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terson, Lt. Gen. Somervell, and King Peter's prime minister, » » .

BIGGEST QUESTION-MARK:

and other top Americans—and of Tito

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Will Hitler realize when his power

breaks in the Balkans—as the Kaiser did in 1918—that the jig is up?

The answer is linked to V-1, the rébot bomb, and V-II (for there def- - initely is a V-II, more or less ready.) : tly Nazis still believe they may wrangle a negotiated peace, Think that if they can hold out long enough inside a very much

reduced “European fortress” and pulverize Southern England mean-

But there isn't a chance. . lJ »

while, the British will agree to dicker and the U. 8. will string along.

Baruch Worked Out Reconversion MAN BEHIND SCENES who worked out this week's WPB-army

. understanding that reconversion would not prevent army getting all

the heavy guns, ammunition, trucks, etc. needed to finish the war,

* and in time, was B. M. Baruch, who today celebrated his 74th birth-

‘Baruch has been absent from Washington most of this summer, but long-distance lines from the capital to his summer home on Long

* + Island have been busy.

; Author of the “Hurry, hurry, hurry” cry on reconversion policies, Baruch still stoutly insists that battlefield needs come first.

Incidentally, reports that Baruch may support Dewey in election are without foundation. -Though he admires Dewey, disapproves and

distrusts much of the New Deal,

Baruch as an old-line Democrat

It's safe bet he never will.

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JUSTICE DEPARTMENT is looking into reports that the consent decree ending the government's anti-trust suit against oil pipeline

signed it. If proof of violation is found, the companies will be

. subject to contempt proceedings.

sx “Reconversion Peace? COUNT [ON WPB Director

Donald Nelson to go to bat for his industrial reconversion program if war manpower commis-

_ gion's local committees block ci-

vilian production in areas where manpower is clearly available.

But WPB officials, who at first

“ feared WMC veto power might

Jam their program, are hopeful

*. now there will be no clash.

bill,

Nelson’ has been meeting with WMC Director McNutt this week and they're said to haye reached

.” an understanding.

» ” ” A STRENGTHENED George making more certain in=creased unemployment compensation for war workers but pre-

‘serving state administration, will

probably be passed by the house. P. A. C. demand for house approv= al of the original Kilgore-Murray bill, with its federalized unem-

* ployment compensation and two-

. sure.

year benefits up to $35 a week, is making few converts among congressmen, despite strong pres-

” o . CANDIDATES USING ballot application postcards for political advertising by sending them to servicemen have been checkmated by a ruling from Postmaster General Walker, Walker says the only cards entitled to the free mailing privfleges are those dealt out te the soldiers by the U. 8. war ballot commission, ” » ” Fair Employment REP. CHARLES M. LAFOLLETTE (R..Ind) is urging his - G. O. P. colleagues to press for passage of a fair employment practice committee statute before

"November.

He points out that the Republican platform indorsed such a bill, and says failure to act before this was a contributing factor in recent Philadelphia streetcar strike. A permanent law would take the matter out from under the President's war powers where FEPC now functions, - ” » BATTLE RAGES within admin- 4

istration over government sale of

surplus acreage. RFC plans to sell at “current values’ Department of agriculture says values are inflated, that farmers who buy now may go bankrupt in a few

'. gompariies may have been Violated by some of the companies that

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years. Justice department backs it up. . . RFC refuses to consider letting former owners buy back land at what they sold for; says if they don't pay price asked they forfeit first chance at land, even if price is cut later for lack of a market. "RFC thinks of letting real estate operators sell the land. But Surplus Property Administrator Clayton has warned that sales to speculators should be avoided.

” ” ” The Coal Situation UNDER NEW coal conseivation

regulations, householders located near mines producing scarce

grades may get less winter fuel

than those more distant.

Reason is that deliveries of Southern Appalachian coals are limited 10 90 per cent of 1943 consumption, and consumers in nearby areas can get no altéernafive supplies, - Users in other areas will receive less coal from these fields, but can. make up the deficit with coal from

ogher sources, thereby getting 100 per cent of previous tonnage. . 2 8 =» : SENATOR TAFT (R.0.), whose campaign organization spent a record $159,451 for his first election in 1938, promises an economical campaign this year, with a limit of $15,000 on expenses. » » .

