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LABOR WILL NOT
SUPPORT GOPs
DEWEY-WARREN
WASHINGTON, — (/P) —Pres
ident William Green said Satur
day the American Federation of
Labor will “never” support the
Dewey-Warren Republican presi
dential ticket.
After a 15-minutes visit with
President Truman, Green told
White House reporters that he
believed the Republicans “cer
tainly won’t get much labor sup
port.”
He said the Philadelphia con
vention “could have picked a
stronger ticket.”
Green said he based his belief
on the Republican platform and
on Thomas E. Dewey’s record as
governor of New York.
IMMIGRANT BILL
SIGNED BY PRES.
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WASHINGTON, — (/P) —The
gates to the United States were
thrown open Saturday to 205,000 ;
European refugees who can meet j
conditions labeled “discriminatory” !
by President Truman.
In signing the refugee immi
gration bill into law Saturday,
Mr. Truman fired a strongly
phrased 1,800-word blast at Con- I
gress for not sending him a better
measure.
He said he signed the bill with
“very great reluctance,” and added
that “if the Congress were still
in session I would return this
bill without my approval and urge
that a fairer, more humane bill
be passed.”
The measure discriminates ag
ainst Jewish and Catholic dis
placed persons, the president
charged, by setting up immigra
tion conditions which most such
refugees cannot meet.
The new law limits immigra-1
tion over the next two years to
those DPs who fled to Germany,
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TEDDY REED, 13, IS
DROWNED IN RIVER
Teddy Reed, 13-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Teddy Reed, was
drowned last evening after dinner
when the small boat in which he
and a playmate, Ronny Anderson
were paddling in the Snake River
capsized about 40 feet from the
U.S. Coast Guard station.
The body was recovered by
Alex Mclnnes, of the Standard
Oil Co., and immediately begun
resuscitation, artificial respiration,
without results. It is believed the i
boy died of heart failure on con
tact with the icy-cold water.
Teddy Reed, father of the boy,
has been a tug-boat captain for
the Lomen Commercial Co. for
several years. Mrs. Reed and the
family only recently returned from
Kotzebue. They live in the Otter
son house on D Street. All of the
four children were born in Nome.
Funeral arrangements will be
announced later.
3 ’Quakes Injure
Many In Japan
By Russell Brines
TOKYO, — (tf*) —Three heavy
earthquakes followed by fire
wrecked the western Honshu city
of Fukhui late today.
Japanese newspapers guessed
the total dead and injured might
reach 5,000, but U. S. occupation
authorities said first fears had
proved excessive and declined to
make an estimate.
The only known casualty fig
ures were 10 dead and 60 injured
at Daishoji,.. coastal. village . 20
miles northeast of Fukhui.
"It is apparently not as bad as
we thought it was," said Brig.
Gen. Crawford Sams, head of the
occupation's health and welfare
section. "Damages appear to be
pretty well localized."
4ih OF JULY COMMITTEE
STRESSES KIDS PARADE
The Fourth of July Committee
is planning to make the children’s
parade a grand affair, states Ted
Duffield its chairman.
He says, “With Mary Anderson
in charge of the kiddies parade
it should be a grand success.”
The floats should be mounted
on flat-bed trucks or towed by a
car. They can be made of kiddie
cars, go-carts, wagons, bicycles
or any other child’s vehicle, and
should be entered by the children,
between the ages of 1 to 12. Floats
or entries should be indicative of
Independence Day and costumes
should be in keeping with the en- ]
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Six Billions For
Fight Against
Communism
WASHINGTON, — (/P) —Amer
icans put $6,000,000,000 on the
line today to strengthen the non
Communist world.
President Truman signed into
law the huge appropriation bill to
finance foreign aid as the Western
Powers, watched anxiously Rus
sia’s latest pressure play in Ber
lin. Normal supply routes to the
U.S.-British-French zones there
have been blocked by the Soviets
As the President acted, Ireland
became the first of 16 nations
under the Marshall Plan for econ
omic recovery to sign a formal
agreement with the United States.
Each nation will sign a pact to
work for the common good.
