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Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1949-05-01
Norway and the North Atlantic Pact

made up our minds that never
again must we be caught unaware
and unprepared, riskinS the loss OF
freedom and ali that We cherish
most.
This, the double task of achiev.
ing reconstruction and security,
was, of course, heavy one. I
am sure that this applies on the
whole not only to Norway, but also
to the other countries in Europe
which had been occupied by the
NaZiS
We could not have accomplished
the first task,-we are not accom-
plishing it-without imposing upon
ourselves a regime of austerity-
the rigor of which is perhaps not
generally realized-and secondly,
without the large-scale economic
assistance from the United States
under the Marshall Plan. I want
to say here that without that clear
sighted and generous undertaking,
I do not know where we would be
to-day. On the basis of cold fig
ures this is now fully realized in
Norway.
AS to our other chief concern,
the attainment of security, it is
natural, think, that Norway, and
the other countries occupied during
the war, should have particularly
strong feelings in this respect. I
wonder whether it is possible for
anybody who has not gone through
the experience, to realize fully
what it means to be robbed of
freedom and all that goes with it.
These peoples came to feel on their
bodies, so to say, the scourge of
totalitarian lawlessness, arbitrari-
ness-and torture. In the process
they acquired a new conception of
freedom, law and democracy. They
came to feel the reality and ever
lasting truth of the words of our
war-post,-that freedom and life
are one.-that freedom is as vital
as breathing itself.
How could we, then, besides re-
building our war-torn country, as
sure our independence and free
dom?
AS so many others, we thought
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1949-05-01

our freedom. We knew that. And
our first thought, naturally, was
to turn to our neighbors and
friends in the North to see what
the three of us together could do.
As we saw it, the best solution
not only for ourselves, but for
the cause of freedom and democ-
racy generally-would be a Scan
.dinavian regional defence pact, un-
der the Charter of the United Ma
tions, and in some way affiliated
with the Western democracies.
Our Swedish friends could not
see it quite that way. They found
that they had to adhere to Swe-
denis traditional neutrality, based
on her past experiences, and the
conviction of the overwhelming
majority of the Swedish people. A
Scandinavian defence pact based on
neutrality and no solidarity with
larger democratic regional de-
fence group offered no solution OF
Norway's problem.
We strongly felt that neutral
ity" today has no relation to the
facts of life. l venture to say that
even if by compromises we could
manage to keep clear of any
storms raging around us, it is not
evident, that in the long perspec-
tive of a nations life, neutrality
would rebound to our lasting mate
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1949-05-01

