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Two can be seen in two of circled areas waving to the photographer who snapped the picture from an airplane. "Pk from N. Y. women Daly News) survivors -NASON verting. Tackle Jack Furey set up a second touchdown by blocking a kick and recovering at the enemy 35 in the final quarter.

M'sieu Maurice Poinssant ultimately scored on a wide lateral sweep to the left after Stuka had hurled two pin point passes to Stan Goode and Joe Dirpinick. But Brennan's hasty attempt to bisect the uprights for the tying digit sped low and wild to the See B. C. Pate 4 The C. I.

O. unions will ask for another round of wage increases when their contracts expire taxless prices go down, Philip Murray declared yesterday after his reelection as C. a president at the conventiDn's closing session. Murray climaxed a day in which he attacked the Truman administration and ridiculed William Green and John L. Lewis by telling a press conference that "price reductions are of course essential.

There is no indication prices will be reduced. It is reasonable to assume many of our unions will ask for wage increases." See C. 1. O. Page 3 L.

S. U. Tritimphs, 1443; as B. C. Surge Falls Short 'Don't Worry, Lady, We're Not Says Sailor as Her Skirt Flies No Panic on Sky 'Queen, Says Wo.

mall Passenger 4 Grounds Planes Airline Brewster Raps Dual Standards of Air Safety WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (UP) Senate investigation of the near-tragic forced landing of International Airways' Sky Queen in mid-Atlantic ordered today after the Aeronautics Board grounded of the company's aircraft. inquiry was ordered by Owen Brewster, Maine, of the Senate commerce subcommittee on aviation. He protested that a "double of safety requirements" for scheduled and nonscheduled airlinesforces "hundreds of passengers to gamble their lives." Sky Queen, with 69 per. aboard, was forcsed down Oct.

14 on a flight from to New York. All passengers and crew were by the Coast Guard cutitr CAB, accusing the airline of "knowing and willful of the Civil Aeronautics act, issued a temporary banning it from "engaging any form of air transportation" and ordered, the company to show cause why its permits should not be revoked permanently. INQUIRY rage 3 to Push One-Crust Pies, Bread Loaf CHICAGO, Oct. 17 (UP)--December wheat futures prices below $3 a bushel to-' the first time wheat has a decline for a day's since margin requirements were doubleci Oct. 6.

(Meanwhile bahers promised feature smaller loaves of and one-crust pies, wherever they can, part of a save food for Europe the Associated Press Citizens Food Committee expects housewives and to go along on such as single-crust pies and two-layer cakes. The goal for of the drive is a saving 3,000,000 bushels of wheat rage 3 Tropical Storm of Puerto Rico for Florida Oct 17 (UP)-- tropical storm, building hurricane force, was born Puerto Rico today and steady pace toward Florida. 10:30 p. m. the Miami Bureau said the storm of 60 miles an hour holding a northwest at 14 miles an hour.

It spotted 125 miles north Rico and in a few reached a point 140 miles west-northwest of Turk's Island, reaching hurricane some time Saturday. Tz7 Another Great spotted 125 miles north Rico and in a few reached a point 140 miles west-northwest of Turk's Island. reaching hurricane some time Saturday. N--- Anothey Great Wants to Settle Economic and Political Issues With the West'. Says Soviet Can Do Without U.

S. and Britain If Aim Fails WARSAW, Oct 17 (AP)--Eight Labor members of the British Parliament touring Europe declared tonight that Prime Minister Stalin had told them irt Russia that he had no thought of making war and to settle political and economic issues with the United States. The Britons, headed by KOrtill Zilliacus, said Stalin added that if the United States and Britain did not desire to settle differences, "We shall wait until they regain their reason." Zilliacus said he and his fellow members of Parliament. on a visit to Moscow to study Russian trade unions and were flown in a special plane to Stalin's villa at Sochi on the Black Sea. There, Zilliacus reported, Staii lin voiced a desire 'to reach an understanding between the east and west and dissipate fear of a a new conflict.

The group quoted Stalin assaying in a two-hour interview: "We want as close trade relations with Great Britain as possible. We are interested it the development of trade rela tions between our two countries. "The sooner the two statei agree, the better for good partners in common work. "Just as the Soviet Union has always stood for ilhprovement of political and economic relations with all countries. so 't now stands for such improvement, beginning with the Umted States and Great Britain.

