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The Valley settler., 1948-12-31
LOCAL POULTRYMAN MAKES MAGAZINE SECHON OF OREGONLAN fARW G HOME

OREGONlAN FARM (, HOME Tho Sunday orogoni on Earn, Hor1o and Garden for December le, l94e has uholo page featuring tho Poultry farm of E.R. Brock, local pou1 1trynan. Tho feature story is written by 'Lovorott C. Richards. Staff Writer on Tho orogonian, +. .: Mir. Richards calls 1t an ~rctic Poultry Ranchn although ho adrlits in the artiale that it lies 300 nilos south of tho Arctic circle.
 Quoting from sections of the ortie1o-- "Dospito tho cold, tho almost invisible days in uintor, tho high prices, tho short growing season for grain and ttc lack or modern bull dings, Brock'a flock averaged 200 oggs DOT hon per yoar during the past tuo years, compared to an average of 16o DOT hon for Oregon. His flock on tho Long- View farm averaged only 135 eggs DOT year. Ac cording to this article Brock cuts his wheat on tho green side uhon nature, before the first freozo, then let's it freozo dry. Mt -os just such local grain, plus tho for-s ightod policy of tho cooperative that saved tho Matonuska chickens rhon tho Mari ti1o strike Gut off al l grain shipments this fall. About l2, GOO chickens uerc slaughtered around Anchorage for lack of grain. Inc Mtanuska farmers had large stocks hand and managed to throsh enough to save tho ir layers Uhon tho stored grain vas gono.
 Tho article also states that in tho s,rrlor tho chickens enjoy sunshine around tho clock which is nisl ooding tho Arctic poul try farm.
 ~L sack Of egg nash costs $7.45 and other cos costs arc in proport ion. But eggs whole salo at $l. per dozon and otail for $l.35 in nc orby 4n nchorago, mich provides limited market. Tho co-opcrotivc saves both feed and narko t ing. Brock hap pons to be president of tho M.tanuska Val Joy Farrprs Cooperative ASSOC iation, nh ich
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-13
SAILORS TO FIGHT FOR
 WAGE BOOST
Negotiations Begun with .Lundeberg by Ship
 owners Assn.

SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 13.--tR- Harry Lundeberg today pressed his AFL sailors demand for wage boost exceeding that won by CIO maritime unions in the recent West Coast strike.
 Negotiators for the Pacific Am erican Shipowners' Association were scheduled to give their answer to Lundebergs threat to pull his men off the ships if agreement is not reached in SO days.
 The AFL Sailors Union of the Pacific did not participate in the 95day strike but was idled by it. The CIO seagoing unions won an average s21 monthly increases.
 Lundeberg, executive secretary or the AFL union, is demanding rais- es ranging from S20 to S60 month to minimum of $190 fol ordinary seamen and $350 fo1 boatswains.
 The AFL unions demands and continuing controversy over pay rates on coastwise steam schooners hauling lumber held up return to complete maritime harmony.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-13
Hiss Resigns;
 Geis Vacation

NEW YORK. Dec. 13.--lH Algel Hiss, principal in the Soviet spy Investigation, submitted his resigna tion as head of the Carnegie En- doWment for International Peace to- day but trustees tabled the resig- nation. He was granted a three months leave of absence
 Hiss is accused by Whitaker Chambers of delivering secret gov ernment papers to Chambers, self confessed Soviet espionage courier
 In the meantime Rep. Richard M. Nixon (R-Calif) arrived here from Washington with microfilms of secret government papers which Chamcers produced 10 days ago from a hollowed-out pumpkin on his Maryland farm. Nixon brought the films here to show them to the Federal Grand Jury probing alleged Russian espionage activities.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-13
INVASION OF COSTA RIGA
 CONTROLLED

SAN JUAN, Dec. 15-lR-Authori- ties in Costa Rica say they have the country wei under control in spite of an invasion which started on Saturday The authorities say the invaders are being held in a small area in the northwestern ex- tremity of the country near the Ni- caraguan border. They claim the in- vasion was launched in Nicaragua with the support of Communists.
 Meantime, Costa Rica's appeal for inter-American help under the Rio pact has gone before the foreign ministers of 21 western hemisphere nations. The foreign ministers will decide by tomorrow af ternoo o n whether to call an emergency ses- sion to consider defensive measures in Costa Rica.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-13
" HACK POLICE
 POWERS
Highest Court in Land Cracks Down on Abuses
 of Police Authority

