Truman To Speak
To Congress On
Greek Crisis
WASHINGTON, (/Pi—President
Truman will address Congress
Wednesday, on the “whole ques
tion” of the Greek crisis and the
critical situation in tt*e mediter
ranean area.
Announcement of Mr. Truman’s
decision to go before a joint session
at 1 p.m. were made by Senator
Vandenberg <R.-Mich.) and the
White House after an hour and 20
minute conference of the President
and congressional leaders.
Vandenberg, head of the Senate
foreign relations committee, told
reporters that Mr. Truman would
speak in behalf of the proposed
Greek loan.
Charles G. Ross, the President’s
press secretary, said the address,
—not as yet finished—will require
about 20 minutes to deliver. It
likely will be broadcast over all
radio networks.
Ross would not elaborate on this
brief announcement.
“The President is going before a
join session at 1 p.m. Wednesday
Hr. will address the joint session on
the situation in the Near East.”
Ross .-aid the session between
Mr. Truman and the Congression
al leaders of both parties was
prompted to get an outline of the
Near East situation and to an “in
terchange of views.”
In talking to reporters, Vanden
berg said:
“The President has discussed
with us in great candor the situa
tion involved in connection with
the proposed Greek loan.
“He will come to Congress at
noon Wednesday to a joint session
of the House and Senate to discuss
the whole situation.”
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i JERUSALEM, (fP) — Twenty
! American seamen were haled be
fore a magistrate’s court in Haifa
today on charges of “aiding anti
1 abetting illegal immigration iriio
Palestine and were ordered held
under detention for trial 14 days
hence.
The seamen, crewmen of an in
tercepted Jewish refugee ship, in
' eluded both Jews and gentiles.
! Also under detention at Haifa were
I an American newspaperwoman
[ and a French woman writer who
were aboard the ship.
A British military announce
ment today meanwhile disclosed
the over the weekend death toll
from gunfire and bomb blasts hud
grown to 10.
This announcement said that one
British soldier had been killed and
11 others wounded in a gun and
grenade attack on an army instal
lation at Hadera between Tel Aviv
and Haifa at 0 o’clock last night.
Twenty Jews in' the area were
questioned, and one wras detained.
Nine persons had been killed
previously, and British army offi
cer.- had sued they “frankly were
expecting fresh violence as a re
sult of the deportation of unau
thorized Jewish immi grants
aboard the intercepted vessel.
CAUSE AND EFFECT
CHICAGO, </P>—Circuit Judge
Robert J. Dunne says he would
like to have “nosy interferers” and
“medlling in-laws” brought into
his court along with the principals
in some d'vorce cases before him.
“If I could figure out a way to
get jurisdiction over these nosy in
terfevers,” he said, “they’ll go to
the county jail.”
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standards for negotiation in mat
ters concerning Alaska’s troubled
labor situation. We may expect
considerable fireworks when th s
bill comes up for d scussion. This
bill would require incorporation of
labor unions as a prerequisite for
collective bargaining, and estab
lish compulsory arbitration o em
ployer-labor agreements and pro
v de penalties for breach o' con
tract by either party.
Another bill by Munz would re
quire commercial and other air
craft operators be insured by car
1 iers with surety provided in case
of injury or death resulting from
air travel.
The Senate yesterday defeated
Rivers’ bill asking for an appropri
ation of $250,000 for the construc
tion and rehabilitation of airfields
of Territory. This was an attempt
to take advantage of matching
funds on a three to one basis from
the federal government for work
of this kind. It would have been ol
special benefit for small communi
i ties unable to provide funds for
airfield construction, especially in
the Second and Fourth Divis on. .
Only sixteen work days left o.
this session and the bulK of im
portant wont of the legislature re
mains undone. No appropriation
biil has come out of the way.*, and
means committee as yet but a gen
eral bill, as introduced by Mc
Cutcheon and Huntley, which fol
lows rather closely the amount set
up in budget estimates by the vari
ous departments of the govern
ment.
The McCutcheon b.ll for tight
ening the controls of retail sales 01
liquor, which has been on the
table for the past ten days was re
moved from the table Friday and
should come up for discussion
within a few days.
Local organizations had request
ed this action.
The Almquist pension bill w'as
laid on the table in the Senate last
Wednesday and is st'.'l there after
on effort to take it from the table
yesterday was defeated.
A new bill providing for an in
crease on allotments for depender*
children has been introduced since
the Senate killed the original bill
for that purpose.
LIFTING THE LID
AT JUNEAU
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The Senate passed the measure
to compel party organizations in
Alaska with regular Divisional
and Territorial conventions.
JUNEAU, Mar 10. (/P)—Among
the many bills passed Saturday by
the House was a memorial to the
army to repair the Seward penin
sula railroad.
The Senate passed one urging
the road commission to improve
roads on Kenai peninsula and to
repair shelter cabins and trails in
the Second Division; and to trans
fer the management of Seldovia’s
hospital to the city council.
The Senate killed the bill re
quiring physical examinations be
fore the issuance of a marriage li
cense, also the appropriation for
a quarter million for construction
and improvement of airfields, air
plane landing floats.
The clatter of arms drowns the
voice of the law.—Montaigne.
Grenade Thrown
At President Roxas
MANILA, (yp)—A hand grenade
exploded 20 feet from President
Manuel A. Roxas tonight as he
was making his final speech be
fore a large crowd in favor of the
American parity amendment on
which Filipinos will vote tomor
row.
It was announced that the Pres
ident was uninjured, but a photog
rapher who was taking his picture
was wounded in the side and back.
The grenade was thrown at,
10:40 p.m., onto the grandstand in
Plaza Miranda, in front of historic
Quiapo church.
Roxas left immediately for Mal
acanan palace, his official resi
dence. Police threw a cordon
around the whole area in an at
tempt to locate the would-be assas
sin; who had not yet been appre
hended. The huge crowd was
thrown into a panic by the explo
sion.
Martian Law
In Formosa
NANKING, (AP) — The Chinese
government’s official cen’ral news
agency said today that martial law
has been reestablished to prevent
rebellion in Formosa as Chiang
Kai-Shek declared his intention to
maintain order in that newest of
China’s hot spots.
Chiang blamed “Formosans with
Communist inclinations for those
who served with Japanese expedi
tionary forces in the Pacific” for
fomenting unrest in the island.
A delegation of Formosans came
to Nanking to demand self govern
ment and to accuse Chiang's ad
ministration of killing 3,000 to
4,000 of their countrymen in “a
wholesale massacre that put to
shame even Japanese cruelty.”
Chinese sources had reported 500
casualties in the uprising Feb. 28
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