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GDANSK, Poland, (VP)—Polish
shippers have agreed to ship 8,000 j
tons of fresh onions to the United |
Kingdom. *
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army
announced yesterday changes in
names—but not in functions of
four of its overseas branches, ef
fective Nov. 15.
The Alaskan deparament, is re
named "Headquarters, U.S. Army,
Alaska,” in charge of all army
troops and installations in Alaska, j
including the Aleutians.
The changes, the army said, are
to standardize the naming of
ground elements outside to U. S.
The new names do not change ex
isting unified commands.
RAVENNA, O. (/P) — Sheriff
George A. Shields yesterday said
a 29-year-old Sunday School
teacher had admitted in a verbal
statement drowning her two chil
dren late Monday in a half-filled
tub of scalding water. The officer
said the woman, Mrs. Edward Mc
Veigh, Jr., will be charged with
murder in the deaths of Malcolm,
5, and david 2 months, at nearby
Geauga-on-the-Lake.
OKLAHOMA CITY, (/P) — The
air force yesterday launched an
investigation of a flaming B-29
superfortress crash at nearby
Tinker Field that killed the co
pilot and radio engineer Monday
night and injured five other crew
men.
The huge bomber from Salina,
Kas., plowed into literally acres
of war-weary P-47 Thunderbolt;
fighters stored on the airdrome, J
bursting in flames and breaking
into four parts.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (/P)—A 26- j
year-old mother was held without
charge yesterday in the strangula- ,
tion death of her 3-year-old son.
A coroner’s jury ruled Monday
that the child died by strangula
tion at the hands of his mother,
Mrs. Letha Lake.
Police quoted Mrs. Lake as say
ing she felt “an urge to kill some
one” as she sat listening to the ra
dio and, after swallowing a lini
ment in an unsuccessful attempt to
end her own life, strangled her
son.
Montana University has won
two Pacific Coast conference
games and still has to face Cali
fornia. Southern Cal. has won five
with the U.C.L.A. game ahead .
Disregarding the fact the the
Grizzlies don’t play enough con
ference games to qualify for the
title Montana rooters have adopt
ed a slogan: “We gotta beat Mich
igan.” . . . Wouldn’t it be a heck
of a joke on them if Wisconsin
should knock off the big leaders
and earn the Rose Bowl bid?
LONDON, (A3)—The Labor gov
ernment’s drive to clip the meager
powers of the House of Lords roll
ed steadily toward fulfillment to
day, despite Winston Churchill’s
cries of “Dictatorship.”
The government’s whacking ma
jority in the House of Commons
trampled opposition to the mea
sure last night, 345 to 194, pushing
World’s Largest Airplane Is Airborne In Test
Howard Hughes’ mammoth flying boat, the world’s largest airplane, glides into the air at Long
Beach, Calif., as the millionaire pilot shot it down the harbor at 100 miles per hour. The takeoff
was unexpected as Hughes had announced he expected to taxi the ship only. Plane was airborne for
about a mile. W Wirephoto*.
Russia Made And
Exploded Atom
Bomb Last June
PARIS, (i'P)—The extreme right
ist newspaper l’lntransigeant, de
clared in a dispatch from Prague
yesterday that Russian scientists
exploded a small sample atom
bomb last June in Siberia.
The copyrighted article, written
by John Griggs, said one 12V£
pound bomb of a type being made
at “Atomgradn” deep in Siberia,
was exploded at 10 a.m., June 15
near the Amur River not far from
Lrkutsk. It said the explosion was
heard for 20 miles. Top Soviet mil
itary men were reported among a
group of 280 official witnesses.
The account declared that the
first test was made after the “mo
mentary disgrace” of Peter Kapit
za, award-winning Soviet nuclear
scientist, who was replaced by
Sergei Vavilov as head of the Sov
iet nuclear research organization,
known as “Service 126.”
<U. S. Sen. Brian McMahon (D.
Conn.>, former head of the Senate
House atomic energy commission, i
declared Jan. 27 he suspected Rus
sia was developing an atomic fis
sion plant beyond the Ural moun-,
tains. He cited at the time a news
report from the Soviet Union that
Kapitza had been sent to Siberia
as punishment for some crime.
McMahon said it “seems obvious
to me that a more likely explana
tion is that Kapitza is now busily'
at work behind the Urals con
structing an atomic fission plant.”)
I
Griggs’ dispatch quoted as au- j
thority “information transmitted
from Moscow” to “confidential'
sources.” Griggs said he was told ;
Russian scientists consider the,
Soviet Union “five years behind1
America” in development of pro-1
duction belt methods.
the bill through its decisive sec
ond reading and toward final en
actment.
The bill would reduce the time
the Lords may delay legislation
approved by the House of Com
mons from two years to 12 months.
Two Labor members, Ian Mikardo
and J. Parker, offered the Com
mons today an amendment to cut
this time still further to 6 months
Armistice Day
Services Held
Throughout U. S.
(By The Associated Press*
President Truman led the na
! tion yesterday in paying homage
to the men and women who gave
their lives for the United States in
times of war.
In observances in many cities
throughout the country marking
! the anniversary of the end of
world war one, military and civil
ian leaders stressed the theme of
preparedness as a means of insur
I ing peace.
