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BURBANK. April 24. </P) — A
Western Airlines transport on a
lest flight without passengers,
crashed with engine afire, into a
house, killing the three crewmen.
The occupants of the home, a man,
^us wife and three children, es
caped injury. The residence on
Lankershim Boulevard was se
verely damaged by flames.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 24, i/Pi
Alfred Leonard Cline, 56, was
convicted of forging papers in the
estates of two of four elderly wo
men who died mysteriously while
associating with the ex-convict
and former choir singer After a
swift verdict the trial judge dis
closed that the white-haired de
fendant during the course of the
trial offered to plead guilty in or
der to get a shorter sentence. The
offer was rejected. Cline was con
victed of all nine counts of for
gery. A grand theft charge was
dismissed earlier. He will be sen
tenced Saturday. The full penalty
could be one hundred twenty-six
vears.
WASHINGTON. April 24, i/P)—
The Civilian Production Adminis
tration is considering the restora
tion of wartime controls for the
sale of ammunition to sportsmen
and hunters. An official of the
ugency said "this may be neces
sary because of a worldwide crit
ical shortage of lead."
SEATTLE, April 24. — A
Constellation clipper, the third
Pan American World Airways
ship to fly the great circle route
l/rom the Orient, arrived after
twenty-one hours twenty-six min
utes flying time from Shanghai,
the fastest trip yet.
MANILA, April 24. (TP)—Man
uel Royas held a lead of more
than 50,000 over Sergio Osmena
for the presidency of the Philip
Iwies tonight after a tabulation of
unofficial returns of 1704 pre
cincts, but Osmena was steadily
closing the gap as returns trickled
in from central Luzon.
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Rioting Prisoners
In Italian Jail
Surrender
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MILAN, April 24, </P> — 2500
rioting prisoners of San Vittore
prison surrendered after holding
out four days. However a small
Stroup of gangsters, headed by Er
zio Barbieri, leader, are still in re-1
volt and still held out. They
boasted they would continue to
fight to the end.
Thirty guards held as hos
tages by the prisoners were freed
without injury, although the death
toll among the prisoners them
selves rose to eight.
^ The surrender came after the
tower of the fortress-like prison
was half destroyed by shellfire
«f’er military authorities served
• he rioting prisoners an ultimatum
CASSINO REBUILDS-a native girl walks down the road of Cassino. Italy, two years
after this town was destroyed by Allied bombers in March of 1944. The new buildings at the left
Stand in sharp contrast to the bomb-scarred houses of the village which nestles at the foot of Monte
Cassino (right background). The sign at the right still reminds the inhabitants of the days when
Allied soldiers were battling the Germans in the sector. The Abbey atop Monte C.;.v,ino was u.
stroyed after the Germans occupied if
Four-Power
Commission Face
Gloomy Picture
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PARIS, April 24, </Pi—A unani
mous factfinding report by the
four power commission who vis
ited the disputed Italian Yugoslav
border area authoritatively fore
cast as the one bright spot in the
somewhat gloomy picture shaping
up far the big four foreign minis
ters conference when it convenes
here tomorrow.
One member of the commission
representing Britain, France Rus
sia and United States, said despite
disagreements as to where the
boundary should be the Russians
and westerners alike would be
able to agree on economic facts
involved.
Secretary Byrnes, accompanied
bv Senators Connally and Van
denberg arrived at Ogly airport
today in Truman’s plane “Sacred
Cow.’’ Connally said “we’ve come
over to fix this thing up and I j
hope we have Hear sailing.
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PSYCHIC NIBBLING
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P)—Munch
ing between meals, though trying
to reduce, is nothing but “psychic
frustrations, with unconscious j
compensations by nibbling,” de
clares Dr. Horace Gray, clinical
professor in the Stanford Univer-i
sity School of Medicine. He says j
reducing bolis down to applied j
will power and that habits of over
eating must be stopped suddenly.
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to deliver the guards or prepare
for an all-out assault by tanks
and artillery.
Anchorage
Students Strike
ANCHORAGE. April 24, (/Pi
High school students went on
strike today demanding dismissal
of Principal Chester Peterson and
the reinstatement of three teach
ers, one of whom teaches the sixth
grade elementary school.
