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NEWS IN BRIEF
MANILA, (/P)—Northwest Air
lines today completed its second
survey flight over the North Pa
cific route from the United States
to Manila with the arrival at
Nichols Field of the C-54 ‘•Trail
blazer.”
Croil Hunter, president of the
airline, was among officials who
made the trip. He said service
would start within the next few
weeks on a schedule calling lor
trips between Manila and New
York in 46 hours flying time.
NEW YORK, (JP) — American
track stars, already pointing for
places on the 1948 Olympic team,
faced the realization today that
most of the champions developed
during the war years may have to
give way to newcomers before this
country’s spiked shoe artists de
part for the London games.
This was brought out in the Na
tional A.A.U. indoor track and
field meet here Saturday night
when new champions were crown
ed in 14 of the 16 events, although
the 1946 winners were back to de
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fend their titles in all except three
of them.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (/P)—'The
body of Harry K. Thaw, 76-year
old multi-millionaire whose turbu
lent life came to a peaceful close
here Saturday night, started today
to Pittsburgh for funeral rites and
burial.
Thaw died of coronary thrombo
sis in the rented home where he
had been living since last Nov. 1.
CHICAGOO, (/P)—Police today
were looking for a gunman who
robbed and bound two victims and j
fled with pants afire.
Carlys Whiddon and Guy
Mooney said they surrendered $40
and a pistol to the intruder who
tied them with a rope and shoved
them into a closet. Whiddon add
ed: “Then, through a crack in the
door, we saw him back into the
oil stove, scream, and run out the
door with his trousers smoking.”
SPRINGFIELD, 111. (^)-An ar
gument over who shines the Chi
cago courthouse cuspidors has
reached the Illinois supreme
Court.
A 58-page brief, opposing Re
publican sheriff Elmer M. Walsh’s
suit against the Cook county board
and the circuit court judges, says
the common law doesn’t give the
sheriff “statutory powers to scrub
and mop floors, polish cuspidors,
clean washrooms, run elevators
and the like.”
The big question involved is who
handles the hiring and firing of
211 custodial employees.
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WASHINGTON, (/P) — Senator;
Brewster (Ft.-Me.) said today the
economics of commercial aviation
may force Congress to adopt a pol
icy which will mean elimination of
many small air lines.
He said findings may result in
new support far a bill by Senator
McCarran (D.-Nev.) which would
pool operations of American flag
overseas airlines into one “com
munity company.”
CLEANINC UP DANZIC —German men and women help clear the debris and rubble of
war from the streets of Da^ziff, the Baltic Port city now held by the Poles.
Some British
Plants Reopen;
Still Bitterly Cold
(By Robert Heweti)
LONDON, (IP)—A million work
ers returned to the reopened plants
in the Midlands today on this cold
est day of the winter, which gave
' icy notice that the critical coal
shortage still was unsolved.
Another 4,000,000 remained idle.
Plants were reopened in only 8
I of the 38 counties which the labor
government had shut down two
weeks ago.
A pea soup fog blacked out Lon
don and large areas of England,
delaying coal shipments and put
ting heavier strains on the short
coal and waning gas supplies.
Moreton-in-the-Marsh in the
Cotswolds of Southern England re
ported a night temperature of two
degrees below zero, lowest in the
British Isles in 29 years and about
34 degrees below normal. London
had a 14 degree minimum, coldest
since February 1929. Forecasters
said the cold wave would continue
several days.
Frozen switches interferred with
1 rail shipments from mines but
more lines were cleared of snow.
Coal trains were given priority.
An official of a London gas com
pany. which depends on coal in
making the fuel, said “we are very
anxious. If the fog spreads in the
Thames, as first reports show it
is, it will seriously affect the ar
rival of supplies.”
Few of the million workers re
turning the chilled factories ex
pected to work full time until the
weather breaks and coal stocks
are restored to normal.
The ministry of fuel and power
called for a ten per cent reduction
in coal consumption by gas com-;
panies and warned domestic users1
of further cuts in service, probably
equalling the five-hour restrictions
in the use of domestic electicity.
The Philippine Islands are com
posed of ten large and 970 small
islands.
Nazi Plot Seeks
To Attack Russia
(By Richard Kaisischke)
BERLIN, (J-P) — American and
British authorities arrested more
Germans during the night in
squelching a reported nationwide
Nazi plot to restore German armed
might to “lead the nations of Eu
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rope against Russia.
The Nazi captives, including
fugitive Storm Troop officers,
claimed to have a secret bacterio
logical weapon.
A British announcement said the
cleanup was “progressing smooth
ly,” althought snow and ice on
roads handicapped raiding squads.
