Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 September 1947 — Page 1

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/ 58th YEAR—NUMBER 174 .-

er Dae 800 Hungry Soldiers Of Fortune Send SOS, |

Give Up Revolution

| Cuba Seizes 2 Ships, 11 Planes; Some Ex-Gl's I Included in Force Bound for Dominican Republic

‘HAVANA, Sept. 30 (U. P).—~Two invasion ships loaded with 800 revolutionary shocktroops put into the fort of Antilla today under! escort by the Cuban navy. 5 The revolutionists' attempt to overthrow the Trujillo dictatorship NEW YORK, Sept. 30 (U. P). | of the Dominican republic was a failure, —Burt Shotton, keeping his plans . Telephone reports from Antilla, 500 miles east of Havana on the! _ cret until the last ible monorth shore of Cuba, said the two g i f ment. today named big Ralph captured Dominican amphibious| " y

"i ’ ) ! Branca, his 21-game winner, to | landing ships arrived under convoy! & pitch the opening game .of. the | of two Cuban frigates.

Branca Starts

Against Shea

73,000 Flock to Yankee Stadium BULLETIN

Brooklyn .. 100 New York .°...... 000

World Series for the Brooklyn Cuban army bombgss wheeled over Dodgers against Frank (Spec) the vessels as aerial escort, and a| Shea and the New York Yankees. heavy detachment of troops met the ships to take charge of the prison-| ers. § Preparations were made to dispatch the prisoners from the inva-| sion ships—two converted LCI's| (landing craft, infantry)—to Ha- | Pres. Grau vana by special train. ! Thus ended the grandiose scheme| of the expeditionary force to storm leader the ramparts of the Dominican re-if vice president of the League Workout. public—a plan involving months ofjof Nations, returned to Havana to- “I won't planning, the expenditure of mfions'day. He had been reported missing will be until a half hour before the| of dollars, and the repeated set- three days. game starts,” Shotton said. The]

ting of D-day only to have the| The ships were captured yester- Brooklyn players told newspaperschedule miscarry. iday. men they expected that big Ralph

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By LEO H. PETERSEN United Press Sports Editor | NEW YORK, Sept. 30.—Manager Burt Shotton of the Brooklyn Dod-| gers kept the New York Yankees guesing until the last minute on his World Series pitching plans today Angel Morales, 53, acknowledged 25 he sent his National league penof the Dominican exiles and ‘ant winners out for their pre-game

Pres. Trujillo

know who our pitcher!

i 1 ! LINEUPS Bombing Planes Included in Plan | = “0... The original plan for the bombers Last resort D-day in the Domini- Bangy rs Stimwain, RJ and fighter planes to clear the de- can republic was supposed to have Reiser, of Berra, © Walker, rf DiMaggio, of

fense of the Dominican capital, Ciu- been at dawn yesterday. Last night, Hermanski, If

A McQuinn, 1b dad Trujillo, which was known tor Col. Oscar Diaz, who had spent —gdwards, © A

Johnson, ib

centuries as Santo Domingo. Then months investigating the plot, an- jergsnsen, 3 Lindell, ¥_ the landing force was to go in to nounced for the Cuban government Branca, p Shea, p

overthrow the 17-year-old dictator. that the men on board the two ships ——— ems : ship of Generalissimo Rafael L. —the El Maceo and El Fantasma— Branca. a 21-game winner, would] Trujillo Molina. had surrendered and that the “Do- start, but there also was a possibilBut the Cuban army and navy minican adventure” had come to an ity that Shotton would open with started breaking up the plot. Cuba abrupt end. Hal Gregg. : seized 11 planes the revolutionaries He announced that 400 revolu- Both Branca and Gregg took part had ready. tionaries—they were said’ to include in the pepper drill which preceded The expeditionary force of 800 former American troops and soldiers batting practice sailed Friday in a last, desperate of fortune of almost every national- 8. R. 0. Customers Fioek In attempt to salvage something from ity—had surrendered on Cuban »0il| In contrast to Shotton’s secrecy, the months of preparations. (through Sunday. Manager Bucky Harris ;of the

