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« NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman will announce the crea
tion of a liquidation agency to
take over remaining functions of
OPA, CPA, and other war emer
gency agencies, at a news confer
ence. Presidential Secretary
Charles G. Ross, who announced
this today, was asked if the head
of the new agency will be named
at the same time.
"He may be,” Ross replied.
He would not comment on whe
ther housing will be affected in
the new set-up.
SPOKANE, (VP) — Organization
of an “Un-American Activit es
committee on a permanent basis”
was said by the Spokesman-Re
View today to be “one of the first
acts” contemplated by Republican
legislators for the opening of the
1947 state legislature. The news
paper said the committee would
function along lines similar to the
former Dies Committee in Con
gress.
HURSTBORO, Ala. (VP)—J. Au
brey, veterans administr a t o r ,
proved his prowress as a quail
Marksman here when he reached
his bag-limit of 12 birds in about
two hours. The general hunteu
yesterday on the large Harmon,
Ala., game preserve. He drew tne
praise of fellow hunters when he
killed seven quail in eight shots
at the last two covies flushed.
* WARSAW, (/P) — Elliott Roose
velt and his wife arrived here by
plane today from Moscow. They
expect to see President Boleslaw
Bierut, Premier Edward B. Osub
ka-Mc ' and other govern
ment
MOSCOW, (/P) — A Tass dis
patch today from Beyrouth, Leb
anon, said the recent visit of an
American naval squadron there
was regarded in Lebanon as evi
dence of the U. S. A. to strengthen
its position in the Near East and
the Mediterranean and replace
French and British influence with
its own.”
TOKYO, (A*) — Blinding snow
storms tied up railroads and halt
ed operations on coaling ships of
west and northwest Honshu today.
One mountainous sector reported
p30 inches of snow, the heaviest in
nearly 50 years.
At Yokohama, the eighth army
reported a severe storm in the Pa
cific had delayed the arrival of
several ships three or four days.
CARACAS, Venezuela, (/P) —
President Rovulo Betancourt’s
government announced today that
leaders of the short-lived revolu
tion of a few military aviators Had
f been arrested and that the “last
small pocket of resistance in the
* interior is eliminated.”
V _
Coining Events
20-40 Club Party.Dec. 14
Community Xmas .Dec. 20
Pioneer Roof Garden.Dec. 21
DESERT SAILBOATING-. Desert breezes fill the sails of a boat skimming the sur
face of Lake Mead, the 115>mile artificial lake created by Boulder Dam.
Tehran Govt. In
Power In Tabriz
(By Edward Curtis)
TABRIZ, Azerbaijan Province,
Iran, (Delayed) (/P)—Fajur Pishe
vari, leader of the movement
which ruled semi-autonomous
Azerbaijan for exactly a year, dis
appeared today from Tabriz, most
of whose population thronged the
streets cheering and waiting for
the arrival of the Iranian army
from Mianeh.
The “Democratic movement”
and its armed resistance collapsed
last night. The only officials of
the regime left in Tabriz tonight
are Haji Mirza Ali Shabastari,
president of the Azerbaijan pro
vincial council, and Dr. Salamol
lah Javid, governor-general of the
province.
Offices of the party and of Pish
evari, party head and provincial
“premier” were deserted and dark.
Sporadic firing was still being
heard in the city tonight, 24 hours
after the Pishevari regime an
nounced its capitulation to the
Tehran government, which had
ordered its troops into the pro
vince to supervise parliamentary
elections.
Most of the firing appeared to
be in celebration rather than in
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Many Dead In
Ohio Rail Wreck
MANSFIELD, O., (/P)—An offi
cial of the Pennsylvania railroad
estimated today that at least 15
persons were killed and 50 injured
when the railroad’s “Golden Tri
angle” passenger train plowed into
the wreckage of two freight trains
early this morning.
The rail official, who declined to
be identified by name, told news
men at the wreck scene he felt
that was a “conservative estimate”
after looking over the wreckage
left by the pileup which occurred
about'2:45 a.m. (EST), near Coul
ter, 12 miles southeast of here.
"“Stay In Session**
Ties Up Oklahoma
City Traffic
OKLAHOMA CITY, (/P)—Street
car and bus operators in this city
of 250,000 failed to report for work
oaay oecause of a labor dispute
and city officials promptly pressed
police and fire department vehi
cles into service to haul passen
gers.
Leaders of the Amalgamated
union of street car operators <AFL>
said there was no strike, that
members had merely voted to
“stay in session” after an all-night
meeting at which an arbitration
board’s award was considered.
City manager William Gill, Jr.,
ordered 15 detective cars and all
available police cruisers and fire
department passenger cars onto
the streets to pick up passengers
at bus and trolley car stops.
