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NEWS IN BRIEF
BIRMINGHAM, (IP)—Dynamite
blasts rocked the homes of two
Negro ministers early Saturday in
an area zoned for whites. A group
of Negroes fired several shots at
the dynamiters’ auto, apparently
without effect.
Eighteen Negroes in the two
houses narrowly escaped death or
injury.
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QUITO, Ecuador, (/P) — Presi
dent Galo Plaza Lasso says latest
reports on Ecuador’s Aug. 5 earth
quake have boosted the estimated
property damage to $67,500,000
and the number of dead to more
than 6,000.
The President said it is not pos
sible to fix the exact number of
casualties, but that all calcula
tions, including that of a U. S. re
lief mission, “tend to raise the
previously estimated 4,000 figure
to more than 6,000.”
More than. 100,000 persons were
left homeless by the disaster, the
President said.
LONGVIEW, UP)—Rep. Henry
M. Jackson <D.-Wash.) prophesied
yesterday that “in our lifetime we
will see atomic power plants pro
ducing electric energy for indus
try, ships and trains and possibly
airplanes.”
CANTON, China, (fP) — A na
tionalist army spokesman told a
news conference today that Mao
Tze-Tung, top Chinese commun
ist leader, had died in Peiping
July 17 of tuberculosis.
The spokesman attributed the
report to “very reliable informa
tion.” However, there was no
elaboration.
*It was the second time in two
days the Chinese nationalists had
mentioned Mao’s death. They as
serted Saturday he was either dead
“or critically ill,” quoting intelli
gence reports. That account was
regarded as dubious.)
HAMBURG, Germany (jP)—The
British-licensed German newspa
per Welt am Sonntag say 20 Sov
iet army officers were killed July
25 in a plot aimed at Soviet Mar
shal Konstantin Rokossovsky.
There was no confirmation from
other sources. Nor has there been
any indication of such an incident
in reports of Rokossovsky since
that date. He was made an honor
ary citizen of Wroclaw, Poland,
last week.
A high American intelligence
ofticer in Berlin said he doubted
the report.
BUCHAREST, Romania, UP) —
The current issue of the com in
form bulletin, out today, calls
Gen. Omar Bradley, U. S, army
chief of staff, and Rep, Cannon
(D.-Mo.) “American cannibals.”
The journal of the Moscow led
communist international informa
tion bureau said Bradley and Can
non want to send the unemployed
youth of Europe to fight for the
Atlantic Pact against the Soviet
Union.
WASHINGTON, </P) — Senate
Democratic leader Lucas said to
day it will be impossible for Con
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Why Were Deep
Freezers Given
To High Officials?
WASHINGTON, </P) — A new
episode in the home freezer mys
tery opened Saturday with a
search for a motive.
1 Why, asked Senators investigat
! ing five percenters, were those
! frezers shipped to whomever they
were shipped?
mmoer oi tne special mvesu
! gations sub-committee said pri
vately Friday that he has seen in
voices showing that one was ship
ped to Mrs. Harry S. Truman, two
I to Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan,
] president Truman’s army aide.
He said further that invoices
also list shipments to chief justice
Fred K. Vinson, federal reserve
governor James K. Vardaman,
and Presidential secretary Matt
Connelly.
Chief counsel William P. Rog
ers said the committee has a sub
poena out for Harry Hoffman, Mil
| waukee advertising man. Law
makers hoped he might shed some
light on the subject.
Other capitol hill developments:
Reorganization —Senate leaders
I got busy with two reorganization
; proposals—one to set up a cabinet
rank department of welfare, the
other to transfer two employment
agencies from the federal security
agency to the labor department.
Submitted by President Truman
both have been frowned upon by
the Senate expenditures commit
tee.
The President Friday urged
their approval as a sign of good
faith by Congress.
Arms—Lawmakers voiced gen
eral approval of a proposal to
swap military supplies with Can
ada, although some saw flaws in
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Ex-Catliolic Priest
Weds Divorcee
PHOENIX, Ariz. i/P)—A former
Catholic priest and a divorcee
l were married here Saturday night,
by a judge of Jewish faith.
Emmet J. McLoughlin, who re
signed from the Franciscan order
eight months ago, wedded Miss
Mary Davis. Both are from Phoe
nix.
McLoughlin is the superintend
ent and one of the founders of St.
Monica’s hospital here. His efforts
whill still in the priesthood were
largely responsible for making the
institution possible. It was erected
as a charity organization in a poor
district of the city.
Miss Davis, 34, is a former med
1 ical record librarian at St. Mon
| ica’s. She resigned two months
ago after divulging plans for the
forthcoming marriage. This will
be her third marriage.
McLoughlin’s resignation from
! the priesthood came as the result
1 of a church directive to relinquish
j his hospital post for transfer else
where.
McLoughlin, who had come to
be known as the “poor man’s
: padre” said he could not leave his
J work.
Truman Plans
Speaking Jaunt
WASHINGTON I/P)—'The wide
ly traveled man in the White
House is planning to outdo him
self in the next few weeks.
