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NEWS IN BRIEF j
BOSTON, (A*) — The American'
League game between New York
and Boston was postponed here
yesterday on account of rain.
SEATTLE, (#»)—Sixty-four offi- :
cers and men, comprising the sec
ond contingent of the Second In
fantry Division left yesterday,
from McChord Field, for Big Del
ta, Alaska, for “Exercises Yukon.”
The group included clothing ex
perts, photographers, transporta
tion personnel and signal corps i
specialists who will prepare facili-1
ties for the main body of troops,
which will arrive in November.
CHICAGO, (/P)—An arbitration
i
board yesterday awarded a wage
increase of 15V£ cents an hour, ef
fective Monday, to nearly 1,000,000
non-operating workers on the na
tion’s major railroads. The men
had asked a boost of 20 cents.
SELIN GSGROVE. Pa., (A3) —
Amos Alonzo Stagg, Sr., who has
spent 55 years of his 85 years as
a football coach, today signed a
new ten-year contract to work
with his son in dealing up gridiron
strategy at Susquehanna univers
ity. _
NEW YORK, (>P)—A bottle of j
“rattlesnake whiskey” was seized;
in a recent Chinatown raid by the ;
federal bureau of narcotics, which
offers this recipe for the for the
concoction:
Place a live rattlesnake in a
large jar; add rice wine, dried
toads, soy beans, sliced deer ant
lers and a handful of dried sea
horses. Age six months.
James Ryan, acting district su
pervisor for the bureau, said the
product is popular with West Coast
Chinese, who believe it gives them;
strength.
DETROIT, t/P) — A solicitous
bandit, who robbed a 17-vear-old
girl clerk of $53 and then escort
ed her five blocks to a bus stop,
was sought by police today.
Miss Barbara Seabert told au- *
thorities she was closing up a dry ,
cleaning establishment Tuesday
night when the gunman entered.
After robbing her, the bandit!
then told the girl it was unsafe for
her to be out at that hour of the
night. Inquiring her destination,
he walked down the street with
the girl until she got to her bus i
stop.
SAN FRANCISCO. UP) — Six
vear-old John Fleishman heard
fire engines approaching last
night, rushed into the street and
was struck by a passing taxicab.
He was dead on arrival at Ale
many hospital. Police termed the
death of the boy, son of Mr. and
Mrs. George Flieshman, “an un
avoidable accident.”
The fire engines were answering
a false alarm.
WOODLAND, Wash., UP)—Thir
ty-five guests in the Colvin hotel
here fled in their nightclothes
early today as flames partially re
stroyed the three-story wooden
structure.
Fire chief James Backraan re- j
ported none of the guests was in- j
jured but that few of them had j
time to save their clothing.
U. S. Demands
Soviets Review
Bulgarian Case
WASHING TON. (/P) — The
United States has demanded that
Russia join with America and
Britain in a review of the “repres
sive campaign” by the Bulgarian
government against Bulgaria’s
Agrarian Union and its leader, Ni
kola Petkov.
Petkov, whose party is anti
communist, is under sentence of
death for allegedly plotting against
the Communist-controlled govern
ment of his country. The United
States has branded Petkov's con
viction a miscarriage of justice
and has sought by various moves
to save him from execution.
Under Secretary of State Lovett
announced at a news conference
today that the new American pro
test against the situation in Bul
garia was delivered by Ambassa
dor Bedell Smith to-the Soviet for
eign ministry on Saturday.
Previously, the United States
had protested Bulgarian actions
against Petkov and the Agrarian
Union on August 23. It sought a
review of the case by the Allied
control commission, composed of
representatives of Russia, the
United States and Britain.
Russia replied on August 25 that
the American demand for great
power intervention would consti
tute an unwarranted interference
in Bulgaria’s internal affairs.
In the new note released today,
the United States in turn rejected
this Soviet argument and accused
the Soviet ynion of violating its
agreement with the United States
and Britain under the Yalta pact
for the development of democracy
in the Balkans.
