BOY ADMITS FIRING POLO GROUNDS DEATH BULLET THE FOURTH OF JULY MYSTERY KILLING of Bernard L. Doyle, 54, in the Polo Grounds, was solved when Robert /'eel>'es 14, confessed to New York police that he had fired a .45-caliber pistol from the rooftop of his home at the time Doyle was shot At right, a detective illustrates how Peebles fired Into the baseball park stands (arrow). Police officials say that the only charge that could possibly b« placed against the youth, in connection with the fatal shooting of Doyle, is one of juvenile delinquency, (International) Women In The Chnreh JJjT WL4^lY POWLER Members of the Girl's Friendly „ Society of the Protestant Episco pal Church are making interna tional and interracial understail ing real by writing to girls in foreign countries. Mail has gone i between more than 3,000 different, correspondents to ten countries. { With many Japanese young peo ple anxious to try out their Eng lish, the GFS is swamped with let ters from Japan, from boys and girls mostly between the ages , of sixteen and twenty-two. GFS now says to all church young peo ple, "If you would like to "adven ture Jn friendliness' in this way, it does not matter whether you belong to QF8 or not. Send your name, age and address to Pen Pal Secretary, Girls' Friendly So ciety, 386 Fourth Ave., New York, 16, N. Y." Ordinarily the people of Sidon, Syria, would have welcomed the snow which fell upon it last win ter — for it was Sidon's first snowfall since 1920. But there were in the tent-town outside Sidon some 6,100 Palestinian Arab refugees, and to them the snow was a dreaded experience which still haunts them. Tents collapsed from the weight of the snow, and at least one child was frozen to death; all suffered from exposure, lack of food and fuel. The Red Cross and Church World Service rushed food and supplies to the area. Acccording to Mrs. F. Lawrence White, the girls of the Sidon Prsebyterian School have bought material and made gar ments for some 300 Of the re fugee children. They spend many hours knitting for them, and from their own homes and from the Red Cross they take them dry milk, fruit, soap — even share their own lunches. "In view of the importance of the week-day school — public or private — in the life of American youngsters, I am personlly in fa vor of relating that institution in some way to the fact of religious Instruction," says Mrs. Mildred Mc Afee Horton, noted church lead er and former president Of Welles ley College. "Separation of church and state is a conviction held as sacred by most Americans. Some of us—including important legal authorities—seem to think that separation requires state schools to ignore the fact of religion . . . On the other hand, to some of us, the protection of minorities or anybody else from information lest it influence their judgment seems to be the ultimate stupidity in a free democracy." o — U. 8. VS US For 15 cents the U. S. Govern ment Printing Office will mail you a booklet entitled "Guiding Family Spending" (Catalougue No. Al. 38.661). This booklet is not to be confused with another recently issued by the GPO on "Increasing Cost of the Federal Government" (Document No. 150) which shows that the Federal Government intends to spend $42 billion in 1951 although it expects to take in only $37 billion in re venue. o Support Cancer Fund SECOND MHSMN, OTHER WITS ALERTED FOR SERVICE IN KOREA . . Washington — The build-up of fighting forces for the Korean campaign began rolling faster yesterday with announcement that the Second Infantry Division and other cambat units are being readied to move to the Far East in the "near future." As of yesterday morning, alerts to get ready for overseas had been Issued to: The second Infantry Division, with headquarters at Fort L«ewis, Wash. Antiaircraft units from the Fourth Army headquarters at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, and from the Sixth Army headquarters at San Francisco. Units of unidentified nature from the Second Army area, Balti more, and the Third Army area, Fort McPherson, near Atlanta. The First Marine Division, with its aviation outfit, is waiting to sail from the West coast. The Defense Department, for reasons of military security, de clined to say precisely where in the Far Etest these units would T land after Balling from American ports nor when they are scheduled to reach their initial destinations. However, there seemed some reason to believe that the ttecond Infantry Division might be des tined for Japan ot replace the 24th Division. Reports at the outset of fight ing in Korea Indicated General MacArtfcur had started sending elements of the 24 th Division into the battle area. When the shoot ing started, Mac Arthur had four divisions in Japan—the 24 th In fantry. First Cavalry (now an in fantry division which has been used in general for occupation constabulary duty,) the Seventh and 25th Infantry Divisions.' The total military strength, in cluding the four combat divisions, was about 123,500 men. An army infantry division runs about 15, 000 men in peace time; about 18, 000 in wartime. o An 8,400 - foot "mountain" peak recently discovered is 3, 990 feet under the sea. Fire Threatens Lives Of Three Near Elkin Elkln, June 29 — Mrs. Stella Barker and her two daughters, aged 11 and 14, narrowly escaped to safety when they awoke Tues day morning at 4:00 o'clock at their home on Highway 21, 10 miles north of Elkin, to find the five-room bungalow in flames. Since the roof fell in, the'fire supposedly originated In th< from an undetermined cause, no time to recover anything. Tbe furnishings and fan clothing were a total loss, comparatively small insurance] ried. The residence was thej erty of Mrs. Ola Norman, Winston-Salem. o —— North Carolina dairymen had 3,262 <cows on official test daring April.

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