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NEWS IN BRIEF
REDDING, Calif., iff) —Frank
T. Crowe, 63, who superintended
the building of 19 dams, includ
^ ing the great Boulder and Shasta
dams, died at the Mercy hospital.
His name was associated for near
ly 40 years with construction of
dams in the west.
WASHINGTON, iff) — Senator
Tunnell (D.-Del.) said an around
the-world investigation tour un
covered little support for rumors
that the army and navy had de
liberately wasted food and equip
ment. A detailed report on the
findings of Tunnell and Senator
Knowland (R.-Calif.), who made
the trip for the Senate’s war in
vestigating committee, is in the
making. Counsel George W. Mea
der said it should be ready in
about ten days.
V
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — Alaskans
will have their chance this week
to tell what they think of the
Alaska Railroad’s freight rates,
when a special Interior Depart
ment committee holds a hearing
here. The hearing will be one of a
series to be conducted along the
railroad’s route by B. C. Thoron,
special consultant for the railroad,
George Sundborg, industrial anal
yst and Edward Magolin, trans
portation economist.
■ SALT LAKE CITY, UP)—Her
bert Tomlinson, 58, general super
intendent of the Alaskan Railroad
Coal Mining company, Eska, Alas
ka, died at his home Friday after
a lingering illness. Formerly gen
eral superintendent of the Rocky
Mountain Fuel Co., Denver, he
had also been associated with
mines in Nevada, Utah and Wyo
ming. Survivors include a son,
Jack Tomlinson of San Francisco.
WASHINGTON, UP) — Senator
Mitchell (R.-Wash.) said in a state
ment he had recommended the ap
fc pointment of Milo Moore, director
of the Washington State Fisheries,
to be a member of the Interna
tional Pacific Salmon Fisheries
commission. Moore would replace
Charles E. Jackson, Washington,
D. C., who retires from the com
mission this year.
SHANGHAI—Maj. Gen. Masa
taka Kaburagi and four Japanese
non-commissioned officers have
been sentenced to hang for the
“hate” parade and murder of
^ three American fliers at Hankow,
on December 16, 1944.
NEW YORK — An advertise
ment in the Times, sponsored by
the Military Order of Purple
Heart Wounded Veterans organ
ization, demanded the atomic
bomb tests in the Pacific be can
celled. The advertisement entitled
“Where are we going,” said the
demonstration might be viewed
by foreigners as a “vulgar display
of fiendish strength,” and “can
only serve to encourage other
countries to work more militantly
at perfecting weapons.”
Fresh Produce for Alaska Tables
Here is part of a ton and a half shipment of fresh produce which
was flown from Seattle to Alaska by Pan American Clipper, Feb
ruary 27. Pan American stewardess, Virginia Burke, hands Philip
Randall in the express office, some hard to get bananas. The
first all cargo flight to go north following Pan American’s drastic
cut in fresh produce rates last week, the shipment was destined
for Fairbanks and Nome.
STRIKES
At A Glance • . .
Around 800,000 are kept idle by
labor disputes. The major devel
opments are:
Automobiles — The CIO UAW
prepared to intensify the strike
against General Motors following
the rejection by General Motors
of the union arbitration offer.
General Motors says the only
issue is whether the company
must pay a bigger increase than
its competitors, and suggests a se
cret vote by union members of the
corporation’s offer of eighteen and
a half cents hourly raise. The
union officers are holding out for
nineteen and one half cents, and
blast the ballot proposal as “un
warranted interference in the af
fairs of a democratic union.”
Telephones—The threat of a na
tionwide telephone tie-up at 6:00
a.m., Thursday continues unabat
ed. The American Telephone &
Telegraph company federation of
long lines workers fail to agree in
a lengthy session with sixteen
other affiliates of the National
Federation of Telephone Workers !
who are involved in the threat
ened wlakout for wage raises.
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P) — AFL
teamsters union instituted picket
ing at all canneries in northern
California, where approximately
one third of the nation’s fruits
and vegetables are packed. The
action was taken to fulfill the
teamsters demand for a contract
naming AFL exclusive bargaining
agent for the cannery workers.
Britain, France
And U. S. Agree
On Spain
WASHINGTON, Mar. 4, </P)—
The government announced that
both Britain and France have now
accepted “in principle” the United
States proposals for three-power
action regarding Franco Spain.
The American proposals never
have been officially announced,
but diplomatic officials have said
they call for a declaration that
thQ three governments:
1. Are utterly opposed to the
regime of Generalissimo Franco,
and hope for its early replacement
by the Spanish people themselves.
2. Are willing to grant recog
nition to any broadly-representa
tive interim government which
might be established following
Franco’s ouster, and which would
promise amnesty for political pris
oners, and free elections.
