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VOL. XLIX. No. 73_NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1947 . PER COPY-^UsT
NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman today nominated James
Bruce, Maryland corporation ex
ecutive, to be ambassador to Ar
gentina, succeding George Mes
sersmith, who recently resigned.
Bruce. 54, is vice president of
the National Dairy Products cor
poration and a director of 14 cor
posations.
LONDON, (JP)—Smoking a big
cigar and chipper as a schoolboy,
Winston Churchill was brought
home from the hospital on a
stretcher yesterday six days after
undergoing a hernia operation.
The fact that he was released
from the hospital some time ahead
of the anticipated 10-day recuper
ation period was generally taken
to mean that his physical condi
tion was excellent.
DETROIT, (JP) — Sword swal
lower Anthony Mareno has a sore
throat today.
Performing in a sideshow act
at Eastwood park he substituted a
neon tube for his customary
sword.
The tube broke. Mareno was
taken to Saratoga general hospi
tal for treatment of cuts to his
throat.
AUCKYAND, New Zealand. tfp)
A wide area along the thinly pop
ulated east coast of New Zealand’s
north island was shaken during
the night Monday by earth tremors
which did minor damage to build
ings in several small towns.
The tremors began shortly be
fore 11 p.m. (local time) and con
tinued at intervals until after 5
a.m.
ROME, <(/P) — The newspaper
Messagero said in a Genoa dis
patch today that 15 persons were
believed killed yesterday when
the motorship Maria Stella hit a
mine near the island of Giglio. j
The boat was reported loaded
with 500 tons of wine shipped,
from Sicily to Savona. The dis
patch said that only one member
of the crew of 12 was saved and
that four passengers were missing.
BERLIN, (tf*) — American and
British taxpayers paid out ap
proximately $180,000,000 to ship
1,482,000 metric tons of food into
their combined zones of Germany
during the first five month of this
year, an official joint announce
ment said yesterday. The state
ment said about 86 pounds of
food was shipped in for each con
sumer.
WASHINGTON, (flV-Two civil
aeronautics board examiners rec
ommended yesterday that Robert
C. Reeve, doing business as Reeve
Airways, be authorized for five
years to operate passenger, cargo
and mail service between Anchor
age and Attu Island by way of
Cold Bay, Dutch Harbor and Un
mak, Atka, Amchitka and Shemya
islands.
They recommended also that he
be permitted to operate irregular |
services between any of those
points and the Pribilof Islands.
House Upholds
President’s Veto of
Income Tax Bill
WASHINGTON (£>)—'The House
today upheld President Truman’s
veto of the $4,000,000,000 tax re
duction bill, thus killing it finally
and completely.
The Vote was 268 to pass the
i bill over the veto and 137 against.
Thus it was two votes short of the
j two-thirds majority necessary to
pass a law over the President’s
1 disapproval.
When that count turned up on
1 the roll call, Republican leader
; Halleck of Indiana, demanded and
obtained a recount, but no votes
, were changed.
Voting to override the veto were
! 233 Republicans and 35 Demo
! crats.
Supporting the President were
| 134 Democrats, two Republicans—
! Carl Andersen of Minnesota and
! Hull of Wisconsin—and the Amer
. ican Labor member, Marcantonio
i of New York.
Applause broke out on the
j Democratic side as the vote was
; announced.
The House action means the
' Senate will not even vote on the
1 issue of overriding the veto.
It means, too, that Republicans
! have an issue they already have
made clear will figure prominent
ly in the 1948 Presidential cam
paign.
.Before the vote, speaker Martin
had declared that if the Senate or
House upheld the veto it would
mean no new attempt thjs year to
reduce taxes.
“This is the last say on taxes
this year,” he said. “Apparently
the Democrats have little interest
in cutting expenditures and reduc
ing taxes.
“We may have to wait until we
get. a Republican President before
we get tax reduction.”