Peterson is “too strict,” a stu
dent spokesman asserted. He ban
ned the wearing of turbans in
class and frowned on girls coming
to school in slacks.
The students paraded with ban
ners reading “Down with the dic
tator, Down with Peterson. Give
us freedom.” J. Lester Minncr,
school superintendent, said no
disciplinary action was currently
contemplated.
Sen. Taft Suggests
Gift, Not Loan,
To Britain
WASHINGTON, April 24, </P)—
Senator Taft said United Statse is
buying fifty years of friction
“with Britain by offering a three
billion, seven hundred fifty mil
lion dollar loan, and suggested in
stead a billion, two hundred fifty
million dollar gift.
Opposing the passage of the loan
authorization legislation, Taft told
colleagues that every time the
British pay the hundred forty-one
million dollars annual interest on
the loan, “they’ll groan heavily to
the press and recall what they
consider the harsh treatment of
an ally in the war.
Santa Claus Will
Answer Tots’
Letters
NEW YORK, April 24, (/P)—
Needy children who write to
Santa Claus will not be disap
pointed next Christmas, Sam
Styles, mayor ol' North Pole, Alas
ka said. Styles, a commercial man
ager of three Alaskan radio sta
i
tions, said fifty-three citizens ot
the town, recently incorporated
as a township, near Fairbanks,
will distribute about a million dol
lars in toys in answer to letters,
in cooperation with the Salvation
Army.
Styles and Col. G. Walter Pea
cock, of national headquarters of
the Salvation Army discussed the
plans of sending to the Salvation
Army the names of families in
need of assistance as indicated by
the many letters addressed to the
Alaskan town each Christmas.
Styles estimated the needed
money would come from contri
butions. The Alaskan mayor said
he plans to visit Santa Claus, In
diana, in June.
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RICE STIX REPRESENTATIVE
IN NOME ON BUSINESS
Mr. Creighton Finnegan, repre
sentative of Rice Stix and Co., ar
rived from Anchorage yesterday
and reports that Anchorage is
having a series of strikes. The
waitresses all struck for higher
wages and so have the electricians.
He states that critical merchan
dise is still very hard to get as
manufacturers and the OPA have
not reached agreements.
Sltlf inius To
Support Australian
l NO Proposal
NEW YORK. April 24. //Pi —
Edward Stelt'nius, Jr.. U. S. dele
gate to the United Nations secur
ity council is reliably reported to
have indicated he will support the
Australian proposal for a thorough
investigation of Franco Spain.
Sources close to Stettinius said
he might ask the Australian dele
gate, Hodgson, to clarify the scope
of inquiry, but he was prepared
to go along with the growing list
of delegates who are lined up be
hind the proposal.
Word came as the council took
a one day recess after yesterday’s
stormy session in which Russia
lost the battle to have the council
drop the Irainian case that he had
announced he would boycott any
further discussion of the case.
Order Disciplinary
Crackdown On
l . 8. Troops
FRANKFURT, April 24, (/Pi—
Gen. McNarney ordered a disci
plinary crackdown an all Ameri
can troops m Europe because “dis
cipline in certain localities and
commands in this theater has de
teriorated to a point where it is
discrediting the line performance
of our troops in general.”
The orders were issued to unit
commanders. McNarney declared
“All commanders and their sub
ordinates must now devote them
selves to the reestablishment of
discipline. This becomes their
most important immediate func
tion.
The theater commander said in
dications of lack of discipline are
shown in participation of black
market activities, drunkenness,
high AWOL rate, high incidence
and other disciplinary infractions,
high auto accident rate, excess of
venereal disease rate, general
lack of smartness in appearance,
conscientious observance of mili
tary courtesy, complaining atti
tude toward constituted military
authority.”
Fuehrer Ameriean
Bund Released
FRANKFURT, April 24. i/T)—
Fritz Kuhn, Fuehrer of the Ger
man American Volksbund will be
released from the U. S. Army Ger
man internment camp tomorrow.
Chastened by long confinement,
and troubled with heart illness,
Kuhn declared he would “not be
a threat” to American occupation
forces in Germany.
He expected to proceed directly
to Munich where his wife and two
children live in a bomb-shatterd
house. A statement from McNar
ney's headquarters said Kuhn was
an “unknown figure in Germany,
his health and spirit broken.”