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HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1946 _ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS VOL. LXVI, NO. 10,192 — BE'"'ER AlR [RUMOR SAYS ICKES { AGREEMENT HELP ASKED FOR fTruman Wi" BlG ROAD %SMMON INDUSTRY ’MH’de_ous - SUCCESSOR MAY BE ~ - VETS TO SET UP B { . MORE IMPORTANT MAIL ASKED “cov. waucren MADEFOR “yowewaaska BeCandidate | PROGRAM “myawatomictesr SHUTSDOWN FOR AI'ASKA‘M B AVIATION . s Eledwn- " nor Makes Important | ON BUSINESS {Troman _cabinet. Holden claims| 3 o bited |ivcontary and B L. Bartiets: {aa ‘ o 407 Mi ity SUggeSfiOfl in East Expansion — $400,000 |t e teat Season 1or wan- | Signed Between Unife xpressions Follow- iles - Cost 3- | WAEnINGTON, Web.. 12 —'tbe] fARL 5 hsked 1 11 o dlooums » cabinet rote. | States ?nd Britain ing Recent Reports Periodfisflgsw,()fl%ar e o ot e e dgfl f"}';s,,f,'," f;‘ t;iltel:ts Strebig WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. — The | posed atom bomb tests in the Pa- P o s Wi, Adbiky Maiden ot | IN AI.ASKA Washington State Gover- oed IO A | veterans desiring to settle in Alaska. USE PRS00y et rotden ciaume | COMMercial Flying Pact Is Democratic Leaders Give New Routes Would Cover: |Work Prac?ialy Forbid- |gren’s visit to the national c;\pxluli ! portant to the nation than the pro- has | Territory and E. L. Bartlett, the |Alaskan delegate in Congress, -said they told the President that: | { 1. Alaska needs many more | roads, agricult research facilit- lies and other improvements as part | lof an overall development program. g to settle in' Service Recarrmended for Asked for Purpose ‘ | Holden quoies informed sources | 12— The!in Washington, as he put it, as say- | By James | WASHINGTON, Feb | b. 12—Demo- WASHINGTON, Fe ! NEW YORK, Feb. 12—This Postoffice Department, defending ing that Intesor Secretary Harold their request for $400,000 to expand Ickes is ready airmail service in Alaska, says the comes off, Holden's people in the Territory want better tinues, “the President wants than once-a-month mail delivery. |friend Mon for Secretary C. H. Stephenson, superintendent of the Division of Railway Adjust-) ANOTHER ICKES REPORT , ments, also told the House Appro-| ASHINGTON, Feb, 12. — The priations committee it costs more White House declined comment to- to operate the service than it did day on a published report ‘lmtinigm. allows the commercial planes | Secretary of Interior Ickes might!of each courtry to use the airports previously. The committee allowed $375,000 be removed from office soon. of the $400,000 asked. ! Piess Secretary Charles G. Ross The witness said although Alaska | Wa$ osked sbout a story in the is a sparsely settled country, the Detroit News that such action postoffice department gives mail be taken as a fesult of Ickes service to few people, located in far | testimony concerning Edwin V. off places who can be reached at Pauley, President Truman’s nom- reasonable cost. inee for Na“y Undersecretary. The Stephenson sala @ seven-days- News attribut~d its in(o‘rmauon to week route is planned between Ju- Sources close to Mr. Truman. neau and Anchorage, It will cut/ “Its possible to write that sort 12 hours from the present trip Of sPeculative story about anybody, schedule, Ross replied. The witness said 95 per cent of _ lI;ke.&, ul‘:f“x;l S mail service in Alaska is by plane 1(: N" ¥ i and added that a request had been M B o i Diomede aisd: BOY SCOUTS GUESTS TODAY OF ROTARIANS which separates the United States from Russia. He said 40 air mail routes were operated in Alaska, nine Boy Scouts, 25 of them, from Troops 612 and 613 were guests of the Rotary Club at the regular about had the report, no com- { HAMILTON Bermuda, Feb. jzing an uulimited number of | flights between the two countries |at “economic rates” to be fixed by | intergovernniental action. | The agreement, signed here last | of the other as Stepping stones on | global flights. ‘; Each country s given a hand in determining the number of ‘wuch flights to be made by its air- !lines. “Fifth Freedon.’ So-called “fifth freedom” traffic is authorizei. This will allow an {airliner en route between the two | countries to pick up passengers and ‘u-m.u for a third country, and will {allow economic operation of the :lorg-line services with whom both Britain and the United States are planning to cncircle the world. (A second eement was reached [opening to cummercial traffic many vof tne militery air bases built by 'the United States government on [Lernmry leased from the British in { Newfoundland, Bermuda and Carib- | bean areas. U. 8, commercial planes | will receive “most favored nation” { treatinent at those bases routes by dog team and eight motor luncheon meeting today, and hosts ! Favorahle Treatment GI's wanting to quit. When this Commercial aviation in the United |Alaska should be given more fav- article con- [States and Great Britain was link- (0T t his |ed today by an agreement author-| { | “Alaska covers an area one-fifth able maritime transportation e las large the United States, yet s last |tion of 72, \porters. | “Thousands of war veterans from this country would like to settle in Alaska, and it is the duty of the Federal government to make it 000,” Gruening told re- free |POSsible for them to go there and| make a livelihood. “We think Alaska is entitled to share in Federal Aid road money, that it has been discriminated against because it has never been included under the Federal Congress has never seen fit to pro- vide for Alaska's development.” The Governor presented the Pres- ident a picture of Resurrection Bay and Seward, Aalaska. OF GOLD IS == INCREASING cratic leaders expressed confidence | Interior Department asked | cific, says Gov. Mon C. Wallgren. | world's greatest metropolls was a sus didclosed a popula-§ Act. | ‘toda_\ that President Truman will|Congiess for $3,790,400 to begin a' He told a reporter in the nation's be a candidate for re-election in'road improvement in Alaska, with capital, that if the tests are going 11948 despite reports that he has'$2,300,000 to be spent for new roads to haim thc salmon industry in £aid he does not want to run. | to open agricultural areas. Washington end Alaska, they Published accounts of a reported! The project is disclosed by Dele- |should be called off. He suggested incident at the White House sev- | gate . L. Bartlett of Alaska, who the government make certain be- eral weeks ago in which the Pres- said the new routes would cover|forehand how the explosions will {ident was reputed to have made 407 miles cost, over a three- | affect fish life. the assertion brought no denial, year period, total of $9,540,000. However, the Interior Depart- from party members in a pnsmunl‘ Bartlett said the appropriation— ment announced that a study of to know about the occurrence. requested for ‘the. flscal year start- the fish situation was part of the But one Democratic lieutenant jng next July 1—would include cost |tomic test” preparations. who declined to be quoted by name, ' of new construction, and of main-| T think the government should saild he and others regarded Mr.!tenance and surveys by the Alaska make certain there will beé no in- Truman's reported statement &s Road Commission. " Jjury vo fish life before going ahead only a reiteration of the view the oo oo =t tory's with the tests,” Wallgren said. President has entertained since he system was described by B 5 o D P succeeded to the office last April e L mogh % Mr. Truman has told friends in :"fnb:l’,"‘o'm(“‘);;;;g: it "‘c‘:;}‘;slh a' Ku’"es d p g s 4 81 |the past that he would much pre-| ..o with picsident Truman about | De(iSion Was i War Secrel Ifer to have remained on Capitol | - 'Hil. He has said to them he dia * MOUh 280, ‘They s \not seek the Presidency in any mfl_? bp‘zu.’ m“_“ 30, OPR (W way, but would do his best to do agricultural arcas 80 they could be credit to the office ireached by prospective settlers. Party chieftains were incliped to . ot the new mileage planned for olass the latest reported declard-|the three-year period, the 1047 ap- propriation and the three year es- LONDON, Feb. 12.—Edward R.! !Stettinius, Jr, Secretary' of State under the late President Roosevelt, | 1said today he “was familiar” with the negotiations between Roosevelt, Generalissimo Stalin and Winston | | [ PRODUCTION tion as.another indication of his timawd cost are: Anchorage to rsonal modesty. But they said 7 it Y S84 botter road (12 miles) $240,000 and they have little doubt Mr.