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NEWS IN BRIEF |
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I STUTTGART, Germany. (/P)—!
Nine grinning German youths and
a confused man of 57 went on trial
here today on charges of organ
izing a secret Nazi resistance
movement in U. S.-occupied Ger
many and conducting terror bomb
ings in the Stuttgart area.
Also arrigned before the Amcri-1
can military government court |
wa. one 17-year-old German
charged only with “knowledge of
possession of weapons by
others.’’ All were seized by Army!
investigators after the October;
bombing of three German denazi- i
fication courts and a U. S. military
police jail.
MANILA, (/P)—President Roxas
today ordered the immediate de
portation of 82 Chinese ruled to
have entered the Philippines ille
> gaily and ordered labor secretary
Pedro Magsalin to have the Chi
nese broker responsible for their
entry prosecuted.
WASHINGTON, (&)—'The 80th
Congress—first controlled by Re
publicans in 15 years—convened
today with the Senate in an up
roar over Senator Bilbo (D.-Miss.)
q^d the House ready for business.
Last minute efforts to compro
mise the Bilbo controversy failed
when 14 Democratic senators or
ganized for “extended debate”
against a Republican-led move to
bar the Mississippian from the
chamber.
JERUSALEM, (>P)—Widespread
attacks were made by the Jewish
underground last night on British
military installations, in which at
least one British officer was slain
^rnd a score or more persons were
ivounded.
It was one of the biggest simul
taneous operations ever launched
in the Holy Land by the under
ground, which used mines, gren
ades, automatic weapons and
home-made flame throwers in at
Jeust 12 separate attacks in Jeru
*lem, Tel Aviv, Tiberias, Hedera
and Kiryat Haim, thus ending a
month-long period of relative
peace in Palestine.
FAIRBANKS, (TP)—Delayed on
the way about two weeks, Albert
Herda, heading a three-truck con
voy from the States, arrived here
New Year’s Eve over the Alaska
Highway. One truck broke through
#he ice between Dawson Creek, B. I
C., and Fort St. John. The last
1,00 miles was made about on
schedule, Herda said.
NEW YORK, (/P)—Heavyweight
champion Joe Louis and Dart
mouth gridder Meryll Frost will
receive Newspaper Guild awards
at the Guild’s annual page one ball
here next Monday.
It will be the second such aw’ard
*lo Louis. In 1942 he was honored
as the “Page One Private” of the
nkjny. Frost will be honored by
fne newspapermen for his heroic
comeback in overcoming war in
juries to spark the Dartmouth
team.
ST. PETER’S SQUARE — From this balcony of the Vatican’s Hall of Benedictions,
overlooking St. Peter’s square, popes have extended their blessings to Rome and the world.
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Carpenters Strike j
In Anchorage
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ANCHORAGE, I/P)—Carpenters!
failed to appear for work on 13
projects yesterday in backing up
their demand for higher wages.
The union, with 375 members,
seeks a closed shop with a mini
mum hourly wage of $2.36 for a
40-hour week, and double time for
work in excess of eight hours.
Contractors have offered a $2
hourly wage, with time and a half
for overtime and double time for
holidays, and an open shop.
The union wage scale is based on
cost of living figures in Seattle as
of March 1946, with a 41 per cent
differential for the Anchorage
area. •
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Alaska SS. Co.
Cancels Freight
For Seward
SEATTLE, r/P)—Alaska Steam
ship company officials today can
celled acceptance of further cargo
shipments for Seward pending
settlement of an inter-union dis
pute over manning of cargo
winches.
The dispute involves CIO long
shoremen and the AFL sailors
union of the Pacific.
Company officials said the
freighter Rose Knot, already,
loaded, would be permitted to sail'
Saturday, but the freighter Jum
per Hitch, set to sail the middle of
next week, would be held up. The
SS Alaska posted to sail Wed-,
nesday, will carry only passen
gers, mail and baggage to Seward,
H. N. Peterson, freight traffic
manager, announced.
Albin J. Peterson, federal con
ciliator, said he would fly to Sew
ard tomorrow to arrange for nego
tiations between the unions. He
said he had invited Gov. Gruen
ing to attend the Seward meeting
with him.
May Launch
Offensive Against
Jewish Resistance
LONDON, i/P)—British govern
ment and Jewish Agency sources
expresed belief today that Lt. Gen.
Sir Alan Cunningham, Palestine
high commissioner, would ask the
cabinet for authority to launch an
offensive to smash Jewish resist
ance in the Holy Land.
The prediction came as new
violence erupted in Palestine. An
official announcement in Jerusa
lem said an underground threat
had been made to kidnap British
soldiers, and that all ranks had
been ordered, for their personal
safety, to carry arms at all times,
and to venture out of barracks
only in pairs.
