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Guam Daily News from Agana Heights, Guam • 1

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Guam Daily Newsi
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Agana Heights, Guam
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Y- ISLAND TIDES 12:25 ajn and 3:59 prn LOW 8:15 am and 8:43 pm WEATHER Qmdy to overcast with frequent moderate to heavy showers Winds southerly 12 to 18 knots with gust knots in heavy showers Temp TO Test Min Temp 700 if Test Rainfall Rainfall for month 2212 VOL IX NO 245 1 i FIVE CENTS AGANA GUAM SATURDAY OCTOBER 17 1953 UJ uuu Author Churchill l'ins tlobel Prize RUSS TO FIGHT Two Airmen Civilian Lost Attempting To Cross Talofofo River Thinks Shaw Kipling Better I'riters TRIESTE ACTION VISHINSKY SAYS STOCKHOLM Oct 16 (P) r- Sir Winston Churchill the greatest phrase-maker of his time won the Nobel Prize for literature today and disclosed with a grin that he still thinks Kipling and Shaw were better writers The Swedish Academy which awards the prize annually under IEe will of dynamite maker Alfred Nobel voted it to Churchill as both author and orator It cited his The death toll for Typhoon Alice jumped to four yesterday morning with the reported drowning of three men from Andersen Air Force Base when they attempted to cross the swollen raging Talofofo River from which the bridge was washed away An all-time high of 32 inches of rain was recorded at Andersen from the time Alice whirled by the island Wednesday night un- Dance Proprietor Asked To Account For Girl's Money in historical and biographical writing- and the brilliant art of oratory with which he has stepped forth as a defender of high human The award carries with it a prize of $33840 The 78-year-old British prime minister he has been writing books for 55 years received the news officially in London from Swedish Ambassador Guimard Hagglof am very proud indeed to receive an honor which is Churchill said have received several honors which are national hut this' is the first time that I have received one which is international in its character is alitenrry distinction and I am particularly proud of that-1" He noted that Rudyard Kipling was the 'first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize in literature (1907) and that Bernard Shaw also had won it (1925) certainly cannot attempt to compete with either of those1 Churchill said I knew them quite well and my thought was much more in accord with Mr Rudyard Kipling than with Mr Bernard Shaw On the other hand Mr Rudyard Kipling never thought much of me whereas Mr Bernard Shaw has often expressed himself churgrill in most flattering The British statesman has written 27 books since 1898 The first were accounts of military campaigns in India the Sudan and South Africa He wrote a biography of his father Lord Randolph Churchill and also one of his ancestors the Duke of Marlborough Hi World War II memoirs have brought birr $2000000 or more The sixth and final volume of these is soon to appear UNITED NATIONS Oct 16 (JP) Chief Soviet Delegate Andrei Vishinsky told the UN today that Russia can a solution of the Trieste' question reached without Russian participation Vishinsky specifically warned the security council that Russia would not agree to on Trieste by the United States and Britain Vishinsky appealed to the council to approve a Russian resolution calling for internationalization of the territory under' a Swiss governor as only to assure lasting peace in the disputed Adriatic area SEEKS CONFERENCE President Tito of Yugoslavia has called for a four-power conference among Britain the United States Italy and Yugoslavia to settle future US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden and French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault meet in London this weekend with the Trieste question high on their agenda Chief US Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge Jr told the council Vishinsky only brought the problem make as much trouble as possible Lodge told the council the Bri-tish-American decision to turn occupation Zone A to Trieste over to Italian administration was an "honest attempt to reach stability in a vexed part of The Allied decision led to protests from Yugoslavia Lodge charged that the Soviet Union previously declared the presence of British and American troous in Zone A was a threat to international peace SWITCH IN VIEWS Now he said it was arguing that removal of those troops was a threat to peace kind of shenanigans is Lodge asked Despite belief that the Russian move was mere debating Lodge declared the United States would not oppose council discussion Vishinsky' said charges that the Soviet Union brought up Trieste as a propaganda trick was an unfounded and He declared the violent demonstrations in Yugoslavia and the deterioration in relations between Yugoslavia and Italy contradicted claim that the Allied decision was aimed at tranquility Vishinsky said his resolution was in effort to force the United- States and Britain to enforce the Italian til 3 yesterday afternoon and Fleet Weather Central at NAS reported 20 inches in the 40-hour period ending at 7:30 yesterday morning As Public Works Center and government of Guam crews battled floods which yesterday afternoon threatened to top inundations Radm Ernest Litch ComNavMar offered all possible assistance by the Navy to the civilian administration SWEPT OUT TO SEA A Public Works Department crew working at Talofofo bridge reported through Lt Juan Agu-on Guam sub-station officer they had seen two airmen Trying to cross the broken bridge and that the two were swept out to sea by the strong waters from the ocean and the swirling flood-swollen Talofofo river Major San Agustin Guam police