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NEWS IN BRIEF !
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NEWARK, N. J. (JP)—A burglar
still in the clink, was saddened to
learn that money he had stolen in
a holdup had been ruled “taxable
income,” wondered what would
happen to him if he didn’t pay.
MIAMI, Fla. OP) — Earl Denam
paid his income tax of $478.21,
two months later got an internal
revenue office notice that he owed
$478.22. Denam mailed the extra
penny promptly.
NEW YORK, bP>—Business ex
ecutives and customers alike are
beginning to show caution in their
buying, and sales in the coming six
months are apt to decline from
the high volume registered in the
first six months of the year, a sur
vey by the national industrial con
ference board indicated today.
Despite the trend, however,
last-half sa^es are still expected
to top those for the corresponding
period a year ago.
PHILADELPHIA, I/P) — Befty
Grable, movie star, drew a bigger
pay check last year than her boss.
Miss Grable—Mrs. Harry James
off the screen—was paid $299,333
in 1946 by 20th Century-Fox
Films, the company’s annual re
port to the securities and exchange
commission disclosed.
On the other hand, Spyros O.
Skouras. who heads 20th Century,
was paid a gross of $255,922 and
Darryl F. Zanuck, vice president
in charge of production, received
$260,000 the report showed.
WRANGELL l/P)—Fears mount
ed today for James Green, Wran
gell fisherman, who has not been
reported since a taxicab took him
to a float to board his boat last
Friday night. The boat is still
moored at the float. Two stepsons
expressed fear that he may have
fallen into the water while trying
to board the boat at night.
CAMPBELL RIVER. B. C. (/P>—
The all-time record tyee salmon
caught at this central Vancouver
island fishing resort was shattered
today when Raymond E. Slocum
of Oakland, Cal., landed a 70
pound fish.
Slocum, who was using Non. 36
tackle, won a diamond button,
cherished award for record
catches.
The giant fish was landed fol
lowing a 50-minute struggel and
was three and one-half pounds |
heavier than the previous record
catch made in 1941 by Mrs. Grace
Randall of Vancouver.
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—Five of 12
surplus army barracks brought |
here from Whittier soon will be j
opened to veterans on the list of]
the Alaska Housing Authority,
Wendell Kay, executive director
of the agency, said today.
Seven hundred veterans have
registered for housing, with prior-'
ity to be given on a basis of list
ing and need, Kay said.
NEW YORK, (tf*)—Police block-]
ed the doors of a Brooklyn theater
yesterday and quietly went among
the 400 patrons until they located
two brothers accused of a $500
Hot Weather In i
States A Benefit |
To Corn Crop
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<By The Associated Press'
Hot weather, with temperatures
edging toward the 100 mark, was
forecast for some of the nation’s
major corn producing states again
today after yesterday’s blistering
heat over a wide section of the
country.
Temperatures soared to 100 or
above in 14 states in the west,
southwest and in the great plains
states, with the top mark of 111
reported by four cities.
A mass of cool air from the Pa
cific moved into Montana and the
western Dakotas yesterday after
Monday’s highs of 100 plus in the
three states. But federal forecast
ers in Chicago said the mercury
would range from 95 to 100 in
Iowa, the leading corn state, and
Illinois and in the 90’s in Minne
sota and Wisconsin. The weather
bureau said the high temperatures
: were “perfect” for the corn crop,
which suffered from late spring
ra!ns.
Yesterday’s high temperatures
were topped by the 111 mark in
Phoenix and Yuma, Ariz., Blythe,
Calif., and Las Vagas. Nev., while
throughout the Dakotas, Nebras
ka, Kansas and parts of Missouri
the mercury hit above 100. Highs
included 109 at Philip, S. D.; 108
at Miles City, Mont.; 107, Glas-,
gow, Mont.; 104, Pierre, S. D.;
103, Ainsworth, Nebr., and 102 at
Kansas City.
International falls, Minn., on
the Canadian border and often
one of the country’s cold spots, re
ported a high of 92. Generally fair
weather prevailed throughout the
central section of the country,
scattered thunderstorms were re- (
ported in the southeastern states j
and along the Atlantic seaboard !