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Repulse Reds
At Szepingkai
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NANKING. f/P)—Street fighting
between Chinese Reds and gov
ernment defenders was underway
yesterday in battered Szepinkkai,
Manchuria, Chinese dispatches
said, after government gunners
used artillery to repulse four Red
regiments which smashed into the
city from the southwest.
The independent pewspaper
Hsin Min Pao said half of the
Communists in the four regiments
were destroyed and the other half
retired. Members of a fifth regi
ment gained a foothold within the
city’s walls and engaged the gar
rison in battle, the newspaper re
ported.
The government’s Central News
agency said nationalists had re-,
gained Szepingkai’s west airfield,
but other press reports indicated
the government’s grip on the im
portant railway city was weaken
ing.
In Mukden, to the south, the
people’s council said it had receiv
ed a message from Chiang Kai
Shek that substantial reihforce-1
ments were on the way to Man- j
chria.
Majority Favor
Labor Bill Veto
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WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
! Truman decided today to forego
I his weekly news conference to
work on a message to Congress on
I the labor union control bill.
Mr. Truman will send a mes
sage to Congress Friday, regard
less of whether he signs or vetoes
the bill.
Eben Ayers, assistant press sec
retary, said a heavy volume of
mail continued to pour into the
: White House concerning the legis
| lation with “a heavy majority fav
oring a veto.” Ayers said the vol
ume of communications about the
measure is by far the greatest
ever received by Mr. Truman on
any single legislative issue or
other controversy.
Top Democratic and Republican
leaders have predicted that the
House will vote to override in
event the President decides to veto
the legislation. But they were un
certain of the outcome in the Sen
ate.
Ayers estimated that 157,000 to
158,000 letters, more than 500,000
cards and 25,000 telegrams had
been received through Monday.
House leaders definitely expect
j a veto even though President Tru
I man told reporters at Princeton,
i N. J., yesterday “I haven’t made
i up my mind yet.”
He said he will send a message
j to Congress Friday.
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Police Break Up
“Freedom” Rally
In .Hungary
SZEGED. Hungary, (/P)—Dezso
Sulyok, anti-Communist Szabad
sag (Freedom) party leader, prom
ised yesterday to speak “very
soon” in a new freedom-of-speech
test at Miskolc despite the fact
that a rally of the party here Mon
day night was interrupted by
stic k-swinging intruders who
cheered Communist leaders.
Sulyok, who charged in the na
tional assembly last Thursday
that “political terror reigns in
Hungary,” had been expected to
address the rally here—heralded
as a test of the right of assembly
—but did not appear.
The meeting Monday night in
this city, 100 miles southeast of
the capital and near the Yugoslav
border, was adjourned by police
after the intruders, numbering al
most 150, had lost a fight with an
audience of some 100 men and wo
men.
Uncounted casualties resulted
from the brawl, which started in
the Tisza hotel’s second-floor
ballroom, and in fighting in the
square outside between some 500
policemen and about 15,000 per
sons waiting to hear the political
speeches through loudspeakers.
RALPH KITZMILLERS
RETURN TO NOME
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Kitzmiller
were welcomed home last Mon
day evening from Seward where
Mr. Kitzmiller, formerly manager
of the Nome brug Store, has been
receiving medical attention.
Start “Draft
Wallace for Presi
dent” Movement
WASHINGTON, (£*)—A “draft
Henry Wallace for President”
movement began to take shape
yesterday as the former vice-pres
ident awaited any official re
sponse to his call for a Truman
Stalin meeting in Berlin to settle
Soviet-American differences.
Wallace, the most vocal critic
of President Truman’s foreign
policy in this country, said he
knew nothing of the “draft” move
which originated in California.
But in his address here last
! night before a cheering outdoor
| crowd estimated at from 8,000 to
I 10,500, the ousted cabinet officer
I said there will be a new party”
I if the two major parties “insist on
> pursuing the present suicidal
course toward war and depres
sion.”
He called on Mr. Truman to in
vite Premier Stalin to meet with
him in Berlin to discuss economic
i and trade relations between the
i two countries as a “first step” to
world peace.
