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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1946
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! Turks Ready to Fight as Reds Ask Dardanelles
OOPS! —The overloaded rear •nd of thia moving company truok la ahown bogged down aa
It entered a Cleveland, Ohio, driveway. No one waa hurt, trafflc  waa not blocked and, aa
one trucker pointed aut, the vehicle waa much eaaier to un¬ load.
Pittsburgh's Paralyzing Strike Will
Ught Co. Workers Refuse New Offer; Street Cars WiU Not Operate Though Men Are Not in Sympathy with Strike
PitUburgh, Sept 38. — (UP) — Striking power workera voted tonight to reject a company wage and penalon offer and to continue their llve^ay walkout which haa crippled induatry and paralyzed public tranaportation in Pittaburgh.
The public, caught in tha middle in the bitter struggle between the S.BOO-membcr independent union and the giant utilit(r, wondered when and how the atrike would end, and if there would be a power break¬ down aoon.	
Tha vote to reject the Duqueane Light CTompany'a flve per cent wage Increaae offer and revised holiday and pension plan was 1,170 t»/6ftS. The unon demands a 20 per eent wage increase, a union ajop, proflt-aharing plan and aome M other contract revisions, and has refused to arbitrate.
The company late tonight with¬ drew its offer entirely and de¬ clared that tha only "quick way" to aettl* tba strike waa arbitra¬ tion.
Mayor David U Liawrenea aaked Anthony Federoff, head of the cao Steel City Induatrial Union Council, and John Doraey, presi¬ dent of the AFL central labor union, to meet with him at 2 p. m. tomorrow for a "full dress meet¬ ing" to discusa the situation. Nat • TraSay Mmm
¦arller today AFL atraet oar op¬ erators and bus drivara voted te raapect pIckH Unas ef tha Duquesna union, even thoofh members were ¦aet in aympathy with the aims of George I^ Mueller aad his power workers.
As a reault, not a trolley car waa running tonight. Tha down¬ town streets were deserted and gloomy, although on Saturday night they are usually filled with amuse- ment-aeekera. The million daily pasaengera will be without trans- portatlon.
An overflow mass faieeting of the union tonight voted against accept¬ ance of the company wage and penalon offer, and as a result, Mueller said, "the strike Is still on."
He said the company penalon plan provided that the union members contribute up to 2 per cent of their earnings to the plan, thus making the wage increase only 3 per cent. M,000 Made Jobleea
An eatlmated 90,000 peraons had been made jobless Hiy the strike, and loasea in wages and production were believed to have run as high as $100,000,000. However, baaic steel mills, which produce their own power, were planning to operate next week.
The Duqueane Light Co. haa maintained from SO to 40 per cent of its normal power output, but could not promiae to provide that much beyond Sunday.
Thc street car operators took their action despite the urging of the powerful AFL Pittsburgh cen tral labor union. Tbe carmen ob¬ jected to "abuse" by power workera and their aympathizers, who ac¬ cused them of uaing "acab power."
The atrike continued Ita drain up¬ on industry and commerce and pre¬ vented thousands of persona from (ConUnued on Pag« A-IS)
Wife Is Slain by Husband in Sight of Her Son and Parents
Kanaas City, Mo., Sept 28. (UP) —For more than four houra early today Harman John Mitsenfelt, 38- year-old Bleclworker. kept a gun trained on hia divorced wife and her parents while they pleaded with him not to shoot.
Then, as bis IS-year-old son, Herman John jr., entered the room, Mitsenfelt aaid, "ThU is It."
He pumped three bulleta into the hesd of his wife, Mrs. Audrey Mit¬ senfelt, 3«. She waa killed. Then he turned the gun on himaelf and committed auicide.
The couple was divorced last May 9. Mrs .MUzenfelt charged her huaband had sn ungovernable temper, had beaten her and threat¬ ened  her life.
