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NEWS IN BRIEF
BULLETIN
PARIS. (/P) — An official an
nouncement today said that the
cabinet of Socialist Premier Ra
madier had resigned.
. CANBERRA, (/P)—Navy Minis
ter William J. Riordan said yes
terday that at the end of Austra
lia’s five-year naval expansion
program in 1952 the Dominion
would have 26 warships in com
mission and a reserve of 80 ships.
The Australian squadron, he told
reporters, would then comprise
^ two light aircraft carriers, two
cruisers, six new destroyers, 16
frigates, survey ships, minesweep
ers and boom defense vessels.
Personnel strength would number
14,753 or two-and-one-half times
what it was before World War II,
he said.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—'The U. S.
air forces said yesterday the 97th
B-29 bombardment wing at
Smoky Hill airfield, Salina, Kas.,
h soon will take off on “a routine
flight.” The air forces declined to
say whether it will go to Alaska,
as unofficially reported.
Any information other than that
it is going on “a routine training
flight” is confidential an air
forces public relations spokesman
said.
OTTAWA, </P) — Canada today
knocked the price ceilings off meat
and meat products, oats, barley
and screenings, and discontinued
subsidies for grain used in live
stock feeding.
A decontrol order issued last
night narrowed the field of items
still under price ceilings to a
handful of essentials such as rents,
sugar, fats, oils and wheat.
ROME, (jT*)—The leftist action
party, founded as an anti-fascist
* group, voted yesterday to merge
with the pro-communist wing of
the Italian socialist party.
The merger adds 10 constituent
assembly deputies to the leftist so
cialist wing’s delegation of 04.
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Paul S.
Lawrence, 51, adjutant general of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars and
a veteran of both world wars, died
last night. He was born in Dayton,
Ohio, and lived in Valley Stream, i
N. Y.
TOKYO, (/P) — Former Premier (
Hideki Tojo was formally purged |
today.
Tojo, now on trial with 24 other
Japanese wartime leaders before
the international tribunal, was
banned from ever holding office
again early in the occupation. The
government’s central screening
committee merely formalized the
edict against the man who led
Japan into war in the Pacific.
Sauburo Kurusu, Japanese en
voy to Washington when Pearl
Harbor was attacked, also was
named in the purge list.
CHICO, Calif. </P)—Three boys,
11 to 13, played cops and robbers
almost daily for two months—then
Police Chief Jim Evans discovered
they were using real guns. Some
times loaded, too, and occasionally
fired, although no one was hurt.
President Issues
Call For European
Aid Discussion
WASHINGTON, (A1)—President
Truman yesterday sum m o n e d
Congressional leaders to the White
House for a conference Thursday
on Europe’s financial plight.
The White House said invita
tions went out yesterday for the
meeting at 2:30 p.m. <EST) Thurs
day for what Presidential secre
tary Charles G. Ross described as
a “further discussion of emer
gency foreign aid.”
The group is the same as the
one which met with Mr. Truman
Sept. 29.
In addition to the Republican
and Democratic leaders in both
Houses, it includes the chairman
and ranking minority members of
the foreign affairs and appropria
tions committees and Senator Taft
<R.-Ohio>, chairman of the GOP
policy group in the Senate.
Presumably the conference will
canvass the outlook for emergen
cy stop-gap aid to Europe as well
as the outlook for a European re
| covery plan based on secretary of
| state Marshall’s self-help propos
al, and the possibility of a special
session of Congress.
Ross would not elaborate be
yond his brief assertion that emer
gency foreign aid would be the
topic.
Invitations went to:
Senator Vandenberg R.-Mich.»,
president pro temport of the Sen
ate and chairman of its foreign re
lations committee; and Senator
Connally (D.-Tex.), ranking Dem
ocrat on the Senate foreign rela
tions committee;
Chairman Eaton «R.-N. J.) and
Rep. Bloom (D.-N. Y.), ranking
minority members of the House
foreign affairs committee;
Speaker Martin (R.-Mass.), and
majority leader Halleck <R.-Ind.>
of the House and former speaker
Rayburn (D.-Tex.), now minority
leader of the House;
Senate majority leader White
(R.-Me.), and Senate minority
leader Barkley (D.-Ky.), chair
man Bridges (R.-N. H.) of the
Senate appropriations committee
and chairman Taber (R.-N. Y.) of
the House appropriations commit
tee.
