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Return to Work,
End 6-Day Strike
SAN FRANCISCO, (fl>) — CIO
Maritime Radio Operators re
turned to work today, ending a
six-day strike that crippled non
military shipping' on the Pacific
Coast.
End of the walkout came short
ly after midnight when ship
owners announced they had reach
ed an agreement on wages with
the striking CIO American Radio
Association.
Terms were not announced. But
it was reported the radiomen had
won a base of $391 and a more
liberal overtime setup. The ap
proximately 300 radiomen had de
manded a $63 monthly wage boost
to their $352.
Waterfront observers said terms
of the settlement probably will not
be announced until East and Gulf
Coast marine unions reach an ag
reement in their walkouts.
Tankers, military vessels and
> ships carrying military cargo were
not -affected by the strike. Tanker
radiomen are covered under a
•separate contract.
End of Strike
Clears Way For
Aleutian Sailing
SEATTLE, (/P) — Settlement of
the American Radio Association
strike early today cleared the way
for the scheduled sailing of the
steamer Aleutian to Alaska.
The Alaska Steamship Company
announced the steamer will sail
at midnight tonight.
The company cancelled the bail
ing yesterday because of the
radiomen’s strike but rescinded
the order when the settlement
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was reached. The Aleutian orig
inally w’as to have sailed at 5
pjn. today. The company ad
vanced the hour to midnight.
Some 275 persons, including 46
members of the Seattle Chamber
of Commerce Alaska “goodwill”
tour, had booked passage on the
Aleutian.
In Commissioner’s Court
Jacob Smith was tried on a
charge of contributing to the de
linquency of a. minor and bound
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over to the District Court.
(By the Associated Press)
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Chicago 5—New York 2
Cleveland 8—Boston 4
Detroit 9—Philadelphia 3
Washington 9—St. Louis 2
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn 6—Cincinnati 4
St. Louis 2—New York 0
Philadelphia 10—Pittsburgh 5
Boston at Chicago rained out.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
San Diego /4—Oakland 3
Hollywood 4—Portland 2
Los Angeles 10—Sacramento 1
San Francisco 8-9—Seattle 6-6
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Truman Discounts Rumors
Of Korea Peace Proposals
WASHINGTON, WP)—President
Truman yesterday discounted ru
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mors of Korean peace proposals.
He told a news conference ques
tioner that no peace proposition
had been taken up with, him by
the United Nations. He added he
believed a thing of this kind
would come to him if any action
were contemplated.
Mr. Truman had very little
news at his first press-radio con
ference in two weeks.
He fired “no comment” replies
in quick succession to questions
regarding Iranian oil, congression
al committee actions in toning
down his inflation control pro
posals, and Senate votes cutting
10 per cent from requested ap
propriations for federal personnel.
He also declined to throw any
light on his 1952 political inten
tions or to mix again in the Mac
Arthur controversy.
Four-Engine Navy
Privateer Crashes,
Killing 5 of Crew
SEATTLE, \(JP) — A four-engine
Navy Privateer airplane crashed
in the mudflats near the Whidbey
Island Naval Air Station yester
day noon, killing five of its crew
of 10 men.
Four of the five survivors were
injured, one critically.
Naval investigators still were
unable to say how the Seattle
based plane happened to crash.
Wreckage was strewn for more
than 100 yards. Eyewitnesses said
some bodies were thrown 50
yatrds by the impact.
Bodies were towed through
shallow water in life rafts to Navy
crash boats unable to nose closer
to the scene because of an ex
tremely low tide. A Coast Guard
helicopter took the injured, one at
a time to a hospital at Oak Har
bor on Whidby Island.
The Navy called it a routine
patrol flight as part of a training
program for naval reservists sta
tioned at Sand Point Naval Air,
Station here, after they had been
recalled to active duty. j
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Senate Committee
Would Forbid
Price Rollbacks
WASHINGTON, I/P) — The
Senate Banking Committee yes
terday approved a wage-price con
trol bill denying President Tru
man most of the broad new con
trol powers he requested, and for
bidding price rollbacks beyond the
average for Jan. 25-Feb. 24.
The present Defense Production
Act, authorizing price, wage and
other economic controls, is due to
expire June 30.
The Senate restriction would
hold future beef price rollbacks
to two percent instead of the nine
percent Stabilizer Michael V. Di
Salle has ordered added to the
recent 10 percent rollback cm live
cattle prices.
DiSalle said that adoption of
the amendment would cost the
American public at least two and
half billion dollars a year.
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Two Cases Of
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Reportedln Nome
• Dr. Fred Langsam, public health
officer, reported tdday that there
is polio in town^ He stated there
is no cause for alarm or panic, as
the cases have been isolated.
Health Department headquar
ters have been advised and should
special help be needed in the way
of nurses, iron lungs, etc., „ such
aid will be given immediately.
Dr. Langsam stated there are
no special precautions for polio
such as serums and shots as are
given for other contagious dis
eases. He advised that children
be kept away from crowds or
public gatherings for the time
being, or where they come in
contact with a variety of people.
Playing in their own groups and
mingling with their regular play
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Pan Am Ship With
40 People Vanishes
On African Coast
DAKAR, French West Africa,
! (iP)—A Pan American World Air
ways Constellation with 40 per
sons aboard vanished today along
the west African coast on a flight
from Johannesburg to New York
City.
The plane was more than 10
hours overdue at Roberts Field
near Monrovia, the capital of Li
beria, after leaving Accra on the
Gold Coast.
(Pan American said in New
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! York that the plane, carrying 31
passengers and a crew of nine, had
been due at Roberts Field at 9:45
p.m. Thursday, but that it re
ported 45 minutes later it was
unable to sight the field. This was
the last word from the missing
sky giant).