About 3 a. m. today, according to information assembled by Chief Deputy William Holmes from the hysterical parents of the slain woman, Mr. and Mrs. William C. Ott. Mitienfelt entered their houae by scaling a trellis to the porch roof snd then removing a window screen  ,
He carried a .38 caliber revolver. His divorced wife was sleeping with the son. He prodded her awake   with  ths   gun.
"Don't maka any noise or 111 kin   you,"   he   warned.
Ha told her to walk downstairs to the bedroom of her parents and made her climb into bed with them.
The Otts and Mra, Mitsenfelt begged, pleaded and then argued with him that he ahould see a psychiatrist.
He half agreed to see a psy¬ chiatrist. Then the son entered. He asked: "What's the trouble, Dad?"
"Oh, nothing." the father re¬ plied. Then he said: "Thia la it" and   began  firing.
Throughout the houra of terror, Mitienfelt kept aaylng "Nobody will take my wife and kid away from me."
In June he had been arreated on complaint of Mra. Mltienrelt that   he   had   kidnapped   the   boy.
Liberals Ask Big im
Ickes, Morgenthau Lead in Conference Of 31 States' Groups
CAitcago, Sept. 28. (UP)—Sen Claude Pepper (D., Fla.), told a national "conference of Hberala" to¬ night that although many were dis¬ appointed in the Democratic party, progressives must work through one|of the major political parties to get results and that there was no hope for progresslvism In the Republican party.
Pepper's atatement, before the conference sponaored by the CIO Political Action Committee and other liberal groupa from Sl states, indicated that leftist groups will work for election of a Democratic Senate and House in November. Ask End of War Talk
Earlier, two of the New Deal "old guard," former Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes and former Treaaury Secretary Henry Mogan- thau, had told the conference there should be an immediate meeting of Big Three leaders to end current "terrifying"  wqr  talk.
Pepper said that many had wit¬ nessed the departure from the present cabinet of Henry Wallaoa witb "hurt hearts" but he Inaiatad that the Demoo'atlc party offered hope as the "truirRepresentative «f the people ot America."
Conference delegates approved a program calling for extension of the "good neighbor" policy throMgfa- out the world nnd expressed sup¬ port of Waliace'a proposals for in¬ ternational  co-operation.
The prograin  waa  drawn  up  by « commitee headed by former Sec¬ retary of Interior Harold L, Ickes. Earlier    he    joined    with    former (Continued on Page A-14)
EGYPTIAN PREMIER QUITS FOLLOWING TREATY ROW
Cairo, Egypt, Sept, 28. (UP) Egyptian Premier Ismail Sidlcy Pasha has resigned because of breakdown in Anglo - Egyptian treaty negotiations, but King Farouk has postponed a decision on accepting the resignation.
Reports from Alexandria said Sidky resigned after handing an Egyptian rejection of British treaty proposals to British negotiators In efforts to renew the 1936 Anflo- E>gyptian pact
These reports said that Sidky blamed the breakdown in treaty negotiations on Makram Ebeid Pasha, leader of the Wafdist party and a member of the Egyptian treaty negotiating delegation.
It was the second time Sidky had resigned in the past 16 daya. Sidky on Sept. 12 carried the resignation of his cabinet and a new lineup of ministers to King Farouk for ap¬ proval. The new cabinet, which lasted little more than two weeka, waa changed to Include four mem¬ bera of the Saadist party.
Moscow's Sharp Note
Seems a Showdown
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By EDWARD V. UOBERTS
London, Sept. 28. (irP)—A aeemingly final Russian demand that Turkey cut the Soviet in for an equal share In control and defenae of the DardaneUea wao followed today by a reliable report from Istan¬ bul that Turkey'a armed forcea were on the alert and "ready to fight in five minutes" to defend the nation's righta.
