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NEWS IN BRIEF
SEATTLE, (/P) — Don Acller,
Alaska American Legion official
who operates an “Outside” buying
service for Alaskans in Seattle,
yesterday named several assistants
to help him with Alaska’s contri
bution to the Northwest Christmas
Ship which will carry supplies to
Europe.
Adler was named by Lew Wil
liams, secretary and acting gover
nor of Alaska, to head the commit
tee gathering Alaskan contribu
tions for the ship.
Assisting Adler on the Alaska
committee are Edmund C. Oldfin,
Earle W. Knight, Mrs. John W.
White and Joe E. Crosson.
WASHINGTON, (/P) — The civil
aeronautics board announced yes
terday that it will conduct a hear
ing Thursday and Friday at the
Olympic Hotel in Seattle, into the
cause of the landing crash of an
Alaska Airways plane in which
eight persons were killed Nov. 30.
Robert W. Crisp of the board’s
safety bureau staff will preside.
W A S H I N GTON, <JPi — Two
church organizations assured Con
gress yesterday that all income
they receive is used strictly for re
ligious purposes.
The assurances came from Dr.
Samuel McCrea Cavert, general
secretary of the federal council of
churches of Christ in America,
and Charles S. Longacre of the
Seventh-Day Adventist general
conference.
They testified before th3 House
ways and means committee which
is attempting to determine whe
ther church, charitable or similar
organizations compete in some in
stances with private business and
accordingly should be taxed.
WASHINGTON, (#)—1U. S. pro
duction of gold increased 11 per
cent during October—chiefly be
cause of a gain attributed to Alas
ka—and silver output rose 7 per
cent because of a production spurt
in Idaho, the bureau of mines said
today.
Of the month’s gold output of
215,087 fine ounces, Alaska was
credited with 72,500. However, the
bureau pointed out, Alaska’s fig
ures are on a mint and smelter
receipt rather than a mine basis,
so that seasonal movements show
up tardily in monthly reports.
Alaska’s actual mine production
probably declined during October.
WESTOVER FIELD, Mass. </P)—
A big army C-54 transport plane
with an undetermined passenger
list crashed in snowy wilderness
about midnight just eight miles
north of Goose Bay airfield in
Labrador with “no known surviv
ors.”
SOFIA, Bulgaria, (/P)—Bulgar
ian political sources said today
that Communist Premier Georgi
Dimitrov, who quit last night with
his Fatherland Front cabinet,
probably would form a new con
stitutional government soon.
His resignation, submitted to the
national assembly, came a week
after the assembly unanimously
adopted a new Bulgarian constitu
tion.
Soviets Call Off
Trade Talks
With France
LONDON, <>P) — Soviet Russia
called off her trade talks with
France yesterday and accused the
French government of acts “hos
tile and contrary to the spirit of
alliance and mutual assistance”
between the two countries.
The Moscow radio broadcast the
contents of a note handed to the
ion their own initiative,
cow by Soviet deputy foreign min
I ister Andrei Gousev in which the
1 Russian decision on the trade talks
i was disclosed.
* Simultaneously Russia’s note
charged the French government
with “unilaterally annulling” the
two-year-old repatriation agree
ment for the return of each other’s
nationals, ordered the Russian re
patriation mission home from
France and announced the expul
; sion of the French mission from
Russia.
j The Soviet embassy in Paris an
nounced earlier that the French
. repatriation mission had been or
dered to leave Russian territory at
once.
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France Refuses
Russian Note
i
.
PARIS </P)—France ruled today
that the terms of a Russian note
protesting treatment of Soviet cit
; izens in France and breaking off
French-Russian trade talks were
l unacceptable.
The French charge d’affaires in
: Moscow, Pierre Charpentier, will
be instructed to return the note to
the Soviet government, it was an
: nounced.
In Moscow, a French embassy
! spokesman said the five members
of the French repatriation mission
ordered out of Russia yesterday
had received their exit visas and
I
would depart today or tomorrow.
