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NEWS IN BRIEF j
BERLIN </P)—Meat-hungry Ber
liners may no longer keep pigs,
goats of other livestock on the bal
conies or in basements of their
homes, the city government or
dered Thursday.
The ordinance provides that all
purchase, sale or barter of live
stock must be reported to district,
offices within three days, or unre
ported animals will be confiscated
without compensation. The pur
pose of the order is to apportion
scarce fodder only to commercial
livestock raisers.
WASHINGTON, I/P)—President
Truman went to the navy medical!
center at Bethseda, Md., yesterday |
and visited Cordell Hull and fleet1
admiral Ernest J. King who are
patients there.
The President took flowers from
the White House gardens to the
former secretary of state and the
wartime chief of naval operations, j
He also sent flowers to Mrs. j
Claude Swanson, widow of a for
1 t i
mer secretary of the navy and in-:
quired about her health.
JERUSALEM. (TP)—Two British
soldiers were wounded, one seriou
ly, when an electrically detonated
mine blasted their truck near Na
tanya yesterday, and in Jerusalem
an Arab store was demolished by
a bomb which army sources said
was tossed by an Arab "boycott
patrol."
Unofficial sources in the port
city of Haifa said 10,000 pounds
sterling ($40,000) was stolen from
an Arab bank messenger during a
transfer of funds.
The Jerusalem itore blast
brought a general alarm, the sec
ond in IS hours.
BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS,
Utah, (#>)—John Cobb streaked
over the measured mile at 334.26
miles per hour yesterday in a trial
run, but decided to forego any as
sault on his world automobile
speed records.
The London driver’s remodeled
24-cylinder speedster, which holds
the land speed record of 369.7
miles per hour for a kilometer and
the measured mile mark of 368.9
established here in 1939, stirred
up a cloud of salt as it whizzed
through the mile on the north run.
SEATTLE —A floating mine,
sighted by crewmen of the fishing
vessel Shirley Lee, was destroyed
by gunfire early today 100 miles
due west of Willapa Bay, the coast
guard said.
The mine was destroyed by the
Cutter Bonham, which had been
towing the fishing boat Argo, dis
abled off Grays Harbor by engine
trouble. The Argo was transferred
to the motorboat Triumph after
the mine report was received.
SEATTLE, (/P) — Funeral serv
ices will be conducted Saturday at
Bellingham for Earl Osborne, 55,
a chief engineer for the Alaska
Steamship company, who died in
Bellingham yesterday, a day after
returning from an Alaska trip.
Survivors include his widow and
three sons.
Russia Seizes U. S.
Soldiers; Won’t
Answer Queries
SEOUL, l/Pi—Two strong pro
tests and repeated demands for an
explanation for the seizure of
three American soldiers in north
Korea remain unanswered by the
Russians.
Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge, Ameri
can occupation commander, said
he had made the protests over the
arrests since they occurred Aug.
12 and that he was gravely con
cerned about the incident.
Intelligence officers said daily
queries by the U. S. liaison offi
cer at Soviet headquarters at
Pyongyang were answered with:
“No information. General Korot
kov (commander of the Russian
occupation zone* is handling the
case himself.”
I The liaison officer said he hap
pened to be in the village of Yoh
yon-Ni, just inside the Russian
zone, and saw Russian guards de
tain the three—T/5 Tommy F.
Pugsley of Renton. Wash.; Pfc.
John D. Hopfe of Seattle; and Pfc.
' Gerald K. Geffen of Port Chester,
i N. Y.
He said the guards refused to let
him speak with the trio. The sol
diers were on an official mission
! to inspect telephone lines connect
1 ing U. S. headquarters here with
Pyongyang.
Violence Breaks
Out Against B. C.
Doukliabors
VANCOUVER, B. C. f/P)—Brit
ish Columbia authorities sought
an explanation yesterday for a
new wave of violence in which
night raiding parties, one led by a
nude woman, have terrorized Dou
khobor communities in the Koot
enay region.
