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NEWS IN BRIEF
JUNEAU, —(iP)—No settlement
has been reached in a wage dis
pute between the Juneau Contract- i
ors Association and the AFL Car
penters Association, whose mem
bers staged a walkout April 1.
The contractors have declined
to negotiate with the union, con
tending it is not certified by the
National Labor Relations Board .
The carpenters are seeking a
25 cents an hour raise to bring
their scele to $2.25.
SPOKANE, Wash.,— <;P)—'Tan
B-29 Superfortresses are sched
uled to return here to their base
today after a flight from Yokota,
Japan, with one stop at Anchor
age, Alaska The bombers have
been participating in maneuvers
with the Far Eastern Air Force
for the past month.
DALLAS, Texas, —(/P)—Forty
five persons were injured, five
critically, in a head-on crash of
two interurban trains just north
of Vickery in Dallas County at
7:55 a.m. Saturday.
LOS ANGELES, —(/P)—A tri
state study has been proposed to
bring back the absentee sardine
to Pacific waters.
California, Washington and Or
egon experts—from state agencies
and commercial fisheries—will be
gin investigation at once, Cali
fornia officials said Saturday. Ex
pert consensus to date has it the
sardine has just been virtually
fished out.
DECATUR, 111., — (/P)—A tor
nado has spread the word around
that Dorothy Plegg is a straight
“A” pupil in Fosterburg, 111.
Her report card was found Sat
urday sticking in a hedge on a
farm at Bearsdale, near Decatur.
The girl’s parents said it must have
been carried 80 miles by the torn
ado which destroyed the Foster
burg school building on March 20.
The Plegg home escaped dam
age although the storm hit sev
eral others nearby.
MILLSTADT, 111., —(/P)—Far
mer Joseph Hobelman’s smoke
house went up in smoke and $5,000
in currency went with it.
After the fire the ashes of the
money were found in a tin box
which Hobelman had secreted in
an old stove in the smokehouse.
Firemen wrote in their report
loss, building $500; contents $5,000.
GUAYAQUIL, Equador, —(A>)—
A radio broadcast station at Per
eira, in southern Colombia, broad
cast an announcement Saturday
that President Mariano Ospina
Perez has declared martial law
throughout Colombia.
The broadcast said a 7 p.m. cur
few has been ordered by the Col
ombia army. The order was at
tributed to Col. Gustavo Rojas,
commander of the army in the de
partment of Caldas. Traffic is pro
hibited after curfew hour with
out military permission.
ASUNCION, Paraguay, —<i«P)—
Paraguayan police announced Sat
urday they had scotched an at
tempted Communist coup.
They said it was coordinated
with similar moves in other count
Forrestal Urges
UMT and Draft
WASHINGTON, —<£>)—Defense
secretary Forrestall told Congress
that pushbutton war still is an il
lusion and that total warfare of
today rests on manpower.
Urging prompt action on draft
and universal training bill, For
restal testified before the House
Armed Services committee:
"Not in our lifetime or in that
of the next generation do I fore
see the time when a strong mili
tary potential will not be needed
to back up our diplomacy.”
Forrestal said that with adop
tion of UMT, the draft could be
halted as soon as the nation’s reg
ular military forces reach a safe
level. But without UMT, a draft
may be necessary indefinitely, he
added.
The committee is holding hear
ings on a bill by committee chair
man Andrews <R-NY). The meas
ure would make men 19 through
25 years of age subject to enlist
ment or induction whenever the
president decides voluntary en
listments will not fill out the
armed forces ranks.
HOSPITAL FUND
CONTINUES TO GROW
The emergency hospital build
ing is nearly completed, it was an
nounced yesterday by Carl Gla
vinovich, supervisor in charge of
the rehabilitation of the building.
The building has been repaired
in every part necessary to make
it safe for hospital purposes. Paint
ing should be finished in the next
day or two. All parts of the em
ergency building are ready for
reception of equipment, which will
arrive soon. Mr. Glavinovich’s
crews have done a remarkable
job of renovation.
