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The Nome nugget., 1948-04-21
Communists Lose Italian Election By Wide Margin
By John M. Mcknight

ROME, -(P)-Italy's Commun- ists, overwhelmed in the election, received a hint from their top labor leaders today of an about face on the Marshall Plan.
 The Communists opposed Mar shall Plan aid throughout the campaign.
 Smarting from their worst de- feat in free voting, the Commun- ists also faced the possibility of serious rift with some of their left wing Socialist allies.
 With nearly complete returns apparently assuring the Ameri- can-backed Christian-Democrats of control of both houses of par liament, Giuseppe di Vittorio of the Communist-contr general confederation of labor indicated it wants to take a stand on Am erican aid independent of Moscow.
 Official returns on all but l55 of the 41,647 precincts in the Chamber of Deputies election gave the Christian Democrats 48.7 per cent of the vote, a tOal of 12,681, ,527. The Communist led Popular Front had 7,995,6O1, or 3O.7 per cent. In third place were the Anti-Communist Socialists, with 1,848,826, or Fl per cent.
 Final official returns on the Senate vote gave the Christian Democrats 10,740,131, or 47.9 per cent; the Popular Front, 6,955, ,229, or 31 per cent, and the Anti-Com- munist Socialists, 1,580,722, or seven per cent.
The Nome nugget., 1948-04-21
23rd. Inf. Troops Scheduled For Alaska Duty

OLYMPIA, - (P)-Troops of the 23rd Infantry Regiment at Fort Lewis will be sent to AL aska "soon," Maj. Gen. Paul w. Kendall, commanding general of Fort Lewis, disclosed yesterday.
 Fort Lewis authorities had an nounced earlier that 2100 men of the End Division, of which the 23rd Regiment is part, were going to Alaska for summer training" .
 General Kendall said they will be sent "soon" at a chamber of commerce luncheon The lunch con honored General Kendall who has been ordered to a new as- signment as commander of Unit ed States troops in Austria. He will be succeeded at Fort Lewis by Maj. Gen. Harry J. Collins.
The Nome nugget., 1948-04-21
Holy Land Gets JUN. Consideration Trusteeship Plan

LAKE SUCCESS (P) The United States today offered for United Nations consideration a Appoint trusteeship for Palestine.
 There was no committing of Am erican troops. The document, la bled by American spokesman as a group of suggestions, and not a formal proposal, dodged a stand on who should maintain peace in the Holy Land.
 Embodying most of the prev ious informal United States sug- gestions, the plan said merely that a group of nations to be sell ected later should defend Pales- tine and keep order.
 Delegate Warren A. Austin pre- sented. the draft plan to the whole 58-nation political committee, in which began consideration of the whole Palestine problem. The fate of the assembly's 1947 decision to partition the Holy Land will be decided during the debate.
The Nome nugget., 1948-04-21
Fishing Fleet Sails
 For HaIibut Banks In Alaskan Waters

SEATTLE, -(P)-Doughty fish ing vessels upped anchor in dozen West Coast ports yesterday to head for Alaska waters in an open scramble for choice locations on the North Pacific halibut grounds.
 A record armada of 600 ships. including 180 from Seattle, is ex- pected to be dispersed throughout the area when the International Fisheries Commission officially opens the halibut season at 12:01 am. Qocal time) May 1.
 Jockying for locations in the banks developed through failure of various ports to agree on stag gered starting times by splitting the fleet as in past years.
 The plan, devised to. prevent congestion of the market, was disrupted last year by Seattle's prolonged dispute over catch shares.
 Fishermen here said an accord could not be reached this spring with Alaskan ports for resump- ton of the staggered schedule.
 Most stateside vessels will take on ice and bait at Ketchikan and then stand by until next Monday when fishing licenses become val i'd.
 This will permit a race for the halibut grounds best spots be- fore the season opens.
The Nome nugget., 1948-04-21
Seattle Opposes Alaska Shipping On Canadian Ships

SEATTLE, - tP) - Seattle's Port Commission voiced strong objection yesterday to proposed changes, in Alaska shipping reg ulations.
 Opposing proposals that would amend the Jones Act to permit Canadian ships to carry passen- gers and cargo between US. ports and Alaska, the commission de- clared such legislation would be damaging blow" to the US. Mer- chant Marine and, especially, to Seattle maritime interests.
 Immediately after the commits sion's meeting yesterday, Col. w. D. Lamport, Port of Seattle gen. eral manager, left by train for three week business trip to San Francisco and Washington, DC. He will present the commissions views to government officials in the nations capital.
The Nome nugget., 1948-04-21
Illinois Governor To Give Address COP Convention

