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NEWS IN BRIEF j
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SEATTLE, (JP) — Cornelio Bri
ones, businesj agent for the CIO
cannery workers’ union, local No.
7, announced Saturday that an
agreement affecting 3,800 workers
and approximately 61 can leries
had been reached with the Alaska
Salmon Industry, Inc. Briones
said the workers voted Friday to
accept a 12V£ per cent wage in
crease, a 10 per cent raise in over
time pay and $67.50 in lieu of a
transportation differential. Other
provisions of the 1946 contract
will remain in effect this year.
KANSAS CITY, (jP) — C. V.
Brown of Juneau, was named Fri
day as a regional councilor of the
National association of weather
forecasters, J. R. Latthoyd, Kansas
City district forecaster, was re
elected president of the organisa
tion at the close of its two-day
convention.
JUNEAU, (iP)—Territorial audi
tor Frank Boyle granted permis
sion Friday to the Permanents
Cement Co., of Oakland to trans
act business in Alaska.
The comany, part of the Henry
Kaiser operations, recently pur
chased the View Cove limestone
quarry from the Superior Port
land Cement Co., on the East
Coast of Dali Island, 60 miles from
Ketchikan.
SEATTLE, (jP) — Dr. Raymond
B. Allen, a physician and educa
tor, who took over the reins at the
University of Washington several
months ago, was formally inau
gurated as the university’s presi
dent at an impressive ceremor. /
Saturday. Well known leaders in
science, business and education
participated in forums as a pre
lude to the inaugural ceremonies.
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LEEDS, England, OP) — The
Earl of Harewood, brother-in-law
of K;ng George VI, and onei of the
wealthiest men in England, died
at his ancestral home here Satur
day of cardiac complications and
asthma.
The Earl, who married the Prin
cess Royal in 1922, became ill sev
eral days ago after a severe chill.
He was 64 years old. The Earl
died at Harewood House, his an
cestral home in Leeds. The Prin
cess Royal and members of his
family were with him at the end.
WASHINGTON, (/P) — The
House public lands committee to
day approved legislation . which
would permit the people of Puer
to Rico to elect their governors.
At present, the governor is ap
pointed by the President.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, OP) —
The army took ove rthe Nicara
guan government today.
(Travelers reaching Guatemala
said the national guard had taken
over the government without op
position and that Managua was
quiet. Communications companies
posted notices in Guatemala that
messages to Nicaragua were sub
ject to delay. Plane service to Ma
nagua was normal, however, Pan
American Airways said.)
Russia Not Co-op
erating In Austria
NEW YORK. */P>—Gen. Mark
Clark, back from Europe to be
come S'xth Army commander,
last nigh, accused Russia of not
^ nerat:ng in Austrian rehabili
tation and said the Soviets fos
tered communism in their zone by
giving communists more food and
higher wages. He spoke last night
on a radio program, “We the Peo
ple,”
“As far as the attitude of the
Austrian people is concerned,
free elections held throughout the j
nation resulted in an overwhelm
ing vote against Soviet influence,”
Clark said.
‘“But since the first election in
the Soviet zone, extra food, high
er wages, and better rations have
been given to Austrian workers
who joined the communisy party.”
“I am convinced that to be firm
and definite in our relations with
the Soviet Union does not increase
the chances of war, but on the
contrary reduces them.”
Asks Hemisphere
Cooperation
WASHINGTON. (/P)—President
Truman asked Congress today to
approve a broad program of mili
tary cooperation with all Western
Hemisphere nations, including the
arming, training, and organiza
tion of the armed forces of Latin
America and Canada.
Declaring that world develop
ments in the past year give “still
greater importance” to close hemi
sphere collaboration than a year
ago—when similar legislation was
proposed—Mr. Truman asked
prompt Congressional action.
A key segment of the program
is the standardization of arma
ments throughout the hemisphere,
and the transfer of U. S. military
and naval equipment to the sister;
governments by “sale or other1
i methods.”
