The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 16, 1946, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVII., NO. 10,323 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS COAST WATERFRONT SHUTDOWN LOOMS 2 MISSING AMERICANS RElEASED Officer, Wife Sef Free by Russians-No Trace of Two Others BERLIN, July handed ove:i 16.—The Russians U. S. Army authorities today, and soon clierward the Americans announced they were releasing three Russicn espionage suspects| to the Red army. The civiliau-clad Russians, to mo of whom claimed to be Red army| officers, had been arrested in the U. S. zone two weeks ago, it was announced. The Amcricans, and Mrs. Samuel L. Harrison of San Antonio, Tex., disappeared 15 days ago wuen they ventured 500 yards into the Russian occupation zone to sec a pet shop dog kennel. Harrison said he was held two days in vutually a dungeon; his wife said she was questioned re- peatedly ard at one time cried dur- ing an inrerrogation. Two Still Missing Two other Americans still were missing somewhere in the Russian zone. Gen. M. Dratvin, Russian Deputy Military Governor, advised U. S. Army authorities the Red army still was “collecting data” on the men in the neighborhood of | Oranienburg, a Russian army dis- trict headquarters. The missing men are Capt. Har- eld Cobin of Newark, N. J, and Lt. Georec Wyatt, of Oklahoma City, who were last seen July 4 boarding a train for Oranienburg,! 20 miles north of Berlin. Maj. Gen. James A. Keating, American Commander in Berlin, said strenuous efforts were being made to secure their release. Har- rison and his wife, Helen, were released to XKeating at 1:45 am. at Russian hcadauarters. No Trace American intelligence officers said they had no trace of Cobin and Wyatt since the driver of their warrant officer jeep left them at a northern Ber- lin railway station. Intelligence officers said it was rumored that Cobin was gathering material for a book, and had made several previous trips to Oranien- burg, where the Russians are re- ported to have internment camps. The intelligence officers denied that the two were on an official mission. Brig. Gen. Edwin L. Sibert, Chief of the U. S. Headquarters Intelli- gence Division said in a statement the three on suspicion T. S. zone of Berlin. No Agreement Violated “The arrest of these civilian- (Continued on Page Eight) — .- The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON WASHING i'ON—If all the his- tory of that fabulous character, Andrew Jackson May of Kentucky/ and his family were compiled in one volume, it would make a novel more unbelizvable than fiction. The only other unbelievable thing is that grown men in the War Deparnuent with the respon- sibility of muilions of lives on their shoulders should not have seen through the Congressman Kentucky Ic ago. If they had read past references to May in Washington Merry-Go-Round kept the usual clipping morgue op- erated by any efficient newspaper, they would wnot today be so red- faced when called before the Mead Committee. But they cid not even bother to consult FBI {iles or the court re- cords of tlic Justice Department. Instead, Secvetary of War Patter- son humbly went up to Congress- man May's vifice when summoned. So did Pattcrson’s aide, the pre- sent Undersecretary of War, Brig. Gen. Kenncin Royall. In Washing. ton, Cabinet members or sub-Cab- inet membeis do not call on Con- gressmen; it's the other way | around. Reascn by the War Depart- il IS (Continued on Page Four) a missing American| warrant officer and his petite wife| Russians had been keld of espionage in the' from| or! Byrnes Call For Showdown Over Germany iOpen Split wnh Russia Is - Risked in Try for Infer- . Lone Occupation | | AL WASHINGTON, July 16— The United States risked an open split with Russia today in an attempt| to force economic unification of ! Germany. 