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NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON. (/?)—President
Truman spent the weekend with
members of his staff on the Presi
dential yacht Williamsburg, cruis
ing leisurely on the Potomac. He
left Saturday and returned to the
White House late last night.
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HONOLULU, (aP)—Each passing
hour gave comedian Frank Mor
gan a firmer hold Saturday on his
claim to the Governor of Hawaii
cup, to be presented the winner
of the 2.500-mile California to Ha
waii yacht race.
On the handicap basis, Mor
gan’s 70-foot schooner Dolphin II
had defeated 23 of 34 entrants at
an early hour Saturday morning.
None of the remaining contend
ers was reported in a position to
challange the Dolphin’s lead.
WASHING TON, (/P) — The
House merchant marine committ
tee today approved a bill to block
petroleum shipmens to any for
eign country unless the secretary
of commerce certifies that the ex
ports will not interfere with na
tional defense of national security.
The bill tentatively is sched
uled for House consideration late
this week. It grew out of a com
mittee inquiry into shipments of
petroleum products to Russia.
SHANGHAI, (Monday) f/P)—A
stratoliner landed here today en
route to Manila on Northwest Air
lines’ first commercial flight from!
the United States to the Orient.
In Tokyo, company officials an
nounced Northwest’s second trans- >
Pacific plane was expected to ar-'
rive from the Aleutians later to-:
day with 16 passengers, including,
member sof a silk commission and
four members of a reparations
mission.
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NEW YORK, (>P) — William;
(Billy>Gibson, who guided Gene
Tunney to the world heavyweight
boxing title and Benny Leonard
to the lightweight crown, was
found dead in his room in a mid-1
town hoted today.
Martin Walter, hotel manager,
said Gibson apparently had died
of natural causes. Gibson had been
living at the hotel several years, j
WRANGELL, (/P) — An early!
morning fire Friday destroyed the I
Stikine hotel, B. C. detachment j
buildings, home of Charles Raine. j
The hotel owner, Walter Simpson, j
received minor burns. The fire
started in the hotel and the whole
town fought the fire for ten hours
and saved the government agency
and the village. The buildings
burned are a total loss.
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—Charles W.
Stephens, vice president of the
brotherhood of railroad trainmen,
said here today he agreed com
pletely with Col. J. P. Johnson
that the “entire Alaska Railroad J
is in terrible condition.”
Stephens is here for conferences
with officials of the federal gov
ernment’s Alaska line, of which
Col. Johnson is general manager.
The trainmen’s union is asking!
for many changes, with adequate
housing as the prime objective,
Stephens said. ..
Situation In Greece
Is About Ready
To Roil Over
ATHENS, (/P)—Dwight P. Gris
wold, administrator of the U. S.
program of assistance to Greece,
said Saturday “I want to see the
rebellion stopped" to open the way
for Greek reconstruction.
The Greek ministry of public
order announced that 11,500 per
sons were under arrest and were
to be imprisoned of deported, all
charged with political offenses.
Greek Government troops and
planes harried guerrillas seeking
escape east and northeast of Al
bania.
Griswold, speaking at his first
news conference since arriving
from the United States, said:
‘'Rebel fighting is holding back
the reconstruction of Greece. I
•want to see the rebellion stopped.
If it were, we could then recon
struct."
The ministry said that some
7,000 persons had been arrested
since the government started raids
to counteract the purported Com
munist-inspired uprising sched-,
uled for July 10.
Brig. Gen. Stylianos Manidakis,
speaking for the Greek general
staff, said at a news conference
Friday night no elements of an in
ternational brigade are fighting
on the side of the guerrillas en- j
gaged against government forces
in "northwestern Greece.
He added he was “absolutely
certain,” however, that a guerrilla
“invasion” had come from Alban
ia. He said no evidence existed or
an effort made to set up a free
Communist state in Greece. #
United States To !
Administer Jap
Pacific Islands
WA S H I N G T O N. (/P) — The
White House announced Saturday
that President Truman has signed
the agreement for United States
administration of former Japanese
islands in the Pacific.
Admiral Louis E. Denfeld was |
appointed temporary administra-!
tor of the trust territory.
