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NEWS IN BRIEF
JUNEAU. i/P) — Telling police
his conscience bothered him. a
youth identifying himself as John
McCutcheon, 17, of Lakeside iCoos
Bay,) Ore., gave himself up yes
terday.
He said he broke into the B. and
E. Tavern in Lakeside three weeks
ago and obtained $150.
Police wired for confirmation.
FAIRBANKS, </P) — John C.
Bolewicki, 19, was sentenced to
two years in the penitentiary Wed
nesday after pleading guilty to
stealing a registered letter con
taining about $600 while he was a
postal clerk.
JUNEAU, l/P)—Both sides rested
their case in the long-drawn ar
guments over validity of the Ter
ritory’s new fishtrap tax law Wed
nesday.
Arguments will begin today be
fore federal judge George Folta,
who said he would not limit argu
ments by counsel.
W. C. Arnold, managing director
of the Alaska Salmon Industry,
was recalled as a witness yester
day to tell howr salmon prices were
negotiated the past two seasons.
Walter Tuesley, head of the sal
mon department of Kelley Clark
Co., of Seattle, also was ques
tioned on canned salmon prices.
FAIRBANKS, f/Pi — Ladd Air
Force Base reported the death of
five airmen in the flaming wreck
age of a C-47 transport plane at
Barter Island Monday as it at
tempted a landing in fog at the
military outpost 400 miles north
east of here on the Arctic Ocean.
The twin-engined plane was on a
supply mission and crashed at
high speed. An air force board is
investigating.
LAGENS, The Azores, (JP)—Ital
ian aviators John M. Brondello
and Camillio Barioglio are taking
the long way home.
The weather from here to Lis
bon (780 miles) is bad so the men
decided to fly instead to New York
(2000 miles) and return to Lisbon
(2780 miles* by boat.
They took off Uiis morning at
10:1’ a.m.
The two flyers abandoned an at
tempt to make a non-stop single
engine Atlantic flight last week
when a fuel pipe clogged.
PLAINVIEW, Neb. (JP) — Wil
liam Bohl broke up a narcotics
ring in his own feed lots this week.
When his hogs began to grow
thin and wobble uncertainly about
the feed lot, Bohl launched a one
man investigation. At the back of
the feed lot he found the hogs
jumping in the air to get at the
last few leaves near the top of a
lush stand of marijuana plants.
After destroying the plants Bohl
said today his hogs were “getting
back to normal.”
NEW YORK, (/P)—Grinning at
each other, Sonjo Henie and Win
throp Gardiner, Jr., gripped a big
sword in their hands, and sliced
the seven-tier wedding cake.
This was the follow-up yester
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Gov. Stainback
Offers Proposition
To Settle Strike
HONOLULU f/P)—Hawaii’s gov
ernor needled a new peace propo
sal into the Islands tangled 138
day CIO dock strike yesterday.
His formula: boost wages 14 cents
an hour, resume work, set up a
new contract.
Gov. Ingram M. Stainback
first put the proposal to the strik
ing international longshoremen’s
and warehousemen’s union. Then
he sent it our for Hawaii’s seven
struck stevedoring firms. Both
sides said they will consider it.
A basic wage of $1.54 an hour
was the governor’s suggestions.
This is the same pay recommended
I by his fact finding board in June.
1 The employers accepted it then.
The union rejected it.
The ILWU’s 2,000 stevedores
struck May 1. They wanted to
! hike their Sl.4'0 an hour to $1.75.
Their figure has been scaled down
; since, but never on terms the em
j ployers would accept.
Hungarian Says He
Plotted Overthrow
Of Hungary
(By Endre Marion)
BUD APEST, Hungary, </P) —
Laszlo Rajk, once Hungary’s No. 2
I communist, told a people’s court
today he plotted with Americans
• and other westerners to overthrow
| the communist government and
make Hungary a “colony of Yugo
; slavia.”
Rajk, former interior minister
and foreign minister in the com
munist government, went on trial
for his life with seven others
against a background of a seething
war of nerves between communist
Yugoslavia and the Soviet-led na
tions of the cominform.