| Truman can be convinced that he $240000; Kcnal Lake to Homer ‘road /125 miles) $800,000 and $3,- is likely to be the only Democratic 125.000: < Tan:roes. to; Haglé road candigate who has a chance of| Witalg for. the. party 111048, 1 (115 mules) *$560,000 and_$2,300,000, 'and Richarcscnt Highway to Mc- 'Kinley Park road 155 giles) $700,- 000 and $3,875,000. silent, stricken city today. The city is under virtual martial law. Wartime restrictions at their worst never imposed such austeri- ties as Mayor Willlam O'Dwyer’s fuel-saving proclamation closing all places except those most vitally concerned with public safety and health because of the tugboat strike involving 3,500 workers for the past niue days. ‘The city’s 8,000,000 inhabitants— many forbidden to work—still were a littie stunned and bewildered. They were told to stay off sub- ways. They could not see a movie, go to other amusemegt centers, or even drink a friendly glass of beer {in a bar. The underground trembling of subways, the overhead roar of the El, the hoot, squeal and clatter of traftic were sharply reduded. Only a few trucks rumbled along streets in the city’s great indus- trial wholesale and retail centers. Gilant, towering skyscrapers were empty and si.ent .save for the oc- casional footsteps of maintenance men. Schois were closed. Police stoord at subway entrances and at. strategic . points on thor- oughfares, telling all comers: “All stores rnd offices in the city !Churchill over the Kurile Islands Closed today.” Bartlett said that funds requested INS [ ] h S'nl Congress for 1947 also include vehicles. - eee i 2 ol RECONVERSION |N and guests alike enjoyed the show-| The Unitedl States will continue l E T ing of the moving picture, “If I to maintain such fields, and “no 3 - \ (ANADA HAI.F WAY Had My Way" newest techni-jother civil air carrier, including ~WASHINGTON. Feb. i2. — Gom, i$157500 for maintenance of 210 |color picture of Boy Scout camp |civil air carriers of the United King- Production in the United States,{ CALCUTTA—British authorities |miles of the Alaska Highway with- |life in the Ozarks. {dom." will be granted any more which fell cif sharply during the|have placed Cnlcutta under martial (jn the Territory by the Alaska OTTAWA, Feb. 12—Canada has' This picture is being featured |favorable treatment than the Unit- WAr io now increasing slowly butilaw following rioting by Hindus'Road Commission. He said $250,000 about reached the half-way mark throughout the country at similar eq States. STERAYS 4 land Moslems. 'British troops and 'had been requested for survey of | in its reconversion problems, recon- |gatherings, in commemoration °f| The signing of the bilateral! FProduction in December, 1945, light tanks are moving thrdugh the ' proposed road routes in the Ter- struction minister C. D. Howe said. Boy Scout Week, and has proved |agreement and the initialing of the Bureau of* Mines reported to- streets in an effort to quell the ritory. The minister, who leaves this to be of much interest. Delben;me pact covering the use of leased day. totaled 1.93,399 ounces C°m-;[hsmders. i\ 'The Delegate said the total ex- week for a rest on the West Coast, Hanks and Han‘y‘ Sperling Were | pases brought to a successful com- pared with 98,328 ounces in No- % penditure required for rehabilita- yesterday told a press conference: in charge of today’s program. |pletion four weeks of negotiations. Yember, and a war-time low of . EDMONTON, Alberta—Col. C. M. tion of ,the Richardson highway “The general factors are all fa- \at the Yalta conference. | The teeming Vrell Street district, In response to an inquiry as to its ~jerations idle anyway today whether he knew of the Kuriles because of Iincoln's birthday—was agreement by which Russia obtain- as quiet as Trinity churchyard. ed possession of the island chain Should the emergency continue to- north of Japan, Stettinius said: 'morrow, markets throughout the | “At Yalta I was familiar with world would feel repercussions. ;Lhe negotiations that President Rocsevelt had with Marshal Stalin and Prime Minister Churchill.