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NEWS IN BRIEF
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WASHINGAON, (/P)—President
^uman will hold a news confer
ence at 4 p.m. Wednesday and at
that time will make public the
first report of his council of econo
mic advisers. The council was set
up by law to inquire into means of
providing maximum employment.
WASHINGTON, (/P) — With all
Tme fanfare but none of the buggy
busting competition of pioneer
days, there’ll be a land rush in a
goldfish bowl come Wednesday
out in Oregon. The stakes will be
86 small farms on the Klamath
basin irrigation project.
The reclamation bureau said to
day the winners will be drawn
from a well-stirred bowl contain
ing the names of 1,305 World War
IJ. veterans.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (/P)—The gov
ernment is getting rid of its red
tape—at 28 cents a roll.
The war assets administration
today advertised among the sur
plus items for sale:
“76 rolls tape, red, cellulose, un
used. .28.”
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IDAHO SPRINGS, Colo. (/P)—A
Denver teen-ager and his fiancee
were fatally injured and 13 other
skiers returning from a Sunday
outing were injured yesterday
when their open-body truck plung
ed off a mountain highway and
into the icy waters of Clear Creek.
Guy Clifford Cowan, 18, of Den
ver, was crushed to death in the
40-foot plunge, and his fiancee,
Helen Fouse, 18, also of Denver
d^ed early today in Colorado Gen
eral Hospital, Denver.
KETCHIKAN, (/P) — Ketchikan
merchants today restocked their
shelves with nearly 100 tons of
cargo which arrived here yester
day aboard the steamer Alaska of
the Alaska Steamship Co.
The vessel was the first in reg
ular mainland service to reach
fc^re in more than 100 days.
SEATTLE, (/P) — Funeral serv
ices will be held at 2 p.m., Wed
nesday for Thomas Arthur Davies,
80, Seattle civic leader, banker and
newspaperman. He died yesterday
from a heart ailment.
In 1893 he followed the call of
gold and became manager of a Yu
kon River steamboat company at
Dawson. In 1903 he purchased a
Steamboat business on the Colum
bia River. He was president of
Seattle chamber of commerce
‘ in 1936.
Coming Events
Community Xmas .Dec. 20
Pioneer Roof Garden.Dec. 21
Army Regulars in Panama Enjoy an Evening at the Movies
Modem Post Theaters such as this show first-run pictures end are typical of the recreation and entertain
ment facilities provided oil over the world for peacetime Regular Army men. Young men between '8 and 24
years of age, inclusive, are encouraged to enlist in the new Regular Army.
Russians Eat;
Americans Pay
WASHINGTON, (A3)—The Sen
ate War Investigating committee
has learned that it probably will
cost American taxpayers $171,0Uu,
000 next year to feed the U. S.-oc
cupied zone of Germany while the
Russian controlled area eats home
grown food at no cost to Moscow.
Statements gathered by commit
tee counsel George Meader during
a three-week trip to Europe laid
the blame for this situation on the
failure of attempts to unify Ger
many economically under the
terms of the 1945 Potsdam Big
Three agreement.
Blaming the French for block
ing plans to set up central German
administrative services, the state
ments obtained by Mader from
army of occupation and military
government authorities said the
United States had been forced to
stop the dismantling of German
plants for reparations—most of
which would go to Russia—be
cause of the threatened financial
drain on this country.
Beyond that, the statements in
dicated that even if economic uni
fication of Germany were brought
about immediately, it might take
two years for the Germans to be
come sufficiently self supporting
to require no further food ship
ments from the United States.
JOHN CLARK ON
BUSINESS TRIP
John Clark left Saturday with
the Alaska Airlines, for Anchorage
where he will spend several days
on business.
Lost Marine Plane
Still Unsighted
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SEATTLE, (/P)—Weather-weary
searchers renewed their vigil to
day for a break in the elements
that would permit them to comb j
the slopes of Mount Rainier for:
the missing Marine Corps trans- J
port plane which vanished in a
storm last Tuesday with 32 men
aboard.