During the last month or so the
North Atlantic Pact has been very
much, and rightly so, in the fore
front of public interest and discus
sion. 1 doubt whether 1 can add
anything as to the general char
acter and purposes Of the Pact.
You might be interested, how
ever, to hear something about how
one of the countries of Western
Europe occupied during the war,
looks at the Pact. AS you will re-
member, Norway found herself in
rather special position. She was
the first country outside the origi-
nal five Western Union countries
which intimated her desire to join
the pact. At the same time Nor
way is the only one of the Scandi-
navian countries, yes, the only one
of all the II signatories of the
Pact, which has a common from
tier with Soviet Russia. AS you
will recall, the question of the wis
dom and expediency of Norways
joining the Pact, for these and
other rea sons was the subject of a
lively discussion in the American
press last winter.
AS I am sure you will conclude
when I have finished speaking,
Norway acted in her own best in
terest when on April 4th this year
we signed the Pact in Washington
Let me briefly recall that the
Norwegian people, in May, 1945,
emerged from long years of to-
talitarian occupation, with 2 deep
ly felt purposes:
First, to rebuild what the ag
gressor had so wantonly destroyed,
ana second, to do our utmost to
prevent that aggression should
ever happen again. We solemnly
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rial and spiritual benefits. It is a
fact, which no one who knows post.
war Norway will deny, that the
essential unity, the moral stamina
OF the Norwegian people today. is
based largely on the realization
that we ourselves took an active
part in the liberation of our coun-
try-and that we did not entirely
have our victory and freedom
handed to us on golden platter
by our allies and friends.
Our experience had taught us
that liberation, after years of to-
talitarian cupation is not
enough. It might come to mean
the liberation of a grave ward.
What we wanted was prevention
preparation In advance, so that
possible aggression might be
stopped in its tracks.
But let me emphasize this: 1t is
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at first that we had found the solu.
ton in the Charter of the United
Nations.
shall never forget the hopeful
ness of that beautiful June day in
San Francisco in 1945, when, as
chairman OF the Norwegian Dele
cation, 1 had the privilege, on be-
half of my country, to sign the
Charter of the United Nations
The noble words of the Preamble
of the Charter, solemnly signed
by all the nations represented at
the Conference, pronounced to a
war-weary world that the peoples
of the, United Nations are deter
mined to save succeeding genera
tons from the scourge of war, to
reaffirm faith in fundamental
rights, in the dignity and worth of
the human person, in the equal
rights of men and women and of
nations large and small, and last
but not least, to ensure that armed
force shall not be used, save in the
common interest.
We still believe implicitly in the
idea of universal United Nations,
and we intend to continue to sup
port that organization with all the
means at our disposal.
And We propose to support it not
only in the public glare of the AS
sembly, but in the earnest day to
day activities in the important spe-
cial. agencies, where so much of
the substantial work of the United
Nations is being accomplished.
The last few years have made it
evident, however, that if the worst
should happen, the United Nations
would not be in a position as yet
to fulfill all the hopes and expec-
tations inherent in the Charter.
AS we know only too WELL COM
mon action against an aggressor
can be nullified by the use of the
veto, and it has not been possible
so far to effectuate universal re-
duction of ornaments, or interna-
tional atomic control. Nor has it
been possible as yet to organize
the United Nations military forces
envisaged by the Charter, and to
which, particularly the small ma
lions, looked forward confidently !
for protection.
Under these circumstances, and /
with the bitter memories of the
occupation years always in her
mind, Norway, temporarily had to
look elsewhere for security. We
realized, as Senator Vandenberg |
has expire d it, that secur-
ity must be found inside the Char
ter, but outside the veto.
Alone we could not safeguard /
Evening star., 1949-07-11
Explosion
Continued From First Page )

Foreign Liquidation Commission
for the Pacific. Capt. Luboshez
was in Bethesda Naval Hospital
with multiple fractures of both
legs. His condition is critical.
Johannes Johannesen, 40, stew
ard of the Corinthian Club, who
suffered severe burns over the
entire uper half of his body. He
was receiving plasma at Casualty
Hospital, where he is reported in
critical condition.
Thomas Miller, %, of 1712 Sum-
NIT place NV. skipper of the ILL
fated cruiser, who was admitted to
Casualty Hospital with burns
about the face. He was reported
in good condition.
Col. Biddle, 81, and Mrs. Biddle
80. were treated at the scene for
shock and minor cuts.
Mrs. Prichard Uninjured.
The host for the boat trip
Henry A. Dudley. 35, law partner
of Mr.. McNutt, was treated at the
Naval Air Station dispensary fol
burns on his left leg and a cash
on his right leg and released.
The generals wife, Mrs. Char.
1otte Prichard. 48. and another
guest, Mrs. Leslie Williams, 90, o1
1885 Mount Eagle place. Alexan.
dria. Va. were treated for shock
at the scene. but were otherwise
uninjured.
Two bystanders. among tn,
many who assisted in rescue wofr
Evening star., 1949-07-11
Professor, 79, Wife and Pilot
Rescued After Arctic Crash

craft had bracketed more than
100000 square miles in the ex-
haustive search.
A helicopter settled yesterday
afternoon on the mountainside
picked up the Cooks and Mr.. Cur
rington and flew them to Fort
Yukon. They were then flown
here in a Wien Alaska Airlines
plane
Despite the peril of their sit
uation, DR.. Cook could not for
get he was a scientist, and spent
his days catching insects peculiar
to the Arctic and gathering speci-
mems of grass, flowers and fun
gus. The first thing he did or
arrival here last night was to wave
aloft bottle of beetles.
Suffered Only Bruises.
Look" he said, what I got fol
the museum at Louisiana Univer.
sity."
The three suffered only bruises
! Ill IllC VI ooll, "AIAIll WoS1lCo w
the planes landing gear, popped
off the doors and twisted the pro.
peller.
Mrs. Cook, whose face and neck
are slightly marked by mosquito
bites, said they were unworried
until after the fourth day.
Then she said, I'VE began to
fear that nobody would look for
us so far north"
The Cooks said the misadven-
ture will not alter their plans to
complete their vacation tour OF
ALASKA. They will go from here
to Anchorage and to other Sec
tions of the territory and do not
plan to return to Baton Rouge
until September.
DR.. Cook, widely known as a
botanist and author. is a member
of the Louisiana State University
Mr.. burlington, a native of Sac
ramento, makes his home in Fair
banks. He is 81.
Evening star., 1949-07-11

into a court account. The men
had withdrawn the money from
the unions bank account.
The government has frozen the
unions bank account and other
funds to prevent financial aid to
st'@-ing coal miners.
The union was fined $4,000
(S~,ouJD ON the same charge.
Evening star., 1949-07-11
.AustruIion Court JoiIs
z Mine Union Leaders
By the Associoted Press

