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Soviet Refugees
Say Army Report
F a vorsCommunism
WASHINGTON, UP)—1Two refu
gees from Soviet Russia and a
former American Communist tes
tified today a document used in
training U.S. Army intelligence
officers is strongly slanted in
favor of Russian communism.
The testimony, concerning an
Army - prepared report called
“Psychological and Cultural Traits
in Soviet Russia,” was given to
the Senate investigations subcom
mittee headed by Sen. McCarthy.
Igor Bogelpeov, who described
himself as a former Soviet diplo
mat now under death sentence by
the Russian Red regime, said the
75-page book contains “a lot of
deliberate misinformation that
serves the interests of the Com
munist cause.”
Another ex-citizen of the Soviet
Union, Vladimir Petrov of the
Yale University faculty, said the
book is “extremely biased” in
favor of Russian communism and
definitely harmful as a manual
for training U.S. intelligence of
ficers.
Going still farther, Louis F.
Budenz, one-time U.S. Commun
ist leader and later a frequent wit
ness against his former associates,
called the manual “the work of a
concealed Communist.”
The document has been a point
of hot controversy between Mc
Carthy and the Army.
Britain Said To Have
Agreed Remove Troops
From Suez in 18 Months
CAIRO, Egypt, UP)—An official
Egyptian source said today Britain
had agreed to remove its troops
from the strategic Suez base with
in 18 months. This put Britain
and Egypt nearer to a solution of
the Suez dispute but a British
embassy spokesman said an early
complete agreement was unlikely.
The Egyptian informant said
technical questions remaining in
cluded the status of about 5,000
British experts who would remain
at the base after the 18-month
period expires. Britain wants
them in uniform. Egypt insists
they wear civilian clothes. The
informant said Egypt would break
off negotiations if this demand is
not met.
BASEBALL IN BRIEF
IBy the Associated Press)
New York — The American
League turned down the transfer
of the St. Louis Browns to Balti
more by a vote of 4-4. Six votes
were needed to approve the trans
fer.
Pittsburgh—Fred Haney, man
ager of the Pittsburgh Pirates,
signed a one - year contract to
manage the Pirates in 1954.
New York — The Boston Red
Sox signed manager Lou Boud
reau to a new two-year contract.
AP Manager Given Keys to Seoul
SEOUL, UP) — Frank J. Starzel,
general manager of the Associ
ated ress, met President Syngman
Rhee twice today and later re
ceived the key to the city of Seoul
from its mayor.
More Than 100 Visitors
Attend Fourth Science
Conference at Juneau
JUNEAU, UP) — One hundred
visitors arrived oyer the weekend
for the fourth Alaska Science con
ference, which opens here tonight,
another 100 were expected to reg
ister during the day.
Two scientists from England
joined the influx from Alaska and
the states.
The opening program has been
changed to put one of the dis
tinguished British visitors on the
rostrum.
After the official welcome, Sir
Charles Normand, Oxford meteor
ologist, will deliver the opening
address on “Ozone and the Upper
Air Conditions.” He will be fol
lowed by Dr. C. T. Elvey, director
of the Geophysical Institute and
opening session chairman. He will
speak on “Solar Energy.”
, Sir Charles, who holds a spot
in Britain’s “Who’s Who',” came
to Juneau from Toronto, where he
attended a joint Canadian-Ameri
can Science meeting. He has been
president of the Royal Meteor
ological Society for the past two
years and is one of the few hon
orary members of the American
Meteorological Society.
The sessions, running through
Saturday, will be held in the Ju
neau Grade School auditorium.
Outlawed ILA Union
Threatens Tie-Up Of
Port of New York
NEW YORK, UD— Rebel rank
and file longshoremen demanded
today that New York’s giant port
be tied up “tight as a drum” un
less a new wage contract is signed
by Wednesday midnight.
This more added a new factor
to the already tense situation in
the sprawling port. Beside the
wage dispute, a bitter battle is
shaping up between the orphaned
International Longshoremen’s As
sociation and a new AFL union
for control of the dock workers.
