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NEWS IN BRIEF
FAIRMOUNT, Minn., </P)—The
restaurant and hotelmen’s bureau
of the Fairmount chamber of
commerce last night voted to re
ject President Truman’s food
conservation recommendation.
The rejection motion was of
fered by Sumner Scott, operator
of two rural steak houses, who
preceded it with the declaration,
“I’m not going to deprive my cus
tomers to feed those Europeans so
they can gain enough strength to
* kill my *son 18 years from now.’’
BUCHAREST, Romania (/P)—A
band of thieves put all the pas
sengers in a railway carriage to
sleep by using gas Monday night
and robbed the night train from
Bucharest to Iasi, the newspaper
Natiuena said yesterday.
When the passengers woke up
yesterday morning at Iasi station
they found all their luggage gone.
4 NEW YORK, (A*)—Some 4,000
AFL teamsters returned to their
jobs yesterday, ending a crippling
26-day strike against the Railway
Express Agency which had tied
up the company’s air and rail
shipments throughout the metro
politan area.
After agreeing to submit their
differences to an emergency medi- !
ation board to be named by Pres- |
4 ident Truman, the striking em- !
ployees, members of two locals of
the AFL brotherhood of teams
ters, went back to work Monday
midnight in terminals in New
York, Jersey City, Hoboken and
Weehawken, N. J.
WASHINGTON, (£>)—Rep. En
gel tR.-Mich.) said today he will
introduce early in the next session ,
of Congress an income tax reduc
• tion bill to give anybody support
ing a household on a moderate sal
ary a $2,000 exemption.
“My idea is that we should not
be taking away the bread and i
butter of folks who have little in- '
comes,” he explained in an inter- ;
view.
“What I have in mind are old !
. I
couples on pensions, and young
men and women just starting their ■
homes.” •
w NEW YORK, (A3)—About 2,000
subway passengers were held un-;
derground in dungeon-like semi
darkness for nearly an hour today
when their train stalled and po
* lice reported 16 were overcome.
Scores of passengers climbed
through the windows of the Man
hattan-bound Interborough Rapid i
Transit train and made their way j
to safety along a catwalk in the
darkened Clark Street tunnel un
der the East River.
The remainder were rescued j
from their plight when a train on
the opposite track pulled up along- ;
side and passengers stepped from
0 one* to the other through open
doors.
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DAVENPORT, la. — It doesn’t
r i
fr pay to “pass out” when drinking
in Davenport. Police Magistrate
John J. McSwiggin has announced
an additional penalty for defend
ants arrested for intoxication who
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Flying Boat Down
In Atlantic; Coast
Guard Rescues All
NEW YORK, i/P) — Sixty-nine
men, women and children were
safe today aboard a coast guard
cutter which rescued them from a
huge flying boat ditched in mid
Atlantic. They survived an ordeal
of mountainous waves and terror
of imminent death.
Seventeen men and one woman
rode a life raft perilously to saf
ety from the plane to the coast
guard cutter Bibb as dawn broke
on the gale-whipped Atlantic, the
coast guard announced, they join
ed 51 fellow passengers and crew
men of the big Bermuda sky
queen which settled near the cut
ter yesterday when fuel ran low.
The Bibb’s skipper, Capt. Paul
B. Cronk, radioed that the cutter
was levelling her guns to destroy
the flying boat so it would not be
a “menace to navigation.”
The rescued, reportedly suffer
ing nothing worse than shock and
exposure, will be sped k> Argen
tia, Newfoundland — about 820
miles to the west—arriving Fri
day.
« * V • i 1 i 1 . _ _] a kk ^ A k-k kA 4
VV 1II1 d UlclolCIlJ unucioiau-uivm
of the harrowing experiences of
his crewmen and the rescued,
Capt. Cronk said tersely, “We
feel very much relieved that this
experience is over.”
He reported that Lt. <jg> Clar
ence S. Hall of Avon, Mass., who
became a faUier while the Bibb
was on weather patrol, “last night
had the pleasure of rescuing a
baby not much older than his. He
got quite a jolt out of it.”