SYDNEY, Australia, July IL
The two leaders of Australia S
striking coal miners were jailed
today for contempt of an arbitra-
ton court.
President Idris Williams and
General Secretary George William
Sweeney got one year each for
failure to obey a court order tell
ing them to pay s15,O00 ($49,C00)
Evening star., 1949-07-11
BY the Associated Press

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July IL
With bottleful of beetles and a
chlnful of stubble. DR.. Melville
T. Cook, 79-year-old Louisiana
botany professor, stepped jauntily
from a rescue plane last night
with his wife and Pilot Bill Cur
rington.
The three. object of a week.
long search by more than 80 mill
tary and civilian planes, were
snatched by a helicopter only "a
hours before from the side of a
3,200-foot mountain so miles
north of the Arctic Circle and SO
miles north of Fort Yukon. Their
single engined Cessna crash
landed on the tundra slope when
Mr.. burlington became lost and
the gas supply ran low.
Despite their apparent calm,
DR.. Cook and Mrs. Cook, who also
is near 80, and Pilot burlington
were emphatic in declaring they
have had their fill of eggs and
Alaska mosquitoes.
They had a cargo of 80 dozen
eggs aboard-consigned to a
roadhouse-when the plane put
down. Only a few eggs were
cracked in the crash.
I'VE ate them raw, we ate
them cooked" said DR.. Cook.
Slept Inside Plane.
To foil the formations of buzz
bombing mosquitoes, the three
slept inside the plane at night
and sealed up the cracks with
bandage tape to keep
the insects out. They sent up
daily smoke signals in hopes of
catching the attention of rescuers.
They were sighted yesterday
morning by a 10th Rescue Squad
ron Bit piloted by Capt. c. E.
Hale. They said it was the first
plane they had seen since the
crash despite the fact that air.
Evening star., 1949-07-11

the explosion. members kept ask
ing officials "hoW is Jo?"
Mr.. Miller, brother of Mr.. Jo-
hannesen's wife, also is a former
merchant mariner who was nired
by the club last week for general
chores around the yacht basin
Father of 13-month-old boy
Mr.. Miller recently returned from
Pittsburgh where he had been
working for a mattress company
He is a native of Washington.
Evening star., 1949-10-27
Pan American Airways
NOT Seeking 10 Absorb
WA, Trippe Insists
BY the Associated Press

An airline attorney suggested
yesterday that Pan American Air
ways choice of banks indicated a
long-range plan to take over a
transatlantic competitor, Trans
World Airline.
Gerald A. Brophy of New York,
TWA attorney, made the point at
a Civil Aeronautics Board hearing
on PAA's proposal to buy control
of American Overseas Airlines for
SIT, 100000. AOA parallels PAA to
London.
But Pan Americans president,
Juan Trippe, and its counsel, Hen
ry Friendly. said it would be just
as fair to make the same statement
about TWA.
The discussion revolved about
the fact that two of the 80 banks
Evening star., 1949-10-27
Two Of Gandhi S|ayers
To Hanq November IS
BY the Associoted Press

NEW DELHI, India, Oct. a.
The Home Ministry announced
today that N. v. Godse and
Narayan Apte will be hanged No
vember Is for the assassination Of
Mohandas Gandhi in January,
1948.
Godse, who shot Gandhi, and
Apte were convicted of the assas-
sination conspiracy and sentenced
to death last February by a special
court in Delhi's Red Fort.
A Home Ministry spokesman
said Delhi Session Judge S. S.
Dulat had signed the warrants for
the execution. The warrants are
being sent to Ambala jail. where
the hanging will take place unless
clemency is granted.
Five other convicted conspira-
tors were sentenced to life i'm
prisonment. One defendant was
acquitted.
Evening star., 1949-10-27

