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NEWS IN BRIEF
NEW YORK. r/P) — Maj. Gen.
Lowell W. Rooks, director general
of UNRRA, said today- that the
hungry peoples of Europe know
the source of UNRRA supplies and
are extremely grateful. "Regard
less of the attitude of the govern
ments, the people are grateful for
what they have been receiving
and it has been worth while," he
said upon his return from an offi
cial inspection tour in European
countries.
ISTAMBUL. Turkey (£V—De
vout peasants prayed on the high
est peaks Thursday for rain to
break a spring drought and great
sheets of rain splashed the Anato
lian plains.
The moisture, however, may be
too late to revive the parched
wheat fields. The downpour in
Ankara was so heavy that two
men drowned when houses in
low lying suburbs were flooded.
ATHENS. (A1)—'The Greek cab
inet was summoned into emergen
cy session today to consider a pro
posal that amnesty be granted to
all guerrillas under the supervi
sion of the United Nations.
Informed sources said a virtual
crisis was impending over the is
sue, since there was known to be
serious objection within the gov
ernment, on the part of strong
leaders, against any interference
in the internal affairs of the coun
try by the United Nations.
PITTSBURGH, (A*) — Concert
manager Thomas P. Beegle an
nounced Thursday that Margaret
Truman, daughter of the Presi
dent, will make her first concert
stage appearance here May 20.
^ KETCHIKAN, (/P) — The Coast
Guard said Thursday that Coast
Guardsman Eugene E. Osburn, 18,
of Los Angeles, was electrocuted
Monday night when he contacted
a high power line which crosses
the government reservation. He is
survived by his mother, Mrs. Ida
Osburn.
WASHINGTON, (^—President
Truman sent to the Senate Wed
nesday a recommendation that
about $750,000 be added to appro
priations for the Indian Bureau.
This could include $715,000 for
converting the Sitka Naval base to
a hospital and school for Alaskan
natives. ,
RICHMOND, Va. 1/P) — Presi
dent Truman has appointed the
Rev. Frank Easton Pulley, rector
of the Episcopal Church of the
Holy Comforter here, as chaplain
at the United States Military
Academy at West Point for a four
year term, Effective June 7.
HAMBURG, Germany. (/P) —
More than 100,000 Germans gath
ered before trade union headquar
ters today to protest against food
* shortages. Their demonstration
was heralded by union leaders as
the biggest since Germany’s ca
pitulation.
All except essential service em
ployees stopped work at noon to
attend the rally.
Aid Measure
Sure To Pass
WASHINGTON, (/Pi —The ad
ministration's Greek-Turkish aid
program emerged unscatched to
day from its baptism of fire on
the House floor.
Its supporters are weary but
confident that they have the votes
to ward off continuing attacks
upon the measure designed to bol
sfpr the two Mediterranean coun
tries against Communistic pres
sures.
Their confidence was due to be
put to the test today on several
major amendments. Whether a
vote on final passage would come
before nightfall was in doubt.
But behind the bill was one at
tempt to kill it outright—a move
wh;ch went down to defeat by a
standing vote of 127 to 37.
Rejected, also, were two pre
liminary attempts to give the
United Nations a say on southeast
ern Europe’s problems.
Hep. Helen uahagan Douglas
<D.-Calif.) sought unsuccessfully
to postpone any aid for Turkey
for a year to give the U. N. a
chance to look into the situation.
Rep. Javits (R.-N. Y.) tried in
vain to have Congress instruct
President Truman to lay the
Greek-Turkish problem before
the U. N. while carrying out the
assistance contemplated in the
bill.
The House similarly turned
thumbs down on Mrs. Douglas’
demand that it write into the mea
sure a specific prohibition against
sending either Turkey or Greece
atomic weapons or secrets. Op
ponents of that ban said existing
law already prohibits any such
action.
The House was still arguing the
merits of limiting the size of mil
itary missions to be sent to the
two countries. Rep. Mundt <R.
S. Dd, proposed a maximum of
100; Rep. Judd <R.-Minn.>, coun
tered with a proposed 200 ceiling.
