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NEWS IN BRIEF
CARLSBAD, N. M., (A*)—Dud
ley Ussery, foreman of the 9-K
ranch just across the Texas line
from Carlsbad, went shopping for
a powerful deodorant today.
Ussery smelled skunk at the
ranchhouse, and went searching |
outside and underneath the dwell
ing. As the scent grew stronger he
moved inside. Finally he peered
into a clothes closet.
That was when he found the
skunk. And that was when the
skunk found Ussery.
The National League ball game,
St. Louis at Chicago was postponed
yesterday on account of rain.
TOKYO, (A*) — Radio-telegraph
service via United tSates circuits
has been expanded to, include mes
sages between Japan and Alaska,
Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands,
the Panama Canal Zone, Midway
and Guam, the civil communica
tions section of Allied headquar
ters announced yesterday.
TOKYO, </P)—Gen. George C.
Kenney, commander of U. S. stra
tegic air forces, left by plane to
day for Alaska on the last leg of
an around-the-world inspection of
training activities of his global
heavy bombardment groups.
The Kenney party planned a
brief stop in Alaska. Kenney also
may halt at Seattle en -route to
Andrews Field, Md., his head
quarters.
BROOKLINE, Mass. (TP)—Miss
Margaret Ford of Brookline, Bos
ton Herald feature writer, and
John Kieran, author and “Infor
mation Please” expert, were mar
ried today in St. Aidan’s Catholic
church.
The ceremony was performed
by the bride’s brother, the' Rev.
John C. Ford, S.J.
Miss Anne Ford, the bride’s sis
ter, and John Kieran, Jr., a Har
vard law school student, were the
only attendants.
Mrs. Kieran is the daughter of
Mrs. Joanna Cuthbert Ford and [
the late Michael J. Ford.
The couple will live in New I
York. Kieran’s first wife died five I
years ago. ,
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NANKING. (JP) — The cost qf
getting married hit a new low in
China today. Under a new law,
the ceremony costs only 800 Chi
nese dollars (two cents in Ameri
can money at the open exchange
rate).
SANTA FE, N. M. f/P) — The
New Mexico state legislature has
taken the stand that when a “ten
derfoot” spots a deer, bear, or
other big game he is not responsi
ble for his actions—least of all for
where he shoots.
The “Sunshine State” solons
took this stand in killing a mea
sure which would have made hun
ters liable for damages resulting
from stray shots.
Vearle Payne, of Lordsburg, N.
M., speaker of the House; sum
med up the majority opinion when
'he said:
“No legislature can ever pass
an act to prevent anyone from get
ting buck fever.”
Fort Knox Gold
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Proposal “Doesn't
Make Sense'* 1
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LONDON, UP) — An authorita- j
tive American source said yester-1
day that foreign secretary Ernest!
Bevin’s proposal for redistribution1
of the Fort Knox gold was, in the
British view, to b^an integral part
of the Marshall plan for aiding
European economic recovery.
The informant said Bevin had
made the suggestion informally in
an exchange with U. S. ambassa- j
dor Lewis W. Douglas before an
nouncing it publicly Wednesday at
the trade union congress in South
port.
In the course of a 70-minute
talk yesterday with American
Congressmen who are investigat
ing economic conditions in Britain,
and western Europe, the foreign
secretary gave several more de
tails of his proposal, this source
added.
Bevin’s elucidation of his pro
posal for redistributing U. S. gold
stocks came in answer to a ques
tion from one of the Congressmen
and the informant said the foreign'
secretary made these points:
His proposal had the backing of
the British government.
He believed it was unhealthy
and unsound economics, out of
harmony with the principles of
multilateral trade which the
United States herself was urging,
for one country to hold most of the
world’s gold stocks and not use
them.
There would be no lasting set
tlement of Europe’s economic dif-1
ficulties if continental recovery j
was to depend on never-ending U.!
S. loans.
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Gold could become the basis of
world currency systems and every
nation should have access to it.