in a PAA credit agreement are also
creditors of TWA. Pan American
is reported to have sought to buy
TWA when it was in financial diff
ficulty.
Idea Called Ridiculous.
Mr.. Trippe and Mr.. Friendly said
it was just as fair-and just as
ridiculous-to say that TWA had
such a long range idea in mind
when it borrowed from the Chase
National Bank in New York. The
Chase bank has been a financial
backer of PAA for many years.
Mr.. Brophy raised the point in
questioning Mr.. Trippe about the
credit arrangement PAA made to
provide cash for the proposed pur-
chase. He said two of the 30 banks
involved in the deal-the Mellon
Bank of Pittsburgh and New York
Bankers Trust Co.-are creditors
of TWA.
Mr.. Brophy asked Mr.. Trippe
whether "unWittingly or not,
haven't you created an interlocking
relationship between Pan Ameri-
can and TWA through the banks"
Mr.. Trippe said he did not think
so.
Anything For the Cause.
Mr.. Brophy wanted to know
whether the choice of banks was
an underlying" part of PAA's
chosen instrument or single air
line idea. Mr.. Trippe said it
wasn't.
Mr.. Brophy also asked whether
Mr.. Trippe had in the back of his
head a plan to take over TWA,
which flies to France, Italy, Egypt
and India.
II have in the back of my head"
Mr.. Trippe said. "to do anything
for the good of Pan American, and
that's a proper thought"
Evening star., 1949-10-27
0Ids Says Big Business
Aqain Seeks i. 5. Control

Leland Olds. refused a third
term on the Federal Power Com
mission by the Senate, declared
yesterday that the recent ad-
verse vote on his denomination by
President Truman was indication
Of how "big business interests are
attempting to recapture their con-
troll of Government"
Speaking at a luncheon meeting
of Chapter l of the American
Veterans Committee, Mr.. Olds
said the principal tactic in this
effort is ito brand even the most
conservative of the progressive
forces as in one way or the other
Communist"
He said big business groups.
Evening star., 1949-10-27

particularly in the utilities field,
lost their control of Government
with the advent of the New Deal
in the early 1930s and now are
attempting to undermine Mr.. Tru-
mans Fair Deal to regain their
grasp of legislative and regula-
tory policies.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-09-29
Christ Church Begins
Prayer Services; Rally
Day To Be Held Oct. 9

Sunday evening prayer services
will beein in Christ Church, Rock
vile, this Sunday, October 2, 8
P. M. The rector, the Rev. Ray
mond P. Black, has prepared a
series of five lectures to be given
in October. The series is entitled,
"Some Hymns of the Church and
Their Writer'S" The course will be
divided as follows: October 2, Pre-
Reformation of Hymns; October g.,
The Reformation of 1900; October
Is, First Half of the 10Th Century;
October %, English Hymns; Octo-
Der 80, American Hymns.
Following the services there will
be an informal discussion and So
cial hour in the Parish Hall.
Christ Episcopal Church School
has planned a Rally Day, Sunday,
October 9th. All parents of chill
dren in the Church School are
urged to attend the service at IL
A. M. that day at which service
the teachers will dedicate them
selves to their office and will be in
stalled as teachers by the Rector.
Valentine C. Wilson. superintend-
ent of the Church School, will give
the address. {.A-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-09-29

Mrs. Bowman made a gift of stock
deciding it to her church, said gift
to be used to enlarge the present
building. The great untitled de-
sire of her life was to see the
church adequate for its Sunday
School needs. Just recently the
pastor told her that almost i'm
mediately building would begin
which would fulfill her lifelong de-
sire = very appropriate memoir
ial to great power for Gods
kingdom.
The church and community will
miss "Aunt Libbie's" beautiful
flower garden to which all were
welcome to share. The beautiful
and sincere love for church and
community will always be a source
of inspiration to those whom she
loved so much. Her unusual
memory of early incidents con-
nected with the community's his
tory were most noteworthy not
even the smallest detail seemed to
escape her "reminiscences. A won
derful neighbor, friend and a
great pioneer in real christian
living has passed to eternal Joy.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-09-29
County Seeks
Assistant To
Health Officer

