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NEWS IN BRIEF
LONDON, (/P)—The Royal Fam
ily will return from South Africa
May 11. it was announced today.
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NlNANA—Thawing weather the
past week has put water on lop of
ice on river. Ice still forty inches
thick and solid with heavy freez
ing every night. Most of the snow
is now gone around town, but
# thawing has made only surface
water. Work on books is progress
ing with full speed.
MANILA, (/P)—Two Japanese
kempeitui (thought police* were
sentenced to death by hanging to
day by a U. S. military commission
• for the murder of five Filipino
civilians in 1944 at Iloilo City.
SEATTLE, (/P)—Maneuvers arc
being held in Lake Union by “task
force Echo” of the United States
coast guard and geodetic survey
► before departure next week for
the Aleutians, Bering Sea and
Alaska, where the fleet of six ships
from Seattle and one from San
Francisco will spend six months
completing vital charts of the area.
ST. JOHNS. Nfld. (;P) — New
foundland will send no delegation
# to Washington, D. C., to find out
how the British island colony
might become the United States'
49th state. By a vote of 34 to 3
the colony's national convention
rejected such a motion Friday af
ter it had been submitted by dele-4
gate D. I. Jackman.
FAIRBANKS iff*)—Fire destroy
ed the one-story non-commissione.i
officers’ club at nearby Ladd Field
Saturday, bringing death to three
• soldiers and seriously injuring a
fourth. Name of the dead and in
jured were withheld.
SHANGHAI, (A’) — American
army officials said today the Rey
nolds Bombshell, carrying Chicago
pen manufacturer Milton Reynolds
on a globe-girdling flight, was due
at Shanghai from Calcutta around
5:30 a.m., (Nome time). Reynolds
will land at the Japanese-built
American airfield at Kiangwan, on
the northern outskirts of Shanghai.
The converted A-26. invader at
tack bomber, attempting to circle
the earth in a record 60 hours, left
Newark. New Jersey, at 11:11 a.m.
(Nome time) Saturday.
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TOKYO, (A*)— Reynolds around
world plane landed Yokota airfield
at 11:01 a.m. (Nome time) today.!
The plane is forty-eight hours and
fifty minutes from New York, av
eraging three mundred miles per
hours including stops. Original
plans called for a stop at Anchor
age.
VAN NUYS, Calif. (A>) — Three
young men with a yen to travel,
the hard way, prepared today to
take off for Alaska riding motor
scooters. They expect to make the
approximate 2,500-mile trip in 2<T
to 25 days, traveling the Alcan
highway part way. Equipment for
each included a bedroll, cooking
utensils, a rifle and food supply.
Hitler Feared
U. S. B-29 Planes
(By Richard O'Regan)
* \NKFURT, Germany, <£>)—
Acioif II’tier had a terrible fear of
tho American B-29 superfortress
bomber in the last months of the
war and amazing lack of faith in
his own v-weapons, charred rec
ords of his secret staff conferences
showed today.
The partly burne I stenographic
transcripts of his wartime confer
ences, captured by the U. S. army
and released here, disclosed Hitler
told Hermann Goering and mem
bers of the army general staff Jan.
10, 1945:
“Things are such that the Amer
ican B-29 now is in action. The
Japanes have seen them already. I
feel a great danger, and one can
not weigh this danger too lightly.
The B-29 bomber can be Ger
many’s destruction.”
The B-29 never appeared in Eu
rope during the war, but Hitler’s
repeated references to them show
ed he feared them perhaps even
more than the approaching armies
of the Allies.
“Even now, he told luftwaffe
chiet Goering, blasting the fat
field marshal for fiddling around
with the construction of out-of
date fighter planes, “the enemy
planes come like a parade, and
when the big ones come, German
planes will literally enter a hail
storm of fire.”
He said German planes would be
‘mowed down ruthlessly.
Mines Open After
Safety Shutdown
PITTSBURGH, (/P)—Spearhead
ed by re-opening of big captive
coal mines in the Pittsburgh
Uniontown area, the safety shut
down of the united mine workers'
came to a formal end today. The
return to work of thousands of j
miners shot bituminous production
up toward normal.
