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NEWS IN BRIEF
MOSCOW, I/P)—A “Mississippi
alligator” has been installed at
the Moscow zoo. “Evening Mos
cow” said it was flown i n by
plane.
TRENTON, N. J. I/P) — New
Jersey gave love and matrimony
a boost today. The state division
ot employment security declared
that a worker who takes time off
to get married and gets fired is
definitely entitled to receive un
employment compensation.
It added, however, that such a
matrimonial-minded worker must
have given advance notice of his
plans to his boss.
Taking time off for maVriage
after appropriate notice is cer
tainly not misconduct, the division
held.
BUENOS AIRES, l/P>—‘The na
tional convention of the Peronista
Party proclaimed President Juan
Domingo Peron their candidate
for re-election in 1952.
SEATTLE. i/P> — The estate of
Joe Crosson. famed Alaska bush
pilot who died June 21 at the age
of 45, was estimated at $25,000
when his will was filed for pro
bate here.
He left all his community inter
est in the estate to his widow, Lil
lian Caroline Crosson, along with
$49,500 in life insurance.
WAYNE SBURG, Pa. I/P) —
Wavnesburg's citizens ruefully
hung up their umbrellas Saturday
and started paying off bets they
made that it would rain as usual
on July 29.
It almost always rains in
Waynesburg on July 29. But Fri
day. for the sixth time in 72 years,
there was nary a drop of moisture.
LONDON. </P>—1The Daily Mail
said Saturday that Rita Hayworth
is going to have a baby.
Quoting a member of the
prince’s family, it said in a dis
patch from Paris:
“Princess Aly Khan (formerly
Rita Hayworth) is expecting a
baby and is cancelling her engage
ments.”
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The princess is now in Deau
ville, the dispatch said. There was
no confirmation of this report
from any other source.
PUEBLA, Mexico, I/P)—A truck
taking peasants to a weekly fair
was caught between two buses
Friday night, killing 17 persons
and seriously injuring 22 others.
Ail the dead are Mexicans. The
drivers of all three vehicles were
arrested.
FRANKFURT, Germany, </P)—
The United States joint chiefs of
staff arrived here Saturday in
President Truman’s personal plane
to begin 10 days of conferences
with western European military
chiefs and to survey American
forces in Europe.
Adm. Louis Denfeld, chief of na
val operations, said he and Gen.
Omar Bradley, U. S. army chief of
staff, and Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg,
air forces commander, would talk
over military problems with West
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Senate Snarled Up
Over Foreign Aid
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(By Don Whitehead)
WASHINGTON. t/P)—The Sen
ate appropriations committee try
ing to unravel a Senate snarl over
a big foreign aid money bill, clung
stubbonrly Saturday to amend
ments which caused all the trou
ble.
The 21-member group slapped
together a new bill late Friday
but. ignoring strong administra
tion pressure, refused to withdraw
amendments which would:
<1> Require the economic coop
eration administration and the
army to buy $1,800,000,000 worth
of surplus American farm pro
ducts.
<21 Earmark $50,000,000 of EC A
funds for loans to Spain.
The committee re-wrote these
riders in an effort to get around
Senate objections that they were
writing new legislation into a
money bill in violation of the
rules. This was the argument
which threw the entire bill into a
confused parliamentary tangle
last Wednesday and sent it back
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Italy Ratifies
Atlantic Treaty
j
ROME, </P) — Italy, first Axis
country to surrender in World
War II, lined up with some of her
former enemies Saturday despite
violent opposition from the coun
trys powerful communist minor
ity.
The Italian Senate approved
ratification of the Atlantic pact
Friday night, 175-81, and by a
show of hands, authorized the
government specifically to ratify
the alliance with the Western
powers. The Chamber of Deputies
has already approved.
The pact, previously ratified by
the United States, Great Britain,
Canada, France, Belgium and
Luxembourg, will go into formal
effect as soon as the Netherlands
completes action. Her Senate is
expected to debate the issue next
week.