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Capt. Cronk had said earlier
that two babies among the passen
gers seemed to have endured the
ordeal better than their oldsters.
A diaper shortage has developed
on the Bibb, he added.
Meanwhile, Admiral Joseph F.
Farley, commandant of the U. S.
coast guard in Washington, con
gratulated the crew of the Bibb
for an “exceptionally well done”
rescue.
In his broadcast recorded here,
Capt. Cronk introduced Charles
Martin, pilot of the flying boat
which was operated by American
International Airways, a charter
service.
Martin praised the Bibb crew
men for a “magnificently done” >
job in transferring passengers by
open coat and raft through 35
foot waves. The entire operation,
requiring careful seamanship and
great daring, took nearly 24 hours.
DAVE BRONAUGH TO
VACATION IN STATES
Pilot Dave Bronaugh, pilot for
the Wien Airlines, who has made ;
himself popular in the outlying ;
districts by his friendliness and
service, left for the States for a
month to spend his vacation in
California.
against three men carried to the
patrol wagon by policemen: “Five
dollars and costs for intoxication
and $5 additional for a carrying
charge. It’s too hard for the offi
Ramadirr Says
Political Intrigue
Is Cause of Strikes
PARIS, (/I5)—Premier Paul Ru
madier hinted at political intrigue
yesterday as a strike of 3,600 sub
way and bus operators, called by
the Communist-dominated gener
al confederation of labor 'CGT» in
a demand for higher wages,
threatened to paralyze Paris.
In an early morning broadcast.
Ramadier pointed out that the
strike had been called only live
days before the holding of impor -
ant municipal elections through
out France and intimated thar the
strikers were trying to “create
difficulties for the republic.’
The whole situation, ha said,
“is shaping up like a political in
trigue.”
Ramadier’s declaration recalled
recent developments in Italy’,
where followers of Premier Al
cide de Gasperi accused the Com
munists of fomenting a wave of
strikes to embarrass the govern
ment prior to debate on a no-con
fidence motion introduced into the
constituent assembly by leftwing
i
ers.
! Similar accusations have been
0
i levelled at the Communists in
: Chile, where the government has
: accused them of responsibility for
! a crippling 10-day-old coal mine
! strike.
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Congress Doesn't
Promise Speed
On European Aid
WASHINGTON l/Pl—Any offer
j by President Truman to pass up
; a special session of Congress
t would be welcomed, Senate Re
publicans said yesterday, but
some balked at pledging early
January action on emergency aid
to Europe in exchange.
This reaction was prompted by
word from a Capitol Hill associate
that Mr. Truman wants to avoid
calling Congress back in Decem
ber if he can obtain assurances
from the Republican majority that
a program of stop gap help will
be pushed to a decision soon after
the first of the year. The regular
session opens January 2.
At the President’s request, key
committees of Congress will meet
next month to study a proposal
that western European countries
be granted $580,000,000 to carry
them until March 1 while Con
gress debates the Marshall plan J
for long rqnge rehabilitation of
Europe. . .
One of these committees is the j
Senate appropriations group. Sen- j
ator Wherry (R.-Neb.), a member, |
told a reporter:
“On the basis of the informa- '
tion vve now have, I see no reason
for a special session and I would
be glad to have the President de
cide against one. But I am not
willing to make any promise in
return that Congress would act
quickly when it comes back in
January.”
BILL PETERSON IN NOME
ON BUSINESS TRIP
Bill Peterson, pilot for the Arc
Bvrnes Believes
Russia Will Be At
Peace Conference
NEW YORK, (/P)—Former sec
retary of state James F. Byrnes,
saying he does “not believe the
Red army would try to hold perm
anently to all of eastern Ger
many,” declared, however, that
the United States must be pre
pared to "take measures of last
resort” to restore peace to Eu
rope.
In his newly published mem
oirs Byrnes describes the inaugu
ration of hisy “tough” policy with
Russia at the meeting of the for
eign ministers in London in 194n
and says in a discussion of the
reasons for the policy:
■ “We should not start something
we are not prepared to finish. . .
