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R B R R i MRS B A R
Six-year-old Linda Joyce Glucoft
(left) was found slain near her home at
Los Angeles Tuesday a day after her
mysterious disappearance. Her body was
found under rubbish and an axe was
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lix - Baker Is Sought
In Murder Of Child
International Manhunt Launched
For 66-Year-Old Man; New Clues
LOS ANGELES, Nov, 16. — (AP) — An international
manhunt was on today for a 66-year-old retired baker
wanted for questioning in the brutal slaying of six-year
old Linda Joyce Glucoft.
An autopsy, meanwhile, disclosed details of the vicious
brutality of the attack.
EXPANSION
The Athens Recreation Depart
ment has made many improve
ments in Memorial Park recently,
and i 8 offering additional services
to the public. The grounds have
been landscaped around the Club
House entrance with rock walls,
grading, filling, new walks and
lawn planted.
Many favorable comments from
visitors to the Park have been re
ceived with the face lifting work.
Shrubbery is being planted ac
cording to a master plan for gen
eral park improvement, being
carried on as resources are avail
able,
Many groups. using the Club
House have been unaware that
this faeility was available to many
types of organized groups. While
the entire building is reserved for
the Teen Age Club each Friday
and Saturday, reservations may
be made for the facility on other
evenings or for daytime functions
by calling the Recreation Depart
ment office, 797.
Refreshment services from
sandwiches and cold drinks up to
light meals such as cold plates are
prepared for various groups. To
date sewing clubs, bridge parties,
fraternity and sorority functions,
study eclubs and organized dance
clubs are using the biulding, all
for minimum charges based on
the nature of the function and the
refreshments served.
It is an ideal meeting place both
for organized groups or for parties
or entertainment activities too
large for the home. s
Three picnic areas are being
maintained throughout the win
ter. One of these areas is equip
ped with many tables and several
grills. A second area, immediately
in front of the main Club House
varking area, has outdoor tables
and others under a shelter for in
clement weather, with water, fire
wood and night lighting.
SPONSORED BY KIWANIS
National Kids’ Day To Be
Observed Here On Saturday
Mayor Jack R. Wells issued a
gpecial proclamation today set
ting aside Saturday, November 19,
for the observance of National
Kids’ Day in Athens.
In his proclamation the Mayor
called wupon all residents of the
city to cooperate with the local
Kiwanis Club, sponsors of the ob
servance here, in the celebration
o Kids’ Day.
) Mayor Wells’ proclamation fol
ows:
WHEREAS the citizens of Ath
ens, Georgia, are vitally interest
ed in our youth and recognize the
importance of adult participation
in matters pertaining to the wel
fare of our children.
WHEREAS one of the principal
tasks facing our nation and our
community today is the building
of our youth into useful and hon
orable citizens,
WHEREAS it Is fitting that we
make every effort to keep all
children from being prey to any
form of delinquency and to foster
all good and proper endeavors
aimed at helping our youth to
achieve the benefits offered by the
American way of life, ‘lh olnt
ané _ the
efforts of wauw
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
MISSING GIRL FOUND SLAIN AT LOS ANGELES
~ The mutilated blanket-wrapped
‘body of the child was found early
vesterday buried under rubbish in
‘the backyard of a neighbor’s house
where she was last seen alive. In
that house lived Fred Stroble, a
66-year-old retired baker, at large
in another child molestation case.
Stroble, a police broadcast said, “is
believed. to have murdered” Linda
Joyce.
A bus driver told police he drove
a man resembling Stroble across
the Mexican berder. - Police there
launched a search for him.
Officers at San Bernardino, 60
miles east of here, hunted for a
man a bartender identified as
Stroble from newspictures .and a
mutilated finger. The man was
reported to have left a bus upon
its arrival from Los Angeles, -
The child had been strangled by
a man’s tie and her body hacked
with an axe and stabbed by an‘
ice pick or similar instrument..
Dr. Frederick D. Newbarr, coun- |
ty autopsy suirgeon, said death was
caused by asphyxia from strangu- |
lation. -He fovad three stab
wounds, two of which penetrated
the lungs. Dr. llewbarr believes
they were inflicted while the girl
was dying. |
Twelve slashes in her head pre- i
sumably were made by a bloodyf
axe found at the scene. One se-.
vered her spinal cord. Dr. New-]I
barr said all were deilivered after
the girl was dead. The surgeon
found evidence that she had fought
back. Strands of hair were in her
jagged fingernails.
