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NEWS IN BRIEF
HOBBS, N. M., (/P)—''‘All I want
for Christmas is my two. front
teeth, said a classified ad in Sun
'*day\s Hobbs News-Sun. The ad
vertiser, protographer James
Rawls, offers a reward lor the re
turn of his two-tooth bridgework.
PHOENIX, Ariz. {JP) — Miss
America has announced her en
gagement to her high school and
college boy friend.
a Jacque Mercer, vivacious brun
t,\e from Litchfield Park, Ariz.,
^r\ezed in 45 minutes late Monday
nigYit for the engagement party, at
wj>ich it was revealed she will
marry Douglas Cook, 20-year-old
art student, on July 4.
CLEVELAND, O., (/P) — A
“Dwigtht D. Eisenhower for Presi
dent Club” has been set up in
Cleveland.
Allen James Lowe, managing
director of the Carter Hotel here,
launched the club, which was is
sued incorporation papers as a
not-for-profit organization in Co
lumbus last week.
JUNEAU, H. Gilpatrick,
Sitka oldtimer. has been appointed
by Gov. Gruening as a member of
the board of trustees for the Sitka
Pioneers Home. He succeeds John
J Conway, whose term expired.
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MUSKEGON, Mich. (JP) — The
day after was just as happy as
Christmas at the Robert Dillar
home this year. Santa Claus paid
a return call, as it were.
Sometime during the holidays
Mrs. Dillard lost her $1,000 dia
mond ring. Monday she got it
back.
Mrs. Miles Olsen found the ring,
which had fallen into a Christmas
package Mrs. Dillard had wrapped (
and sent to her.
OTTUMWA, la., (JP)—Bus driv
ers went on strike at 12:01 a.m.;
Hfei e yesterday, leaving this south- 1
ern Iowa city of about 35,000 per- |
sons without public transportation.
A last-minute meeting between .
company and union representa- j
tives Moday night had produced ;
no results.
Valla walla, wash. (/P) —
The snow-covered Blue Mountains |
continued to hold secret yesterday
the fate of a missing air force ser
geant, his wife and five-year-old
child.
Sgt. Frank Eaton and his family
have been unreported since taking
of! Saturday for Ontario, Ore., en
roi^* to spend the holidays with
his parents at Lake Tahoe, Calif.
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LOS ANGELES, {IP) — Grover
Cleveland Alexander, one of the
greatest pitchers in the history of
baseball, is in a hospital to learn
•f he is suffering from cancer.
Two years ago in St. Louis his
’•tfeht ear was cut off in an attempt
to to alt a cancer. Physicians be
lieve an injury the great right
hander sufered in 1908 in Indian
apolis When he was struck by a
i pitched ball is partly responsible
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Reds Charge Japs |
Used Baeteriologi- |
eal Warfare
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MOSCOW, (P)—Russia accused
the Japanese yesterday of actually
waging bacteriological warfare in
China in 1940 with airborne fleas.
They also charged the Japanese
had prepared to direct the germ
assault against the Soviet Union.
The charges were published and
broadcast as an indictment nam
ing 12 former Japanese army men
as leaders in the alleged germ
warfare. They included accusa
tions that prisoners were used as
human guinea pigs to test germ
warfare theories.
The indictment said Lt. Gen.
Shiro Ishii of the medical service,
in the summer of 1940, infected
areas of central China with para
chuted germ-laden fleas, starting
a bubonic plague epidemic.
It added that the Japanese set
up two secret research centers in
Manchuria to conduct bacteriolog
ical warfare on secret orders from
Emperor Hirohito. The germ pro
gram. the charges said, was di
rected at the Soviet Union, the
Mongolian Peoples Republic, Chi
na and “other states.”
(By Eddy Gilmore)
MOSCOW. (P) — Testimony at
the trial of Japanere war prison
ers as carried by the Soviet Press
yesterday gave the impression
that the United States and Britain
were to be targets of a germ war
attack.
Newspaper accounts of the trial
quoted Japanese prisoners as say
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Symington Says
Housing In Alaska
“Is Rotten!”
FAIRBANKS, (/P) — Air Secre
tary W. Stuart Symington said
here Sunday that “we know mili
tary housing is rotten in Alaska,”
and urged troops to write letters to
Washington, D. C„ protesting the
situation.
His remarks were made in a
talk before more than 2,000 air
men. their wives and children at
the Ladd Air Force Base. He also
explained a plan, disclosed earlier
in a speech at Anchorage, where
by the housing allowance for fam
ily men stationed in Alaska wall
be increased by $2 per day. retro
active to Oct. 1. He said approval
of the increase is expected shortly.
A recheck of Symington’s An
chorage remarks showed that he
referred to the proposed housing
allowance increase as applying
only in Alaska and possibly other
high rent areas. He was originally
quoted as saying the increase
would be worldwide.
Symington flew in from nearby
Fielson Air Force Base with com
edian 3«b Hope, Hope’s wife and
three entertainers.
An hour’s show, his fifth in
Alaska since leaving the States
Friday, was given by Hope. He
and his party returned to Holly
wood Monday.
Princess Born To
Kita And Aly
LAUSANNE, Switzerland, (^P)—
A baby princess was born today
to Rita Hayworth, the glamorous
red-headed movie star who mar
ried Moslem Prince Aly Khan last
spring.
