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The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-26
SPY pR0BER5
 ARE HUNTING . 1929 JAL0pY
5 Attempt to Prove Whether Hiss or Cham ! bers Just Plain Liars
By DOUGLAS B, CORNELL

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.-tR-- Congressional spy probers gave chase to a 1929 jalopy today in a rknewed attempt to prove whether Algcr Hiss or Whitaker Chamb- CTS lied about a pre-war Commun- ist underground.
 They also started writing re port on what they have found out so far. A closed meeting was called to discuss the report. No hearings were scheduled for the day. In drama packed encounter be- fore the House Un-American Activ- ities Committee yesterday, Hiss and Chambers told widely different stories about themselves and rela- tions.
 ! They traded charges oi liar at hearing that ran all day and into the night Each stuck firmly to his main points, in the face of warnings that one or the other is sure to face perjury trial.
 Chambers, short, pudgy 47-year- old senior editor of Time Maga- zine, insisted that Hiss was a mem * of Red underground in Wash ington dozen years ago. He said he knew because he used to be a Communist himself and served in the underground
 Hiss insisted 1t wasn't so and that he doesn't even have any friends who are Communists that he know of.
 Formerly a policy making off cial in the State Department, Hiss now is President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace He is tall, wiry and more boyish- looking than his 43 years.
 For nearly seven hours, the committee put him through a erueling grilling. For an hour and 37 minutes, it questioned Chambers.
 When it was all over, Chief In. vestigator Robert E. Stripling turn ed to reporters with one more ques- ton and answer.
 Who was lying? I don't know. '
 In formal statement, Hiss call ed Chambers "self-confessed liar, spy and traitor" and asked :
 Indeed, is he a man of sanity?'
 Rep. Nixon tR-Calif) told report CTS the old Ford had become "a vital piece of evidence in this whole inquiry"
 We have the motor number and we are going to trace 1t down." he said. Tt might take year, but we'll do it.
 At various times Hiss has told the committee he sold, gave or loaned the car to Chambers back in 1885. Finally he settled on a statement that he had let Chamb- CTS have the use of the car.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-26
pro-(on,nlies
 5tage RaIIyin.
 Berlin Area
Force Way Into City Hall, lake Over-Thousdnds
 Demonstrate
By RICHARD KASISCHKE

BERLIN, Aug. 26.-R- Backed by a bowling mob, pro-Communists forced their way into Berlin's city hall today and took over the assem- bly chamber for propaganda bar rage against the anti-Communist city government.
 While 10000. or more persons shouted and surged outside, some 500 pushed through police lines in- to the buildings and took seats In the third floor assembly hall. They remained there long enough to hear tirades against the city gov ernment and then left to join the huge crowd outside.
 The city hall is in the Russian sector of Berlin. The Socialist party announced it is planning a counter-demonstration outside the burned-out German Reichstag building, which, though it is in the British sector, is only stones throw from the Soviet sector bor- der.
 During the wild demonstration the Communist leaders shouted demands for ''an end to this bank rupt city government" They called for formation of an admin istration in Berlin which vii  work hand in hand with the great Soviet Union and countries of east ern Europe"
 While the Communists met in side, the crowd outside chantec the Red anthem, the Information ale.''
 No casualties were reported. By midafternoon, large part of tht crowd had disappeared.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-26
Hauling Tuna To keit|likan
 Saves 30 Hrs.
Fishermen Say First City Is Logical Center, Wedth- 2
 CT Permitting

KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Aug. 26-- lR-W Weather and prices are the two principal factors which will deter mine whether Ketchikan will be-
 come tuna landing center in conl-
 petition with stateside ports, fish
 ermen and packers said today. What was believed to be the first tuna landed in Alaska came in here last Monday.
 Fishermen said the tuna grounds
 where they were caught are 30 hours
 running time closer to Ketchikan than Seattle. However, they said
 weather conditions often make the
 longer trip to Seattle advisable. Buyers and fishermen also point ed out that prices are also expect
 ed to be lower than the $500 ton
 paid in the Pacific Northwest
 Ray Glider, representative of the
 Point Adams Packing Company,
 who flew here to arrange for buy
 ing of tuna landed yesterday. said
 he will be unable to announce a
 plice immediately. He said he is studying cold storage charges, hand ling and transportation charges be-
 fore setting a figure.
 Fishermen said some 200 boats on the tuna grounds would sell in iKetchikan if prices and weather are satisfactory.
 Three boats unloaded tuna here yesterday-the Galveston with nine tons the Danube II with II tons land the Sunup with four. The three boats were icing up today for a return run to the tuna grounds.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-26
NICK BEz HAS PRIVATE PLANE,
 BUSINESS USE

