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NEWS IN BRIEF
KANSAS CITY, (/P)—‘The fliv
ver plane round-the-world fliers,
George Truman and Clifford
Evans, left Saturday for Dayton,
Ohio, on the next to the last lap
of their tour. They arrived here
late Friday from Oklahoma City
and spent the night as guests of
the sheriff’s air squadron.
REDONDO BEACH, Calif. </P>
Karl K. Keith, 71, collapsed and
died in his home Friday night af
ter listening to the Louis-Walcott
fight on the radio. Police said they
believed he died of a heart attack
induced by excitement. He was
' pronounced dead a few minutes
after the broadcast ended.
LOS ANGELES. (£»)—It snowed
in Los Angeles Friday. Of cource,
ihe chamber of commerce boys
huffed, there wasn't enough to
measure—it melted on contact.
But the ^ weatherman pronounced
' it snow.
Measurable snow has fallen
only once in the 77-year weather
bureau history of the city proper.
WASHINGTON. </P)—‘The civil
aeronautics board Friday fixed a
temporary mail pay rate of 60
cents a mile for Alaska Airlines,
Inc., on its Anchorage-Fairbanks
and Anchorage-Unalakleet-Nome
routes.
The board based the pay on an
average of 1,000 miles daily.
In addition it gave the airline a
lump sum of $517,000 for the peri
od from Nov. 1, 1945 to Sept. 30,
1947.
SEATTLE, (/P>—Lt. Col. Clar
ence E. Johnson, of Seward, has
been assigned to the port com
mander’s division at the Seattle
port of embarkation, the port an
nounced Friday. Colonel Johnson
commander the port of Anchorage
for the past year.
WASHINGTON, (A*) — The
United States, determined not to
let lack of an agreement with Rus
sia worsen inflationary trends in
Germany and Korea, has printed
new currency for use in the Amer
ican zones of both those occupied
countries.
WASHINGTON, (iP) — The In
terstate commerce commission to
day authorized increases in first
class passenger fares on western
railroads and in passenger coach
fares on the New York, New Ha
ven and Hartford railroad.
JUNEAU, (iP)—Dr. James Ryan,
Territorial commissioner of educa
tion, Supt. Edwin C. Clark of Jun
eau and Supt. J. E. Danielson of
Ketchikan left Sunday for Spo
kane where they will represent
Alaska at the three-day annual
meeting of the Northwest associa
tion of secondary and higher
schools. The sessions will open
Dec. 11.
JUNEAU, (/P)—Juneau, Ketchi
kan, Haines and Petersburg noti
fied acting governor Lew Williams
Saturday they are starting a cam
paign to raise funds for the
“Christmas Ship” which will carry
relief supplies to Europe from
House Determined
To Cut Amount
Of Aid Bill ]
WASHINGTON. (/^ — Congres
sional leaders Saturday held firm
to their plan for sending the Euro
pean winter aid bill to President
Truman by the end of this week
despite a determined campaign in
the House to scale down the ad
ministration’s $597,000,000 request.
A severe cut might threaten de
lay while a compromise is reached
between the Senate and House
j versions. The Senate has approved
! the whole $597,000,000.
House members who contend
that France, Italy and Austria can
be tided over the cold months for
1 millions less than Mr. Truman
i asked prepared to fight the issue
i out on the floor Monday with a se
ries of proposed amendments to
I the bill.
1
i The House schedule calls for fi
! nal action on the Senate-approved
bill Tuesday. It then will go to a
! House-Senate conference oommit
' tee which will iron out differences
between the two measures.
Undersecretary of state Robert
• A. Lovett declared Friday that
‘current strikes in France and Italy
are inspired by Communists and
demonstrate ‘‘an extension of Sov
| iet foreign policy.”
He urged the Senate appropri
! ations committee to provide the
: full sum asked by the administra
tion for stopgap relief abroad, say
ing this country should “not get
! frightened out” of its plan by the
communist maneuvering.
