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NEWS IN BRIEF i
WASHINGTON, <£>)—'The cog
dition of Fleet Admiral Ernest J.
King—considered “serious” by
l the navy Monday—had not chang
ed up to Tuesday morning, Beth
seda naval hospital reported.
The 68-year-old wartime head
of the navy has been in Bethseda
since last Friday with “slight evi
dence of a mild stroke.”
The hospital’s Tuesday morning
bulletin said: “Admiral King
passed a restful night. No change
in his condition during the past
24 hours.’
ANCHORAGE, (/Pi—\ Ft. Rich
ardson soldier drowned Sunday in
Green Lake, an army recreation
al area, when a canoe overturned
in 10 feet of water, the army said
today. Identity of the victim was
withheld pending notification of
next of kin.
BULLETIN!
CADIZ, Spain, (/P)—More than
400 persons were estimated by
newspapermen here yesterday to
have been killed when a Spanish
naval torpedo plant exploded Mon
day night, wrecking a residential
section, an orphanage, a hospital
and a factory.
1 VIENNA, (/Pi — The United
States legation and two power
stations in the American-occupied
zone of Vienna were under guard
yesterday as a result of an anony
mous telephone warning that Ir
gun Zvai Leumi agents intended
to blow them up.
LOS ANGELES, <;?> — Mrs.
Brenda Baker, 23. obtained a di
vorce yesterday, on the ground of
cruelty, from George Baker, 32,
artist originator of the cartoon
“Sad Sack.”
“He refused to have children
and told me if I did I would re-1
gret it the rest of my life,” she j
testified.
They were married May 29,
1946, at Yuma, Ariz., and separ
ated last February. She received
a $7,500 cash property settlement,
waiving alimony. ,
LOS ANGELES, (/P) — Actress
Greer Garson, 35, has filed a di
vorce suit against Richard Ney, 33,
film actor, from whom she has
been separated since Jan. 20.
Miss Garson, the “Mrs. Mini
ver,” who won an academy award
for that picture in 1942 when the
role was that of Ney’s mother, al
leged that for some time before
their separation Ney “inflicted a
course of great and grievous men
tal and physical suffering” upon
her.
They were married at Santa
Monica, July 24, 1943.
FAIRBANKS, (£>)—Walt Disney
told the Fairbanks chamber of
commerce yesterday he was “soak
ing up atmosphere” for a docu
mentary movie he’s making about
Alaska. Disney and his 10-year
old daughter, Sharon, flew here
with Mr. and Mrs. Russell Haven
strite of Los Angeles, who have
oil and mining interests in Alaska.
Attlee Will Resign
Report Is Denied
(By Tom Willliams)
LONDON, (VP) — The London
Daily Mail said today Prime Min
ister Attlee intended to resign “in
the near future,” but the report
was challenged by Attlee’s deputy
Herbert Morrison.
“I only saw it in one paper,”
Morrison told a news conference,
“and, as far as J 'an see, the story
does not know what it’s talking
about.”
The Daily Mail, an independent
conservative newspaper, said Att
lee intended to step out because of
deteriorating health and nervous
exhaustion after the British-Amer
ican loan revision talks in Wash
ington passed their most critical
stage.
As Lord President of the Coun
cil, Morrison is second to Attlee
in the organization of the British
government.
The Mail’s front-page story, the
first flat report published in Bri
tain that the Labor party leader
might quit, declared that “It was
| said in usually well-informed cir
i cles” that Attlee would nominate
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin
: as his successor. Attlee has been
1 under heavy fire inside the Labor
party for his handling of the Brit
ish economic crisis and survived a
severe test of his leadership only
last week, when Labor members
of Parliament reportedly endorsed
by a margin of but four votes his
decteion to delay steel nationaliza
tion.
