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NEWS IN BRIEF
MANILA, Feb. 20—(#*)—A Phil
ippine army regiment landed on
little Lubang island, 70 miles
southwest of Mevla, today to de
stroy the remnants of an unsur
rendered Japanese garrison which
have been terrorizing Filipino
farmers and villages.
Army patrols have attempted
unsuccesfully to find the Japanese,
Brig. Gen. Macario Peralta, Phil
ippine Army chief of staff, report
ed. This time, the entire first Tar
lac regiment will comb the island.
Peralta said the Japanese have
killed many farmers and pillaged
many villages in past weeks.
NEW YORK, Feb. 20 — (A5) —
Heavy selling yesterday gave the
stock market one of its sharpest
jolts in almost six years with
* leading stels, motors, rails, rub
bers, aircrafts, coppers, utilities
and assorted industrials cut down
$1 to around $9 a share at the
worst.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20—(/Pi
Delegate Bartlett has introduced
legislation to authorize the Export
Import Bank to help finance the ;
exchange of commodities between
United States and Alaska and
other territories and insular pos
sessions.
SEATTLE, Feb. 20— UP) —The
board of inquiry investigating the
causes of the wreck of the liner
Yukon on Feb. 4, off Kenai penin
sula, completed their second full
day of hearings yesterday behind
closed doors. The Yukon’s master,
Capt. Chris Trondsen, testified
Friday at the opening session and
other licensed officers took their
turns yesterday. Several passen
gers volunteered to testify and
some have appeared before the
board.
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STOCKHOLD. Feb. 20— UP) —
Foreign Minister Oesten Unden
said yesterday that the govern
ment would ask parliament within
two or three weeks for consent to
join the United Nations. An appli
cation for membership will be
made in the autumn, he told news
paper Aftonbladet.
VIENNA, Feb. 20—(A3)—A 90
mile wind ripped war-wracked
Vienna last night, knocking down
weakened buildings, tearing out
trees and killing and injuring
many people. The fire department
was called out 150 times for res
cue work and other operations.
NEW YORK, Feb. 20— (/P) —
Former Rep. Arthur Klein, Demo
cratic candidate, is winner in the
special Congressional election in
the nineteenth district, Manhat
tan’s lowest east side. Klein who
tallied 17,000 votes was trained by
Johannes Steel, radio commenta
tor, American Labor Party choice,
who received 13,000. Army Capt.
William Shea, Republican, receiv
ed 4,000.
Sidewalk Shopping in the British West Indies
RPB MA-318
American soldier* buy fruit from natives while sight-seeing in the
British West Indies. Members of the Regular Army "see the world."
Qualified civilians 18 to 34 years of age, inclusive, now can enlist in the
Regular Army for service with the "Guardians of Victory."
STRIKES
At A Glance . . .
Continuing labor disputes keep
idle approximately 970,000 work
ers. Major developments:
Telephones — The exec u t i v e
board of the national federation
of telenhone workers authorized a
call for a strike of 250,000 tele
phone employees whether it “con
siders proper,” but union presi
dent says bargaining over wages
will continue and all efforts will
be made to settle the dispute.
Steel — Approximately 222,000
CIO united steel workers are still
on strike in seventeen states, but
422,00, after a month long strike
are back at their jobs at a new
wage scale. Companies not ap
proving the new agreement, for
the most part are in the country’s
834 fabricating mills.
Automotive — Negotaitions be
tween General Motors and CIO
UAW continue. The issues on
wages, maintenance of member
ship, policy on promotions, and
transfers are unsettled in the
country’s longest dispute involv
ing 175,000 workers.
NEW YORK, Feb. 20—(/P)—The
grand jury opened a nationwide
investigation of the men’s apparel
industry to determine whether
current shortages are the result of
a conspiracy to restrain sales de
liveries in violation of the Sher
man Act.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 20—f/P)—
Secretary Byrnes disclosed United
States plans to make public the
information about Spain which
man documents. He also said there
was obtained from captured Ger-1
is no chance of establishing a civil
ian administration in the Ameri- J
can zone of occupied Germany by j
I
June.
Alaska Highway
May Be Connected
With Washington
OTTAWA. Feb. 20— m —A
plan to connect the Alaska High
way with Oregon and Washing
ton State through British Colum
bia, was discussed with Canadian
cabinet officials yesterday by U.
S. Sen. Warren G. Magnuson, and
Gov. Ernest Gruening.
The Americans flew here for
the day. Gruening said after the
talks that they had discussed the
“pros and cons*’ of highways in
the Northwest, particularly the
project to build an extension of
the Alaska Highway, bringing it
down through the more populous
regions along the Pacific coast.
The highway now leads to Edmon
ton. Alberta, which lies east of the
Rockies and north of the state of
Montana. “We are looking for
ward to further talks either here
or in Washington,” Gov. Gruen
ing said.
