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NEWS IN BRIEF
CARACAS, Venezuela, i/P) — |
Homeless Venezuelans searched !
frantically Saturday for members
of their families missing since a
flash flood swept through Caracas
suburbs.
At least 20 persons were re
ported dead and authorities feared
the toll from Friday’s flood might .
run much higher. The flood, the
worst in Venezuela’s capital in
many years, caused damage estim
ated unofficially at $10,000,000.
LOS ANGELES, ,(/P) — Holly
wood’s former child stars are hav
ing nothing but trouble in divorce
courts.
Jackie Cooper, 27, who tugged
heartstrings 20 years ago in“Skip
py" and The Champ,” is the mar
ital breakup victim — following
Jackie Coogan, Shirley Temple
and Deanna Durbin.
Kis wife of five years, actress
June Horne, 30, won an uncon
tested degree Friday, charging
Co->per with cruelty.
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., (/P) —
Joseph Markel, 24, was booked for
disorderly conduct yesterday. He
was charged with directing derog
atory language at a fellow motor
ist. The other motorist was Berna
lillo County Sheriff John A. Flas
ka
LAUSANNE, Switzerland, UP)—
Rita Hayworth, the movie star
who became a princess by marry
ing Aly Khan, has come to Lau
sanne for the birth of her baby ex
pected in the next few weeks.
Rita and Aly arrived from Paris
Sunday and went into seclusion in
a hotel suite.
ST. LOUIS, UP)—A touch of flu
and need for some rest put Vice
President Alben W. Barkley’s fi
ancee in the hospital Friday.
But the wedding of the 71-year
old Barkley and Mrs. Carleton S.
Hadley is sitll set for Nov. 18.
Mrs. Hadley’e mother Mrs. Mes
tle Rucker, said “the telephone1
and the door bell have been ring
ing almost constantly since plans
for the wedding were announced.”
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, UP)—
The Czechoslovak health ministry
announced today a purge of the
nation’s libraries to eliminate
“pseudo-scientific books and un
healthy philosophical idealism.”
The communist-led government
has announced that henceforth
Czechoslovak science must hew to
the Soviet line.
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CAN^A, (/P)—Two U. S. 13th
air force fighter pilots today col
lided in the air over Luzon and
lived to tell about it.
The two F-51 fighters suffered
major damage when they brushed
each other doing a routine train
ing flight. Both pilots stuck with
their planes and landed them at
Clark Field Base.
The pilots were Lt. Harry E.
♦ Dugan of Norwalk, Calif., and Lt.
Charles E. Schreffler of Anderson,
Ind.
ST. LOUIS, (/P)—Vice President
Alben W. Barkley spent the week- ,
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U. S. Halts Sale '
Of Gold
—
WASHINGTON, l/P>—The cur
rent world financial situation has
caused a reversal in the 15-year
flow of gold into this country -and
has brought a U. S. crackdown on
dollar aid by the international
monetary fund.
Both developments, disclosed
over the week end, apparently
stem directly from the western
world’s financial dependence on
this country.
Officials said the U. S. raised a
go-easy signal on the outlay of
the fund’s dollars through fear
that the end of the Marshall Plan
aid in 1952 would find the 49
member organization without dol
lar resources.
While this was considered the
more important of the two devel
opments, the increase in U. S. gold
sales, compared with purchases,
was perhaps more startling. Offi
cials said foreign countries have
bought up enough gold from U. S.
stocks to cause a $108,000,000 dip
in the past seven weeks.
The major reason, they said,
appeared to be the persistent, re
peatedly-denied rumor that the
United States is planing to devalue
the dollar—which would raise the
dollar value of gold.
Officials said the failure of some
countries to heed secretary of the
treasury Snyder’s devaluation de
nials is costing them money. The
United States charges a 9-cents
per-ounce handling charge on gold
transactions, and there are insur
ance and shipping costs as well.
Interior Dept.
Flans Settlements
For Alaska
(By Vern Haugland)
Special Washington Service*
WASHINGTON, (/P)—'The inte
rior department is planning the
construction of a series of full
blown farm settlements in Alaska.
And the indications are, says in
terior’s assistant secretary William
E. Warne, that the Kasilof area on
the Kenai Peninsula may obtain
one of the first of these “installed
communities.”
Warne, newly-returned from
one of the most intensive tours of
Alaska ever taken by interior’s
top brass, told a reporter he found
interest in the development plans
keen throughout Alaska, “espe
cially among people who are try
ing to homestead land.”
He said studies of Alaska have
progressed far enough to demon
strate that the Kasilof area “with
out question” would lend itself to
development.
Five areas of about 60,000 acres
each—including the Kasliof area
—have been withdrawn from set
tlement pending the surveys to de
termine whether they would serve ,
as development project sites,
Warne said.
“The Dunbar site, near Fair- ]
banks, does not seem feasible and
we are considering withdrawing
our withdrawal,” he added.
“The farms we propose would
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USSR Celebrates
32nd Birthday
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(By The Associated Press*
Communists around the world
jioned Russia today in celebrating
the Soviet Union’s 32nd birthday,
the anniversary of the 1917 revo
lution.
In Moscow thousands of troops,
tanks and planes paraded for
hours today across Red Square.