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.-tR-The supreme court cracked down today on what it ruled were abuses of pb- lice power.
 By a 6-3 vote. it threw out con- victiofs of two Washington men for violating gambling laws because police secured their evidence Ky forcing their way into a rooming house and peeping over transom.
 By a 5-4 vote, it set aside the theft conviction of Washington man on grounds that police detained him unlawfully for 30 hours. During the detention, police secured an al legged confession from the man.
 In a third case, the court ruled 6-3 that Pennsylvania courts should give a hearing to Elmer Uyeges who is serving 20 to 40 years in the Vest ern Pennsylvania penitentiary for burglary. Uveges complained that in 1888, when he was IT years old, he was arrested, held for two weeks without being permitted to com munIcate With anyone, charged with burglary and convicted without hav- ing a lawyer.
 In another case, the court held in effect that the G. l. Bill of Rights empowers a court to award a veteran a years pay if, on his release from the service, his old employer did not give him back his pre-war job. The court refused to revive lower court decisions ordering John Kivo and Company of New York City, to pay $7,956 to Fred Loeb.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-13
The W aShington Merry Go Round
Rv DREW PEARSON ,copyright 1948, by The Bell Syndicate,
 Inc.)

WASHINGTON-The Navy has inst put out for restricted use one of the most amazing reference books ever printed at public ex- pense-a confidential handbook to guide Navy officers in making pub lie speeches and, incidentally, polk ing gibes at the Army Air Force.
 In fact, the books underlying is nothing but the Navy's case against the Air Force.
 Despite the fact the Congress passed the Unification Bill for the express purpose of cutting out Army and Navy pickering, the Navy's confidential handbook ad- monishes:
 Always remember that you rep resent the Navy and that, what ever the apparent purpose of your talk may be, your primary purpose IS to inform the public to the benefit of the Navy
 The prospective Navy speaker is warned to Go little reconnais-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-13
LASH FIRE ! IN HOTELS PERSONS DIE

CHICAGO, Dec. l3. -tR-- Five persons died and 12 others suffered injuries or burns as a result of a Hash fire which raced through the iifth floor of the seven-story Vic toria Hotel in the Loop District.
 Otto Dafa, a deputy fire marshal sad the quick work by two bellboys and the recent encasement of the hotels stairways as a fire preven- ton measure probably prevented a much worse disaster.
 The belltoys, Sanders Davis and Rudolph Taylor groped through the dense smoke to sound alarms for the sleeping guests
 Cause of the blaze was unknown.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-13
Anfi.(onImunisi Group, Marine Cooks and Stewards, Airlnai|s 5iqned Stafemenffo Inc Empire

Employees in the Stewards de- rartment of ships engaged in the Alaska trade do not wish to be rep resented furth h CT by the Marine Cooks and Stewards Union because that Union is Communist domi- mated and because the Alaska trade has special characteristics and prob lens and should be established as separate labor unit.
 This is the signed statement re- ceived by The Empire in the week end air mail from Seattle, dated Dec. 10, from the Marine Cooks and Stewards, anti-Commun st Group, 86 Seneca Street, Seattle.
 A petition for the establishment of such a unit has been summarily rejected by the Seattle Regional Director for the National Labor Re- lations Board. No substantial req sons were assigned. We are asking the Board to review the decision of the Regional Director.
 Seventy-five percent of the af- fected employees have freely and voluntarily in writing, requested representation by the Sailors Union of the Pacific, distinctly non-com- munist organization. They consider it their democratic right to select their own bargaining agent. Their names are not made public for fear of retaSiatory acts, cut the original signatures are available for inspection by any interested, re- sponsible person.
 In the interest of healthy, non- communist labor organization and in the interest of Alaska shipping we ask you to investigate and sup port our case. Alaska is our outpost of defense against Russia, and crews of Alaska ships we feel should not be members of an organization thai is communistically dominated, a. they play too important a role in the national defense of tn e United States of America.
 (Signed)
 ROBERT w COONEY,
 MAX M SCHLOSSEL,
 DALE A. BECKS,
 HERBERT L. BAKER,
 CLAN J. ROTAN,
 Committee of the Marine
 Cooks and Stewards, Anti
 Communist Group.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-13
Pretty Girl Raped; Beauty Left 10 Die

