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NEWS IN BRIEF
KARACHI, Pakistan, (/I*;—Ezzat
Mohammad, 25, was fined two ru
pees '60 cents) Saturday for kiss
ing his girl friend in public. He
pleaded guilty. Under Pakistan
law, it is against the law to kiss
even one’s wife in public.
CALGARY, Alta. (JP) — Boyd
Johnson probably is sorry he
brought the matter up at all.
Johnson filed claim in court for
ownership, under squatters’rights,
of the house of Olaf Olsen, which
he said he had occupied rent-free
since August, 1939. He said Olson
had disappeared, but the court lo
cated him. Olsen filed counter
claim Friday for 128 months’ back
rent.
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WASHINGTON, (JP) — John L.
Lewis Saturday agreed to bargain
separately with southern coal pro
ducers.
The president of the United
Mine Workers, in a letter to Jo
seph E. Moody of the Southern
Coal Producers association, sug
^ gested that the negotiations begin
Monday, June 6, at Bluefield, W.
Va.
The coal contract expires June
30, in other producing areas as
well as in the south.
SAN FRANCISCO, (TP) — Her
bert Hoover will get new recogni
tion of his humanitarian efforts
Wednesday.
Variety Clubs International an
nounced the former President
would be awarded in absentia
$1,000, a scroll and a silver plaque
hailing him as the 1948 winner of
the organization's humanitarian
award.
BERLIN, (/P) —Airlift officials
said the 8,789.4 tons of supplies
carried in by 961 American and
British flights today brought the
total flown to this city since the
beginning of the Soviet blockade
10 months ago to 1,540,969.4 tons.
WASHINGTON. (/P)—President
Truman has sent to the Senate
these postmaster nominations for
Alaska: Ruth L. Nelson, Mount
Edgecumbe, Alaska; Mary M.
Hayes. Whittier, Alaska.
LOS ANGELES. (/P)—A slight
earth tremor was felt throughout
a wide area of southern California
early today. There was no damage
reported. The shock began around
3:29 a.m. (PST), and lasted but a
few seconds. In suburban South
Gate, police officer Hans Meyer
a said the tremor shook walls and
rattled pictures and windows.
SEATTLE, (/P) — Milk was a
penny a quart cheaper here today.
Standard milk sold for 17 and 18
cents a quart, premium quality for
20 and 21. Gottlieb Ribary, assist
ant manager of Alpine Dairy, said
the cent will be taken from the
price paid the farmer.
WASHINGTON, (£>)—'The Sen
ate judiciary committee today ap
^ proved these nominations by Pres
ident Truman:
Joseph Earl Cooper to be U. S.
attorney for the Third Division of
New Strikes Show
Labor Unrest
(By The Associated Press*
About 6,500 Philco corporation
workers in the Philadelphia area
struck today for higher wages.
About 7,000 Singer Sewing Ma
chine workers went on strike at
Elizabeth. N. J.
Other strikes crippled public
transporation in Atlanta; kept
2,600 workers idle in four New1
Jersey industries; and shut down
the Bendix Aviation corporation
products plant at South Bend, Ind.,
for the 13th day.
In the soft coal industry, under
the Taft-Hartley act, this was the
day for John L. Lewis to give 60
: days notice if he intends to end
his united mine workers contract.
The Philadelphia Philco work
ers, through the CIO united elec
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Four-Power Parley
Seems Certain
!
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French Foreign Robert Schuman
said today that it “seems more and
more probably” that a four-power
foreign ministers’ conference on
Germany will be held this spring.
lie predicted the date will be de
termined later this week during
four-power conversations at New
York.
<This was the first indication
that France and Britain-might join
directly in the talks which have
been held in New York between
Dr. Philip U. S. ambassador at
large, and Jakob Malik. Soviet
deputy foreign minister).
Schuman told a news confer
ence he was “optimistic enough”
that a four-power foreign minis
ters’ meeting would be held.
