Ferguson: A vital dean
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
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Perkins: Strong efforts planned to revise labor program
Richberg’s newspaper articles advocating changes are basis of bill to be introduced
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
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Unions’ trade restraints outside antitrust laws
Supreme Court unable to end practices which create monopolies, raise prices
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Gen. Ike will eat chicken at almost point-free dinner
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Europe makes big demand for products here
Chamber of Commerce receives 10 inquiries daily
By Dale McFeatters, Press business editor
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Immediate action urged on pipeline
Oil men favor work on Arabian projects
BAHREIN, Sheikhdom of Bahrein, Arabia – That proposed American pipeline from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean should be built immediately, according to oil and construction personnel here whose task is to develop concessions recently gained along the Gulf’s western shore.
All right-of-way clearances through Saudi Arabia, British-mandated Transjordania and British-mandated Palestine should be secured by our State Department, they believe, but the government, while pledging defense of the line as a strategic necessity, should not invest public funds unless the companies forfeit their opportunity.
“We can’t imagine what is holding up the line, unless it is political difficulties,” said one oil geologist just returned from Mesopotamia where our oilfields total less than 25 percent. “As a construction problem, it is far easier than the ‘Inch’ lines built back home. It would only be a few feet above sea level except where it crossed the Palestine mountains now passed by the British pipeline of the Iraq Petroleum Co.”
One engineer said that a 10-inch line, but in a year, would cost about $130 million.
Asked why the companies, rather than the government loan proposed by Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, should pay for the line, one oil workman said:
There isn’t any money risk here, as the pipeline will pay off, so why borrow governmental money? The companies are willing to put it up, since the Arabian and Kuwait fields will be good for at least two generations.
Union will seek wage guarantee
Says it will bring textile workers back
By Allen L. Swim, Scrips-Howard staff writer
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Court orders news agency to lift bans
AP held in violation of antitrust laws
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Supreme Court begins vacation
Busy nine-month term concluded
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General Buckner killed
Tokyo (Domei, June 19) – General Simon Buckner, Commander of the 10th United States Army on Okinawa Island, was killed in action by Japanese artillery fire, according to Admiral Chester Nimitz’s official communique issued at 11 o’clock last night, Guam Rado disclosed at 8:30 this morning.
The broadcast stated that Lieut.-General Buckner met instant death by Japanese artillery fire at 1:15 o’clock yesterday afternoon while directing the Eighth United States Marine Regiment, adding that Major-General Ray Geiger, Commander of the Third Amphibious Corps, has been appointed Buckner’s successor.