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NEWS IN BRIEF
YOKOHAMA, Jan. 25— (/P) —
Scholarly Kaichi Hirate, govern
ment librarian, who became com
mandant of a prisoner of war
camp, was convicted and sen
tenced to be hanged for the re
sponsibility of the death of four
British and Dutch soldiers. Hirate
appeared to be surprised.
BOMBAY, Jan. 25—(/P)—Police
turned rifles and tear gas guns on
rioting mobs as anti-English and
^ anti-authority demonstrat ions,
which brought death to eighteen
person and injuries to more than
six hundred continued for the
third day. Police officials were
just about ready to call troops to
quell the bloody strife when a cur
few was ordered tonight in an ef
fort to halt the looting, arson and
stoning being made in the Hindu
section in the center of the Bom
bay battleground.
CHUNGKING, Jan. 25— (/P) —
Five thousand Chinese students
J demonstrated outside government
headquarters and then paraded
past the British and French Em
bassies shouting demands for the
return of Hongkong and Macao
and the recall of the French con
sul general. Police guarded the
embassies, but demonstra tors
made no attempt to enter them.
MANILA, Jan. 25—<7P)—A body
reburied recently in the Manila
cemetery has been tentatively
identified by Western Pacific
Army headquarters as that of
Capt. Colin Kelly, America’s first
^ widely publicized hero of World
War II. Headquarters said positive
identification hinges on a check of
dental work and comparison of
data including a crudely drawn
map marking the spot of the first
interment, Fore Stotzenberg, long
since leveled by Jap bombs. Offi
cers said a Filipino told them in
December 1941 he saw a sergeant
in a field crash truck point to one
of two bodies recovered from the
crash of a bomber and say “why
that’s Captain Kelly.”
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POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., Jan. 25
—(IP)—Edwin L. James, managing
editor of the New York Times,
said the Russians consider the
American ideal of a free press to
be “bunk, nothing more.” “The
Russians are very frank in their
ideas about newspapers. To their
way of thinking our ideal of a
free press as a great instrument of
factual information is sheer bunk.
As I see it the role of their press
is to serve as an instrument of
their regime, and as an agent of j
their revolution,” James said.
VISITOR AT THE SPHINX - icadm* Aircraft
woman Marjorie Browne of Sunderland, County Durham, one of
many WAAFs serving in the Middle East, poses for a “tourist**
snapshot in front of the famous Sphinx.
Lewis’ CIO Coal
I Miners Reaffiliate
With Green’s AFL
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MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 25—(/P)—AFL
president Green announced the re
affiliation of Lewis and his half
million CIO mine workers with
the AFL. Lewis was immediately
elected to the vacancy in the ex
ecutive council created by the
withdrawal of Harvey Brown,
president of the machinists, whose
700,000 members dropped out of
the federation in October, 1943.
John L. Lewis decided to take
his half million United Mine
Workers back to the AFL, and to
bury his differences with his old
time colleagues.
Search For William
Oliver, Missing
Since Jan. 19
JUNEAU, Jan. 25—(fP)—Author
ities and fraternal organizations
are searching for William Oliver,
70, of Nome and Fairbanks. He
has not been since January 19,
when he stepped from a Pan
American plane and went to a ho
tel and then to a restaurant. He
was enroute to the Pioneers Home
at Sitka. He was a member of
Nome’s Anvil Lodge of Masons.
DR. CHAMPLIN TO SPEAK AT
FEDERATED CHURCH
Dr. N. Harry Champlin of the
Presbyterian Church of Fairbanks,
who is visiting in Nome and has
been delayed by weather, has
kindly consented to occupy the
pulpit of the Federated Church
next Sunday.
Navy Ready To Use
Glass Armor Suits
During War
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25—</P)—
The Navy revealed that plastic
body armor, made of laminated
glass cloth was ready for combat
use in the Navy and Marine Corps
as assault troops were poised be
fore the war’s end, to storm Japan.
Experiments have shown the ar
mor to be effective against bullets
and fragments, while glass cloth
combat jackets for ground troops
got no further in wartime than a
preliminary test on Okinawa.
The Navy said laminated nylon
flak suits were put into use by
Navy and Marine airmen as pro
tection from heavy anti-aircraft
fire over the Japanese home is
lands before Japan’s surrender.