. . . | Yankées announced on Sunday that Hint High Cuban Officials Involved

this opening game hurler would be Maj. Gen. Genevevo. Perez Da- against President Trujillo. He said Prank Spee) Shed SR mera, the Cuban army's chief of Gen, Perez Damera had “saved the son while losing only five. staff, said 700 others were still at nation,” although he had “acted in 14 was the first time that a large “but the army has them per- his own interests.” The serale or- .. vie ever started a Wolld Series flectly located and it is to be hoped dered a secre: session to consider oon, for an American league team, that they will surrender their arms the charge. I Three have done it for the Napeacefully to avoid any painful in-| Authoritative reports said the tional leaguers in the past, with aidents.” All told, there were about United States, not wanting any only one of them winning. ? M00 revolutionaries, ~~ ; wars in the ‘western hemisphere, gme Yankees started with an allIn anhounciig the captire of the had exerted its inuffence dn OUST rookie battery as Lawrence Yogi) | two transports, Col. Diaz said the| to get the plot broken up. Berra was back of the plate. ! sirmy had “documentary proof” im-| It appeared “that the Invasion| Ajthough a record sell-out crowd plicating high government officials{force was desperate indeed. In- of 73000 was assured, the fans| 1a the plot formed sources said it left without were slow in filling Yankee stadium. | Senator Aurelio Alvarez charged enough food or water and ran out| The $4 bleacher seats were the | tn the Cuban senate yesterday that|of supplies Sunday night. The twWO|first to be filled. Ringing the outCuban President Ramon Grau San|ships hove to and radioed for help. | field from right center to left cenMartin had used public funds and The Cuban navy arrived and they ter the bleachers were jammed to public officials to foment a revolution all surrendered. capacity an hour and a half before |

Ancient Spanish Wall Guards City [is time. P10 p.m, Oem

lis time). @rhe staging area for the inva- storm the city with bazookas, gre- TH ganang of Sxily Suton sion, Col. Diaz said, was Nuevitas, ades and machineguns. ors, 4 3 Nigad, aso 1.4 . | : wl limited quarters to which they were on the north coast of Cuba. He said| Reports said that the expedition- yegtricted. 1300 to 1400 men originally were ny Joes, og before it ‘sailed, $6 Customers Ace. Late | supposed to take part in the land- sorieq. ou - Men who were not 1, the $6 reserved grand stand ing against Ciudad Txujill {considered physically fit to make a ;,,4 the $8 box seats, there .were ajillo, - ; een : : > ws | J = !landing under fire. These Were joss than 500 customers as the About 50 miles of wafer separate brought into the Colombia army yankees began their batting drill. the north coast of Cuba from the CAMP Sunday in a special train. The stadium was decked in red, projected landing point. Ciudad One of these, Jose Rigual Fer- white and blue bunting with the Trujillo sits on a high plaieau

nandez, 25, complained he had lost g i A ags of the United Nations flyin 20 pounds. A day's diet in the rev- as the grand stand top yng overlooking the harbor and is pro-/olutionary army in recent weeks, he| : tected by a high wall the Spaniards

said, had consisted of “two small A byst wind was blowing: Jom erected against invasion years ago. left. to right fleld, favoring those Fliers, including members of the Flying Tigers, who fought the Jap-| Col. Diaz, after looking over the cy inni : f angse air force in Ching long be-[270 castoffs, said: “If they Were, uAIAE BYIEHELY and ee a foe Pearl Harbor, were supposed planning to liberate the Dominican |, hich had 1 to have taken care of these de-| : 4 : showers whic been forecast. | : republic with these people, President | The Dodgers drew almost the, enses., {Trujillo would have stayed there " ’ complete attention of the reporters, Then the shock {troops were toj100 years. psd and others on ip = ing field, the Yankee dugout being| {virtually deserted. But try as they might, they could {not get Shotton to name his start-

a small piece of cod.” was topcoat weather. The sun was

Find Chimpanzee | Smell Sense Keen

By Science Service. ling pitcher.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 30.—Chim-| “Wait until you see who starts parmees have a keener sense of| warming up for us, and you will | {know whom I'm going to start,” the

smell than man. - M | Brooklyn pilot said. Vie Lombardi, This finding, contrary to previ- rs. Manners {the little southpaw, winked knowously held scientific opinion, is {ingly as big Branca went by, reported by Thomas M. Blackman 17 to 10 on Yanks of Honoluiw in. the forthcoming Has Moved | As far as the gamblers were conTo Page Two

cerned, it was a 3 to 2 proposition issue of the American Journal of in favor of the Yankees for the vital Physical Anthropology here. first game with odds of 17 to 10 Failure to take into account the quoted on the Bronx Bombers for chimpanzee’s intelligence has mis-| {the series. But all of the speculaled previous observers into believing {tion wasn't in the hands of the the chimp lacked a sense of smell. “. 8 #" | odds-makers. When a chimpanzee pays no at- Harris, who was himself the tention to an odor, it is’ because it | famed “boy pilot” of the world is familiar to him and he takes it champion Washington Senators of for granted, just as & man would, 1924, saw nothing -wrong in gamMr. Blackman observes. But an ‘bling with a boy pitcher. unknown odor, even if too faint for)

