Less Electricity
In Britain
LONDON, (/P)—The ministry of
fuel and power announced today
that domestic electricity restric
tions would be extended through
out the country tomorrow.
The daily cuts will be for five
hours’ duration—from 8:30 a.m. to
11:30 a.m., and from 1.30 p.m. to
3:30 p.m., except in the southwest,
where they will be from 9 to noon
and from 2 to 4 p.m.
Drastic street lighting reduc
tions, amounting to blackout con
ditions, also w'ill be imposed by
night.
The ministry simultaneously ap
pealed to gas consumers to “get
down to really serious economy”
to assure supplies for essential in
dustries, including bakeries.
“You cannot really let the gas
works run right out of coal” a
spokesman said.
Between five and six million
workers were estimated by a
board of trade spokesman to have
been thrown out of jobs, many onto
the dole, by Britain’s coal crisis.
Only northern Ireland was ex
cepted from the new electricity
conservation order.
The coal savings resulting from
electricity cuts yesterday, the sec
SAM TROUTMAN
IN NOME ON BUSINESS
Sam Troutman of the Property
Department of the Alaska Native
Service arrived in town on busi
ness, and is enjoying seeing many
friends made while he was a
teacher on St. Lawrence Island for
several years. Both of his children
who were raised on the island are
in school in the States.
ond day of the industrial restric
tions, totaled 24,500 tons, officials
announced. This was 2,000 more
than the saving Monday.
The spokesman for the board of
trade, a government bureau com
parable to the U. S. department of
commerce, forecast an even great
er shutdown for next week, with
unemployment spreading to all
parts of the country.
Shipping centers reported it was
' too early to estimate the effect of
the shutdown on export trade. The
chamber of commerce at Liver
pool, however, warned: “Disaster
is imminent.”
Prime Minister Attlee tonight is
sued an order under the wartime
defense regulations, for fines and
prison sentences for any of the 49,
000,000 Britons who defy an is
land wide limitation on household
electricity.
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GOP Starts 1948
Victory Drive
With Speeches
I
WASHINGTON, oP) — The Re
publican party rededicated itsell
today to the principles of its first
President, Abraham Lincoln, and
sent its orators far and wide to
start beating the victory drums for
1948.
Scores of Lincoln Day dinners—
part of more than 600 being held
over a period of ten days—were
scheduled tonight in nearly all
states except the south.
Most of the party’s potential
Presidential candidates next year
are on the speaking programs—
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey at Albany;
Senator Robert A. Taft at Charles
ton, W. Va.; Harold E. Stassen at
New York City; Senator John W.
Bricker at Toledo, and Gov.
Dwight H. Green at Springfield,
111.
Stassen planned to speak on a
world economic policy, Taft and
Bricker on domestic issues.
There is talk that Bricker may
announce soon his withdrawal
; from the 1948 Presidential picture
I in favor of his fellow Ohioan, Toft.
The Lincoln Day rallies are the
counterpart to the Democratic
party’s Jefferson Day dinners com
ing in April. Both are designed to
' raise funds for the next Presiden
^ tial campaign.
Republican national chairman
Carroll Reece, a former Tennessee
Congressman, who also has been
proposed for the Presidential nom
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ination of his party, continued the
Lincoln Day speech drive in Chi
, cago last night and will talk in St.
Paul tonight. He said this count: y
in the last 15 years has “stayed
i far away” from Lincolnian prin
ciples and added:
! “We have seen the growth in
j Washington of an irresponsible
I and confused bureaucracy, many
I members of which seem to be in
j tent upon suppressing, or at least
I disregarding, the basic rights of
our citizens.
“More recently, we are begin
ning to uncover evidence that, in
some parts at least, this bureau
cracy was corrupt, as wrell as in
efficient and extravagant. . . .
“We may expect additional evi- •
dence along that line during the
coming months.”
Chairman Wiley <R.-Wis.), of
the Senate judiciary committee,
speaking at another party rally in
nearby Bethseda, Md., said Amer
ica must keep her powder dry:
while trying to make the United j
Nations an effective organization
for world peace.
“We have not forgotten that al
ter the first world war the league
pf nations was organized,” said.
“Why, we even ‘abolished wai*
with the Kellogg-Braind pact But
war came.
“Now folks are talking about
outlawing the atomic bomb. But
the Republicans say that we bet
ter keep our national ‘police ana
fire departments’ ready to go into
action instantly for our own safety
and our peace.”
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George Beacom, Manager.
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