See STALIN Page 1 Dr. Conant 'Declares War With Russia Is Not Inevitable ALBANY, Oct. 17 James B. Conant, Harvard University president, tonight pre-. dieted an indefinite "armed truce" between Russia and the Anglo-American world, but said war between the two was not inevitable.

"Hopes for enduring peace rest on keeping the western world strong and prosperous and on the ability of the United States to sell the advantages of American-style democracy to nations outside the Soviet be said. In a speech at the 81st convocation of the University of the State of New York, Conant admitted the sharp cleavage between Communist dominated nations and the democracies. See -CONANT rage 7 Gromyko Calls Us S. Hints Bloc Will Shun 'Little U.N.' LAKE SUCCESS, Oct. 17 (UP)--Russian delegate Andrei Gromyko, crying "dictator" at the -United States, hinted today that the Soviet bloc may boycott a proposed year-round United Nations "Little Assembly." and Issues West Can 175 S.

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17 Ate Andrei lictator" at today may boy. ound ook 1 i gillomm Am Ci Al of i I WA A 5 neartl Amer ways' tic wa Civil) ed all The Chain of Ma merce tion. I standa ments' achedt dreds with The EOM a at sea Poole, the pi rescue itr Bil The line vioiati rautie order ing in tation'l pany flight I yoked See IN Bak One Sma CHI( cembel droppe day, tl shown tradini ments (Mez to lea bread i ever broad progral reporte (The said it restaur things two-la3 this pa ing of 3 a mont See FO New Nadi Head MIA A new up to north hit a ste At 1 Weathe had Mil and course was firs of Pue: hours west-no probahl force so 1 I 1 eN 4411 ,,,,41 1 7---A i 4 CAB All of A American was Civil all The Chairman ot standard with The sons at sea Poole, the rescued Bibb. The violations" order in flight See Bakers Small dropped day, shown trading to bread broad program, reported. (The said it restaurants things this part of a month.) See FOOD New North Heading MIAMI, A new up to north of hit a At Weather had winds and was course was first of Puerto hours probably force was first of Puerto hours probably force 1 I I ,,41,.1 1 el 1 I 4 -pur, Byrnes Discloses Anglo-Soviet Deal on Balkan Control By JERRY Boston College had a big, mobile Louisiana State team reeling along the ropes in the last half of a slam-bang football game at Braves Field last night, but the Tigers escaped under their own power, 14-13.

Les Eagles, their snowy shirts stained with the fury of their uphill into a 14- 0 half-time deficit with a 53- yard scoring march in the third period, Stevie Stuka lodging a jump pass intoAngie Nicketakis' arms, and Torn Brennan con 11 J. S. Air Arm Set to Strike NowSpaatz Heavy Bombers Ready to Fight on Global Scale By STEFFAN ANDREWS4 WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (NANA)Uaited States Strategic Air Command long-range bombers toslay are poised to fight back agains.t an enemy aggressor in any port of the world. In a dramatic disclosure of its peacetime might, the independent United States Air Forces announced that biggest bombers were ready to perform in combat on a global scale, "at any time." The disclosure, regarded as a blunt warning to potential aggressors, will made oy the Strategic Air Command, with the approval of Gen Carl A.

Spaatz, chief of staff. The Si said that it was prepared: "To conduct long-range operations in any part of the world, at any time, either independently or in cooperation with land and sea forces. see AIR Page 7 Coombes to Take Stand 'Defense Plans On the heels of a surprise defense witness statement that Robert L. Coombes, 17, of Malden, was not insane one year before the murder of Jacqueline Maxwell, 11, of which he is accused, it was learned last night that the youth probably will take the stand in his own defense on Monday. These developments came at the end of the sensation-packed fourth day of the trial, which saw defendant's mother, Mrs.

Elizabeth Coombes, testify in Middlesex Superior Court to her struggle with a son of "psycho- pathic personality" whom she sought to have officials keep in an institution. It was Dr. Meyer Asekoff, clinical director of Metropolitan State Hospital, a defense witness, who testified that the hospital's diagnosis of the youth was that he was "without psychosis, a psychopathic personality with anti-social trend." See TRIAL Page 5 20 P. C. Pay Raise for State Workers Proposed in Bill Legislation calling for a 20 percent increase for all state employes earning less than $5000 annually was proposed yesterday by Senator Chester A.