Denfeld is commander in chief
of the Pacific fleet. He will serve
as United States high commission
er of the territory pending its
transfer for permanent adminis
tration by a civilian agency of the
government.
The trusteeship agreement was
approved in April by the United
Nations security council and Con
gress then gave its sanction.
In addition to signing this gov
ernment’s approval of the trustee
ship agreement, the President is
sued an executive order provid
ing for an “interim administra
tion” for the trust territory, the
Presidential statement said.
The interim administration be
gan July 18, the date the Presi
dent signed the joint resolution
passed by Congress.
The Islands—The Marshalls,
Carolines, and Marianas — were
captured by United States forces
from the Japanese in the last war.
They were German islands and
were mandated to Japan after the
first world war. ’* • -
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Captured Outer
Mongolians Wear
Soviet Decorations
(By P«gge Parker)
TIHWA, Northwest China, 'De
layed* (i^P) — Outer Mongolian
troops attacking Peitashan in Sin
kiang province July 5 used Ger
man and Soviet weapons, and
some had gold medals embossed
with Stalin’s profile, a 22-year-old
defending cavalryman said today.
The cavalryman gave his name
as Cherezima and said he was the
son of a Kazak chief in the Peita
shan area. He gave this version
of what Chinese military outhor*
ties termed a typical skirmish:
July 5, three Outer Mongolian
planes, supporting a ground fo^ce
of 200 troops, dropped 13 bombs
on Peitashan, killing one Xazuk
and a dozen horses.
One of the aircraft, a biplane
bearing a Red Star insignia, was
downed by machine gun fire of
the defenders.
During the ground fighting in
the area, near the disputed sinki
ang-Outer Mongolia border, a
Mongol commanding officer, iden
tified as a colonel Sagmet, was
wounded, captured and executed.
He wore a Soviet decoration for
action against the Japanese!
Booty taken by the 100 defending
Kazaks included 15 Soviet and
German light machineguns, 30,000
rounds of ammunition, 70 gre
nades, four gold medals with Sta
lin’s profile, and photographs of
Stalin and of Marshal Cholbaison,
head of the Mongolian republic.
Burmese Police
Hold Ex-Premier
RANGOON, Burma, (/P)—Bur
mese police police held former
Premier U. Saw—and 19 of his
lieutenants today after killing
three of the opposition leader’s^
followers in a gun fight at his
home yesterday when they arrest
ed the group in connection with
the Saturday massacre of seven
council ministers.
U. Saw—leader of the Myochit
party-r—was held under heavy
guard in the Rangoon central jail
while authorities imposed a dusk
to dawn curfew on the city.
Authorities said the raid on the
former premier’s home was led by
Ba Maung, inspector general of
Burma police. A violent gun fight
ensued before U. Saw and his fol
lowers surrendered. During the
battle three Myochit party mem
bers were killed.
Officials said a search of U.
Saw’s house unearthed a cache of
arms and ammunition.
The Burmese press said nearly
50 persons all told had been ar
rested as a result of the assassina
tions of Maj. Gen. U Aung San
and six fellow ministers who were
cut down by machinegun fire dur
ing a meeting of the nine-man
exedhtive council in government
House Saturday morning. Six of
the victims died soon after the at
tack and a seventh, Sao Sam Ttun
Sawba, succumbed the next day.
Among those reported held was
Thakin Ba Sein, leader of the
Bobfema Asiayone party.
House Passes
Huge Foreign
Aid Bill
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(By Alex H. Singleton)
WASHINGTON, f/P) —Spurred
by alarm over strife in Greece
and a widening split between Rus
I sia and the western powers, the
House shoved along to the Senate
Saturday a $1,603,199,094 appro
priations measure carrying $1,
353,900 to finance this nation’s
foreign policy.
House passage came last night
by voice vote in just an hour’s
time. This is a peacetime record
for a measure of its magnitude
and international implication—
amid cries for halting all aid to
countries under Russian domina
i tion.
Assurance that such ban is in
tended came from chairman Ta
ber <R.-N. Y.) of the House appro
priations committee, spea king
against the background of tesfi
mony—some secret, some public
from high ranking army and dip
lomatic chiefs.