NEW YORK. (/Pi — The upper
Mississippi valley and the central
plains, which sweltered under
temperatures of over 100 yester
day were promised cooler fare to
day. Top readings included: 105
at Kansas City, 102 at Omaha and
Dodge City, Kas.
Temperatures soared to 100 or!
above in 16 states yesterday with j
Burwell, Nebr., and Yuma, Ariz.,|
the hottest spots in the heat belt]
with marks of 110.
Although cooler weather was1
forecast for the northern and cen- i
tral plains state today, the mer-,
cury was expected to touch near|
the 100 mark in southeast Iowa
and parts of Illinois and in the!
southern plains states.
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jewelry store robbery. The picture
showing at the time of the arrest
was “That’s My Man ”
Police said Joseph Cardille, Jr.,|
and Frank, 18, admitted the rob-j
bery, adding that most of the jew-;
elry was found on the floor at the;
place where fhe brothers had been;
sitting.
PONCA CITY, Okla. (/P)—Mrs.
D. A. Shaffer is nursing some sore
knuckles.
She made a quick backhand
grab for her hat and rammed her
fist into the open mouth of a man
behind her.
Agriculture Dept, i
Will Conduct Re
search In Alaska
(By Charles D. Watkins)
WASHINGTON 1^)—Rep. Dirk
sen, chairman of the House ap
propriations sub-committee on ag
riculture, says “consideration of
national defense” led his commit
tee to place all agricultural re
search in Alaska under the de
partment of agriculture.
He added in the Congressional
Record thai he believed evidence
“indicates that the good farmer.
of Alaska have been made the vie
tims, for, lo, these many years, of
some pretty vicious administra
tive practices on the part of cer
tain Territorial authorities.”
Congress in approving the agri
culture appropriations bill for the
year which began July 1 made
$144,940 available for agricultural
research *n Alaska.
It withheld a customary annual
appropriation of $44,940 to the
Territory for allotment to the Uni
versity of Alaska, and provided
that the program previously han
dled by the university should be
turned over to the agriculture de
partment, together with unex
pended federal and Territorial
funds.
Delegate Bartlett of Alaska de
scribed the measure as “one of the
most vicious pieces of legislation
affecting Alaska which has ever
been passed by the Congress.”
In an explanation printed in
the Congressional Record out yes
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British Hang Jews;
Jews Retaliates;
Hang British
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JERUSALEM. (/Pi—The British
hanged three Jews yesterday in
defiance of a Jewish underground
threat to retaliate with the execu
tion of two British hostages and
“bathe the Holy Land with blood.”
A British military announce
ment said Meir Nakar, Yacoub
Weiss and Asbalom Habib were
put to death between 4 and 5 a.m.
in Acre prison on Palestine’s north I
coast for their part in the May 4
break there, in which 251 prison
ers were freed and 16 persons
were killed.
A Jewish underground source
said last night that Irgun Zvai
Leumi, to which the three belong
ed, had tried British sergeants
Clifford Martin and Mervin Paice
and condemned them to death for
being members of a force “illegal
ly occupying Palestine” and “com
spiring to oppress the rightful cit
izens of Palestine.” The sergeants
were kidnapped July 12 at Natan
ya.
This source said that, while Irgun
commander in chief Manachem
Geigun had confirmed their sen
tences, it was unlikely they would
be executed “until the final dis
position of the case of our three
soldiers.”
The judges, he reported, were
one-time Polish lawyers.
Irgun had held Martin and
Paice since their kidnapping and
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Kaiser Wrote Nice
Letter; Got Forty
Million Contract
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WASHINGTON, (/Pi—Henry J.
Kaiser testifier! yesterday that he
sent a brief note to the late Presi
dent Roosevelt and got a wartime
contract to build small aircraft
carriers after top navy officials
previously had rejected his offer.
The wartime industrialist told
the Senate war investigating com
mittee of this incident.
The committee is seeking facts
regarding some $40,000,000 worth
of airplane contracts awarded to
Kaiser and Howard Hughes, air
craft designer and film producer.
Senator Ferguson <R.-Mich.)
questioned Kaiser on this.