1 Secretar, ate Byrnes declar- | ed last n llml orders giving | Russia a choice between cooperation or “economic paraly: in Ger- many will go forward “this week" to Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, the American military commander at | frankfurt. ‘The orders will be to cooperate |with any or all of the other occupy- ing powers—Britain, France and Russia—on finance, transportation, communication, trade and industry In a radio report to the American people on successes and failures of the four-power council of foreign ministers at Paris, Byrnes asserted “We will either szcure economic cooperation between the 12 place the responsibility violation the Potsdam ment.” President Truman listened in and telephoned congratulations to the Secretary immediately after the broadcast. Russia Had Declined Russia declined at the Paris meot- | ing to go along either on economic measures, guarantees for Kkeeping Germany disarmed for a q\mrler of a century, or the writing of a peace treaty for Austria. | On those points, Byrnes observed, the conference “made no progr at all” He pinned the blame squarely on Russia. i “I do not believs he declared, “that the Soviets realicz the doubts and suspicions which they have raised in the minds of those in other countries who want to be |their friends, by the aloofness, coolness and hostility with which they have received America’s offer to guarantee jointly the continuzd disarmament of Germany.” But on the success side of the ledger Byrnes listed the calling of a peace conference for July 29 to consider treaties, drafted in tenta- tive form at the Paris council for iItaly and the former Axis satel- lites. of Let Live and Breathe Prospects are bright, he said, for treaties that will let the peopl2 of five occupied states “live and breathe as free people.” He added “We are on the road back to peace.” But the four powers had a “great | ruggle and tremendous difficul- |ties” in harmonizing their view as much as they did on peac? treaties, the Secretary said. And 'he presented a grim picture of the |tugging and hauling that went on over Germany and Austria. Leading up to his disclosure of the orders being drafted for Me-| Narney, Byrnes said it was “no sec- | ret” that four-power control of| jGermany on a zone basis is “not| \working well.” | Under the Potsdam pact, he said, \Germany was to be admlnlsleledw ‘as an economic unit. Instead, he| |added, she is being run in “four | iclosed compartments” and the! country is threatened with “infla- | tion and economic paralysis.” | Noting that the American zone is |costing American taxpayers $200,- | /000,000 a year, he declared this con- |dition must not continue. Hence Ithe instructions to the genecral. Soviet Journalist Gives Impressions | 0f U. S. as Nation MOSCOW, July 16.—In the eyes of a Soviet journalist, the United States is a nation of strange con- ‘tmsts Ilya Ehrenburg, who has just returned from a tour of Amer- |ica, gives this description in an |article in Izvestia. First, he writes of New York as |an enormous city on a little island. |In all sections of the country, he |continues, there are organizations Ito defend Negro rights. But in MXSsmsipm he quotes a plantation owner as saying, quote “Blackskin- Ined people are not human beings.” | which burst s/ BUYERS' STRIKES BEING ORGANIZED; | CALL FOR RALLIES (BY THE ASSUCTATED PRESS) Lator, Veteran and Civic groups are allying the nation for |demonstrations and buyers’ strikes 'against the rising cost of living The CIO United Auto Workers Union has called 800,000 members away from work for protest mect- ings against the death of OPA Most Detroit industrial plants face a shutdown with UAW officials estimating some 250,000 CIO work-| ers at today's protest meeting In Cleveland, Ohio, Indian; Wisconsin, and Chicago, similar rallies are scheduled The Independent mittee at Rochester, New York, is sponsoring a buyers' strike for July 19. Leaders of 50,000 women in Utah are driving for boycott of all goods over Citizens Com- a iceiling prices, - eee——— OLD AGE TAX FREEZE SEEN Levy fo Be H_eI_d at One Per Cent for Year Yei-Up Matching Money WASHINGTON, July 16.—House passage appeared near today for a bill freezini. the social security cld age insurance tax at cne percent for another year. The R Committee, the measure along, decided that amendments will be barred when it reaches tue floor. The Ways and Means Committee, reversing a previous stand for an increase in the tax, has voted to hold it at oune percent on employees’ pay and employers’ payrolls. The Committee earlier had voted to put the levy at 1.5 percent against each. The meesuie also provides: 1.—Special survivors insurance protection [or families of World Wwar II veterans, without cost, for| three years. 2.