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NEWS IN BRIEF
ALAMEDA, Calif. UP>—'Teams
representing the Alameda naval
air station and the naval district
at San Diego advanced in the
* navy’s Pacific Coast baseball
tournament Monday, Alameda de
feating Kodiak, 12 to 2, and San
Diego beating Bremerton 6 to 4.
Charlie Peters, moundsman for
Alameda, struck out 13 batters
and allowed but two hits.
Roy Williamson of San Diego
hit a home run in the second inn
ing of his team’s game with one
man on. The blow proved the mar
gin of victory.
ANCHORAGE, — Raymond
B. Stough, director of the Alaska
office of the civil aeronautics board
is en route to Washington, D. C.,
to attend an Aug. 18 hearing on
operations of non-scheduled air
carriers.
DACHAU. Germany, UP)—.All 31
defendants in the war crimes trial
of Buchenwald concentration
camp operators were convicted by
a U. S. military court yesterday.
Sentences will be pronounced to
morrow, Among the defendants
was a pregnant woman, Isle Koch,
the widow of the former com
mandant of the camp. She denied
on the stand charges that she had
made lampshades from the skin
of executed inmates. The notori
ous camp was captured by Amer
icans in 1945.
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—John Shep
perd, of Gladewater, Tex., presi
dent of the U. S. Junior Chamber
of Commerce, was to arrive here
Tuesday on a tour of Alaska. Bill
Ponder, national vice president of
the organization, and Tex Reborts,
editor of Future Magazine, were
to accompany him.
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — The Pa
cific Northern airlines officials i
said yesterday the last of the sal
mon packers and fishermen in the
Bristol Bay area would be out Sat
urday, completing what they be- j
lieve to be the largest mass move-;
ment of civilians ever undertaken
by air.
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ANCHORAGE. (/Pi—Search for
a Kodiak-based navy PBY plane,
which disappeared Aug. 6. with
20 passengers and crewmen, is
continuing daily with all available
planes, the army’s Alaska air com
mand said today.
The plane vanished approxi
mately 150 miles from Dutch Har
bor.
ALAMEDA, Calif. (/P)—The San
Diego Blujackets, undefeated in
tourney play, held the navy’s Pa
cific coast baseball title today.
The titlists tooka 14-4 seven inn
ing decision yesterday from Kodi
ak, while Bremerton’s Pacific re
serve fleet team upset the Alameda
Hellcats 6-3 to eliminate the latter
aggregation from championship
possibilities.
AS FAR AS STATISTICAL
evidence is forthcoming, there is a
throughout the human race, ac
cording to the Encyclopaedia Bri
tannica.
American Lal>or
May Start Third I
Political Party
SAN FRANCISCO, <JP) — The
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American labor movement, if it
achieves unity, could develop a
third political party — possibly
37,000,000 strong—president Dan
ile Tobin told the AFL internation
al brotherhood of teamsters con
vention.
“For years I have been against
a third party,” Tobin told the
opening session of the teamsters
convention Monday, “but times
are changing. I may change my
mind. But there is no hope for a
third party until the labor move
ment . is cemented into one.”
AFL president William Green
told the convention he “challenged
the Republican national conven
tion to nominate Robert A. Taft
for the Presidency, so we can
have a clear-cut issue in 1948.”
He said that Taft would “suffer
the worst defeat ever handed any
candidate of a major party for the
Presidency.”
SS. Diamond Knot
Rammed And
Sunk Bv Freighter
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PORT ANGELES. Wash. (/P)—(
Rammed deep amidships by a
heavy freighted in the fog after
midnight, the Alaska Steamship
Co. motorship Diamond Knot sank
after daybreak near Crescent Bay
west of here, while in tow of two
tugs. The Diamond Knot had a
$3,000,000 salmon cargo aboard.
The southbound Diamond Knot;
collided with the 10,681-ton coast-1
al freighter Fenn Victory shortly
after 1 p.m. <PST.> in the Spruit
of Juan de Fuca, about 3l/i miles
off Race Rocks, at the southern:
tip of Vancouver Island.