Bevin Asks U. S.
To Redistribute
Fort Knox Gold
SOUTHPORT. England. (/P) —
Foreign secretary Ernest Bevin
called upon the United States to
day to j'edistribute “the Fort Knox
gold” to eliminate constant chaos
in world trade payments.
“I am quite sure that is one of
the readiest ways to assist in in
creasing the purchasing power of
of the devastated areas of the
world,” he declared in a speech of
the powerful British trade union
congress.
Bevin did not explain whether
he was speaking literally or sym
bolically in proposing redistribu
tion of the gold. Nor did he indi
cate whether he believed the idea
could be integrated with the Mar
shall proposal for Europe’s econo
mic rehabilitation.
(The United States now owns
over $21,765,827,000 worth of gold,
about three fifths of the known
world holdings of gold for mone
tary purposes. Approximately
$12,500,000,000 is kept at Fort
Knox, army stronghold in Ken
tucky. These figures do not in
clude commercial gold such as
that used in jewelry.)
Bevin asked for a pledge from
the union workers to fight a battle
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LI. S. Forced To
Make Atomic
Bombs Bv Russia
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WASHINGTON. </P» — Senator
McMahon 'D.-Conn.i said last
night the United States is forced
to go on making and improving
atomic bombs because of Russia’s
refusal to accept the American
plan for international control.
As a result of this stand by Rus
sia and its “aggressive and expan
sionist policy on every front,’’ Me
(
Mahon declared, the people of the
United States have “become uni
fied in our determination that Rus
sia shall not either by intrigue or
by force accomplish the domina
tion of Europe and Asia.”
McMahon was one of eight
speakers during a half hour coast
! to coast “radio rally” in which
i Democratic orators warmed up for
the 1948 campaign by hammering
! at the record of the Republican
. controlled Congress on labor,
i price, farm and housing legisla
i tion.
In another address which point
ed an accusing finger at Moscow
and the Soviet sphere, Gael Sulli
I
I van, executive director of the
Democratic national committee,
j said some nations are watching
; United States’ attempts to aid Eu
i rope “with hostile eyes.”
He likened them to “scavengers,
waiting for us to move out so they
can move in and impose totalitar
ian police states over peoples who
are now free.”
Four Planes Crash
In Air Races
In Cleveland
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CLEVELAND, f/P)—Air racing’s
newly crowned ^champions, pre
paring to go home with more than
$100,000 in prize money, paused
yesterday to study the record of
the wildest race in sport flying
history.
Four planes dug into the west
1 dirt near municipal airport during
l the running of the Thompson tro-1
! phy classic at the national air
races Monday. The toll was one
pilot dead, two injured and one
able to walk away from a mass of
burning wreckage.
The day, rich in flying marks,
saw Cook Cleland of Cleveland
boast the world’s closed course I
record to 396.1 miles an hour, a!
jump of 12 miles, and set a new
Thompson mark for one lap byj
turning up 404.4 miles an hour.
Cleland’s performance in the 20
lap 200-mile race for $16,000 first'
prize topped a brilliant three-day
exhibition. A second Cleland en
try, flown by Richard Becker of(
suburban Willoughby, finis hed
second.
The third Cleland plane figured
in the day’s tragedy, Tony Janna
zo, popular young flier, crashed
with it in the seventh lap and died
in the wreckage. All three planes
were Corsair navy fighters pow
ered with the largest and most
powerful reciprocating engines
ever flown.
Labor Pledges To
Peacefully Outlaw
Taft-Hartley Act
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Fighting words marked organ
ized labor’s observance of its own
holiday this year as leaders pledg
ed an all-out battle to strik' ‘he
Taft-Hartley act from the statute
books.
CIO president Philip Murray de
clared workers are in a “fightin.,
mood.” And AFL president Wil
liam Green asserted that ‘labor
is rallying its forces to fight
against oppression and depres
sion.”