Responsible Turkish quarter* said the government has taken "extra¬ ordinary measures and is ready for any eventuality." These quarters doubted that war would be the alternative to a rejection of Ruaaia'a most recent note, but believed it ^^^—^^^^—^—^—^^— portenda an "abnormal occurence." man aald the Ruaaian demand was
This reference was not further ex¬ plained,
Turkish official quarters were scribed as "depressed" by the Soviet note, and there seemed lit¬ tle chance that' they Intended to change their atand that the de¬ fense of the strait should be in¬ ternationalized, and not be made a purely bilateral matter between Turkey and Russia. Beds Warn Others Away
"If Turkey, while rejecting tha Soviet Union's proposal, ahould cre¬ ate military establishments in the strait, together with non-Black Sea powers, then this would be in di¬ rect contradiction to the Interests and security of the Black Sea powers," the Riusian nqte warned.
"It would not be correct to for¬ get that the Soviet's Black Sea coastline, stretching 2,100 kilo¬ meters (about 1,260 milea), opens access to the moat important eco¬ nomic regions of tbe country. Therefore, the necessity of pre- sarvii^ the security of these regions with ths direct participa¬ tion of the Soviet Union In the de¬ fense of the strait arises from the Soviet Union's vital interests," the note continued.
A British  foreign office spokea-
"an   attempt   to   bypass   the   Mon-
treux Convention."
Want Direct NegotiaUons
Russia insisted that the Big Three agreed at Potsdam for direct negotiations between Russia euid Turkey over the straits, and until auch talka are held there ia no queation of an International con¬ ference, which Turkey, with British and American support, demands.
A Whitehall spokesman said, in thia connection, that the Big Three had agreed to preliminary discus¬ sions, not negotiations, and that the Potsdam agreement could not supersede the Montreux Conven¬ tion.
The Soviet's newest demands were served upon Turkey in a more than 2.000-word note deliver¬ ed to the Turkish Foreign office in Ankara Sept. 24, the same day that Premier Josef Stalin Iaaued his pro¬ nouncement that he anticipated no new war.
Thfe note was a reply to a Turk¬ ish note of Aug. 22, rejecting Sov¬ iet demands of Aug. 7 for joint control of the Dardanelles, the easily-defended bottleneck between thc Black and Aegean seas. The Soviet note followed Russian pro¬ paganda charges that Britain had (Continued on Page A-IS)
'Outlawing Atom Bomb Will Outlaw War/ Says Eisenhower
l'>aLnkfurt, tiermany, Sept. 28.—(UP)—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower aald today that "humanity ia intelligent enough to do away with war" and to that end both the atom bomb and war should  be  outlawed.
"I believe the outlawing of the atomio hnmb I* the outlawing of wars," Elsenhower, the Army's thief nf Staff, itald at a prmia ¦'«nterenr« in hia old offlce In I nitrd States Anny Headquarters in Europe.
"There ia, of course, the gr«sat hope which the I'nited Nationa and !klr.  (Bemard)  Baruch's atom rontol board offer. . . ."
While he derilned to be drawn Into any predirtions, he said:
"What the atom bomb is going to mean to us ts a matter over which we study and sweat blood every day. I think there Is no one who vo.n say what this means to do to the numbers and equipment  ot armiea."
He denied reports thst he might he named Ambastaadi.. to I..ondon, suecreding W. Averell Harriman, recently appointed Secretary of Commerce.
**There Is no possibility of my ever being ronnected with any political office,"  he said slowly and emphatically.
It was his Hrst visit to Frankfurt in 10 months.
"I have come to visit the troops and authorities In the occupied territories," he explained. "There is no other significance to my visit except to keep a few deferred engagements."
He said he would visit the grave of tien. tieorge Patton jk commander at the Third V. S. Army at Hamm, Luxembourg, tomorrow.
As for the occupaUon army, he thought It was doing "a mar¬ velous Job."
Yugoslavs Threatening To Boycott Peace Treaty
NAlN SEEKING
TOSTOPANOTHER
SIIEJNSHIPS
Set for Monday; Conciliators Hope To Find Agreement
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Bar Press from,Nazi Executions
Washington. Sept, 28  (UP) -.See
retarv of War Robert P. Patterson supreme   authority   in   (Jermany,'
The Allied control council ia the,Army officiala  arranged for newa-
said today that the decialon to bar reporlera from any executiona re¬ sulting from the Nuernberg trial had been arrived at after thorough consideration and that "no further action is contemplated by the War Department."
