Bandits Murder -
Quezon Family
v In Philippines
(Continued from Page One)
Quezon.
. Incomplete reports here said the
party was moving through a nar-!
row gogrge of the Sierra Madre i
mountains 88 airline miles from i
Manila when a burst of machine 1
gun fire riddled the first two auto
mobiles. They carried Mrs. Que
zon and her immediate party. The ;
attack came between 10 and 11:30
a.m.
Constabulary troopers returned:
the fire. There was a sharp fight'
in which the troopers suffered
three dead and seven wounded.
The remaining members of the
party were forced to retreat and
raced back to the village of Ban-1
gabong, where constabulary rein- j
forcements were called.
Later at the scene of the am
bush the constabulary found the,
bodies of Mrs. Quezon, her daugh-:
ter, Maria Aurora <babv> Quezon j
and the mortally wounded Felipe
Buencamino, III, husband of Mrs.
Quezon’s youngest daughter, Zena
1* ida.
Mrs. Quezon was beloved by j
Filipinos for her charity work •
with children, for leading the suf-!
frage movement for Filipino wo
men and as chairman of the Phil
ippine Red Cross.
Quezon served the Philippines
as their first elected chief of state.
He spent most of the war years in
^ Washington where he and Mrs. j
Quezon were close to the late Pres
ident Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Quezon died of tuberculosis at
the end of the war.
Endurance Fliers
In Fine Shape
FULLERTON, Calif. (/P) — Bill
Barris and Dick Riedel agree it’s
wonderful to have and to hold the
world endurance flight mark, but;
“We’ll never try it again,” says
Barris. “Roger ” echoes Riedel.
The weary pair had planned to
leave with their wives for a beach
hideout after their 1,008-hour ae
rial ordeal which ended Tuesday.
But friends and well-wishers
staged a big party that night in a
hotel.
And the airmen, their legs still
wobbly and partly deaf from lis
tening to the Sunkist Lady’s six
cylinder motor for six long weeks,
couldn’t disappoint them.
Both men were declared to be in
excellent shape after bringing the
plane down on municipal airport
here at 11:45:50 a.m. <PST) Tues
day. A crowd of 8,000 including
their families, greeted them.
It was their fourth try at the
endurance record. Nearly 12 days
earlier they broke the old record
of 726 hours, set 10 years ago by
Wes Carroll and Clyde Schlieper
of Long Beach, Calif.
The Sportsman Club met last
evening at the Arctic Sheet Metal
Shop and elected new trustees for
the coming year. Those elected
were Gus Steinwandle, Walter
Girkland, Bill Munz, Ben Hynd
man, and Bill Milhouse.
Plans were made for a complete
organization and a drawing up of
charter, constitution and by-laws.
Human beings see best when
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DOROTHY’S
Taft-Hartley Law
Test Of Loyalty
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age. On that point he suggested
that reporters wait and see how it
works out.
Mr. Truman’s news conference
discussion of the issue of party
loyalty went beyond—if it was not
in actual conflict with—earlier
comments of Democratic national
chairman J. Howard McGrath.
Discussing yesterday’s confer-;
ence with Democratic party and
Congressional leaders, the Presi
dent said that Democrats are those
people who support the Democrat
ic platform.
He described the platform as
the law of the party.
Mr. Truman said he regards the
vote on the pending bill to repeal
the Taft-Hartley act as one of
those tests of party loyalty.
Support of the platform should
carry through after the election as
well as during the campaign, the
President said. He added that he
stands squarely behind the plat
form and expects other loyal1
, Democrats to do likewise.
| The platform contains a Demo
1 cratic pledge to support the enact
I mcnt of civil rights legislation.
Southern opposition to Mr. Tru
man’s proposals for anti-poll tax,
anti-lynching and anti-job dis
crimination split the party wide
open in the last campaign.
, Mr. Truman’s news conference
I statement left a question in just
how much say on federal jobs will
be given to Congressmen who
jumped the reservation last fall.
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! Juneau Spruce Co.
Sues Union
(Continued from Page One'
sisting Juneau attorneys for the
union.
