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NEWS IN BRIEF
LAKE SUCCESS. N. Y. OP) — '
The United Nations security coun
cil overriding the vigorous objec
tions of Soviet Russia, voted today
to consider the British charges
against Albania. The vote was
unanimous, with Russia abstain
ing.
WASHINGTON, OP)—Rep. Ga
vin <R.Pa.) called today for an
immediate investigation by a
i House committee of the war-time
Canol oil project. The American i
people, Gavin told the House, “are
entitled to a full explanation oi
this $135,000,000 project which is
now being unceremoniously junk
ed to the highest bidder.”
ROME, (P)—The foreign minis
try announced tonight that Italy
had filed a strong protest with the
United States, Great Britain, Rus
sia and France against the terms
of the Italian peace treaty to be
signed at Paris Feb. 10.
WASHINGTON, (P) — The Su
preme Court ruled unanimously
today that a draftee who reported
for induction on Armistice Day,
1918, but was sent back home is
I not entitled to a certificate of hon
orable discharge from the army.
The decision was the only one
of general importance handed
down by the court on its regular
opinion day.
SEATTLE, (P) — Butter prices
tumbled two to three cents a
pound again here this morning af
ter having been nervous ever since
the latest of a series of two-cent
price declines last Friday, in line
with eastern market trends.
Bids to producers today were
65c for A A grade, 93-score, butter;
64c for A grade, 92-score; 63c for
B grade, 90-score and 62c for C
grade, 89-score butter in bulk.
PUEBLO, Colo. </P) — Firemen
found the charred body of Felix
C. Duran, 52, father of nine in the
ruins of his garage early today
shortly after his wife told authori
ties he beat her over the head with
a blunt instrument while she lay
asleep in their home. Firemen said
a five-gallon kerosene can was
found beside the body. They said
Duran had poured the fuel over
himself and the garage walls and
ignited it.
ODDFELLOWS ENTERTAINED
REBEKAH LODGE FRIDAY
Last Friday evening the Inde
pendent Order of Odd Fellows
were hosts at a party given for the
Midnight Sun Rebekah Lodge. Al
though the weather was very bad
and many could not make it, a
good time was had by those who
were there.
Winners of the prizes were S.
David Mazen, Mrs. Axel Edmon,
Mrs. Luella Grant and Antonio
Polet. After cards a luncheon was
served by the committee.
L. E. OST ENROUTE
TO JUNEAU
L. E. Ost arrived in town Sun
day enroute to the legislature in
Juneau.
JAPANESE SHRINE — An exploring American soldier enters the famous Toshogu shrine
at Nikko. Japan. A soft blanket of snow covers the ornate buildings of lacquer and gold.
Sen. Byrd Seeks To
Cut Million People
From Govt. Payroll
(By Jack Bell)
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Senator
Byrd (D.-Va.), topped some Re
publican demands for economy to
day with an assertion that govern
ment spending can be cut to $32,
000,000,000 in the next year.
Byrd’s estimate — $5,500,000,000
below President Truman’s budget
figure—was given to reporters be
fore the four taxing and appropri
ating committees of the two houses
convened to take an official look
at the nation’s prospective income
and outgo.
Byrd, a member of the senate
finance committee and a veteran
pleader for economy, said his
studies indicate the budget for the
year beginning next July 1 might
be carried even below the $32,
000,000,000 figure he regards as a
maximum.
“By rigid economy and close in
vestigation of the proposed spend
ing items, I believe we can make
even larger reductions than have
been anticipated in some quar
ters,” the Virginia Democrat said.
While Senator Taft (R.-Ohio),
and some other GOP leaders have
shied away from any slash in the'
$11,200,000,000 fixed in the White'
House budget for military expen
ditures, Byrd said he believes sav- j
ings can be made there by more j
efficient administration without
impairing national defense.
He estimated that 1,000,000 of
the 2,400,000 government employ
ees could be cut off the pay rolls
“without impairing efficiency.”
Fifty-five per cent of all the
electric power in the United j
States is generated from coal.
Violence Flares In
Poland Communist
Victory Election
' WARSAW, (/P) — Vice-premier
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, leader of
the opposition Polish Peasant
Party, hinted today that he might
seek supreme court nullification ol
yesterday’s parliamentary elec
tion, in which officials forecast
victory for the Communist-dom
inated government bloc.
The voting was marked by scat
tered violence resulting in the
death of eight persons, all appar
ently slain in raids by the anti
government underground, which
had threatened forays during the
vote counting.
