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NEWS IN BRIEF
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WASHINGTON, OP)—'The Sen-1
ate passed yesterday a bill to per
mit issuance of unrestricted deeds
to townsite lands in Alaska' to na
1
tives found competent to manage
their own affairs.
The Senate eliminated sections
which would have required re-i
nunciation of tribal rights and
claims against the government
due natives.
The measure went back to the
House for action on the amend
ments.
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ASBURY PARK, N. J., OP)—S.
S. Adams, novelty manufacturer,
reports the sale during the past 38
years of more than 1,000,000 vials
of sneeze powder.
WASHINGTON, OP) — The #ur-|
forces yesterday assigned to the
American mission in Greece Brig.
Gen. Dave V. Gaffney, who has
been serving in the training sec-1
tion of headquarters, to the Alas
kan command. He was born in^
Methuen, Mass.
SYDNEY (/P)—A pit pony’s bad
breath has caused 150 coal miners
near Newcastle to walk off the
job. They went home complaining
the pony had halitosis. They were
in full disagreement with their
own and management representa
tives who smellpd the pony’s j
breath and proclaimed it free of
odor. The Daily Mirror yesterday
said the management had “offered
to replace the horse or alternative-!
ly mix sweet-smelling musk with j
the chaff.”
The miners haven’t said yet
whether they’ll accept that.
WASHINGTON, (yP) — A bill
raising monthly allowances to vet
erans in college has gone to the
President for his approval. The
education bill would raise from
$65 a month to $75 the govern
ment allotment to single veterans
in school. Married veterans with;
one dependent would get $105, and
those with two or more depend
ents $130. The present allowances
for married veterans, regardless
of the number of dependents, is
$90.
McCHORD FIELD. <iT»)—Seven,
C-82’s, the army’s flying box cars,
arrived here yesterday bringing
troops of the 2nd infantry divi
sion from Big Delta, Alaska. Brig.
Gen. H. J. Meyer was present to
meet the incoming troops. Nine
more planes are due today with
more officers and men.
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JUNEAU f/P)—A Sitka man and :
his wife pleaded guilty to a charge
of neglect of family yesterday and
were sentenced to serve one year;
in the federal jail here.
Th parents Mr. and Mrs. Oscar
Bennett, were charged originally
with negligent homicide in con- j1
nection with the Christmas Day 1
death of an eight-year-old boy in
their home at Sitka. *
TOKYO, (/P)—The prosecution :
indicated yesterday it would ask i
the death penalty for Hideki Tojo
and 24 other Japanese war lead- 1
ers.
“In effect, I am asking for the i
Crowd Mourns As
Gandhi’s Ashes
Leave New Delhi
NEW DELHI, t/P) — A funeral
train, decked with flags of the
Free India he did so much to cre
ate, pulled out of New Delhi today
bearing the ashes of Mohandas K.
Gandhi toward their final resting
places.
The ashes will be immersed at
the confluence of the Jumna, Gan
ges and Sararwati Rivers near Al
lahabad at noon tomorrow before
an estimated 2,000,000 persons.
A great crowd stood solemnly a<
the remains of the assassinated
Hindu spiritual leader were car
ried into the train by his son, Rarr
Das, and a disciple.
Suddenly it broke, and men
women and children rushed po
lice lines. Some of them wanted <
last look at the remains of the mar
they loved so well.
Police, swinging heavy bamboe
lathes slashed about, trying to re
store order. It quelled after If
minutes.
As the funeral procession start
ed, the young Hindu accused oJ
shooting Gandhi to death Jan. 3(
remained incommunicado in i
New Delhi jail cell. He is N. V.
Godse, a young member of the na
tionalist Mahratta organization
His head was still bandaged from
injuries suffered when Gandhi’s
people fell upon him after the
shooting.
Under Indian law he must be
produced before a magistrate b>
Feb. 14 to determine whether
there is evidence to justify hold
ing him longer.
China Celebrates
New Year
SHANGHAI, (/P) — Yesterday
marked the world’s biggest birth
day party.
More than 450,000,000 Chinese
became a year older with the ad
vent of the lunar new year. The
troubled nation elbowed its wor
ries aside and celebrated noisily.
In Shanghai, there were fire
works, whistles, clamorous beat
ings of cymbals and drums, lutsy
thumpings of washtubs. Everyone
stopped work. At home, the Chi
nese sat down to the best meal
diey could afford—which wasn’t
much.
The lunar holiday celebration
lasts four days. On tHfe fifth—“the
»od of wealth day” — Chinese
shops reopen.
This is the “year of the rat."
Chinese hope earnestly that it will
oe better than the last, which was
‘the year of the pig.”
ieath penalty,” said chief prose
:utor Joseph B. Keenan. He will
segin his summation of the Allied
:ase today.
“That is, I am asking in effect
tor a liberal employment of ma
lila rope."