GUAM Dec 13.-LR-Raped and left for dead, pretty Ruth Farms worth was found unconscious in the jungle today near the small curio shop from which she vanished mys- teriously Saturday night.
 The 27-year-o1d San Francisco beauty was found nude in pool of tlood in dense bushes about 200 yards behind the shop, where she worked part time.
 Hospital attaches reported 12 Tours later she was clinging to life. Last rites of the Mormon Church have been administered.
 Guam authorities said she had been seized by gang of "sex fiends, , or.minally assaulted and beaten. They said she apparently put up a terrific struggle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-13
GRAND JURY OF N. Y. GETS
 spy CASE
Pumpkin Papers" 10 Be Revealed 10 Group
 Nixon Talks

NEW YORK, DeC. lS.-lRl--- lIle pre-war State Department docu- ments which have been dubbed the pumpkin papers" will be spread before a grand jury in New York City today. The papers are microfilms of the government doc uments which are said to have Leen given to Whitaker Chambers when he was member of the Communist underground.
 The documents are to be pro- duced today by Representative Richard Nixon of California. a member of the House Un-Ameri- can Activities Committee. Nixon has charged that the Justice De- partment and the grand jury arc monopclizing witnesses in the Communist spy case. He thinks il is an attempt to "whitewash" the al!egedly guilty persons.
 Tighten Espionage
 Nixon said the spy hunt al- eady has shown need for tight ening the espionage laws. He said that should get first priority in the new Congress.
 The committee is making it's spy investigation here The Justice De- partment is conducting the other one before a New York grand jury Each inquiry involves the same witnesses and the same evidence
 Up to now, the committee has failed to get any of the key wit nesses. although some of them tes- tified here last summer
 On the other hand. the grand jury hasn't seen the most vital evidence-the Whitaker Chambers microflims the committee got from pumpkin less than two weeks ago.
 Microfilms For Jury
 Nixon agreed to see to it that the grand jury got look at the microfilms today. He wasn't so sure when the committee would get a chance to question the main witnesses.
 The grand jury has been keeping both Chambers and Alger Hiss oc- cupied. The jury expires Wednes- day but the Justice Department is going to replace it immediately
 Present indications" Nixon tolc a reporter, point to action on the part of the Justice Department tc keep the witnesses from the con- mittee.'
 "Whitewash" Charge He said the committee is Will ing to cooperate with the depart ment in getting the facts before the grand jury so that any guilty persons can be prosecuted. But he said it is essential" that i the witnesses be heard by the con- mittee before the year ends. Nix on gave this reason.
 After the new Congress comes into power, without question there will be an all out attempt by the administration to suppress any further public airing of this case.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-13
BIGMERGER
 OF AIRLINES
 TAkESpLA(E
Pan American, American Overseas 10 Consolidate
 Approval Awaited

NEW YORK, Dec. 13-IRN- Pan American World Airways and Am erican Overseas Airlines have agreed to the biggest merger Ill Amercan commercial aviation
 Plans for consolidation of Ameri- can Overseas routes to eleven countries in Europe with Pan Amer ican's Transatlantic services were announced by both companies last night.
 Routes ana assets Of American Overseas Airlines would go to Pan American in exchange for Par American stock After this stock was distributed, American Overseas Airlines would be dissolved.
 The merger agreement is subject to approval by the stockholders oi both concerns and the Civil Aero nautics Board.
 Pan American World Airways ls the largest international air car Tier. and American Overseas is g subsidiary of American Airlines, the nations largest. domestic carrier,
 The merger would leave only the other U. S.-flag line operating transatlantic service =. Howaro Hughes Trans World Airline.
 Hughes Makes Attack
 Hughes, who was not immediately available for comment, attacked Pan American policies before 8 Congressional investigating commit tee a year ago Hughes, IVA. largest stockholder, said Juar Trippe. president of Pan American was attempting to organize an ln- ternational air travel company monopoly and to force VIVA. tc merge with it.
 Sen. Owen Brewster tR-Me)- who Hughes had said was backing Trippe-said in statement here that the merger announced last night lis in general line with what I've always believed IS the meVlC- able pattern of overseas air oper- ations'
 Merger Is Practical
 Tt is the only practical way of meeting the highly subsidized foreign competition with which we are faced" said Brewster, who had been in a bitter exchange with Hughes at the time of the investi- gation.
 Brewster said the plans are 1T line with recent announcement by the Civil Aeronautics Boare that serious consideration shoule be given to mergers and consolida- tions of airlines. He said eacf
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-13
 ASKING FOR
 SALARY UPS
Wants Raise for Cabinet Officials, Territorial
 Governors Also