Mikolajczyk, who was booed at
the polls, charged that a constitu
tional guarantee of the secret bal
lot had been violated and said he
probably would ask the supreme
court to declare the election in
valid. He expressed belief that if
the votes were counted fairly his
party would get a majority of the
444 seats in Poland’s one-house
parliament, which is to draw up a
new constitution and elect a Pres
ident.
Leaders of the government bloc,1
on the other hand, were represent- j
ed as regarding victory as already!
theirs. Before the election, they
had freely predicted triumph for
the bloc, dominant in Poland’s
Moscow-sponsored provis i o n a 1
government since the Nazis were
chased out.
Scattered, unofficial returns, in
dicating the election trend, were
expected to be made public today.
(In London last night, the Sov
iet radio monitor distributed a
Warsaw dispatch of Tass, Russian
news agency, reporting that bal
loting in “perfect order and peace”
I
Seek Impeachment
Of Judge In
Portal Case
—
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Senator
Eastland (D.-Miss.) said today the
handling of a portal pay case by
Federal Judge Frank Picard of
Detroit should be investigated by
the House of Representatives “with
a view to impeachment.”
Eastland is a member of a Sen
ate judiciary subcommittee con
s.dering legislation to outlaw more
than $4,000,000,000 of portal-to
portal back pay claims. He sug
gested the investigation at a com
mittee hearing after testimony by
Theodore R. Iserman, a New York
attorney representing the Chrys
ler Corporation in connection with
the portal suits.
serman testified that Picard
heard a suit for $250,000 brought
against Chrysler by plant guards.
He said that during the trial Picard
said that he wanted it “understood
that I am strictly pro-labor—I
want these men (the guards' to get
every penny that is coming to
them.”
Iserman told the subcommittee1
that Picard later ordered this re-!
mark stricken from the record.1
The attoney testified that he had,
later obtained a copy of the re
mark from the court reporter.
gave the government bloc 100 per
cent support in three election dis
tricts.)
The official tally will not be
announced until Jan. 31. Election
commissions in 6,726 precincts,
guarded by the army, security po
lice and militia, began counting
ballots yesterday soon after the
end of the 12-hour voting period
at 7 p.m.
Many Dead When
Greek Ship Sinks
(By N. S. Chakales)
ATHENS, (/P) — The merchant
mar*ne ministry today increased
to 437 the list of persons missing
and believed dead in the sinking
oi the l,80U-ton Greek steamer
e-mmarra, whicn went down 70
miles east of Athens yesterday af
ter an explosion officially blamed
on a mine.
Tne latest figures radioed here
from shipping offices in Saloruka
indicated the doomed vessel was
carrying 548 passengers and a
crew of 87 when she left there
Saturday.
inus far, the marine ministry
said, only 198 survivors are defin
itely known.
ull'.ciais of the ministry, which
said last night that the former
German passenger ship had struck
a mine, declined to comment on a
report that the vessel was a vic
time of sabotage. There was no in
dication, however, that they gave
any credence to the report
Aristides Mytakis, a 44-year-old
school teacher who survived the
disaster, estimated that almost 200
of the casualties were women and
children.
“I am afraid every child aboard
was lost and 95 per cent of the
women,” he said.
Mytakis said the ship sank so
quickly that only two of her life
boats could be launched. He de
scribed the vessel’s decks as a.
‘solid wall of cursing, fighting
men” struggling frantically to save
their lives.
The Chimarra, which sailed
from Salonika Saturday, hit th*
mine a few miles off shore from
Rafina. Mytakis said the ship’s
master attempted to beach the ves
sel, but was prevented from doing
so by a broken rudder control.
Survivors said the scores of pan
ic-stricken passengers leaped into
the frigid waters of the gulf as tha
ship lurched about before sinking.
Olhers, trapped below decks,
screamed in terror as the vessel
settled beneath the surface.
ATHENS, (/P) — The merchant
marine ministry announced to
night it was investigating the pos
sibility that a time bomb sank the
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Decision On UNW
Case Feb. 3
WASHINGTON, (/P) —By not
acting today, the supreme court
delayed at least until February 3
a decision in the government’s
contempt case against John L.
Lewis.
A ruling today would have been
exceptional since argument on the
care was heard only last Tuesday.
February 3 is the next Monday on
which the court hands down opin
ions. There is no certainty, how
ever, that the case against the
United Mine Workers, president
will be decided at that time.
Lewis was held in contempt by
Federal District Judge T. Alan
Goldsborough for not calling off
last fall’s coal strike at his order.