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- fyT'v . .
Kissed The Girls Goodbye n 00o fili R I H tl V
. zm Claim Victory C )
vlar
f lr
mure
money tu buy more planes lo
meet ilm tllrcivl Ul our lltim'tle that
in posed by c 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 t Hulil.
I'riuuiiinlily I'rcnldnil 'liuiiian will
lull the bill whi'ii II u ci l around to
inn. iMoine ilirirri'iu c between llic
'whim' mid somite hllln remain lo be
rolled uiil.)
T-IIH bill will provide 11 llllle lens
1 limn 3 13 billion dollars. Tlilt
uol small slim will buy mid man
buiil TUO new wuipllllles mill tholr
iircrnfmry auxiliaries. If you will go
Dock In your mind to the number of
plulirji land lllrlr nrcrnnary ausll-
Unit we ij.iril In the lunl war.
you will Irani anew the lesson Uial
war U coAtly btiilnefoi.
War l Jioitllinlilr only when It In
IN PKI'KNHK (IP IIIIKIITY. (Most
if iiii aie pirily well convinced Dial
111 the prenrnt caae our liberties are
ilireatenrdJ
fNCIIJKN TAI.I.V. we miiln't permit
otirwlve to think In lernui of dol-
ms. The tune can come when dol-
ran be tutiird out by printing
pim-tr. All that w-iii cuiini, in ine
event of war, w ill be the plauea and
mint and tanks and ships that we
ran turn out.
tf wp can turn out more than the
other frllow, we will win. If he ran
ittm out moia tlinn we ran. If K
WILL WIN.
ni.ANKM land 1 1 11-1 1 audlurirai
aren't enough The machines of
war MUM I' 11 K MANNKI) til Ihlii
-Irillon year, Ihe MANNIN'l) of the
war marhlnri It tile big political
problem.
We read In the dlipatrhra lilt
morning that while cohutcm Is
willing to vote the monrv "A NtlM
IIKK OK I.AWMAKKUH HAVK
I.KKT NO IXHIllT THAT THKV
WOULD 1.1 KK TO AVOID AN
M.KCTION YEAH VOTB ON KK
VIVINll TIIK DltAKI' AND HKT
TINtl HP UNIVKIWAL, MILITARY
MlAININCl"
That la U any. our lawmakera are
rrady eiiuuiih to build Ihe machlnra
but net acared when It eomra to pro
viding Did men to operate Ihe ma
rhlnri. Kvrn a moron knows that a ma
rhlnr without a man to run It la
worthtea.
II KKPKMJKNTATIVt: AU.EN. of
" Illliioia. bobbrd up Ihe other day
with thla suuccMiou:
Korv-rt the draft.
Hornet unlveraal military tiainlnr.
(Irt volunteers by offering IIOUN
TIK8 up tn 1 1 MM) for enllMmriita.
if TillMAN. at hl
1 conference yeaterday, called
alnlne" proponllloil. The
dlrtlnnary drflnea aainlno ai "of
ihe nut; having ijualltlea noaaeaaed
b. or attributed to Die a.w.
atupldlty or obatlnary."
The rtl-.ildrnl IUU the nail on tile
head.
QN Hie Uieory Uiat what haa hap
leiied before can happen again,
thla la good time to go bark and
irad your Konian hlatory.
Home waa great aa long ai her
rltltem I1KI.IKVKD IN IIKK enough
to get out and fight for her. There
came a time when Roman cltlviu
wrre no longer willing lo fight for
Kome'a aerurlty.
Home then turned to PAYINO
noiIN I'IKS lo mercenaries to fight
her battles fur her.
llrr decline, which led lo her fall,
began at (hat point.
p II KMC are aerloua riaya. Tlicy call
for aerloua decl.iloua. Our great
need la leaden who have the cour
age lo do what needs to be done.
If we ran find the right kind of
leaden, the Amrrlran people will
follow Ihem. We aren't YET a na
tion of cowarda and morona. Our
maaaea poaacas the alamlna that
timra like these call for.
lliu we mual have wise leadcrahlp.
s 1 :.w
VpUKUIDKST
f newa confe
' Una an "aaln
Stray Dogs Win
Battle With Cop
GUADALUPE, Calif.. May 7 0V1
The police department ran up the
rhlle flag lodny In Ita campaign on
I at ray dogs.
Last month, the city council agreed
lo pay police 1 for civil stray Im
pounded. Hut three times, Chief
Hlanlcy Camp ya, hale cltlrena cut
Ihe wires on the pen, freezing 13
dogs. Tialuy camp gave up.
