Air Force Intent
On Buying Only
B-36 Bomliers
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with six piston engines and four
jet engines. Those already deliv
ered have only the piston engines,
but all will have the jet engines
eventually. The average cost is
over $3,000,000 each.
The B-36 is the target of a spe
cial investigation planned by the
House armed services committee.
The inquiry will cover the place
of the B-36 in the nation’s de
fense and reports that orders for
otfyer planes have been curtailed
so the air force could buy more
B-36’s.
The Boeing B-47 is a 65-ton
swept-w-ing bomber with six jet
engines and 18 rockets for mo
mentary power burst. It is the
world’s faster bomber, with a rat
ing of over 600 miles an hour. The
average cost is expected to be un
der $3,000,000 each.
Senator Magnuson <D.-Wash.»
told a reporter today that air sec
retary W. Stuart Symington has
assured him that a “considerable
number of aircraft contracts held
by Washington State and West
Coast aircraft manufacturers had
been cut back.
Nugget Ads Bring Quick Results
U. S. Labor Strife
Boiling Over
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for its coal mines beginning June
13 at Philadelphia.
New York: Police halted picket
ing of the AFL longshoremen’s
headquarters by a rival union fac
tion after a violent street battle
yesterday.
Some 2,500 dock workers clash
ed in the melee which climaxed a
13 week old dispute between the
rival factions over alleged union
discrimination against Negro
members.
Boston: Ratification of an arbi
tration agreement was awaited to
day to end a strike which has cut
off transportation service to some
500,000 commuters in 79 commun
ities since last Thursday.
The strike involves about 2,200
AFL bus drivers and mechanics.
Detroit: An arbitration panel
which will seek to effect settle
ment of speed-up charges in the
recent Ford strike was completed
last night.
Third member of the three-man
panel to be selected was Dr. Hurry
Shulman, professor of law at Yale
university, who was named chair
man. Other members are Carl T.
Dunn, representing Ford, and Dr.
i William Gomberg. representing
the CIO united auto workers.
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European stalemate to the Far
East. Definite confirmation is still
lacking.
A forecast that Russia soon wiU
change its policy of diplomatic
aloofness toward the victorious
Chinese communists also came
yesterday from Paris. It was ac
credited to a responsible but anon
ymous eastern European inform
ant.
State department experts are
watching for any signs of such a
change but are not yet convinced
it is imminent.
—
Wednesday. June 8, 1949
The United States has flatly re
jected a Soviet plan calling for a
50-50 division of power between
Russia and the three western
I powers in Berlin.
U. S. secretary of state Dean
| Acheson said the plan is not ac
1 ceptable on the basis of popula
tion or any other standard.
Soviet foreign minister Andrei
Vishinsky had asked that, pending
■ the election of a Berlin city gcv
: eminent, the Soviet commander
should appoint 50 per cent of the
personnel to run the city and su
pervise elections.
I
The alternative western plan,
proposed by the United States, is
that Berlin bo given the same lee
way as Vienna. The city adminis
• tration of Vienna can do as it
pleases unless all four of the oc
cupying powers disapprove.
At San Juan, Puerto Rican offi
cials said the plane that crashed
in the Atlantic yesterday, killing
I 54 of the 81 aboard, wus not over
loaded. The large percentage of
! children kept the weight down,
these officials said. United States
planes, navy craft and the coast
guard continued the search for
bodies today.
Hawaii is hard hit by a 39-day
old waterfront strike. CIO long
shoremen began the strike, tying
up the island’s six ports May 1.
2,000 men are striking for in
creased pay. Unemployment is
mounting. Ocean-born commerce
i—the lifeline of the islands—is
snapped and the effect is being
felt by almost every islander.
In Munich, German justice of
ficials reported they are planning
a new' trial of Ilse Koch, w’idovv
of the former commander of the
Buchenwald concentration camp.
An American reviewing board
had commuted her life sentence to
four years imprisonment. She
| would thus be eligible for release
next October. But the Bavarian
justice ministry said there is new
evidence that she mistreated and
i participated in the killing of Ger
man camp inmates.
The battle of the airways over
| Russia continues. U. S. state de
partment officials said in Wash
ington that Russia is jamming
, American and British official
news programs effectively. West-1
ern news gets through “only in
spots.” But these officials said
Russia is paying a stiff price for
1 victory. The Soviets have crippled
“substantially” Moscow’s own do-!
mestic programs, the U. S. offi- J
cials reported.
i The British Labor party, at
Blackpool, is mapping its election j
program. This is the party’s final |
i convention before its tilt with the!
, '
i Conservative party led by Win
ston Churchill. The election may
not be held until next May or
June. The party delegates are con-1
sidering extension of state owner
1 ship of six more industries, and
the keynote is “increased produc
tion."
Army Sorrowful
Officers Did Not
Get Pay Hike
WEST POINT, N. Y. (A*)—'The
acting secretary of the army, Gor
don Gray, told some of the coun
try’s future "top brass” yesterday
that he shared in their disappoint
ment that Congress has not yet
given officers a pay raise.
But he assured the June, 1949,
graduating class of the United
States military academy that he i->
confident that pay readjustments
will be voted by tht\ present Con
gress.
“The rates may not be those re
quested in the original bill, but it
is my hope and belief that those
finally enacted will be just.” he
said in his prepared-in-advance
text.
“There has not been a realistic,
comprehensive, or—what is mor^
important—adequate overhaul of
army pay and allowances for
more than forty years,” Gray con
tinued.
He said the conclusion is ines
capable that those who have en
tered the officer corps, and have
continued to serve loyally and
well, have not placed an undue
i emphasis upon material reward.
1 He expressed confidence in their
i continued patience and restraint
| ‘The House shelved one mili
j tary pay raise bill after it ran into
; objections from ' 1» a group of
young veterans who said it was
weighted too heavily for highe’*
HARBOR EQUIPMENT
BEING LAUNCHED
The Vicky C, owned and oper
1 ated by A. Castel, was launched
into Snake River today .
Earlier this w-eek the tugs Lu
^ cille and Helen Lee were launch
ed.
They are owned and operated
by the Lomen Commercial Co.
The U. S. Engineers’ tug and
dredging equipment is also in
readiness for the coming season
Phyllis Roell. daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Roell of the U.
S. Smelting Co., returned home to
day from Stevens College where
she has been a student for the past
year.
ranking officers, and *2' economy
advocates. A new version may be
voted on shortly1.
Gray advised the outgoing ca
dets that the officer of today must
not be primarily an officer of the
i army, navy or air force. The na
! tional security demands that he be
! "an American officer” in spirit
and in performance, he explained
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