To prevent possible clashes in
the union struggle, all available
New York police fanned out to
stand guard in the pier areas of
Manhattan, Brooklyn and Staten
Island this morning.
The International Longshore
men’s Association (ILA) was
thrown out of the AFL for failure
to cleanse itself of corruption. The
AFL promptly set up a new union
by the same name.
The ILA has defied the new
AFL union to raid its ranks,
threatening to quit working ships
in ports
The ILA has continued to bar
gain for a new contract with the
New York Shipping Association.
The present contract expires at
midnight Wednesday.
Although one ILA official said
last night there would be no strike
if the talks go past the deadline,
a rank and file group plastered
the dock area with handbills today
calling for a no-contract, no-work
stand.
“If the employers don’t come
through by Wednesday night, tie
the port up tight as a drum—that
is the only language the ship own
ers have ever understood,” the
handbills said.
Neutral Comm. Is
Charged With
Red-Slanted Letter
PANMUNJOM, Iff) —The U. N.
Command charged today a Kor
ean repatriation commission docu
ment circulated among war pri
soners who renounced Commun
ism was Red-slanted. An Indian
spokesman for the neutral com
mission quickly denied the accu
sation.
Brig. Gen. A. L. Hamlen, chief
of the U.N. Comand repatriation
group, cited a letter he said the
commission distributed to the
22,600 unrepatriated POWs Sat
urday. He said the Allies were
not told of the letter before it
was handed out.
An Allied spokesman told news
men the letter was clearly of
Chinese Communist origin and
immediately was recognized by
“shocked” anti - Red Chinese
POWs as propaganda aimed at
persuading them to gb home.
However, the commission
spokesman declared:
“As far as the commission is
concerned, they have not indulged
in propaganda for any side.”
The spokesman added that the
letter was broadcast as well as
circulated among the prisoners as
“a joint effort . . . prepared by
a subcommittee erf the commis
sion and all nations were repre
sented.”
None of the warring nations is
on the commission.
Arsonist Sets Third Fire'
In Two Nights At
Moses Lake, Wash.
MOSES LAKE, Wash., OP)—The
third man-set fire in two nights
caused an estimated $40,000 dam
age to a building materials plant
late Sunday night, and police —
continuing investigations of arson
— reported the arrest of a man
found in the vicinity.
The latest blaze, at the Moses
Lake building materials plant,
came after authorities had ques
tioned 15 men in connection with
two Saturday night fires which
caused $350,000 damage at a lum
ber yard and a cold storage plant.
Most of the men were released
after questioning by city police
and firemen and investigators
from the state fire marshal’s of
fice. Fire Chief Leonard Cook
said there was little doubt, how
ever, the fires were the work of
a fire bug.
FINAL STANDINGS
National League
W L Pet. GB
Brooklyn 105 *49 .682 ....
Milwaukee 92 62 .597 13
St. Louis 83 71 .539 22
Philadelphia 83 71 .539 22
New York 70 84 .455 35
Cincinnati 68 86 .442 37
Chicago 65 89 .422 40
Pittsburgh 50 105 .324 55
American League
New York 99 52 .656 ....
Cleveland 92 62 .597 8 *6
Chicago 89 65 .578 lltfs
Boston 84 69 .549 16
Washington 76 76 .500 23V5
Detroit 60 94 .390 40 Vz
Philadelphia 59 95 .383 41V5
St. Louis 54 100 .351 46 Vi
Official Report Cites
Congestion of Court
Docket at Anchorage
WASHINGTON, UR — The con
gestion of court dockets in Alas
ka’s Third Division “has become
more serious” in the last year,
says the annual report of the di
rector of the Administrative Of
fice of U.S. Courts.
, The Anchorage court is singled
out, as one of the system’s most
heavily burdened.
The report noted that the Al
aska Legislature recommended an
additional judge for the Third
Division in 1947. The same recom
mendation was made by the Judi
cial Conference of the United
States in 1949 and has been re
affirmed annually since.
The additional Alaska judge
was included in an omnibus
judgeship bill passed by the Sen
ate in the first session of the 83rd
Congress but was deleted from
the House version of the bill
which is now in conference await
ing the return of Congress for
possible action.
