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Evening star., 1948-12-05
0usted Venezuelan Chief
Offered Refuge in Chile
BY fhs Associoted Press

SANTIAGO. Chile, Dec. 4.-Chile
today offered asylum to Romulo
Gallegos, ousted president Of vene-
zuela.
The Foreign Affairs Ministry. said
1t had acted on instructions from
President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla.
The offer of political asylum in
cludes Romulo Betancourt, president
of the government junta which pre-
ceded Mr.. Gallegos.
Mr.. Gallegos is being held pris-
oner by the new government junta
which upset him. He is in a mill
tary school on the outskirts of Cara
cas-. Mr.. Betancourt took refuge in
the Colombian embassy in Caracas
when the army-led coup toppled the
Gallegos regime.
No reply to the offer has been
received yet. In Colombia yester-
day the foreign ministry said it was
glad to extend asylum to Mr.. Betan-
court in its Caracas embassy.
Evening star., 1948-12-05

a landing. Nothing more was heard
from the ship.
Air and ground search parties
found the plane wreckage southeast
of Kramer's Junction in the rolling
desert country west of Barstow. 1t
apparently had struck low hill
while flying through the murky
weather Investigators said there
was no indication of engine or me-
clanical failure. The plane did not
burn
Today the air base identified the
dead as: 1st 1t. Robert j. Coyle,
Palmdale, Calf; Capt. Magnus w.
Francis, Muroc, Calf; 1t. Col. VIII
liam Galway, Bowie, Tex, and
S/Sergt. Alexander j. Lawski.
Evening star., 1948-12-05

America, and on islands across tht
seven seas-yet. at home, kept III
the highest living standard ths
world has ever known?
How else have American Commu.
nists dug into the United State.
school system?
Besides active teaching In public
schools, private schools, and church
schools, from kindergartens to col.
leges, they run some schools out.
right.
You mean there are actually Com.
munist schools in this country?
Yes.
Will you list some?
(Several are listed)
At the present time, only the
Jefferson School of Social Science
California Labor School, Seattle Pa.
cific Northwest Labor School, ane
School of Jewish Studies are open
Repeated exposure of their Com.
! munist nature has undoubtedly
forced the others to suspend opera.
tions, but there is little doubt that
all will reopen again at the first
sign of favorable opportunity
whether under the same name OF
another. Right now, the work OF
the Peoples Educational Center in
Los Angeles is being carried on by
branch of the California Labor
School of San Francisco.
NUkSA
Chiefly grown people. Most class
es are held at night to attract older
people. But there are also chill
drens classes and summer -camr
projects for young and old alike.
What do they teach?
| Such courses as history, eco
nomics, public speaking, art, drama
and music-all Communist cor
rupted.
Is any Of 1t on the level at all?
! No. Every course is just so much
window dressing for Soviet theory
and propaganda.
The whole thing is aimed at lur-
ing loyal Americans into becoming
Communists.
Are these the only Communist
schools?
No. The Communist Party, U. S
A., also has network of secret
schools, called section, district, and
national training schools, in which
promising Communists are trained
to be leaders in the conspiracy to
betray and capture America.
What Is the Lenin School?
The highest college Of Communism
training at Moscow. You might say
its graduates are all Phi. DIS of
Communism.
What goes on there?
Carefully selected Communists
from the United States and other
countries get a free course in factory
sabotage, bomb-making, kidnapping
train-wrecking. mutiny, civil war
fare, espionage. infiltration, and
other methods of wrecking country.
What do you mean wreck" q coun-
try?
The Communists plan for world
domination starts with the basic
thought that no people will ever
submit to Communism without a
struggle.
So the top members Of the Party
in Russia train agents in ways to
paralyze nation from within and
capture it, how to destroy its come
back chance, and then how to drive
it in Communist harness.
How many Americans are Lenin
School graduates?
An estimated 800 American Com
munists have been trained there
and returned to the United States.
They serve as the high officers OF
Evening star., 1948-12-05