President Truman has sched
uled four out of town speaking en
gagements starting with a talk to
the Veterans of Foreign Wars at
Miami, Fla., Aug. 22.
He will speak next to the Amer
ican Legion at Philadelphia, Aug.
29. Then he’ll do an “iron man”
Morrow-Tail
Defies Canadians;
Flies To Greenland
HALIFAX, N. S., (£’>—A pretty
British housewife neared the end
of a globe-circling flight Saturday
after piloting her little plane from
Labrador to Greenland in defi
ance of Canadian air regulations.
Mrs. Richarda Morrow-Tait, 26,
made the 700-mile flight with her
navigator Friday. Only two more i
overwater hops—from Greenland
to Iceland and to Britain—stand
in the way of fulfilling her dream
of being the first woman to pilot
a single-engined plane around the
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Hawaiian Govt. To
Start Unloading
Strikebound Ships
—
HONOLULU, UP) — Hawaii’s
new waterfront boss told the is
lands 540,000 residents Fridaj
night the government would begin
unloading strikebound ships early
this week.
Harbor manager E. F. Rush
'ikewise told the striking CIO in
ternational longshoremen’s and
warehousemen’s union the Terri
torial government would brook no
i n t e rference in operating the
seized docks.
Shortly before Rush spoke in a
radio broadcast, the striking long
shoremen met and unanimously
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stunt on Labor Day, Sept. 5. He
plans to speak at both Pittsburgh, ■
Pa.—at noon—and in Des Moines,
Iowa, late in the afternoon.
The President has traveled more
than 125,000 miles since he enter
ed the White House April 12, 1945.
FOUR YEARS AGO YESTERDAY
DESOLATION marks the site of Hiroshima
<(#*) Newsfeatures)
Four years ago yesterday, August 14, 1945, Japan
called quits in the war. She still had 2,000,000 men
under arms in her home islands. She had another
million in China and perhaps 700,000 more in other
parts of the empire she had carved for herself in
the Pacific.
'The enemy has begun to employ a new and
most cruel bomb. This is the reason we have
ordered the acceptance of the joint declaration
of the powers." said Emperor Hirohito. But
there was much in addition to the A-bomb.
J
ROW ON ROW, graves mark path to Japan
Long before the first A-bomb was dropped on
Hiroshima, Aug. 6, 1945, other types of bombs had
been devastating Japan. Her war industries were at
low ebb. She could not repair, much less rebuild
her shattered fleet.
Giant U. S. fleets roamed the Pacific at will,
hammering at Japan with bombs and shells.
British ships also were in action. Germany and
her other Axis allies had been defeated.
August 7, 1942, U. S. Marines first landed on
Guadalcanal. Since that time, U. S. forces had ad
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News of the World
At A Glance —
Saturday. August 13. 1949
<By The Associated Press*
Gen. Douglas MacArthur had a
two-hour conference in Tokyo to
day with a personal representative
of Generalissimo Chiang Kai
Shek.
Subjects of the discussion were
kept secret. VVu Teh-Chen, close
adviser to Chiang, traveled to
Tokyo from the Chinese national
ist leader’s refuge on Formosa Is
land.
Wu insisted his visit was “unof
ficial.” All he would say further
was that it did not concern the
Pacific anti-communist pact pro
posed recently by Chiang and
President Elpidio Quirido of the
Philippines.
The U. S. Senate foreign rela
1 tions and armed services commit
I tees voted 13 to 12 at a joint meet
ing yesterday, to summon MacAr
thur to Washington to hear his
views on the Far Eastern situa
tion. The general has said he does
not feel he should leave his post at
this time.
Chin ese communist armies,
meanwhile, hammered steadily at
Kanghsien, 215 miles northeast of
Canton and regarded as the gate
way to the nationalist provisional
capital.
In Europe, Greece's army push
ed its offensive against commun
ist guerrillas along the Albanian
frontier. One spearhead was re
ported within a mile of the main
highway from Albania, over
which the government says the
guerrillas get their supplies.
Russia carried on her stepped
up propaganda campaign against
Marlshal Tito’s Yugoslavia, de
scribed for the first time yester
day as an “enemy and foe of the
Soviet Union.”
"The mask has been torn away,”
Moscow’s Pravda said, declaring
Tito was carrying on a "double
dealing, traitorous policy.”
The consultative assembly of
the new European council at
Strasbourg defeated overwhelm
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Quianna Club
Destroyed by Fire
This morning about seven
o’clock the Quianna Club, located
on the Bessie Road just outside the
City limits was totally destroyed
by fire of unknown origin.
The building had apparently
been burning for some time be
fore the fire department was
called. Both the Nome fire depart
ment and the department from the
Marks Air Force Base responded
to the call, but the building was
a mass of flames when the fire
fighters arrived, and was beyond
saving. ,
It is stated that the door was
locked and it is not believed any
one was in the building at the
time of the fire.
The Quianna Club had just re
cently been opened and was man
aged by Bob Renshaw. It is not
known whether the building was
covered by insurance.