Hs Iaaued s statement after re¬ ceiving a reply from Gen. Joseph McNarne.v, American members of the Allied control council In Ger¬ many, to a message he sent sug¬ gesting the council might want to reconsider the bar against report¬ ers. Earlier this week the United Press asked Patterson to try to reverse ths ruling againat reportera and he replied he had referred the matter to McNarney.
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Patterson >«ald, "and la fully authorized to decide the queation. It ia made up of the aenior represent¬ atives of the United States, USSR, Britain and France. No further action is contemplated by tbe War Department." Is  Hitler bead?
Sen. Francis J. Myers. D.. Pa., in a message, asked McNarney, Are Germans convinced Hitler is de.id?
"Thesa doubts conslitutt a greater propaganda danger than the possible improper use of pic¬ tures and atoriea of the executiona since any Nazia wiahing to aanc- tlfy these war criminals have suf¬ ficient emotional material already. An example is the pictures al¬ ready in existence of Goering without his  paunch  and medals."
Follows  Precedent
Rome, Sept. 28. (UP)—Exclu¬ sions of the press from any . exe¬ cutions that follow the Nuernberg war trial contradicts a precedent set in this theatre of operations la.^t  November.
At     that    time     ths     American
paper correspondents to go to Aversa, Italy, to witness the cutlon of the German general, An> ton Dostler, he was shot for or¬ dering the killing of eight OSS men at La Spezia.
People Won the War
Chicago, Sept. 28. (UP)—CJom- menting editorially on the barring of reporters from any executions that may result from the Nuern¬ berg trials, the C3iicago Sun said today:
"Rightly, the Nuernberg trial of Nazi war criminals was open to the press of the world. Whatever executions may follow ougbt to be reported accurately. Yet ths Allied control council has barred report¬ ers. The public, including men in arms who overthrew the Nazi aggressors, ia entitled te be repre¬ sented   by   the   preaa.
"There H, of couraa, no reaaon for responsible people to doubt the central facts of execution which tlie Allied commission may chooss to hsnd out But the pub¬ lic should not get merely meager (Contmued on Page A-19)
Washington, Sept 28 (UP)—The government tonight began a new series of coneillatlon conferences designed to avoid a new nation¬ wide shipping atrike set for mid- nght Monday.
Federal conciliation officials ware cautiously optimistic at the pros¬ pect of avoiding a walkout by the Masters. MaUs and Pilots Union (AFL) and the Marine Engineers and Beneficial Association (CIO),
Contracts of the two unions with ahipowners expire st midnight Monday. The CIO union demands a 88 per eent. wage Increaae and the AVT< group a 80 per cent wags boost Oonld Stop All Shlpa
A walkout by either union could tie up all IT. 8. ahlpplng, which is just beginning to recover from the 18-day strike ef • ths seamen's unions. The Marine Kngineers filed a strike notice thst became effec¬ tive Sept. 18. Tha AFL union fol¬ lowa a policy of no contract, no work.
Secretary of I*bor Lewia B. Schwellenbach Md the conferees that another maritime strike on tha heels of the tieup this month would be a "tragedy."
He said It was important that an agreement be reached. Both sides, he said, will hsve to make concessions.
Cautious government optimism waa based largely on agreement the Pacific Coast Ijocal of the AFL union to send represenlatives to the conferencea here. Started Wednesday'
The Labor Department and the Maritime (Commission have been meeting Informally aince Wednes¬ day with the other parties to the dispute — the Atlantic and Gulf (Continued on Pago A-18)
BY TRUMAN'S MAN
Kansas Clty^Rldr Says Old Prendergast Machine Back on Job
SUBTERFUGE SEEN IN BOLIVIAN KILLINGS
La Paz, Bolivia. Sept. 28. (UP) —^High Army and police officials today described the attempt to aa- aaaainate President Tomas Monje Gutierres yesterday as part of a "sinister plot to overt/irow hia government."