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13-LR- President Truman asked Congress today to raise the pay of cabinet officers from $15.000 to S25,000 a year and to boost salaries of other top-level government officials. ! The President presented his re- concentrations through Budget Di- rector James E. Webb, who said the Government must pay higher wages to pull the best men into govern ment.
 Webb told a Senate post office and civil service subcommittee the Pres ident favors overhauling the entire pay structure, on the higher level
 Webb proposed salaries of $17,50( to 22,500 for undersecretaries, as- sistant secretaries, heads of inde- pendent agencies, boards and com missions.
 Webb told questioners that he has not discussed with MT. Truman the question of the presidents salary hut suggested that $150,000 year double the present rate, would be far more acceptaHe."
 Webb said he hopes the commit tee also wiE consider the vice-presi- dents salary, now $25,000 year, in the light of 'the present great dis parity" with that of the president He said he would favor increasing it perhaps by several times."-
 Territorial Governors of Alaska Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Vir- gin Islands would receive $l7,50C under the presidents recommenda- tions.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-13
A1TACkERS CLOSING IN
 ON NANkINC
Reported Only Eight Miles from Peiping = Nation
 Charged Off as Loss
lBy The Associated Prassl


 Chinese Communists fought to- day within 50 miles of the capital of Nanking and bare eight miles from Peiping in the north.
 Officialdom in Washington, pre- pared to write China off as an aI- most certain loss, regarded the Communists successes as not so much evidence of Red China's strength but of Chiang Kai-shek's weakness.
 Mrs. Chiang's mission to Wash ington is regarded as a failure. There is no evidence Secretary oi State Marshall or President Tru- man has even given her program the slightest serious consideration.
 The Communists, with superior numbers, better spirit and appar- ently much better leadership and equipment, were closing on Man. king much sooner than expected. The Hwai River line, 105 miles From the capital appeared lost al- ready and only the broad Yangtze River bulwarked Ranking from the Reds.
 Government sources said more than 50,oo0 government troops in the trapped 18th Army group have been wiped out The Communists said they had cut in half the 250.- 00O-man strength of the former Suchow garrison. which tarried too long north of Nanking and also was trapped.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-13
Henderson Resigns AFDC Chairmanship

NEW YORK, Dec. 13.-tR-For- mer OPA Director Leon Henderson has resigned as National Chairman of Americans for Democratic Action.
 Submitting his resignation, effec- tive next Jan. l5, he told the AID. As national board yesterday he could not fulfill his duties with the group because of his private respon- sibllities as chief economist for the Research Institute of America. He will have to spend considerable time a-road, he said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-13
Communists Reported Winners Chino Bat1
Secret Documents Filthed
 From Department of Staie
 AreReveaIed, Made Public

WASHINGTON, Der. 13.-tn-A batch of secret U s. documents giv- ing in ntimate -the-scenes glimpses of world events 10 years ago IS made public by the House Committee on Un-American Activi- ties
 The documents were allegedly filched from the State Department and passed to Whitaker Chambers, key figure in the House Committees Red spy investigation, for relay to Moscow.
 The 12 documents released by the committee, part of 65 produced cy Chambers. range over a wide se- quence of history making events. They included reports on Britain's battleshlp plans, Japanese designs in the orient and Austria's vain eff forts to avoid being gobbled up by Hitler.
 Among the documents are type written copies of 2l diplomatic mes sages signed by such pre-war fig ures in American diplomacy as for mer Ambassador to France William C. Bullitt, former ambassador to Japan Joseph c. Grew, and for mer Ambassador to Poland An thony J. Drexel Riddle, Jr
 CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS
 Several of the documents are marked strictly confidential" but the House Committee said the State Department indicated that with the ong passage of time the,r publica- ton would no longer be considered dangerous" to American security.
 Rep. Mundt (R-SD) acting chair man of the House group, said he had received a note from Assistant Secretary of State John E. Peurifoy saying the State Department would not consider publication of the documents as adversely affecting tify conduct of foreign relations at this time.
 BRITAIN'S NAVAL PLANS
 But their potential value to other governments at the time they pur- portedly leaked from the State Department is evident from cur sorry examination.
 Britain's naval plans in 1888, for example. were of vital concern to Adolf Hitler in his then undisclosed plans for conquest of Europe.
 Yet one of the documents, mem- orandum which committee records say is in the handwriting of A'ger Hiss, former State Department of ficial, spoke of Britain's battleship building plans in that critical year l8 months before World War il broke out with Hitler's invasion of Europe.
 LEAK ABOUT JAPAN
 A long message signed Grew" :" dispatched from Tokyo at noon, Feb. 12, 1888, and marked strictly confidential" told then Secretary of State Cordell Hull of Japan's rising temper against the British in Chi na.
 Grew added.
 Such information that a British official contemplated the idea of ending British support to Oh mas GeneralisS' mo Chiano Kai-Shek- obviously would have been of great value to the Japanese at that time. Among documents relating to pre- war Europe, several related to Hit lers secret plan to seize Austria and of Germany's rope to negotiate a trade agreement with the Un ted States year before he plunged Eu- rope into war.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-13
License Fees Given
 Urping, Anchorage

