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NEWS IN BRIEF !
WASHINGTON, (/P) — The air
• transport command reported that
a C-54 plane left Aciak *n the*
Aleutians at 4.32 a.m. 'EST today
on the last leg of a survey ‘tight
over the great circle route to Tok
yo. It was scheduled t > arrive at
the Japanese capital in about 12
hours.
ATC said it contemplated < egu
lar services along the 5,700-mile
northern route from San Francisco
to Tokyo, to replace the presen'
8,900-milc run by way of Hawaii.
The survey flight is being made
to check weather, communications
and navigation aids. It reached
Adak late yesterday.
NEW YORK, —The FBI today
requested a description of Langley
Collyer, 61, as police continued
rummaging through his junk
packed Fifth Avenue house for
the little man who seemed not to
be there.
An 11-state alarm has been is
sued for Langley, unseen since last
Thursday. His brother Homer, 65.
with whom he turned the big Har
lem house into a hermitage back
in 1909, was found dead of a heart
attack in the house last Friday.
HOQUIAM, Wash. (/P)—'The lit
tle trains were being put away
today.
Billy Sumpter, four-year-old
victim of lymphatic leukemia
whose recent request for a toy
train brought a flood of responses
from across the nation, died yes
terday.
VANCOUVER, B. C., (VP)—Bi
weekly air service between Van
couver and New Zealand will
start April 24, William Templeton,
airport manager, said today he
had been informed by the Austra
lian national airways.
TOKYO, (VP)—General MacAr
thur told the head of a Korean
news agency today that Korea
should be represented at the peace
conference for Japan.
NUERNBERG, Germany, (/P)—
A bomb explosion last night slight
ly damaged the Nuernberg office
of the Bavarian commissioner for
racial and political persecutees, a
German official announced today.
At the same time other German
officials in the American-occupied
state of Bavaria reported a wave
of anti-Semitic rumors reminiscent
of Nazi days.
HAVANA, Cuba, (&)—'Two Cu
ban Senators were wounded slight
ly today in a sword duel in the na
tional capitol’s fencing room. They
had crossed swords over charges
arising from the recent stay in Ha
vana of the New York gang chief,
Charles (Lucky) Luciano.
Senator Francisco Prio Socarras
was wounded in the right arm and
Senator Eduardo Chibas received
a wound in the right side.
YAKIMA, Wash. (j*P)—Clarence
Carlson, 35, Ellensburg pilot, died
last night in a Yakima hospital of
injuries received 10 .days ago in a
crash of his plane near Prosser.
Lewis4Jharges Krug
Willi Negligence
WASHINGTON, (/P) — John L.
Lewis said today the “111 coal
miners more or less” who lost
their lives in a Centralia, 111., mine
explosion “have been murdered
because .;i the criminal negligence
of J. A. Krug.”
Lewis, president of the AFL
UMW, testified briefly at a Senate;
public lands sub-committee con
sidering the nomination of James j
Boyd, dean oi the Colorado School
of Mines, to be director of the Bur-:
eau of mines.
Lewis said the appointment was
made by President Truman
through Krug, secretary of the in
terior, and asked the committee
and the Congress not to confirm
Boyd.
Lewis had listened to Boyd tell
of his qualifications and when
Boyd was excused he took his
place at the committee table and
began abruptly:
“Some 111 mine workers more
or less, since I appeared here to
testify last week, have been mur
dered because of the criminal neg
ligence of J. A. Krug.”
Lewis said there was “too much
blood smeared over our coal” and
added:
"He <Krug» has failed to enforce
the laws, the safety code of the in
dustry which he negotiated with
this witness.
“He now sends here through
tiie President, the name of Mr.
Boyd for the directorship. The
basis of Boyd’s testimony has been
that he possesses no qualifications
for the position.
“By his own admission he knows
no problems of the coal mining in
dustry.”
