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I Will Visit U. S.
Russian Marshal Gregori Zhukov,
Soviet member of the Allied Con
trol Commission in Germany, will
arrive by air in New York City,
Oct. 4, and will then go to Washing
ton to see President Truman. The
Chief Executive, who met Zhukov
at the Berlin Conference, personal
ly invited the Russian commander
to visit the U. S. (International)
ANNAMESE MASS
FOR NEW ATTACK
Week-Long Battle Takes
Toil Of 319 Dead,
234 Wounded
SAIGON, Indo China, Sept. 30.—
CP)—Fighting between Annamese
and British and French forces en
tered the second week today amid
indications that the rebellious na
tives are massing on the outskirts
of Saigon for a concerted attack
when 1,000 French reinforcements
disembark Wednesday.
The Annamese, battling to pre
vent reestablishment of French rule
in Indo China, are estimated to
have a force of 20,000 men, three
fourths of whom are armed, in the
north-central area of Saigon. An
unestimated number of armed na
tives also are massing along the
main roads in the southern area of
the city.
Despite official attempts te‘ mini
mize the outbreaks, the known
casualties from the first week otf
fighting were 319 dead and 234
wounded. The dead included 204
Annamese and 100 French civil
ians. Britons, French, Americans,
Dutch, Chinese, Indians, Ghurk
has, Japanese and Annamese have
been involved either directly or in
directly in the battling.
British Maj. Gen. D. D. Gracey,
commanding officer of the Saigon
Control Commission, has ordered
the active participation of Japan
ese troops in an effort to quell the
Annamese. Some 1,700 liberated
Dutch prisoners of war have been
armed.
.tsritisn omciais insisted tnat tne
situation has eased and that
fighting now is restricted to the
Saigon suburbs where Ghurkhas
outflanked 200 natives who prev
iously had turned back two pla
toons of Indian troops and two
sections of French Marines in a
three-hour pitched battle in which
the natives used m»rtars, grenades
and automatic weapons.
Two days ago a column of 13
trucks carrying liberated Dutch
prisoners of war and Japanese
troops was ambushed by thousands
of Annamese armed with rifles
and machineguns.
The Japanese refused to fire on
the natives and only eight trucks
got through. The trucks were re
turning to Saigon from Japanese
arms dumps and probably con
tained weapons. No announcement
has been made of the casualties
resulting from ftiat engagement.
LONG-DISTANCE ‘DATE’
BEDFORD, Ind.,— (U.R) —Virginia
R. Smith of Bedford, deputy Law
rence county clerk, believes in ac
cepting dates far in advance—at
least when they are made by long
distance telephone from London.
Her sweetheart, Cpl. Victor Zilai
tis, of Boston, made a date with
ler for Christmas. Miss Smith re
ceived the call at her desk in the
courthouse and said she could hear
as plainly as though “Victor was in
the next room.”
WEATHER
(Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Burean)
meteorological data for the 24 hours
•nding 7:30 p.m. yesterday.
Temperature
1:30 a.m. 74; 7:30 a.m. 74; 1:30 p.m. 85;
7:30 p.m. 72.0
Maximum 84.5; Minimum 71; Mean 75;
Normal 70.
Humidity
1:30 a.m 92; 7:30 a.m. 89; 1:30 p.m. 60;
1:30 p.m. 91.
precipitation
Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m.—
0.00 inches.
Total since the first of the month—
0.00 inches.
Tides For Today
(From the Tide Tables published by U.
S. Coast and Geodetic Survey).
High Low
Wilmintgon —_ 5:48 a.m. 12:37 a.m.
6:20 p.m. 12:51 p.m.
Masonboro Inlet _ 4:04 a.m. 10:06 a.m.
4:27 p.m. 10:48 p.m.
Sunrise 6:07; Sunset 5:57; Moonrise
1:36 a.m.; Moonset 3:54 p.m..
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 2)
POWER
MEET
WANES
U. S. OFFER REFUSED
Some Progress Made
During 20 Days Of
Conferences
LONDON, Monday, Oct, 1.—(ff)—
The five power conference of
Foreign Ministers worked for an
hour past midnight today and then
announced another session would
be held tonight.
It appeared the ministers would
wind up their first meeting to
night, perhaps without a solution
to the conference’s biggest prob
lem — procedure for writing the
Balkan peace treaties.
