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NEWS IN BRIEF
RALEIGH, N. C. (/P)—Josephus
Daniels, 85-year-old publisher of
the Raleigh News and Observer
and secretary of the navy under
President Wilson, remained in a
“dying condition” Monday.
Dr. Hubert Haywood, his physi
cian, termed his condition “very,
very low.” Daniels, who resigned
as Mexican ambassador in 1941
after holding the position eight
years, developed a severe case of
bronchitis.
PORTLAND, </P)—Construction
of a standard gauge railway con
necting Puget Sound and Fair
banks, was recommended Monday
by a Seattle chamber of commerce
delegation attending a western
states council’s conference in Port
land.
The Seattle delegates proposed
that the railroad be built via
Quesnel, B. C., and the Rocky
Mountain trench route.
The council represents cham
bers -of commerce in 11 western
states.
FAIRBANKS. (/P) — Brig. Gen.
Frank F. Everest, commander of
the Yukon sector of the Alaskan
air command, was reported by
Ladd Field authorities to be en
route to Washington, D. C., to
conduct a national war college
conference on Arctic air opera
tions.
Everest will describe military
air projects and experiments be
ing staged at his headquarters
here and other Yukon sector bases.
, WASHINGTON, f/P)— James C.
P e t rillo’s 14-day-old “forever
ban” on record making by his
AFL American federation of mu
sicians threatens to “dwarf” the
radio manufacturing industry, an
industry representative contended
today.
Bond Geddes, executive vice
president of the Radio Manufac
turers association, declared in
testimony prepared for the House
labor committee that widespread
unemployment and bankruptcy I
will follow if the musicians union
chief is not forced to retreat from
his stand.
MIDDLETOWN, Ind. (/P) — A
woman was killed, five others
were hurt and the locomotive and
six cars of a Pennsylvania rail
road train were derailed as the
train struck an automobile here
early today.
Madeline Simpkins, 38, of New
Castle, Ind., riding in the car,
was killed. The driver, Mr. Lever
age, about 35, of New Castle, was
hurt as were four of the train’s
passengers.
Sheriff R. L. Padgett of Henry,
county said the locomotive and;
the cars remained upright after1
leaving the rails.
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TOKYO, (P)—Dilsmissal of war
crimes charges against 20 Japan
ese_including five ministers in
the To jo cabinet—has been recom
mended by chief prosecutor Jos
eph B. Keenan, it was learned au
thoritatively today.
Keenan declined comment on
the report but neither would he
deny he made the recommenda-,
"Draft Eisenhower*1
Plan Will Stop
GOP Support
W A S H I NGTON, I/P) — Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower may risk
any chance for the ultimate back
ing of regular Republican organ
izations in several states if he fails
to stamp out the independent
Presidential draft movement now
underway.
The army chief of staff has said
several times that he has no inter
est in politics. But thus far he has
not otherwise repudiated moves
by the Draft Eisenhower League
to put delegates into a number of
GOP primaries.
While this move has the back
ing in New Hampshire of Senator
Charles Tobey, Eisenhower en
thusiasts elsewhere seem likely to
be drawn from persons outside of
and often at odds with the regu
lar GOP organizations in the
states concerned.
As a case in point, one Republi
can in close touch with the situa
tion said privately that Eisen
hower has had a better-than-fair
chance for darkhorse support
from the powerful Pennsylvania
Republican organization at the
June Philadelphia convention.
But, this party member added,
the general may forfeit that
chance if he does not disavow im
mediately a move in his behalf
there. %
Gandhi Starts
Fast For Peace
In India
NEW DELHI, (iP) — Mohandas
K. Gandhi started a life-endan
gering fast for communal peace in
Delhi and India at 11 a.m. yester
day.
The Indian patriot and prophet
of non-violence, frail and 78, re
jected last-minute appeals from
Hindu, Sikh and Moslem delega
tions that he give the people 15
days to restore peace before be
ginning his fast. He received them
in the garden of a millionaire
friend’s home here.
“You must prefer Gandhi or
lawlessness. You can’t have both,”
delegation members said he told
them in Hindustani. They added
he asserted life had no value nor
attraction without peace and love.
