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Good Fishing
For Japan's
Tuna Fleet i
♦TOKYO, July 7, —(£>)—Fishing
is good for Japan’s increased tuna
fleet now that it operates as far
as 165 degrees east longtitude—
almost to Wake Island, and good
fishing is helping the critical food
shortage at home.
Soviet Russia at first opposed
the extension of Japan’s fishing
area, but the Allied Control Coun
cil for Japan approved larger fish
ing grounds for the Japanese
nonetheless, and no further Rus
sian protests were heard.
Capt. J. L. Kask of San Francis
co, member of the Allied powers j
fisheries section, said today the
tuna fleets almost doubled their
usual catches when word was
flashed to them they could move
eastward to 165 degrees.
^Japanese fishing boats have
been permitted to run closer to
the China coast, and there, too,
report heavier catches.
There have been a few reports
of increased catches in the north.
Boats in that area must stay con
siderably south of the Aleutians
and the Russian-held Kuriles.
*Pope Says World
Is Entering
Dangerous Period
VATICAN CITY, July 17, —</P)—
In the view of the Catholic
church, the world is entering one
of the most dangerous periods
in 2,000 years, and the United
States, because of its ideals and
religious belief, is regarded as the
strongest pillar in the threatened
structure of human liberty.
The church is not pessimistic,
but it is very much alarmed.
That conclusion has been un
mistakeable after a series of dis
cussions with prelates in the Vat
ican, climaxed today by private
audience with Pope Pius XII.
It was not an interview, nor
were the Pontiff’s words spoken
for quotation.
But there was no mistaking
the concern the Pope feels for the
success of the conference of Paris
July 29, where the four major
powers and 17 invited nations will
review the drafts of the peace
treaties.
The Pope described the world
# as a “quagmire of inhuman suf
fering and injustice.” He charac
terized its problems as “intricate
and tragic.”
*
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PSYCHE, SIBERIAN HUSKY owned by Frank Lawson of Fairbanks, Al
aska, feigns a feminine air of indifference upon her inrtoduction to Rickey, world-famed hus
ky dog, on her arrival after a 1500 mile flight by Pan American Clipper to Seattle. The
match between the two outstanding dogs was arranged at the request of the University of
Washington with the hope that they will contribute a mascot for the University "Husky"team.
PAA PHOTO.
Price Tags
Remain at
OPA Levels
UNDATED July 17 —(/P)—1Th<
nation's manufacturers said to
day the price tags on such item:
as refrigerators electric toasters
safety razors, automobiles anc
many other items of manufacture
had remained at OPA levels.
The National Association oi
Manufacturers said it asked 6^
factory heads, “Have you increas
ed any price since June 30, wher
OPA ended?”
The NAM said six answerec
affirmatively, and of these, three
said the loss of subsidies made ar
increase necessary on meat and
food products.
The NAM said two others re
plied they had been selling below
cost under OPA restrictions and £
sixth said higher costs of raw
materials forced him to raise pric
es.
The NAM said its survey in
cluded lumber, metal products
electrical appliances, auto parts
floor coverings, petroleum, cord
age, paper, refrigerators, fibei
products, chemicals, air condition
ing equipment, farm machinery
and food products.
White House
Says Nation
Is Unprotected
> WASHINGTON, July 17, —(£>)—
The White House made public
» today a declaration from the War
» Reconversion Advisory Board
L that abandonment of price con
■ trol will leave the nation unpro
tected “against a dangerous rise
in prices in the interval before
t normal economic forces are work
ing.”
“Proper provision should be
made to extend the life of OPA
for a period not to exceed one
t year,” the board said in a re
port to President Truman.
It advised that this was the
unanimous sentiment of the board
as embodied in a resolution adop
ted yesterday. The board inclu
des representatives of business,
agriculture and labor.
The White House made the re
port public as a Senate-House
committee buckled down to an
effort to work out a compromise
measure reviving OPA.
A deadlock threat hung over
the group. Senator Taft (Rep.
Ohk>) told reporters he was un
willing to “budge an inch” on the
new bill, while President Truman
CIO-UAW Strike
Fighting Climb
Costs
UNDATED, July 17, —(/P)—The
CIO Uuited Auto Workers pro
jected a meat buyers strike today
to which they invited the partici
pation of all America’s consumers
Fighting the climb in living
costs, the union sought to mobil
ize the public against “exhorbit
ant” meat prices.
was represented by some Demo
crats as willing to sign the meas
ure only if Congress restores ceil
ings on meat, eggs and other food
products which the Senate voted
to exempt from controls.
The Reconversion Board’s res
olution asserted that the unanim
ous sentiment came “despite the
widely varying viewpoints and
differences of opinion” in the past.
Taft made it clear he was not
cut to bargain with the admin
istration.
“Of course the President would
sign the bill if we put such things
as meat, eggs and butter back
under controls” Taft said. “1
have no desire to compromise the
the bill. If the President wants
to veto it then let him veto it.”
BELGRADE, July 17, — </P)—Gen.
Draja Mihailovic, once acclaimed
by the Allied world as the organ*
izer of the Yugoslav resistance
movement, died before a firing
squad at dawn today—less than
48 hours after his conviction on
charges of treason and collabor
ation -with the Germans.
Eight other men who were con
victed with the former Chetnik
leader were executed at the same
time.
The executions were carried
out privately.
Official Yugoslav comment this
morning was that “since the Pre
sidium of the Yugoslav parlia
ment rejected the appeals of the
accused men, all the death sen
tences have been carried out.”
The capital apparently lost all
interest once the death sentences
were passed. Authorities were
1 diffident about issuing any state
1 ment regarding the executions,
and the attitude was that news
of the executions were unimport
ant.
_
White House
Gets Authority
Revamp Gov’t
WASHINGTON. July 17, — (,4J)—
The White J • >use today had con
gressional authority to carry out
two of President Truman’s plans
for revamping government ad
ministration. Under one plan,
functions of the Bureau of Marine
Inspection and Navigation would
be transferred from the Commerce
Department to the Coast Guard
under the Treasury Department.
Chinese Gov’t
Charges Com'nists
Opened Offensive
NANKING, July 17. — (£>>—'The
Chinese government charged to
day that 130,000 Communist
troops had opened an offensive
along the Yangtse river and were
attacking only 20 miles from Nan
king and 45 miles from Shanghai.
The government carried a pro
test to General Marshall, assert
ing the Communists intended to
sweep up key cities and ports al
ong the 175 miles of the mighty
river, between this port and
Shanghai.
The Communists had complain
ed to the special U. S. envoy late
yesterday, charging the govern
ment was provoking this East
China fighting and the situation
was “heading directly into a full
scale civil war.”