Director Oneral of Police Vin- centi, InvestijCBting the attempt which resulted In ths lynching of the would-be assassin and of two offlcials of the regime overthrown by the successful July 21 revolu¬ tion, said the police had found "sensational evidence revealing dark counter revolutionary ma- neuvres in recent days. They will be revealed as soon as the inves¬ tigation   Is   completed."
Armv Chief of SUff Col. Hum- berto Torres Ortiz agreed with VIncentI, saying that Lt Luis Ob- litas, the would-be aaaassin, was merely the "instrument of third parties who paid him for the at¬ tempt"
Kansaa Gty, Mo., Sept. 28. (UP) —Ths Kansas City Star said in Its Sunday edition that election frauds returned to Kanaas City with the Aug. 8 primary and the U.S. dia¬ trict attorney was forwarding hun- d(«da of affidavits to the Depart¬ ment of Justice  for atudy
In the Aug. 6 primary, Enoa A. Axtell, the candidate iMicked by President Truman, the Jim Pren¬ dergast organization and the CIO- PAC. defeated Rep. Roger C. Slaughter, D.. for the Fifth Mis¬ souri congressional nomination. Some Beoulte Fantastio
"When the returns cama In the night of Aug. «," the Star aaid, "the flgurea from some of the preclncta In the Flrat, Second and Fourteenth wards seemed fan¬ tastic, on the surface.
•The huge vote piled up In many 1 of thesa precincts, compared with the remainder of the city, also' cauaed  comment"
The heavy vote In the Fir<t and Second wards provided Axtell enough of a margin to win the nomination. Part of the Four¬ teenth ward also ia in the con- greasional   district.
The Star said It asaigned two reporters to investigate. They were John P. Swift, for many years an assistant election com- mis.sioner. and Ira B. McCarty, back from a war correspondent's assignment   in  the  Pacific.
"After aeveral weeks of comb¬ ing the city," the SUr said, "these veteran reporters decided they had enough evidence of fraud to jus¬ tify a mora detailed probe. Made  Oiniplete  tlieok
"Accordingly, teams of young men, some lawyers and oUier stu¬ dents from the University of Kan¬ sas City (School of I.aw. and vir¬ tually all returned veterans, were formed to canvaaa complete pre¬ clncta to check the honesty of the returns."
The Star aald hundreds of affi¬ davits weis taken. There were rtore than 8,000 personal inter¬ views with voters.
The   board   of   election   commls- (Continued on Page A-l."5)
By R. H. SHACKFORU
Paris, Sept. 28 (UP»—Yugoslavia bluntly threatened not to sign the peace treaty with Italy today and lo keep her army In northwest Is- tria in a flaming verbal outburst against n conference compromise on the Yugoslav-Italian  frontier.
The United States immediately retaliated with a threat to bar Yugoslavia from any reparations or any other benefits of the Italian treaty unless she agreed to sign it and live up to all its provisions.
The American resolution was ap¬ proved by the Italian political com¬ mission but failed to get the two- thirds vote necessary to make It a recommendation to the Big Kour The vote waa 1 to 8 with Greece abstaining. France and Ethiopia joined the Soviet bloc in opposing the American plan. itegateai Scaaien
The row in the commission pro¬ duced the angriest words yet spok¬ en in Luxembourg Palace since statesmen of 221 nations met six weeks ago\ to try to make peurr treaties for Italy and four Nazi satellitea.
The Yugoslav outburst failed to away the delegatea, however, and they proceeded to approve the so- called "French Line" compromise for the Italy-Yugoalavla frontier by a vote of 12 to 5 with Russia, abid¬ ing by her Big Four pledge, voting against her satellites, Brazil, Bil- gium and Kthiopia abstained.
