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NEWS IN BRIEF
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ELIZABETH, N. J. (JP) — The
168-day old strike at the Singer
Manufacturing Co. has ended.
Between 2,000 and 2500 of the
7000 workers who walked out May
2 were scheduled to return to
their jobs today. The strikers,
members of local 401, United Elec
trical Workers (CIO), voted yes
terdayat a mass meeting to accept
a new contract providing no gen
eral wage increase and retaining
the disputed standards or incen
tive pay system.
WASHINGTON, (&)—One Alas
kan was included today among
the 364 Masons advanced to the
33td Degree—the highest honor
in Scottish Rite Masonry. He was
Jens Martfci Jorgensen of Fair
banks.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—A bill ex
tending to Alaska the full benefits
of legislation authorizing funds
for agricultural extension work
was aproved by the Senate and
sent to the White House yesterday.
It would give Alaska benefits of
the provisions of sections 21 and
23 of the Bankhead-Jones Act and
the Capper-Ketcham- Act, both
providing for cooperative agricul
tural extension work.
The Territory now receives only
partial benefits under the Acts.
SEATTLE. (/P) — A motion to
dismiss a government suit for
$1,000 in civil penalties against the
Alaska Airlines, Inc., was denied
yesterday by U. S. District Judge
Lloyd L. Black.
The suit charged that a com
pany anrliner approached Boeing
Field Nov. 30, 1947 after the wea
ther bureau warned that the ceil
ing was too low.
The plane attempted the land
ing, circled, and landed at the
Seattle-Tacoma airport, where it
crashed, killing nine persons.
Judge Black gave the company
10 days to answer the complaint.
SAN FRANCISCO, (JP) — The
house of delegates of the Ameri
can Dental Association unani
mously approved a charter for a
new constituent (State) dental so
ciety for the Territory of Alaska
* last night.
Thirty Alaskan dentists were
listed as charter members.
Approval of the charter brings l
the constituent units to 54.
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LONDON, (£>), Is a school girl’s
kiss worth a caning?
Peter Freeman, Laborite, will
ask that question of education
minis ter George Tomlinson in the
House of Commons tomorrow.
Freeman said six boys were
caned at Chamberlayne Road
school last July for kissing girls.
He wants to know if the whip
ping was in accordance with the
education minister’s regulations.
MOSCOW, (/P)—Marshal Feodor
I. Tolbukhin, who led Russian
armies against the Germans in
Bulgaria, Hungary and Austria in
World War II, died yesterday at
the age of 05.
His death was announced yes
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U. S. Will Speed Up
Atomic Bond)
| Production
WASHINGTON, (/P)—'The U. S.
is going to speed up its atomic
bomb program.
An accelerated expansion of fa
cilities and operations at two key
plants, Oak Ridge, Tenn., and
Hanford, Wash, willl cost in excess
of $300,000,000 it has been learned
yesterday paved the way for the
from authoritative sources.
Two moves in the Senate late
program.
One was the disclosure by chair
I
1 man McMahon (D.-Conn.) of the
Senate-House atomic committee
that Psesident Truman had au
thorized the atomic energy com
mission to use some of its budget
ary reserves “to get started on this
proposition.”
The reserves to be used amount
to approximately $30,000,000, or
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"TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES"
MAN ON WAY TO KEEP DATE
Word has been received that
the man who is coming to keep
a date with an unknown Eskimo
girl through the “Truth or Con
sequences” program has left the
States and should arrive with
Wien Airlines next Friday to keep
the date on Saturday.
The man whose name is still
unknown, was picked at random
from the audience in last Satur
day’s radio program of “Truth or
Consequences” and is reported to
be unemployed and enjoying the
trip which is being given him to
Nome. He is also scheduled to re
ceive $200.00 when the program
is completed next Saturday af
ternoon, at which time he will
sing over the air with his Nome
girlfriend. The title of the song i
they will sing is “It’s Cold Out
Guatemala Hit Bv
Disastrous Flood
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GUATEMALA, Guatemala, (£>> j
The Guatemalan government to
day stepped up relief plans to care
for 70.000 persons made homeless
by the most disastrous flood here
in recent times.
About 1,000 persons are believ
ed to have perished in the flood.
The economic loss was estimated
conservatively at $15,000,000.
The government named an
emergency committee to adminis
ter relief and provided it with a
fund of $6,000,000.
Neighboring countries were
quick to offer help. A Cuban army
plane left Havana for Guatemala
early today with a group of civil
ian military engineers to aid in
reconstruction.
Twenty-six American tourists
were trapped by the flood waters.
Fifteen had been marooned more
than a week at the village of Pan
ajachel on Lake Atitlan, 40 miles
north of Guatemala City,
side.”
Present plans, according to Joe
Wallace, who is making the ar
rangements, will be for the>broad
cast to be made from the Bering
Sea Club next Saturday after
noon.
LATE BULLETIN
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BELGRADE, (/P) —Yu
goslavia's official press re
ported today that Russia
had moved Red Army
troops into neighboring
Cominform countries as
part of a “warmongering"
campaign against Premier
Marshal Tito’s govern
ment.
