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The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-10
WILD WEST R0BBERYI5
 PULLED OFF
Train Is HeIdup in 0Idtime Jesse James Technique
 -S1 ,0O0 Is Loot

MARTINSBURG, w. Va, Mar. 10. -tR-Two gunslinging badmen rob- bed an express train with western flourishes last night.
 They got about 5000 from the terrorized passengers and trainmen. It was a tense 35 minutes aboard the Baltimore and Ohio's Ambassa- dor, headed from Baltimore to De- troit
 Posses made up of West Virginia, Maryland and Virginia officers spread an elaborate search.
 They were looking for two men about 25, one with mustache and the other wearing a sports jacket. They asked Washington police to watch for pair who switched to a bus bound for the capital.
 Jessie James and his western cronies would have been proud of the technique. The raid netted as much as some of the Missouri gangs forays except when they happened upor a money shipment in the express car.
 HOldup Plot
 The victims were so daZed they couldn't tell exactly what happen ed. The plot went something like IhiS
 The Ambassador, with 100 or so passengers, was picking up speed out of Martinsburg and was about two miles northwest.
 Someone pulled the emergency cord and engineer o. c. Moore stopped the big diesel locomotive. Apparently the cord was pulled by two men who had been drinking in snack car and moved into the first vestibule behind the locomo- tive.
 Gun At Head
 The two men pulled guns and started through the cars.
 Morton w. Peskin of Cumber- land, Md, felt a gun at the back of his head.
 Give me your money or I'll shoot" said a voice behind him.
 The gunmen slapped and showed hesitant passengers around. They used their revolver butts on some The pair moved through the coaches to the club diner, which had been locked by trainman who saw what was going on.
 One of the bandits shot through it. A Negro steward was nicked on the ankle.
 Crewmen Rounded Up
 Engineer Moore went back to see what the delay was. When he didn't return immediately, diesel mechanic Robert L. Mort of New Castle, Pa, went back.
 The two gunmen rounded them up and shooed them to the loco motive cab. Moore was forced to back the train up to a grade cross ing.
 The two men communicated an automobile which had been stop ed at the crossing. They took fire
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EXPLANATION OF RUSSIAN SHIFTS
 MAY BE DIvULGED
tBy The Associated Press)

The body Russia calls parlia- ment has convened in Moscow, with 2,0O0 lawmakers in attendance.
 Its actions, which will be what the modern czars of the politburo desire, may give clues to some Rus sian enigmas. These are the signif- icance of the seven recent shifts in high Russian leadership, includ- ing the replacement of Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov by Andrei Y. Vishinsky: the military expenses Russia proposes: and how Russian economy has responded to recent drastic Communist decrees.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-10
STODDART GOES NORTH
 TO MEET COL. NOYES

H. A. Stoddart, Division Engin- ger of the Public Roads Admin istration, went Saturday to White horse, where he planned to meet Col. John R. Moves, director of the Alaska Road Commission, and w. R. Rogers of Babler Bros. and Rog- CTS Construction Company.
 They were to stop at Tok Juno ton, then go to Fairbanks, where they presumably are today, for con- ferences.
 Colonel Moves htas been gone since early in the year, ARC busi- ness taking him to Washington, D. C., and other cities Outside.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-10
STEAMER MOvEMENT5

Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver tonight.
 Alaska scheduled to sail from Se- attle Saturday forenoon.
 Baranof from vest scheduled southbound Sunday P. M.
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wiIIia ms
 Confirmed

WASHINGTON, March 10.-lR-- The nomination of Llewellyn M. Williams of Alaska to be Secretary of Alaska, reappointment, was confirmed last night by the Senate by voice vote.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-10
SHIFT IN ONE VOTE BRINGS
 12-12 BURIAL
Reconsideration Results in Reversal as Ander-
 son Changes
By JIM HUTCHEsor