Linda Joyce had been missing
since Monday afternoon when she
ran laughing out to play. Policel
believe she had gone to the home
where Stroble was staying to play
with - his grandchild, Rochelle |
Hausman, six,
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Miss Mitchell’s
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Last Words Cited
..ATLANTA, Nov. 16 —(AP)—
Margaret Mitchell while dying
hoped like her heroine, Scarlett
O’Hara, that tomorrow would be
“another day.”
The last hours of the famous au
thor of ‘Gone With the Wind”
were described yesterday by Dr.
Charles A. Dowman, who treated
her.
and the National Kids’ Day Foun
dation as represented by our local
Kiwanis Club,-a day has been set
aside to focus attention upon the
problems and the accomplish
ments of youth throughout the
forty-eight states at both a na
tional and community level,
WHEREAS the purpose of the
day is to provide wherever possi
ble, assistance in helping under
privileged children to enjoy some
of the benefits normally accruing
to boys and girls in more fortun
ate circumstances.
NOW,. THEREFORE, I, Jack R.
Wells by virtue of the authority
vasted in me as Mayor of the City
of Athens, Georgia, do hereby
designate Saturday, November 19,
as Kids’ Day in Athens and do call
upon all citizens te support the
objectives of this day and to co
operate to the best of their abili
ties in making the event a suc
cess.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I
have hereunto set my hand and
caused the seal of the City of
Athens to be affixed this 16th day
of November in the year of our
llfi:d; Nineteen = Hundred and
~ "JACK R. WELLS, Mayor.
nearby. She had been brutally mutilated.
Right: The little girl’s parents, Jules and
Lillian Glucoft, try to comfort each
other after learning that the body had
been found.— (AP Wirephotos.)
Traffic Demon
Deluxe; 3 Wrecks
In Friend’s Car
INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 16 —
(AP) — Sunday night, Edgar
Greer, 23, of Indianapolis, was
arrested after a minor traffic
accident and charged with fail
ure to have a driver’s license. He
was siated to appear in court and
released.
Monday night, police were
called to investigate a mishap
between an automobile and a
manhole cover. The driver was
Greer—still unlicensed. Again
he was booked to appear in
court.
Last night, police were dis
patched to a two-car accident.
Yes, one driver was Greer,
still without a driver’s license.
Wearily, police hauled him in
and made a date for him to ap
pear in municipal court Friday
to answer all three charges.
And it wasn’t even Greer’s
‘ear. He had borrowed it from a
friend.
FOR ’52 ELECTIONS
R velt’'s Bid
B Calif. Stock
oosts Calitl. dtoe
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.— (AP) —James Roosevelt’s
bid for the California governorship gave the West Coast
state top ranking with New York and Pennsylvania today
in major party speculation over the 1950 and 1952 elec-
. These are the three most popu
lous states, on the basis of census
Bureau estimates. They cast a
total of 107 of the nation’s 531
electoral votes in a Presidential
election. Each of them will elect
a governor and U, S. senator next
year.
The Governors’ chairs are now
held by Republicans (Dewey, N.
Y.; Warren, Calif,, and Duff, Pa.).
The Senate seats are now Demo
cratic {(Lehman, N. Y.; Downey,
Calif., and Myers, Pa.). ‘
The results conceivably could
furnish—or eliminate—a potential
candidate or two in the formula
tion of Presidential tickets for
1952. Add to that the fact that the
three states will elect 101 Repre
sentatives—now divided 50-50 be
tween the two parties (plus one
American Laborite from New
York)—and the outcome will go
far in determining the makeup of
the next Congress.
Ohio Rating
Ohio, farther down in popula
tion estimates, also rates high in
the figuring. There, a leading Re
publican Senator, Robert A. Taft,
and a Democratic Governor, Frank
J. Lausche, will be up for re
election.
The announcement by the 41-
year-old Roosevelt (He'll be 42
next month) last night in Los An
geles that he will run for the
Democratic Gubernatorial nomi
nation had long been expected by
politicians here. He said he would
also reluctantly run for the Re
publican nomination, under the
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WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Continued f a i r through
Thursday., Cool again tonight
with frost. Low tonight 36 and
high Thursday 64. Sun sets 5:29
and rises 7:07.
