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NEWS IN BRIEF
SEATTLE, (A*) — More price
drops were forecast by butter mar-,
keting experts today as Saturday’s
two-cent decline went into effect
making the wholesale grade AA
butter price 76 cents and the grade .
A butter 75 cents. The top retail
price here was 80 cents, with les
ser grades selling at 75 to 78 cents j
a pound.
WASHINGTON, (AJ)—By a one!
vote margin, the Supreme Court j
ruled today that Louisiana may !
try again to execute Willie Fran
cis, 17-year-old Negro who lived
through one trip to the electric
chair. The 5-4 decision split the
court on an interpretation of what
is the ‘cruel and unusual punish- j
ment” forbidden by the Constitu
tion.
KANSAS CITY, (AJ) — Thomas 1
W. McCurin, 69, superintendent
of construction for the Structural
Steel company here, died today.
McCurrin’s work took him
throughout the west and once to!
Alaska, where he erected the two
largest smelters in the Territory.
He built smelters in Utah, Arizona
and New Mexico.
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WASHINGTON, (JP) — General
Omar Bradley, veterans adminis
trator, received from the CIO to
day a $10,000 check to buy radios
for all the 116 veterans hospitals.
Jack Carey, CIO secretary-treas
urer and Irving Abramson, chair
man of the CIO community serv
ice committee, also presented
Bradley with a radio similar to the
one they wish installed.
KODIAK (yp)—The navy today
received a report that the 90-foot
mailboat Clarinda exploded and i
burned at Sand Point, 375 miles!
southwest of here, last evening. |
There were no reported casual
ties to passengers or crew and no
details of the mishap. The boat i
was owned and operated by Jesse
Petrich, Langley, Wash., and was J
making its first postwar trip on a j
new contract serving between'
Seward and the Aleutians.
SEATTLE, <yp) — L. J. Dowell,
public relations counselor for the
Alaska region of Pan American
Airways for the past 18 months,
has resigned to re-enter the con
struction field. His assistant Maris
Swanson, will become acting coun-1
selor. Dowell has been active on
Washington and Alaska construc
tion projects as head of the Dowell
Construction company for the past
20 years.
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Thirty
five representatives of the Town
send old-age pension movement,
17 of them working on commis
sion, have filed reports on their
activities under a law requiring
registration of lobbyists. Commis
sions vary from 25 to 50 per cent
of donations received in individual
states.
Salaries range up to $7,300 a
year for Dr. F. E. Townsend of
Cleveland, who is paid by the
Townsend National Weekly, Inc.
FLORIDA ROUNDU P—Cowboys round up Brahma cattle on a typical Florida open range
for a livestock shew at Ocala. Brahma hulls were first brought to the state 15 years ago. Some of
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Plane Crashes Take
Large Toll of Lives
• By The Associated Press)
Airline crashes took a toll of 27
lives in the United States yester
days as only two of 29 persons in
five planes involved in disasters
survived.
Eighteen persons, 15 passengers
and three crew members died in
the flaming wreck of an Eastern
Airlines Detroit-Miami passenger
plane which crashed during a
rainstorm in hilly country near
Galax, Va.
William Ellis Keyes, Jr., 25, of
Boynton, Fla., the lone survivor,
was dragged from the wreck by
two residents of the community
who saw the crash. He suffered
shock, lacerations and burns.
Five persons were killed when
two planes collided over the Mi
ami, Fla., aviation center airport.
One person was injured critically.
Miami Police Chief Karl Engel
said the planes collided as their
pilots attempted to land on oppo
site runways.
Another disaster in Florida cost
the lives of two persons as an
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army training plane crashed near
Cocoa in Brevard County, Fla.
A two-seated private plane
crashed near suburban Van Dyke,
near Detroit, killing its occupants
an army air forces veteran and a
student pilot. Witnesses said the
plane went into a tailspin about
20 feet from the ground.
Twenty-nine persons died when
seven airplanes crashed in the
United tSates yesterday and today
Rep. Rivers (D.-S.C.) proposed a
Congressional investigation of
what he termed the ‘inexcusable
killing of American people.”
In New York City, meanwhile,!
major airlines reported that plane
reservations, almost impossible to |
obtain last summer, have been go-!
ing begging for the last few days 1
with a number of planes leaving
with empty seats.
Rep. Rivers declared in Wash
ington that ‘‘The American people
are horrified and scared to death.
If there is something wrong with
the whole doggone set-up, then '
something should be done.”
Six Lost Antarctic
Fliers Rescued;
Three Dead
Aboard U.S.S. Ml. Olympus, (/P)
Surviving two weeks huddled in
the wreckage of their crashed sea
plane in ice-piled Ellsworth Land,
six of the Byrd Antarctic expedi
tion’s nine missing fliers rested in
warm bunks aboard their mother
ship today.
Their near-miraculous rescue,
after blinding polar fogs had balk
ed repeated search attempts,
touched off wild celebrations
aboard ships of the navy task
force—but their three companions
were listed as dead.
