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II NEWS IN BRIEF
' OLYMPIA, I/P) — Washington
State had its first Republican U.
S. Senator in 14 years today in the
l^rson of Harry P. Cain. The for
mer Tacoma mayor became the
state’s second appointive senator
within a two-year span yesterday
when named by Governor Mon C.
Wallgren after the resignation of
Sen. Hugh B. Mitchell, when he
had appointed a few days less
l^an two years ago to fill out his
own term upon becoming gover
nor. Cain’s regular term of office,
to which he was elected last
month, normally would begin Jan.
3. The early appointment, effec
tive today, advances his several
notches on the seniority list.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Two farm
state senators called today for a
moratorium in tariff cuts under
t^ reciprocal trade program until
the new Republican Senate major
ity has a chance to make its wishes
known.
Senators Butler <R.-Neb.) and
Hickenlooper <D.-Iowa> told a re
porter in separate interviews the
state department should lay aside
any plans for additional reductions
affecting the 18 nations with
•which this nation has trade agree
ments. The department has sched
uled hearings on new tariff ad
justments for next month.
BOSTON, (iT*)—New supersonic
airplanes flying in the intense cold
of the upper atmosphere may need
built-in refrigeration to keep the
pilots from roasting, Brig. Gen.
Maycolm C. Grow said today. The
army air forces surgeon explained
is estimated supersonic speeds—
£oove the 750-mile-an-hour level
—may generate such heat from air
friction against the skin of the air
plans that cockpit temperatures
will rise to 300 degrees.
RICHMOND, a., (/P>—Dave E.
Satterfield, Jr., 52, executive di
rector of the Life Insurance Asso
ciation of America, and former
congressman from the Third Vir
ginia District, died today at a
Richmond hospital after a brief
illness. Death was attributed to
coronary thrombosis.
HOLLYWOOD, (/P) — The na
tion’s motion picture exhibitors—
who keep their fingers on the way
the public spends its ticket money
—again have voted Bing Crosby
the year’s No. 1 box office attrac
tion.
It was the third successive year
•a* which the crooner has led the
poll conducted by the trade paper,
Motion Picture Herald. Others of
the first 10, in order, were: Ingrid
Bergman, Van Johnson, Gary
Cooper, Bob Hope, Humphrey Bo
Packaging Christmas gifts for Alaska's children are these members of the Daughters of the Nile
in Seattle. Volunteers from both the Order of the Eastern Star and the Daughters of the Nile de
voted many hours to filling the packages whick were flown to Alaska for the Christmas season by
PAA Clipper.
Fairbanks Thanks
Seattle For Gifts
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SEATTLE, (£*)—A “Than* you”
to Seattle for opening its heart to
Alaska kiddies isolated from Santa
because of the maritime tie-up,
was received from Mayor A. H.
Nordale of Fairbanks, yesterday.
In thanking Seattle civic organ
izations for the four tons of candy,
fruit and toys flown to the chil
dren of Alaska’s main strike-iso
lated towns, Mayor Nordale wired,
“ It was particularly considerate
of the Shrine and other civic or
ganizations of Seattle, and of Pan
American World Airways, to have
cooperated in making this Christ
mas really come true for so many
Alaskan boys and girls.
“Four plane loads of toys were
flown north,” the wire continued.
“The shipping situation has been
such that otherwise many Alaskan
children would have been disap
pointed. In Fairbanks, we wit
nessed a scene which truly brought
home to us the Christmas spirit.
Hundreds of Fairbanks children
were given toys and candy. And
other shipments from Seattle went
to other Alaskan communities.
Again to our friends in the Pacific
Northwest, we of Alaska say
! ‘Thanks’.”
BILL THOMAS LEAVES
FOR PIONEER HOME
Bill Thomas, familiar figure
around town who has been in the
hospital for some time, departed
for the Pioneer Home at Sitka
last Tuesday.
gart, Greer Garson, Margaret
O’Brien. Betty Grahle and Rn
Rogers.
AFL-CIO Maritime
Unions May Have
Joint Action
SAN FRANCISCO. (/P)—Harry
Lundeberg president of the AFL
sailors union of the Pacific, said
today he had talked with Joseph
Curran president of the CIO na
tional maritime union, about pos
sible joint action of the two
groups.
But such action, Lundeberg
added, would be undertaken by
his union only if shoreside unions,
such as Harry Bridge’s CIO long
shoremen, were excluded.