The President’s signature plant
ed the American economic power
squarely behind the most ambi
tious world rebuilding program in
history.
It pledges to Western Europe
and Far Eastern countries to
spend within 15 months—within
a year if necessary—this vast
sum in the cause of recovery and
political freedom.
Authors of the bill also made
it clear the intent also is to throw
up a barrier against the ‘spread
of Communism by strengthening
governments outside the iron cur
tain.
In a statement the President said
the appropriation represents “the
combined judgement and will of
the executive and the Congress.”
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Rep. Hugh Scott Jr.
Picked to Head
GOP Nat’l Comm.
PHILADELPHIA, — UP) —Rep.
Hugh D. Scott Jr., 47 year old
third term member of Congress
from Pennsylvania, Saturday was
picked to head the Republican
National Committee.
Scott, seeking reelection as a
House member, was chosen by
gov. Thomas E. Dewey, the GOP
presidential nominee, and gov’.
Earl Warren, his running mate,,
to take over the party leadership, j
He will sucfceed Carroll Reece
of Tennessee, who backed the un
successful bid of Senator Roberi
A. Taft, (Ohio) for the presiden
tian nomination.
The selection of Scott was re
garded as a gesture by Dewey
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TRUMAN SIGNS
Flood Control Bill
WASHINGTON, — (/P) —Pres
ident Truman has signed an ap
propriation bill carrying a record
$573,000,000 for flood control and
navigation projects in the year
beginning July 1.
The waterways money is in the
Army Civil Functions Measure
carrying a total of $641,575,666. !
The other funds are for the Pana
ma Canal. National Cemeteries, I
the Soldiers’ Home and Signal
Corps Communications System in
Alaska.
PLANE CRASH KILLS 43
Workers probe the wreckage of DC-6 transport plane which crashed
near Mt. Carmel, Pa., with 43 persons aboard. All were reported lost
Broken transformer in right background. (AP Wirephoto)
Quarter Million
To Be Drafted
During This Year
WASHINGTON, — —The
Army estimated today that bet
ween 225,000 and 250,000 men
probably will be inducted dur
ing the first year of the new mili
tary draft.
This is considerably above a
previous estimate that 200,000 to
225,000 will be put into uniform
during the period.
The first cal] for induction,
starting soon after September 22,
will be “relatively small,” Army
secretary Royall told a news con
ference. But he said calls will in
crease until the average monthly
induction rate is about 30,000.
Royall also announced the names
of four World War II training
centers to be reopened as division
training centers for inducteed and
the expected 250,000 to 300,000
volunteers expected during the
coming year.
They are Fort Riley, Kansas,
Tenth Infantry 'Mountain Div.);
Camp Chaffee, Ark., Fifth Arm
ored Div.; Camp Breckenridge,
Ky., 101st Air Borne Div.; and
Camp Pickett, Va., 17th Air
Borne Div.
Four other training centers were
announced previously—Fort Ord,
Calif.; Fort Jackson, S.C.; Fort
Dix, N.J.; and Fort Knox, Ky.
Allies May Demand
Russia Lift Its
Blockade Of Berlin
UNDATED INTERNATIONAL,
By the Associated Press
Washington
Diplomats in Washington pre
dicted today the U.S., Britain and
! France will demand in Moscow
a lifting of the Russian blockade
on Berlin.
The squeeze, tightest in the
cold war, iooked like an effort
to evict the Western Powers and
make Berlin the capital of a Com
, munist state of East Germany.
Up to 120 U.S. planes were fly
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Truman To Make
Active Campaign
For Presidency
WASHINGTON, — (/P) —Pres
ident Truman will make an act
ive speaking campaign for the
presidency in the event of his
nomination.
Press secretary Charles G. Ross
announced today in answering
reporters’ questions. But he said
no detailed plans have been made.
The president has made no plan
for out of town speaking beyond
his visit to Bolivar. Mo.. July
5, he added.
Mr. Truman is going to Bolivar
with the President of Venezuela
to help dedicate a statue to Simon
Bolivar, South American libera
tor.