Resignation Forecast
Winston Churchill, the opposi
tion leader, broadly suggested on
the floor of the House of Commons
Aug. 11 that Attlee might be “dis
carded as lacking in color or for
some other reason.” Earlier than
that, on July 28, the Daily Mirror,
an ardent supporter of Socialism,
called upon the Prime Minister to
resign, suggesting as an alterna
tive that rank and file Labor
members of Parliament force him
out if he did not leave voluntarily.
The Cabinet held an extraor
dinary session last Sunday, about,
which all cabinet ministers have
been silent since. Some authori
tative informants said it was call
ed to discuss the Washington loan
revision talks. The Mail said it
was at that meeting that Attlee
agreed to carry on until those con
versations had passed their criti
cal stages.
California To Seek
Deni. Convention
LOS ANGELES, (^ — Califor
nia Democrats are out to bring the
1948 Democratic national conven
tion to California.
State chairman James Roose
velt appointed a committee, head
ed by William V. O’Connor of Los
Angeles, to work toward landing
the convention for Los Angeles,
San Francisco, Oakland, Long
Beach or San Diego.
Roosevelt contends any one of
these cities could accommodate the
big meeting.
Brandt Killed
Manv Thousands
In “Experiments"
—
NUERNBERG, l/P)-An Ameri
can war crimes tribunal yesterday
convicted Dr. Karl Brandt, Adolf
Hitler’s personal physician, of
“full responsibility” in the per
formance of Nazi medical experi
ments on concentration camp vic
tims.
The four-man court, headed by
Judge Walter Beals of the Wash
ington State Supreme Court,
found the 43-year-old S. S. (Elite
Guard> general guilty of crimes
against humanity as charged by
the prosecution, which had accus
ed him of killing hundreds of thou
sands of human guinea pigs in
“worthless” experiments.
Brandt was one of 23 co-defend
ants who made up the S. S. medi
cal corps. His fate and that of his
fellow defendants was contained
in a 300-page judgment.
Brandt’s was the first convic
tion to be announced. At the rate
at which the court was proceeding
with the reading of the judgment
1 it appeared likely that the detail
ed account of its findings would
not be completed until this after
noon.
Sentences will be passed tomor
row. Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor, U.
S. prosecutor, had asked death for
the defendants.
The court found that Brandt
was directly responsible for high
altitude and freezing experiments,
as well as malaria, mustard gas,
seawater and sterilization tests
i from which many victims died.
—
NUERNBERG, Germany, (/P>—
Dr. Karl Brandt, who was Adof,
Hitler’s personal physician, was
condemned today to die on the
gallows for conducting inhuman
medical experiments on Nazi con
centration camp inmates.
Fifteen other defendants, con-1
victed with Brandt by an Ameri
can court yesterday, were brought
in one by one to hear their sen
tences pronounced by Judge Wal-j
ter Beals of Olympia, Wash.
Seek To Remove i
Restrictions On
Military Purchases
WASHINGTON. (/P)—President!
Truman’s air co-ordinating com-j
mittee recommends that the mi.li-|
tary services be given greater free
dom to plan their airplane buying
several years ahead.
This would mean lifting, so far
as army and navy plane programs!
are concerned, the restrictions
falling on government agencies
from the fact that Congress ap
propriates only one year’s funds at
a time.
The committee—composed of
government officials — made this
proposal in a report to the Presi-j
dent on present aviation policies..
It also expressed a new opposition'
to limiting American overseas air
operations to a single air line.
Mr. Truman turned the report
over to his new temporary air pol
icy commission. This is a civilian
group he recently appointed to ad
vise on aviation policies.
Spanish Munitions
Factory Explodes:
Many Are Killed
•/
CADIZ. Spain, i/P<—Newspaper
man estimated yesterday that pos
sibly more than 180 persons were
killed and several thousand were
injured in the explosion Monday
night of a naval torpedo and ocean
mine factory and warehouse on
the Cadiz peninsula.
First estimated of the damage
was placed at $10,000,000.
The nearby residential district
was wrecked.
Resulting fires destroyed the
Echewarrieta and Larrinaga ship
yards.