The solid fuels administration
reported output was “.pretty much
normal” in Pennsylvania.
Resumption of large scale min
ing finds fuel consuming industries
generally in good shape, thanks to
adequate reserves. The work stop
page began April 1 with a six-day
mourning period for Centralia, 111. |
Mine blast victims, and then con-1
tinued until Saturday under Lewis’
edict that miners would stay at
home pending federal inspection
of all mines.
Still idle were some 123 pits outj
of 518 which interior secretary!
Krug ordered closed until specific
safety measures were taken.
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Threej
adults and a three-year-old child
will start from the front steps of
the capitol Wedsenday for Chil
koot Barracks, where they will be
cojne part of a colony to be estab
lished by the Veterans Alaska Co
operative company. The veterans
organization bought the old army
post for $105,000 from the war as
sets administration and plans to
operate the town as a veterans
project.
Wallace Blasts
U. S. “Imperialism”
MANCHESTER, Eng. (A*)—Hen
ry A. Wallace charged Saturday
that the U. S. had embarked on a
program of ‘‘ruthless imperinlism"
and declared that the program
must fail because ‘‘Americans will
never pay the cost and they cannot
pay the cost.”
In an attack on President Tru
man’s proposals for aid to Turkey
and Greece, at a public meeting ini
this Midlands industrial center.
Wallace said America’s present
program “if unchecked” would
stretch the “American empire"
from China to the Near East and
from pole to pole.
“This position of ruthless im-'
perialism is the position which all
groups blinded by hatred of Rus
sia must ultimately defend,” the
former vice-president and cabinet
member declared, adding: “It may
cost little to divide tiie world, but
to keep the world divided is be
yond the resources of any nation."
Here on the first leg of a speak
ing tour, Wallace said the l7. S.
was controlled “by men who be- j
lieve that in a world in which cap
italism and Communism live side I
by side there is little hope for
peace.”
“1 hey believe, he said, “that
the United Nations is doomed t«>
insignificance. They believe that
Communism threatens the world
and must be stopped by American
material and arms.”
But, Wallace said, “we cannot
buy off world Communism any
more than we can suppress the
idea of Communism by force of
arms. No free people will be
bought—no unfree people will
stay bought.”
Nation Observes j
FDR Anniversary
HYDE PARK, N. Y. [/?)— The
nation Saturday observed the sec
ond anniversary of Franklin D.
Roosevelt’s death, with ceremon
ies planned at the old Hudson Val
ley mansion which he had hoped
to enjoy in retirement, and at
Warm Springs foundation in Geor
gia.
On the flagstoned portico, a fa
vorite lounging place of the late
President, a memorial program
was broadcast to the nation over ;
three networks.
President Truman, who succeed
ed to the cares of Mr. Roosevelt’s
office two years ago today, spoke
from Kansas City in tribute to his j
predecessor.
May 11 Designated j
“Mothers Day’
—
WASHINGTON. f/P)—President
Truman today designated Sunday,
May 11, as Mother's Day.
Mr. Truman called on govern
ment officials and the people gen
eraly to display the flag that day
to show the "reverent esteem in
which we hold to mothers of our
country."
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Telephone Strike
Up To Government
(By Harold W. Ward)
WASHINGTON. — Collaps
of negotiations to end the import
ant long lines portion of (he vro'-s
country telephone tie-up lett bo*n
sides looking to the government
for the next move Saturday.
"We’re settling down for a long
strike," said President Joseph A.
Beirne of the national federation
(if telephone workers.
Both Beirne and officials of the
mammoth Bell Telephone system
left the door open for continued
government efforts to end the dis
pute over wages and other contract
demands.
Administration officials talked
privately of possible seizure of the
industry by President Truman un
der provisions of the federal com
munications act, but they showed
little enthusiasm for thi.-, solution.