The President arranged to lay a
j wreath at the tomb of the un
known soldier in the traditional
Armistice Day memorial services
at Arlington National Cemetery.
Detachments from the army,
navy and marines were assigned to
take part in the ceremonies spon
sored by the American Legion.
Speakers included secretary of the
navy John L. Sullivan, James F.
O’Neill, national commander of
the American Legion, and Mrs. L.
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ACCIDENTAL DEATH
VERDICT GIVEN |
The coroner’s jury which was
called into the death of army ser
geant W. R. Kendall sat on the
case through Monday night arriv
ing at a verdict of “accidental
death.”
The verdict was not concurred
in by all members of the jury as
one juror refused to sign the state
ment.
According to information gath-,
ered from reliable sources it was
learned that the army provost
marshal and military police went
to the residence of the deceased
shortly after the shooting and re
moved the body, the gun, and
moved furniture about the room
in which the body was found, be
fore notifying civil authorities.
The result was that the coroner,
district attorney and marshal’s of
fice were‘not able to view the evi
dence.
The coroner’s jury was “told”
how the “accident” happened by
the officers and men who removed
the evidence.
Officials Think
Red A-Bomb Story
Is “News Fishing*
(By Elton C. Fay)
WASHINGTON, l/P) — Many of
the strange dispatches and thun
derous speeches about atom bombs
coming out of Europe strike offi
cial Washington as primarily Rus
sian fishing expeditions for mili
tary information.
Also involved, well informed
authorities said privately today, is
propaganda, intended for local
Russian consumption as well as!
for the “cold war” of nerves.
Terming the fishing technique
an old standby in military intelli
gence, these authorities said it
works like this:
A rumor is planted at a point
where it will be picked up by some
newspaper, magazine or radio sta
tion. The idea is to get the rumor
into circulation and then see whe
ther it is denied or confirmed.
In the published denial or con
firmation by any official of an- |
other power, the rumor-planter,
hopes to glean some information.
In the case of the a-bomb, for
instance, Russia would like to
know:
1. How much the United States
knows about Russian progress or
lack of progress toward producing
an atom bomb. (In the spy trade,
this is “counter intelligence.”)
2. Any hint of United States'
progress in improving its own
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Scout Committee “Well ,
Satisfied" With Troop 666
“Well satisfied” was the verdict
of five members of Troop 666’s
committee after their inspection of
the troop during the regular Scout
meeting last night. The comm.ttee,
composed of John Hudert, chair
man; Bill Boucher, Lt. Stan Mor
gan, and Carl Glavinovich, was
augmented by Bud Harper and
Chris Roust. Bert Bell, the other
member of the committee was ex
cused because of work.
Field Executive Russ Apple pre
sented the committee with their
badges of office, following the in
spection and a game where the
committee formed one 't^am
against the Scouts.
2 Indian Villages
Sell Timber Rights
For $20,000,000
WASHINGTON OP)—Disclosure
that two Alaskan natives villages
have sold their claimed timber
rights on Tongass national forest
lands—lands which the depart
ment of agriculture proposes to
offer at auction Feb. 18 — was
made today by the national con
gress of American indians.
The rights were purchased by
the Timber Development Corpo
ration of New York for $20,000,000
and the firm will, according to
Mrs. Ruth M. Bronson, secretary
of the congress, “start logging up
there right away.’’
Lyle F. Watts, chief of the U. S.
forest service, said he had not
been informed of the sale, but
added, “We will oppose it.”
Watts said he has never heard
of the Timber Development Cor
poration.
Mrs. Bronson said the concern’s
New York representative is Henry
Cohen, In New York Cohen could
not be reached for comment.
The forest service chief said the
department will not permit cut
ting or sale of timber outside the
provisions of the Tongass timber
act which stipulates that all re
ceipts from such sales, as contract
ed by the forest service, be held in
trust pending determination of In
dian ownership rights.
No bids were received when the
Southeastern Alaska timber was
offered for sale by the forest serv
ice last October. Several compan
ies, however, are known to have
expressed interest in the February
auction.
The villages of Kake and Ka
saan were said by Mrs. Bronson to
have signed separate contracts for
$10,000,000 each with the Timber
Development Corporation. She
said the lumber is to be cut from
lands which official findings of
the interior department affirmed
as belonging to the Kake and Ka
saan natives.
The New York concern, she
said, will finance the installation
of capital equipment by the two
Indian municipalities, and will
pay for the lumber as it is cut.
The Indian villages will employ
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4 Jews Killed In
Jerusalem Fight
JERUSALEM, <#>)—Three Jew
ish girls and a youth were killed
today in a gun battle with British
troops surrounding a coastal plain
house, suspected of being an un
derground Irgun Zvai Leuvi hide
out.
Two other young Jews were
wounded in the encounter, be
tween Raanana and Hezliya.
Military sources at Tel Aviv
said 10 Jews were captured in a
raid on the isolated house where
the army was tipped the Irgun
was conducting “armed exercises.”
A British police sergeant was
killed and three other British po
lice officers were wounded by sub
machinegun fire while they sat in
front of a cafe on the Kingsway,
main street of Haifa.