Portal Suits
To Be Outlawed
WASHINGTON i/Pt—1The House
judiciary committee approved to
day a measure outlawing virtually
all portal-to-portal pay claims.
The bill would also let employ
ers advance as a defense against
claims the contention that they
acted in “good faith.” They could
offer it in controversies involving
the wage-hours act, the Walsh
Healy and the Bacon-Davis acts.
4 The Walsh-Healey and Bacon
Davis act establish working stand
ards which must be observed in
government contracts.
The burden of proof in claiming
‘‘good faith” would rest with the
employer.
Chairman Micheneer (R.-Mich.)
said the committee approved the
bill “by a very large majority.”
Questioned further, he said that
there was not a formal vote—“not
• even a show of hands.”
He said that, under present!
plans, the measure is scheduled to*
Seattle To Be New
ATC Terminus j
TOKYO, (A*)—The army trans
port command will shift the ‘home’
terminus of its Tokyo-to-Unite..
States operations from San Fran
cisco to Seattle within the next
few months.
The ACT, announcing the
change, for which no definite date
has been set, said the shift would
inaugurate the flying of the great
circle route from Japan to Ameri
ca and would reduce time for the
flights from 40 hours to 25 hours
Both the Army’s Trans-Pacific
planes and those of Northwest Air
lines will fly the great circle with
stops at Anchorage, Adak and
Shemya, in the Aleutians, the an
nouncement said.
The present mid-Pacific sched
ule is by way of Guam and Hono
lulu.
reach the floor for action next
Thursday.
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Snow Blanket
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At least three persons were
dead as the heaviest snowstorm in
years gripped the east Friday, clos
ing schools, snarling traffic and
slowing business and industry.
Snow depths ranged up to 19
inches in Lee county, Virginia. In
New York City, where the weather
bureau anticipated a 12-inch fall
by noon, one man died of a heart
attack after shoveling snow. Two
deaths attributable to the storm
were reported in Pennsylvania.
Shows, whipped by strong
winds, continued to fall throught
the morning in most sections, drift
ing across highways and railroads
which were heavily blanketed
during the night.
The storm extended from Maine
into North Carolina, but hope of
abatement for the middle Atlan
tic states cames with reports that
the storm was reduced to flurries
in western Pennsylvania.
In New York City the weather
bureau said the snow was expect
ed to be a foot deep by noon. It
was the worst storm since March
7-9, 1941, when 12.1 inches of
snow fell.
A task torce ot a,000 workers
struggled to dear New York
streets, working in 35-mile-hour
winds that whipped among the
skyscrapers.
The expreience of those who
wandered outside was dramatical
ly highlighted in Nottingham, N.
Y., where two boys, three and four
years old, were found sound asleep
last night in deep woods by 250
frantic searchers after they had
wandered from their homes.
In New England the storm
gained in fury during the night,
locking highway in drifts that
brought out all road-clearing
equipment. Outdoor construction
work on 'vitally needed housing
was virtually at a standstill. Of
fices and factories reported “light
days” with employees arriving
late or not at all.
In New Jersey two main high
ways were blocked. Nearly all
trains throughout the northeast
were running behind schedule.
Everyone had a story to tell of
difficulties. One of the most har
rowing was that of Mrs. Edward
Lamier of Saugus, Mass., who
could not reach a hospital in time
and gave birth to a healthy boy
with two policemen acting as mid
wives.
Air travel was disrupted, but
officials said they hoped to resume
flights as the storm moved sea
ward tonight.
WASHINGTON, </P) — A snow
storm which crippled thansporta
tion in the Capital caused a post
ponement today of a Senate inter
state commerce committee hearing
on the nomination of former May
or Joseph Carson of Portland,
Ore., to be a member of the mari
time commission.
Chairman White <R.-Me.> or
dered the postponement because of
the lack of a quorum of committee
members. A new hearing date will
be announced later.
Also delayed was action by the
committee on House-approved leg
islation to authorize the maritime
commission to set up an Alaskan
steamship service for a 16-month
period beginning March 1.
REV. BEN MORGAN
LEAVES FOR FAIRBANKS
Rev. Ben Morgan who has been
guest pastor at the Nazarene
•Church for several weeks departed
for Fairbanks last Wednesday.
Soviets Not De
stroying Nazi Ships
WASHINGTON, (/Ti—State de
partment officials disclosed today
that Russia has acknowledged
“difficulties” in carrying out a Big
Three agreement to destroy her
share of damaged German war
ships.
Responding to American and
British inquiries, Moscow voiced
assurances, however, that steps
were being taken to carry out her
■ part of the bargain reached at the
1945 Potsdam conference.
The department officials said
both the United States and Britain
have carried out their commit
ments to sink or otherwise destroy
i the damaged Nazi vessels allotted
to them for the purpose.
Topping the list of the captured
vessels the Russians were to de
stroy was Germany’s single air
craft carrier, the Graf K. Zeppe
lin. Whether this flattop was
among the craft whose destruction
has met with “difficulties” was not
revealed.
The Soviet acknowledgment of
delay was received last December
(I, but was made public today onl\
in response to inquiries. It was a
memorandum to the tn-part:tc
naval commission of the Allied
control council for Germany.
The commission, set up to en
force the naval aspects of the Pots
dam agreement, is composed of
the senior naval officers in Ger
many and the Big Three powers.
The Potsdam conference decided
that surface vessels remaining
from the battered German fleet
which were in operating condition
or could be repaired within six
months should be divided equally
among the three powers. Thirty U
boats also were included in the di
vision.
' Legislature Dull
• Continued From Page One
administrator general, who would
have all authority now invested
by Territorial legislature in the
governor passed the Senate this
morning 12 to 4. The bill provides
for the election of the first admin
istrator general at the next general
election taking office April 1, 1949
with the auditor serving until then
in addition to his other duties.
Residence requirement for the
new job would be ten years in
Alaska and forty years old. Advo
cates of the bill call it a step tow
ard self government and state
hood.
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Soviets Debate
1947 Budget
(Continued from Page One*
for appropriations of $37,500,000,
000. Of this about $11,200,000,000,
some 30 per cent, would go for de
fense.)
WASHINGTON, —The state
department said today Russia has
not yet indicated any intention of
negotaiting a settlement of its $11,
000,000,000 wartime lend-lease ac
count.
The United States has asked
Moscow several times to open ne
gotiations. Final lend-lease settle
ments already have been made
with Great Britain. France Bel
gium, Turkey, Australia and New
Zealand; preliminary discussions
have started with China, Greece.
Norway and South Africa.
At a news conference Roger
Tubby, department press officer,
was asked about the Russian situa
tion. He said “The Russians have
not indicated at any itme that they
| plan to negotiate with this govern
ment concerning a '■ettltment.”
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