They were expelled after the
French had ordered the Russians’
repatriation mission from France,
charging its members with sub
versive activities.
The government’s decision not
to accept the Russian note was
reached in a cabinet session with
President Vincent Auriol presid
ing.
Shower Palestine
Police Cars With
‘Molotov Cocktails’’
(By the Associated Press)
Sporadic skirmishes broke out
yesterday in the bloody border
area between all-Jewish Tel Aviv
and all-Arab Jaffa, but the feroc
ity of the Arab-Jewish strike
throughout the Holy Land appear
ed to be subsiding somewhat.
The 10-day death toll in Pales
tine, by unofficial count, reached
105.
“Molotov cocktail” bombs were
flung at four armored police cars
in the Tel Aviv-Jaffa area by what
Jewish sources described as dissi
dent Jewish groups, probably the
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One Or Two Atom
Bombs Could Crip
ple Pacific Fleet
WASHINGTON, {IP) — A House
armed services sub-committee
said today that one or two atom
bombs dropped in the San Francis
co Bay area probably would be
enough to “cripple, and perhaps
fatally, all American activities in
the Pacific.”
Referring to the location “virtu
j ally side by side’’ of the army and
navy supply bases in Oakland, the
marine corps supply depot in San
j Francisco, the naval shipyard at
i Hunters Point and the navy air
base at Alameda, the group said:
' “We believe atomic weapons
could destroy them all, and fur
thermore, they are so constructed
that modern weapons could easily
be able to reduce them to rubble.”
The sub-committee, which in
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spected the area last September,
said the armed forces should con
! sider relocating the supply cen
j ters and eliminating duplicate fa
cilities.
The report said sub-committee
; members “surmised that consid
erations of economy now are gov
erning—to perhaps too great an
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British Threaten
Arabs, Jews With
i Severe Measures
<By The Associated Press)
The British threatened Palestin
ian Arabs and Jews today with
severe measures unless they end
! ed the communal strife which has
| resulted in 127 deaths in the Holy
Land and 255 in the whole Middle
East since the United Nations
voted to partition the mandate.
Foreign Minister Fadhil Jamali
of Iraq said in New York, a “gen
eral struggle” would begin in Pal
estine when the British, who sur
render their mandate May 15, pull
out in August.
“Plans are being made over
there now for the fight,” he said,
referring apparently to the Arab
League meeting in Cairo. The
Arab league leaders were talking
of holy war and invasion of Pal
estine by armies of the seven near
by Arab states when the British
leave.
Foreign minister Faisal A1 Saud
of Saudi Arabia said in Cairo he
“personally would hate to attend
any further meetings of the United
Nations.”
Arabs attacked Gevulot in the
southern Palestinian desert and
killed six Jews. Police drove them
off. An Arab house in Karatiya
was blown up and four Arabs
were killed. Two heavy explosions
jarred Haifa. An uneasy calm set
tled over the Tel Aviv-Jaffa bor
der battle area where the British
imposed a curfew.
Palestine property losses in the
11 days of riots were estimated at
$10,000,000.
Gen. Sir Alan Cunningham,
high commissioner of Palestine,
issued the warning to the oppos
ing factions but did not disclose
the nature of the severe measures
he had in mind.
Convicts Protest
Meatless And
Eggless Days
McNEIL ISLAND, Wash. (JP)—
Spreading of a “hunger strike” to
all of the 1.018 inmates in the
main building of the federal pen
, itentiary here, in protest against
meatless Tuesdays and eggless
! Thursday, was reported yesterday
; by Warden P. J. Squier.
| He said the dietary rebellion
j had not reached the 500 inmates
j in the second building on this is
, land in Puget Sound, because
“they apparently have not heard
of it yet.” It is isolated at a con
siderable distance from the main
building.
The demonstration began Sun
■ complaints that the menus are be
i coming monotonous is “entirely
I orderly,” the warden said, with
the inmates resorting orrty to a
campaign of “passive resistance.’’