The dnparlment, he says, It out
1ft for dog food.
Governor Jamea K. "Klaaln Jim" Kolaoro of Alabama slta with hit
brldr. former Jamrlle Monre, In her apartment after their marriage In
Korkford, Ala., before leaving for a Florida honeymoon. The bride waa
formerly a aerrrury In hla alate highway department.
Post Office Department Says
"No" On Small Package Deal
WASHINGTON, May 7 lA'i The 1 handling parcel post thla year will
pott office department adopted an ! run to about iuo.uoo.ooo more than
"Oh, mil" attitude today toward ' the parcel postage told, lie addtd lo
(uxgcatinna that It lake over the los
ing "amall package" buslneaa of the
Railway Express agency.
The trouble la the post office haa
a reporter:
"We have aheady outgrown our
panta In thla department as result
of Ihe diversion to parcel pent fol-
not found the handling of small 1 lowing recent Increases In railway
packages very profitable either.
Postmaster General Jesse M. Don
aldson noted that Ihe com of
Palestine
Truce Wavers
LAKE HUCCEHS. May 7
Britain Informed Uie United Na
tions today she has been unable to
find a neutral man. acceptable to
Arabs and Jews, to scrva as mayor
of Jerusalem.
Foreign Secretary Bevln asked the
UN tn gel together with Jews and
Arabs here and try to lind a suitable
man for the Job.
Informed sources aald Bevln's re
port was relayed to S.-rretary-Oen-eral
Trygve Lie through the British
delegation.
The British report threw a wrench
In Ihe general assembly's decision
yesterday to approve British np
polnlmrnt of a neutral to take over
the municipal administration of the
holy city after May 15.
Bevln was said to have suggested
that the presidents of the UN spe
cial Palest Ine assembly, security
council and trusteeship council go
Into Immediate cnnlrrence with
Jews and Arabs in efforts to agree
on a nnmlnre.
A spokesman for the Arab higher
committee. Informed of the Itrlllsh
acllnn, said the- Arabs would not
accept any UN apiiolntnient. He aald
such a move would be a first slep
Inward carrying nut. the UN assem
bly's 1IU7 decision to partition
Palestine.
express rates. We Just don't have the
facilities to handle all of the ex
press company's business."
Interstate Commerce Commis
sioner J. Iladrn Alldredge has been
discussing with other government
officials and railroad Interests a
proposal for discontinuing railway
expresa. a "pool'' oiieratcd by the
railroads which has been function
ing for 100 years.
It has been 'a loss business t r
some time chiefly because of the
cost of handling small packages.
Express rales have been raised three
times since the end of the war on
ICC findings that operating expense
was exceeding Income.
Alldredge believes the railroads
should stop handling any package
weighing less Ulan 70 pounds the
top limit for parcel post.
Here's Schedule For
Dewey's KF Visit
At Noon Saturday
11:00 a. m. Dewey party arrives
by bus at west city limits.
11:15 a. m. Dewey visits Geary
ranch north of city for
drainage project Inspec
tion. 12:00 Noon Dewey makes pub
lic address from court
house steps. Crowd will
lirur lilm from area in
front of courthouse.
13:30 p. m. Dewey luncheon at
Wlllard. No-hast, open lo
public on reservation.
1:30 p. in. Dewey leaves by
United Air Lines plane.
Dewey Winds Up Western Oregon Tour, Heads
For East Heavily Burdened With Many Gifts
lv l. L. UVINOSTONK
COOS IIAV, Ore., May 7 lI'i
(lov. Thomas E. Dewey of New
York moved Into Southern Ore
gon today. 400 miles along In the
campaign to win thla alulr's re
publican votes.
Behind him were four days on
Ihe rimd, In which, almost unfail
ingly, he drew good-sizrd crowds nt
Ills way-points stops,
By iilghtrall he will have added
not rnuntlng Hie hamlets six
more towns and will have complet
ed the Western Oregon let of lilt
lour,
observers said II was too early
to trll If his talks, greeted with
apparent enthusiasm, were nver
t'omlng Ihe effect of two previous
Oregon visits by Harold K. Hlassen.
l ight For Voir
, The two are lurked In a clear
teut campaign for the slate's 12 re
publican delegates on the May 31
primary ballot. It Is a neutral test
ing ground far from elther'a home
state. No other republican Is In the
campaign.