hurried to the scene and said later that workmen saw the two men start across evidently trying to reach their families in Inara jan The men were identified by friends among the crew The third man believed to be a Filipino attached to an Air Force fire house was not seen alive PWD workers first saw his body about 500 yards from the bridge some five or 10 minutes after the airmen disappeared PLANE SEARCHES The Marine rescue team responded to the Guam police call and were at the bridge within half an hour Major San Agustin said Soon after their arrival and before pushing off in a motor-powered rubber boat the officer in charge radioed for the Coast Guard spotting plane A plane from the 11th rescue squadron at Andersen appeared and helped sweep the area Late yesterday afternoon when the search was called off until today no bodies had been recovered An Air Force spokesman declined to confirm the drownings or give any details until investigators from the base had given (Continued on page 2) Rosenberg Linked To Radar Spy Ring Jordan Reports Israeli Attack James Kaanahe owner of the Forbidden City dance hall in Ta-muning was haled into Judge Jose court yesterday to explain what he had done With money a taxi-dancer gave him purportedly to pay legal expenses after she was picked up in a vice squad raid According to affidavits signed by the girl Loretta Odle and a companion Joyce Sabilino they each gave Kaanahe $600 his request and upon his promise to pay fees court costs and any fines that might be against them in their trials Miss Sabilino was acquitted on a vagrancy charge and Miss Odie was fined $100 and ordered to pay $10 court costs on a morals charge She also was given a three-months suspended sentence The pair was arrested during an £ariy morning raid Aug 2 on a house in Tamuning ADMITS GETTING MONEY Defense Attorney James who represented both girls at their separate trials told the court yesterday that Miss Odle was unable to pay her fine since she had given the money to Kaanahe Kaanahe admitted taking the money from the girls but denied that it was to have been used to pay for their trials and possible fines He told the court he had taken the money to reimburse him for expenses he incurred in bringing the girls from the mainland to Guam to work for him He said that he had told the dancers that if they got into trouble and were unable to work they would have to repay him The pair he said had not worked for him since the raid Judge Manibusan told Kaanahe that he was not interested in any the dance proprietor might have entered into with his employes that he was only interested in the $110 Miss O-Ile owed the court The judge ordered Kaanahe to pay the fine and court costs The court did not comment on the entire a-mounts the dancers claimed they gave Kaanahe who produced two receipts signed by Kaanahe in favor of the girls told the court that- criminal charges had been filed against Kaanahe at police headquarters A subsequent cheek with the police revealed that the wre investteatiiijr the cqsc and w'nld forward it to the Island attorney ffMGraT office for action JERUSALEM Oct 16 Jordan charged today that a battalion of Israeli troops attacked three Jordan villages about 15 miles northwest of Jerusalem last night killing 46 Arabs and wounding 15 Maj Mohammed Izhag acting delegate to the Jordan-Israeli mixed armistice commission the charge before that body tonight The armistice commission adopted a resolution censuring Israel for against and declared Israeli authorities should immediately the most vigorous measures to prevent a He said all the casualties were in the village of Kiya but that NEW YORK Oet 16 Atom spy Julius Rosenberg was named by SenSte investigators today as mastermind of a Ft Monmouth radar spy ring that may have outlived him Rosenberg and his wife died in Sing Sing electric chair last June 19 for wartime atomic espionage He once worked for the US Army Signal Corps which has its headquarters at Ft Monmouth Sen Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis) claimed thee is a a Russian spy ring still is at work at Ft Monmouth and that it could be a holdover from the Rosenberg days McCarthy said his Senate investigations subcommittee is eager to talk to David Greenglass the brother-in-law whose testimony sent Rosenberg to the electric chair Greenglass is serving a relatively light federal prison sentence of 15 years at Lewisburg Pa It was his reward for cooperating with the government in the prosecution of Rosenberg and his wife Ethel the sister of Greenglass the villages of Budrus and Shaqba in the Latrun salient of the Jordan held part of Palestine also were attacked with mortars while the invasion of Kibya was going on Irhsi said 56 buildings including a mosoue and a school and a water reservoir were blogn up at Kibva two mile inside Jordan1 territory and that many people were still buried under the ruins He reported that Arab na- Vessel Delayed vessel Flying Scud delayed 14 hours by Typhoon Alice is due at the Navy dock early Sunday morning and moves to the Commercial Port Sunday evening cotmcil and the American British And French envoys of the incident UN observers were quoted as iional guardsmen returned the peace treaty That treaty signed In 1947 called for an international fire of the Israelis who used light automatic weapons Jordapln cabinet beld an emer- Keefer cargo from the west ying the alMged attack was re- nortH to have been in ictaHa iofi for tti idPioe of' a Jewish diDdreo in coast Japan and Okinawa win' he available to comignee Monday awning James Vn Sicklen Wd' jastefdayj iweime in Trieste These previsions were "never implemented because the east and -west were unable to agree es I sep re.

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