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NEWS IN BRIEF i
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman is reported to have se
lected Harold A. Jones of Pasa
dena, Calif., 50-year-old lawyer
and World War I marine flier, for
a place on the civil aeronautics
board.
Several persons close to the sit
uation but who cannot be named
said Jones has agreed to take the
$10,000 a year job. Jones would
succeed Clarence Young, who re
signed last October tq manage the
Los Angeles municipal airport.
CLEVELAND. (IP) — Delegates
at a convention of CIO industrial
union of marine and shipbuilding
workers today considered absorb
ing 60,000 railroad workers into
their organization.
Meeting for the 13th time, the
unionists had scheduled a talk by
Walter Reuther of the CIO-UMW
for today. However, Reuther tele
graphed he would be unable to at
tend because of a labor board
heard hearing in Detroit.
JUNEAU, (/P)—A system of de
partmental promotions based on
length of service was approved
Wednesday by the Territorial
board of road commissioners for
the highway patrol.
It applies only to promotions to
the rank of sergeant and lieuten
ant.
Three patrolmen were promoted
to sergeancies. They are Emmett
Botelho, Juneau; Wesley Gilman,
Anchorage; and A. P. Brandt,
Fairbanks.
JUNEAU, (IP) — Rudolp Adolf
Halemba of Seattle, a crewman
aboard the motorship Palisana,
was fined $2,000 Wednesday by
Judge George Folta for the theft
of a case of butter.
Halemba was indicted on a
charge of larceny in a boat, but
the charge was reduced to theft of
goods from interstate commerce.
The former charge provides only
for a jail sentence.
The theft occurred while the
ship was tied up at Sitka.
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SEATTLE, (/P)—The promotion
of Commodore J. E. Stika, com
mander of the 13th coast guard
district, to the rank of rear admir
al, was announced Wednesday by
the coast guard.
Admiral Stika has been district
commander since July, 1946. He
came here from Alameda, Calif.,
where he was commanding offi
cer of that coast guard base.
MANILA, (iP) — Police in the
busy Tondo district are mopping
their brows—and it isn’t the wea
ther. They arrested Luis Lucy, 32,
as he nonchalantly trundled 200
pounds of T.N.T. through the
crowded street. Lucy said he was
only going to surrender the explo
sive to a policeman he knew.
WASHINGTON, </P) — A Con
gressional delegation leaves today
for Cuba to take part in ceremon
ies Sunday on the 50th anniver
sary of the sinking of the Maine
in Havana harbor.
Senator Young (R.-N. D.) and
Chavez (D.-N. M.) along with
Reps. Jones (D.-Ala.) and Robert
son (R.-N. D.) will make the trip
Fmperor Visits Hiroshima
HIROSHIMA, .JAPAN — (Soundphoto) — For the first time since the Atomic Bomb fell on
Japan. Emperor Hirohito visited tfce scene of the holocaust recently when he came to Hiroshima to nay
his respects to officials of the Prefecture and to inspect the rehabilitation work being done there. i ,s
general view shows the throng which lined the street as the Imperial procession made its way to the
City Hall. whc»* *K- -•» 4 partially rebuilt citv ir> background.
Police Nip Costa
Rica Revolt Plot
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, (VP) —
Toorps and police nipped yester
day a plot to overthrow Costa Ri
ca’s government and install for
mer president Rafael Calderon
Guardia.
The attempted coup began with
violence Wednesday night and
several persons were wounded in
shooting which continued into the
early morning.
Gangs raced through the streets.
They wore the blue, yellow and
red armbands of the Vanguardia
Popular (Communist) party, both
supporters of Calderon.
Calderon trails by 10,000 votes
in Sunday’s election and has con
ceded the victory of publisher
Otilio Ulate Blanco, of the Union
National party. However, Calder
on has charged fraud. Ulate said
Wednesday he learned the Com
munists and some army men
planned a coup, but outgoing pres
ident Teodoro Picado Miehalski
said he was confident such a move
could be repelled.
A government source said the
coup was plotted by the £om
munists, and that the Republicano
Nacional was not involved.
by navy plane.
Young was nahned chairman of
the group and Chavez, the only
member who speaks Spanish, was
delegated to give an address,
which will be in that language.
CHICAGO, <yP)—It’s 13 in many
ways today, Friday, the 13th, for
Nancy Lindholm.
Nancy is 13 years old today;
there are 13 letters in Iter name;
the numerals in her street address
—5350 North Walcott avenue—add
up to 13; 13 boys and girls will be
at her birthday party, and there
will be a big cake with 13 can
dles.
Soviet Germany To
Set Up Economic
Commission
BERLIN, (/Pi—Germans in the
Soviet-occupied eastern zone were
instructed by the Russian com
mander today to set up an econo
mic commission for their part of
the country.
