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M AY S IN BRIEF
OKLAHOMA CITY f/p|—Thirty ;
pints of whisky provided deputy
sheriffs L. H. Kolb and Glen Rob- j
erts the punch to pinch a pair of ,
Oklahoma City men.
Then common pleas judge Evert |
Cri more fined the pinched pair I
-110. For operating a disorderly
house, the charges said.
Their names:
Robert A. Pincham, Jr., and ,
Robert a Pincham. III.
AMARILLO, Tex. (/P)—Because
Santa Clause and the stork some
times arrive the same day, there
was a Christmas birthday party
here Sunday.
Lewis Nordyke originated the
idea in his daiy column, “Random
Thoughts,” in the Amarillo Daily
News.
Last year 2,500 persons from
Amarillo and vicinity met in front
of Nordyke’s home to receive
birthday presents they usually fail
to receive because their birthday
date is celebrated at the same
time as Christmas.
The party was again on Nor- j
dyke’s lawn—and he furnished
the usual birthday cake and lem
onade.
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, 1/P)— ;
Booming 21-gun volleys opened j
the celebration of Emperor Haile
Selassie’s 57th birthday anniver- !
sary Saturday.
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SALEM, O. (fr)—A seven-year
old girl, unconscious 165 days, un
derwent an amputation of her left
leg today in -an effort by city hos
pital doctors to check an infection.
Donna Marie Saunders was
struck by a coal truck as she
boarded a school bus February 9.
A “Dimes for Donna” drive by
sympathizers has netted $3,97’.05.
WORCESTER. Mass. i/P) — .Dr
Wallace W. Atwood, 76, president
emeritus of Clark University and
a noted educator and geographer,;
died last night at his summer
home at Annisquah.
President of Clark from 1920 to
1946, he was the founder of the
Clark school of geography, which ,
he directed until his retirement.
During his 44 years as a teacher,
he was decorated by many foreign
countries and honored by many
scholarly societies throughout the
world.
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LONDON, (/P)—U. S. Ambassa
dor Lewis W. Douglas underwent j
a major operation today in the
hope of saving the sight of his left
eye.
The operation took place in
Middlesex hospital, where a spe
cialist removed a cataract which
formed after Douglas snagged his
eye with a fish-hook April 4.
Douglas is expected to remain in
the hospital about two weeks.
SEATTLE, i/P) — The Diamond
Cement will sail Wednesday on
her first voyage to Alaska under
the Alaska Steamship company
flag.
Captained by Howard Larsen,
the ship will call at Ketchikan,
Wrangell Petersburg, Juneau and
Haines. Principal item of cargo i
Sen. Taft Against
Forcing Europe To
Buy IJ. S. Goods
WASHINGTON, i/P) — Senator
Taft <R.-Ohio> cum? out Saturday
against a proposal to earmark
about $1,500,000,000 in European
recovery funds to buy American
farm surpluses.
Taft, who heads the Senate Re
publican policy committee, told a
reporter he is opposed to the com
mittee-approved amendment to
the $3,773,000,000 economic coop
eration administration mono y
bill.
The amendment, sponsored by
Senator McClellan iD.-Ark.» also
would require the army to buy
about $500,000,000 in surplus
farm products, freezing these and
the ECA funds against being used
for any other purposes.
ECA administrator Paul Hoff
man has contended the rigid sur
plus buying requirement on his
agency would hamstring opera
tions and force foreign countries
t otake cotton and other commo
dities they may not want.
Taft said he thought the amend
ment is “unwise.
“I don’t think we ought to be
enacting a farm relief program in
the bill,” Taft said.
The Ohio Senator added, how
ever, that he is likely to support
in Senate debate on the measure
two other amendments opposed by
Hoffman. The Senate bill will re
sume discussion of the bill today.
Senator Lucas of Illinois, the
Democratic leader, said he hopes
for a vote tomorrow.
Taft said he may back an
amendment sponsored by Senator
McCarran (D.-Nev.) which would
tie up $50,000,000 in ECA funds
for loans to Spain.
