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NEWS IN BRIEF
BERLIN, (/P)—Muj. Gen. Max
well D. Taylor, wartime paratroop
leader, officially was named Sat
urday to command the American
military government and army
forces in Berlin.
He will be given this double
barreled authority, a formal state
ment said, “in order to unify the
United States position in Berlin.
The statement said he would as
sume his position at a date to be
announced later, but presumably
in September.
Taylor will succeed both Brig.
Gen. Frank Howley, military gov- .
ernment commandant, and Col.
James T. Duke, who has com
manded the Berlin military post.
SHINHAE, Korea, UP)—Gener
alissimo Chiang Kai-Shek arrived '
at this South Korean port Satur-;
day for a series of conferences
with President Syngman Rhee on
a Pacific pact against the com
munists.
The veteran leader of China’s |
nationalists plans to remain here
for three days.
LONDON, UP)—Prince Charles,
who will be nine months old Aug.
14 got his first train ride Satur
day.
His mother, Princess Elizabeth,
took the prince on the royal fam
ily’s visit to Balmoral Castle,
Scotland. King George VI and
Queen Elizabeth went along too,
but most of the cheers of 1,500 by
standers at the railroad station
were for “Good Old Charlie.”
NEW YORK, (/P) — Chrysler
Corp. announced Saturday net
profit in the first six months to
taled $53,208,243, equal to $6.12 a
share on its capital stock. This
compared with $35,786,010, or,
$4.11 a share, in the like period
last year.
PARIS, </P)—Adm. Louis Den
field, U. S. navy member of the1
joint chiefs of staff, Saturday i
said there is “great unanimity of
opinion” on the way the Atlantic
Pact defenses should be organized.
Denfield spoke at a news con
ference in the American embassy,
which followed the talks by the
American joint chiefs of staff with
French, Belgian, Duth nad Portu
guese military leaders.
At the conference with Denfield
were Gen. Omar Bradley, army;
and Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg, air
force.
SEATTLE, i/P) — Ten distress
calls, two involving sick or in
jured seamen, kept the coast
guard hopping in Pacific North
west and Alaska waters over the
weekend.
They included: a hospital corps
man aboard the coast guard cutter
Citrus treated John Wick, master
of the fishing vessel California
Rose, for a gashed leg last night.
Wick received a 5-inch cut from
a rusty gaffhook while fishing in
T e b enkof Bay, northwest of
Ketchikan. After treatment he
stayed with the ship.
LA JOLLA, Calif. </P) — Movie
players Joanne Dru and John Ire
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Many Dead; Much
Damage In ’Quake
In Ecuador
WASHINGTON, (/P>—Five hun
dred persons died in an earth
quake which destroyed 70 percent
of the homes in Ambato, Ecuador,
Friday, the Ecuadorean embassy
said it was informed in an official
bulletin from its government Sat
urday.
Dr. Alfonso Moscoso, minister
counselor at the embassy, gave
this account basec^ on the bulletin
received by radio:
Ambato, a small city which is
the center of the textile industry
in the highlands of Eduador, suf
fered greatest damage in the
quake that struck a number of
mountain cities and towns Friday.
Five hundred persons died in
Ambato alone.
Seventy per cent of its homes
were destroyed and the remaining
thirty per cent were made unin
habitable.
Other smaller towns nearby
were shaken but did not suffer
such severe damage.
Galo Plaza, the President of the
Republic, has gone to Ambato and
the army and air force are helping
in rescue and relief work. Medical
supplies are being flown into the
area.
Basil O’Connor, president of the
American National Red Cross,
cabled the Red Cross Society of
Ecuador that medical supplies and
food will be sent to the stricken
area if needed. He asked for a re
port on the damage done.
Hawaiian Govt.
May Take Over
Stevedoring Firms
(By Lief Erickson)
HONOLULU (>P)—Hawaii’s leg
islature Saturday passed a bill
empowering the Territorial gov
ernmen to seize the island’s strike
bound docks. Earlier, striking CIO
stevedores voted unanimously to
refuse to work for the govern
ment.
