Records Broken At
Los Angeles Meet
LOS ANGELES </P)—Speed and
muscle mixed with record-making
performances, market the ninth
annual Coliseum relays.
Pell-mel Patton and his Trojan
teammates from the University of
Southern Carlfomia provided the
speed.
Mighty Fortunre Gordien, with
a throw surpassing the American
discus record, furnished the mus
cle.
The Trojan 880-yard spring re
lay for the second time in seven
days bettered the world record.
They spun off the distance in 1
minute 24 seconds, with Patton,
the world’s fastest human, clocked
in 10 seconds from a running start
for his 220-yard anchor explosion.
Last Saturday at Fresno the
foursome of George Pasquali,
Ronnie Frazier, Norm Stocks and
Patton did the 880 in 1 minute
24.4 second. The world record is
1.25 seconds, set by Stanford in
1937.
Gordien, third in the Olympic
games last summer and former
N. C. A. A. and A. A. U. discus
champion, hurled the platter 180
feet 8 inches. This beat the Amer
ican record of 180 feet 2% inches
set by another Minnesota star,
Bob Fitch, in 1946.
Gordien hopes to break the
world record ' of 181 feet 8%
inches held by Italy’s Adolfo Con
solini.
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Ernest Bevin of Britain have ’ar
rived in Paris. They are holding
preliminary talks with French for
eign minister Robert Schuman
preparatory to the Big Four meet
ing with Russia’s Andrei Vishin
sky on Monday.
Deputies of the three western
power ministers are submitting
.recommendations to their chiefs
for final approval before the Big
Four conference convenes.
Well-informed French sources
said the report embraces a project
for a provisional semi-unified
German regime. It would provide
a committee that would be a liai
son between the West German
state and the regime being formd
in East Germany.
Nine of the 11 West German
States have ratified the Bonn con
stitution setting up a federal re
i public in West Germany. This
means that the constitution is ap
l proved by more than two-thirds
of the states required and the new
J federal state is expected to come
; into being in mid-July.
Communist forces ringed Shang
, hai today and cut off the be
sieged city’s air escape routes,
i Lungwha airport suspended oper
; ations. Great fires blazed across
the river to the east and north
where besiegers are on the attack.
Diplomats in Washington said
the next step in settling the Greek
civil war is up to the Russians.
They said that the United States
and Britain may hold the door
open to further talks if Russia is
! still interested.
Russia has proposed that the
United States, Britain and Russia
intercede to settle the fighting
between communist guerrillas and
the Athens regime. They would do
this by setting up a three power
j commission, withdrawing all aid,
I and supervising a free election.
1 The western powers replied that
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the matter is one for the United
Nations to settle and that they
would not act without the approv-1
al of the Athens government,
which has not displayed much
eagerness for the idea.
Monday, May 23, 1949
The Big Four council of foreign
ministers met in Paris today for
another attempt to settle the
thorny German problem.
Representatives of the United
States, Britain, France and Russia
assembled in a flag-festooned
pink marble palace for their sixth
meeting since the war and the
fourth on the German question.
There was neither optimism nor
pessimism among the delegates.
At almost the same moment the
new constitution for a West Ger
man government was proclaimed
in effect as delegates of the 11
States in the three zopes put their
signatures on it at Bonn.
This new constitution is expect
ed to strengthen the hand of the
western delegates in Paris, since it
envisions a new German govern
ment by mid-July.
The three western powers are
expected to press Russia for an im
| mediate consideration of Berlin,
torn by bloody rioting.
Secretary of state Dean Ache
! son and foreign ministers Robert
i Schuman of France and Ernest
Bevin of Britain sit down with
Russia’s Andrei Y. Vishinsky at
the conference table. The west
i agreed yesterday on unified plans
1 of action. The nature of the plans
. was not disclosed.
Germany alone was on the
agenda, although the related
problem of Austria -and other
questions may come up. It was the
i sixth meeting of the foreign min
isters council since the war and
the fourth on Germany.
Observers predicted the west
would seek to list the Berlin ques
I tion at the top of the docket on
; the ground that continued division
I of the former capital is a menace
to any future settlement for Ger
many as a whole.
Once there is agreement on Ber
! lin, observers declared, the con
ference can proceed to other ques
tions.