Bury Hero Of New
Georgia With
Military Honors
(By Ken Davis)
CLYDE, O. t/P)—Private Rodger
Young, who traveled half around
the world and died to make the
first team, rested Saturday in a
hero’s grave.
The infantry’s own hero reach
ed his final rest Friday in on elab
orate military service that stretch
ed from his home town of Green
Springs, Ohio, six miles away, to
McPherson cemetery in Clyde.
Rodger Young, who won the
Congressional medal of honor in
steaming New Georgia in the Sol
omons, never could quite make
the first team in basketball in
high school. He was too small.
He rose to sergeant in the rough,
tough infantry. But, air raids and
shelling lessened his hearing. So,
Rodger voluntarily gave up his
stripes. He was afraid his hear
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will be 3,700 tons of asphalt to be
discharged at Haines to be used
on the Alaska highway’s Haines
cutoff.
Alaska Steamship chartered the
ship from the Permanente Steam
ship Co.
Secret Diary
Caused Suspension
Of Two Generals
(By Marvin L. Arrowsmith)
WASHINGTON, UP)—A secrc
diary figured prominently in th"
Senate’s “five percenter” probt
Saturday with a hint it gave up
data partly responsible for su
pension of two top army procure
ment officers.
The bulky, loose-leaf book be
longed to James V. Hunt, one
time army colonel named by a
businessman as the one to whom
he paid $1,000 for help in seeking
a government contract.
Senate investigators talked
guardedly of the diary. But Sena
tor Hoev <D.-N. C.» indirectly ack
nowledged that it contained the
names of the two suspended ma
, jor generals and that data from
I the diary’s pages partly led to
their suspensions.
The two suspended army offi
cers are Maj. Gens. Herman Feld
man, the quartermaster general,
and Alden H. Waitt, chief of the
chemical corps. Army secretary
Gordon Gray relieved them of
duty temporarily, saying they had
failed to exhibit judgment “ex
pected of persons in their posi
tions.”
What touched off the investiga
i tion by Senator Hoye’s Senate ex
; penditures sub-committee was the
: disclosure by Paul Grindle, a
j Massachusetts manufacturer, that
he had entered into a five percent
' contract with Hunt for govern
i ment business Hunt might turn
| up.
Grindle was quoted in a copy
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Big Gorilla Loses
In Battle With
Black Panther
_
SPOKANE, Wash. UP) — The
cousin of Gargantua, a big, 300
pound gorilla, was whipped Fri
day night in a raging two-hour
battle with a black panther and
finally killed by bullets from his
trainer’s gun.
The panther, ape and a 600
pound lion were being exhibited
in separate compartments of a
large cage in a h*aveling wild ani
mal show when the cat slipped
under a gate into the gorilla’s 6x8
foot section.
Before a crowd of nearly 400,
the beasts locked in a fight to the
death while the lion roared con
tinuously in the adjoining com
partment.
The panther slashed, ripped
and chewed as the ape struck
sledgehammer blows with his
massive arms. Attendants tried
vainly to separate the crazed
beasts. Finally trainer Ruby Smith
shot and killed the gorilla, one of
whose arms was nearyl severed at
the shoulder.
Not uitl meat was tossed to the
cat could the ape’s carcass be
pulled from the cage. Chloroform
soaked rags helped quiet the fren
zied survivor, which escaped with
severe slashes about the head and
shoulders.
f Ian aii Slrikrrs
Vslv Truman To
Kml Dork Strike
(By Leif Ericks mi
HONOLULl* </Ps—Strikin (Tu
longshoremen appealed to Provi
dent Truman today t > end Ha
waii’s 84-day dock tie-up “ >n i‘
merits.”
Their appeal echoed a Washing
ton request by Senator Morse <R.
Ored, who told the Senate yester
day the strike may spread to the
world’s major ports. He assailed
Hawaii employers t r re oct ng
arbitration.
Morse added Harry Bridges’
: testimony before the'Senate labor
committee “satisfied me he was
following the line of the fellow
traveler.” But he continued, “the
way to handle left wingers is to
I give them an opportunity to prove
their case.”