The demonstration fegan Sun
i day night when about 250 inmates
failed to appear for their final
meal.
“I spoke over the prison radio
i last night and advised the inmates
they could select three representa
tives with whom I would be more
than glad to discuss the problem
with a view to settlement of the
difficulty,” the warden said, but
there had been no regjy from the
inmates this morning—unless the
spread of the rebellion was the
reply.
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McNeil Island, Wash. (A*>—The
voluntary food conservation pro
gram by McNeil Island prison in
I mates was at an end today. *
Their two-day “hunger strike”
: protest against the food was over
and President Truman’s food con
servation program of meatless
Tuesdays and eggless Thursdays,
will still be adhered to strictly,
warden P. J. Squier said.
Announcing the end of the
demonstration by an approximate
1,018 of the 1,500 inmates at noon
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Congress Wants
Information On
Greek Situation
—
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Official1
Greek secrecy over the number of
casualties in the campaign against
Communist-led guerrillas drew
the ire of Senators yesterday.
The refusal of the Athens gov- j
ernment to provide casualty lists
to members of the appropriations
1 committee who toured Europe last
fall was cited by some pf the law
makers as indicating there has
been little real fighting.
They said the 125,000-man
Greek army compares with about (
15.000 guerrillas.
.This was one aspect of the Sen
ators’ findings which may touch
off fireworks when the appropria
tions group is called upon to vote
funds to finance long range for
eign aid.
Committee members told a re- ]
porter that, in addition to further
information on the anti-Commun- |
ist fighting in Greece, they want(
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Motor Trouble
Forces Two Army
Transports Down
BIG DELTA, Alaska, (/P)-Two
planes carrying army personnel
and equipment used in Alaskan
maneuvers of the 2nd infantry di
vision have been forced down by
motor trouble without injury to
occupants or damage to the craft,
army officials announced here yes
terday.
Faulty carbureation was respon
sible for a forced landing last Fri
day at Northway, of a C-82 packet
ship carrying 14 soldiers and a
four-man crew.
Lt. Col. Roy E. Moore, an ob
server with the Fort Lewis troops
engaged in the maneuvers, said
the first warning of danger came
with the ringing of an emergency
bell, exhaust flashes from a fal
tering engine and a rapid loss of
i altitude.
J “Soldiers who had experienced
i great difficulty during practice
donning of parachutes were all
! ready to jump within 20 seconds
after the pilot’s order to prepare
i to jump had echoed through the
jship,” Colonel Moore said,
j Lieut. R. A. Keller, of Tacoma,
[ the plane pilot, safely landed the
big “flying boxcar” within four
minutes, however, realizing that a
■ parachute jump would be danger
! ous in the frigid, uninhabited
j country.
Troops aboard the plane have
I been transported to Big Delta in a
relief plane.
Motor trouble also forced down
a C-82 piloted by Lieut. Richard
A. Young of Macedonia, Ohio,
with its crew of four, a loaded
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GOP Leaders
On Four-Point
Anti-Inflation Plan
WASHINGTON. (/P» — Republi
can Congressional leaders agreed
today on a four-point anti-infla
tion program for enactment dur
ing the present session of Con
gress.
Senator Taft of Ohio, chairman
of the Senate Republican steering
committee, and House Republican
leader Halleck of Indiana, an
nounced the program provides for:
1. Voluntary industry-wide
agreements to hold living costs in
line. Anti-trust laws would be set
aside temporarily for such agree
ments. And the administration
would be given money to promote
such a program.
2. Continuation and expansion
of export controls.
3. Increase, from the present 25
per cent to 40 per cent the gold re
serves required behind currency
issues by federal reserve banks;
and increase from 25 to 35 per cent
the gold reserves that federal re
serve banks must cgrry to support
the deposits of commercial banks.
4. Controls over vital transpor
tation facilities, such as boxcars
The Republicans drafted their
program as a reply to President
Truman’s request for broad pow
ers to resume rationing and price
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