Commemorate
Iwo Jima Day
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PEARL HARBOR, Feb. 19—</P)
Dawn off Iwo Jima was thunder
ous with the pulsing shock of
American big guns on this date in
1945—And the bottomless black
,sand of the beaches soon was
touched with the color of fresh
cut flowers over the thousands of
U. S Marine graves.
In Pearl Harbor, Marines gath
ered simultaneously for a memo
rial mass arranged by veterans of
the Third, Fourth and Fifth Divi
sions, which lost 4,189 dead in the
bitter 36-day fight for the tiny
volcanic island.
Atomic bS|>\ King*
Investigation
hi Canada
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OTTAWA. Feb. 19— UP\ —The
government’s investigation into a
leakage of highly secret informa
tion was linked today to its probe
of Eldorado Gold Mines, Ltd.,1
Canada’s source of uranium, by a
Montreal report that Russian
agents had tried to buy $500,000
worth of “black market” uranium.
The Montreal Gazette published
a report stating that “a Russian
plot, the buying of more than
$500,000 worth of virtually ‘black
market’ uranium in Canada to
bring about the successful culmin
ation of its atomic bomb espionage
conspiracy in Ottawa and other
parts of the Dominion, has been
uncovered.”
“Toronto was the locale of the
Russian scheme to obtain the neces
sary activating force to complete
the circle begun by agents who
\ conspired, allegedly, with Cana
| dian civil service employees, to
obtain secret and confidential in
formation on atomic energy,” the
paper said.
The Gazette story indicated
that those allegedly buying the
uranium failed to get it out of
Canada. The paper recalled gov
ernment expropriation of the El
dorado mine some time ago and
the subsequent announcement of
an official inquiry, now being con
ducted by, J. Grant Glassco, Tor
onto accountant.
Glassco’s activities, however,
are as veiled in secrecy as the
Royal Commission's inquiry into
the leakage of information, al
though it is known that 22 em
ployees or former employees of
the government were arrested
Friday in connection with the in
formation leak.
One of the 22, it was learned
last night, held a rank “very
close’ ’to deputy minister, highest
rank attainable by a civil servant
in the Dominion. None of the
suspects, however, held that rank.
(The full text of Prime Minister
MacKenzie King’s first official
statement regarding the leakage
of information was broadcast
without comment by the Moscow
radio last night*.
HAVANA, Feb. 19—(^P)—Russia,
“in self defense, has every moral
right to seek atomic bomb secrets
through military espionage if ex
cluded from such information by
her former fighting allies,” says
Joseph E. Davies, former U. S.
Ambassador to the U.S.S.R.
“If Russia had developed the
atomic bomb and the United
States were in her shoes, we cer
tainly would try to obtain such
information, especially if we faced
a potentially hostile world,” Dav
ies said in an interview last night.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19—f/P)—
Secretary of State Byrnes declar
ed flatly today that as far as he
knowns the know-how of atom
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Indian Mob Burns
American Flag
BOMBAY, Feb. 20—(VP)—A mob
of Indians, including a number
wearing the uniform of the Royal
Indian Navy, yesterday tore down
the United States flag from the U.
S. Information Service office here
and burned the flag in the street.
Walter D. Shackleton, in charge
of the office said that about 300
demonstrators who were marching
in the street suddenly swarmed up
to the U.S.I.S office where the
United States flag flew from a
pole just over the door of the
agency’s library. “One man climb
ed onto the shoulders of another
man and tore down the flag,” he
said.
The cause of the demonstration
was not clear, but some observers
expressed belief it might have
started as a manifestation of sym
i pathy with a sitdown strike staged
yesterday by 1,000 Royal Indian
navy seamen in demand for better
rations and a revision of pay al
lowances.
I
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Tr ainer Planes
Crash In Montana
GREAT FALLS, Mont., Feb. 20
—UP)—One Alaska-bound flier is
dead and three others are being
treated for minor hurts suffered
when their three small planes
were separated from two others
in a blinding snow storm and
; crashed late Monday in the High
i wood mountains,
i Thomas Welton, Mt. Juliett,
Tennessee was killed instantly
when his craft plunged into the
i side of the mountain and burned.
Three others hiked out.
The planes were being flown
from Tennessee to Anchorage,,
for the Peterson Flying Serv
! ice to be scrapped for their en
j gines.
New Cardinals
Congratulated
VATICAN CITY, Feb. 19—(/P}—
Congratulations poured in from all
parts of the world to the 32 new
Cardinals, including four Ameri
cans, who were made Princes of
the Roman Catholic church at a
precedent-setting consistory yes
terday.
Cardinal John Glennon and Ed
ward Cardinal Mooney, with Fran
cis Cardinal Spellman of New
York and Samuel Cardinal Stritch
of Chicago, received a long line of
beribboned diplomats and mem
bers of the Rome nobility, chatting
animatedly with them in English,
Italian and French. The diplomats
who called included envoys to the
Vatican of Spain, Portugal, Brit
ain, France, Poland, Cuba and
Chile.
As early as 1941, 94 out of every
100 British men aged 14 to 64 had
been mobilized.