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SEATTLE. </P>—Planes of Pan
^ American World Airways carried
3,561 laborers from Seattle to
Alaska this spring and summer, in
one of the largest mass movements
of construction men by commer
cial air carrier. The construction
workers flown to Alaska in the
first eight months of this year
would populate two cities the size
of Nome. Pan American said.
Men from every state in the na
tion have been recruited to work
on military multi-million dollar
construction in the Territory.
JUNEAU, (/P)—H. Rex Lee, as
sistant director of the division of
Territories, interior department,
who came to Alaska with the Sen
ate public lands sub-committee,
said as he left for Seattle Monday
the “Territory of Alaska has many
, needs and most of th^se will be
filled.”
He has been making his own
investigation of Territorial condi
tions.
JUNEAU. (JP>—'The CIO long
shoremen of local 1-16 Monday
night ratified the agreement
reached with management at
Ketchikan and announced they
^ would handle the freight from all
steamers, ending a five-week tie
up in which only mail, vital sup
plies and passenger baggage has
been handled.
W A S H I NGTON, (/P) — Two
members of a House foreign af
fairs sub-committee were enroute
yesterday by army plane for an
inspection of defense installations
in Alaska and the Alcan highway.
They are Reps. Chiperfield (R.
Inn.), and Jonkman (R.-Mich.>.
Accompanying them is Boyd
Crawford, committee clerk.
Committee attaches said the
group was due last night at Ed
montan and will visit White
Horse, Anchorage and Fairbanks j
later this week.
BENTON, Ark. (/P)—Seven per
* sons burned to death yesterday
when flames destroyed their
three-room frame dwelling four
miles west of here in the Ouachita
foothills.
Coroner J. P. Sims said ruins
of a small liquor still were found
in the room where the blaze ap
parently started.
BATAVIA, Java. (/P)—'The In
donesian Republican army said in
a broadcast communique tonight
that 25 Indonesian civilians were
killed and nine others injured in a
Dutch attack on three villages
west of Malang.
% SEATTLE, (/P) — Philip Angus
Hebb, 79, who claimed to be one
of the first group of white men to j
pole up the Tanana River when {
he formed a gold mining expedi-j
tion in Alaska, died Sunday after j
a heart attack. He spent 12 years
• in Alaska, before returning here
in 1909 to become a building con
tractor. The widow and a son here
survive.
CORDOVA, (£») — The largest
air shipment of fresh and frozen
mofif Affnw ♦ V* « «"•
Italians Strike
Against High
Cost Of Living
—
(By Frank Brutto)
ROME, (/P) — Italian workers,
some 2.000,000 of them already on
strike, prepared today for a coun
trywide demonstration next Sat
urday against the high cost of liv
ing.
Leaders said hundreds of thou
sands of union members would
move into city public squares
throughout Italy. Rome newspa
pers variously dubbed the demon
strations a “march of hunger” and
a “prelude to revolution.”
Giuseppe di Vittorio, Commun
ist head of the 5,755,000-member
Italian confederation of labor, and
Pietro Neni, pro-communist lead
er of the Socialist party, publicly
denied there would be a revolu
tion.
In a statement, di Vittorio said
“present strikes and those that
will follow” were “brought about
by . . . misery and economic want”
among the people and were back
ed “only by Italian laborers, of all
parties.”
But he added that Saturday’s
demonstration had been organ
ized by political parties “support
ing the campaign against high
living costs and speculations.”
Prices of some foods have more
than doubled in the last six
months.
On strike today were about one
million farm laborers in northern
Italy, about 850,000 steel workers
in Milan, Turin and other cities,
and bus and railroad office work
ers in some southern, central and
northern localities.
Buyers Strike
Necessary To
Cut Food Prices
<Bv The Associated Press*
The grain market at Chicago
opened steady today and then
slumped as selling pressure devel
oped, while protests against high
food prices echoed across the na
tion.
The grain market selling was)
believed caused by the possibility j
of an increase in margin require
ments. Meanwhile, butter on the,
Chicago mercantile exchange was
34 of a cent to 3V£ cents a pound
lower, but live poultry was un
changed to two cents higher.
Directors of the Chicago board!
of trade will decide tomorrow on
what action to take on a govern
ment request for a hike in mar-1
gins on speculative transactions.)
As traders conjectured regarding
the probable action of the board,
wheat- fell lVt> to 2Vt cents, with
the September contract quoted at
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—18,500 pounds—was dispatched
to Seattle yesterday by the H. M.
Parks Company, Inc., over Alaska
Airlines.
The meat, packed in five-pound
tins and cased, was • insured for
$16,000, airline agent Tom San
derson said. The plane was to fly
at 15,000-foot elevation to keep
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Russian Withdraws
Request For
Speech To U. IN.
(By Max Harrelson)
NEW YORK </P>—Soviet deputy
foreign minister Andrei Y. Vis
hinsky today withdrew his re
quest to speak before the United
Nations assembly this afternoon
following the major U. S. policy
speech of secretary of state George
C. Marshall.
The Soviet chief delegate’s
move was not explained, but it
appeared that Russia wanted time
to study Marshall’s speech and
perhaps get new instructions from
Moscow.
There was no indication as to
when Vishinsky would make Rus
sia’s opening policy declaration.
Vishinsky asked the U. N. yes
terday to put his name on today’s
list of speakers. Since then, how
ecver, word leaked out that Mar
shall’s speech would contain a
slashing attack on Russia.
CFO President
Charges Waste
DETROIT, f/P)—President Wal
ter Reuther of the CIO united au
to workers said tod^y that fac
t tionalism within the union was
i “nothing short of tragic” and ac
; cused his political rivals of a
i “scandalous waste” of $500,000 in
! dues.