The French government wel
comes a suggestion to hold the
conference in Paris made by “an
other power,” he said.
BOXING MATCHES SATURDAY
MADE EXCELLENT SHOW
The boxing matches staged Sat
i urday night in the Nome high
school gymnasium were acclaimed
' an excellent show.
I The ten bouts were all first rate
! in sportsmanship and clean ama
jteur boxing. There were no knock
outs.
The best exhibition of the eve
ning performance went to the
light-heavyweight Paul Ellis, who
outpointed A1 Vallejos.
Other bouts went as follows:
[ Cpl. Bobeda over Danny Mc
Laughlin, Bert Bertram over Car
rol O’Bryant, Virgil Fagard over
Bill Daglev, Shirley Mott over
Bill Devine, Myia Jimma over
Billy Lynn, Bob Bridges over
jNelse Geary, Curley Miller over
Kenny Powell, Ralph Ober over
Max Ellis, and Sullivan over
Smith.
The Walrus Club, which spon
sored the event, is planning more j
of the same kind of entertainment!
for the near future.
Alaska.
Paul C. Herring to be U. S. Mar
shal for the Third Division of
Alaska.
Committee Votes j
For Hydro-Electric
Plants For Alaska |
—
<(.P) Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON (/P)—'The House
t e r r i tories sub-committee ap
proved Saturday a bill to author
ize construction of hydro-electric
power plants in Alaska.
The bill would permit the inte-:
rior department to build and oper- j
ate any plant which would pay for
itself from power revenues.
No work could be undertaken,
however, until Congress appropri
ated the money for each specific
project.
William E. Warne, assistant sec
retary of the interior, spoke of a
$200,000,000 tentative progr a m
earlier in the week in testifying
; for the bill. At that time, Gover
nor Ernest Gruening of Alaska
1 said Russia was showing great ac
tivity in development of Siberia
and that Alaska should be strong
ly defended. He said armed forces
! in the Territory would need addi
1 tional electricity.
j The bill was offered by Dele
gate Batrlett of Alaska. It is in
, tended to aid in development of
industry and agriculture in the
Territory. It would authorize con
I tinuing studies of further possibil
' ities for developing Alaska’s natu
ral resources.
i
May-Day Shows
Split In Ranks
Of Labor
—
•By The Associated Press)
May Day 1949 — 60th anniver
sary of a day proclaimed to dem
onstrate unity among the world’s
workers—showed instead the split
between the communist and non
communist world.
The Soviet Union, which has
adopted the international observ
ance as its great national holiday,
yesterday put on a spectacular dis
play of military might in Mos
cow’s Red Square.
Prime minister Josef Stalin,
with members of the politburo,
took the salute. Cheering thou
sands passed in review while mil
itary aircraft, including a strong
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Plans For First
Unit of Nat’l Guard
Completed
FORT RICHARDSON, Alaska—
Plans for the first unit of the Alas
ka National Guard, which will be
Headquarters and Headquarters
Detachment at Juneau, are com
pleted and its early organization is
expected, according to Lt. Col. J.
D. Alexander, Officer in Charge
of National Guard affairs in Alas
ka.
Target date for starting the de
tachment is May 15, at which time
Maj. Gen. Stanley L. Scott, com*
manding U. S. army, Alaska, has
been asked to furnish a board to
examine prospective officers of the
unit as well as an officer to con
duct the inspection required be
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Escape Railway
Ordered Slopped
SHANGHAI (Censored), UP) —
Traffic was reported suspended
today on the last railway escape
from communist-menaced Shang
hai to South China.
Inside the city, the chaotic
money market crashed at mid-day,
after garrison headquarters out
lawed free trading in prewar sil
ver dollars on threat of death—ob
viously a measure of great desper
ation.
The Red radio last night said
eight Chinese government armies i
were “wiped out” and parts of
four other armies “routed” in the
Nanking - Shanghai - Hangchow |
area. (A Chinese army is usually 1
120,000 men.) The Red broadcast’s
; claim of a “great victory" was not
confirmed by government sources.
