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LR NO. 34. CtTLL ASSOCIATED PBE86 ill VMUtb JOPUN, MISSOURI, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMB ER 17, PAGES. FLORIDA BRACES FOR Final Edition rvbUsbed Every Moraine Except Monday PRICE Ce WARNING SHOTS FIRED BY YANKS HALT YUGOSLAVS Americans Prevent Illegal Entry of Tito's Troops Into Trieste as It Becomes Free City. A TENSE MOMENT L.AT BORDEE OUTPOST Incident Averted When Slavs Apparently Decide to Take Matter Up on Diplomatic Level Trieste, Sept.

warning burst of American machinegun fire at a tense moment today in the birth of the free territory Trieste kept Yugoslav troops from I crossing into the area. Major General T. S. Airey, British commander in Trieste, said Oswaldo Aranha of Brazil Named U.N. Assembly Head Chosen on Second Ballot, He Sets Keynote of Meeting by Telling Delegates Question They Face Is "Whether the Road Will Lead to Peace or to Sessions Will Try to Settle Soviet-Western Quarrels.

New York, Sept. United Nations assembly elected Dr. Oswaldo Aranha of Brazil as its president today and began a search- for measures to stop the discord between the United States and Russia. Statesmen of 55 nations gathered from all parts of the world realized that the answer to most of the issues before the U. N.

lay in settling the Soviet-western quarrels. Those overshadowed every move here. Two ballots were taken to name the president. Aranha got 26 votes on the first Dallot to 23 for Dr. Herbert V.

Evatt, Australia's foreign minister, 6 for Dr. Jan Masaryk, for- minister of Czechoslovakia. cool-headed action by a dozen Americans at a border outpost prevented an incident with 36 Yugo' Slavs which "might have led to bloodshed." General Airey declared that Yugoslav entry into Trieste would have been "a breach of the peace treaty which I would have.resisted to the last" He added that to permit Yugoslav troops to enter would certainly --have resulted in blood- shed, due to feeling among the predominately Italian population. Three Dead in Rioting. The toll from Italian-Slav rioting in Trieste mounted to three with the death of a 17-year-old Italian student wounded yesterday by a hand grenade.

Another man and a 11-year-old girl were killed previously. Under the terms of the treaty, the free state of Trieste will be administered by a governor to be appointed by the United Nations security council. Pending that appointment--Russia has objected to 18 nominees--the British-American military governments will rule in the north and the city of Trieste id the Yugoslavs in the south. The Yugoslav troops that had demanded entry into the free territory were a detachment of the 2,000 troops which were designated under an agreement to be attached to the Allied military government as liaison troops. General Airey said he received a letter last night from a Yugoslav staff officer saying the troops would enter on the main road into Trieste at midnight and station themselves in the city.

The British commander immediately issued orders that the Yugoslavs would not enter. At 3:30 a. m. a detachment of 34 Yugoslav soldiers and two officers appeared at post No. 5, on the main road to Trieste, and were Majority Tote Required.

On the second ballot--between the two top contenders--Aranha had 29, Evatt 22, and four were invalid. A majority of those present and voting was required. Aranha keynote of the meeting when he told the opening session this morning that, the question before the delegates was "whether the road will lead to peace or to strife." The -large, ornate assembly hall was filled when Aranha, as temporary president holding" over from the special Palestine session of the assembly here last spring, banged down the opening gavel at 11:09 a. eastern daylight time. In contrast to the formality of last year's opening here, -when President Truman himself welcomed the U.

N. with a U. S. policy statement, the start this year was simple. The morning session was confined to speeches by Aranha and Mayor William O'Dwyer.

O'Dwyer told the delegates that "deep in our hearts we that the United Nations is the best hope of mankind in a distraught world and that on your success hinges the future of everyone of us." Organization Completed. The assembly completed organization this afternoon by 'electing the chairmen of the six main committees and seven vice presidents. These, with the president, make up the powerful 14-nation steering committee. Aranha that the assembly would meet again tomorrow at 10 a. m.

and 2 p. eastern standard time. With its first-day's slate clean, the assembly adjourned for the day at 5:34 p. m. Secretary Marshall Is slated to make a statement tomorrow, probably taking the floor after Mex- co's opening statement in general debate.

