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NEWS IN BRIEF
STOCKHOLM, (/P) — Two in
mates of the Haerlanda prison, in
western Sweden, had a busman’s
holiday in jail.
The prison authorities reported
that the two men had been steal
ing bed sheets, underwear and ta
blecloths from the prison laundry.
The two prisoners had almost
served their sentences and plan
ned to sell the stolen goods to raise
money for a “coming-out party.”
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman nominated Paul C. Herr
ing of Alaska today to be U. S.
Marshal for Division No. 3, Alas
ka, succeeding James H. Patter
son, whose term has expired.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—'The navy
confirmed Saturday that its Sand
Point, Wash., air station will be
kept as an active installation in
stead of being turned over to the
naval reserve.
Instructions had previo usly
been issued to make the station,
on the shore of Lake Washington,
a reserve establishment.
VICTORIA, B. C. (/P) — The
Seattle schooner Attu, which ran
aground on the Victoria side of
Active Pass early Sunday morn
ing, was refloated today by the
Island Tug and Barge. Ltd., vessel
Island Ranger.
First attempt to refloat her was
made Sunday afternoon. This
morning it was expected the Attu
would be ordered back to Seattle
for repairs.
The Attu, nearly 70 feet in
length, is used as a fishpacker.
EAST SHEEN. Eng. i/P) — You
have heard of the canary who was
so tough he sang bass?
A local cat named Whiskey has
met the canary’s cousin. Whiskey
was stalking a blackbird, when
suddenly the bird turned.
A veterinary took 15 stitches in
Whiskey.
P O R T L AND, (/P) — A second
apartment fire within three days
drove 36 persons from their bed
rooms to the street and injured
one man today. The blaze caused
little financial loss, however.
The fire, blamed by investiga
tors on smoker’s carelessness,
broke out at 3:30 a.m., in a room
next to the apartment of T. F.
Branden, manager of the College
Apartments.
TACOMA, (#*)—A disabled war
veteran jumped in front of a
Northern Pacific train here last
night. He died beneath the wheels
of the engine in full view of mo
torists who were waiting for the
train to pass the crossing.
Deputy coroner John K. Volk
identified the victim as Leonard
G. Olander, 39, of Tacoma.
BELLINGHAM, <yp) — Kenneth
M. Kennell, vice president and
general manager of the Shaffer
Terminals, Tacoma, was named
yesterday to head the Pacific
Northwest Trade Association for
the coming year. Kennell, a past |
president of the Tacoma chamber'
of commerce, succeeds E. L. Skeel
of Seattle.
Other officers elected included:
Reds In Nanking;
Prepare Drive
Toward Shanghai
(By Fred Hampson)
SHANGHAI, (/P) — Red armies
aimed a lightning blow toward the
sea at Hangchow today hoping to
trap 300,000 nationalist troops be
low Shanghai.
Other communist forces, which
took Nanking yesterday without
effort, were reported just 19 miles
from Shanghai. Residents of this,
the world’s fourth largest city,
waited in a steady rain for the
Reds, but none had showed up at
dusk.
Shanghai seemingly was being
by-passed. But none could say
for sure. Even military spokes
men admitted they did not know
just where the Red armies were.
The feeling grew among Shang
hai’s 5,000,000 inhabitants that the
great Asiatic commercial center
would go over to the communists
without a fight, just as Nanking
' did Sunday morning.
Seymour Topping, Associated
Press correspondent in Nanking,
i reported the former nationalist
| capital received the communists
quietly at 3:20 a.m., Sunday, Nan
! king time. One of the communist
soldiers' first tasks was to put out
( a fire that vandals had started in
j the Judicial Yuan building. The
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Endurance Fliers
Near 1,000-Hr. Goal
j _
FULLERTON, Calif. </P)—Rec
, ord endurance fliers Bill Barris
and Dick Riedel are wondering if
they’ll have to learn to walk all
ovgr again.
