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NEWS IN BRIEF ;
# PORTLAND, Me. I/P)—Women
made up half of the 72 enrollees
for a woodworking class at Pert- j
land evening school last nigh', but
a proposed parent’s forum had to
be dropped from the curriculum
because only one—a mother —
signed up.
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NEW YORK, iff) — An Associ
ated Press poll of 61 of the na
tion’s baseball experts picked the
New York Yankees as a tremen
dous favorite to defeat the Brook
® lyn Dodgers in the World Series
which opened at the Yankee Sta
dium yesterday.
Of the three score writers poll
ed, 43 selected the Yankees to
win, ranging from four straight to
a long drawn out set of seven
games. Only 18 selected the Na
tional league champions.
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. (/P)—
Not all the hazards of a rodeo are
inside the arena, Joe John has
* found.
John, an ambulance attendant,
went to the gid of a thrown bronc
rider at the New Mexico state fair.
He loaded the cowboy aboard and
was walking around to the door
when his leg went “pop,” for no
reason at all.
Recovering his wind, the bronc
rider climbed out. The ambulance
took John to the hospital with a
4 broken leg.
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PRAGUE. Czechoslovakia </P)—
Parliament ratified unanicously
today the Allied peace treaties
with Italy, Hungary, Finland, Bul
garia and Romania.
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P) — The
Pacific Coast hockey league, from
the defending champion Los An
geles club on down, will be “much
Stronger” in the season beginning
Oct. 21, predicts league president
G. A. Leader.
All the southern division clubs
, and two of those in the northern
section—Tacoma and Portland—
have working agreements or are
owned by clubs of the American
league, he pointed out.
NEW YORK. (/P)—In case the
goings on here this week might
_ puzzle foreign visitors attending
United Nations sessions. "A simple
guide to the great American game
of baseball" was distributed Mon
day to the representatives of 55
nations. It cautioned:
* "Even news of your organiza
tion. the United Nations, occasion
ally may be overshadowed in the
press by what happens in the
world series."
NEW YORK (iP)—Milton J. Yel
sky, 39, Cleveland Plain Dealer
sports writer here for the world
series, reported to police that he
was beaten and robbed of $150
early yesterday in his hotel room.
~ A doctor treated him for a possible
fracture of the lower jaw.
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LOS ANGELES (/P)—A helper’s
$ heroic try to save the life of his
painter-boss proved futile yester
day.
When a scaffold broke with
Herman Gutterman, 39, four sto
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Cuban Army Foils
Attempt To Over
throw Government
i
HAVANA, Cuba, (/Pi — Cuban
army authorities said yesterday
that a 1,900-man expeditionary
force poised to overthrow Presi
dent Rafael Trujillo of the Domin
ican Republic had been broken
up.
Col. Oscar Diaz, the army’s
chief investigator, said some of the
plotters, after their plan to invade
the Dominican Republic had fail
ed, had conspired against the Cu
ban government.
The Cuban senate immediately
launched an investigation of the
whole affair. Col. Diaz said he had
turned over to the Supreme Tri
bunal many documents in the
case.
Diaz said 360 members of the
expedition had been picked up,
naked, unarmed and without food
and water, on Quinchos Cay, a
sandspit 50 miles off the north
Cuban coast 300 miles east of Ha
vana. He said 11 bombing planes
also were seized. The men were
brought to the camp prison at
Camp Columbia, army headquar
ters in Havana.
They said they were put down
on the cay after refusing to obey
an order from the expedition’s
commander—issued after the par
ty put to sea—to attack the Cuban
navy if it were sighted .
Gen. Genovevo Perez, the Cu^
ban army’s chief, announced after
| a conference with President Ra
mon Grau San Martin that two of
the expedition’s ships had surren
dered at Antilla, an east coast Cu
ban port not far from the extreme
northern tip of the island.
Asst. Secretary
Of Labor Quits
WASHINGTON. OP)—President
Truman announced yesterday the
resignation of Philip Hannah as
assistant secretary of labor and
the appointment of John T. Kmetz
of Nanticoke, Pa.; as his successor.
