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NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON, (/Pi—Soft coal
mine operators and union leader*
met yts.erday for another 1 y at
an agreement that would open the
way for the return of government
seized nrnes to private operation
without a strike.
PHILADELPHIA, i/Pi—An out
break of infant diarrhea in east
ern Pennsylvania and New Jersey
claimed its 27th victim Tuesday
with the death of a 10-day-old
child. Many Ann Pleva, of Em
maus, Pa., died in the Allentown.
Pa., general hospital which re
ported five other children ill of
gastroenteritis still being treated
there.
SEATTLE, </P)—F. L. Grindle,
Naknak, Alaska, visiting here, and
Carl A. Line, Seattle, reported
Tuesday four robbers held them
up in the south end shortly after
midnight. Grindle lost $20 and his
watch and Line $65 and his watch.
The two said the four invited
them to a party and suddenly
threatened them with a knife.
PORTLAND, Ore. (JP)—Ralph
J. Rivers, attorney general of
Alaska, was enroute to Washing
ton, D. C., from here Tuesday af
ter inspecting Portland's port fa
cilities and expressing hope the
Maritime commission would per
mit a Portland-to-Alaska steam
ship service. The Territorial offi
cial said the existing Seattle mo
nopoly of Alaska shipping was
detrimental to the public welfare
and that Alaska businessmen were
anxious to develop trade with
Portland.
SCHENECTADY, N. Y. bP)—A
large scale expansion program,
expected to cost approximately
3300.000,000 is being carried on by
the General Electric company.
When completed, GE’s pre-war
manufacturing space and number
of employees will be doubled, the
company said.
WASHINGTON, </Pj—Expenses
of the 44-nation world bank top
ped its income by $680,176 during
the nine months ended March 31,
the bank reported today.
Outlays amounted to $1,278,151
while income totaled $559,975,
made up entirely of interest on U.
S. government securiites which
the bank has bought. ,
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman today nominated William
E. Warne of California to be as
sistant secretary of the interior,
succeeding Warner W. Gardner.
Presidential secretary Charles
G. Ross said Gardner is resigning
effective June 30.
Warne, who is 41, has been as
sistant commissioner of reclama
tion in the interior department
since July 1943.
WASHINGTON, I/P) — Legisla
tion to apply the mineral leasing
laws to all acquire public lands
was approved today by a public
lands subcommittee headed by
Senator Robertson (R.-Wyo.)
W aul Interior Cut
To Be Restore;!
•i ”*> Speri 1 Washington Service'
WASHINGTON (/Pi — Govern
ment official, and representatives
jf p ivate /roups urged a Senate
subcommittee yesterday to restore
Jiou-'e-ar’• oved cuts in funds lo
the Interior department.
They testified after secretary of
the interior Krug told the commit
tee appoval of House cuts in in
terior appropriations from $203.
000 000 requested in the midget to
$16\000,000 would be “false econ
omy."
Gov. Ernest IT. Gruening testi
fed that the territories and islands
division is “invaluable” to thc
Territory in handling migration
and other problems.
He said it now is completing ne
gotiations for establishment of a
newsprint industry in Amsk...
iH. Rex Lee, assistant direcor
of the division, urged resio,,a1im
of the budget figure of SI20,000
to speed up work to make Alaska,
Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Vir
gin Islands sell’-sufficienf
Urge Aid Program
To United Nations
W A S H I NGTON, </P) — The
sharpest attack on administration
\
foreign policy since Pearl Harbor
imperiled the $400,000,000 Greek
Turkish aid bill today.
Opposition forces in the House
were throwing their f^ill weight
behind a move to shunt the whole
issue to the United Nations. And
the outcome was in doubt.
A similar effort in the Senate
‘ailed. P>ut passage there had been
aforegone conclusion for days be
fore the 67 to 23 vote on April 22.