Today's row Is merely prelim¬ inary to what may be the biggest
Democratic Rule Is Promised Them; Return to Athens Carefully Guarded
ahlndig of the conference Monday when the question of the atatute under which the proposed free city of Trieste shall be governed will come before the Italian polilical eommission, acene of today'a hoa- tilitiea. Connally Attacked
Sen. Tom Connally. (..Tex.l, branded the Yugoslava as truculent and undemocratic and said the prestige of the conference was at stake If it approved the Yugoslav proposal under Foreign Minister Kardelj's threat
He aaid the Yugoslav altitude 'does not frighten anyone."
"That aort of truculent attitude," aald Connally, "doeant make anyone quiver in hia boota. We are friendly to Yugoalavia. Our great Woodrow Wilson was inatrumcntal in creat¬ ing the state of Yugoalavia. We want to aee her develop a demo¬ cratic government with Republican inatitutions."
Shouting and waving his hands in the best Senate tradition, Con¬ nally aaid:
"Look at that resolution. It is s rather shrewd one. Does il mean there shall be nn decision unless Yugoslavia agrees? I regret thst we have had this old argument re¬ newed — that unless the foreign ministers decide on the line Yugo¬ slavia wants she ts not bound by it VVe are here lo reach an agree¬ ment and threats by Yugoslavia (Continued on Page A-14)
By ROBERT VERMILLION
Alhens. Greece, Sept. 28 (UP) — King George II, back in Greece for the first time since the German Invasion in the spring of 1941, ap¬ pealed to his people in a radia broadcast tonight to unite for the struggle againat "new harsh prob¬ lems which International realltiet impose upon us."
In an address to the Greek people who voted him back to hia throne, the King said he would exercise hia powers only "within the limits of the democratic and parliamentary institutions ef our country."
A few hours hefore he spoke, Premier Constantine Tsaldaris and his cabinet resigned and the King Immediately asked Tsaldaris to form a new caMnet. The monarch's return came as dissident left-wing elements wrre clashing with Greek arm.v units in the norlh and north- west. Calls For Inlty
"United we shall face, with tha snme firm determination which we showed during tne supreme mom¬ ents of our struggle, the new harsh problems which International reali¬ ties  impo.se  upon  us."  he said.
"I sh.ill devote all my powers for the achievement of this great purpose within the limila of the democratic and parliamentary In¬ stitutions   of   our   country.
"I appeal  to all  to help me."
The King asked hia people to re- apond faithfully "together, and with   t unceasing   industry"   to   the   task  '" of     rebuilding     Greece     "in     the troubled future." He said his "sole desire" was to see the nation united and "able  to face critical circum¬ stances." Carefully Guarded
Meanwhile, military and polic* units look extraordinary precau¬ tionary measures lo ensure tk* King's safety and Greek troops clashed with opposition elements near the Albanian and Yugoslav borders.
At many points along the royal route the King's appeearance waa greeted with cheers although at others there was only polite ap¬ plause.
The   King   stepped   ashore   at   a small cement dock in Piraeus Har- (Continued on  Page A-14)
'Permanent Peate' Ahead, President Tells Cadets
West Point. N. T., Sept 28. (UP) —President Truman today ex- pressed confidence that the world Is entering into an era of "perma¬ nent peace."
In an informa] talk to Weat Poinl c-adets the Presideni reaf¬ firmed his faith in peace following Russian Premier Josef Stalin's statement in Moscow that he saw no danger of wari
In his talk, he urged the cadels to prepare themselves for national leadership which he said would l>e as required of them in peace as in war. He said that many people after a wsr are "sorry they ever saw a aoldler, a sailor or a marine."
"Don't let that worry you," the President lold the future Army officers. "We are going to need leadership from now on just as badly as we have needed il in this great emergency through which  we have just  been,
"Give Die country the beat you have and no matter what they aay about .vou for wearing a uniform in thc future, maintain that dig¬ nity that goes with the leadership that has made this country great and then you will earn your aalt which the government is now giv¬ ing you."
Also Hatching  l>Mlgers
Washington, Sept 28 (UP)— Prealdent     Truman    returned     to
Waahlngton by air tonight from hia trip to Weat Poinl.