Kmetz is former president of
the Pennsylvania federation of la
bor.
In submitting his resignation,
effective Oct. 1, Hannah attacked
the Taft-Hartley bill as “raising
grave issues of civil liberties for
the American people.”
He told Mr. Truman in a letter
the new law “strikes at the heart
of freemen and institutions.” It is
his intention, he said, “to return
to my community and the working
people from whence I came to car
ry on as a private citizen, the fight
to repeal this anti-labor and un
democratic law.”
| CHARLES HUNTLEY HERE ON
ANNUAL SURVEY
Charles Huntley, in charge of
communications for the Pan
American Airways, is on his an
nual survey of Alaskan stations.
Bob Chacon, who was on the
ground, held out his arms and
broke the fall. Chacon was badly
bruised himself.
But Gutterman succumbed to
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Soviets Can't Be
Responsible For
Newspaper Artieles
WASHINGTON, </P) — An in
creasingly violent anti-American
campaign by Russian press and
radio was predicted yesterday by
U. S. officials examining Moscow’s
propaganda line.
They said the attack on Presi
dent Truman by a Russian maga
zine which compared him with
Hitler indicates a decision to pull
out all the stops.
One official expressed belief the
Russians have given up any hope
of winning favor from the Ameri
can public and will concentrate
now on trying to discredit the
United States in the Soviet Union
and abroad.
The “war mongering” accusa
tion against nine Americans by
Andrei Vishinsky, deputy Russian
foreign minister, in a United Na
tions assembly address Sept. 18
was viewed as part of the cam
paign.
The latest Soviet-American dis
agreement came to light Monday
when the state department an
' nounced that the American Em
bassy in Moscow has emplatically
protested criticisms of Mr. Tru
man in the Russian publication
“Literary Gazette No. 39.”
Boris Gorhatov, author of the
article, called Mr. Truman “mes
senger boy, bank clerk, and a tool
of the Pendergast machine” and
compared him to the “Corporal
from Munich.”
Ambassador Walter Bedell
Smith protested to Soviet foreign
minister Molotov that the late Dr.
Paul Goebbels, Hitler’s wartime
propaganda minister, never was
more vituperative in his diatribes
against Allied statesmen. #
Molotov reected Smith’s protest,
saying the Soviet government
“cannot bear the responsibility for
this or that article.”
Russia Refuses
To Admit Visiting
U. S. Senators
WASHINGTON, (/P)—A curt re
fusal by Russia to let 12 Senators
visit Moscow brought demands by
two Congress members today for
a tougher policy on admitting
Soviet citizens to this country.
The Soviet foreign ministry de
clined to issue visas either for
members of the Senate appropria
tions committee of John Peurifoy,
assistant secretary of • state, to
make an inspection of the U. S.
embassy. The explanation to Am
bassador Walter Bedell Smith
was:
“Inasmuch as the USSR is not
considered a country that could
be made the subject of an investi
gation on the part of the visiting’
Senators, we do not consider their
trip to be suitable.”
Senator Bridges (R.-N. H.),
chairman of the committee, de
dared the incident raises the
question of how much longer the
| United States will permit “indis;
i criminate admission of Soviet sub
jects and sympathizers.”
Truman Asks
Americans To Eat
Less; Save Food
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WASHINGTON, UP)—President
Truman today asked the American
people to eat less bread and thus
help save 100,000,000 bushels of
grain for European aid.
He also asked reduced feeding
of grain to livestock.
Addressing the first meeting of
his citizens’ food committee at the
White House, Mr. Truman ex
horted:
"We must get prices down and
help hungry people in other coun
tries at the same time.”
Mr. Truman said the saving1
asked of each individual is actu
ally very small.
"One bushel of grain saved by
every American in the next few
months will do the job,” he said.
Responding for the 26-member
committee, chairman Charles
Luckman, reported that thousands
of letters offering voluntary help
have poured upon the committee
since its creation last Thursday.
