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NEWS IN BRIEF
FAIRBANKS, </P) — Police are
searching for Morris Albert, 20;
Philip Pitmetalek, James Pitka
and Gustav Enstrum, who escaped
from the city jail by sawing out
the bars. Police chief Dewey Or
• rell said Albert served a term at
the McNeil Island, Wash., federal
penitentiary.
TOKYO. </P)—Radio telephone
service between Japan and Ire
land by way of the United States
was authorized yesterday. The
serv ice will commence on Aug. 1.
Rates will be the same as those
now hi effect between Japan and
England.
DETROIT. </P>—A hopeful rob
ber came up to the movie cashier
window of Beverley Harris, 22,
last night. Let Miss Harris explain:
“I asked him where his gun was
and he said he had one but he
wouldn’t show it. That made me
laugh and he ran away.”
CORDOVA. UP) — The Cordova
Times, which suspended several
weeks ago with the illness of pub
lisher Ernest Pettijohn, resumes
publication this week as a weekly
under Clarence Martin, editor and
publisher.
Martin is a former Seattle and
Los Angeles newspaperman and
a veteran of both world wars. He
was a staff officer in the marine
landing at Guadalcanal and other
South Pacific conflicts in World
War II.
OLYMPIA, bP)—The capital-to
capital yacht race, Olympia to
Juneau, will begin this afternoon,
with 10 vessels scheduled to com
pete over the entire distance and
100 over the first leg, which ends
at Nanaimo, B. C. Prince Rupert,
B. C.. is the other pivot point in
the three-leg race.
Ray Hart, Jr., of Bremerton,
president of the international
powerboat association and a com
petitor in the race, will carry
greetings from Governor Langlie
to Gov. Ernest Gruening.This will
be the 18th annual running of the
international cruiser race.
BANGOR, Me. (/P)—A quarter
mue stretch of industrialized river
front was blackened by an explo
sion-studded fire early yesterday.
Prof>erty owners figured losses at
$1,500,000. Five fuel plants, a bus
garage, and store houses of a hard
ware and a plumbing supply firm
were levelled. Drums of gasoline
and oil caused the explosions.
WARSAW, Poland </P)—Poland
has joined the other cominform
nations in cutting off trade with
Yugoslavia. An official announce
ment here said Yugoslav ambassa
dor Rade Pribecevic had been
handed a note announcing Pol
and’s decision. The note charged
the Yugoslavs had failed to fulfill
deliveries of raw materials prom
ised to Poland.
JUNEAU, (/P)—Small boat har
bormaster Andrew Mildre, 58, was
found dead of a heart ailment m
his office Wednesday. He came to
Ju leau in 1915 and was a halibut
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Stratocruiser ]
Forced To Return
To Ireland
SHANNON, Ireland, (/P)—Fifty
four passengers on a trans-Atlan
tic plane forced to turn back when
it developed engine trouble 600
miles out of Shannon, breathed a
sigh of relief yesterday when the
plane arrived back here.
“I can swim,” said comedian
Danny Kaye, one of those aboard,
j “but not 600 miles.”
The Pan American World Air
I
ways stratocruiser carried a crew
of nine. It was en route from Lon
| don to New York.
The pilot Capt. H. G. Gunbran
sen of Lake Success, N. Y., said a
magnesium fire broke out in one
of the port engines. When he tried
cutting off that one motor, the
propellor fell off, he said.
Gunbransen said he took the
ship down from 18,000 to 3,000
i feet. “We were ready to ditch on
' the ocean,” he added.
The plane, using three engines,
made it back to Shannon in three
hours and 45 minutes.
Other passengers included ten
nis stars Louise Brough and Mar
j garet Osborne du Pont, returning
! from the Wimbledon tournament.
They won the women’s doubles
and Miss Brought the women’s
! singles crown.
• NEW YORK C/P)—A Pan Amer
ican Airways stratocruiser re
turned here safely early today af
ter engine trouble developed as
the plane started on a flight to
London. It was the second such
incident in two days.
