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NEWS IN BRIEF
SAN FRANCISCO, — Sa:i
Francisco AFL department store
employees Saturday awaited sanc
tion . r : the city*
council osiore proceeding with
plane to strike against IT large
stores.
The union voted Thursday to
stri.-ie the stores in demands for a
$15 weekly wage increase, five-day
week and union security. Workers
now receive between $32.50 and
$45 per week.
NICYPRUT, (/P* — Uncertified
Jewish immigrants to Palestine in
terned at the Caraolos camp near
here, where one Jew was killed
and six wounded in a demonstra
tion Friday, went on a hunger
strike last night in protest against
refusal of the demand for increas
ed transfers of internees to the
Holy Land.
DENVER, (/P) — An army C-45
cargo plane with five men aboard
is missing on a flight between Al
buquerque, N. M., and Lowry
Field here, public relations officers
at Lowry reported Saturday morn
ing.
CALCUTTA, (/P)—At least three
persons were killed and 50 injured
by stabbing, bombing and acid
throwing Saturday in a sudden
flareup of Hundu-Moslem com
munal fighting. The disturbances
occurred mostly in the eastern and
central sections of the city. Police
reinforcements were rushed to the
affected areas.
MANILA, (/P)—The capture of
22 well-armed Japanese who were
unaware the war was over was re
ported by radio today by an Amer
ican-led expedition searching the
desolate northwest coast of Pala
wan island, 300 miles southwest of
Manila.
JERUSALEM i/P)—Reports from
Haifa said two loud explosions had
been heard near that city’s port
area. Saturday. No further details
were available immediately.
WASHINGTON, (/P>—President
Truman kept his schedule free of
callers Saturday to work on a
speech he will deliver at the annu
al Associated Press luncheon in
New York today.
PORTLAND, (/P) — The best
spring salmon run in the Columbia
river since 1948 is being recorded
this month by the army engineers
at Bonneville dam where 32,030
Chinook have been counted so far
this month. The army said the to
tal was far in excess of a corre
sponding period in any previous
year since the counting began. The
best day this month was April 17
when 9,191 salmon were tabulated,
of which 8,798 were Chinooks.
ECCLES, England, </P)—Quad
ruplets—two boys and two girls—
were born today to Mrs. Marian
Lowe, 38, her first children, but
one died a few hours later.
The last of the babies born, a
girl, died tonight, and little hope
was held that the others would
survive.
Stettinger Team
\\ ins Cape Nome
Marathon
Hundred- of people witnessed,
yesterday, Sunday afternoon, the
ual classic of the North, the
Cape Nome Marathon, run under
the auspices of the Northwestern
Alaska Fir, and the Arctic Club of
Nome.
The team owned by William
Stettinger of Nome, and driven by
Henry Jones won the Cape Nome
Grand Prize Race, with an elapsed
time of 2:21:20 for the distance,
27.5 miles, Nome to Cape Nome
and return.
Second prize went to Edwin
Punguk of Golovin, with time
2:26:08. Third place was won by
Arthur Trigg of Cape Nome. Time
2:28:03. Others of the ten teams en
tering the race were only a matter
of minutes away from any of the
prizes. The times being: Carl Top
kok 2:30:05. Mike Willoya 2:30:08.
Isaac Okelesasik 2:30:52. Elmer
Seetat 2:33:48: Paul Kakaruk
2:35:05. Peter Blatchford 2:41:25.
Theodore Okiton made the run to
the Cape but failed to return to the
finish line.
During the absence of the teams
in the Cape Nome Grand Prize
Race, the teams were starte 1 on
the 7-mile Speed Race. Albert
Johnson, of White Mountain, took
the race in the time 32:30, nearly
3 minutes ahead of second place
winner, Joe Komok, Igloo; whose
time was 35:13, and 5Vfe minutes
ahead of Andrew Kalaruk, of
Nome, who came in third place in
38 minutes. 4th place went to
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Interior Dept.
Gets The Axe
WASHINGTON. </P)—An unpre
cedented 47 per cent budget cut
was recommended for the interior
department today by the House ap
propriations committee.