American and British intelli
I
gence agents were questioning the
hundreds arrested, seeking infor
mation that would lead to minor
plotters in a group overlooked or
unknown before the swift raids of
I Saturday and Sunday broke the
organization dedicated to a new
Totalitarian Germany.
American officials said head
quarters of the subversive group
apparently was in the British zone.
“There was very close liaison
between the leaders in the British
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LIFTING THE LID
AT JUNEAU
JUNEAU, Feb. 22—The Senate
late Friday brought out and passed
the administrator general bill but
killed the emergency clause which,
would have made the act effective
in thirty days. This was done for
the purpose of making , appoint
ments valid.
A bill was introduced in the
House by Rep. Steve McCutcheon
<D,-3rd) asking for an appropria
tion of $100,000 for the establish
ment of a statehood campaign bur
eau in Washington with Delegate
Bartlett naming the director with
a salary of not more than $8,000
annually. An appropriation was
! sought by the Juneau statehood
association.
Ladd Field Plane
Crashes In Green
land; Crew Reseued
LADD FIELD, Fairbanks, f/P)—
Eleven army air force fliers hud
dled today on the barren, icy
reaches of the northwes tern
Greenland ice-cap as rescue mis
sions from two parts of the world
converged in a giant-scale opera
tion for their evacuation.
None of the 11 men, members of
the B-29 photographic reconnais
sance superfortress “Kee Bird’
which crashed Friday, was be
lieved injured.
Here was the rescue picture with
the army’s race against time and
weather made more difficult by
the extreme cold and short days of
the Arctic region:
Three transports and a troop
carrying glider winged their way
across northern Canada from Ladd
field to establish an operational
base at Thule, Greenland, 200
miles south of the crash scene.
At New York, Maj. Gen. William
H. Turner, commanding general of
the Atlantic division of the air
transport command, took prelim
inary steps for a rescue by helicop
ter or by dog team and alerted all
ATC aircraft in Newfoundland
Labrador and Greenland to stand
ready to aid.
Capt. Donald A. Shaw, a spe
cialist in Arctic rescue work, was
flown from New York to Goose
Bay, Labrador. There the ATC has
dog teams and equipment
which sled and dogs can be drop
ped by parachutes if it is neces
sary to “mush” the trapped men
out.
A Coast Guard helicopter was
packed in an ATC plane nn ’
patche to Gander, Newfoundland
to await further orders. Another
plane carrying replacement parts
for the helicopter and aridit'onnl
coast guard operators stoo
Westover Field, Mass., to support
the operation if a helicople~ rescue
were attempted.
A reconnaissance flight by a
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Administration
General Hill Holds
Juneau Interest
Mildred Hermann)
r!".\ * Senate substitute for the
Green bill to create the office of
tministrator general and transfer
‘o it all the Territorial administa
tive functions now performed by
the Governor held the chief center
of interest in Friday’s Senate ses
sion.
As it emerged from the judiciary
committee it carried a unanimous
do pass recommendation from
Rivers, the former chief adver
sary of the Walker bloc, joining
with other members of the com
mittee to give it the green light.
Butrovilch led the fight against
:t on the floor, taking the position
that the filling of the position
that the filling of the position
should await the next regular elec
tion.
The bill provides that the audi
tor will assume the functions of
office until the position is filled at
tne next election. Butrovitch saw
no sucn emergency as justified in
filling the position in this matter.
He called Boyle to the stand and
had him admit that there would
be little for the administrator to
do in the next two years and con
stantly hammered that point home
throughout the discussion.
The Republican platform emerg
ed from obscurity and a plank in
it was read by Munz, stating that
tne Republican party would work
for the creation of this office. Both
Collins and Nerland repudiated
the plank, though Collins stated
that he was voting as an Alaskan
and not as a Republican when he
cast his vote for the measure.
Worlds of oratory assailed by
those present in which the high
lights were one of Coffey’s hysteri
cal outbursts in which he shrieked
that the present governor was a
-«_.c.o. .mu dominated all boards,
for which he was sharply called to
Oider by President Nerland.
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Teachers Strike
At Buffalo, N. Y.
3UFFALO, N. Y. (/P)—All but
20 of Buffalo’s 98 public schools
were closed today as more than
2,000 teachers seeking pay boosts
staged the largest teacher strike in
U. S. history.
Approximately 60,000 of the
city’s 71,000 pupils took a forced
holiday. Only about one-third of
a total 2,960 teachers remained on
duty.
confusion reigned as teachers at
tempted to organize classes at La
fayette High School, one of two
high schools kept open. Hundreds
of students milled through the cor
ridors, while only a few reported
for the first classes.
Officials said some teachers
from the closed schools were on
hand to aid Lafayette’s normal
complement of 58.
The strikers were warned by
| their leader to “carry on with the
dignity that has always been as
sociated with our profession.’’