“Shea is my boy,” he said. a man to detect, will arouse the| won some very important gaines for chimpanzee’s . fear,

BULLETIN

SC10, 0., Sept. 30 (U. P.)~A freight train crashed into the rear of the Pennsylvania railroad's Iron City Express passenger train here today but no serious injuries were reported. Station Agent D. D. Mull’ sail passengers in the rear cars of the Pennsylvania train No. 267 were shaken up and a few had minor cuts and injuries.

'Duce’s Widow Reports His Body Now in U.S.

...» 11] NAPLES, Sept. 30

us this season and he has all the poise of old Walter Johnson out there. He is fast, he is smart, and {he figures to be throwing the kind {of stuff that the Dodgers haven't {found too much to their liking.” { Harris in Spot Despite his enthusiasm for rookie | Shed, Harris was putting himself fon the spot, because he had a proven winner in Yankee stadium,

Tennis Ace Injured

SANTA MONICA, Cal, Sept. 30 (U. P.).—Bob Falkenburg, 21, the nation's seventh-ranking tennis player, was reported in fair condi-| tion today in Santa Monica hos-| pital after suffering injuries in an| automobile accident. He is a brother of actress Jinx Falkenburg.|

Times Index has pitched there this season,

Amusements . 11| Movies .

Bridge ....... 17|F. C. Othman 13| Donna Rachele Mussolini, widow of Classified ..19-22| Pattern ...... 18/the late Benito, claimed today that|1939 started a “has been,” Howard |dubon county jail at Audubon, Towa, ing girl Comics ...... 23|Radio ....... 23'an “American army major” had as- Ehmke, who not only beat the|for three weeks under the . Crossword ... 19! Records 6 sured her that the body of the Chicago Cubs, but set a World John Marryfield, Editorials .... 14 Mrs. Roosevelt 18 duce was now in the United States. Series strikeout record of 13 for Forum'....... 14 Side Glances 14 She told an Italian reporter who the Philadelphia Athletics. If Gregg, Gardening ... 18 Society ...... 17 interviewed her that she did not be- Who has won only four games all Marjorie was a girl yesterday as Meta Given... 18 Sports ...... 8-0 lieve the story that police had Season, should

Hollywood ... 13 Stranahan :.. 8 recovered the body from ghouls: Yankees, it would be regarded as tin began trial of Bobby i feat as when the bogus boy on charges of s|

mowed down the and 14 cArtons ‘of ciga

Don Hoover . 14 Washington . 14 who stole it from a grave in Milan almost as great Inside Indpls. 13| Weather Map 19 This says the body was buried tired old Ruth Millett.. 17) Women's .... 18'by police again in a secret place. |Cubs,

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FORECAST: Fair and quite cool tonight with frost. Lowest tonight about 34. Tomorrow increasing cloudiness and warmer.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1947

To Jet Aircraft

“He d

the fast-baller Allie Reynoids, who tavern recently was really a girl, thas won 13 out of the 15 games he Mass.

With Shotton, there was the great real swell guy.”

(U. Pp.) — | OPpOrtunity to emulate the stunt|the jail physical examination room. of canny Connie Mack, who in

start and beat the Juvenile Court Judge R. Kent Mar- restauran

For Brooklyn 50 M. P. H. S

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis, Ind, Issued duily except Sunday

HONORABLE - MENTION — Lew Wallace (left), assistant tothe president. of

the national safety council, presents Governor Gates wit nationwide traffic safety contest. The honorable mention day-long session of the state traffic safety committee in

Predicts Big Shift Wheat Hits $2.90 Record; Cattle Sell at $36 High

Washington Tells Nation Saving of Food Will Mean Lower Prices, Feed Hungry

By UNITED PRESS Wheat and livestook prices climbed to record levels on Chicago

Due Within 5 Years, Allison Expert Says

Times Washington Burcan WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—Five years from now

exchanges today.

M. Hazen. Allison Division engi- United States. , s Re wig $ I The rise in Jivestack. neering ~ director, “told "the Presi- go WAAL BAS dent's air policy commission today. He said the change-over hinged paid for two 1200-pound Steers at

At the same time an administration all new large air- oes could be brought down and more food provided for hungry tends it would handicap fire fightcraft may be jet propelled, Ronald portions of the world through a “wasie less food”

h Indiana's "trophy" in the

the Claypool hotel.

