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NEWS IN BRIEF
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STRATHAVEN, Scotland, (/P)—1
A bulletin from doctors attending
Sir Harry Lauder said Saturday
there is no change in his condition.
He had a quiet night.
The 79-year‘old singing come
dian has cerebral thrombosis
(blood clot on the brain.)
STUART. Fla. (/P) — Here’s an
idea of the force of the Florida
0 hurricane wind in just one place.
It ripped the roof off a two
story building, flung it against the
roof o fa nadjoining building, and
then whirled it over to the city
hall where it damaged a corner.
The roof stopped finally—on top
of an automobile three blocks
away.
SEATTLE, </P) — Richard Tam
borski, 28, waited in the King
county jail Saturday for Chicago
authorities who will return him
there. He is wanted for question
ing in a June 25 Chicago holdup
slaying. He surrendered to the FBI
a week ago in Anchorage.
NEW YORK. f/P)—Rep. Frank
lin D. Roosevelt, Jr., (D.-N. Y.) and
Suzanne Verrin, blonde New York
socialite, obtained a marriage li
cense Friday. No wedding date has
been made public.
SOUTHAMPTON, England. (/P)
U. S. ambassador Lewis Douglas
got good news about his injured
left eye Saturday: its sight is re
turning.
Dr. E. C. Zorab took a bandage
and dressing off the eye and test
ed it just before Douglas boarded
the Queen Mary to attend the U.
S.-British dollar talks in Washing
ton Sept. 7.
Douglas snagged the eye with a
fishhook while flycasting April 4.
BANSKA BYSTRICA. Czecho
slovakia, (/P)—A three-day cele
bratio nof the fifth anniversary of
the Slovak uprjsihg against the
Nazis began here Saturday with
pledges of loyalty to Russia and
Prime Minister Stalin.
i
SITKA, Alaska, (/P) — Owner
William J. Wagner announced Sat
urday that construction is expect
ed to start in mid-September on
the Alaska Broadcasting company’s
new radio station here.
This will be the company’s sixth
station in the Territory. Others are
KFQD, Anchorage; KFRB, Fair
banks; KING, Juneau, KTKN,
etchikan; and Kibh, Seward.
NEW YORK </P)—Funeral serv
ices for Charles D. Hilles, 82, one
time assistant secretary of the
treasury and Republican national
chairman who died Saturday, will
be held here Wednesday.
Hilles, who came from an Ohio
farm and rose to prominence in
the arministration of President
William Howard Taft, died at
bis summer home at Speonk, N. Y.
NEW YORK, </P)—Movie-goers
are going to love this one.
Its a new noiseless, rustle-proof I
popcorn bag. Production of the j
bag was announced yesterday by |
the Grand Bag and Paper Co.
And it doesn’t stoy with just be
Truman Pledges
U. S. Cooperation
In British Crisis
(By Ernest B. Vaccaro)
PHILADELPHIA, </P) — Presi
dent Truman pledged full Ameri
can cooperation to crisis-ridden
Britain today as part of a great
effort by the world’s free nations
to achieve lasting prosperity and |
peace.
In a sober summary of the in
ternational economic situation, Mr.
Truman declared that a world
trade “seriously out of balance”
has posed problems “which affect
all of us, and in the solution of
which we all have a common in
terest.”
He promised this country’s
“friendliness and helpfulness in
keeping Britain on its feet in a j
world suffering from “the terrible
aftereffects of the war” and from
Russia’s hostility to European re
covery.
And he held out an offer of
“mutual concession and coopera
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Atlantic Hurricane
Blows Itself Out
CHARLOTTE, N. C. (VP) — The
big hurricane was blowing itself
out today.
It turned back to the northeast
| in North Carolina and Southern
Virginia in a dying effort to re-1
turn to the Atlantic Ocean where
it was spawned a week ago.
The howling monster which rip
ped into Florida’s gold coast on the
east side Friday, cutting a multi- •
million dollar damage swath, was [
described by weathermen as just j
another heavy windstorm today.
One life was lost in Florida and ;
one in Georgia.