GEORGIA — Continued fair,
cooler this afternoon, and
cooler in south portion tonight.
Thursday fair and continued
cool. Scattered frost tonight,
with lowest temperatures 34 to
38 in south and central portions
and 30 to 34 in north,
TEMPERATURE
TN . i R
LOWESE . . vi) i et
BEeE . areay e s
DU . i i eDR
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. ... .00
Total since Nov. 1 .. .. .. .64
Deficit since Nov. 1 .. ... .68
Average Nov, raixg’a}l,.... ,zgt
Total since January 1 :..:39.
Deficit since January 1 .. 4.27
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
ATHENS, CA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1949,
Devil Or Deep Blue Sea
Choice Confronts Lewis
: l
Must Choose Between T & H |
Action, Fact - Finders Truce
By The Associated Press
The choice of the devil or the deep blue sea —in his
viewpoint—faced John L. Lewis today. |
Elsewhere the national labor picture showed the CIO
Electrical Workers fighting their ousted brethren in
courts in a continuation of the léft wing-right wing bg@t}e_.
TRUMAN SLOGAN
No Retreat
From Civil
Rights Drive
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16—(AP)
—President Truman’s Civil Rights
proposals were pushed to the fore
front of administration *“must”
measures today behind his fighting
slogan of “no retreat and no re
tirement.”
The President served notice last
night—in his second Civil Rights
speech in five days—that he is en
listed in a finish fight against “ra
cial and religious diserimination,”
With Southern Democrats up n
arms against his call for anti
lynching, anti-poll tax and other
anti - discrimination measures
which cost him four Dixie states
in last November’s Presidential
election, Mr. Truman threw out
this blunt challenge:
“We are going to continue to
advance in our program of bring
ing equal rights and equal oppor
tunities to all citizens. In that
great cause there is no retreat and
no retirement.”
Mr. Truman spoke at the four
teenth annual meeting of the Na
tional Council of Negro Women
and lavished praise on the record
of Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, 74-
vear-old negro educator and re
-It;xjring president of that organiza
ion.
A crowd of several hundred ne
~ (Continued on Page Two.)
California law. which permits such
dual candidates.
The first reaction among Demo
cratic officials was that President
Truman and the Democratic Na
tional Committee will keep hands
off the primary race if the late
president’s eldest son has opposi
tion.
The Democrats say this is not
because James opposed Mr. Tru~
man’s nomination last year, but it
is dictated by the general policy of
non-interference in primaries and
practical politics.
They figure that Roosevelt com
bines much of the political acumen
and speaking ability of his father,
and that these attributes, with his
vote-attracting name, would win
over any primary opposition.
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Wigley To Sing
.
For Lions Club
Laddie Wigley, winner of Lions
Club amateur shop, this year, will
sing at the tomorrow’s luncheon
meeting of Athens Lions Club in
the Georgian Hotel. Laddie also
-was honored with a chance tq sing
with the Apollo Boys Choir in
New Mexico recently.
Also on the club program to
morrow will be the induction of
new members.
SUPREME COURT APPEAL SET
Kenimer Gets 1,190 Days,
$11,900 Fine For Contempt
ATLANTA, Nov., 16.—(AP)—Contempt of court is something
not to be taken lightly.
Superior Court Judge Ralph Pharr made this point yesterday
in taxing Charles M. Kenimer, jr., with 1,190 days in jail and
$11,900 in tines for the ofiense,
Kenimer’s contempt arose fromr a court dispute between him
and his former wife, Mrs. Wade Senter of Athens, Ga., over
custody of their seven-year-old daughter, Betty Ann.
Kenimer disappeared with Betty Ann on February 15 before
the court had ruled whether he or Mrs. Senter was entitled to the
child’s custody. He was gone 238 days on a flight through sev=-
eral states, Canada, Cuba and Puerto Rico.
Judge Pharr gave him five days in jail and a SSO fine for each
day before he finally surrendered to the court.
His attorneys appealed to the Georgia Supreme Court and the
judge set a $20,000 appeal bond.
