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NEWS IN BRIEF
CORPUS CHRIST, Texas, </P)—
The navy announced Saturday
that a PBM seaplane with nine
aboard has been missing since 3
p.m. Friday. At that time it ra
dioed from a position about 200
miles east southeast of Corpus
Christi and 90 miles southeast of
Galveston.
Navy spokesman said the plane
had about 14 hours of fuel when
it left the naval air station here
at l p.m. Normally, it would
have returned to its base at 9 p.m.
Friday night.
An instructor, four students
and four crewmen were aboard.
QUINCY. 111., (/P)—'When Mrs.
R. H. Niggenmeyer opened a can
of sauerkraut for supper, she
found some cabbage of an unex
pected variety.
She found » tight green roll in
one side of the can. It turned out
to be four $1 bills.
Mrs. Niggenmeyer has written
to the canning company about it.
She isn’t mad, just curious.
MANILA, (/P)—A high Philip
pines source today said the United
States has been considering the
hydrogen bomb since 1943 and
was well ahead of any other na
tion if a race for its manufacture
develops.
The source, who asked that he
not be named, said his informa
tion came from authoritative
American sources. He did not
name his American authority.
The informant recnetly return
ed from the United States. While
there he conferred with top gov
ernment officials in Washington.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex., (/P>—
The navy today threw out a three
pronged search for one of its
planes, missing since Friday after
noon with nine men aboard.
A dawn to dark hunt by land,
sea and air yesterday failed to
find a trace of the UBM-5. A na
val spokesman said it would start
at sunrise again today.
“There is not much chance the
plane is still afloat,” the Corpus
Christi naval air station officer
declared.
SYRACUSE, N. Y. and
Mrs. Lester Lincoln feel sure that
future schoolmates will nickname
their son “Abe.”
The baby, Charles, was born
yesterday — Abraham Lincoln’s
birthday. He was named for a
grandfather.
SEATTLE, (/P)—D. W. Cornell,
Seattle, was named Saturday as
president of the Waterfront Em
ployers of Washington and area
manager for the Pacific Maritime
Association. He succeeds Merle G.
Ringenberg, who died last week.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—'The inte
rior department has awarded its
silver medal for meritorious serv
ice to Daniel Ross upon his retire
ment as a bureau of land man
agement official at Juneau.
A graduate of Prince of Wales
College, Prince Edward Island, j
Canada, Ross was an interior de
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Man Sucked From
Plane 8,000 Feet
Over Long Island
NEW YORK, (Ah—A crewman
was sucked through the open
door of a giant airliner early Sat
urday as the plane winged its way
through darkness 8,000 feet over
Long Island.
A search was begun for his
body.
An airline spokesman said a
powerful air draft tugged John
Harris, 28-year-old s t e w a r d,
through an accidentally open door
of the pressurized main passenger
compartment.
The plane, a Pan American
World Airways transocean strato
cruiser, was flying at about 200
miles an hour when the door flew’
open, and Harris was swept out
into space.
“I felt a sudden gust of wind.”
said Mrs. Anna Karjicek, a pas
senger. 4,The steward was .stand
ing near the door. Just like a
flash, the wind blew him out.”
4iA long gasp or cry,” followed,
she said.
Other chewnnen hurried into
the passenger compartment to try
to close the door, but were unable
to do so because of the powerful
wind pressure.
Inspectors of the civil aeronau
tics authority and the civil aero
nautics board launched an imme
diate investigation. Cr e w m e n
were questioned after the plane
—on flight from London—landed
at New York International Air
port.
There was no explanation why
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Gunmen Fire On
British Naval Intel
ligence Offie er
LONDON, (/P) — Gunmen fired
two shots from a moving car Sat
urday at the director of British
naval intelligence.
Their target, Rear Admiral Eric
Longley-Cook, was unhurt and
chased his attackers nine miles in
his own automobile before losing
them on the outskirts of London.
The attack came as Britain,
shocked by the atomic spying case
of Klaus Fuchs, touched off one
of the greatest counter-espionage
and security checkups since the
start of World War I.
Various branches of the mili
tary intelligence ttok part in the
investigations which led to the ar
rest of Fuchs. A spokesman for
Prime Minister Attlee said he
could not speculate whether Long
ley-Cook had played any role in
such investigations.
The rear admiral as director of
naval intelligence is in charge of
security for Britain’s latest an
no u n ced atomic-project — the
building of atomic energy plants
for ships.
Two bullets drilled through the
windshield of the admiral’s car as
he drove through Uxbridge, on
the northwest outskirts of Lon
don. He sped after the car but it
eluded him near Acton, a West
London suburb.
Coal Miners Say:
“Let Taft-Hartley
Law Dig The Coal’’
—
WASHINGTON, (^—President
Truman got a 10-day court order
to stop the coal strike Saturday
and a hearing on turning it into
an 80-day Taft-Hartley injunction
was set for Feb. 20.
Federal Judge Richmond Keech
signed the order in a little less
than an hour after a Presidential
fact-finding board reported to Mr.
Truman that a resumption of
coal mining is imperative.