TOLL IN TYPHOON GROWS IN JAPAN DEAD AND MISSING PUT AT 2,384 LOSS RUNS INTO MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. FARM LABORERS LEAVING TEXAS BLOCKADE THAT KEPT WORKERS FROM CROSSING STATE BORDER LIFTED. Tokyo, Sept. lyrically named typhoon, Kathleen, spread death and destruction over two- I Texas by the truckload today after Marshall, Sept. farm laborers left halted by a detachment of 12 American soldiers.

Called Up Reinforcements. When the Yugoslavs were told they could not proceed they called up reinforcements in battle formation. General Airey said the 12 Yanks held their ground and a battalion of American infantry was immediately sent up from reserve position with a full complement of armor and artillery. The Allied military government said the American officer in charge brought up a tank and ordered the warning burst of machinegun lire. General Airey said the Yugoslavs thereafter indicated they would agre with the decision of the Allied command and take the matter up on diplomatic level.

"Owing to the extraordinary good sense and tactful handling by the American troops an incident was prevented," General Airey declared. "As it was the affair was settled amicably and I received a letter from the Yugoslav general acept- Jng my proposal to go around and take up the matter on a higher level." CAROL PLANS TO RETURN TO EVROPEW1TH BRIDS Rio de Janeiro, Sept 16, -Former King Carol of Romania plans to return to Europe Saturday with his bride, Madame Elena Lupescu, a close friend said today. They have arranged to sail aboard the Argentine ship Juan de Garay for Lisbon with the intention of living in Portugal, said the friend who asked not to be quoted by name. thirds of Honshu Island and casualty figures tonight still were mounting. Kyodo news agency, U.

S. array and unofficial estimates rolled up these counts: 2,384 dead or missing, including, 100 dead in Tokyo. Two medium sized towns wiped out and numerous villages flooded. 160,000 homes flooded or damaged, including 15,000 in Tokyo. 150,000 acres inundated.

In an incomplete report, the Japanese home ministry listed 449 dead and 1,785 missing. This figure did not include 100. dead and five missing in Tokyo and 45 dead or missing in Saitana prefecture, previously reported by Kyodo news agency. Fifteen prefectures extensively damaged. Hundreds of millions of yen damage--millions of dollars, U.

at the official exchange rate of. 2 cents a yen. No American Casualties. General MacArthur's headquarters had no reports of American or Allied casualties. However, some families were moved to safer locations and an isolated unit of several hundred U.

S. cavalrymen at Camp McNair, near Fujiyama, was supplied by air. The typhoon, named Kathleen by the U. S. army weather bureau, passed 30 miles south of Tokyo and only 10 miles sonth of U.

S. Eighth army headquarters at Yokohama Monday night It destroyed homes, crops, bridges, railroads, highways, communications, and--possibly most damaging--many "dikes, xeleasing river waters to flood a large area north of Tokyo and to threaten this capital city. Thousands of Japanese worked through the night erecting temporary dikes near Kasukabe, 20 miles north of Tokyo, in a battle, of time against the onrushing waters of two rivers--the Tone and Arakawa. 24 ESTONIANS ARRIVE IN SAVANNAH ON SLOOP Savannah, Sept. Estonian refugees, buffeted by gales and frequent Texas Labor Commissioner M.

R. Morgan lifted a virtual blockade which had kept them from crossing the state border. State authorities had halted the flow of farm labor north under- a state law which requires labor recruiting agents from other states to first obtain a Texas license before organizing their crews. Individual workers were not halted, but the hundreds stopped here were said to be in charge of organizers who, officials charged, had not complied with the law. Trucks'Were Halted.

Trucks carrying the workers had been halted and keys taken away from drivers. MEATLESS DAYS URGED TO COMBAT SOARING PRICES Proposal Made in New York, Chicago and Washington as Corn, Wheat and Oats Decline. DROP LAID TO PLEA FOB HIGHER MARGINS Several Cities Report New Hikes in Cost of Milk and EggSr-Gasoline Prices Cut in 3 States. By the Associated Press. A government move against a possible "boom and bust" danger in the grain markets was followed by a sharp drop in Chicago grain futures prices Tuesday, as proposals for meatless days to combat soaring costs spread from New York to Washington to Chicago.

As several cities reported new hikes in the cost of milk, eggs or meat, these were the major developments in the cost of living picture: 1. Wheat, corn and oats prices slumped on an early selling wave which trade sources said was caused, at least in part, by a government request that the Chicago board of trade virtually double margin requirements on speculative-grain M. Mehl, administrator of the commodity exchange authority, requested the board of trade officials to boost margin requirements to 331-3 per cent to "lessen the danger of a boom and bust" situation in the markets. Action on the request was postponed until later in the week. Hotel Men Defer Action.

