Sen. Watkins Quits
Hearings In Huff
WASHINGTON, <;P) — Senator
Watkins (R.-Utah) quit the North
Atlantic pact hearings today, de
claring he was “sick and tired of
being humiliated” by chairman
Connally <D.-Tex.) of the Senate
foreign relations committee.
Watkins has been a persistent
critic of the treaty. He has been
permitted to question witnesses
during the hearing although he is
not a committee member.
At the start of today’s hearings,
Watkins started to question Mrs.
Kathryn H. Stone, spokesman for
the U. S. League of Women Vot
ers.
Connally objected that Watkins
was “making a speech” in his
framing questions. The chairman
had been critical of Watkins in
other sessions also.
Watkins left without a word to
Connally but later told a reporter:
“I’m sick and tired of it. I don’t
intend to be embarrassed and hu
miliated by the chairman any
longer. I’m through with the hear
Ask $15,000,000 for
I Alaska Housing
—
! WASHINGTON, (/!>) — Senator
Magnuson <D.-Wash.> asked the
Senate Wednesday to provide $15,
000,000 to finance Alaska’s home
j building program.
He introduced a bill calling for
j appropriation of that amount to
j the housing and home finance ad
| ministration. Under recently
| passed legislation that agency is
j authorized to purchase $15,000,000
! of notes from the Alaska housing
| authority. The money would con
j stitute a revolving fund for fi
jnancing the Territory’s housing
, authority.
President Truman sent a mes
! sage to the Senate yesterday ask
j ing that the money be provided.
The bill must be approved by
, the Senate appropriations com
mittee before reaching the Senate
floor.
! --
I
ings and any further questions I
j have will be asked from the Sen
iate floor.”
File Anti-Picketing
Injunction Case
SEATTLE, (A*) — Juneau’s CIO
longshoremen’s union lost Friday
in its attmept to block the filing of
an anti-picketing injunction case
against it in Alaska district court.
U. S. District Judge Lloyd L.
Black’s ruling was in favor of
! Thomas G. Graham, Jr., regional
1 director of the national labor rela
tions board.
Graham has declared it his in
tention to ask for an injunction
! against further picketing of the
Juneau Spruce Corporation mill.
He notified the longshoremen of
his intended action after the
NLRB found that the longshore
men were not justified in the pic
keting that has closed the mill for
| more than a year.
The dispute is over whether the
i n t e rnational woodworkers of
America, another CIO union,
should continue to load barges.
|
Connecticut is the first state in
! the Union to set up its own Bu
reau of Inter-American Affairs.
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Keeps Mother’s
Death Secret On
Wedding Day
LOS ANGELES, (/Pi—John La
mer, 24, was a little pale and ner
vous during his marriage cere
! mony, but his bride thought it
merely due to the excitement of
| the occasion.
It wasn’t, until after the recep
tion that she learned of the trag
edy which Lamer had kept to him
self so the affair would be a happy
one for his bride, the former Con
stance Cronk, 20. daughter of city
councilman George P. Cronk, and
their friends.
He especially didn’t want his
brother, Louis, Jr., an usher, and
his sister, Suzanne, a bridesmaid,
to know until after the festivities.
An hour before he had gone to
the altar, John has seen his moth
er, Mrs. Esther Lamer, suffer a
heart attack and die in their home.
Two others kppt the secret well
too. At Mrs. Lamer’s bedside were
her husband, Louis, and the Rev.
John Samon, who officiated at the
j wedding.
] Requiem mass will be celebrat
, ed to morrow in the same church
| in which the wedding took place
[ Saturday.
I Police Seize Paris
Newspaper Edition
PARIS, (aP>—The weekly news
paper. France-Dimanche, was seiz
! ed by police over the weekend be
fore it hit the streets, with pictures
j of Princess Margaret and party in
j Italy.
One picture showed a rear view
lot what looked like a nude woman
or girl on seaside rocks. The paper
said it was not known for sure
whether this was the Princess or
another woman.
