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« NE WS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON, i/P)—American
Airlines announced last night that
a four-engine cargo plane, using
jet-assisted take off for the first
lime, will make the first commer
cial non-stop flight tomorrow be
tween Mexico City and New York.
WASHINGTON, 0T*>—'The bur-!
eau of land management announc
ed today the appointment of Low
ell M. Puckett as administrator of
the Alaska region office at An
chorage. Puckett, region field ex
aminer for the bureau in Alaska,
will coordinate Alaskan operations
of district offices at Anchorage,
Fairbanks and Nome and the pub
lic survey office at Juneau.
* MOSCOW, (/P)—Elliott Roose
velt denied today reports publish
ed in United States that he had
made public statements in the
Soviet Union on American foreign
policy.
(The current issue of the maga
zine Newsweek reported that
Roosevelt, in a speech at a Mos
cow reception given by a member
of the U. S. Embassy, criticized
.the Soviet Union should dominate
“the Dardanelles and declared that
Britain and America repeatedly
had broken Tehran, Yalta and
Potsdam pledges).
U. S. Restores
Danube River Craft
| BERLIN. (/P) — The American
military government announced
today it had begun the restitution
wof 6U0 commercial Danube river
craft held in the U. S. zones of
Germany and Austria to five
claimant nations, with the release
of 134 boats to Hungary.
The action was in accordance
with a policy enunciated a fort
night ago by Gen. Joseph McNar
ney, American commander in the
European theater, that the craft
would be returned as soon as own
^ ership could be established.
French Protest
Shelling Of Ships
HANOI, (TP)—Gen. Louis Mor
liere, French commissioner for
Tonkin, protested to Viet-Nam’s
president, Ho Chi Minh, today
against the reported shelling of the
p French cruiser Suffren, and an
w other French warship by a Viet
Namese shore battery off Haip
hong.
(The French news agency said
neither of the ships had been hit.)
SANFORD PETERSONS
LEAVE FOR JUNEAU
Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Peterson
of the C.A.A. and their two chil
dren left Wednesday evening on
1 the Pan American plane enroute
to their new station at Juneau.
«Before assuming their* new posi
tion the Petersons will visit in the
States.
Mr. Peterson is being replaced
here by Bob Schmidt who held the
same position before at this sta
tion.
"Gallant Journey” For Queen
nf luiwmr i ■< uninimifcm rrruw i. i min
Newly-elected Queen For a Day Amelia Haslam of Tarzana, Cali
fornia, begins her 24-hour whirl in a 1911 Locomobile. Jack Bailey,
emcee of the radio show, and Harvard undergraduate John Bacon es
cort Queen Amelia to her luncheon date. Bacon drove the car across
the country from Boston for an appearance on the set of the Columbia
picture, "Gallant Journey."
Ministers May
Complete Their
Job Within Week
JEW YORK, UP)—Cheered by
the possibility of completing their
peacemaking in another week, the
big-four foreign ministers reached
a showdown today on Russia’s de
mand that Yugoslavia be given a
greater share than Greece in war
reparations to be paid by Italy
j an i Bulgaria.
The council was moving along
at top speed. Some diplomats spec
ulated it might wind up the final
' satellite peace treaty drafts and
agree on a German peace study by
a week hence.
I
A final compromise on the issue
i between Russia and the western
! powers over free navigation on
the Danube river seemed to be al
most in hand.
A committee of deputies was as
signed to summarize the relative
ly few oj>en questions remaining
in the Italian peace treaty. Among
these unsettled points the dispute
over reparations ranked first. It
was given priority for this eve
ning’s big four session. The issue
is difficult because it involves the
old contest between Russia and
Britain for position in southeast
ern Europe.
Vet Found Dead
In Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, CP)—James T.
Foley, war veteran, believed to be
from Greeley, Nefr., died Wednes
day half an hour after his bride,
Maxine, reported she found him
unconscious from a pistol bullet.
Foley, who joined the police
force last Saturday, was driven
home at 2 a.m., by a fellow offi
cer when they went off shift. Mrs,
Foley, whom he wed October 31,
said she heard a shot about 6 a.m.
The Foleys occupied separate
sleeping rooms.
Russian People Say
Moscow Makes Big
Concessions
i
(By Eddy Gilmore'
dOSCOW, </P> — The Russian
people, convinced that the Soviet
i Union is making important con
cessions at the United Nations and
foreign, ministers meetings in New
York, are beginning to ask when
the United States and Britain will
start doing the same.
There is a growing feeling
among the people that the Soviet
Union is going a long way toward
assuring collaboration, making
' concessions in a volume which has
not to date been matched by the
British and Americans. Without
going into the merits of the situa
tion, that is the way the people
talk and feel at present.
The release of Danubian ships I
by the United States, incidentally,
is not considered here as a conces
sion, but as the righting of a
“wrong.”
Situation Tense
In Palestine
JBRUSALMEM, </P>—The Pal
estine government's high court re
jected today an attempt to prevent
deportation of nearly 4,000 uncer
tified Jewish immigrants to Cy
prus, and it was announced offi
cially that three British troopships
would leave immediately with the
refugees.