A preliminary survey brought
damage estimates varying from
$40,000,000 to $30,000,000.
The New York metropolitan !
area was battered briefly by 70- j
mile-an-hour winds today as the >
hurricane flicked north. The wind
soon subsided.
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American Legion
Opens Convention |
PHIL ADELPHIA, — The
American Legion opened its 31st,
annual convention today with the1
fight against communism—in Chi
na, particularly shaping up as the
No, 1 issue.
What to do about communism
and wheer and when to do it are
questions that several Legion com
mittees have been wrestling with
in pre-convention sessions—mostly
behind closed doors.
The four-day meeting is one of
the l^iggest in Legion history. The J
fi,500 delegates and alternates rep
resent more than 3,000,000 Legion
naires in some 17,000 posts. They
will discuss the pros and cons of
some 1,000 resolutions.
ing quiet. 1
The soft, cloth-like paper is also j
porous, so it can’t be blown up
and popped or filled with water
for balcony bombing raids.
Many Attend
Mental Health |
Meeting Friday
Friday afternoon a federal gov
ernment investigative team arriv-1
ed frorr* Anchorage to study Alas
ka’s mental health conditions. |
They have been in Alaska since
August 15th for the purpose of,
studying on the ground the present
methods of committing, detaining
and transporting persons commit
ted to Morningside Hospital in
Portland, Ore.; to investigate the
feasibility of setting up and oper
ating one or more modern mental
health clinics and to determine
whether such clinics would oper
ate to reduce the number of pa
tients which must now be institu
tionalized; to study and evaluate
the need for construction of a
complete psychiatric hospital in
Alaska’to take the place of Morn
ingside Hospital.
After the investigation and
study of the mental health prob
lem they are to make recommen
dations for immediate changes in
present operations which may be
desirable and practical to improve
the treatment of Alaskan mental
patients and to develop a sound
long-range program to provide the
best possible treatment for mental
patients in Alaska.
In the party were Dr. Winfred
Overholser, supt. of St. Elizabeth’s
Hospital; Dale Cameron, assistant
director of the National Institute
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Tito Slated To Be
Assassinated
BERLIN, (/P> — Western Allied
intelligence officers in Berlin re
ceived fresh reports today that
Soviet Russia will attempt to li- j
quidate Premier Marshal Tito of |
Yugoslavia within six months.
They said these reports, which
have circulated among Germans
friendly with Soviet officialdom ;
in Eastern Germany, stressed that |
Tito’s assassination or a Russian
inspired internal revolt are the
most likely prospects.
The reports cast doubt on specu
lation that Moscow would lead
Soviet satellites in southeastern j
Europe in a direct military attack
against Yugoslavia.
—,
Rescue 84 From
Sunken Sub
HAMMERFEST, Norway, (/P)—
The rescue of 84 men from the ex
plosion-riven U. S. submarine Co
chino was hailed by veteran Nor
wegian sailors Saturday as a mas
terful feat of seamanship.
Most of the 3,000 citizens of this
North Cape town, seaf arers
among them, turned out in rain
and wind to welcome the survivors
and the men of the submarine
Tusk, who saved them from death
when the Cochino went down Fri
day in rough Arctic seas.
Seven men were lost. These
were a civilian technician aboard
the Cochino and six of the Tusk’s
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complement.
Hurricane Does
Terrific Damage In
Southern Florida
MIAMI, Fla. (yP)—A devastating
tropical hurricane left hundreds
homeless and caused property
damage estimated at many millions
of dollars Saturday as it swirled
across Florida to the Gulf.
The storm cut a wide swath of
destruction on its way across the
peninsula after pounding the east 1
coast and searing the Lake Okee
chobee region.
It swept through Florida’s rich
citrus belt and was last reported '
by the weather bureau over Pasco
county on the edge of the Gulf of
Mexico above Tampa.
Stuart Red Cross disaster offi
cials reported at least 500 home
less in the east coast city.
At West Palm Beach the Red
1 cross estimated more than 2,000 of
the citys 7,000 homes had been
damaged. Two companies of na
tional guardsmen patrolled the
, streets to prevent looting of stores
j whose windows had been smashed,
j West Palm Beach sheriff John R.