Following is an additional list
of contributions to the Emergency
Hospital Fund:
Howard Green $ 50.00
Edward Anderson 25.00
John C. Fricke 10.00
Mrs. John McCormick 5.00
J. W. Wiegardt 25.00
N.C.O.Club, Nome
Air Base 1,000.00
TOTAL TO DATE $7,375.70
It is impossible to express in
words the deep appreciation we
feel for this most generous gest
ure on the part of the Non Com
missioned Officers of Marks Field.
Greek Guerrillas
I Take Small Town
ATHENS, — (/P)—A sizeable
force of guerrillas has driven into
Kalavryta, in the Peloponnesus,
and street fighting is under way,
an official report said today.
Sketchy reports said two mili
tary units sent to relieve the town,
25 miles southeast of Patrai (Pat
ras), had been ambushed but that
one of them managed to get ar
ound %he ambush to join the de
j fenders.
It was at Kalavryta where Ger
mans killed more than 2,000
Greeks during the war.
I ries aimed at interfering with the
Inter-American Conference.
Colombia Breaks
i
Diplomatic Relat’n
With Russia
By Associated Press
COLOMBIA has broken diplo
matic relations with Russia, the
government radio said today, fol
lowing the arrest of two Russian
agents in connection with the
revolution which devastated down
town Bogota, killed more than
300 Colombians and forced a re
vision in the government.
The government declared a
“Communist insurrection” had
brought about the mob fury which
ruled Bogota and other large cities
for two days and disrupted the
Inter-American conference.
In calling home their diplomatic
representatives to Russia, the Col
j ombians took the same action that
had been ordered last October by
i Brazil and Chile.
The official Bogota radio said
15 foreign agents in all had been
found, some of them alive.
The broadcast announced that
the Inter-American conference will
resume in Bogota “so that Com
munism could not triumph over
Colombia and the rest of the na
tions of the hemisphere.” Possible
joint action against Communism
by the American nations is one
of the problems slated for dis
cussion in the sessions.
The government declared the
revolutionary effort was ended
and that it controlled the situ
ation today. And in confirmation,
a dispatch filed through the U. S.
State Department said that Bog
otans at dawn today began com
ing out of their homes in numbers
unequalled since Friday night.
They saw a city wrecked as if
in an air raid. Public buildings,
Roman Catholic Churches and
stores had been burned and looted.
Army troops firing at snipers, had
blasted the spire off Santa Bar
bara church.
The whole country was under
martial law and a state of seige
imposed by the new coalition gov-1
ernment.
Meantime Soviet Russia imposed
fresh regulations upon western
traffic in her zones of Germany
and Austria over the weekend.
Russian guards delayed Brit
ish military trains bound both to
and from Vienna at a Semmering
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Soviets Expected
jTo Try Influence
Italian Election
WASHINGTON, — </P) —Some
spectacular Russian act to influ
ence Italy’s elections is expected
by American officials after the
brusque Western suggestion that
Russia make up her mind about
Trieste.
The United States, Britain and
France Friday asked the U.S.S.R.
to take a stand—without further
delay—on their proposal to turn
the disputed city back to Italy.
Moscow has kept silent since
the plan wes advanced unexpect
edly March 20 and quickly accept
ed by the Italian Premier De Gas
peri’s anti-communist government.
U. S. Demands
Italy Admitted To
U. N. Membership
LAKE SUCCESS, — (/P)—'The
United States demanded today that|
Italy be admitted to the United
Nations immediately.
U. S. delegate Warren R. Austin
told the Security Council that an
other veto of the application could
be interpreted by the world only
as an expression of the Soviet’s
lack of friendship for the Italian
people.
The United States, Britain and
France jointly reopened the Italian
application in the Council, where
Russia twice vetoed it in 1947.
The move was timed with this
month’s Italian election, where the
Communists are fighting for con
trol.
Austin said a grave injustice had
been done to the Italian people
by the Russian vetoes.