Secretary of labor Schwellen
bach weighed his reply to a pro
posal by the NFTW’s policy com
mittee that the government spon
sor a face-to-face meeting between
union leaders and top officials of
the American Telephone and Tele- (
graph company, with press and ra
dio reporters invited.
So far there has been no meet
ing between Beirne and C. F.
Craig. A. T. & T. vice president
who helped bring off a settlement
of last year’s threatened telephone
walkout 25 minutes before it was
scheduled to begin. Craig has con
ferred several times privately with
labor department officials.
Phone Pickets
Will Fight Back
SEATTLE, I7P)—Arne Gravem,
field organizer for the national;
federation of telephone workers,
said he would protest to officials,
of an oil company which delivered j
a truckload of heating oil to the |
main office of the Pacific Tele-!
phone and Telegraph company'
yesterday and precipitated the
first clash between pickets and
phone company supervisory em
ployees.
Gravem said the pickets were
“pushed and shoved" by the super
visory workers, and “if this sort of
thing continues, peaceful picketing
in the Seattle strike may become
a thing of the past.”
Telephone company officials de
clined comment.
Dave Beck, international vice,
president of the AFL teamsters
union, said last night he knew
nothing of the incident but had
given orders that teamsters were
to “carry out deliveries under ex
isting contracts.”
SEATTLE, (/P) — The church’s
blessing was invoked by the Rev.
C. L. Haavik, a one-time fisher
man in Norway, and hymns to the
men of the sea were sung yester
day at the fifth annual fishermen’s
festival in the Ballard First Luth
eran church. Fishermen and 1,300
of their families and friends as-'
sembled. The Norweigian male
chorus, was led by J. A. Brevik,
conductor.
Soviets Demand
Large Reparations
< >r No Treaty
(By John M. Highiower)
: lOSf’OW, (/P)—A. Y. Vishinsky
S >\ ie: deputy foreign minister,
ade it clear Saturday that in his
opinion Iiu.-sia never would accept
a German settlement without rep
arations payments to the Soviet
Union from current production, on
a large scale.
Vishinsky, right hand may of
Soviet foreign minister V. M. Mol
otov, said acceptance by the United
States ol the principle of current
reparations was the thing “we
have been fighting for” in the
council of foreign ministers.
Vishinsky told a news confer
ence—the first held by a Soviet
official since the foreign ministers
convened—that this lack of agree
ment on the approach to repara
tions was the foremost difficulty
between the western powers and
the Soviet union.
The Soviet deputy made this
statement as the four-power coun
cil resumed its discussion of cur
rent political problems and pro
cedures for writing the German
treaty,* after deadlocking Friday
night on the question of Germany’s
western frontier with France.
‘A treaty without reparations,”
Vishinsky said, ‘‘is the same thing
as a man without a heart.”
! le said he welcomes secretary
of state Marshall’s recent sugges
tion that if capital plants earmark
ed for capital reparations were
left in Germany, some current rep
arations mig’.it be agreed to. He
added, however, that he could not
state what Marshall actually had
in mind. Here Vishinsky evidently
was referring to the amount of
such reparations.
Vishinsky also disclosed that the
Soviet Union was depending upon
current production reparations in
carrying out five-year-plans for
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Urge Canada Join
Pan-Americans
WASHINGTON, (Ah — Senator
Vandenberg <R.-Mich.> of the Sen
ate foreign relations committee
urged today that Canada join the
Pan-American Union to complete
“total new world unity.”
Vandenberg told representatives
of the 21 American republics he
hopes this tightening of “continen
tal fellowship” can be accomplish
ed soon.
“The 22nd chair has been empty
long enough,” the Michigan Sena
tor said in an address prepared for
ceremonies commemorating the
57th anniversary of the founding
of the Union.
“By every rule of righteousness
she (Canada* is eligible to this as
sociation,” Vandenberg said. “By
every rule of reason we should
wish her here. I would welcome
the final and total new world unity
which will be nobly dramatized
when the 22nd chair is filled and
our continental brotherhood is
complete from the Arctic Circle to
Cape Horn.”