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NEWS IN BRIEF
HOLLYWOOD —Joan Craw
ford, W’ho three times has broken
her right ankle, went to bed lor
an indefinite period today with a
torn ligament in her left leg. Hei
doctor, William E. Branch, said
she suffered the injury when her
foot caught in carpeting at her
Brentwood home, and she fell
down a flight of stairs.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Secretary
of State Marshall declared that he
considers a system of universa
military training necessary in tn
United States to back up American
foreign policy with positive mili
tary power.
/it his first news conference
since he took the cabinet office,
the wartime army chief of stai
asserted that unless the United
States has universal military
training it will not have any real,
positive military power to back up
its foreign policy. He called pres
ent methods for securing military
manpower impractical and inef
fective.
CHICAGO, </P) — A new cold
wave hit with near paralyzing ef
fect in parts of the midwest Arc
tic front today as the east and
south got a respite from the frigid
weather.
Near blizzard conditions prevail
ed in the Dakotas and Minnesota
as winds of from 40 to 60 miles
an hour carried a fresh mass of
cold air from Canada into the be
numbed midwest region. The
storm roared westward *to the
[Rockies and spread out over the
north central states. Sharp drops
in temperature were predicted for
the entire area over the weekend.
WASHINGTON, (/P) — William
J. Wagner, owner of radio station
KFQD. at Anchorage, announced
here today that he had filed with
the federal communications com
mission an application to build a
1,000-watt station at Fairbanks,
to operate on a regional channel
of 1,290 kilocycles, unlimited time
with call letters KWJW. At the
same time Wagner filed for a 250
watt local station at Seward, to
operate on 1,340 kilocycles with
call letters KIFW. Wagner also
filed for a high frequency relay
broadcast station at Anchorage for
the purpose of feeding programs to
other stations in Alaska.
WASHINGTON, (>P)—President
Truman today renewed his plea to
Congress for authority to continue
rubber controls in order to assure
synthetic production sufficient to
meet any emergency. The Presi
dent declared in a message to Con
gress that natural rubber produc
tion will increase by late 1947 or
early 1948 to the point “where it
will be possible to satisfy world
needs largely from natural rub
ber.” Meanwhile, he said, “it is
imperative that the Congress ex
tend authority to continue controls
over rubber under the second war
powers act, as I requested in my
previous message.”
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NEW ORLEANS, {/P)—A federal
grand jury has cleared the An
drew J. Higgins boat-building
firm, after an investigation of its
war-time activities.
ADMIRALS IN EMBRY O—All Annapolis midshipmen must be proficient in handling
small boats and sail boats like these moored at the academy provide excellent training.
Britain To Be
Without Electricity
LONDON, (#*) — Fuel minister
Emanuel Shinwell said today
Britain’s overstrained ele c t r . w
power system would break dow.
early next week because of an
acute fuel shortage aggravated by
bitter winter weather.
He told the House of Commons
the i*esult would be that, begin
ning Monday, no electricity would
be supplied to any industrial con
sumer in London and southeastern
area, or in the industrial mildands
and the northwestern districts.
The electricity supply to domestic
consumers will be cut off from
9 a.m. to noon and from 2 p.m. to
4 p.m. daily, he announced.
Shinwell said the labor govern
ment hoped the curtailment—cer
tain to cause far-reaching disar
rangements in the nation’s exports
i program—would not last longer
[ than three or four days.
Hundreds of ocean-going ships
were tied up in British ports by
a government conservation order
earmarking the dangeously low
coal supplies for domestic con
sumption only. Domestic electric
ity and gas rations already have
been slashed.
BERT BELTZ. JR. INJURED
IN STREET
Bert Beltz, 4V£ year old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Beltz, was
picked up unconscious on Third
Ave. early Thursday afternoon. It
is not known what happened, but
he was apparently injured by
some passing truck. He was imme
diately taken to the hospital for
observation and seems to be im
proving.
NORMAN LEE
IN HOSPITAL
Norman Lee, who has been ill
for several weeks was taken to the
i hospital last evening.
House Has Stormy
Session Over Na
tional Committee
(By Mildred Hermann)
JUNEAU, FEB. 6—There was a
stormy session in the House yes
terday when the bill providing for
election of national committeemen
| and delegates to national conven
tions came up for consideration.
Rep. Maurice Johnson <R.-4th
Div.), author of the bill used it as
a vehicle to launch a personal at
tack on Albert White. Mr. White j
was in the gallery but did not ask
for the privilege of the floor to de- J
fend himself from attack.
A motion by Rep. Steve Mc
Cutcheon <D.-3rd Div.) to indefin-j
itely postpone the measure lost by
a vote of 12 to 11. It will be up for
final passage later this week. This
is the first intra party squabble by
Republicans.
A bill to provide a home for pio-1
neer women, either as an addition
to the home at Sitka or as a sep
arate place and building was intro
duced yesterday by Reps. Anita
Garnick and Mrs. E. E. Engstrom.
both (R.-lst Div.). The bill is fav
ored by a number of womens
groups in the Territory.
