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NEWS IN BRIEF
VANCOUVER, B. C., </P>—De
cision on compulsory, all-day
W ednesday closing of retail stores
here received a decisive “yes”
vote Wednesday night. Plebescite
returns showed 20,317 in favor
with 12,051 opposed.
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RICHMOND, Ind. (/P)—Firemen
jerked the blazing trousers from
87-year-old John Wadsworth and
rushed him to a hospital for treat
ment for minor burns.
Wadsworth pleaded with the
firemen to recover his trousers
and look in one of the pockets.
They found $1,234, Wadsworth’s
savings.
GRAND ISLAND, Neb. </P) —
The wind whisked Mrs. Willard
Palmer’s hat from her head as she
was crossing a street. She watched
as traffic bore down on the bonnet
as it lay in the middle of the in
tersection.
But just ahead of the traffic a
jeep dashed across and the driver
scooped up the hat, stopped at the
curb and gave it to Mrs. Palmer.
“I was glad to have the gentle
man in the jeep prove that chival
ry is not gone—only changed,”
said Mrs. Palmer.
TUDSA, Okla. (iP)—“I was go
ing to get my sugar explained a
motorist charged with driving 95
miles an hour.
"A man shouldn’t drive that
fast to pick up any woman,” ob
served assistant prosecutor Mrs.
Margare.
The judge fined the motorist
$20 and costs—although he ex
plained he was a grocer rushing
to a wholesale house and afraid
he’d lose his customers if he did
not have sugar.
FINDLAY, O. (£*)—A war bond
blown away when a tornado
struck a trailer* camp on the out
skirts of Findlay early in May
was recovered yesterday by the
owners, Mr. and Mrs. Max Frost,
of Findlay.
The bond was found by J. A.
Schreiner, Paca county farmer, on
his farm near Bellevue, over 40
miles from the trailer camp. It
was the secbnd bond recovered by
the Frosts. The first was found by
a farmer 10 miles from Findlay.
SEATTLE, (jP)—Northern Air
lines, Inc., contract air carrier,
start air freight service in the
Aleutians, president Arthur F.
Johnstone announced. The DC-3
twin-engine transports will make
the flights* direct or by way of
Anchorage, depending on weather
and load factors, he said.a
WASHINGTON, </P)~President
Truman today accepted an invi
tation to visit Brazil soon.
The President’s acceptance was
announced by Brazilian ambassa
dor Carlos Martins as he left a
White House conference with Mr.
Truman.
Martins told reporters the Pres- [
ident hopes to go to Brazil "as 1
soon as possible.”
Nationalists May
Lose Manchuria
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PEIPING, (JP) — Chinese Com
munists smashed into Szepkingkai
today, increasing the gravity of
the situation of Nationalist forces
battling to hold on Manchuria,
which some observers feared
might be completely lost by the
government.
Chinese dispatches said about
6,000 Red army troops had sur
rounded the battered rail center,
70 miles southwest of Changchun.
Manchurian capital. Advance
Communist units engaged in street
fighting with garrison defenders.
Pushing into the western sector
of the downtown area, the attack
ers wrested control of the central
bank building—provincial gov
ernment headquarters—but na
tionalists succeeded in recaptur
j ing it after bitter fighting, the
press accounts said.
i The Szepingkai garrison was re
ported in a desperate flight, con
suming ammunition faster than it
could be dropped from planes and
shelled by Red artillery set up in
; side the outskirts of the city.
Reports from Manchuria re
| fleeted no halt in the Red army’s
! progressive attacks against vital
i communications lines linking Chi
na proper with partially-encicled
i Mukden.
Gen. Sun Li-Jen, deputy com
mander in Manchuria and former
commandant of the new first
1 army, now encircled inside Chang
' chun. was ordered to terminate
his Nanking visit and return to
Mukden immediately.
Jet Plane Travels
623.8 M.P.H.
MUROC, Calif. (£>)—An army
jet plane, the P-80-R, has regained
the world speed record for the
United States—at 623.8 miles per
hour.