Gill also broadcast pleas to pri
vate motorists to pick up pedes
trians.
The three-man arbitration board
proposed a wage boost of five
cents an hour. The union had
asked a boost of 20 cents an hour.
Chinese Protest
UNRRA Slash
SHANGHAI, (/P)—Dr. J. Heng
Liu, chief medical officer of the
Chinese National Relief and Reha
bilitation Association, told report
ers today he would leave by plane
tomorrow for Washington to pro
test a contemplated $6,000,000
slash in UNRRA’s $41,300,000 bud
get for China.
He charged that UNRRA’s med
ical supply program has been
“very inefficiently handled by
UNRRA headquarters in Wash
ington.”
FRANK PRESTON IN
FROM MARSHALL
Frank “Doc” Preston flew in
from Marshall, on the Yukon, yes
terday for a business trip.
Arms Reduction
Flan Approved
(By Max Harrelson)
NEW YORK, (yR)—The United
Nations sped toward final action
on the principles of a world-wide
arms reduction program today
when the general assembly's pow
erful political committee approved
unanimously a draft resolution
laying down the general terms of
the arms plan.
The 54-nation committee, meet
| ing at Lake Success, sent the mea
sure to the assembly for final ac
tion after making a few minor
changes. In view of the unanimous
i vote, it was assured of adoption
by the assembly.
The resolution recommended
that the security council formulate
plans for armaments limitations
and set up inspection and control
machinery to detect and prevent
violations.
The machinery will be free of
! the big power veto. It must be ap
| proved finally by a special session
! of the general assembly and then
be ratified by individual states.
The program includes provisions
for the outlawing of atomic bombs
and other weapons of mass de
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Rescue Ships Rush
To Chinese Vessel
SAN FRANCISCO, I/P)—Globe
wireless reported today two res
cue vessels were within approxi
mately 100 miles of the stricken
Chinese merchant ship Hwa Tung
and would reach her position, 480
miles west of San Diego, about
2:30 p.m.
One of the vessels is the tanker
Chisholm trail and the other a
Canadian ship for which Globe
wireless received only a call sign
“V D Y T.”
The Hwa Tung messaged the
Coast Guard at San Diego yester
day that it was taking water in
No. 1 hold and required immedi
ate assistance.
I ,A. May Sever
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Spanish Relations
(Pv Larry Hauk)
NEW YORK. (TP)—1The United
Nat ons general assembly today
tossed one of its hottest issues into
the laps of its 54 members by
recommending withdrawal of dip
1 o m a t i c representatives from
Franco Spain and a British spokes
man immediately announced his
country would "very shortly” re
call its ambassador from Madrid.
A government source in London
said Sir Victor Mallet, Brtish
ambassador to Spain, would be re
called in accordance with the U.N.
resolution declaring the Franco
government to be a “fascist re
gime.” The informant said D. F.
Howard would be designated Brit
ish charge d’affaires in Madrid
and that the embassy would be re
duced to the status of a legation.
In Madrid a Spanish foreign
ministry spokesman said it was
(“too early” for comment on the
; U. N. assembly vote. No official
! Spanish comment on the U. N.
vote was expected until after the
regular cabinet meeting, sched
uled for late..today.
Diplomats in Madrid who would
be affected by the U. N. resolu
tion include ministers from the
Dominican Republic and El Sal
vador, which voted against the U.
N. resolution, and the Netherlands
and Turkey, which abstained from
voting. All other U. N. diplomatic
| missions in Spain are headed by
charges d’affaires, some of whom
j have the personal rank of minis
| ters but not of ministers plenipo
! tentiary.
The United States has had no
' ambassador at Madrid since the
I return of Norman Armour.
To strengthen its recommenda
! tion for action, the assembly in
cluded a clause asking all mem
bers to report what action they
| had taken. It was the assembly’s
I first concrete action against the
Falangist regime during its long
and bitter debates over what to do
with a man who once aligned him
self with Hitler and Mussolini.
Turkish Students
Iteli To Riot
ISTAMBUL, Turkey, (JP)—Pre
mier Recep Peker cautioned uni
versity students today to be “calm”
and refrain from any action aiding
“those who want to disrupt order
in our country.”
Students have been showing ir
ritation over published reports of
“persecution” of Turkish minori
ties in Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and
Macedonia and the publication of
periodicals which they consider to
have leftist leanings. Hundreds
massed at Istambul university yes
terday but police moved in swiftly
and broke up the meeting.
OTTAWA, i/P)—Canada’s army,
navy and air departments, under
separate ministers during the war.
were back on a pre-war basis un
der a single defense minister today
after a series of cabinet changes.