Mr. Truman'a peraonal plane, the Sacred Cow, landed at National Airport at 6:47 p. m. EDT. The President had left Stewart Field at West Point at .'i:35 p. m.
Mr. Truman, in obvious good hu¬ mor, posed for photographers at the airport and said he liked the game "fine."
His firsl question to reporters was 'How did the Dodgers do lo¬ day?"
When he waa told that the Dodgers won, giving them at least a temporary half-game advantage over the Sl. Loula Ciardlnala in the red-hot National Leagus pennant race, the President, a MIssourian, aaid:
"Well, the Cardinala will just have to win tonight."
MORE ESTONIANS REACH MIAMI AS REFUGEES
Miami, Fla.. Sept. 28 (UP)—The third boatload of Ealonian refugees In five weeks docked In Miami to¬ day, seeking refuge from what they described aa the "spread of Com¬ munism over Europe."
Thirteen men and flve women made up the group aboard the 40-foot "Linda," a battered wooden sailing vessel with an auxiliary motor. They Ipft Goleborg, Sweden, on July 7 and made stops In Eng¬ land, Madeira, Puerto Rico and tha Dominican Republic.
Capt. Walter Rull, 30. aald the trip was made in generally good weather, ane that there waa no sickness aboard. All 18 had made careful preparations for the voyage obtaining temporary passports by mail from England before leaving Sweden.
Within the past five weeks two other craft have come here from Sweden, bearing Estonians who said they left their homes two years ago lo avoid persecution by Russia.
Valley Scene
South Main $treet eafe owner calling a taxi—to go across the atreet. . . , (He uiat mn down once—and    once    wai   enoiiph.)
Cilu Police Sgt. Pat Conwell uundering what wiia the dark apparition approaching him in heavy rain. . . . It wan jiihI a bop on a bike, completebi throuded for protection.
Wave and her boy friend tpooning uneoncemrd ao they ftrolled South MapU avenur, Kingfton, Sunday morning while the ehurch-goera looked on.     t^f
iREBELLING TRIBESMEN'S
[DEMANDS ARE REJECTED
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I Tehran, Iran, Sept. 28. i UP)— Premier Ahmad Ghavam Es-Sul¬ taneh loday rejected the demanda of rebelling tribesmen that he fire the Vice Premier and an Army General and install two minialera to be aelected by the tribesmen in his cabinet
The Vice Premier the rebels want fired is Prince Mozaffar Flrouz. who announced a few days ago that the Insurgents would be put down "with an iron fist"
Dispatches aaid the rebela had fired on government reconnaissance planes and inflicted casualtiea on ths fliers.
FBI Agents Nab Xon' Man With World-Wide Police Retard
Miami,   Pla..  Sept  28   (UP)—An-1 victims sa a Spaniard who had I	
tonio Novarro  Fernandez,  smooth- allied    wilh    American    gangsters
talking international confidence man, who is known in the under¬ world as "The Frog Man," sur¬ rendered early loday lo . FBI agents who met his plans from the West Indies at International Air¬ port
during prohibition. He told them he hnd hidden away millions of dollars in cash In safety deposit boxes la the United States. A Good Promise He explained to victims that h* Fernandez was arraigned before ^)'^^ having trouble gelling back a U. S. Commissioner later today!'"'" '*>' """«<1 States but eould on  a  charge  of violating  the  na¬
tional stolen property acl In fleec¬ ing    an    unidentified    Washington, D. C. citizen of $125,000. World  Wide "Fame"
The FBI said Fernandez record waa apread on police bloltera the world   over.   In   underworld   circles
arrange it nicely if they would ad¬ vance him a subatantial aum ef money. He alwaya promlaed them several milliona of hia cached fortune.
He claimed he had been haled   into   thc  United  States indignantly   denied   the   Washlac-
h. Vr.v.UHn^rt.r. ..nr. ;> ».„..""'. ». C. swindlc. He slso clatm-
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