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NEWS IN BRIEF
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LOS ANGELES, (JP)—Men, are
you bothered with peptic ulcers?
Maybe the little woman is to
blame, says Dr. Earl E. Congdon,
of Lapeer, Mich, president of the
American College of Osteopathic
internists.
“More men have peptic ulcers,”
Dr. Congdon declared in an inter
view, “because they can’t get
along with their wives.”
Along with matrimonial discord
he placed “worries and frustra
tions” as major ulcer producers.
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TOKYO, (A*) — Inflation has
caught up with Dan Cupid.
Japanese marriage brokers will
not talk business with men earn
ing less than 7,000 yen ($140)
monthly, Kyodo News agency re
ported today. Women looking for
a mate want him to have: 1. A
good job. 2. A house.
Brokers charge 200 to 300 yen
to process applications. They ex
pect a similar amount if marriage
results. That happens in about one
of each ten applications.
PRAGUE, (/P) — The American
embassy announced Saturday that
a United States bulletin carrying
the text of President Truman’s ad
dress to Congress has been barred
from the mail in Czechoslovakia.
A Prague post office official
telephones to say that Thursday’s
issue of the bulletin had been con-1
fiscated.
The U. S. information service
issues daily a bulletin in the Czech
language reporting developments
of American policy. Normally sev-1
eral hundred copies are mailed to j
libraries school and interested
individuals.
WASHINGTON, (>P)—The gov-,
ernment’s budget surplus climbed
above $6,000,000,000 today for the!
first time in history.
The flood of income tax pay-1
ments was responsible. These sent
the surplus up almost $1,100,000,-,
000 in three days. j
The biggest full year surplus in
history was $1,155,000,000, attain
ed under the Coolidge administra
tion 21 years ago.
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WASHINGTON, (/P) — Final
committee action on the Alaska
statehood bill was postponed today
until April 6.
Chairman Welch (R.-Calif.) of
the House public lands committee
said amendments offered by Rep.
D’Ewert (R.-Mont.) and a request
by Rep. Le Compte (R.-Iowa) for
fuller discussion of the bill caused
the delay.
P’Ewert’s amendment wou 1 d
eliminate a section under which
the new state would respect rights1
of natives.
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JUNEAU (/P)—James C. Cooper,
prominent businessman and pub
lic accountant, was arrested Satur- j
day on three federal complaints
charging embezzlement, by agent
Cooper is accused of embezzling
more than $6,000 from three fish
ing vessel owners. The complaint
said the amount was to be used in
payment of withholding and so
cial security taxes.
U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray:
fixed bond at $7,500. 1
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Army C-47, Crew
Missing In N. W.
KELSO, Wash. *(/P) — An air
force C-47 with eight men aboard
is missing between here and Port
land, Ore., and scores of planes
awaited a break in the weather to
search for it today.
The search was to be concen
trated in the hilly country east of
Yacolt, in the Davis Peak area
and near Troutdale, Oregon.
Yacolt is about 20 miles south
of Mount St. Helens, 9,671-foot;
snow-covered peak, near which
the big plane was believed to have
been last seen.
The C-47 en route from Fair- j
field-Suisun (Calif.) air base to
Portland, was last heard from at
1:07 p.m. yesterday. A message
said the plane was 25 miles north
of Portland and making a proced
ure turn for an instrument land
ing.
Davis Peak is between 10 and
15 miles northeast of Woodland in
the Lewis River country. Two sep
arate reports from residents of
that area told of hearing a loud
clap of thunder sometime between
1 and 2 p.m, Sunday.
Ralph Sanger, Kelso coordinator
for the Washington aeronautics
board, said he would take off by
plane to search the Davis Peak
area as soon as weather condi
tions become favorable.
The air rescue service at the
army’s McChord field near Ta
coma reported that scores of
search planes will take to the air
as soon as the weather clears.