The former boss of Hungary’s
police pleaded guilty to all charges
in the indictment. One of these
was that he plotted with Marshal
Tito’s Yugoslav government to as
1 sassinate leading Hungarian offi
cials.
Rajk quickly named two Ameri
cans as accomplices. Heaving guilt
j upon his own head in a long recital
to the court, he freely—almost
eagerly—testified to contacts with
British, French, American and Yu
goslav intelligence agents.
• The trial was following a famil
iar pattern. As in the case of the
convicted Roman Catholic primate,
Josef Cardinal Mindszenty. the
defendants went on trial with the
presumption that they were guilty
until proved innocent. This is the
opposite of most Western proced
ure.
(The Yugoslav gove r n m e n t
charged last night that the trial
was a trumped up device of the
Soviet Union for an “unbridled
witchhunt” against Yugoslavia,
and that it was based on lies and
forgeries).
The Americans named by Rajk
were Lt. Col. George Kovacs, for
merly stationed in Budapest, and
a man named Martin Himmler.
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Six Abandon Tug,
Leaking, Sinking,
In Gulf Storm
• By The Associated Press)
CORDOVA, (jT*)—Six men from
the grounded tugboat Afognak
were rescued yesterday by the
fishing boat Mary B, the coast
guard reported today.
The Mary B's skipper, Ira Roth
well, gave no details of the rescue,
but said one of the seamen, Ar
thur Johnson, suffered a rib in
jury. The fishing vessel was await
ing high tide to return to Cordova.
The Afgonak ran aground early
yesterday some 75 miles southeast
of here after sending distress calls
that she was shipping water near
Kayak Island in the storm-tossed
Gulf of Alaska.
Rothwell said it appeared the
tug was a total loss. The Mary B
was dispatched to the area by U.
S. Marshal M. E. Edumunds. It ar
rived yesterday morning.
SEATTLE, A coast guard report
early yesterday that six men had
abandoned a leaking tug in the
stormy Gulf of Alaska was fol
lowed six hours later by a report
two survivors were sighted on the
grounded boat.
The ill-fated tug was the Afog
nak, of Juneau.
The coast guard station at Cape
St. Elias, midway along the Gulf
of Alaska coast, was advised the
battered Afognak was sighted
aground on Palm Point, one mile
west of the village of Katalla. The
scene is about 50 miles southeast
of Cordova.
Coast guard headquarters here
said the report to the St. Elias sta
1 tion came from the civil aeronau
! tics administration office at Ccu
I dova. The sighting was believed to
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Steel Strike Seems
Certain Sept. 2.“>
PITTSBURGH, (JP) — The CIO
United Steelworkers today appeal
ed to the steel industry to accept
the Presidential board’s peace
recommendations to avert a strike
September 25 and at the same
time summoned its top strategists
to plot the union’s next move.
Union president Philip Murray
sent this telegram to the 57 steel
producing companies which ap
peared before President Truman’s
fact finding board.
“A strike can be averted if your
corporation will agree with the
union and public opinion to accept
the recommendations of the steel
industry board as a basis for ne
gotiating a prompt settlement of
the existing labor dispute.”
Murray ordered the big union’s
wage policy committee to meet
here Wednesday.
There was no amplification of
the announcement. Union officials
declined to discuss the order.
Murray’s action comes with a
resumption of contract negotia
tions between union and some 57
steel companies blocked by a dif
ference of opinion over whether
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Rep. Mitchell
Outlines Alaskan
Defense Program
SEATTLE, CP)—A five-pronged
program for improving Alaskan
defenses was in Rep. Hugh Mitch
ell’s brief case Wednesday night
as the Washington State Congress
man returned from a flying in
spection of Alaska with air secre
tary W. Stuart Symington.
“It’s ludicrous that the Territory
should be left virtually unguarded
for want of paltry appropriations,”
Mitchell declared, adding he was
going to push his “Defend Alaska”
program on his return to Congress.
He listed these five needs:
1. Improved housing for military
personnel.
2. Expansion of port facilities.
3. Methods for better distribu
tion of vital oil supplies.
4. Extension and improvement
of the Alaska road network.