Final passage of the legislation
designed to end the 98-day water
front tieup came at 2:40 a.m. in
the 10th day of a special session
called by Gov. Ingram M. Stain
back.
Late Friday night Senate and
House conferees agreed on the
measure which directs the gover
nor to take over the island’s seven
struck stevedoring firms. It also
calls for hiring, as far as possible,
the 2,000 striking members of the
international longshoremen’s and
warehousemen’s union at the pre
strike $1.40 hourly wage.
The House approved the confer
ence report by a 24 to 6 vote. The
Senate’s approval was unanimous
—14 to 0.
The strikers voted not to work
for the Territorial government af
ter a special meeting was address
ed by ILWU president Harry
Bridges. He arrived from San
Francisco Friday and confidently
announced the strike is “in no
danger of being lost” as long as
Matson Navigation company ships
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Seek Injunction
Against New
Fishermen’s Tax
—— —
JUNEAU (A?)—A new challenge
of Alaska’s new $50 non-resident
fishermen’s license fee was at i
least temporarily successful Fri-!
day.
Federal judge George W. Folta
granted a week’s temporary in
junction to the Pacific American
Fisheries. It bars tax commission
er M. P. Mullaney from collecting
the fees from salmon fishermen. !
In a July 29 decision, Judge
Folta had ruled the non-resident
tax invalid against halibut fisher
men. Most of whom come from!
the States and work farther off
shore than salmon fishermen. It!
was held to be discriminatory. <At
the time, the ruling of invalidity
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Alaska Military
Construction
Dead For Present
((/Pi Special Washington Service*
WASHINGTON, f/P) — Delegate
Bartlett of Alaska said today that
$137,738,712 in the proposed mili
tary construction in Alaska is vir
tually dead for the present session
of Congress.
(Editor’s Note—This does not;
include the Nome Seawall.*
He said chairman Vinson (D.
Ga.' of the House armed services
committee “suddenly announced’’
this week that no action will be
taken this session on bills to au
thorize $66,480,700 for army con
struction in the Territory, $25,-j
airforce construction and 2b-7,0- j
164,000 for navy, $38,430,800 for!
airforce construction and $7,663,
for a program of the Alaska Com
munications System.
I
‘‘Repercussions from the action
of the committee chairman,” Bart
lett told a reporter, “already re
flect that the 1950 construction in
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Lt. Col. Jamisoii
New Commander
At Marks Air Base
Lt. Col. Donald C. Jaimson as
sumed the duties of Commanding
Officer of Marks Air Force Base,
effective August 1, 1949, succeed
ing Colonel Harry N. Burkhalter
who returned to the United States
for reassignment.
The new commanding officer is
a native of "Le Morre, California,
is married and has two children,
James three years, and Randall
one and a half years old. Mrs.
Jamison is presently staying in
California and hopes to join the
Colonel in December.
Colonel Jamison was a member
of the 8th Air Force during the
war and was awarded the Air
Medal with three oak leaf clus
ters. the Purple Heart, the Dis
tinguished Flying Cross with two
oak leaf clusters, the EAME rib
bon with six campaign stars and
the Crouix de Guerre.
Ecuador Quake
Area “Smells < If
Destructive Death”
(By Jorge Mantilla)
QUITO, Ecuador, (/I1)—The un
official death toll in earthquake-1
ravaged Ecuador soared above
4,000 today as damage estimates
from some 29 mountain towns
reached $20,000,000. Countl ess
thousands were reported hurt.
The Ecuadorian cabinet met in
emergency session last night to
take immediate action on Presi
dent Galo Plaza Lasso’s plans to
rebuild the stricken areas—most;
populous in Ecuador.
Communcations were being re
stored slowly as the Ecuadorian
air force ferried doctors, nurses
and medical aid to the thousands
of injured.