Murray, speaking by radio from
Kansas City, hammered at the
economic consequences he fore
sees.
“I want to say . . . most em
phatically,” he declared, ‘‘that the
nation is heading toward another
depression — a depression that
could easilv make the last one ap
pear to be only a minor economic
setback.
“I am not saying that another
depression is just around the cor
ner,” the CIO chief continued. “I
am saying that the present trend
of higher profits and smaller and
smaller purchasing power must be
halted and reversed if we are to
avoid economic chaos in the fu
ture.”
As for the fight he said is ahead.
Murray pictured American work
ing men and women as ‘deter
mined that their unions will not
be weakened.”
“They are determined to change
the anti-labor complexion of Con
gress.” he went on. “They are de
termined to wipe the infamous
Taft-Hartley law from the statute
books.”
Green, addressing a Labor Day
rally at Chicago’s Soldier Field,
pledged that the AFL’s fight will
be waged “not with ill-considered
strikes, but with ballots, in the
peaceful, democratic, and Ameri
can way.”
MRS. JACK ANDERSON AND
SON LEAVE FOR STATES
Mrs. Jock Anderson and son
Ronald, left for their home in
Kingston. Wash., last Friday, in
time for the opening of school.
IJ. S. Must Give
Speedy Aid To Slop
Kuropean Grisis
WASHINGTON, i/P) — Under
secretary of state Lovett said to
day that the economic crisis in Eu
rope is developing much faster
than expected and some kind of
American action to meet it appar
ently will be necessary before the
end of the year.
In making the grimmest presen
tation of the European picture
since Secretary Marshall put for
ward his self-help recovery plan,
Lovett repeatedly refused to say
flatly that a special session of
Congress later this year would be
necessary.
But he strongly indicated to a
news conference that a special
session might be needed.
He said that appropriate steps
evidently will have to be taken in
a matter of months rather than
some time next year. He declared
such steps might cover either tem
porary devices, such as extension
of financial assistance by the
world bank where possible. or
might embrace what he called per
manent measures.
By permanent measures he ob
viously referred to the Marshall
plan for extension of American
assistance to Europe on a long
range self-help basis.
At another point, Lovett said
that it is now certainly later than
we think.
There are two reasons for this,
the undersecretary said, explain
ing them as:
1. The fact that, in his view, the
effects of the British financial cri
sis have been very contagious.
Lovett said that he could not com
ment or enlarge upon this. But it
is a known opinion of American
officials that Britain’s recent suc
cessful efforts to relax provisions
of its loan agreement here would
bring requests for various kinds of
help from other European coun
tries.
2. The resources of many Euro
pean countries have had to be in
creasingly diverted from produc
tive uses—such as the purchase
•r manufacture of machinery for
new plants—to non-productive
i uses such as the purchase of food.
If. S. Will Increase German Production
Witli Or Without Soviet Consent
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WA SHINGTON, I/P) — The
United States has told Russia that
it will not await Soviet consent to
use increased production in west
ern Germany for rebuilding Eu
rope, thus easing the financial
burden on this country.
The state department made this
plain in a note published yester
day firmly rejecting Russia’s pro
test against a British-American
decision to step up the level of in
dustry in their occupied zones of
Germany to approximately that of
1936.
The note, charging failure of the
Russian government to carry out
the 1945 Potsdam agreement had
“placed upon the United States a
heavy financial burden in the oc
cupation of Germany,” said:
"The United States Government
is unable to accept the thesis that
nothing can be done to alleviate
the financial burden on the United
States or to develop within the
framework of the Berlin agree
ment the contribution of the west
ern zones of Germany to the eco
nomic reconstruction of Europe
until the consent of the Soviet gov
ernment has been obtained."
The note, delivered to the Rus
sian embassy in Washington yes
terday said further:
The U. S. Government "feels
justified in pursuing objectives
which have been commonly agreed
in making arrangement for that
purpose with any other occupying
power willing to work toward the
common end.”