Cabinet Officers
Hinder Committee
WASHINGTON (/P)—'The Dem
ocratic administration-Republican
i Congress budget split widened
yesterday with accusations on
i Capitol Hill that cabinet officers
| are trying to embarrass the House
appropriations committee.
The charge was made by Rep.
Stefan (R.-Neb.), chairman of the
sub-committee which earlier this
week recommended a 23 per cent
cut in the 1948 budget of the
state, commerce and justice de
partment. It was echoed by Rep.
Taber »R.-N. Y.), chairman of the
full committee which upheld
Stefan’s group.
WASHINGTON, I/P)—The war
department today rescinded a
rule requiring national guard
i ground units to have 30 per cent
! of authorized strength if they
wish to participate in summer
field training.
The action followed reports
from various states that only a
handful of units could have quali
fied.
Russia Celebrates
Victory Day
(By Eddy Gilmore)
MOSCOW, i/TV—The 193,000.000
people of the Soviet Union cele
brated Victory Day today in
thousands of processions, demon
strations and sporting events
marked by speeches, orders of the
day and editorials which bore a
distinct international flavor.
"Two years after victory,” said
the New Times in a leading edi
torial, “the mouthpieces of inter
national reaction are raging once
more. The mongers of a new war,
as Henry Wallace put it, keep the
! kettle of hostility toward the Sov
iet Union at the boiling point.
“The imperialistic circles of the
Anglo-Saxon countries are build
!. ing bigger plans for their expan
sion, plans of economic and politi
cal enslavement of foreign peo
ples.”
Nikolai Bulganin, .minister ol
1 the armed forces declared in an
order of the day that Soviet armed
| forces had won the war and saved
I the peoples of Europe—“among
which are the German people”—
1 from Fascist oppression.
The army newspaper Red S?tar
declared the Soviet army by itself
not only could have occupied all
Germany without the aid of the
western allies but liberated France
as well.
<The German surrender actually
was signed on May 7, 1945, at
Reims, France, but official an
nouncement of V-E—victory in
Europe—Day was delayed until
May 8, and Russia choose to ob
serve it May 9>,
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Brazil Outlaws
Communists
RIO DE JANEIRO. l/P> — The
Brazilian government cracked
down hard on the Communist
j party today, with federal police
and troops padlocking 445 Com
1 munist clubs or cells to enforce a
decision by the supreme electoral
tribunal outlawing the party in
Brazil.
The tribunal approved, by a 3 to
2 vote Wednesday night, a gov
ernment petition asking that the
Brazilian Communist party—one
of the largest in the western hemi
sphere—Jbe declared illegal and
closed. In the last election, in Jan
uary, the party polled about 800,
000 votes.
It elected 17 deputies and one
senator in the federal congress, 18
members of this capital’s 50-mem
ber city council, 60 members of
various state legislatures and
helped to elect the governors of
eight Brazilian states.
Even as the tribunal’s judgmen*
was being announced the Com
munists suffered another stiff
, blow. President Eurico Gaspar
Dutra suspended the Communist
1 supported Brazil workers confed
, eration and all labor unions affil
iated with it for a period of six
months.
Communist leaders referred sar
castically to the decision as “the
first step for Dutra’s continuation
in power like (former president
Getulio) Vargas.”
Atomic Ships
Still Unsafe
W ASHIN GTON, (/Pi — Ten
months after the Bikini atom
bomb tests, the target ships still
are “unsafe lor permanent occu
pancy."
The navy so reported today in
announcing that most of the big
vessels which survived the twin
blasts last year will be towed
without crews to Hawaii and the
West Coast this summer for study.
Officials emphasized, however,
that the heavy radioactive con
tamination will no* endanger the
populations of either Pearl Har
bor, San Francisco, or Bremerton.
Wash., where the studies will be
carried on.
They are part of the navy’s in
tensive research program which
already has resulted in drastic
changes in ship design theories.
A battleship, a cruiser, two sub
marines and two transports al
ready have made the long voyage
from Kwajalein in the central Pa
cific, where the target ships have
been anchored since last fall.