2. The Hotel Association of New York City generally endorsed a municipal committee's recommendation for combatting high prices, but deferred action pending further discussions for two meatless days a week in hotels and restaurants. Action would await appointment by Mayor O'Dwyer of a special committee of hotel, restaurant and club men to discuss the subject. In Washington, commissioners of the District of Columbia issued a proclamation urging housewives to observe voluntarily two meatless days a week. Mayor Martin H.

Kennelly of Chicago announced he would discuss with business representatives later in the week the question of one or two meatless days a week in hotels and restaurants and possibly in homes. 3. Contrary to the trend of other commodities, the price of gasoline, kerosene and fuel oil was reduced one-half-cent a gallon in North and South Carolina and Virginia by the Atlantic Refining Company. The Inquiry Opened into High Prices First witness as the congressional subcommittee inquiry into high prices got under way at -Providence, MA. James B.

Hedges, right, president of the Khode Island League of Women Voters. Behind table, left to right, are members of the committee: Representative Clarence K. Kilburn, republican, New York, Senator Raymond E. Baldwin, republican, Connecticut, Senator Ralph E. Flanders, republican, Vermont, and Senator Francis J.

Meyers, democrat, Pennsylvania. (NEA Telephoto.J Taft Walks Through Line Of Jeering Union Pickets Today, Morgan by telephone from Gulf Oil Corporation made a sim- Austin ordered his labor agents ilar reduction in the Carolinas. Price Index Bises. The Associated Press weighted wholesale price index of 35 commodities set a new record high of 195.31, compared with the previous high of 194.99 last Thursday. The average prices of 1926 were 100 in the index.

Omaha, beef steers sold up to 535.50 a hundred pounds, a new all- time high, while at Chicago weighty steers pushed to a 1947 peak of $35.75. In New York City, less popular meat cuts were reported rising as consumers turned away from the more expensive varieties. St Louis dairies raised grade A here to return the keys and let the workers proceed without further interference. Within a few hours all workers were reported out of Marshall. By 3 p.

the agents also had departed. The situation had developed in a manner state officials had not anticipated. Farmers of Texas, on one hand, had protested loss of their workers to areas paying better wages. When the blockade was reported Saturday, repercussions were immediate. A C.

I. O. leader asked U. S. Attorney General Tom Clark to investigate, terming the action "fascist-like." Reported Within Rights.

State Representative Isom p. Hydrick, of Marshall, said Mor- Los ator-Taft, strode smilingly through a jeering union picket line tonight to declare before a group of republican organization members that the fundamental issue of the 1948 campaign is "freedom versus totalitarianism." The Ohio senator, making one of the principal speeches of a western political sounding tour, was greeted on his arrival at the Los Angeles Elks Club by massed boos from 300 A. F. of L. and C.

I. O. pickets who had been marching in a block-long line before Taft's appearance. Boos Screamed at Him. Driving up directly in front of the picket line, Taft stepped out of his automobile, threw his hat back into the car and assisted Mrs.

Taft to alight With pickets screaming boos at them, the couple marched smilingly through the line into a jam- packed hall where republican organization members awaited his second speech of the day. In that speech Taft severely criticized President Truman for what he said was the latter's failure to co-operate with the republicans to their efforts to reduce taxes, provide economy in government and decentralize the authority of the federal government. Taft's associates said the sen ator'had been advised in advanc of plans to picket the meeting, th second effort made by unions discourage his public appearanci on the west coast He previously had skirted a picket line at a meet ing of the state bar of California in Santa Cruz. A spokesman said Taft had been advissd he could enter the build ing quietly by a side entrance, bu that he chose instead to make his appearance at the front door where the'pickets were massed. Six Wearing- Masks Seized.

Shortly before his appearance six pickets wearing masks were arrested by Los Angeles police for alleged violation of a. city ordinance which forbids the wearing masks. The six wore masks representing either Taft or Adolf Hitler and one bore a sign which said: "Don't call me Taft, my name is Adolf." Taft declared the present income tax system is a "dangerous burden" on the people and called for a return to peacetime government spending and peacetime taxation. Taft said that the G. O.

despite presidential opposition, had achieved substantial cuts the national budget and declared 'we certainly could have afforded a tax cut of $3,200,000,000," LA GUARDIA SINKS INTO DEEP STUPOR Former New York Mayor Collapses at Home--Too 111 to Be Taken to Hospital. high seas, arrived In Savannah today aboard at 43-foot fishing sloop and immigration officials immediately ordered them transferred to Ellis Island. Keep a at gan was within his rights under Texas laws when he halted the crews, but said he, Hydrick, did not believe the law constitutions: and had planned to challenge it in courts if Morgan had not lifted the blockade. The lifting of the embargo had followed by a few hours rpports that many of the laborers had managed to cross the state line by various means. Some had gone by train to Texarkana where taxis carried them into Arkansas to waiting trucks Approximately 300 workers had been halted here.

