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NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman nominated James H. Mc
Dean today for the Nome, Alaska,
postmastership.
WASHINGTON, </P) — A con
tract to build quarters for 400
families at Fort Richardson, Alas
ka, was awarded by the army Fri
day to the Patti-McDonald Con
struction Co., of Kansas City, Mo.
The work will cost $5,908,000.
During the next two months ad
ditional bids will be advertised
for other work in Alaska, the
army said.
The project consists of 50 build
ings, each of which will house
eight apartments. Each apartment
will include a living-dining room,
kitchen, bath, three bedrooms and
basement.
CHICAGO, WP) — Miss Dolores
Terbush, 36, pleaded innocent to a
bad check charge Friday and was
held under $5,000 bonds.
The FBI said it arrested Miss
Terbush in a south side hotel here
as the result of a check passing
spree with a male companion last
year.
John A. Roche, assistant FBI
chief agent here, said her com
panion on a trip through the
United States, Canada, and Alas
ka, is held by federal authorities
in Tacoma, Wash., where he was
just released from prison. Roche
identified him as Harry Sowel, 37.
The woman and Sowel were ar
rested in Fairbanks, Alaska, in
1947 on a similar charge.
ANCHORAGE, (/P> — An An
vhorage couple, tentatively iden
tified as Mr. and Mrs. C. McCan
dless, were brought unconscious
to the Providence Hospital here
yesterday after their light plane
crashed on the shores of Cook In
let near Zyonek.
Their condition was said to be
critical.
The Tenth Rescue Squadron,
which made two trips into the
crash scene to evacuate the in
jured couple, had no details of the
accident. It was believed, how
ever, to have occurred during an
attempted landing i ear the cou
ple’s fishing camp.
FRANKFURT, Germany. (/P) —
Eight officials and employees of
the Polish consulate at Frankfurt
resigned today and asked West
German authorities for refuge
from their communist-dominated
government.
The eight announced their res
ignation through the joint public
information office of the U. S.
Army’s and the U. S. High Com
missioner’s office here. Their
names were not made public im
mediately.
GOLDEN ALE, Wash. (/P) — A
young married couple met sudden
death last mght when their mo
torcycle skh led and crashed into
the fender oi a car.
Both Floyd Schwisow, 22, Pros
ser, Wash., and his wife, Grace,
18, were killed almost instantly.
The car driver, Martin E. John
son, 33, Puyallup, tried to drive
into the ditch to avoid the skid
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Floods Inundate 1
Winnipeg, Canada
W I N MPEG, Manitoba, (JP) — i
Hundreds of blocks of this great
prairie city law beneath a sea of 1
muddy water today as troops and
civilian volunteers worked wear
ily to bolster sagging levees 1
against a new flood threat from |
North Dakota and Minnesota.
Silt-laden water swirled
through many Winnipeg streets,
paralyzing communications and
transport on the outskirts, and
authorities warned that the worst
! is yet to come.
The city may face two flood
! crests as spring torrents pour
down the Red River from the
rain-soaked northern United
I States.
The first crest is expected with
in the next few days.
, Meanwhile, the Canadian army
warned some 1,500 residents in
low lying areas to flee at once the
dikes might break at any time.
More than 4,400 persons already
have been evacuated from their
homes, from hospitals and from
the city jail.
An estimated 4,000 other per
sons have fled from a dozen small
Canadian towns engulfed by flood
waters in the 60-mile stretch from
the U. S. border to Winnipeg.
Brig. R. E. A. Morton, flood re
• lief director, said water 23 feet
1 deep might soon pour over dam
aged sections of the dike protect
ing low-lying residential districts
of suburban Norwood and East
| Kiiuonan.
“The danger is real,” he said.
“Everything is continuing to be
done to prevent a calamity.”
More than 2,000 Winnipeg
homes already have been aban
1 doned to the flood and damage es
| timates range into millions of dol
lars.