PHILADELPHIA, -(P) Gov Dwight H. Green of Illinois will deliver the keynote address at the National Convention this summer.
 A 32-member COP arranging committee yesterday selected gov. Green as temporary chairman of the convention. In that capacity he will deliver the keynote ad- dress.
 Joseph w. Martin Jr., of Mass, speaker of the house of Repres- entatives, was nominated to serve as permanent chairman of the con- vention that opens in Philadel- phia June 2l.
 "Governor Green enjoys the highest confidence and esteem of the people of both parties,' said COP National Chairman Carroll Reece.
 In Chicago Green said he ap- preciated the signal honor and grave responsibility"
The Nome nugget., 1948-04-21
Negro Prisoner Goes Berserk Kills Guard

COLUMBUS, o. R -One guard was stabbed fatally and two others wounded seriously last night by a negro convict who ran berserk inside the Ohio peniten- tiary for 20 minutes.
 The convict, John Thomas, 34, serving a 1-to-15 year term for burglary, surrendered without re- sistance when rifle-carrying guard took him in a dining room. He had escaped from the prison hos pitfalls "strong ward" No shots were fired.
 Walter w. Trimmer, of Wester-
The Nome nugget., 1948-04-21

vile, o., a guard since 1922, was killed and s. P, Chesshir, and Frank C. Lower, both of Colum- bus, wounded.
 They were armed only with billy clubs because of regulations against firearms inside the mid town penitentiary's slate-grey walls.
 Warden R. V. Avis said Thom- as broke away from a guard short ly after being freed to empty his bed pan. He obtained knife in the dining room.
The Nome nugget., 1948-04-21
NWA Chamber Discusses Tourists And Seawall

A dinner meeting of the North western Alaska Chamber of Com merce was held last evening at the Pioneer Hall for members invited guests and visitors.
 The meeting followed a grand All-Alaska dinner and was pre- sided over by president H. F. Harper.
 The several committees of the Chamber board were called upon to report the activities of their various committees, to acquaint the membership with the work of the board this year. Donald Lyle, reported of Roads and HarborS committee, stating that favorable action is being taken by congress sional committees which have been spurred by prominent Nomeites, G. R. Jackson and Carl Lomen, both members of the VIVA cham Der, in the interest of the urgently needed seaWall.
 Keith Hedreen, chairman of the Emergency Hospital Committee, reported that the $l0,000 goal has just about been reached and the hospital is nearly ready for oc- cupancy pending the arrival of necessary equipment President Harper added that the chamber would hold an open house at the hospital as soon as Carl Glavin- ovich, construction supervisor announced the building was com plete.
 A report was made by Richard Webb on the chamber pamphlet being prepared for circulation, stating that as soon as material was completed it would be under way. It wass estimated that the original order for 5000 copies, would be far under the present demand by various agencies for at least 10000.
 T. C. Duffield, U. s. Commis- sioner, requested the assistance of the chamber in matters of vel fare funds which his office is attempting to distribute to needy persons. He wished the chamber to assist in making out the ap- plications for those who cannot read or write, or who are back ward about requesting aid.
 C. D. Anderson, representing the Arctic Alaska Travel Bureau, MT. w. s. Nay, manager of the Alaska Airlines' Nome office, and James Walsh, manager of thePAA local office, all spoke of the nec- essity for housing needed to care
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The Nome nugget., 1948-04-21
C.C. Ice Breaker NOrthwind To Sail For Boring Sea

SEATTLE, -(P)-Scheduled to sail for the Bering Sea early next month is the Coast Guard ice breaker Northwind. The vessel, now being outfitted in Bremen ton, will make its first voyage to the far north since before the war. Capt. C. w. Thomas, who skippered the ship through its Antarctic adventures, again will be in command.
The Nome nugget., 1948-04-21
John l.. Lewis And UNIV Official Says, UNIV Workers Are Fine Will Not Fined for Contempt Settle The Issue