It was learned that the Russians
have refused the latest and most
liberal American compromise, of
fering to acquiesce to the Soviet
demand that only Russia, the
United States and Britain write
the Balkan pacts, providing as
surances are given there will be
a full-pledged peace parley later.
The Russian objection to the
compromise, and a corrollary pro
posal that all belligerents against
the Nazis meet to talk over Bal
kan issues before drafting to peace
pacts, led most observers to be
lieve the conference would ad
journ while the three major coun
tries carried on negotiations
through diplomatic channels.
The ministers met for three hours
this afternoon to consider material
to be included in a final overall
communique expected tomorrow
on the conference records.
On the basis of information from
conference sources that the min
isters of the United States, Great
Britain, Russia, France and China
intended to conclude their talks
tonight, diplomatic quarters pre
dicted the Balkan issue would re
main unsettled.
However, it was understood that
the overall communique would an
nounce several agreements reach
ed dining the 20 days of delibera
tions, including the Soviet-British
agreements on a treaty for Fin
land and oh withdrawal of troops
from Iran by March 2, 1946.
These reasons were cited by
some conference delegates for the
apparent failure to agree on major
problems:
1— Lack of preparation, parti
cularly advance exchanges of views
before the London sessions began.
Russia’s views on the Mediter
ranean came as a surprise, while
the Americans reportedly suddenly
changed their stand on the disposal
of Italian colonies.
2— Three of the Foreign ministers
—James F. Byrnes of the United
States, Ernest Bevin of Britain,
ind Wang Shih-Chieh of China—are
new in their jabs. And some ob
servers have reported open clash
es between Bevin and Molotov.
3— Alleged Russian sensitivity
over publicity at the war’s end of
he powerful economic and military
position of the United States with
Russia pictured as weaker. Some
observers said the Atom bomb
secret might have a role in such a
Soviet attitude.
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 4)
Bandits Kidnap, Rob
Doctor, Mother; Were
On Race With Death
WELLESLEY, Mass., Sept. 30.—
(U.R)—Dr. Harold S. Smith of East
Orange, N. J., and his 60-year-old
mother were kidnapped and rob
bed of $480 on the Worcester turn
pike early today as they drove to
the deathbed of the physician’s
grandmother in Boston.
Mother and son were forced to
the side of the highway by three
bandits who ordered them into an
other automobile and drove three
miles to Newton where the robbery
occurred. The bandits released the
pair immediately, having overlook
ed some $600 which Dr. Smith car
ried in a second wallet, and a dia
mond ring which his mother slip
ped into her pocketbook.
Almost while the holdup was in
progress, the doctor’s grandmoth
er, Mrs. Ida Smith of Brighton,
died at a Boston hospital.
MacArthur Seizes 21 Japanese Banks;
Nationwide Phone Strike Threatens;
Glo Jster Passes Quarterway Mark
Huge Plane
Hour Behind
'Schedule'
CIRCLES PYRAMIDS
Army Air Forces Men
Board Ship Enroute
To India, China
By PAUL-MILLER
(Associated Press Staff Writer)
CAIRO, Sept. 30— (/P) —The
world-circling Globester circled
the Pyramids today. It also:
Passed the quarterway mark on
its 23,147 mile flight around the
world. It Roared in dazzling sun
shine over the bomb and shelltorn
desert battlefields of Benghazi,
Matruh and El Alafmein..
Saw its first camel train, on the
road below Tripoli.
Took on its first passengers since
departing Washington last Friday
and,
Ran out of water in the best
tradition—right over the Libyan
desert.
Coming in along the Nile to
Cairo after a 1,097 mile hop from
Tripoli the Globester dipped its
wings to the ancient pyramids
while passengers—increased from
nine to 28. at Casablanca—gaped
and snapped pictures from the C
54’s twenty circular windows.
Only a one hour stop was
scheduled at Cairo as U. S. Army
Air Transport Command observers
pushed things along in - hope of
picking up the hour the Globester
was running behind.
While passengers scurried for
nearby souvenir shops, most of
them buying Egypts’ famed puzzle
rings, crews including turbanned
barefoot natives swarmed in and
serviced the ship for the 1,093 mile
jump to what airmen out here call
the hottest place in the world,
Abadan. A nighttime landing
there was arranged for the Glob
ester.