These include air rescue ships,
Washington national guard and
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BOY SCOUTS REMODEL
HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT
The Boy Scouts Troop 666 have
given up their regular athletic
evening every week where they
have played badminton, basket
ball, etc., all winter. They are giv- >
ing their time instead to work
shop training and are remodeling
army cots donated by U. S. Smelt
ing Co., and turning out hospital j
beds. They are also repairing
chairs for the new hospital and
possibly other equipment for the
rooms.
The American Red Cross has
made available fifty wool blan
kets for the emergency hospital,
and is scheduled to furnish other
production equipment which cdn
be procured locally, the funds to
be administered through the local
Red Cross committee.
The building is fast being read-;
ied for the emergency hospital.
Men from the Air Force, U. S. En
gineers, civilian eTnployees, and
local contractors and workers
tackled the job with a vengeance.
The building was leveled, and re
pairs begun on Saturday morning
to the heating plant, and parti
tions for the various rooms to be
used for office, surgery, kitchen,
wards, and etc.
Carl Glavinovich, who is in.
charge of the project, is more than!
pleased with the progress, and,
stated that a cleanup gang would j
be needed for tonight after 7:00 i
p.m. when all of the debris, and
such would be cleaned up prepar-1
atory to painting.
World War III Not
“Very Remote”
WASHINGTON (/P)— Chairman
Eaton <R.-N. J.) of the House for
eign affairs committee said today
the possibility of a third world
war “is not very remote.”
Eaton was asking the House
rules committee to send to the
House floor quickly legislation for
$6,205,000,000 worth of economic
and military aid to Western Eu
rope, China, Greece and Turkey.
A little earlier, the foreign af
fair committee had formally re
ported the bill. It said in a report
to the House that “the very sur
vival of the United States” is at
FLASH!
TRIESTE. (JP) — The American
military government announced
tonight a patrol of civil police of
the Anglo-American zone was
fired upon by Yugoslav police at
the border between the two zones
this afternoon. One policeman was
wounded. No other details imme
diately available.
stake in the present program to
stop communism and help Europe
recover economically.
Jhe way the House operates, its
rules committee has the job of de
ciding when a bill is to be con
sidered in the House.
Even before the rules commit
tee session, there was an informal
understanding that the big for
eign aid bill would come up to
morrow. Leaders predicted pas
sage by next week.
Eaton told the rules committee
members the world is coming to a
cross-roads. He said he did not
know whether the decision as to
which road it will take will be
made through armed conflict, “but
the possibility is not very remote.”
U. S. Seeks To
Abandon Palestine
Partition Plan
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LAKE SUCCESS, (/P) — Amer
ica’s about-face on Palestine
whipped up a world storm Satur
day, but U. S. sources expressed
confidence the United Nations will
accept the sudden proposal to
abandon partition.
The answer by Palestine’s Jews,
may be to proclaim a Hebrew re
public.
Arabs hailed the American
turnabout as a victory for them
against Zionism, but made it clear
they want nothing but an inde
pendent Arab state.
The proposal by Chief delegate
Warren R. Austin for temporary
U. N. trusteeship over the blood
bathed Holy Land was greeted
with consternation in London, in
Washington and by Jews through
out the world.
Austin’s plea came with dra
matic suddenness. He asked yes
terday for a special session of the
U. N. assembly to approve the in
terim plan and consider a per
manent solution. He proposed that
the security council ^ndorse the
interim trusteeship under the U. N.
Palestine commission to abandon,
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Trieste May Bring
United States
Of Europe
(By The Associated Press)
Italian Premier Alcide de Gas
peri said today he sees a step tow
ards a United States of Europe in
the proposal of the three Western
powers to return Trieste to his
country.
French foreign minister Georges
Bidault, who announced the plan
Saturday and conferred three
hours today with De Gasperi, de
clared:
“Peace is possible. I think that
peace is probable and I think if
we do what we should, peace is
certain.”
And yet the cold war between
Russia and the west went on un
abated.