Judge Pharr explained that contempt of court is “contempt
against the majesty of the people” since the courts were set up to
represent the people. ‘He' ‘added- that Kenimer's contempt was
“contumaceot” and LlagEant. .. .0 Li i e s ean :
A strike of Maritime Ship's
Officers was averted, and the
steel strike continued its rapid
collapsing.
Lewis, leader of the United
Mine Workers, reportedly had
these choices, neither of which
were to his p%te: a fact-finding
board with power to recommend
“a settlement of the coal strike; or
invocation of Taft-Hartley pro
visions for an 80-day anti-strike
injunction,
The coal operators were report
ed willing to accept the fact-find
sy Sl HOBIG <3O
avoid repetition
Labor o f the 52 day
Roundup walcout, but
- e Lewis has indi
cated his strenuous opposition.
The White House, however, was
reported ready to invoke the
Taft-Hartley law—disliked again
by Lewis — to avoid another
walkout. The miners are tempor
arily back at werk,
The reported timetable was
this: the board proposal will be
given to Lewis and the operators
on Thursday. Lewis then will
have until the week-end to indi
cate acceptance or rejection, In
.event of rejection, the President
will invoke the T-H law.
The tangled civil war of the
Electrical Workers continued in
the courts, and moved up to the
ITational Labor Relations Board.
At issue was the funds and mem
bership of the union recently
tossed out of the CIO on charges
of Communist control,
The new CIO union, the Inter
national Electrical Workers Un=-
ion, called for direct bargaining
elections under NLRB auspices at
all major electrical manufactur
ing firms.s" Simultaneously, the
Westinghouse Electric Corpora
tion asked the ULRB to decide
with which unicn it shall deal—
the CIO-IUE or the ousted United
Electrical Workers.
Right wingers by the thous
ands, in a dozen states, have
voted for secession from the left
wing union, In most cases they
have taken court action to scize
local funds, or are defending
similar actions from the other
side.
A strike of 2,000 AFL Mer
chant Marine Deck Officers was
averted last night by a one-week
ttuce, Federal mediators proposed
ithe truce to allow the parties to
settle their differences over hir
ing hall arrangements and 16
other contract issues.
The hiring hall — an employ
ment systemr whereby the union
supplies men—is the central point
at issue.
In the steel situation, blast
furnaces continued their warming
up process as more men streamed
back in the wake of settlements.
Prcduction this week was placed
at 61.5 percent of capacity with
steelmen aiming at 100 percent by
mid-December.
.
Reflex Action
in Murder Case
CONYERS, Ga., Nov. 16—(AP)
—Former State Senator R. P.
(Pat) Campbell, taking the stand
in his own defense yesterday,
testified that the fatal shooting
of Eugene Edwards resulted from
an unintentional “reflex action.”
Campbell testified shortly after
the prosecution had ended its case
against him for the slaying of the
211-year-old ex - sailor at a
roadhouse Oct. 9.
Campbell claimed the fatal
shot followed a ‘“roundhouse”
swing he took at Edwards. But,
he said, “ I was not shouting at the
boy. I heard the pistol fire. 1
knew I hadn’t shot him or pulled
the trigger.”
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BAR TR i L i RS
Mrs. Carleton S. Hadley of St. Louis sits behind the
wheel of the new convertible presented by her fiance,
Vice President Alben Barkley, as a wedding gift. They
will be married Friday at 11 a. m. in St. Jahn’s Metho
dist Church at St. Louis.— (AP Wirephoto.)
Reds Challenge UN
Rights Of Chinese
Charge Seen As New Russian Move
To Increase Eastern Block Powers
The new Chinese Communist' government at Peiping {s
challenging the right of Chinese Nationalist delegates to
represent China at the United Nations.
A Peiping broadcast said the Mao Tze-Tung govern
ment is protesting to U. N. Assembly President Carlos P.
Romulo that the Nationalists “have no right to speak for
the Chinese people in the United Nations organization.”
The message did not request any
action by the Assembly. However,
it was ‘interpreted as the begin
ning of a ecampaign by the Rus
sian-supported regime aimed at
supplanting the Kuomintang rep
sr——— ranpesentatl v 8 o
World News at Lake Success.
Informed of
Roundup the report, Dr. T.