[ With both chambers in recess
over the week-end, Senate Repub
licans concentrated on drafting
their own substitute for'the anti
inflation program which President
; Truman tied in with the European
relief project,
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Rome Workers
Give Ultimatum
To Government
ROME, (TP) — Communist-led
Rome workers Saturday gave the
Italian government three days to
accede to their demands for em
ployment and for punishment of
police who “fired on men, women
and babies" in bloody disorders
Friday night at the capital’s gates.
The other half of the ultimatum ,
—what will happen if the de
mands are not met in the three-day
time limit—was not stated. Im- j
plied, however, was the threat of!
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the four Pacific Northwest states j
and Alaska. Don Adler, now in 1
Seattle, has been named Alaska i
community chairman of the drive.!
PORTLAND, Ore. <;P)—Two re
gional conferences of governors
of western states and the territo
ries of Hawaii and Alaska are due,
to convene here for three daily
sessions beginning Thursday.
Seven state governors and gov
ernor Ernest Gruening of Alaska
are scheduled to attend the dis
cissions of regional economic, em
ployment and development topics
on the agenda.
“Ike” Possible
Candidate For
Nomination
—
(By Jack Bell)
WASHINGTON, </P)—Fresh in-'
dications that Gen. Dwight D. Ei-1
senhower may step out of uniform
in January coincided today with
reports of increased activity in his
behalf as a possible Republican
Presidential candidate.
Although the army chief of staff
has Jjeen vague about his quitting
time, there is evidence that the
previous schedule for him to take .
over the presidency of Columbia
university April 1 has been speed-,
ed up by President Truman’s ac- i
tion in naming Gen. Omar Brad- i
ley as his successor.
Bradley, whose transfer from
i head of the veterans administra-1
i tion back to the army was effec
1 tive last Monday, will be avail
able for his new assignment short
ly after January 1. While Eisen
hower may remain for a time to
advise his successor, friends say
that any extended stay is likely to
become embarrassing for both
j men.
j Although the five-star general
has dodged questions about his
I availability for the nomination,
I politicians have begun to count
him as a major factor in the race
which already has these three
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Situation In
Palestine Is
“Worsening”
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JERUSALEM, (>P> — Violence
erupted anew Saturday in the
tense borderland between Arab
Jaffa and Jewish Tel Aviv. Three
Jews were killed.
A communique from the Jewish
underground army Hagana charg
ed the Palestine police with turn
ing an armored car on the Jews,
killing a small child and wound
ing a woman. It said one member
of Hagana had been killed by Bri
tish troops.
the communique said the situa
tion was “worsening” in the bor
derland area. Fires flared from
three or four small Jewish homes
and observers said “general pan
ic” prevailed in the Hatikvah and
Yacob quarters. . *
Three Jewish dead and two
wounded were brought to a Tel
Aviv hospital from the troubla
area, one of the worst hit spots in
Palestine since the start of the
Arab-Jew riots stemming from re
sentment by the Arabs over the
United Nations decision to parti
tion the Holy Land.
Hagana charged that two police
armored cars had fired into Jewish
homes and added that the police
had been given orders to “shoot to
kill.”
Prior to the violence both the
Arab and Jewish quarters of Jer
usalem were quiet and Arab shops
opened for the first time since the
Arab general strike in protest
against partition.
Last week’s death toll in the en
tire Middle East stood at 110 and
damage mounted into the millions
of dollars.
Wildlife In Alaska
Being Squandered
WASHINGTON, l/Pi — Angry
complaints of a government biolo
gist in Alaska that wildlife re
sources of the Territory are being
squandered are incorporated into
records of an interior department
conservation conference.
The fish and wildlife service bo
ologist, Charles Gillham of Jun
eau, a veteran of Territorial serv
ice, said mountain sheep—partic
ularly the prized Dali variety—
and other game are disappearing
due chiefly to inadequate funds
for law enforcement and preda
tory animal control.
Gillham resigned in 1943 and
moved to Illinois. He returned to
the Alaska post this fall. His let
ter, read at the conference, said
in part:
“I came back to Alaska, back to
rain and 80 degrees below tem
perature, 30 cents a quart milk for
my kids, and $1 a pound ham
burger. I wish I had stayed ‘Out
side.’
