Nationalists Aban
don Szepingkai
NANKING, <>P) — The govern
ment was reported Saturday to
have virtually abandoned Szeping
kai, and observers predicted
Changchun, Manchurian capital
city to the northeast, might fall
easy prey to a strong Red assault.
Mukden dispatches said 6,000
. Chinese Communists were battling
government defenders in down
town Szepingkai, vital rail hub
midway between Changchun and
Mukden.
Observers here said Changchun
was faced with a shortage of men
and munitions. The main burden
of defense there is in the hands of
the new First Army, which has
had few replacements of men or
equipment since it was transferred
to Manchuria from Burma.
Dispatches reported government
capture of two railroad towns
south of Haicheng, 90 miles south
west of Mukden, itself beset on
three sides by Red forces.
U. Of W. To Hold
Sprint Boat Race
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POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y. (A*)—
Seven members of the University!
of Washington freshman crew and
one varsity boatsman, Capt. Bill
Works, will represent Washington
in the 2,000-meter sprint race on
their home waters of Lake Wash
ington next Saturday at Seattle.
The freshmen, who won their
race in the big regatta here Sat
urday, had bested the university
in one announced and two unan
nounced time trials before going
east. They were named by coach
A1 Ulbrrickson for the sprint race
after their winning efforts here.
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member of the Alaska Develop
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urday noon for a meeting of the
board, called by Governor Gruen
ing.
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Senate Restores
Some Navy Money
WASHINGTON, (^—Members
of the Senate appropriations com
mittee have decided to recom
mend a $177,000,000 hike in
House-voted new funds for the
navy during the 1948 fiscal yetv
starting July 1.
The House had pared $370,000,
000 off the navy’s spending esti
mate of around $4,033,000,000.
Chairman Saltonstall (R.-Mass.)
of the Senate appropriations sub
committee which reviewed the
House action said the recommend
ed restoration of funds would per
mit the navy to keep 43,000 offi
cers, instead of 42,000 and 395,000
enlisted men instead of 355,000.
Other increases compared with
the totals possible under the
House bill, he said, would include
265 major combatant ships fully
manned and 28 with reduced
crews against 249 and 20, and
5,793 aircraft against 5,541. .
Chairman Bridges of the full
committee told reporters the in
: creases are acceptable to him and
1 that the changes will “assure an
! active and able navy.”
Attlee Blasts At j
Communist Idea
■ .
BARNSLEY, England, (/P) — j
, Prime Minister Attlee declared to- (
1 day that “human rights are de-.
! nied and so-called democratic gov-!
I ernment is a travesty” in “several >
countries of eastern Europe.”
“I am concerned that there
i sholld be people in this country,
! and people who profess to be So- {
cialists, who appear to condone i
things that are done by govern
ments that call themselves Left,
when they would protest vigor
ously if precisely the same things
were done by governments of the
Right,” Attlee said in a speech at
a miners’ demonstration.
“Freedom of speech, freedom of
conscience and personal freedom
i is the right of the individual whe
ther he is a capitalist or a worker,
a conservative, a liberal or social
ist,” the Premier declared.
It was the Socialist Premier’s
most pointed anti-Russian state
| ment since he told the British
trade union congress last winter |
that the Soviet government was i
building a “wall of ignorance” be- j
tween the Russian people and the;
west.
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Washington Man
Shoots Ex-Wife
. SNOHOMISH, Wash. (^P) — A
wild outburst of shots in a trailer
camp killed Mrs. Anna Rose Simp
son, 23, and wounded her father
critically late yesterday and state
patrolman Everett Olson reported
he arrested the woman’s divorced
husband a few minutes later,
wresting a .38 calier revolver from
his hands.
The patrolman said Homer A.
Simpson, 31, a Vancouver, Wash.,
machinist, told him: “I’m the guy
that did it.”
Simpson was booked at the Sno
homish city jail and later taken to
the Everett jail by Sheriff Tom
Warnock. He was held on an open
charge.
At the Snohomish general hos
pital, Robert H. Cole, 53, a Boone
ville administration worker, was
conscious and in a “fair” condi
tion Saturday forenoon, Mrs. C.
M. Torgerson, superintendent,
•aid. I
Macmillan To
Study Greenland
BOOTHBAY HARBOR, Me. (,1V
The tough-timbered sch o o n e »
Bowdoin sailed Saturday lor th •
Arctic, bearing veteran explorer
Donald B. Macmillan and 15 ship
mates who will study Greenland
glaciers on an 8,000-mile, sum
mer-long cruise.
Sydney, Nova Scotia, was the
first predicted port of call for the
little two-master which also will
visit Nain in Labrador before it
crosses Baffin Bay to Greenland’s
western shore and heads north to
Etah, eleven degrees from the
pole.
Major aims of the expedition,
sponsored by the Chicago Geo
graphical Society, was measure
ment under the direction of North
western University geographer
William E. Powers of the speed of
Umiamako, Upernvic, Jacobhaven
and Rink glaciers.
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