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VNEWS IN BRIEF
ST. LOUIS, bP)—President Tru
man arrived here by train exactly
on schedule at 11 a.m. <EST>, ta
day and immediately appeared on
the rear platform and greeted a
crowd there to see him.
He will cast his election ballot
at his Missouri home.
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y. i/P)
The United States today asked the
^United Nations to broaden its con
siderations of a site for permanent
headquarters to include the Flush
ing Meadows area of New York
City and the San Francisco Bay
area.
WASHINGTON, i/P)— Striking
AFL pilots and Trans-World A
® officials studied a new but
undisclosed proposal today fo:
ending the 12-day-old strike.
While details were withheld,
federal mediator Frank P. Doug
lass voiced hope that both side
might agree to submit their wage
dispute to arbitration and resume
flight operations pending the a
biter’s findings.
» EVERETT, Wash, </P) — Two
hundred and two Everett war vet
erans are $250 richer today be
cause tiie Elks lodge did not forget
them while entertaining other
service men during the war.
The sum represents each vete>
an’s share of a $52,269 melon built
up during the war years as lodge
members matched sums spent on
local veteran entertainment.
Widows of five members who
^ did not answer last night’s roll
call will receive their shares to
night following a memorial serv
ice.
TOKYO, (/P)—General Mac Ar
thur’s food and fisheries section
said today it would begin ship
ments in January of 50,000 cases
of seed oysters to the Pacific Coast
Oyster Growers association for
replanting oyster beds from Brit
ish Columbia to Coos Bay.
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LOS ANGELES, (/P) — There
was some confusion last week
over a high school football score.
Statisticians couldn’t agree whe-1
ther suburban Canoga Park de- j
feated Verdugo Hills 86, 87 or 88
to nothing. This is to announce a
drastic revision. It appears that
Canoga Park unwittingly used an
ineligible player. So Verdugo Hills!
won, 1-0.
SAN DIEGO, (/P)—A fleet of
nine attack transports, four cargo
ships and numerous small am
phibious jeeps steamed north to
day to pick up the army second
division at Olympia, Wash. They
will arrive in Olympia Nov. 4.
The army troops, more than
12,000-storng, will be brought here
for amphibious training culminat
ing in full scale army-navy land
ing exercises at San Clemente Is
land and Alise Beach near Ocean
side, Calif.
Christopher Columbus became
a sailor at the age of 14,
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WASHINGTON, D. C.— (Soundphoto) — Happy to go home, Senators join hands in saying good
■ ^ ' si'ie adjourned to go home on the longest vacation in over ten years. Photo shows, left to
right: Sen Theo. F Green of R. I., Sen. James W. Huffman of Ohio, Sen. Alben W. Barkley of Ky., Sen.
OJm D. Johnston of o. C., and Sen. George L. Kadcliffc of Aid. All are Democrats.
More Concessions
To Lewis “Public
Disgrace**
\ V AS HIN G TO 11, </P)—The gov
ernment sat down to tali; over
new wage demands with John L.
Lewi..' united mine workers today
as the private owners of die coal
miner.- contended any new con
cessions to Lewis would be "a
pi'b'ic disgrace.”
Lewis s'-nt a delegation headed
by John O'Leary, vice president of
the AFL mine workers’ union, to
represent him in a conference
with federal co ll mines adminis
trator N. T. Collisson. Lewis him
seif was absent when the meeting
opened.
The session was called in an
swer to Lewis’ demand for a re
opening of a government mine
contract to discuss new working
conditions and wages.
As the meeting opened the bi
tuminous coal operators’ negotia
ting committee issued a statement
saying the government in view of
the committee had decided to re
open its contract with Lewis and
that the decision had been promp
ted by “politically minded men.”
Duke Of Windsor
Didn’t Get Job
LONDON, </P)_1The Duke of
Windsor conferred today with
Prime Minister Attlee—but didn’t
get a job.
An authoritative government
source said after the conference
that there was no suitable appoint
ment for the duke.
The former king entered No. 10
Downing street by a rear en
trance and left the same way after
talking with Attlee nearly an hour.
Steamship officials said they un
derstood Windsor and his Duchess
would sail for New York on No
vember 6.
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*V A SUING TON, </i‘—A “very
hung” earthquake, apparently in
the Aleutian Islands oil' Alaska,
was 1 eportcd today by George
town University.
Father Edward H. j’nwer. a.
mologist, said the disturbance be
gan at (»:2."»:06 a.m. »EST . reached
; maximum intensity at 6:58 a.m.,
and still was being recorded at
7 a.m.
lie calculated it occurred 4.300
miles northwest of Washington
and said this placed it in the
Aleutians.
In New York, the earthquake
was recorded on the Fordham
Fordham university seismograph
at 6:25:05 a.m. <EST>. Dr. William
Lynch of the university said the
quake was “violent” and was
probably in the Aleutians.
