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Harvester Strike
Settled In 48-hrs.
CHICAGO, — </P) —The Inter
national Harvester Company and
the CIO United Farm Equipment
workers settled a lengthy wage
dispute last night, 48 hours after
a strike by some 35,000 union mem
bers in nine of the company’s
plants.
The new contract, providing for
^ a wage increase of 11 cents an
hour and retention of provisions
in the old contract, will be sub
mitted for approval at the union
headquarters in Chicago.
An early return to work was
expected. The union described the
settlement with the company as
“satisfactory.” It said records in
y dicate the two-day walkout was
the shortest “successful strike this
year.”
The union members quit their
jobs at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, upon
the expiration of the old contract,
which previously had been ex
tended for thirty days.
Albanian Radio
Accuses Yugoslavs
‘Open Treason’
WASHINGTON, — (JP) —Gov
ernment radio monitors reported
today that a broadcast from Com
munist headquarters in Albania
said that country stands with
Russia in the Communist crisis
over Yugoslavia.
The broadcast accused Yugoslav
leaders of “open treason.”
** The monitoring service’s record
of the broadcast is being distrib
uted among top officials of the
State Department and elsewhere.
—
Gov’t. Announces
Surplus Of Over
Eight Billions
WASHINGTON, — OP) —Sec
retary of the Treasury Snyder
said today the government’s “true”
budget surplus for the fiscal year
1948 was $8,419,469,843.81, by far
the biggest in history.
Snyder said the figure repre
sents "the actual excess of re
ceipts over expenditures in the
fiscal year,” which ended June 30.
Truman To Act On
45 More Measures
WASHINGTON, — OP) —The
White House said today that Pres
ident Truman expects to act on
45 bills before leaving Sunday
► for a speech at Bolivar, Mo.
The bills are those remaining
from a batch of approximately
300 which Congress sent to Mr.
Truman just before it adjourned.
f The President has until Tues
day midnight to sign or reject
some of the measures. He is al
lowed 10 working days after a |
bill reaches him.
Lytle and Green
Submit Low Bid
On Seward Road
PORTLAND, — (/P) —Low bid
on building a 28-mile section of
the Seward-Anchorage highway
was $4,129,425, the Public Roads
Administration reported today.
It was submitted by C. F. Lytle
Co., and Green Construction Co.,
Sioux City and Des Moines, Iowa.
The price includes the cost of gov
ernment-furnished steel.
The bid and three other of
fers were referred to Washington,
D.C., for possible award, W. H.
Lynch, division engineer, said.
Completion of the road, sched
uled for late next year, will per
mit abandonment of the railroad
between Seward and Portage.
Funds are from the Department
of the Interior.
Second low bid, by combining
an offer of Stock and Grove, Se
attle, for an 18-mile portion of
the road with the Lytle and Green
bid on 10 miles, was $4,326,261,
Lynch reported. Peter Keiwit,
Birch and Morrison-Knudsen, of
Boise, bid $4,789,305.
INTERN’L NEWS
REPORTED BY
ASSO. PRESS
-UNDATED INTERNATIONAL—
By the Associated Press
BERLIN
The U.S., Britain and France
were reported by British govern
ment sources today to have draft
ed a demand to the Kremlin that
Russia lift her land blockade of
Berlin and to restore four-power
rule to the city.
The note was said to place
all responsibility on Russia if
starvation tactics continue. The
demand possibly will reach Mos
cow this week-end after foreign
ministers of the three western
powers approve.
In Berlin, itself, it was an
nounced that the Russians killed
the Allied Kommandatura, through I
which the four occupation powers
operated the Berlin city govern
ment. The Soviets walked out.
A British spokesman said they
blamed Col. Frank Howley, the
U.S. Commander in Berlin, and the
introduction of Western currency
into the city.
The Russians hinted vaguely
they might open the highway to
the west. They had indicated the
day before that train service to
the west might be restored be
fore the 2,000,000 German charges
of the west in Berlin start starv
ing. They allowed a train to run
to the west on a sideline, but not
back to Berlin.
