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NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON, (/P) — The na
tional military establishment es
timates the cost to the United
States of the Berlin airlift at about
$190,077,000.
This figure includes $181,307,
900 for the air phase carried on by
the air force and navy, and $8,
770,000 for the army, which did
the ground job.
JERSEY CITY, N. J. (/P)—Cen
tral railroad of New Jersey ferry
boats between here and New York
have little boxes containing liter
ature screwed to the walls.
On each box is a sign: “Please
take one.”
Railroad police today are look
ing for 12 missing boxes, taken by
literal-minded passengers.
NORFOLK, Va., (/P)—'Who says
Friday the 13th is an unlucky day?
Not the Kid Yankees.
The Yanks, a community base
ball team, picked Friday the 13th
to wallop an arch-rival sponsored
by a local radio station.
The score was 13-0.
The winners got 13 hits.
The winning pitcher, Lou Spry,
fanned 13 batters.
PITTSBURGH, (/P) - Robert
Johnson, whose name counts up
to 13 letters, was arrested, charg
ed with drunkenness and lodged
in cell 13.
His was the 13th case in police
court on Friday the 13th.
Police Magistrate W. H. K. Mc
Diarmid studied the evidence and
announced:
.“Case dismissed.”
Those letters, of course-, add up
to 13.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The state
department said today the United
States had threatened action to
seize the Polish ship Batory unless
the master of the ship surrendered
the fugitive communist Gerhart
Eisler to British authorities.
BERLIN, (/■P) — The first barge
since the Russian blockade was
imposed 10 months ago arrived in
Berlin today.
She was the “Emma,” loaded at
Hamburg with 100 tons of mixed
cargo and food packages for West
ern Berlin:
The arrival of the barge opened
the last of traffic lanes which had
been closed by the Russian block
ade of the city.
Train and highway traffic re
sumed at midnight May 12.
NEW YORK. (£*) — Andrei A.
Gromyko hat twitched from "no"
to "maybe."
"Americana and Ruttiant can
work together if they want to." the
Ruttian veto specialist and No. 1
deputy foreign minieter taid yes
terday. Hit' comment was made
just before he left by plane for
Paris where the Big Four foreign
ministers are to meet May 23.
WASHINGTON, (JP) — The fish
and wildlife service released today
a 16 mm. educational movie on the
North Pacific’s important halibut
fishing industry.
The 12-minute film follows a
Seattle halibut schooner on a voy
! age to fishing grounds in the Gulf
North Atlantic
Treaty Hearings
Almost Complete
WASHINGTON, (A*)—The Sen
ate foreign relations committee to
day entered the final round of
hearings on ratification of the
North Atlantic treaty.
A half-dozen witnesses were
called to give their views while
! the committee staff made ready to
start working on a report of the
hearings.
Senator Connally (D.-Tex.) com
mittee chairman, said he will
wind up the hearings Wednesday
and have a report for the Senate
' in “two or three days.”
Connally held to his prediction'
the Senate will give overwhelming
approval to the 12-nation pact.
But Senator Watkins (R.-Utah),
one of the pact’s severe critics,
disclosed he will try to have a
reservation written into the treaty
spelling out Congress’ sole right,
stated in the Constitution, to de
i clare war.
_
News of the World
At A Glance —
I
(Saturday, May 14, 1949)
<By The Associated Press)
Chinese communist invaders
.pushed nearer Shanghai today.
I They approached the great eastern
; metropolis on two fronts. On the
northwest they drove on Woosung.
Its fall would cut off Shanghai’s
last sea escape. On the southwest
the communists threatened the
Lungwha airport. It is the city’s
only remaining airport.
The communist radio claimed
their armies had penetrated Fuki
en province. This is on the south
east China coast opposite the is
land or Formosa. There, it is said,
Chiang Kai-Shek .has built a
strong bastion where nationalist
China forces might hold out,
should all the mainland fall into
communist hands.
In Washington, the U. S. state
department said the present de- 1
fenses of Western Europe are so
weak they “invite military aggres
sion.”
The department presented a
six-point plan for helping strength
en the defenses of the non-com
munist countries of Europe. The
program would cost the American
taxpayer $1,130,000,000 at first,
and more later. President Truman
will present the proposal to Con
gress soon.
One provision is that the mili
tary air program be separate and
distinct from the North Atlantic
treaty “but that it complement
that treaty through carrying out
the principles of self-help and mu
tual aid.”
The first world agreement on
the flow of news and right of cor
rection was approved early today
by the United Nations. The dele
gates worked into the early morn
ing hours hoping to conclude their
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of Alaska. It demonstrates the
long-line method of catching hali
but.
Federal Mediator
Attempts to Settle
Ford Motor Strike
WASHINGTON, </P)—The led
eral government stepped into the
Ford strike today in an effort to
get a settlement.
Walter Reuther, president of the
CIO auto workers, visited federal
mediation director Cyrus S. Ching.
and talked with him about the
strike.
Coming out of Ching’s office,
Reuther told a reporter, in reply
to a question, that Ching’s agency
conciliation service plans to “have
a man there today”—meaning at
the strike negotiations in Detroit.”
The union had asked the media
tion service to intervene in the
strike.
The Ford Motor company, with
100,000 men idle, had declared in
Detroit earlier that it would give
“all possible assistance” to any
federal peace effort.
President Henry Ford II asked,
however, that Ching “weigh care
fully” certain factors other than
the strike itself before stepping
into the dispute. One of these is
the company’s contention that fac
tionalism and politics in the union
led to the strike.
Union officials deny that.
Tax Committee
Predicts Three
Dollar Deficit
WASHINGTON, 1/P) — Congres
sional tax experts estimated Sat
urday the government will go into
the red about $3,000,000,000 in
the fiscal year starting July 1.