Dewey, who regards victory es
sential to counteract Htassen vic
tories in Wisconsin, Nebraska and
Pennsylvania, will continue, his
campaign right up to voting time.
He will cross the Cascade moun
tains tomorrow to enter Eastern
Oregon, stopping for the week-end
at Iteiul to do some loug-dlatanre
administering of affairs bark In
New York.
The decision to slop there caused
lilm lo postpone a scheduled week
end fllitht In Washington slale.
Showered Willi (ilfls
Whether or not lie managea lo
get Oregon's republican presidential
noil, Dowry seems In a fair way
of getting a Utile of evervllllng
else representative of Oregon's
varied Industry and resources.
Prom cheeso to cheers, hospitable
OrcRimtans have showered him with
a variety of home-grown political
wampum.
Dewey has acquired:
A 40-pound ehlnook salmon, a
buckskin eoat, an axe, a red log
ger's hat, a wool blanket, a num
ber of cheeses (sent back to Al
bany), Oregon crab, a red shirt,
Coos Day cranberries, Oregon-grown
myrtle wood woodenware, straw
berry shortcake and thick Oregon
whipped cream (eaten).
In roturn, the New Yorker has:
Made an average of 10 speeches
a day; given Innumerable school
children a holiday by monopollilng
their school house; planted a fir
tree overlooking the Pacific ocean
near Keedsport; signed In his own
blood (taken efficiently from his
arm) a "Pirate's pBaa" to Hie Ever
green Empire of the Coos Bay Plr
ales, a booster organisation; been
knocked off Ills feel by a Portland
crowd; dedicated a hotel; and
clambered over Oregon fir logs
worth at current limber prleea
more than the combined resources
of hla party. ,
Churchill Urges Formation
Of European Assembly As
First Step To Free Europe
THE IIAGt'E, The Netlirrlatida, 1 governments to "creatf a new Eu
May 7 iI'i Wlrialun liurrhlll rope" whoae unlK-d voice can be
urged today Immediate formation continuously heard,
of a European aaaembly aa the The new council of Europe ahould
first step toward a council of Eu- j b,. , .ubordlnau: but necesoary
rope free from the Jealoualr. and : plirt of ,he world oranlzatori,
rivalrlea of the pa. 1. ! Chun-lull said In hla prepared
Churchill asked members of a j ,xl. The world organization of the
2-iiatlon forum to plead with their j tuturti ne Mld, sho,jld nave lhrKt
"august but subordinate" regional
I councils:
Wonderland
Association
Confab Slated
LAKKVIKW. May 7 ArranKe
mruu wire com pit-te today tor ihe
arrival Saturday of delegation to
atu-nd the mid-year conlerence of
the HhaMa-Cascade Wonderland as
sociation, which will eniph&Mze pro
motion of tourist travel tn eight
countlen of Southern Oregon and
Northern California.
With the Lake County chamber
of commerce actinic as hoM, the
Wonderland association will hold
meeting of three divisional (croups
as well as the board of directors.
The conference will cover both Sat
urday and Sunday.
Two general meetings are of .spe
cial public Interest. One is the
banquet Saturday night, at which
Manley Roblson, director of travel
inlurmatlon for the Oregon state
highway department, will be the
principal speaker. Tills will be
held at Uie Luke view hotel.
At noon Suturday, Norman Row
boUiam, Redding, president of Uie
Wonderland association, will speak
at a luncheon meeting.
The general assembly lo sturt the
conference will be held at Hunter's
lodge at 10 a.m. Saturday. ...
' Divisional groups to meet Include
the ct lumber of commerce unit, the
hotel, motel and resort group, and
county councils.
Two Towns
Said Taken
By Haganah
HAIFA. Pa In tine. May 7 tJT
Jws claimed today to have sefxed
new territory from Northern Pairs
tine Arab In the waning days of
fireat Britain's mandate over the
Kolv Land.
British rule Is to end at midnight
i", p. m. PSTi a week from
tonight Though the I'nited Na
tions lately has shied away from Its
partition plan of last November, the
Jfws are setting up a government
In tab nvrr thn in th narti thrv
Britain's wartime leader said that j wr.uld get under the plan,
the West Is gneved and perplexed The Jewish agencrs militia. Ha-
! 1. The Soviet I niop.
2. The eouiirtl of Kurope, Inrlud-
ing ;reat Britain, Joined with her
: empire and commonwealth.
j 3. The Western hemisphere.
by the attitude of the Sov t Union.
