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NEWS IN BRIEF
I
LONDON, </Pj—King Mihai of
Romania flew here from Geneva
Saturday to attend Princess Eliza
beth’s wedding. Queen Mother
Helen accompanied him.
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (JP)—Wil
lian “Suit” Kinney, who with six
other miners was trapped in a
mine ii\ 1879 and remained alive
for six days by eating a mule, died
yesterday at the age of 88.
Kinney and his companions
were at work in the lowest gang
way of the Charles Perris Coal
Co., at Sugar Notch when they
[ were trapped by a fall of rocks.
Mules were used extensively in
1879 to pull the coal mine carts.
AMARILLO. Tex. (Ah—Harold
Slassen, candidate for Republican
nomination for President, today
called for a $3,000,000,000 cut in
federal taxes and advocated a
$6,000,000,000 aid program for Eu
rope in 1948.
In a prepared statement here,
the former governor said last night
that a high national income and
rate of production would allow
the tax cuts and European aid and
still leave a surplus.
HINTON, W. Va., (/P)—James
Lilly, of Ballengee, W. Va., told
authorities his dog had shot him
during a hunting trip.
Lilly said a bullet entered his
foot as he stopped to pick up a
quail he had bagged. The dog had
stepped on the trigger of Lilly’s
automatic shotgun.
SEATTLE, OP)—Hans Floe. 61,
widely known in the fishing in
dustry both here and in Alaska,
died yesterday morning in a hos
pital after a short illness.
Floe, who was born in Aales
und, Norway, came to the United
States in 1905. Since 1911 he had
been an associate of the P. E. Har
ris and company in the Alaska sal
man industry, and was a director
of that company at the time of his
death. He was general superinten
dent of the Hawk Inlet salmon
cannery since 1917, and also was
interested in the herring and tuna
fishing industries.
BULLETIN
WASHINGTON. (/P)—B. H. La
Marre, president of Aviation Elec
tric Company, testified lodt’.y that
although his salary in 1941 was
carried on the company s books
at about $31,000, approximately
$28,000 of this sum was paid to
Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers.
LONDON, (/P)—Deputy foreign
ministers of the United States.
Russia, Great Britain and France
agreed today on four items for the
agenda of the big four conference
opening Nov. 25 to write German
and Austrian peace treaties.
The items are Austria; the form
and scope of a provisional poljt'cal
organization for Germany; econo
mic principles; and the procedure
for preparing a peace treaty.
Chicago, (fl5)—TTie shotgun slay
ings of a former police chief of
suburban Posen and his wife early
yesterday have sent the homicide
squad into an investigation of re
Native Brother- |
hood Will Wage
Fight For “Rights**
KETCHIKAN, UP) — Leaders of
the Alaska Native Brotherhood,
which ended its convention at Hy
daburg Saturday, announced plans
for a last ditch fight for aborigmal
or possessory rights to a large por
tion of the 16,075,864-aqre Tongass
National Forest.
The ANB reversed a resolution
adopted three years ago against
establishment of reservations in
the Territory, despite an anti-res
ervation address by Lew Williams,
secretary of Alaska.
In New York Friday an attorney
for the Timber Development Cor
poration said it planned to go
ahead with its contract to pur
chase $20,000,000 worth of timber
from two Alaska Indian villages.
Discussing the Kake-Kasaan
timber sale, attorney James Curry
of Washington, D. C., told the
Ketchikan Chronicle “the forest
service didn’t find any buyers, and
we have.”
Meantime a Washington corre
spondent of the Chronicle reported
that results of an Arizona Indian
land claims case are expected to
have a bearing on claims filed re
cently by Alaska Indians. The
Arizona Hualapai Indians, the dis
patch said, finally won in the Su
preme Court their claim to lands
ceded to the Santa Fe Railway
more than 80 years ago by an act
of Congress, with the court up
holding Indian rights of occu
pancy.
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Jews Say 185
Immigrants Got By
British Patrols
JERUSALEM, <£>) — Jewish
sources said today that 185 Jewish
immigrants who got by British
naval patrols yesterday and waded ,
ashore after beaching the-.* 50-ton
launch Aliyah near Nahariya “are
probably already dressed as woi k
ers and housewives and are out in
the fields beside Palestinian
Jews.”