Ross did not indicate what cab
inet officials might attend.
Sacrifices Self To
Save Many Lives
S E A R S P O R T, Me. (iP) — A
world war two ace went down to
death with his falling plane Mon
day rather than let it ram homes
in this little village.
Maj. Kenneth G. Smith, 33, of
Boise, Idaho, who downed six
Gorman planes in world war two,
was killed when his Thunderbolt
crashed in a stream bed, exploded
and turned.
Eye witnesses said Smith stayed
at the controls until the fighter
was clear of any buildings. He
was out on a wing, ready -but too
late to parachute, when the craft
hit.
He was a squadron commander
at Down field, Bangor. Officials
Brazil Severs Dip
lomatic Relations
With Russia |
(By Ewaldo Castro)
RIO DE JANEIRO, (/P)--Brazil,
second largest country in the
western hemisphere, announced
yesterday she had severed diplo
matic relations with Soviet Rus
sia.
The announcement set diplo
mats to speculating that Brazil
might eventually extend the break
to countries in the Soviet sphere
of influence. They recalled Chile’s
recent break with Yugoslavia.
The break with Russia formal
ized a situation already virtually
in effect. Brazil resumed relations
with Russia in 1945 but there have
been no commercial or cultural
exchanges. Rio’s ambassador to
Moscow Mario Pimentel Brandao,
has spent much of the time in
Stockholm for reasons of health.
Moscow’s ambassador, Jacob Su
ritz, left Brazil following the offi
cial outlawing of the community
party here several months ago.
Brazil took offense at Russian
1 press attacks on this country and
on President Eurico Gaspar Dutra.
One of the Russian periodicals
called Dutra an incompetent sol
dier and a fascist.
Vice president Nereu Ramos had
declared the break was “impera
tive for national honor.”
In Moscow yesterday, Pravda,
anticipating the break, said that
I talk of severance of relations
| showed “reactionaries” had “lost
' all balance.”
i Some diplomats were inclined to
| interpret Brazil’s action as a turn
ing point in Latin American rela
tions with Russia and commun
ism. They foresaw repercussions
at the Inter-American conference
in January, scheduled to discuss
the United States proposal for
standardization of arms in this
hemisphere.
The foreign office statement said
the U. S. embassy in Moscow had j
(Continued on Page Seven*
Chile Announces
Diplomatic Break
With Russia
SANTIAGO, Chile, </P)—Chile,'
blaming Communists for a recent
coal strike, was aligned with Bra
zil today in a diplomatic break
with the Soviet Union.
The Chilean government said
last night it had severed diplo
matic and consular relations with
Russia and with Czechoslovakia
as well because of “instigations of
international communists” held to
have “disturbed the public quiet
of Chile.”
The Brazilian foreign ministry
announced earlier in Rio de Jan
eiro that Brazil had cut diplomat
ic ties with the Soviet government
because of what it called “outrag
eous and even calumnious” Rus
sian press criticism of Brazil’s
President Eurico Gaspar Dutra
(Continued on Page Eight)
said his ship went into a flat spin
at 10,000 to 12,000 feet from un
determined cause.
Navy Plane Crash
In Newfoundland
Kills Several !
—
ARGENTIA, Newfoundland, </P)
Seven occupants of a U. S. naval
plane carrying 11 perosns were
killed last night when it crashed
into the foggy harbor while land
ing during a rainstorm at the U. S.
defense base here.
Four of the plane’s occupants
were saved, base authorities said,
but rescuers were unable to help
the others.
(In Washington, the navy said it
had received a dispatch reporting
four persons missing and four in
jured in the crash. This dispatch
did not say how many were
aboard the plane).
i -
ARGENTIA, (/P) — Four men
were missing and presumed dead
today in the crash last night of a
U. S. naval plane into the foggy
harbor at this large U. S. base in
. southern Newfoundland.