The .baby, weighing about live)
and a half pounds, was bom about j
eight hours after Rita made a pre
dawn dash to exclusive Montchoisi'
Clinic.
The new princess’ name will be
! Yasmin. the Arabic spelling for
the fragrant flower used in south
ern France for making perfume.
Prince Aly, unshaven, haggard
but smiling, made the announce- j
ment to newsmen outside the
clinic doors.
“Rita had a very tough time,” he
said, but added with a smile: “It
has gone off all right. She is very
tired.”
The prince said the birth was a
: natural one, delivered under gas.
i Rita’s first daughter by a previ
ous marriage was delivered in
1944 by caesarian section.
Princess Yasmin, with the mix
ture of four bloods in her veins—
Spanish-American from her "moth
er and Iranian-Italian from her
father—is the granddaughter of
Aga Khan, spiritual leader of mil
lions of Moslems of the Islamic
sect and reputedly one of the
world’s richest men.
The prince said his 31-year-old
wife had seen the child a few
minutes after regaining conscious
ness.
“She seemed awfully pleased,”
Aly said. “I myself think she is a
very good looking girl, but being
her father I can’t really say so my
self.”
Rita has one other daughter,
i f i v e-year-old Rebecca Welles,
born when she was married to ac
tor-producer Orson Welles. She j
was divorced from Welles in 1948.
Aly has two sons by a previous
marriage. Prince Karim Aga, 13,
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\\ inter Lashes At
Pacific Northwest
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King Winter opened a veritable
Pandora’s box of Pacific North
west weather today — marooning
travelers with snow and slides,
snapning communications lines
w;'„.i blizzards and whipping
winds, and threatening to bring a
half dozen western Washington
rivers to flood stage with soaking
rains.
One death was reported in
southwest Washington, but prin
cipal storm damage seemed to be
centered in British Columbia.
The victim was Burnis McHen
ry, 28, a Long Bell Lumber com
pany logging railroad worker. He
was struck by a wind-snapped
tree near Ryderwood.
In British Columbia, highways
to the east were closed by snow,
six Canadian Pacific trains—four
of them crack trans-continental
passenger trains—were halted east
and west of Revelstoke, B. C., by
snowslides. Revelstoke is 400
miles east of Vancouver.
Heavy sleet broke down tele
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Court Injunction
Ends Bus Strike
CLEVELAND. O. (/Pi—AFL un
ionists bowed to a court injunc
tion yesterday and called off the
city’s six-day transit strike.
By a voice vote, members of
the AFL- Transit Union voted
: overwhelmingly to abide by an in
[ junction ordering them to give up
the strike against the city and to
start rolling almost immediately.
The injunction set a 2 p.m. dead
line.
Transit officials, however, said
no attempt would be made before
today to maintain normal sched
ules.
The unexpected strike by some
4.200 persons began early last
Thursday It had paralyzed public
transportation in the nation’s
sixth largest city.
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News of the VY orld
At A Glance - - -
Tuesday, December 27, 1949
(By The Associated Press)
A new nation rose in the East
today—the United States of Indo
nesia.
In Amsterdam. Queen Juliana
of The Netherlands proclaimed
independence for the nation of
77,000,000 Indonesians in the
southwest Pacific. It had been
Holland’s colony for 300 years.
In Batavia, capital of the valu
able necklace of Indies islands,
thousands cheered as Holland’s
tricolor was pulled down and the
re dand white flag of revolution
ary Indonesia was run up. The
flag ceremony followed the sign
ing of the protocol of transfer of
authority in the gleaming white
palace of the Dutch high commis
sioner.
lne two ceremonies—in oppo
site parts of the world—took place
simultaneously.
Premier Mohammed Hatta at
tended the Amsterdam ceremony
held in the marble-hailed “Civic
Hall” of the ancient palaces.
Queen Juliana, in a three-minute
| speech, congratulated the new na
tion which although sovereign and
independent is retaining the tie of
the Dutch Crown.
The ceremony was oponed by
Netherlands Premier Dr. Willem
! Drees who confirmed the ratifica
tion of the independence agree
ment which resulted from 10
weeks of Dutch-Indonesian round
table discussions last summer.
The central figure in the Batav
ia celebrations was 27-year-old
Sultan Hemangku Buwono, depu
ty premier of the new United
States of Indonesia. He accepted
the turnover of authority from the
Netherlands high commissioner A.
H. J. Lovink
Thus Indonesia followed the
Philippines, India, Pakistan and
other nations which have won
their independence since the war.
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin
left London today for a meeting.
Reporters said he looked pale af
ter his recent heart attack and he
took his personal physician with
him. The conference will discuss
recognition of Communist China,
a Japanese peace treaty and the
continuation of a trade pact be
tween Britain and Yugoslavia an
nounced yesterday. The agree
ment will push two-way trade to
the tune of $616,200,000, London
estimated. It will also tighten Yu
goslavia’s ties with the west and
widen the gulf between Premier
Marshal Tito and Moscow.
In Tokyo, General DouglasMac
Arthur gave the Japanese govern
ment permission to spend 8,600,
000,000 yen 'nearly $24,000,000 to
build up the Japanese merchant
navy.
Wednesday, December 28, 1949
President Soekarno of the new
United States of Indonesia arrived
in the capital Batavia (Jacarta) to
day to face new problems. Before
his government is the task of
building a nation of 77,000,000 In
donesians after eight years of war,
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