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NEWS IN BRIEF
SEATTLE, </P)—Advance units
of the Point Barrow expedition
sailed from Elliott Bay yesterday
afternoon on the first lap of the
navy’s annual race against the
Arctic ice pack.
Headed by the powerful ice
breaker Burton Island, the group
will include four LST’s. They will
go to Point Lay, 165 miles from
Barrow, to rendezvous with the
second group which will sail from
here next Tuesday.
Ships sailing then will include
cargo transports which will carry
the bulk of the 45,000 tons of sup
plies for navy and government
outposts in the Far North and the
fleet oil Neches.
WASHINGTON, I/P)—President
Truman Monday signed bills to
make effective in the district
courts for Alaska the same rules
for pleading, practice and proced
ure as now govern federal district
courts in the States, Hawaii and
Puerto Rico.
JUNEAU, (/Pi— Lee H. Smith,
who first introduced milking ma
chines and milk bottling processes
in Alaska, died yesterday. He was
61-years old. For the last 40 years
he operated the Juneau Dairy.
His widow, five sons and a
daughter survive.
VICTORIA, B. C., i/P)—Salvage
operations continued yesterday on
the 134-ton fishpacker Pender
Isle, which was beached in sunken
condition Monday after a collision
with a sister vessel.
The second craft, the fishpacker
Quatsino, was towed stern first
with pumps operating to the Bri
* tish Columbia packers outer
wharf plant.
The two vessels collided in the
Straits of Juan de Fuca off Jordon
river. Eleven crew members of
both vessels escaped injury.
HOQUIAM, Wash., i/P> — The
season’s first commercial catch of
albaco.e tuna off the Washington
coast was landed here Monday
night.
The 500-pound catch was
brought in by troller JayCee of
Aberdeen. It was taken 130 miles
due west of Grays Harbor.
The fish averaged 16 pounds
each, larger than in mose previous
seasons.
Alex Olgren, owner and skipper
of the JayCee, said the tuna were
running in large numbers.
Purchase price was not disclos
ed by the John Hannula Fish Co.,
which has bought the first boat
load the last two years.
TEL AVIV, Israel, (/P) — The
Israeli-Syrian armistice was sign
ed today, it was announced here.
An Israeli government spokes
man expressed satisfaction with
the agreement, adding that it
means Israel now has armistice
arrangements with all neighbor
ing countries.
Israel previously had signed
agreements with Egypt, Trans
jordan and Lebanon. Those agree
ments also covered elements of
Saudi Arabian and Iraqui troops
which has fought against the new
Jewish State.
; Air Transport
Crashes Into
Houses: Kills Six
7
! SEATTLE, (/P) — An air trans
port crashed into a residential
street last night and exploded
killing six persons and injuring
30.
Four people were missing.
When one engine failed as the
plane took off from Boeing Field
with 32 aboard, the big crafl
j sliced down through power line.
j and piled up in the street.
A wing sheared away the toj.
two floors of a rooming house
where 18 persons lived. It piled or
down into a brick home. In the
two minutes before the wreckec
ship exploded most or all the pas
! sengers got clear.
The coroner’s office tentatively
identified three of the dead a
Lawrence Furio, Chicago, a pas
senger, and Pialph Parker and Ec
I Brightcamp. The latter two were
! in the rooming house. All the
bodies were burned, making iden
1 tification difficult.
Seventeen of the two-ehginec
plane’s passengers and its foui
crew members were hospitalized
Two were missing. Nine resident:
of the damaged homes were taker
to hospitals.
Hours fater the 10:03 p.m. crash
one of the plane’s gasoline tank:
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Four Shot In
Los Angeles
Gangland Battle
LOS ANGELES, uP) — Gang
stors’ bullets early today cut dowr
gambling czar Mickey Cohen anc
three other persons—including a
state-appointed bodyguard for the
dapper hoodlum—as the party lef 1
a smart sunset strip cafe.
“None of the party was killec
outright but all were in a serious
condition, including Harry Cooper
38, a special bodyguard assigned
to Cohen by the California attor
ney general.
The other victims were Mis
Dee David. 26, a blonde, and Ed
ward (Neddie* Herbert, 35, a Co
hen henchman. Herbert escapee
11 gangland bullets only a month
ago as he was entering his apart
j ment.
* Cohen, 35, is a key figure in the
sizzling grand jury inquiry intc
police vice tieups which already
has resulted in a wholesale shake
up of the Los Angeles police de
partment.
Only yesterday attorney general
Fred Howser disclosed that he had
assigned Cooper to guard Cohen,
presumably because Cohen had
expressed fear that eastern gang
sters were in town to assassinate
him.
Barney Ruditsky, co-owner of
Sherry’s restaurant, where the
shooting took place, said every
body was leaving the place when
the shotgun charges rang out. The
time was approximately 4 a.m.
“It sounded like firecrackers
and everybody hit the walk. There
were about 25 or 30 people on the
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Committee Passes
Military Pay Hike
j j
_
WASHINGTON, (Ah—'The Sen
ate armed services committee air
proved a pay raise for the uni
formed services.
The vote was 9 to 1 to accept
I the bill already passed by the
House. The measure, estimated to
cost $300,000,000 a year, would
raise the pay of almost everybody
in military uniform.
Individual boosts would range
from three per cent for lower
, ranking enlisted men to 37 per
' cent for brigadier generals.
Although tlie committee endors
ed the bill, chairman Tydings <D.
' Md.» said he doubts the bill will
1 pass the Senate "unless savings to
' offset its increased costs result
from other legislation now pend
• ' ing before Congress.”
He was referring to the armed
forces unification bill pending be
l | fore Congress.”
