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NEWS IN BRIEF
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P)—Pacific
Coast CIO dock workers agree 13
to 1 to strike on or before April
k first unless an agreement is reach
ed with water-front employers on
wage and working condition de
mands, Louis Goldblatt, secretary
of the ILWU announced.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25, UP)—
President Truman delayed again
the nomination of the successor
to Secretary Ickes. White House
Press Secretary Ross told a news
conference he thought the Presi
dent had not yet made his choice.
PORTLAND. Ore., Feb. 25, OP)
—Continued experimentation on
the extraction of alumina iron
from Oregon laterite plans to
bring highgrade Alaska limestone
into the Portland and Vancouver
£rea has been announced by the
Aluminum Company of America.
The possibility that marketable
iron may be produced from later
ite residue rock decay was re
ported by C. S. Thayer, manager
of Alcoa's Vancouver, Wash.,
works.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25, (/P)—
The Truman family returned to
the White House after a weekend
cruise on the Potomac aboard the
Presidential yacht Williamsburg.
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HONOLULU, Feb. 25, f/P)-Two
soldiers were washed overboard
from the transport Marine Devil,
last Monday, the master reported
on arrival from Seattle. Rescue
was attempted, but the heavy seas
prevented. The names are tem
porarily withheld.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25, OP)—
Herbert Brownell, Jr., is expected
to resign as chairman of the Re
publican National committee April
1, it was learned authoritatively,
after Brownell made it known to
•thirty congressional leaders of his
intention to retire and devote his
whole time to his law practice.
TOPEKA, Kans., Feb. 25, (fl3)—
Rev. Charles Sheldon, authos of
the famous religious novel “In His
Steps,” died at Stormont hospital
following a week’s illness. He
would have been 89 Tuesday, The
Topeka clergyman wrote the book
which outsold every other book
except the Bible. More than 23,
000,000 copies were sold in 40
^’ears. He never received a royal
ty because of a faulty copyright.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25, (/P)—
Support to Gen. Omar Bradley,
Veterans Administrator, was
pledged by the national executive
committee of American Veterans
organization of World War II. The
veterans resolution was adopted
at a meeting of the committee.
State commanders said the en
, dorsement was “contrary to the
American Legion stand.” John
Stelle, Legion commander recent
ly criticized Bradley’s policies.
UNO Delegation
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NEW YORK CITY — Sound Photo — The UNO Delegation, an inspection committee, arriving aft
LaGuardia Airport to find a permanent home, was greeted by Grover Whalen representing
O’Dwyer. He shakes hands with Stoyan. Garvilovic of Yugoslavia, chairman. Left to right are Sbahal
Hsu of China, Georgii Saksin of UJ5.S.R., Major Kenneth Younger of Great Britain, Grover Whalaiw
Mr. and Mrs. Garvilovic, their son Ivan and Warren Kelchner of ILS. State .'Department
! Allies Try To Keep
Russia From
German Assets
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 25, (/P)—
A former military government of
ficial contended an attempt is be
ing made to freeze Russia out of
the search for German assets in
such countries as Spain and Ar
gentina. The contention is voiced
! in the Senate war mobilization
| sub-committee by Russel Nixon.
Nixon told the senators “I
charge elements in both United
States, British and French for
eign offices are consciously man
euvering to prevent all four oc
cupying powers from being in
volved in the search for external
assets in neutral countries, be
, cause that would lay bare Fascist I
or reactionary regimes in such I
countries as Spain, Portgual,
Switzerland, Sweden, and Argen
tina.
“It would reveal all the ele
ments of collaboration of certain
interests in allied countries in
these regimes.” The witness de
clared the war industry potential
I. G. Farben, giant German chem
ical trust has not been eliminated
as it was ordered, no decarteliza
[ tion law has been promulgated,
I and the denazification program is
incomplete.
KEN RANK RETURNS
FROM ANCHORAGE
Ken Rank, who rushed to An
chorage when he learned that his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Otis Rank,
were on the ill fated Yukon, re
turned home yesterday. He re
mained in Anchorage until his
mother had recuperated from the
shock and was able to travel. They
left on the southbound S. S. Alas
ka. Mrs. Ken Rank and son, who
have been in the hospital during
his absence, returned home yes
terday.
STRIKES
At A Glance . . .
970,000 are kept idle by strike
disputes. Major developments:
Transit—New York’s Mayor ap
peals to CIO president Murray to
intervene in the threatened walk- ;
out of CIO transport workers to
tieup the subways, street cars,
and buses. Mayor O’Dwyer said
the state law bars the city from
accepting the union’s demands for
recognition as a bargaining agent
of all civil service employees.
