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NEWS IN BRIEF
SEA ISLAND, Ga., </P) — Rep.
Don Wheeler <D.-GaJ put in a
phone call to the honeymooning
Alben Barkleys, to welcome them
to his Congressional district.
Sorry, said the room clerk, the
Vice President left this message:
“Barring the untimely death of
the President or a declaration of
war, not to be contacted, much less
disturbed.”
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SEATTLE <>Pi—The Pacific- Alas
ka division of Pan American Air
ways reports increases in both
passenger and cargo traffic for the
first three qarters of 1949 com
pared with the same period last
year.
PITTSBURGH, (/P>—Police Sat
urday questioned an unidentified
suspect a few hours after the
discovery of the battered body of
a 38-year-old woman in Pitts
burg’s east end.
The body of Jean Brusco was
found sprawled in the rear of a
house across the street from her
home. Police said the suspect was
picked up at the murder scene.
WASHINGTON, (/P) — A key
Senator predicted Saturday that
the Senate will approve Adm. For
rest P. Sherman as chief of naval
operations without reviving the
bitter unification scrap among the
armed forces.
The prediction came from Sena
tor Tydings <D.-Md.), chairman of
the Senate armed services com
mittee which will be the first
Congressional group to act on
Sherman’s appointment.
PRAGUE, UP) — The Slovakian
board of commissioners Saturday
announced pardons had been
granted to 102 Roman Catholic
laymen sentenced during the
church-state fight.
It was the latest in a series of
emnesties granted since the gov
ernment pushed through its church
control law.
Although details were not given
it was believed some of the Slovak
layment were arrested in last
summer’s clashes when parishion
ers sought to guard their priests
from arrest.
HOLLYWOOD, (/p) — Those
weren’t wolf calls echoing through
Hollywood streets. Just 50 vari
eties of dog howls.
Police arrested actor Dean Hall,
who makes his living barking like
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Violent Storm
Hits Northwest;
Fifteen Killed
SEATTLE, UP) — Battered and
reeling, the Pacific Northwest
fought today against the peril of
flood in the wake of a violent
wind and rain storm that left 15
known dead as it slugged halfway
across the northern half of the
nation.
Damage already was in the mil
lions of dolllars.
The storm whipped across north
Idaho and Montana with gusts of
hurricane force, and veered north
during the night. The weather
bureau at Bismarck, N. D., report
ed the storm hit Manitoba, Can
ada, today instead of moving into
the central plains states.
Peak wind velocity was report
ed yesterday from Cut Bank,
Mont., where gusts registered 105
m.pJi.
The storm struck on a 1,000
mile front Saturday—from British
j Columbia into Oregon.
Hardest hit was Washington
State. Hundreds of families were
evacuated as the roiled waters of
the Skagit River in northwest
Washington isolated five towns in
the Skagit Valley. Four other
communities were threatened as
five inches of rain fell during a
24-hour span in the upper valley.
At Mount Vernon, residents and
rain-drenched sandbag crews of
from 300-500 men kept their fin
gers figuratively crossed as the
normally placid Skagit reached
26.05 feet—barely a foot below
the top of the city’s dikes.
At 5 am. (PST>, W. R. Whitnall
of the Skagit county engineer’s
office reported the river had risen
only half an inch in the last three
hours, but heavy rains were said
to be falling upstream at Concrete.
Whitnall said if the river contin
ued at the 26-foot level it was
feared the dikes might soften and
burst.
Water lay six to eight inches
deep over eight square blocks of
the city which lies about six feet
below the level of the river. Mer
chants moved their store goods to
second-story levels.
Approximately 250 per sons
were evacated by army and coast
guard crews from nearby Hamil
ton.
Across Puget Sound on the
Olympia Peninsula, flood waters
receded in the Skokomish River
Valley after forcing 50 to 60 farm
families to flee. Several bridges
were washed out.
Seattle and King Courrty es
caped relatively unscathed al
though utilities poles, trees and
high tension wires weer leveled
Saturday night and early Sunday.
A 15 to 20 foot section of blacktop
street collapsed on a main thor
oughfare to West Seattle.
The British Columbia coast was
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Truman Cracks
Down on “Telling"
Defense Secrets
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WASHINGTON, (/P) — A high
| government official said privately ,
. Saturday that a Senator’s televi- i
; sion discussion of atomic weapons
■ helped touch off a Presidential
crackdown on talk about defense
secrets.
