the newly
organized Shrine club was held in
the Masonic temple. Both floors
were used for dancing. A special
train was chartered to bring Masons
and Shriners from Billings for the
occasion.
A delightful surprise party was
given at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Hartley on Halloween by a
group of neighbors. Among. the
guests were Mr.. and Mrs. Miller,
Gerard, G. H. Patterson, Thomas
Semple, j. GILES, Watsabaugh,
Ramp, Woodward, Charles Clark, ].
Dix, Hilgert, G.. w. Fenton, Neef,
Slavens, and Mrs. Holler and Mrs.
Spicer.
Mrs. D. H. McCauley entertained
the Saturday Bridge club.
Mrs. B. B. Hageman was hostess
Thursday to the ]. o. club.
Mrs. ]. B. Heinz was hostess for
the meeting of Chapter B, P. E. o.
on Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. l.. Harvey en-
tertained at bridge Saturday night.
Six tables were in play with Mrs.
E. Whiteman and j. F. Mac
Donald as winners for the evening.
Mrs. w. N. Taylor returned last
week from Rochester, MINI.
Mrs. Martha Spry of Park City
vent to Helena Saturday to attend
/ church meeting.