played up and its failures are played
down. This is an important and
much-used Communist device.
What sort of thing do they say about
the United States?
From the report:
"The whole emphasis is placed or
the one-third of the population who
are underfed, rather than on the
| thirds who are well-fed.
The textbooks emphasize the
small number of large corporations
rather than the large number o.
small ones. The authors point Out
the few wealthy people of this coun.
try rather than the fact that we
have the greatest distribution o1
wealth in the world
And why shouldn't they do this?
Because the picture of the United
States of America given in those
! texts Is false on its face.
Aren't our natural resources the tru,
source of our wealth?
Certainly not. The same resources
were. always here, the same soil
timber, minerals and metals. They
never meant anything until some.
body had the right ideas about how
to use them.
But don't we have MORE Of all the
best natural resources than any
other people?
No. Russia, for instance, has al.
ways had gigantic stores of timber
minerals, farmland, and water
power.
The secret of it all is that, never
let, down to this day, has Russia
made those things work as we make
them work here.
Why?
Because the Communists, like the
Cars before them, have never really
given the people of the country
freedom and encouragement to see
what they could do with the things
lying around before their very eyes
Haven't the Communists expanded
industries and agriculture tre-
mendously?
They claim to have done SO, but
their figures and statistics are sc
unreliable that the real rate of de-
yelopment is unknown, even To
themselves. Only one fact is GER
tain.
They have never been able to do
enough original planning, develop
ment or expansion on their own. to
bring off a real industrial expansion
equal to their needs.
what's wrong with their own
brains?
The trouble starts with the basic
Communist theory that man
should be a cog in a machine, not
an independent thinker on his own.
That theory, applied in schools
dominated by communism, turns
out people who are trained but not
educated.
Result: They can't run their
country on their own, as we run
ours.
Does all that come out in Comlhu-
nist-inf1uenced textbooks?
1t does not. Instead, the authors
deliberately falsify facts to support
the fiction that the Communist ex-
pertinent" has been gran and
glorious success in the U. S. S. r.
Some give students the idea that
our country is hopelessly ridden
with economic evils.
Isn't there something to 1t?
There are many ways to answer
that, but one ought to be enough.
Which nation, in World War II,
sent arms and food all over the
world to failing Allies and then fol-
lowed up with armies, navies and
air forces to Europe. Asia, Africa,
to outposts in North and South
Evening star., 1948-12-05
-Four Die in Cal Crash
In California Desert
ey the Assoeioted Press

BY the Associated Press
MUROC AIR BASE, Calf, Dec
4.-Fcur Air Force flyers were killed
when their CAT transport plane
crashed in the desert west of Bar
stow, Calf, in a hard rainstorm last
night.
The plane, based here, had flown
to Albuquerque, N. Mex, and. was
returning on a routine mission. 1t
radioed the base here at 7:05 o'clock
last night it was approaching for
Evening star., 1948-12-05

in the school system or anywhere
else.
Third, be prepared to face accu-
sations of ''witch-hunting," Red
batting" textbook burning" and
"strang1ing academic freedom"
These are all standard smears In
the Communist propaganda routine
Above all, remember that what
ever you do you must always keep
the Constitution of the United
States in one hand and common
sense in the other. The object here
is not 10 .destroy academic freedom
1t Is to stop communism before it
destroys us. The Communist can
be stopped under our system of laws
and must be.
In New York, officials of the
Jefferson School ofrSocial Science
and of the Progressive Party
could not be reached for immedi-
ate comment last night, the
Associated Press reported. At
the Jewish School of Social
Studies, a spokesman said a
statement might be released
later.
In San Francisco, David Jen-
kins, director of the California
Labor School, said its listing by
the committee as a typical ex-
ample" of Communist schools in
America "is part of an attempt
to discredit progressive educa-
ton" He commented:
THE statement is unequivocal-
ly made up of whole cloth as far
as the California Labor School is
concerned. Not only is this true,
but only two of the schools men
toned on this list are actually in
existence, that is the jefferson
School and the California Labor
School. We have no connection
with any other school in Amer
ica."
In Seattle. officials Of the
Seattle Pacific northwest labor
school could not be reached for
immediate comment.
The Nome nugget., 1948-11-19
Resolution Passed By Northwestern Alaska C. Of C..

