Canadian, Fish Co. Fined
$20,000 For Shipping
Illegal Fish Into The U.S.
MINNEAPOLIS/ ® — Gund
mundur F. Jonasson, head of the
Keystone Fisheries Ltd., Winni
peg, Can., was fined $20,000 in
federal court yesterday on his
plea of guilty to charges of il
legal shipping of fish into the
United States. He paid the fine.
The indictment against him
contained 11 counts and the fine
covered them all. He was ac
cused of shipping 10 carloads of
wormy Tullibee fish from Can
adian points to a Los Angeles fish
smoking firm.
Louis Vitale, Los Angeles, presi
dent of the Los Angeles Smoking
and Curing Co., and his company
were fined $20,000 and given two
weeks to pay the fine.
George E. McKinnon, U.S. Dis
trict Attorney, said about 361,623
pounds of wormy fish were in
volved in the illegal fish imports.
He said the fish were labelled
“bass” to escape examination.
Lord Nelson, England’s naval
hero, won the battle of Copen
hagen while acting against orders
to stop fighting.
Secty. Weeks Announces
Employment In May
An All-Time Record
WASHINGTON, WV- Secretary
of Commerce Weeks announced
Tuesday a “substantial” drop in
unemployment, and he predicted
1955 will be the nation’s most
prosperous year — given “indus
trial peace in our key industries.”
“Last month seems to have
been the biggest May for jobs in
our history,” Weeks said. “Un
employment also has declined
further.”
Figures later released jointly
by the Commerce and Labor De
partments showed May employ
ment at a record 62,703,000 —
1,018,000 above April and about
\Vz million above the May level
of last year.
Unemployment for May stood
at 2,489,000—a 473,000 drop from
the previous month, described by
the departments as “one of the
largest declines ever recorded for
the month.”
Ants are said to have the most
powerful jaw grip, proportionate
ly, among insects or animals.
Fresh Trout at the U.S. Merc
Senate Committee Okays
Bill To Raise Hourly
Minimum Wage To $1
WASHINGTON, (tf —The Sen
ate Labor Committee today over
whelmingly approved a bill to
raise the 75-cent hourly minimum
wage to $1.
More than two million workers
would get automatic wage in
creases if the bill becomes law,
it was estimated.
The committee headed by Sen.
Hill (D-Ala) rejected a motion by
Sen. Ives (D-NY) to raise the
nation-wide wage floor to $1.25.
A second motion by Sen. Allott
(R-Colo) to peg it at 90 cents
an hour, the figure recommended
by President Eisenhower, also
was defeated.
The $1 figure was proposed by
Sen. Douglas (D-Ill), subcommit
tee chairman, last week.
The bill makes no change in
the present coverage provisions of
the Fair Labor Standards Law.
But Douglas told a news confer
ence that he would hold hearings
on that question “at an appropri
ate time.”
In the House, the Labor Com
mittee is holding hearings on the
minimum wage and is believed
likely to approve a boost to $1.
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U.S. Files Claim In World
Court Against Russia For
$1,620,295 For Lost B-29
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, (£>
The United States has filed a
claim for $1,620,295 against the
Soviet Union for the loss of a
B-29 bomber and its eight-man
crew off northern Japan three
years ago, the World Court an
nounced today.
The claim charges the bomber,
flying a training trip, was pur
sued over Japanese territory and
then shot down into the sea by
two Russian planes.
A court communique said the
U.S. application had been com
municated to the Soviet govern
ment and other necessary notifi
cations would be made in the next
few days. Moscow is free to ac
cept or reject the court’s juris
diction in the case.
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Secretary Wilson Asks
Congress For Money
For Speed-up In B-52’s
WASHINGTON, Ufi —Secretary
of Defense Wilson, leaving the
door open to new moves to step
up warplane production, says the
Pentagon is “taking a very good
look at everything we are doing.”
Asked at a news conference
Monday whether the Air Force
has recommended a speedup in
production of any planes other
than its most potent heavy bomb
er, the B-52, Wilson replied: “Not
yet.”
Asked specifically about the
F-100 Super Sabre jet fighter,
Wilson parried the question by
saying he didn’t want to generate
“too much pressure” about that
matter.
A debate has been under way
in Congress and elsewhere over
whether recently disclosed Soviet
advances in airpower mean that
Russia has surpassed or is threat
ening to surpass U.S. air suprem
acy. Wilson has insisted this coun
try can stay ahead and plans to.
As for the “good look” he said
the Pentagon is taking at its
plans, Wilson said Monday he has
ordered a twice-a-year review of
all aircraft production schedules.
The Air Force disclosed recent
ly it has ordered a 35 per cent
step-up in the production rate of
the B-52, an all-jet intercontin
ental bomber. Wilson appeared at
a closed session of a Senate Ap
propriations subcommittee to ask
for 356 million dollars to carry
out this B-52 speedup.
Propose Million Dollar
Research Program On
Smoking, Lung Cancer
WASHINGTON, UO—A million
dollar tobacco research program
aimed partly at helping scientists
determine whether there is a con
nection between smoking and
lung cancer was proposed in Con
gress today.
Sen. Scott <D-NC) introduced a
resolution which would direct the
Agriculture Department to carry
out a study of all phases of to
bacco production, marketing and
consumption.
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