——e . T, Tsiarig, leader
of the Chinese Nationalist delega
tion at the U."N. said: “I will pay
| no_attention to this.” .
| The United States immediateiy
reaffirmed its support of the Na
tionalist delegation. China is a
permanent member of the Security
Council with veto powers. If the
‘Peipinz regime replaced the Na
tionalists in this imnortant seat,
’ Russia would have enhanced pow
er in the Council but the West still
T would have a maiority.
~ Secretary of State Acheson is
expected today to throw some lirht
on American policy in the Far
East revolving around two inci
dents. His news conference will
~afford him an opportunity to speak
on the Nationalist Chinese Naval
attack on an unarmed U. S. mer
chantman yesterday. The Flving
Cloud, owned by the Isbrandtsen
Line of New York, was shelled in
running the Nationalist blockade
outside Shanghai. The United
States does not recognize the Na
tionalist blockade of Communist
held ports.
Jailed Envoys
The State Department is also
concerned with the prolonged im
prisonment of U. S. Consul Ward
and four of his staff employes at
Mukden in Communist China.
High U. S. officials are enraged at
the treatment of Ward at the hands
of the Chinese Reds. Observers
said American recognition of the
Peining government will not come
in the foreseeable future and will
be delayed longer because of the
Ward case.
A broadcast from Pyongyang,
capital of Communist North Korea,
indicated today that two Ameri-|
cans the Communists seized witht
an American shop last September
are being held as hostages to force |
United States recognition of Red
North Korea.
President Boleslaw Bierut of Po
land has told the Central Commyit
tee of the ruling Communist Party
that the number of persons engag-l
ed in spying and anti-state activi
ties is greater in Poland than in
any other country. Observers said
Poland, following the pattern set
in other Eastern European coun=
tries, is in for a period of mass ar
reste and treason triale |
Erro! Flvnn To
Marry Princess
LONDON, Nov. 16, — (AP) —
Film star Errol Flynn is engaged
to marry Romanian Princess
Irene Ghica, friends of the®cou
ple said today.
The 20-year-old princess, slen
der and brownhaired, is the
daughter of the late Jean Ghica
who was killed in a plane crash
12 yeass sgc. She lives in Danie
with her mother, Mrs. Ebi Don
escu, who has since remarried,
Read Daily by 35,000 Pegple In Athens Trade Area
By The Associated Press
Kappa Deltas
Win Annual
Stunt Night
Kappa Della sorority, with a
hilarious original version of “Ar
kansas Traveller,” won first-place
honors last night in the 23rd an
nual University Stunt Night in
Fine Arts auditorium.
The KD’s were presented the
traditional cup for outdoing 12
other sororities and fraternities in
skits of student comedy and musi
cal talent. Honorable mentions
went to Kappa Alpha fraternity,
Delta Delta sorority, and Delta
Tau Delta fraternity.
Joe McKee, with a splendid ren
dition of “Begin the Beguine,”
topped the love song contestants
and won the $5.00 prize. Renners~
up were Charles Greiner, who sang
“Just a Memory,’ and Ed Mur
dock, who offered “I've Got You
Under My Skin.”
Winner of the original song con- |
test was Edith Blair for her “O
Solar Mio,” with Miss Blair and
Jackie Anderson singing the win
ning song. Runner-up was Jane
Schneider with “Hear Me Call.”
The 23rd annual Stunt night
played to a packed house, with no
standing room available after the
show was underway. Judges for
the show were Miss Lucile Kim
ball and Edwin Blanchard, both of
the University Music Department,
and William Davidson, associate
professor of the English Depart
ment.
FUNDS SHORT
Red Feather
Drive Comes
To End Today
| Athens Community Chest drive
| officially ended today with a total
lot $29,000 in contributions; how=
ever, additional funds to reach the
ISOFJ of SITOL are St tedng
i solicited.
| Campaign Director J. W. Matth
ews said directors of the five ben
efitting organizations — Boy
Scouts, Girl Scouts, Y. M. C. A,
Y. W. C. A, and Salvation Army
—are to meet this afternoon and
will make plans to contact those
nersons whaose caontributione have
| not been received and io ask for
additional contributions from
others in order to meet the goal.