Three U. S. Caribbean air com
mand planes from Balboa took
six tons of relief supplies to Quito
yesterday. They included blood
plasma, serums and drugs.
The President, back from a tour
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12 Dead As
Forest Fire Rages
In Montana
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HELENA, Mont. (/P) — Wind
sent flames boiling up Willow
Mountain this morning as weary
men strained desperately to trap
the mammoth gates of the moun
tain fire.
About 400 men worked through
out last night building fire lines
to encircle the killer of 12 forest
service parachutists and another
fire fighter.
They hoped to complete the
final three miles of fire line, bot
tling the wilderness area blaze on 1
7,100-foot Willow peak today.
The battlers were given a good
chance to gain control during the
day by a forest service observer
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“Statement Fair
And Clarifying^*
To Mrs. Roosevelt
NEW YORK, f/Pi—Francis Car
dinal Spellman has issued a new
statement on federal aid to educa
tion rtrijd Mrs. Franklin D. Roose
velt, who has disagreed with the
church leader’s stand, termed the
message “claifying and fair.”
The statements followed a tele
phone call from the Cardinal to
the wife of the late President. The
Cardinal said he acted to clear up
“many regrettable misunderstand
ings” concerning the position of
the Roman Catholic church on the
issue.
In his statement, issued simul
taneously Friday night with one
by Mrs. Roosevelt, the New York
Archbishop said his church seeks
public funds solely for “auxiliary
services” of parochial schools.
“We are not asking for general
support of religious schools,” he
said. ,
Mrs. Roosevelt, whom the Car
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News of tlie World
At A Glance—
Monday, August 8, 1949
• By The Associated Press'
The leaders of nationalist China
and the South Korean Republic
called today for a conference of
Asian powers to draft a Pacific
Alliance against communism.
Chinese Generalissimo Chiang
Kai-Shek and President Syngman
Rhee of South Korea made the re
quest in a joint statement issued
after a two-dav conference in
Chinate, Korea. They asked Presi
dent Elpidio Quirino of the Phil
ippines to summon the nations.
Quirino, in San Francisco on
his way to visit President Tru
man, made no comment. He and
Chiang laid the foundation for a
Pacific Pact last month in a sim
ilar conference at Baguio, in the
Philippines.
The picture has changed since
; then, however. Quirino recast last
i week his entire concept of the
projected Pacific Union and elim
inated all reference to Chiang and
his crumbling nationalist regime
in China. The United States issued
a white paper which labelled the
Chiang government a failure in
the civil war against the Chinese
communists.
Now Washington seeks the de
velopment of a new American pol
icy toward China and the Orient.
Secretary of State Acheson ex
pects to begin consultations with
Congressional foreign policy com
mittees on the subject before the
end of the present session of Con
gress.
Rep. Martin of Massachusetts,
Republican floor leader in the
House, said yesterday that Repub
licans “stand ready to join with
the administration in the formula
tion of a strengthened China pol
icy for peace.”
Leaders of 10 non-communist
European nations met in Stras
bourg, France, for the first ses
sion of the Council of Europe. It
is hoped the discussions there will
advance the countries a long step
down the road toward full Euro
pean unity.
Represented are Britain, France
Italy, Belgium. The Netherlands,
Luxembourg. Sweden. Norway,
Denmark and Ireland. The council
is prepared to extend its area into
southeastern Europe with the for
mal addition of Greece and Tur
key to the present membership.
Some council members favor add
ing West Germany as the 13th
member as soon as the new West
German state chooses a govern- •
ment next week.
America’s top military planners
concluded a 10-day tour of the At
lantic pact countries, aimed at ce
menting them into a solid defense
wall.
Gen. Omar Bradley, army chief
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CITY COUNCIL MEETING
TONIGHT AT EIGHT O'CLOCK
Tonight is regular City Council
meeting night, and it is expected
that as a result of the citizen’s
meeting held a week ago that
there will be a good attendance.
At petition is to be presented as a
result of the special meeting.