—Blanketing of time workers under ment compu.saticn sceial s 3—An incicase from $20 a month! to $25 in thc amount the Federal government will put up for match-| ing state funds for needy aged, blind persons and dependent child-! ren. 200,000 the unemploy- provisions of | ONLY 15PER (ENI OF ANIMALS FOR BOMB TEST DEA S. 8. MT. M'’KIN-| —The atomic bomb' ver Bikini Lagoon July 1 has taken the lives so far of only 15 percent of the animals exposed to its blast and radioaetiv- ity, Vice Aani. William H. P. Blan- dy, atom test commander, said to- day. Ten perc | said, were ed outright. He added that other deaths from radiation were expectcé to occur during the | next three nionths and commented that mortality so far was at the “expected rate.” His repori said 2,982 of the 3,519 animals usec in the test were still| alive. (Blandy's statement was in sharp contrast with that of an officer who reported at Kwajalein Monday ABOARD U. | LEY, July that the suimals were “dying like, officer indicated there| soon would be no animals left to, United States for fur-! flies.” The take to the ther study.) EESRIP AP Missing Pilof Is Given Up as Los EDMONTON, Alta., July 16— Hopes for the safety of Joe Bar- ber, Jamestown, N. Y. civilian pilot missing in the northland for more than two weeks, faded today as a ground searcii party reported by radio they nad combed an area| within 10 miles of the grounded plane without finding a trace of the flier, He s given up as Jost, organized | former | passing | | & mari- of the animals, he| | 'MASSACRE iHunI for Kidnaped LEADERS MUSTDIE Marines Forty-fhree Sentenced 10%Thousand Men and Aircraft Death for Slaughter | Searching for Seven atArdennes Bulge | Mlssmg No Clues DACHAT, Germany July lfi-—l\n PEIPING | American Military Court sentenced! 1,000 men 43 veteran German SS troops toied the search today for seven U. S. death ftodny for the slaughter of)Marines kicnaped Saturday by a |900 American soldiers and Belgian!band of 80 Chinese. civilians d ng the winter battle] Marine Corps Headquarters here of the Ardennes bulge. !said mo truce had been found of The crimes were committed dur-|the missing men, who were taken ing Germany's last offensive around| prisoners in a village near | the Christrn.as season of 1944, wangtao. A cighth Marine escaped Prison ntences ranging up t apture. {life were given the other 30 of the; All Marines in that area of north |72 officers and men convicted last!China have been Thursday |ine Corps officer said. Two com- Col. Joachin Peiper, who gave panies of 600 Marines and a simi- the fateful order that the SS troops | iar number cf Chinese government were to take no prisoners, was nncpnldlt s have peen detailed for the of those Jdoomed. Testimony was!search that he ordered frozen, exhausted|{ Chinese and disarmed American prisoners|ers were shot during the battle and that the'was no confirmation. Numerous | Germans 12 songs of massacré bandit gangs operate in the area. on the eve or the offensive. Meantime Chin press dis Col. Gen. Josef Dietrich, vet-| patches said eran of Adolph Hitler's abortive munis's wns veer hall outsch in 1923 in nearby!tung in Shanc<i Province, Munich ana Commander the defended city famed for German Sixuli Panzer Army, was stone Buddbas. tenced to life imprisonment. His A cease-fire troops spearheaded the December- erroute there. January baltie. | The government-controlled Cen- Lt. Gen. Hermann Priess, Com- 1 News Agency said the Com- mander of tne First SS Panzer munists had halted their attacks i rps, was sentenced to 20 years in oun the Tientsin-Upkow rail line in Hopei Province after more than a week of fighting, and that the Tsinan-Tsingtao line had been cleared of Reds. Five thousand Communists were reported attacking government po- .lu' l(y—Mnn- tt papers said the kidnap- Communists, but there oi team was reported . Gen. Fritz K of Staff to D'etrich, years. Testimonv 4t the triai showed that 750 American prisoners were slaughtered and 150 Belgian civil- ians also were put to death. mer, Chief was given 10 electricians but government regulations on wages appeared imminent they decide to make no changes at the pre: ent. Tke union membkers agreed pre- viously to work under existing con- tracts until the wags adjustment board approved higher \\aues - ROOSEVELT, HULL ARE ABSOLVED IN| PEARL HRB. ATTACK| WASHINGTON, July 15.7EighL of the ten Pearl Harbor commit- tee members were reported today to have signed a report absolving President Roosevelt Hull