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NEWS IN BRIEF !
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BROOKINGS, Ore.(^)—Seven
ty-five men tramped through a
brushy wilderness along the north
fork of southwest Oregon’s Chet
co river Saturday in search of 16
year-old Darlene Hogan, who van
ished from her ranch home 12
miles north of here Thursday.
Bob Hogan, her blind, goat
rancher father, said the girl left |
the ranch house at 7 a.m. Thurs- j
day to shepherd a flock of goatsj
to a mountain meadow 500 yards;
distant.
YAKIMA, Wash., (>P) — Search
for two convicts at large since
late Wednesday centered Saturday*;
around Richland after a store
keeper and three customers re
ported to the state patrol one of
the men made a purchase there
Friday.
SEATTLE, (/P)—A severe earth
quake starting at 12:37 p.m. Fri
day and extending over a two
hour period was recorded on the
University of Washington seismo
graph, Howard A. Coombs, seis
mologist, reported. He estimated
the distance at 6,500 miles, prob
ably in a southwest direction.
MANILA (/P)—Reports of wide
spread damage from a series of
earthquakes which shook the east
central Philippines reached Taclo
ban Saturday from northern and
eastern Leyte province.
A new shock was felt in Taclo
ban Saturday, but it was not in
tense..
TOKYO, (/P)—Japan’s new min
ister of communications, Takeo
Miki, is overlooking no possible
source of revenue.
Kyodo News Agency reported
Saturday that Miki is considering
the sale of advertising on tele
phone poles and postage stamps.
MEDFORD, Ore. <(£*) — Little
Dorothy Sharp, three and a half
year-old daughter of a Medford
rancher, was none the worse Sat
urday for spending a night hud
dled under a bush in the hilly
Coleman Creek district, with only
leaves for a covering.
She was found Friday by a
search party organized the previ
ous afternoon when the child fail
ed to return from a jaunt to pick
flowers and wild strawberries.
WASHINGTON, (£>)—'The $8„
574,700 recommended by the Sen
ate appropriations committee Fri
day for governing the Territory of
Alaska is the same figure ap
proved by the House.
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—Two pilots
of army P-51’s, missing over 24
hours on a practice flight from
Elmendorf field, were found alive
Friday by a float • plane of the
tenth air rescue squadron on the
northwest side of Knik Arm at the
head of Cook Inlet.
Both had suffered minor injur
ies when they bailed out of their
plqnes, an Alaska Air Command
announcement said. No reason for
their leaps was given nor were the
names of the pilots released.
arian Leader )
Openly Defies /
Communists
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<By The Associated Press)
The leader of Hungary’s Free-;
dom party openly defied the Com
munist-dominated gover nment
Saturday to stop him from placing
before a public political rally at
Szeged today the accustations
against the Communists with
which he caused an uproar twoi
days ago in Parliament.
While Dezso Sulyok, leader of
18 members of parliament, con
tinued his taunts of Hungary’s
Communists at home, Ference
Nagy, deposed as premier in the
recent coup, was enroute to the
United States for the avowed pur
pose to seeking big power inter
vention. m
Nagy said at Shannon airport,
Eire, he doubted that Hungary’s
troubles were a matter for the
United Nations, but that he in
tended to seek wide publicity oh
the Hungarian situation in the
United States. He said he hoped
“that all the great democratic
powers will open their ears and
lend assistance.”
Nagy said the Hungarian coup
was an example of an inspired
crisis which he believed was “the
direct result of American inter
vention in Greece and Turkey.”
He said the same sort of crisis “al
ready has been reproduced in all
southeastern European countries”
by Communists using the same
methods.
Hungarian politicians doubted
that the Communists would pick
up Sulyok’s challenge to stop
him. Sulyok charged in his bitter
speech before parliament Thurs
day that previous rallies had been
broken fip and members of his
party who resisted were arrested.