Continued from Page One) has appealed to the people of Nome through this Chamber of Com merce and City Officials for CO., operation in effecting control of venereal disease and demoralizing and illegal sale or use of alcoholic beverages, and
 WHEREAS; the Territorial De- partment of Health has requested of the Northwestern Alaska Cham Der of Commerce that a program of control of venereal disease be inaugurated in our city, and
 WHEREAS; current methods of control now practiced by City Of ficials are admittedly ineffective;
 NOW, THEREFORE, BE TT RE SOLVED: That the United Sta es Federal Judge, U. $. District At torney, U. s. Marshaps office and the U. s. Commissioner be solicited for aid, advice and their support in putting into effect the follow ing measures:
 1. That all liquor laws be rigid ly enforced; especially Chap CT 60 of the 1889 SLA Laws of the Ter ritory of Alaska:
 2. That all illegal purchasers ol users of intoxicating beverages who have been listed as ineligible in accordance with Section 1 Chapter 60 of the Session Lows Ot Alaska, be punished to the full ex- tent of the law and if their orig inal home is other han Nome they be persuaded to return thereto:
 3. That known carriers of vene-
The Nome nugget., 1948-11-19
to decide future ownership of the

to decide future ownership of the basic industries of the Ruhr, France threatened to invoke the British-French friendship treaty to force Britain to drop it. France has demanded international con- trol of the Ruhr, fearing Germany m.ght use it to become strong for war again.
 John Foster Dulles of the Ameri- can delega ion said Americans want strong and unified western Europe capable of standing alone. He denied Russian propaganda charges the U. s. is trying for world mastery and wants to dump its surplus into Europe. Actually the U. s. is dumping into Europe six billion dollars of its treasure collected through taxse-to sup port the Marshall plan alone this year.
The Nome nugget., 1948-11-19
THE NOME NUGGET

real disease be quarantined until cured. Said quarantine to be rigid ly enforced and violators be prose cuted to the full extent of the law:
 4. That a program of public en- lightenment on the causes, spread and result of communicable dis ease be formulated and publicized by posters and other methods:
 5. That public law under Section 4987, Compiled Laws of Alaska, 1883, defined as Punishment of Vagrancy" be rigidly enforced.
 Definition and punishment of vagrancy:
 "All idle or dissOlute persons who have no visible means of living, or lawful occupation or employment by which to earn a living; all able bodied persons who shall be found begging the means of support in public places, or from house to house, or who shall procure child or children so to do and all persons who live in houses of ill repu e shall be deemed Vagrants, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than twenty nor more than two hundred fifty dol lars, or by imprisonment in jail not less than ten nor more than twenty-five days or both"
 This RESOLUTION was unani- mously passed at he regular meet ! ing of the Board of Directors, Northwestern Alaska Chamber of Commerce, held November g, 1948. ] Signed:
 H. F. HARPER, President, GEORGE BEACON, Secretary Approved by the Northwestern Alaska Chamber of Commerce on November IS, 1948, at regular meeting, by motion made and unanimously passed.
The Nome nugget., 1948-11-19
Internation'l News At A Glance ---
(Continued from Page One,

 sections of Berlin and Eastern Germany even tighter by a system of uniform passes. Americans call ed the move more "hocus pocus." The U. s. embassy in Cairo checked reports that the American freighter Flying Trader was seized at Port Said on suspicion of car rying cargo to Israel.
 Britain asked the U. N. to adopt Count Folke Bernadotte's plan to end the Pales inc war. It would give the Negev Desert in the south to the Arabs and western Galilee to the Jews and place Jerusalem under U. N. control. The Jews want to keep the Negev and get Jewish Jerusalem too.
 Old Themistokles Soph O u i S formed another coalition cabinet in Greece.
 French police and soldiers moved on Dunkerque where 2,0O0 dockers, striking at the order of communicated unions, barricaded themselves behind cargoes.
 Protesting the American and British plan to allow the Germans
The Nome nugget., 1948-11-19
Friday. November IS. lS4o

The United States, Britain and France all rejected today new Rus sian demands in the United Ma tions that the five large powers cut arms a third.
 The United States called the plan "almost irresponsible" and a "cruel deception" John Foster Dulles sai dthe U. $. has only 12 per cent of her wartime troops
The Nome nugget., 1948-11-19

