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Senator Visiting Hawaii
Says It Would Be Good
If McKay Were Fired
HONOLULU, U!)—Sen. Murray
(D-Mont) said Wednesday that it
would be “a good thing for the
country if Secretary of the Inter
ior Douglas McKay is fired.”
Murray, chairman of the Senate
Interior and Insular Affairs Com
mittee, arrived for a vacation and
“a re-appraisal of the Hawaii
statehood situation.
Murray said in a shipboard in
terview “McKay is not the right
man for the job.” He accused the
interior secretary of favoritism to
business and industry.
“We should have a man who is
free and independent and willing
to do a job in the best interest of
the development of the country,”
he said.
Hawaiian statehood could be
approved by the next session of
Congress, Murray said, “if the ad
ministration would withdraw its
ill-founded opposition to a fair
deal for Alaska.”
He said he is open minded about
separating Hawaii and Alaska
when the statehood issue comes
up for consideraiton. A bill com
bining the two territories was
sidetracked in the last session.
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PANSY BROWNIES
The Pansy Brownies had their
first meeting Saturday. Seven
girls were present.
We elected officers. They are:
Alice Arnold, patrol leader;
Pauline Hurman, scribe, Gracie
Aukon, treasurer; and Karen
Swim, representative to Court of
Honor.
We all enjoyed singing around
the piano. Mrs. Baldwin played
for us.
—Pauline Hurman, Scribe
BE IT EVER SO HUMBLE
LEICESTER, England, (ff>—Two
hours after escaping from jail
Monday night, 25-year-old Dennis
Anson rang the bell at the front
gate and asked the warden to let
him back in.
“I’m tired, cold and hungry,”
Anson explained, “and besides I
split my pants climbing over the
fence.”
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Iff) — Ross
Vardon, longtime principal of the
Greenwood School, Wakefield,
who died last Sept. 29, ordered
that the headstone on his grave
be marked:
“No school today
“Teacher gone home.”
The order was contained in
Vardon’s will, filed for probate
yesterday.
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Report Reveals
Russia Dodged
War Against Japan
WASHINGTON, UR—Although
the Russians agreed in 1943 to go
to war against Japan after Ger
many’s defeat, they persistently
dodged American efforts to work
out plans for such military opera
tions.
This picture emerges from a
newly published account of be
hind the scenes events leading up
to Russia’s entry into the Far
Eastern war—only a few days be
fore the Japanese surrendered in
August 1945. The Defense Depart
ment Wednesday made public the
35,000-word document.
The Pentagon document said
that “to coordinate United States
operations in the Pacific with
prospective Soviet action, the mil
itary planners in Washington
needed detailed information on
Soviet capabilities and intentions
in the Far East.
Maj. Gen. John R. Deane, a
member of the UJS. mission in
Moscow, tried to get this informa
tion, but the report said his ef
forts had “produced no return” by
the beginning of 1944. Then, dur
ing the first months ofHhat year,
Deane submitted lists of questions
to Soviet officials. “The Soviet re
sponse continued to be disappoint
ing” the report said.
“During the first half of 1944,”
it added,” “it appeared impossible
to arrange for any systematic So
viet-United States discussion of
Far Eastern matters.”
Early in February 1944, the doc
uments related, Soviet Marshal
Joseph Stalin told U.S. Ambassa
dor Averell Harriman the United
States would be allowed to oper
ate aircraft from Siberia after the
Russians declared war on Japan.
“No opportunity was offered ...
for consultation with Soviet air
officers about the details of such
an undertaking,” the report said.
“In April the Soviet government
requested delivery of 500 heavy
bombers . . . but negotiations on
this matter also failed to make
progress.”
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