Tydings and some other Sena
! tors have taken the stand that
military pay should not be raised
unless savings are made in other
l; costs of the armed forces. Backers
of the unification bill contend it
• would permit savings of up to a
: billion dollar^ a year.
i _
Fairbanks Plumb
ers “Vacation On
Consiruction Jobs
FAIRBANKS, (/P) —Approxim
ately 260 members of the plumb
i ers and steamfitters union, Local
375, were “on vacation” today
from four construction jobs.
Carl Slatburg, union business
. agent, said the action was to pro
test a reduction in workilng hours.
“It’s definitely not a strike,”
Slatburg said. “The men just de
| cided if the jobs are so far ahead
! of schedule that contractors can
1 cut hours there’d be no harm if
| they take their vacations now.”
Slatburg said the plumbing
sub-contractors cut working
hours, effective Monday, from 10
hours a day to nine.
“If contractors decide to go
i back to 10 hours a day. the men
I probably will cut their vacations
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; U. S. Denies
Soviet Protest
About Italy
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Secretary
Acheson today described as “ut
terly without foundation” a Rus
sian protest that Italy’s member
ship in the Atlantic Alliance
would violate the Italian peace
treaty.
The secretary of state told a
news conference he had received
the Soviet protest only today.
Moscow sent a protest also to
the Italian. British and French
governments.
Britain already has denied the
Soviet contention.
Italy has signed the North At
lantic Alliance, but has not yet
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GOP Want To Cut
Govt* Spending:
Balance Budget
(By Jack Bell)
WASHINGTON, (TP) — Republi
cans intend to bear down on Pres
ident Truman’s approval of oper
ating the government in the red,
Senator Brewster <R.-Me.> said
, yesterday.
J Brewster, who heads the Repub
lican Senatorial campaign com
mittee, viewed it as possibly a ma
1 jor issue in 1950 elections.
| The voters aren’t going to be al
lowed to forget, he told a reporter,
that Mr. Truman spoke out against
cutting spending and in support
of a program that temporarily
would leave the government pay
out more than it takes in.
Mr. Truman said in his econo
mic report last week that “we
cannot expect a budget surplus in
a declining national economy.” He
| also said a big cut in government
, programs would hold back recov
ery.
“The administration has noth
ing but the old pump priming an
j swer to any recession in business,"
was Brewster’s sum-up. “The
country tried that in the 30’s and
after $40,000,000,000 had been
spent there still were 8,000,000 un
employed.
“The Republicans are going to
! fight to cut expenses and keep the
budget balanced. We think a ma
jority of the voters believe that is
! the sensible thing to do.”
!
| Truman Hopes for
World “Peace
Without War*
(By Ernest B. Vaccaro)
CHICAGO, </P)—President Tru
man said yesterday that “tensions
and conflicts appear to be increas
ing” in areas controlled by com
! munist tyranny. He said he is op
j timistic the world may yet be or
; ganized for peace without a war.
Communism may have “tem
porary triumphs,” Mr. Truman
said, “but in the long run it must
either destroy itself or abandon
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Senate Inquiry
Causes Dismissal
Of Maj. Gen. Waitt
I ■ —
I WASHINGTON </P), The Wash
* ington Post says Maj. Gen. Harry
H. Vaughan, President Truman’s
military aide, is reported to have
had the “improperly furnished
personnel data” which resulted in
the suspension of Maj. Gen. Alden
H. Waitt.
In a copyrighted article, The
Post reported that “the data is
said to have been relayed to
Vaughan,” by James V. Hunt, for
mer army officer whose activities
are under scrutiny of a Senate
committee investigating the hand
ling of government contracts.
The Post said investigators
working on the case “suspect Vau
ghan was used by Hunt" to try to
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News of the World
At A Glance ---
Tuesday, July 19, 1949
♦ By The Associated Press'
A coup appeared to be underway
in Guatemala today following the
assassination of the nation’s army
chief of staff. Armored troops
were reported fighting for control
of the national palace.
The assassination of army lead
er. Col. Francisco Javier Arana,
touched off the violence in the
capital of the Central American
Pvepublic.
National defense minister Jaco
l)o Arben7. and his supporters were
said to be holding the palace
against troops loyal to President
Juan Jose Arevalo. The president
was reported barracaded in his
i own residence.
The political background of the
( trouble was hazy. Some observers
said a rift had been developing in
the army for two years with army
leader Arana and defense minis
ter Arbenz in rival camps.
A state of emergency has been
declared. A government spokes
man said government forces had
the situation under control early
today.
Foreign secretary Ernest Bevin
told the House of Commons yes
terday that if socialized Britain is
a welfare state so is the United
States. He said the United States
is developing a welfare state by
paying subsidies to farmers.
These huge payments added to the
cost of food which Britain buys
from America and this was one of
| the reasons for Britain's dollar
crisis, he said.
Bevin was answering conserva
tive criticism that the labor gov
ernment had brought on the crisis
by overspending on its socializa
tion program and soaking the rich
to pay for it.
! Canada, a dollar country and
the best customer of the United
States, has agreed along with six
other British Dominions to cut
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Senate Committee
Attempts To Help
End Hawaii Strike
(By Harold W. Ward)
WASHINGTON, (/Pi—The Sen
ate labor committee swung its
support yesterday behind new
government efforts to solve the
80-day walkout of Harry Bridges’
ClO-longshoremen in Hawaiian
ports.
As a dramatic climax to a day
of debate between Bridges and
Senator Taft, 'R.-Ohio), the labor
committee approved a resolution
calling on the union leader, the is
land employer-representative, and
U. S. conciliator Cyrus S. Ching to
settle the dispute in 24 hours.
To the expressed disappoint
ment of Senator Douglas (D.-Ill.),
who suggested the extraordinary
end of the dispute, Ching was on
vacation and the management rep
resentative was out of town.
But Bridges and a company
spokesman both showed an eager
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