Communists Seek
CIO-UAW Control
(By Douglas B. Cornell)
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Gov. Kim
Sigler, of Michigan, testified today
that three high officials of the CIO
United Auto Workers union are
“captives of the Communist party
of the United States.”
He listed them to the House com
mittee on un-American activities
as follows:
“R. J. Thomas, former president j
and now vice-president of the j
union; George Addes, secretary
treasurer; and Richard P. Leonard,:
national director of the Ford de-!
partment.”
Sigle said “They follow the
Communist party lines in union
activities.”
For months, the governor said,
there has been a “terrific struggle”
for control of the CIO-UAW in
Detroit between Communists and
good loyal American citizens.
Sigler said Communism is a
menace in this country, that it has
invaded unions and schools in
Michigan and that it is operating
through at least 22 front organiza
tions.
The committee is considering
bills to outlaw the Communist I
party.
Legislature
Gets Nothing
Accomplished
(By Mary Valentine)
JUNEAU, Mar. 28, 12:50 p.m.—
The* answer to the bit question of
what was acomplished by the 18th
regular session of the Territorial
legislature, is nothing.
After sixty days of top drawer
boondoggling, no revenue bills
were passed, appropriations for
Territorial offices, etc., cut to the
bone.
A general appropriation bill of
eight million was passed at the
last minute; the possible income i
for Alaska in the next two years is
five millions.
The legislators voted themselves
an increase in the appropriation,
which points to a special session
next year.
The controversial unemploy
ment compensation experience rat
ing bill finally passed in both
Houses and approved by the Gov
ernor without his signature. This
bill sets up experience rating cred
its for employers in the Territory,
and was approved by the best le
gal minds in the social security
administration in Washington, D.
C., and west coast regional office.
The bill is not based on a charge
back system as is similar legisla
tion in some states. Labor was not
against the bill when this differ
ence was understood by their in
ternational leaders. Labor in the
States previously went on record
against similar legislation using
the charge back system, and this
may have been responsible for
part of the controversy.
The bill to settle the closed shop
question by referendum passed to
include all organizations, which if
broadly interpreted, may mean I
ladies aid societies, etc. This took
the teeth out of the original bill
which labor strongly opposed.
The legislature was in session all j
through Thursday night and Fri
day morning until eight, when
the session ended.
The appropriation bill was the
last one passed. The big storm
Thursday over the Pioneer Home
report, which points to misman
agement, and if true, comparable
with Middle Age pest houses.
No legislative ball was held for
the first time in memory.
M<5st legislators left immediately
after the final adjournment. The
halls of the federal building are
empty but for lone janitor and
well filled waste baskets and stacks
of smelly cuspidors.
PIONEER CARD SERIES
DRAWING* NEAR CLOSE
The Pioneers of Alaska held an
other in their series of card part- i
ies at the Pioneer Igloo last eve-1
ning. Winners for the evening were
Mrs. Larry Galvin, Mrs. Ben1
Hyndman, Mrs. Harry Nelson,!
Capt. Gammon, Harry Nelson and
Pete Reader.
The door prize was won for the
third time by Curtis Jacobs Jr.
Leading for tournament prizes
are Mrs. Carrie McLain and S. Da - i
vid Mazen.
Marshall Critical
Of Conference Lag
(By John M. Hightower)
MOSCOW, (/P)—U. S. Secretary
of State Marshall was reported to
day deeply displeased with the
lack of progress in the council of
foreign ministers deliberations on
the German and Austrian treaties
—and especially with last night’s
talk-filled session which accom
plished nothing.
Criticisms in the Amer.can dele
gation were aimed as much at the
work of the four-power co-ordin
ating committee as at the tangle
within the council itself.
The committee was supposed to
have completed listing council
agreements and disagreeme n t
Tuesday. American and British
sources blame the failure to meet
that headline on deliberate efforts
by Soviet deputy foreign minister
Andrei Y. Vishinsky to wring con
cessions from the western powers
even in this purely technical
group.