British Military
Court Convicts
Three Terrorists
JERUSALEM, (A*)—A military
court condemned three convicted
Jewish terrorists to death as the
United Nations commission of Pal
estine opened its inquiry today
amid an Arab general strike.
The Jews were accused of par
ticipating in the May 4 jail deliv
ery which freed 251 prisoners
from Acre prison and left 16 per
sons dead. Two other Jews tried
with the condemned trio were
sentenced to life imprisonment.
Irgun Zvai Lemui, underground
organization which took responsi
bility for the prison break, was
expected to appeal to the U. N.
commission in an effort to stay
the sentences. Irgun repeatedly
has threatened “blood for blood"
retaliation against the British for
death sentences against its mem
bers.
The Arab strike, called to em
phasize the organized Arab’s boy
cott of the U. N. inquiry, paral
yzed much of Palestine’s activity.
In Cairo, the exiled mufti of Jeru
salem sounded a “call upon all
Arabs to protect the Holy Land."
Many Killed In
Third Plane Crash
In Seventeen Days
(By the Associated Press)
LEESBURG, Va. The spat-1
tered wreckage of a Capital Air
lines plane, missing since Friday
night, was located on a mountain
top northwest of here Saturday
and there appeared no hope any
of the 50 persons aboard had sur
vived.
James Franklin, maintenance
director for the airlines, sighted
the wreckage from a small search
plane.
“It looks as though it exploded
and was tom all to pieces,” he
said. The wings are imbedded in J
the mountain.
As for survivors, Franklin said, i
“I don’t see how there could be.”
The ship, flying from Chicago
to Washington on a murky, rain
swept course, went silent late Fri
day after making a routine radio
exchange with a station at Mar
tinsburg, W. Va.
As the hours passed without fur
ther word, hundreds of men were
enlisted in a night ground search
throughout the area on the Vir
ginia-West Virginia border.
At daybreak, as these parties
still scoured the hills, Franklin
| took off in a light plane from
j Winchester, Va., and found the
I airliner by following its normal
course.
The big ship was a four-engine
plane of the type known to com
mercial fliers as a DC-4. Like two
other planes which crashed with
heavy loss of life in the last 17
day, it was a former army plane—
| military C-54 converted to civilian
: use.
Forty-two persons died May 29
in the fiery crack-up of a similar
plane taking off from La Guardia
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Ships Operate Tho
Work Contracts
.Not Yet Signed
SAN FRANCISCO bP>—'The Pa
cific coast waterfront continued
to work today in spite of the east
coast maritime walkout, but the
threat of an impending west coast
shutdown developed from refusal
of at least one seagoing union to
sign sailing articles.
Under a “no contract no work”
ultimatum, CIO cooks and stew
ards remained aboard vessels in
Pacific coast ports but refused to
sign on for further work until an
agreement is reached with Pacific
shipowners. Negotiations, how
ever, Were in progress.
The effect of this strategy, if
continued, would be to tie up all
or a major portion of west coast
shipping without a “strike” being
called- Ships would be prevented
from sailing if cooks do not sign.
Meanwhile, negotiations were
resumed between the shipowners
and the two remaining unions
which have not come to an agree
ment for a year’s extension of
their contracts.
These are the CIO cooks and
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Britain To Confer
With Russia On !
Aid-Europe Plan
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LONDON (JP)—A foreign office;
spokesman said today that Britain
soon would consult directly with
Russia concerning U. S. Secretary
of State George C. Marshall’s aid
Europe plan.
He said initial contact would
take place through regular diplo
matic channels.
He added that he knew of no
plan for foreign secretary Ernest
Bevin to go personally to Moscow
in the same way as he is going to
Paris for talks tomorrow on the
U. S. proposals for European re
construction.
France already has asked Rus-1
sia for her views on how Europe
should respond to the American
suggestion.