By JIM HUTCHESOf
 The House reversed itself again today and, by 12-12 deadlock vote, killed the controversial liquor con- trol bill.
 | After debate that ran almost con- tinuously from Monday night, it marked the end of the road for a :, measure that became known after birth as "the Iris room bill" and picked up the "hot potato label before it's death.
 The bills defeat came on re- consideration of the vote by which it passed 1911 late yesterday. Rep Abel Anderson, Juneau Democrat, switched his vote from yes to no on today's roll call.
 The reconsideration came on mo- tion of Rep Frank L. Johnson, Nome Republican. who said he was doing 1t to allow Rep. Doris Barnes to offer an amendment. Mrs. Barn. es said she had no amendment to offer.
 /, Then Rep. c. E. Almquist, Juneau Democrat, asked for suspension of the rules to offer a specific amend ment and to have witness testi- fly on it. That brought Rep. An- german, Fairbanks Democrat, to his feet with demand that if Alm- quist put in an amendment, he insisted on the right to offer amendments.
 After the vote to suspend the
 rules fell two short of the need ed two-thirds, Johnson sought to withdraw his reconsideration mo- tion. But the situation was wide open by that time. The rules com- nittee held that it could not be withdrawn; that the bill had to come up again for a ..nal vote. Quiet Ending
 The end came quietly by compar- ison with the days and nights of , hectic debate.
 ] Reps. Warren Taylor, the author, Essie Dale and Clarence Heating spoke briefly for it as an improve ment in enforcement provisions.
 Rep. Gundersen declared there had been so many amendments thrown in and so many parts pulled out that she wasn't even sure what the bill in final form contained and she didn't think most of the others : did. She said the vote should be delayed.
 ! Heating said: "The liquor people now say 1t is revised so it's a church bill and the church people say it's liquor industry bill It looks to me like we've hit sound middle ground"
 | Roll Call The roll call today on the recon sideration vote was:
 For the bill: Almquist, Beltz. Con- right, Dale, Hope, both Johnsons. Heating. Owen. Pollard, Taylor, Mo- i; Cutcheon.
 Against: Anderson. Angerman. Barnes, Carlson, Egan, Franklin. Gundersen. Ipalook, Jensen, Misco- vich, Nolan, Rydeen. The outcome apparently ended the prospects of any major liquor legislation passing at this session, i but bill introduced yesterday in the Senate by Howard Lyng would open the way for re-activating liquor law enforcement under the Treasurer. The bill proposes rais- ] ing the salary maximum for liquor enforcement deputies from s250 to s450 monthly.
 During House Ways and Means Committee hearing earlier in the session. Treasurer Oscar G. Olson told the legislators the enforce ment division had long been inop- erative because suitable enforce ment personnel could not be obtain ed at the $250 figure.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-10
WEATHER REPORT

(U. g. WEATHER BUREAU . This data is for 24-hour pe-
 . riod ending 6:30 am. PSF. . In Juneau Maximum, 45; , minimum. 27. . At Airport Maximum. 42 minimum, 20.
 F O R E c A s T . tJuneau and vlcinity) , Mostly fair this afternoon , and Friday, Highest this af- , ternoon near 46 degrees. , Lowest tonight near 27 de- grees.
 . F N E ClP T IT ON . tPast 24 hours ending 7:3o a m. today In Juneau City None; since March l, 2.45 inches; , since July l, 94.45 inches. , At the Airport None;
 since March l, inch; , since July 1, 59.3O inches.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-10
VISITOR FROM HAYNES

R. O. Allen of Haines is regis tered at the Gastlneau Hotel,
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HERE FROM FAIRBANKS

G. D. Milligan of Fairbanks l registered at the Gastineau Hotel.
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HOUSE MEETS TONIGHT

The House stripped several liber- alizing provisions from the liquor bill and added several amendments for tightening enforcement before voting passage late yesterday
 Amendments adopted included.
 Creation of liquor enforcement division under the Attorney General with an enforcement deputy in each of four divisions: limitation of bev- craze dispensary licenses to one for each 1000 population or fraction of
Evening star., 1949-02-08
Long Island Railroad Says
lis Nearly Bankrupt
Ry the Assoojoted Press

NEW YORK, Feb. 8.-The Long
Island Railroad. which carries ap-
proximately 100000 passengers in
and out of New York City daily
indicated yesterday it was pretty
close to bankruptcy.
Walter S. Franklin. executive
vice president of the road. told the
Public Service Commission that
on January l the Long Island had
only $60,059 in cash and a total
debt of 53.10O,0O0.
The road has mo credit" Mr..
Franklin said.
''Tilen you have a bankrupt
railroad here?" asked Commis-
sioner George A. Arkwright.
Pretty close to it," was the
answer.
Mr.. Franklin testified on an ap-
plication for a Is per cent fare
increase for the road. The Long
Island is wholly owned by the
Railroad.
Evening star., 1949-02-08
Mindszenty Is First Cardinal
Subjected to Penal Measures