The informant said Bevin’s
elucidation of his proposal was re
ceived “somewhat skeptically” by
the U. S. Congressmen. A member
of the delegation said “It just does
not make sense.”
British Trades
✓
Union Congress
Commends Bevin
—
SOUTHPORT, Eng. f/P) — The1
British trades union congress
adopted a resolution yesterday
commending the services of for
eign secretary Ernest Bevin, but
rejected overwhelmingly an
amendment asking the govern
ment to establish mutually bene
ficial trade relations with Russia
and “to resist pressure of dollar
diplomacy.”
The tribute to Bevin, expressed
by a show of hands, was regarded
as especially significant in view of
recent charges by some members
of the Labor Party that he was
swinging his policy too sharply to
the right.
It reflected, too, the generally
favorable reception given in this
country to his speech Friday call
ing for an Empire customs union
and a redistribution of American
gold reserves.
The resolution urged the foreign
secretary to continue his efforts
New Security Pact
Pattern For United >
Nations To Follow
WASHINGTON, (/?)—Secretary
of State Marshall today held forth
the new Inter-American security
pact as the outstanding postwar
example of how nations can join
together to promote world -peace.
Marshall who will present the
treaty to the United Nations as
sembly two weeks hence, and
Senator Vandenberg tR.-Mich.>,
hailed it in a radio broadcast last:
night as a pattern for the U. N. to
follow in its quest for world wide
security.
Throughout the talks of both
men ran an implied criticism of
Russia and the Soviet attitude
toward international cooperation.
Marshall declared that the re
sults of the conference at Petrop
olis, Brazil, in which the treaty
was drafted and signed “demon
strated. I think beyond doubt, that
where nations are sincerely desir
ous of promoting the peace and
well-being of the world it can be
done.”
He added that “it can be done
without frustrating delays and
without much of the confusing and
disturbing propaganda that has at
tended our efforts of the past two
years.”
The secretary, who earlier this
year spent eight futile weeks in
Moscow trying to negotiate agree
ments on the future of Germany
with Russia, Britain and France,
returned Wednesday from the Pe
tropolis meeting where the 19
American governments present
drew up the new security treaty
in three weeks.
China Orders
Sweeping “Thrift”
Regulations ,
NANKING, </P) — The govern-'
ment today promulgated sweeping
“thrift” regulations which will af
fect nearly every strata of life,
with controls ranging from opera
tion of automobiles to the size of
newspapers and banquets.
Sec retary-general Kan Nai
Kuang of the executive Yuan said
the regulations, effective tomor
row, have a two-fold purpose: to
economize on available domestic
materials and to save dwindling
foreign exchange.
The new “austerity” program.
Kan said, could be regarded as a
revival of Madame Chiang Kai
Shek’s “new life movement.” It
is so broad that it includes social
castigation for persons who, in
Kan’s words “arrive late at social
functions, leave early, or stay
away without prior notification to
the host.”
Among the more important pro
visions: reductions in the numbei*
of government servants, nation
wide gasoline rationing, eventual
withdrawal of drivers’ licenses to
all except essential operators,
sharp restrictions on the sizes of
newspapers and periodicals.
to unify and solidify the democra
tic countries of Europe so that
their economic structure could be
rebuilt.
Triim:m IM<‘d<»<>s
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United Nations
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RIO DE JANEIRO, (/P>—Presi- |
dent Truman today pledged anew
the full backing of the United
States to the United Nations and
expressed confidence the problems
of peace can be solved “with mu
tual good will and forbearance.”
Speaking before a join session j
of the Brazilian Congress in Tira
dentes palace, Mr. Truman also;
hailed as “splendid” the achieve
ment of the recent Inter-American !
conference in reaching agreeme it
on defense of the western hemi
sphere.
Brazil and the United States, he
said, must continue to cooperate!
with other countries of the hemi
sphere “in the development of a
strong and concerted force for the
good of mankind.”
Mr, Truman noted that the two
nations have’ been “spared the
i wanton destruction and disloca
tion” of war. He said he is certain
: they “will be faithful to the task
] of opening the lives and liberty
of so many millions of disillu
sioned and discouraged people.”