Officials who found the vessel
abandoned on the beach/ of the
fashionable resort, a few miles
south of the Lebanese-Palestin:
border, admitted that the Jews
probably had scattered into Pales
tine’s interior under cover of early ,
morning darkness.
Meanwhile 794 other Jews inter-1
cepted yesterday aboard the 250
ton schooner Kadimah by a British
boarding party, were sent to Cy
prus detention camps. Four wo
men and a child were taken from
the Kadimah to a Haifa hospital
and eight of their relatives were
allowed to remain in Palestine
with them.
ported tavern shakedowns for a
possible clue to identity of the
gunmen.
Stanley Rzepa, 31, who resigned
as the village police head under a
court order, and Mrs. Rzepa, 31,
were shot from ambush as they ar
rived home about 5:30 a.m., from
their own tavern in Posen.
McCarthy Testifies
In Gen, Meyers"
Activities Hearing
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Neil R.
McCarthy, Los Angeles attorney,
told Senators Saturday that Maj.
Gen. Bennett E. Meyers tried to
obtain both a job and a loan from
Howard Hughes while Meyers was
a wartime air force procurement
officer.
McCa'rthy, a formfer vice presi
dent of Hughes aircraft opera
tions, repeated on the stand most
of the testimony he had previously
given the Senate war investigating
subcommittee in closed sess:on
The ruddy-faced, gray-haired |
attorney delayed opening )f Sat
urday’s session for nearly an hour
after he had arrived here by tram
from Los Angeles.
Under questions of Chairman
Ferguson <R.-Mich.> McCarthy ex
plained that he had used the *irne
“to glance” over his previous testi
mony and "talk with Mr. Hughes.”
Hughes has testified that Mey
ers sought jobs both during the
war and for the post-war period
and also asked a $200,000 loan to
finance a government bond pur
chase deal.
Meyers, now retired on a pen
j sion, has denied that he sought a
job during the war or a loan. In
stead he said Hughes offered him
$250,000 for the bond deal through
McCarthy.
The Senate inquiry turned back
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Communication
From Commanding Officer
Nome Army Air Base.
November 13, 1947
Contrary to information previ
ously released on the accidental
death of Army Sgt. Arist L. Ken
dall of Nome Air Base, the follow
ing official information is released
by the Public Information Office,
Nome Air Base.
The Base Hospital received a
telephone call from “Mrs. Ida Ken
dall, wife of the deceased at 11:25
Friday evening, that Sgt. Kendall
was dying. The hospital notified
Captain Mays, the Medica- Offil
cer, who contacted the Provost
Marshal at the Officer’s Club.
They proceeded immediately to
the Kendall residence, followed by
the ambulance. Upon arrival, the
Medical officer examined Kendall j
and had him removed to the base
hospital, but upon arrival at the I
hospital, Kendall was pronounced
dead. Previously, Mrs. Kendall
was brought to the hospital by the 1
Provost Marshal. The civil and
federal authorities were notified
and Military police were posted at
the residence to prevent unauthor
ized visitors. No evidence was
moved either by the Provost Mar
shal or Military Police,*except for,
a 38 caliber revolver, which was j
lying on the floor near Kendall.
This was removed by the Provost
Marshal upon his initial arrival at
the scene and held as evidence.'
Later, after midnight, the Provost
Marshal, the Provost Sergeant and
the Army Photographer returned
to the Kendall residence to aid the
civil and Federal authorities in
their investigation of the case.
I
Violence Spreads;
General Strike
Looms In Italy
(By John P. McKnight)
ROME, UPi — A general str.ke
threatened Rome Saturday as vio
lence which racked scores of I'al
ian towns and cities last week
spread to the capital on wings of a
concerted leftist assault against
the Christian Democratic govern
ment of Premier Alcide de Ga.i
P*eri.
Rome’s chamber of labor dis
cussed calling the strike to protest
the arrest of a street car conduc
tor, identified by police as a Com
munist, in a leftist raid on an aiUi
communist meeting of wa ' veic"
ans. The street car and omnibus
workers union already had their
members out in a flash protest!
strike.
