Special Committee To
Watch Over Russian
Security Organs
JVIOSCOW, UP) — Russia’s secur
ity organs have been placed under
scrutiny of a special watchdog
committee. Agencies whose activ
ities Will be checked by the new
group include the MVD, the So
' vtet secret police organization.
The committee was established
by the presidium of the Supreme
Soviet at a meeting April 7.
The function of the new organ
ization is not to correct past mis
takes, but to prevent their recur
rence.
The committee is set up as a
special division in the chief prose
cutor’s office with the power to
inspect and supervise the work of
state security organs, criminal
and civil courts and prisons.
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Federation of Women’s
Clubs To Hold Convention
In Juneau May 4 and 5
The Alaska Federation of Wom
en’s Clubs has announced their
convention will be held in Juneau
May 4 and 5. This first biennium
convention of the Federation is
for the purpose of electing officers
for 1956 to 1958.
Mrs. Gerald Williams, vice pres
ident and general chairman of the
convention, has announced the
following program plans:
Mrs. Robert Atwood will give a
lecture on her European and Mid
dle East tour. A speech on library
services for Alaska will be given
by Mrs. Dorothy Phelps, territor
ial librarian. There will be a
speaker on juvenile problems.
There will be a film on adult edu- i
cation and rehabilitation and sev
eral speakers on this need in the
territory. It is also hoped Gov. B.
Frank Heintzleman will be on the
program.
Mrs. Wm. C. Erwin, Federation
president, is enthusiastic about
the convention program and is
anticipating a large delegation.
She has announced that the Year
Book will be on sale at the con
vention and will include the con
vention program.
"4-on" Duplicate Receipt Books
at the Nugget
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Reds In Berlin
Says U.S. ‘Tapped’
Communications
BERLIN, UP — The U.S. com
mand in Berlin Tuesday denied
knowledge of a tunnel the Rus
sians charged was used by spies
tapping the Soviets’ main com
munication lines.
A U.S. spokesman said, how
ever, the Soviet accusation “is
being investigated.” Another Am
erican official described the So
viet charge as “ridiculous.”
The Russians announced their
signal and intelligence officers
uncovered a long and elaborately
equipped, 1,600-foot tunnel run
ning from the American sector of
Berlin into the Soviet sector.
They accused “American mili
tary authorities” of digging the
tunnel and equipping it with an
intricate system of listening de
vices, switchboards and record
ing apparatus. The Soviets claim
ed the Americans tapped three
main cables which supply com
munications for their forces in
East Germany.
The episode was the most spec
tacular in East-West relations in
Berlin since the four- hour deten
tion of four Americans, including
two congressmen, by Communist
police last November in East
Berlin. *
After a news conference in East
Berlin, the Soviets showed West
ern and Communist newsmen
through the tunnel. It contained
an air conditioning system, a
switchboard, an amplifier, record
ing devices and the three cables
which the Russians said were
tapped.
Each cable carried about 100
wires.
Four Israelis Ambushed
Near Jordan Border
JERUSALEM, UP — Shots from
ambush killed four Israeli water
authority men in the Negeb desert
a few hundred yards from the
Jordan border Monday night.
The killings tightened the Arab
Israeli tension that Dag Ham
marskjold’s mission is seeking to
abate.
The Israeli water party—made
up of three engineers and their
driver — was reported attacked
shortly before sundown on the
Beersheba-Eilat road not far from
Scorpion Pass, where Arab infil
trators shot up an Israeli bus in
1954 and killed 12 of its passen
gers.
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Thursday Luncheon
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Tuesday Noon
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