PITTSBURGH, - IP) Frank Hughes, president of the United Mine Workers District Three, de- clared fining of the union and John L. Lewis would not settle the issue.
 Well just have to wait and see," he said, adding he thought the final answer would be given by the United States Supreme Court.
 He made the comment after learning that a feeral court in Washington had fined Lewis $20,- 900 and the union S1,400,000 on criminal contempt of court charg- eS.
 First reaction of soft coal min CTS in the field to the fine inn posed upon their union and its leader was that We got a dirty deal"
 This was the comment of Bal dine Demarco, 35, of Morgan, Pa. recording secretary of UNIV local 2563.
 Demarco added that he didn't know what effect the fine would have on miners return to work.
 Tt looks like Wallace for pres ident," said one miner bitterly.
 That's how I'm going to vote and I'm going to get lots more to vote with me" If the case had been thrown out of court when the pensions were granted we'd have been back 100 per cent right nOW," said De- marco.
 That's what this Walkout was about That's all we wanted. Lew is never called a strike. I'm re- cording secretary and the word strike is not mentioned in any of the correspondence to our local"
 More than a fourth of the 400,- 900 soft coal miners were idle to- day in fresh Walkouts stemming from the Lewis contempt con- viction.
 A representative of United Mine Worker district in Pittsburgh expressed relief at the fine. That wasn't so bad," he said. "Not so bad"
 He added, "A jail sentence would have been bad. All the miners would have gone out and that's for sure."
Evening star., 1948-02-23
Lost Liberals Meet
Americans for Democratic Action
Caught Between Truman, Wallace

versal military training. 1t was
disapproved, putting ADA in bee
with Senator Taft and Mr.. Wallace
on that issue. The Wyatt steering
committee tried to negotiate an in
nocuous resolution postponing cam
paign discussions until after the
major parties had nominated theil
candidates. A tart declaration de-
manding action on major issues was
substituted.
That ADA members should be SC
sensitive to Mr.. Truman was hardly
anticipated. Mr.. Reuther voiced
their complaint that Mr.. Truman
does not deliver but surrounds him
self increasingly with conservatives.
To this they appear to have added
an intensely personal resentment
that he so thoroughly ignores them
taking it for granted that they have
no place else to go. This is an echo
from the South on the civil-rights
controversy-Southerners say in ex-
actly the same tone that the Presi-
dent pays no attention to them be-
cause he thinks they have no place
else to go. That it is, realistically
the approximate truth, does not
make it more palatable to either of
the so different embattled factions
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Evening star., 1948-02-23

! Inc ala is neCeS- Dorothy 1nompsoh.
sary to prevent imminent collapse.
But it is folly to expect that. of it
self, it will result in recovery.
The social and political crisis of
all Europe is not postwar" 1t was
prewar, otherwise there would have
been no war-no Mussolini, no
Franco, no Hitler, no periodic and
perpetual breakdoWns. Since World
War I, there has been no prolonged
period of social stability in any
major country of Europe. The Iea-
sons, I repeat, were not primarily
economic.
Despair Led to Nazis.
| Germany did not go into the
Nazi revolution because the people
were starving or money was value
less, or only because of great de-
preston. The latter accelerated the
Nazi revolution but did not create
it. 1t was created out Of that al
ways revolutionary phenomenon,
spiritual despair, and collapse OF
faith in existing institutions of all
kinds-a feeling of rootlessness and
inner chaos which expressed itself
everywhere in the phrase, ut can't
go on like this; something must
happen"
The Nazi revolution was itself
nihilistic, chaotic in its essence
but it's initial power consisted in
creating the illusion that it would
build new organic society in
which every one would know his
place and, therefore, be at peace
The Nazi revolution presented a
quiet voluntary REIMBURSEMENT OF
individual freedom" the main
Evening star., 1948-02-23


attack on "the growing and dan
gerous discrepancy between mes
sages delivered and the perform
snce behind those messages
The liberals are on the barrl.
cades and their ability to affec'
the outcome next November hangs
in the balance as they apportlol
blame for their plight.
Practically speaking the trouble
is that they want what it now ap-
pears they cannot get this time
a presidential candidate to their
liking. ADA will have no inf1u-
ence on the Republican conven-
ton since it's membership Is main
ly Democratic. Because an in
cumbent President always is re-
nominated if he so desires, ADA has
no real power to alter the choice
of Mr.. Truman when the Demo-
Gratis meet.
Protest Vote Impossible.
At the same time, Mr.. Wallace
has robbed them of the ordinary
recourse of political dissidents-
the protest vote. ADA leaders freely
attack Mr.. Wallace as a captive
of the Communists and denounce
his party as a Communist device
to degrade and divide the liberal
movement. They are cheered for
it and few cling now to the notion
that Mr.. Wallace means well.
Yet as the leaders prepared to
preach the gospel that politics is
the art of the possible, they have
run into stubborn animosity
toward the President that is bent on
expression. The question is how far
that release of emotions can safely
60 and still permit them later to
get their votes to the polls in
his behalf.
It is the reverse of the liberal
problem with Mr.. Wallace. Lib
erals SO long sold Mr. Wallace to
the country as the champion of
the common man that they are
having extreme difficulty unselling
him as a fellow traveller. II they
unsell Mr.. Truman too vigorously,
they may find they cannot sell him
next November if and when they
should decide to try.
Leaders are Rebuffed.
These practical considerations are
to the fore with such ADA spokes-
men as Mrs. Roosevelt, Wilson
Wyatt, Paul Porter and Leon Hen
derson. The undercurrents of the
gathering showed in the rebuffs
dealt them.
Mrs. Roosevelt championed uni
Evening star., 1948-02-23