I do not believe the Soviet Unior
will force us to take measures ol
last resort. <It» will not remair
away from the peace conference
(on the future of Germany' and
thus isolate itself from the res1
of the world.
“If it should, I do not believe
the Red army would try to hold
permanently all of eastern Ger
many. However, if I misjudge
them, and they do go to the point
of holding eastern Germany and
vetoing a security council direc
; tive to withdraw occupation
forces, we must be prepared to as
sume the obligations that then
clearly will be ours.”
In an interview in Spartans
burg, S. C., yesterday Byrnes de
clared that “I certainly believe
our policy should continue to be
firmness with patience with the
emphasis on firmness.”
Byrnes said in his book, entitled
j “Speaking Frankly,” that “the
! United States wants no separate
! peace," but “If it is not possible
! to secure the cooperation of all
states, we should seek to enlist
| the assistance of as many as are
willing to join in the task.”
Princess Juliana
Regent of Holland
THE HAGUE, The Netherlands,
(/Pi—Crown Princess Juliana was
sworn in yesterday as regent of
the kingdom of the Netherlands.
She takes over the royal power
from her mother, Queen Wilhel
mina, for a period of nearly seven
weeks.
Juliana's husband, Prince Bern
hard, stood at her side during the
ceremony at a joint session of the
houses of Parliament in the medi
eval knight’s hall.
The regency will continue un
til Dec. 1, permitting the queen to
take a complete rest. The regency
law will remain effective there
after, so that the queen may take
further rests if her health should
make it necessary.
MRS. ALLEN LEE TO
VISIT IN SOLOMON
Mrs. Allen Lee arrived from
Fairbanks yesterday en route to
Solomon where she plans to spend
a week visiting with her husband
Union Complaints
May Be Thrown
Out By NLRB
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WASHINGTON, t/Pi—Robert N.
Denham, chief prosecutor of the
Taft-Hartley act, conceded today
that the law permits individual
union members to use its privi
leges even if the union’s officers
refuse to swear they are not Com
munists.
The situation came to light in
connecting with a report by the
national labor relations board
showing that during the first six
weeks of the new law 90 per cent
: of the unfair labor practice
charges against employers were
filed by individuals.
“We know that a number of
those cases were filed by individu
als whose union leaders have
failed to file the non-communist
affidavits,” said Denham, who is
NLRB general counsel. “But there
is nothing in the law to prevent an
individual from bringing such a
charge.”
The law requires that the un
ion's officers must sign the affida
vits before the union itself can
bring complaints against employ
ers or, in fact, use the NLRB’s fa
cilities at all.
A summary of NLRB cases un
j der the Taft-Hartley act up to
October 1 shows individuals filed
305 charges of unfair labor prac
tices and unions only 30.
Denham declined to say what he
would do if he had reason to be
I lieve an individual’s complaint
against an employer was inspired
i by a union’s communist leader -
ship. He has final authority on
accepting or dismissing all com
plaint cases, and his decision can’t
be appealed to the courts.
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Lewis Calls Union
Heads “Stately
I Asses** In Hot Rage
—
SAN FRANCISCO </P>—John L.
Lewis, stripped of a vice-presi
dency in the AFL after an histor
ic outburst of name-calling among
the federation’s top leaders, faced
, still another battle today over his
miscellaneous collection of unions
in Mine Workers’ District 50.
Underneath the current of bit
terness which swept the 66th an
nual convention was the growing
threat that Lewis still might take
a walk with his 600.000 United
Mine Workers over the district 50
! controversy.
His organizers have been step
| ping on a lot of toes within the
federation, ever since his return
to the AFL in January 1946.
But anti-Lewis forces, cheered
by the ease with which their over
whelming numbers set down the
UMW president yesterday, went
right on with plans to bring the
| jurisdictional squabbles with dis
trict 50 before a tribunal which
; he could not control,
j The fight was due to come over
i conflicting resolutions offered by
| a majority of the resolutions com
; mittee headed by a long-time
I Lewis critic, John P. Frey of the