The river rose two inches yes-1
terday to a level of 27.3 feet—
more than nine feet above flood
stage. Authorities said they ex
pected the first crest might add
four more feet.
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Farley Forecasts
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Pleasant Picture
NEW YORK, (TP) — James A.
Farley says operation of the Fed
eral Government will cost six tril
lion (6,000 billion) dollars for the
year 2,000 if national budgets in
crease in proportion to the last 50
years.
The former Democratic Nation
al Chairman and Postmaster Gen
eral also predicted “20,000,000
men and women” would be on the
federal payroll.
The present national budget is
40 billion dollars. There are cur
rently about two million people on
the federal payroll.
Farley told the 30th annual con
ference of the National Associa
tion of Mutual Savings Banks Fri
day night:
“If this increase isn’t checked,
we shall find ourselves living un
der a form of government which
is utterly different from that in
which we were born and under
which our forefathers built a
great country.”
Truman Asks
Senate To Pass
Statehood Bills
WASHINGTON, (TP) — Saying
ing “These are troubled times,”
President Truman urged the Sen
ate Saturday to “strengthen the
security of our nation” by grant
ing Statehood to Alaska and Ha
waii.
“I know of few better ways in
which we can demonstrate to the
world our deep faith in democ
racy and the principle of self gov
ernment,” the President added.
Mr. Truman made this plea in
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Seven Killed In
States’ Tornadoes
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(By The Associated Press'
An early May storm, powered
by tornadic winds, slashed a path
of destruction across the midwest
Friday. Seven persons were kill
ed and scores injured.
Property damage aci'oss a nine
, state area was expected to mount
| into the millions of dollars.
The violent winds — which
reached gusts of 100 miles an hour
in some areas—battered the wea
ther-weary north central States
all day and into the night. Torna
does struck at two areas in Min
nesota.
There was snow, rain hail and
blinding dust. Flood waters
plagued some sections. A hugh
j low pressure area extended over
| the entire North Central part of
the nation.
There was widespread damage
to homes, business buildings, au
tomobiles, power lines, poles and
signs. Livestock losses were heavy
in some states.
Three persons lost their lives in
the storm which swept over Iowa.
Two were killed in Wisconsin and
one each in Nebraska and Texas.
Two traffic deaths in Illinois were
attributed to the storm.
HIAWATHA, Kas. (&)—Harry
Zimmerman was sleeping on the
porch at his farm home when a
tornado roared past early Friday.
After dusting himself off Zim
merman told what happened. He
said the wind crumpled the porch,
whisked the mattress away and
left him lying on the bed springs.
He was not hurt.
2nd Division to Get
Three New Military
Installations
Announcement has been receiv
ed that the U. S. Engineers are is
suing invitations for bids for mil
itary construction in Second Divi
sion at Cape Romansof, Alaska;
Cape Prince of Wales and at Cape
Lisbourne.
The new installations will in
clude bachelor officers quarters,
non-commissioned officers quar
ters, airmen's quarters, central
heating plant, warehouses and
cold storage, dispensary as well as
mess halls, recreation buildings
and warm storage for vehicles.
Fire Razes Part Of
Rimouski, Quebec
RIMOUSKI, Que. </P)—Stunned
and weary residents of Rimouski
poked through blackened ruins to
day and gloomily predicted it
would take 25 years to recover
from the economic blow of a 30
hour fire than caused $20,000,000
damage and left 2,500 persons
homeless.
By some miracle there were no
deaths from the weekend fire in
this industrial city of 15,000 on
the south shore of the St. Law
rence 180 miles northeast of Que
bec.
But the flames swept through
312 homes and more than a score
of buildings large and small.
These included the four-story St.
Joseph Hospital, the Sisters of
Charity orphanage, the Rimouski
Seminary, the Technical School,
Rimouski Hospital, two hotels and
a motion picture theater.
It added up to one of the most
disastrous fires in Canadian his
I tory. The western section of the
city was virtually wiped out.