5. Expediting of further studies
on the necessity and feasibility of
a connecting railroad link between
the United States and Alaska.
He said Symington agreed with
him thoroughly on the need for
housing. Air force mechanical per
sonnel is leaving the service rather
than serve in Alaska in high
priced. inadequate housing. He
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B-50 Gasoline
Tanks Explode
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SEATTLE, (JP)—Flaming gaso
line fumes shot through a huge
B-50 bomber at the Boeing Air
plane company plant here yester
day, touching off an explosion ;
that injured 11 men, two seriously.
Firemen said a sheet of flame
sprang from two empty gasoline |
tanks in the middle of the plane,
which the crew were removing.
The flames traveled into the left
wing, blowing up a tank there.
The two most seriously injured.
Eugene C. Hillman and Howard
E. Bowers, .Tr., jumped from the
wing and ran as their clothes
caught fire. Witnesses said they
resembles human torches.
A Boeing emergency fire crew
brought the flames under control :
before city firemen arrived. The
explosion did more damage to the
plane than the fire, a company
spokesman said.
78 Die In Prison
Break In Korea
—
SEOUL fiP)—Seventy-eight per
sons were killed or wounded today
in a break by 430 prisoners from
the jail at Mokpo, a seaport 200
miles south of here.
Ten guards and 68 prisoners
were reported shot in a battle at a
village two miles from Mokvo.
Twenty-eight of the prisoners and
10 guards were known to be dead
and 40 others prisoners were dead
or wounded.
The prisoners staged their break
Wednesday while being returned
to prison from work farms. They
seized guns and ammunition and
fled to the hills. Police, army and
navy units pursued.
News o f the W orld
At A Glance —
Thursday September 15, 1949
'By The Associated Press*
Russia is expected to ask for a
new meeting of the Big Four for
eign ministers when her top diplo
mat, Andrei Y. Vishinsky, arrives
in New York for the United Na
tions general assembly.
All four ministers are slated to
head their delegations at the Lake
Success meeting which starts
Tuesday. Britain’s foreign secre
tary Ernest Bevin and French for
eign minister Robert Schuman al
ready are in the U. S.
When the froeign ministers end
ed their Paris meeting on Ger
many last June, they agreed to
meet informally during the U. N.
J session to discuss their next meet
| ing.
Informed sources in Moscow
said Vishinsky will seek an early
conference. Major issues still to be
solved include the possible future
economic and political unity of
Germany, an independent treaty
for Austria and the reconciliation
of divergent allied views on who
should write a Japanese peace
treaty.
Diplomatic circles in Washing
ton predicted new blows against
communism in Europe and the
Far East might be struck during
the cold war strategy talks now in
progress in the American Capital.
These talks, which Bevin and
secretary of state Dean Acheson
began on Tuesday, were broaden
ed today to include Schuman, who
arrived from Paris last night.
Top items tor discussion include
the developments of the new West
German State, a review of negoti
ation with Russia on the Austrian
treaty, exploitation of the Yugo
slavia-Russitm split, and steps to
halt communis: expansion in the
Far East.
The cominform's private cold
war continued with Yugoslavia de
nouncing as “lies and slanders.”
recent Hungarian charges that
Premier Marshal Tito's govern
ment had plotted against Hun
gary’s communis: regime.
Foreign observers in Moscow
said Russia would view gravely
any Greek invasion of Albanian
soil. These sources said recent
Greek-Albanian developments as
“diplomatic dynamite” and added
that any movement of Greek
troops across the Albanian border
would have serious consequences.
Friday, September 16, 1949
Washington. D. C., observers
said today the western powers
have decided to give further eco
nomic and political support to
Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia in his
struggle with the Kremlin. The de
cision was reportedly arrived at in
a meeting of U. S. secretary (if
state Acheson, British foreign sec
retary Bevin and French moreign
minister Schuman at Washington.
Acheson is expected to give a
report on the three-power policy
talks to President Truman today.
Paul G. Hoffman. Marshal Plan
administrator, said last night at
Battle Creek, Mich., that American
aid to Europe has checked the
spread of communism and has put
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