& Coes at’ ‘ v "Chicago was not as pon as H F ¥ D here vot in wheat. But a new 1047 eavy ros ve high of $36 a hundredweight was Tonight With o

on government support of new com- Chicago, 10 cents higher than yesLow of 34

mercial types terday's top. . ” ’ December wheat rose to $2.89Mr. Hazen, who has just returned $290 a bushel and July to $1.67, from an inspection tour of British the highest prices on record for aircraft engine plants, said that “it wheat for delivery in those months. is safe to say that we have at least Traders apparently believed that caught up with and in some ways the demand for wheat for export are ahead of our British friends” in would keep prices high. production of turbo-jet engines. | Corn and oats rose and soybeans He asserted, however, that the were up the eight-cent limit on the British are planning turbine flight | Chicago board. Directors of the testings on a “lavish scale com- board voted yesterday to Increase pared to this country” and urged margin requirements five cents a more emphasis and funds applied bushel for each 10-cent increase In to flight testirig of ‘new designs in the price of grains. the U. 8S. Food Trend Irregular The President's air policy com-' President Truman met at the mission is engaged in a study of White House with his advisers on current and future needs of Ameri food and foreign aid, including can aviation. Charles Luckman, chairman of the After hearings in Washington new citizens food committee, Mr the rest of this week, the commis- puckman was- meeting with the

ieces of malanga (a vegetable) and ,.. i p g 4 ) hitters whose power is to right. Ili gion will inspect the Allison plant president for the first time since

and the CAA experimental hangar the committee was created. at Weir Cook Municipal-airport in, The administration leader who Indianapolis. commented on the “waste less food” . -— Ss . - program said it would reduce prices at home if people could be conHiser Co Given |vinced that meat should be passed . lup two days a week, and that they

{should shop for cheaper cuts.

the past two weeks over the nation

| The legal fight over the right of have shown no definite trend. They

the Walter Hiser Automobile Sales have gone Wy at some points and 39th and down at others.

Co. to erect a garage at Grocers in

Illinois sts., today was venued out of Marion county courts. The case is an injunction suit

brought by the Hiser firm, demand- Coffee Prices Spill

ing that the city. parks board ve [n Los Angeles

ordered to rescind its action against : 4 4 construction of the garage. | LOS ANGELES, Sept. 30 (U. P.). —The ptice of a cup of coffee was

Last August the park board denied the firm a permit to erect a garage tumbling in Los Angeles today but on the ground that it was across two drug firme -denied they were waging a “coffee war.”

the street from the Booth Tarkiog: b o The Owl-Sotitag chain advertised

ton park. | The Hiser firm stated that the 3 Price slash from 7 cents to 4 cents

park board action came after it had a cup. spent $17,000 on construction work. It was selling at 3 cents at some Attorneys in the case will “select thrifty drug counters. the county for trial in the next few “ILS just a ‘special’ for our cus- - |tomers,” an official said.

many communities

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LOCAL TEMPERATURES

Gam ...3 10am... 48 a.m... 33 11 a.m . 48 $a m. 41 12 (Noon) . 51 Sa. m.... 4 1p... 0

linto tighter speed restrictions, traffic and highway officials |agreed today. :

‘hotel for the governor's traffic safety conference, Police Superintendent Col. Robert Rossow appealed for a state-wide

Okay Parking Plan cs... oer On Virginia Ave.

imes

peed Li Asked On State High Officials in Conference Agree That Fast Driving Is Raising Death Toll

leader predicted that food

campaign in the

imtanent,

ing would begin in the street as with soon as guide lines could be painted. [nd hills already are posted

termoon, and spain woul ce" continuing day

week, has been temporarily shelved . because the fire d While they did not commit them

city's traffic problems the safety board:

which would give police power to : tow in illegally parked vehicles. limit for every road in the $

{which would give police power to = issue “stickers” to pedestrians who!

