The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-07
Liquor Issues are taken up by Legislature

B BULLETINS }
 Federal Judge Frank
 Picard has indicated that if it IS
 at all possible he will deliver his
 decision before the end of the week
 in the Mount Clemens Pottery
 Company portal pay case.
 LITTLE AMERICA-Three thin skinned ships of the Antarctic eX-
 petition have started picking their
 way through the dangerous ice pack
 on a voyage from Little America. Rear Admiral Richard Byrd and
 l97 men were left behind for a
 three weeks stay en the windswept
 ice cap.
 ! PASADENA-The California In
 stitute of Technology recorded a
 moderately strong earthquake short i ly before l o'clock this morning.
 Seismologists estimate that the
 quake centered approximately coco miles west of here.
 1 PITTSBURGH -- CIO President
 Philip Murray has appealed to Bri- | tish Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin i to avoid the use of martial law in Palestine Murray asserted in
 cable that such a policy would be 1 dangerous in it's reaction on Ameri- can public opinion.
 WASHINGTON - Secretary of
 State George Marshall said today that he considers a system of uni
 versal military training necessary
 in the United States. He said it was necessary to back up American
 foreign policy with positive military
 power.
 ] WASHINGTON Comptroller ! General Lindsay Warren testified
 today he will not approve a finan-
 cial deal for shipping s250O0,OOO of supplies to Russia unless Congress i specifically authorizes. LONDON-The government an nounced today that electricity would be cut off Monday from in
 dustries in the London, Birming-
 ham and Manchester areas of Bri- ! tain, largely because of an acute
 shortage of coal aggravated by | To-day cold wave.
 NEW YORK The State Athletic
 Commission today revoked the box i ing licenses of Rocky Graziano and ordered his forthcoming title bout
 with champion Tony Zale cancelled
 for his failure to report a $100,000 bribe offer.
 NEW ORLEANS = A Federal grand jury has cleared the Andrew J. Higgins building firm, after an investigation of it's wartime ac- tivities.
 WASHINGTON James w. Haley of the National Coal Association, estimated today that potential liability to business firms from
 portal-to-p portal pay suits 'is more
 than S4O,000, 100000 He told House Judiciary Subcommittee the possibility lis so staggering that not one company in hundred
 would be able to meet 1t. WASHINGTON-Safer air travel in the United States is on the way. The Civil Aeronautics Administra- ton says basic air safety aids will | be in operation at 166 major United States airports within the next IS months. The basic aids provide two radio beams for landing airplanes.
 ADRIAN, Minn.-Four, locomo- tives were sent one by one to help
 a Chicago and Northwestern train which had been snowhound for 10 hours east of Adrian, and one by one they too became stuck. Finally
 automobiles succeeded in reaching
 the scene and 35 passengers were
 removed
 WASHINGTON -UNRRA officials i have agreed to distribute fifty mil lion dollars worth Of food to Aus
 tria and several other nations at
 the insistence of the United States. Sources in Washington say Greece and Poland are among the nations
 expected to receive the emergency
 outlay of foou
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