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NEWS IN BRIEF
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EDMONTON, Alta. (/P)—Heavy
mountain snows followed by
warm rains are slowing Alaska
highway traffic with the worst
flood conditions in years, Brig.
Geoffrey Walsh, commanding of
ficer of the Northwest highway
system, said Thursday. •
CARNOUSTIE, (/P) — Marvin
<Bud> Ward of Spokane, Wash.,
led the field into the quarter-fi
nals of the British amateur golf
championship Thursday when he
defeated Ted Bishop of South Na
tick, Mass., on the second extra
hole of a gruelling match.
TOKYO, (JP) — Arthur MacAr
thur, nine-year-old son of General
MacArthur, is resting comfort
ably in the 49th General hospital
after fracturing his left arnf Wed
nesday while ice skating on a
downtown Tokyo rink, the army
announced today. i
MILFORD, N. H., </P)—A textile
sewing plant was shut down
Thursday—all because of the
length of a woman’s skirt.
Plant manager Prentice Shetar
said the factory would be closed
for 10 days to change its machin
ery in line with a new style trend
The plant manufactures ladies’
slips, and now they must be made
longer to conform to the current
fashion in skirts.
SAN FRANCISCO, (£>)—A CIO
strike affecting almost every
warehouse in the San Francisco
Bay area was threatened last
night as the international long
shoremen’s and warehousemen’s
union rejected unanimously a
peace offer by the distributors’ as
sociation of northern California.
The employer group offered an
increase of one cent an hour and
three additional paid holidays.
The union is asking six and one
half cents an hour more, which
would bring the hourly base pay to
$1.30.
LONDON. (fP) — Cat burglars
stole $8,000 worth of jewels and
furs from the bedroom of Princess
Romanovsky Pavlovsky early to
day and escaped in a spectacular
chase after being discovered in
the attempted burglary of another
London home.
Soon after leaving the Princes.^
home, the two men entered the
house of Brig. Gen. Andrew Clark,
who heard them and chased them
ouside.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. UP)
Two weather reconnaissance
squadrons from Morrison Field to
day prepared to go to western
bases from where they will hunt
typhoons and make other weather
observations. The 55th squadron,
with 375 officers and enlisted men
and six specially-equipped B-29’s
will leave tomorrow for Fairfield
Suisan Field, Calif., to make wea
ther reconnaissance flights be
tween California and Anchorage.
The 54th squadron will be trans
ferred to the Pacific, t*> hunt ty
phoons.
Justices of the Supreme Court of the U.S.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—This is the most recent approved photo of the Justices of the Supreme
Court of the United States, pictured in their judicial robes of office. Left to right: (front row) Justices
Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, Chief Justice Fred Vinsbn, Justices Stanley Reed and Wm. O. L\., as,
< ek row) Justices Wiley Rutledge, Frank Murphy, Robert Jackson and Harold Burton.
Polet’s And N. C.
Stores In Merger
Last evening the employees of
Polet’s Store were called together
to receive, the announcement that
Polet’s Store had merged with the
Northern Commercial Co., for the
purpose of improving and giving
better service to the people «of
Nome.
Mr. Polet stated that he was
definitely not retiring but going
into a specialized business center
ing in the arts and crafts of this
division and that he hoped to es
tablish a tannery, cold storage
plant and other features of the de
velopment of native industries in
the near future, which he felt
were more important to Alaska’s
development than managing his
general merchandise store.
Mr. Volney Richmond, Jr., gen
eral manager of the N. C. wel
comed the Polet employees into
his company and stated that Mr.
U. J. Bernier would *be manager
of^oth stores when formal con
solidation takes place in the near
future.
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Communists
Execute Priest
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SHANGHAI, (>P)—Father Pat
rick O’Conner, correspondent for
the National Catholic News Serv
ice of Washington, D. C., said to
day he had learned that a Chinese
Catholic priest and two Chinese
nuns were tortured and executed
by Communists after the fall of
Yenan. *
O’Conner declined to give his
informant’s name and the report
was not confirmed elsewhere.
The name of the priest, O’Con
ner said, was Father Aloysius Li
! ang, who went to Yenan a year
ago to become the first resident
' priest in the Communist capital
1 in 11 years.
States Observes
Memorial Day
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(By Associated Press)
The slow bugle notes of taps
sounded today across the nation
at countless cemeteries and at pub
lic services as the living made
their Memorial Day tribute to
those who died in the uniform of
their country.
For millions of Americans Me
morial Day signaled the beginning
of a three-day holiday weekend—
and railroads, bus and airlines
plus vigilant highway patrols an
ticipated a travel volume possibly
exceeding anything since the end
of World War II.