The address was Mr. Truman's
second on Brazilian soil this week
In his first, he told the Inter-,
American conference Tuesday that
the United States is determined to j
remain strong and fulfill its obli
gations to the U. N. He also ex-!
pressed belief then that postwar•
disputes can be settled without |
; armed conflict.
Continuing on that theme in his j
| address to the Brazilian Congress,'
Mr. Truman termed the defense
agreement as an illustration to the
world that “right-thinking men
can submerge their individual pre
judices” for the benefit of the
world.
KING-SMITH NUPTIALS
PERFORMED WEDNESDAY
Austin J. King and May Evelyn
Smith were united in matrimony
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Wednesday at the Federated |
Church by Rev. Murlin Day. Mr. j
King is employed by the C.A.A. j
and Miss Smith recently arrived'
from Texas.
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Coal Strike
Spreading In
Great Britain
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LONDON, (/P) — Some 60,000
Yorkshire coal miners shunned
the pits today, bringing the total
of struck collieries to 54 as union
officials voiced fears that the
three-week-old walkout m i g h t j
spread to the vital Kent coal fields
in southeast England.
Arthur Hotner, secretary gen-.
eral of the national union of minej
workers, hurriedly left a trades
union conference at Southport last
night and hastened to London for
an emergency conference with
fuel minister Emanuel Shinwell
and national coal board officials
seeking to end the Walkout.
Yorkshire district leaders quit
the Southport conference to visit
the strike scene. The national
union has disapproved the strike.
II. S. Government
Puts Some ‘Tiacei**
Atoms < )n Sale
(By Alton L. Blakeslee)
«(/?') Science Reporter*
ST. LOUIS, f/P) — The United
States yesterday started a new
program of sharing some "tracer”
atoms from atomic ovens with for
eign countries—a move called by
scientists as promising quicker
conquests over cancer and other
diseases.
There were also immediate sug
gestions that the action might
serve as a trail-blazer to smooth
achievement of international con
trol over the atom bomb and atom
ic energy.
President Truman announced
the decision in a message last
night to scientists of 44 nations at
the fourth international cancer re
search congress. He asserted it
would “help reduce loss of life
and human suffering from diseases
throughout the world.”
None of the 20 radioactive ele
ments offered for sale to foreign
countries can be applied to devel
oping atomic energy for military
or industrial uses, the atomic en
ergy commission said. Sales will
not include either plutonium or
uranium, or give the slightest clues
to any atom bomb secrets. Sup
plies at the outset will be limited.
Foreign users will be required
to report for the benefit of every
one their findings on the tracer re
searches, to make progress re
ports semi-annually to the AEC,
and to open their laboratories to
qualified visiting scientists of any
nationality. Foreign governments
must see to it that the tracers are
used ony for the ' requested pur
poses.
Dr. C. P. Rhoads, director of
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Veterans Board Is
Defendant In Suit
Territorial Attorney Ralph J.
Rivers filed a suit last Saturday in
U. S. District Court in Juneau
against the Alaska World War II
Veterans Board asking for a writ
of mandamus. The complaint was
signed by Territorial Treasurer
Oscar Olson and named as defend
ants Norman Haley, executive of
ficer of the board and the board
members, Robert E. Ellis, John S.
Hellenthal, John M. Cross. L. Em
bert Demmert and Paul Solka, Jr.
The suit, which was announced
Saturday by the Territorial Board
of Administration, asks that the
Veterans Board return $350,000 to
the Territorial Treasury, which
sum was appropriated to the Vet
erans by the legislature in order to
begin operations. The money was
to be repaid within a specified pe
riod or when the amount of money
collected through the veterans tax
reaches a certain amount.
Haley said that he would refrain
from comment on the action until
he had conferred with members of
the veterans board and with the
board’s attorney, H. L. Faulkner.
The veterans board, previously,
had rejected a plea from the board
of administration voluntarily to
surrender the money.