| OTHER CITIES TIED UP €ince this was an agreement in-' New York city is not the only |volving the future participation by big city feeling the grip of strikes. the Soviet Union in the war against Pittsburgh is tied up, especially Japan, it obviously could not be the industrial center, and some |made public without endangering 2,00C.000 residents in a 10-mile ithe whole course of the war in the area are threstened to be deprived Pacific.” (of electric service as a strike of 13,400 power service employees start- led at 4 am. (EST) today. Shortly OSCOW, Feb. 12—The Soviet aftcr,-all street car service was sus- |government newspaper, Izvestia pended and Plttsburgh’s full force commented today that the publi- of policemen and foremen were |cation of the: Yalta agreement giv-|called out to cope with any emer- BUL Russian Statement | Scouts who attended the lunch- e pilateral agreement will re- 64441 in January, 1945. Clifford, officer commanding the ' was estimated at $6200,000 and vorable, industrial employment is ‘Hprn, Genlld Shaw, iDoynld Mac- pe terminated on one year's notice, @ Jne€ cunce. v Legion of Merit for exceptional 000 of the amount. of plants are beginning to take on |Kinnon, Kenneth —Hildrith, Hays| o, the basis of the negotiations, ~Aleska was credited with 11,200 {work in connection with the con- | : - their postwar complement.” Miller and Kermit Bowling. Tro0p:ine United States plans 13 global Ounces in Dccember, but this was,struction of ihe Alaska Highway, . 1613 was represented by Dick and| o .ies and the British seven. based on t receipts. This means | the Canol project and reorgamza-:WEST (OAST T - |Hill, Carl Weidman, George Barril, | - earlier. and the Bureau said most |trict. : 4y e as lngton-’fle Wilson, Duane .lArlowe,G Dick<0h l [B y | producers in Alaska were closed for | s Keithahn, = Robert Hildre, George a Ies the season during December. | WAS E forg 7 ok | ” 4 ASHINGTON — President Tru- IEES, 4 i3 14 !gold in the first half of last year, viding for expansion of weather ob- ing " | % 8 g the Kurile Islands to Russia cy. Publ re closed. 0 Rodger and Jeff Pegues, Dale Roff | S produced 21;(;00 ounces in Decem- |servation facilities in the Arctic| should convince the world “once‘gem.y 1 ghecls, are By DREW PEARSON Th b oAl oo ew ber, flbf’“' 42 perbent of its month- | region of Npwc1 America. The mea- | KE again with what scruples and ac- 10 Philadelnbia, the transit strike & P 5 Vit "lifii?n?r‘:;;:‘e“m l‘ft”will el ly average ra‘c in 1939, and againisure provides for establishment of | |curacy the USSR. fulfills her continued for the second day and w.«:mn_qrror«—-"rm 82nd Au’-{‘owen;s i Bné’. wll? be observ- | WASHINGTON, « Feb. 12—Six is the nation's leading producer. |an unstated nimber of observation | |treaties and agreements.” {business in the Nation’s third larg- borne Division paraded up Fifth| R g e ket T thc}pairs of nylons by next July for| Pl {stations at a cost of about $200,000 ——— Ave:u::_, New York, on January _12, GoIA Bokm iofsine. Buthron Hotel‘e""y woman in the country g jeach. In 1920, the pnn.cd States | WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—8ecre- of agreements and obligations is a are inconvenicnced. symbolic of the might of the Unit- | 507 Be0m. of the BWAROLt MO opa's goal, 0(| @CKEeUrS noa three stations in the Arctic tary of Interlor Ickes has cancell- pecessary element for building a! Al strikes stem from disputes ed States Aray, the finest army in < while Russia had }57 and other ed a Series of speeches on the West firm and lasting peace,” the news- | over wages ard hours. | s M p o | 5 8 tions a total of 96. Coast this month because he i5 paper added. [ ttle cha n o th the) .t week f0f the ‘Rotatiris. {haps July before every woman has ]' v ' Sl k | foreign na C b / pap: led. | There appears little change :fl'elfl':in;fmgfl;_‘fltmm;; [r::)‘?s:l’ini Th addttios t.oethe Boy Scouts |perhaps half a dozen pairs put, o o e on ” e‘ 2 G {“just too busy" to leave Washing-| yzyéstia asserted that the return the country’s other major labor vere -point men, = 4 i ty Price Administrator £ T other guests today were Douglas 2Way," Deputy i . gible for disnarge, who were re- ' G:rdon Wah{o F Do:ggl::laeomey Baker told the House ap- | ongs oremen‘/\mencnns are caught today in the! This explanation was offered by in the Far East” should put an end | General Motors and CIO Electrical tyrned Stateside on the Queen i arip of strikes more crippling than |the Secretary’s press spokesman In'io discussions abroad. Workers walkouts. any wartime emergencies. !reporting that Ickes still is in | pu o O eon from Troop 612 included Tom :mgjn in effect indefinitely and may = Gold is worth approximately $35) Nortliwest District, has received the | Congress had appropriated $5.200- stepping up steadily and a number Don Wingerson, Fred Wyller, Jerry ! tHe gold actually was produced ;tion of the Nurthwest military d and Charles MasLellan, # “The firm and direct fulfillment st city