Charges were filed against over a score of organizers. Morgan said the state bureau of labor statistics which he hearts Is primarily interested in protecting the workers against out-of-state unlicensed recruiters, many of whom, he said, cannot give workers proper assurances 'of jobs and wages. (Continued on page 2) HOURLY TEMPERATURES Mild temperatures continued in the Joplin area yesterday as the mercury reached a high of 83 degrees at 4 p. after rising from the day's low of 57 recorded at 4 and 5 o'clock in the morning. Maximum a year ago today was 77 and the minimum 64.

Hourly temperatures: 1 a. 1 p. 79 2 a. 58! 2 p. go 3 a.

82 4 p. S3 New York, Sept New York mayor F. H. La Guardia collapsed at his home tonight and his physician, Dr. George Baehr, reported him to be in critical condition.

"The former mayor has been failing gradually for the past week," Dr. Baehr said, "and tonight he suddenly collapsed and sank into a deep stupor." Baehr said La Guardia, who was mayor for 12 years, was too critically ill to be removed to a hospital. La Guardia has been ill for some time. 5 a. 5 82 8 a.

581 6 p. 81 7 a. 7 p. 73 8 a. 631 8 p.

75 9 9 p. 72 10 a. p. 69 11 a. 73111 p.

69 Noon 69 Wednesday. 1 a. 2 a. Airport Weather Data. Weather observations at municipal airport at 9:30 Temperature.

68 degrees. Wind djrecllon, south, southeast. Wind velocity, 16 miles. Visibility, 15 miles. Barometric reading, 28.99, rising.

EVACUATION TRAINS LEAVE PAHOKEE, FLA. Effort Made to Move Entire Population From Hurricane- Threatened Area. By JOHN WOERPEL, Miami Herald Staff Writer. Pahokee, Sept. evacuation trains, 74 coaches, box cars and every other available type of equipment, chugged out of Pahokee before midnight, as officials tried desperately to evacuate the entire population o.f this hurricane- threatened area.

At least 10,000 persons had left the section in automobiles, according to B. Elliott, state representative and general chairman of the Red Cross here, their vehicles filling highways in a bumper-to-burnp- er parade. This city and its twin town of BDirrCIf nirc Canal Point, nestled on the south fffCff Dltb shores of Lake Okeechobee, was a (IP INPANT1IP PAKA1VCK scene of frenzy as the Red Cross sent out Iou 2 speaker squadrons London, Sept 16 UP)--The sud- vr all who would go to take den death of 20-year-old Nancy advant age of the evacuation trains. Riach, Britain's champion woman 1 People appeared at the railroad swimmer and leading hope for statlon carrying pitiful remnants COBB SETS NEW LAND SPEED MARK BBITON DKIVES CAB 394.196 M. P.

403.135 ON ONE Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, Sept Cobb of London to day hoisted the world land speei record to 394.196 miles per hour. The doughty Briton not onlj smashed his own records of 368. M.P.H. for the mile and 369.7 fo the kilometer, but he also achieved man's ambition to travel over 40 miles per hour on land. Cobb braved a brisk wind an several rough spots on the 14-miL saline straightaway on this drj lake bed to chalk up marks un dreamed of only a few years ago His old marks were estabishec here in 1939.

Cobb got away fast on the south run despite a light headwind and roared through the mile at 385.645 M.P. H. and 388.019 for the kilometer. Fans Boar Approval. When his time was announced the several hundred fans present roared their approval, but thai time was comparatively slow considering his return jaunt which started approximately 35 minutes after he completed the initial trip.

