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♦NEWS IN BRIEF
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NEW YORK, (/P)—Condition of
Michael S. (Mike* Jacobs, boxin
promoter and president of the!
Twentieth Century Sport ng Clu
was described as “still critical” to ,
day at St. Clare’s hospital, who. t
he had been a patient since suffe
ing a cerebral hemorrhage a wee
ago. Jacobs had shown some r
provement until Saturday after
noon, when he was stricken wi
a heart attack.
9 LONDON,, (/P) — Mrs. ^harloL
Cameron, noted explorer, lectur
er, and author, died toaa., *.i
London nursing home. Mr . _ar.;
eron, the widow of a Brit sh army
officer, made extensive „uar.i. ■’
in India, South America, xtu s.a
Alaska and the Yukon, t.te S u.
wSeas and Borneo. She visiteu man.
regions hitherto unexplored by
white women. During the war s.
lectured in the United State
Among her books were “Spy
Togoland,” “100,000 Miles in .
South Seas” and “Mexico in Re*'
lution."
VANCOUVER, B. C. (/P)—The:
will be no Japanese tange.-.;
oranges after all. Delay of the
^scheduled snipments, fu'St, si.i^
1941, past Christmas has cause.
Vancouver brokers to cancel th.
import permit through fear ta^
fruit would not sell.
CAIRO, (>P)—The Ministery o.
Interior said today that memb.r^
of the Moslem Religious Institute
t and police clashed today at the u.;
per Egyptian town as Assiut when
students organized a demonstra
^tion demanding immediate British
evacuation and Union of Egypt
and the Sudan under the Egyptian
crown. One student was reported
killed, and four policemen in
jured. The students were reported
armed with knives, pistols and
clubs.
JERUSALEM, (yP)—The British
^ navy announced today that 742
shipwrecked Jewish refugees had
been evacuated from the lonely
Greek island of Syrine by two
British warships and now are en
route to Suda Bay at Crete, where
the immigrants are to be trans
ferred to a hospital ship and thence
to Cyprus. The announcement
.said the rescue was carried out “in
extremely rough seas and in ex
|lrcme difficulty.”
PHILADELPHIA, (JP) — Wesley
Mouzon, who failed in his bid for
the lightweight championship two
weeks ago, underwent an opera
tion yesterday in an attempt to re
tore complete vision to his right
eye. Officials of Wills hospital
said results “probably won’t be
known for at least ten days to two
y weeks.
Social Calendar
20-40 Club Party.Dec. 14
Community Xmas .Dec. 20
Pioneer Roof Garden.Dec. 211
T R O OPS UNLOAD MEA T_Durin& the dock strike, British troops work at the Royal
AiiJcrt clocks. London, to unload meat suonlies. which are still closelv rationed.
Baseball World
Mourns Death Of
Walter Johnson
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er. tions .... ... ba.. 1 ..
y the passing of
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.h ov. e vv virtually r wro.e the
pitch n cor . boo during nis
21 years with the Washington Sen
ators.
..row: a. “the Big Train” and
. lember of the game’s official
hall of tame, the kindly one-time
Kansas farm boy died just before
midnight at Georgetown hospital.
He was 59 years old.
For eight months h's life had
been dimming from a brain tumor
which doctors dared not try to re
lieve by surgery.
In Washington, where he spent
his entire big league pitching ca
reer, Johnson was almost as cele
brated as Presidents, cabinet mem
bers and supreme court justices.
During the time he lay dying even
schoolboys unborn when he was in
his prime called the hospital to
ask how he was doing.
Clark Griffith, 76 year old pres
ident of the Senators, summed it
up for the lanky Johnson’s admir
ers today when he said: “He was
the greatest pitcher of all time.”
M. S. MITROVITCH TO
REPRESENT NWA CHAMBER
M. S. Mitrovitch, president of
the NWA Chamber of Commerce,
is leaving today on the Alaska Air
lines plane for Anchorage where
he wil lact as representative for
the NWA Chamber in the meeting
of all Alaska chambers next week
in Anchorage.
Mr. Mitrovitch will also attend
the Alaska Aviation conference
which is being sponsored by the
CAA eighth region, Alaska and
the Aleutians, and will be held in
the U.S.O. building in Anchorage,
on December 12 and 13, 1946.
Coal Strike
Appeal To Be
Argued Jan. 14
WASHINGTON, f/P) — Federal
Judge T. Alan Goldsborough to
y app oved an agreement be
- government and John L.
Lewis attorneys to delay until late
January any further lower court
i action against the United Mine
! workers growing out of the recent
coal strike.