"without whose active aid the world
organization cannot function, nor
the shadow of war be lifted from
the hearts and minds of men and
nations."
A resolution is before the meet
ing to create a "European delibera
tive assembly council through
whirh views could be exchanged
and a. common European opinion
expressed on problems of the day.
The meeting also Is asked to cre
ate an emergency council to di
rect joint action for economic re
covery and military defense "to
preserve democratic freedom."
Churchill is honorary chairman
of the meeting.
"We seek nothing less than all
Europe." Churchill declared. "Dis
tinguished exiles from Czechoslo
vakia and almost all the Eastern
European nations and also from
Spain are present among us.
"We aim at the eventual partici
pation of all the peoples through
out the continent whose society
and way of life are not In disac
cord with the charter of human
rights and the sincere expression
of free democracy. We welcome
any coiuifrv wlert the people Own
'ihe Vorernment, and not the (or
eminent the people,"
At Last, Radio
Meets Downfall
PHILADELPHIA. May 7 Ed
Hurst, announcer on a radio give
away program, says he's heard
everything now.
Hurst saM he telephoned a Phila
delphia housewife and told her he
waa prepared to send her a radio
phonograph combination valued at
1130 II si.; could answer the question
he w-as going to ask ner.
"I'm right In the middle of my
housework and I'm not in the mooa
lo aiu.wer any questions," the wom
an snapped as she hung up.
Soldiers Fly To
Northern "War"
McCHORD FIELD. May 7 ("1
Five hundred 2nd infantry divis
ion soldiers waiting at Fort Lawton
for a ship to take them to Alaska
are being flown up instead "be
cause of an emergency." a Mc
Chord Field officer said today.
The troops are part of a 2100
man contingent whlth is being sent
to the northern territory "for sum
mer maneuvers."
No explanation was given for the
"emergency."
Air force C-82 troop carrier planes
and ATC C-54s are being used In
the mass flight.
LakeStockmen
Slate Sale
LAKEVIEW, May 7 Lake County
Stockgrowers' association haa an
nounced definite plans to hold a
large feeder cattle sale and a pure
bred Hereford sale at Lakeview Sep
tember 24 and 25. The feeder cat
tle sale will be held by the Lake
County association and the pure
bred cattle sale will be operated by
the Cal-Oregon Hereford associa
tion which has been holding an an
nual bull sale at Klamath Falls.
Under present plans no sale will be
held this year at Klamath.
John Withers, president of the
I ake county association, and Cy
Williams president of the Cal-Oregon
Hereford association promised
one of the best sale programs of the
west coast. The two sales will be
Jointly advertised and are expected
to draw a large number of buyers
to Lakeview.
Students Gang Up
On Car Towing
LINCOLN, Neb.. May 7 (.Pi
Lincoln police threw a tear gas
bomb near some 2000 University of
Nebraska students today in an ef
fort to disperse a crowd which
gathered to protest attempts to
tow In double-parked cars. There
w as no violence.
The bomb failed to disperse
the students. Police then were re
quested to leave by Dean of Fac
ulties C. W. Boigmann. The stu
dent crowd broke up when the
police left.
Later, approximately 100 students
paraded to the city police station.
Police closed station doors, and
Uie parade left without incident.
The Incident started about 9 a.
m when University Policeman Sgt.
John Furrow culled a wrecker to
tow in some of the double-parked
cars in front of the social service
building.
The wrecker arrived Just as
classes were being dismissed, and
students fathered to boo the proceedings.
Tanana River Ice
Handicap Opens
FAIRBANKS. Alaska. May 7 (JPh
Alaskans are speculating on the pos
sibility of the latest Ice breakup In
the Tanana river since the territory's
I annuaU prize guessing competition
I started In 1917.
Tile sweepstakes prize for the clos
est guess on Uie break-up time la
; 5150.000.
Estimates are based on a report
of Charles Wilson. Ice contest man
ager, that temperatures still are
dropping below freezing nightly at
Nevada. Wilson's estimate Is that
the Ice cap may hang on "maybe
another week yet." The latest
break-up on record was 9:41 a. ni.
on May 16. 1940.
GOOSK HAM.S IIKill
AT FHiKON THREAT
DENVER, May 7 WV-The gooe
hangs high at the Ernest and Cran
mer building on mil street.
It's a stuffed goose. Henry Robin
son, building superintendent, hung
It from an eighth-floor window sill
to scare pigeons away.