Most recent addition to the pri-
 vately-owned plane fleet in the Juneau area is Nick Beg, Grumman Goose.
 Purchased from Harry K. Coffey Portland insurance man and a gov ernor of the National Aeronautics Association, the new plane is piloted by Capt. Forrest N. Bird whose en- thusiasm for the plane has not waned since he first bought the plane from the War Assets Admini- strasion for Coffey.
 Painted a canary yellow for ex- tra visibility in case of forced land ing in Alaska. the Beg plane has all of the special equipment avail able for a craft of it's type: very high frequency radio, automatic direction finder equipment, all types of blind flying equipment and g. hour fuel capacity.
 It has the safety and comfort of "a rocking chair in the front room, according to Capt. Bird who explains that this is the first Grumman Goose sold as War Surplus and the best of all the Geese"
 Its executive-type interior is a special job, too. with lavatory, galley seats that can be rearranged for cards ar conversation. Capt. Bird, who has logged 1,50o of his 5000 hours flying time in Alaska, mostly with the Army grew up in an airplane.' He soloed at IA and has been flying ever since, [ following in the footsteps of his flying father who was World War I pilot.
 1 Though interested in commercial airlines since he organized Alaska Southern Airways in 1881, this is
 Bez' first private plane. Beg is now owner of West Coast Airlines, a feeder line operating DC-3's on scheduled runs from the Coast of Washington and Oregon to Port land and Seattle.
 Beg will use the new plane in the operation of his cannery inter- ests in Alaska. Washington and
 Oregon.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-26
EXEC. BOARD OF ATFl CONCLUDES
 3-DAY MEETING

The bi-annual meeting of the Executive Board of the Alaska Ter ritorial Federation of Labor con cluded yesterday and the delegates left for their homes today Lou Tay- Tor. President of the ATE of L will remain in Juneau for few days
 At the meeting yesterday. Henry Benson, Commissioner of the Terri toria, Department of Labor. out lined his Departments program fol the next session of the Legislature A report from Russell Maynard, Director of the Territorial Depart ment of Welfare was read.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-26

UASHINGTON- The U. s. is still shipping vital war material to countries behind the iron cur tain.
 And these shipments are still be- ing made with the approval of the Commerce Departments Office of International Trade This is the agency that was formerly headed by William Remington, leading fig ure in the Russian spy dis closures of the House Un-Ameri- can Activities Committee.
 This astounding trade is still go- ing on despite the administrations announced policy of banning it, de- spite the warlike aggressions and provocations of Russia, and also despite the worldwide furor over the Congressional revelations and their attending fantastic ramifica- tions
 This column has definitely estab- lished the following facts regard ing the continued export of wal
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-26
.FIREMEN ExTINGUI5H
 OIL BURNING STOVE

Juneau firemen turned out about 2 o'clock this afternoon in answer to call at the Knight Apart ments on Calhoun Avenue.
 The fire, believed to have been caused by flooded oil stove. was extinguished before any damage could be done. It was started when the stove was lighted in the apart ment of Stan Thompsen.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-26
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Aug. 26.-tR-Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 37s, American Can BIS, Anaconda 36ss, Curtiss- Wright 99s. International Harvest CT 297s, Kennecott 59i, New York Central 17h, Northern Pacific 22A U. s. Steel 78is, Pound $4.03A,
 Sales today were 540,000 shares
 Averages today are as follows industrials lS2.52, rails 60.75, util- ities 3463
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-26
ro TURN OVER TESTIMONY

Washington, Aug. 26.-iR- The House Un-American Activities Com mittee announces that all testi- mony in it's spy probe will be turn ed over to the Justice Depart ment with appropriate recommen- dations."
 What these recommendations will be, Chairman Thomas tR-NH) re- fused to predict after a closed com mittee session.
 Thomas said the committee will issue progress report Saturday on its spy investigations to date and will resume the hearings on September T.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-26
BRIDGES TO
 HAVE TALK
 WITH WEA
Peace Negotiations An nounled Although Walk
 out Warning Is Given

SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 26.---tR --Longshore chief Harry Bridges, armed with solid support from his CIO union for a West Coast strike Sept. 2, prepared today to meet waterfront employers in negotia- tions that may avert the walkout.
 Bridges announced the expected resumption of peace talks at meeting of 5000 longshoremen here yesterday. The meeting voted un- animously for the strike and also to boycott National Labor Rela- tons Board election next week on the employers last official wage offer of five-cent hourly in- crease.
 Similar votes were taken at stop work meetings in Seattle Los Angeles and Portland.
 There was possibility the nego- tiations would get underway today. At the longshore gathering. how ever, Bridges cautioned against lover optimism and counseled the membership to keep in readiness to hit the bricks Sept unless your negotiating committee re ceives a satisfactory offer from the employers v .sl-s'a l Talk persisted that the employ CTS had expressed q willingness to 1 go along with the union dispatcher system subject to Supreme Court decision cn whether it violates the , Taft Hartley Act
 That Wage Increase The San Francisco Chronicle said the major issue remaining concerned the amount of wage raise. There were unofficial re- ports the WEA had. offered a To- cent an hour increase The inde- pendent Marine Firemen's Union is unofficially reported to have been offered Sl2.50 month mort. plus 23 percent to equalize West Coast rates with other coasts. Three other unions are involved in the dispute.
 The longshoremen voted to stop work at Pacific Coast ports at 12 0l Ia. m. Sept. to hear reports on contract negotiations.
 The Sept. date marks the end of the 8O-day cooling off period' prescribed by Federal Court under the Taft-Hartley Act. The con- tract expired last June IS and a strike at that time was forestall- ed by the injunction.
 Longshoremen were back at work today after yesterdays layoff to permit the mass contract discus- sion meetings.
 SEATTLE HALKOUT PLANS SEATTLE. Aug. 26. -tR Se- attle longshoremen plan to walk off their jobs at l2:01 a. m. Sept. ? for a stop work meeting which will continue until the union | reaches an agreement with the 1 Waterfront Employers Association i William Gettings, regional repre- sentative Of the CIO Longshore- men and Warehousemen's Union
 said members voted last night to 1! turn down an employers five-cent
 hourly increase and to boycott an NLRB election of the offer.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-26
By VERN HAUGLAND

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26. -lR- The Interior Department is plan ming a series of New Matanuska Colonies" for Alaska, Assistant Sec retary of the Interior William E. Warne said today.
 Almost 100000 acres of land al- ready have been withdrawn for the first two communities, on the Kenai Peninsula between Kenai and Kasilof villages, and west of Fairbanks in the Dunbar area, he said.
 Three other tracts are under con- sideration at sites which the De- partment is not ready to dis close. Settlers are planned in groups of 50 or more families each. The plan is not part of the Displaced Persons Program, Warne said 5 Up to 100000 acres-only ; small fraction of the land avail able in Alaska-is contemplated for ultimate withdrawal from the pub lie domain and assignment in set clement tracts, Warne told report CTS
 Homesteader Villages
 And if Congress approves the plan, he said. a complete village will be laid out for each home stead area. Homesteaders and villagers alike will receive this government assistance. !. l. A. limited amount of free land clearing tup to five acres on each iarm. to meet the home steader's immediate needs).
 2. Reconstruction Finance Cor poration loans not exceeding $7,500000 for the entire 2,000, ,000- acre program. The loans, for up to 40 years at 3l2 percent inter- est, will be for land clearing, the construction of farm buildings and for purchase of feed, fertilizer, equipment and supplies.
 3. Government clearing of land for village sites and construction oi the entire villages and roads
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-26
BERLIN LEAVING

Leonard Berlin. Regional Cad astral Engineer for the Public Sur vey Office. will leave on a two weeks inspection trip tomorrow. Berlin will visit Anchorage and Fairbanks and will inspect the areas that the Department of In- terior have proposed for coloniza- ton projects.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-26
Oregon.

Thirty seven years before the Pil- grims landed at Plymouth Rock, a white man named Antonio Espejo found silver ore in what is now Ari- zona. marking the first mineral dis Covery in the territory.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-26
100 DEGREES EXPECTED IN
 SOME AREAS
New Hot Weather Records Are Made Two Persons
 Stricken in New York
tBy The Associated Press)

Hotter weather hit the east and northeast today, forcing some fac- tories to shut down. Record high temperatures of 95 to 100 were re- ported and there was no early re- lief in sight.
 The late August heat wave con- tinued intense in the Ohio Valley and the Lower Great Lakes, but subsided slightly in some midwestern states. & sss 3F M
 New record high temperatures for the day were reported or expected in Detroit, where l6,500 auto works CTS were sent home; in New York, where it was 95 at noon; and in Philadelphia, where it was 96 at noon and expected to reach 100 later. Cleveland had 96
 In Bath, Me, l,200 shipyard work CTS were dismissed for the day when the temperature hit 110 degrees in- side ship hulls.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-26
BIG THREE
 ARE GOING
 TO KREMLIN
Last Powwow on Berlin Blockade, German Prob
 lens Is Indicated
(By The Associated PressD