The justice department acted
on an order from President Tru
man which declared that continu
ation of the work stoppage “will
imperil the national health and
safety.
The board, created as hte first
istep in restoring production for
80 days under a Taft-Hartley in
ijunction, also criticized the coai
i operators for imposing obstacles
! to bargaining. It said the opera
' tors set up flat demands which
would have to be granted before
they would consider wage and
welfare issues.
PITTSBURG, I/P) — Angry soft
coal miners continued their na
tion-wide “no contract no work”
strike full blast today. They ig
nored both John L. Lewis’ work
order and a federal court injunc
tion.
In some areas, lack of official
notification delayed a decision by
United Mine Workers locals on
obeying their chieftain’s order to
return to the pits “forthwith.”
No mines were operating in the
large bituminous (soft coal> pro
ducing areas except unorganized
or independent union pits and
those covered by new contracts
with the UMW.
Pennsylvania, West Virginia,
Indiana, Illinois, Alabama, Ohio,
and other important coal states:
all reported tlje strike was as
strong this week as last.
Determined strikers vowed
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Tornadoes Kill
Many In South !
Central States
SHREVEPORT, La., (/p)_Tor
nadoes whirled through four
States over the weekend leaving
at least 47 persons dead.
Another 200 or more were in
jured in East Texas, northwest
Louisiana, southern Arkansas and
Tennessee.
Nine persons in one family
were willed in the little Tennessee
farming community of Hurricane
Hills, near Ripley, early today.
The Red Cross said at least
eight persons were killed at Grand
Cane, La.
The twisters previously had
struck 38 persons with death in
northwest Louisiana, east Texan,
and southern Arkansas.
The sheriff’s office at Ripley
reported that still others, prob
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7 Students Killed
In Auto Crash
BOZEMAN, Mont. (/P) — Seven
Montana State College students
were killed in an auto which
plunged over a mountain cliff
near here last night. An eighth
was hurt critically.
The dead—two coeds and five
members of a Sigma Chi fratern
ity basketball team—were:
Phyllis Birkeland, Fort Benton;
Donaleen McRae, Forsyth; Har
vey M. Eide, Scobey; Gerald W.
Early, Laurel; John W. Stinch
field, Evansville, Ind.; James K.
Schrumpf, Glendive; and Leslie
Greenwell, Butte.
Charles S. Olson of Helena, was
hospitalized here in critical con
dition.
Sheriff-coroner Charles E. Rice
said one of the girls was driving
when the car plunged off U. S.'
Highway 10, west of Bozeman.
The car hurtled over a bluff and
“pancaked” on Northern Pacific
Railway tracks.
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BRITISH
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News of the \\ orhl
At A Glance - - -
Saturday. February 11. 1950
(By The Associated Press)
Britain has bolstered her coun
ter-spy organizations and em
barked on the most extensive se
curity checkup in history follow
ing the arrest of atomic scientist
Klaus Fuchs.
Informed sources said today
Britain’s famous Scotland Yard
and military intelligence MI-5 is
investigating the past of everyone
connected with atomic research.
The brilliant German -born
Fuchs was committed yesterday
to stand trial Feb. 28 after a
Crown prosecutor declared Fuchs
had confessed to giving high
atomic secrets to Pcussia over a pe
riod of seven years.
Security officers now are comb
ing the background of everyone
employed at Harwell, the British
atomic research center where
Fuchs was the government’s top
brain. Not only the ranking scien
tists but even menial workers
such as scrubwomen arc being
checked and rechecked.
In Washington, security-mind
ed Congressmen are asking for
detailed information on what
Fuchs is accused of giving to the
Russians, and who his intermedi
aries were. In his confession, the
British court was told, Fuchs said
he gave information to Soviet
agents twice during the 19*3-46
period he was in the United
States.
The Western powers in Berlin
accused Russia of imposing an
embargo on shipments of scrap
metal from Berlin to Western
Germany. It was the second pro
este within a month against Rus
sian confiscation of Berlin scrap
bound for West Germany. The
earlier prptest was rejected by
the Russians.
Today’s protest said the Soviet
directed railway on Jan. 21 had
forbidden all scrap shipments by
rail except those to Eastern Euro
pean countries. Western authori
ties said this was a clear violation
of the four-power pact signed in
Paris, which ended the big Rer
lin blockade.
East Germany’s foreign minis
ter George Dertingcr, is being
held by communist police under
house arrest according to the Bri
t i s h-controlled newspaper Die
Welt.
Dertinger was absent this week
from two sessions of the East
’German parliament. The official
'explanation was he was ill fol
- lowing a heart attack.
The British-controlled newspa
' Per *-aid three members of Der
tfngei-’s staff were seized and
clvvljed with being “agents for
the American nad British secret
service.”
In Taipei. Formosa, Nationalist
China charged Chinese conmiun
| ists have agreed to send heavy
.troop support to Moscow-trained
Ho Chi-Minh's Vietnam rebels in
; Indo-China. The Nationalists fur
ther charged that Chinese com
munist troops are already fight
I ing near Langson, inside Inrio
i Chinese territory, in support of
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