On the “baby flattops”—small
aircraft carriers—Kaiser told this
story:
He talked with the late Marvin
McIntyre, secretary to the late
President Roosevelt, about build
ing the aircraft carriers.
McIntyre was “very available”
and when the navy rejected Kai
ser’s plans “by a vote of sixteen
to nothing,” he consulted McIn
tyre.
“At the time I had seen the
President only once.” Kaiser went
on. “I went in to see Mac.”
Mclntyyre told him, Kaiser
said, that if Kaiser would “write a
little letter, of about four para
graphs” that McIntyre would “lay
it on the chief’s desk.”
Kaiser said the next day he re
ceived a call from Admiral Emory
S. Land, then directing ship con
struction.
“Admiral Land said ‘What the
hell have you been doing’?” Kai
ser continued.
Kaiser said the letter to Presi
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“Scorched Earth”
Policy Is A
(By Stanley Swinton)
In a Dutch warplane over Re
publican Java. f/P>—The threat
ened scorched earth policy of the
Indonesian Republic is a flaming
reality over a huge part of south
west Java, one of the richest
areas of this island.
Hundreds of fires are crackling
across the ridged, green hills be
tween Wjjnkoops Bay and Tasik
malaja, more than 12 miles to the,
east.
From the glass nose of this B-25 ;
photo reconnaissance plane, I
have been looking across Republ-i
can territory in the cut off tip of
west Java during the past four
hours. Most of the time, Lt. Nol j
van der Veen, pilot from the
Hague who was trained during
the wart at Jackson, Miss., kept
the plane flying lower than 100
feet.
I have seen at least three rub
ber estates ablaze. On others, the
grey trunked rubber trees have
been cut down and lie in a crazy
tangle on the ground.
Scores of other fires are burn
ing in what crew members told
me were tea and quinine growing
areas.
Russia Vetoes
II. S. Proposal < )u
Balkan Dispute
LAKE SUCCESS, bP. — The
United States moved swiftly today
to cope with the stalemated Bal
kan problem following Russia’s
veto of an American proposal for
United Natiofis action to settle the
dispute between Greece and her
northern neighbors.
Herschel V. Johnson, U. S. dep
uty delegate on the security coun
cil, hurried to Washington for a
series of conferences fith secretary
of state George C. Marshall and
other state department officials.
Johnson was scheduled to meet
first with undersecretary of state
Robert A. Lovett and others at
noon and begin drafting two pos
sible alternatives for again tack
ling the Balkan probler^ within
tne united iNations.
These proposals wafuld then be
submitted to secretary Marshall.
Before leaving for the Washing
ton talks Johnson obtained a post
ponement of a security council
session scheduled for 3 p.m. iEDT>
today.
Soviet deputy foreign minister
Andrei A. Gromyko was to have
given at that time his reasons for
vetoing the U. S. proposal for an
11-nation border commission de
signed to bring peace to the Bal
kans,, He also was to have ex
plained a Russian proposal on the
Balkans'.
The council is now scheduled
to meet tomorrow at 3 p.m. <EDT>
to hear Gromyko, whose proposal
calls for the evacuation of all for
eign troops from Greeve and the
establishment of a commission, to
supervise foreign aid to Greece.
Chinese Against
Aliy Aid Thai W ill
Prolong War
NANKING, (aP) — Representa
tives of the Democratic League
told Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wede
meyer yesterday that the Chinese
people are bitterly opposed to any
foreign assistance which would
likely prolong the civil war “whe
ther is comes from the United
States of the Soviets.”
Lo Lung-Chi, league spokesman
told newsmen after a conference
with Wedemeyer’s American fact
findir>g mission that he was con
vinced the investigation was im
partial “but we are more inter
ested in what happens after they
return to Washington.”
“Conferences were also held
with representatives of the Young
China party and with Independ
ents. A spokesman for the fact
finding mission said that “import
ant information” about the Chi
nese situation is being contributed
by unofficial sources and that it
complements or supplements in
formation from Chinese and
American officials.
Wedemeyer and his group plan
ned daily conferences in Nanking
this week. They will leave Friday
or Saturday for a week-long tour
of north China and Manchuria—
including visits to Mukden. Pei
ping, Tientsin and Tsingtao.