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NEWS IN BRIEF
NEW DELHI, (/P)—'The Bombay
Free Press Bulletin said Saturday
an army of 10,000 Hindus was be
ing recruited for “direct action”
next month in an effort to bring
the rich princely state of Hydera
bad into the Dominion of India.
Hyderabad, the most populous
of the Indian States and the larg
est in the Territory next to Kash
mir, has not acceded to India, as
has Kashmir. Indian troops are
battling Moslem tribesmen from
Pakistan’s northwest fro n t i e r
province who have invaded Kash
mir.
AMARILLO, Tex., (/P) — Music
teachers, singers and musicians
here approved Margaret Truman’s
voice after the President’s daugh
ter was heard in concert Friday
night.
The Amarillo Globe-News con
ducted a poll for comment alter
the young soprano’s performance.
The concert crowd oii 1,509 call
ed Miss Truman back for repeated
encores and almost the same num
ber attended a reception for her
later.
BUENOS AIRES, (/P>—1The Ar
gentine foreign office agreed Fri
day night to the appointment of
Portfirio Rubirosa, husband of U.
S. tobacco heiress Doris Duke, as
the Dominican Republic’s ambas
sador to Argentina.
Rubirosa, who has been honor
ary charge d’affaires in Paris for
the government of President Ra
fael Trujillo, was married to Tru
jillos daughter, Flor de Oro Tru
jillo and the Franch actress Dan
iglle arrieux before his marriage
Sept. 1 to Miss Duke.
SEATTLE, (/P)—Winter sailings
for the Alaska Transportation com
pany to Southeastern Alaska were
announced today to begin Novem
ber 14 when the motorship Clove
Hitch leaves Seattle.
Until late winter or early spring
a vessel will leave Seattle every
two weeks, traveling the route as
far north as Pelican and making
all necessary stops along the way.
The lessened service is due to di
niinshed Alaska trade during the
winter season, company officials
said. *
DELSPERG, Switzerland, </P)—
This French-language area of the
Jura mountains is staging a separ
atist movement from the German
speaking canton of Bern.
Legal and economic phases of
the proposed establishment of a
separate canton of “Jura” are be
ing studied by a committee.
Local representatives recently
walked out of a Bern santonal
council meeting after, the Jura
representative said, a “hostile ma
jority” in the council “hurt our
feelings.” The Jura delegates said
the Bern authorities failed to con
sider the Jura area language and
culture.
BASEL. Switzerland, (j*P) — Ac
cording to a postcard received
here from Vienna, a toy balloon
released in Basel landed in Vienna
about 400 miles away. The balloon
was released at a children’s con
test here.
Typhoon Does
Much Damage
On Luzon
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MANILA (/P>—A typhoon which
swept across northern Luzon, blot
ting out communications with sev
en provinces, caused $535,000
damage to ground installations,
buildings and airplanes at Clark
Field, north of Manila, the 13th
Airforce said Saturday night.
Earlier estimates placed the
damage at $120,000. Winds from
the typhoon damaged 30 aircrafi
on the ground and wrecked build
ings and temporary housing at the
field.
The typhoon headed into the
China Sea Saturday.
Weather agencies reported the
storm off the coast of northwest
ern Luzon, somewhere between
Laoag and San Fernando. The U.
S. fleet weather central received a
report of 90-mile winds at San
Fernando. The Philippine Airlines
station at Laoag said the storm had
had little effect in that area.
There were indications that La
Union, Neueva Vizcaya and Moun
tain provinces were hardest hit,
but no reports were received be
cause telegraph lines were down.
Manila also was out of touch with
Zambales, Isabela, Ilocos Sur and
Abra provinces. '
At Vigan, on the northwest coast
of Luzon, a Chinese-manned ocean
goii}g tug was blown asohre by
115-mile winds. A 60-mile blast
hit Manila and drove a small in
ter-island freighter into a seawall.
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New Corporation
May Handle All
Foreign Aid
WASHINGTON, (fP) — Congres
sional leaders who will tackle the
foreign aid problem at the Nov. 17
special session studied Saturday a
recommendation that the whole
job be handed over to a single
new government corporation.
The suggestion came from a HM
man special House foreign econo-;
mic committee which toured Eu
rope last summer for the back,
ground to work out the broad poli
cies of the stop-Communism-in-1
Europe program.
The committee said the new
agency should sift all requests for
help in western Europe, boss the
purchase of materials in this coun- i
try, wield any controls necessary
to protect the economy of the
United States and make sure “that
the aid reaches those for whom it
is intended.”
The committee’s recommenda-.
tions were expected to carry;
heavy weight, since the group was
formed at the insistence of Repub- i
lican leaders who wanted Con- j
gress to obtain its own information
to consider along with the admin--j
istration’s Marshall plan and
stop-gap air proposals.
They were made public late fn- J
day by vice-chairman Herter (R.
Mass.) in the form of an info-mal j
interim report.