The international tribunal yes
erday dismissed a defense motion
tor acquittal. The trial began June
I, 1947.
New Bishop Of
Alaska Appointed
SEATTLE, (A3)—The Most Rev.
Francis Doyle Gleeson, S.J., su
perior of the Jesuit Omak Indian;
Mission, Omak, Wash., was noti
fied yesterday of his appointment
by Pope Pius XII as B'snop of
Alaska.
Word of the appointment was
received by the Rev. Harold O.
Small, rector of Seattle college,
| from Archbishod Amleto Cicog-1
nani, Apostolic delegate to the1
I United States.
Bishop Gleeson, who entered
I the Jesuit order in 1912, is a na-1
tive of Carrolton, Mo. He came
west to Yakima as a child and at
tended the St. Joseph’s grade
school and Marquette high school
j there.
After taking his novitiate train
ing at Los Gatos, Calif., he studied
philosophy at Mount St. Michael’s
Scholasticate, Spokane, from 1917
to 1920.
During 1927 and 1928, he was
stationed at Port Townsend for
ascetical theology and in 1928 be
came a teacher at Bellarmine high
school, Tacoma. From 1933 to
1939 he was president of Bellar
mine.
He served as rector of the Jes
uit Novitiate at Sheridan, Ore.,
from 1939 to 1942, he for a time
was pastor of St. Stanislaus parish
at Lewiston, Idaho.
He was appointed to his present
post in 1946. Bishop Gleeson has
a sister in Yakima, Mrs. Arthur
Hanses.
State Dept. Not To
Run Foreign Aid
WASHINGTON, (IP) — A Euro
pean Recovery boss who won’t
have to take orders from the state
department appears a certainty to
day.
The Senate foreign relations
committee agreed unanimous 1 y
last night to create a $20,000-a
year independent Marshall plan
administrator.
He would rank equally with the
secretary of state and other cab
inet members and any dispute
would be settled by the President.
The administrator would be ad- j
vised by a 12-member board of
private citizens and would report
to a 14-member Congressional
“watch-dog’ committee.
A roving ambassador and spe
cial missiions abroad would help'
keep tabs on how Europe uses the
American help.
Three Injured In
Ship Explosion
NEW YORK, </P)—Police head-!
quarters said three crew members (
were injured in an explosion in]
the engine room of the 6,190-ton
tanker Richmond yesterday off j
the Statue of Liberty. There was
no indication the tanker exploded,
police said.
Earlier the coast guard had re
ported a tanker exploded in the |
upper bay.
The injured crew members were ^
taken in police launches to a New
Jersey hospital, police said.
“U. S. (^airt Afford
To Give Away Too
Much” Says Taft
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(By Jack Bell)
CHICAGO, (/Pi — Senator Taft
• R.-Ohioi said yesterday the
United States can’t afford to “give
away” so much to Europe that
price controls will be needed
again at home.
Taft came here to begin a mid
winter hunt in six midwestem
states for GOP Presidential nom
ination support.
Accompanied by Mrs. Taft, he
will invade Minnesota Thursday
for a major speech on the home
grounds of Harold E. Stassen. The
former Minnesota governor has
challenged Taft to a battle over
Ohio delegates to the Republican
national convention.
In an address prepared for a
meeting of the Inland Daily Press
Assn., yesterday, the Ohio Sena
tor declared that individual free
dom at home must be “the ulti
mate purpose of any foreign pol
icy.”
Taft, who has called for a cut
in the $6,800,000,000 proposed by
President Truman for the first 15
months of the European recovery
program, added:
“We should not be actuated by
purely altruistic desire to improve
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Made Fortune In
Grain Market
WASHINGTON, O^P)—Secretary
of agriculture Anderson said today
E. T. Maynard, a Chicago trader,
made several hundred thousand
dollars profit on the price breaks
in wheat and oats.
Anderson told the Senate agri
culture committee that Maynard
had “no inside information” and
that “no corruption” is involved.
“We wish we had him on our
staff,” the secretary said, when
asked how Maynard had called
the ups and downs of the recent
price movements.
Anderson identified Maynard as
a member of the Chicago board
of trade who bought and sold
more than 1,000,000 bushels ol
wheat this month. The secretary
supplied Maynard’s name after
Senator Young <R.-N. D.) demand
ed it be made public. Young said
Maynard had made $400,000 profit
on the market break.
Anderson blamed the "boom
and bust” market on mass specu
lation by small traders.
Murray Indicted
Under Labor Law
WASHINGTON. (/P)—A federal
grand jury today indicted the CIO
and its president. Philip Murray,
on charges of violating the Taft
Hartley act's political expendi
tures ban.
The law forbids spending of
union funds for political purposes.
The indictment charges that
Murray published an endorsement
for a Maryland Congressional
candidate last July in the union
financed CIO News.