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HOUSTON, (iP)—The old left
hander was flashing a $2,000
watch and was riding in a new au
tomobile today—Eddie Dyer had
found what his home town
thought of him.
The big and small of baseball
and the big and small of Texas
paid him tribute last night in a
testimonial dinner at which speak- |
ers lauded him for piloting the St.
Louis Cardinals to the world ser
ies championship.
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HIGHLAND PARK, N. J. (/P)—
A 21-year-old New Brunswick
Negro fighter, who turned to box-!
ing to help support his invalid
mother, suffered fatal injuries
last night in a four-round prelim
inary bout at Masonic Hall.
*The boxer, Billy Brown, died
shortly after being carried from
the ring when he had been knock
ed into the ropes by Mickey Logan,
of South Bound Brook, in the
third round. Brown weighed 164V2
and Logan 165. It was the first
fatality this year in a New Jersey
ring and the 11th in the nation.
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SEATTLE, f/P)—Eight officers
sftd men, the crew of a foundered
army self propelled barge, the
BSP 863, were rescued yesterday
by the coast guard cutter Clover
in Aleutians waters off Dutch
Harbor, the Seventeenth Naval
District announced today. The res
cue was made despite mountain
ous seas, fog, and winds of from
fXO to 70 knots and the barge was
believed to have sunk shortly af
ter.
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NEW YORK, (/P)—James Col
lins, object of an international |
hunt for questioning in the alleged
$900,000 Mergenthaler Linotype
Co., embezzlement, surrendered
today to district attorney Miles F.
McDonald in a restaurant two
blocks from the district attorney’s
office, McDonald announced. Col
ons walked into a restaurant:
where McDonald was eating, as
the search for Collins centered
thousands of miles away in Mex
ico City.
TACOMA, </P)—J. C. Morris, of
Anchorage, has purchased the 339
acre Ketron Island, lying off Steil
acoom City in Puget Sound, it has
been announced here.
price of the island, formerly
owned by the estate of J. W. Blan
ey of Los Angeles, was $69,700. j
The resort area has 70 cabins, and
grouse, quail, pheasant, deer and
wild goats are plentiful.
MOTHER OF A. E. LORD
CRITICALLY ILL
A. E. (Blackie) Lord, part
|wner of the Nome Grill, received
word that his mother, Mrs. Mary
I Louise Lord of Spokane, Wash
%p\£tion, suffered a heart attack
and is confined to the Sacred
Heart Hospital in that city. Mrs.
Lord is now 86 years old, and has
tnade her home in Spokane since
1887.
GERMAN CRUISER AT BOSTO N—The 18,640-ton German heavy cruiser, Prinz
Eugen, first large enemy ship to come to this country since the Axis collapse, lies alongside a pier at
the South Boston navy yard after arriving with a U. S. prize crew aboard.
Most Price And
Wage Controls
To Be Junked
(By Margin L. Arrowsmiih;
WASHINGTON, UP) — The ad
ministration is getting ready to
junk virtually all remaining price
and wage controls — and it was
learned today that OPA chief Paul
Porter plans to resign.
Only a final okay from Presi
dent Truman was reported neces
sary to strip away all remaining
price ceilings except those on
rents, sugar, syrups and rice.
Many other wartime controls,
such as those on wages, are ex
pected to disappear at the same
time.
Friends of Porter said he hopes
the White House decision “would
come quickly.”
They added that as soon as it is
announce Porter will go to the
White House for a private talk
with President Truman and offer
his resignation.
Porter was drafted from the
chairmanship of the Federal Com
munications Commission early in
the war to serve in a number of
key agencies. He took over the |
OPA when former administrator
Chester Bowles resigned last June.'
Friends of Porter said he had
been pressing for a clarification of
White House policy on remaining
price lids ever since President
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FRANK WHALEY APPOINTED
PRIVATE PILOT EXAMINER
Frank Whaley who was recently
appointed Private Pilot Examiner
by the Civil Aeronautics Adminis-1
tration, issued his first license yes
terday to Bob Jacobs, mechanic
for the Alaska Airlines, who is
now a licensed private pilot and
can carry non-paying passengers.
Chinese Release
Two U. S. Marines
PEIPING, (/Pi—Two U. S. Ma
rines, kidnaped 18 days ago by
Chinese Communists near Tangku
were released unharmed and re
turned to Tientsin last night, the
corps announced today.
They are T/Sgt. Jack Lane,
Hardin, Mont., and T/Sgt. R. C.
Fellows, Freeville, N. Y„ captured
Oct. 20, while duck hunting.
Neither had shaved or bathed in
the 18 days.