Three British soldiers were in
jured near the coastal village of
Kfar Sirkin early today when
their jeep was blown up, evidently
by an electrically-detonated mine.
Searchers still hunting for the
men who recently flogged four
British soldiers found a quantity
of dynamite in a house in Jerusa
lem, on a route believed taken by
underground forces who attempted
a flame thrower attack in the area.
The attacks had the British gov
ernment on the spot with two al
ternatives in prospect—either to
find a final solution to the Pales
tine problem or to put the Holy
Land under complete military
rules.
JUSTICE BY PHONE
YONKERS. N. Y. (/P)—Justice
was tempered by the elements
here yesterday when city court
judge Charles W. Boote on a day
of rain and sleet, conducted the
court session by telephone.
There were only two cases, and
after court clerk Clarence Muller
outlined the facts, the judge or
dered one defendant held for a
hearing today on a charge of dis
orderly conduct and gave the other j
a suspened sentence on a charge of
drunkenness. i
To Introduce
Tax Cut Bill
WASHINGTON, i/Pi — Rep.
Knutson <R.-Minn.) today com
pleted work on his bill to reduce
individual income taxes, with the
biggest cuts going to those in the
lower income brackets.
The widely-heralded Republican
tax cutting measure was revised at
i the last minute before its sched
uled introduction at the noon con
vening of Congress.
Knutson, who becomes chairman
of the Tax-framing House ways
and means committee, originally
had announced plans for a 20 per
cent cut “across the boards” for
everyone.
In a statement today he said:
“The reduction of the tax attrib
utable to that part of the income
of taxpayers which is in excess of
$300.00 is reduced by 10.5 per
cent. In general, he added, “in
:omes above $300,000 are unearn
ed.”
Plans To Become
Flying Missionary
SEATTLE, (/P)—An ex-GI, Clar
ence Dilley, 36, who says he has
seen “how missionary work solved
the liquor problem” at Point Bar
row, plans to become a flying mis
sionary serving Alaska.
With three and a half years of
army services in Alaska and the
Aleutians behind him, he became
a member of the Missionary avia
tion Fellowship, composed of for
mer GI’s, and has chosen Alaska
for his field.
“My work will be interdenomin
ational,” he said today. “It will be
varied. I want to do rescue work,
carry food ot the hungry, help
wherever I can.”
Bethel Temple raised $1,700 for
him on New Year’s day. He has
received contributions from vari
ous eastern Washington and Ore
gon churches and used his own
funds to make a down payment on
« plane. His home is in Issaquah.
Congress Starts
Anti-Strike Drive
W ASH INGTON, i >P>—Mem be r s
of Congress from bo'h major part
ies opened a drive today to prevent
strikes which affect the public
h ait i r safety—including coal
strikes.
fne drive faces strong epposi
tion.
All proposals to compel unions
and employers to settle their dis
putes short of walkouts or lock
outs are being fought not only by
organized labor but by wide seg
ments of industry as well.
Rep. Howard Smith (D.-Va.> in
troduced a lengthy labor bill this
afternoon. One provision is de
signed to force arbitration of dis
putes in the most essential indus
tries.
Another would outlaw the closed
shop. And a third would forbid
collective bargaining on an indus
try-wide basis—such as autos and
steel, both of which suffered crip
pling strikes last year.
WASHINGTON (/P). Legislation
to provide that Alaska be admit
ted to the Union as the 49th state
was introduced in the House today
by Delegate Bartlett. Bartlett or
iginally had intended to hold the
measure until later in the session.
• A similar bill was introduced
in behalf of Hawaii with a request
that hearings be started on it by
Feb. 1).
Bad Weather Halts
Travel In States
• By The Associated Press*
Air travel was curtailed, train
and bus schedules delayed and
motor traffic made hazardous to
day by fresh falls of snow, freez
ing rain, sleet, and fog over a wide
section of the country.
A blanket of new snow covered
many sections of New England,
the midwest and extended into
Oklahoma and in the Texas Pan
handle and other north Texas
points. The falls in some cities
were the heaviest of the winter
and covered already slippery high
ways and streets. Temperatures
to near freezing in California and
to zero in Spokane, Wash.
Troops Surprise
Communists
PETPING. (/P) — Government
troops surprised merrymak i n g
Communists at the height of a
New Year’s celebration at Tamm
and captured that southern Hopeh
province town, national reports
said today.
In western Shantung, however,
the Communists captured Liu
cheng, a walled town they had be
sieged nearly a year. The pro-gov
ernment newspaper Shih Chieh
Jih Pao said the national garrison,
reduced to 1,000 aided by other
government troops, escaped
through Communist lines.
Another government report con
ceded the loss of Chuyteh, also in
Shantung, to 10,000 Communist
attackers.