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NEWS I!\ BRIEF
BERKELEY, Calif. </P>—A sliv
er of glass killed George Isaeff,
40, Friday night as he slipped n
bathroom rug and crashed into
the glass door of a stall shower.
The door shattered. A jagged s? ?
tion almost severed Isaeff’s left
arme and a stilletto-Iike piece
pierced his heart.
ASTORIA, Ore. bP)—Improved
fishing in the lower Columbia
river increased the chances that
catches for the .first week of the
spring season would be as large
as any inthe last 10 years.
Fishing remained excellent in
the middle section of the river and
several packing houses worked
overtime Thursday night. All
were operating at capacity.
BULLETIN
NEW YORK (/Pi—Henry Mayer,
counsel for some of the unions of
the National Federation of Tele
phone Workers (Ind.) said today
there might be a settlement of the
nationwide telephone strike "by
nightfall."
VANCOUVER. B. C., (/P)—Ne
gotiations between the United
Fishermen and Allied Workers’
union an dthe Salmon Operators’
committee may bring a demand by
the fishermen for higher 1947 sal
mon prices, informed sources said
today. Operators waned that high
er canned salmon prices may
bring a buyers’ reaction both in
domesti and export markets. Dis
cussions were scheduled to begin
this week-end.
OLYMPIA, </P>—'The state su
preme court split 4 to 4, with one
^ member disqualified, on whether
ownership of slot machines in a
private place is illegal. The ques
tion arose on an appeal by Sydney
Brunn, Seattle. from a King
County Superior Court judgment
that he was guilty of such a
charge. The high tribunal order
ed the decision against Brunn re
served, due to conditions peculiar
to the case and not on possession
of the machines being a crime.
The opinion said the slot machine
issue could not be decided until
another case is presented in which
the full court could act.
VANCOUVER, B. C. i/P>—Four
hundred housewives pic k e t e d
many suburban and several down
town tsores here Friday in protest
against advancing prices. Organ
izers of the movement said notice
ably fewere buyers patronized the
stores, but an executive of a large
downtown firm reported the pick
eting bought out many curious on
lookers who bought “more than
ever.”
YAKIMA. (/P) — Bites from a
wood-tick caused the death Fri
day afternoon of Sally Jo Ge
^ dosch, 2Vfe year old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Waldo F. Gedosch.
The tick is believed to have bur
rowed its way into the little girl’s
scalp while she was playing in
I the woods near the family's Blew
ett Pass cabin 10 days ago. She
developed a high lever and
spreading paralysis Thursday.
I
Soviets “Want To
Cooperate"
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WASHINGTON, (/Pi—Harold E.
Stassen, although saying he fav
o 3 the $100,000,000 Greek-Turk
h aid program, decalred today
it would be a “tragic" mistake for
the United States to arm an all
out offensive against guerrilla op
ponents of the present Greek gov
ernment.
At a news conference where he
discussed the program, the former
Minnesota governor also termed
the general doctrine bac leaf Pres
ident Truman’s policy a negative
one.
Te said he endorses the aid in
the form approved by the Senate
but hopes that military expendi
tures will not be such as to bring
about a full scale war in Greece.
Instead, Stassen said, the United
States should concentrate on at
tempting to build a stable and
prosperous regime in the valleys
of Greece which by its very pros
perity would weaken the appeal
of Communism to the mountain
guerrillas.
Stassen, an avowed candidate
for 1948 Republican Presidential
nomination, met with reporters
after releasing over the week-end
the transcript of-an interview he
had April 9 with Soviet Premier
Stalin.
The Russian leader was quoted
as saying, among other things, that
the U.S.S.R. “want to cooperate.”
Capitol Hill reaction to Stassen’s
reports on what Stalin, old him
was generally along the line that
this country would like to see
deeds bearing out his words.
Jews And Arabs In
Mass Escape
JERUSALEM, iJP) — British
troops and police fanned out over
northern Palestine today in a
great manhunt for 227 Jew and
Arab prisoners still at liberty af
te a mass delivery fom Acre pris
on? engineered yesterday by the
Jewish underground.