The other four aboard were res
cued and are suffering from shock
j and other injuries. Previous an
nouncements said seven men had
been killed.
The PB4Y2 Privateer aircraft
was on a routine flight from Goose
| Bay, Labrador and was attempt
i ing to land by instrument in poor
I weather. The plane struck and
catapulted into the water and
sank in ten /athoms. Search con
tinued today for the lost men.
<The navy listed the four in
jured as Lt. Robert Louis Reich
ert, San Francisco; Lt. Donald Ar
thur Miller, Poweroy, Ohio; Ens.
Ernest Earl Calaway, Denver;
aviation machinists mate Robert
Christian Hansen, Philadelphia.
Injuries suffered were described
a minor.”
King George Opens
Parliament; Many
Important Issues
LONDON, (/P)—King George VI
opened a new session of Parlia
ment yesterday and in a speech
written by his socialist ministers
called for nationalization of the
British gas industry and for a
curb on the powers of the ancient
House of Lords. He gave top pri
ority, however, to economic recov
ery.
Both Houses sat together in the
Lords’ chamber for the ceremony
starting the new legislative year
under the labor government.
Seated on a gold throne, the
King read his 15-minute speech
slowly and deliberately with
scarcely a pause. On his left sat
the queen; on his right, Princess
Elizabeth, attending her first State j
opening and looking demure in a
long-skirted dress of dutsy pink!
crepe.
In 10 words the King announced
the government’s momentous d
cision to trim the authority of the
Lords:
“Legislation will be introduced
to amend the Parliament Act,
1911.” (Their authority is set out
in that act). ..
A high government source con
(Continued on Page Seven)
Battle Looms As
Committee Probes
Mobilization Plans
WASHINGTON, — A Re
publican-Democratic battle over
why it took so long to get Ameri
can plants producing full blast for
the war appears likqly this week
at a Senate committee inquiry into
industrial mobilization plans.
Deflected momentarily yester
day for a look into the progress of
war contract negotiations, the Sen
ate war investigating committee
today began questioning secretary
of defense Forrestal about a “lost”
mobilization plan.
Chairman Brewster (R.-Me.)
told reporters this plan involved
, three decades of work by the army
and navy. It was capped, he add
ed, by a polishing-up report made
t before the war by a citizens com
mittee headed by Edward R. Stet
i tinius, Jr., who later became sec
etary of state.
The Maine Senator complained
that neither this plan, nor any
other like it, was put into effect
when the Pearl Harbor attack
blasted this country into hostili
! ties.
Brewster read from a 194*1 com
mittee report signed by its tben
| chairman. Senator Mead <D.-N.
Y.», the observation that either the
staff work on the mobilization re
port must have been pretty bad or
il should not have been shelved.
Brewster denied a contention
by Senator Pepper 'D.-Flad that
the Republican-controlled com
mittee is trying to “convict” the
late President Roosevelt of failure
. to do his full duty by not putting
(■Continued on Page Six)
I
Steel For Autos
To Continue Short
Through 1941!
DETROIT, (/P) — Shortages of
sheet steel, which have kept the
automobile industry on a stop
and-go basis for most of the post
war period to date, will continue
to plague the car factories through
most of 1948, according to current
thinking among the manufactur
ers.
One of the results will be that
the industry probably will not
turn out any more vehicles next
year than the total of 1947 output.
Possibility that holds hope for a
somewhat deeper cut into the un
filled order bank is that more of
next year’s assemblies probably
will be passenger vehicles.
This year’s production, expect
ed to fall only a little under the
5,000,000 unit level, will include
close to 1,200,000 trucks and
coaches. The 1,000,000th truck to
be produced in the United States
this year came off the assembly
lines on Monday of this week.
But demand for commercial ve
hicles has begun to tighten up,
particularly in the heavier classi
fications; indications are this
year’s record-breaking output will
necessitate a tapering off in truck
assemblies next year. So more
passenger cars and fewer trucks
probably will make up next year’s
production.