Gov’t Loan Proposed
For Newsprint Plant
To Use Tongass Timber
WASHINGTON, Iff*— A govern
ment loan for construction of a
newsprint plant using timber from
Tongass National Forest in Alaska
■was proposed Friday by Senator
Chase (R-SD).
He said a bill he has prepared
for introduction would authorize
the loan and would save timber
from the forest in southeastern
Alaska for this purpose.
Its approval, he said, would as
fc sure smaller weekly and daily
® newspapers a dependable share of
m newsprint production at reason
able prices, and would increase
1 U.S. newsprint production 10 to
I 20 percent.
Daily and weekly newspapers
i having circulation less than 10,000
copies would receive preference
in puchasing newsprint produced
by the plant.
Case said that manufacturers of
fiber products other than news
print have already contracted for
a large amount of Tongass tim
ber. If steps are not taken soon,
he said, the area may be lost as
a potential newsprint producing
area.
Japan's Diet Votes Down
Pro-U.S. Government of j
Prime Minister Yoshida
TOKYO, (#1—Japan’s rebellious
diet Saturday night toppled the
:pro - American government off
Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida.
The wily politician immediately
dissolved parlament and called
for new national elections.
Yoshida tentatively set April 19
for the elections. His cabinet will
serve as a caretaker government
until a new diet is elected.
Japan’s latest political crisis
erupted when the lower house
passed, 229-218, a vote of non
confidence against Yoshida and
the cabinet. The prime minister’s
Liberal Party (actually conserva
tive) held a 245-221 margin in the
lower house. But Saturday night
more than 20 members of dissi
dent factions within the Liberal
Party bolted and voted against
Yoshida.
Three major opposition parties
joined the rebellious Liberals.
Yoshida had survived crisis after
crisis during nearly five years of
rule under the Allied occupation
and Japan’s newly-won sovereign
ty
The 74-year-old politician has
followed the United States’ lead
closely in his foreign policy—too
closely to suit some of the oppo
sition. But the non-confidence
vote does not necessarily mean
the opposition wants to break ties
with the U.S.
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No Successor Named
For Klement Gottwald,
Dictator of Czechoslovakia
VIENNA, Austria, UP) — State
funeral -will be held in Prague
Thursday for Klement Gottwald,
president - dictator of Communist
Czechoslovakia, who died sudden
ly on Saturday.
The national observance for
Gottwald will be a small - scale
version of the elaborate Russian
observance last week for his Com
munist comrade, Joseph Stalin.
Gottwald attended the outdoor
services for Stalin in freezing
weather in the Soviet capital’s Red
Square — and there apparently
caught the cold that developed
into pneumonia with complica
tions and resulted in his death.
There was no announcement of
a successor to Gottwald’s dictator
ial control over the Czech govern
ment, the all-powerful Communist
party and the army and police.
Administration Will Be
Friend, Not Boss with
Medical Groups, Says Ike
WASHINGTON, W — President
Eisenhower said Saturday his ad
ministration will work with med
ical groups on the health problem
in a spirit of friendship rather
than trying to be the “big poobah”
of their efforts.
Informally addressing the House
of Delegates of the American
Medical Association, the President
emphasized he did not like the
word “compulsory” and is against
the word socialize.”
These words were heard fre
quently in the last few years when
Republicans were criticizing Pres
ident Truman’s compulsory health
insurance plan. The A,M.A. bitter
ly opposed that plan.
President Eisenhower has just
proposed a reorganization of the
Federal Security Agency which,
among other things, deals with
the public health, by putting it on
a cabinet level. Its new adminis
trator, Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby,
accompanied the President to the
A.M.A. meeting Saturday.
DIVORCE THE KING, UNCLE
WILL ADVISE QUEEN MOTHER
CAIRO, Egypt, Iffi — The uncle
of Egypt’s young Queen Mother
Narriman says he will do his best
to convince his niece she should
seek a divorce from deposed King
Farcuk and fight for possession
of her baby son, King Faud II.
Mohamed Aly Sadek, a brother
of Narriman’s dead father, told a
reporter Friday night that the 19
year-old queen’s family already
has decided she should try for a
divorce.
Fine Job Printing at the Nugget
Anchorage Pilot Publishes
Book On Pyramids
Mr. Edmond C. Jeffery, a pilot
who lives with his wife, Rachel,
in Anchorage, has just published
“The Pyramids and the Patri
archs.”
During the war when Edmond
Jeffery visited Egypt he became
intensely interested in the pyra
mids of Giza. He found it difficult
to understand why so little has
been written of a scholarly, yet
popular, nature about the Giza
pyramids.
Mr. Jeffery has since spent the
years tracing the culture of the
Middle East and his new book,
“The Pyramids and. the Patri
archs,” is being published by Ex
position Press of New York today
at $3. *
At the beginning of his research
he was impressed by the number
of references to the great pyra
mids that he found in the Bible.
He has expanded this thesis, and j
has broughtm any historical and.
archeological facts to bear as evi- i
dence in proving that the Great
Pyramids of Egypt were built by
the Jewish patriarchs as altars to
God and foundation stones of the
Promised Land.'
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McCarthy and “Voice”
WASHINGTON, (#> — Sen. Mc
Carthy said Saturday his investi
gation of an alleged Communist
tone to the “Voice of America” is
building “tremendous pressures”
to abolish the big propaganda
agency.
“There will be tremendous pres
sures to knock it out,” McCarthy
said, “but I don’t believe that’s
the answer. We need corrective
steps and economies in it, but not
a fatal opei'ation.”
JERSEY CITY, N.J., UP) — The
block-square Lehman Industrial
Building was destroyed by fire
Saturday, its walls collapsing onto
a nearby furniture warehouse, a
viaduct and two parked vehicles.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Mostly cloudy tonight with de
creasing cloudiness Tuesday. Oc
casional light snow showers to
night and Tuesday. Lowest tem
perature expected tonight -5 high
est Tuesday 18.
Nome ddta last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today. High temperature
24, low 14. Max. wind 24 mph
from the NE. Sunrise 6:17 a.m.,
sunset 6:06 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 28, low 15. Extremes this date
since 1907: high 33 in 1948, low
26 in 1946.
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