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Of Hits Radioed Hyderabad $110,188,000 Warning Educational Setup Of Attack Plan Jr. BULLETIN to Condon Link to By Jerry O'Leary, A $23,756,250 PARIS I don't report to the State De- > coward, wai> preliminary announced indefinite Vann said in a statement iSee JONES, Page A-6. He get. follows: A Madras dispatch indicated postponement Mrs. sultant in the campaign swing. fiscal to be killed by snipers. I bate a partment of Further complicating the pic- the Nizam s action was considered the thrice-postponed public hear- was an administrative assistant and in , ton know "Regret to report Count Berna- ture is the that Con- family on the committee's es- possibility a full surrender i. ings atomic press secretary to the late Presi- Twice Negotiated Truces. dotte and Col. Serot. French officer gress may grant to District Gov- pionage case. dent Roosevelt and also served for Count. Bcrnadotte twice succeeded and senior U. N. observer. Jerusalem.1 India's flash war has been in Allies French Strike Crisis ernment the $330 annual, West lighten to employes a more than Despite the postponement, how- a short time as press secretary in bringing about a truce in the war killed this afternoon about l'ipu progress only little pay raise given to other Federal ever, committee members have said Mr. Truman. for Palestine between Jews and hours (5 p.m.i presumably by Stern four days. Indian troops were bear- employes at the last session. Mr. they will not be deterred by state- By ihe time the presidential special Arabs, The truces have been fitful gang. ing down on Bidar, storonghold of of but Queuille Fowler estimated blanket granting ments like the one made yesterday Counterblockade Eases, returns to Washington October 2. punctuated by shelling and fighting. "Convoy in which he was riding the Moslem volunteers, the Raza- of the pay raise to District employes by David E. Lilienthal. chairman of Mr. Truman will have waged a driv- Both sides appeared to expect the was returning from Government kars. who offered the main resist- would add another $5,550,000 to the Atomic Energy Commission. ing campaign in 14 States having present, truce now two months old. House. As they passed through ance to the dominion's drive. Other Awaits Test the already overloaded budget. Red Zone of Reich Regime 164 electoral votes. to run out at almost any moment. Catamon, Jewish-held area, jeep columns were pressing forward from Former FBI Agent Quizzed. Conferences Planned. On crossing the country to the The count was head of the suddenly appeared, blocking route.’ all directions toward Hyderabad Mr. Lilienthal joined President Border Patrols Increased Assembly Finance Group Pacific Coast, the President will The Commissioners plan to call Swedish Red Crass and the hus- COTtaining four men, two of w'hich City and nearby Secunderabad. Truman and a number of scientists 251 electoral in their heads beginning to count's car. Text of Radio Announcement. touch 19 States having department band ot the former Estelle Man- proceeded in charging that the committee's ac- of Due to Vote on 10 of To Stop Shipment Today votes and even in those sections September 27 for about days ville of New York. He was 53. Begley Slightly Hurt. The text of the Hyderabad radio tivities have discouraged atomic sci- where he is not scheduled for ad- closed conferences on the budget The U. N. mediator had been shut- Col. Frank Begley. U. N. security announcement on the cabinet's fall: entists from taking Government to Soviet Area Tax Increase Plan Goods dresses. Mr. Truman may exchange estimates. Mr. Fowler said a pub- for months between the Arab officer, grappled with one and was "The history of the last five days tling jobs. Press at which Press By the Associated greetings at rail station gatherings. lic hearing, Washington and Israeli capitals ih his efforts slightly wounded. cannot be forgotten today, on the ( The committtee's atomic espionage By th* Associated 17.—About 90 In all, his present tour calls for taxpayers can present their views to peace and enforce the "Second imam reached to count's fifth day since the commencement case centers on Arthur who, 17.—The West- PARIS, Sept. per bring Adams, BERLIN, Sept. and on the will be at of workers at the more than 100 formal informal budget, probably truces. He was scheduled to re- car and assassinated'two men* of the conflict. We have realized has been described by Mr. Thomas ern Allies their coun- cent 35,000 tightened talks In a bid for votes on Novem- held sometime in the middle of port to the in Paris point-blank range with Sten gun. that we have fought to the limit of as a Soviet agent who has fled the zone Renault automobile factory re- terblockade of the Russian ber 2. next month. next week. Jeep succeeded in escaping. our ability. country. turned to their jobs today after today to shut off the last flow of j Three other railroad stops and a No alterations will be made by Visited Damascus. "Above is preliminary report. Fuii "Early this morning, our cabinet Continuing its closed sessions on strike. from Western Germany to a two-day plane visit to Florida will round out the city heads in the budget as it Count Bernadette visited Damas- report will follow." felt there was no point in sacrificing this case the committee today goods metal industries, where In the to miles of now stands, until after the public human blood odds of Harold H. Velde of the east 15,000 20,000 campaign cus. Syria, yesterday. against heavy questioned Pekin, 300,000 to 400,000 workers staged a heard at the hear- Patrols were increased at cross- j traveling for Mr. Truman in prob- has been public While in that he told news- Rail arms and aircraft of the Indian 111., a former FBI agent who is city Parleys Collapse of the demonstration