Truman leaves for flight West
President, Gen. Ike meet at airport
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Ike’s not certain Adolf died
WASHINGTON (UP) – Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is not sure that Adolf Hitler is dead.
He told a press conference yesterday he was originally convinced the Fuehrer was no more. But that after talking to the Russians he found that Russian views on the matter had been reported erroneously from Paris.
‘Crime doesn’t pay’ is lesson Eisenhower will teach Germans
General plans destruction of Reich general staff, which has planned wars since 1806
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Credit smile of ‘the boss’ with unity of Allied team
Eisenhower achieved perfect coordination of fighting forces of three nations
By C. R. Cunningham, United Press staff writer
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Purple Heart champion on way home to Altoona
Lieutenant wounded four times in 11 days to marry ‘greatest little girl in world;’
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Come and get us, Japan dares Yanks
Only invasion can end war, spokesman says
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‘Hell of long war’ on Japs predicted
Unless we go all out, British general says
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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.