Repatriate Japs
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TOKYO, (/Pi—General MacAr
thur’s headquarters today reopen
ed the controversial Japanese re-'
patriation topic by announcing
the Russian, British and Chinese
governments had been offered
sufficient shipping to clear their
areas of Japanese by Dec. 31.
MacArthur said all Japanese in
American-controlled areas and;
the Philippines would be repatri-1
ated by then.
He was reported concerned over i
failure of the British to complete
plans to evacuate Japanese from
southeast Asia by Dec. 31. Statis
tics show that repatriation from
British and Chinese-controlled
areas had slo.wed.
Most of the 1,721,000 Japanese
yet to be repatriated are in Rus
sian zones, and are being repatri
ated at the rate of 25,000 a month,
a rate unsatisfactory to MacAr
Canada Agrees lo
"In Bond” Traffic
(her Alcan
(By HARRY T. MONTGOMERY)
OTTAWA, Out.. . V) — Canada
has agreed to permit trucking “in
bond'’ between ihc* United States
and Alaska over the Alaska High
w; y. The Canadian government is
preparing an or ier-in-councd to
permit such true.: ng, if ..re . re
trucking in bond has not been per
mitted on Canadian highways by
any country.
Tiie United States is understood
to be satisfied with today’s deci
sion, which ends a dispute opened
several days ago when Canadian
authorities refused to pass Ameri
can goods over the Alaska High
way. U. S. Senator Warren G.
Magnuson asked the state depart
ment to act.
Canadian officials took sever il
days to look into the joint Amer
ican-Canadian agreements cover
ing the highway and to get a legal
interpretation of several phrases
described as “ambiguous."
Notes were exchanged on March
17 and 18, 1942, providing that the
Alaska Highway should become
an “integral part" of the Canadian
highway and that there should be
no discriminatory conditions as
between American and Canadian
civilian traffic, and providing for
waiving by Canada or import du
ties, transit and other charges on
shipments going either way be
tween Alaska and the United
States.
The Canadian decision applies
also to the Haynes Cut-Off, run
ning through the Canadian Pro
vince of British Columbia between
the port of Skagway, Alaska, and
the Alaska Highway.
thur. Americans at the peak
brought back 300,000 a month.1
Approximately 5,000,000 havej
been returned from all areas.
AH. and CIO
Still la^lr ()v<*r
liclirf Ships
•J T ’ 'From the Governor’s
-The following telegram
been received from Li.Comdr.
K. P. Chester, Jr. naval aide to
the Governor of Alaska, in Seattle
in regard to relief ships:
“Following is statement from IF.
S. Maritime commission of Wash
ington, D. C., and San Francisco
policy in regard to release of relief
bup in all other ports: 'At tho
•quest of the Alaska Relief com
n Pee the U. S. Maritime commLs
>n iias assigned the M.S. Grom
"1 refer to the Alaska Steam
ship Company for a voyage from
Seattle to Alaskan ports for the
>.-e of handling relief ship
ments ol foodstuffs, clothing;
. lock feed and medical supplies
i or the follow.ng cor rii Pons:
no- T le cargo shah be re
ceived, loaded and discharged, and
trie ship manned under conditions
>f employment and wage rates
prevailing on September 30, 1046.
"Two—Return cargo sufficient
to guarantee the vessel against fi
nanci il loss for the round voyage
-hall be loaded at Alasban ports
and discharged at destination. 1
These conditions are . , ml.m
by local AFL unions but are con
ditions which have been in dis
pute generally by the In ■ il CIO
unions under the CMU. Sea con
ch tans stated by CMU an.v ..lent
under which they would release a
relief vessel to the Alaska relief
comm tlee.
“Meeting bo ng he!;! t nverow
>(. tween Alaska rebel committee.
Maritime commission. AFL repre
sentative and CMU representative
to seek joint agreement on condi
tions under which Grommet will
be released. Everything possible
is being done by the Alaska relief
committee to prevent further de
lay in loading and sailing of a re
lict vessel but at present it looks
like no loading can bo commenced
until present jurisdictional dis
pute between AFL and CIO as to
who is boss in controlling release
of relief vessels is settled.
“Hope to get this settled tomor
row. Mr. Hildebrand from Mari
time commission office in San
Francisco has arrived in town to
assist in settlement of conditions
under which Maritime commis
sion vessels will be released for
relief purposes.”
GENE BLACHFORD WRITES
FROM GERMANY
Gene Blachford, son of Mr. ant!
Mrs. Percy Blachford. writes
from Germany, where he is serv
ing w’ith the armed forces, that he
is enjoying his work and finds the
country very interesting.
SPIRITS
PORTLAND, Ore. (/Pi—It was
nothing but Hallowe’en “spirits”
said j>olice, who were called to a
residence to investigate a “strange
noise.’’
They said a cider jug had.
blown up.