The Montgomery County Person
mel Board is seeking applicants
for assistant health officer to sue
coed DIR. Mary P. Warner, who
resigned recently.
The salary ranges from $500 to
$500, with the starting pay de-
pending on the successful candid
ate's experience and qualifications.
Duties of the assistant health
officer include planning and super
vising special medical programs on
rheumatic fever, heart ailments,
venereal diseases, ringworm and
for the prevention of deafness.
Candidates must be graduates
from an accredited college or uni
versity with medical degree and
should have had one year of study
at an approved school of public
health.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-09-29
District Governor
Speaks To Gaithersburg
Lions At Fall Meet

Forty-seven members of the
Gaithersburg Lions Club were
present at the first fall dinner
meeting held Tuesday night in
the cafeteria of Gaithersburg
School. District Governor Albert
E. Brault of Bethesda, guest speak
err, presented the past president,
Kenneth Barncord with a bronze
plaque a club membership honor
for 1948-49. The speaker was in
troduced by tibet president, Merton
Duvall.
Colored Kodachrome slides of
the Lions Club convention held in
New York were shown by Russell
Gloyd. Several Gaithersburg Lions
attended the convention.
Lion Sprigg Ward made the
presentation to the Club of the
cup awarded it for it's Labor Day
Parade Float. Plans were dis
cussed for the Annual Halloween
Street Dance in Gaithersburg, and
tickets given out for the awarding
of a television set in connection
with the affair.
The Lions were served a sump-
tious turkey dinner by the ladies
of the Gaithersburg P-TA.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-09-29

1899 were white and $50 were
colored, and 1928 arrests were
made in the daytime and 1,156
during the night.
In reporting the activities of Of
fcers assigned to School Patrol du-
ties, Chief Orme said there were no
accidents to school children the last
two years, due, he thought princi-
pally, to the activities of the Po-
licemen and the School Patrol. The
report of the School Patrol detail
showed 619 safety patrol meetings;
rs assembly talks; COS patrol in
spections; go safety motion pic
lures shown and a total of 701
visits to schools during the six
month period, in addition to nu-
merous conferences.
The report of the Detective Blu
reau showed a total of 1854 cases;
$40 closed and II unfounded; $685.
607.32 property stolen; $33,649.93
property recovered. Chief Orme
said that radio and teletype had
aided materially in the recovery of
stolen property, especially of cars,
citing that one car was recovered
before the thief reached Bethesda
from Rockville.
The two officers in the Identifi-
cation Bureau aided in the solu-
ton of many of these crimes, their
activities including finger-printing
of applicants, deceased and prison
ers; photographing of accidents
and applicants, crime scenes, pris-
oners; making of photostats and
miscellaneous pictures.
Another outstanding service rem
dered by the Police, the Chief re-
ported, is the surveillance placed
upon approximately 1,4O0 vacant
homes throughout the county
where the occupants or owners are
away on business or vacation. He
also disclosed that all business
places are checked at certain in
tervals during the night time.
The number of school crossings
requiring direction of traffic by the
police has increased to 81 and due
to the heavy enrolment in many
schools the officers are required to
spend more time at the intersec-
tions. Chief Orme, in his report,
stated that it is impossible to esti-
mate the amount of services rem
dered to citizens by the police as
matter of courtesy during their
routine patrols.
The complete and comprehensive
report of the Police Chief was COM
plimented by the County Council.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-09-29
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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-09-29
Thirty Members Present
At Rockville HOmemakers
Club Meeting Thursday

Thirty members of the Rock
vile Homemakers Club were pre-
sent at the September meeting
held in the Home Demonstration
Office on Thursday, September Is.
"A slate of new officers for the
year will be presented at the
October meeting by the nominating
committee Mrs. Roger Shaw,
Mrs. George Edmonds, and Mrs.
Atlee Burroughs. Another COM
mittee, composed of Mrs. C. w.
Martz, Mrs. Beulah Dove and
Mrs. Selby Preffitt, were appoint
ed to write memorial for Mrs.
Inez Sheads, a sister club-mem-
Der, who passed away this summer.
1t was announced that the Elec-
trio Playhouse will be open on
October 6. All members planning
to attend may get tickets from
Mrs. Atlee Burroughs, 804 Grand
in Avenue, or Mrs. Carol Trail at
213 First Street, Rockville. Tickets
should be secured as soon as pos
sible. The bus will leave back of
the Courthouse promptly at $3.50
The meeting which was conduct
ed by the president, Mrs. George
Ray, closed with the serving OF
refreshments by the hostesses
Mrs. Lois johnson, Mrs. Hester
Chase and Mrs. Will Stackhouse.