International News
At A Glance —
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ommunists of sabotage in the
rench coal strike, which began a
H>nth ago yesterday. The interior
.linistry said coal digging machin
ry had been wrecked, carts of
irt dumped into pits, mine eleva
• >rs destroyed and administrative
ffices pillaged.
Other mines have been flooded
irough lack of maintenace. The
jck to work movement was gain
. lg strength.
Gov. Ernest Gruening of Alaska
aid Truman’s re-election will aid
ilaska in becoming a state at the
ext session of Congress. Moscow
ewspapers featured the election
ews and paid close attention to
ae President’s pledge to strive for
..orld peace.
Friday. November 5. 1940
Americans were advised today
■ > leave the Nanking and Shang
ai areas of China, which season
1 Chinese communist armies
ireaten. About 1,000 dependents
i Americans are expected to
^ave the great cities, which soon
may be under attack.
A battle which might be deci
sive is shaping up in the Suchow
area, 170 miles northwest of Nan
king. The government had 400,000
troops, most of them with medio
cre combat records, in the area to
oppose the tough and disciplined
Red armies of Gen. Chen Yi.
Reliable sources in Frankfurt
said the United States has armed
three French divisions with Amer
ican equipment to bolster defenses
of Western Europe. The Russians
were reported again to be build
l ing up a tank-equipped German
| army in their occupation zone.
John Foster Dulles told the
United Nations that Russian
charges of American aggression
are “vicious falsehoods.” But, he
added, the United States intends
to be strong. He spoke before the
political committee considering
Greek charges of border violations
by Albania, Bulgaria nad Yugo
| slavia. Dulles said that after the
i war, the United States withdrew
| her forces cleanly and “organized
no fifth columns.”
Egyptian forces escaped from
'the coastal pocket at Majdal dur
ing the night. They had been trap
ped there by the Jewish victory
i in the Negev desert. As the Egyp
: tians drew out for Gaza, the Jews
moved in and hoisted their flag
over the Majdal ai*ea, which was
1 allotted to the Arabs in the Pales
I tine partition.
The United Nations security
council voted 9-1 to ask Israel to
give up recent gains in the Negev.
The resolution, voted under a sec
tion of the U. N. intervention,
called on the Jews to withdraw to
position held before their October
offensive. Egyptian troops would
not be allowed to return automat
| ically.
The anti-communist Berlin city
council asked the western powers
o outlaw the Russian-sponsored
east mark as currency for West
Berlin. They said the dual curren
cies caused extreme economic dif
ficulty and social tension.
Foreign minister Juan A. Bra
muglia, of Argenitna, a member
of the U. N. security council, said
he will try again soon to concili
ate the East-West crisis in block
aded Berlin “from a different an
The Americans hanged 14 more
German war criminals. They had
killed unarmed American fliers
j and committed atrocities in con
i centration camps.
1 Pro-communist railroad unions
Negro May Head
House Committee
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chairmanships are decided on
committee seniority; that is, on
how long a man has been on the
committee, rather than how long
i he has been in Congress.
If tradition is followed in his
case, Dawson will be the first
modern day Negro Congressman
to head an important regular com
mittee. The expenditures commit
tee has broad .authority to look (
into all the executive departments
of the government. Its jurisdiction
covers any activity involving the
spending of federal money.
House and Senate committee
chairmanships will be heavily
sprinkled with Southerners in the
81st Congress.
were voting for a 24-hour rail
strike in France. Non-communist
j unions having 40 per cent of the
[ 500,000 rail workers boycotted the
vote. The strike seemed to be a'
sympathy measure for the coal
mine walkout, now in its fifth
week. The back to work move
| ment was gathering strength J
1 slowly in the coal fields.
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GOP Victorious
In Hawaii
HONOLULU, (/P) — Hawaii re
elected Republican delegate-to
Congress Joseph R. Farrington by
a 3-1 margin and Republicans cap
tured the Territorial Senate.
Republicans campaigned thus:
This is a Republican year na
tionally.
Hawaii must have a Republican
Delegate.
A Republican governor will be
appointed.
He will need a Republican Ter
ri'orial legislature.
The line went over big. With
only thxee of 168 precincts unre
ported, Farrington won 73,544
votes to Democrat Jack Burns’
24,136. Republicans won 9 of 15
Senate seats, 20 of 30 House seats.
Walter (Paddy) Watt has been
charged with assault with a dan
gerous weapon, having beaten up
Fred Savok with a rifle. His case
will be heard in the U. S. Com
missioner’s Coui-t this afternoon.
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