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JUNEAU, UP)—A jury of nine
men and women was selected yes
terday to hear the $1,250,000 dam
age suit of the Juneau Spruce
:Corp., against the International
Longshoremen's and Warehouse
men’s union <CIO> and its local
here.
Opening arguments were dcliv- j
ered and witnesses were to be I
! called tomorrow. The corporation
j charged union picketing forced
closing of'its mill.
The case is believed to be the
first major damage action against
a labor union in Alaska.
The legally involved conflict be
tween the corporation and the
union has had developments on
i two other fronts. Picketing has
kept the mill closed for a year.
The national labor relations
board recently held that the long
shoremen were not justified in
their claim to certain jobs which
are now filled by members of the
CIO woodworkers union. The jur
isdictional dispute led to the pick
eting.
The NLRB advised the long
shore union it would institute
court action in Juneau if it did not
cease picketing in disregard of the
NLRB decision. In turn, the long
shore union filed suit in federal
court in Seattle in an attempt to
get a court order against the ex
pected NLRB filing of an action
against the union in the court in
Juneau.
Father Murphy left Wednesday
for a visit to Catholic Missions on !
Seward peninsula and plans to be j
gone for a few days. Clement
Boucher accompanied him on the
trip which w’as made with Willie
Foster.
Stranded Cars
And Pocketbooks
All A Myth
FAIRBANKS, (A*)—Reports that j
the Alaska Highway is sprinkled
with stranded motorists who are
both out of funds and out of jobs
were branded “sob stories” today
by Lieut. A. P. Brandt of the Ter
ritorial highway patrol.
He just returned from Tok
Junction, chief checking point for
highway travel.
He scoffed at reports circulating
here and at Anchorage that the
road was cluttered with broken
down cars and wallets.
He denied a rumor a dozen au
tos were stranded at Tok and said
the checking station figures there
failed to confirm an Anchorage
report that southbound traffic out
of Alaska is almost as heavy us
northbound.
Brandt said no cars were strand
ed at Tok and highway patrols 1
heard ‘‘only a few cases where 1
people short of funds failed to
make it to Alaska” on the 1,523
mile route from Dawson Creek, |
B. C., to Fairbanks.
Brandt said that since spring
traffic, began April 14, an average
of 20 to 25 cars daily were check
ing through northbound. Of these,
about live more head for Anchor
age than for Fairbanks.
Southbound traffic has been av
eraging ten vehicles daily, includ
, ing trucks on regular cargo shut
j tie runs.
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j ARMY PLANE MAKES
FORCED LANDING
A small army plane was dam
aged when it made a forced land
ing on the ice down the coast. The
plane was brought to Nome and
taken to the Marks Air Force Base
j on Wednesday.
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Truman Believes
I
Russians Acting
In Good Faith
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have made known their willing
ness to join such a meeting, one**
Berlin conditions are restored to
normal.
What they are trying to na,l
down now is ‘he point that Russia
does not insist fin suspending the
organization of non-communist
Western Germany {lending the
*
session.
The British-American-Fre n c h
inquiry was presented to Soviet
deputy foreign .minister Jakob A.
Melik in New York Wednesday by
American ambassador Philip Jes
sup. Jessup read a memorandum
on the policy of the three powers
to Malik and gave him a note to
forward to Moscow. They met in
a conlerence which lasted do min
utes.
Late in the day Jessup returned
to Washington to report to secre
tary of state Acheson and other
American policy makers and
await the next Soviet move. That
could be a long time coming. But
many authorities here believed
the Soviets would respond prompt
ly
The three power note is report
ed to have asked the Soviet gov
ernment to declare officially whe
ther it stands firmly on the block
ade lifting proposal released by the
Tass news agency in a Moscow
dispatch Tuesday.
This proposal represented Rus
sia as being willing to abolish the
restrictions on surface transporta
tion between Berlin and the west
ern zones of Germany. In ex
change. the Russians were saicf to
want a meeting of the Big Four
foreign ministers council to dis
cuss all outstanding German is
sues involving the four powers.
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