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NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON, </P) — Amid
.ceremonies traditionally accorded
*a departing secretary of the navy,
James V. Forrestal left the navy
department Tuesday and as secre
tary of defense took over his new
headquarters in the army’s Penta
gon building.
The navy band played and an
honor guard of marines and sail
► ors stood at attention as Forrestal
left the navy building where he
has served as undersecretary and
secretary since 1940.
NEW YORK, (/P)—Foreign sil
ver advanced Vi cent an ounce to
day to 71% cents, and compares
with the year’s high of 8614 cents.
Spot silver at London also was
lifted l/2 penny today to 43%
pence.
MANILA, (iP)—A Japanese war
crimes defendant was thrown out
• of a courtroom window today by
an aged, white-haired Filipino
who identified the defendant as
the man who ordered him tortur
ed in 1944. *
Japanese Capt. Shizuo Nakano
offered no resistance when Teo
dorico Sarosario, former mayor of
’ Dasmarinas, Cavite, rushed across
the courtroom and attacked. Na
kano survived his trip through the
k window.
SEATTLE, (/P)—Shipping oper
ators have offered the West Coasr
division of the AFL masters, mates
and pilots union a five per cent
wage increase, Capt. G. W. Barn
hart, Seattle agent for the union,
said yesterday. No action has been
taken by the negotiation commit
tee, he said. The contract expires
Sept. 30.
NEW YORK, (fP) — Standard
time returns at 2 a.m. Sunday to
the communities in 16 states where
daylight saving time was adopted
22 weeks ago.
About 45,000,000 Americans,,
most of them residents of the
northeast, can set their clocks back 1
an hour Saturday night and sleep
that much later Sunday morning.
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PORTLAND. Ore. UP) — The i
forecast came out today for dry
weather at the Texas-Oregon
football game here Saturday, and
the suspicion grew that the Pa
cific Coast is about to be embar
rassed again.
Odds-makers were spotting
Texas 14 to 40 points, despite Ore
gon’s avowed fervor and the fact
that this is the year Oregon had
marked for revenge from a 71-7
walloping inflicted in 1941.
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PONCA CITY, Okla. UP)—Ac
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countant Bennie Hesser got black ,
looks from fellow office workers
t when he passed out cigars and
candy, announcing, “Bessie has a
son.” Associates remembered his
wife’s name was Edna.
Hesser didn’t care. Bessie is his
jersey cow.
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► BALTIMORE, UP)—High prices!
and the tradition of Robin Hood |
failed to get William Best out of |
a 30-day jail sentence after he,
stole $3.50 worth of meat from a
butcher’s stall.
Pleading guilty to taking a
Yugoslavs Force
U. Soldiers Across
Border; Yah Them
TRIESTE, (/P) — United States
army headquarters in Trieste yes
terday demanded the return of an
American officer and two enlisted
men who, it said, were taken cap
tive by Yugoslavs while on mount
ed patrol duty on the Trieste free
territory frontier Monday and
“forced across the border at gun
point.”
An official report issued by
headquarters of U. S. troops in
Trieste said the missing men were
patrolling near the sector where
Yugoslavs last week tried to force
their way into the free territory.
The army announcement identi
fied the trio as 1st Lt. William Van
Atten, East Orange, N. J., Pfc.
Earl G. Hendrick, Jr., Arlington,
Va., and Pfc. Glen A. Meyer.
EJdgeley, N. D.
Van Atten was caught in a Yu
goslav ambush in July, 1946. on
the road between Gosizia and Tri
este, the army report said. His
driver was killed and he and an
enlisted man were wounded.
The official army account of
Monday’s occurrence is as fol
lows:
“The report of the incident came
from the other two members of
the patrol, Pfc. Edison T. Lenhart,
Soulhbury, Conn., and Pvt. Geo.
E. Perry, Fort Thomas, Ky., who
dashed to the 351st regimental
headquarters with the news.
“While leading his patrol along
the frontier, Van Atten sighted a
Yugoslav patrol with whom he
and his men had talked before and
appeard to be on good terms. Van
Atten and two enlisted men dis- ,
mounted and approached the
boundary on foot.