In recent years, the report de
clares, the number of cases in the
Third Division has continued to
increase until they now number
“much larger . . . than all of
the other three divisions of the
territory taken together.”
Not only is the additional judge
“badly needed” in the district,
the report says, but the death of
Judge A. J. Dimond last May—
a vacancy which has not yet been
filled—also has “aggravated” the
court’s condition.
Belief Grows That Gov.
Earl Warren Slated For
Supreme Court Post
SACRAMENTO, Calif., OR—Be
lief that Republican Gov. Earl
Warren is headed for a federal
post — most likely the Supreme
Court—grew today after a secret
conference with a visitor identi
fied as Atty. Gen. Herbert Brow
nell.
What they talked about was not
disclosed. But plainly President
Eisenhower’s patronage counsellor
would not have flown here to
trade notes about the World Series
with California’s 63-year-old law
yer governor.
In Washington, it was reported
that an appointment to the Su
preme Court is awaiting formal
recommendation to the White
House by Brownell. The attorney
general has been a special ad
viser to Eisenhower in the ap
pointment field, with special in
terest in the judiciary.
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JOE LOUIS' MOTHER ILL
DETROIT, OR — A mother who
cheered him to the world’s heavy
weight boxing championship,
awaited the arrival of Joe Louis
at her bedside today. She is crit
ically ill of a stomach ailment and
heart condition.
She is Mrs. Lillie Barrow
Brooks, ncfw in her 70’s.
Gov. Heinizleman Enters Hospital
JUNEAU, 03 — Gov. Heintzle
man entered a hospital here Sat
urday afternoon for treatment of
a chest congestion. His condition
was-reported as not serious.
Investigation
Ordered to Probe
Beef Price Margins
WASHINGTON, UP) — Secretary
of Agriculture Benson has order
ed an investigation to find out
whether there is a “widening of
the spread between prices- farm
ers receive for their cattle and the
cost of these at retail.”
“Farmers of America are en
titled to know if there is truth to*
the charge that margins are ex
cessive,” Benson said Saturday
night in announcing he had in
structed department experts to
make a study and report quickly
to him.
Benson sdid he had received a
number of reports, from mem
bers of Congress and others, that
there is a growing spread between
the price the farmer gets and the
price the housewife pays for beef.
In Chicago, the American Meat
Institute said in a statement:
“Some critics unfortunately
have clouded the facts by compar
ing prices paid for low grade
cattle and cows with the retail
price of choice steak cut from top
quality, finished, grain-fed steers.
Such mixed-up reasoning is like
comparing prices of wild daisies
with cultivated hot Ipuse or
chids.”
Benson noted that the govern
ment’s latest cost of living index
reflected a 6 per cent jump in
the price of beef and veal from
July to August, and he said it
came at a time of abundant sup
plies and generally low cattle
prices.
Congress Reminded Less
Than Third of Lend-Lease
Repayments Are Made
WASHINGTON, (^ — President
Eisenhower reminded Congress
today that less than one-third of
the eventual payment due from
World War II lend-lease benefi
ciaries had been paid by the end
of calendar 1952.
While lend-lease settlement ag
reements call for ultimate pay
ment to the United States of $1,
574,534,330, plus interest, debtor
government had paid only $429,
020,540 by last Dec. 31.
The President also said in a
routine report—required by law
but all of it old news—that the
United States had been unable to
reach lend-lease settlement agree
ments with Soviet Russia, Poland,
Nationalist China and Peru—and
that Bolivia and Ecuador still
owed sums under separate aid
accounts.
During the year, Paraguay com
pleted the final payment orf its
obligations incurred for defense
aid.
FOUR CREWMEN DIE IN
C-47 CRASH IN PYRENEES
PERPIGNAN, France, UP) — A
searching party reported finding
the wreckage of a U.S. Air Force
C-47 in the Pyrenees Mountains
near here today and said the four
crew members had been burned
to death.
The big two-engined plane, on
a training flight from England to
Spain last reported in Saturday
night.
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