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NEWS IN BRIEF ,
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SEATTLE, (/P)—Northwest Air
lines announced today that Pierce
Cartwright, a graduate of the uni
versity of Washington, had been
transferred to Anchorage from
the company’s Tacoma office. He
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. E.
Cartwright, a navy veteran, hav
ing served four years overseas
during World War II.
SEATTLE, UP) — Two Alaska
cities have pledged $3,540 to the
“Christmas Ship” which the Pa
cific Northwest and Alaska will
send to Europe with relief sup
plies, Maj. Don Adler reported
here today. Adler was appointed
by Gov. Ernest Gruening as Alas
ka coordinator for the drive. Con
tributions will be received up to
midnight Jan. 10.
SEWARD, (&)—Requiem Mass
was conducted Saturday for Tony
Parich, Seward businessman and
pioneer Alaskan, who died here
Tuesday at age 68. Survivors in
clude a brother, Sam Romack of
Seward, and another brother and
a sister in Austria.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex. f/P)—
Six persons were killed here late
Friday night when the automo
bile in which they were riding
collided with one truck and
bounced head on into another. All
were Latin-Americans.
NAGOYA, Japan. (/P) — Yobo
news agancy reported today 20
persons were killed and 120 in
jured when two overcrowded elec
tric cars overturned while speed
ing around a curve at Moriyama,
a village near Nagoya. The car*
were reported carrying 250 pas
sengers.
WASHINGTON. i/P)—A "quick
ie" tax cutting bill and a short
term foreign aid measure were
marked for first attention in the
House as Republican leaders laid
plans Saturday for the new ses
sion of Congress.
Speaker Joseph W- Martin, Jr.,
of Massachusetts coupled those
two items with rent control ex
tension and federal budget reduc
tion as part of the early "must”
program for the legislators con
vening Tuesday.
JUNEAU (/P), Governor Gruen
ing said today he would leave
Sunday for Fairbanks to consult
with citizens on many Territorial
problems and study sentiment re
garding the calling of a special
session of the Territorial legisla
ture. He said he would confer also
with army officials on defense
problems.
SAN JOSE, Calif. (/P)—Siak cus-'
tomers, irritated when a masked
robber stole $159 from a tavern,
gave chaise in an automobile and
caught him—or so they said. When
patrolmen C. J. Rosque and C. F.
Bishop dashed up they found the
six unarmed customers lined up
against tbeir car—facing the ban
dit and his weapon.
' MOREHEAD CITY, N. C., (#)—
An undetermined number of U. S.
marines boarded two ships today
Meat Rationing
Likely By Spring
WASHINGTON, (/I1) — Ameri
cans will be asking for meat ra
tioning by spring, Secretary of
Agriculture said Friday night.
He told a radio audience that
he does not know whose job it
would be to prepare ration forms
if Congress passes such a pro
gram, but he said the agriculture
department is preparing to do so
if asked.
“I hope we won’t have to ration
anything except meat,” he said.
“I believe rationing of this im
portant food will have a strong ef
fect on other food commodities
and it will not benecessary to have
any other controls.”
WASHINGTON, (JP) — A con
tention that meat rationing would
not work without price controls
and that a combination of the two
would “stifle” meat production
came today from a Nebraska Sen
ator.
The Nebraskan expressed this
opinion in commenting on plans
of Senator Flanders <R.-Vt.> to in
troduce legislation shortly author
izing the agriculture department
j to prepare for meat rationing to a
point just short of putting it into
; effect.
i Under the plan Flanders out
lined over the week-end, Congress
would have to enact still another
; law to get actual rationing under
; way.
The agriculture department al
ready is at work on some prelim
inary planning. Secretary Ander
son, who has predicted that Amer
icans will be asking for meat ra
tioning by spring, told a reporter
he has assigned an assistant,
Charles F. Brannan, to prepare
recommendations in the event the
department should be asked for
them.
Jews Bomb
Arab Buildings
(By Carter L. Davidson)
JERUSALEM, </P> — Rescuers
dug today into the debris of the
Semiramis Hotel for 16 persons
missing after the three-story stone
structure was levelled by a bomb
which police said the Jewish un
derground had planted. Three
persons were known dead.