The fire started Saturday night,
j probably when a pcwer line snap
j ped in a heavy wind and set fire
to Price Brothers big lumber
mills. It raced through the mills
and spread with almost unbeliev
able speed, whipped by winds
that reached 80 miles an hour.
The flames cut through the
western section of the city, de
stroying one building after an
other. Throughout Saturday night
and all day Sunday firefighters
battled the flames. Amidst the
smoke and showering cinders
thousands of dazed residents load
ed belongings on vehicles and
fled.
j It was not until 20 minutes past
! Sunday midnight that Maj. Gen.
R. O. G. Morton, officer command
ing the Quebec command, could
announce the fire was. under con
trol.
A thin blanket of snow fell on
the still smoking ruins this morn
ing.
Red Cross emergency headquar
ters treated many persons for;
wounds and minor injuries.
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Ask Browder and
Field Be Cited
For Contempt
WASHINGTON, OP) —Counsel
for Senate communist investigat
ors Saturday recommended that
Earl Browder and Frederick Van- j
derbift Field be cited for con
tempt of Congress.
Edward P. Morgan, attorney for
a Senate foreign relations sub
committee, told reporters he has '
drafted a citation resolution for
consideration by the full foreign
relations committee.
“I am recommending that both
men be cited for contempt,” Mor
gan added.
Browder, former chief of the
American communist party, and
Field, wealthy New Yorker, reftis- j
ed to answer many questions when I
they testified before the sub-corn- |
mittee recently.
News of l lie W or Id
At A Glance —
Saturday, May 6, 19S0
*By The Associated Press)
Vital talks of Western foreign
ministers in London next week
will be spurred by an American
prediction Russia in four years will
be equipped with sufficient atomic
and other military weapons to
overpower the United States with
out help.
The prediction was attributed
to the United States state and de
fense departments.
The London meeting will bring
together Secretary of State Dean
Acheson, Foreign Secretary Er
nest Bevin of Britain and Foreign
Minister Robert Schuman of
France. Acheson will talk with
Schuman in Paris just prior to
the London conference.
Washington informants said
Acheson’s theme in the talks will
be that there is no imminent dan
; ger of war so long as the West
, continues to grow stronger, but
1 there is urgent need for action
i now to insure the necessary
I strength by 1954.
Acheson is expected to urge an
alignment of the military resourc
es of the whole North Atlantic
area to meet the Russian time
table. His associates said the sec
retary of state is convinced the
West still has the power of event
ual cold war victory in its hands,
Chinese communist artill e r y
started to soften up the defenses
I of Nationalist-held Chushan Is
land yesterday. The Nationalists
say Chushan is next on the Reds’
time table of conquest.
In Capetown, South Africa’s
[ federal government asked parlia
ment far power to outlaw com
munism and to deal with subver
sives. Communist leaders were
blamed for May Day disturbances
of natives near Johannesburg
when 18 persons were killed by
police.
In Moscow, the communist
newspaper Pravda opened up an
other cold war barrage against
the West. The newspaper charged
American authorities with encour
aging the “plundering” of West
Berlin scrap metals. It said sealed
military trains are being used for
wide-scale “smuggling” of mate
rials from West Berlin. The East
German communist government
yesterday was reported to have
asked Soviet authorities for per
mission to inspect western mili
tary trains passing throubh the
Soviet zone.
Monday. May 8, 1950
U. S. Secretary of State Dean
Acheson talked to French foreign
minister Robert Schuman in Paris
today in the first of his prepara
tory cold war talks before the Big
Three conference in Lo n d o n
Thursday. *
Acheson’s meeting with Schu
man was said to have dealt pri
marily with France's role in In
dochina. Diplomatic informants
sai he will ask for guarantees that
the French-controlled regime of
former Emperor Bao Dai be given
genuine independence as a condi
tion for speedy American aid in
fighting off the Moscow-recogniz
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