The plane departed for Abadan
at 4:40 p. m. local time (8:40 a.
m. Eastern Standard Time). It
reached Cairo from Tripoli at
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TWENTY-FIVE E
IN TRAIN W iCK
BOURNE END, Herfordshire,
England, Sept. 30.—(U.R)— Twenty
five persons were killed and more
than 94 injured today * when the
London-bound Perth Express was
derailed near here and plunged
down a 20-foot embankment.
Bodies of the engineer, the fire
man and 13 identified passengers
were taken from the '-’reckage as
well as those of nine unidentified
dead. One man previously reported
as injured died later in a hospital.
The train was carrying many
servicemen, including Americans
who acted as volunteer rescue
workers.
It was the worst rail crash of the
year in England. The London-Mid
land-Scottish Railway said in a
statement that the train had been
switched from a fast line to a slow
one because of repairs in a tunnel,
and would have been returned to
the fast line a short distance from
the scene of the wreck.
Six coaches of the Express left
the rails and four turned over. The
engine and tender also went down
the embankment.
Railroad officials said the train
was believed to have jumped a
switch.
UNEDUCATED BIRD
HELD ON $10,000
BOND BY CUSTOMS
MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 30.—(U.R)
—If “Chico” were an educated
bird, U. S. customs agents at
Pan American Field would
have a loud squawk on their
hands today.
The South American bird,
flown from Barranquilla, Co
lombia, for G. C. Hoyt of Chica
go, was -ordered ‘‘held” under
$10,000 bond on “charges” of
illegal entry when customs
found the bird was not accom
panied by the proper papers.
A customs broker, who knows
Hoyt, guaranteed the bond tp
save Chico from deportation
while the international impasse
is being ironed out.
Member of a winged family
that can be taught to talk,
Chico has not yet made a dent
on his (her?) ABC’s.
“Thank goodness.” comment
ed the customs agent appointed
temporary jailer.
CONGRESS TO GET
NEW TAX PROGRAM
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—(U.R)—
The administration will submit to
Congress tomorrow a transitional
tax reduction program expected to
relieve an estimated 10,000,000
persons of all income tax liability.
It is believed to call for outright
repeal of three per cent normal
tax on individual incomes and the
59 per cent excess profits tax oh
corporations. The changes, to be
come effective Jan. 1, would re
duce government tax income an
estimated ?*,uuu,uuu,uuu.
The prcjgram will be trapsmmi-d
to the House Ways and Means com
mittee by Sercetary of the Treas
ury Fred M. Vinson.
The normal tax on individuals
has permitted an exeption of only
$500 for each taxpayer with no
credit for dependents. Its repeal
would provide a measure of relief
for all wage-earners, especially
those in lower brackets.
The National Lawyers Guild
meanwhile called for a sharp tax
reduction for low income groups,
but recommended that existing in
come and excess profits taxes be
retained during reconversion.
It outllined a six-point reconver
sion program which would raise
personal exemptions to $1,000 for
single persons and $2,000 for mar
ried persons, repeal the normal tax
and cancel several indirect or
exicise levies.
Denouncing the “generous treat
ment” accorded industry through
financial aid and tax relief, it said
that reconversion tax reductions
“should have as their prime ob
jective the relief of those with little
incomes of a part of the heavy
tax burdens they have carried
during the war.”
It characterized as “soak-the
poor” legislation the ‘‘across-the
board” tax reduction proposed by
Rep. Harold Knutson, Minn., rank
ing Republican member of the
House Ways and Means commit
tee, and others.
Same government officials and
“a large number of legislators,”
it said, have been too complacent
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 6)
LEGION WILL FIGHT
ANY TRANSFER MOVE
ON VETERAN AFFAIRS
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—(P)—
The American Legion announced
today it will fight “to the limit”
any proposal to transfer some Vet
erans Administration functions to
other government bureaus.
The Legion attributed to Gen.
Omar N. Bradley, Veterans Ad
ministrator, a proposal that the
Federal Housing Administration
take over the processing of home
loans under the G. I. Bill of Rights.
General Bradley promptly dis
claimed sponsorship of any such
plan. He said in a statement that
he had talked to various financial
groups in an effort to find out theif
views on the handling of home loans
but declared:
“I, myself, made no proposal and
expressed no opinion.”