One informant said the hotel
was one of five district headquar-j
ters for an Arab military group.
The known dead included Manuel
Salazar Traveledo, acting Spanish
consul. Some 17 were injured.
A similar act of violence occur
red Sunday in Jaffa, where Arab
headquarters was bombed and 15
persons were killed and about 100
injured. Police blamed the Stern
gang, the most extreme element
of the Jewish underground.
with orders to clear the port by
2 p.m. for duty in the Mediterran
ean.
They were originally scheduled
to sail tomorrow.
Long, single-file lines were
formed Saturday as the marines
began boarding the transports and
continued until late this morning.
Train Hits Sled;
Kills 10 Children
ARCHBOLD, O. </P>—“I thought
the track was clear,” Jesse Wyse
said today in explaining how the!
New York Central’s “Chicagoan”
passenger trafh smashed his farm
bobsled, killing 10 children of
three neighbors and seriously in
juring two others, one of them his
daughter.
Wyse and his 13-year-old son,
John, whom the father believed
"too young and inexperienced" to
take the tractor-drawn sled out
himself were not hurt. The boy
leaped to safety from the rear of
the sled.
“I just stiffened in my seat on
the tractor,” the father said. “The
train hit the sled, tore it loose
from the tractor and hurled it
down the tracks.”
The bobsled was scattered lor a
mile along the right-of-way east
of this northwestern Ohio town.
Two of the victims were ground
beneath the wheels of the train.
No train passengers were injured
and it continued to Chicago after a
57-minute delay.
By that time, witnesses said,
snow nearly had blotted out all
evidence of the tragedy which oc
curred at 1:30 p.m. yesterday.
Wyse planned originally to take
the youngsters out Saturday, but
was unable to do so until yester
day. His son, John, told state
highway patrolmen he begged to
take the sled out himself “but
Dad said I wrfs too young and in
experienced.”
Wyse said he stopped at the
crossing and thought the tracks
were clear.
“I started up the tractor again
and just as it was clearing the
tracks, I saw the train bearing
down on the sled,” he continued.
“It was horrible.”
Spencer Survivors
Marooned Near
Kodiak Island
KODIAK. Alaska, (/P)—-Cut off
by land and sea, nine—and pos
sibly 10 shivering castaways hud
dled on a rocky ice-coated point
of the Alaska Peninsula, opposite
Kodiak Island, today as a navy
tug and a coast guard cutter wait-'
ed out a 60-mile an hour storm
before attempting a rescue.
For all but three of the men it
was the fifth night of exposure to
the freezing cold.
Heavy seas whipped up by the
gale balked rescue efforts Sunday
for the third day, and forced the
Cutter Clover to seek shelter in
Portage Bay, at whose mouth the
men are stranded.
Three other men are crewmen
from the navy tug Matavo.
• They struggled to shore Satur- J
day night after their surf boat
capsized in a daring rescue at-1
tempt.
The others have been stranded
since their 65-foot cannery tender i
the motorship Spencer struck a j
reef Dec. 31 and broke up in the
pounding surf. Aerial photographs
taken by a search plane showed a'
group of either six or seven men;
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Parts Of Wrecked 1
B-29 Found On
Beach of Knik Arm
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ANCHORAGE, i/P) —Discovery
of two wheels, a wing tank and
nose strut of a B-29 bomber on the 1
beach of Knik Arm strengthened!
the belief of 10th Rescue Squad
ron authorities today that a Cal
ifornia-bound superfortress which
disappeared early Wednesday ex
ploded over Cook Inlet.
The scattered wreckage, found
late Friday, was the first definite;
clue to the fate of the big bomber
and its crew of nine since a
“blinding flash” was seen shortly
after the takeoff for its home base
at Fairfield-Suisan, Calif.
A helicopter pilot and his ob
server spotted the tank only two
air miles from Elmendorf field,
big air force base near Anchorage.
The struts were signted half a
mile along the beach.