The conviction Of Cardinal
Mindszenty marked the first time
in history that a government has
taken penal measures against a
CONAN Catholic cardinal while he
Jas a member of the Sacred Col
1ge of Cardinals, Vatican sources
sport.
There are cases where prelates
.f a high rank have been elevated
% cardinals while under the de-
sention of governments.
John Fisher, Bishop Of Roches-
ter. was sentenced to life impri-
sonment by Henry VIII of Eng
land because he refused to ap-
prove the Kings divorce from
Catherine of Aragon. After the
bishop was convicted on charges
of treason, Pope Paul III made
him a cardinal. Henry replied
that he would have Fishers head
cut of before any one could cap
him with the cardinals hat.
Evening star., 1949-02-08
Oil Slick Spotted Off Texas
Where Boat Sent SOS
BY the Associated Press

CORPUS CHRISTIE, Tex, Feb
8.-The Corpus Christi Naval All
Station announced today one o1
it's search planes sighted on oil
slick in the area where a missing
banana boat was reported in dis
tress.
The oil slick was sighed yester-
day afternoon by patrol craft.
A Coast Guard cutter, also assist
ing in the search, was directed to
proceed at once to the spot.
The Navy said the cutter. the
Triton, should have reached the
oil slick this morning, but that the
whole area is covered by fog.
The boat. the San Salvador. re-
ported at 2::40 am. Sunday that
it was so to so miles east of Cor
pus Christi, with a hole in the
hull.
God help u.s. the vessel said
in a message picked up by an
amateur radio operator at Nash
vile, Tenn.
Evening star., 1949-02-08
Mindszenty Case Chronology

cardinals trial was a sickening
sham.
December 30-The Vatican ex-
communicated all connected with
the arrest.
December 31-Informed sources
in Vienna said the cardinal knew
he was going to be arrested and
had told his bishops to consider
any confession he might be alleged
to have made the result of "hu-
man frailty."
Jan. 3. 1949-The Vatican
spurned an offer to negotiate
church-state differences in Hun
gary while the cardinal was under
arrest, but government officials
negotiated with the Hungarian
bishops.
January 19-Hungary published
yellow book telling of alleged
confessions by the cardinal.
February 3-The trial opened
before flve-man Peoples Court.
The cardinal pleaded partial guilt
but denied he had plotted to over
throw the Hungarian government.
February 4-Cardinal Minds
zenty renounced the letter to his
bishops telling them to regard any
confession by him as a result of
human frailty."
February 5-The prosecutor de-
manded a hard and inexorable"
sentence for the cardinal-death
by hanging. Cardinal Mindszenty
asked God to guide the judges in
their verdict and besought the love
of the Roman Catholic church for
Hungary.
February 6-Prayers were Of
fered for the cardinal in many
Roman Catholic churches over the
world.
February 7-Omcial and private
leaders in many countries voiced
strong last-minute protests against
the trial. British Foreign Secre-
I.taty. Bevin said Hungary's Il han
ding of the case was utterly
repugnant. .f
February 8-The cardinal wa.
sentenced to life imprisonment
his six co-defendants also wert
convicted and received, sentence:
ranging, from three years to life
Evening star., 1949-02-08

Bishop Fisher was decapitated
June %, 1885.
Msgr. Miecislao Ledochowski,
Archbishop of Gnesen and Posen
in the middle 18th century, was
involved in a struggle with the
Prussian government in circum-
stances similar to the case of Car
dinal Mindszenty. He was ar
rested for opposing laws reserving
to the state the right to regulate
education, name and remove
priests and other church func-
and determine the limits
of the church's disciplinary powers.
While under arrest, on March IS,
1875, Pope Plus TX made him a
cardinal. The government Or
dered the prelate deposed. Freed.
a year later, he came to Rome
where Leo XIII made him prefect
of the Congregation for the Propa-
CATION of the Faith in 1892.
Evening star., 1949-02-08
.Virqiniu U. Student
Dies of Auto Injuries
Rx the As,ociated Press

RICHMOND. Va, Feb. 8.-S.
William Polk, jr., 10, of Memphis,
Tenn, died yesterday in the
Medical College of Virginia Hos
pital of injuries received in an
automobile accident January 20.
Mr.. Polk, son of a former Mayor
of Memphis. was student at the
University of Virginia. He was
injured when the automobile in
which he was riding overturned
mile west of Richmond.
Evening star., 1949-02-08
BY the Assoeioied ere.s