Marshall Vassily D. Sokolovsky
issued the order. Another Soviet
spokesman said it does not mean
establishment of an East German
government.
The marshal had objected to a
German economic administration
for the United States and British
zones in the west, now being
j formed, and demanding that the
plan be dropped.
In ordering an economic setup
for his own zone, he turned down
once more a standing invitation to
tie in the zone’s economy with
i that of western Germany.
Labor To Settle I
Jurisdiction Bouts
DALLAS, Texas, (£*)—The As
sociated General Contractors of
America yesterday voted on a la-;
bor union official’s plan for set
tlement of jurisdictional disputes.
The plan was submitted Wed- j
nesday by Richard J. Gray, chief
of the buildings and construction
trades department of the AFL.
Under the plan all jurisdiction-,
al disputes not settled locally
within 10 days would be referred
to a five-man board in Washing- \
ton.
Labor representatives wo u 1 d
hold two positions on the board i
and management two. The fifth
member would be an impartial
chairman. The group would be
known as “the national joint
| board for settlement of jurisdic-1
I tional disputes.”
Refuses To Colleet
Withholding Tax
LOS ANGELES, (£>)—Miss Viv
ien Kellems, Westport, Conn.,
manufacturer, said today her firm
will stop withholding federal in
come taxes from employees. She
offered to fight the issue out with
the government in the courts.
“If ‘High Tax Harry’ wants me
to get that money for him,” she
said in an address prepared for
a Los Angeles Rotary club meet
ing, “then he must appoint me an
agent for the internal revenue de
partment, he must pay me a sal
ary for mv work, and he must re
imburse me for my expenses in
curred in collecting that tax."
Miss Vellems is a dynamic wo
man who lost out in a Congres
sional Republican primary race
in Connecticut to Mrs. Clare
Boothe Luce in 1942.
Russia Blames
England, France
MOSCOW, (TP) — Russia says
Great Britain and France before
the war encouraged Adolf Hitler
to turn the German army against (
the Soviet Union.
She charges that they let Ger
many take over Czechoslovakia
and, in the pact of Munich and|
others, entered into non-aggres
sion agreements with Germany's
Fuehrer.
These accusations were made in|
a statement issued last night by
the Soviet information bureau. In
support of them, the bureau cited
German foreign office documents
for 1937 and 1938 which it sa>d
the Red army had captured.
The statement was Russia’s sec- i
ond in reply to publication of pa
pers on Nazi-Soviet relations by
the United States. This one said
little about the U. S.
Market Breaks
Cause Drop In
Retail Prices
NEW YORK. f/P» — Plunging
market prices took an enforced
“breather” yesterday after a
week-long rampage. United tSates
commodity and securities markets
were closed yesterday in observ
ance of Lincoln’s birthday.
The first decisive break in the
rising price level came on Feb. 4.
Since then prices have nose-dived
on the commodity and security ex
changes, and to a lesser extent in
wholesale food and raw material
markets. Grain and cotton led the
slide. It still was on Wednesday,
but appeared to be losing some of
its violence.
Last Friday the consumer felt
the first effects of the widening
breaks. New retail food price cuts
were on the fire Wednesday night.
The retail price of flour and
lord fell. Bacon and some cuts of
beef were cheaper in many stores.
Bread prices were down.
Reaction spread Wednesday to
securities markets around the
world. Stocks tumbled in Manila,
Copenhagen, Sydney and Toronto.
There was a slump on the London
market, but prices there recovered
before the British exchange closed
for the day.
There were temporary rallies in
the prices of grain during the
week, but they were short-lived.
Truman Is Target
From All Sides
In Many Speeches
<By The Associated Press)
Political brickbats showered
down on President Truman from
a full battery of Republican cam
paign speakers today. Another
came sailing up from a southern
stronghold of his own Democratic
party.
On the side, two candidates for
the GOP Presidential nomination
differed publicly over how gener
ous this country should be in help
ing Europe.
The added attraction featured
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New
York and Senator Taft of Ohio.
Both gave the Truman foreign
policy a severe raking, but they
split in their discussion of the
Marshall plan.
Dewey told a Boston Lincoln
Day audience the foreign policy
“should be thrown overboard—
lock, stock and barrel.” Taft,
speaking at St. Paul, blamed it
for “the losing of the peace thus
far.”
However, Dewey said it would
be better to give the administra
tion all it has asked for spending
under the Marshall plan than to
“limit it with a small amount
which might fail to do the job.”
Taft insisted that foreign aid
spending should be held to essen
tial food and industrial pump
priming.
Former Governor Harold Stas
sen of Minnesota, who also is run
ning for the Republican nomina
tion, said in Germantown, Pa., he
thinks the Marshall plan should
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