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NEWS IN BRIEF j
TUPELO. Miss. UP\—Rep. John
E. Rankin 'D.-Miss.), who has rep
resented the First Mississippi Dis
trict in Congress since 1920, an-^
i nounced his candidacy yesterday
for the seat in the United States
Senate of the late Theo G. Bilbo.
Rankin, like Bilbo, long an ad
vocate of white supremacy in the
south, is the third candidate to en
tere the race in the November 4
general election. The two others
are State Supreme Court clerk Tom
Q. Ellis of Jackson and circuity
court judge John Stennis of De*
Kalb. Bilbo’s unexpired term has
longer than five years to run. Gov.
Fielding Wright said recently he
probably would not appoint an
interim successor unless Congress
was called into a special session in
November.
STEILACOOM, Wash. </P) —
Nine of 13 mental patients who
less than a fortnight ago under
went a delicate brain operation
performed through a new surgical
technique, have shown an “excel
lent” response and soon will be
released from the Western Wash
ington state hospital, Dr. W. N.
Keller, hospital superintendent
said today.
All were schizophrenia victims
suffering from delusions of perse
cution. Two of the nine went into
the operating room in strait jack
» ets because of the severity of their
cases.
The remaining four have shown
no beneficial response to the sur
gery, Dr. Keller said.
LONDON (/P)—The 800-year-old
skull of an Earl was the only loot
taken by vandals who rifled the
vaults of the 13th century church;
of the Knights Templars last i
week end. The librarian of the
middle temple, an ancient “inn of
court” on whose property the
blitzed church stands, said today
the skull was that of the first Earl
of Essex, who was killed in 1144.
CHICAGO, (/P)—Mrs. Winifred
Reed Landis, 75, widow of Kene- 1
saw Mountain Landis, first com-1
missioner of organized baseball j
and former federal judge, died last
night. She was born in Ottawa, i
111.
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CAIRO, (^P) — Police swinging
clubs battled demonstrators as
they marched through the streets
of Cairo today shouting, “revolt,
down with imperialism, long live
our brothers the policemeif.”
Two persons were reported
wounded slightly by police fire.
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WASHINGTON, (/P)—Souvenir
covers addressed for delivery in
Japan will be accepted by post
masters in Seattle and Anchorage,
in connection with the inaugura
, tion of air mail service to Japan,
the post office department said to
day. The service becomes effec
tive Sept. 5.
LABOR DAY
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No paper will be pub-!
lished on Monday, Labor
Day, Sept 1,1947. ,
ACS Operators
Become Long
Range Samaritans
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ANCHORAGE, UP) — Howard
Swain of Seldovia, is alive today
because two Alaska Communica
tions System operators play the
roles of long-distance Samaritans
to get Him to a hospital in Seward
for an appendicitis operation.
Sgt. Joseph Maley, in Anchor
age, was sending a message to La
touche by radiophone when the
Latouche operator broke in to say ,
a man there had been stricken
with what appeared to be acute
appendicitis.
Maley located a doctor who lis
tened to the symptoms by radio
phone and confirmed the diagno
sis. Latouche, which is a fishing
village 60 miles east of Seward,
then asked for a plane to fly
Swain to Anchorage.
Maley contacted all Anchorage
pilots available without locating a
suitable plane to make the water
landing at Latouche, then called
Seward. T/Sgt. John Switzer, ACS
operator there, immediately began
checking pilots and at last located
a float plane which was just tak
ing off on a charter trip.
At his request the pilot flew to
Latouche and returned with
Swain. The operation was per
formed four hours and a half after
the first message was received and
Swain was reported “resting com
fortably” at the Seward hospital.
A witness to the operation was
Switzer, who had rounded up an
ambulance and arranged for hos
pital accommodations and a sur
geon while the rescue plane was
making its round trip.
Farmer Kills Wife* j
Father, Self; And j
Wounds 2 Others
SHELBYVILLE, 111. (/Pi—A 22-,
year-old farmer Wednesday night
shot and killed his 16-year-old
bride and his father, wounded his
mother and 12-year-old brother
in-law, then shot and killed him
self.