The Red Feather office will be
closed at the end of this week,
but contributions can be mailed
by address the envelope; Ath
ens Community Chest, Athens, Ga.
All persons who don’t desire
to give cass may make a pledge.
The drive began on October 24
and was to last until November 9,
but was extended one weelk Offi
cials hope that the goal can be
reached soon. If the goal isn’t
reached the nrograms of each of
ime organizations will prooably |
have to be curtailed somewhat.
HOME
EDITION
Housing
Truman Approves
Loans To 108 Cities
For Low-Rent Homes
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16—(AP)
—President Truman today launche
ed the public housing program by
approving loans totaling $20,~
375,400 to 108 cities for the plan~
ning of low-rent homes for a half
million persons.
~ The loans will finance the sur
veys and planning for 134,000
dwellings in 27 states, Puerto Rico,
'and Washington, D. C.
Mr. Truman,’s action was an
nounced by John Taylor Egan,
Commissioner of the Publie Hous
ing Administration. <
Egan said loan contracts will be
signed as rapidly as possible with
the local Lousing authorities. The
loans, the first to be made undew
the long-range housing act ap=
proved this summer, are prelimine
ary to later financing arrange=
ments which will permit the stars
of construction.
. The housing developmentsy
launched today are to be underw
taken within the next two years,
Funds have been reserved fog@
another 100 local authoritieg
which intend to take part in the
first two years of the public house
ing program.
The legislation provides fo#
about 610,000 units oves the nexd
six years.
Approval of these loans means
that these local housing authorie.
ties may now take the first cone
crete steps toward building good
new homes for low income famis
lies,” Egan’s statement said.
+ The size of the prelimina.rg loagy
is limited by the numper of dwellw
ing units allotted to the loeality,
The present authorizations -avers
\age about slsl for each dwelling,
When the final federal-aid cone
tracts are signed, they will i
the ‘amount of the dev;k:rm!n
loans and the annual fed sub,
sidies required to provide low
rents for the families occuping the'
completed projects.
Accused Red Spy
.
Breaks Silence
NEW"YORK, Nov, 16.—(AP)-w
Accused Soviet spy Valentin Guw
bitchev relaxed his no-to-everys
thing attitude for the first time
| today and said thanks, in Russiais
lto Federal Judge Sylvester Jo
Ryan. G
The judge had ordered Tiha§
Gubitchev be given a free copy of
the minutes of court proceedings
leading up to his trial, with Ju=
dith Coplon, on spy conspiracy
i charges.
Through an interpreter, Gubit=
chev said: “Thank you, you?
honor.”
Until now the Soviet engineen
has refused to plead or to accept
a eourt-appointed lawyer. He
contends that he has diplonatie
' immunity since he was & United
Nagions employe at the time of
’ his/ arrest.
The minutes Gubitchev will
get at government expense are
those of a pre-trial hearing, ex=
pected i end today, to determ=
ine whether Miss Coplon’s arress
was legal and whether the seized
contents of her purse should bhe
returned.
e eeeet et e, ‘ i
Bulletin
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 —
(AP) — Federal Mediation
Chief Cyrus 8. Ching teday
turned the deadlocked eoal dis
pute over to the White House
for aetion. it i b
Ching reporte n D.
Steelman, President Truman’s
assistant, that further attempts
to get union leader John L.
Lewis and coal operators into an
agreement seemed useless.
.. WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 —
(AP) — The United States is
protesting to the Chinese Na
tionalist government against a
Chinese warship’s firing on an
American marchant wessel. ; 3.
Secretary of State Acheson
told a news conference today
that an immediate protest is
being made sgaineé ¢his en
dangering of American lives.
NEW YORK, Nov. 16—(AP)
—Mackay radio said today it
had intercepted a radio mes
sage indicating a United States
Air Force B-29 was believed
lost and about to land in the
ocean off Bermuda. i
Guam Gets Set
£ .
For 150-MPH Wind
GUAM, Nov. 16 —(AP)— Thig
American base in the Pacific bute
tened down today for a typhoon
with 150-mile winds roaring up
from the southeast. {
Weather reconnaissance planeg
said the center of the tyhba%_k |
with a 360-mile radius, was e==
pected to hit Guam Friday. Si J
mile winds are expected to 4
across the island tomorrow & %
noon. )