In the House Republican ranks
were split wide open as the cham
ber program called together for
the second day of general debate
on a program temed by friend
and foe alike as one seldom par
alleled importance in the rela
tions between this nation and the
world.
Rriglit N ew Comet
Discovered
CAMBRIDGE. Mass. </P> — A
new comet so bright that it may
be seen with ordinary field glasses
when it swings closest to the earth
on May 20 was reported today by.
the Harvard college observatory.
Known as the “comet Rondani
ma-Bester,” it was discovered
early this year by M. J. Bester of
the Harvard station in Bloemfon
tein, South Africa, and a Czecho
slovakian astronomer.
Harvard astronomers said the
t
comet was in the eastern sky near
the sun and would be brightest
just before sunrise May 20.
WEATHER DELAYS TRAINING
FLIGHT HERE
Eight P-51’s on a navigational
training flight from the Fairbanks
field were detained here for a few
days due to unfavorable flying
weather. They returned to their
base this morning.
Senate Slashes
Labor, Security
Appropriations
■VASHINGTON. </P>—Economy
advocates rode firmly in the Sen
ate saddle Tuesday with a preco
dent-breaking vote to slash 1 'bor
department, federal s e c u r i t y
agency funds bobbing along them.
For the first time in more than
a decade, the Senate voted Mon
day to cut deeper than the House
in approving a $1,676,198,000 ap
propriations measure for the two
bureaus.
The figure was $8,388,000 less
than the lawmakers across the
capitol had allowed and $100,000,
000 below President Truman’s
budget estimate. Usually in the
, past the House has voted smaller
sums and the Senate has boosted
them.
Senator Byrd 'D.-Va.>, who has
been preaching economy for
years, told a reporter he was
| gratified.
“It's the first time in 14 years
that the Senate has shown any
disposition to cut government
spending,” he declared. “I think
it means that we are going to have
1 ,iome real economy in this Con
gress.”
Byrd said no one can guess yet
whether the Republican goal of
trimming from S4,500,000,000 to
$6,000,000,000 off President Tru
man’s $37,500,000,000 budget for
the year beginning July l will be
; reached. He said the final tally
will depend on what, if any, re
ductions are voted for the armed
services.
With the 3163,000,000 cut
recommended Monday by the
House appropriations committee
for thg State, Commerce and Jus
tice departments and the federal
courts, the budget trimming now
stands at about $1,140,000,000.
Army, navy and veterans ad
ministration supply bills are yet to
be written.
Pan American (aits
Service Into Nome
SEATTLE, (/P) — Replacement
of DC-3's with larger DC-4 air
planes began Tuesday on the Pan
American World Airways Alaska
runs, traffic manager D. E. Mc
Morran announced. ,
Twelve round trips per week
between Seattle and Ketchikan
and Juneau will be scheduled;
seven flights a week to Fairbanks,
and two to Nome.
Four times as much air express
and twice as many passengers can
be flown with the new ships, offi
cails said.
The line has received permis
sion from the civil aeronautics
board to temporarily suspend the
Fairbanks-Bethel run because of
adequate service being performed
by local carriers.
(The local postmaster, Dave
Mazen, requests persons wishing
to send air mail to have it in the
postoffice by 3 p.m. Mondays and
Thursdays, the days of Pan Amer
ican new schedule of flights.)
Russia Attacks
Economic Merger
r
''TOSCOW, .Soviet ne\v>p
oe s today attache i United States
and British economic agreements
with Scandinavian count . s* n 1
charges that the economic merger
of British and Amerian zones in
Germany was benefit mg m iu ■
trial- magnates and Junker land
lords.
Izvestia, the g ivernmer* org
naming Denmark, Sweden ;
Norway specifically, said Ru s
agreements with these c .unt; ...
were based upon mutual respect
for the economies involved but
that such was not the case in the
B • itish and American agreements.
Commentator Constantin Hoff
man, writing in the trade union
newspaper Trud, charged that un
der the protection of the British
American economic merger in
Gemany, industrial magnates and
Junker landlords were "prosper
ing." He added that the plan of
unification of Communists and
Social Democrats was causing
worry in the western zones.
