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NEWS IN BRIEF
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HOLLYWOOD (/Pi—Dan James j
Daily, III, eight pounds, two
i ounces, was born yesterday to film
actor Dan Dailey and his wife,
Elizabeth. It is their first child
LAKE SUCCESS. N. Y. (/Pi —
Pleading guilty to speeding charg
es, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., and
his wife, the former Ethel DuPont,
were fined $15 each last night.
They appeared before police jus
tice William Hinrichs on charges
that they drove through the vil
lage at 52 miles an hour two
months ago.
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JUNEAU, (/Pi—Territorial Dele
gate Robert Bartlett said today
the federal government is spend
ing more than 62 million dollars in,
Alaska this year—an increase of
11 million dollars over 1946 ex
penditures.
Describing the government as
Alaska’s No. 1 employer, Bartlett
said he believed the situation will
continue as long as relations with
Russia remain unsettled. War de
partment spending, he said, heads |
the list.
WASHINGTON (/P)—The farm
er is getting about 70 cents of ev-,
ery dollar the consumer spends
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now for meat compared with 51
cents in 1939, the last pre-war
year, agriculture department fig
ures showed today.
The department said, however,
that it has little definite informa-1
tion as to how the remaining 30'
cents is divided among others who'
share in the dollar, such as the I
commission agents, who handle j
livestock sales, the packer, the
wholesaler, and the retailer.
SOFIA. Bulgaria (JP)—'The Bul
garian supreme court has rejected
the appeal of Nikola Petkov. Ag
rarian opposition leader sentenced
a month ago to be hanged on a
charge of conspiring against Pre
mier Georgi Dimitrov's Father
land Front government.
A defense plea for clemency
was filed today with provisional
President Vassil Kolarov. If this
plea fails, Petkov will be hanged.
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SEATTLE, (/Pi—Mrs. Jessie A. j
Baker, 77, who came to Seattle in
1889 and later lived for 29 years
in Juneau, died here last night af
ter a six-month illness.
She went to Juneau in 1916 and
remained until two years ago. Her
husband, one of Seattle’s first
linotype operators, died in 1899. j
Mrs. Baker is survived by three!
daughters—Mrs. Monte Snow and .
Mrs. John L. Ihlers, both of Seat-1
I
tie, and Mrs. G. Emil Krause, An
chorage,
k BOSTON, (/P)—Three men, 4n- j
eluding a lifer and two long term,
prisoners escaped mysteriously,
from heavily fortified Charles
town state prison early today and
two were recaptured shortly after
within a half mile of the institu
» tion.
Warden Francis J. E. Lanagan
said they got out of their cell in
some mysterious manner, made
their way to a roof, dropped to a
prison yard and scaled a 22-foot
wall.
Hurricane Hits
Florida; Millions In
Damage Done
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ATLANTA, Ga. </P)—'The great
Atlantic hurricane, which ripped
across south Florida Wednesday,
had curved northwest and was ex
pected to hit west Florida between
Apalachicola and Pensacola with
120 mile winds late last night, the
weather bureau reported.
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PENSACOLA, Fla. (£V-Fright
ened residents boarded up homes
and business buildings along Flor
ida’s vulnerable west coast before
an advancing hurricane, and Gov.
Millard Cfeldwell’s office announc
ed that President Truman had de
clared a state of emergency in
Florida.
The announcement came a few
hours after the weather bureau
disclosed that the treacherous
tropical storm had curved sharp
ly after inflicting multi-million
dollar damage upon southern Flo
rida, and was headed back toward
the mainland from the Gulf of
Mexico.
Wednesday, the unpredictable,
uncontrollable monster ripped a
path of destruction across Florida's
most famous playground and
farming section. It roared inland
with 120-mile winds between Mi
ami and Palm Beach, and emer
ged into the Gulf near Fort Myers
with scarcely-diminished velocity.
Weather advisories placed the
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Guerrillas Defy
Anglo-American
“Ty rants"’
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ATHENS, (/P) — Governm e n t
planes today scattered leaflets!
over northern Greece offering
pardon to Guerrillas who surren
dered within 30 days, but a guer
rilla radio station ridiculed the1
amnesty offer.