is disrupted and millions . | “The trade feels it will be per- the world. Marching along with the,theré will be no noon Iluncheon e WASHINGTON—Nearly 15,000,000 ;con. [to Russia of her “Historical rights troubles—the steel strike and the Siry ~ ahalda 68 aoteral thousand'Ralph A. Bartholomew, Ron Mmi_ipmprialions committee during the; high-point G.I’S in Europe. | In Decembér -and early January, this columnist received cables from ! thousands of protesting G.I.'s withi more than 80 months overseas ser- | vice and eligivle for discharge De- | cember 1. They wanted to know why low-poipt of the 82nd Divi- | gion wel home while they stayed o i‘rEympe ‘The War Department had an im- mediate answer. It explained that these low-print men were highly trained specialists and would be used for training cadres in the Regular Army: thus justifying their carly raturn. But here is what really happen. ed: - On January 14 just two days af- | ter the parade, the Commanding General. Ground Forces, issued the following directive: “Report for dis- | tharge as surplus upon arrival in this country all enlisted men as-; signed to $%2rnd Airborne Division, | who will have completed two and | | i |gan, Ray Roady, Jack Maloca, Joe Stedman, all Dan Moller of of Bailey, Verne Ketchikan, and Sitka. A Board of Directors meeting to ibe held at 5 o'clock this afternoon in John Young's office was an- nounced, at which time plans for a Soapbox Derby, under the Youth Development program, will be put forward by Don Skuse. PARTIAL HOLIDAY HERE HONORS ABE LINCOLN'S BIRTH In comemo:ationy of Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday all Territorial offices were closed today. Unoffi- cially a number of Health Depart- ment and Social Security employees were a* work, and lights were on in the Auvditor’s office, but the ma- consideration of an OPA supply bill | (approved today. { i Baker said the principal shortage now is due to lack of certain shap- ing machines. are ready, he said, there will be adequate nylon yarn for a plentiful !supply by early summer. | ' ALASKA PROJECTS GIVEN APPROVAL SFATTLE, i'eb. 12—The U. ! District Eng'rzers announced to- day the granting of the following permits: | Civil Aerov.autics Administration, float to faciiitate construction of radio station at Indian Point en Duncun: Canal near Petersburg. New Englaud Fish Co. cannery |structures, Steamboat Bay, Noyes |Island near Craig. Pacific Anierican Fisheries, Inc., ;cannery structures, Kasaan Bay, one-half years service as of April Jority’ of Territorial office WOrkers pyinc, of Wales Island. 1. 1946, or have an ASR score of | 44 . 'no publicity will be given | this directive.” | These low-point men came to| parade in New York, leaving high- | point men ir Europe; but now, de-}' spite the War Department’s pre- yious alibi, #he low-point men are getting out. i The last sentence is significant: “No publicitv will be given this di- P (Continued on Page Four) ) were taking a holiday, and all de- partiuents were declared closed for the day. Senools held sessjons as usual, no holiday. Most Feder:l employees were at their desks, except in Court circles, it bemng a non-judicial day there. While private offices and stores puisued the :ormal course of busi- ness, banks were locked up. City departments were operating as usu- al Robert R. Wheeler and Willlam W. Simms, wharf, boat sheds and fill, Jamestown Bay near Sitka. | A three-yecr extension of time i was granted Ben Tompkins of Ketchikan on his permit for two wharves in ‘Tungass NaIrrows near ‘[ Ketcnikan, . FROM BIRMINGHAM | Muj. and Mrs. Harold Shevlin, Birmingham, Alabama, is a guest at the Baranof. | SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 12.—Thei CIO Internotional Longshoremen's |and Warehousemen's Union check- Once these machines | °'S and supercargoes will vote soon | dicted failure of the Soviet Ukrain- | whether to strike by April 1, un- |ion officials said today. itee unanimuusly recommended a| ! strike, following a deadlock in con- |iract negotiations, Michael John-|night, "’son second vice-president of the' |union, said. About 1,600 workersy lare ‘involved. i } Strike bai‘cts similar to those| {already mailed to more than 22,000 | " |longshoremer. of the Pacific Coast | | i {will go out to the checkers and | supercargoes this week. Russians Place Ban | " On "Our Town' Play BERLIN, Teb. 12—The Russians | nave