Dolan of Jamaica Plain, in a bill filed with the clerk of the state Senate. Under the Dolan bill, raises would be retroactive to Jan. 1, and would affect 25,000 employees of the Commonwealth. The minimum increase would be $200. Railroad Fare Bobsts to Be Effective Oct.

27 Both the Bostoo Alba nn nd uBnocs et odni attcs Mniagihnte thraaitirt71: Both the Bostoo Albany and Boston Maine railroads announced lase night that their new and increased schedule of fares for commutation tickets would go into effect on Oct. 27. The schedules are 20 or 25 percent higher than present rates. Both roads emphasized that old monthly tickets will be good for the full ensuing month from the date of issue, and 12-ride tickets will be accepted up to and including Nov. 6.

Unused 12-ride tickets can be redeemed. See FARES Page 5 U. S. Is Drifting Into 'Police Wallace Says Here A "rapid drift" towards a police state has been evident in this country during the past six months, former Vice President Henry A. Wallace told reporters here last during a half-hour layover at Logan Airport on his air journey to Palestine.

Communism, he declared, is no threat whatsoever to America. It is being used, he said, merely as a weapon for political purposes. Ingland has managed to preserve its civil liberties more than we have -since the war," Wallace said. "In this country, we are in almost the same situation that existed when the Alien and Sedition Act was passed in 1789." An alleged probe of the There was no panic aboard the Bermuda Sky Queen when the giant airliner was forced down in the storm-tossed North Atlantic last Tuesday, a woman passenger said last night. The eye-witness story of Lillian Lewin, 27, of London, was the first direct word to reach here from the 69 persons snatched from peril aboard the clitched plane by the Coast Guard cutter Bibb.

"What amazed me most was the absolute lack of panic," Miss Lewin, a United Nations worker, said in a message radioed to Coast Guard headquarters in Boston from the rescue ship. The pretty London a secretary attached to the Economic Affairs Department of the U.N.. furnished a graphic picture of the crash landing and the hours of terror before rescue. See PASSENGER Page 3 More Pay or Lower Prices; Murray, C. I.

O. Head, Says Ex-White House Aid of F. D. R. Sentenced for Tax Evasion BALTIMORE, Oct.

17 (UP)Eugene B. Casey, wartime assistant to the late President Roosevelt, was sentenced to six months in prison today, fined $30,000 and ordered to pay more than $280,000 in back taxes and penalties for evasion of income taxes during his White House service. Hundreds Battle Fire, as Drought Continues WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (UP) James F. Byrnes opened the lid a bit further tonight on secret Roosevelt-Churchill correspondence to show that the British agreed in 1944 to let Russia have "a largely preponderant voice" in Romania and Bulgaria.

In return, his evidence showed, Britain was to 'have the freedom to save Greece." Byrnes, former Secretary, of State, dug into the Roosevelt-Churchill files to reply to criticism from a British Foreign Office spokesman who said Byrnes' assertion was "incorrect." The foreign office contended it was agreed in 1944 See BYRNES Page 7 Indian Summer Heat Breaks Boston Record Summer returned to New Baby Left at Hotel; Unwed Mother Is Held Forest fires in tinder-dry New England woodlands parched by the worst Fall drought in 33 yearscontinued to break out yeste rday and a Weather Bureau forecast indicated no immediate heavy rainfall in sight. but tires that started in mas- Treasury Department involving I A 22-year-old unwed mother, ikarnmyKo 3 am nussia cuitiu sachusetts during the day were England for a two-day stand the dragging of past and present who left her 6-day-old baby accept no compromise" on the brought under control at dusk yesterday, sending the official treasury officials from their Oaughter in a Hu a ntington-v. American plan for a 57-nation just as a blaze, believed to have Boston thermometer reading up beds by.FBI agents, was cited continuous U.N. forum. been extinguished a few days to 89 degrees at 2 p.

highest by Wallace as evidence for the Back Bay, hotel room yesterday Gromyko scoffed at a British See DROUGHT Page 7 ever recorded by the Weather drift to the "police state." .,1.11,,, afternoon, was taken into cus- See WALLACE Page 7 tody by police early last night resolution lo limit. the "Little Bureau so late in the year. Assembly's activities. And he ...2, and charged with abandoning ignored the plea of Britain's Sir The record-breaking tempera- ID the six-pound infant. Hartley Shawcross for debate A ure was highest in these parts since Aug.

