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Pan American
Constellations
^Grounded By CAA
SAN FRANCISCO, July 12, —(/P)
—The Pacific-Alaska division of
the Pan American World Airways,
in compliance with instructions
of the Civil Aeronautics Author
ity, has ordered all its Constel
lation aircraft grounded.
Pending departures also were
cancelled and passengers were be
long notified as rapidly as possible,
it was announced by J. V. Roscoe,
in charge of the Pacific-Alaska
division.
“Transoceanic clippers of other
types will be substituted as soon
and as promptly as possible.” Ros
coe said. “This step will permit
the continuance of trans-Pacific
schedules although at reduced
capacity.”
A
Wo Curbs On
Clothing Prices
WASHINGTON, July 12, -(/Pi
Snipping the last price control
threat on clothing, the government
Wednesday pinned its inexpensive
garment hopes on industry com
Y petition.
In cutting the threat. Civilian
Production Administrator John D.
Small expressed the belief that
rivalry among manufacturers will
serve to hold their prices in line.
The only clothing price curb
left after the OPA died July 1,
was knocked out when Small an
nounced that CPA will continue
to allocate a big supply of cloth
for garments that should sell at
low or moderate prices—but the
agency no longer will see that
they do.
Judge Pratt Takes
Karluk Case
Under Advisement
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Fairbanks, July 12, —W—
District Judge Harry E. Pratt took
under advisement Wednesday, un
til July 18, the Karluk Indian Res
ervation fish test case.
Arguments were completed on
Wednesday afternoon, on the peti
tion of Kodiak packers for an in
junction against application, by
the Interior Department’s Fish &
Wildlife Service, of the rule ag
ainst fishing by non-Karluks in
1 waters adjacent to the Karluk
reservation.
* The Kodiak packing firms filed
the suit in a challenge of the poli
cy instituted by Harold Ickes as
Secretary of the Interior.
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INSPECTS RELIEF F O O D—Cardinal -elect Francis J. Spellman (right) sees a sample
of the millions of cans of food collected in a New York warehouse for shipment overseas by the War
Belief Services of the National Catholic Welfare Conference.
National Budget
Not Be Balanced
WASHINGTON, July 12, -(/Pi
Government economists all but
gave up hopes of balancing the
federal budget this fiscal year
despite President Truman’s an
nouncement yesterday, “govern
ment expenditures will be re
duced.”
Some officials close to fiscal
matters said they failed to see
how 2 or 3 billion dollars can be
lopped off. This is the probable
difference they predict privately
between federal income and out
go for the new fiscal ye?r.
22 Jews Killed
Attempting Flee
From Poland
WARSAW, July 12, — (JP’)—'The
slaying of 22 Jews attempting to
flee a new wave of persecution in
Poland today as the government
prepared to execute nine persons
convicted of instigating the bloody
July 4 Pogrom at Kielce.
Meanwhile August Cardinal
Hlond placed responsibility for
“dangerous tensions” in Poland
Draft Age May Be
Boosted To 34,
By Army Request
WASHINGTON, July 12,—(/P)—
The army has recommended to
President Truman that the top
draft age be boosted from 29 to
34 years when induction calls are
resumed in September.
Few, if any, men over 26 have
been drafted since V-J Day last
August.
The War Department recom
mendation was disclosed today by
an official familiar with it after
the American Council on Educa
tion heard an assertion last night
that the Selective Service expects
to “scrape the bottom of the man
power barrel as it’s never been
scraped before” by next March.
The declaration was made by
Col. George A. Erwin, Chief of
the Demobilization Division of
Selective Service, who mentioned
only incidentally in the course of
his informal address that the army
does not want any men over 35.
upon Jewish governmental offi
cials, and attributed the “deterior
ations in the internal situation in
Poland to the introduction of a
governmental structure which the
majority of the people do not des
ire.
j U. S. Security
jin Danger
WASHINGTON, July 12. — (/Pi—
IA report that Oak Ridge Secur
ity officers think, "The peace and
security of the United States is
definitely in danger, threw a road
block against the Administration’s
atomic control legislation today.”
House Republicans showed a
disposition to jfdetrack all A-bills
until world conditions become
more settled.
U. S. Made Good
Relief Promises
WASHINGTON, July 12, (JP)—
President Truman said today, the
nation, through the determined
efforts of everyone, has made good
on its first famine relief promises.
Reporting on the fiscal year
which ended June 30, he said that
in the case of food grains—the
major relief commodity—exports
exceeded the country’s commit
ments.
The President cautioned, how
ever, that continued cooperation
will be necessary if the country
is to do its full share to relieve
the hunger he said still exists
’in the world.
M*r. Truman’s statement was
Longshoremen
Tie-Up Ports Of
Juneau - Ketchikan
JUNEAU, July 12, —(^—Cham
ber of Commerce members yest
erday applauded a suggestion qX
attorney Howard Stabler that
merchants refuse to sell food to
the striking longshoremen because
of loss of perishable cargoes on
ships they refused to work in
Juneau and Ketchikan until the
past two days. There was no ac
tion taken on the suggestion, how
ever.
Steamship companies reported
they are now paying longshoremen
$1.54 an hour, but the workers are
reported to be holding out for
retroactive pay under the June
15 wage increase agreement for
West Coast Longshoremen.
The longshoremen returned to
work Tuesday under a truce ag
reement which expires at 8:00 a.
m. today, when they are sched
uled to stop work again. Opera
tors have expressed themselves
ready to meet the union demands
as soon as government agencies
give the required approval.
Rev. Bingle Speaks
To Seattle Synod
On Alaska Eskimos
SEATTLE, July 12, — (iP)—'The
Rev. Bert Bingle of Fairbanks,
in his first address to the Synod
of Washington since his election
as moderator, reported yesterday
on his work as industrial chap
lain with the Wartime Service
Commission of the Presbyterian
church in Alaska.
The Rev. Mr. Bingle told del
egates to the 57th annual session
that Eskimo women in the Arctic
Circle are demanding freedom
from their age old domination by
man.
“Eskimo young people are de
manding their rights to have a
part in the running of the church,”
the Rev. Mr. Bingle said. He re
commended the establishment of
a young people’s conference for
them.
He also revealed that the New
Testament is being translated in
to the Greenland culture of the
Eskimo language.
issued in connection with a report
by the Secretary of Agriculture
Anderson, which said foreign
food shipments during the past
12 months totaled more than 16,
500,000 long tons, 60 percent o£ *
which was food grains.