The stratocruiser. with 57 pas
sengers aboard including former
Washington State governor Mon
C. Wallgren, landed at New York
international airport, about 30
minutes after the takeoff.
Capt. C. R. Titus, the pilot, said
one engine of the four-motored
craft “acted a little rough,” and he
decided to turn back. Before re
turning, 1,200 gallons of the
plane’s heavy gasoline load for
the trans-Atlantic trip was dump
ed into the Atlantic.
Wallgren said there was no
alarm among passengers. They
were sent to hotels to await an- J
other flight this afternoon.
Wallgren was starting on a
month’s business tour of Europe
and Africa when last night’s flight
was forced back to New York.
Food Poisoning
Cripples Kvichak ,
ANCHORAGE, (A*)—An Ameri
can Red Cross representative said
Wednesday he has learned through
the United States public health
service that one person is dead
and several seriously ill from food
poisoning in the Alaska village of
Kvichak. The town is located near
the base of the Alaska Peninsula
A public health service repre
sentative left for the village Wed
nesday after receiving a call for
help. No f ther details were im
mediately available because of
poor communications.
Plane Crashes
During Storm
EDMONTON, Alta. (/P)—Three
persons were injured, two criti
cally, when their light plane
crashed during a violent thunder
storm near Wildwood, 70 miles
west of here yesterday.
The three were: Pilot Toiyo
Aho, well known northern bush
pilot, and Nancy and Ruth Cam
eron, Anchorage, passengers. The
pilot and one of the women were
reported seriously hurt. They
were taken to the hospital at Ed-1
son, 135 miles west of here. The
Camerons were employees of the
department of welfare at Anchor
age.
The plane, a single-engined
Stinson, was bound from Fort St
! John for Edmonton. The three
were flying from Anchorage to
! Seattle.
EDSON. Alta. (/Pi —Taiho Aho
i of Seattle, pilot of a light aircraft
I which crashed near Wildwood,
j Wednesday died in the hospital
| here early today of head and in
j ternal injuries suffered in the mis
' hap. His two passengers, Ruth and
Nancy Cameron, who suffered
' limb fractures and lacerations,
were reported improving.
The crash occurred when Aho
attempted an emergency landing
after fuel was exhausted on the
i flight from Fort St. John to Ed
: monton. He apparently lost his
way in a storm.
Continue Search
For Missing Plane
FAIRBANKS, </P)—By air and
ground, searchers continued yes
terday to probe the area north of
here for a light plane missing
since Saturday with three aboard
—Bill Currington, the pilot, and
Dr. and Mrs. Mel Cook. Dr. Cook
is identified as a professor at the
University of Louisiana.
Ladd air force ground-rescue
parties yesterday joined the
round-the-clock search which al
ready has covered 38,000 square
miles bounded by Fairbanks. Ne
nana, Wiseman and the Canadian
border.
The plane was en route here
from Fort Yukon, some 150 air
miles to the north.
Britain Signs Pact
With Russia
LONDON. </P) — Dollar-short
Britain has secretly agreed to buy
nearly 1,000,000 tons of coarse
grains from Russia in the next
year, official sources disclosed to
day.
The informants added that part
of a barter deal agreement was
initiated in private in Moscow last
week—a few days before Britain’s
economic planners announced a
three-month standstill on dollar
spending.
Talks for a one-year British
Russian trade pact have been go
ing on for some time. The grain
deal would form part of that year
long pact.
England to Declare
Natl. Emergency
LONDON. </P>—King George VI
will be asked to declare a state of
national emergency Monday un- •
less Britain’s crippling dock work-,
ers’ strike is ended, home secre-1
!
tary Chuter Edo said today.
Ede told the House of Commons
the King would be advised by the,
government to issue a proclama-1
tion declaring “a state of emer
regulations to be made “to restore
gency evists.’’ It would enable
the essentials of life to the com
munity.’’