Lundeberg has long been at odds
with Bridges over maritime labor
policies. Bridges departed by plane
last night to take part in current
longshoremen negotiations in Hon
olulu and was not available for
comment.
Curran, who with Bridges was
a co-chairman of the CIO commit
tee for maritime unity, resigned
the post Monday. His action is
scheduled for review by his union
at a New York City meeting on
Jan. 6.
Lundeberg said his meeting
with Curran was to consider joint
action by AFL, CIO and independ
ent seafaring unions to combat
proposed recodification of federal
shipping regulations.
“This is strictly a seaman’s mat
ter,” he said. “Everyone knows
how we feel about those longshore
men out here.”
Asked if he discussed Curran’s
resignation with the CIO sailor
leader, Lundeberg, who also is
president of the AFL seafares in
ternational union, said, “No, but I
knew darn well the CMU was just
Orders Butter
Breaklnvestmation
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WASHINGTON, </P>—Secretary
I of agriculture Anderson today or
dered an investigation of yester
day’s break in New York but e
; prices. The investigation will
cover consumer complaints that the
market had been manipulated to
prevent a drop in producer prices
of milk in the metropolitan area
during January.
In announcing the inquiry, an
aide to the secretary said Ander
son does not see in the butter price
break any sign of a widespread
decline in prices of other farm and
food prices.
I He said the secretary felt that
i farm and food prices have reached
if not passed, their post-war peak,
! and there is no indication that
there will be other than a slow,
normal adjustment to lower levels
I as supplies increase and wartime
j markets decline.
ORTING, Wash. (/P) — Tragic
sorrow replaced Christmas joy in
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest
Seeley here today.
Cecil, 7, one of three children
was dead—fatally shot, Coroner
Paul Mellinger said while playing
with his older brother Che- ter, 12.
The coroner said he was told
that Cecil approached his brother
as the later was putting away a .22
calibre rifle. “Point it at me and
see if I can get away. Play like
you were going to pull the trig
ger,” Mellinger quoted the boy as
saying. A sister, Florence, 14. wit
nessed the tragedy.
a mud-house, built from the ton,
and would collapse sooner or
later.”
Ask Investigation
Of Rusia's “Vernal
l Itimatnnr*
WASHINGTON, I/P) — Senator
Stewart 'D.-Tenn.), declaring “we
have been entirely too easy” with
Russia, today urged a thorough in
vestigation into the “verbal ulti
matum" which forced an unarmed
U. S. navy ship to leave Dairen.
Stewart referred to the edict
which sent the vessel on a routine
courier mission, hurrying from the
Manchurian port after receiving
this warning from Russian mili
tary officers: “Unless you leave
within 20 minutes we will not be
responsible for the consequences.”
Commenting on u Dairen dis
patch in which Scripps-Howard
reporter William H. Newton told
of the incident for the combined
world press, the Tennessee senator
told a reporter: “This is a matter
which ought to be gone into thor
oughly. I will be much interested
to see what the state department
and the navy have to say.”
The state department has been
silent pending an official report
from H. Merrill Benninghoff, the
American consul general at Dai
ren. A spokesman said that if the
report is not received shortly, ef
iorts will be made to speed it up.
The only navy comment thus
far has been an acknowledgment
that the landing craft described in
the Dairen dispatch had left there
for a U. S. base in China last Fri
day, the day the ultimatum was
issued.
“Russia ought not to have been
nlnwed to enter Manchuria in the
first place,” Stewart declared.
“They have done nothing but pil
lage that whole area.”
(By William H. Newton)
• Representing the combined
American press'
SHANGHAI. f/P) — The an
nouncement by a state department
spokesman in Washington that a
U. S. navy courier ship at Dairen
was not given a Soviet ultimatum
to get out will come as a distinct
surprise to U. S. navy officials and
others who were aboard when the
incident took place last Friday.
The senior navy officer aboard,
Cmdr. Edgar L. Yates, Portland,
Ore. reported to Adm. Charles M.
Cooke. Jr., commander of the Sev
enth Fleet, in my presence that an
ultimatum had been given by Sov
iet military officials “to leave
within 20 minutes or we will not
be responsible for the consequenc
es.”
Cooke cabled the navy depart
ment and referred to the report of
the incident which had been re
leased to the combined world -tr-^s
dating the report was “factually
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