It was officiallly reported in
Athens that guerrilla leaders were
taking ruthless measures to pre
vent members of their leftist
groups from giving up.
The guerrilla broadcast said the
new liberal Premier, Themistak
les Sophoulis, was continuing the1
work of the Germans and of John
Rallis. a puppet Premier during
the occupation, and declared:
“Democratic Greece’s reply to(
the Anglo-American tyrants and
to their contractor Sophoulis, is
that she will not surrender her
arms and is calling on them to
come and take them.”
Meanwhile, 1,400 political de
portees released by the govern
ment from concentration camps on
the island of Ikaria arrived today
at Piraeus, the port of Athens, and
were set free. Six hundred others
are expected to arrive soon. Since
the Sophoulis cabinet took office,
approximately 4,000 deportees
have been released.
The amnesty leaflets are in line
with a law passed by parliament
last Saturday at the request of
Sophoulis. Planes began the dis
tribution Wednesday and are to
continue it through next week.
Landslides, Floods !
Cover Much Of j
Japan; Many Dead
TOKYO, f/P» — Floods drove
Japanese from five densely-pop
ulated districts of Tokyo yester
day and even higher crests were
feared in the wake of a typhoon
disaster which has caused an es
timated 3,564 casualties.
American troops in assault
boats rescued thousands of refu
gees from rooftops and dikes on
the flooded plain west of Tokyo.
Air force planes dropped food to
some of those beyond reach of
boats.
The army was in the field for
the second American disaster re
lief operation of the occupation—
one which challenged its resources
as much as last year’s major
earthquake in southern Japan.
As the muddy water swirled
through the northern and eastern
districts of Tokyo, the first caval
ry division reported new floods of
serious proportions were expected
to hit the city shortly.
Upstream, landslides added to
the horrors of four days of lashing
rains and floods. A first cavalry
observer at Kumagaya, 50 miles
northwest of Tokyo reported light
but threatening rainfall was be
ginning there in that heart of the
disaster zone.
Kyodo news agency and the
newspaper Yomiuri said that
forther north, Mount Akagi in
Gumma prefecture let go with
slides of tons of rock, mud and
sand that buried most of Tako and
two nearby villages, killing 182
Japanese and injuring 185.
Yomiuri said out of 600 houses
in Tako, 112 collapsed and the rest
were covered with mud and sand.i
Huge boulders slid down in an'
avalanche on the villages.
“Use The Atom
Bomb On Russia? !
Yes*' Says Earle
NEW YORK, (TP)—Some of thej
men described as “warmongers”,
yesterday by deputy foreign min-;
ister Andrei Y. Vishinsky of Rus
sia said he was mistaken or being
“malicious,” but one. George H.
Earle, III, said that if “he means
I advocate using the atom bomb
on Russia, he is absolutely right.”
“I know implicitly that the mo
ment they get the atom bomb they
are going to bomb us,” Earle, for
mer governor of Pennsylvania,
told a reporter last night at his
home in West Grove, Pa. “In
atomic warfare the first punch
wins. One atom bomb detonated
on Washington would leave this
country writhing like a great
snake with its head cut off.
“From eight years spent in the
countries surrounding Russia I
know they are completely deter-1
mined to wipe out the only coun
try that stands in their way to
world domination. All other issues!
in the world tody are absolutely;
trivial. I am highly honored that
Mr. Vishinsky thinks me a war-!
monger.” . !
France And Italy
Want Over Billion
WASHINGTON, (fP)—The pos
sible cost of “stop-gup” financial
aid to western Europe became
clearer today with the disclosure
that France and Italy together
want nearly $1,100,000,000 during
the next six months.
Government officials who dis
closed this said the French tenta
tively estimate their dollar re
quirements at approximately seven
hundred million during the period
—but double the Italian figure.
Both of these countries have fur
nished financial reports to the
state department to help the ad
ministration determine how much
emergency aid may be needed be
fore the long-range Marshall plan
can be put into effect.