Police arrested three persons,
one a woman, on charges of arson
in the destruction of a farm home.
Reticent Doukhobors told of
threats to burn their homes. bu1
refused to give details and author
ities said they were unable to find
a cause for the outbreak.
A big community house at
Shore Acres, 24 miles west of Nel
son, B. C., was one of the build
ings destroyed by fire.
The Merry Lumber company in
the Kootenays reported it was
forced to close because Doukhobor
timber workers left their jobs to
protect their homes.
Intermittent violence has occur
red in the past among the Douk
hobors, members of a religious
sect which came from Russia in
1899:
A RAIN OF NICKELS
GREAT FALLS, Mont. (£>)—A
woman who explained that ‘‘a
kind Providence has made it pos
sible for me to pay my taxes,”
placed three $20 bills and 2,800
nickels on the desk of M. T. Lin
nane, county treasurer. The nick
els weighed 35 pounds and two
deputies spent several hours
counting them.
Unions Sign Con
tracts Before New
Law Effective
—
'By The Associated Press'
The nation’s labor unions got a'
new set of rules today the Taft
Hartley labor law, and only sec
onds before it went into effect at
midnight 107,000 production work
ers and the Ford Motor Co. agreed
to a contract clause for a union
shop.
The united automobile workers |
• CIO* thus bypassed a provision
of the law making majority ap- J
proval by a company’s employees i
a requirement for a union shop.
Rumblings of a dock strike on
the west coast, and a move by the
long-organized printers to ignore
the new rules to a large extent,
were other accompaniments to the
advent of the sharply-debated new
law.
During the 60 days since the
law's enactment by the 80th Con
gress over President Truman’s
veto, many unions had taken ac
tion similar to that of the Ford
workers. In New York City, the
Greater New York CIO council
estimated that 65 percent of the
10,000 employers having contracts
•with 300 CIO locals there had
signed one-year contract exten
sions before the deadline.
One of the act’s sponsors, Rep.
Hartley (R.-N. J.), last night at
Chicago urged management to
take advantage of its rights under
the law adn said that “wherever
we find a contract that violates
the spirit of the law, we’re going
to bring management as well as la
bor to Washington and ask them
‘How come’?”
“Now that you’ve got an act
that protects your rights, aren’t
you willing to stand up and be
counted and fight for this law?”
Hartley asked in an address before
the national food distributors’ as
sociation.
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Statehood Would
Be Alaska’s Most
Valuable Asset
KETCHIKAN. (/P)—In officially
welcoming a delegation of outdoor
writers to Alaska, Gov. Ernest
Gruening yesterday declared that
the big northern Territory is “fed
up on absentee government from
Washington.
Citing the Territory’s majority
vote for statehood, he declared:
“As a Territory, we are just a
step-child of the government. Con
gress is too far away from us ko
know our problems.”
He told the men who came to
write of Alaska’s wildlife and nat
ural resources that statehood
would be of more value to the
Territory than any other action the
government could take.
J. Hammond Brown of Balti
more, president of the Outdoor
Writers’ association of America,
responded for the delegation. He
described the Territory as Amer
ica’s economic frontier from the
standpoint of forest resources, fish
and wildlife, paper and pulp re
sources and recreational potenti
alities.
U. S.-Soviei
Relations Fast
Breakem** Apart
WASHING TON, (&) — The
United States appeared ready yes
terday to write off two more at
tempts to reach agreement with
Russia—on Korea and Austria—
in favor of a completely fresh ap
proach.
This impending development
stands out against a library of
Congress report delcaring that re
lations between this country and
the Soviet Union have deteriorated
“dangerously.’
In the case of Korea, foreign
minister Molotov thus far has
failed even to acknowledge secre
tary of state Marshall’s proposal
for a re-examination of the dead
locked efforts to set up a unified
government for that country.
Marshall set today as the dead
line for a report from the stale
mated' Soviet-American joint com
mission at Seoul. He told Molotov
in a note last week that if this
showed the two powers could not
agree on a provisional regime to
take the place of the separate oc
cupation zones it was time to de
cide whether to call off the nego
tiations which started three
months ago.