Hope for agreement on the treat
ies during this conference faded as
the council split all along the line
on minor issues as well as major
ones.
States Get
“Weather”
• By The Associated Press'
A new snowstorm moved rapid
ly eastward Thursday from east
ern Oklahoma toward the Hatleras
region of the Atlantic coast where,
weather bureau forecasters at Civ
cago said it would center Friday
morning.
By late morning, it was snowing
over a general area between east
ern Kansas and southeastern Ne
braska on the west to central Ken
tucky and northern Tennessee.
The St. Louis area reported six
inches of new snow overnight, and
accumulations of up to four inches
were reported in southern Illinois
and southwestern Indiana.
The violent wind and snowstorm
which ealier this week spread
over the eastern half of the coun
try causing widespread property
damage and at least 16 deaths,
moved into northern Quebec to
day.
Winds had dimimsheo. but tem
peratures dropped; CariDou, Me ,
reporting the nation’s minimum of
one above zero last night.
Temperatures in the north cen
tral region generally were below
freezing today, with the mercury
dropping to 12 above in Gladwin
and Pellston, Mich., to 14 at Du
luth, Minn., and to 21 at Minne
apolis.
Yesterday’s temperature of 22
in New York City came within two
degrees of being the coldest March
26 on record. The mercury was ex
pected to climb to the upper 30’s
today.
Temperatures in the Rio Grande
valley hit 92 yesterday, while in
California and Arizona the mer
cury soared into the 80’s.
LIFTING THE LID
AT JUNEAU
JUNEAU, </T)—A Senate me
morial said to be designed to clar
ity "m ^information” in an editor
i d based on leaks from a number
of closed door executive sessions
i.d l by the Alaska Senate in this
session was refused introduction
by that body this morning. The
memorial recited that Governor
Omening, chairman of the Terri
toial banking board which granted
a charter to the Union Bank of
Anchorage under highly irregular
proceedings. The Senate banking
committee investigated the man
ner in which the charter was ac
quired, but the governor gave no
assistance to the committee; in
stead tried to delay and impede.
The memorial was offered by
Walker and is directed to Presi
dent Truman and urges the gov
ernor’s office be declared vacant
for reason of non-feasance of of
fice and dereliction of duty. The
Senate refused to suspend the
rules to receive it when seven Sen
ators voted against it.
Bowing to the wishes of the leg
islature Governor Gruening names
Ziegler on the board ol education,
and O. D. Cochran on the board
ol regents.
A substitute general appropria
tions bill passes the House, carry
ing slightly over nine million and
goes to the Senate where it will
possibly be thrashed out n con
ferences extending into Friday
morning. Many departments have
been upped tor appropriation.
The House passes Senate bill
which eliminates half of one per
cent tax on wholesale transactions
and kills its own bill for a gross
income tax.
The Governor vetoes House bill
which provides for open hearings
in all Territorial agencies.
The Senate passes the substitute
of its own bill imposing additional
taxes on case salmon, levying a
tax upon slot machines and other
coin operated devices; a memorial
urging the secretary of war to con
tinue to allow Ladd and Elmen
dorf fields to be used by commer
cial aircraft until the cities of
Fairbanks and Anchorage can pro
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Explosion Causes
Oil Fire At Haifa
JERUSALEM, (^—British offi
cials said today five Jews had
blown up an oil pipeline in the
Haifa dock district, setting off a
fire that raged through extensive
oil and benzene installations.
The announcement said the
Jews, dressed as Arabs and armed
with revolvers, forced their way
through heavy defenses of the oil
dock area at 9:05 a.m. and placed
small charges of explosives under
pipeline in several places.
They tried to flee in a small
truck, the report said, but were
turned back and then attempted to
scatter and escape afoot. Several
suspects were rounded up for
questioning, but police declined to
say whether any were connected
with the explosions.