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Russians Take
Austrian Property
For Reparations
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LONDON. July 19,—(£>)—Russia
has rejected United States and
British representations on seiz
S ure of Austrian property for re
parations, a high authority said.
In a lengthy note handed the
Austrian government, the Soviet
oArupation authorities in Austria
were said to have made it plain
that there is no change in their
recent position in regard to seiz
ure of $22,000,000 worth of Aus
trian plants and other property
confiscated by the Germans fol
lowing the Anschluss in 1938.
The text of the note was not
available in London but its essen
tial points were known to auth
oritative sources, which said it
disagreed with almost every point
set forth in American and Brit
ish representations.
The controversy arose July 6,
when the Soviet command in Aus
tria announced the property in
eastern Austria had passed into
Soviet ownership along with all
other “German external assets”
iW the Russian zone.
The United States disputed this
interpretation in the Allied coun
cil, asserting that property for
cibly confiscated by the Germans
after 1938 could not be classified
as German under the Potsdam
agreement.
Talmage Wins
Fourth Term in
Georgia Election
*
ATLANTA, Ga., July 19, — (/F)—
The pendulum has swung again
in Georgia it seems, sending Eu
gene Talmage, the “defender of
wfcjte supremacy,” to the Gover
nor’s Mansion for the fourth time.
The returns are not all in from
yesterday’s democratic primary—
the counting may last for hours
yet—and no one is conceding any
thing, but Tabnage’s apparent lead
is increasing.
The unit votes are what count
in Georgia and Talmage has en
ough indicated votes to win, with
some to spare. Yet 36-year-old
^ *flfcnes V. Carmichael is leading in
the popular vote.
► *The primary—equivalent to the
election in Georgia—was the first
time that negroes had voted in
great numbers in the deep south.
*
Deadlock Causes Recess
wm& wm r m .. —
PARIS, FRANCE — (Soundphoto) — Failure of “Big Four” foreign minister* to reach an agree
ment on peace treaties with Italy and other former Axis, satellites resulted in a deadlock after three
weelm, and a decision to recess until June 16th. This picture shows leading representatives of the Big
Four** powers as they met to celebrate the first anniversary of the ending of the war in Europe, watch
ing troops pass in review are left to right: Foreign Minister* George Bidault of France; V. M. Molotov,
of the Soviet Union; Ernest Bevin of Great Britain and Secretary of State Byrnes.
Harbor Hearings
Anchorage - Nome
SEATTLE, July 19, —(/P).—Final
public hearings in a series of eight
on river and harbor improvements
will t>e held in Anchorage and
Nome, Alaska, Aug 8 and 9, res
pectively, Col. L. H. Hewitt, Dis
trict Engineer, Seattle District U.
S .Army Engineer, said today.
Information sought from the
hearings includes: type and am
ount of resources and business
of area tributary to the harbors;
extent of past and present water
borne commerce; list of vessels
now using the harbor with draft
and tonnage of each, and ade
quacy of existing harbor facili
ties with possibility of expansion.
Bomb Rehearsal
Off 51 Minutes
ABOARD USS MT. MCKINLEY,
July 19, —WP)—A large magnes
ium bomb used to synchronize
cameras went off 51 minutes pre
maturely today during a rehear
sal for the underwater atomic
bomb test, but Vice Admiral W.
H. P. Blandy quickly gave assur
ances the same thing could not
happen with the real atomic ex
plosive.
..The flash startled the crossroads
task force but caused no damage
or fatalities.
Admiral Blandy said the ex
act cause) of the premature de
tonation was not yet determined
U. S. Flag Flies
Atop Mt. St. Elias
ANCHORAGE, July 19, —(/Pi—
An American flag flew from the
summit of Mt. St. Elias yesterday
to prove that a party of climbers
had reached their 18,000 foot goal.
Capt. Roy Holdiman of Anchor
age, who flew over the peak in
a 10th Rescue Squadron plane,
said the words "TOP—SIX
TEENTH’ were traced irt the snow
indicating the party had reached
its goal on that date.