John Thomas Taylor, American
Legion director of legislation, said
in a letter to Bradley that it would
be “just as logical to transfer vet
erans hospitalization to the United
States Public Health Service.”
“Likewise,” he added, “it would
be just as logical to transfer the
payment of pensions and compen
sation to the Social Security Board;
Veterans insurance to the Treasury
Department and so on until nothing
is left of the Veterans Adminis
tration as it is presently constitu
ted.”
Oil Strike
Settlement
Bogs Down
395.00 0 NOW IDLE
Walkout At Westinghouse
Plants May End
This Week
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—(A>)—
A brief demonstration shutdown by
200.000 telephone workers across
the country was called a ‘definite
possibility” tonight by Joseph
Beirne, president of the National
Federation of Telephone Workers.
This development came as gov
ernment-sponsored conferences be
tween petroleum companies and
the CIO oil workers union were re
cessed—with no visible prospects
of quick settlement—until tomor
row morning.
The total number now idled by
strikes, walkout, and layoffs over
the nation totals about 395,000.
The Telephone Federation was
aroused by an intermediate report
of the National Labor Relations
board calling for immediate dis
solution of the Western Electric
Employes Association, a key unit
of the Federation, on grounds that
it was dominated by the Western
Electric Company.
daiu irom ms tjnnsiae, im.
J., home that the Federation’s
executive board would decide what
action would be taken at a meeting
tomorrow morning. Earlier, other
union officials said the telephone
employes might stop work for a
week. «
“We’re not going to take this ly
ing down, you can depend on that,”
Beirne added, in a telephone inter
view.
Beirne made his comments after
an assertion by Walter H. Petry,
Federation field organizer in Balti
more, that no nationwide strike
threat had been voiced by Federa
tion officials. Petry said Beirne had
informed him the reports were er
roneous and unauthorized.
In the oil refinery wage dispute,
Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach
appeal for settlement of the eight
was reportedly preparing a fresh
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 5)
burtonmTdon
COURT ROBE TODAY
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—(JP)
Harold H. Burton will swap a Sen
ate seat for a place on the Su
preme Court bench Monday at the
opening of a new term expected
to produce many far-reaching de
cisions.
Only the taking of two oaths—
one to support the Constitution and
the other to administer justice im
partially—remained 'to make the
Ohio Republican a full-fledged
member of the nation’s highest tri
bunal.
Burton arranged to take the Con
stitutional oath from Chief Justice
Stone in the Court’s private confer
ence room a few minutes before
noon. Then, donning the tradition
al black silk judicial robe for the
first time, he will march with the
other justices to the court room at
the stroke of 12.
immediately ne wiu De given tne
judicial oath by Charles Elmore
Cropley, clerk of the court.
The 57-year-old Burton, a friend
and former Senate colleague of
President Truman, is the first Re
publican to go on the high bench,
since the appointment of Owen J,
Roberts by President Hoover 15
years ago. Roberts resigned last
July.
Burton in his new work will have
one Republican colleague, Chief
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 2)
Miss McConnell Returns
To Her Home Saturday
Reported as missing from her
home last week, Miss Eula Virginia
McConnell, an employe of the Star
News, returned to her home here
Saturday following a trip to
Greensboro.
Friends of Miss McConnell stat
ed last night that she had gone to
Greensboro on September 22, for
a weekend visit and while there
had the misfortune to become in
volved in an automobile accident
which delayed her return to Wil
mington.
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Truman Reviews White House MPs
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As the colors pass on Fort Meyer parade-ground in Virginia, Presi
dent Truman (left, arrow) uncovers in salute with Secretary of War
Patterson, Admiral Leahy and Gen. George Marshall. Occasion was
the formal review by the President of the special company of Army
Military Police that guarded the White House throughout the war. (In
ternational)
First Marine Division
Will Police Tientsin
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TIENTSIN, China, Sept. 30.—(A1)
—The U. S. First Marine Division
entered Tientsin today, to assume
police duties in northern China’s
political hotspot, where Chinese ria
tionalists and communists are at
bayonet points and a Japanese Ar
my is yet to surrender and be
disarmed.
Cheering, flag-waving Chinese
lined the banks of the Hai River
as the Leatherneck division, which
had won glory at Guadalcanal, Pa
lau and Okinawa, moved 28 miles
upstream from Taku.