He also charged that his oppon
ents on the executive board of the
union blocked enforcement of a
constitutional provision against
communists holding office in the
UAW-CIO.
Reuther's accusations were con
tained in a four-page ‘‘report to
the membership” to appear Fri
day in the United Automobile
Worker, officiSl union publica
tion.
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160th Anniversary :
U. S. Constitution
Adoption
.
Statement by Secretary of the
Navy James Forrestal on the oc
casion of the 160th Anniversary
(September 17, 1947* of the Adop
tion of the Constitution of the
United States.
"Americans today can rely upon
the principles of our American
way of life—that of true democ
racy for free men. Its origin lies
in the most ingenious instrument,
ever devised for governing free
men, the Constitution of the
United States, which was framed
with wisdom and foresight. The
principles established are so elas
tic that it functions as well today
in a complex modern world as it
did in the eighteenth century. We
may profitably turn to its basic1
guarantee of the fundamental hu- j
man rights as we seek to assist in
restoration of peace to a war-torn I
world. This nation, guided by the
fundamental principles of our
Constitution, may provide a bea-,
con of hope to the world, that al^
mankind may live in a free soci-'
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Marshall Gives
Bristling Sj >eeeh
At U. N. Meeting
(By John M. Hightower)
NEW YORK, (/P»—In a speech
bristling with censure of Russia,
secretary of state George C. Mar
shall challenged the United Na
tions today to make a “supreme
effort” to break the world’s “deep
ening political and economic cri
sis” and save Greece from the “at
tacks” of its Balkan Communist
neighbors.
With undiplomatic bluntness,
Marshall accused Yugoslavia, Al
bania and Bulgaria of “hostile and
aggressive” acts against Greece,
told how three Russian vetoes had
blocked security council action to
protect the country, then flung
this sharp warning to the 55-na
tion U. N. assembly:
“This assembly cannot stand by
as a mere spectator while a mem
ber of the United Nations is en
dangered by attacks from abroad.
If the United Nations should fail
to protect the integrity of one
small state, the security of all
small states would be placed in
i jeopardy.”
Marshall laid before the assem
bly a seven-point action program,
dramatically reversing American
policy on the veto issue and de
manding that the assembly set
up its own full-time security com
mittee to backstop the veto-ridden
security council.
He announced that the United
States now favors drastic “liberal
ization” of the veto by eliminating
it entirely from all security deci
sions on Pacific settlements of in
ternational disputes. The veto
could then be used only on issues
involving forceful action against
aggressors.
He also called for immediate
creation by the assembly of a
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Depression Ahead
Unless Living Costs
Hit Toboggan
WASHINGTON. (/P) — Senator
Pepper (D.-Fla.l said yesterday
there is no hope for any effort to
check rising living costs and “the
American people might just as
well get ready for another reces
sion.”
The Florida lawmaker told re
porters the Republican-controlled
Congress is to blame.
But Senator Brewster tR.-Me.l;
said that so far as food prices are
concerned, they are high because |
the Truman administration is
shipping too much food to Europe
and other areas.
Pepper scoffed at this, saying: j
“We’ve got to help those people
more, not less. If we want to stop
Communism, we’ve got to make
the capitalism of Europe work.”
Senator Capehart tR.-Ind.'* said
he thinks high prices are linked
to this country’s foreign aid pro
gram but the basic answer to ris-;
ing living costs is increased pro
duction.
“We ought to be working 48
hours a week instead of 40,” the
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Thousands Dead.
Homeless In Japan
Typhoon-Flood
TOKYO, (ZP)_ — Thousands of
Japanese worked last night erect
ing temporary dikes in an effort
to stem floodwaters 20 miles north
of Tokyo as unofficial estimates
placed the number of dead and
missing at 2,280.
Earlier incomplete American
military government reports said
the floodwaters, rising on the
broad plain north of Tokyo in the
wake of a typhoon, left nearly
1,700 Japanese dead or missing
and damaged some 100,000 houses.
Japanese newspaper said resi
dents of Kasukabe were working
feverishly on temporary dikes
against advancing waters of two
rivers which had ripped through
their banks. The reports added
that failure to halt the flood at
Kasukabe would expose the east
ern section of Tokyo to the onrush
of water, described as three feet
high in some places.
Storm damage was reported
from 15 prefectures stretching
over 500 miles across two-thirds
of Honshu Island—from Mie pre
fecture southwest of Nagoya K>
Akita on the extreme northwest
ern coast. Damage to homes,
crops, bridges, railroads and high
ways was expected to total several
hundred million yen <at the offi
cial rate 50 yen equal $1). Two
medium-sized towns were wiped
out and many villages flooded as
the Tone and Arakawa rivers
spilled out onto the flatlands.
The military government re
ported 150 dead in Gumma prefec
ture and 86 dead in Tochigi pre
fecture, to the west. The number
of missing was placed at 1,402.
In one prefecture alone, 100,000
Japanese were on relief. Thou
sands more elsewhere took refuge
from rampaging river waters on
housetops, levees and hills.
No Allied casualties were re
ported. but some dependants were
evacuated from their homes, and
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Hurricane Nears
Southern Coast
Of Florida
NEW ORLEANS UP)—The New
Orleans weather bureau reported
today in its 11 a.m. <EST' advis
ory:
“Communications in extreme
south Florida have failed and no
reports are available in that area.
“The center of the hurricane is
apparently very near the coast a
short distance south of Palm
Beach, moving westward 8 to 10
miles per hour. It is attended by
winds considerably above 100
miles per hour near the center
and gales over a wide area.
“Before communications failed
West Palm Beach reported winds
88 miles per hour and Miami 71
miles per hour.
“Hurricane warnings are dis
played from north of the Florida
Keys to the Titusville-Tampa line
and storm warnings on the Keys
and over the peninsula from Jack
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