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2nd Anniversary
Celebration Marred
Ministerial Huff
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PARIS, Aug. 26 —i/P»—Official
ceremonies marking the second
anniversary of the liberation of
Paris was marred yesterday by
the abrupt departure of Soviet
Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov
and Ukrainian Foreign Minister
Dmitri Manuilsky, in an apparent
huff over the seating arrangement.
^ The two who left the grandstand
even before President Georges
Bidault had begun his address,
were seated in the second row
under an alphabetical arrange
ment which placed the United
States (listed as “Amerique”),
Britani, China and France in the
front row on benches.
Bidault’s address, calling on the
• nations of the world to forget
partisan pre-occupations and strive
tor a peace for which the war was
fought, climaxed a nation-wide
observance of the anniversary.
In Paris the week-end was de
voted to a series of gay celebra
tions and processions through fes
tooned streets. A serious note
was maintained, however, by the
wreaths piled before wall plaques
^.throught the city marking ipots
where unknown Frenchmen fell
in the fight to free Paris from the j
German occupation.
Alaska Seal Herd
Now Numbers
Over Three Million
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26,——
The Alaska seal herd, once on the
high road to extinction, now con
tains 3,386,008 animals.
The annual census was taken
Aug. 10, and the results announced
Saturday by Secretary of the In
terior Krug.
This represents an increase of
7.31 over the 1945 census of 3,
*155,268.
When the government took over
active management of the herd
in 1910 it contained only 132,279
animals. While being developed
to its present size through limit
ing of killings to 4-year-old
“batchelors,” and other conserv
ative measures, the herd had pro
duced 1,367,322 skins at a profit
of more than $10,000,000 to the
V government.
During the 1946 season, which
^closed Aug. 7, 54,423 skins were
taken. This is a decrease of 12,
\41 skins under the 1945 take,
he Fish and Wildlife Service
S 2SDY NAZI JET PLANE —RAF fliers examine a German “Volksjaeger,” a plane
v\ .ill maximum speed of 522 miles per hour, poYvered by a turbo-jet unit mounted above the fuselage. >
Te xas Rallyin a
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Bitterly Fought
Election Campaign
DALLAS, Tex., Aug. 26—(/P)—
Texas today was beginning to re
cover from one of its most color
ful and bitterly fought political
campaigns in history.
Beauford H. Jester, member of
the State Railroad Commission
and an attorney-farmer from Cor
sicana, won the gubernatorial nom
ination over Homer P. Rainey,
former President of the Univer
ity of Texa, in Saturday run-off
election that climaxed a campaign
that had begun nearly five months
ago.
With an estimated 98 per cent
of the vote tabulated by the Tex-!
as Election Bureau, Jester held
a landslide count of 683,605 votes
to 355,888 for Rainey, or a total
of 05.76 percent of the 2,039,493
votes counted.
attributed the decrease to the late
arrival of the herd on Alaska’s
Pribiloff Islands.
More than 25,000 seal skins will
be sold at a semi-annual public
auction by the Rouke Fur Com
pany at St. Louis on October 21.
At the last sale in St. Louis April
29, 28,032 skins were sold at an
average price of $87.51.
Norma Shearer To
Make Pictures
NEW YORK, Aug. 26, —(£>)—Nor
ma Shearer has signed a long-term
contract with Enterprise Produe
toins, ending a four-year retire
ment from the screen, Charlee
Einfeld, president of the produc
ing company has announced.
200 Jews Penned
To Find Frog Men
SEDOT YAM, Palestine. Aug. 26
—(/P>—Two hundred residents of
this tiny Jewish fishing village
were rounded up by British troops
and Palestine police this morning
in a move said by officers to be
directed at finding the “frog men”
who almost succeeded in sinking
the immigrant transport Empire
Rival in Haifa harbor last week.
The village was surrounded by
a brigade unit before dawn and
the villagers were herded into
barbed wire enclosures for ques
tioning by police while army crews
searched homes and buildings.
Brigadier R. H. Anderson, com
mander of the second brigade, who
was in charge of the operation,
said the village was cut off be
fore dawn and “we believe (the
raid) was a complete surprise to
the villagers.
Propose Russia
Justify Demands
On Enemy Nations
PARIS, Aug. 26—i/P)—An Aus-1
I tralian delegate to the Peace Con-,
| ference today proposed that Rus
sia be called upon to "justify her
reparations demands,” and asked
that a special ‘‘on the spot inves
tigation” be made of the ability
of former European enemy nations
to pay the Soviet's $900,000,000 j
demands.
E. Ronald Walker made the pro
posal to the Economic Commission
for the Balkans after the Italian!
Commission had approved two
more paragraphs of the preamble
of the Italian draft treaty.
Soviet Foreign Minister V. M.
Molotov responded:
"Australia had not her fields,
cities and industries devastated.”
Took 18 Men To
Put Fat Man In
Hospital
PITTSBURGH. Pa.. Aug. 26— <JPh
It took 18 men to complete the
task of moving John Porter of
Dauphine, Pa., to Allegheny Gen
eral Hospital last night after he
became suddenly ill on a train.
Porter, 54, weight 721 pounds
and has been playing the role of
the “fat man” in circusses for
years.
PEIPING, China, Aug. 26— <>P)—
China's internal war flamed anew
today in Manchuria, where op
posing government and Chinese
Communist armies were moving
to new battle positions. A sur
prise Red attack already had iso
lated the government garrison near
Tiehling, important station on the
vital Mukden-Changchun railroad,
Gove r n m ent reinforcements
pushed north out of Mukden and
south out of Changchun to aid
the garrison at Tiehling.
The government's new First Ar
my moved toward Changchun, the
Manchurian capital and its new
Sixth Army marched into Jehol
Province to the west—where press
reports indicated fighting at three
points. Included was the Ling
yuan area 75 m les west of Cheng
teh. Red-held Jehol capital.
Conflicting reports hid the fate
of besieged Tatung, rail junction
about 150 miles west of Peiping.
Communist forces began the siege
22 days ago and the government
last week acknowledged the sit
uation was “very critical.”
Drafl toards Will
Again Make Call
For 19 - 29ers
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.——
Those Presidential “Greetings”
are back in the mails again.
Shut down for two months, the
draft machinery is chugging back
into action.
Reception Center lines will form
again next week. And by the
end of September Selective Serv
ice is reasonably confident it will
meet the army’s quota of 25 000
men in the 19-29 age group
In June, while the whole fut
ure of the draft was up in the
air, only 6.400 men were inducted.
There were no teen agers among
them. Congress finally compro
mised on that issue by exempt
ing 18 year olds but specifying
those 19 were to be drafted.
During the July-August holi
when the War Department asked
no inductions, Local Boards have
been registering and classifying
men between 18 and 44 under
insrtuctions from Maj. Gen. Lewis
B. Hershey, National Director, to
limit deferments to individuals
in activities “indispensable” to the
“national existence.”
Four new categories have been
added to the list of those entitled
to “most serious consideration**
for occupational deferments. They
are college and university teach
ers, home construction workers,
critical production and transporta
tion workers.