Italy, along with Norway, Por
tugal, Denmark and Iceland, is as
sociated with, but not a founder
nation of, the pact.
i There were 87 members of the
Senate absent as the vote on the
historic alliance against aggres
sion was taken, but the public gal
leries were filled despite the late
hour.
Italy invited herself into the
pact. When the alliance was first
suggested last fall, Italy’s name'
was not mentioned.
Foreign minister Count Carlo
Sforza made it known Italy would
be disappointed if not invited to
join and said Italy's “geographic
position and strategic importance”
made it vain for her to hope to
stay neutral in any future war.
IT WAS ALL GREEK
DORTMUND, Germany, (/P>—
Anti-communist construction
workers were asked to make a
Greek inscription on a new build
ing here. But they refused.
They mistook the Greek letters
for Russian.
Cannery Prospects
Reported For
Second Division
Norman Wigutoff and Clarence
Carlson of the Fisheries Products
Laboratory which has its head
quarters in Ketchikan, who have
been working in this area since
about June 15th. have completed
their work for this season and
leave for Fairbanks.
Their survey took them all over
the Peninsula to Teller, Wales,
Shishmaref. Kotzebue and on the
Kobuk River to Kiana.
An interview with Mr. Wigutoff
indicated that it might be possible
to maintain a small hand cannery
at Teller for salmon and also for
smoked salmon as a specialty.
The shee fish at Kotzebue and
Kiana did not seem to be in suffi
cient quantity to warrant a wide
1 scale commercial enterprise, ac
cording to information gathered
i by the fish specialists, this year in
particular being a very poor sea
! son.
A trip was made to White
Mountain, Golovin, Fish River,
but the extent of the fishing pos
sibilities was unknown due to the
fact that the natives have made no
i attempt to fish in the sea, limit
ing both their salmon and herring
fishing to the river and close to
shore.
Shee fish were found at Mc
Grath, Bethel and Holy Cross, al
though in that area it was known
as Chee of Cheet.
Mr. Wigutoff stated that there
were excellent runs of king sal
mon at Holy Cross and Bethel this
year and that he saw the possibil
ity of a salmon hand cannery for
Unalakleet, although here again
the natives only fish along the
shore and have not explored the
possibilities of sea fishing.
Mr. Wigutoff and Mr. Carlson
noted that there are two small
canneries and one saltry on the
Yukon at Hamilton and Marshall,
one of which is maintained by the
N. C. Company. They felt that it
was possible for a hand cannery
to be profitable in the Kusko
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Lightning Kills
Two Ball Players
BAKER, Fla. UP)—Two players
were killed and 50 other persons
were injured by a lightning bolt
that ripped into a baseball game
and scattered a screaming Sun
day-afternoon crowd of 300.
One of those injured was listed
in critical condition.
The bolt plowed a ditch th^ee
inches deep and .0 feet long in the
baseball diamond and spread
flashes of electricity and sparks
throughout the park.
The two semi-pro teams, Baker
and Munson, Fla., were preparing
to begin play when the lightning
struck.
The dead, both members of the
Baker baseball club, weer- third
baseman Allen L. Joyner. Jr., 23
ol Crestview and shortstop Harry
y >orc of Baker.
Baker is in northwest Florida
about 50 miles each of Pensacola.
Air Force Plans
liomhrr Refueling
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In Arctic
(By Elton C. Fay)
WASHINGTON, l/P> — The air
force is talking about forward air
bases deep in the Arctic at which
bombers could refuel on strikes
across the Polar Cap.
A cautious official reference to
this hitherto secret plan for
stretching the reach of bombers
operating from airfields within
the United States came to light
last week. In a report on plans
and money needs for the new
heavy bomber base at Limestone,
Me., the air force says:
"A typical Polar operation
might involve aircraft taking off
from United States air bases, the
staging or topping off of these air
! craft at forward bases in northern
Canada, Greenland, or even the
■ polar cap.”
This project may explain how
( the USAF can make good its
' claim that the huge B-36 bomber
can strike virtually all "significant
military targets on the earth from
bases within the Western Hemi
sphere.”
