Propose Giving
Truman Full
Economic Control
WASHINGTON (JP), The House
yesterday postponed until at least
today further debate on an econo
mic controls bill—while its bank
ing committee worked on a com
promise.
Speaker Rayburn told newsmen
he hoped that the House would be
in a position to resume considera
tion of the bill today.
It already has spent almost a
week on controls legislation with
out making any substantial prog
ress.
Chairman Spence (D.-Ky.) said
the banking committee would
meet again yesterday afternoon to
seek a common ground on which
opposing factions could agree. He
expressed hope that an agreement
would be reached shortly.
There was a possibility that the
Senate may pass a control bill
before the House does. The Sen
ate banking committee reached
agreement on a bill Monday night,
and that bill is being used as a
base for the House committee’s
discussions.
President Truman would get
virtually full discretion as to
Norwegian Ship
Breaking-up At Sea
HALIFAX, N. S., (£>)—'The U. S.
Coast Guard cutter Dexter re
ported yesterday she is alongside
the stricken Norweigian freighter
Belfri in rough North Atlantic
waters. She will escort the Nor
wegian ship to St. John’s, Ffld.,
900 miles away.
The Belfri, a former Liberty
ship, sent out distress messages
Monday night saying she was in
danger of breaking up in high
seas. Ships of three nations sped
to her assistance.
The Dexter radioed she is re
lieving the U. S. transport General
J. H. McRae, first to reach the
stricken craft loaded down with
i heavy china clay. The coast guard
said the Belfri’s crew of about 30
is attempting to repair damage
with wire and cement.
Widening cracks ran up the Bel
fri’s portside and across her deck,
the coast guard said. Her master
feared for her seaworthiness be
cause of the weather, the coast
guard said.
when or whether to impose econo
mic controls under the Senate
committee plan.
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Yes, We Have No
Bananas Today;
They’re Flying!
(Capt. Jack Moss, M.A.F.B.)
Avast! Stop right where you
are. This thing has gotten out of
bounds. First it was flying sau
cers—saucers of such maneuvera
I bility that defied the comprehen
1 sion of the intellects. And now,
| it is a flying banana.
People weren’t content to have
I their saucers fly around like
I birds; a flying saucer was becom
j ing quaint and common. To give
the affair variety, they gave the
| ability to bananas.
That’s the story that originated
from Helena, Montana. Either
mass insanity has invaded the
States or some scientist is far ad
vanced of his willey-eyed watch
ful public.
The flying banana incident was
reported by a substantial number
of spectators who swear they ac
tually saw the thing. And the pro
moters of the story should, tech
nically, know what they are talk
ing about. All of them are expe
rienced * in the identification of
| aircraft. They were personnel of
the Civil Aeronautics Authority,
the Air Force arid commercial air
lines.
\
Control tower operators James
Seaking and Paul Hopkins were
the first to report the story. They
said “a long yellow Object” head
ed for the control tower at the
Spokane, Washington, Air Force
base. “Scared the devil out of me
for a minute,” Hopkins said.
The banana-shaped craft was
spotted minutes later by Jack Da
vis, a CAA communicator, who
said the orange-yellow object
sped toward Great Falls, Mont.,
140 miles away.
That is reached Great Falls was
established by subsequent reports
by a weather observer and by a
CAA Communicator, who said the
banana traversed the city at such
terrific speed that rendered it al
most imperceptible to the unaided
eye.
All reports coincide in one re
I spect: The object was shaped like
a banana and traveled at a terri
fic speed.
. A flying banana is quite a nov
elty, but not its big brother, the
flying saucer. The still dubious
flying saucer has lead a ninter
esting and itinerant life since its
parental father, private pilot Ken
neth Arnold, first viewed it from
his small craft as it raced ahead
of him toward Yakima, Washing
ton, in June, 1947.
Father Prunskis, of Chicago, ar
rived today spend a few days
in Nome studying the Eskimos.
Father Prunskis is the editor of
the well-known Lithuanian news
paper call the “Drugas.”
Over only three American
buildings does the flag fly offi
cially night and day—over the
Capitol and the adjacent House of
Representatives and Senate affice
buildings.
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U. S. Has Only 50-50
Chance In Korea
CAMBRIDGE, Eng., (/P) —The!
United States has only a 50-50 j
chance of victory in Korea, a dis
tinguished British military com
mentator said yesterday.
He is Capt. B. H. Liddell Hart,
military editor of the Encyclopae
dia Brittanica, and aiithor of many
books on war strategy.
Hart, speaking at the Liberal
Party’s summer school, said the
danger of defeat arose because
the U. S. had followed two con
flicting policies.
First, he said, President Tru
man decided to evacuate Korea
in June, 1949, declaring it to be
indefensible.
Then, he added, because “The
Americans could not bear to
watch it happen, Mr. Truman took
the steps which staked U. S. pres
tige on what had previously been
judged ‘a forlorn hope.’
“The danger of world war has
become acute through two con
trary American decisions — to
withdraw and then return.”
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Twining Receives
Croix de Guerre
WASHINGTON (/P), The French
government presented the Croix
de Guerre with Palms yesterday
to 293 former officers of the 15th
Air Force for their help in liber
ating southern France in World
War Two.
Brig. Gen. Jacques Louis Mur
tin, Frenc hair attache, made the
presentation in a ceremony at the
French embassy. Thirty-six of the
American oficers were present to
receive the decoration. Among
them were:
Lt. Gen. Nathan F. Twining,
2 Counterfeiters
Arrested In Mo.
WASHINGTON, (£>)—The Se
cret Service announced today the
arrest of two meq in a lonely
mountain cabin at DeSoto, Mis
souri, on charges of passing $12,
000 in counterfeit ten dollar bills
in 23 states.
Secret Service chief U. Baugh
man said the men were scheduled
for arraignment today before a U.
S. commissioner in St. Louis.
Melvin Godfrey Parson, 57, of
Crystal City, Missouri, charged
with manufacturing the bills.
Louis Elmer Shew, 41, of De
Soto, charged with passing the bo
gus money on grocers and other
store keepers throughout the west,
southwest and southeast.
4000Air Passengers
Leave Orient
SEATTLE, (A*)—More than 4000
plane passengers from the trou
bled Orient have checked through
the immigration service port of
entry at Anchorage, Alaska, in the
past six months, district immigra
tion director John P. Boyd re
ported today.
Nearly half this number arrived
in military and private planes
during June and July, after the
outbreak of fighting in Korea.
Many are refugees from Korea
or families of American civilian
employees in the Far East. Almost
all are American nationals.
Sixteen per cent of the workers
making cannon are women.
former commander of the 15th Air
Force, now head of the Air Force’s
Alaska Command with headquar
ters at Anchorage, Alaska.
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