SS North Sea
Goes Aground
(Continued from Page One)
where they were to be picked up a
8 a.m. by the Canadian Pacific
steamer Prince Rupert. It was not
known whether the stretcher cases
were sick or injured.
The first SOS was received a.
i j: 1 fj p.m. and said the vessel was
letting easily but her hull was
badly damaged and the No. 2 hoic.
was full of water.
Two passenger vessels three sea
going tubs and two large seiners
answered the vessel’s cal lfor aid.
The Coast Guard cutter Iroquois
at Seattle also was ordered to gc
under way, but the order was re
scinded later, the Coast Guard
said.
The North Sea left Ketchikan at
1 a.m. yetserday morning and was
scheduled to arrive in Seattle Sat
urday.
Built in 1918, she is the forme
Admiral Peoples and has been on
the Alaska run about 12 years. S i
is commanded by Capt. Charles
Graham.
The North Sea went aground at
Marsh Point, about 50 miles south
east of Ketchikan, in May, l‘J3u,
and her H4 passengers and in os
of the crew were taken off by the
Coast Guard cutter Alert. To.
ship was refloated with a bad hole
in her hull and went into Ketchi
wan under her own power.
She was again in the news last
March when a volunteer lifeboat
crew rescued three persons trap
ped six days on an isolated Alaska
beach.
BATAVIA, Java. (/P)—'The In
donesian republic’s army, navy
and air forces have been ordered
to cdase firing at midnight tomor
row, the Netherlands East Indies
government announced today.
The order was hailed by both
the Dutch and the Indonesian re
publicans as a guarantee against
further bloodshed while differ
ences in the interpretation of their
draft settlement are ironed out.
Demand Definition
Of Arms Limitation
Commission
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Cadogan asked Gromyko two
questions:
1. Does he object because in
thought the provisions were super
fluous?
ii the answer to this is affirma
tive, Cadogan said, he would ap
a. to uiomyko to drop his oppo
sition.
2. Does Russia feel that atomic
uestions may fall within the scope
of the proposed arms reduction
commission?
Cadogan also charged that Rus
ia, by delaying until September
t > submit any proposals to the U.
N. military staff committee had
failed to cooperate with the other
four powers in that body. The
staff committee is made up of rep
v entatives of the chiefs of staff
of the five great powers.
Cadogan, calling for action by
he committee, proposed that it be
instructed to submit recommenda
tions to the council on an interna
tional police force by April 30.
The council recessed at 1:20 p.m.
until 2:30 p.m. without an imme
diate response from Gromkyo.
Palestine Issue To
United INat ions
j LONDON, (#*)—Foreign Secre
tary Ernest Bevin said today Bri
tain would take the Palestine issue
to the United Nations.
Bevin made the announcement
to Arab delegates in the final ses
sion of the British-Arab conference
which attempted unsuccessfully tc
solve the Holy Land problem by
agreement.
A communique said Bevin told
the Arabs that, since no proposn’
put forward by Britain had proved
acceptable even as a basis for fur
ther discussion, Britain decided to
refer the whole problem to the
United Nations.
The communique did not say
when the appeal would be made.
WE HAVE
Gold Killed Framed
RAYBAN and
WILLSONITE
SUN and SNOW
GLASSES
also
NEW INDIVIDUAL GIFTS
and
INEXPENSIVE LADIES WATCHES
at
THE NEW REMODELED
POLAR CURIO
SHOP
De Mille Argues
Against “Closed
Shop^ Slavery
• Continued from Page One)
i its campaign against a state elec
tion {Proposal which lie favored,
i “For this adherence to my polit
1 ical right. I was suspended by
AFRA—and, under the provisions
of the union shop, prevented from
j appear ng on the radio program'
wnica 1 had produced for more.
| than e.ght yeais,” De Mille said.
“A worker in a closed shop can
be stripped of his right 10 work il
he dissents from a union majority,
I ^e Mine asserted, adding:
“Tms is not democracy. It is
collestivist absolutism. Tnere is
not an .ota of difference in prin
| c pie between it arm t.ne dictator
j ship we defeated.
“Hitler and Mussolini had their
majorities. Did that maxe them i
right?”