“Outside of the first day, our
captors gave us very good treat
ment,” Lane said. They merely
threatened us the first day. They
were irritated because one of their
patrols which tried to disarm an-!
other hunting party had been shot
upon.”
The two leathernecks were kept
on the move throughout the 18
days, although they never were
taken more than 25 miles from
Hsinhow, where they were cap
tured. They were moved from vil
lage to village on donkeys or in
small boats on canals.
“They gave us everything we1
could ask in the way of food if we'
knew how to ask for it,” Lane said
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but added that it sometimes was
difficult to communicate with the
Chinese.
The Marines said they were in- j
formed Saturday they would be|
released. When they were freed i
yesterday noon, they were given
a carton of cigarettes, 10,000 Chi
nese dolars ($2.50), and a paper1
“intended to explain our absence ■
and loss of property” to superior!
officers.
They were directed to a railway
station, where they boarded a
freight train for Tientsin.
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Monday, November 11,
stores will remain closed.
\avy Trying To
Ship Stock Feed
To Alaska
SEATTLE (i'P)—Efforts of the
Thirteenth Naval District to se
cure authorization to ship 1,000
tons of stockfeed to Alaska aboard
an LST were revealed today by
district headquarters spokesmen,
even as a third army supply ship
became entangled in the operator
union dispute which has tied up
proposed sailings of the army sup
ply ships Henry Failing and Au
gustin Daly and the proposed re
lief ship to Alaska, the SS Gromet
Reefer.
The move to send the stockfeed
north by LSTjfollowed Territorial
Governor Gruening’s report to
President Truman that dairymen !
may have to start slaughtering
their milk cows soon.
The governor, who passed
through Seattle last night enroute
by plane to Washington, D. C.,
said he would seek a personal in
terview with the president, if
necessary, to bring relief to Alas
ka.
“The strike has seriously af
fected every phase of Alaskan life
—'business, industry, labor. It is
wrecking Alaska’s entire econ
omy. Alaskans must have relief.
The latest army supply ship to
become tied up in dispute was the
Palisana. The dispute hinges upon
which group will select the licen
sed personnel to man the ships.
BABY DAUGHTER BORN
TO JOHN HUDERTS
Mr. and Mrs. John Hudert are
the parents of a tiny daughter
born yesterday at the M. C. Hos
pital, who weighed two pounds
six ounces. Both mother and child
are doing nicely.
Kai-Shek Gives
•'Cease Fire” Order
NANKING, (JP) — Chiang Kai
Shek today ordered all govern
ment troops to cease fire in a last
minute effort to win Communist
attendance at Tuesdays’ scheduled
opening of the National Assembly.
The order came at the height of
almost uninterrupted, year-long
government successes on China's
far-flung civil war battlefields
and appeared to represent a major
concession by Chiang.
There was no quick comment
from the Communists who, despite
repeated military losses, stubborn
ly had declined to negotiate a
truce except on their own terms:
restoration of all territory seized
by the government since the
quickly aborted January truce,
and recognition of political agree
ments reached early in the year
through General Marshall’s medi
ation.
Chiang’s ceasefire order follow
ed by only a few houz’s a two-day
series of conferences with Mar
shall and U. S. Ambassador Stuart.
The Communists asked time to
study Chiang’s two page state
ment. There was no comment from
Marshall’s headquarters.
The order instz*ucted govern
ment troops to cease fire “except
as necessary to defend present po
sitions.’’
, It was regarded as a skillful po
litical maneuver to foz’ce the com
munists into a position of accept
ing a truce or accepting responsi- *
bility for continuing the civil war.
The Generalissimo said the as
sembly definitely would convene
Tuesday and the government was
i-eserving delegate quotas for the
communists and other minor par
ties in hope they would partici
pate.
Bartlett Appeals
For Relief Ships
WASHINGTON. </P) — Delegate
E. L. Bartlett of Alaska announced
today he had apepaled to the
White House to order relief ships
to carry food to his Territory. He
said the situation “is getting des
perate" because of the west coast
shipping strike.
An appeal also came from Ter
ritorial Governor Ernest Gruen
ing, who said in Juneau he had
asked President Truman to au
thorize the use of army and navy
ships to carry relief supplies.
There was no immediate com
ment at the White House. Aides
said Gruening’s appeal had not
reached the President.
Bartlett’s statement said the
maritime strike had prevented
ships from departing for the Ter
ritory with the usual summer and
fall food shipments.
“The situation in the southwest
and interior of the Territory is
bad and the government ought to
send food shipments at once." he
said. ‘We have had no ships for
weeks and the bigger cities are
feeling the situation keenly.’’