The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-16
SOUTHEAST ALASKA FISHING SUSPENDED
B BULLETIN 5.

cratic press declared today the Communists have prepared a purge list of hundreds of thousands of anti-Communists upon whom re- venge would be taken if the Vest ern Allies left the city.
 LONDON-The British Home Of- flee did something very unusual yesterday. It kept its Aliens De- partment open all day. The pur- pose-to receive residence 'appli- cations from athletes from Con- munist- t-dominated countries in Eastern Europe. The athletes went to London for the Olympics and they do not want to go back home.
 NUREMBERG, Germany-Three workers were killed and more than 20 were injured seriously by the explosion of tar boiler in screw manufacturing plant here to- day. The explosion was attributed to a clogged pressure pipe.
 ATHENS The Greek Army, ex- plotting brilliant reak-through on the guerrillas' southwestern flank, advanced nearly two miles today to within 6700 yards of the main Grammas Summit along the Albanian border.
 PEIPING- Chinese government forces are said to be marching .northward in an effort to break the Communist siege of Tsinan. The city is the capital of Shan. tung Province and has been cut off for, more than one month. The Chinese Central News Agency in Nanking says that a strong re- lief column is on the move more than 50 miles north of Suchow, which fMould 2 leave it still more than aliQ niles short of Tsinan.
  WASHINGTON = The White House announced today that Presi- dent Truman will speak at Labor Day rally in Detroit.
 ALBANY, N. Y.-to.. Thomas E. Dewey and his running mate, Gov. Earl Warren of California, got together for Republican Presi- -dential campaign strategy talks to- day.
 CHICAGO The Battle of the Butchers-the houoewives-in buy-no-meat campaign went through the weekend with meat prices still up.
 WASHINGTON-- American ex- ports to Russia dropped under $50,-' 900 in June. This compared with $200.O00 in May and a monthly average of $6.900,O00 earlier in the year. {
 WASHINGTON College stu dents enrolled in the Reserve Off .cer Training Course will automati- cally be deferred from the mili- tary draft until after they com- plete the course. The Army and Air Force made the announcement jointly today.
 SAN JOSE, Costa Rica- The Costa Rican government has or- dered former President Arnulfo Arr jas Madrid of Panama to leave Costa Rica.
 wAsHINGToN-Attorney Gener- al Clark today directed the arrest in Tokyo of American born Iva Toeiri D'Aquino in, connection with wartime broadcasts over Radio To- kyo.. sss N
 ! The Attorney General said Mrs. |DAqusnc. native .of Los Angeles and the wife ;of. a, Portuguese citi- zen viii De brought, back to the .sunitsd ]! ! States to answer treason charge. :. n NEW YORk- Babe Ruth still is in critical condition, but the Bambino has recovered sufficient ly to be able to sit up in chair briefly in his room in New York's Memorial Hospital for cancer and allied diseases. The 53-year-old Ruth has been hospitalized for
 much of the time for the past IS
 months with a throat ailment. SHREVEPORT. La. -- Fire Chief Floyd Hendricks says that two small oil towns no longer are in
 danger from forest fires which i, were sweeping toward them. New ertheless, the forest fires are still
 raging in forest underhrush else
 where in northwest Louisiana. 1 TOKYO Tokyo's Japanese Ben-
 cephalitis (sleeping sickness) epi-
 demic is subsiding, physicians said
 today. The number of new casei !