This estimate is sharply higher
than President Truman’s own bud
get estimates of a $900,000,000 def
icit. However, there had been ear
lier reports the Congressional ex
perts might estimate the deficit for
the next fiscal year as high as
$5,000,000,000.
The staff of the joint Senate
House tax committee said it based
its three billion deficit estimate on
a belief that tax revenues, due to
reduced business activity, will be
around $2,100,000,000 less than
President Truman has anticipated.
The staff reported calculated in
round figures will take in $38,
900,000,000 and spend $41,900,000,
000, leaving a deficit of around
$3,000,000,000.
The report said that for the
same period under President Tru
man’s budget estimates the treas
ury will take in $41,000,000,000
that expenses will run to $41,900,
000,000 and deficit will be $900,
000,000.
Since that time, however, addi
tional budget requests have been
sent to Congress which would in
crease the spending total. And
some money bills—notably the
$16,000,000,000 military appropri
ations measure passed by the
House—seem likely to increase it
even more.
WASHINGTON, </P) — A week
end estimate that the government
will go $3,000,000,000 into the *ed
next year stirred up conflicting
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Union Ordered I
To Pay Juneau
Spruce $750,000
JUNEAU, (/P) — The CIO long
shoremen’s union and its Juneau
local have been ordered by a fed
eral jury to pay the Juneau
Spruce corporation $750,000 dam
ages.
The award is the first in this re
gion ever made under the Taft
Hartley act’s union liability clause.
A United States district court
jury of nine men and three women
returned a unanimous verdict Fri
day afternoon against the interna
tional longshoremen’s and ware
housemen’s union.
The Juneau Spruce corporation
had sued for $1,025,000. Its plant
has been closed for a year by a
jurisdictional dispute between the
ILWU and CIO international
woodworkers union over loading
of barges. The longshoremen con
tended they were rightfully entit
led to such work, and picketed the
plant in support of their demand.
The corporation charged that
ILWU’s action violated section
303 of the Taft-Hartley act. The
clause makes it unlawful for a
union to call a strike to force an
employer to “assign work to mem
bers of that union rather than to
persons in another trade craft.”
During the trial, the corpora
tion produced records to show' that
it had assigned the barge loading
to IWA, and never had made any
agreement w’ith the ILWU to han
dle such work. The company con
tended further that the ILWU had
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Senators Favor
International
Police Force
WASHINGTON, (/Pi — A group
of Senators gave serious thought
today to an international police
force for the North Atlantic alli
ance.
Senators Mundt iR.-S. D.) and
Hendrickson (R.-N. J.) said they
are among several lawmakers who
look favorably on such a plan to
enforce peace.
Mundt said he will back a move
for an international police force,
to include Spain, Turkey, China,
Argentina, and “all other non
communist countries of the
world.”
Hendrickson said he is “sympa
thetic to the objectives,” but has
not yet become an active support
er of the plan. He added that he’d
like to see it done under the
United Nations.
The two Senators gave their
views to reporters in separate in
terviews.
Bridge expert Ely Culbertson
has interested a group of Senators
in his idea for setting up a “con
tingent force” among the 12 pact
nations.
This volunteer army would be
made up of exiles and citizens of
countries not large enough to have
their own armies.
It would be controlled by a cen
tral council on which the United
States would have two votes and
the other countries a total of five.
U. Of A. Professor
Rescued At Night
From River Island
FAIRBANKS, l/P)—By the sput
tering light of signal flares, an air
force glider-transport rescue team
snatched a young University of
Alaska professor from a snow
covered central Alaska river is
land at midnight Saturday.
The air force said it was the
first night glider rescue ever at
tempted.
Brought to safety in the daring
pickup was Bert E. Griffin, Seat
tle, Wash., geology professor who
disappeared Thursday on a flight
from Fairbanks to Galena.
An air force search craft, one of
several that combed the area for
2 hours, spotted Griffin’s rented
; plane Saturday, upside down on a
| tiny Innoko River island about 250
air miles west of Fairbanks.
Two crewmen and a medical of
ficer dropped to the island in »
glider. There they found Griffin
apparently unharmed after hud
I dling for more than two days in
his sleeping bag, munching choco
late bars while awaiting rescue.
The glider pilots, Lts. Robert A.
Brims, Phoenix, Ariz., and Walter
L. Klatt, Corpus Christi, Tex., and
medical officer, Capt. Charles H.
1 Manlove, Portland, Ore., trampled
la crude runway in four feet of
I snow. Then they erected a pick-up
[frame, clambered into the glider
with Griffen and moments later
were snatched into the darkness
by the C-54 tow plane.
This was the second successful
glider “grab” for Sgt. William E.
Norris, Plainview, Ark.,, tow reel
operator aboard the C-54. His job
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! Tornado Slashes
Amarillo, Texas
AMARILLO, Tex. (/P)—A skip
ping, whipsawing tornado chewed
up a four-square mile area ii»
southern Amarillo last night, kill
ing four people. About 65 were
injured.
It was the first destructive tor
nado in the 62-year-old history of
this Panhandle capital of 102,000
people.
Although many sections of Am
arillo were hit, the tornado’s most
destructive blow fell on the south
ern area dotted largely with new
homes of veterans. A near-cloud
burst—and hailstones as large as a
man’s fist—added to the damage.
To property damage here may
be added heavy loss to crops ia
the wheat-rich Texas Panhandle
that part of the state which juts
up to the north, bordered by New
Mexico and Oklahoma.
Hail such as fell here would de
stroy the near-ripe wheat—but
smashed communications lines
made it difficult to discover the
extent of the hailstorm.
Nenana Ice Moved
May 14,12:39 P. M.
NENANA. (,P—Th. ic. mond
in the Tanana River here at 12:3S
p.m., Saturday. May 14.