of any direct responsibility for the surprise 1941 attack. that since new | PHILADELPHIA, Juy 16—A con- |certed drive to induce war vet- jerans not to buy homes at infla- tionary prices has been proposed |by Jos#ph M. Stack, commander- {in-chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Stack said he would issue the call for the housing purchase strike at the 27th annual encampment Of Pennsylvania members of his or- {ganization. He declared that a survey shows veterans are wasting thelr GI housing loan guarantees on homes costing owice their true value. sitions 14 miles north of Tsinan, tal o1 antung Province. Peiper, the highest ranking offi- i (i SRR |cer among tnose sentenced to die, . . |laughed when a photographer’ E'ec'rl( an !flash bulb exploded in his face' I s iwhen senten~e was pronounced.! Peiper was the daredevil Com- mander of the “Task Force Peiper,” A| An(hora e n armored formation which in- cluded his own first SS Panzer Regiment. 1L was his men who' ¥V [ [ | participated in the massacre of On Hollda vAmencan prisoners of war at the Belgian town of Malmedy, a key in | the decisive battle. Anchorage, Alaska, July 16.—The b members of the Anchorage Electri- 1 cal Workers Union this morning went into the second day of what B]ood Transfusion v termea a “work ‘ouday.” Contractors say the unien mem- 's leen Hu hes |o bers are asking for a wage boost g from $1.75 to $2.25 an hour:§nd 2l 40-hours of work a week instead Bolsler (ondmon of the present 48, plus time and a half for overtime. | The contractors said they agreed | LOS ANGELES, July 16.—Howard Hughes was somewhat improved to- day, nine days after his experimen- tal photo reconnaissance plan |crashed and burned in Beverly Hills on its maiden flight. His doctors- said Hughes' average pulse beat. now is 120, his average temperature 101 and his white blecod count 16,000. They adminis tered a blood transfusion late last |night to give him a lift, since he had moderate anemia. The airplane builder-pilot has nine rib fractures, a collapsed left ‘lung, and severe burns. i But for the first time, the physi-| .cians bulletin last night omitted |reference to his condition as “still| |critical.” | | 'Warning Planned 1‘ Io war ve'erans Republican Senators Brewster of Maine and Ferguson of Michigan ]'o “0' Buy Homes \declined to sign, however, y i However, their party colleagues representing the House on the jum! Congressional committee — Reps. |Keefe of Wisconsin and Gmxlmrt of California — were said to have gone along with the six Democratic members. The 112,000 word majority report, due to be released formally later this week, reportedly places the! blame for American failure to antic- ipate the attach on both Washing- ton military officials and the com- manders at Pearl Harbor. were Maj. Gen. Walter Short and Admiral Husband E. Kimmel. The committe was said to have 25 | 1 | ————a Vermont is New England’s only inland state, changes in Army and Navy proced- ure as a result of disclosures Jconnection with the attack, and seven aircraft |1rvs.~-' Chin- | alerted, a Mar-| a force of 80,000 Com- | ttacking strategic Ta- a weakly ! its huge | wage increases chould be given the| and Cordell } recommendations for administrative | FIVE STATES ' HEADED INTO VOTE BATTLE 'Montanans Decide Today { on Veferan Senafor Burt K. Wheeler (By The Asemdalefl Press) A ding-acag ballot was under way in Montana today with Sen- ator Burton K. Wheeler's campaign manager bpicdicting he would win Democratic 1cnomination by a close | margin. Primary eclcctions also were being settled toduy in Wyoming, Arizona and Arkanses. Georgians vote to- morrow in a hoiling contest marked by a “white suprema cry President a letter which he said would stop *“ihe smear campaign against Buri Wheeler.” The Sen- ator's opponcit is Leif E on, i former Montana Supreme Court {Justice, who drew the support of James Roosevelt, son of the late President. A moderate 125,000 is [ul Probe A special investigating he hoped heavy vote of about ast. Expenditures Senate Committee is campaifyr expendi- tures as a result of Wheeler's pro- ‘test that ‘unfair propaganda, fi- {nanced by New York and Holly- wood meney” had been injected into the contest. Other izsues revolved around inteirational the railrosu strike, contending had tried “t on labor.” In, Wyoming, the principal con- test was to choose a