Dead were Mrs. Jacqueline Hel- J
ton, 16; Earl Helton, about 60, ai
farmer, and Donald Helton, 22,'
Mrs. Jacqueline Helton’s brother,
Walter Knearem, was in a critical
condition with bullet wounds in
his chest. Mrs. Florence Helton,,
about 60, Donald’s mother, was j
wounded in the hand and arm.
State’s attorney Eugene Bland of
Shelby county, who attributed the
shooting spree to young Helton,
said it apparently stemmed from
a threat which the youth made
two weeks ago to kill his wife.
Mrs. Helton and her brother
were ^hot as they skated at a rol
ler rink Wednesday night, and
witnesses identified Helton as
their assailant. They said he left
the ring in a jeep. An hour later,
police were summoned to the home
of Helton’s parents, where they
found the elder Helton dead and
Donald’s mother shot in the hand
and arm. Officers said the mother
told them her son had shot his
father and wounded her.
Norwegian Plane
Crash Kills j
Thirty-Five
OSLO. Norway, —A Norwe
gian Airlines flying boat crashed
in the Lofoten mountains yester-'
day, killing all 35 persons aboard,
the company announced.
The craft carried 27 passengers1
and a crew of eight. It was en
route to Stavanger from Tromsoe
when the crash occurred at 9:30
a.m. ,
The chief pilot, a Capt. BuerJ
was a distinguished Norwegian1,
airman. Among the victims was1
the company’s chief inspector,
Jarle Ebbesen.
The big plane burned for sever
al hours after it crashed.
Eyewitnesses said they heard an
explosion echoing through the
mountains as the plane plummeted
through the fog and rain.
The airline said one American
citizen, identified so far only as
Mrs. Jess, was among those killed.
Two Czech journalists, Jan Rei
ms of the newspaper Svobodne
Vovim and Tatjana Selingerova
of the Narona Boroda, and a Dane,
G. Heine, also were among the
dead. The others were all Nor
wegians.
American Legion
Asked To Become
Wateli Dogs
NEW YORK. (JP)—.Fleet Admir
al Chester W. Nimitz today asked
the American Legion to act as a
sentinel to see that no one branch
of the armed forces is permitted to
decline to the point where it can
not carry out its share of respon
sibility for national security.
“The creation last month ... of1
a unified defense establishment is '
an important step towards the at-1
tachment of the proper combina-1
tion of military and civilian
strength with clearly defined re-,
sponsibilities,” Nimitz told the Le-j
gion’s national convention.
He said he was convinced that
if the national security act of 1947
“i^ administered in the spirit with
which it was created, the navy
will not suffer any disadvantage,
nor will national security be jeop
ardized thereby.”
On the contrary, Nimitz saia,
“several important provisions of
the law immeasurably strengthen
that security by creating within
the national military establish
ment certain agencies charged
with the overall coordination of
both civilian and military effort.”
SON BORN TO MR. AND
MRS. ANDY MILLER
Mr. and Mrs. Andy Miller are
the happy parents of a seven and
a half pound son, born on Wednes
day, August 20.
SCHOOL OPENS TUESDAY
MORNING AT NINE O'CLOCK
Tuesday morning at nine o’clock
school will start again with Su
perintendent W. Angell in charge.
Almost all the teachers have or
rived and a full program is plan
ned for the coming year, as well
as an increased enrollment.
U.S.-British Plan
Increased German
Steel Production
(By Richard Kasischke)
BERLIN, (/P>—A western Ger
many with an industrial capacity
about equal to 1936 was envisaged
today by the United States and
Great Britain in a new level-of
industry plan providing for annual
steel production of 10,700,000 in
got tons.
Under the plan, the U. S. and
British zones, to relieve the bur
den on American and British tax
payers, would produce 15 per cent
more exports than the same areas
did in 1936—three years before
Germany started World War II—to
bring in $2,000,000,000 a year.