Food—Detroit, with its milk
supply reduced to forty percent
of normal by the CIO milk driv- j
ere strike, faces the possibility of i
an AFL bakers drivers walkout I
may cut off part of its bread sup
ply.
Light power—The walkout of
3,400 Duquesne Light Company
employees is set for 12:01 a.m.
tomorrow. The independent union
revised its wage request, but the
company indicates the revision is
not acceptable and suggests arbi- ;
tration.
Automotive — CIO UAW and
General Motors resume negotia
tions. The Detroit union expresses
dissatisfaction with the federal
mediator for his optimistic press j
statements regarding a possible
early settlement of the 97-day-old
strike.
MR. AND MRS. FRED HYDE
RETURN FROM VACATION
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hyde, who
have been in the States for sever
al months on an extended vaca
tion and business trip, arrived
home with the Pan American Air
ways. Mr. Hyde is associated with
Earl Towner and Elmer Straub
in freighting in the Kougarok, via
the railroad. Mrs. Hyde is em
ployed by the Lomen Commercial
Co.
Both Ends Of
Russian Tanker
Being Towed
KODIAK. Feb. 25. (/P) — Both
ends of the broken Russian tanker
Donbass are in tow by rescue
ships of the navy. Tugs turned
back to Adak after offers of as
sistance were refused, the com
mander of the Alaskan Sea Fron
iter announced. The navy is still
without details of the shipwreck
southeast of Adak.
A fleet of tugs with sarsi gear
reported the bow end of the Don
bass was found by the Russian
steamship Belgored, and was in
tow by that vessel, and in no ap
parent danger. The other section
is in tow by the American tanker
Puentehills. She messaged to tow
it to Seatle or Portland.
The navy sadi “no estimate is
possible of the loss of life can be
made from the facts reported up
to this time.” They said the mas
ter of the Belgored had not re
plied to inquiries whether lal per
sonnel of the Donbass was ac
counted for.
Britain Must Not
Figlit Now With
Lend-Lease Arms
WASHINGTON. Feb. 25, —
Senator Brewster proposed that
United States tell Britain to keep
American lend lease military
equipment out of the current
fighting in her colonies, or this
country will claim it.
Senator Brewster established by
questioning witnesses before the
Senate defense subcommittee the
legal right of United States to
place such restrictions on the four
billion, seven hundred five mil
lion dollar lend lease equipment
still held by the British.
Chinese Si"n
Merger To
Reduce Arms
Undated, </P)—The Chinese gov
ernment and Communist military
representatives signed a merger
which calls for the gradual reduc
tion of the army into a modern
tightly knit national defense force
which may aid in the nation’s re
habilitation. The agreement was
signed in Chunking in the pres
ence of General Marshall, and
provides for the reorganization of
government forces into fifty divi
sions, and Communist troops into
ten divisions, within eighteen
months, embracing twenty armies
of three divisions each, with the
President of the republic as com
mander in chief.
While Chinese officialdom was
taking another stride toward un
ity, agitation for the withdrawal
of Soviet troops from Manchuria
appeared to be mounting steadily
in Shanghai. Demonstrators plas
tered the door of the Russian con
sulate with posters demanding the
Red army quit sprawling all over
the territory.
Bombay had its first quiet night
since last Monday when rash riots
followed a strike of Indian sailors
who charged discrimination, by
British student leaders, who said
they protest the use of British
military forces to quell the mu
tiny and civilian violence. The
commander in chief Gen. Sir
Claude Auchinleck, is credited
by military spokesmen with
averting a possible revolution.
ARCHIE FERGUSON
ARRIVES IN NOME
Archie Ferguson arrived today
from Kotzebue, flying his own
plane. He has just returned from
Seattle, where he completed ar
rangements for the building of his
j new boat with Berg Shipyards, in
1 Blaine, Wash.
This specially built boat will
carry 120 tons of cargo, twelve
passengers and a crew of six per
sons. It will have a 135 h.p. heavy
duty diesel engine, and Archie
says it will be the finest on the
Arctic Coast. The steel boat will
be equipped with a two-way ra
! dio and an automatic pilot. It will
I have shallow draft and come di
rectly into the Snake River har
bor.
It is planned that the boat will
have a speed of 12 miles per hour.
1 Berg Shipyards are well known,
having turned out the well known
“North Star” for the government
as well as the “Discovery” and
i the “Hemlock.”
The M/S Kotzebue will be de
livered in Ketchikan on May 15,
and will leave for the north to
begin its first mail run from St.
Michael to Kotzebue, ice condi
tions permitting.
Anglo-Saxon names for No
vember were “wind month” and
“blood month” according to the
Encyclopaedia Britannica.