26 of this year. The France Is Awarded In a Gray-st, South End, "with good will and without Newspaper 4 hest More and more people are reading the Sunday Globe each week. Dealers are frequently sold out Don't forget. Arrange to get your Sunday Globe October in any yer was an from the same source each issue. Be sure to read 000 i Gold highest ever chalked up during $104, 50, '''k I i even 90 degrees on the first day ti of that month in 1881.

WASHINGTON, Oct 17 (UP) warm weather Mostly sunny and continued ther was the forecast Seized as Nazi Loot France's faltering economy was given another big lift today rooming house police found the humbug. mother, Jean Kirch of Plain- see U.N. rage 7 field, N. who told them the child was born at Faulkner Hos- pital, Jamaica Plain, Oct 11. qz tv.e.

vo Vb 6 V-11 .14 Leaving the hospital yester-dIlli'Ca 41.4) 'fillS4 day, the mother told police she A LI TR the Com. ic, EditoriGal and Magazine for Greater Boston today with the highest temperature in the wawarded cnathtrheaet-ncaotuionntrycomm iss ion x.i4.. went to the hotel at 12:15 p. rm, IA Sections In tomorrow Sunday le e. Read the it predicted it would not be ao's, but the Weather 000 in the first distribution of advertisements tomorrow Read them See BABY Page.3 i coir WO It Lb CsAmptOtl- ig Man in the Globe every day.

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France received the major PACE ACCOUNTING share of the first payment. The Netherlands was granted 14 44:,, ABANDONED BABYNurse Constance Blanchette 3 P. II P. M. 4 a i i (d4V1 ...1.

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Advertisements may be ordered at the Globe office or by telephone. Call LAFayette 2000. 0 Six fires that started in Massachusetts during the day were brought under control at dusk just as a blaze, believed to have been extinguished a few days See DROUGHT Page 7 Newspaper England for a two-day stand yesterday, sending the official Boston thermometer reading up to 89 degrees at 2 p. highest ever recorded by the Weather Bureau so late in the year. The record-breaking temperature was highest in these parts since Aug.

26 of this year. The highest ever chalked up during October in any yeIr was an even 90 degrees on the first day of that month in 1881. Mostly sunny and continued warm weather was the forecast for Greater Boston today with the highest temperature in the middle 80's, but the Weather Man predicted it would not be "quite as warm" as yesterday. PACE ACCOUNTING Register Now! for 6te Fall Day and Eve. Classes.

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FBI agents, was cited by Wallace as evidence for the drift to the "police state." See WALLACE rage 7 France Is Awarded $104,150,000 in Gold Seized as Nazi Loot WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (UP) France's faltering economy was given another big lift today when a three-nation commission awarded that country ON in the first distribution of Nazi-looted gold now in Allied hands. France received the major share of the first payment. The Netherlands was granted 376,000 and the commission recognized claims from Austria for $29,460,000 and from Italy for $1,280,000. ABANDONED BABYNurse Constance Blanchette at City Hospital holds 6-day-old infant whose mother was arrested after leaving the baby girl in a Back Bay hotel room.

A 22-year-old unwed mother, who left her 6-day-old baby daughter in a Huntington-ay. Back Bay, hotel room yesterday afternoon, was taken into custody by police early last night and charged with aband6ning the six-pound infant. In a South End, rooming house police found the mother, Jean Kirch of Plain. field, N. who told them the child was born at Faulkner Hospital, Jamaica Plain, Oct.

11. Leaving the hospital yesterday, the mother told police she went to the hotel at 12:15 p. rn, See BABY Page.3 LAST TIMES TODAY-10136 11., 3 P. II P. M.

BOSTON GARDEN Gromyko said Russia could accept "no compromise" on the American plan for a 57-nation continuous U.N. forum. Gromyko scoffed at a British resolution to limit the "Little Assembly's" activities. And he ignored the plea of Britain's Sir Hartley Shawcross for debate "with good will and without humbug." See U.N. raga 7 eAUTR kv tx wooLot csAmpicol ZrIDL LIR 13 1Z MAIL OROlitS ACCEPTED.

At SI) Itkimookrs en INT 't awn. -a rssia could ise" on the 57-nation m. a British the "Little s. And he ritain's Sir rot debate without pate 7.