Sixteen persons — including 11
members of the underground band
who blasted a two-yard hole in
the w’all of the ancient citadel—
were killed in the break, described
as one of the biggest in modern
times.
A total of 251 of the 555 in
mates of the old gray-walled pris
on north of Haifa participated in
the dash for freedom, but five—
four Jews and an Arab — were
killed before they could make
good their escape. Nineteen—eight
of them wounded—were captured
within a few hours. Twenty-three
others were w’ounded in the ex
change of gunfire that accompan
ied the break. Ot least nine of the
underground raiders were report
ed captured.
VANCOUVER, B. C.J/P) — The
search for the missing Trans-Can
ada airliner and its 15 passengers
and crewmen entered its seventh
day today amid reports that an
aircraft was sighted “flying low
over Georgia Straits” shortly af
ter the missing plane disappeared
’ast Monday night.
lee Goes ()ut In
5:53 P.M. Saturday
FAIRBANKS, '.-Pi—As breath
less watchers lined the banks, the
Tanana River ice pack broke up
with a grinding roar at 3:33 p.m.
Saturday, bringing fortunes to
seven lucky guessers partierpat
ing in the record $140,000 Nanana
pool.
Each of the seven winners, five
of whom were from Fairbanks,
will receive $20,000.
Thousands of Alaskans, Cana
dians and people from the United
States, enter guesses each year
on the hour, minute and second
the ice pack will go out.
The time is recorded on a spe
cial clock, to which is attac.ied a
! wire leading to a stake driven in
the frozen river at the village of
Nenana.
This year’s winners were Alex
Miller, Calvin Anderson, Paul
Stryken, Olga Miscovich and the
“Old Timers’ Pool” of Fairbanks,
the “Artcic Club” of Anchorage
and Floyd Jaeger of Talkeetna
village.
Last year’s pool totaled $103,
000.
'In Seattle, the “Old-Timers”
were listed as Charles Holky,
Charles Settlemeier, Joe Martin,
William Bryson, James Ryan,
I Muriel Dustin, Effie Young, Ber
! nadette Thomas, Cyrus B. Atwell
and a Mrs. Larson*.
Pi •esident Aleman
Visits West Point
WEST POINT. N. Y. i/P>—Pres
ident Miguel Aleman of Mexico
arrived at the United States mili
tary academy and begafi an in
spection tour of the grounds and
buildings, to be followed by a
luncheon and a full dress parade!
by the cadet corps.
President Aleman is visiting
West Point on the anniversary of i
the battle of Puebla, Mexico, in
1862, a national holiday in Mex
ico. Mexican troops under Gen
eral Zaragoza defending two old
colonial forts, Loreto and Guada
lupe, routed on that day veteran
French Zouaves and crack infan
tryment sent by Napoleon dll to
invade Mexico.
The President, a civilian, is the
son of a Mexican army general
who rose from the ranks during
the Mexican revolution in 1910.
Otter Trawler
Towed To Safety
•>
SEATTLE, (/P) — The 80-foot
otter trawler Sunlight of Seattle
was being towed today into Port
Angeles by the cutter Onandoga,
! Coast Guard headquarters here
reported.
The vessel was taken into tow
early this morning after reporting
yesterday it was adift off Vancou
ver Island with its engines dis
abled. The number of crewmen
aboard was not known.
The cutter is expected to reach
Port Angeles about 6 p.m., the
Coast Guard said.
U. S.-Soviets Eiul
,Uv.vis!i Stalemate1
(Py Max Hnrrelson)
YEW YORK, l/P)—'The Unite i
Spates and Russia were reporte i
agreed today on a joint Slav-Latin
American plan to end the stale
mate over Jewish representation
ir. the United Nations Palestine de
bate.
The compromise plan provided
that the < ffieial Jewish Agency
t'o" Palestine would be given a
hearing before the general assem
bly’- 55-nation political commit
tee, but not before plenary meet
ings as the Russians had previous
ly insisted.
The only question remaining to
be settled was the final wording
of a resolution, which, would be
acceptable to all factions.