Kirk said they were needed to curb
■ vandalism in the city’s badly hit
business district.
A number of bridges were im
I passable because of washouts and
! wind damage.
Two bridges were impassable
around Lake Okeechobee. But the
lake itself—big killer of the 1928 !
hurricane—behaved like a lamb as
the hurricane swept past. U. S.
army engineers said water was
well below the danger level. That
took the pressure off at the start.
Stuart reported six casualties
and Fort Pierce two. The only
death to date was a swimmer
drowned off Miami Friday.
Red Cross and national guard
units teamed up to evacuate 60
storm refugees in West Palm
Beach when winds whipped off
the roof of a hurricane shelter.
Estimated 100 mile per hour
broke a skylight and blew off a
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Investigating i
Gen. Vaughan's
w
Bank Accounts
” i
(By Marvin L. Arrowsmith)
WASHINGTON. </P) — Senator j
Hoey »D.--N. C.) said Saturday any '
adverse testimony regarding gov
ernment officials in the five per
center inquiry will go to their su
periors—except in the case of iVIaj.
Gen. Harry H. Vaughan.
Hoey told reporters about that
after disclosing that “ in a mea
sure” Senate investigators are
looking into the bank accounts of
Vaughan, who is Mr. Truman’s
military aide.
A special sub-committee headed
by Hoey is checking on whether
improper influence has figuied in
the handling of government busi
ness. Vaughan is scheduled to tes
tify when the public hearings are
resumed tomorrow. His name has
come up at the inquiry nearly ev
ery day.
In reply to questions, Hoey said
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News of the W orld
At A Glance —
Monday. August 29. 1949
<By The Associated Press)
Britain's labor cabinet met to
day to put the finishing touches on
its master plan for dealing with
the country’s dollar crisis.
When finally revised by the cab
inet, the plan is intended to serve
as a work sheet for the British
delegation at the British Canadian
American dollar conference start
ing in Washington, Sept. 7.
The Russian-Yugoslav dispute
was being watched closely in the
capitals of the world.
According to information reach
ing Washington, Prime Minister
Stalin’s grip on Russia’s commun
ist satellite states has been sharp
ly shaken by his row with Premier
Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia.
The satellite countries are re
I ported to have encountered econo
j mic difficulties and large groups
of the people are discontend. Some
political factions in those coun
tries are said to be attracted by
Tito’s success in defying Moscow.
Russians announced Echa, the
economic organization of Europe's
communist nations, met in Sofia,
Bulgaria, last week.
Tito was expelled from the com
inform (communist international
information bureau) more than a
year ago for engaging in what
Moscow regarded as nationalistic
deviations from orthodox com
munism. Since then other com
munist nations have engaged in an
economic boycott of Yugoslavia.
Today Belgrade, Tito’s capital,
was swept by a fiood of rumors
about moves and countermoves in
the increasingly heated war of
words between Russia nad Yugo
slavia. The rumors were denied
by Yugoslav government spokes
men.
One spokesman described as
only a rumor that three Soviet
mechanized divisions have entered
Hungary from Romania and are
believed near the Yugoslav fron
tier.
Chinese communists drove to
positions 170 miles north of Can
ton, refugee capital of the nation
alist regime. The Red thrust car
ried to the outskirts of Jucheng.
A revolt which broke out in Bo
livia Saturday still was in prog
ress today. Rebels at Cochabamba
defied government bombs and
loyal troops marching against
them and called on the rest of the
population to help them.
The uprising was engineered by
violently nationalist elements of
both the army and the civil popu
lation. The middle-of-the-road
government of acting President
Mamerto Urriolagoitia said the
outlawed NRM 'National Revolu
tionary Movement* sparked the
Uprising.
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Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Brunner
arrived from the States yesterday
enroute to Koyuk where they will
teach school for the ANS for the
coming term.
Elmo Miller of the ANS here
left on a business trip yesterday
for his department which will
take him to Juneau and Sitka.