The jackets are described as
lighter and more pliable and com
| fortable than steel, although the
Navy acknowledged they “at pres
I ent, have the disadvantage of be
! ing bulky.”
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BIG ARTIC CLUB
DANCE TONIGHT
If the efforts of the committee
on entertainment is any sign of
success, the big dance scheduled
for tonight is on ice.
The committee informs us that
nothing has been left undone that
will insure each and everyone a
marvelous time. Dancing has been
set from 9:00 p.m. until 1:00 a.m.
ROOF GARDEN PARTY
POSTPONED
At a meeting of the Poineers of
Alaska held Wednesday, January
24, it was decided to postpone in
definitely the “Pioneer Roof Gar
den.”
STRIKES
At A Glance . . .
SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 25—CP)
—More than thirty thousand long
shoremen of California, Oregon,
and Washington, will vote next
week on a recommendation made
yesterday by CIO international
longshoremen’s, warehousemen’s
negotiating committee to strike on
or before April 1. The strike
recommendation climaxed a day
of rapid fire developments in the
six months’ old negotiations be
tween the union waterfront em
ployees over the 1946 contract.
Harry Bridges, ILWU president,
made the following moves: an ap
peal to President Truman to in
tervene to avoid, what he called
an “inevitable” West Coast ship
ping tie-up; accused waterfront
employers association with break
ing off negotiations in an effort
to nullify the wage and hour law.
The union is asking an hourly
wage increase of thirty-five cents,
from $1.15 to $1.50 per hour.
The idle in the nation, because
of labor disputes total more than
one million, seven hundred thou
sand in a possible all-time high.
Major developments are:
Meat Packing—The government
arranged to take control of strike
bound meat industry at 12:01 a.m.
Saturday as the CIO union meets
to decide whether the 193,000
strikers should end their ten day
walkout and work in federal op
erated plants. AFL union orders
its 55,000 members off the picket
lines and back to their jobs to
morrow. There is no immediate
wage increases for the strikers un
der President Truman’s seizure
order.
Truck Drivers—AFL truck driv
ers in St. Louis authorize the ne
gotiating committee to settle the
eighteen day contract dispute of
364 drayage companies without
a general membership approval.
Steel—There are no indications
that union or management are
making any effort to settle the na
tionwide steel strike, as additional
thousands of coal and railroad
workers are made idle by the five
day old walkout involving 750,000
CIO steelworkers. There are no
immediate plans for federal seiz
ure.
Automotive—15,000 Ford Motor
Co. employees will be laid off be
cause of the steel strike. An addi
tional 25,000 face layoff within a
week as a “complete shutdown in
operations is threatened.”
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Army Signal Corps
"Contacts" Moon
W ith Radar
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 25—(/p)—
The War Department announced
that the Army Signal Corps scien
tists have made radar contact with
the moon in an experiment which
promises “valuable peacetime as
well as wartime applications.”
The test was carried out in
Evans signal laboratory^ at Belmar,
N. J. The first contact with the
moon was made, and has been
successfully repeated several
times, using specially designed
equipment with pulses of very
high frequency. The energy was
shot into space of light, one hun
hundred eigHty-six thousand miles
per second.
Echoes were detected some two
and one half seconds later. The
moon is about 238,857 miles dis
tant on an average.
“The Signal Corps experiments
have valuable peacetime, as well
as wartime applications, although
it is impossible at this stage to
predict with certainty what these
may be,” the war department said.
The possibilities are radio control
of long range jet propelled mis
siles circling the earth above the
stratosphere. German V-2 missiles
are believed to have reached an
I altitude of sixty miles.
UNO To Take Up
Russian-Iran
Situation
LONDON, Jan. 25— UP) —The
United Nations security council
! formally agreed to discuss the
i tense military political situation of
( Iran, Greece and Indonesia at its
next meeting. The council thus
| disregarded the request of Russia
j that it decline to take up the dis
1 pute over Iran at the next meeting
Monday.
Russia declared Iran's com
plaints were groundless, that
channels of direct negotiations be
tween the two countries were
open.
The council is proceeding to put
the new world peace organization
in working order and took steps
to get its military staff committee
functioning. The council ordered
the military representatives of the
principal powers to hold their first
meeting here by February 1, when
work will be started on special
agreements by which nations aj*e
to pledge land, sea and air forces
to enforce the security council or
ders when necessary.