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1200 Passengers
Off Damaged
Alaska SS Co Ship
SEATTLE. June 17. —(/PI—The
Alaska Steamship Company an:
nounced that 1200 cannery work
ers were removed from the dam
aged freighter Santa Cruz in
Squaw Harbor, 250 miles north of
Dutch Harbor.
Company officials stated the
vessel is in no immediate danger
The 17th Naval District report
ed that a Navy PBY was carrying
a navy diver and an assistant
to the scene in answer to a call
!rr,m the 7000 ton ship.
The vessel’s crew was able to
make temporary repairs and
could continue without aid. The
passengers are awaiting the ar
rival of the freighter Cape Vic
tory. which will carry them to
Bristol Bay.
The Santa Cruz engineroom was
*^oded.
B. C. Loggers
Decisions Placed
Before Governm’t
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VANCOUVER, B. C., June 17,—
—Decisions reached in a five
hour conference with the leaders
of British Columbia’s 35,000 strik
ing loggers and millworkers, will
be placed before the government
oficials announced.
Harold Pritchett, District Pres
ident of the IWA, CIO, whose
members have been on strike for
33 days, will report back to the
meeting of the District Council
^embers tomorrow night, details
of the decisions which were reach
ed.
Army - Navy Merger
Gels Labeled
TooLittle, TooLate
WASHINGTON, June 17, —UP)—
Army and Navy merger foes pas- j
^ted “too little, too late” labels
on Truman’s revised unification
plan which took the attitude of
consessions to the President by
the War Department, and made
to the Sea Arm on such points
as the Marine Corps, and joint
chief of staff, were insufficient
to overcome previous objections
^jth only four weeks before Con
gress plans to quit work, report
ing that prospects for final action
this session is remote and aside
from the decision to retain the
READYING FOR NORTHERN TREK — Warmly-dressed men work busily
in sub-zero weather at Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, port on Hudson Bay, preparing for a 3,100-mile
journey of the Canadian army’s experimental force into the far north. In the foreground are some
C of the snowmobiles which will be used. Lt. Col. Patrick Baird heads the force.
Congress Stops
Drastic Legislation
c?
Maritime Strike
WASHINGTON, June 17, — (/P)—
Congressional friends of organized
labor predicted a settlement of
a threatened maritime strike, and
therefore blocked any enactment
of “drastic legislation” this year.
Some lawmakers still talked of
pushing through a modified ver
sion of President Truman’s Em
ergency Strike Control bill.
The Administration itself is ob
viously relieved over the fresh
turn in industrial relations.
The CIO dominated Committee
on Maritime Unity undertook a
two million dollar fund-raising
campaign, which pointed to the
September 30, expiration date of
the contract covering Bridges’
West Coast Longshoremen.
Bridges men came out with the
smallest gains of any union strike
averting a settlement hammered
out by the government even as
some crews were quitting their
ships last week.
joint chiefs of staff, instead of
setting up a single military com
mander to be rotated among the
services.
The new merger plan differs
in a few respects to the first
proposal Truman submitted to
Congress last year.
Mammoth Plane
Travels To
Graving Dock
LONG BEACH, June 17, — (/Pi
Three sections of Howard Hughes
mammoth plane the HK-1, rested
safe in graving dock on Terminal
Island, after a hazardous 24 mile
journey from the Hughes factory
at Culver City.
More than 100,000 persons
watched the worlds largest plane
moved, while the power company
employees clipped wires and re
moved poles to provide clearance
Hughes said, “The twenty mil
lion dollar plane is built almost
entirely of wood and cost less per
pound than any other large ex
perimental plane ever built in
this country.”
About two months are required
before the ship will make its first
flight.
3 Officers Dead
FORT KNOX, June 17, —(/Pi
Major General Hugh Gaffey and
two other army officers were kil
led and four servicemen were in
jured last night when their plane
crashed as it was coming in for a
landing here.
Gen. Gaffey, Commanded the
Second and Fourth Armored Div
isions in Europe in World War II.
He has been commanding officer
of Fort Knox Armored School at
Fort Knox since the war’s end.
U.S.E.S Reports
Passed Peak
Unemployment
WASHINGTON, June 17, — i/P)—
Robert Goodwin, Director of U.S.
Employment Service said today,
“the nation has passed its peak
post war unemployment, and from
now on things will get better.”
Despite all strikes employment
is steadily increasing, he said, as
the latest census of the bureau
reports employment of World War
II veterans increased 2.600,000 in
three months this spring.
Negro Youth
Strangles Woman
Burns House
LANGHORNE, Pa. June 17,—(/P)
—A negro youth, 14, confessed to
the strangling of Mrs. Walter
Shetland, a 48,-yr-old clubwoman
a ther suburban home and setting
the house afire. Anthony Russo,
Chief of Bucks County Detect
ives reported.
She was the wife of an execu
tive of Essex Rubber Company of
Trenton, New Jersey.
Russo said a formal charge of
murder will be filed against the
youth, Aaron Shelton Jr., of Phil
adelphia.
IbS. TROOPS ARE
Said To Be Vlertcd
Account Russians
I’ARIS. France. June 17. —(/Pi—
lie. spokesm n for the A
Delegat :on of Foreign
IWiuiste-s conforence -n;d the New
York Times story, a serting that
* i*Y in troons in Germany had
be< n alerted, because of repotted
c->Mfontrations of Russian troops
ii lite southeastern section of
Germany.
n'he spokesman said. “There are
al! sorts of rumors flying around
here of that particular kind, and
I don’t want to comment on them
in any way whatsoever.”
Army Officers llclil
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In Jewel Case
WASHINGTON. June 17. —(/PI—
Colonel Jack Durant and his WAC
captain wife, held in the Kronberg
Castle crown jewel case, left by
plane in army custody to Frank
furt. War Department officials
said.
Last week the couple admitted
emoving to this country a for
tune in jewels, relies of the house
of Hesse, German royal family.
The treasure was hidden in the
basement of the old palace.
The couple was arrested in Chi
cago two weeks ago.
DRAFT MAY BE
Extenden Nine
Months, Mar. 31/47
WASHINGTON, June 17, —(^P>—
The Senate and House Conference
Committee tentatively agreed to
a nine month extension of the
draft, until next March 31, but
remained deadlocked on the ques
tion of drafting teenagers.
House Expects
Military Alliances
WASHINGTON, June 17, — (/?)—
House leaders said today they
expected Congressional approval
soon on a broad program of mili
tary cooperation with friendly na
tions regarding having joint in
terests.
This country’s objective is to
help China, the Philippines and
various countries in the Ameri
cas, to build small well-organ
ized armies and navies with e
quipment standardized to U. S.
paterns.