The new plan was a revision of
the four-power level-of-industry
and reparations agreement of
1 March, 1946. In announcing it,
the U. S. and British military gov
ernors—Gen. Lucius D. Clay and
air chief marshal Sir Sholto Doug
las—termed the low ceiling set in
that agreement “unrealistic.”
Under the four-power plan, the
1 steel ceiling for all Germany was
5,800,000 tons. Under the British
American plan, the British and U.
1 S. zones alone would produce
nearly double that.
Disclosure of the plan followed
by two days the close of a six-day
conference of the U. S. Britain
and France in London during
which German industry was dis
cussed.
Kills Husband;
(aits Body Up And
Dumps In River
CHICAGO, </P>—A 60-year-old
woman yesterday was seized by
police who said she told them she
had killed her husband with a
hammer, hacked his body apart
with a saw and dumped the parts
into the Chicago river.
Mrs. Anna Sosnowski #related
the killing occurred Sunday dur
ing a quarrel in their northwest
side apartment during which Sos
nowski. a former mental hospital
patient, tried to choke her, police
captain George Homer said.
Homer added that the woman
told him she made several trips to
the north branch of the Chicago
rivgr to dispose of the body. Ihe
head and torso, as yet unrecover
ed, were dumped near the point
where other parts were washed to
the bank Tuesday, the captain
said she told him.
The captain related other details
as follows:
Mrs. Sosnowski, hysterical, was
brought to the Racine Avenue po
lice station yesterday morning by
her son-in-law, Dr. B. T. Nauseda,
who said that at 3 a.m. she had
come to his home and told of po
licemen being at her flat and that
she did not know what to do.
She had reported her husband
missing to the Racine avenue po
lice Wednesday. Yesterday mofn
ing police found that fingerprints
from the hands taken from the
river matched those of Sosnowski,
made when he was admitted to the|
Kankakee state hospital.
Truman To Leave
Sunday Morning
On Brazil Trip
(By Ernest B. Vaccaro)
W A S H I N GTON. bP> — Bolo
knives and carbines were added to
the equipment of the new White
House plane “Independence” yes
terday as the secret service com
pleted preparations for President
Truman’s flight to Brazil.
Wednesday night’s announce
that the chief executive will leave
Sunday for Rio de Janeiro to ad
dress the inter-American defense
, conference set an elaborate pro
tective pattern in force.
Part of the flight will be over
Brazil's formidable jungle.
Hence, with an eye to any even
tuality, the secret service ordered
i the bolo knives which are design
; ed for whacking a path through
! jungle growth and the rifles for
’ protection against animal life as
i well as hostile tribesmen. The
! plane also will carry parachutes,
i Riding the new, blue-eagled DC
6 for the first time, the President
' will leave Washington at 8 a.m.
Sunday, planning to arrive in Rio
the following afternoon after an
overnight stop at Trinidad.
t
i He will address the conference
I
Tuesday and remain until Sunday
I to take part in the celebration of
Brazil’s 125th anniversary of inde
i pendence.
The return to the United States
will be aboard the battleship Mis
I
souri, with a possible stop at San
Juan, Puerto Rico. White House
press secretary Charles G. Ross
said Mr. Truman probably will be
back in Washington some time be
tween September 16 and 20.
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Dewey Advocates
Universal Military
Training
NEW YORK, (/Pi—Gov. Thomas
E. Dewey, in a speech prepared
1 for the American Legion conven
! tion’s opening session, declared
yesterday "It is our duty to pro
vide a program involving partici
pation by all able-bodied young
American men under universal
military training.”
Dewey’s statement was the first
indication of his stand on the con
troversial subject of universal
military training. The American
Legion long has been a staunch
advocate of such a training pro
gram.
The GOP 1944 standard bearer
also said that “for the defense of
the peace we must maintain a per
manent military establishment
adequate to the defense of this
country at all times and also suf
ficient to perform our obligations
to the United Nations.”
Dewey said that “ the hard fact
is that genuine peace seems fur
ther away than ever” and added
that “We are witnessing on the
world scene conditions which are
hauntingly like those which fol
lowed the first world war.”
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