Army’s’ New ‘Weasel’

LATEST ARMY vehicle to be

unveiled is the “Weasel,” known more formally as the M-29. It's a low-slung, square-faced personnel and supply carrier, capable of operating over snow, mud, sand or paved highways. It's sald to be more versatile than the jeep. . s 8 wu TUG OF WAR is under way between state utility commissions and gas and electric companies, railroads, telephone and other | utilities over whether excess profits and other special war taxes

should be included in rates charged to consumers, Several commissions are on

‘record as believing they should not; propose lowering rates to point where companies won't

have any excess profits to pay

on.

Companies, on the other hand, have been asking higher rates in some states to help them meet higher tax load. Companies fear permanently lowered rates when wartime business falls off. Utility

| commissions fear permanently in-

creased rates when taxes drop. It's likely to be a long fight.

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‘Fall of South France Port. Expected Within a

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said American forces stabbing through La Roquebrussanne, 14 miles north of Toulon, toward Marseille were having difficulty maintaining contact with the fleeing Germans. Stiffer resistance was being encountered in the frontal assault on the naval stronghold, as the Germans unleashed their heavy artillery and rushed up ragamuffin reinforcements from three badly-bat-tered divisions for a final stand. German engineers have blown up all bridges leading into the city. “Looking down from mountain heights on the silhouette of Toulon in today's haze of smoke and powder and seeing troops of all kinds from French infantry to American doughboys, supported by tanks, closing in, I believe Toulon is likely to fall this week-end regardless of the stand the Germans may make,” Packard said.

Hit French Battleships

Sweeping on ahead of the advancing ground forces, Mitchell medium bombers sank a destroyer and a submarine and scored destructive hits. on the .-26,500-ten- battleship Strasbourg and a cruiser of the 7600-ton La Galissoniere wlass in Toulon harbor yesterday. Reconnaissance photographs disclosed that three direct hits were scored on the forward deck of the 700-foot-long Strasbourg, causing three separate fires and sending her into a list. The cruiser also was left listing to starboard with decks awash. The Germans had turned gun. batteries . of, both warships against American cotumtis converging on_the’ base from the east and northeast. At the eastern end of the five-day-old beachhead, other American forces were believed to have reached the Cannes airfield on the outskirts |. of the popular Riviera resort town despite heavy caliber gunfire from German batteries on the islands. of Ste. Marguerite and St. Honorst, two and three miles respectively southwest of Cannes.

1000 Miles Liberated

Both American and French forces scored new gains inland and Gen. Sir - Henry Maitland Wilson, supreme allied Mediterranean commander, announced- in his communique that ‘the bridgehead now totaled more than 1000 square miles in area—believed the largest terhe ever liberated in so short a timé<by an amphibious invasion. “Towns are falling. like ninepins,” a front dispatch said. Pushing down from the northeast along the inland road from St. Raphael, the Americans broke into’ the outer suburbs of Toulon with the capture’ of Sollies-Pont, five miles from the base, in a threemile advance and pressed steadily on. A B. B. C. correspondent in southern France said Toulon “is going to fall and fall very soon.”) French patriots were almost as numerous as American soldiers in the advances on the western end of the beachhead. Carrying all types of guns from ancient rifles to the most modern’ makes, they were dealing with .German rear guard snipers. Third Naz Az, | Division Seen Elements of a third German division, the 338th infantry, have been (identified on the northwest sector of the beachhead, a special an- | nouncement reported. Previous bul|letins said the 242d and 1486th in|fantry divisions were in the area. French troops were credited by headquarters with overcoming the| last enemy opposition in the Cap Benat area, some 30 miles east of Toulon. All the Mitchell bombers partici- | pating in yesterday’s raid on Toulon | harbor returned . safely, though] heavy anti-aircraft fire was encountered. Two big gun positions at the entrance to the harbor also were silenced in the attack.