July, 1946-Lt. Gen. v. P. Swirl
dov, Russian commander in Hun
gary, charged that the Catholic
clergy in Hungary were melting
and agitating the people against
the occupying power, the U. S..
S. r.
August IL - Josef Cardinal
Mindszenty denied the charge.
January 8. 1947 - Cardinal
Mindszenty charged that Hun
garian political police had entered
his library and removed $50 books.
April 9-The Cardinal was re-
ported to have threatened with
accommodation any Parliament
members voting for a bill abolish
ing compulsory religious educa-
ton.
June 15-The Cardinal arrived
in New York on visit.
May Is. 1948-Cardinal Minds
zenty said the church would mot
abide by tyrannical orders and
would fight to prevent the govern
ment from taking over church
schools. In subsequent statements
he warned against Communist
propaganda and urged Catholics
to boycott the government.
June 16-Parliament national
lied church schools.
November IA Hungarian Pre-
mier Lajos Dinnyes called the
cardinal a "reactionary.
November 20-The Rev. Ondras
Zakar, personal secretary to the
cardinal was arrested on charges
of treason.
December 27-Cardinal Minds
zenty, and 10 other prominent
Catholics were arrested on charges
of espionage. treason and black
market operations.
/ December 28-The government
charged documents found in the
cardinals cellar, proved he had
been spying fot.. foreign govern
ments.' plotted with Archduke
Otto, the pretender. to restore the
Hapsburg monarchy, and urged
the United States not to return
the famous Crown Of st. Stephen
| December 292Americaf1 Under
secretary of State Lovett said the
Evening star., 1949-02-08
Mindszenty Obviously
Broken, Mcnamara:
Tells K. T.. Meetinqs

The implications Of the treason
trial of Josef Cardinal Mindszenty
in Hungary hung over the town
hall meeting of the Knights of
Columbus last night, as COM
munisn and labor relations were
debated by three speakers. !.
The Most Rev. John j. Nc
Namara, Auxiliary Bishop sof
Washington, took the rostrutn,
after the speakers were finished.
to express to the packed audi
torium the feelings of Catholic
leaders on the trial. He related
that the Most Rev. Patrick -.
O'Boyle, Archbishop of Washing
ton, has met the Cardinal on three
occasions.
The Archbishop found Cardinal
MindSzenty a personality who
dominated every occasion.
"The man he met and conversed
with was not the man you are
reading about in the newspapers,
Bishop McNamara said. The inn
plication is obvious. he added, that
Cardinal MindsZenty was broken
and beaten in body and mind.
He warned the audience to con-
slider not only the dangers from
communism, but from the wide
spread irreligious philosophy OF
life.
Shane MacCarthy, chairman Of
the Town Hall meetings, Defend
ed the Hungarian cardinal, vigor-
ously declaring: If he is guilty
of treason. then all of us who be-
lieve in the Constitution Of the
United States are traitors"
Speakers on the forum were
James j. Nolan, manager Of the
United States Steamship Lines:
R. F. Handley, regional super
visor, Bureau of Apprenticeship.
Labor Department, and Jennings
Randolph, assistant to the presi-
dent of Capital Airlines. ,
Evening star., 1949-02-08
Cardinal Personally
Poor, Vatican Says
On Property Loss
BY the Assecioied Press

VATICAN CITY, Feb. g.
There was speculation today
what the confiscation of Car
dinal Mindszenty's possess
sions, as ordered by the Buda-
pest court, will amount to.
Vatican sources said the
cardinal is personally poor.
and has no house other than
the archbishopric palace.
The palace and it's ground
are in the name of the church.
Vatican sources said these
should not be touched by the
conf1scation, but they pointed
out that the terms will depend
on the Hungarian regimes
Interpretation of the order.
Evening star., 1949-02-08
Vatican
Continued From First Page.)

