Holland Tunnel 1
Cleared For Traffic
NEW YIRK, (£*) — Bulldozers
scraped through deep ooze and
matted wreckage last week end to
clear the blast-seared Holland
Tunnel for its daily load of 46,000
cars and trucks.
A big truck, rolling toward New
York with a cargo of chemicals,
blew up Friday morning. It spew
ed fire and poisonous gas through
300 feet of the traffic-clogged tun
nel.
Austin J. Tobin, executive di
rector of the New York Port Au
thority, said after an inspection
trip Saturday that the New York
bound tube would be restored to
service “at the latest today.”
Tobjn said however the tube
would be closed from 10 to 12
hours a night for a month or two
to permit repair work to proceed.
Damage may total $1,000,000.
The New Jersey bound tube
was reopened five hours after the
accident.
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Coplon Trial
Drags On And On
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Judith
Coplon’s espionage trial went into
its fourth week today with the end
nowhere in sight.
Government prosecutors, who
had hoped to finish their case
wi’hin a few days, said their time
table had been so upset they now
have no idea as to time.
The prosecutors called as the
first witness another FBI agent
who took part in the trailing of
Miss Coplon and Valentine A. Gu
bitchev.
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NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y. (JP)—
George Schneiter, tournam e n t
* manager of the Professional Golf
ers Association, said today there
was little chance that the organ
ization’s executive comm i 11 e e
would change its mind and permit
Bobby Locke to compete in the
national P.G.A. tournament at
Richmond.
This strict adherence to rules
probably is all right with the play
ers after what the South African
Aly Gives Rita
$18,000 Automobile
CANNES. France, (fP) — Prince
Aly Khan left Saturday for Swit
zerland, presumably to yisit his
two children. Actress Rita Hay
worth, scheduled to wed the prince
on May 27, did not accompany
him.
French papers also said one of
the prince’s presents to the Ameri
can film star was an Italian auto
mobile, an Alfa-Romeo, which
cost 6,000,000 francs <$18,000).
A Paris newspaper said her j
wedding dress will be pale blue—
“the color of the glaciers.” The I
gown is being made by Paris de- j
signer Jacques Fath.
i
did to a select field in winning the
Goodall round-robin event at the
Wykagyl Country Club yesterday.
Bobby shot a 66 for his fifth
straight sub-par round to finish
with a point total of 66, just twice
that of defending champion Her
man Barron, who finished in sec
ond place.
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At A Glance —
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assembly session today.
United States delegates won a
battle to limit peacetime censor
ship strictly to matters of national
defense, against Russian opposi
tion.
“The right of correction” clause
in the agreement’s title refers to
machinery it contains for one
member government to submit to
another corrections on news mate
rial it considers injurious. Ulti
mately, the convention is expect
ed to become a treaty covering the j
rights and privileges of foreign
correspondents.
The Vatican radio quoted the
Italian news agency Astra as say
ing Josef Cardinal Mindszenty has:
suffered a mental breakdown in a '
Hungarian prison. There was no j
confirmation of the report.
A final vote is expected late to
day on the United Nations’ atti-'
tude on Spain. Latin American
countries are leading a drive to
gain full recognition for the Fran- .
co government, withdrawn by the
U. N. two years ago.
(Monday. May 16. 1949)
i British authorities today order
j ed Gerhart Eisler, communist
j leader, to show cause why he
I should not be deported to the
j United States.
i A Southampton magistrate’s
court ordered the greying, bespec
tacled figitive demanded immedi
i ately to London’s Bow Street court
which handles extradition cases.
Hearing there, however, was ad
journed until May 24. Bail was re
fused.
In London, Polish ambassador
Jerzy Michalowski arranged to see
foreign secretary Ernest Bevin to
deliver an oral protest because j
Scotland Yard men lugged Eisler
off the Polish liner Batory Satur
day.
The communist leader, called
America’s No. 1 by Congress
stowed away on the ship in New
York, jumping $23,500 bail, while t
undef prison sentence on two sep- !
arate criminal convictions in the
United States.