Yank Carriers in Fight -

A navy communique reported that two American aircraft carriers participated in the landing nperations under the command of British Rear ‘Adm. Thomas Troubridge, who also commanded seven British aircraft carriers. American destroyers repulsed a force of German torpedo boats attempting to attack the 4nvasion| armada Thursday night and sank four of them after a “spirited engagement,” the communique said

TAYLOR SEES POPE AGAIN VATICAN CITY, Aug. 19 (U. P.). —Mpyron Taylor, President Roosevelt's personal emissary to the Vatican, had another private audience with the Pope today. They were together for a half hour,

matically lost most of the others.

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never has, It probably never will ‘Woodrow Wilson and. a generation of Americans lived to regret his failure to insist on open diplomacy, the first of his 14 points. When he lost that one he auto-

He permitted himself to be cut off from his army—American public opinion and world public opinion— and thereafter he was powerless to protect ‘the American and allied pledges. There will be less excuse- for President Roosevelt, if he makes the same fatal e, for he has the warning of the Wilson tragedy which became world tragedy in another war. Why is President Roosevelt defying history and gambling the future by insisting that the Dumbarton Oaks conference be conducted in| secret? Several excuses are offered, none of which holds water. There is neéd for an informal preliminary exchange of views to pave the way for an open conference, it is said. Actually, however, there has been an almost continuous exchange of views in secret session during the past two years, and on all levels | from that of expert and ambassador | to chiefs of state. Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin met-at- Teheran and riads agreements not yet divulged to the public, and more recently our under secretary of state held similar secret conferences in London. Indeed, the preliminary negotiations of the Big Three have advanced so far that each has now submitted its plan to pe 9 others in’ formal memoranda, -

Unified Effort Pledged

Another excuse is the alleged fear of revealing serious disagreements) which, if publicized; might split the » alles and lose the war. But there are many answers to this phony: | The Big Three have promised over and over to stick together until

final victory. It is both libelous and silly to suggest that any one of the Big) Three governments on the eve of victory would betray its allies and its own country by a separate peace,

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sagreements over post-war organization, If such treason were afoo’, the sooner it was uncovered the better. But the Big Three already have agreed on a . democratic intcrnational organization, in general in the Atlantic Charter and specifically in the Hull Moscow pact. Moreover, even their detailed memoranda for Dumbarton Oaks are. in substantial agreement, according to the state department and Sir Alexander Cadogan, head of the British delegation, and only yesterday President Roosevelt an-

nounced that the Big Three had}!

agreed on terms for the occupation of Germany.

Policy Already Defined

Finally, it is said that open diplomacy at Dumbarton Oaks would invite American partisan politics in a presidential campaign year. But Secretary of State Hull and Mr. Dewey in formal statements have just demonstrated that the Democratic administration and the Republican party are committed to precisely the same policy—a fact already well-known because of the similarity of the two campaign platform planks, and the bipartisan senate passage of the Connally resolution incorporating part of the Moscow pact. There are only two ways in which this pledge could become a partisan campaign issue. One is for either Mr. Roosevelt’ or Mr, Dewey to disavow the pledge already made by his country and its allies,’ by his {party and by himself—a possibility 'too remote for consideration. But it can become a campaign issue if the President through ineptness, or overconfidence, or weakness, or for any other reason, makes lan agreement which violates that war pledge. If that happened it should and would become a campaign isste,

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Parley Brews

Trouble for Post-War World

tainly would kick out the President and his false agreement. The issue is far bigger than any candidate or party, or even than America—it involves the peace of the world, the security “for which millions now die, Honest diplomacy needs no secrecy. The best guarantee of a just and lasting peace organization is open covenants openly arrived at. The President in insisting on secrecy assumes a responsibility as unwarranted as it is dangerous,

LEGION MAPS PEACE PLANS

Outline Suggestions Employment and . World Trade.