Michael J. McDermott, state de
partment press officer, told a
news conference of the British
and French agreements “in prin
ciple.” McDermott said however,
that both the British and French
wanted to discuss a few matters
regarding the wording of the pro
posed three-power declaration.
CHUNGKING — China and
France signed a treaty for the re
linquishment of France’s 45-year
old extra-territoriality rights in
China and an agreement by which
China consented to remove Chi
nese troops from North Indo
China.
Russian Troops j
Keep Pouring Into
Manchuria
CHUNGKING, Mar. 4, (JP) —
Chinese sources, who requested
anonymity, asserted Russian
troops were continuing to pour I
into Manchuria in an unceasing |
flow. These sources declared the |
Soviet occupation forces number
ed 300,000 six months ago, and
now were almost double that fig
ure.
A delayed dispatch from (/P>
corrsepondent Richard Cushing,
yesterday described Port Dairen
as an armed Russian camp. Rus
sians there told him Jap prisoners
had been forced to dismantle
Manchurian industries for the
Russians.
Cushing reported that he and
two other American correspond
ents were given the “bums rush”
out of Dairen, after making their
way there from Mukden. They re
ceived a cold reception, possibly
because “we must have seen all
the Red army maneuvers being
staged along at least thirty miles
of railroad.
Their twenty-four-hour visit
ended abruptly after virtual ar
rest, and they returned to Muk
den.
Rioting Breaks Out
In Tehran
TEHRAN, Mar. 4, i/TM—Rioting
broke out during a demonstration
by the leftist Tudeh party in front1
of the parliament building. Police
said four persons were injured
and six were arrested. The dis
turbance postponed a meeting of
parliament.
Witnesses said a fighting crowd
of two or three thousand started
when someone shouted “death to
Tudeh.” Party leaders declared
“Rightists” were responsible for
the rioting, and said Tudeh mem
bers gathered before the parlia
ment building in a protest against
the extension of the life of the
present parliament.
Dr. Mohamed Mossadegh, par
liamentary whip, demanded yes
terday that the government file j
with the United Nations security i
council a formal charge against .
Russia, who violated the agree-:
ment with Britain and United j
States to withdraw troops from1
Iran by March 2.
PLAN TO MAKE
FAIRBANKS FUR
CENTER OF ALASKA
Planning to make Fairbanks the
fur center of Alaska, the Alaska
Fur Sales Co., Inc., has been
formed by Hjalmar Nordale, An
drew Nerland, G. A. Gustafson,
John Butrovich, Percy Hubbard
and Don Hammond. The new
$500,000 corporation will open at
the site of the Lavery warehouse
in Fairbanks.
Prime Minister
King Makes Public
“Leakage” Secrets
OTTAWA, Mar. 4, (/p>_prime
Minister MaeKenzie King made a
public report of leakage official
secrets which declared the “evi
dence reveals these operations
were carried on by certain mem
bers of the staff at the Soviet Em
bassy in Ottawa under direct in
structions from Moscow."
The Russian agents were in
structed by Moscow in August,
1945, near the end of the war in
the Pacific to obtain “information
as to the transfer of American
iroops from Europe to U. S. and
the Pacific."
The two-man royal investigat
ing commission declared in the
report to King that the location
and headquarters of a score of U.
S. army divisions or troops of the
U. S. Ninth army were sought
from Col. Nicoli Zabotin, military
attache at the Soviet Embassy in
Ottawa.
The announcement said the re
port declared Zabotin was accused
of getting the following informa
tion. 1—Particulars as to the ma
terial of which the atomic bomb
is composed; its technological pro
cesses and drawings. 2—Detail*
of “electronic shells used by the
American Navy.” 3—“Samples of
uranium 235. with details as tn
the plant where it was produced.**
4—“Location of the Brazilian in
fantry division which fought in
Italy. Lists of Canadian army di
visions returned to Canada.”
Moscow announced recen 11 y
that Sabotin was recalled from
Ottawa as an embassy member.
Twenty-Seven Die
In Air Liner Crash
In California
SAN DIEGO, Mar. 4, (/P'1—The
bodies of twenty-seven victims of
commercial aviation’s worst crash,,
against the side of a mountain 45
miles east of here, are being re
covered from the wreckage.
The first bodies, gatehered ten
derly by sheriff’s deputies and
navy sailors, were those of two in
fants. The removal of the other
twenty-five: fifteen men and ten
women, was delayed by the diffi
culties of the terrain.
The American Airlines plane,
bound to Dallas from San Diego,
on the New York-Los Angeles run
crashed into the slope of Fig Hid
den Thing Mountain yesterday"
morning. It crashed and burned,
all except the tail and one winjc
a few minutes after it was report
ed over El Centro.
BABY GIRL BORN TO
WILLIAM BLAKELEYS
Mr. and Mrs. William Blakeley
are the parents of a baby girl
born March 3, at the Maynard
Columbus Hospital.