Poodi uoco iiOt apply lo HUH Sui tain countries such as Poland, Yugoslavia, Romania, and Bull garia, which have built big armies with Russian help.
 Britain called the plan unrealis- tic. France said it was deceiving. In he case of China, it would re- duce Chiang Kai-Shek's hard pressed armies, but leave it's com munist insurgents intact.
 Russia's Andrei Vishinsky re- peated his oft-voiced charges that the United States is building western European system directed 1 against Russia; that the U. s. and Britain are carrying on mad armaments race" against Russia; and in both countries there is a war psychosis."
 The royal families of Egypt and Iran were split by divorce. King Farouk of Egypt divorced Queen Farida, who bore him three daugh- ters but no son to inherit the i crown. Shah Reza Pahlevi of Iran divorced Farouk's sister, the en- press FaWzia. The Egyptians said FaWzia's health didn't permit her to stay in Tehran., Farouk's di- vorce was said to have been or dered lat Gods will" and that both 1 the king and Farida were sad. l In Palestine, where Farouk's s armies had been soundly thrashed, Israel retained control of the Ne gev desert but asserted she had withdrawn troops which entered | the area acter Oct. IA, when the last fighting there began. Acting mediator Ralph Bunche said he was gratified and that Israel's re- ply indicated a willingness 10 com ply with his orders.
 Paul Henri's Spaak's Belgian coalition cabinet resigned, after de- bate on the policy of clemency toward former German collabora.- 1 tors.
 i The French cabinet gave pre- mier Henri Queuille permission to ask vote of confidence in the na- tional assembly on the way his government has cracked down on communist-ordered strikes. The seven-Week coal strike was about broken, but it has cost France and western European recovery efforts 9,000,000 tons of fuel. Dock and merchant marine strikes were in the hopper.
 l Tension eased in central China. Despite the governments claim of complete victory at Suchow, most observers expected the commun- ists to be regroupilng for another effort to open the road to Nanking. Gen. Claire Chennault offered to organize Flying Dragons" to fly against the Reds. The U. s. is sending 100000 tons of emergency food rations for China's seven largest cities. American evacuation of civilians went on apace.
 The U. s. hanged IS more Ger man war criminals at Landsberg prison. That made 73 in six weeks.
 Secretary of state Marshall talk ed with the British and French foreign ministers about the Ruhr and other questions. He also is to talk over the Berlin blockade with Gen. Lucius D. Clay, U. s. military
, 1948-07-26
New Police Commission
Organizes Today

The newly appointed mem
Der of the ST. Croix Police
Commission met for the first
time today at II o'clock in the
Municipal Committee room at
Government House, for the
purpose of organizing and Sc
lecting their officers. They are
Lawrence w. Merrill, drug
gist; John REILLY, merchant;
Axel Schade, Vice President
OF the Virgin Islands Company
Wilbert Armstrong, Acting
Postmaster and R. Selwyn
Fleming, former Councilman
and merchant. Lieutenant
George Matthias, Acting Direc-
tor of Police is ex-officio mem
Der.
Mr.. Merrill, who issued the
Continued on Page ~
, 1948-07-26
Y. A. May Add Three
Courses For G Is

Vocational advisors Of the
Veterans Administration will
make a final determination of
the need for such courses as
dancing, bartending and fly
ing, if these courses should be
requested by veterans seeking
to take them under the CT bill,
according to the local Contact
Representative.
Under recently enacted re-
strictive legislation, courses
which are not needed by vet
Grams in the employment they
plan to enter after graduation
cannot be taken at govern
Continued on Page A.
, 1948-07-26
Soviets Unveil Air
Might in Moscow

In Moscow the Soviets un-
yelled their airmight by put
ting on what correspondents
called a magnificent show
using from tiny training
planes to large four-engined
bombers. Most spectacular
were the jet fighters which
according to a Russian paper,
has a speed approaching sound
and spelling out in formation
GLORY to Stain. The show
lasted 80 minutes.
Leader of the mechanical
birds was Generalissimo Sta
Inns son. Premier Stain was
a spectator.
, 1948-07-26
Western Powers
Confer On Berlin

High officials of the West
ern Powers are meeting in
London to discuss the situa-
ton in Berlin as a result of
the Russian blockade. Charles
Boland, expert on Russian af-
fairs and Secretary Of State
Marshall's most trusted advi-
sor, Political Advisor Murphy,
General Clay and Ambas-
sador to Moscow, Walter Be
dell Smith,, for the United
States and for Britain, Foreign
Secretary Ernest Bevin and
Sir Brian Robertson, in addi-
ton to the French representa-
tives.
, 1948-07-26
Postmaster and Mrs.
De Lugo Return

