French Assembly
Upholds Schuman
PARIS, (/P>—The National As
4 sembly upheld Premier Robert
Schuman Saturday against a com
bined Communist-De Gaullist at
tempt to modify the anti-inflation
bill upon which he staked his gov
ernment. The vote was 322 to 262.
The vote came on a proposed
amendment to an article in the
125,000,000,000 franc <$1,000,000,
000) save-the-franc tax bill deal
9 ing with taxation of small shop
keepers and craftsmen.
Schuman immediately announc
ed he was asking a viote of confi
dence on five other amendments
and declared he would resign if!
the article was not adopted intact
as he submitted it.
Under assembly rules, this
^ postponed further voting until
today.
Schuman had summoned the as
sembly into extraordinary session
with the announcement he wanted
a vote of confidence on every pro
posed change in the measure.
Russia Calls On
Swedish Cancer
Specialist
STOCKHOLM, </P)—Prof. Elis
Berven, Swedish cancer specialist
and radiologist, left by plane Sat
urday for Moscow for “consulta
tion on a serious cancer case.”
“I cannot tell you who my pa
tient is because I don’t know my
self yet,” Dr. Berven told news
men. He received a cabled re
quest from “the Russian authori
ties.”
Mrs. Berven said her husband
had no idea how long he might be
in Moscow. She added that his as
sistance had been requested “no!
for an operation, but only for con
sultation.”
Dr. Berven, 62, is chief physi
cian of the Stockholm radium hos
pital.
Before the war a Swedish brain
surgeon. Prof. Herbert Olivecro
na. was called to Moscow for con
sultation under similar circum
stances. Later it developed that he
had performed an operation on a
high Soviet official.
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Union To Fight
Taft-Hartley Law
To Highest Court
WASHINGTON, <;p)—The first
union to be held guilty of an un
fair labor practice' under the Taft
Hartley act pledged Saturday to
“fight the case all the way to the
U. S. Supreme Court if neces
sary.”
Herbert G. B. King, attorney lor
local 74 of the AFL carpenters
union at Chattanooga, Tenn , said
he will go the limit in opposing a
ruling handed down here Friday
by J. J. Fitzpatrick, an examiner
■ of the national labor relations
board.
, Fitzpatrick held that local 74
' engaged in a secondary boycott,
banned by the new labor law as
an unfair labor practice, by calling
a strike of union carpenters when
non-union flooring installers came
to work along side them on a
Chattanooga home remodeling
job.
The filing of unfair labor prac
tice charges was limited under the
old Wagner act to those against
employers only. The Taft-Hartley
I law permitted them to be filed
, against unions, too, for the first
time.
In another precedent-setting de
cision, federal judge Stephen W.
Brennan issued the first injunc
tion under the Taft-Hartley law at
Utica, N. Y., Friday against local
294 of the AFL teamsters union.
The injunction restraining the
local from continuing six alleged
unfair labor practices—including
one of so-called “feather-bed
ding,” or requiring an employer
to pay for work not performed—
until the NLRB here can decide if
the local was “unfair.”
Local 294 was accused of de
manding that the Conway Express
company of Pittsfield, Mass., pay
the union an amount equal.to the
wages of a union member as pen
alty for allowing a non-union
member to drive a truck from New
Britain, Conn., to Cleveland, O.,
last September.
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Tender Spencer
Silent Since Dec. 31
»
SEATTLE, (/P) — Wind, waves
and ice cloaked the fate of the
strucken cannery tender Spencer,
from which no word has been re
ceived since it radioed an 'SOS
Dec. 31 it was breaking up on the
rocks five miles east of Kanatak,
across the Shelikof Strait from
Kodiak Island on the Alaska pe
ninsula.
Coast guard headquarters here
reported that the cutter Clover
and a navy tug both put out from
Kodiak in answer to the distress
call, but were turned back by
stormy weather and the weight of
ice which gathered on the rigging,
and decks of the two craft.
Weather permitting, they will
attempt again today to reach the
scene.
The Spencer’s silence does no'
necessarily mean it has gone
down, the Coast Guard said. Un
der severe icing conditions the
tender may have been unable to
transmit radio messages.
The small craft went aground
near midday Dec. 31. The tiumbe •
of men aboard and the tender’s
home port, have not been learned.
MICHIGAN HAS THE LONG’
est coastline of any state, accord
ing to the Encyclopaedia Britan
nica. Its shore line totals about
1,600 miles.
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Nugget Ads Bring Quick Results
Margaret Truman
Declines Offer
NEW YORK, (A3) — Margaret
Truman, the President’s daughter,)
has rejected with thanks a $10,000
weekly offer to do her singing in
a Times Square restaurant.
‘‘Gosh what she would have
done for business,” said Ralph
Watkins after announcing Friday
night the young concert singer had
turned down his bid for an ap
pearance at the “Royal Chicken
Roost.” Watkins is one of the own
ers.
Other plans prevented Miss
Truman from accepting, Watkins
said, adding that he had even of
fered to change the name of the
eating place if the President’s
daughter wished it.
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