American, British and French diplomats met at the U S. Elm bassy in Moscow today to prepare perhaps for their last pow-wow in the Kremlin on the Berlin blockade and German problems.
 A Moscow dispatch said the con- ference might be held today. A four-rower announcement on the course oi seven other Kremlin talks since July 3l may also be forth coming.
 Russian consular officers are leav- ing the United States.
 Russia severed consular relations over the U. s. demand for the re- call of Consul General Jacob M Lomakin from New York because of his part in the refugee school teachers cases. Lomakin's creden- tials were cancelled yesterday by President Truman and he sails Saturday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-26
lot Waue Closes Factories Ln Eastern States
5ERIE5 OF NEW COLONIES PLANNED FOR VETERAN50F
 WAR IN ALASKA TERRITORY

and docks, the actual cost to be re- paid by the settlers over 20- year period
 4. Interior Department contracts with government or private carriers for the transportation of settlers by sea, land or air. from and with in Alaska.
 For War Veterans
 The entire project, primarily for war veterans and their families, is designed to hasten Alaskan de- velopment and at the same time take the curse off pioneering" said Warne, who returned from Alaska this week.
 We put in 200 farms at Mata- nuska in 1885, and 250 have since been added Thus we have learn ed from the Matanuska operation that if we can once get settle ment started it will grow by it. / rseh," Warne said.
 We hope with the Dunbar and Kenai-Kasilof areas to plant the seed of a similar development that, once started, will have natural growth"
 Congress must act before the program can be started, Warne said.
 No Displaced Europeans Alaskans have expressed concern that the program might bring to the Territory large numbers of the POS GOO displaced Europeans to be admitted to the United States within the next two years.
 T told the Alaskans no, this land is not being withdrawn in connection with any Displaced Per- sons Program-and I say that not in disparagement of the DIP Pro- gram" Warne said.
 "The settlers will be our own veterans, who are interested in Alaska.
 The plan is to get 50 to 100 families in each group, assign i them farms, and lay out small townsite nearby. Town lots would be sold to the settlers, enabling them to live in their communities rather than on the land during the winter months.
 Fedel al Farm Aid
 Warne said Alaskan farmers are eager to be admitted also to what ever Federal aids--in the form of loans, land- d-clearing and construc- tion-are made available to set tiers.
 Our reaction to proposals to ex- pand legislation to include them is favorable" he said.
 Clearing the land in Alaska is back breaking job, and if we can get big machinery in there on a project, we can accomplish as much in one season as a farmer could by his own means in 10 years"
 Ii Congress fails to approve the program, he added, the withdra walls will be cancelled and the land re- opened for the old fashioned homesteading by individuals rath- CT than by groups.
 Settlers have been taking up homesteads in the Anchorage area at the record d-breaking rate of 100 a month this summer, Warne said. Tn the Fairbanks district, they have heen averaging 50 or 60 a month.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-26
RED 50x RALLY IN EIGHTH HEAL; INDIANS DUMPED

 BOSTON, Aug. 26.-tR Breaking out with five runs in the eighth inning. in which Bobby Doerr slammed three run homer, Bos- tons Red Sox once again regained first place in the American League today by defeating the Cleveland Indians. 8-4
 GAMES THIS P. M.
 National League
 tFnst game Pittsburgh II: Philadelphia 4 St. Louis !: New York ?. Chicago 5; Boston l.
 American League Boston 6. Cleveland 4 New York 6: Chicago 2 Philadelphia 4. Detroit 3.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-26
IKE TAYLOR LEAVES

Ike Taylor. Chief Engineer of the Alaska Road Commission, left yes terday for an inspection trip to the Interior.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-26
HOT IN NEW YORK

NEW YORK, Aug 26-lR--The temperature soared to l0o8 degrees at pm. here today, second highest reading ever recorded in New York City. At least two persons were dead and third hospitalized from heat prostration in the Metropolitan area.
 Only hotter day since 1871, when the Weather Bureau started keep ing records. was July g, 1886, when the temperature reached 1923.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-26

It takes 5000 cocoons to make pound of raw silk The worm which spins each cocoon eats fifty times it's own weight in mulberry leaves.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-26
The W ashinqton Merry Go Round
BY ROBERT s. ALLEN

BY ROBERT s. ALLEN tCopyright, 194s. by The Bell Syndicate
 Incl
 Editors Note = While Drew Pearson is on brief vacation The Washington Merry -Go- Round is being written by his old partner, Robert s. Allen.)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-26

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Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1948-06-25
Zapadl1 VLASTENCI
Napsal KAREL ". RAILS


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10, vrchni bezel mu naproti, a
ia krasna Prazka pTichvatala,
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leve rameno a svitoT1c sladce
vedla jej do celia salu. Tam sto-
llcku postavila, a churavec u
sedl.
Sluha pribehl S malym stol-
KEN, postavil jej vedle stolicky,
pfinesl notnou lahev VIVA, NALL
do zafive sklenice, a pan Sc no
dine napil.
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la jej pc hlave, kancelaTstf OBJ
skakovali, sladce Sc usmivali a
veleblli pana, re take pFisel.
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je ten S tou stolickou.
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panicka - ale taky Sc povfda,
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