The joint stipulation approved
! by Judge Goldsborough provides
that any further litigation be de
fer ed until ten days after the Su
preme Court hears arguments on
’h'' appeal of Lewis and the min
ers from their contempt convic
tions in Goldsborough’s court.
The apoeal is due to be argued
on Jan. 14.
Hinging on the appeal are fines
of $10,000 on the UMW president
and $3,500,000 on the union.
Lawyers were of the opinion
that the Supreme Court will re
quire no more than two weeks to
conclude the case there.
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Fisli “Swim”
Into Cannery
PORTLAND, Me. (/P>—A 65-ton
cargo of fish which virtually
“swam” from boats to cannery
storage tanks has been unloaded
j in 40 rrrnutes, compared with six
to eight hours by old methods.
John D. Toft, vice president of
the R. J. Peacock Canning co., and
inventor of the unloading device,
said today the fish were mixed
i with water in a six-inch suction
hose and floated to storage tanks.
A 30 horsepower pump creating
12 pounds nressure helps the fish
“swim” through the system, which
has been installed in the concern’s
two plants at Lubec, one at East
port and one here.
Congress Clashes
Over Statehood
For Hawaii
WASHINGTON mgress
rnen at opposite ends of the Capi
tol, and of opposite political fauns,
disagreed sharply today on the
prospects of statehood for Hawaii.
Rep. Miller (D.-Calif.) disputed
j a prediction by Senator Butler <R.
Neb.) that “no offshore area ever
! will get statehood.” Miller asserted
; the House, at least, would approve
statehood for Hawaii right now.
“I never will vote for statehood
for any offshore area,” Butler had
told a reporter, “at least not until
the people of this country have
been thoroughly educated to the
responsibilities that would in
volve. I am expressing the opinion
of every other member of Con
gress I ever have talked to on the
subject.”
Miller replied in an interview:
“If we take seriously what the
Constitution says about all men
being created equal, and I do take
it seriously, I do not see how we
can deny statehood to Hawaii.
They want it. They are ready for
it.”
Butler’s comment was made in
connection with a visit last week
by a delegation of Puerto Ricans
(attending the Republican national
committee meeting in Washington.
They said Puerto Rico would pre
fer statehood to independence,
Butler reported.
FIRE EQUIPMENT
READY FOR WINTER
The City Fire Department is
busy today getting the winter
equipment in the fire station read
ied for winter. The sled-tank and
tractor were placed in position
alongside the truck so that in case
of weather and snow too deep for
the truck, the tractor-drawn equip
ment could be taken to the fire.
Govt. Troops
In Azerbaijan
TEHRAN, i/P)—The Tabriz ra
dio announced today that Dr. Sal
'unoli.ih Jav'd, the Communist
general of Azerbaijan province,
had wired Premier Ahmed Qavam
tiiat the principal council agreed
to the assignment of government
security forces in Azerbaijan.
rou. columns of government
..oops w^re dispatched only yes
.eruay across the frontier of the
.'cmi-autonomous state which had
rejected Qavam’s orders for gov
; ernment supervision of coming
j eiec.io.is throughout the nation.
fne supreme war council of
Iran met here for three hours this
, morning.
Gen. Razmara, chief of the gen
ie. ui staff, was in attendance, as
troops struck northward
s.mist t ie Azeroaijan fedaie 'mil
itia) of Dr. Sallamollah Javid, the
Communist governor-general, in a
movement which may challenge
Soviet Russia’s interest in the
northwestern border province.
Reports yesterday that the
troops had captured Mianeh, a
highway and railray town five
five miles beyond the Ghaflonkooh
mountain pass, remained uncon
\ firmed.
Premier Ahmed Qavam ordered
the military action after the Azer
baijan regime rejected his plan
r army supervision of coming
elections.
The righist newspaper Atash
said Russian ambassador told Pre
mier Ahmed Qavam yesterday
that the Iranian army movement
into Azerbaijan was “contrary to
the agreement between Russia and
Iran.”
The ambassador was reported U»
have called the rievelonment a
' threat to Russian borders” and an
action of “great support to reac
tionaries.”
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Canadian Trucks
Haul Duty-Free
Merchandise
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The state
department notified Senator Mag
nuson (D.-Wash.) today that Ca
nadian truckers hauling merchan
dise from Canadian territory to
customs ports in Alaska will not
be subject to duty on the trucks.
The question arose in Alaska
when Canada permitted American
trucks to haul merchandise in
bond over the Alaska Highway.
Foreign trucks hauling mer
chandise between two points in
the United States would be sub
ject to duty on the trucks, the Sen
ator was told.
The department said that while
under customs laws trucks hauling
merchandise from Canada to
points in Alaska would not have
to pay duty, they could not pick
up merchandise in Alaska on the
return trip even if the point of or
igin was in their line of travel.