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HOLLYWOOD, <#)—Mrs. Doris
Vidor, wife of film director
Charles Vidor and daughter of j
film executive Harry M. Warner,
gave Uirth to a 7 pound 15 ounce
son yesterday. It is the first child
for the Vidors.
SEATTLE, (A*)—The old freight
er, A. M. Baxter, well known in
the coastwise trade, has been sold
to steamship interests "South of
the Border.”
She ran to Alaska during the
war, under the general agency ol
Olympic Steamship company. She
was built in 1919 at Astabula, O.
LOS ANGELES, (/P)—President
Don Stewart of the Los Angeles
Angels says he hasn’t heard a
thing about the Cubs sending out
Charley Trippi, “but we’d certain
ly be glad to get him.”
“That’s a lot of money for a
class AAA ball player,” Stewart
added when informed of the $30,
000 bonus arrangement reportedly
made for the Georgia athlete.
WASHINGTON, (/P) —Attorney
General Clark announced today
the indictment of Carl Aldo Mar
zani, a former state depariment
employee, on charges of misrepre
senting to the government that he
had never been a member of the
Communist party.
AMSTERDAM, (/P)—At least 13
persons were killed today and
hundreds were believed injured
when a truckload of German
shells exploded in Muiden, reduc
ing a large area to rubble remin
iscent of the war. Not a house es
caped damage in the town of 3,000
eight miles southeast of Amster
dam. Many of the injured were
covered by debris and rescue
squads labored to disinter them.
WATERTOWN, N. Y. (/P) —
Three persons died today and two
others were injured when fire
swept the three-story Graystone
hotel in downtown Watertown. 22
other guests fled to safety.
KETCHIKAN, (/P) — Charles
Hattrick announced his candidacy
today for the vacant seat in the
Territorial House of Representa
tives. A special election will be
held Monday to fil lthe vacancy.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The Jus
tice department said today that at
torney General Clark has asked a
“full report” on the trial in which
Joseph S. Fay, a vice president of
the International Union of Oper
ating Engineers (AFL), was ac
quitted on charges of income tax
evasion. A department official
told reporters that Clark has direc
ted Douglas MacGreggor, his as
sistant, to obtain complete infor
mation on the trial.
CHICAGO, (#*) — Four Negro
children were killed and their
mother, Mrs. Anna Hickman, 40,
and their brother were injured
last night when a fire broke out in
t a four-story apatment on Wash
bune avenue on the city’s south
west side. More than 30 tenants
were routed by the blaze.
BERLIN CHILDRE N—With a few schools now opened In Berlin, the "under fives" enjoy the
kindergarten in the open air. They get coTee in the n'c-nings, as there is no milk.
Russia May Seek
Huge Loan From
United Stales
LONDON, (/P)—British sources
predicted today that Russia might
seek a five billion dollar loan from
the United States as the price for
scaling down reparations claims
on Germany—one of the thorniest
issues facing the deputy foreign
ministers drafting German and
! Austrian peace treaties.
I The influential London Econo
mist, terming reparations “the
crux of the whole matter,” said
1 the “key to a German settlement”
might lie in a U. S. loan to Rus
sia.
“The Rusians have asked for
$10,000,000,000 worth of repara
tions from Germany,” the paper
said, “but the certainty of half
that figure in dollars now would
be of infinitely greater economic
value.
“Prime Minister Stalin has on
two occasions recently referred to
Russia’s need for an American
loan. The whole atmosphere of the
coming Moscow conference might
be changed if successful loan ne
gotiations hafl already been com
pleted in Washington.”
Commenting on the heavy cost
of occupation and asserting that
unification of Germany would cut
those expenditures, the Economist
added that “Russian demands
seem to Russians to be justified
many times over and it would in
deed be a remarkable situation if
dollars could be found for a de
feated aggressor but not for a
devastated ally.”
Australia apparently lost her ap
peal for active participation by
the “Little Nations” in discussing
the German and Austrian treaties.
Feodor T. Gousev, Russian deputy
foreign minister, insisted that the
smaller nations appear before the
deputies council only when pre
senting their own treaty proposals, i
The United States, Britain and
France apepared to have dropped
their earlier support of the Aus
tralian proposal. 1
Rivers To Write
Retirement Rian
JUNEAU, (/P) — Bills which
would establish a retirement plan
for Territorial employees and set
a minimum wage and maximum
hour laws, are being prepared by
Territorial Attorney General Ralph
Rivers.
He told the chamber of com
merce yesterday he had more than
100 measures in the state of prep
aration for legislators in anticipa
tion of the forthcoming Territorial
legislative session.