From the reviewing stand atop
Lenin’s tomb the Soviet minister
of armed forces, marshal Alexan
der M. Vasilevsky, told his people
to “fight still harder for the fur
ther growth of the might of our
state.”
Bulgaria’s communist foreign
minister, Vladimir Poptomov, yes
| terday used Sofia’s celebration to
| hint his government soon might
1 try a former communist deputy
premier, Traicho Rostov, for al
leged plotting with agents of Yu
goslavia’s Marshal Tito, the U. S.,
and Great Britain.
Bulgaria’s government, said
Poptomov, is “unraveling proofs
that the Traicho Rostovists ana
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Predicts Many
Housing Units For
Anchorage Area
ANCHORAGE, (/R)—Two thou
sand more housing units for ad
ditional troops were predicted for
the Anchorage area last week at a
meeting of top military officials
and members of a government
housing investigation committee.
Those attending the session in
cluded Scott Donaldson, special as
sistant to secretary for air Sym
ington; Maj. Gen. Grandison Gard
ner, chief of the air force develop
ment board; Mellery Huster, New
York architect on Symington’s
staff, and their aides.
Alaska military leaders present
included Lt. Gen. Nathan F. Twin
ing, commander of the Alaska
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Break In Steel
Strike Imminent
WASHINGTON, UP) — A major
new break in the steel strike
seemed imminent Saturday, while
the government stepped in as
peacemaker between John L.
Lewis and the still-unbroken front
of soft coal mine owners.
Republic Steel Corp., the na
tion’s third biggest steelmaker, 1
made its 54,000 workers a pension
offer in Cleveland. The CIO united
steelworkers’ district dir e c t o r
there did not disclose the terms
but said:
“With <CIO president Philip)
Murray’s approval, we’ll accept
it.”
The No. 2 producer, Bethlehem
Steel, settled early last week.
Washington officials predic ted
that if “Big Steel”—United States
| Steel Corp. and its subsidiaries—
! gets into line, the back-to-work
1 march quickly will become nation
wide.
One of Pennsylvania’s major
producers, Lumens Steel Co.,
reached an agreement with the
union at Coatesville early Satur
day. Workers began filing back to
their jobs. Lukens employs some
5,000 men.
There were stirring on the coal
front, too. Cyrus S. Ching, tireless
1 chief of the federal mediation ser
vice, callen southern operators
here today to “explore all the an
gles” for settlement of the 48-day
coalfield shutdown,
i A hint of possibly sterner action
came from the White House party
which returned with President
Truman Friday night from his
speechmaking trip into the chilly
midwest.
Mr. Truman, some associates
said privately, soon will make a
final decision on whether to go to
court, under the Taft-Hartley in
junction procedure, to force a re
sumption of coal-digging. The
President himself would not talk 1
about either steel or coal.
WASHINGTON. (/P)—Hopes for
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liaiilrll Explains
His Sta iid Against
I)r\(kln|)tii<‘nt Bill
PETERSBURG. '/Pi — Congres
sional Delegate Bartlett said Sat
urday he opposes the present form
of the Alaska Development Corpo
ration bill.
He said it would be too high a
price for the Alaskans to pay for
investment capital. Bartlett met
here Friday with a sub-committee
of the House merchant marine and
fisheries committee. He said the
rest of the Congressmen in the
party feel the way he does about
the proposal.
To clarify the stand he took
against the measure in Juneau
Thursday, Bartlett said:
“While I knew little of the bill
in its drafting stage, and since
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Hot Election
Races Tomorrow
*By The Associated Press'*
Tomorrow is election day in
many parts of the nation. Voters
will choose one Senator, two mem
bers of the House, two governors
and a lot of local officials.
The hottest campaign battle is
reaching a climax in the State of
New' York. Former Governor Her
bert Lehman, a Democrat, and
John Foster Dulles, a Republican,
are fighting for a seat in the Sen
ate.
Lehman has the support of
many labor groups and President
Truman. Dulles, now serving a
tail-end term in the Senate, was
appointed by Governor Thomas E.
Dewey. Dulles has based his cam
paign in opposition to the Presi
dent’s Fair Deal program.
There is also a heated race in
New York City where Mayor Wil
liam O’Dwyer is seeking re-elec
tion.
Another fiery contest is in New
Jersey where Republican Gover
nor Alfred Driscoll is fighting a
strong Democratic opponent, El
mer Wene. Labor has split in the
New Jersey campaign. The AFL
has endorsed Wene. but the CIO
has attacked him.
There is a special House race in
California. The State of Virginia
is electing a governor. And there
are local contests in Ohio, Penn
sylvania, Kentucky and Connect
icut. Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburg
and Louisville are also electing
mayors.
NEW YORK The country’s
stock exchanges, including the
New York stock and curb ex
changes, will be closed tomorrow,
election day.
Because the federal government
will issue its monthly crop report
tomorrow, the New York and New
Orleans cotton exchanges will bo »
open, The New York wool and
produce exchanges also will re
main open, while other New York
commodity exchanges will close.
Grain markets, including the
Chicago board of trade, will be in
operation. The department of ag
riculture will issue its livestock
reports as usual.