Republican ! nominee to ovpose Gov. Lester C. ! Hunt, who was not challenged for { Demceratic ronomination. The Re- publican ccntenders are former {Gov. Nels 1. Smith and State i Treasurer Earl Wright. Senator 50'Muhonov, Democrat, and Rep. {Frank Barrett, Republican, were | unopposed. Arizonans climax an indifferent campaign by choosing between Senator Ernest W, McFarland and Harry J. Valentine, Phoenix at- | torney, for ine Democratic Sena- | torial nomination. The State’s two Democratic representatives, John R. Murdock and Richard F. Har- {less, have orly one challenger— i Albert H. MacKenzie, Prescott law- jver. { Democrats in two Arkansas con- | gressional districts decide the Dem- ocratic primary bids of war veter- ian candidates for {by Reps. Harris. Hi Parker and affairs with and Erickson o put sackles of slavery \ is opposed by Parker Homer F. Berry, Bennett. { Georgia's Democratic primary to- ]murmw is u four-way battle for the {governorship 1:cmination, with for- ymer Gov. Enzene Talmadge ra ‘Sng the “wiite \upr(nu(')" issue and warn “wise” negroes to s | away » polls. He is opposed by James v rmichael, former Gov. E. D. Rivers, and Hoke O'Kel- ley. Carmichael has the backing of Gov. Ellis Arnall. {KING JUDA ASKED TO WITNESS 2ND BLAST AT BIKINI ABOARD THE U. 8. S. M'KIN- LEY, Off Bikini, July 16.—The King of {hc Nation of Bikini, Juda, may see the second atomic bomb shake the island where he and his people once lived in peace- { ful obscurity. King Juda received an invitation| {today, indirect but valid, after he| {bad been paid a courtesy visit by| the commanusr of operation cross- : | | I i (dy and otrer notables. They called at now lives. Juda woula accept. word for Blandy tne Bikini King that he, The’e\‘would save a ringside seat for him|slides —probably on Blandy's flagship, 125 test. Thau is the date set for the underwater explosion of Ialomk' bomb, an explosion which |may inundale part or all of Bi- "kini, where Juda once reigned, irmman wrote. . Wheeler | largely 1 the four-term Senator the seats held Brooks Hays and Oren and Harris by Paul Geren and Bruce | roads, Vice Admiral W. H. P. Blan- | Rongerik Island, where Juda | No one had any doubt that King| le!t’ the Mount McKinley—for the July| an| 'RESURRECTION OF - OPAMOVES TODAY FOR HOUSE ACTION Funds Running Low for | Bureau-Pay Checks May Be Halved (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) SHIP LOADING HALTEDTODAY ON PUGET SD. tFull Tie-up on August 1 | The fight to resurrect OPA mov- Fore(as' as wal,klng ed into the Hous: today. Indica-! Bosses voie anke |tions are a conference committee! may be given the job of working out a final compromise bill to suit| SEATTLE, July 16—Loadiig op- both Congr and dent Tru- | erations on 15 freighters were halt- man; 1"'] today as 2,000 CIO longshore- Administration leaders are driv- Meh continued their work stoppage ing for such a move in the hopes{!D Protest against delays in pay- of strengthening a measure which|Ment of relicactive pay increases. President Truman has said “could| The workers who started their Bot. B8 any Worse - Bha Sz-n:nlel"“"“' dewonstration yesterday, version would bar price cont ;met this morning to hear a request on meat, dairy products, tobaccolfrom M. L. Ringenberg, General and other major items M“"-lk"! of the Washington Water- Incidentally, while the controver- [ front Employers’ Association, that sy goes on, Democratic Represen- | they return to work. No action was tative Jerry Voorhis of California | taken. The longshoremen adjourn- has introduced a bill to guide con-|€d after a short session to meet sumers in a strike against highasein later tday. prices. It would order the Bureau| Longshoremen in Olympia post- of Labor statistics to issue a week- ' Poned two nieetings yesterday be- ly report on price changes. cause of ‘lack of adequate infor- Funds Running Louw ymation.” They planned to meet At the same time, OPA employ late today. Bellingham workers will may socn find it difficult to obey ‘meet tonignt. orders from President Truman and | Price Administrator Paul Porter| COAST SHUTDOWN WARNING to remain at their stations, ev:n| SAN FRANCISCO, July 16.