Slashing vigorously in its prom
ised “meat axe” drive to chop
$6,000,000,000 from President Tru
man’s $37,500,000,000 federal bud
get for 1948, the committee sent to
the House floor a $156,538,513 bill
to operate the interior department
for the 12 months starting July 1.
This is $138,881,907 below the
President’s budget estimate, $101,
362,173 under current appropria
tions but $26,860,053 above the de
partment’s last prewar fund in
1938.
If Congress follows the commit
tee’s* recommendation, the division
of power and the division of geog
raphy will be abolished, the oil
and gas division will be cut down
to “hot oil” act enforcement activ
ities, and thousands of interior de
partment employees will be look
ing for jobs.
The committee approved $3,750,
000 for road work in Alaska—a cut
of $603,000—after hearing army
officials stress the importance of
highways to support military bases
in the northern territoy.
Well over half of the entire re
duction in the bill was applied to
the reclamation bureau.
NWA Fair Ends
A Grand Success
The curtain has descended on
Nome's Ninth Fair, and one of the
most gala and festive events of the
year has come to a close. The Fair
was a success in every sense of the
word from the time the curtain
rose on Thursday, April 17, with
the welcome address given by
John McNees, through and includ
ing the merry costume ball which
marked the close of indoor activi
ties on Saturday night.
Friday night’s program >pened
with the hilarious childrens par
ade which was under the supervi
sion of Neva Whaley, Olive Fults,
and Bessie Smith. The original and
varied costumes worn by the chil
dren expressed the forethought
and cooperation on the part of the
mothers. Winners of the parade
were Georgie Richter, Gerry Bing
ham, Nina Whaley, Alice Ann Gla
vinovich, Rodney Boucher. Mich
ael Tavis, Cheri Galvin, Carolyn
H y n d man, Susanne Galloway,
Patsy and Freddy Love, Linda Lou
Love, and the befurred hunting
group led by Ernest Ailak. Other
contestants included Linda Lee
Spivy, Dean Alexander, Karen
Christine Baldwin, Pamela Mande
ville, Lourisse Lowe, Sigrid Olsen,
Kay Coulthard, Edith Ann Mor
ton, and Peter Brousseau.
The "Style Revue” which also
comprised part of Friday evening’s
entertainment, was directed by
Mrs. William Cameron, with Jane
Galvin at the microphone, an
nouncing and describing the varied
and attractive pieces of wearing
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Doesn't Want Veto
On Labor Bill
WASHINGTON (/P>—Senator H
Alexander Smith <R.-N. J.», urged
today that Republican leaders con
fer with President Truman on la
bor legislation and try to agree on
a bill that won’t be vetoed.
Smith told a reporter:
“I am opposed to inviting a
Presidential veto. The President
does not want a‘veto. He wants a
bill. Unless I’m much mistaken he
would sign the Senate labor bill in
its present form. He’ll only be
j compelled to veto if something
very radical is added.”
The Senate starts debate next
Wednesday on a bill banning the
closed shop and curbing unions in
various other ways.
The House has already passed a
wider and stronger measure wh'ch
would outlaw industry-wide bai -
gaining and slap scores of other re
stictions on labor organizations
and strikes.
The final version passed by
Congress may be somewhere be
tween the two. It probably will
reach the White House late in May
or early in June.
Smith said it is too early for
conferences with the President
now, but that they should be held
before the final bill is framed.
Senator Ellender <D.-La>, agreed
with Smith that Mr. Truman
would “no doubt” sign a bill along
the lines of the Senate version.
Bridges Against
Shipment ()f Lend
Lease To Russia
<By Jack Bell)
WASHINGTON, i.P) — Senator
Bridges 'R.-N. H.», asserted today
t ’e s cite department is “attempting
* , carry water on both shoulders”
by seeking to complete lenci-lease
shipments to Russia and head off
'ammunism in Greece and Turkey
at the same time.
Bridges, chairman of the Senate
appropriations committee, told a
reporter he will do all he can to
block sending the Russi ms $17.
000,000 worth of oil refining equip
ment and machine tools they had
on order when lend lease exports
were halted last Dec. 31.
“I am startled, surprised and
shocked that the state department
and my colleague. Senator Van
denberg < R.-Mich.>, still advocates
carrying out this agreement,”
Bridges said.