Postmaster and Mrs. Alvaro
de Lugo returned to St. Tho
mas yesterday after spending
a week here during which
time they got a much needed
rest, except for very short
periods during which old
friends entertained them.
The trip was also fulfill
ment of a promise made by
the Postmaster to Mrs. de
Lugo who was for some time
anxious to visit St. Croix. She
is delighted and plans to come
over whenever conditions are
favorable for her to get away
from her duties. Mr.. de Lugo
is, Of course, no stranger.
, 1948-07-26
Congress Convenes
In Spec. Session

On call of President Tru-
man, the Both Congress recon
vened today to take up legis-
lation that the President said
is necessary at this time. Many
of the Senators and Congress-
men are displeased and many
are the caustic comments most
~ from the Republicans and
southern Democrats. Senator
Halleck charged that the sum-
moning Of Congress was a
move by Mr.. Truman ito pick
himself up off the floor"
Continued on Page A.
, 1948-07-26
S. Jet Fighters
Reuch Gerrnunv

Sixteen American Jet fight
ers arrived at a field near
Munich in Germany after com
pleting the first west to east
crossing of the Atlantic. Six
British Vampire" jets made
the first east west crossing re-
Gently. The US. planes made
Continued on Page A
, 1948-07-26
TodoY Is Legal
Holiday In ST. Thomos.

Today is a legal holiday in
the sister Island of St. Tho
mas. It was known during the
Danish regime as "Supplica-
ton Day" and marks the open
ing Of the hurricane season,
which officially begins July25
and ends on October 25th.
Yesterday being the 25th the
celebration takes place today
instead.
On this day the people are
urged to pray against hurri-
canes.
, 1948-07-26
ERsoNAL

Miss Ethlyn Joseph, eldest
daughter Of former Council
man Daniel Joseph, is here
spending her vacation with
her dad and family.
Miss Joseph was born and
grew up in New York. She is
visiting the home of her father
for the first time, and has in
dictated that she likes it.
, 1948-07-26
Walace's Party Adopts
Platform

The third party headed BY
Henry A. Wallace, now known
as the Young Progressives of
America, adopted a platform
for the coming presidential
campaign and came to an end
in Philadelphia, where 5000
persons had gathered in the
same hall used by both the
Republicans and Democrats
during the proceeding weeks.
Addressing the gathering Mr..
Wallace said he was going on
Continued on Page A.
, 1948-07-26
BAN PLACED ON
RUSSIAN TRANSPORT

a ban has been placed on
road and rail transportation
from Russian dominated coun-
tries across territories CONTROL
ed by the Western Powers, to
Soviet spheres. The same ban
applies to transportation from
Soviet territories to satellite
countries.
, 1948-07-26
Totem Writes Booklet
On Motive Governor

Ashley I. Totten, President
OF the American Virgin Islands
Civic Association, is the auth
or Of a booklet Native Cover
nor, and was designed for
use of natives on the main
land and also at home.
At the top of the front cover
mainland natives are urged to
Register in October" and on
Continued on Page ~
, 1948-07-26
Gen. Clay Says u. S.
Will Negotiate But

General Lucius Clay on his
way to the London confer
ence said that the United
States is willing to negotiate
with the Russians on the Ber-
lin situation but not under
duress. At the conference West
ern plans regarding the block
Continued on Page q
, 1948-07-26
CZECH SAYS
SOVIETS
ARMY

A Czech general who recent
" escaped from his country
and is now in the United
States, said that the Czech
Army was not used by the
Russians during the recent
revolution, engineered by the
Communists, because they
were regarded as politically
unreliable"
Hungry Horse news., 1948-08-20
a||s-Libby Play
Home Game

Columbia Falls VFW team will
play Libby here Sunday at 2:3o
D. m. in what may be the last
local baseball contest this year.
Sunday, in a montague game,
the Somers loggers defeated Co.
lumbia Falls by 6 to 0, their only
"shut-out" of the season.
Battery for Somers was Tor
bergson and Drew with Johnston
and Weaver for the Falls.
Wednesday evening in a league
meeting in Kalispell, it was de-
cided that Whitefish, Roman and
Libby participate in the tourna-
ment with Columbia Falls partic
ipating if the local team wins from
Libby this Sunday, or from Roman
in a game played there, August
%.
The tournament will be held in
Whitefish September 10. White
fish and Libby are already paired
for one game with Roman playing
the second against Columbia Falls
or Eureka &C