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for

may remain at peace and may preserve its democratic way of life, that its manhood may learn the value of national unity through the spirit and practice of national service, and that its moral and physical well-being be developed. ~~ 11. Further development, of world teamwork - - through the” present principles of American foreign polcies. - Discus Employment Regarding employment, the report urged impartial treatmént of _|both_management and labor with a program based upon the principle that both management and labor must be mindful not only of their rights .and privileges” But alse--of ‘their duties and responsibilities, “In dealing with employment, (there should be a minimum of re'liance on expenditure of public funds,” the report stated. In connection with war contracts, {the commission recommended that lin order that the contractor receive cash payments pending final settle'ment, the government should at once pay in full for all completed |articles and up to 90 per cent of

[the estimated costs on uncompleted

portions of the contract. . On rationing, the report stated that as long as a commodity is a necessity and is genuinely scarce, it should continue to be fairly distributed by means of direct rationing. Release Wage Ban

“Wage and hour stabilization controls that have been imposed during wartime should be abandoned as soon as large numbers of military personnel are demobilized,” the commission stated. On foreign policy the report indorsed 100 per cent the general principles outlined at the conferences at Teheran, Moscow and Cairo along with the Connally and] Fulbright resolutions for international co-operation, “We hail them as great milestones in American and world history,” the report stated. “We pledge unflagging support in carrying forward and developing them in the years to come under every administration.”

MRS. EMMA M’DERMED DIES HERE AT AGE 83

Mrs. Emma McDermed died yesterday at her home, 1143 N, Hamilton ave., after an illness of six weeks. She was 83 and a lifelong resident of Indianapolis. Services will be at 11:30 a. m. Monday in the J. C. Wilson chapel of the chimes followed by burial] in Memorial Park cemetery. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Aileen Allee, Mrs. Grace Ryan and Mrs. Kathryn Sowells, all of Indianapolis; & son, E. R. MecDermed of Indianapolis; two brothers, Frank Suher of Indianapolis and Gus Suher of Denver, Colo.; seven grandchildren and one great- |

and American voters almost cer-

grandchild.

Westbrook Pegler Leaving Scripps-Howard Papers

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‘symptom. It is a symptom of a journalistic problem which frequently develops when a writer is given carte blanche to express himself with complete and uncontrolled

‘| freedom. Many years of effort have

demonstrated notably in the cases of Heywood Broun, Gen. Hugh Johnson and Westbrook Pegler, the public's unwillingness to accept as something apart from the paper's policy, the opinions of independent writers. -

Sears: OPEN TONIGHT

“Scripps-Howard must be judged by its own expressions of editorial policy rather than by the views of a single brilliant - writer. When authority to determine and direct a newspaper feature is divorced from responsibility, a problem de-

satisfactory answer. This problem is not concerned with the freedom of the writer to express his own views. It concerns rather journalistic technique and editorial. judgment in determining how loudly and how frequently a writer may sound a single note without upsetting a newspapers editorial balance. “The impact "of Mr.

any newspaper is very great—so great in fact that the editorial voice of Scripps-Howard could only continue audible by resort to a stridency which we do not care to émploy. “Scripps-Howard has never exercised control over the subject matter, or the opinions of Mr. Pegler as they appear in his column, but we have been .unahle to satisfy many of our readers on this point, or convince them that Peg-~ ler has always expressed Pegler without regard to the opinions or policy of Scripps-Howard. “It long has been, and continues to. be, our opinion that Mr. Pegler is one of American journalism's most colorful, conscientious and effective craftsmen. Those of us who have been closely associated “with him, and who have enjoyed .his sense of humor and his comrade-

velops for which we have found no|

Pegler's | writing on the opinion content of.

TOAST SOP Fo COST U, §, LIVES,

Paratroopers Drown and Gliders Crash, but Le Muy

Is Taken.

By RICHARD MOWRER Times Foreign Correspondent WITH THE FIRST AIRBORNE TASK FORCE, Southern France, Aug. 19.—-On the whole the airborne operation in the Le Muy area went well, - The mission was to straddle the enemy's communications between coastal defenses and the interior, to prevent the Germans from send-{ ing reinforcements to the invasion coast, and to interfere with the enemy withdrawal before the American 7th army's onslaught. The mission was carried out and the plan executed. There were hitches. Some paratroop units were dropped too soon and landed in the sea off St. Propez. It is not yet possible to estimate how many were drowned. That they were given the go signal too soon, perhaps is not anybody's fault in particular. Troop carriers flew in at night. When they reached the Riviera they found a wide blanket of fog ‘blanking out ait landmarks. :

Slow Release Type.