COW by Foreign Minister Molotov fol
Russia and by the following Polish
officials: Jacob Berman, minister oi
state attached to the Office of the
Polish premier as a watchdog fol
the Politbureau; Hilary Mine, min
ister of national economy; Field
Marshal Zmierski, commander II,
chief of the Polish army, and Gen
Kieniewisz, a Russian attached to
the Office of Marshal Zmierski.
The following terms of the Mos
COW agreement are known:
l. The Polish steel and armaments
industries are to be integrated with
those Of Czechoslovakia and Russia
This may explain the pressure
which is being exercised on the
World Bank by friends of Poland
for a $60,000,00O loan for modern
ization of the Polish mining indus
try.
Discard Lend-Lease Equipment.
2. All lend-lease and captured
German equipment which is being
used by the Polish army at the
end of 1949 is to be discarded After
that time Polish ornaments will
be standardized with those of the
U. S. S. r.
8. Five infantry divisions are to be
converted into motorized units, on
the pattern of the Soviet army. One
new parachute division and two
armored divisions are to be created
Evening star., 1948-02-23

and Mrs. Macarthur, the Gen. ana
Mrs. Chennault. and the Gen. and
Mrs. Electric.
My choice Of couple would be
that robustly healthy man and his
beaming wife who appear in the
advertisements for retirement plans,
and who have been able to forget
the cares and frets of the world be-
cause they have steady income Of
between $11O and $3.50 a month.
No Worries for Them.
At S., this couple, thanks to bit
Of foresightedness when they were
40 or younger, don't appear to have
worry on earth. They $50 say the
advertisements are always head
ing off for Arizona to laze in the
sun, or to Yellowstone to feed the
bears and cape at the scenery, or
to Florida or California to golf and
fish and generally idle away the
sunset years Of their lives.
| I would like to meet this couple
and ask them just how they man
age this Utopian existence on be-
tween $110 and $3.50 per month. That
this man and his helpmate have a
secret goes without saying. Anyone
who has tried to stay at home on
that amount month, much less
go gadding about the country in an
expensive car and staying at ex-
pensive resorts, knows that this
couple has some secret source of
| income.
| While thumbing through my
grocery bills the other day, tried
to figure out the secret.
Could it be that this handsome,
smiling, hail-fellow-well-met chap Is
counterfeiter, and that while mov-
ing from comfortable place to COM
Portable place he and his wife oper-
ate neat, compact little printing
press that turns out tens and tWen-
ties? Maybe, speculated, that is
why the couple is always on the
move-in order to stay a hop, skip
and a jump ahead of the Treasury
agents.
Counterfeiters Always Caught.
No, that couldn't be the answer.
They'd get caught sooner or later,
just as one of my contemporaries
was when he made the mistake OF
printing a s12 bill.
|, I think the answer Is that this
couple is miserable as can be, and
they smile only when the retirement
fund photographer comes out to
snap them. The rest of their time
must be spent in trying to keep body
and soul together. The chances are
that Papa, despite his IS years, is
up with the crack of dawn most
mornings to shoot rabbits, trap
muskrats, and poach sleepy pigeons
off building ledges so that Mama
will have something to put in a stew
And when he isn't out hunting.
Papa probably tries his hand at
pickpocketing, fishing through side
walk gratings for coins, and writing
the retirement fund people asking
for an advance on 1954's income
checks
AS for Mama, well, I'll bet tha+
as soon as the photographer is of
the premises she starts doing the
neighbors' laundry, and writing
letters to distant cousins asking if
she and Papa can come and visit
a while, provided the tires on their
weary jalopy don't give out COM
pletely before they can get there.
If I am wrong, and Mama and
Papa can shoot around the country,
and keep their weight up what with
prices as they are, then they
shouldn't keep their secret. They
should share it with the rest of us.
tDistributsd BY McNaught Syndicate, Incl
Evening star., 1948-02-23
This Changing World
u. S. Hears of Russian.P olish Treaty
AS World Bank Considers Warsaw Loan