The newspaper, with a 450,000
circulation, was seized under a
law governing “insults to the head
of a foreign state.”
Another of the pictures alleged
ly showed the princess getting
I into a boat. The bathing suit was
j not apparent.
i Max Corre, general manager of
; France-Dimanche, said he consid
ered the seizure illegal and that he
was preparing legal action.
He claimed all the pictures had
already been published in the
Italian press and said a “revised”
i edition of France-Dimanche will
j be on sale tomorrow.
A British embassy spokesman
denied reports that it was upon a
personal complaint by Ambassador
Sir Oliver Harvey that the prefect
of police took action.
Laugh Themselves
Into 60 Days in Jail
DES MOINES, OP) — Two 18
year-old youths giggled them
selves right into 60-day jail terms
here.
The pair had pleaded guilty to
charges of drinking beer on a
school playground and disturbing
the peace.
Municipal judge Ralph Moore
fined them $25 on each charge.
A few minutes later, while a
third youth was testifying in the
case, they burst into laughter.
Judge Moore changed the sen
tences to seven days in jail on
each charge.
Still later the pair began to
chuckle again.
The judge then gave the maxi
mum—30 days on each charge—
and said:
“Let’s sec you lan^h n't”
Detroit Mayor Asks
Plant and Strikers
;To Settle Strike
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of the giant, strikebound Ford
River Rouge plant. Reuther and
i Hubbard led the parade. Reuther
(already had accepted Hubbard’s
offer and was believed willing to
i accept Edwards’.
The effect of a strike of 65,000
workers at the Ford Motor Co.’s
two Detroit area plants was be
ginning to be felt in the industry
today. The strike started last
Thursday.
The company said it will lay off
8,000 workers at Ford plants in St.
! Louis, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Los
i Angeles, Iron Mountain, Mich.,
and Metuchen, N. J., within a few
days.
Many small plants among Ford’s
3,500 suppliers were beginning to
feel the strike’s effect also.
Elsewhere in the automotive in
I dustry, 47,600 workers previously
' made idle by strikers were to re
turn to work today.
Hudson recalled 25,000 laid off
' last week by a shortage of brakes;
; Briggs Mfg. Co., recalled 16,800
made idle Friday by a small walk
' out. And Chrysler resumed opera
tions in Plymouth, Mich., where
5,800 were laid off by a shortage
of Briggs car bodies.
Some 1,800 San Francisco cab
drivers returned to work today af
ter settlement of their 128-day
I strike. The Yellow and Plymouth
companies agreed to a $9.75 daily
minimum wage or 50 per cent of
I weekly receipts, whichever wa>
1 higher. The union had asked $10
Three other companies which op
j crate 230 cabs had settler! with the
| strikers earlier. *
j Sixty-five hundred workers re
turned today to 21 plants and
warehouses of the Piiilco Corp., in
the Philadelphia area. Two local
of the CIO electrical worriers un
j ion ratified a new contract yester
:day, ending a week-long work
' stoppage.
An agreement was reached yes
terday between the CTO transit
workers union and the operators
of New York’s privately owned
transit system. The agreement
■ averted a strike of 4,000 over She
discharge of two workers accused
of slow-down tactics. The trans t
i system serves two million riders
dailv.
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Will Honor Dr.
Charles E. Bunnell
FAIRBANKS—President Emer
itus Day, honoring Dr. Charles E.
Bunnell, president of the Univer
sity of Alaska, will probably be
! the most impressive event ever
staged in the Territory, according
l to Alvin Polet, secretary of the
committee on arrangements.
The ceremonies are to be held
on July 1, at the University of
Alaska Campus, and will pay trib
ute to Dr. Bunnell for his 27 years
of devotion to the Northland.
Secretary of the Interior Julius
A. Krug; Governor of Alaska Er
nest Gruening; many other nota
bles of the Territory and the States
are planning to attend.
Present indications, as a remit
of invitations mailed to officials
and dignitaries, lead the commit
tee to state that more than 500
persons will attend President
Emeritus Day at the university
campus.
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