High Water in Iowa
HARTFORD, IA. — (Soundphoto) — Completely isolated by tho
flooding South River is this farm near Hartford, one of the' many
flooded sectors in the state as a result of continuous rain and elec
trical storms for a week. Highway 60 in the background barely rises
above the water. Two deaths have been attributed to the surging
rivers and electrical storms.
Pakistan Wants To
Be A U. N. Member
LAKE SUCCESS, i/P>—A repre
sentative of the provisional gov
ernment of Pakistan contended to
day that the Moslem-dominated
dominion in partitioned India
should automoatically become a
member of the United Nations.
He said, however, that if Paki
stan's view was incorrect, the new
dominion would take appropriate
action to fulfill an expressed de
sire to join the U. N.
These views were stated in a
letter received this morning from
O. A. Baig in Washington, who
signed himself as representative to
the United States from the Paki
stan prov;sional govern ment,
which becomes a dominion Friday.
It was the first Pakistan reaction
to a U. N. legal department opin
ion. aonroved yesterday by Secre
tary-General Trygve Lie. holding
Hughes Hearing Is
“Witness Smear”
W A S H I N GTON, </P> — One
Democratic Senator called yester
day for a Senate investigation as
another said the decision by a Re
publican-controlled committee to
break off the Howard Hughes in
quiry gave the GOP a “political
black eye.”
Senator Murray <D.-Mont.) told
a reporter he thinks the war in
vestigating committee’s two weeks
of public hearings into Hughes’
war-time plane contracts repre
sented ".iust another example of
efforts to smear ^very witness who
takes the stand.”
that India’s U. N. membership
would go to the Hindu-majority
dominion of India and that Paki
stan could apply for membership
as a “new state.”
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Commons Votes
Sweeping Powers
To Aid Recovery
LONDON, (A*) — The House of
Commons voted authorization to
the labor government today to
muster the full resources of Bri
tain, including manpower and in
dnstrv for the national recovery
program.
The bill, passed 178 to 63 after
an entire night of debate, specifi
cally gave the Attlee administra
tion extensive powers to direct the
management of labor and supplies
so “the whole resources of the
community are available for use
and are used in a manner best cal
culated to serve the interests of
the community.
The opposition ballots came
from conservative and liberal op
ponents who had attacked the leg
islation as a “dictator bill.” The
vote, on the third and final read
ing, followed nearyl 18 hours of
debate. The labor party holds a
majority of about two to one in
the Commons. ,
The House of Lords was to re
ceive the bill for debate on second
reading during the afternoon.
The act continued indefiniaely
and made applicable for the new
purpose of coping with the nation
al economic crisis the emergency
powers given the government,
then conservative, te the beginning
of the war. The powers were re
newed on a short-term basis in
1945 to cover the transitional pe
riod from war to peace.
The government has not indi
cated the extent it plans to use the
powers.
The vote in the House, which
consists of 640 members, was rel
atively low because many tired
during the session and went home.
The labor majority made the re
sult a foregone conclusion.
The vote on the third and last
reading of the bill was completed
at 8:48 a.m. after the labor ma
jority had fended off ceaseless op
position efforts to kill or amend
the legislation on the ground that
it would endanger the nation’s
“hard-won liberties.”
The debate finally resolved it
self into a struggle against time,
with the government fighting re
lentlessly to win approval of the1
measure before 2:30 p.m. Contin
uation of the debate beyond that
hour would atuomatically have
cancelled the day’s business and
made it impossible to get the bill
through the House of Lords in
time to permit Parliament to take
a summer recess beginning today.
The opposition leader, Winston
Churchill, taking up the cudgels
against Prime Minister Attlee
again, charged during the night
that the government bill—extend
ing and reinforcing wartime gov
ernment powers over industry and
labor—conferred virtual dictatori
al powers on a cabinet whose
prime minister "might be discard
ed” at any moment.
But the government, using its
preponderent majority, beat down
every challenge and only once did
it accept an amendment. That was
one offered by liberal leader Cle
ment Davies which guaranteed
that the government would not use
its sweeping powers under the bill
for “suppression or suspension” of
the press.
Deputy Prime Minister Herbert
Morrison agreed that the use of
such powers against the press
“certainly would not be justifiable
in circumstances of peace.”
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British Ami U. S.
To Discuss Easing
Of Loan Terms
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Secretary
of the treasury Snyder announced
today that discussions will start
Monday with British officials on
easing terms of the $3,750,000,000
American loan to Britain.
Snyder told a news conference
that the national advisory council
on international monetary prob
lems, headed by himself, will con
duct the discussion on behalf of
this country.
The British delegation, which
will fly here this week-end, will
be headed by Sir Wilfred Eady,
special assistant to chancellor of
the exchequer Hugh Dalton.
Although no formal requests
have been made, it is understood
that England will ask concessions
which would permit her to con
serve her dwindling dollar supply
by increasing imports from British
dominions and decreasing imports
from the United States.
The present terms of the loan
agreement prohibit this.
Snyder emphasized it was his
understanding that the conference
would be strictly limited to the
British loan and would not delve
into other aspects of the British
“dollar crisis” or European aid.
He declined to comment on pros
pective changes, saying:
"I want to find out what the
British delegation has in mind be
fore making any statement.”
In two other developments on
the international economic scene:
1. Snyder scotched “persistent
rumors” in London’s financial
district that the treasury planned
‘o ire ease its price on gold from
the present $35 an ounce to $50.
The secretary said there have been
“no plans and no discussions” of
such a move. An increase in the
gold price would assist European
countries with gold reserves to ex
tend their present dollar credits.
2. The British withdrew another
$150,000,000 of their U. S. loan,
leaving only $850,000,000 avail
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WOMAN VISITING NOME
Mrs. Lora Bennings, newspaper
woman from Palo Alto, Calif., is
visiting in Nome, having been to
Fairbanks and Anchorage, where
she is the guest of Mrs. Goggans
of that city. She states that she
has enjoyed Alaska very much
and finds it very interesting.
TOURIST VISITING NOME
FROM DOWN UNDER
Barbara King, tourist, arrived
yesterday* on the Pan American
from her home in Sidney, Austra
lia. Nome is the last stop on her
itinerary.
able. At the recent rate of with
drawal treasury officials estimated
the loan would be exhausted in
October, instead of next June 30,
as contemplated.
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