The announcement said the de
contamination study is ony of the
navy's most important projects in
preparing against atomic warfare.
The heavy cruiser Salt Lake
City and the destroyer Hughes
will go to Bremerton. The heavy
cruiser Pensocola recently ar
rived at the naval shipyard there.
May Have Clew
To Missing Plane
VANCOUVER, B. C\, I/P) — A
small-twisted piece of metal,
snagged by a fisherman in Bur
rard Inlet, seven miles west of
Lions Gate bridge, was being
studied by technicians of the
Trans-Canada Airlines and Royal
Canadian Air Force today as a
possible clue to the 10-day-old
disappearance of a T-C. A. liner
and its 15 passengers and crew
men.
Discovery of the metal, after
a day of unsuccessful sweeping
and diving operations off Gabriola
Island, swung the search away
from the island region toward
Vancouver.
JUNIOR-SENIOR CLASS
HELD FINE BANQUET
Last evening the Junior-Senior
Class held their banquet at the
Nevada Grill. Their souvenir
menu included such things as
moose steak, greased peas, sour
dough rolls, and iceberg delight.
Master of ceremonies, Arthur
McLain introduced the speakers
who were W. Angell,' superintend
ent, and members of the school
board, Frank Love, Jack Dowd
; and John Fagerstrom.
Loretta Snyder gave the class
prophecy.
There were 53 present at the
festive gathering, including par
ents, faculty and other invited
guests.
Tomorrow evening they will
hold their annual Junior-Senior
! Prom, and from reports it will be
j a gala affair with beautiful decor
ations and good music.
Unrest Spreads
*Ker Shanghai
SIANGI1 \I, f/»*i—Riots, dem
mst/ations and strikes spread
through inflation-plagued Shang
i'. i 'might.
Employees of the government
ho administration threatened
• v. ilv out if the ministry of com
: rumcations rejected demands for
a 60 per cent wage boost to meet
skyrocketing prices.
Two thousand bus and tram
drivers in the former French con
cession walked off their jobs to
stage a mammoth parade.
More than 15,000 silk workers
demonstrated against the govern
ment's freezing of wages at the
January level.
As dusk fell, extra police were
called to form a cordon around
the administration building. An
estimated 6,000 students and
workers packed the streets there.
More than a dozen rice riots
w ere repoted. Nealy all shops bar
. leaded their doors.
Mayor K. C. Wu asked the min
istry of food to allot 300.000 piculs
or rice monthly to Shanghai to
alleviate the food crisis. A picul
is 133 1/3 pounds.
The request was believed to be
part of a new ration plan under
which 1,500,000 workers, teachers
and students would receive 32
pounds of rice a month at the of
ficial price of 168,000 Chinese dol
lars a picul—half of the prevail
ing black market rate. 'At the of
ficial rate, 12,000 Chinese dollars
equals SI; the black market rate
is 23,000-to-$l>.
General Strike
Kinks In Spain
t ■ ■” • ■
BILBAO, Spain, i/P)—General
issimo Francisco Franco’s govern
ment appeared today to have
crushed a general strike which
virtually immobilized the vital
steel industry in this area for eight
days—the strongest demonstration '
by Spanish industrial workers
since the civil war.
Most workers returned to their
i .ij.-' yesterday, penalized by loss
of seniority and wage reductions.
Informants calculated that 30,
000 of an estimated 45,000 work
ers in steel, heavy machinery,
shipbuilding, mines and construc
*ion workers stayed away from
their jobs Monday and Tuesday.
The Bilbao workers first left
their jobs on May Day for a one
, day demonstration in observance
of the traditional European labor
day. The government retaliated
with an order firing those wna
1 demonstrated and requiring them
to apply tc* civil governor Kanaro
Riestra for reinstatement within
eight days, with loss of seniority
; rights.
In protest against this order the
workers struck in force last Mon
day.
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BRONSON AND SOHA TO
BRING PLANE BACK
Lester Bronson and pilot Louis
Soha left for Anchorage Wednes
day to bring back a new Cub to
j be used here by the Bronson Fly
ing School.