Lewis Blasts At
Greeivs Refusal
To “Cooperate”
by Norman Walker
WASHINGTON, (/P) — John L.
Lewis bitterly denounced AFL
president William Green today
for turning down a proposal to
help finance a' $2,500,000 weekly
strike fund for Philip Murray’s
CIO steel workers.
The mine workers chief s caus
tic note to Green said:
“You cry loud for labor peace
and laber security, but seldom do
anything to achieve it.”
Lewis had proposed that his
own mine workers—themselves
on strike—put up $250,000 week
ly to help Murry’s steel strikers, I
and that nine AFL unions put up
equal amounts.
Green replied that pooling la
bor’s resources was “impossible
and impracticable” so long as
' Lewis and Murray fail to bring
I their unions into the AFL.
; Murray approved Lewis’ idea
but said the proposed $2,500,000
a week fund should help striking
mine workers as well as striking ;
steel workers.
Today Lewis fired this reply at
Green following the AFL leader’s
rejection of the plan:
“You have justified my judge
ment. I did not think you would
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" The Prospector’*'
Unveiled At Sitka
Despite Rain
SITKA, (#*) — Although heavy
rains earlier in the day caused
cancellation of the parade, Sitkans
nevertheless turned out en masse
at the Pioneer Home grounds yes
terday for unveiling of the sta- j
tue “The Prospector.”
With Charles Carter of Juneau
at master of ceremonies, Gov. Er- 1
nest Gruening paid tribute to the
prospectors as the first group to
open up the Territory.
Henry Roden, chairman of the
board of the Pioneers Home, said
19 years of effort had gone into
raising funds for the statue. He
announced he and Carter had
completed plans for conversion of
the Tower Apartments, adjacent
to the home, into a home for
Alaskan pioneer women.
The colorful and impressive
ceremony was climaxed when
Mrs. Zalmain Gross, daughter of
Alonzo Victor Lewis, the sculptor,
dedicated the statue to the mem
ory of her father and all Alaskan
Pioneers.
Ij. S. Must Keep
Up Strategic
Bombing Strength
WASH INGTON, (JP) — Gen.
Hoyt S. Vandenberg said today
that if the United States cuts
down on strategic bombing
strength, then Russia will be free
to concentrate on developing of
fensive power.
Vandenberg, the air force chief
of staff, was before the House
armed services committee defend
ing the air force policy of build
ing up a B-36 bomber fleet against
navy criticism.
The navy, in hearings last week,:
had argued that the air force
should spend less time and money
on strategic bombers and more on
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News of the \V or hi
At A Glance ...
Tuesday, October 18, 1949
(By The Associated Press'
Chinese communists tightened
their hold on 2,000 miles of China’s
coastline today by seizing two
more important ports. Red am
phibious troops captured the old
treaty island port of Amony. Pro
communist newspapers in Hong
Kong said the communists now
control Swatow, another big port
about 115 miles south of Amoy.
Observers said the communists
would turn Amoy into a base for
an assault on Formosa, Chiang
Kai-Shek’s island bastion, 140
miles away.
In Chungking the Nationalists*
gloomy provisional capital, acting
President Li Tsung-Jen said: “We
can still turn the tide against the
communists if we renovate the
government . . . without delay.”
If foremrs were not undertaken
immediately Li said. “Our posi
tion will be hopeless."
In France, the political crisis
deepened. President Vincent Aur
riol still could find no political
leader able to obtain sufficient
support to accept the premiership.
Socialist Jules Moch attempted
to pick a cabinet but he threw in
the sponge last night. Former Pre
mier Queqille precipitated the cri
sis. He resigned when his coalition
cabinet split over freezing of
wages under the pinch of devalua
tion of the franc and threatened
ilnflation.
At Lake Success, the United Na
tions security council meets this
afternoon to consider again Rus
sian proposals for a world census
on armaments including atomic
weapons. Russia wants the census
without the machinery for verifi
cation proposed by other nations.
It seemed certain the Soviet un
ios would veto verification as an
invasion of her sovereignty, as she
has always done.
Prime Minister Nehru of India
received an honorary degree from
Columbia University in New York
last night. He said •'Man’s liberty
is in danger” because the world
is divided into two armed^camps.”
‘ The very process of marshall
ing the world into two hostile
camps precipitates the conflict
which it sought to avoid,” Nehru
declared.
Wednesday, October 19, 1949
Britain charged Russia today
with bringing pressure in an at
tempt to elect Czechoslovakia to
the United Nations security coun
cil over Yugoslavia.
A British foreign office spokes*
man in London criticized the Sov
iet Union claim made by foreign
minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky yes
terday that election of Yugoslavia
would be unlawful and unjust.
Britain, the spokesman said,
still intends to support Czechoslo
vakia for the vacant seat but does
not like Russia’s pressure methods.
The United States is supporting
the candidacy of Yugoslavia. Vi
shinsky called a news conference
at Lake Success yesterday and
made it clear Russia would stage
a furious last-ditch fight to pre
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