Mayor of Berlin
Does Not Believe
War Will Result
BERLIN UP — Mayor Willy
Brandt of West Berlin said yes
terday he believes there will be
no war over his divided city.
“I hope not and I believe not,”
but he added it would be frivol
ous not to consider the possible
consequences of the present situ
ation.
Hoarse from political cam
paigning, Brandt spoke to about
150 newsmen from East and West
Berlin. He spoke of the greatly
increased flow of refugees from
Communist areas in recent weeks,
and said he was afraid many
more would come.
Brandt said that in the first 18
days of this month, 15.624 refu
gees had registered in West Ber
lin. This is about double the
average rate. About 2Vfc million
have come since 1949, he added.
“We cannot sit here in safety
and say: ‘Don’t come’.”
He said he had not heard of
any Communist measures to stop
the flow.
Brandt said Communist charges
that the refugees are being lured
away to the West is propaganda.
Postal Rate Hike Handed
Setback In The House
WASHINGTON UP—The House
Post Office Committee yesterday
handed President Kennedy an
other setback in his efforts to
raise postal rates by postponing
further action until Aug. 17.
With Congress eyeing a Labor
Day adjournment and opponents
of any increase armed with doz
ens of time - consuming amend
ments to be disposed of, the post
ponement all but kills the bill for
this year.
“Woman begins by restraining
a man’s advances and ends by
•blocking his retreat.” — Oscar
Wilde.
Gruening Protests 30 pet.
Surcharge On Freight
Between Japan and Alaska
WASHINGTON UP — Sen. Er
nest Gruening told Congress to
day that .further discrimination
against trade between Japan and
Alaska “would be intolerable.”
Appearing before a Senate Com
merce subcommittee considering
shipping legislation, Gruening
proposed an amendment to give
governors of Alaska and other
states the right to suspend ad
verse shipping rates for 90 days
pending a review by the Federal
Maritime Board.
The subcommittee also heard
testimony from the International
Chamber of Shipping, composed
of national shipowners’ organiza
tion of 18 countries, strongly ob
jecting to proposed changes in
American shipping regulations
that would affect all shipping
lines operating in U.S. ports.
Gruening told the committee
that last April the Trans-Pacific
Conference of Japan “arbitrarily
added a 30 per cent surcharge to
freight rates between Alaska and
Japan.”
“Alaska had a small but grow
ing trade with Japan,” Gruening
said. “We had hoped that trade,
in view of the artificially high
water freight rates already in ef
fect between Seattle and Alaska,
offered a source of relief for
Alaska.
“With an arbitrary 30 per cent
surcharge whatever relief could
have been afforded us is effect
ively stifled.”
The peace-loving Irish are get
ting more peaceful every year.
The crime rate, which climbed
steeply in this country in 1960,
fell by 14 per cent in Ireland.
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Ford Estimates Union
Demands Would Cost
Half Billion A Year
DETROIT —The Ford Motor
Co. yesterday proposed to the
United Auto Workers changes in
its working agreement with the
union which the company said
would improve efficiency of op
erations.
Ford vice president Malcolm L.
Denise called for revision of the
working agreement in seven areas
and also proposed making wages
in Ford’s steel division competi
tive with those of the basic steel
industry. He said Ford’s wage
rates now exceeded those prevail
ing in basic steel.
Ford and the UAW got back to
the bargaining table after a two
day recess highlighted by a clash
over the company putting a half
billion dollar price tag on union
demands.
General Motors and Chrysler
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partive quiet as Ford and the
union argued in public over the
size of the union’s goals.
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Loss of Hydraulic Pressure
On Ill-Fated HC-8 Termed
Abnormal, not Emergency
DENVER Ufr—United Air Lines
released a transcript Wednesday
night of the pilot’s conversation
with the airline before a DC8
jet crash-landing in which 17 per
sons died and 84 others were in
jured July 11.
In assessing the seriousness of
the plane’s loss of hydraulic
fluid, pilot John Grosso was quot
ed as reporting
“At the present time, we’re not
sure whether it’s gonna be an
emergency or just an abnormal
situation and, uh, we just want
to alert you at the present time so
that you’ll know what to expect.”
Later, the transcript quotes
Grosso as saying:
“Looks like we’re having an ab
normal situation.”
The huge plane touched down
at Stapleton Airport, veered off
the runway and then smashed
into a concrete abutment, burst
ing into flames.
Many European farmers plant
a “birth tree” when a new child
is born, symbolically tying the
growth of the two together. In
Switzerland a pear tree is plant
ed for a girl, an apple tree for a
boy. In praising a Swiss miss,
one presumably says, “she was the
pear of her father’s eye.”
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