The Senate was busy on usual i
routine matters. It spent most of
yesterday afternoon questioning
Ryan regarding the $300,000 ap
propriation he has asked to avert
a deficiency in school funds for
the present quarter. Ryan explain
ed this was due to the increase in
teachers’ salaries provided at the
extraordinary session last year
when no additional appropriation
was made to cover the increase, j
and to the general increase in the
cost of school supplies and jani
tor’s service and other operating
expenses.
The Senators express grave con
cern over increasing cost of edu- j
eating Alaska children, but so far
have not moved to provide addi- j
tional revenue.
Stassen And T'aft In
Verbal Battle
(By Matvin L. Arrowsmith)
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Two lead
ing GOP Presidential possibilities
for 1948 collided sharply today on
labor legislation.
Harold E. Stassen, an announced
candidate for the top GOP nomin
ation, went before the Senate la
bor committee and proposed a se
cret majority vote of workers as
the last step before a strike.
Committee chairman Taft (R.
Ohio), whose name has been linked
with Presidential talk, called Stas
sen’s suggestion “trivial,” and a
lively exchange followed.
Stassen told Taft that “if you
believe in the democracy of work
ers, you must have confidence” in
a secret ballot.
Taft argued that in such a vote
the workers “do not go against
their leaders.”
Senator Ball (R.-Minn.), who
was appointed to the Senate by
Stassen when the latter was gover
nor of Minnesota in 1940, criti
cized Stassen’s proposal on the
ground that a majority vote re
quirement would be too drastic.
Stassen countered that would
also be true if Ball’s legislation to
outlaw the closed shop were en
acted. By this he apparently meant
that in an open shop, a smaller
vote for a strike would suffice.
Stassen opposed Ball’s bill to
outlaw the closed shop and its
modifications saying it would re
strict the freedom of contract.
JUNEAU WOMEN'S CLUB
HONOR LEGISLATORS' WIVES
The Juneau Women’s Club held
their customary party honoring
wives of the legislators on Wed.
Feb. 5. Honor guest from Nome
was Mrs. William Munz.The party
was held in the gold room of the
Baranof Hotel with Mrs. Mildred
Hermann as chairman.
LIFTING THE LID
AT JUNEAU
JUNEAU, Feb. 7. 2:20 a m.—The
repeal of the equal rights act of
1945 is sought in a bill introduced
by Rep. Robert Hoopes <D.-4th
Div.i. It was passed by the House
in the last legislature by a vote
of 19 to 5; by the Senate 11 to 5.
Rep. Maurice Johnson <D.-4th
Div.) introduced a bill to appro
priate $100,000 for a school build
ing at Kake. The Senate passes a
Senate joint resolution directing
hospitalization and medical aid for
Axel Werner. It also passed the
Senate bill to reimburse the North
ern Light & Power Company $675
for tax paid on fuel oil lost in the
October storm at Nome.
The Senate discusses the liquor
tax bill. Sen. Norman D. Walker,
1 D.-lst Div.) seeks to have fortified
wines, which are "worse than
other liquor you can drink" taxed
three dollars a gallon instead of
ten cents.
The blanket primary bill occu
pied the attention of the House
the greater part of Thursday after
noon. The main amendments so
far provide the rotation of names
of candidates on the ballot; insert
in the oath for voters they are
able to read and write the Consti
tution of the United States in the
English language. As it now
stands voters will be given a single
ballot on which the names of all
candidates with party affiliation
designated under various offices
to be filled. The voter will not
have to declare himself a member
of any party and could vote Re
publican for one office and Demo
crat for another in the general
election. At present the names of
the leading candidates for each
party appear on the ballot.
JUNEAU, Feb. 7, 12:45 p.m.—
A bill in the house proposes the
Territory go into the wholesale
liquor business.. The Senate passed
a bill increasing the tax on liquors
and also the bill for sick and an
nual leave for Territorial employ
ees.
Airliner Wrecked
Over Spain
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AVILA, Spain (/P)—Investigat
1 ors, stymied overnight by fog and
darkness, planned scrutiny today
of a wrecked four-engine Cuban
airliner that had carried 10 per
sons to death—half of them crew
men from Miami, Fla.
The Ruta de Colon (Route of
Columbus), DC-4 of the Compania
Aerovias Cubana (Cuban Airways
Company), hit a foggy cliff late
■yesterday in the Gredos moun
| tains 90 miles west of Madrid, ex
I ploded and burned, killing the
three pasengers and seven crew
men aboard.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—It is time
that Hawaii be granted Statehood,
Rep. William C. Cole (R.-Mo.)
says. “Hawaii has proved its value
to us in many ways, commercially
and otherwise, and particularly in
its loyalty and service in World
War II,” Cole said in a statement
in the Congressional Record.