Dog Goes AWOL;
Gets Busted
DETROIT, «/P)—Sgt. Rags, the
¥ dog that went a.w.o.l., was busted
to corporal today.
Rags, mascot of the 610th ord
nance battalion, wandered off last
week from his master, former
Sgt. William Relph.
The old airedale had been
picked up in the blitz of Wey
mouth, England, and later fol
lowed his unit across France, Bel
gium, Holland and Germany.
• iRelph and other members of the
610th scoured the city, hoping tc
find Rags in time for a re-union
of the battalion scheduled here
this week. Rags showed up Sun
day. But while he’ll make the re
"MOTHER LYLE"
TAKEN TO HOSPITAL
Emma Lyle, known to her
many friends as "Mother Lyle"
has been taken to the hospital for
a few days for medical care as
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I she has not been feeling well.
TOM KEATING COMPLETES
SEASON HERE
Tom Keating, local manager for
the Alaska Steamship Co., de
parted for headquarters in Seat
tle, having closed the local office
with the departure of the last
boat, the Jumper Hitch.
union all right, he’ll be a two
striper instead of a three-striper
when he meets his 900 buddies
again.
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Tuft Anri Stassen
Both Deny Any
Joining of Forces
WASHINGTON, i/P> — Expres
sions of mutual respect between
Senator Taft <R.-Ohio> and for
mer Gov. Stassen of Minnesota
hinted yesterday that in a pinch
they might consolidate their
strength at the 1948 Republican
convention.
Despite vigorous • denials from
both camps that there is any
working agreement, a new air of
Taft*Stassen friendliness has de
veloped recently which may have
a direct bearing on the campaign- I
ing for the GOP Presidential nom
ination.
Taft and Stassen backers ap
pear anxious to remain on good
terms with each other for two
very good reasons:
1. Each camp frankly thinks
the other’s principal has no chance
to win the Presidential nomina
tion and hopes to gather in the
major share of his delegates when
he falls by the wayside.
2. Each camp concedes private
ly it needs the other’s help to halt
the expected drive of Gov. Dewey
. of New York to obtain the nomin
j ation again.
Stassen has said he would not
be interested in running with
j Dewey.
Taft has kept publicly silent
about the New Yorker, but he has
told associates that he appreciated
| Stassen's action in indorsing the
Taft-Hartley labor bill just before
Congress enacted it over Presi
dent Truman’s veto. The Ohio
i Senator has noted to friends that
Dewey said nothing at the time.
The unspoken Taft-Stassen ac
cord which thus has grown up
may result in some careful man
euvering to keep out of each
j other’s way politically until the
chips are down at the Philadel
phia convention.
Taft, for instance, may elect
not to enter any preferential or;
’ maries outside his own state, al
though backers say that any such
decision will hinge more on whe
ther he feels he can get away
from Congress long enough to
campaign than on any considera
tion for Stassen.
On the other hand, Stassen,
whose campaign calls for taking
in practically every other primary
may stay discreetly out of Ohio.
| Taft’s future course is expected
to be determined to some extent
i at strategy conferences he nas
booked with his associates m
Ohio this week.
Stassen, already formally
! launched with the announcement
j of his candidacy, will get a sec
* ond start with a Nov. 24 rally in
j Milwaukee. Aides explained that
this will open his active cam
paigning, ending what they called
j- t"ne “build-up” phase.
I Impromptu Movie
1 Fit*e Photographed
HOLLYWOOD, (/P»—There was
no press agcntry about a fire at
Twentieth Century-Fox studios
yesterday. Four studio employees
j and three city firemen suffered
; burns or smoke exhaustion, 12
companies fought the blaze and
the studio estimated damage at
$200,000. A huge back drop, 58 by
220 feet, (^ught fire accidentally
and fell into an artificial lake
during the fire.
There was one Hollywood
touch: cameramen, ready to film
a scene, photographed the fire in
stead for probable use in another
movie some day.
Father Kills One
Daughter; Injures
Second;Takes Acid
NEWTON, Mass. </P) — A 15
year-old Newton schoolgirl was
found shot to death, her 18-year
old sister critically wounded and
their father dying of what Sgt.
John H. Sheridan said was self
administered poison in their home*
early yesterday.
Sheridan said that the father.
Fiore d'Antonio, 42, apparently
shot the younger girl, Nina, to
death and beat the elder, Mary,
with a shotgun butt or hammer.
He was found unconscious in the
cellar of "their home.
Sheridan reported that a partly
filled bottle of acid was found
near d’Antonio’s uncons c i o u s
form.
A hammer and butt of a shot
gun were found on the kitchen
floor near the body of the dead
girl, Sheridan said, and the bar
rel partly buried in the cellar.
Both d’Antonio and the elder
daughter were reported in critical
condtion at Newton-Wellesley
j hospital.
A son, Gino, 16, found his two
sisters lying on the kitchen floor
when he returned home from £
movie. He summoned the Newtor
Clayton Quits .
State Department
WASHINGTON, (ffi) — Willi m
L. Clayton quit today as und -
secretary of state for economic
affairs by agreed to stand by as r- 1
i unpaid adviser to the secretary of
!state.
His wife’s health was given by
Clayton as the reason for his res
ignation, effective at the close o
business today.
President Truman, accepti g
the resignation with reluctance
expressed ‘‘great satisfaction” o\
Clayton’s assurance of his willin -
, ness to return to public service if
Mrs. Clayton’s health improves
, sufficiently to permit him to do
so.
Clayton wrote Mr. Truman Oct.
7:
“For at least three or four yeais
Mrs. Clayton has been very anx
ious, for reasons of health, to re
turn to our home in Houston.
1 “Endeavoring to meet her wish
er, I have on several occasion'.
I starting as far back as four yea: ;
ago, tendered my resignation.”
Mr. Truman told Clayton th..i
his letter left him “no alternative
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: but to acquiesce.”
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