More than 10,200 stevedores
were idle in London’s spreading
waterfront work stoppage and
1,000 British soldiers were unload
ing food from some of the 105
cargo ships tied up.
U. S. Stevedores
May Boycott
British Ships
NEW YORK. f/P)—British ships
—now in the midst of the rush1
summer season—are faced with a 1
possible maritime union boycott
in eastern United States ports.
The boycott is threatened by i
many seamen and long s h o r c'
workers in retaliation for a block- •
ade against Canadian ships in
Great Britain’s ports.
The AFL maritime trades coun
ciL of New York Wednesday night
said an eventual boycott may be I
clamped down, but declared an j
earlier announcement of a block-:
ade would begin last midnight
was “premature.”
The council comprises AFL sea :
and dock workers in this area.
The boycott will become "neces
sary,” the council said, if British',
waterfront men continue refusing
to work ships under contract to
the Canadian district of the AFL
seafarers international union.
\
Syrian President
J
Executed
_
BEIRUT, Lebanon, (/P)—Anton ,
Saadeh, president of the outlawed
Syrian National party, was exe
cuted by a firing squad this morn
ing, after being sentenced last
night in a secret court martial.
Saadeh was arrested early yes
terday even as Syrian and Leban
on troops intensified their drive
to stamp out guerrillas of the na
tional party who have terrorized
outlying areas for more than a
month.
The party has been accused of
attempting to incite revolt against
both the Syrian and Lebanese
governments. Its ultimate aim
was said to be a “greater Syria”
under Saadeh’s leadership, incor
porating Lebanon, Syria, Trans
jordan and Arab Palestine.
The Fire Department was called
out Thursday afternoon to put out
a fire at A1 Care'y’s Finn Bath
house. It was reported that there
was no damage.
News of the World
At A Glance —
Thursday, July 7, 1949
'By The Associated Press'
Cons ervative newspapers in
Britain today called on the labor
government to cut government
spending drastically to ease the
nation’s financial strain. Other
newspapers said Britain could not
pull herself up by her own boot
-traps and needed more aid from
the United States treasury.
The nation was told yesterday
by economics boss Sir Stafford
Cripps that the national till is
dangerously low in dollars and
buying American goods must be
curbed even more drastically.
U. S. secretary of the treasury
John W. Snyder is expected to
confer with Cripps tomorrow on
Britain's monetary crisis.
Conservative newspapers said
Britain could not afford the labor
government’s “welfare state” pol
icy.
Washington reacted coolly to
the unofficial British bid for mo'*a
financial help. Members of Con
gress expressed sympathy over
the British money crisis but many
lawmakers said Britain would
have to solve its own problems.
They expected Marshall Plan aid
for Britain would be about $920,
000,000 this year and that would
be the extent of American assist
ance.
Senator Taft of Ohio said: “The
British have a planned economy
and it just hasn’t worked.”
Senator McCarran iD.-Nev.)
said: “I don’t think they will get
anywhere until they change their
socialist government.”
Labor unrest in Japan has
forced that occupied nation to the
brink of a national emergency.
Miners have joined railway work
ers in the general unrest.
New evidence showed that Sa
danori Shimoyama, president of
the national railway corporation,
was murdered after he had order
ed the dismissal of 30,000 rail
workers. He had been asked by
Gen. Douglas MacArthur to help
ease American occupation costs
and planned the dismissal of 90,
000 men. The economy move was
bitterly assailed by communists
and socialists.
The lives of top Japanese offi
cials have been threatened. Rail
workers threatened to use force
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Many Dead From
Heat In Portugal
LISBON. Portugal UP)—Twenty
persons lost their lives and scores
of other received injuries in a se
ries of heat waves and violent
thunder storms which have swept
over Portugal in the past week.
The erratic weather is continuing.
A temperature of 146 in the sun
was recorded at Coimbra — the
highest reading in the nation.
Crops in all parts of the country
have been damaged by cyclonic
winds, rain, hali, floods and heat.
Some streams are flooded. Others
have dried up.