Robinson said the long-defunct
water fowl Is doing a flue Job.
ganah. said last night Its men had
captured two Arab villages between
N'azar, famed as Christ's bovhood.
and the Sea of Galilee, and had
taken a hill overlooking Safad.
main Arab city about 10 miles
north of the sea.
The village were Sejera and Arab
El Edna. Seoera Is west of seaside
Tiberias, which Haganah captured
a few weeks ago. Arab El Edha is
near 1939-foot Jebel Et Tur (Mount
Tabor), traditional site of Christ's
transfiguration.
Haganah said that near the Jew
ish settlement of Mishmar Haemek.
it broke up a few hundred Arab
t loops, mostly Iraqi volunteers, yes
terday. The British army in Haifa said
70 new cases of typhoid were re
ported yesterday in Acre to the
north, crowded with Arab refugees
frcm Haifa. The army said all
persons were lnnoculated.
11,1 ? wirP9$;mn
Testifying before the house for
eign affairs committee, Washing
ton, D. C, Warren R. Austin, V. 8.
representative at the I'nited Na
tions, asked congress not to tinker
with or revise the L'N charter, but
to strengthen the military position
of nations friendly to the L'. 8.
Iced-ln Boat
FreedToday
8EATTLK. May 7 The coast
guard cutter Bittersweet reached
the Ice-bound cannery supply tend
er Tootsie In Alaska's Bristol bay
today and started breaking Ice so
the tender with Its 13-man crew
could reach port.
The cutter radioed SeatUe head
quarters that it arrived at 8:20
a. m. i PST at the position where
the Tootsie was caught in ice floes
44 miles north of Port Heiden.
Last reports from the Tootsie
said it was taking some (water but
its engine and propeller were un
damaged, and its crew apparently
was tn no danger.
The Tootsie. a 119-foot converted
LCT, sent a distress message Wed
nesday night saying It was drifting
with the ice north of the Alaska
peninsula. The Tootsie's crew re
ported they had only a day's sup
ply of fresh water.
Search planes tried yesterday to
locate the tender but failed because
of bad weather.
Kolbe Named N
Forest Chief
PORTLAND. May 7 (Pi Appoint
ment of Ernest L. Kolbe of Sacra
mento. Calif., as chief forester of
the Western Pine association was
announced today.
He will take over July 1. succeed
ing Stuart Moir. who resigned last
week. Kolbe has been district forest
engineer for Uie pine association in
Southern Oregon and California.
Ernest Kolbe is a former Klamath
resident. He lived here more than
two years while stationed in this area
as district forest engineer. About a
year ago he was transferred to
Sacramento.
While stationed here, Kolbe made
his home with Mr. and Mrs. Howard
Barnhisel. He has a wide ac
quaintanceship with lumber and
forest people of this area.
Grants Pass Man Charged
With Kicking Baby To Death
GRANTS PASS. May 7 (A
Charles Wesley Miller, 23-yearold
navy veteran, Is being held In the
county Jail here on a second de
gree murder charge.
Miller, who stands six feet five
Inches mil and weighs 195 pounds,
Is alleged to have kicked his 10-moiiths-old
stepson in Uie head with
a heavy logger's boot. A five-Inch
fracture nt the back of his skull
caused the child's dcaih, the autopsy
surgeon reported.
The child, known both as Charles
Cox and Lloyd Dean Cox. was
brought to Josephine General hos
pital by the stepfather Tuesday
night. He was pronounced dead.
Death at first was presumed to
have been from a broken neck sus
tained In a fall out of a crib at Uie
parents home.
Only after Uie autopsy was per
formed Wednesday night and the
nature of the skull fracture de
termined, did authorities become
suspicious that the child's death was
not accidental.
Miller was arrested at the home of
his wife's relatives in Selma at noon
yesterday. During the afternoon,
Miller, tn an asserted signed state
ment at the office of District At
torney William Johnson, admitted
kicking the boy as he attempted to
rise after having fallen from his
crib.
The mother, Mrs. Sue Cox Miller,
and Miller were married in Steven
son, Wash., November 29, 1947. Au
thorities were told.
The woman had been divorced
here only a few months before from
the child's father, AI Cox, now be
lieved to be in Arizona.
Senate OK's
70-Unit Plan
VTC Plans Big
Expansion
TACOMA. May 7 iSPr-The Weyer
haeuser Timber company, with rec.
ord earnings behind it, Is planning
a 128.000.000 expansion program in
Uie next two years.