In Warsaw, the Polish govern
ment denounced the seizure of
Eisler as a “brutal violation of the
Polish flag.”
An official spokesman said the
government is considering further j
steps to back up its formal protest
to Britain.
Minister plenipotentiary Wiktor
Gross said Poland would “react to
such an outrageous case of vio
lence.” He did not say how.
Moscow’s communist party'
new/spaper, Pravda, chimed in.
calling Eisler’s arrest “crude as
sault.” “unlawful” and “unheard
of” behavior.
In Washington, Senator Wiley j
(R.-Wis.) backed plans for a Con-!
gressional investigation of how;
Eisler eluded federal agents and!
fled the U. S.
Chinese nationalist defenders'
t
still held Shanghai's sea and air;
gateways today, despite heavy!
communist attacks.
A Shanghai garrison communi
que said the communists had been
beaten back around Woosung,
fortress guardian of the WhangpOo
River outlet to the sea. It also said
communist jabs had been blunted !
on the other side of Shanghai,!
where the airfield is threatened.
In Central China, nationalist i
evacuation of industrial Hankow!
and neighboring Wuchang was an- j
nounced by the government’s cen-!
tral news agency.
United Nations delegates called
F.H.A. Insures
Apartment House
In Anchorage
WASHINGTON. </P)—Tne fed
eral housing administration an
nounced Saturday the first con'
mitment to insure a mortgage on a
housing project in Alaska.
FHA commissioner Franklin D
Richards said a mortgage loan cf
$660,900 on the Turnagain Arm'
Apartments at Anchorage will be
made by White and Bollard, Inc.,
Seattle, Wash.
The project will be built by the
Turnagain Co., Inc., of Anchorage
The insurance is authorized in
the recently enacted Alaska hous
ing act. Raymond Foley, housing
and home finance agency adminis
trator, said his agency is prepar
ing to put other provisions of the
act into effect as soon as possible
after funds are made available.
He said he plans to send a group
from his office to the Territory
soon to work out procedures with
the Alaska housing authority un
der which at $15,000,000 revolving
fund would be provided for hous
ing.
Commissioner Richards said an
application for another project in
Anchorage, Panorama View apart
ments, has been filed by the Pa
cific Development Alaska Corp.,
and preliminary examinations are
underway for two other Anchor
age housing developments.
CONGRESS WILL STAY IN
SESSION 3 OR 4 MONTHS
WASHINGTON, (VP) — H o u s e
speaker Rayburn <D.-Tex.) pre
dicted today that Congress will re
main in session for three or four
months. But said reports that a
special session will be held th.s
fall are “nonsensical.”
Rayburn also predicted, after a
legislative conference at the White
House, that a joint Congressional
committee will make an investiga
t on of lobbyists.
The speaker said there was no
reaction from President Truman
on this score, however.
The woodcock has eyes set far
back in its head so that it can see
its enemies when its long bill digs
deep in the ground for worms.
an overtime meeting at Flushing
Meadows today to vote on the dis
puted question of lifting the dip
lomatic boycott of Franco Spain.
Saturday had been set as the
adjournment date of the assembly
session, but debate on the Spanish
issue and disposal of Italy's pre
war colonies dragged the session
past the deadline.
First official figures on commu
nist Hungary’s parliamentary elec
tion showed 97.3 per cent of a
hand-picked government slate of
candidates. An interior ministry
communique said only 1.9 percent
of the first 1,154,000 ballots coun
ed were cast against the govern
ment slate—the only one on the
ballot.
In the Russian-controlled east
ern zone of Germany, communists
were reported rolling up a huge
‘‘ja’’ vote to give Russia a German
“government” at her back before
the Paris Big Four conference.
A single list of candidates, care
fully chosen by eastern zona com
munist front organizations, has
been presented for election to the
“people’s congress.”
Returns in Bulgaria’s country
wide local elections show almost
unanimous support for the Red
government candidates. Nearly
100 per cent of the voters were re
ported to have cast ballots.