The plane was piloted by Capt.
Frank J. Crawford of Hunting
ton Station, New York. Most of
the crew members were from the
New York metropolitan area.
• A dozen French planes and
other craft scoured land and sea
areas for trace of the plane.
The nearest U. S. Army rescue
bases which could be useful in
the search are at Port Lyautey in
French Morocco and Tripoli on
the Mediterranean.
Seattle-Fairbanks
Speed Record Set
5 Hours 33 Minutes
SEATTLE, (IP) — Arctic Pacific
Airlines claimed a Fairbank-Se
attle speed record of five hours,
33 minutes today.
Second pilot Tom Taylor said
he and first pilot Robert Savaria
averaged 274 miles an hour ground
speed in a twin-engine Curtiss
C-46 on the 1,632-mile flight. Jack
Simpson was aboard as co-pilot.
Taylor said the previous Fair
banks-Seattle speed record was 6
hours, 5 minutes.
Arctic Pacific is a non-sched
uled airline. Taylor said the plane
flew at 20,000 feet with a light
load and a quartering tailwind.
Undersecretary of Army
to Visit Far,Fast, Alaska
WASHINGTON, {JP) — Under
secretary of A r m y , Archibald
Alexander will ieave Sunday on a
twcf-week inspection trip to the
Far East and Alaska.
He will study supply and re
search and development matters
in Korea, Japan, Okinawa, and
Alaska.
Defective Mortar
Shells Burst Amid
Company Marines
CAMP LeJEUNE, N. C., (IP) —
Two defective mortar shells fell
short and burst into a company of
advancing Second Division Ma
rines here Wednesday afternoon,
killing eight and injuring 23.
Witnesses said the mortar gun
ners saw that the shells were de
fective a split second after they
were fired, during a routine train
ing exercise at this big Marine
base, about 50 miles northwest of
Wilmington. The gunners leaped
to field telephones and notified a
forward observation post. But be
fore the warning could be relayed
the shells exploded among the for
ward group of the weapon com
pany.
The scene became like a real
war. Highways leading into the
camp were clogged with ambu
lances. Others troops ran for
cover. Field telephones started
buzzing.
Bitter members of the company
told a reporter they did not blame
the mortar section, but ^elt that
defects in the ammunition could
have been noted by careful in
spection.
General Clifton Cates, Marine
Corps commandant, was visiting
the base when the accident took
place. He ordered an immediate
investigation and a board of in
quiry was appointed.
U. S. Plans to Spend More
Than $330 Millions For
Defense In Alaska
WASHINGTON, (IP) — The
United States plans to put more
than $350,591,330 into a further
build-up of the major defense bas
tions in Alaska and Hawaii.
The Defense Public Work Bill
sent Congress listed projects total
ling $330,565,850 for Alaska and
$20,025,500 for Hawaii.
This did not necessarily include
everything planned. The bill to
authorize the construction con
tains various secret projects for
Army, Navy and Air Force at
home and outside the U. S., listed
under lump sums without identi
fication of the projects. Money for
actual construction would be pro
vided in separate legislation.
WASHINGTON, {IP) — The U.S.
Army estimated today that total
Communist casualties in Korea
through June 14 were 1,162*500—
an increase of 19,139 since June 7.
The previously announced U. S.
battle casualty increases for the
week ending June 15, which cor
responds roughly to the period
covered in the enemy casualty
report, was 3,287. No recent re
ports have been received from
non-American units fighting with
the 8th Army.
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Supported Use of
Nationalist Troops
WASHINGTON, (/P) — General
MattheW B. Ridgway, now Far
Eastern commander, supported
last December, fhe demand of
Gen. MacArthur for use of Chi
nese Nationalist troops against the
mainland of China.
This was developed today at
the Senate inquiry into Mac Ar
thur’s dismissal for publicly ad
vocating use of Nationalist troops
and other direct blows at Red
China.
Senator Knowland (R-Calif) put
into the record a communication
that* Ridgway, then field com
mander under MacArthur, sent
late in December to Gen. Collins,
Army chief of staff.
In it, Ridgway said he was “con
vinced of the logic” of MacAr
thur’s contention that a National
ist offensive in South China
would “even if only moderately
successful, relieve pressure on our
forces in Korea.”
This was at a time when United
Nations forces had been driven
back in Korea by overwhelming
numbers of Chinese Red troops
which entered the war unexpect
edly.
The Senators were hearing testi
mony from Maj. Gen. David G.
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Barr, former commander of the
Seventh Division In Korea. Barr
had given them a personal story
of the sudden Chinese assault on
U.N. forces last fall when they
had ranged up to the Korean
Manchurian border.
Barr told the Senators he be
lieves the nation never had "a
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finer or more efficient army"
than the American Eighth Army
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Red Air Force Jets
Take Beating For
5th Day This Week
(By tnr Associated Press)
The Red air force was beaten
for the fifth day this week in
two roaring jet battles over North
Korea today. American Sabre jets
shot down two Russian-m-ade jets
and damaged three, the US. Fifth
Air Force announced.
That raised Red losses this week
to 11 planes shot down, erne pro
bably destroyed and 17 damaged,
a total of 29.
On the ground, U.N. patrols Fri
day ran into what appeared to be
the Red’s first line of defense on
the western front. Allied officers
there predict a limited Commun
ist counteroffensive by Monday.
As Reds stepped up their air
war to new heights, their troops
pushed Allied forces back in the
two biggest ground actions re
ported.
WASHINGTON, (JP)—The Sen
ate passed and sent to the Presi
dent yesterday a bill extending un
til June 30, 1952, the right of
Canadian vessels to provide ser
vice between Skagway, Hyder,
and Haines, Alaska, and other
points in the Territory.