The international longshore
men's and warehousemen’s union,
j which Bridges heads, asked Mr.
Truman to name a board of inqui
: ry with authority to settle the par
j aly/.ing deadlock. Similar requests
I for a Presidential board of arbi
i tration were made by the union
! and Morse June 27.
Morse said he expects the Ha
waiian legislature will pass strike
rending measures that will threat
en to spread the tie-up “to all
ports of America,” and possibly
| the “ports of the world.”
This could happen, the former
! West Coast maritime arbitrator
I said, if the legislature’s action
causes longshoremen and water*
i front workers on the Pacific Coast
! to refuse to handle shipments
from Hawaii.
Rabies Present
Among Dogs, Wild
Animals In Alaska
Due to the fact, that rabies are
becoming more prevalent in the
Interior of Alaska, the Headquar
ters, Alaskan Air Command, Fort
Richardson, Alaska, has issued an
i order to govern the transportation
of dogs and cats within Alaska.
1. In view of the presence of ra
bies among dogs and wild animals
in the Interim’ of Alaska and the
Northwest Territories of Canada,
particularly in the upper Yukon
and Kuskokwim regions, the fol
lowing procedures are established
for military personnel to govern
intra-Alaskan and through Can
ada to the ZI movement of dogs,
other members of the canine
group, and cats belonging to units
and members of this command.
2. No dogs, wild animals, or cats
will be transported by members
of this command from the main
land of Alaska to the Aleutian
Chain, from the upper Yukon and
Kuskokwim regions to areas south
o fthe Alaska Range, nor to or
through Canada to tho ZI except
in accordance with the provisions
of this directive.
3. The provisions of this direc
tive will not apply to the move
ment of Government-owned dogs
of land rescue units; however,
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News of the V oral
At A Glance —
Saturday, July 23, 1949
• By The Associated Press'
Winston Churchill promised
Britons today, if given the chance,
in, wuli lead them to victory
>ver communism and imminent
national bankruptcy.
The Conservative chieftain, who
was called to lead the nation
through its mo. - de\ i“a' ng war, .
said that under a socialist govern
men* which replaced his regime
in 1945 his country s facing an
economic collapse which would
“carry many other nations with
us into chaos and communism.”
Churchill, .-.peaking before 49,
000 persons at Wolverhampton
called for the election of a con
i servative government that would
“return to a system which pro
i vides incentives for effort, self
, denial, initiative and good house
keeping.
The 74-year-old leader said the
labor government had squandered
1 the reserves and resources of Bri
| tain. Even beaten Germany and
; Italy, he said, had made a better
postwar comeback than Britain
under the socialists.
The communist war machine in
j China is waging a major offensive
| endangering nationalist South
| China. Private reports from the
front indicated the communists al
j ready may have isolated Chang
j sha, Hunan capital 400 miles north
I of Canton. Canton is the present
nationalist capital but national
I ists may be forced to flee to the
I inland wartime capital of Chung
! king.
Nationalist leaders reported an
other nationalist general had gone
over to the triumphant commun
ists. They said Gen. Yi Chi-Chi
! commander in western Fukien de
j serted to the Reds on June 26.
A British delegate claimed in
I Geneva that his government has
i documents proving that forced la
bor is the established legal policy
i in Russia. The delegate to the U.
N. economic and social council,
Corley Smith, made public the
documents yesterday. He said they
■ were law- and regulations cover
ing the forced labor policy of Rus
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Second Dcatli.
In Nome Jail
In Three Days
Georgianna Lott, a native wo
man was found dead in the city
jail late Saturday evening about
45 minutes after she was placed in
the women’s cell.
It is reported that she died by
hanging, a piece of a mattress
cover having been used. This
makes the second death in the city
jail within three days; Alfred
Blatchford, 25 years old, having
died Wednesday night. Both
deaths were under similar cir
cumstances.
A coroner’s jury was hastily
call and deliberated during the
night, bringing in a verdict early
Sunday morning of strangulation
by person or persons unknown.