This was disclosed in the com
pany's annual report which listed
sales last year at a record S102.551.
190. compared with 866.2T1.996 in
1946. Net income was listed at
$26,413,768, compared with $12,995,
478 in Uie previous year.
The report said $18,500,000 went in
1947 for plant expenditures, includ
ing a bark products mill, plywood
plant and nearly completed sulphate
pulp mill at Longview. plus start of
construction at Springfield, Ore., on
V sawmill, planing mill, sulphate
pulp mill and container board plant
President J. P. Weyerhaeuser said
that despite increased production,
there remained "an overwhelming
demand for our products."
Dividend payments were listed at
13 a share compared with $2.50 in
Uie previous year.
By Big Vote
WASHINGTON, May 7 MV-Th
air force readied buying orders tor
2727 new warplanes today, awaiting
only President Truman's signal t
start building a 70-group pcacettm
armada. '
.Shortly after the senate gave a 74
to Z vote of approval yesterday to
a $3,233,200,000 airpower expansion
fund, Ihe air force officiate an
nounced they were warming up their
purchasing machinery.
A senate-house conference com
mittee was expected to act swiftly
to compromise minor differences in '
Uie bill previously passed by a 343
to 3 vote In the house. The measure
then will go to the White House
where favorable action seems likely
despite the $822,000,000 added to
Mr. Truman's original request.
70-Group Force
This was the money tacked on to
assure a start toward Uie 70-group
air force rather than the 55 groupa
first planned of the 66-group com
promise put forward by Secretary of
Defense Forrestal in his plea for a
"balanced" military expansion.
While most of the debate centered
on the theme that air power la the
beat defense against attack, a num
ber of lawmakers left no doubt they
would like to avoid an election year
vole on reviving the draft and set
Unr up universal military training.
Mr. Truman, who asked for both
of these, too scathing exception
to a substitute manpower plan put
forward by Rep. Leo Allen (R-I1U,
chairman of Uie house rules com
mittee. Bonus Offered
Allen, whose committee has
blocked action on UMT, suggested
shelving the draft bill by offering
bonuses up to $1500 to volunteer!.
Mr. Truman told his newa con
ference yesterday thla waa the most
asinine proposiUon he haa seen yet.
The air force said the new funda
will provide 243 bombers, 1575 Jet
fighters and 909 reconnaissance,
transport, training, rescue and
liaison aircraft by 1953.
Even more Important, the air
force statement said. Is that the
new appropriations will buy "that
all-important time for which there
is no substitute."
Forest Service
Log Sales Slated
PORTLAND. May 7 (flv-Three
sales of forest service timber will be
held tn Oregon In Uie next month.
The largest Involves 72.000.000 feet
of Ponderosa pine, valued at $676.
800. In Uie Sawmill creek area of
the Ochoco forest. It will be auc
Uoned off at Prineville June 1.
The other two are in the Rogue
river forest. One involves 49.350.000
feet, mostly Douglas fir and Shasta
red fir in the Rustler peak area.
Appraised at $429,467. it will be auc
tioned off at Medford May 28.
The other will be a sealed bid sale
of 9.100.000 feet, mostly Douglas fir.
in the Grizzly creek area. Bids will
be opened In Portland May 28. The
timber is valued at $71,607.
Truman Talks
Rail Strike
WASHINGTON. May 7 W Pres
ident Truman went over Uie rail
road crisis with his cabinet at an
hour-long meeting today.
The cabinet conference concluded
Just as Presidential Assistant John
R. Steelman began a meeting with
heads of the three brotherhoods
which have called a strike for next
Tuesday. Steelman is seeking soma
way to head off the walkout.
Leaving Uie cabinet session. At
torney General Clark told reporter!
he advised the president in an opin
ion last week that he has ampll
power to seize the railroads in
event he decides that step is advis
able. At the same time. Clark empha
sized that no orders looking to
seizure have been prepared.
Clark said Uie seizure power is
under a 1916 law.
Top presidential advisers Insist
that the president will cotuidei
seizure only as the last resort- Hi
was said to be clinging to hope Uiat
representatives of the brotherhoods
and of the carriers will reach an
agreement.
Air Collision Kills Three
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Three were killed, one seriously Injured, when two light plane!
collided at an altitude of 800 feet over a residential section of Detroit,
Mich. Photo shows the Taylorcraft ship which crashed Into a backyard
The other ahip, a BT-13, crashed Into a nearby cemetery.
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