{ lations.

be placed for the purchase of 20

partment,

A HEAVY FROST was predicted for Indianapolis and vicinity to-

night with a minimum temperature nounced that Frank Y. Hardy, formei city traffic engineer, would be ex- retained on the heavy frost to be the traffic consultant at a reduction in last fling of the cold snap which salary.

of 34 degrees. The weather pected

bureau said it

last night brought a killing frost to

sections of northern Indiana,

n ” »

FT. WAYNE reported heavy fros

and a8 minimum temperature of 32 South Bend was the coldest spot In the state with a temperature

degrees

y 31, one dgree below freezing

The cold air moving across the A northern section of the United Sgt. Ben Carter today handed the Miles being driven. Yet the actual States brought the first killing frost safety board his resignation as [number of deaths continues to grow.

of the season to Wisconsin,

parts of northern Illinois and Indi-

ana » » Ld THE MERCURY slid grees here last night,

to 37 but

weather bureau sald would begin to warm tomorrow.

Horace Abbott, county agriculture agent, said thus far Marion county's cool weather had been a benefit

dewinds

- Transfer on Suit | Meanwife. ‘a _spot check of cities showed that food prices Ini evented frost from forming. The

temperatures

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Mr. Hardy has been retained as city consultant at a salary of $3600 rate on highways has dropped ‘a year. Mr. Hardy's salary as traf- Sharply in Indiana when considered

and mayor's chauffeur. hired to drive car when the late Mayor Tyndall/mounted 7 per cent, he said.

to the maturing corn crop. He said

no damage had been reported.

Pilots’ Strike Cancels

Flight to Frankfurt

NEW YORK, Sept. 30 (U. P.).—A gown to the brake band when they spokesman for the American OVer-ingiteq and arrested Robert B. Blunk, pilots’ 22 of R. R. 2, Mooresville. The hitstrike had caused cancellation of &/,un accident had occurred in the company’s flight to Frankfort early {200 block of Kentucky ove.

seas airlines said that a

today.

The spokesman said that

strike. Decision on a flight

at 1:30 p. m.,, was withheld,

{driver in Morgan county.

190 reckless pilots and co-pilots may go out on scene of an accident, was charged to with smashing into the parked car. Europe, scheduled to leave the field Indianapolis police said the driver

oy Robber, 12, Disgusted

'Fellow' Who Helped Rob

| ‘He Was a Real Swell Guy,’ Says lowa Lad; Admits Her Identity to Jail Doctor ATLANTIC, Iowa, Sept. 30.—Bobby Wiggs, 12, was thoroughly gusted today after ledrning that the “fellow” who helped him ro

dis-

“A girl?” he asked. “How can John be a girl?

She had been held in the Au-|

name of terday in aged 14.

hime be withheld, announced that Her hair was clipped to a’ crew cut

and the time as a

from a “dohn” was a girl, \tavern last Labor day.

nsdn,

Tavern

Marjorie admitted her identify to a physician in

| . The girl -and boy were arrested at girl's cell until the ¢

on Learning

they were selling cigarets .for $1

carvon.

Is Girl

Audubon when: authorities learned Arthur Peterson, in a state police|,s president Truman.”

Bobby, who was remanded to his

(the tavern.

- oner in the juvenile cell

while police

Marjorie was sent’

b a parents’ custody because of his age, | Marjorie Marryfield, 17, of Boston, admitted he and “John” had. robbed |

Why he was a| Mairjorie’s pockets were crammed their headlights, the troopers had with nickels and pennies when she iraveled 14 miles, was drrested. She told Sheriff Tom porgan county, Marjorie is a slight, boyish-look= Pinnercy that she won the money Bjunk’s car ahead, lumbering along She appeared in court yes=| “shooting craps.” “ i the same yellow sweater! gnerisr Finnercy said there .was|

_'and dark blue trousers she Wore ,, problem while she was in jail The doctor, who asked that his when she was arrested op Sept. 3. tere since she was the only pris-

The manager of an Audubon Judge Martin continued the heart where she worked for a ing indefinitely busboy agreed with Bobby vestigated the case more thoroughSling $8 that it hardly seemed possible that ly.

in-

ck to the is resumed.

Parking in the center of Virginia lave. will begin this week, possibly

two lines of parked cars in the \center of the street, was approved d j ted af in emergency action by the safety ra w resen , ; mor: es awa as pre ed at a |poard this morning. The board also) a i aw Gave

lwill request city council passage of his depa ¢ broad enough Pow=

| Ing in the area,

mendation of several city officials,

fic engineer was $4500 a year

been named.

Youth Arrested As Hit-Run Driver

ma | | PRICE FIVE cans mit ays

oo ret so i A

80 Per Cent of Troopers Favor Lower Rate;

Others Favor Further Reduction By ROBERT BLOEM a Motorists with heavy feet are speeding their way right.

