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Bez* In Middle,
Being Squeezed
• WASHINGTON, (/Pi—Neck Bez
of S/attle declared Monday he was
“iV it in the middle” on his deal
to operate the government-financ
ed floating cannery “Pacific Ex
plorer.”
On one hand, he told a House
fisheries subcommittee, is the re
construction finance corporation
insisting on “getting $1.04 back
for every dollar invested.” On the
other is the fish and wildlife serv
ice wanting all kinds of scientific
information needed in the fish bus
* iness.
“They're both right,” he assert
ed, “but I come right in the mid
dle, with people shouting at me
from all directions in the country.”
Bez was the last witness in a
four-day hearing by the subcom
mittee on complaints of Southern
California tuna fisheries that the
Pacific Explorer is operating in
well-explored water off Costa Rica
in unfair competition with exist
ing private industry.
Max Hersh, attorney for the re
construction finance corporation,
told the House fisheries subcom
mittee that Bez has agreed to an
amendment in the contract to pro
vide for operation of the ship “pri
marily in the Bering Sea and ad
jacent waters of the Pacific ocean."
The admendment substitutes the
term “adjacent waters” for “other
waters.”
"SODA POP" AND OTHER
corbonated beverages got their
start as medicines. According to
the Encyclopaedia Britannica, ‘pop’
was introduced in the United
States by a Philadelphia doctor
who had carbonated water pre
pared as a medicine for his pa
tients. Later fruit juice was added
as a flavor.
Inquire Into Ailing
Atomic Workers
LONDON, i/P>—Britain's chem
ical workers union demanded to
day a “most thorough-go ng in
qui'.v" into cases of sexual impo
tence reported among workers a
a secret atomic research s* i ion
i operated by the government in
northern England.
The union also called for gov
ernment investigation of what it
term'd "all kinds of baffling sick
nesses which are today plaguing
the lives of our members employe i
in plants using new solvents.”
A spokesman said the union had
reports of about twenty cases of
sexual impotence. He said the
union was not yet prepared to say
the workers were “completely ster -
ile.”
The loss of sexual power, he
added, has had “serious psycho
| logical effects” in the workers’
i homes.
Canadian Airline
Shows Loss
OTTAWA (/P)—The government
■wned Trans-Canada Airlines op
erated in 1946 at a loss of $1,115,
253 'Canadian funds) despite a
'iib tantial increase in business, it
was disclosed in the annual report
of H. J. Symington, president.
Operating revenues totaled $12,
“10,605 an iucrease of $2,298,217 or
22 per cent over 1945. Net operat-;
ing expenses totaled $13,926,061
an increase of $2,346,000 or 36 per
cent over 1945.
The number of passengers car
ried increased by 67 per cent, pas
senger revenues by 48 per cent and
ur express poundage by 10 percent
the report stated. Air mail pound
age dropped by 32 per cent.
Dock Workers Defy
(Jovt. And Strike
LONDON, (/Pi — 14,000 dock
workers defied a labor government
jj(v;-to-work appeal and remained
n strike today, leaving sprawling
> larves idle in London and Glas
gow.
.* nether strike of maintenance
.. rkers left the drawbridge spans
1 Tower Bridge pointing skyward
A srppting traffic in the heart of
■ ‘ city. Nearby London bridge
”-:t. jammed with diverted traffic.
.vl re than 10,000 London dock
•ot her s walked out Monday in
•ynpathy with 3,800 Glasgow
r .erp who quit six weeks ago
b.Cai. e 500 fellow workers were
: ie..se-I as “redundant.'
VICTORY DIVISION
SEEING JAPAN
The 24th “Victory" Infantry Di
vision, one of the six famed Pacific
divisions just opened to direct et
listment for three-year volunteers,
is doing occupation duty in Japan.
This outfit saw action beginning
with the first day of the war when
it suffered light casualties in the
attack on Pearl Harbor. Later, the
“Victory” Division fought in Dutch
New Guinea, on Biak and through
out the Philippines including Ley
te, Mindoro. Luzon, Marinduque,
Lubang, Verde, Simara. Mindanao
and Ronblon Islands. It also made
the dramatic assault on Corregidor
in support of paratroopers.
Margaret Culkin Banning.
American novelist has been abroad
at the outbreak of three wars—in
London in 1914, in San Sebastian
at the commencement of the Span
ish Revolution; in Paris for the
first mobilization in 1939.
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