Atlantic Pact Will
Help Prevent
World War III
WASHINGTON, UP)—1The Sen
ate foreign relations committee
yesterday called for ratification of
the North Atlantic pact as the
best way to avoid World War III.
In a formal report to the Sen
ate, the committee declared that
failure to ratify the pact “would
- have disastrous conseque n c e s
abroad.
“The committee strongly be
lieves,” the report said, “that it
would be in the best interests of
the United States and indeed, the
entire world, to sustain and en
courage the momentum of confi
dence that has been buildinp up
in Europe, by ratifying the Treaty
at an early date.”
r Senator Connally <D.-Tex.> in
dicated he will ask for early Sen
ate debate on the pact, approved
Rescue Four From
Burning Ship
SEATTLE, (#*)—Four crew men
were rescued from the burning
tug Chilkoot in Gulf of Alaska
waters Monday and taken to Cor
dova, the coast guard was noti
fied.
The 70-foot craft, owned in
Ketchikan by a man named “Bush
rer" burned to the water line off
Rocky Point, Montague Island, a
message said.
They were reported taken off
by another vessel, the New Sun
rise, and transferred to the tug
1 Mahhalo. The crew’s names were
I
'not immediately learned. The
'Chilkoot went to the aid of four
disabled barges last week but had
been relieved of that duty.
unanimously Monday by the for
eign relations committee.
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Murray Charges
John L. Lewis With
Rumor Mongering
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day also denied Lewis’ statement.
Murray said that ‘considering
the source” Lewis’ state mont
would be ignored except that it j
was sent to Senators on the (Jay ;
when Taft-Hartley repeal debate
began.
Murray’s message, also sent to
Senators, said the Lewis state
ment, ‘‘admittedly based upon ru
mor rather than fact, is another
demonstration of that lack of re
sponsibility which in the recent1
past has so frequently character- j
ized Lewis’ actions and untter-!
ances.”
While the inter-union row went \
on a small but potentially trou- j
blesome revolt against the plans ■
of Senator Taft <R.-Ohio) to re-1
tain most of Taft-Hartley brewed I
:
in Republican ranks.
Sd far the rift hasn't given Taft;
any real concern. But it appeared ]
| certain to be a major issue for a
party policy conference of all the!
GOP Senators on labor legisla
(tion.
i The Republicans arranged their
pow-wow while. Senate debate o:i
the administration’s labor bill and
i counter measures halted tempor
! arily.
Senator Elbert D. Thomas <D.
lUtah', sponsor of the Truman bill
; to repeal the Taft-Hartley law.
fired the opening gun in the de
! bate yesterday. He spoke for four
| hours, and then the Senate set the
I bill aside and agreed to take up
the stute-commerce-justice de
partments appropriation measure.
Following action on that bill,
the labor debate was to be re
sumed, possibly late today.
|Want More Funds
To Predict
Volcano Eruptions
1 i/P> Special Washington Service*
WASHINGTON. ,.-P)—The geo
logical survey is hoping that some
day it may be able to predict
diet when volcanoes will erupt
and Earthquakes will quake.
It has u laboratory in Hawaii
to study such matters. V/. H.
Bradley, chief geologist, said it i.
“basic research in volcanic pro
cesses.”
“Predicting w hen volcanoes
will erupt is part of our job,” he
told a Senate appropriations sub
committee.
But Bradley admitted that the
job of finding out about volcanoe
and earthquakes is a slow one. He
said the survey should have about
$60,000 a year for the laboratory
inste-ad of about $10,000 allowed
by the House for .the year starting
July 1.
W. E. Wrather, director of the
geological survey, informed th.
sub-committee, Which is consider
ing the interior department appro
priations bill, that $43,000 also
s needed to investigate and mar
the Aleutian Islands.
“The reastnrch and develop
ment board lias approved thi
project, for the fiscal year 1950
an I the department of the army
navy and air forces have togethe.
earmarked $60,000 for the survey
■io ob ain for them essential infor
i nation on the terrain and the
j characteristics and hazards of the
.active volcanoes.” he stated.
; Weather said the survey must
be carried on from an ocean-going
boa1 and “therefore is an abnor
mally expensive project."
Helge Install,
Arctic Explorer,
Heads For Alaska
(Continued lrom Page One^
when native trackers moved on
trails across ice and followed
hoof prints that Instad could not
see.
“It was feast or famine, hunt or
starve.”
Then there was the time he be
came acquainted with an old In
dian in Mexico and began a hunt
to find the descendants of Geron
imo’s band of Apache killers.
"We found their houses high in
the mountains of western Mexi
co,” he said. “They were wild.
Wild like wolves. He never saw
them.”
Instad was in Seattle over the
week-end en route to Alaska
where he hopes to find a band of
Eskimos to live with. He has a
letter of introduction to Alaskan
officials from secretary of the in
terior Krug.
“I am not going there to teach
the Eskimos,” he said. “I am go
ing there to learn.”
To top it all, Instad is married.
His wife presently is with his
brother, Kaare, Norwegian con
sul in southern California.
She knew I was a nomad when
she married me,” he said.
As he moved through the lobby
of the Olympic hotel, he made the
suited, bespectacled persons there
seem completely stuffy. He was
dressed in a pair of army khaki
pants, an old pair of comfortable
black shoes, a jacket, shirt and
tie neatly tied—a completely, com
fortable man.
He had a few more books to
Army Wants No
Fart In Senator's
Atomic Mess
(Continued from Page One)
credible mismanagement” agair
Lilienthal as AEC chairman.
The Senate-House committee
remained split today, however, o i
whether to let Hickenlooper ; »
ahead with his plan of calling in
tention to commission employe
whose loyalty has been question* t
without naming them publicly.
He did that Monday. He asset
ed that a man once suspended, a
ter an FBI investigation produc'
a 50-page report containing “se
rious derogatory information” <
him, later was reinstated and ai
ed in drafting a top secret repo
to the Senate-House committee.
Hickenlooper labeled this on
as “Case A.” but Lilienthal pr -
tested that the Iowan was irien' -
tying a commission employee—
least for his ABC coworkers
even though he didn’t mention h
name.
The AEC chairman demand*
that the employee be called a: ’
i permitted to testify about his si
! of the case, if that kind ot ea
was going to be followed furthe
When a closed session of neat /
two hours failed to bring a:
agreement or procedure, chai
man McMahon tD.-Connd call
the group together for anoth
I meeting yesterday.
With Hickenlooper’s methods i
dispute, the committee passed r >
any public hearing yesterday.
write and u few more places >
, see before it was “time to d.e.”
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