Nearing their goal of 1,008
hours aloft, which they’ll reach
next Tuesday, they recalled that
they had a “heck of a time trying
to walk” after being up 24 days
in one of their three previous ef
forts to crack the endurance flight
mark.
If they remain aloft in their sin
gle-engine^ Sunkist Lady until
11:44 a.m. tPST) Tuesday, they
will have been flying continuous
ly for exactly six weeks.
Barris radioed Friday that they
are shortening their stints at the
controls and taking frequent naps
to fight off fatigue. Their nutri
tionist has added supplemental
food in their diet to aid their
nerves. ,
Meantime, two other airmen,
Bud Woodhouse and Woodrow
Jongward, are flying over Yuma,
Ariz., trying to break the Barris
Riedl mark. Woodhouse and Jong
ward took off Thursday.
B. Frank Heintzleman, Juneau,
vice president for Alaska.
PORTLAND, (/P)—This city be
gan its first business day on day
light savings time today, and near
ly everybody got to work on time.
Little trouble was expected in
the switch to the fast time, which :
went into effect in Portland and a
circle of surrounding cities in
cluding Vancouver, Longvi e w,1
Ridgefield and Kelso.
Construction Halts
On Giant Carrier;
Millions Wasted
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Secretary
of defense Johnson Saturday or
dered the navy to stop construc
tion of its giant aircraft carrier
United States.
The keel of the 65,000 ton flat
top was laid at the Virginia yards
of the Newport News Shipbuild
ing comporation last Monday.
Johnson said in a memorandum
to navy secretary Sullivan that he
acted to stop construction of the
vessel after studying the views of
the joint chiefs of staff and con
ferring with President Truman.
Neither the President nor John
! son had given any previous word
| as to whether the controversial
I carrier should be built.
Johnson send the following
memorandum to Sullivan:
“With further reference to the
proposed aircraft carrier U. S. S.
United States, I have now receiv
ed the views of the chiefs of staff
and, after careful consideration
and discussion of the matter with
the President, I have reached the
conclusion that appropriate orders
should be issued discontinuing the
construction of the vessel.
Accordingly, you will issue such
orders as may be required under
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U. S. Faces “War
For Survival” Says
Wm. Bullitt
_
HAMILTON, N. Y. i/P) — Wil
' liam C. Bullitt forsees war and a
i struggle for survival for the
i United States.
The former U. S. ambassador to
Russia and France asserted Friday
■ night that since the end of World
War II it has been this nation’s
practice to “entrust our foreign
relations to amateurs with good
intentions and small knowledge of
fact.”
“It is tragically clear,” he said,
“that war is coming to the United
States.”
rne late president t ranKiin u.
Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins, as
secretary of commerce, evolved a
plan “to give Stalin everything he
asked during the war, asking
nothing in return,” Bullitt said.
The aim, Bullitt added, was to
persuade the Russian leader to ac
cept Christian ways and demo
cratic principles. The result is
that the United States now faces
a struggle “not for security, but
for survival,” he declared.
SERVICE CLEANERS AGAIN
OPEN FOR BUSINESS
Mr. and Mrs. Carl O. Mickelson
today announced that their clean
ing establishment, The Service
Cleaners on Third Avenue and
“B” Street, is again open for busi
ness.
They recently suffered a loss
from fire damage to the cleaning
room and many garments which
were hanging in the drying room.
Equipment has been replaced
and the building renovated ar.d all
is in readiness to take care of your
needs, stated Mr. Mickelson.
! Stop Construction;
Secy. Sullivan
May Resign
—
! WASHINGTON, (A1) — John L.
j Sullivan’s decision whether to re
[ sign as secretary of the navy ap
j peared today to rest with Presi
| dent Truman,
j Sullivan’s intimates indicated
I he would seek a heart-to-heart
talk with the chief executive on
the navy’s future role in defense
j strategy as the aftermath of work
, stoppage on the 65,000-ton super
j aircraft carrier “United States.”
