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54,000 Foreigners
Ousted From
Russ-Held Austria
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VIENNA, July 8, ^)-Some
fifty-four thousand native Ger
mans and other foreigners were
ordered by Soviet authorities to
leave the Russian occupation zone
of Austria by 6 a.m. today.
A reliable source said they are
being sent to the French zone in
Germany.
0 Russian Army vehicles and Aus
trian Party police are stationed
outside the homes of the foreign
ers affected, who are being al
lowed to take only 30 pounds of
their belongings.
The Austrian government re
ported it had been advised that
foreigners in the zone, that only
persons who came to Austria after
the Anchluss in March 1938, and
not Austrian citizens, are obliged
comply with the order.
Austrian authorities claim that
the order contradicts both War
saw declarations on Austria.
Approval of British
Loan Requested By
r Highest Officials
WASHINGTON, July 8, —(^)—
President Truman and Secretary
of State Byrnes, stepped directly
into the front over the British
loan, as some of the Administra
tion leaders privately voiced con
cern about the pending House
vote.
President Truman sent a letter
to Chairman Spence of the House
Banking Committee, renewing his
quest for House approval of the
proposed three billion seventy five
► million dollar credit. Spence
read the letter in the House at the
opening of the four-days of de
bate on the loan agreement.
Sec. Byrnes cabled Spence from
Paris saying the loan is essential
to the welfare of the nation and
world peace.
Marine Power For
Anchorage Lights
WASHINGTON, July 8, —(PP)—
The Maritime Commission an
nounced that the wrecked stern
of the Sacketts Harbor, which
split in the North Pacific on March
first, will be towed to Anchorage
where the 6,000 horsepower tur
bines will be used to furnish el
ectric power for the city.
The ship's stern is now at Adak.
CAPITAL B L O S S O M S - Along the margin of the tidal basin, with the Washing
ton monument in the background, the capital's cherry blossoms stage their 1946 show.
Arabs Threaten
Civil Disobedience
JERUSALEM, July 8, —(/Pi
Threats of possible Arab civil
disobedifnce program, in protest
against the Jewish immigration to
Palestine, coupled with the Arab
slap at President Truman, with a
suggestion that he open America
to Jewish immigrants “if he is
really in sympathy with them.”
Dr. Khalidi, of the Arab Higher
Executive Committee, said that
his group was drafting a new note
of warning to Britain, warning
that unless the British government
took immediate steps to halt the
illegal entry of Jews into Pales
tine, there will be “a wave of
non-cooperation by Arabs, follow
ed possibly by complete civil dis
obedience.”
Utility Board Ups
New Wage Scale
KETCHIKAN, July 8, —(/P>—The
Public Utilities Board today ap
proved a new wage scale for em
ployees, giving them the same
scale as Seattle workers, plus an
additional $17.30 per month.
Foreign Ministers
Deadlocked On
Invitations
PARIS, July 8, — (/P)—'The For
eign Minister Council recessed af
ter the morning meeting which
was still deadlocked on the ques
tion of sending out invitations to
twelve other nations for a peace
conference July 29.
Arguments that marked Molo
tov’s opposition to sending out
the invitations to the conference,
unless accompanied by a strict
code of rules for its procedure,
were presented again todajj, in the
face of pleas of Byrnes and Bevin
to have the invitations go out im
mediately.
The American and British sec
retaries said they are willing to
discuss procedures and rules as
suggestions but would not attempt
to foist them on other nations.
The ministers are scheduled to
resume sessions late this after
noon.
Sources, close to the council,
said, failure to reach an immediate
solution in the procedural prob
lem might result in indefinite
postponement of the proposed
peace conference.
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New Shipping Co
Serves Alaska
SEATTLE. July 8, —(A*)— Tne
new Alaska shipping company, the
Coastal Navigation Company, will
start service July 11th between
Alaska ports, manager, J. F.
Church announced today.
Mr. Church said, the Coastal
Glacier would operate weekly
schedules, touching Ketchikan,
Wrangell, Petersburg, Juneau,
Haines and Skagway.
Adams Family
Escape With Lives
JUNEAU, July 8, —(/PV—The fam
ily of Horace Adams, Alaska
Steamship Company agent here,
fled for their lives when fire par
tially destroyed the north end of
the Alaska Dock and Storage Co.
building.
The Adams family lived in an
apartment above the office and
escaped through windows, saving
only an armful of clothes.
The blaze started by an oil
burner explosion.
LOS ANGELES, July 8, —(/P)—
Today, in the Good Samaritan
Hospital here, the millionaire mo
vie-maker, plane-builder, is re
ported as “resting easily.”
After a careful check, the doc
tors reported, Hughes had suffer
ed seven broken ribs, fractured
nose, lacerations about the scalp,
small skull-fracture, and a punc
ture wound in the left knee.
The Hughes plane was unof
ficially reported to be the world’s
fastest long-range craft ever built,
CULVER CITY, Calif., July 8, —
<#*)—Movie producer, Howard
Hughes has been given a fifty
fifty chance to live, after crash
ing in his latest plane creation,
an experimental model.
Hughes suffered a fractured
skull and burns when the plane
hit two houses and a garage, ex
ploded and burned.
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Red in’s Espionage
Conspiracy Trial
Nears Completion
j SEATTLE, July 8, — (/P> The
I jury in the Soviet Lieutenant
Redin’s espionage conspiracy trial,
must choose, it appears, between
! the word of the British-born en
gineer, who said Redin paid him
1 for the U. S. Navy’s secrets.
The Russian officer’s denial of
* virtually all of his accuser’s story
leads to the situation of his word
against that of Herbert Kennedy,
a Seattle Marine Engineer, un
less the government introduces
other evidence in rebuttal.
The case shaped up as Redin
prepared to resume direct testi
mony. Redin, his speech slightly
broken, said at one point Saturday
he would had go his english teach
er to prepare one statement which
Kennedy attributed to him.
Nazi Plan Failed
Defeat Roosevelt
WASHINGTON, July 8, —(/P)—
Assistant Attorney General, John
Rogge, disclosed a Nazi scheme to
use a huge fund to try to defeat
Roosevelt in the 1940 election
campaign, however, Rogge said,
Reichmarshal Hermann Goering
told him the plan was never put
into operation because the oppor
tunity was never presented.
Rogge said, the report that
Goering tried to invest fifty mil
lion dollars in American industry
was untrue, he said, the money
was planned for a fight against
the election of Roosevelt.