Undersecretary of state Dean
Acheson said at a news conference
he hopes Congress will clear the
way for delivery of the supplies to
Russia as well as another $8,000,
000 wrorth in the same category for
ten other countries.
Acheson said the United States
had made solemn, binding con
tracts to ship out the goods even
though lend lease has ended. In a
memorandum to the Senate the
state department reported the
United States sold Russia $233,
000,000 worth of supplies, mainly
machine tools ai.d other industrial
equipment, between V-J day and
the Dec. 31 shut-off date ordered
by Congress.
“It is almost unbelievable to
me,” Bridges declared, “that the
state department and the adminis
tration are, on the one hand, seek
ing $400,000,000 to stop the spread
of Russian Communism to Greece
and Turkey and at the same time
continue to press Congress to ship
the most modern oil refining
equipment in the world to Russia."
Vandenberg, chairman of the
foreign relations committee, told
the Senate yesterday in debate hi
the Greek-Turkish assistance bill
that he does not believe the United
States can afford to go back on its
agreement with Russia, despite hi
desire for a “consistent policy”
in foreign affairs.
King Christian
Of Denmark, Dies
COPENHAGEN, (AV-Frederick
IX was proclaimed King of Den
mark today from the balcony of
historic Christiansborg Castle.
The 48-year-old lover of music,
seafaring and speed mounted the
throne as successor to his father.
Christian X, whose death at 76,
last night ended a reign of 35
years extending through two world,
wars.
The proclamation was read by
Premier Knud Kristensen who
shouted three times, “King Chris
tian X has died. Long live his ma
jesty King Frederick IX.”
Christian has been ill 15 days—
since suffering a heart attack
Easter Sunday, and unconscious al
most eight hours.
Texas City Starts
Dicing <hit As
V ires Slill Burn
By The Associated Press*
TEXAS CITY. Tex. </p,—Weary
a; ' ;gsb rescue workers in gro
;ue asbestos suits went back
.. eu ruins of the Monsan
‘ j plant today for more victims of
Wednesday’s explosions.
Already the Red Cross has re
leased a list of 530 dead on this
blast-razed industrial Gulf Coast
v. immunity. The Houston Chron
icle -and. however, the Red Cross
conceded ‘.hat there were a number
of duplications on the list. Earlier
its total had been 542.
Last night Mayor J. C. Trahan
appointed a three-member board
to make a list of the dead.
Fires still burned in oil storage
tanks, casting a gloomy pall of
smoke over the area. The grim task
of putting them out continued.
Also continued is the Coast
Guard investigation into the cause
of the trigger-explosion aboard the
Grandcamp, a French vessel that
was loading nitrate when it blew
up at 9:12 a.m. that fatal morning,
taking much of the town with it.
In recurring explosions and
fires, two other ships were sunk,
‘he High Flyer and the Wilson B.
Keene. The multi-million dollar
Monsanto Chemical corp. plant
was destroyed with a heavy loss
of life.
A member of the Coast Guard
board yesterday said the cause of
the explosion was “the sixty-four
million dollar question” that may
not be answered for years.
Memorial services for the dead
were held at 6 p.m. Saturday night
at the football field. All denomina
tions joining in the service.
Major J. C. Trahan reassured
Texas City that there was no dan
ger of new explosions from leak
ing naphtha gas.
-Earlier Trahan had criticized the
Red Cross for its handling of re
lief activities in the blast-torn
town. An official of the Red Cross,
however, assured him that the or
ganization was doing everything
possible to aid victims.
Thirty-five bodies were recover
ed yesterday, the majority from
the torn steel and debris in the 70
acre blast area.
A Red Cross list posted Satur
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New Formula To
End Phone Strike
WASHINGTON, (fl>) — Spurred
by new peace pacts in steel and
other industries, labor department
conciliators said today they may
be ready to spring a new formula
for settling the nationwide tele
phone strike.
Although these ace government
trouble shooters declined to out
line their next step publicly at this
time, they told a reporter they feel
the strike has reached a “crucial
stage.”
Entering its third week, the
340,000-worker phone tie-up stood
as the only major blot on an other
wise placid U. S. labor relations
picture.