The United States, Mr. Truman
said, will confine its military
! support to “reasonable and lim
ited” purposes.
Mr. Truman said that • would
implement the responsibilities set
forth in the Act of Chapultepec.
Under that agreement, the
United States and the Latin Amer
ican republics agreed that they
would resist jointly any aggres
sion against any of the signatory
nations.
TOURIST FLIGHT PASS •
THROUGH NOME SUNDAY
Northern Airways arrived yes
terday from Fairbanks bringing
the first large tourist group of the
season.
The twenty-one passengers were
mostly employees of Birch, Lytle
and Johnson, who are working in
Fairbanks. They left Fairbanks on
Saturday, stayed overnight in
Kotzebue, arrived here Sunday af
ternoon. After taking in the sights
and having a special reindeer din
| ner at the Nevada they left on the
i return flight at five o’clock.
Heavy Bomber I
Base Being Built
At Mile 26
WASHINGTON, </P)—1The army
is further bolstering its northern
defenses with the construction of
an $8,125,000 heavy bomber base
in Alaska just two hours flight
from the Bering Strait boundary
between the U. S. and Russia.
A war department announce
ment of the new base came only
a few days after disclosure that a
similar heavy bomber field is be
ing installed in Maine—on the op-i
posite flank of the northern de
fense line.
The Alaskan base will be locat
ed at Mile 26—26 miles southeast
of Fairbanks—where an alternate
landing field was built during the 1
war for use of fighter aircraft
caught in bad weather. New facili
ties will be for the Strategic Air
Command, which operates B-29’s
and eventually will be equipped
with new type heavy bombers.
The Mile 26 base is a link in a
network of Alaskan defenses now
being improved.
The defense concept includes
the theory of immediate retalia
tory action against any aggressive
move directed at the United
States. The very heavy bomber
bases are being built in accord
ance with this theory.
Here is what the army engineer
corps says will be built at Mile 26; j
A “new runway”; a hangar sim- j
ilar to one ordered for another
very heavy bomber base at Rapid
City, S. D.; having a single span
of 310 feet <The B-36 has a wing
span of 230 feet); barracks for 400
men; base headquarters building
and various workshops and ware
houses; a spur railroad track fitm
Ladd Field, at Fairbanks.
The army said that the Mile 26
project “will be planned with the
view of using the maximum
amount of materials available lo
cally.”
The engineers also have issued
another directive for construction ,
of motor pool facilities, laundry
and dry cleaning plant, central
heating and power plant, ware
house and dock and other utilities
at Whittier Port, Alaska. An ex
penditure of $2,840,845 is author
ized for this project.
Mother Truman
Still Clings On j
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GRANDVIEW, Mo. (A3)—Presi-|
dent Truman expressed amaze-.
ment today over his mother’s vi
tality as she still clung to life.
Mrs. Martha E. Truman has
been growing weaker steadily at
her rural home here.
The President, speaking at near
>>y Kansas City where he spent the!
night, told reporters:
“There’s no change this morn- j
ing. I talked to my sister, she’s'
just about the same. Amazing vi
tality.”
In midforenoon after a tele- j
phone call to Grandview from i
Kansas City, Presidential press:
secretary Charles G. Ross said he(
had nothing to add to what the
President had said earlier. Rossi
Labor Party Votes
For Conscription
MARGATE, Eng. I/P>—The La
bor party voted by a ratio of 2*332
to 571 today in favor of peacetime
conscription to back up the na
tion’s foreign policy.
Tne vote repulsed “rebel” ele
ments who argued this policy was
too closely aligned with that of
the United States and too antago
nistic to Russia.
A draft bill for 12-month con
scription has passed the House of
Commons.
With Prime Minister Clement
Attlee and nearly all of his cabi
net attending, the party confer
ence defeated by a show of hands
a motion to permit Laborites to
join the British-Soviet society.
Opponents of fhe resolution said
the society was dominated by
Communists.
Opponents of the House of Lords
submitted a resolution calling for
the creation of an elected upper
House to replace the House of
Lords as now constituted. The
peers would be permitted to retain
their heriditary titles, but no new
hereditary titles would be cre
ated.
