NEWS IN BRIEF
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Henrik were reported missing uf- i
ter the ship struck a mine in the!
^5°und between Denmark and I
Sweden today. Fifteen crewmen,
were picked up by a Swedish res
cue craft.
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Francis.
P. Matthews of Omaha, Neb., was J
sworn in today as secretary of the
army.
9 In the same ceremony Gordon I
Gray of Winston-Salem, N. C., j
took the oath as undersecretary
of the army and Dan A. Kimball
of Los Angeles, Calif., was in
ducted as undersecretary of the
navy.
SEATTLE, (iP)—Theft of $1,100
in cash and an $800 bank draft
.from his clothing was reported to!
^police Tuesday by Roy R. Kelly, j
45, an Alaskan dredge painter.
Kelly told patrolmen G. B.'
Packard and C. K. Wilson that he
met a young woman in a Pike St.
tavern Monday night. He discov
ered the theft when he awoke
this morning in a hotel room on
7th Ave.
CHICAGO, (/P)—Mrs. Richarda
MOrrow-Tait, British housewife,
arrived here yesterday from Min
neapolis on her leisurely round
the-world flight. With her was
navigator Jack Ellis, farmer RAF
flier.
Airport officials said the British
CIO Suspends
URW Head
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initely yesterday as president of
the CIO’s 1 HO,000-member united
rubber workers union.
Action to remove him from of
lice was taken by the 13 other
members of the union’s general
executive board during a month
long trial here.
He was cited for five counts of
malfeasance in office.
The deposed president may up-1
peal the executive board decision
at the union’s next convention in
Toronto in September.
Contacted at Chicago, Buck
master said he hasn’t yet received
official confirmation of the order!
but declared “the whole trial was ,
conducted in an unfair manner" j
and “the decision was not based '
on the facts or union law.”
Marion Risline. an executive
secretary of the Women’s Division
of the Methodist Church with of
fices in New York is visiting here
for a few days looking over the
property and other interests of
that organization.
This is not her first visit through
the Territory as she has been here
several times before in the same
capacity.
aviatrix planned to take off today.
Her destination was not disclosed.
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Congress Won’t Act
On Nationalized
Health Program
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WASHINGTON. (/P) — Senate1
Democratic leader Lucas said af
ter a White House conference yes
terday it will be impossible for j
Congress to act on President Tru
man’s national health program at
this session.
As for any part of the civil
rights program, Lucas told re
porters, “I just don’t know.”
At the same time Lucas said he
thinks President Truman is “def
initely satisfied” with the prog
ress being made on the legislative
program he submitted to Congress ,
in January.
“We are going to have a pretty ;
good record by the time of ad
journment,” he s-aid.
Lucas said there is a possibility >
of adjournment by July 31.
Lucas had been to the White '
House for the regular weekly con-!
ference that President Truman ;
has with Democratic Congrcssion- >
al leaders. i
House speaker Rayburn, who
came out with him, agreed that
Congress possibly can quit by the
end of July.
Both asserted, however, that if
the legislators are not finished
with “must” measures by then,
“we’ll go right on into August.”
Lucas labeled as the three
“must” pieces of major legisla
tion:
1. Extension of the reciprocal
trade program.
2. Repeal of this Taft-Hartley
act.
3. Approval of the North Atlan
tic Pact.
Unified Military
Buying Would
Save Huge Sums
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heads of the three branches be
called assistant secretaries of de
fense. instead of secretaries of the
army, navy and air force.
‘ The only way to reduce their
authority is to reduce their titles,”
he observed.
The bill would set up new bud
geting systems which Johnson es
timated might help save as much
as $1,500,000,000 in a single year.
With military spending estimated
at $16,000,000,000 in the 12 months
starting July 1, Tydings felt this
was a good talking point.
The secretary of defense would
get more power under the bill to
control the spending of the three
services. The measure also would
set up a chairman for the joint
chiefs of staff who could take any
i disputed issue to the secretary of
defense.
Tydings told the Senate Mon
day there is nothing in the bill
ch-anging the identity of any of
the three services.
Unemployment Up
In West Germany
FRANKFURT, Germany, (/P)—
Unemployment in the American
and British zones of Germany has
reached a post-war peak, with
1.200.000 jobless.
Anton Storch, labor director of
Bizonia, told the bizonal economic
parliament yesterday that 730,000
lost their jobs since June last year,
date of West Germany’s drastic
currency reform.
Among the unemployed are
221.000 farm and agricultural
workers and 92,000 construction
workers.
National Guard
Well Received In
Second Division
Col. M. Marston, of the National
Guard has returned from his trip
to the north in the interest of or
ganizing several units for the
Guard and states that he has met
with an enthusiastic response in
all fourteen villages he contacted.
Col. J. D. Alexander, head of
National Guard in the Territory,
accompanied by Lt. T. Owen and
Sgt. Woodrow Farrington, arrived
yesterday to complete the plans
for the establishing of the Guard.
Two sites are under considera
tion, first the lots across the
street from the Federal Build'ng,
next to the M. and M. Bank and
also lots near the Nome Terri
torial School. However, until the
building is erected the use of the
Nome Territorial School has been
obtained through the co-operation
of Superintendent W. Angel!,
where the units will be activated
in a few weeks.
According to Col. Alexander
the National Guard contemplate
battalion headquarters; a head
quarters deatchment and a rif’e
platoon here. He states that be
fore long it is hoped to have a
thousand men in various units
from Egagik to Pt. Barrow, who
will be trained to act intelligently
on all phases oi the work of the
guard.
Col. Alexander states that a
mass meeting is planned at the
Territorial School for next Wed
nesday evening where all interest
ed persons arc welcome and urged
to attend even if they do not
wish to participate. He also stated
that Lt. Tom Owens and Sgt.
Woodrow Farrington will be sta
tioned here permanently as in
structor and assistant instructor.
All persons who were in serv
ice in World War II are eligible
, for some part of the leadership
i in the group whether commission
ed or non-commissioned.
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Shanghai Falls
To Communists
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ists were determined to m.'.K*
nationalist escape corridor
bloody avenue if they can ru 1
clo.-e it.
The Reds, overrunning the
world’s most populous country,
gave communism its largest tit /
by occupying almost all of Shang
hai.
Stubborn nationalist rearguaroy
held fast at bridges acros.- So< -
chow Creek. Red mortars tmasf
ed up the main city posteffice
near the Szechuan road bridge.
Even in the old international set
tlement in the downtown area
.'mall arms fire crackled as the
Reds hunted down small groups cJ
nationalists still holed up in build
ings.
Obviously the nationalist rear
guard was buying time in last stan '
fights. They want the bulk ol
their comrades to deploy on the
outer edges of the city for another
fight or reach ships waiting in thf
Yangtze to take them south.
Nationalist soldiers barricaded
at the Garden bridge, Chapoo
bridge and the Schechwan bridge
held up other Red bands. The
bridges lead to the only arterie
to Shanghai’s north.
The communists deployed in!*
abandoned nationalist fortifica
tions on the bund. They were
forced from their advance pos -
tions by rifle, grenades and ma
chinegun fire from the Garden
bridge park and from the third
floor of Broadway Mansions.
When it became apparent thv
communists could not take the ex
posed targets without consider
able loss of life, they set up a
harassing fire. Bullets crackled
up and down the famous bund, in
front of the Glen Line building
housing the American consulate,
in front of the British consulate
and across from the Russian con
sul ite.
Thousands watched the fighting
from high buildings on the bund.
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