Promptly at 11 Gandhi pointed
to the remnants of his breakfast
of goat’s milk and vegetables,
from which he had been eating
sparingly, and said. “Take it
away. It is time.”
tion to the war crimes section of
the U. S. department of the army
in Washington.
An informed source said Kee
nan’s reasoning is that trial of the
20 defendants would be anti-cli
matic, lengthy and expensive and
would necessitate a complete new,
tribunal.
SEWARD, (/P) —The Aleutian
Mail went aground early Monday
on the southwest tip of Unamakj
Island the first in the Aleutian
chain.
Crew, Passengers
Saved From Two
Small Steamers
SEATTLE OP)—Two more mid
winter rescues from small Alaska
steamers wrecked out to the
“westward,”—in waters west of
Kodiak Island and along the Alas
ka Peninsula— saved upwards of
a score of passengers and crew
members today.
The 15 passengers and crewmen
of the Aleutian Mail, all suffering
from exhaustion and exposure,
were taken off the beach and the
grounded vessel by a boat and
salvage crew late yesterday, the
coast guard cutter Cedar radioed.'
The Aleutian Mail had ground
ed near Arch Point, on Unimak
Island, early yesterday, and the
self propelled army barge BSP
1927, turning to go to its aid also
grounded and nearly met disaster.
Floating free the barge’s crew of
approximately nine messaged at
noon yesterday that the craft
would stay afloat only an hour
longer.
Later, however, fishing vessels
rescued those aboard and headed
for King’s Cove, on the Alaska
Peninsula. The army tug Bolster
was to attempt to salvage the
barge. ,
Two salvage officers from the
Cedar Lt., <jg) E. W. Jackson, and
Ensign William Page, and a boat
i crew of Vincent Sherman, seaman
1/c; Russell E. Sparks, machin
ists’s mate 3/c; Thomas Connor,
pharmacist’s mate 3/c and Frank
H. Steinheiser, gunner’s mate 3/c.
made the rescue, the Cedar mes
saged.
| All the government mail was |
; also rescued from the beach and
the Aleutian Mail, a 263-ton
wooden ship, was kedged off the
beach at high tide and taken in
tow by the Cedar for Sand Point,
on Popof Island, 50 miles away.
The Cedar’s skipper praised the
“excellent seamanship” and res
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Five Killed In I
States Plane Crash
—
WASHINGTON, (^)-An East
ern Airlines plane with nine per
sons aboard crashed on the out
skirts of Washington during a
rainstorm early yesterday, killing
five and injuring four.
The plane, en route from Hous
ton, Tex., to Boston, plowed into
a grove of trees on the Maryland
side of the Potomac River a few
miles from the national airport
shortly after reporting it was
coming in for a landing.
The twin-engine DC-3 was de
molished, but there was no fire. I
Eastern Airlines said the cause |
had not been determined, adding
that the pilot checked in with EAL i
by radio at 4:27 a.m. but failed to
make contact with the airport
control tower later as scheduled.
The dead were three passen
gers, the pilot and co-pilot. Three
injured passengers and the flight
attendant were taken to Casualty
hospital in Washington. .
Rain, slush, and muddy roads
in the area hampered police and
others in rescue work.
Territory Asks
Reductions In
Steamship Rates
_
JUNEAU — Freight rate reduc- j
tions of 36 per cent to Southeast
Alaska, 50 per cent to Gulf ports
and 49 per cent to Bering Sea are
possible under honest, economical
and efficient management of
steamship service to Alaska, the
Territory contends in a brief filed
with the U. S. Maritime commis
sion on the basis of testimony pre
sented in the current investiga
tion of the lawfulness of Alaska
rates.
At the same time, the Terr it Ary
called for southbound rate reduc
tions of 22 per cent from South
east, 13 per cent from the Gilf
and 15 per cent from Bering Sea
ports.
The Territory’s brief, signed by
Attorney General Ralph J. Rivers,
special counsel Malcolm D. Mil
ler and economic consultant Don
ald J. O’Connor, is one of six sub
mitted to the commission to sum
up evidence presented at the hear
ing concluded at Seattle two
months ago.