By coincidence, the climbers
had reached the summit on the
anniversary of the day Vitus Ber
ing recorded that he first sighted
the mainland of Alaska, June 16,
1741. What he sighted was a
peak later named Mt. St. Elias.
but that the 100-pound flash bomb
was set off entirely differently
than the atomic bomb, and the
public should have no fear of dan
ger to personnel participating in
next Wednesday’s blast.
“The atom bomb positively will
not fire prematurely,” he declared.
The magnesium bomb was
mounted on a ship far removed
from the vessel which set it off.
“The exact cause of this prema
ture flash is not known at pres
ent,” Admiral Blandy said, “but
it has no significance with respect
to the actual atomic bomb since
it. wm operated on the camera
actuating circuit. This circuit
does not have the elaborate safe
guards installed in the bomb-firing
circuit.
Spies In Bomb
plant, Charged
WASHINGTON, July 19. —I/P)—
Rep. John E. Rankin, (D-MissJ
repeated in the House today, his
charge of earlier this week that
“foreign spies” are operating in
the Oak Ridge, Tenn., atom bomb
plant.
They are “trying to get the sec
ret of the atom bomb for the
purpose of using it not only a
gainst us, but against some of our
allies,” he asserted.
He added, “The same thing has
been going on” at the Aberdeen,
Md., proving grounds.
Truman Postpones
Naming 3-Member
Advisory Council
WASHINGTON, July 19, —(JPh
President Trumen yesterday told
his news conference he would
name a three-member economic
advisory council just as quickly
as he can.
He said he had hoped to tell
newsmen today the names of the
men who will administer the so
called “full employment” law,
but was unable to do so.
The same* situation exists, he
added, with reference to the gov
ernorship of Puerto Rico. He
must name a successor to former
Gov. Rexford G. Tugwell, now
teaching at the University of Chi
cago.
| FAIRBANKS. July 19, —UP)—
Seven Kodiak packing companies
won the first round of the legal
challenge of former Interior Sec
retary Harold Ickes’ policy of al
lowing only Indians to fish in
waters adjacent to their reser
vations.
District Judge Harry E. Pratt
granted a temporary injunction
Thursday to restrain the Fish and
Wildlife Service of the Interior
Department from enforcing the
regulations against non-Karluks
fishing in waters off the Karluk
reservation, on Kodiak Island.
If the government does not ap
peal from the decision, attorney
Edward Medley said, the packers
will ask for a trial of the case on
| its merits this fall.
U. S. Report On Aid
To Other Countries
WASHINGTON, July, 19,—f/P)—
The United States provided $536,
000. 000 in relief aid to other coun
rties during the first three months
of this year.
The Commerce Department re
| ported yesterday that $454,000,000
lief serviceszbm7bmhbmhbhmbm
was in the form of civilian relief
supplies, $2,000,000 in relief ser
vices and $80,000,000 in cash.
The U. S. government’s over
i all expenditures on foreign re
| lief and rehabilitation from July
1, 1940, through March 31. this
year totaled $2,305,000,000, of
which $2,125,000,000 was in sup
plies.
Italy drew the greatest amount
, of relief aid, getting since July 1.
1940, supplies valued at $570,000,
j 000.
The Pacific and Oriental areas
received $149,000,000 in relief
supplies. The Philippines got
$74,000,000 worth, two-thirds of
it in food; China $45,000,000, half
in food and one-fourth in clothing;
Japan and her possessions receiv
ed $30,000,000.
Canada Rejects
U. S. Proposal
OTTOWA, July 19, — (£»)—Can
ada has rejected a United States
request that the Dominion estab
lish a weather station on Mel
ville island on the western side
of the Arctic archipelago.
The rejection was believed to
have been made on the grounds
that the project would be too ex
pensive. Canada also declined
to permit the United States to
build such a station because of
the sovereignty rights involved.