The distance from bases within
the United States itself to poten
tial targets in the heartland of the
Eurasian continent would be be
1 yond the range of even the B-36.
However, the new strategy sug
gested in the report indicates that
. the missions would operate like
' this:
A B-36. whose home field was
Limestone or some other airdrome
1 in the United States, would load
up with bombs—and a compara
tively light load of fuel. It would
j fly two or three thousand miles
to a staging base on the rim of the
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Moh Besieges
IJ. S. Consulate
In Shanghai
(By Fred Hampson)
, SHANGHAI, (.Pi— The United
, States Consulate was besieged
Saturday by about 150 former
Shanghai employees of the U. S.
Navy. ,
The mob, like the one Friday,
demanded aggregate back pay and
severance allowance equal to 6Vi
months pay. It was made up of
Chinese mostly, but there was a
sprinkling of Indians and White
Russians.
Consulate members were not
permitted to leave the building.
These included acting consul gen
eral Walter McConaughy, naval
attache Cmdr. Morgan Slayton
and administrative attache Reu
ben Thomas.
Others were permitted to come
and go but only essential person
nel reported for work Saturday
lest a general lock-in develop.
Thirteen staff members remain
ed in the building Friday night.
The dispute goes back to the
swift withdrawal of navy units
here before the communists ar
rived. The workers claim they
were not properly discharged;
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News of llie World
At A (/lance —
Saturday, July 30. 1949
The Czechoslovak government
rejected today a demand from Yu
goslavia that it stop the Czech
press from making hostile attacks
against the Yugoslav people and
the Tito government.
In the sharply-worded rejection,
the Czech foreign ministry accus
ed Yugoslavia of waging a contin
ual hostile policy against both
Czechoslovakia and the Soviet
Union.
It also accused the Yugoslav
embassy here of using an unusual
ly rude tone in making its repre
sentations against the Czech press.
Meanwhile a Yugoslav diplo
matic source reported the Czech
government had ordered the Yu
goslav commercial attache here,
Ivo Barbalich, to leave the coun
try within 24 hours.
For months the Czech press has
been hurling charges and answer
ing what it has termed injustice,
and insults from Tito's Yugoslav
regime.
United States’ top brass was in
Europe today to seek more infor
mation for a Congressional com
mittee still not sold on President
Truman’s big program to -arm
friendly nations. The joint chiefs
of staff left Washington Friday
night after testifying behind clos
ed doors of the House foreign af
| fairs committee on the $1,450,000,
; 000 arms proposal.
If they gave the House group
any startling secret testimony it
j was not disclosed. Committee
members said the meeting could
1 as well have been public.
The nationalists showed signs
today of fighting back in the bat
tle for South China. They report
ed “aggressive action” had remov
i cd the communis^ threat from the
j east to Hangyang, chief defense
| point for Hunan province. Heng
i yang is about 100 miles south of
’ Changsha, the provincial capital.
I Official accounts said govern
! ment forces counter attacked nad
recaptured Lienhwa. 90 miles east
i of Hengyang in Western Kiangsi.
I Gen. Teng. Wen-Yi, army spokes
man, said this paved the way for
i an attempt to cut the Red supply
lines between Kiangsi and Hunan.
In Kiangsi — Hunan’s eastern
neighbor—the nationalists report
ed they had blunted the Red drive
southward towards Kanhsien, 215
miles fron Canton. They said the
communists had been halted at a
point south of Taiho.
Also listed as a government suc
cess was recapture of Yungfen, 99
miles south of Nanchang, com
munist held capital of Kiangsi,
The 200-man Red garrison sur
rendered, it was said. Only import
ance attached to the action was
that it showed a nationalist effort
to disturb the communist rear.
A private telephone call from
Hengyang reported the Reds with
drew from Chuchow today. Na
tionalists reoccupied the town.
Chuchow, on the Canton-Hankow
railroad, is 325 miles north of
Canton and 25 miles south of be
sieged Changsha. No explanation
I was given for the reported com—
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