That the lofty 14,400-foot peak
was still the most likely locale for
the missing plane was indicated
early this morning when a small
band of Coast Guardsmen and
others returned from checking a
report that plane wreckage had
been signted 12 miles east of
Eatonville, a small community 33
miles southeast of Tacoma.
“We covered every foot of
ground without sighting a thing,”
said one of the party.
American Mail
Buys Nine Ships
SEATTLE, (/P)—Loading of the
first of nine ships, purchased by
American Mail Lines, Inc., in the
largest marine transaction of Pa
cific Northwest history, is sched
uled to get under way Dec. 23, A.
R. Lintner, Line president, said
today.
The nine cargo carriers, built
during the war at a total cost of
$25,000,000, were purchased by
the Line from the maritime com
mission to ply between Pacific
Northwest ports and the Orient.
The purchase price was $12,000,
000.
Iran Control All
Of Azerbaijan
TEHRAN, (/P) — Iran’s central
government, plagued for more
than a year by separatist move
ments in Azerbaijan, claimed to
day to have brought Kurds as well
as Azerbaijanis back under its
control in the oil-rich province on
the Soviet frontier.
Tne government also announced
it had ordered the transfer here of
Dr. Salamollah Javid, governor
general of subdued Azerbaijan
province, and M. Sabostari, head
of the Azerbaijan provincial coun
cil.
The war ministry said it could
neither confirm nor deny reports
that more than 100 Russian immi
grants into Azerbaijan had been
killed by civil police and soldiers
during the last three days at Tab
riz, capital of Azerbaijan.
The newspaper Etash reported
from Tabriz that Tehran security
forces had reached Ardebil and
found that tribesmen there had
hanged or otherwise executed 40
adherents of the Azerbaijan semi
autonomous government, estab
lished during the last days of the
Russian occupation of north Iran.
Etash said also that government
troops used machinegun fire to
protect three ranking leaders of
the Azerbaijan government when
they were transferred from muni
cipal headquaters at Tabriz to jail.
It was said that the people tried
to kill them.
Lintner said the entire nine
would be ready for weekly sail
ings from Seattle to Japan, China
and the Philippines by July 1.
U. N. Diplomats
Depart For Home;
W ork Finished
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(By John A. Parris. Jr.)
NEW YORK, </P)—'The United
Nations assembly turned over to
the 11-members security council
today the monumental task of set
ting into motion a program for re
ducing the armies of the world
and destroying the mass destruc
tive weapons of war.
Ending an historic eight-weeks’
session at 12:44 a.m. <EST>, the
top diplomats of 54 nations gave
the world its first concrete hope
lor outlawing war and then head
ed for home after writing another
chapter in man’s long search for
peace.
The next regular meeting will
be held in New York next Sept
16, but the assembly may be called
into special session in six months
to approve world-wide arms re
ductions which the security coun
cil is to plan in detail.
In the vaulted gold-and-blue as
sembly hall at Flushing Meadow
Park, the world’s diplomats gave
a solemn pledge that their coun
tries would support immediate
steps to reduce their armed forces
and prohibit the use of the atomic
bomb.
This was regarded as the most
significant achievement of the
assembly, which met in the United
States for the first time and se
lected a Manhattan skyscraper site
for its permanent home.
But almost equally as signifi
cant was the attainment of virtu
ally unanimous agreement among
delegates, a unanimity that had
been conspicuously lacking since
the United Nations was born.
For the first time since hostili
ties ended, delegates agreed there
was an increase in cooperative
spirit between Soviet Russia and
the western powers.
There was evidence in some re
spects of a softening of Russian
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Northwest’s Flood
Danger Past
SEATTLE, (iT*)—Freezing wea
ther following a two-hour long
snow flurry brought western
Washington’s water-logged resi
dents today the weather bureau’s
cheering word that the worst of
| the past week’s floods ‘‘is defin
itely over.”
The week-long flood waters,
which at times lapped at house
eaves throughout the White River
valley south of Seattle, and stood
10 feet deep over Longacres race
track, were reported generally re
ceding.