Robert W. Kenny, former Cal
ifornia attorney general, said in
Lost Angeles that the draft-Wal
lace campaign would get under
way at a meeting in Fresno, Calif.
July 19. Wallace will not appear,
but may send a message to the
gathering, Kenny said.
Wallace spoke last night at the
Watergate, a government-owned
amphitheater near the Lincoln
memorial. The audience occupied
$2,500 reserved seats which sold
for from 60 cents to $3.60 and
spread out on nearby memorial
bridge and a bordering roadway.
Officials of the Southern Con
ference for Human Welfare, which
sponsored the rally, said $8,000
was collected from the audience
in donations ranging from $1 to (
$500.
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Kai-Shek Invited
To Conference
NANKING (/P)_Generalissimo |
Chinag Kai-Shek has been invited
to the next weekly meeting of the
Luomintang central political!
council—the government party’s
highest policy-making body — to
help draft a revised policy which
may include a stiffer attitude
toward Russia, a council member
told the Associated Press today.
The committee said the high
governmental body was of the
opinion the Soviets were main
taining close liaison with both the
Outer Mongolians and the Chinese
Communists.
He said that while no formal
resolution was adopted, the ma
jority of committeemen upheld the
foreign office contention that Rus
sia was at least partly responsible
for the Outer Mongolian attack on
China’s remote Sinkiang province
on June 5, and demanded a firmer
stand regarding the Soviets.
Some members, he said, were
“puzzled by foreign minister Wang
Shih-Chieh’s policy of blowing
first hot and then cold on China's
relations with its neighbors.”
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Ships Don’t Sail
Two CIO Contracts
Still Not Signed
SAN FRANCISCO, </P) — West
coast ports, in marked contrast
with the shipping paralysis in the
east, bustled with activity Tues
day despite a “no contract” situa
tion with two CIO unions.
The word around the water
fronts of Portland, Seattle, San
Francisco, San Pedro and San Di
ego was that “anything might hap
pen.” But it hadn’t yet_two days
after contracts terminated with
the radio men <ACA) and the
cooks and stewards.
A spokesman for the employers
said negotiation meetings with
both unions were scheduled yes
terday. There had been reports
that if the June 15 deadline was
reached without all unions in con
tract agreement, none would
work.
“We expect to reach agreements
1 with all the unions,” said a repre
sentative of the shipowners.
“So far, we’ve renewed con
i tracts with four big unions and 11
miscellaneous groups represent
31,500 men. The two unions not
yet signed to renewals have 5,500
men.”
The radio men, cooks and stew
ards give evidence they would re
fuse to sign on for a voyage while
negotiations were pending. But an
employer spokesman said none
had been asked to sign.
The two unions without con
tracts said they would only con
tinue to work ships in port, posing
questions in San Pedro as to the
scheduled sailings of CIO-manned
ships and Seattle where the pas
senger steamer Alaska was due to
leave for the north.
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Portland reported “normal” wa
terfront activity. No ships were in
port at San Diego and none was
due for the next few days.
Six ships cleared from San
Francisco Monday and more sail
ings were scheduled Tuesday. The
unions said Tuesday’s sailings oc
curred before any “no work” pro
gram was properly organized.
A cue for the next development
was awaited from two top CIO
leaders on the west coast, Harry
Bridges and Hugh Bryson, flying
in from the east. Bridges’ long
shoremen have extended their
contract. Bryson’s cooks and stew
ards say they want to entend
theirs—but also want an immedi
ate wage review.
Bridges’ west (^oast maritime
committee continued appeals in
full page advertisements for a
manifestation of “immediate pub
lic indignation”—and supplied the
telephone number of the Pacific
American Shipowners association.
The committee predicted that
the shipowners at any moment
would exercise a reservation writ
ten into the renewed contracts and
cancel “agreements already reach
ed with the majority of workers.’*
A spokesman for the shipown
ers professed no knowledge of
such an intent.
SAN FRANCISCO (/P)—A quick
settlement of CIO differences with
west Coast shipowners today,
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