In Berlin itself western railway
strikers clamored for allied inter
vention in their “civil war” with
the Soviet-controlled railway
management.
Commanders of the U. S., Bri
tain and France in Berlin met at
the call of Brig. Frank L. Howley,
who said he wanted to discuss the
I "intolerable situation.”
Chinese nationalists said today
the crisis was approaching in their
stubborn defense of Shanghai. The
garrison command reported the
communists had been beaten back
all along the great city’s Whang
poo waterway to the sea. But, the
communique said, the' commun
ists are throwing in reinforce
ments.
The big Lunkwha international
airport south of Shanghai was re
opened to traffic today but opera
tions were on an hour-to-hour ba
sis.
The Chinese communist radio
charged five more U. S. warships,
four heavy bombers and “1,500
more American troops” had arriv
ed at Tsingtao, North China port
used as an American base.
An Americal naval spokesman
in Toyko described the report as
“untrue as far as we know.”
Two American soldiers, back in
Frankfurt after six months in
Czech prisons as “spies” said to
day beatings and threats had not
broken their spirits.
They were released yesterday
by Czech President Klement Gott
wald after strong American pres
sure had been exerted.
Kuskokwim Rises;
Evacuate Aniak
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shy, and the only way out is by
plane.
The Ladd field information of
fice said military planes were
forced to abandon bombing the
ice jam at Aniak when the ceil
ing dropped below 400 feet and
the visibility to nearly zero.
At McGrath, 220 miles upstream
from Aniak, both runways of the
big airport were under water and
the river still rising.
Flood dangers along the Yukon
were reported diminishing. Gale
na, site of an air force base, was
believed safe. At the village of
Beaver, water had dropped six
feet in 14 hours.
The ice was reported moving
steadily past Stevens Village,
where a big pileup of ice had been
feared.
Airforce planes parachuted Red
[Cross emegency supplies to Fort
Yukon, whose inhabitants were
stranded for the fourth night on a
i plot of high ground. They had
i been marooned there since the wa
i ters first started rising.
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Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Walsh re
I turned home today on the Pan
! American, after a lengthy visit
.covering several months during
which tiVne they visited with all
their children and grandchildren
in the States. They have been in
California and Canada and spent
, the last week in Fairbanks where
the Board of Regents of the Uni
versity of Alaska has been in ses
sion choosing a new president.
Mr. Walsh states that Terris
Moore of Cambridge. Mass., has
| been chosen out of over fifty can
j didates seeking the position.
Girl Seoul News
The Girl Scouts of Nome, after
paying all operating expenses and!
deducting taxes, cleared slightly
over five hundred dollars on their
Musical Revue and Bazaar. The
exact amount will be announced
when all of the outstanding ticket
receipts have been turned in.
The merchants of Nome were
most generous in their donations
of games prizes, and time did not
permit the disposal of all of the
prizes. It is hoped the Girl Scouts
will be permitted to run a games
table at the Pair in July and
thereby award the other prizes
and add a bit more to their camp
fund. There are still many desir
able articles to be given. The red
fox fur,donated to the Girl Scouts
by A. Polet. was won by Capt.
Marion Staudenmayer. Madeline
Mogg was the young * lady who
drew the winning number.
The following girls wereaward
j ed prize ribbons:
Embroidery—1st junior, Chris
tine Blatchford; 2nd junior, Helen
i Glavinovich. 1st senior, Juanita
\ Fagerstrom; 2nd senior, Gerald
S ine Fagerstrom.
Sewing — juniors: isi uiane
Swanberg, 2nd Suzanne Gallo
way. Seniors: 1st Mary Louise
Lyle, 2nd June Dunbar.
I Needlework — Juniors: 1st Su
zanne Galloway, 2nd Kay Coul
thard. Seniors: Margie Steinwan
del, 2nd Alice Miller.
Cake—Juniors: 1st Edith Mor
ton, 2nd Maureen Hudert. Seniors
1st Juanita Fagerstrom, 2nd Mary
Louise Lyle.
Cookies — Juniors 1st: Margie
Steinwandel, 2nd Carolyn Hynd
man. Seniors: 1st June Dunbar,
2nd Katherine Bjornstad.
Candy — Juniors: 1st Carolyn
Glavinovich, 2nd Diane Boucher.
Pastry—Seniors: 1st Katherine
Bjornstad, 2nd Donna Miller.
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