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NEWS IN BRIEF
SEATTLE, </P)—1The West Coast
Mineral association at its regular
weekly meeting Monday adopted
a resolution approving the bill
which would, if passed, cancel the
power of the secretary of the in
terior to create huge Indian reser
vations in Alaska.
The measure, introduced as a
joint Senate-House resolution 162.
is now before Congress. It would
also rescind all reservations cre
ated since 1936 under provisions
of the Wheeler-Howard act.
LAKE SUCCESS, </P)—Belgium
proposed yesterday that the U. N.
security council establish a special
three-nation committee to go to
Kashmir at once and try to settle
the dispute between India and
Pakistan.
The proposal was submitted by
Fernand van Langenhove, current
council president, who had spen‘
last week-end and Monday con
ferring with representatives of the
two quarreling dominions.
He said both India and Pakistan
had agreed to the proposed reso
lution.
PARIS, (TP)—French police have
unearthed a 3-pronged network
of secret group arming as the
"Black Maquis” to establish an
anti-communist regime in France,
according to “well-informed
sources” quoted by the French
press agency last night.
The agency said the three or
ganizations. which it called nation
wide, have established a unified
command headquarters, believed
to be near Luzern Switzerland.
BULLETIN
WASHINGTON. (/P)—The Sen
ate armed forces committee yes
terday rejected a personal plea
from President Truman to allow
Maj. Gen. Laurence Kuter to be
come chairman of the Civil Aero
nautics Board and retain his rank
and pay as an air force general.
WASHINGTON, (IP) — A bill!
was introduced in Congress yes
terday by Delegate Bartlett, pro-!
viding authorization for the out
lay of up to $575,000 for a federal
building at Kodiak, to be used for
a jail and other purposes.
WASHIN GTON, (/P> — Rep.
Bradley (R.-Calif.) asserted today
the transfer of 500 American!
ships to foreign countries under
the European recovery program
will mean “immediate loss of
30,330 jobs” for American mer
chant seamen.
In a speech prepared for the
House, Bradley called the propos
al the “state department’s 1948
torpedo” and said it would be 500 ;
times more destructive to the
American merchant marine than
the torpedoes fired at American
ships during the war.
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HONOLULU, (/P)—Senator Guy
Cordon (R.-Ore.) told the annual
meeting of the Honolulu chamber
of commerce yesterday that as an
investigator he could not yet take
a position on the issue of Hawai
G. I. Trucks Lcr'.ve I ci4 C ~cce
NEW YORK—(Soundphoto)—An impressive scene on the N. Y. waterfront as scores of U. S.
Army freight jeeps and trucks and other supplies were loaded aboard the ‘American \ ictory lor
Greece. This is part of the $35,000,000 of aid the U. S. is sending to Greece. It goes at a time when
the Greek government is reporting attacks upon her territory by Guerilla bands from outside her
borders.
Reds Will Do Every
Aei Short Of
New War
•
WASHINGTON, (/P) — John
Foster Dulles said Tuesday Soviet
leaders are trying “by every act
short of new war” to destroy the
weakened economics of Europe's
free states.
The Republican foreign affairs
expert told the^Senate foreign re
lations committee that this effort
“will probably succeed unless the
United States does something to
help these convalescent countries
regain their health.” He testified
at the committee’s hearings on the
Marshall plan for American aid
to 16 western European nations.
Dulles said it is to the “en
lightened self interest” of this
country to take the “step towards
peace” involved in aiding those
European nations now outside the
Communist orbit.
Dulles has been a Republican
adviser at various international
conferences, and represents a
party view on foreign affairs that
has been shared in the past by
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New
York and chairman Vandenberg
<Mich.) of the Senate foreign re
lations committee.
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ian statehood but reiterated his
promise “to do everything in my
power” to assure a Senate vote at
this session of Congress.
A statehood bill was passed by,
the House in the last session. Sen- j
ator Cordon has been visiting the
Territory as chairman of a Sen
ate sub-committee.
j
FAIRBANKS, </P) — Charles
Wilson 71-year-old sourdough
who las watched the ice go out
at Nenana each spring for three
decades, was elected manager of
the 1948 ice breakup guessing con
test yesterday.
He succeeds George Ball.
(dash Expected As
Governors Meet
BERLIN (/P>—The four military
governors of Germany met yester
day in an Allied control council
meeting which may produce im
portant effects on the future of
j the Reich.
Soviet Marshal Vassily Soko
lov was expected to deliver the
current views of Moscow and de
mand a dissolution of the Ameri
can-British bizonal organization in
Western Germany.