Rate reduction proposals are
made on the basis of a cost study
from voyage expense data filed
by carriers with the commission.
Even if the companies serving
Alaska were not subsidized by the
Federal government, as at pres
ent, reductions of 19 per cent in
rates to Southeast Alaska, 33 per
cent to the Gulf and 21 per cent to
Bering Sea would result from
proper scheduling, loading and
operating of ships, the Territory
contends.
“Mere comparison of revenues
and expenses cannot result in
proper determination of a rate
case,” the brief declares. "Reason
able rates are not based upon cost
plus arithmetic. Profits can be
controlled by management use of
efficient or inefficient operational
methods to suit the need for show
ing profits or lack of profits. . . .
The problem of the maritime com
mission in this case, we contend,
is that of setting rates so that the
carriers will be required to oper
ate efficiently; then perhaps there
would - be some relationship be
tween actual expenses and reason
ableness of the rates.”
The Territory also argues that
the present schedule of Alaska
rates is preferential of “cannery”
traffic and prejudicial to “town”
freight' traffic, pointing out that in
thel947 rate increases “town
freight rates were increased by
much greater amounts in dollars
per ton than fishing rates.” The
result, according to the brief, is
that “the government is now sub
sidizing ... an already prosperous
cannery industry, which has been
selling its product at highly in
flated prices, while the consumer
in Alaska must pay not only the
inflation of living costs, but also
the unnecessary inflation of town
freight rates which are very high.”
The Alaska Salmon Industry,
Inc., in a brief also filed with the
commission, asks that “the same
ratio of rates now established be
tween freight of the canned sal
mon industry and town freight be
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Budget Calls For
Large Amount
For Alaska
WASHINGTON, i/P)-An inte
rior department official said to
day President Truman’s new bud
get requests $60,987,651 to be
spent in Alaska by the interior de
partment which, if approved, will
be the first step toward co-ordin
ating all government activities in
the Territory.
William E. Warne, assistant sec
retary told a news conference that)
the budget included $38,943,651
for department activities affect
ing the Territory, together with
contract authorizations for $22,
044.000.
He said this compared with ap
propriations of $16,427,238 anc*
contract authorization of $15,000.
000 this year.
Warne said that if Congress apj
proves the requests, the depart r
men* will establish a staff as £>ar_
of its program in the Territory-.
This staff, he said, will be locate(
in Alaska and here, and will seel
to “bring Alaska closer to Wash
mgton.’’ •
He listed the money in the bud
get for the department for Alask
as:
$550,135 for the secretary’s ol
fice; $924,005 bureau of land man
agement: $6,150,500, plus contrac
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Find More Bodies
Of Missing Fliers
FAIRBANKS, (JP)—Ladd FieL
authorities announced Monda!
that the body of a second par;]
j trooper was found Saturday by aj
Eskimo dog team driver seve|
miles from the wreckage of a B-t:
bomber on the northern rim of tt.
His identity was withheld pent
ing notification of next of kin.
Previously, the air forces ha
listed the names of the two mis
ing members of the ’chutist tr
as Lt. Albert C. Kinney, Lac
Field medical officer from Han
wick, Vt., and T/5 Leon J. Case"
Los Angeles. •
The body of the third par
trooper, Sgt. Santhell Londo
Kinta, Ok la., was recovered eig
days ago and has been flown
the States.
The three men jumped to tl
aid of the B-29 survivors foi
days after it crashed 95 mil
north of Nome. Six of the bom
er’s crewmen were rescued latt
but no trace has been found of t
pilot and navigator who sot o
toward an Eskimo village 50 mil
away. An aerial and dog ter
, search for the missing airmen -
being continued.
NOME, l/P)—Treking across t
barren, frozen tundra, facing su
zero temperatures and forty m
wind, a faint trail was located
searchers who located the pi
i
and navigator approximately fc
miles north of the B-29. The b(
, ies were taken to the base cai
and brought to Nome by army a
craft.
( The search still continues
the medical member of the pa*
chute team.