• Declaring that “union power”
was at issue in the last election,
De Mille added:
"The people had had 14 years of
the pohcy which gave unlimited
power to the unions. They were
promised reform. They accepted
! tnat promise and elected a Con
gress pledged to fulfill it.
j “They did not vote to destroy
unions, but to restore equality an i
freedom in labor relations.”
Marshall States
U. S. Must Feed .
Foreign Necnly
WASHINGTON, (£>)—Secretary
of State Marshall said today “im
possible conditions” will be ere
, ated for the army and the govern
ment’s international commitments
unless Congress provides food lo.
needy in occupied enemy coun
I tries.
Marshall told a news conference
) that the occupation of Germany,
Austria, Korea and Japan could
not be expected to continue under
“present procedures” if the people
| were starving.
The conference was held after
Marshall reported to the Senate
foreign relations committee that
“the world is in a very critical
condition.”
At the news conference, the Sec
retary gave his views in response
to a request for comment on bud
get cuts that have been proposed
in Congress. Stressing that he re
ferred solely to war department
appropriations for food in the oc
cup ed areas, Marshall replied al
lowing direct quotations for em
phasis:
“If the army is deprived of ade
quate funds to provide food for
those people who are so sorely in
need, a practically impossible con
dition is created for our troops and
our government’s position in its
international commitments.”
“You can not expect to main
tain occupation of countries like
those if the people are starving.
That would be imnracticable.
"I am not discussing now those
budget cuts proposed for the army
and navy which are purely mili
tary. The secretary of war and the
secretary of navy have discussed
these.
“I want to emphasize from the
standpoint of the state denartment
it’s very immediate concern as it
relates to the occupied countries.”
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HOBO JOE
HOBOJOE
HOBO JOE
Britain Fuel Crisis
May End Soon
(By Tom Williams)
LONDON, <A*)—Prime Minister
Attlee ami his “coal cabinet”
sought today to fix an approxi
mate date for ending the industrial
shutdown in Britain.
The coal cabinet conference was
the first indication for the island’s
49,000,000 browned-out and shiv
ering inhabitants that the end of
the fuel crisis might be in sight.
As drastic electricity restrictions
were maintained into the fifth day,
government sources said the re
turn to normal might be gradual.
A source close to the Prime Minis
ter’s office said an important
statement on the s tuation proba
bly would be i sued tonight.
However, with only slight gains
registered in coal stocks at power
stations the British gas council al
tered the country’s 1,100 gas plants
to be ready to shut off gas sup
plies to non-essential industries.
Government sources said that
purchase of American coal offered
by President Truman was unde
consideration. However, the fact
that delivery would require at
least two weeks was understood to
be a barrier. If the industrial
blackout is to be lifted gradually
Britain’s task would be to step ir:
her domestic production.
B. P. Aicard, secretary general
of the coal organization, said the
President’s “very generous” offer
might prove impractical at the
present time. The President sug
gested yesterday that coal ships
now en route to continental coun
tries be diverted to Briatin.
WASHINGTON, I/P)— President
Truman made public today a mos
rage from Prime Minister Attlee
declining an American offer of aid
in the British coal crisis.
Army Plans
Reduction In Size
WASHINGTON, (>P)—War de
partment plans for a reduction of
almost 200,000 in the size of the
regular army and establishment of
an “M-day” force of 1,750,000
trained troops were disclosed today
by members of the House armed
services committee.
The plan depends on a universal
training program to build up the
national guard and the organized
reserves, committee members
said, so that within one year from
“M-day” the force could be ex
panded to 5,500,000 men.
Just how quickly the reduction
in the regular army will be effect
ed, they said, depends largely on
international developments. Cut
they pointed out that President
Truman’s budget message to Con
gress contemplates maintaining a
standing army of 1,070,000 during
the year beginning July 1.
The entire mobilization-day set
up, committee members said, is
based on a three-point, legislative
program including universal train
ing, merger of the armed forces,
and coordinated scientific research
and development.
Details were divulged following
a meeting at the pentagon yester
day attended by most members of
the committee, secretary of war
Patterson, General Dwight D.
Eisenhower, and other top army
officials.
The 1,750,000 “M-Day” force
would include 375,000 regulars,
600.000 national guardsmen and
195.000 organized reserves, all
ready to take the field on short no
tice. The rest of the 5,500,000 men
expected to be on duty 12 months
later would be draftees and former
service men recalled to duty.
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