The resolution sought to prevent
the predominantly conservative
lords from stalling of blocking
Socialist legislation.
BOY SCOUTS
ON THE ALERT
Three boys made good use of
their training yesterday afternoon
as Boy Scouts.
Johnnie and Harold Bell and
Max Gray were outside the resi
dence of Bert Bell when they
heard a call of distress from the
ice floes on Bering Sea.
The boys rushed to the beach
where the Bell boys had a boat
which was being repaired. They
quickly righted the boat and drag
ged it to the water while one of
the Bell boys called his father. In
no time they had oars, rope and
even a tin can for bailing water in
the boat. By the time Bert Bell
reached the beach they were
ready to take off and row out to
the iceberg and rescue Andrew
Kalarak, who they pulled into the
boat and took to shore.
Andrew Kalarak had been out
on a hunting trip and had leaned
over in his small boa*, to pick up
a bird when his boat capsized.
Soon he realized that the boat was
too small to keep him afloat so
he kicked off his boots and swam
to the nearest large cake of ice
and started calling for help. He
lost his shot gun and 22 rifle, as
well as his boots, but is grateful
to the alertness of the three mem
bers of Troop 66, Boy Scouts, who
were “prepared” and rescued him.
SEATTLE. (JP)—A brilliant dis
play of tho northern lights sent
many Residents into the streets
Friday shortly before midnight.
The spectacle lasted for several
hours.
talked with Brig. Gen. Wallace H.
Graham,, the White House physi
cian.
Congress Busy
With Taxes, Labor
And Budget
^WASHINGTON (^—Democrat
ic Representative Cannon of Mis
souri, after a look at the sharply
cu agriculture appropriation bill,
declared today “Republicans have
ossed the farmers to the lions.”
The bill, offered by the GOP
controlled appropriations commit
tee, slashed President Truman’s
budget recommendations 32 per
cent to $805,243,000.
Cannon, ranking Democrat on
the committee, said the measure is
“the worst bill of its kind ever
sent to the House floor.” He said
he will iead a Democratic fight
against the proposed reductions.
Rep. Gore (D.-Tenn.) said Dem
ocrats will carry the issue into the
1918 Congressional elections if the
reductions are approved.
House Republicans are driving
to cut President Truman’s 1948
budget by $6,000,000,000. Thus
far, by their own figures, they are
$3 325,000.000 short of their mark.
The agriculture department bill
makes heavy cuts in the farm ten
ant, soil conservation, school lunch
and crop insurance programs.
Action of the House in approv
ing an increased tariff on wool
was viewed by opponents of the
measure as a threat to success of
the 18-nation international trade
conference in Geneva.
If the bill becomes law, the
American delegation at Geneva
will be unable to make any agree
ments involving lower trade bar
riers here on wool imports.
Rep. Cooley (D.-N. C.) told re
porters President Truman will
have “no other choice” than to
veto the measure.
As passed by the Senate the bill
called for government payments
to domestic wool growers, equal
to the 1946 level. But the House
Friday added a clause which in
effect would direct the President
to order the tariff commission to
increase the present import levy
on wool if imports threaten to un
dercut the support program.
Senator Millikin (R.-Colo.) pre
dicts the Senate will reject pro
posals to hike income tax exemp
tions and to make community
property laws apply to all states.
The proposals were offered Fri
day by Senator McClellan <R.
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Explosion Victim
Loses Fight
TACOMA, </P>—Eldon Clark, 25
year old victim of an explosion,
lost his 100 to 1 battle against
death at Madigan general hospital
early Saturday.
The victim, whose body was 65
per cent burned in an explosion
on his Little Rock farm, submit
ted to a skin grafting operation
Friday. His four brothers and
seven fellow employees at an
Olympia plant, donated skin and
ten doctors worked in relays in a
herculean effort to save his life.
He talked with attendants after
the operation, but gradually fail
ed during the night.