Streaking but 50 feet above the
Mojave desert near Muroc army
airfield, Col. Albert Boyd of
Asheville, N. C., guided the Lock
heed built plane yesterday on four
runs over a 1.86 miles (three kil
ometer) course. The average top
ped by 7.8 m.p.m. the 616 m.p.h.
mark set by a British Gloster Me
teor jet plane Sept. 7, 1946.
With the wind, the P-80-R
reached speeds of 632.5 and 630.5
m.p.h. The upwind runs were
made at 617.1 and 614.7 m.p.h.
The record will not be official
until certified by the Federation
Aero nautique International in
Paris. Official observers, however,
pointed out that the new mark
was made over the standard
course and according to all other
international speed rules.
SANTA ANA .Calif. (/P)—After
four weeks of legal strife a jury
will decide whether Louise Over
ell, 18-year-old heiress, and her
college sweetheart, George (Bud)
Gollum, 21, are guilty of murder
ing her parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Overell
were killed before or in a dyna
mite blast that blew their yacht
to the bottom of Newport harbor
March 15.
West Coast Ships
Sail Oil Employer
Union Truce
SAN FRANCISCO, <4>) — Ships
sailed from West Coast ports to
day under an employer-union
truce while the two unions with
out contracts and some which had
renewed theirs for a year set their
sights on a five per cent wage in
crease won in the east.
As a labor department trouble
shooter renewed the negotiations
with two CIO unions, it became
evident that the eastern settle
ment would have growing effects
on the west coast.
Vincent Malone, whose inde
pendent marine firemen recently
signed on extension of contract for
a year without wage changes, said
j trouble might be expected among
I his men unless they received the
1 same increase as other unions.
j Representatives of CIO marine
engineers beneficial association,
which had sought a six per cent
wage hike then settled for a year’s
extension minus wage changes,
also indicated they planned to de
mand the five per cent increase.
The two CIO unions still with
out contracts, the marine cooks
and the radio operators, are ex
j pected to seek the same advances.
The cooks had refused to sign
sailing articles, thus slowly para
lyzing shipping, but yesterday’s
truce meant release for 200 ships.
Cooks’ unions up and down the
coast quickly ratified the truce at
meetings. The radio operators’ ne
gotiations committee had power to
ratify it and did.
Among features of the interim
agreement were:
Work will continue under the
old contract, except that the pro
vision for a wage review this
month for the cooks will be sus
pended during negotiations.
Any stewards shipping out be
fore final agreement is reached
will receive benefits of any new
contract.
Negotiations will continue—un
til they “result in agreement.”
said Nathan P. Feinsinger of the
labor department.
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Barrow To Have
Novel Vehicle
SEATTLE, ifP)—A farm tractor,
its wheels yanked off and re
placed with skis in front and with
“half tracks” in the rear, will go
to Barrow, Alaska, this summer
to help the Rev. ' Samuel Hulze
carry on his missionary work
among the Eskimos.
The Shaffer tractor and imple
ment company here said the order
for the odd machine was accom
panied by an explanation that
some sort of transportation was
needed to carry water four miles
to the mission. If a satisfactory ve
hicle would not be found, it was
told, the mission would have to
close or spend a “tremendous
amount" of money to have the
water hauled by dog team.
Skis for the tractor were made
of stainless steel.
England Not To !
Delay On Aid-To- !
Europe Plan
i
LONDON, (/P)—British foreign ;
secretary Ernest Bevin vows that
1 in launching a cooperative effort
for European economy recovery
under the Marshall plan he in
tends to brook no delays such as
those which stymied the recent
foreign ministers conference in
Moscow.
Eagerly awaiting a response
from Russia to a joint British
French request that the Soviet
i Union participate in drafting an
j aid-to-Europe program, Bevin de
| dared in the House of Commons
last night that “the guiding prin
ciple I shall follow in any talks
j I have* on this matter will be
J speed.”