Meanwhile the chief American
representative on the four power
treaty commission which has been
trying even longer to settle dis
putes over a peace treaty for Aus
tria was due to leave Vienna yes
terday for consultations in Wash
ington.
Cuba Calls For
Economic
Independence
QUITANDINHA, Brazil. (TP)—
Cuba formally presented to the in
ter-American defense conference
yesterday a tiemand for joint
I hemisphere action to protect what
it called “the economic independ
ence” of American states.
Guillermo Belt, Cuban Ambas
sador to Washington and aspirant
to his country’s presidency, told
the committee on aggression tnat
“it is impossible to conceive of po
litical independence unless a s*ate
also has economic independence.'
The presentation of the Cuban
demand came after the appa? ent
failure of a series of “coffe? table
conferences” arranged by confer
ence president Raul Fernandes, the
Brazilian foreign minister, in an
effort to avert an almost certain
controversy between the United,
States and Cuba.
The island republic’s stand was 1
against what it called “economic'
aggression” on “unilateral econo-;
mic acts and threats.”
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GENERAL CANNON VISITS
NOME ARMY AIR BASE
Lt. General Cannon, Brigadier
General Darcy and crew arrived
yesterday at Nome Army Air Base
in the “Cannon-Ball,” a B-17 air-1
craft. General Cannon, accompan
ied by Colonel Bodle and staff
toured the city of Nome and re
mained overnight, then departed
for Adak Thursday morning.
Bridges Predicts
Maritime Tieup
In “Few Days’*
»
SAN FRANCISCO, i/P)—Harry
Bridges’ CIO longshoremen, charg
ing waterfront employers were
plotting under the new Taft-IIart
ley labor law to fire union men
in 16 categories, predicted today a
West Coast maritime tieup ‘‘with
in a few days.”
Shippers were considering with
holding of perishable cargoes until
the situation clarified.
The new law, effective at mid
night last night, says employers
do not have to bargain with fore
men or supervisory employees.
The CIO international longshore
men’s and warehousemen’s union
said the waterfront employers as
sociation has refused to bargain
with unionized dock foremen,
known as walking bosses—and it
added:
"Lockout of the ship, dock and
walking bosses would be the ship
owners’ opening gun in their plot
to drive out of the unions all mem
bers who are judged by them to
be supervisory in capacity. This
will include gang bosses, siderun
ners, millwrights, chief mechan
ics, head lockermen, captains,
mates, pilots, chief engineers, and
assistants, stewards, chief cooks,
radio operators, boatswains, super
cargoes. checkers and others who
will be invented into supervisory
capacity.”
The waterfront employers asso
ciation remained silent.
ILWU dock foremen, now on
strike against the Luckenbach
Steamship company and the outer
harbor wharf and dock company,
threatened to spread picket lines
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Egyptians Riot
In Cairo
CAIRO, </P)—Thousands of riot
ous Egyptians, some shouting
“Down with America,” clashed
with police in demonstrations to
day against the trend of United
Nations security council discus
sions on this nation’s dispute with
Britain.
Police seized seven followers of
the Moslem Brotherhood.
The acting prime minister, Ah
med Khashaba, broadcast an ap
peal “to every sincere patriot to
help the government maintain or
der.” The prime minister, Mah
moud Fahmy Nokrashv Pasha, is
at Lake Success pressing for
United Nations action.
The number of demonstrators
reached about 5,000 at one time in
Cairo. They reformed after they
were scattered by police fire.
They demanded evacuation of
British troops from Egypt “by
blood.”
“Down with America, the trai
tor!” demonstrators shouted.
“Down with Brazil, the traitor!
Egypt defies the security council.
Egypt defies the whole world.”
They called also for revenge on
“traitorous Egyptian police.”
More than 10 of the demonstra
tors were reported wounded by
police fire as officers struggled to
bring the throng under control.