California Goes On
Daylight Time i
SACRAMENTO, (/P)—Californi- J
ans, who stubbornly cling to sun
time except in great emergencies,
go on daylight saving time Sun
day.
They were driven to it. A sear
ing drought caused a critical
power shortage. The added hour
of daylight in the evenings will
save a great deal of power.
Much of the state already has
|p browned out. Power usage gener
ally has been cut 20 per cent,
causing one-day shutdowns in
many industrial plants and put
ting many thousands of • laborers
on a four-day week.
Governor Warren said he would
' sign the legislature’s daylight time
act as soon as it reaches his desk,
probably today.
0 California’s mountain reservoirs
are at dangerously low levels. Its
great agricultural valleys, pasture
and range lands are parched. Ag
riculture and industry face an
ever-worsening situation.
Would Make
Drinking Water
WASHINGTON (/PI—Rep. Flet
cher <R.-Calif.) offered a bill yes
terday to authorize $30,000,000 for
construction of pilot plants to pro
duce drinking water from sea wa
ter and other materials.
The bill says such plants would
conserve and increase the nation’s
water resources.
• The armed forces produced,
good drinking water from sea wa
ter on a l:mited scale during the
war.)
Other House bills: Delegate
Bartlett—to provide for judicial
review of civil aeronnu' ios board
orders affecting the rights of air
carriers to engage in oversea, or
foreign air transport.
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Malta, the British basi:oo n ‘h
Mediterranean, has 93 sounro
miles of area.
Tass Charges U. S.
Poisons Many Japs
MOSCOW, (/P) — Pravda, the
communist party newspaper, said
today there have been 4,000 Jap
anese deaths from spoiled Ameri
can soybean flour. It said the
Americans are doing eyesthing
possible to hush up the matter.
The newspaper quoted a Japan
dispatch of the Soviet news agency
Tass, which said Japanese journ
alistic circles confirmed there had
been at least 2,000 persons poi
soned fatally in Tokyo, and a like
number in Hachioji, a town just
southwest of Tokyo, since the
American occupation.
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(On July 11, 1946, Japanese po
lice reported 800 workers had be
! come ill from ptomaine poisoning
| caused by eating tainted fish
; loaves served in 20 factories. No
deaths were reported).
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Riots Continue In
South Korea
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SEOUL, (/P>—The U. S. army
today reported four Korean po
licemen were killed, three injured
and two missing in a renewal of
outbreaks in South Korea.
The army said the incidents
were part of the series which be
gan Feb. 7 and cost 80-odd Korean
lives and sabotaged communica
tions.
American authorities blamed
communist-inspired groups at
tempting to force the United Na
tions election commission to quit
Korea.
The latest attacks occurred
Monday.
The U. N. commission mean
while adopted the national voting
law of the Korean interim legist -
ture with a view of recommer '
ing its use for the proposed elec
tion of a national assembly from
South Korea. Entry to Russian
occupied North Korea has been re
fused the commission.
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NWA. Chamber of
Commerce Hears
Many Reports
‘Continued from Rage One>
could hold great wealth, and
pledged his support to the cham
ber.
Stan Parsons told of the activi
ties of his company the Alaska
Airlines, and that it planned to
bring ;n a thousand tourists a
month. To aid the housing quonset
huts will be set up here as dormi
tories, he stated, and the Univers
ity of Alaska would be used in
Fairbanks during the summer
months.
Richard Webb reported on the
Fairbanks Carnival, stating that it
was packed full of interesting
events and a huge success. He
stated that the reindeer brought
there from Kotzebue were very
popular.
The Queen elected was Kath
leen Clawson, new in the Territory
and a typist for the BJL Co. He
also stressed the importance of
housing for tourists and publicity
to attract mining prospectors.
U. S. Commissioner Duffield
spoke briefly on the seriousness of
the T. B. problem and the need for
action.
Carrie McLain, City Clerk also
stressed the importance of the
T.B. problem and reviewed wha'.
had been attempted by the ANS
in the past.
John McNees, president of no
tary stated that the club was be
hind the chamber in all matters
and would render support when
ever needed.
W. J Robertson of the ANS was
introduced and welcomed the op
portunity, he stated, to thank the
marchants and airplane rompar cs
for their co-operation with him
while in charge of the White
Mountain .-chool. He stated that
the department learned through
the newspaper public: v of the
plight of Gambcll and that the U.
S. army had taken supplies on Sat
urday and more supplies would be
leaving soon.