ANCHORAGE, Dec. 13.--R-- The City Council has increased from $l a year to $10 the license fee for bars, markets and restaurants. It is expected to boost the city revenue to S3000 frcm the present $500.
 The new health ordinance also re- quires hotels to provide rooms with adequate heat, light and ventilation and has stricted provisions for bed sheets and pillow cases
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-13
FRESH BLAST BY RUSSIANS
 50UNDED0
(By The Associated Pressl

NDy 1lic ASSOCldlco liSooi
 Russia left the adjourned U. N. sessions in Paris bitterly. Ill., tempered old Andrei Y. Vishinsky who had lost to the west on every single issue, said the meeting took more steps toward a policy of wrecking international coopera- tion.
 The U. N. will meet again in New York April l. Its main re- suits from 72 days of work were a Palestine conciliation commission; a world declaration of human rights; a treaty outlawing geno- eide or the mass killing of peo- ples, a condemnation of Yugo- slavia, Bulgaria and Albania for helping Greek Communists; and approval of South Korea.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-13
JUST SILLY

NEW YORK, Dec 13-tR Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt says a proposal that President Truman make her Secretary of State if the ailing Secretary George c. Marshall retired "is too silly to comment on
 However" she told newsmen last night, T hope Secretary Marshall wir not retire, for the good of the country and the good of the worldr
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-13
NOYES AND STODDART
 GO TO FAIRBANKS

Col John R. Moves, Alaska Road Commissioner, who called special hearing in Fairbanks for Wednes- day. will go there tomorrow, ac- companied by H. A. Stoddard, di- vision engineer of the Public Roads Administration
 Colonel Moves expects this to be a one-day hearing.
 It was called to investigate and discuss winter maintenance and use of Alaska highways.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-13
NORTH ATLANTIC PACT TAKEN UP
 BY ' NATIONS
(By The Associated Press

U s. and Canadian representatives met with those of the five Western European Union countries-B Britain, France. Belgium, Holland and Lux emhourg to work in earnest on the drafting of North Atlantic Euro pean Alliance.
 The pact would commit the U s. to assist European members of the alliance aga nst attack from ahy quarter, meaning. as of now, from the East.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-13
CUTTER CLOVER
 ON MERCY TRIP

SEATTLE, Dec. l3--tR-The Coast Guard reported today the Cutter Clover is en route to Kodiak with a man stricken with appendicitis. He was picked up Sunday at Chig- nix on the Alaska Peninsula
 Rough weather prevented his re- moval by plane.
 The victim was unidentified.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-13
Anchorage Barber
 Is He.d-Up, SeaitIe

SEATTLE, Eee. l3.ZR'-Charles c. Davis, a barber from Anchorage, Alaska. told police he was forced into an alley yesterday morn ng and robbed Of s92.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-13
STEAMER MOVEMENTS

Baranof, f.o.l Seattle, scheduled to arrive 10 tonight.
 Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver g tonight.
 Denali scheduled to sail from Seattle Wednesday, Dec. l5
 Victoria scheduled to sail from Seattle December 16
 Alaska scheduled to sail from Seattle Friday, December IT.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-13
Former Minister
 In Alaska Is Dead

SEATTLE, Dec. l3.--tR--The Rev. Clyde l. Walker. retired Methodist minister who had served many pas torates in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, died Saturday.
 He spent five years-l920- -l933- at Ketchikan.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-13

Pope Plus sent his blessings to the Spanish people and to Franco
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-13

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