Also under consideration are re
vision of the present liquor laws
to strengthen control and enforce
ment; authorization for tax col
lector to make refunds of overpay
ments; and memorials on State
hood, blanket primary, prospec
tors’ aid, strengthened enforce
ment of fish’ conservation laws
and several tax measures designed
to improve shipping and freight
handling into the Territory.
Portland Wants
Alaska Business
—
PORTLAND, Ore. (£>)—-Charles
L. Rouse, vice president of the
East Side Commercial club, will
fly to Juneau next week in an at
tempt to gain more Alaskan busi
ness for Portland.
Rouse said he planned to ar
range for some 40 Portland busi
nessmen to fly to Alaska in about
six weeks to present their products
at a series of banquets in major
Alaskan cities. If successful, a
chartered boat would take 150
Portland businessmen to Alaska
this summer in a follow-up trip.
Rouse, chairman of the club’s
new Alaskan trade committee, es
timated Alaskan business at $150,
000,000 a year, most handled
through Seattle. “If we could get
only ten per cent of the Alaskan
trade now handled through Seat
tle,” he said, “it would be suffi
cient to warrant the trips.”
Auriol Nominates
New French
Premier
PARIS, UP) — Sources close to
France’s new president, Vincent
Auriol, predicted today he would
make every effort to persuade his
close friend and fellow-Socialist,
Leon Blum, to accept the premier
ship of the new cabinet.
Auriol, elected to office by the
two Houses of Parliament yester
day, plunged into the task of
sounding out the various parties
as to whether they would accept
the interim cabinet of Blum and
upon what terms.
fne new president scheduled
conferences with two leaders of
the French Communist party,
Jacques Duclos and Maurice Thor
ez, both reported willing to enter
the Blum coalition cabinet if they
get certain posts. Observers say
the Communists will seek the for
eign ministry.
Blum, however, was reported
not eager to accept the premier
ship. He is 74 and his health is
not good. The last of France’s four
post-war president-premeirs,
Blum formally resigned last night,
shortly after returning fom Lon
don, where he had conferred with
British leaders on a future French
British alliance.
Auriol had hoped to nominate
the veteran socialist leader in the
next three days.
Under the French constitution,
the president is required to nom
inate a premier who then drafts
i nrogram which he submits to the
national assembly — Parliament’s
'ower house. If the assembly ap
proves the nominee’s policies, he
then sets about choosing men for
his cabinet posts.
PARIS, (/P) — President Vincent
Aurio tonight nominated Socialist
Paul Ramadier, 59-year-old econo
mst and lawyer as French pre
mier.
Thunderstorms are most fre
quent in the tropics, developing
generally in the afternoon.
Army And Navy
Agree To Plan
For Unification
WASHINGTON, (/Pi—1The army
and navy high command, agreed
on a plan for “unification," today
promised cooperation and greater
efficiency. Secretary of war Pat
terson, Secretary of the Navy For
restal, Adm, Chester W. Nimitz,
and Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
gave their wholehearted endorse
ment to the new plan.
They spoke to a crowded news
conference in the White House
movie theater.
Then they turned the meeting
over to experts to go into details.
But, for the most part, the plan,
announced by President Truman
last night, remained only a gener
al proposition, with the chinks to
be filled in later. Congress will
have a big hand in that.
Admiral Nimitz said he consid
ers the plan a “definite and sub
i stantial forward step and I shall
support it to the best of my abil
»lty.” He said it will enable the
services to get together on many
i essential matters and make prog
ress.
General Eisenhower, wearing a
Florida tan, said he always has de
plored the differences between
army and navy officers over a
! _* ger and now that they had
been resolved, he personally will
“support it with all I have" as a
“distinctive step forward." The
United States, he said, will be the
i greater gainer by a step of this na
| ture.
During the seminar, President
Truman met with his cabinet at
their regular Friday session in an
■ other part of the White House- The
1 meeting was largely devoted to a
discussion of the army-navy “uni
fication’ ’agreement.
The plans make no specific pro
vision in themselves for a single
purchasing department for all
branches of the armed services.
But the nature of the setup indi
cates that this is contemplated.
The famed Marine Corps will
continue unchanged as the tradi
tional amphibious fighting group.
But there probably will be greater
cooperation, training and develop
ment for use of the army, navy
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Eight Killed In
States Train Wreck
KAGERSFIELD, Calif. f/P) — 8
persons are known to have been
killed and many others injured
' when a Southern Pacific passenger
I train struck a broken rail 12 miles
j northwest of here early today.
Deputy coroner John Wirts, at
the scene of the wreck, said two
more bodies had been found be
neath the wreckage of a car, bring
ing the total known dead to eight.
Kern county general hospital,
where most of the injured were
being treated, estimated them at
75 to 100, including those less seri- •
ously hurt. Sheriff’s deputy Jack
Kiethley estimated that 55 persons
were being treated for injuries at
the scene.