Sullivan himself said only that
he had no comment on the deci
j sion pending study of secretary of
defense Johnson’s order Saturday
discontinuing work on the $189,
000,000 vessel.
He is known to hold grave
doubts whether he can stay on at
his post in view of his differences
with Johnson on security policies.
Top White House aides express
ed the view that the knocking out
of the carrier was “the straw that
broke the camel’s back” so far as
Sullivan is concerned.
He had already been reported to
have felt aggrieved by what he
considered lack of consultation
with him in the drafting ol'amend
ments to the armed services uni
fication act.
At the same time, his friends
say that he still feels loyal to Pres
ident Truman and doesn’t want to
leave government service unless
his position in the navy is too un
tenable to permit him to stay on.
He came into the government in
1939 when Britain and France de
clared war on Germany. .
The giant carrier was to have
been built at Newport News, Va.,
and its keel was laid only last
Monday.
Truman Starts
Veto Train
WASHINGTON, (JP)—President
Truman today sent back to Con
gress his first legislative vetoes of
the present session.
He returned to the House, with
out his approval, four relief mea
sures passed by the Democratic
controlled 81st Congress.
They included:
A bill (H.R. 58D giving juris
diction to the district court for
Alaska to pass upon claims of
Hilda Links, E. J. Ohman and
Fred L. Kroesing of Anchorage.
They are seeking repayment for
losses sustained in the mink ranch
business rising out of air flights
and maneuvers of the United
States armed forces.
It appears that such noise from
low flying planes excites the mink
and causes them to destroy their
young. The claimants contended
452 of 518 mink were destroyed in
that way in 1941. They said they
had to dispose of their mink farms
at a total loss of $32,000 The Pres
ident sdid his objection to the bill
was its present form. He said it
i would preclude the government
from making a proper defense. He
said he would be glad to sign a
bill properly drafted.
Pravda Accuses
Britain Of Firing
First Shot
(By Eddy Gilmore)
MOSCOW, (/P)—Pravda said to
day British naval vessels fired the
first shots in last week’s Yangtze
river battle.
The official communist party
newspaper said the British had
joined forces with Chinese nation
alist ships and that the Chinese
communists did not discover they
| had engaged British ships until
after the battle.
1 A Tass dispatch from Peiping
quoted the Chinese Sinhua news
agency as its source.
“The British government,'’ said
j the story, “must bear complete re
' sponsibility for the losses suffer
ed by the People’s army of libera
tion.” The dispatch said the Peo
ple’s army lost 232 men in opera
i tions against a combined Kuomin
; tang (Chinese nationalist* and
| British fleet.
The dispatch also claimed one
i of the ships had been sunk and
j another one had been hit and “half
j sunk.”
(The British sloop Amethyst
1 was temporarily grounded after
I the battle but was refloated*.
International News
At A Glance —
<Bv The Associated Press'
(Saturday, April 23. 1949)
Chinese communist forces stand
at the gates of Nanking today. The
central Chinese government has
abandoned its capital and the city
is a plum ripe for picking.
The Red war machine rolled tri
umphantly across the Yangtze
with literally nothing to stop it.
Demoralized nationalist troops
| surrendered on a wholesale scale.
Four nationalist armies, totaling
; probably 100,000 men, retreated
j southward.
Before leaving Nanking, nation
alist troops blew up the big*rail
way station just outside the un
defended walls of the capital. In
side, looting was rampant. Nego
tiations for turning the city over
to the fast approaching commun
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Credit Controls
Removed From
Many Articles
i -
I WASHINGTON (JP)—Beginning
next Wednesday, installment buy
ers will find credit terms as easy
as before the war—or easier—un
less sellers decide to be stricter
than the governmertt requires.
The federal reserve board, tak
ing an admittedly inflationist-type
action in the wake of recent busi
ness declines, announced Friday it
is relaxing credit controls for the
second time in less than two
! months. The board decided to:
1. Lengthen the present 21
month time limit for paying oft
I installment purchases of c irs, tel
evision sets, furniture, etc., to 24
months, effective April 27.
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