Wilfred Boucher told of his
meeting with the Alcska Depart
ment of the Seattle Chamber of
Commerce and their desire to
back up whatever Alaska Cham
bers asked for with full hearted
r - ocraticn.
Pole: complimented the new
officers, on their successful shut
■an I congratulated the new secre
tary. George Beaeom. stating ‘hat
any organisation was as strong as
its officers, especially the secre
tary on whose shoulders reste 1
the job of keeping alert to the cor
respondence and its immediate
importance.
< 'onnectieiifs
Governor Dies
HARTFORD. Conn. I/P>—Death
has cut short the career of James
L. McConaughy in the middle of
his first term as Connecticut’s
governor.
The 60-year-bld Republi can
chief executive, who entered poli
tics after winning distinction as a
college administrator, died sud
denly from a blood clot in the
heart yesterday.
A» family funeral service will be
held tomorrow in the chapel at
Wesleyan university in Middle
town, where he served as presi
dent from 1925 to 1943.
McConaughy, a native of New
York City and a Yale graduate in
1909, devoted most of his adult1
life to education. Before his ap
pointment as president of Wesley
an, he was president of Khox Col
lege, Galesburg, 111., eight years.
Many Killed In
Chinese Explosion
TSINGTAO, China, I/P)—'The U.
S. navy used all available facili
ties today to aid hundreds of in
jured in the tremendous explosion
of a Chinese ammunition •store
house—a blast which killed at
least 200 Chinese.
Estimates of the number injured
ranged to 1.000.
<In Nanking, Vice Adm. Oscar
C. Badger, commander of the U. S.
Western Pacific fleet, said no
navy personnel was injured in the
explosion).
The blast, of undetermined or
igin, destroyed the throe-story
munitions warehouse and 100 Ch
nese dwellings and damaged 400
others. The warehouse was a half
mile from IT. S. navy ships tied
up at the docks.
The ammunition was intended
for government armies fighting
the Chinese Communists in Man
churia.
Two Die From Gas
In Apartment
| NEW YORK OP)—William Curl,
G2, and h s wife, Hattie, 01, were
found overcome by gas in their
apartment above the Wesleyan
Methodist church in Brooklyn
.Sunday shortly before the morn
ing services.
While emergency crews worked
over the unconscious couple, the
► congregation of 30 prayed steadily
for an hour and a half that they
might survive.
Curl now.- revived, but his wife
responded t > ‘rcatment. She was
taken to a ho mrl in c •• ' •
difinn.
Again Sunday night, th- c m •• •
gallon met to pray for h r recov
ery.
Police r. ’id a pan of soup had
boiled over, in thler .pa rim on)
putting on. a gas limn and ; 1 ag
ing the fumes to escape as they
dressed for t h “morning , . -
Use Lend Lease To
Kill Costa Ricans
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, (/Pj—
Otilio Ulate Blanco, whose elec
tion as president was annulled by
Congress, cabled President Tru
man today that lend lease supplies
are ‘ being employed to kill Costa
Ricans.”
He signed the message “Presf
dent-Elect of Costa Rica.” Con
gress decided March 1 Ulate was
elected by fraud.
Ilis cable to the U. S. executive
said:
"I take this opportunity to cal)
your attention to the fact that
arms supplied by the United
States government for continents)
defense are being employed to kiH
Costa Ricans, placed in the hands
of the Communist party as the ba
sis of a coup d’etat approved by a
majority of Congress against the
popular will expressed in the elec
tion of Feb. 8.”
Dr. Carlos Luis Valverde, a
Ulate leader of the Urfon Nacion
al opposition party, was wounded
fatally March 1 in an exchange of
fire when government agents at7
tempted to enter his house.
Britons Show Signs
Of Starvation Dirt
LONDON, f/P)—A London die
tician said today many Britons an
showing the first signs of starva
tion.
Dr. Z. A. Leitner, of St. Mary’s
hospital, wrote in “the Medical
Pre -s”:
“For the last 12 months, I ' . v1
•'Vi, ~ have many o her.-. o
■reasivg number of patients with
•'-/Id dioncy symptoms.”
However. F. Legms Clark,
scientist, wrote in "ho magazine
‘h it “'i shortage of calories, prr
vid f 'he d ot remains in balance,
leeds only result in some loss iu
nveraro weight and some fa1! in
the level of (industrial* output. It
does not necessarily mean a de
terioration in the national health."
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