banned Thornton Wilder's 1938 Pulitzer Prize winning play, |“Our Town” in -their section of | | Berlin on the grounds. that the! drama is too gepressing and could | }inspire a German suicide wave. The play now is heing produced in the American seztor. > | NEW YORK—General Motors of- | fered its 175,000 striking CIO Unit- ed Auto Workers a wage increase of 18% cents an hour today, but the Union promptly turned it down. ‘The workers demand 19'¢ cents. A ionight. | Washington, although he had plan- LONDON—-French Foreign Min- ned. to leave for the west last Sat- cter Georges Bidault today pre-:urday. Ickes had scheduled speeches for California at ian demand that the United Na-ithe University of Fran- tions Security Council set up a Berkeley February 14, San A coastwise negotiating commit- | commission to investigate condi- |cisco, Feb. 15 Fresno, Feb. 16 and gy, NNON Eire, Feb. 12—The tions, in Indonesia. The Council Los Angeles Feb. 18. ‘adjourned today until tomorrow There was no comment as te whether Ickes' cancellation of the trip had any connection with his recent testimony before the Senate Naval affairs committee on the nomination of Edward W. Pauley to be Undersecretary of the Navy. LONDON—Otficial British sourc- es said tonigit that their delega- | tion to the Security Council’s Mil-| tary Comriittee had proposed abolition of military conscription | in ail of the United Nations when | ‘he Deace agency’s international| police force is established. The DEBATE BETWEEN 08" ' tamoring ne veovoss | ) HIGH SCHOOLS IS STEAMER MOVEMENTS | POSIP_O!ED WEEK Taku, from Seattle due Thursday.| Ketchikan's debate team will not Columbia scheduled to sail from arrive here Friday for the first de- Seattle tomorrow. {bate session with Juneau High as Princess Norah scheduled to sail |previously scheduled, A. B. Phil- from Vancouver Friday. ilips, Superintendent of Juneau Tongass scheduled to sail from |Schools, announced this morning. Seattle Saturday. i Transportation arrangements have North Sea, trom Sitka, scheduled]not been completed and the Ketch- to arrive southbound at 11 o'clock ikan debaters with their debate coach, Superintendent of Schools Denali, from the westward due{J. E. Danielson, have postponed possibly Thu:sday. {this weekend's trip to Juneau. Baranof, from westward, sched- el uled southbouud Sunday. ! CHUCK THOMPSON HERE . ; Chuck A. Thompson of Seattle is ‘The Emancipation Proclamation staying at the Baranof during his went into effect Jan. 1, 1863 visit in Juneau fiArchbiSh;;;Fiy fo " Rome for Red Hafs BLOW GIVEN DEFENSE AT NAZI TRIAL NUERNBERQ, Feb. 12—German % g i P { Pield Marshal Friedrich von Paulus ‘h;;:’u'_ Asm('fl“”“ revllalel‘ Arch-1114 the international military tri- | ops - Spellipan, . Cletinos, Em',bunal today that Germany ' had | ward Mooney of Detrolt and Sam- | ommitted so many crimes of ag- |uel A. Stritch of. Chicago, are to be lgrecion that it would have been | elevated to the College of Cardlnals,‘mwss,bu for Adolf Hitler to con- in Rome. lcetve them all alone. | Archbishops Mooney and Stritch | larrived in Rome by air today from , “Just how the government reach- | Paris after 2 stopover of 13% hours ed its decisions is unknown to me,” |‘n the French capital. /the man the Russians captured at | Prime Minister Eamon DeValera Stalingrad testified. “I can't ima- welcomed the passengers here. gine that one man alone could thave done everything that was - IOWHSE“D (lus 'lo idone. It's quite impossible.” MEH A'l . Io"IGHI Tis testimony was a blow to the 'defense, which had Leen seeking | [under cross-examination to estab- | A valentine Day program will be lish that Hitler alone, or with the given at the meeting of the Town- 8id of a small inner circle, was re- isend club toright in the CIO Hall sponsible for the military afd poli- The session starts at 8 o'clock and tical objectives of Nazis. there will be refreshments and old- ! T {time dancing ‘The public is always' The so-called Bill of Rights eon- | welcome, the officers of the club 'sists of the first ten amendments state, to the U. S. Constitution. ! Constellation plane Star of Rome, | lbenring Archpishop Francis J. | (Spellman of New York, Archbishop fJohn Joseph Glennon of St. Louis | {and Bishop Thomas Tien of Tsing- tao, China, *o the Rome Consistory landed at the Rineanna airport | | here today. i the

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