More than 200 U.S. and Brit
ish planes ferried food into Ber
lin. The U.S. was assembling
huge planes from the world over
to increase the air flow.
FRANKFURT
The Western Powers offered
the 45,000,000 Western Germans
the right to form their own gov
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Respected among the flags of the Nations
«. • “Old Glory'* symbolizes to the world the
principles for which we as a nation stand .. •
With forthright assurance American
fighting men and women have led us to vie*
tory over the foes of righteousness. These
same men and women shall continue to lead
us into a secure peace and a happy future,
with the banner of America unfurled to the
four winds of freedom.
President Signs
‘Practic’ly Nothing’
Housing Measure j
i
WASHINGTON, — (/P) —Pres
ident Truman yesterday signed
a Republican-modified Housing
bill but said the 80th Congress
“failed miserably” to meet long
range housing needs.
The President told a news con
ference the legislation is “prac
tically nothing” at all as a housing
bill.
He called it a “batch of poli
tical patchwork.”
“It was passed by Congress
in the final hours of th^ session,
after the Republican leadership
refused to permit the House of
Representatives to vote upon the
Taft-Elenden-Wagner Housing bill
Mr. Truman said in a formal
statement.
Public housing provisions of the
T-E-W bill, calling for slum clear
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Bipartisan Policy
Not Applied To
Foreign Affairs
ALBANY, N.Y., — (/P) —Gov- ]
ernor Thomas E. Dewey declared
today a United States bipartisan
foreign policy he “founded in 1944
has applied, in the main, only to
United Nations’ affairs.
At a press conference, the Re
publican presidential nominee said
“the bipartisan policy has not
applied in the other fields of
foreign affairs in most of which
there has been no consultation by
the Administration with the Re
publican leadership.”
He listed “the other fields of
foreign affairs” in which he said
there had been no consultation
with the Republican leadership
as the “Greek-Turkish policy
which was handed to the Ameri- j
can people without consultation,
the Potsdam Conference and the
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POWER SURVEY
FOR ALASKA
TO BEGIN SOON
WASHINGTON, — (&) —The
Interior Department said today it
would begin next week on a pow
er survey Congress authorized in
Alaska.
The department was voted $150-,
000 for the work.
J.M. Morgan, chief of the Alaska
investigation office, will leave next
week for Juneau to set up an of
fice for the survey, the depart
ment notified Delegate Bartlett.
It said approximately 20 men will
be employed in the work.
Bartlett was told the depart
ment planned first to investigate
the power possibilities of the Ek
lutna Lake district, then survey
the Fairbanks area, and the Jun
eau, Sitka and Ketchikan areas.
_
U.S. Wants Russia
To Return Ships
WASHINGTON, — UP) —The
United States demanded in Jan
uary, it was disclosed today, that
Russia return immediately 28 na
val frigates and three ice breakers
“lend-leased” to the Soviets dur
i ing the war. The ships still have
not been returned.
The fact that this country had
asked for return of the vessels
came out incidentally during Sec
retary of State Marshall’s news
conference. He said the request
| was made during discussions with
the Russian ambassador on a final
lend-lease settlement.
The American government has
been trying for the past 14 monthe
to reach an agreement with the
Soviets winding up the $11,296,
000,000 lend-lease account.
Other officials said later the
State Department had demanded
the return of the 31 vessels in
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Baby Born On
Plane at Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS. — (JP) — The
plane was on time, but the baby
was early.
The baby was born to 19-year
old Mrs. Harding Atwater as a
DC-3 of Northern Consolidated
Airlines taxied onto Weeks Field
here after a flight from McGrath
A doctor, who was waiting at
the airport, rushed the mother and
infant to a hospital.
SUNDAY SEED
4TH CELEBRATN
Sunday activities for the Fourth
of July have been planned at the
following times:
1:00 p.m.
Trap Shoot - Federal Square*
3:00 p.m. Native Sports.
8:00 p.m. Fireworks.