Aboard the seaplane tender Pine
Island — whose skipper, Capt.
the rescued mencaa?ps-ph
Henry H. Caldwell, who was one
of the rescued men—the survivors
told how their Mariner photo
plane had brushed a peak of snow
and ice but remained airborne—
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Volcano On
Luzon Erupts
MANILA, (£*) — Southern Lu
zon’s towering Mayor volcano,
boiling for five days, erupted this
morning with a furious shower of
boulders and lava.
Lt. (jg.) Robert Case of Nevada,
Ohio, a navy weather officer, cir
cled the volcano at 10,000 feet dur
ing the display in an army plane
piloted by Capt. Robert A. Harris
of Dayton, Ohio
“It (the peak) got redder and
swelled like a bubble then broke,”
Case related. “A lava stream went
straight up to a height we estim
ated at 8,000 to 10,000 feet above
the peak (itself 7,903 feet).
“We saw huge rocks blown
straight up. They looked like small
houses to us even at a distance of
a mile and a half or two miles.
The eruption lasted about a half
hour.”
Two towns near the base were
ordered evacuated earlier as lava
boiled down the eastern and south
ern slopes and black smoke mush
roomed three miles into the sky.
Haifa Held Under
Fight Curfew
(By Carter L. Davidson)
JERUSALEM, UP}—Haifa’s 95,
000 inhabitants were held under
virtual house arrest today by a
i British curfew imposed last night
the city’s police station, killing
four policemen and injuring more
than 142 other persons.
The casualty list showed two
British policemen, and two Arabs j
temporary constables dead; 62
policemen — British, Arab and
Jewish—hurt, one Briton severely,
48 civilians hospitalized; 32 given
first aid, and many more cut,
bruised or shocked.
The blast—set off at 5:10 p.m.,;
in an automobile load of explo
sives planted outside the station—
shook Palestine’s main seaport
throughout, sent glass splinters!
flying for as much as a mile, dis- j
I upted traffic and the telephone
system and started fires that raged
for a half hour in the next-door,
postoffice and other nearby build
ings.
The government said that the1
six-story headquarters at the foot
of Mount Carmel and about 100
yards from the harbor entrance in
a Jewish-Arab neighborhood, was
i “virtually leveled.”
Officials reported that three men
one in police garb and the others
1 in raincoats, drove the bomb-car,
labeled “police,” up to the build
ing and fled into a tangle of
streets and alleys. Guards fired
after them, and, noting a blazing
fuse in the automobile, gave an
alarm to clear the station.
About 15 policemen got out be
fore the blast three minutes later.
Debris blocked the waterfront
parkway and glas littered streets
for blocks.
Immediately guards on public
buildings were doubled, Bren gun
carriers took strategic posts and
roadblocks established by the
British First Infantry cut off the
neighborhood of the explosion. At
II p.m., the curfew was imposed.
MISS ARLINE ANDERSON
TO WHITE MOUNTAIN
Miss Arline Anderson returned
to her mission post at White
Mountain today.
Senator Ball
Introduces Mew
Labor Legislation
WASHINGTON, </P. — Senator
Ball <K.-Mirm.» introduced a bill
that would break up industry
wide bargaining between unions
and employers.
He described the measure as
aimed to prevent nationwide shut
downs in an industry as a result of
a labor dispute. Under it:
1. No union could represent in
bargaining the employees of two
companies in the same industry
unless the plants were less than
1U0 miles apart. <A union could
represent the employees of a sin
gle company — such as General
Motors—even if its plants were all
over the country.)
2. No employers association
could represent two companies in
the same industry unless the
plants were less than 100 miles
apart.
Further, it would be illegal for
a national union to try to force its
local units to seek the inclusion of
any particular terms in a labor
management contract, or to con
spire with its local units to seek
any particular terms.
Ball called his new measure
more important than his previous
bill to outlaw the closed shop.
Federal courts would enforce its
previsions by restraining orders.
WASHINGTON, <A>) — Dilvided
GOP opinion points today to rocky
going in the 13-man Senate labor
committee for Senator Ball’s pro
posals to break up closed shops
and industry-wide wage bargain
ing.
Two of the eight Republicans on
the committee, Senators Morse
<Ore.), and Aiken <Vt.», have been
outspoken against steps as far
reaching as those suggested by
their Minnesota colleague.
A third Republican member
Senator Ives (N.Y.), has never fa
vored an outright ban on the
closed shop and his friends said
today he has not changed his view.
Ives, a new-comer to Capitol Hill*
is Dean of the New York States
School of Industrial and Labor
Relations at Cornell university.
Seward Settled;
Not Ketchikan
SEATTLE, f/P) — Although the
Seward shipping dispute has been
settled a similar controversy still
hangs fire at Ketchikan officials
of the Alaska Steamship Co., said
today.
Dating back to December 15,
the Ketchikan argument over jur
isdiction of winch-driving work
has restricted shipping in the port
and caused Seattle ship compan
ies to impose limitations on Ketch
ikan-bound cargoes.
Federal conciliator Albin Li
Peterson who drew pu the Seward
agreement last week, was expect
ed to arrange meetings in Ketchi
kan between the CIO lonngshore
men and the AFL sailors.