“Perhaps fewer paratroopers would have been drowned had their chutes been fitted with the British quick

of his parachute harness in a Iractien of a second. ‘For awhile the airborne staff on the ground was worried by the dis< persal of certain paratroop units and the delay in the arrival of gliders. The Germans, however, reacted neither violently nor quickly. The invasion of southern France came while a German withdrawal was in progress. The Germans had withdrawn all their ack-ack on D-minus one. When we landed the. countryside was pretty much ours. . The earlier delay in the gliders’ arrival was made up in spectacular fashion later in the afternoon of D-day when hundreds of British|

C-4T's, arrived. The air parade lasted for an hour and 20 minutes.

Land Despite Obstacles

The Germans had anticipated an air-borne landing in the Le Muy area and all the best flelds had been almost neutralized by long poles stuck in the ground. The gliders came in, anyway. Some crash-landed in vineyaras. Others went right between the poles so that the could be torn off but the fuselage kept more or less intact. About every one of the glider landings had to be a crash landing.!

jer landing operations, These were | { unavoidable, Paratrooopers think ° glider-borne | men are terrific. “We'd rather jump any time,” they say. The mass arrival of glider-borne reinforcements was followed almost immediately by the mass dropping of supplies by parachute. Manycolored chutes filled the sky. On D plus one, the airborne unit, supplied with artillery, plenty of ammunition and transport reinforcements was able to stretch out the ground it held in the vicinity of Draguignan and Les Arcs and to carry out the final successful attack which cleaned the Germans out of Le Muy. The airborne task-force’s mission was completed and 34 hours’ after the first drop from the sky, junction was effected with the beachhead.

NAZIS CLAIM CAPTURE OF REVOLT LEADER

LONDON, Aug. 19 (U.P.).—~The German D. N. B. news agency said today that Karl Goerdeler, ex-mayor of Leipzig and an accused ring- | leader of the plot to assassinate {Adolf Hitler, has been arrested in West, Prussia by the gestapo. Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler had put a price of 1,000,000 marks ($400,000) on the head of Goerdeler, who was reported to have gone into hiding after the attempt to kill Hitler last July 20 failed.

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and American gliders, towed by |

There were casualties in the glid-1

Hull, Dewey s jis Seen Near Accord | Before Meeting|

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and swear allegiancé to the world authority. Hull has unequivocally rejected

* |proposals for a “super-state with

its own police forces and other par-

4 aphernalia of coercive power.”

. The Russians and the British, however, are believed to lean very strongly toward the idea of an international air force and, since the advent of the B-29 bombers, there has been more and more discussion in this country of the policing possibilities of a fleet of such aircraft. The flurry of exchanges of statements and telegrams between Dewey and Hull reached a climax late yesterday — three days before the American-British-Russian talks on international security start here at Dumbarton Oaks. The exchange began Wednesday with Dewey's statement that he was “disturbed” by reports that the next week's talks were designed to create a security organization dominated by the Big Four, Welcomes Conference

Hull replied with assurances that Dewey's fears were “utterly and completely” unfounded, and at a press conference later said he would welcome a- conference with the Republican presidential candidate in “a non-partisan spirit.” Dewey accepted the informal invitation and designated Dulles to represent him. State department officials who know Dulles have a high regard for

him and predict that when he and Hull sit down together they ‘will

gether on the basic pattern being followed by establish an international security organization. - .

PLOESTI HIT FOR 30 STRAIGHT DAY

LONDON, Aug. 19 <U. P.).—Ap- | proximately 250 American heavy bombers from Italy struck for the third consecutive day at Ploesti oil éfineries in Romania today, while other allied bombers and fighters crossed the Dover straits toward northern France in an intensification of the aerial support for ground troops racing for Paris. Flying in the wake of nearly 1000 British night bombers which ham{mered the enemy throughout | France, Belgium and Germany, including Berlin, the early morning raiders from Great Britain apparently headed for the Paris area

gliders’ wingtips today

Front dispatches revealed today that Lightning dive bombers deistroyed four camouflaged brick buildings in a wooded area south of Orleans used as headquarters by | German, army officers in that area. | After scoring direct hits and strafing personnel, the bombers left and French Maquis forces moved in

dispatch said.

find themselves amazingly close to- |/OWNS ~

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to mop up .the headquarters, the | nated capital.