“They were seen talking with
the Yugoslavs at a distance of 30
to 35 feet from the Yugoslavs.,
Then they were seen to go for-1
ward, while the Yugoslavs pointed:
rifles at them.”
Railroad Trainmen
Sue Saturday
Evening Post
PHILADELPHIA. </P> — A. F.
Whitney, president of the Brother
hood of railroad trainmen, filed i
suit today against the Curtis Pub
lishing company for $500,000 in
damages which he claimed rest li
ed from a Saturday evening Po.^t
editorial titled "Unbridled Union
Power Threat to Security.”
The suit stated that the Post did !
"falsely, wickedly, maliciously)
and illegally compose and pub-1
lish” the editorial in its May 24
issue, causing Whitney to be "in
jured, prejudiced and damaged in
his good name, reputation and
standing as a private citizen . . .
and has injured the plaintilff in
his office as president of the bro
therhood of railroad trainmen and
as a labor leader ...”
smoked shoulder from a market
here, the 55-year-old man explain
ed that "a lot of people are hun
gry” and he had planned to give
everyone who needed it a sand
wich.
Printers Policy
Is Illegal, Unfair
Labor Practice
WASHINGTON, i/P>—Robert N.
Denham, general counsel of the
national labor relations board, to
day challenged the no-contract :
policy of the AFL typographical
union as an unfair labor practice
under the Taft-Hartley act.
A complaint by Denham against
the international union and Bal‘ -
more local No. 12 will be heard by j
a regional examiner in Baltimore1
Oct. 6.
Jacob L. Edelman, attorney rep
resenting the Baltimore local,
promised to battle the complaint
“every inch of the way.”
Denham accused the ITU and
its affiliate of refusing “to bargain
collectively in good faith” with 22
Baltimore printing firms organ
ized as the Graphic Arts League.
The Taft-Hartley act, for the
first time, makes unions legallv
liable for unfair labor practices
and defines refusal to bargain as
such a practice.
In order to get around a provi
sion of the Taft-Hartley act which
bans closed shops, the typograph
ers have adopted a policy of post
ing in a place of employment the
conditions under which members
will work. The conditions may in
clude a statement that they will
work only with printers who are
ITU members. No contract is sign
ed with the employer.
The Baltimore local followed
this policy. The Graphic Arts
League contended it constituted a
refusal to bargain and 10 days ago
asked Denham to step in.
Petkov, Foe Of
Communism, Hung
Bv Bulgarians
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SOFIA, Bulgaria. f/P) — Nikola
Petkov', peasant leader and foe of j
the Communist party, was hanged J
at 12:15 a.m. yesterday in Sofia’s
central prison on charges of plot
ting against Bulgaria’s Commun
ist-controlled government, an of-!
ficial announcement said.
Both the United States and Bri
tain, denouncing the conviction as
a miscarriage of justice, had urged
the Soviet Union to participate in
a big power preview of Petkov’s
case, but the Russians declined on
grounds that this would be inter
ference in Bulgaria’s internal af
fairs.
Bulgaria likewise rejected a
series of British and American
protests. The United States sug
gested that the Bulgarians, by try
ing Petkov, had placed them
selves on trial before the bar of
world opinion.
Petkov’s appeal to the supreme
court from the death penalty, im
posed Aug. 16. was rejected last
Thursday. The 54-year-old leader
of the opposition Agrarian party
denied the government’s charge
that he plotted a coup d’etat by
armed force.
Evidently resigned to death, j
Petkov, in his prison cell, de
scribed his case simply as a pro
longation of “what has already
happened to Hungary,” where the)
U. S. \V arns ^ u<*o
slavs (>f I )an«*crous
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Practices
WA SUING TON. </P) — The
United States government has
called upon Yugoslavia to stop the
“exceedingly dangerous" practice
of issuing ultimatums to Briitsh
and American troops in the Tri
este area because it is “likely to
precipitate incidents leading to
most serious consequences.'
Undersecretary of state Cobert
Lovett told a news conference to
day that American ambassador
Cavendish Cannon had expressed
this view in a protest presented in
Belgrade on Monday.