May Broadcast
"Voice of America*
WASHINGTON, (/I1! —A coi
promise that would giv? the sti
department $10,000,000 for
'■Voice of America” broadcasts
Russia and other European coun
tries was in the wind today.
It grew out of a meeting attend
ed by Secretary of State Marshall,
chairman Taber <R.-N. Yh of the
House appropriations committee
and other Congressional leaders.
Marshall called the session after
the refusal of Taber’s committee
to approve a single penny of the
$31,381,220 the department asked
for its cultural relations program.
While neither Taber nor others
who attended Monday’s meeting
would discuss what, if any. agree
ments were reached, there were
reliable reports that a $10,000,000
appropriation for foreign broad
casting has been agreed upon ten
tatively.
Publishers Bene
By Union Hub's
WASHINGTON, (A3) — Wood
ruff Randolph, president of the
international typographic union,
declared today that the union’s
rules “are a positive benefit’’ to
publishers.
He said in a statement prepareJ
for the Senate newsprint comm
tee that union rules constitute
fair practices act which employe
“are quite happy to enjoy wh(
local unions or members take ir
regular or irresponsible action.”
Randolph was called by the
committee to reply to testimony
from previous witnesses that
union practices, required by ITU
rules, placed an unusual cost bur
den on small newspapers.
Of earlier criticism of the ITU,
Randolph said:
“If the union regulations were
so oppressive and so inefficient as
described by the witnesses before
To Sellle IPhone
SlB’ikns Loc all\
YfAUUNUTUX. (.-i,i Unions
'tic ' crlleil the cross-country
telephone strike last April 7 havt
abandoned efforts to negotiate
their demands with the Bell sys
tem on a nationwide basis.
T..is decision to shift the em
phasis to local bargaining was
1 uled today by Bell officials as
well as union leaders as a move
likely to hasten the end of the 31
day-old tieup.
Officials of the Bell system and
its parent concern, the A. T. & T.,
had consistently refused to yield
to union insistence on nationwide
bargaining, contending negotia
ti;ns should be on a local basis
because of local factors involved.
Tile 49-member policy commit
tee ot the national federation of
telephone workers, which had
been in almost daily session since
March 24, was adjourned indefin
itely and its members returned
home to help bargain out settle
ments in their own areas.
NFT'V president Joseph A.
Beirne said the policy commit
tee’s decision to strive separately
for new wage agreements with the
more than 20 Bell companies was
not a step backward but would
“intensify” negotiations.
Communists
Ousted In France
PARIS (/P)—France’s Socialist
party today ratified Premier Paul
Ramadier’s decision ousting Com
munists from his coalition cabi
net, thus ending a French govern
ment crilis.
A hastily summoned national
council of the party voted 2,529 to
2,125 to approve the break with
the extreme left, an action which
may have political reoercussions
throughout western Furooe.
4
Ramadier, pleading for the
council’s endorsement in. the hot
12-hour debate which preceded
the vote, declared he would feel
like a “grave-digger of the Repub
if L . <*re forced to resign.
Supporting Ramadier, Leon
hum, a former Premier and an
elder statesman ol the party, de
clared that “resignation of the
government would be tantamount
to denial of the parliamentary re
gime.”
KENTON. Wash. (/P) — Robert
T. Graham. 77, died Sunday of a
heart ailment. Mr. Graham had
lived in Ketchikan the past 50
years. He came here two weeks
ago for treatment.
Son of missionary parents, he
was born off the coast of Cape of
Good Hope, South Africa. He went
to Alaska in 1897 and worked as a
miner, fisherman, was in the fur
niture business, and recently re
tired from the undertaking busi
ness. His body will be taken to
Ketchikan Monday.
(
: this committee, non-union opera
tion would have taken over the
printing and publishing business
af this nation.”
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