Biyldings were damaged and
windows shattered throughout this
ancient port city of 80,000, which
was left without water, electricity
and railroad or highway communi
cations.
So complete was the ruin of the
naval arsenal, situated about two
miles from central Cadiz, that no
clue was left to the cause of the
disaster.
The force of the explosion
cracked buildings in the heart of
Cadiz. Street cars were derailed.
The huge doors of the Cadiz ca
thedral were torn from their
hinges.
The explosion came at 10 p.m.
Monday night.
The heaviest casualties and
damage were believed in the sum
mer colony and residential district
of San Severiano, which is near
the submarine naval base in the
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Govt. Charges Tire
Companies Con
spire To Fix Prices
NEW YORK, </P) — Federal
charges that makers of 90 per cent
of the nation’s tires have conspired
for 12 years to fix prices will be
fought “to the limit,” said E. J.
Thomas, president of Goodyear
Tire and Rubber Co.
The criminal complaint naming
19 defendants was filed late Mon
day in federal district court for
the southern district of New York.
It quickly brought denials from
the tiremakers, who said that tire
prices now are at or below pre
war level?.
The action. Thomas said “seems
utterly preposterous.”
William O’Neill, president of
General Tire & Rubber Co., said
that tires are selling 2.4 per cent
below pre-war levels and the suit
"just doesnt make sense.”
“On the basis of present living
costs as compared with 1941 the
price of tires is down almost 54
per cent,” O’Neill said.
—
In a civil suit the government
charged that Technicolor Motion
Picture Corp. and Eastman Ko
dak Co., conspired to give Techni
color a monopoly on the process
ing of Kodak’s monopack color
film. The suit directs cancella
tion of their contract and release
of the process to the whole indus-!
try on a royalty-free basis.
Neither Technicolor nor Kodak j
made comment on the suit.
Alaska Is America's
First Line Of
Defense
(By Francis M. LeMay)
WASHINGTON, (>P) — Calling
Alaska America’s potential first
line of defense in the event of an
0
other war, Rep. Howell 'R.-Ill.*
called today for its “intense” fort
ification.
The head of a Congressioanl
mission which surveyed aviation
facilities in the northern territory,
Howell noted to reporters that
Alaska lies along the nearest route
between Russia and the United
States, adding:
“We should do everything to de
velop our military installations
there.
“This is not a scare statement, I
am not an alarmist. But this is a
sober statement in the light of
world conditions. Alaska now is a
strategic location.”
Howell said the group of Con
gressmen, just returned, found
the army engaged in a borad pro
gram of training air force pilots
to fly under Arctic conditions.
This program, he said, “should be
pushed to the utmost.’’
Moreover, the Illinois member,
who soon will leave Congress to
become a federal court of claims
judge, said he believes there is a
particular need to develop air
ports and aviation generally in
Alaska—for economic growth as
well as defense.
“The airplane has replaced the
dog team there,” he said. “If Alas
ka is to develop, it must be by air
plane."
Russia Knows Our Bases
Howell said that during the war
Russian airmen “had every oppor
tunity to look at our bases in
Alaska, but we had no opportunity
to see theirs.”
When the United States and
Russia were battling Germany to
gether. Russian airmen journeyed
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Truman Seeks To
Speed Displaeed
Persons Action
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman yesterday announced a
shift in three top level administra
tion assignments designed to speed
up federal action on the European
displaced persons problem.
Ugo Carusi, now commissioner
of immigration and naturalization,
was appointed a special assistant
in the justice department to take
full charge of a survey of all
phases of the displaced persons
problem, including resettlement.
The shift involves the resigna
tion of Watson B. Miller, as fed
eral security administrator and
his appointment as commissioner
of naturalization and immigration
to succeed Carusi.
Mr. Truman named Oscar Rosy
Ewing, former assistant chairman
of the Democratic national com
mittee, to replace Miller as federal
security administrator.
The changes were announced by
Presidential secretary Charles G.
Ross at a news conference.