New York City citizens paused
to watch a parade of 31,000 with
200 Spanish-American war veter
ans taking the post of honor, since
the last G. A. R. marcher in the
nation’s largest city died in 1944.
Police anticipated from 500,000
to 600,000 passenger cars filled
with holiday seekers would stream
from the metropolis and that the
1 incoming tide would be propor
| tionately great.
The time-honored ceremonies at
Arlington National Cemetery in
Virginia, just across the Potomac
from Washington, were broadcast
from 6:45 to 8:00 a.m. (Nome time)
with veterans of the Grand Army
of the Republic onhand.
Col. Don E. Lowry, White House
aide, placed President Truman’s
1 wreath at the tomb of the Un
i known Soldier. Boy Scouts decor
! ated 70,000 graves.
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BOY AND GIRL SCOUTS
HONOR DEAD
The Boy Scouts, Troop 666, held
impressive graveside memorial
services this morning for their de
parted member, Jerry Seidenverg.
Girl Scouts made beautiful flow
ers which they brought to the cem
etery early this morning and dec
orated graves of former friends
and classmates.
Conferees Agree
On Income Tax
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Senate
and House conferees agreed yes
terday on final terms of a $4,000,
000,000-a-year income tax cut to
take effect July 1.
The measure provides for indi
vidual slashes ranging from 10.5
per cent to 30 per cent.
The Senate bill was accepted by
the conferees except for one
change in rate reduction brackets.
The area of 15 per cent cuts was
made effective from $136,720 of
taxable income of $302,400.
The Senate had provided for a
15 per cent reduction between
$79,750 and $302,000.
Senator Millikin (R.-Colo.), head
of the Senate conferees, said both
houses would expedite final action |
on the legislation.
It is expected to come up in the
House Monday, and possibly later
the same day in the Senate.
The big question remaining is
whether President Truman will
sign or veto the tax cuts. He has
maintained that the present is not
a suitable time for reducing gov
ernment revenue.
Senate Will Uphold
Income Tax Veto
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Senator
George (D.-Ga.), a leading Demo
cratic tax authority, predicted to
day that if President Truman ve
toes the income tax reduction bill,
the Senate will uphold his action.
George, who voted for the bill
“reluctantly,” told reporters he
will not vote to override the Pres
ident if a veto comes.
The President returned to
Washington late yesterday but
there was no word from the White
House as to Mr. Truman's inten
tions toward the bill. He has said
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Highlights Of
Labor Bill
WASHINGTON, (IP)—Here are
the principal provisions of the
compromise labor bill agreed on
uv Lie House and Senate confer
ees:
The closed shop is outlawed.
The union shop is permitted only
when a majority of workers vote
for it.
The government can obtain 80- (
day injunctions against national
emergency strikes.
The three-member national la
bor relations board gets two
more members. Judicial and pros
ecuting functions are separated,
with the latter assigned to the
general counsel.
Jurisdictional strikes and sec
ondary boycotts are outlawed. So
are union-controlled health and
welfare funds established since
January 1, 1946.
A new federal mediation agency
is set up.
Unions are made liable for un
fair labor practices and subject to
suit for violation of contract. They
also can be sued for damages re
sulting from jurisdictional strikes
and secondary boycotts.
The involuntary check-off sys
tem of collecting union dues is
banned.
A union would lose its collec
tive bargaining rights under the
Wagner Act if any of its officers
could “reasonably be regarded”
as Communists.
Employers do not have to bar
gain collectively with foremen.
The NLRB can forbid unions to
charge dues or initiation fees
which it regards as “excessive or
discriminatory.”
Employers are assured freedom
of speech in dealing with their
workers, provided their state
ments are neither threatening nor
coercive.
President May
Veto Lal>or Bill
WASHINGTON. (/P) — Senator
Hatch <D.-N. M.) said today he be
lieves President Truman will veto
the labor bill slated to arrive at
the White House next week.
And Senator Ball (R.-Minn.)
said in a separate interview that
if Mr. Truman does veto the mea
sure designed to halt many union
practices and curb strikes, “there
is a very good chance” Congress
will override the chief executive.
A two-thirds majority in both
the House and Senate is required
to set aside a Presidential dissent.
Hatch is a personal friend of
Mr. Truman, but he said he has
no information about what the
President plans to do about the
bill as it was approved yesterday
by the House-Senate conferees*
who reconciled differences be
tween separate measures.
“I just think myself that the bill
will be vetoed,” Hatch said.
He added that the measure fi
nally agreed upon “appears to be
pretty much the same” as the one
the Senate passed, for which he
voted.