The Marines, charged with assist
ing Generalissimo Chiang Kai
shek’s nationalist troops in disarm
ing 250,000 Japanese troops in
North China, were put ashore at
Taku by Vice. Adm. D. E. Barbey’s
Seventh Amphibious force.
Pending the arrival of nationalist
forces strong enough to take full
control of the area, the Marines,
aside from helping remove the
stingers from a Nipponese army
which is arrogantly aware of the
fact it has never been defeated in
battle, will undertake the follow
ing chores:
Liberate and give comfort to 2,
900 Allied prisoners of war and civ
ilians internees; keep an eye on
232,000 Chinese puppet troops be
tween the Yangtze river and the
Great Wall; arrest war criminals;
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 8)
PRISONER ESCAPES
WHEN STORM DOUSES
PENITENTIARY LIGHTS
CANON CITY, Colo., Sept. 30.—
—Taking advantage of a power fail
ure that doused all lights during
a snowstorm, Edwin Robert Cain,
42-year-old prisoner, escaped from
the state penitentiary early today
by scaling a 12-foot fence.
Cain, serving 50 years to life for
second degree murder, was on duty
as a waiter in the dining-room at
Breakfast time when the prison’s
hydro-electric plant failed. Before
city power could be switched on he
dashed from the dining-room into
the laundry, climbed to the roof,
dropped into a recreation field and
ran to the east prison fence.
Tower guards, their searchlights
out, were helpless to stop the pris
oner as he went over the barri
cade.
SHALLOTTE SCENE
OF FATAL AFFRAY
TABOR CITY, Sept. 30.—Willie
H: Holden, 50, of Route 1, Shallotte
was shot to deain in his home by
his brother-in-law, George Lewis
late Saturday night.
Information received here stated
that Lewis came to the Holden
home asking to see his wife who
was staying there for the night.
Upon being refused, he left to re
turn again in about an hour, en
tering the house and in the affray
that took place, Helden was shot.
The victim lived only about ten
minutes.
An inquest will be held this week
by Coroner Bell in Southport.
Lewis is being held without bond
in Brunswick County jail at South
port.
The body of tne deceased was
taken to the Jessup-Inman funeral
home in Tabor City and funeral
services will be held at the Oak
Grove Baptist church this after
noon at 3 o’clock with the Rev
Tom Johnson officating. Inter
ment will be in the church ceme
tery.
Surviving are the wife and one
daughter, Juanita; five sisters,
Mrs. Lottie Robinson, Mrs. Let
lie Hewitt, Mrs. Pinkey Clemmons
of Supply; Mrs. Mary Hewitt of
Fort Bragg; Mrs. Carrie Lovette
of Bolivia; one brother, Jessie
Holden of Supply and fathe:
George Holden of Shallotte.
St. Louis Wins Final
Contest; Down Reds, 3-2
CINCINNATI, Sept. 30.—(£>)—Del
Rice hit his first Major League
home run today to give the St.
Louis Cardinals a twelfth inning
3-2 victory over Cincinnati in the
season finals.'
The St. Louis catcher’s circuit
blow broke up a pitchers duel be
tween John Hetki, Redleg Rookie,
and Harry “The Cat” Brecheen.
Each allowed nine hits and struck
out four, but Hetki walked one bat
ter. The victory gave Brecheen
his Fifteenth victory against four
defeats.
Hirohito’s
Big Fortune
Is Involved
OFFICIALS OUSTED
All Financial Operations
“Froze” In One
Swift Blow
TOKYO, Sept. 30.—(/P)—General
MacArthur's troops seized 21 fi
nancial institutions in Japan today,
ousted their officials and crushed
with one swift blow the great bank
ing combine that exploited an em
pire built by r.rmed force.
Emperor Hirohito’s person: 1 for
tune was probably involved in the
action.
In a secret maneuver as bold as
his.battle tactics, MacArthur threw
armed troops of the U. S. Sixth and
Eighth Armies around financial
houses in Tokyo, Osaka, Yokoha
ma, Nagoya, Kobe, Shimonoseki
and Fukuoka.
wniie me Lroop& meuuicu, ic
preservatives of the Japanese Fi
nance Ministry were summoned to
Supreme Headquarters.
Then at 4 p.m. troops entered
the banks and impounded all funds,
securities and records. In that
same instant the Finance Ministry
was handed at headquarters the
orders freezing operations and re
moving officials.
