Three Feared Dead
In Gas Filled
B. C. Gold Mine
PITNEER, B. C. (#*>—A 6,000
foot-long tunnel, filled with dead
ly methane gas, yesterday held the
fate of three miners trapped 500
feet below ground in the Pacific
Great Eastern mine about two
miles south of this mountainous
British Columbia gold mining cen
ter.
Although mine officials held
little hope that the entombed men
would be found alive, a-specially
trained, lour-man rescue squad
continued efforts to force its way
through the narrow, lume-filled
tunnel in a daring bid to bring the
men to the sufrace.
The mine is located in the
Bridge River district about 120
cries north of Vancouver.
Twice Monday night the poison
ous gas forced the oxygen-equip
ped rescue squad, flown to the
scene from the Nanaimo, B. C.,
coal fields on Vancouver Island, to
the surface after they had worked
their way 2,200 feet along the five
by seven foot tunnel.
Chairman of RCA, !
81, Passes On j
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RYE, N. Y., (A*)—Lt. Gen. James
G. Harbord, retired, 81, an honor-j
ary chairman of the board of Ra->
dio Corporation of America, died |
today at his home here.
Gen. Harbord had been ill only
a short time.
A native of Bloomington, 111.,
Gen. Harbord rose from a private
to a general officer of the U. S.
army and became chief of staff of
the first American expeditionary
force in France under General
John J. Pershing in World War I.
He also served as deputy chief of
staff of the army.
Harbord had the unusual dis
tinction of possessing the distin
guished service medals of both the
U. S. army and the U. S. navy.
When he retired from active serv
ice he became president of RCA
and seven years later was made
chairman of the board.
On July 11 he resigned as chair
man and was succeeded by David
Sarnoff, president of RCA. Har
bord was made honorary chair
man.
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Weather Forecast
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• By The Associated Press*
From high up the Rocky moun
tain slope another cold front was
sliding lazily eastward toward the
hot and parched midwest Tuesday
with possible crop-reviving gen
eral rains,
“It’s too early yet to say just
how this cold push will act or
how much rain it will bring,” the
Chicago weather bureau said, add
ing that a decided relief from the
high 90 and 100 degree tempera
tures appeared a certainty for
most of the plains states within 48
hours.
The forecaster said the cold air
crossed into Montana and Idaho
from Canada about midnight Mon
day, and that it was expected to
spread into the Dakotas, and into
Minnesota and Nebraska by today.
Within 48 hours, he added, the
whole Great Lakes region should
have temperatures at least 15 de
grees under yesterday’s continued
high readings.
The accompanying rain, the
bureau said, might turn out to be
only scattered showers but it
might also—just possibly — be a
! general drought-breaker for a con
siderable section of the north
central and northern plains states.
Meanwhile, no relief was in
sight for virtually all the remain
der of the nation, sweltering again
from a recurring hot blast that
has spared generally only the At
lantic and Pacific coast states.
Throughout most of the region
from the Appalachian to the
Rocky Mountains, temperatures in
the 90’s or above appeared certain
to be repeated today and tomor
row, the weather bureau said.
Records Broken
The time table of a narrow,
slow-moving cool wave into the
northern midwestern states was
the only cheering note from the
Chicago weather bureau today as
the current scorching blast headed
for new records. 4
Each additional day of the pres
ent high readings probably is
bringing a new record for dura
tion or daily maximum tempera
tures at many points, the bureau
said.
While the cool front dragged
eastward into western North Da
kota, northwestern South Dakota
and northern Wyoming today, vir
utally all the rest of the nation
from the eastern seaboard to the
Rockies continued to swelter.
Only scattered showers or light
thunderstorms were in prospect
for the Great Lakes area as corn
and other crops continued to de
teriorate for lack of a general
soaking rain throughout the mid
west.
Minnesota was expected to feel
the effects of the cooler air late
today, but it would not reach Wis
consin and northern Illinois until
tomorrow, the forecaster said.
With temperatures in the high
90’s generally except on the Paci
fic coast yesterday and in prospect
for today, ice shortages were re
ported in some Michigan cities.
At Chicago, the record of 94 de
grees for this date which has stood
since 1874 was expected to topple,
along with the one for the number
of days in the month with read
ings of 90 or higher.
Forecaster I. W. Brunk said a
maximum of 90 today would equal
the record of 12 such days for the
month, established in 1944.
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Truman Says U. S.
Will Spend His Es
timate Despite (aits
(By Sterling F. Green)
WASHINGTON, (/Pi—President
Truman said today federal spend
ing this fiscal year will fall only
half a billion dollars short of his
original estimate despite the Re
publican economy drive in Con
gress.
But he forecast an historic $4,
700,000,000 budget surplus next
June 30.
Mr. Truman gave the GOP-con
trolled Congress credit for cutting
$1,520,000,000 from the cost of gov
ernment.
But the net result because of in
tervening factors, he declared,
will be a total outlay of an even
$37,000,000,000 instead of the
$37,528,000,000 he predicted last
January before the Republican
cost-cutters got down to work.
Furthermore, in the customary
mid-year budget review made
public late today, Mr. Truman
served this double-barreled notice:
First: This country’s interna
tional program, perhaps including
the Marshall plan for European
recovery may run up costs and
trim the record-breaking surplus.
Taxes Must Stay High
Second: Taxes must stay high.
The chief executive didn’t use
those words about taxes, but he
said the surplus must be used to
reduce the national debt and stand
as a reserve "against emergencies,
whether at home or abroad.”
The government bases its high
income estimate, Mr. Truman said,
on "a continuance of employment,
prices and incomes close to their
present levels throughout the fis
cal year.” In cither words, the ad
ministration sees no serious busi
ness recession which might reduce
tax collections before next June.
Nevertheless the President dis
closed that he has issued orders to
all government agencies to squeeze
their dollars.
Passerby Steals
Sidewalk Money
DETROIT, (A*) — A downtown
sidewalk is not the best place to
spread out $1,600, William Green
wood, 63, and Charles Briscoe, 57,
agreed today.
The two old friends, meeting
yesterday soon after Greenwood
had received $1,000 disability com
pensation from a Detroit firm,
counted the cash out on the pave
ment and added $600 of Green
wood’s savings.
While they were admiring the
money a passerby took one look,
scooped up the bills and fled. Bris
coe chased him through a maze of
downstown streets, but finally had
to give up.
In preparing the next budget, he
said, administrators already have
been instructed to “hold their 1949
budget requests below the 1948 to
tal.” Actual dollar limits have
been imposed in some cases, he
added.
The mid-year budget review is
designed to bring up to date the
budget message delivered to Con
gress at the start of each session.
In January Mr. Truman forecast
outlays of $37,528,000,000 and in
come of $37,000,000,000, Instead,
expenditures actually will be $37,
000.000,000 and receipts will be
$41,667,000,000, he estimated.
Mr. Truman did not refer spe
cifically to Republican claims of
economies ranging up to $6,600,
000,000 proclaimed by Senator
i Bridges <R.-N. H.>, as the total
j savings to taxpayers during the
Congressional session which closed
last month.
But he gave this version of what
he said happened:
After the January budget esti
mate, there were new appropria
i tions, additions of funds original
ly intended for fiscal 1947, and a
variety of other changes in federal
accounts which raised the expen
diture total to $38,520,000,000.
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