U. S. ambassador Jefferson Ca<
fery conferred in Paris today with
Premier Paul Ramedier for what
was described as a general survey
of political and economic condi
tions in France. Embassy sources
said some discussion of the Mar
shall plan naturally would be in
cluded in such a meeting.
MOSCOW, UP) — Pravda com
mented disparagingly today on
Secretary of State Marshall’s pro-'
posal for coordinated plans to j
spur European recovery. Foreign j
political observers said the com
mentary showed there was l;ttle
likelihood that the Soviet Union
would participate in such a pro
ject.
The Communist party newspa
per said Marshall’s aid-for-Europe
proposals, “despite their seeming
novelty.” merely extended the
Truman doctrine, which it called
an attempt to “exert political
pressure with the aid of dollars—
a program of interference in the
affairs of other states.”
Sudden Land Rush
In Nenana Lots
FAIRBANKS, (£>) — The Fair
banks Land Office has been doing
a “land office business” in Ne
nana town lots, according to Fred
Weiler, local registrar.
During a period of about two
weeks, over 200 lots have been
sold for amounts ranging from $10
to as high as $297 each. Today
only nine lots in the whole town
site remained unsold, eight in one
block and one in another.
The “land rush” evidently was
based upon speculation following
recurrent rumors that the army is
contemplating a construction pro
ject on the railroad about 15 miles
from Nenana. The lots have been
up for sale for the past 16 years
with only an occasional buyer, ac
cording to Weiler.
Prices for the lots run from $1
up, but to this was added assess
ments in varying amounts for
street work and other improve
ments. One of the remaining lots
bears, a price of $70.73 while
others are $15 or $25.
Truman Vetoes
Income Tax
Reduction Bill
FATE OF LABOR BILL
STILL IN DOUBT
WASHINGTON, (>P)—President
Truman vetoed today the $4,000,
000,000 tax reduction bill, virtual
ly killing any possibility of a cut
in income taxes this year.
The Republican-dominated Con
gress will vote on whether to pass
the bill over the veto, but backers
of the legislation conceded they
saw no chance for success.
It requires a two-thirds vote to
enact a law over the President’s
disapproval.
Leaders said that can be mus
tered in the House, which will
vote tomorrow, but not in the Sen
ate.
In a message to Congress, Mr.
Truman said the bill “offers dubi
ous, ill-apportioned, and risky
benefits at the expense of a sound
tax policy and is, from the stand
point of government finances, un
safe.”
The President declared it offers
“the wrong kind of tax reduction,
and the wrong time.” He added:
“Proposals for tax reduction
must be examined in the light of
sound and carefully related fiscal
and economic policies. Unless they
are consistent with the demands
of such policies, they should not
be approved.”
Reaction from the bill’s backers
was immediate aid, for the most
part, caustic.
Rep. Knutson <R.-Minn.> author
of the measure and chairman of
the House ways and means com
mittee, issued a statement saying
“The President’s suggesting that
we wait for tax reduction until
next year is nothing but cold
blooded politics.” Knutson’s obvi
ous reference was to the fact that
1948 is a Presidential election
year.
He declared that by the veto the
President demonstrated “a sad
lack of understanding of the needs
of our economy.”
Carroll Reece, Republican na
tional chairman, said in a state
ment that “Mr. Truman has com
mitted his administration to con
tinued support of the tax and tax,
spend and spend, and elect and
elect philosophy of the now dis
credited new deal.”
The bill President Truman ve
toed provided for reductions rang
ing from 10.5 to 30 per cent in in
dividual income taxes, beginning
July 1.
He told the Congress members
the time for tax reduction “will
come when general inflationary
pressures have ceased and the
structure of prices is on a more
stable basis than now prevails.”
“A time of high employment
and high prices, wages, and pro
fits, such as the present, calls for
a surplus in government revenue
over expenditures and the appli
cation of all or much of this sur
plus to the reduction of the pub
lic debt.
He continued:
“Continuing public confidence
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