The Fenn Victory kept its bow i
hard-pressed into the sticken Alas
ka vessel until daybreak, fearing;
it would sink. Then, as smaller j
boats stood by the vessels were
pulled apart and tugs took them i
in tow. Crescent Bay is ab Hit 12'
miles west of here on the south
side of the Strait.
PORT ANGELES, Wash. (/P)—
The 10-681-ton freighter Fenn Vic-|
tory crashed halfway through the
5,525-ton coastal motorship Dia- j
mond Knot in the fog-bound Strait
of Juan de Fuca early today and
36 crew members of the stricken
motorship took to their lifeboats.
The two cessels collided shortly
after 1 a.m. (PST.> about three
and one-half miles off Race Rocks,
at the southern tip of Vancouver
Island at the east end of the
Straits.
The impact cut nearly halfway,
through the smaller vessel, hitting
it just forward of the bridge.
None of the crew of the Dia
mond Knot nor the 46 crew mem
bers of the Fenn Victory was in
jured, the coast guard said.
The vessels were locked togeth
er, with part of the Diamond j
Knot’s masthead tackle hooked I
over the bow of the larger vessel,
until soon after daybreak. They
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Submarine Saves
Flyer At Sea '
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GROTON, Conn. <;P) — A sub
marine came to the rescue of an
airplane in Long Island Sound
Monday and the downed flyer,
Godfrey J. LuPalme of Williman
tic, only got his feet wet after the
engine of his Aeronca conked out
10 miles off shore.
The submarine Finback was
cruising submerged in a training
operation with Lieut. Robert H.
Krombar scanning the otnerwise
empty expanse of wate*- through
the periscope when he saw La
Palme’s small plane with the flyer
standing on the wing waving fran
tically.
It took the Finback nine min
utes to surface, come alongside the
slowly sinking plane and take the
fyer aboard.
Govt. And Union
Confer On Britain
Economic Plans
LONDON, —Government of
ficials met with trade union lead
ers and industrialists today to
make plans for combatting British
economic ailments with the newly
voted and extensive controls over
labor, industry and wealth.
The controls became law with
King George’s assent after renew
ing parliamentary approval from
the House of Lords this morning.
The “crisis’ bill empowers the la
bor government to muster all Brit
ish resources and guide labor into
essential industries in efforts t.;
achieve economic recovery.
The House of Commons voted
193 to 84 to adjourn until Oct. 20,
beating down conservative and ;
liberal attempts to shorten the re- j
cess to Sept. 16 in view of the tco- ;
nomic situation.
Anthony Eden, speaking for the
conservatives, declared the $3,750,
000,000 U. S. loan would be ex
hausted before the recess ends ,
and that the labor regime had not 1
told parliament what practical;
steps it would take in dealing with ;
the nation’s plight. (The British
have drawn another $150,000,000
of the credit, leaving only $850.
000,000, the U. S. treasury report
ed).
Bid Grand Slam
Lose Championshi p
NEW YORK, (JP)—Because their
opponents bid a grand slam with
out having the ace of trumps, a
team captained by Charles H.
Goren of Philadelphia early today
won the final event of the 21st
annual summer tournament of the
American contract bridge league,
the world master team-of-four
championship.
The winners ended only 40
points ahead of the losing team,
headed by Howard Schenken of
New York City, a member of win
ning teams six times in the past.
Goren’s team, trailing by 2,500
points three-quarters of the way
through the 56-game series, won
out on the final hand, when op
ponents bid the grand slam.
Russia Announces
Development Of
Siberian Resources
MOSCOW (/Pi — The Russians
announced yesterday a projected
development of water power, coal
and agricultural resources of east
ern Siberia.
One major plan was to construct
hydroelectric stations on the An
gara River having outputs ten
times greater than that of the re
stored Dnepr dam, largest in Eu
rope. The installations were plan
ned in the Lake Baikal region
north of Irkutsk.
The announcement followed a
meeting of leading engineers and
scientists at Irkutsk, where HO re
ports on development projects
were studied.