The semi-official Chinese cen
tral news agency said rail service
had been suspended between
Hangchow and Manchang. Hang
J chow is a seaport, resort city and
communications center 100 air
| miles southwest of Shanghai.
Manchang, capital of Kiangsi
province, is about 280 miles far
ther southwest—almost midway
between Shanghai and Canton,
provisional nationalist capital on
| the south coast.
iThis was the first indication
that the communist offensive i
might have penerated so deeply
j into South China. Previous dis
patches have indicated the main
Red thrust was aimed at Hang
chow. ,
(Central news, however, did not
say what caused suspension of rail
traffic between Hangchow and
Nanchang or where Red troops—
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Will Assess Natives
With Property Fax
ANCHORAGE, (A5)—Unless the.
courts rule otherwise, Alaska na- j
tives are going to be assessed un-,
der the new property tax program
the same as any other property ;
holders.
This was disclosed here Satur
day by Fred P. Hanford of Wran
gel, chairman of joint meetings of
the Territorial board of assessors
who met here last week.
Hanford said the legal status on
native property was not known,
and that court action would be
necessary to determine whether
imposition of taxes on it would be
lawful.
“Many natives hold restricted
titles to their property and can
not sell without permission of the
department of interior,” he said.
"In Wrangell there are more than
70 such pieces of property. Peters
burg and Kodiak have much the
same problem. Much other native
property has the same restrictive1
title.”
Hanford said assessors felt that
most natives would be ready and !
willing to pay taxes for govern- J
mental services including school- j
ing, which they enjoy.
“All we can do is to assess the
property like all other property
and let the matter go to court if
and when a property owner con
tests the legality,” he concluded.
International News
At A Glance —
(By The Associated Press*
Saturday, April 30, 1949
Commmunists in China moved
inexorably towards Hangchow to
day while their high command
claimed seven nationalist govern
ment armies were trapped and be
ing annihilated.
The claim was broadcast by the
communist radio. If true, it would
mean that one third of the nation
alist force assigned to defend the
Vital triangle—Nanking-Shanghai
Hangchow—has been wiped out.
There were indications that
Hangchow, which was to have
been the anchor of nationalist de
fense, would offer only weak re
sistance to the Red armies rolling
southward.
The talks to end the Russian
blockade of Berlin and the west
erncounter-blockade are proceed
ing satisfactorily.
U. S. ambassador at large Phil
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Senator Asks CAB
To Hold Up
Regulatory Orders
O J
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Senator
McCarran 'D.-Nev.) Saturday
asked the civilian aeronautics
board to defer action on a CAB
order designed to tighten restric
tions on the operation of non
scheduled air lines.
The CAB order is slated to go
into effect May 20. Under it, the
non-scheduled lines would be per
mitted to continue operations. The
order would cancel present priv
ileges of the non-scheduled lines.
In a letter to Joseph J. O’Con
nell, Jr., the CAB chairman, Mc
Carran said:
“My study of the (proposed
CAB* regulations leads me to be
lieve that many of the large irreg
ular carriers which have rendered
substantial services in air trans
portation will not survive the reg
ulation ...”
The Senate commerce commit
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Chinese Reds
Demand Withdraw
al Of Foreign Ships
SAN FRANCISCO, (TP) — The
Chinese communists Saturday de
manded that Britain, the United
States and France “quickly” with
drawn their armed forces, war
ships and military aircraft from
China.
At the same time, they prom
ised “to protect all foreign nation
als in China who engage in nor
mal vocations” and said they “are
willing to consider the establish
ment of diplomatic relations with
foreign countries.”
The statements were made by
Gen. Li Tao, spokesman for the
headquarters of the Peoples Lib
eration Army (Communist* of
China, in a Peiping radio broad
cast heard in San Francisco by
the Associated Press.