“Mr. President, the people of
America have never failed in the
; accomplishment of any war.”
Luckman said. "They will not fail
in this war on hunger. On their
behalf we pledge you our most
i earnest endeavors.”
“Conserve Food**
Flea Not Enough
Wallace Savs
BOSTON. (/P)—Henry Wallace
, says that "earnest pleas for food
; conservation will not suffice” and
! that "bold action” on prices is.
needed from the Truman adminis
j tration.
The former vice president,
swinging through all of the New
England states except Maine in an
j 11-day program of speech-making,
told a Boston arena audience of
7,000 last night.
“If we organize rapidly and
well, we can force the present ad
ministration to fight for the com
trols and rationing necessary to
distribute current scarcity and en
able all Americans to eat well.”
Wallace talks tonight to a Har
vard university rally sponsored by
the American veterans committee,
then moves on later in the week
to SpringlTeld and Pittsfield.
Mass., and New Haven, Conn.
MARION MORELLI. OLDTIMER
LEAVES FOR STATES
» Marion Morelli who has been in
Nome for the past week for his
daughter’s wedding left for hi.;
home in San Francisco yesterday.
He stated that he particularly en
joyed his trip to Nome as he had
prospected here in 1902. He found
few of the landmarks remaining
of the old stampede days when he
was a miner in Nome and Solo
mon.
member of the group, told a re
porter there should at least be a
careful scrutiny of any such ad
missions in the future.
“I understand there are about
1,500 Russians in this country,”
Dworshak said. ‘‘I wonder what
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Voting < >n Poland
C7
Successor Dead
locked In U. N.
NEW YORK, i/Ri — A show of
Russian strength unprecedented at
this session of the general assem
bly had the United Nations tied in
a knot of conflicting votes to
day over election of a successor to
Poland on the security council.
Russia was backing the Soviet
Ukraine, one of the constituent
Republics of the Soviet Union, and
the United States and Britain
were backing India in the hard
fought contest within the 57-na
tion assembly.
Which would win, India or the
Ukraine, was anybody’s guess as
assembly delegates began return
ing to their big hall at Flushing
Meadows today to resume voting,
they broke off in a complete dead
lock last night after seven inde
cisive secret ballots had been
taken.
The last ballot was roughly typ
ical of those that went before. It
yielded 33 votes for the Russian
backed Ukraine to 23 for India.
With all 57 member nations pres
ent and voting, a total of 38 votes
would be required for a decision
under the two-thirds majority re
quired by assembly rules.
The deadlock developed after
- tiic usstonoiy *\ad chosen on the
first ballot two of the three na
tions needed to fill vacancies on
the 11-nation security council at
the end of this year as a result of
term expirations. The two coun
tries elected were Canada, which
will replace Australia; and Argen
, tina, which will replace Brazil.
The third country due for re
tirement from the Council is Po
. land. Before the voting began Bri
tain and the United States had in
formed Russia they would sup
port Czechoslovakia for this seat
and members of both delegations
said they had informally “under
stood” that Russia would take
Czechoslovakia as an eastern Eu
! ropen nation certain of election in
preference to the risk of backing
and possibly'losing the condidacy
of the Ukraine.
But it did not turn out that way.
The Russians reportedyl made a
last minute arrangement with
some of the Latin American na
tions to support Argentina’s elec
, tion in return for their support for
the Ukraine.
NEW YORK, The United
Nations assembly failed in its first
effort today to break the deadlock
in the race between the Soviet
Ukraine and India for the security
council seat to be vacated by Po
land Dec. 31.
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Many Die In Egypt
Cholera Epidemic
CAIRO, i/P) — Thirty-seven
deaths in the last 24 hours brought
to 103 today the officially an
nounced toll of fatalities resulting
from Egypt’s week-old cholera
| epidemic.
The health ministry said that 76
I new confirmed cases of cho’era
I and 49 new suspected cases were
| reported yesterday. Altogether 599
| confirmed cases have been report