.All the institutions, which either
were, the financial spearheads or
the supporting waves of exploita
tion in the military conquests in
Asia, are marked for liquidation,
MacArthur announced.
The Bank of Japan, most power
ful in all the empire, also was oc
cupied to secure its assets, but
headquarters said that as a com
mercial institution it was not per
manently affected and was expect
ed to reopen tomorrow.
It stood on quaking ground, how
ever, forjts financial ramifica
tions extend to those caught in
MacArthur’s pincers.
The Japanese economy was head
ed for further blows. Besides those
houses seized, MacArthur also ord
ered closs all other financial in
stitutions whose “foremost purpose
has been to finance colonization de
velopment activities in areas out
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146 CGAMENGET
RAISE IN RANK
One hundred forty six men in the
Wilmington area who served with
the Coast Guard Auxiliary and the
Coast Guard Volunteer Port Se
curity Force have received an ad
vance of one step in rank or rate as
a mark of appreciation for their
part time, volunteer without pay
services dring World War II, ac
cording to information from the
U. S. Coast Guard, Public Infor
mation Department in Charleston,
S. C.
_ , A- k-,4k
1 lie U1UCL, vv --
officers and enlisted men of the
two units in all Naval Districts
throughout the United States, was
issued at Coast Guard Headquar
ters, where Admiral Russell R.
Waesche, Commandant, voiced a
“well done” for the reservists who
by a headquarter’s order of August ,
22 are being disenrolled about the
first of October with only a small j
percentage still being retained in ;
an active status for administrative j
purposes.
The promotions in effect are hon
orary. / •
A total of 1,902 men served' in the
Auxiliary and 1,283 in the Volunteer
Port Security Force in the Sixth
Naval District, of which Wilming
ton is a part.
Throughout the war the Coasl
Guard’s temporary reservists serv
ed without pay on a part time vol
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BASEBALL SCORES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit 6, St. Louis 3 (2nd gam
postponed) .
Cleveland at Chicago—rain.
Boston 2, New York 12.
Only games scheduled.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Chicago 5, Pittsburgh 2.
. St. Louis 4, Cincinnati 1.
Brooklyn 4, Philadelphia 2.
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Viip Othman Takes Bath
In Palace Of Nazi Spy
By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN
United Press Staff Correspondent
ABOARD GLOBESTER EN
ROUTE FROM CASABLANCA TO
CAIRO, Sept.. 30. —(U.R)— Gather
round friends and I’ll tell you how
a feller from Missouri took a mid
night bath in the marble palace of
a Nazi spy.
Hand me down my white bur
noose, light the incense and call in
the dancing girls. I bet I’m getting
too far from home bathing in a tub.
With a panoramic vie and hr ■
ing an arab try to wash my back
with perfumed unguents has got
me blinking. Turn on Scheherazade
softly on the phonograph. Othman
is recovering from an Arabian
night.
Paul Miller of the Associated
Press, Inez Robb of the Interna
tional News Service, and I had
flown the Atlantic with the ATC’s
first regularly scheduled round
the-world flight. We put down dirty
and tired at Casablanca where I
think I recognized Sidney Green
street in a green fez. The welcom
ing Colonel mumbled “V%s.” That
is us. Vips means very important
people junketing. Congressmen are
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Passengers Fume, Play
As Train Waits Out Hour
By JOHN MADIGAN
United Press Starr Correspondent)
ABOARD THE REDWING, ST.
JOHNSBURY, Vt„ Sept. 30—The
international passenger train Red
wing swung into a siding for a
zero hour at 2 a. m. today be
cause the Boston and Main Rail
road sticks by its timetables—
through rain, snow, sleet and
Standard Time.
The Pullmanless Redwing—nam
ed for the pretty Indian maid
arrived at this crossroads of three
railroads under tow of the good
locomotive “Peter Cooper’’ five
lours out of Montreal, The rolling
Vermont countryside was bleak
and deserted except for an oc
casional heifer, and a light wind
rustled the “Vote for Dewey” signs
on the station.
Few of the 100-odd passengers in
the coaches were aware that the
B and M had ordered all trains
halted on their tracts to while
away the spare hour so that time
tables wouldn’t be awry. Some
rushed for the station restaurant,
but the owner said • it was closing
time and promptly locked the
doors. He probably wanted thte
extra hour’s sleep.
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