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Sweden Takes
Steeplechase Race
Olympic Stadium, Wembley, |
I England. {JP)—Arthur Wint of Ja-!
maica won the four hundred me
1 ter dash in the Olympic track and
field games yesterday, defeating
his teammate, Herb McKenley,
and three Americans in the six-'
man final.
The big Jamaican stepped the
distance in 46.2 seconds, equalling
the Olympic record set by Bill j
Carr of the United States at Los
Angeles in 1932.
Mai Whitfield of Ohio State,
! winner of the 800-meter title and
bidding for his second Olympic i
championship, barely nosed out
Dave Bolen of Colorado for third j
place. McKenley was clocked in j
46.4 for second place. Whitfield
was timed in 46.9 and Bolen in
47.2.
Sweden made a clean sweep of
J the 3,000-meter steeplechase to
deal the final blow to Finland’s
I long domination of the distance
' events.
I Thure Sjoestrand, a powerful
blond running machine, took the'
I championship, followed by his
Swedish countrymen, Erik Elm
saeter and G. Hagstroem. The
three Swedes, spaced about 20
yards apart, jogged home far
ahead of the field.
The first five events of the de- j
cathlon also were down for deci- 1
sion yesterday. Despite a fore
noon drizzle which ended at mid-,
day, the crowd had reached 35,-1
000 before the completion of the 1
1 first two decathlon events, the
100 meter dash and broad jump. I
At the end of the 100-meter,
competition, the three American
'decathlon stars were well bunch-.
> ed toward the top of the list of 35
! men from 19 nations.
i
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Olympic Stadium, Wembley,
, England, </P>—Henri Ericksson of
Sweden won the blue ribbon 1,500
; meter run in the Olympic today
and Mrs. Fannie Blankers-Koen
of Holland captured the women’s
200 meter dash to become the first
I of her sex ever ot win three tit- :
: les.
Ericksson, a big, well-muscled
i Swede, surprised a rainsoaked
crowd of more than 50,000 by de
feating his countryman, the fa
vored Lennart Strand, in a fight
! down the stretch.
Finally, 10 yards from the tape,
Strand virtually gave up and was
almost caught by Willi Slijkhuis
of Holland. Ericksson’s time was
3:49.8, exactly two seconds off
the Olympic record set by Jack
Lovelock of New Zealand at Ber
lin in 1936.
The Netherlands champion was
timed in 24.4 seconds, which
stands as an Olympic record since
he race was run this year for the
first time.
Olympic Pool, Wembley, Eng
land, f/P> — Mrs. Vicki Manalo
Draves, a petite diving beauty
from Pasadena, Calif., became the
first double-crowned queen of the
women’s 1948 Olympic water
sports today when she won the
high platform diving champion
ship. She already had taken the
springboard diving title, becom
ing the first women in Olympic
history to win both diving crowns.
Patricia Ann Elsener, 18-year
old San Francisco girl, finished
runnerup in the high dive.
The Philippines contain 12 vol
canoes which have been more or
' less active in modern times.
Truman Flays
Congress For
Inactivities
(Continued from Pape One>
inet members to be given an op
portunity to testify before Wol
cott’s group.
Mr. Truman spoke out as GOP
leaders drove ahead with plans
for adjournment Saturday, or at
least by next Tuesday.
In making their early adjourn
ment plans, the Republicans have
ignored mos{ of the President’s
recommendations to the extra ses
sion.
Accusing committees of taking
no action on his program Mr.
Truman said:
Secretary of agriculture Bran
nan was prepared to offer a pro
gram “directed to the problem of •
excessive food prices;” ,
Secretary of commerce Sawyer
wanted to discuss corrections of
shortages of industrial materials;
Secretary of interior Krug had
a program to deal with distribu
tion and prices of coal, heating
oil and other fuels.
The House banking committee
refused to hear these three cabi
net members, the President said.
Likewise, Mr. Truman said, the
ways and means committee of the
House refused to consider an ex
cess profits tax he regards as
necessary “to offset the inflation
ary effects of the tax bill passed
last spring.”
He said Rep. Knutson 'R.
Minn.), the chairman of this com
mittee “has not even called a
meeting.”
The program which Republi
cans are preparing to handle be
BELLINGHAM, Wash. (A*)—
Two San Juan Island women
reckon they can claim some kind
of classroom commuting honors.
As the crow flies—and so do
they— Mrs. Mary Mordhorst and
Mrs. Lois Minsch travel 31 miles
each morning to their summer
classes at Western Washington
college here. Promptly after the
day’s classes are over, a local pi
lot flies them back to their Puget
Sound island Homes.
Both are Friday Harbor school
teachers during the rest of the
year. The advantages of air
travel to school, they say, are:
reduced food bills, eliminated
room rent, no week-long separa
tion from their husbands.
They haven’t missed a day.
They were late one day, though.
The pilot’s electric alarm clock
failed during a power cut-out.
fore their projected early quitting
time includes:
1. A GOP anti-inflation pro
gram limited to controls over time
payment buying and some tight
ening of bank credit through add
ed reserves.
2. A housing bill aimed at gov
ernment aid in producing more
homes in the $4,500 to $6,000
class.
3. A $65,000,000 loan to the
United Nations to build some of
the many structures needed for
the New York City headquarters
site.
Senator Taft of Ohio, chairman
of the Republican policy com
mittee told a reporter “there is a
good chance” that the entire pro
gram can be pushed through in
time to end the special session
this week-end.
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