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The department currently is
screening the French and Italian
figures to determine whether and
by how much they can be trim
med.
Top policy framers met until
nearly midnight last night for the
I third time this week, presumably
in an effort to reach some conclu
sion that can be presented to Pres
ident Truman when he returns
from his South American visit to
morrow.
LaGuardia
Critically 111
NEW YORK, (/P) — Fiorello H.
LaGuardia, 64, is in a ‘downward’
trend in his grave illness, his phy
sician reported yesterday as New
Yorkers prayed at the request of
Mayor William O’Dwyer for the
little man who was the city’s
mayor for 12 years.
Dr. George Baehr said the for
mer mayor and director general of
UNRRA organization is in a deep
sleep. The general trend is down
ward and the immediate outcome
is as yet unpredictable.’’
An operation performad on La
Guardia in June confirmed a pre
vious clinical diagnosis of an in
fected condition in the pancreas.’’
Dr. Baehr said. LaGuardia col
lapsed Tuesday night and has re
mained at his home.
His condition was reported at
his home this morning, ‘‘he faces
an immediate change for better or
for worse.’’ Dr. George Baehr said
in a bulletin that the former mayor
and director general of UNRRA
remained in a deep sleep‘‘through
out the night, adding, ‘‘there has
been no material change in his
pulse, temperature or respiration.
. . . No immediate change for bet
ter or for worse is anticipated.”
KENNEWICK, Wash. f/P)—'The
hundreds of central Washington,
visitors to the Kennewick Grape
Festival, three days of parades,
music, contests and exhibits, look
ed forward today to the arrival of
Mayor A. H. Nordale, of Fair
banks, Alaska. Mayor Nordale,!
accompanied by several Eskimos, j
was to express the thanks of the
Alaska city for air shipments of
vegetables and fruit north, spon
sors said. The festival opened yes- j
terday.
Sen. Capehart \\ ill
Try To Repeal
Jones Act
(By Charles D. Watkins)
' (~Pi Special Washington Service*
WASHINGTON. (/P» — Senator
Capehart <R.-Ind.> said yesterday
he intends to introduce legislation
to repeal the Jones Act and there
by permit foreign vessels to en
gage in intercoastal trade in Alas
ka.
Rack from investigating Alas
kan prospects for newsprint pro
duction and from holding hearings
on proposed airports at Anchor
age and Fairbanks, Capehart told
a reporter:
"I am in favor of doing all we
can to help American shipping but
not at the expense of the Ameri
can people.
"The present steamship service
to Alaska is poor and if it is not
improved the government should
provide the service required.
“If private interests won’t give
the needed service, the govern
ment should.”
The Jones act prohioits foreign
vessels from engaging in inter
coastal trade between American
ports and its repeal would enable
Canadian vessels to furnish serv
ice between Alaskan ports.
Capehart said he was astonished
at the immensity of Alaska.
“It is big, wide deep and high.”
the Senator said.
“I think the government should
build roads to Alaska, even if they
go through Canada.
“It can be done and the Terri
tory is entitled to an adequate
transportation system.”
The Senator said he favored
statehood for the Territory and
asserted the people of the Terri
tory want it but that “vested in
terests” oppose. He said it should
be granted from the standpoint of
national interest.
“I think it is high time we do
what should have been done long
ago,” Capehart said.
“All of the resources of the Ter
ritory have been taken out of
Alaska and nothing returned.
“We should see to it now that
part of the national resources of
the Territory go for the benefit of
its people.”
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Blames Truman
For Rising Prices
BOULDER CITY, Nev. i/P» —
Senator Taft (R.-Ohio), puts a
brief inspection of the Colorado
river development behind him yes
tetrday in anticipation of what
may be the critical speech, in San
Francisco today, on his western
sentiment-plumbing tour.
Before the Commonwealth Club
there, where Wendell L. Willkie’s
Presidential campaign was born,
Taft will speak on what he has
predicted may become the hottest
issue of the 1948 campaign—the
high cost of living.
In major speeches already de
livered on this excurision to the
west, the Ohio Senator has laid
most of the blame for skyrocket
ing prices at the door of President
Truman.