Speculation arose that the court
decision might cause underground
violence, dormant for 10 days, to
flare anew. A Jewish agency
spokesman, denouncing the ruling
as “legal absolutism,” said it has
caused rising tension in Palestine.
The Jewish Community Council
in Jerusalem appealed to Jews to
keep three minutes of silence at 3
p.m., halting all business and traf
fic, in sympathy with the depor
tees.
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Judge Rules Lewis
Must Stand Trial
For Contempt
WASHINGTON. (A*)— Federal
Judge T. Alan Goldsborough or
dered John L. Lewis to trial for
contempt today and upheld the
court’s right to enjoin a walkout
in the soft coal mines despite fed
eral anti-injunction laws.
Overruling Lewis’ motion lor
dismissal of the contempt action
brough by the government, Golds
i borough declared.
“The Norris-LaGuardia act did
not apply.
Goldsborough said his court had
the right to en.ioin “a labor union
which was about to do something
against the good of the public and
I the union itself.”
Lewis and his United * Mine
Workers contended that the Nor
ris-LaGuardia act, curbing the use
of restraining orders and injunc
tions in labor disputes, nullified
Goldsborough’s restraining order
of Nov. 18 and was grounds for
dismissal of the whole contempt of
court action, saying Lewis had the
right to ignore it.
Government attorneys on the,
other hand contended the law did
not apply where the government
itsell was acting as operator ol' the
3.300 soft coal mines seized during
mother crippling strike last
spring.
Goldsborough cut short a day
and half of argument by attorneys
for Lewis that the court lacked
authority to restrain the UMW
from terminating its government,
contract. This notice by Lewis was
followed by a walkout of 400,000
miners.
“The court repeats,” Goldsbor
ough said, “that this proceeding
was for the sole purpose of main
taining the status quo in this dis
pute.”
Before handing down his de- >
cision, the judge had remarked
that Lewis in effect had “pleaded !
guilty to contempt by refusing to
obey the court’s order to keep the
coal contract in force.
This was promptly challenged
by one of Lewis’ lawyers, T. C.
Townsend, who said:
“He hasn’t entered any plea of
guilty, your honor.”
After some argument over legal
technicalities, the judge ruled:
“The motion to discharge and
vacate the motion is overruled.”
He then called a five minute re
cess. Chief government counsel
John F. Sonnett announced that
the government was ready to pre
sent its first witness against Lewis
—Navy Captain N. H. Collisson,
federal coal mines administrator.
After the recess, court was ad
journed until 2:30 p.m.
WARSAW, (y^i — The evening
newspaper Weiczor Warzawy, de
clared today that uranium deposits
found by Polish geologists at
Krzyzatka, near Jelenia Gora in
lower Silesia, were the “richest
reserves in Europe.” second only
to Russia’s.
Union Approval
Of Relief Ships
Deadlocked
SEATTLE, <>P) — A deadlock
loomed over obtaining approval of
both waterfront employers and
uinons for release of Alaska relief
ships after Lieut. Comdr. E. P.
Chester, Jr., naval aide to Gover
nor Gruening had been in touch
with both groups. Today was the
deadline which Governor Greun
ing had set for the Seattle agree
ment or the transfer of negotia
tions to Portland.
Chester said by midafternoon
the marine trades council reaf
firmed their previous offer to re
lease five ships, three to be loaded
, in Seattle and two in Tacoma,
conditioned as to the same wages
paid as if worked by CIO unions.
Earlier the waterfront employers
association offered to grant a basic
1 wage increase solely for loading
( two relief ships.
Chester said he would notify the
; employers immediately of the
trades council offer and if no mod
ifications or agreement appeared
possible he was ready to fly to
Portland immediately to open ne
gotiations.
Urge Truman To
Center On A Few
Ma jor Changes
President Truman reportedly is
being urged by some Capitol Hill
friends to center his fire on a few
major issues in recommendations
to the new Republican-controlled
Congress.
Several influential Democrats
said privately they hope Mr. Tru
man produces middle-of-the-road
proposals for legislation on labor,
housing, taxes and expenditures,
the military draft and possibly
army-navy merger.
They would prefer that he not
attempt to cover the broad field of
suggestions he made to the last
congress.
At that time Mr. Truman asked
a legislative branch nominally
controlled by the Democrats to
act on 21 separate proposals. Re
publicans and anti-administration
Democrats joined in smacking
down many of these and altering
others out of recognizable form.
With the Republicans now in
control of the legislative machin
ery and likely to pursue their own
objectives, many of the Demo
crats think it would be wise for
the President to present his ideas
only on the top issues.
One of these is likely to be labor
legislation, on which the Congres
sional approach probably will be
affected vitally by whether the
coal mines still are idle when the
legislators meet January 3.
CHICAGO, (/P) — Illinois was
chosen today by the western con
ference to play the University of
California, of Los Angeles, in the
Rose Bowl game at Pasadena, Jan.
first.