The address—expected to be
one of the most important policy
speeches Sokolovsky ever has
made to the four-power council—
may contain the answers to ques
tions Germans have been asking
for months.
The council has not met since
the breakdown of the foreign
minister’s council in London nor
the subsequent formation of a new
British-American bizonal setup in
Western Germany.
Sokolovsky is expected to state
the Soviet position on bizonia,
which, it is believed, will be a flat
rejection and demand for dissolu
tion of the setup under which
Germans themselves have been
given considerably more author
ity.
U. N. Asked To
Send Military
To Palestine
. (By Larry Hauck)
LAKE SUCCESS, (fi>) — The
United Nations Palestine partition
commission today tackles two ma
jor questions: That of asking for !
an international army to enforce
the splitup of the Holy Land and
that of opening Tel Aviv to Jew
ish immigration Feb. 1.
A Philippine request for action
by the security council, the only
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Rationing Talk
Causes Hoarding
i ~
WASHINGTON, </P) — All the
hot talk in Congress about meat
rationing is simply serving to
build up private stock in cold
storage lockers, Senator Thye <R
Minn.) contended today.
While Steering clear of the con
troversy between GOP Senators
Wherry <Neb.> and Flanders iVt.)
over Wherry’s “kidding” accusa
tion that his New England col
league is a meat “hoarder,” Thye
said he wishes the whole subject
of rationing could be dropped.
ptherwise, he told a reporter,
housewives will buy all the meat
they can and put it into frozen
storage. Thye said talk of ration
ing “already is jeopardizing our
meat supply” by discouraging the
feeding of beef cattle to full
weight.
His contention is that produc
ers, wary of the future, are eager
to take advantage of current high
prices and are rushing their cat
tle to market.
Justice Dept. Very
Lax In Preparing
Petrillo Case !
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W A S H I N GTON, (/P) — Rep.
Hartley <R.-N. JJ chairman of the
House labor committee, told
James C. Petrillo today the justice
department was “exceedingly lax”
in preparing a Lea Act case in
which the AFL musicians union
chief was acquitted.
Speaking face to face with the
labor leader at a committee hear-1
ing, Hartley declared Petrillo was,
“clearly in violation of law” de
spite the acquittal in a federal i
court at Chicago last week. He
added:
“I am not particularly upset by
the court decision, but I am con
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Yugoslavia Claims
Possession Of
Atomic Bombs
TRIESTE, Free Territory, (JP)—
The pro-Italian newspaper La
Voce Libera published today a
purported secret speech by pre
mier Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia,
in which he was reported to have
said that Yugoslavia has atomic
bombs.
The newspaper said Tito, in a
speech to his party executive a*.
Zagreb, on Nov. 18, 1947, claimed
that Yugoslavia had 150 divisions,
atomic bombs and jet propelled
planes for the “final annihilation
of reaction.”
The paper said it had had the
text of the speech for a month,
but delayed publication, until it
i learned it was authentic and had
been published in “Dissidence 40”
pro-De Gaullis* French newspa
per.
La Voce Libera quoted Tito as
saying that reactionary forces,
with the aid of American and
British capital, were working
'against the “Yugoslav proletari
at," but that he had a “very strong
well organized army which we do
not feed chocolate and sweets, but
which stands in readiness, not
only to protect our frontiers, but
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M ackenzie King
Wishes To Retire
As Premier
OTTAWA, Prime Minister Wil
liam Lyon Mackenzie King says
he wants to retire as leader of
Canada’s Liberal party, and thus
—according to Dominion tradition
—as prime minister, as soon as the
party names his successor.
In an address before the nation
al liberal federation’s advisory
council last night, he asked that a
liberal convention be summoned
next Summer to select his succes
sor as the party’s boss.
Political circles interpreted the
73-year-old prime minister's care
fully qualified remarks to mean
that he wants to get out of office
and politics this year, but that he
would consent to being drafted if
the country needs him further.
King, who has been in office
for all but five and a half years
since Dec., 29, 1921, would by April
20, 1948. surpass the Empire rec
ord for length of prime ministerial
service, set by Robert Walpole of
Britain, who served for 7,619 days
early in the 18th century as head
of Britain’s government.
Informed political sources pre
dicted that Louis St. Laurent, 66
year-old minister of external af
fairs, would be chosen to succeed
King, both to the party leader
ship and the prime minister’s post.
Under the Canadian political
system it has been traditional for
the same man to hold leadership
of the party in power and the post
of prime minister.
King succeeded the late Sir Wil
frde Laurier as liberal leader in
1919 and first became prime min
ister in December, 1921, serving
until 1930 with the exception of
the summer of 1926.