A chorus of Communist state
ments on the Trieste proposal
arose from the red states Yugo
slavia, Czechoslovakia and Hun
gary. The communists showed
concern lest the Trieste pro
no u n c ement influence Italy’s
April 18 elections, in which the
communists were bidding for
power.
The Yugoslav government pro
tested to the western powers today
their proposal on Trieste will not
strengthen the peace in central
Europe.
Tan.iug, official Yugoslav news
agency, said a note was presented
to the United States, British and
French ambassadors in Belgrade
by the Yugoslav foreign minister,
Stanoje Simic.
Senators in Washington called
for secret data on the cold war.
Another major clash was expected
in the United Nations at Lake Suc
cess between Russia and the west
over Chile’s request for an inquiry
into the Communist coup in
Czechoslovakia. Political exiles
from Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland,
Romania, and Yugoslavia in Lon
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Lewis To Meet
Operators Today
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WASHINGTON, (iF) — John L. |
Lewis accepted a government in
vitation to meet with coal opera
tors today in an attempt to settle
the current coal strike.
Lewis, however, said in accept
ing the invitation from mediation
director Cyrus S. Ching, that:
“It is preposterous to assume,
that any progress will be made at'
the meeting, as these men merely'
carry out the instructions of their,
principals.”
Lewis plainly accepted the invi
tation with reluctance. He said he
did so out of a “desire to avoid any
discourtesy” to Ching.
The coal walkout has spread in
a single week over almost the en-1
tire bituminous industry. It has
caused the shutdowns of steel and
other important industrial plants.
It is based on a dispute over a
method of paying miners’ retire
ment out of the $30,000,000 min
ers’ health and welfare fund.
Lewis contended in a memoran
dum to Ching that the operators
invited to the conference lack
power to reach any agreement. I
Western Allies
Advocate Return of
Trieste To Italy
WASHINGTON, (£>) — Britain,
United States and France Saturday
proposed the return of the terri
tory of Trieste to Italy through a
major revision of the Italian peace
treaty.
The proposal was made on be
half of the American government
to the Russian aid Italian embas
sies here. Trieste is an important
port city and ship building center
on the Adriatic Sea between Italy
and Yugoslavia.
Under the Italian peace treaty,
Trieste was established as a free
territory under the protection of
the United Nations.
Today’s joint announcement of
the western powers said this plan
for an independent Trieste is not
working out very well.
It said Yugoslavia already has
virtually incorporated that area of
the territory occupied by Yugoslav
troops.
The proposal to “place the free
territory of Trieste once more un
der Italian sovereignty” apparent
ly is a major move by the western
powers in\Italian political strat
egy. The Italians are to hold a na
tional election April 18 with a
Communist bid for power the big
| issue.
The western power’s decision to
propose return of Trieste to Italy
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Atomic Strike
Stopped By
Injunction
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., f/P) — A
' threatened strike in an atomic
bomb laboratory at Oak Ridge,
Tenn., was averted Friday when
the goernment obtained an injunc
tion banning a walkout for 80
days.
The court order, issued here by
federal judge George C. Taylor,
marked the first time national
emergency provisions of the Taft
Hartley law had been invoked.
About 900 members of the AFL.
atomic trades and labor council
were restrained from leaving their
jobs at Oak Ridge national labora
tory.
Carbide and Carbon Chemicals
Corp., operator of the plant was
restrained from disturbing the
“status quo” of an existing labor
contract with the union.
In recent Washington negotia
tions, the union claimed the work
ers were threatened with a wage
cut. Carbide took over ihe labora
tory March 1 from Monsanto
Chemical Co. Monsanto had been
paying the AFL workers higher
wages than those received by CIO
workers at a nearby atomic pro
duction plant, also operated by
Carbide.
After the injunction was issued,
Kenneth L. Sott, union spokes
man, told reporters the union
/vould wait out the next eighty
days.”
“We will not negotiate away the
privileges won by collective bar
gaining. They will have to legis
late them away,” he said.