“We ask that they immediate
ly be granted their rightful pos
ition among nations,” the Ameri
can delegate added,
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Dixie Democrats
Disagree With
Truman Program
ATLANTA, —(/P)—Dixie Dem
! ocratic chieftains met today to
chart their fight against President
Truman’s civil rights program.
They quickly denounced a res
olution by the midwest Democratic
conference calling on them to jump
aboard the “Truman for Presi
dent bandwagon.
So. Carolina Democratic Chair
man William P. Baskin, who called
the parley, wanted to know:
“Where did they find that band
wagon.”
J. O. Emmerick of McComb,
Miss., representing Mississippi
chairman Herbert Holmes, said:
“We would be highly uncomfort
able on that bandwagon even if
it existed.”
Jinx Boat Carries
Corpses, No Fish
SAN DIEGO, Calif., —(/P)—1The
ANNA K, known in the Tuna
fleet as a jinx boat, docked yest
erday with two corpses—instead
of fish—in the cold storage hold.
FBI agents said Captain Har
old W. Hansen, 49, told them:
Luiz Zamora, 30, a Mexican
national, ran amok with a galley
knife. Zamora stabbed his friend,
Carlso Asin, 28, a U. S. citizen
and war hero of the Italian cam
paign.
As Asin bled to death on deck,
Zamora stabben Hansen in the
back with a harpoon and repeat
edly clubbed him.
Hansen ordered the crewmetk to
kill Zamora with a 12-gauge
shotgun.
The killings occured a week ago
off the Mexican coast. Since then,
the ANNA K had roamed far to
sea to escape a Mexican coast
guard ship sent to investigate.
The FBI said no charges would
be filed.
John L. Lewis Wins
Pensions For His
Miners At 62 Years
WASHINGTON, —(iT*)—John L.
Lewis won $100-a month pensions
at age 62 for his miners today and
gave the striking coal diggers
word to go back to work.
Lewis had asked the pensions
at the age of 60, but accepted a
proposal from Senator Bridges
(R-NH> to put the figure two years
higher. Ezra Van Horn, repres
enting the mine operators in neg
otiations with Bridges and Lewis,
! opposed the plan but was out
i voted.
With the agreement, Lewis tele
graphed his miners:
j “Pensions granted. Agreement
honored.”
That was the word the miners
were waiting for. They walked
out four weeks ago on advice from
I Lewis that the mine owners had
I “dishonored” an agreement to pro
vide welfare benefits.
At Pittsburgh, a district leader
of the United Mine Workers said
a return-to-work movement would
begin upon receipt of the tele
gram.
“It looks like the miners will
be going back to work,” said Wil
liam J. Hynes, president of UMW
district 4, which includes the Un
iontown coal and coke producing
area.
As for the settlement Hynes
| sai:d:
“I think that's a fine settlement.”
Despite the settlement, the Jus
I tice Department went ahead with
a move to nail a contempt of court
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Heavy Fighting
For Holy City
JERUSALEM, — (/P)—Jerusa
lem’s outskirts were bombarded
with heavy artillery fire at sun
' set Saturday as the Jew-Arab
fight for the approaches to the
Holy City went into its second
week.
Arab field guns stationed in the
Judean mountains hurled eight
25-pound shells into the Jewish
suburbs of Givat Shaul <hill of
Saul). This is 1000 yards from
Deir Yassin, which the Jewish
striking force occupied Friday.
The attack, at nightfall, cli
maxed a savage day of fighting
for a half dozen points along the
Jerusalem end of the Judean
mountain highway connecting the
Holy City with the coastal plain.
Both Arabs and Jews issued coun
terclaims about places captured.
Arabs said they had recaptured
Kassel, a key point between Je
rusalem and Tel Aviv.
Jewish sources declined to com
ment on the status of the village.
Kassel, five miles northwest o!
Jerusalem, has changed hands sev
eral times during the past week
An official Arab spokesman
said the “position was reoccupied”
after five hours of fighting.
Jews, seeking to keep open a
supply route for Jerusalem’s 100,
000 hungry Jews, had recaptured
Kassel Friday after previously
losing it.