“INSIDE PARIS

Nazi 7th Army Cut Off From Rest of France as Allies Reagh Seine River.

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being herded into their path by the allied armies in Normandy, Canadian and British forces at the northern end of the Normandy line were smashing eastward with increasing speed, aided by a nonstop. aerial barrage that literally cut the retreating enemy columns to pieces. The Canadians were pressing so close on the heels of the beaten enemy that allled planes on a number of occasions caught both German and Canadian troops in their gunsights as they flashed over the roads, and an undisclosed number of Dominion soldiers were killed or wounded.

Gain Five Miles The allies swept forward for gains of as much as five miles on a broad front east of Mezidon and 8t. Pierre today, The liberation of the old French capital and the final destruction of the Nazi armies of Northern France

appeared imminent, and fleld dis- -

patches said all semblance of organized

resistance had vanished =

everywhere on the 135-mile front from Paris to the channel eoast. At same time, Gen. Pierre Koenig, leader of the French forces of the interior, issued a communique announcing his troops had captured 70 villages in the strategically ime portant triangle formed by the a Troyes, = Brienne-le-Chateau, Mery, southeast of Paris, German tanks and trucks were jamimed bumper ta-bumper along the highways leading northeastward’ to the Seine, under relentless‘attack by swarms of American and R. A. F. fighter-bombers. Relentless Air Attack

(An N. B. C. broadcast from Lone don estimated that. the Germans have lost 300,000 to 325,000 killed, wounded or.captured in Normandy since D-day, and a German war ministry spokesman warned the Reich that “we must be prepared for a withdrawal from Prance.”) More than 3800 German vehicles, including a great number of Tiger and Panther tanks, were smashed on the road to Bernay yesterday in a dawn-to-dark assault that outdid even the massacre of El Almein. The Germans threw some 300 planes into battle and lost at least 67 without shaking the American and British fliers. A report from Madrid, unconfirmed, quoted Vichy sources that the Americans had reached the suburban towns of Croissy and Montreuil, both well . inside the greater Paris area. Montreull is just east of the capital. The Madrid reports said the American ‘column that crossed the Loire at Nantes more than a week

ago had struck out for Vichy itself,"

cutting almost half-way across France to the outskirts of Chateauroux 94 miles northwest of Marshal Henri Philippie Petain’s Nazi-domi-

Found West

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cennes and Terre Haute observers saw it in the east. The fragments could conceivably be found around Brazil, a central point between the cities.” An explosion was heard in the Brazil-Sullivan area. The meteorological expert also said that the meteor passed nearest to the towns where it was heard, adding that the celestial visitors rarely.come close enough to the earth to transmit sound. The fireball also made its way into the classification of a rarity when it did almost the un-. heard of for meteors—a fragment

apolis. Mr. Johnson referred to numerous textbooks as his authority that meteorites have never been known to strike a person, house, or city, and that only in rare cases have animals been hit by the fragment, Little doubt now is held, however, that a fragment from the wake of a meteor was respon-

striking an animal near Indian-

Clue to Fireball Landing

of Indianapolis

sible for injuring a hog on the farm of Harvey Belton, 8102 E. Matthew rd. in Acton, Dr. Russell Stanley of Acton, a veterinary who attended the hog today, sald some object had inflicted a perfectly spherical burn on the hog's shoulder. While the

wound bore some semblance of an -

electrical shock, the veterinary sajd he had never before seen any burn comparable to that inflicted on the hog. The animal was found in a fleld on the farm, a few seconds after Miss Patricia Ann Belton, daughter of the farmer, ran to the field where she thought the meteorite had disappeared. Meanwhile, Mr, Johnson said several scientific agencies undoubtedly will conduct research on the fireball since only the larger meteorites cause any noise or explosion on contact with the. earth, Out of the more than 1400 meteorites which strike earth yearly, only rarely does one

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