“I spent six weeks in Moscow
trying to get a settlement," he as
serted. “I shall not be a party to
holding up the economic recovery
of Europe by the mess of proced
ure terms of reference or all the
paraphernalia which may go with
it.”
The British press gathered from
the tone of Bevin’s speech that
Britain and France definitely in
tended to go ahead with work un
der the suggestions made two
weeks ago by Secretary of State
George C. Marshall—either with
or without Russian participation.)
Marshall said in a speech at
Harvard university that future
American dollar aid to Europe
should be based on a Continental
program outlining the economic
requirements of the situation
drawn up by "a number, if not all
European nations."
Russian sources in London said
Soviet Ambassador Georgi Zagu
bin left London secretely three or
four days ago to discuss the Mar
shall proposals in Moscow.
Hold ‘Help Alaska’
Service Meeting
SEATTLE, (/P)—An all-out pro
gram to improve service to Alas
ka and better public relations with
the Territory will be launched at
a meeting late today, was an an
nouncement given out by Cham
ber of Commerce officials yester
day.
Called by the port of Seattle
and the Chamber’s Alaska com
mittee, the session was to have
been attended by port and cham
ber officials, Mayor William F.
Devin, representatives of steam
ship and air lines and railroads,
and mail order houses and manu
facturers who do business with
Alaska.
“Within the next 24 hours, there
will be a development of extreme
importance to Alaska,’ E. H. Sav
age. president of the poft commis
sion, said Wednesday night. “Ser
vice to Alaska will be greatly im
proved and shippers’ costs reduc
ed in many important categories.”
(Ed. Note—No further report of
of meeting nor any action forth
coming from the meeting has been
received.)
House Overrides
President’s Veto
Of Labor Bill
WASHINGTON, c/P)—President
Truman vetoed today the Taft
Hartley bill to curb labor unions
and an aroused House swiftly and
overwhelmingly passed it over the
veto.
That put it up to the Senate to
clinch the decision on whether the
bill is to become law over the
President’s disapproval. It will
vote late today or possibly tomor
row.
The Senate is expected general
ly to override the veto, but both
sides concede the vote will be
close.
With a two to one margin need
ed to override a veto, the House
vote was 331 to 83. That was 165
more “ayes” than necessary.
In his big battle with Congress
| over the issue, Mr. Truman called
in a group of leading Democratic
Senators for a White House lunch
eon—presumably to talk over the
[ veto. He also announced plans to
go on the radio tonight and give
the people directly his arguments
against the bill. He will speak
over all networks at 3 p.m. (Nome
time).
Senator Taft (R.-Ohio), one of
the measure’s sponsors and chair
man of the Senate Republican pol
icy committee, arranged to follow
Mr. Truman at 6:45 p.m. with his
side. He will speak over MBS.
In a 5,500 word message to the
House, Mr. Truman laid down
four general and 32 specific points
of opposition to the bill to check
strikes and unions. He labelled it
“unfair” and “unworkable.” He
said it would promote strikes.
The House listened while a
clerk droned though the long
message. Then came the vote
which smothered the veto under a
deluge of both Republican and
Democratic votes.
That action did this:
1. Propelled the labor issue di
rectly into the 1948 political cam
paign.
2. Erased whatever vestiges may
have remained of WhiteHouse
Congress teamwork on domestic *
affairs.
Carroll Reece, Republican na
tional chairman called the veto a
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MIDNIGHT SOFTBALL
GAME AT BASE FIELD
TOMORROW NIGHT
An history making event is go
ing to take place midnight June
21 at Post and Army Air Baseball
Field. The Officers ball team is
going to play the Base All-Star
team under the midnight sun.
Dire predictions as to the outcome
of the game have been made by
the members of the two teams.
Most anything can be expected
to happen during this game.
It is hoped that a large part of
the population of the City of
Nome, will turn out to watch this
contest of champions. All the base
population, military and civilian,
will be out to cheer for their
farovites.