As experts and officials got together at the Claypool rome ieee ma x imum speed limit of 60

vealed that 80 per cent of them favored such a limitation, Col. Ros~ sow said in a luncheon speech. An~ id other 18 per cent recommended an A

Board Allows 2 Lines " lower ceiling on highway

péeds, he said. ’ Of Cars in Center Area Then it was learned that Gover nor Gates, Director James Harrison of the traffic safety committee, and IOITOW. other safety heads were exploring The new regulation which permits {he possi iy lending § Skwt. highways. ay - At the highway department, Com= missioner Herman D. Hartman ex-

1 ordinance making the plan peri sto post narrow or otherwise

oP . . _|hazardous roads with top speed Inspector Audry Jacobs said park Himits. Hundreds of curves, ars | {limits ranging from 30 to 50 miles e said painting might begin this' Mr. Har n sail d

Shelve Kentucky Ave. Plan All " Io un that speed Parking in the center of the first { the biggest factors in the lock on Kentucky ave. Which was! & os o0¢ © 4 Mayor Denny Jast HOOsler traffic death toll which is roposed by May mounting to near record levels.

In other action to unsnarl the

conditions. : i 5 Hab S Only the legislature, however, ONE: Asked for an ordinance authority to set & specific they said. Col. Rossow fold the safety officials traffic accidents this year may claim 1050 lives. Economic Joss, from traffic accidents, he esti- . mated on the basis of the record THREE: Requested-that orders, far, will exceed $68 million doilars. The police head pointed out that {enforcement, also, is a bugaboo in cutting the traffic toll. The state force must be doubled and then trebled, he said, before the job of cutting the toll to the bone can be accomplished. “We've been content with spend« ing pennies for accident-prevention and losing dollars in accidents,” the colonel charged. Death Rate Grows In an earlier speech, Governor Gates pointed out that the death

TWO: Asked for an ordinance

iolate specific street crossing regu-|

\ew motorcycles for the police de-

‘Hardy Kept on Payroll Meanwhile, Mayor Denny an-

the city payroll “as

A week ago the mayor announced hat Mr. Hardy was “on his way yut,” but was being given a chance o find a new job. At the recom-

lin terms of the number of car-

Sgt. Carter was| While urban deaths dropped sharp-

the city’s No. 111, deaths on country speed lanes

took office. His successor has not| In recognition for work already

{done in Inidana to cut down traffic laccidents, the state was presented {at today's session with a plaque for winning honorable mention in the [national traffic safety contest.

u. S. Already at War,

Baptist Pastor Says NEW YORK, Sept. 30 (U. P) — Dr. J. Frank Norris, pastor of Tem ple ‘Baptist church, Detroit, said to day that, judging from his observations in Greece, the United States is at war with Russia now. “Whether we like it or not, we are in it,” Dr. Norris said on his arrival aboard the Cunard White Star liner, Mauretania, Dr. Norris, who also is president " 3 of the Bible Baptist Seminary, Pt Blunk, Sharpe wit aie aug Worth, Tex., sald he had spent sev~ “eral months in Palestine, Rome and Greece,

Tracking an alleged hit-run driver for 14 miles by the marks left by a tireless: wheel, two state police troopers early today arrested the

They said the wheel had worn

halted while James Blain, 21, of Dewey, Truman Alike,

Mooresville, who was bruised, and Wallace Declares two other passengers, got out. BOSTON, Sept. 30 (U. P.).-— Then the driver of the car droveigenry A. Wallace said today he off with a flat tire. {thought New York Governor Hear Broadcast of Accident IThomas E. Dewey “is war-minded Troopers Ray Thompson 40dland is taking about the same stand

cruiser, saw fresh tire rim marks on! nr. Wallace made the statement the pavement a Kentucky andl, a press conference as he opened mpi a ing # roads a four-day New England tour. gi ¢ ‘ | The former ‘vice president said, Follow th rk : sohoiowing the marks. hes turned answer to a" question, Shel be to keep the marks in the glare of would sonsider eading - party in the 1948 presidential camn« ipaign only if the Republican and crossing 1ntoip, oeratic parties “do not appear

When. they SAW! seace minded.” ;

OFF THE RECORD—

# Reviews of the :

on the damaged wheel. | Josephine Lathan, 20, of 1420) Bacon st, sufféred head and body injuries when the truck in which! she wis riding as a passenger ran into a pole at Fairfield ave. and B. 34th st, | i Sh& was treated at’ Methodist hos- | pital. The driver of the truck, Charles 'L. Madlock, 18, of Wal /Bacon st, was not injured. °°

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