—The theugh their agen is officially | Pacific Coast Waterfront Employ- dead. OPA funds are running out ers’ Association warned today, in and Congress has taken no final . face of one sirike vote and another action on an appropriation for the in progress, vhat the entire coast new fiscal year, which began July‘“seems to be movihg toward a . ! shutdown on the waterfront.” Nearly 50 percent of the 34,000 ‘The employers statement cited workers on OPA’s payroll may get work stoppages at Seattle, Portland, only half-pay this week. If con-|Coos Bay, Ore, and “a general gress fails to provide funds by the slowdown by the longshoremen” at end of the week, all other OPA Los Angeles, employees may find that their Du,v~! Ship, dock and walking bosses checks due on July 24 are delayed. all along the coast have voted to rike Augus. 1 for a collective SENATE BILL REJECTED - 'pargaining agreement defining wag- WASHINGTON, July 16—By a es hours and working conditions on vote of 211 td 64, the House haS, a coastwise basis, the CIO Inter- rejected the Senate OPA bill 4u|d.n ational Longshoremen’s and sent it to a House-Senate con- Warchousemen's Union announced ference committee for a new ef-|yegsterday. fort to write a compromise price| Tpe Union said about 1,000 of control measure that Prpsidentvlm. waterfiont gang bosses were Truman will sign. {involved, and that 98 percent voted The vote was a victory for the iy, wak oui. All bosses, regardless President in this round of thel o o0 ar iation, were invited week-long struggle over OPA, but|i, y,ie the ILWU reported. administration leaders conceded] . ... ployer spokesman said the that nobody could guess what OPA' National Labor Relations Board will look like, if indeed it sur\'lv]:s conducted hearings here last April at all, when {t {ilna:ly runs thelo, the question of whether the garml(oo'l ;{’Lfil;egl;:t“‘{fmg::m?;fs | bosses had a collective bargaining Wnlcntt) of Mh,higag Joined n; | Agency BRd: SUAL. o deFlalart Tk A been received from the NLRB. ministration leaders in urging that the Senate version of OPA be re- { Fongshormt‘en and cargo checkers also are voling on whether to written in a Senate-House confer- : ence committee strike September 30, the date of “The bill at present is in worse | *XPiration of the agreement reach- condition than we have ever seen®d 8t the iccent Washington mari- time confere.ace on west coast long- €1y ULTIMATUM SEATTL!, July 16.—The nort-- - Typhoon Roanng " Across North Tip, { rain in the history of OPA legislation,” Wolcott declared. ‘“”"E by .26 B INCREASE IN ARMY1 l\msl branch oi the Maritime Unity OFH(ERS APPROVEblcUmmnm touay dropped a Homb- shell. This group asserted that un- iless CIO wurkers win in the juris- BY A(TION OF Ho“sE'dicuonul squabble at Coos Bay, i % = Oregon, #ay American Pacific m\:{fis}'fi:o.ow&vdulufin mllf auu;‘::‘:eilral:hl;lp cnvm;:an{nboaz entering izing |h<- Amv ln increase Lhc‘ “A;l(;u :):ehuvk‘:lxelatenedtn?:o::wldu \50000 4 ed”stappolrt} nwg!gallkinghbo&ses. 50- W00, 3 i tcalled, of tue ongshore group, | Gen. Dwizgit D. Eisenhower, Chief | Lo :Btatr . L-atitiod 't Commibtes] ™ TLHSUCEIEL AL SNEN0H hearings rn the legislation that approximat:ly half the contem- | plated increas: would be allocated SIO(K 0“0]‘"0"5 to the air iorces. The remainder | will be sput between the ground| NEW YORX, July 16, — Closing land service forces. quotation oi Alaska Juneau mine A bill stpilar to that passed by stock today is 7%, Alleghany Cor- {the House bears approval of a|Poration 5%, American Can 95, Senate Miita Sub-committee. | Anaconda 46%, Curtiss-Wright 7%, The full Committee has not. acted | International Harvester 93!, Ken- i | necott 57, New York Central 237%, Northern FPacific 29, United Cor- {poration 5%, U. S. Steel 90%, Pound $4.03';. Sales today were 1,180,000 shares. Dow, Joncs averages today are as follows: industrials 200.71, rails il : {62.78, utilitles 43.52. Philippine Islands | o MANILA, July 16.—A typhmmAl k s I p k 'roared across the northern tip of as a a .mon a( the Philiopin today. The highj whichi caused several land-! e SAN FRANCISCO, July 16—The | The landsiides cut off the furmoriMa;kn salmen pack ran less than ‘summ(*l' ccpital of Baguio from|two-thirds tLat of a year ago up to | Manila. Plare service to Baguio was | July 6, industty reports showed to- cancelled. {day. The pack was 472,878 cases Manila aisc was hit by a driving|against 739,107 a year ago. Last rain and feiephone lines north of year’s total pack, finished in Sep- the capital were blown down, tember, was 4,302,895 cases.