ldoctrinating the prewar officers and
noncommissioned officers in the new
theology, the new agreement pro-
vides that all these shall be re-
tired by the end of 194s and new
personnel put in their places
Fifty per cent of The new officers
and noncoms will be trained begin
ming March /, 1948, at the Central
Soviet Armored Warfare School at
Irkutsk, Siberia.
This school was organized in No
vember, 1947, for the purpose of
training future officers and noncoms
of the satellite states. The instruct
ors have been carefully selected
from the ranks of Soviet army
specialists and officers of former
German panzer divisions.
Drawn from Won Paulus Group.
The latter are drawn from those
who were captured at Stalingrad
and later joined the liberation"
army of Field Marshall Friedrich
Won Paulus and from among those
who surrendered later. These men
are reported to be reliable not only
because they have become con-
vinced that the future of the father
land henceforth is tied up closely
with that of Russia, but also be-
cause their families are hostages in
Russian hands.
The agreement further provides
that the Polish steel mills, particu-
larly those at Gleiwitz and Beuten,
will increase their production to
1,050,000 tons per week in 1948 and
1949 and to 1850 900 tons by 1850. A
part of this production will be used
for construction of three new ship
ping yards in Yugoslavia. The Skoda
works in Czechoslovakia are ear
marked exclusively for the produc-
ton Of armaments.
American military officials are
particularly interested in the fact
that rejuvenation of the Polish
army, according to the terms of the
Moscow agreement in January, must
be completed by the end of next
year or the beginning of 1850.
This is interpreted to mean that
by that time the war plans section of
the Red army wants to be prepared
for any task the Politbureau may
consider necessary for the prosecu-
ton and implementation of its ex-
panSionist policies.
Evening star., 1948-02-23
On the Record
Preamble to ERP Seen Making Error
By Ignoring Peoples Despair in Europe

tenance of which the preamble tc
the ERP bill reiterates to be oul
objective. The reason so many
millions were willing to relinouisf
individual liberty" was, first, that
the whole trend of modern times
in Europe, and here TOBIAS pro-
gressively subordinated individual
liberty to what is conceived to be
the social or national welfare. Thus
it created schism between rights
of the individual and the rights
of society as a whole. Somewhere
the schism had to be preached
and the Nazi revolution seemed tC
many a way of preaching it. II
offered, for instance, planned
economy-and furthermore 1t de-
livered one which worked, as far
as Germany herself was concerned
Similar to French Crisis.
The French crisis is not dis
similar. What we have been seeing
is the liquidation of the 10Th century
liberal era, the liquidation bringing
with it immense upheavals.
Why, for instance, must France
import food? France is a rich agri-
cultural country, large in area for
it's population, with further rich re-
sources in its African colonies.
Wholly situated in the temperate
zone, with plentiful rainfall and ex-
cellent soil, France Is one Of the
more favored nations Of the earth.
France must import food because
of the famous scissors" between
town and country. The French
peasant still is living in the liberal
era. The French industrial worker,
however, is trying to live in So
cialist era. The French farmer ex-
poets to sell his produce for real
money or real goods and at profit
to himself, while the French in
duStrial worker wants to eat well,
cheaply. If the farmer cannot get
a profitable price for bread grains,
he turns them into cattle food and
If he cannot get a profitable price
for meat, he butchers for home con-
sumption or sells to black mar
ke.zerS.
Precisely this condition in Russia
in the early thirties led to the for
chile collectivization OF agriculture
and the deportation of millions of
"kulaks" - successful peasants - to
Siberia.
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Evening star., 1948-02-23

I n e lr poHtlcal
course in 1913.
They are be-
sieged from the
left by Henry
Wallace. T h e
news of their
convention was
how b / t t e RI y
they also feel
betrayed from
the right by
President Tru-
m an. Labor
Leader Walter
Reuther put 1t
into stinging
r-orJc uritl1 an
Evening star., 1948-02-23

- z " r " 4 ~ anu
Gloria, Philip
and Elizabeth, or
the Dock and
Wally?
Speaking for
m y S e ! f I
wouldn't select
any of these
couples. N o t
t h a t t h e y
wouldn't be nice
I o < II o W, u .
would the Gen.
and Mrs. EiSen-
hover, the Gen.
and Mrs. Mar
shall, the Gen
Evening star., 1948-02-23

U. S. S. r. last
month. These
come at a time
when the World
Bank is waiting
for a favorable
moment to an
nounce a $780,
900, 900 loan to
Warsaw.
According to
! n f o I m a =
ton which has
reached high
q o v e r n m e n I
quarters, tn G
agreement was