The leftist-controlled labor
press, in a pattern similar to that
followed elsewhere in riot-torn
communities, struck out at the
right wing press. Printers refuesd
to put out Saturday’s edition of the
Liberal (conservative* party news
paper Risorgimento Liberale be
cause its director refused to pub
lish a resolution of the typographi
cal union attacking what it called
the “capitalist and neo-fascist”
press.
Giulio de Marzio, director of the j
independent II Momento. resigned 1
rather than publish the statement,
and the newspaper appeared under
another publisher’s name.
While leftist followers wrecked
offices of the Uomo Qualunque!
(common man* and Italian socialist
movements in Palmero and Vero
na and of the conservative Liberal
par.ty at San Cevero near Bari,
leftist leaders in Rome attempted
to work out a new front against
Premier Alcide de Gasperi’s mid- ;
dle-of-the-road Christian Demo- !
crat government.
In the constituent assembly,
spokesmen for the rightists ac
cused the government of “lack of
energy’ ’in dealing with the situa
tion since the rioting began in Mi
lan Wednesday.
On the other hand leftist speak
ers called upon the government
for action against rightist parties
as breeders of fascism and main
tained that the anti-rightist dem
onstrations were the result of gov
ernment inaction against the neo
fascists.
World Girdlers
At Whitehorse
NORTH WAY, Alaska, </P> —
Dogged by poor weather, George
Truman and Cliff Evans hoped to
day for clear skies so they could
move their slow-moving round
the-world flight to Edmonton,
Alta.
The two fliers jumped from here
to Whitehorse, Y. T., Saturday in
a three-hour twenty minute flight
from this field near the Alaska
Yukon boundary, but weather con
ditions forestalled a Sunday hop
to Edmonton.
Present plans call for by-passing
the Pacific northwest and hopping
direct to Los Angeles from an
airport near the Canadian border.'
Labor Secy. Asks
Congress To Raise
P
!Millinium Wage
WASHINGTON, (£>)—Secretary
of labor Schwellenbach called up
on Congress today to spurn all
suggestions for tampering with the
40-hour week provisions of the
wage-hour act.
The cabinet officer also urged
quick action to hike the present
40-cent an hour minimum wage to
75 cents.
His testimony was prepared for
a House labor sub-committee
which has been studying proposals
for changes in the nine year old
statute covering workers whose
output crosses state lines.
Noting that the law sought to
establish a 40-hour work week as
a “normal schedule” by requiring
time and one-half premium pay
ments for all time worked after 40
hours, Schwellenbach told the
committee:
“Some persons are now urging
either that the overtime provisions
be repealed outright or be made
ineffective by making the time
and one-half apply either to the
minimum wage or to any rate
agreed to by the employer and
the employee. . . .
“At the beginning of our de
fer;?" program, there were argu
ments similar to those now being
advanced, that the overtime re
quirements . . . would hinder pro
duction. Events clearly disproved
these assertions. . . .
“With a present labor force over
ten million larger than the war
time force, we certainly can
achieve full production without
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Vishinsky Says
U. S. Favors
W ar With Russia
NEW YORK, (/P) — Andrei Y.
Vishinsky says he has observed a
“freizied” upsurge of opinion fa
voring war with Russia, and that
American policies in Germany ap
parently are aimed at “preserving
the remnants of fascism” so that
•Germany “can be directed against
Russia.”
The Soviet deputy foreign min
ister and chief Russian delegate to
the United Nations, addressing a
dinner given by the national coun
cil of Soviet-American Friendship
last night, renewed his “war-mon
gering” charges, and declared:
“I have been here for two and a
half months and I saw with my
own eyes and heard with my own
ears that there is a frenzied ideo
logical upsurge of public opinion
in favor of war with the Soviet
Union.”
“Under such conditions and ac
tivities, the work of the council of
American-Soviet friendship be
comes even more significant.”
Discussing his charge that
American policy seems to be di
rected toward pitting Germany
against Russia, Vishinsky said
John Foster Dulles, U. S. delegate
to the U. N. assembly, was refer
ring to this when he told the as
sembly that the United States
would not “retreat to Potsdam.”