Cobb pushed the throttle to the loor board on the return sprint, icing timed at 403.135 miles per lour for the mile and 399.808 for the kilometer, the fastest times ever recorded by man on land. Cobb flashed through his fastest mile in 8 93 seconds and his average speed for the mile was 9.1325 econds. When he set his previous record his time for the mile was 9.76 econds. Cobb drove Special back his Railton Mobil to the American French authorities nosed Miss Riach Olympic honors, focused Europe's attention today on the worst recorded epidemic of infantile many parts of the continent who diag- th yesterday in Monte Carlo as due to poliomyelitis said she probably contracted the disease in Britain, where nearly 5,000 cases this year have brought the worst epidemic since the nation began recording the disease in 1912 B-4-U Insure of their household belongings, all they could hope to carry in their flight from disaster. The loading of the emergency trains continued until the departure, with the trains going from here to Lake Harbor to pick up additional evacuees, then continuing to Sebring.

The Red Cross will provide temporary housing and care for other needs in Sebring. Only a slight rain was falling in Pahokee as the relief trains were being loaded. Automobile Association timers' tand after the second run and was heered wildly. Among the most oyful in the throng was Mrs. Cobb, a bride of only a few months.

Mrs. Cobb was "thrilled beyond imagination" and she embraced her husband. SHOWERS AND COOLER WEATHER APPEAR ON WAY By the Associated Press, storm front moving into' PALM lit AND THREATENED Gales Up to 160 Miles An Hour Moving Toward Coast--Plans Made to Evacuate 5,000. SOLDIERS READY FOR RESCUE WORK Store Fronts and Homes Boarded Up Planes Cancel Flights Into Menaced Area. Miami, Sept.

raging and expand? ing tropical storm moved toward the rich and populous Palm Beach resort area tonight, carrying a threat to life and property. Destructive winds of an almost unprecedented velocity of 160 miles an hour were slowly but relentlessly bearing down on the winter playground area along Florida's swank lower east coast. latest weather bureau advices said the center of the storm which blew up in the Atlantic several days ago was expected to cross the coast near or slightly south of Palm Beach. Miami, the fabulous metropolis south of Palm Beach, also was menaced. The hurricane warnings were ordered displayed southward to include the greater Miami area.

take Okeechobee Included. Likewise included was the Lake Okeechobee region where a disastrous storm blew lake waters over fanning communities 19 years ago today and drowned nearly 1,500 persons. The Florida east coast and seaboard airline railroads sent cars to Lake Harbor and South bay, in the western section of Palni Beach county, to evacuate 5,000 residents. They will be taken to Sebring in central Florida, As the storm hovered 160 miles east of Palm Beach at 8:45 p. eastern standard time, adjoining West Palm Beach was virtually up." The residents remained calm as they battened down and waited for the big blow.

The hurricane was moving westward at about eight miles an hour and the weather bureau told of its expansion in a terse statement that "winds are now increasing slowlv and will reach hurricane force in he area of hurricane display late or eariy Wednesday." Emergency Shelters Opened. The dreaded hurricane -warnings were on display from Titusville to Miami and in the Lake Okeechobee region. Storm warnings were displayed elsewhere along the coast from Key Largfo to Jackson, ville. Emergency shelters -were opened West Palm Beach with soldiers rom Morrison Field handling regis- rations. Plans were being mapped evacuate islands in Lake Okee- hobee.

Schools in Palm Beach ounty were ordered closed tomor- ow. Scheduled airline flights from orthern points were being ground- at Jacksonville, only a few miles outh of the Georgia state line. Feverish preparations began In north-western Kansas early today is Florida to batten down for the expected to bring light rains and expected blow. Small boats began to cooler temperatures over most parade up rivers to sheltered coves. Kansas and into the extreme west- Boarding up of store fronts and' ern part of Missouri by evening, homes began.

A serious traffic jam The showers are expected to reach' developed in downtown Miami as the Kansas City area tonight and residents dashed around laying in then move over most of Missouri emergency supplies. Miami's acres by Thursday morning. of plate glass began to disappear Richard Huddle, state forecaster, i behind storm shutters, military said that the prospects for a gen-' posts were alerted and 7,000 men at eral rain covering: the Macdill Field in Tampa were made area are the best seen in a long ready for rescue work. Covered With Storm Waters, The center of the storm WM placed in a 4:45 near time. Temperatures are expected to re-, main about the same over Kansas' and Missouri, reaching into the very near Hopetown, on the Ba-, middle 80s except in the northwest-1 hamian Island of Abaco, in latitude ern portion of Kansas where they, 26-7 longitude 77.1.

Tfie weather may drop to 75. School are GRAPETTK (Continued on page 2) Thirsty or not, enjoy INEWSPAPERif.