The proposals were put forward
at the opening of today’s session
by Yugoslavia, White Russia, Ar
gentina. Chile and Uruguay.
The United States was said to
feel *hat the official Jewish agency
for Palestine and other organiza
tions should not be permitted to
participate fully in the debate,
even before the political commit
tee, and should not be allowed to
appear at all before plenary meet
ings.
The Jewish agency was under
stood to be bitterly disappointed
over the American delegation's
position.
Soviets Criticize
Marshall Broadcast
MOSCOW, (A*)—The newspaper
Izvestia today accused U. S. Sec
retary of State George C .Marshall
of making an “incorrect appraisal”
of the Moscow foreign ministers’
conference in his recent radio ad
dress to the American people.
The editorial also criticized
John Foster Dulles, Republican
member of the U .S. delegation to
the conference, for “distorting the
facts” in his summing up of the
conference.
“The question arises,” Izvestia
went on “as to what caused the
secretary to give such an incorrect
appraisal of the Moscow session.
Apparently the reason is that the
position of the American and Brit
ish representatives dpring the de
bates on the German problem was
far from trying to create real guar
antees of a sound peace and the
prevention of aggression.
The editorial asserted that the
secretary was obviously trying to
create “dissatisfaction” among the
American people over the Soviet
Union’s policy.
PAYOFF
PITTSBURGH, (TP)—Hailed be
fore a magistrate on a loitering
charge, Thomas Coll was identified
as the writer of a recent letter to
the newspapers praising city police
as "the best in the world.” ,
“What do you think of the police
now,” asked magistrate Frank Zap
pala.
“I still think they’re efficient.
The officer only did his duty” re
sponded Coll.
“Case dismissed,” said Zappala.
Labor Situation
At A blance
dy the Associated Press'
d;.!ning agents for three
,ny Iliii o s unions Saturday
e ! .e first among national fed
... j of telephone worker affil
-:s to retreat from their demand
. .? v. eekly boost in settlement
of the 'JT-day-old nation-wide tie
up.
The agents said they had ac
cepted a $4 a week pay hike agree
ment, subject to approval of their
' d.000 members. Spokesmen for
one of the unions said they plan
ned a meeting Saturday of the
members to decide upon accept
ance or rejection of the agreement,
which they said was an offer of
the Illinois Bell Telephone com
pany.
The company announcement
said, however, that the proposal
came from the union and that it
was accepted "in order to stop the
economic loss, discomfort and
hardship to all concerned.”
But in Washington. Mrs. Anne
Benscoter, president of the Illinois
Trallic union and a member of
the NFTW’s policy committee, said
he would "strongly urge rejec
tion" of the agreement.
The unions involved are the Il
linois Telephone Traffic union,
the federation of telephone clerks
of Illinois, and the commercial
telephone workers 'union.
In Washington, the American
Telephone and Telegraph com
pany also made its first move
toward strike settlement through
a wage increase offer. Previously
holding out steadfastly for arbi
tration. the company offered its
20,000 long distance employees in
creases of $2, S3, and $4 a week
on a geographical basis, but the
unions promptly turned it down.
Acceptance of the St weekly in
creases was ratified by two New
York unions of office workers,
but operators and maintenance
workers whose services are neces
sary for restoration of normal
service declined the offer.
In other labor developments, the
CIO and AFL failed to agree, in
their two-day session, ending Fri
day. on a method of uniting, the
two groups into one union.
(Continued on Page Eight*
Klvhifna School
Authorized Closed
JUNEAU, (/P) — Authorization
for the immediate closure of the
Eklutna boarding school, near
Seward, because of a cut in the
Indian Service’s Alaska appro
priation has been received from
Indian Service headquarters, act
ing supt. Fred R. Geeslin said Sat
urday.
A majority of the 106 children
wdll be transferred to Mount Edge
i cumbe School, Sitka, with the
| first 22 to be transferred in the
next few days. Thirty will return
to their village homes for the
; summer.
Salvageable school equipment
; and food supplies will be moved
I later in the service’s ship, the
North Star.