and episcopal dignity of the
cardinal, the opinion seems justt-
fed that the excessively grave SEN
tence passed does not satisfy the
desire of his accusers to fling mud
upon a Roman cardinal.
"As a corollary to this shame,
it has been wished to inflict upon
the cardinal the pain of life i'm
prisonment-the same. that is,
which is reserved as assassins and
major criminals.
THE pontiff has been held back
from making protest by the de-
sire not to irritate the Budapest
judges and make worse the already
grave situation of the cardinal.
but he will now feel no restraints"
Msgr. Zsigmond Mihalovics, di-
rector general of Hungarian Cath
olic Action. who recently lefts
Hungary, declared, Il am sur
prised at the sentence" He in
dicated he was surprised the
sentence was not heavier.
Newspaper Protests.
The Vatican newspaper Loser
vatore ! Romano. declared in O
front editorial: I'VE protest
with all the soul of free man and
with all the heart of a Catholic"
The editorial, presumably by Count
Giuseppe dalla Torre, said the
Hungarian Communist regime felt
It necessary to eliminate the cardi-
nal from public life but feared to
condemn him to death.
The editorial called Cardinal
Mindszenty "the first representa-
tive victim of a supreme defense Of
human liberty in all that is funda-
mental: Liberty of spirit, that
most lnalienable treasure of man.
without which he is no longer
man. but slave
THE people will know. they will
not forget" LOsservator declared.
continuing, they will know even
more how dear is the liberty they
seek so long as his (tlle
cardinal's) imprisonment endures.
the people will know that liberty
is not extinct"
Hard Sentence" Realized. :
The significance of the ter
rible sentence" L L'Osservatore said.
was that lit was sold on the black
market of moral values as an aet
of magnanimous clemency."
Everything leads to the belisf
that every word OF the accused.
of the witnesses and of the Law
yers was synchronized befors-
hand the paper added.
: But this does not mean that
the suggestion of the accusers
representative for hard SEN
tence' was forgotten. 1t was
threatened and in the end it was
realized. It was necessary TO
eliminate the cardinal" {
Nothing was proved, nothing
was confirmed, to incriminate tie
archbishop of treason and coa-
spiracy. of menaces to the security
of the state.
The world sees Josef Minds
zenty mount his Calvary, carrying
cross which is still the worlds"
Evening star., 1949-02-08
Church, Government
Leaders Excoriate
Reds in Hungary
Continued From First Page.)

Blessed Mother sustain the cardi-
nal with fortitude in the face of
the unknown trials still before
him. We shall always remember
him in our prayers and we re-
spectfully ask all to pray for him.
The State Department did not
reveal whether it might take the
same line as Britain, which has
reserved the right to protest that
the trial violates Hungary's peace
treaty. But it did disclose that
more than Il, 600 communications
have been received from all over
the. country. most of them de-
manding intercession by this Gov
eminent or action by the United
Nations.
In Congress individual law
makers used such terms as
"travesty of justice" and "a mock
cry" in describing the treason
trial. Some, like Representative
Rooney. Democrat. of New York,
suggested that the United Nations
should investigate the trial and
the charges.
Here is chance for the United
States to prove its WORTH he said.
A resolution offered by Senator
Bridges, Republican, Of New
Hampshire, urging the Senate to
censure the trial as unjust was
referred to the Foreign Relations
Committee yesterday.
Other Congress Comment.
Comment from other members
Of Congress included:
House Speaker Rayburn: The
Christian world cannot help but
be shocked"
House Democratic Leader Nc
Cormack: The trial has been
travesty on justice, a mockery and
a sham
Representative O'Toole, Demo-
crat, of New York: This should
awaken the whole world to the
true menace of Communism"
Representative Nelson, Repub-
lican, of Maine: ::"One of the most
fragrant violations of human
rights in modern history. The
United States Government should
denounce the cruelty, inhumanity
and injustice of that trial in the
name of the rights of man."
Representative Barrett, Demo-
crat, of Pennsylvania: THE tor
lures inflicted upon Cardinal
Mindszenty are the greatest trav-
esty of justice since the marty
dom of st. Joan of Arc"
Representative Price, Democrat,
Of Illinois: THE whole world will
know that Cardinal Mindszenty
made a martyrs sacrifice because
of his religious belief and teach
ingS."
Trial Termed Injustice.
Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, 83-
year-old Archbishop of Philadel-
phia, called the trial an injustice
and horrible persecution by the
Communists"
Holding news conference for
the first time in his % years as
Cardinal, he said surely the whole
world is not going to stand by and
itself to the danger OF
similar outrages."
Archbishop Joseph Francis
Rummel of New Orleans said time
will reveal the bitterness, the
hatred and the desire for revenge
which inspired" the arrest and
of Cardinal Mindszenty.
In Boston. Archbishop Richard
j. Cushing said "the real tragedy
of the case lies not in the personal
fate of the cardinal, but in the
of the minds and wills
of his prosecutors.
d. C. Churchmen Deplore Verdict.
Washington churchmen of all
faiths were united in deplering
the conviction.
DR.. j. Warren Hastings, pastor
of the National City Christian
said he was deeply
shocked"
If what he did was within the
area which we usually define as