Meanwhile, intensive ettorts are
being made to find the pilot and
navigator of a B-29 which crashed
Dec. 23 near the northern rim of
the Seward peninsula 95 miles
north of Nome, and to locate the
I bodies of three paratroopers who
| are believed to have perished in
■ attempting to reach the crash
| scene.
Day and night flights are being
continued by the air forces over
the area between the wrecked su
perfortress and the Eskimo village
of Shishmaref toward which the j
two crewmen set out. Six other
members of the crew were rescued
| last Monday.
Bodies of the Ladd Field, Fair
i banks, doctor and two paratroop
ers are believed to have been
! signted from the air. Two dog
team drivers, one an Eskimo, and
another volunteer from Nome
were flown to the area Friday by
pilot Bill Munz to continue the
search for the trio.
NOME, (yP) — The body of one
paratrooper has been found near
the scene of the wrecked B-29 at
Serpentine by a military trail |
crew and was. picked up at the ^
Army base camp of Harry Strong!
and brought in by an army air- '
craft. His name has not yet been |
released.
Neither of the other two miss-!
mg paratroopers’ bodies have been
located or the missing airmen. All,
available aircraft are continuing1
in the search as the weather is i
now clear. Native dog teams from
Cape Espenburg and Shishmarel
are also aiding the U. S. army in
its search.
Civilians assisting in the search
are Frank Whaley of Wien Air-,
lines, Bill Munz of Munz Air
Service; Charles O’Leary and i
Sam Mogg who are on the field
with a dog team.
LADIES AID MET WITH
MRS. CONRAD YENNEY
The Ladies Aid of the Federated
Church met at the home of Mrs. j
Conrad Yenney for an enjoyable
meeting last Friday evening.
Plans were formulated for the
group to sponsor a day of prayer
during the week of world prayer (
in February as they did last year. |
The next meeting is to be held
at the home of Mrs. W. B. McCar
thy.
Many Questions
Confront Congress
In Final Session
(By William X. Arbogasi)
WASHINGTON ^—Questions
bearing vitally on the future of
the United Stages and most of the
world confront the 80th Congress
meeting tomorrow for its final
session.
Help for Europe and Asia, tax
cutting, the high cost of living,
rent control and the housing
.shortage, military preparedness
and health insurance are a few of
the top issues; and the list prob
ably will grow.
A complicating tactor is tnat
this is a general election year.
Democrats want to regain the con
trol of Congress they lost to the
GOP in 1946. The Republicans
hope to put their Presidential
nominee in the White House for
the first time since Franklin D.
Roosevelt started his first term in
1933.
The first week of the new ses
sion will be devoted primarily to
speechmaking and strategy hud
dles by Congressional leaders,
with a few committees starting to
lay the groundwork for future
legislative actions.
The Senate Republican policy
committee and the House Repub
lican steering committee will
meet during the week for deci
sions whill will go far toward
shaping the majority party’s leg
islative program to counter the
proposals President Truman will
outline Wednesday in his annual
state-of-the-union message.
The chief executive will go to
the Capitol in person to deliver
that message to a joint session of
the Senate and* House. His econo
mic report on Friday and his bud
get message next Monday will be
delivered by messenger.
Thumbs Down On
Amending Jones
Shipping Aet
(By Charles D. Watkins)
<(/P) Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, (/P)—'The mar
itime commission has turned
thumbs down on legislation to
amend the Jones Act to permit
Canadian vessels to carry passen
gers and freight between Alaskan
ports.
Bills designed to amend the law
to permit foreign vessels to serve
Alaskan ports were sent to the
commission for comment by the
congressional committees to which
they were referred. Admiral W.
W. Smith, chairman of the com
mission, opposed the proposals in
a report to the House merchant
marine and fisheries committee.
“The enactment of this bill
would have the effect of permit
ting foreign operators of foreign
flag ships, particularly Canadian
ships, to participate in this traffic
because of lower operating costs,”
Smith said.
“It would also make it desirable
for United States ship owners
either to substitute foreign flag
ships or seek authority to trans
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