The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-26

WASHINGTON - Congressional protests against reduction of the Flood Control Program appear to have brought results. The Govern ment plans to add 70 million dol lars to the original 220 million dol lars Flood Control budget.
 HONOLULU-A Waterfront Elm ployers' offer of 20 per cent pay increase today drew cool reception from leaders of the CIO Interna- tional Longshoremen's and Ware housemens Union as being mot enough"
 PARIS - President Bidault of France is expected to be asked to continue in office when new in- terim government is named Dec emher 4th. The Bidault Govern ment will resign formally on Thurs day, at the first meeting of the newly elected National Assembly.
 PITTSBURGH-More than 60,000 workers are now idle in indutries which depend on coal. AS result of the strike, a number of schools and colleges are planning to ex- tend their Thanksgiving vacations to save coal. The biggest indus tries affected are steel and rail roading.
 WASHINGTON-The Senate War Investigating Committee has re- jected a proposed investigation of American occupation of Germany and Austria. The vote was 6 to 4. All six Democratic members upheld the State and War Departments, ,.'.ai Ss.l a,s4.4se os,posed the inquiry.
 NANKING-The Natiolast Gov ernment today won the right to introduce the draft of the new Chinese Constitution before the National Assembly, thus assuring that no other Constitutional plan will be considered.
 NEW YORK = The 83, ,432-ton Normandie, former French Luxury Liner and one-time holder of the Blue Ribbon Tor the Atlantic cross ing, will go to the scrap heap to- morrow
 CHICAGO = Bargaining agen,s for the AFL Meat Workers Union have accepted general wage in- crease of II Is cents per hour for union members employed through out the country by Armour and Swift, the nations two largest packing houses, union official said tcde..-.
 WASHINGTON The United States charged today that the re- cent Rumanian elections were won by the Communists through ma- nipulations" and intimidation" and violated Rumania's pledge to Brit ain, the United States and Russia to hold free elections.
 CAIRO, Egypt = The Egyptian Chamber of Deputies gave Premier Ismail Sidky Pasha's Government vote of confidence tonight, sup porting continuance of negotiations for a revised Anglo-Egyptian al- liance.
 SEATTLE = Northwest Airlines will make it's first official flight from Minneapolis-St. Paul to An chcrage, Alaska, by way of Edmon- ton, about Monday, it is announc- ed today.
 NEW YORK = Two policemen were killed last night when gas explosion wrecked a house in Queens. Another patrolman died of a heart attack suffered while directing rescue work, and eight other persons were hospitalized. NEW YORK The battered hull of the battleship Oklahoma, sunk at Pearl Harbor and later raised by the Navy, brought four bids from scrap metal buyers to- day-ranging from high of $46,- 127 to low of $l0. The hull still is at Pearl Harbor.
 DETROIT = Price increases ranging from $8 to $104 on Ply mouth, Dodge, DeSoto and Chrys- Ter cars were announced today by the Chrysler Corporation The an- nouncement followed by one day the announcement of 312 per cent increase in Studebaker prices