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Russian Press
Criticizes Byrnes
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And Hoover
MOSCOW, June 3, —iff)— The
Russian press criticized Byrnes
and Hoover over the week-end in
a new barrage of comment direct
ed to the United States.
Professor Korovin, writing for
the trade union newspaper Trud,
asserted that Byrnes was attempt
ing to widen the powers of hte
^United Nations General Assem
bly beyond the limit of its charter.
He said, “Byrnes proposal to
place the disputed peace treaties
before the United Nations would
be'nothing more than a “veiled
return” of the proposal by Hoov
er. Korovin said he described
Hoover as “one of the reactionary
figures in the United States.”
Japs Starving
Ifi Tokyo Streets
Officials State
TOKYO. June 3, — (/P>—With in
telligence reports indicating in
creasing numbers of Japanese dy
|^ng of starvation in the Tokyo area
Supreme Headquarters took steps
to prevent waste of imported j
foods. The Japanese government
was directed to release, as part of
the staple food ration “a very
small percentage” of imported
food which is in danger of spoil
ing
In another step to ease the food
situation, Supreme Headquarters
authorized the Japanese govern
ment to issue three billion nine
hundred thousand yen worth of
food certificates to be sold in
banks to finance the purchase of
rice and other staples in turn for
the government’s buying the crops
from the farmers at higher than
ceiling prices and selling to the
consumers at ceiling price.
The government plans to issue
emergency food declarations in
an effort to tide over the current
food crisis.
U. S. Army officer said 267
starvation victims were found in
Tokyo’s streets durinp April.
Council Airfield
Covered by Flood
Chester Milligan and Fred Dent
rt^lng men from the Council dis
trict, flew to Council Saturday
and were forced to return to
Nome because of flooded airfield.
PLYWOOD AMPHIBIAN —With hull built of plywood like a boat, this new Common
wealth amphibian is the first low-priced twin-engined land-and-water plane since the war.
Establishes New
‘Chute Jump
Record For 1 Day
SIOUX CITY .June 3. —(/P)—John
Swetich of Rapid City, S.D., to
day claimed a new world’s record
for the number of parachute
jumps in one day, after making
60 descents.
His jumps covered a period of
17 hours. The previous record,
it is understood was thirty jumps.
Sen. Vandedberg
Calls For A
‘Peoples Peace’
DETROIT, June 3, —(/P)—Sena
tor Vandenberg, republican from
Michigan, in calling for a “peo
ple’s peace” warned against any
attitude in world peace efforts
which will limit peace making to
“a closed corporation of big pow
ers.”
The senator said the Paris con
ference of foreign ministers was
a success insofar as it established
the American foreign policy
“which invites all our partners in
war to have proper voice in mak
ing our common peace.”
# Bodies Rescued
Army Transport
Wreck at Sea
—
! NAPLES, Italy, June 3,—(fP)—
Deep sea divers joined in the
search for the bodies of twenty
two missing persons aboard the
U. S. Army transport plane which
plunged into the sea near here
Saturday, while enroute from In
dia. Of the thirty-eight return
ing military personnel, eight were
rescued, and eight bodies were re
covered. .
Devastating Quake
Wrecks Villages
In East Turkey
_
ISTANBUL, Turkey, June 3,—(;P)
—Government officials declared
an earthquake devastated parts
of East Turkey Friday, and pro
bably killed more than 600.
The government reported that
village after village fell flat
throughout the provinces of Muz,
Erzurum, Said, Fezzi and Kang
sagil.
The deputy for Erzincan com
munity in Ustrkan alone reported
260 killed.
Talk of‘How, When
;and Why’of War
j‘Vicious’ Says ‘lke‘
J
- I
CHICAGO, June 3. —(A5)—Talk
about “how, where and why the
next war will be fought” is brand-j
ed “vicious” by General Dwight i
D. Eisenhower, in addressing a
convention of Reserve Officers
Association.
Eisenhower asserted “such talk;
is more than foolish, it is vicious.”
_
Blind Child Found
Critical Condition j
Mother Dead
SEATTLE, June 3,—(/P)—A two
year old blind boy was reported
to be in a critical condition in a j
hospital here, after he was found
suffering from malnutrition and
exposure on a basement trashpile
by neighbors who heard the child
crying. When the police were
called, they discovered the boy’s
mother dead in an upstairs room.
The coroners deputies estimated
she dad been dead about three
days.
WASHINGTON, June 3, — </p)_
America’s Maritime labor crisis
took on a broader international as
pect following the CIO Maritime
leaders’ loosing of still another
critical blast as President Tru
man appealed simultaneously for
workers in other lands to help in
the shipping strike scheduled for
June 15th.
In this atmosphere, wage and
hour negotiations moved slowly
along.
The Labor Department, encour
aging this situation appeared to
consider that collective bargain
ing had not broken down.
Bridges and Curran, kingpins
in the CIO Maritime Unions sent
cablegrams to World Federation
Trade Unions in Paris, asking it
in the event a strike is declared,
any merchant vessel manned by
the U. S. Government will be
“scab ships.”
(jeneral Marshall
Offers \en
Peace Proposals
NANKING, June 3, —(/P)—Com
munist spokesman, Lu Tingyi, an
nounced the capture of four gov
ernment held Manchurian cities
and intimates his party’s forces
will retreat no farther in the in
creasingly critical Manchurian
civil war.
Chiang Kai Shek returned to
Nanking where he is making an
effort to bolster fading hopes of
peace.
General George Marshall is re
ported to have advanced a new
peace proposal over the week
end following the return of the
Chinese president from Peiping,
following his seven day visit.
The way was again opened for
resumption of peace negiations.
General Marshall’s new truce
plan was discussed earlier with
the chief Communist negotiator,
General Choul N. Lai, for about
six hours, but the talk was closely
guarded.
Hirohito Has
Second Conference
With MacArthur
TOKYO, June 3. — (AV-Hirohito
held a second conference Friday
with General Douglas MacArthur
after it had been delayed by pol
itical disturbances.
There have been no confirmed
reports as to what the topics odT
discussion were.