He told the House that aid will
I be denied to countries ideologieal
I ly and economically associated
with the Soviet Union “unless
i they turn over a new leaf and
' show that they are willing to co
■ operate with nations which be
lieve in freedom.”
The foreign funds included the
full $400,000,000 previously au
1 thorized to bolster Greece and
I Turkey against Commu n i s m ;
$332,000,000 for foreign relief;
j $550,000,000 to pay the costs of the
j army’s relief-government occupa
I tion program in Germany, Korea
J and Japan; and $71,024,000 for the!
I United States share in the inter
! national refugees organization.
Consideration of the omnibus1
' . i
aid measure came as :hairmaa
Eaton tR.-N. J.) of the House for
eign affairs committee said that
►“We are in sight of a shooting
war at this minute” in Greece.
Eaton declared: “The Russians,!
as a result of the Marshall plan,
have taken off their masks. There
are alien armed forces now in;
Greece. Either America will stand i
firm and hold the fort, or Russia
will take over. If Russia takes
over, the destiny of mankind is;
once more at stake.”
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Customs Port At
Dawson Creek
Washington, (/P)—Establishment j
of a Canadian customs port of en
try at Dawson Creek, British Co
lumbia, makes possible the trans
port of commercial freight by
turck over the Alaska highway, j
interior secretary Krug announced
today.
Commodities can be forwarded
in bond by American shippers by
rail across Canada to Dawson
Creek. They are transferred there
under seal to trucks for move
ment over the highway.
The Alaska freight lines of Seat
tle and Alfred Ghezzi, Jr., of Fair
banks are maintaining a regular
schedule on the highway, Krug
said in a statement.
Tax Bill Killed;
Will Become Issue
In 1948 Campaign
WASHINGTON, (/P)—'The Sen
ate late Friday killed the four bil
lion dollar tax cut bill by uphold
ing the President’s veto 57 to 36.
(By Edwin B. Haakinson)
WASHINGTON, OP)—Failure of
the Senate to override President
Truman’s veto of the GOP tax
cutting bill tossed the issue into
the 1948 political campaign Satur
day. Both sides expressed willing
ness to let the voters decide who
was right.
Prospects for tax reductions at
this session of Congress died Fri
day night when backers of the
bill marshaled only 57 Senate
votes against 36 supporters of the
President—five short of the neces
sary two-thirds majority.
Earlier the House had voted to
override with 27 votes to spare,
299 to 108.
“I'm not unhappy,” Senator
Millikin <R.-Colo.>, floor manager
for the bill, told reporters. “There
are 49.000,000 taxpayers who
would have had some relief ex
cept for two vetoes by a Demo
cratic President and administra
tion.’
House majority leader Halleck
said tax relief apparently must
wait “until the country elects a
Republican President next year
who will cooperate with a Repub
lican Congress.”
Rep. Rayburn of Texas, the
House Democratic leader, already
had accepted the challenge. “If
the Republicans want to throw
this kind of tax bill into the cam
paign.” he said, “We’ll welcome
the issue.”
Bishop Fitzgerald
Lies In State
SEATTLE, (vP) — The body of
the Most Rev. Walter J. Fitzger
ald, bishop of Alaska and first
Washington-born bishop of the
Catholic church, will lie in state at
St. Joseph’s Catholic church here
today and tomorrow when it will
be taken to Spokane for burial.
Bishop Fitzgerald, 63, died of a
cerebral hemorrhage Saturday,
five days after he had been flown
south from Juneau for treatment.
Office of the Dead will be
chanted this evening by priests
from Seattle college and Seattle
preparatory school.
In Spokane, Bishop Charles
Daniel White, who participated in
Bishop Fitzgerald’s consecration,
will sing the solemn pontifical re
quiem mass Thursday morning in
St. Aloysius church. Burial will
follow in St. Michael’s cemetery
there.
The body will be accompanied
to Spokane by the Very Rev. Har
old O. Small, president of Seattle
college.
Administration of the Bisphoric
of Alaska will be atken over, Rev.
Small said, by Rev. Paul de
Schout, superior general of the
Jesuit Missions in Alaska, ending
with the selection of a new
bishop.