But the Senator — Edwin C. I
Johnson <D.-Colo.) — denied em
I
phatically that the broadcast had
any part in President Truman’s
action. And Johnson reiterated
that he thinks there has been too
little secrecy — not too much —
about the atomic energy program.
The President late yesterday
directed attorney general McGrath
to tighten up the safeguarding of
atomic and other national secur
ity information. McGrath and Sen
ator McMahon (D.-Conn.), chair
man of the Senate-House atomic
energy committee, told newsmen
about the order after conferring
|with Mr. Truman for more than
{an hour.
Neither McGrath nor McMahon
would say what prompted the di
rective. They declined to answer
| questions about Johnson.
But an official entirely familiar
with the reasons for the crack
down order told a reporter:
“There has been a series of in
cidents endangering se c u r i t y
which disturbed the President, but
it is safe to say that the whole
thing was brought to a head by the
Johnson telecast.”
| The television program to which
he referred originated in New
York on Nov. 1. The subject of
the panel discussion was: “Is
there too much secrecy in our
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West Coast Votes
To Assure W ater
front IVaee
SAN FRANCISCO, (/Pi — Peace
on West Coast waterfronts appear
ed assured Saturday as the AFL
Sailors Union of the Pacific pre
pared to vote on a new labor con
tract.
Other maritime unions have al
ready signed contracts running
into 1951.
Harry Lundeberg, secretary of
the Sailors’ Union, announced that
“the basis for a satisfactory set
tlement has been reached” with
the Pacific Maritime Association.
The association represents ship
owners and operators. The agree
ment averted a threatened strike.
Lundeberg said the 8,000 West
Coast AFL sailors would hold
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Pilotless Plane
Takes Off; Crashes
MT. OLIVE. 111. (>?>> — A light
plane took off without its pilot
yesterday and flew 100 miles be
fore it crashed.
No one was hurt in the freak
take-off and crash.
Arthur Mayer, in charge of
flights for an air service, said
Jack Hallas of Galesburg landed
the plane at Mt. Olive airport and
went around the wing to look at
the propellor. When he touched it,
the motor started with a roar and
the plane moved forward. Hallas
scrambled aside. The plane took
off, climbed rapidly in a bank to
the left and sailed out of sight.
It crashed in a field about 100
miles from the craft’s starting
point.
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News of the \\ orld
At A Glance ...
Saturday. November 26, 1949
<Bv The Associated Press*
Russia gave the silent treatment,
today to Nationalist China’s at
tempe to stop world-wide recogni
tion of the Chinese Communist re
public.
Dr. T. F. Tsiang, Chinese Na
tionalist delegate to the United
Nations yesterday asked the world
organization to find the Soviet Un
ion guilty of having voilated the
U. N. charter by aiding Red China.
As the representative of the Na
tionalist government began a 17,
000 word indictment of Russia and
the Chinese Communists, Soviet
Russia and the other members of
the Soviet bloc announced they
would take no part in the debate
on the Chinese question.
Soviet foreign minister Andrei
! Y. Vishinsky took a walk, an
j nouncing he was going home to
rest. He motioned to his deputy
Jakob A. Malik to serve as acting
1 head of the Soviet delegation.
The debate continues Monday
when the Chinese Nationalists will
attempt to get a binding agreement
from U. N. members not to recog
nize the new Communist regime
nor give it aid nor encouragement.
| France took the lead today in
j giving bones and sinews to a Un
! ion of Western Europe. The
French national assembly became
the first European parliament to
i endorse recommendations that the
12-nation Council of Europe be
come a real government, and in
clude Western Germany. The
Council, which met at Strasbourg
last Summer is only a consultative
body. The French assembly voted
327 to 249 in favor of the federa
tion plan.
The assembly also endorsed the
Wetser Allies’ policv of relaxing
occupation controls on be. ""any.
France’s 24-hour general sti ;ke
ended as quietly as it began. It
caused lit'le hardship and hardiy
affected every-day life.
In Washington, state dejiart
ment officials expressed concern
over frequent political upheavals
in Latin America, particularly
over the anti-U. S. political views
expressed in the past by Panama’s
self-proclaimed President. Arnul
fo Arias.
A spokesman said the United
i States was profoundly shocked by
, the latest Panama coup. “These
events in Panama cannot but be a
most serious blow to democratic
procedures and to the inter-Amer
ican system in general,” the
spokesman said.
The United States announced it
had no diplomatic tie with the
new government. Arias, who was
called on by Panama’s strong man
police chief Col. Jose Antonio Re
man to take the Presidency, said
non-recognition by the United
States should cause no alarm. He
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