Since the Herter group nas ni!
legislative authority and cannot j
draft legislation, it left the details j
of its program to be filled in by
the standing legislative committees. |
w recka&e of Pan Amrriran Plain*
I
Wreckage of the Pan American Airways plane lies partially j
buried on the snow-covered slopes of Annette Island’s Mount Tarn
gas, near Ketchikan, Alaska, where the plane crashed carrying 18
persons to their death. , <(/P) Wirephoto).
I
Many Casualties
In Fierce Battle
Near Peiping
PEIPING, <(A'>)—Fighting on a
scale unparalleled since the bitter
siege of Szepingkai early this year
raged today at Shihkianchwang,
170 miles southwest of Peiping,
and 100,000 Communists arrayed
against the rail city.
Front-line dispatches reported
10,000 of the attackers were cas
ualties in the initial fighting in
which government planes were
used in unprecedented strengih on
orders of Generalissism Chiang
Kai-Shek.
In Manchuria, meanwhile, gov
ernment dispatches told of 7,000 J
Communists killed and 1,000 cap-,
tured in a “great victory ’ near '
Changwu, 60 miles north ot Muk- J
don. More conservative.- accounts
placed the Communists dead at
4,000 and the captured at 500.
"he government air force, .n-i
dered by the generalissimo to give
full support to Shihkiachwong\s
defenders, flew 450 sorties yester
day and today, leaving communist I
troop concentrations and strong- j
points disrupted and fied-occupied ,
villages ablaze.
Air power was reported to have
caused two-thirds of the 10,000
casualties about the rail juncture
city. The air force was using
B-25’s, B-24’s, P-51’s, and^P-40’s
in possibly the most concentrated
mustering of air power yet seen
in this torn country’s civil war
fare.
Recovery Aid
Will Amount To
16 To 20 Billions
—
WASHINGTON. ^)—Secretary
of State Marshall asked Congress
today to provide $597,000,000 for
emergency aid in Europe until
March 31, he estimated an addi
tional $7,500,000,000 will be need
ed in the 15 months starting then.
Eventually, Marshall told a joint
meeting of the Senate and House
foreign committee, long range Eu
ropean recovery costs will range
between $16,000,000,000 and $20,
000,000,000.
Putting Europe back in good
health, Marshall said, is the goal
of all the major allies except Rus
sia. Bluntly, he said. ‘‘The Soviet
Union does not, for its own rea
sons, share this aim.”
Marshall’s calculation of the to-1
tal cost of long range aid is con
siderably higher than the estimate
submitted to President Truman by
a 19-man citizens committee head
ed by Secretary of Commerce Har
riman. This group had placed the
cost of the four-year, self help pro- |
gram at $12,000,000,000 to $17,- j
000,000,000.
However, Marshall said it is im
possible to compute the amount
with accuracy at the present times.
The secretary said that the
$597,000,000 in stop-gap funds is
necessary to meet a “real” and
“urgent” need in France, Italy,
and Austria.
After that emergency period he
estimated that $1,500,000,000 will
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Seoul < )ffieial
Praises Troop 666
Leaders l or \\ ork
Apple Explains Nome's
Place In District
Alaska's Boy Scout Council's
growth from 179 Scouts two and
a half years ago to over 1240
Scouts now active was told to the
Rotary troop committee last night
by Russ Apple, field executive of
the Boy Scouts, stationed in Fair
banks.
This is the first visit of a Scout
Executive to Nome's Troop 666.
and Apple complimented Scout
master B. G. Baker and the mem
bers of the troop committee on the
activities of the Scouts and for
the fine building provided for
troop meetings and other youth ac
tivities.
“Very few troops in the States
have such a fine meeting place,”
Apple said, “and even fewer
troops have camping facilities such
as Troop 666 has at Dexter.” Ap
ple inspected the Dexter Scout
camp yesterday along with Baker
and John Hudert, Rotary troop
committee chairman.
At the meeting last night, at
tended by Bud Harper, member at
large of the District committee of
the Midnight Sun District, which
includes Fairbanks, Fort Yukon,
Nenana and Barrow, Christ Roust,
; Rotary president, and Lt. Stan
Morgan, Burt Bell, Carl Glavino
! vich, Bill Boucher, John Hudert,
i committee members, and Baker,
Appel explained the functions of
t the troop committee and their re
. s p onsibilities for advancement,
leadership, finance, property and
health.
“The troop committee must take
over all jobs so that Scoutmaster
Baker will be free to give all his
attention to programming Scouting
activities and helping boys lead
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Truman Favors
Alaska Statehood
And Development
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Special Washington Service'
WASHINGTON, (Jp) — Delegate
Bartlett of Alaska reported after
a White House call Friday that
President Truman said he is still
strongly in favor of Statehood for
the Territory and will support
legislation to bring it about.
Bartlett told reporters the en
tire government development pro
gram in Alaska was discussed and
said the President expressded the
opinion it was necessary to build
up quickly the civilian economy
and bring about a population in
crease.
He said Mr. Truman discussed a
proposed government housing pro
gram for the Territory and ex
pressed interest in it.
Bartlett said the President also
stated that one of the things the
Territory needs is a regular
steamship service at reasonable
rates.
The Alaskan declined to dis
close details of various govern
ment proposals he and the Presi-*
dent discussed.