A development of the Cherem
khovskv coal basin and increased
agricultural activity, particularly
cultivation of spring wheat, also
were planned. The scientists en
visaged electric transport sys terns
and new industries as results of
the hydroelectric developments.
CIO Steel Workers
Prepare To Defy
Labor Law
PITTSBURGH, (/P) — The CIO
united steel workers union, which
earlier voted to ignore the labor
board setpu under the Taft-Hart
ley labor law, now has opened a
national drive to elect an “accept
able Congress” to repeal the recent
labor act.
Some 520 of the union’s district
officers and leaders met Monday
to may plans for a mass registra
tion drive and a campaign to col
lect $1 voluntary contributions
from the 875.000 members.
The Taft-Hartley law specifi
cally forbids use of union funds
for political purposes.
However, Philip Murray, presi
dent of both the CIO and the steel
workers, said “there is nothing in |
the Taft-Hartley law which pre-,
vents voluntary contributions.”
He added the money collected •
would be kept apart from union
funds and “may or may not” be
used to make direct contributions
to candidates or parties.
Cub Planes Reach
Greenland
NEW YORK. (/P)-Two former;
army pilots who are circling the |
globe in two light planes, with
time no object, landed last night I
in Greenland and plan to take off 1
today for Iceland. William Stroh-1
meier, flight manager, said early
today.
Clifford V. Evans, 26, of Wash-1
ington, D. C., and George Truman,;
39, of Los Angeles, messaged,
Strohmeier they had landed safely J
at Bluie West one airport, about!
40 miles from Juliannehaab, cap-1
ital of Greenland. Evans landed at j
8:28 p.m. (EDT> and Truman two |
minutes later. They had left Goose j
Bay, Labrador, shortly after noon (
yesterday.
The pilots started out Saturday i
Two Airlines
Authorized To
Fly To Japan
WASH INGTON, i/Pl — Two
American airlines have been au
thorized to operate between the
Pacific Coast and Tokyo as a first
step toward reopening Japan to
commercial aviation.
Disclosing this yesterday, state
department officials said that Pan
American and Northwest have
been granted temporary permits
for operations to Japan.
They said the permits were
granted partly to enable the air
lines to transport 400 businessmen
who are scheduled to go to Tokyo
this week to start reopening Jap
anese foreign trade.
It also was announced that the
state department has submitted to
the 11-nation Far Eastern commis
sion a detailed policy statement
of this government’s views on re
storing commercial air flights to
Japan.
WASHINGTON (/P)—Commer
cial air passenger service has
started between the United States
and Tokyo along with an Ameri
can move to open Japan to gen
eral international civil aviation.
The state department disclosed
yesterday that the United States
authorized service on a tempor
ary basis by Pan American Air
ways and Northwest Airlines pend
ing action by the 11-nation far
eastern commission on a general
civil aviation policy proposed for
Japan by the United States dur
ing allied occupation.
Since American forces moved
into Japan two years ago air
transport service has been limited
to military planes. American lines
were permitted to make fuel stops
but not to discharge or take on
passengers.
The temporary service by the
two United States carriers coin
cides with the first steps to shift
Japanese postwar foreign trade to
private commercial channels. It
was authorized, officials said, pri
marily to provide transportation
to Tokyo of 400 foreign traders
for whom Gen. Douglas MacAr
thur, as supreme commander, has
authorized visits beginning Aug.
15.
Northwest Airline officials said
they started accepting passengers
for Tokyo last week. Northwest
operates from both Minneapolis
and Seattle three times weekly,
connecting at Anchorage, Alaska.
Pan American Airways, oper
ating across the Pacific via Hono
lulu, has asked MacArthur for
permits for several charter flights
to take foreign traders to Tokyo
pending the start of regular sched
ules.
Northwest has been operating
through Japan to China since July
15, but hitherto was not permitted
to take on or discharge passen
gers in Japan.
The operating authority for the
two airlines is for passengers only,
excluding cargo and mail.
from Teterboro, N. J., and atrived
Sunday at Goose Bay after a stop
at Presque Isle, Me. Weather con
ditions delayed their take-off from
Labrador.