The American note referred to
recent “irresponsible Yugoslav ac
tions” when Marshall Tito’s troops
demanded “alterations” in the
provisional boundary between the
British-United States zone of the
free territory of Trieste and Yugo
slavia.
Lovett said the United States
believes that such local disputes
“must be resolved through normal
civilized procedures.”
Second Hurricane
Hovering Off
Florida Coast
MIAMI, Fla. (/P)_The Florida
west coast from Tampa, north
ward, was warned yesterday
against dangerous gales as the
state’s second tropical storm in a
week hovered at a virtual stand
still over Tampa Bay.
The storm, nothing yet to com
part with the dangerous first, was
showing signs of increasing in in
tensity, the weather bureau said
in an advisory yesterday morning.
The apparent mildness of the
newest blow from the Caribbean
wasj a relief to south Floridians
who with Gulf coast residents to
the north suffered at least 44
deaths and $75,000,000 property
damage in last week’s visitation.
Highest winds recorded so far
in the storm which swept up out
of the Caribbean sea have been
from 50 to 60 miles an hour in
gusts.
Northeast storm warnings were
ordered up west of Cedar Key to
Apalachicola, and continued
storm warnings from Palm Beach
to Charleston, S. C., and on the
Florida west coast north of the
Keys.
While the storm was halted for
the time by high pressure preva
lent over the Atlantic States, the
weather bureau said it was mov
ing northward very slowly, six to
eight miles an hour.
The advisory stated that the
highest winds reported since the
storm was first felt Monday were
60 miles an hour at Edmont Key
in the mouth of Tampa Bay.
FRED TOPKOK OF IGLOO
ON BUSINESS TRIP HERE
Fred Topkok, reindeer baron of
Igloo is in town for a few days on
a business trip.
Communists throttled the opposi
tion after charging the existence
o fa plot against the government.
Taft Heckler* Will
Aid KcjHddicuiis
\\ in Klcction
(By Jack Belli
SEATTLE, f/P) — A snarling,
heckling demonstration. blamed
by a GOP leader on “Commun
ists” prompted Senator Taft <R.
Ohio> to predict today that such
protest methods would “help the
Republicans win the next elec
tion.”
Ignoring those of his 1; Oners
who booed lustily his defense of
the Taft-Hartley labor act. the
Ohio Senator called today for a
reduction in taxes to help cut the
high cost of living.
Keeping a bandaged left .land
carefully at his side, Taft retuvne 1
to a discussion of major political
issues after an unruly meeting
last night in which the smad mi
nority of an audience overflowing
a 2.100-seat auditorium noisily
walked out during the Senator’s
denunciation of labor leaders who
have criticized the new law.
As the departing hecklers shout
ed: "We’ve had enough,” Taft, his
face grim, replied loudly:
‘‘The whole propaganda against
the Taft-Hartley act relies on at
tempts to silence the arguments in
favor of that act.”
The audience, preponderantly
Republican, drowned in resound
ing cheers the booing and the cat
calls of those who were departing.
Taft defended the labor law as
a bill of rights to “protect individ
ual employees, both union and
non-union members.”
Although conceding that it has
provisions to hobble “arbitrary”
labor leaders, the Ohio Republican
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Russians Badlv
j_ In
Nations Meeting
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i LAKE SUCCESS, f/P>—Battered
| and beaten by a majority which
{ no veto could block, Russia found
herself today in a weak minority
I position in her contest with the
United States for leadership in the
United Nations assembly.
A series of assembly test votes
produced that result. Overwhelm -
! ing majorities crushed Soviet op
| position and placed firmly o.i the
! assembly’s agenda for this session
the American-sponsored issues >f
Greece, Korea and a new veto
| free security agency.
Similarly, on an Argentine pro
posal supported by the United
States for revision of the Italian
peace treaty, the assembly voted
to put the question on the agenda
for future full consideration de
spite the fact that Russia objected
I and Britain and France took a
[ hands-off attitude.
Diplomatic authorities said the
meaning of the votes was highly
important for the rest of this ses
sion. They predicted that- Russia
would gain little support for her
resolution to condemn alleged
“warmongering” in the United
States but that the United States
would put over easily its program
for action by the assembly in the
face of Russian protests.