“I was shocked at the change in
the wildlife picture since I left.
When I found our Dali sheep
down to possibly 20 per cent of
their former abundance in the Ke
nai district, I could hardly believe
it.
“When I learned that spawning
streams are netted in open viola
tion of the law, and the future
tremendous supply of Alaska fish
threatened that are badly needed
by a hungry world, it didn’t make
sense.
“Honestly, it makes me sick,
Could I bury by head in the
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Western Powers
Insist Russia Take
Less Reparations
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LONDON, — Secretary of
State Marshall and key American
economic advisors decided to press
Soviet foreign minister Molotov
Saturday for an answer on whe
ther Russia will diminish its ten
billion dollars reparations demand
and defer collections 'until Ger
many is back on its feet.
The United States delegation
met privately for two hours in ad
vance of Saturday’s big four coun-1
cil session. Diplomatic informants
said Marshall, with support from
British foreign secretary Ernest
Bevin, takes the position that
there can be no agreement on Ger
many’s economic unity until the
reparations issue is settled, and
may insist as well upon an ac
counting of the amount already
extracted by Russia from eastern
Germany.
Bevin brought the issue out int ■>
the open Friday, reminding Mol >- {
tov that the western powers were
spending millions to feed and sup-1
port western Germany and tartly
that one ally should not expect to
collect reparations from another, j
Behind this maneuvering over
reparations lies the determination
of the western powers to interlace
Germany’s industrial machine, orj
at Jeast the western half, into the
plan for Europe’s economic reha
bilitation.
Truman Calls For
Constant Vigilance
In Development
Of Resources
(By Ernest B. Vaccaro)
EVERGLADES CITY, Fla. I/P)
President Truman called Saturday
for constant vigilance in develop
ing the nation’s resources to pre
vent "raids” by "destructive in
fluences” bent on exploiting "our
common heritage for their private
gain.”
Speaking in this tiny city deep
in the Everglades with federal and
state officials, tourists and Sem
inole Indians in his audience, the
President linked the public’s re
sponsibility for conservation with
its responsibility for "world- order,
1 world peace and world recovery.”
Mr. Truman interrupted a five
day vacation at Key West to make
the major address at ceremonies
! in which Gov. Millard F. Caldwell
I of Florida handed over title to
454,000 acres of Florida everglades
! to interior secretary Krug for es
tablishment of America’s 28th na
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!French Legislature
Approves Drastic
Anti-Strike Law
PARIS. </P)—After a tumultuous
21-hour session, the upper cham
ber of the French legislature ap
proved Premier Robert Schuman 3
1 drastic new anti-strike, anti-sabo
tage law Saturday, 217 to 82.
The bill, w’hich heavily increa;
1 es the punishments for sabotage
1 and sets up penalties for persons
: inciting strikes or keeping them
going, was approved by the na
tional assembly, the lower cham
ber, Thursday morning.
The measure was demanded by
the Schuman cabinet to guarantee
non-strikers the right to work
without interference, to suppress
sabotage and to allow the State to
use force in accomplishing these
purposes.
The French press agency earlier
Saturday quoted Schuman as say
ing that Auriol had already re
fused a demand by the Commun
ist-led General Confederation of
Labor <CGT* that the bill be sent
back to the assembly for revision.
Although the bill was the center
of a hot legislative fight in both
chambers, the government for sev
eral days has been making use of
virtually the same powers given it
by the measure and to all extents
and purposes it is in effect now in
the struggle to break Communist
engineered strikes which have
idled more than 2,000,000 men.
The government announced in
the assembly Friday night that po
lice had been empoweerd to use
firearms in defending themselves
against mobs, if necessary.
The three-weeks-long wave of
strikes, violence and sabotage —
reaching a virtual state of anarchy
at a few points—already has cost
more than a score of lives and un
counted millions of dollars in
property damage and lost produc
tion. Thousands have been injured
or arrested.