yesterday, shops the most strenuous election ings. Mr. Fowler said. now a ing points along the length ably papermen that both Arabs and CHICAGO and Union. county judge running for were in today. total is Wage frontier with the Soviet operation again drive ever undertaken by a White The $110,188,643 estimate Jews in all this into considera- Congress on the Republican ticket. Bizone's j Jerusalem were “trigger hour between the 1 "Taking However, dock workers in Brest broken dow'n into a $94,394,831 gen- negotiations decided to zone to halt any East-bound freight House occupant. tion. the cabinet submit; Mr. Velde told reporters the com- near Marseille, work happy.” I railroads and 1,000,000 non- and Sete, quit eral fund estimate, a $9,456,817 esti- He its and place the re- mittee as'ked him to come to Wash- on the highways. Speaks in Iowa Tomorrow. explained that frequent shoot- resignation last night and today. mate for the fund and a operating workers collapsed State Meanwhile. German Communist Mr. Truman's first will be highway ing broke out in the without sponsibility for Hyderabad See PROBE. A-6.* As the series of CommuniSt-led stop The city Page of a $6,337,000 water fund estimate. today. Negotiations with rep- into the hands of the leaders assailed the planners at Dexter. Iowa, where he will speak either side knowing what it was august strikes was putting an additional heads turned in esti- Western German today; at tomorrow at th* na- department at. resentatives of five operating Nizam." government eco- 2:05 p.m. snooting Berlin's strain on France's disturbed mates totaling $144,186,908 for fiscal with members "This humble petition though re- as Soviet jeeps prowled tional plowing match The speech “It's like this.” he said. “They, unions 300,000 j Tribe Leads nomy. the fate of Premier Henri 1949 and the appropriation author- was Nats, 2-0, sector borders. Several vehicles broadcast over the Mutual ceived rather late by the N’zam, % will be shoot into the dark at night. They!i are continuing, a representa- Queuille's new cabinet rested with ized Congress totaled $99,879,483, and he agreed made quick sallies into American System. by (See BERNADOTTE. A-6.> I tive of the railroads said. accepted immediately 42 members of the National As- District officials cut $43,000,000 Page ] for the territory. -i to take full responsibility Finance Committee. The President, who was pro- before they On Homer Leaders of Germany's Com- sembly's from the 1949 budget state and torm a new cabinet to by Hegan The committee, all nounced In excellent physical shape White Bomb in Havana Socialist representing ever sent the estimates to the Explodes take over tomorrow. munist controlled .Unity »y a Star Staff Correspondent (See TRUMAN, Page A-4.> House. pared another Bomb Injuries Fatal HAVANA. Cuba. Sept. 17 i/Pi.— Party loosed a blast at (See-FRENCH, Page~A-6.) Congress Razakars to be Banned. 17.—A home $1 000,000 from the bill before pass- Police announced a small borpb ex- CLEVELAND. Sept. Western Germany's constitutional "The Nizam has also sent a com- i the 1949 Act. ploded today at the Ministry of run by Catcher Jim Hegan gave the convention at Bonn and branded it ing Appropriation dam- munication to the governor genera), Cleveland Indians an Although the Board of Education on Labor Building, causing slight 1 third-place a plan to disrupt Germany. To Four Maneuvers of the Indian Union informing him Bullets Found in of Woman for less in 1950 than ; No one was The ex- lead over the Nats in Body asked money age. injured. early their; th« Associated Pres* Local Trade Restored. it received for 1949 the overall esti- By plosive had been placed just out- ~TSee-HYDERABAD~Page A-4.) j game here today. Washington was mate of is $10,309,165 EGLIN FIELD. Fla., Sept. 17.— striving to avert its seventeenth The Allies imposed a counter- First Believed Air Crash Victim $110,188,648 more than the 1949 Four Army infantrymen died early consecutive defeat. blockade July 26. banning all rail appropriation. •y th* Associated Press Monleon rented the plane early yes- increase In this year* today of injuries received when a The score in the third inning was traffic in and out of the Soviet zone Largest Britain Defenses terday for a flight to Philadelphia. estimate is in the general fund stick of live bombs fell from a B-29 Strengthens j 2 to 0 in favor of Cleveland. of- Germany and halting highway | NEW YORK. Sept. 17 —The pos- as an in- Eastern air was He described Monleon with $10,184,548. The highway fund during maneuvers here yesterday, Hegan's second inning homer was freight from Western to sibility of murder in the j terpreter or translater with the increase is $174,617, but the Twenty-nine others were injured, his 13th of the season nad it drove Germany. This cut off supplies of raised today with a medical exam- sought At Home in International Crisis ! I State Department. Port of New water fund shows a decrease of three Field officers in Ken Keltner, who had Ruhr coal and steel. iner's that a woman, believed critically. Eglin singled, report Miss By th« Associated Press trained in first aid and civil defense crash last | York Authority police said $50,000. in announcing the accident, said ahead of him. Since then, however. Germans on a victim of a plane night, work as well as regular duties. before the Laufer served in a similar capacity The figures indicate District de- the casualties were a white captain LONDON, Sept. 17.—Britain police Walt Masterson took the mound both sides of the interzonal borders had been shot and killed V. B. commandant of for the War Department heads some, but not and 32 enlisted men. Maj. Rogers, for while Bob Feller restored accident. partment paid Negro took steps today to strengthen Washington have developed leaks aqd the bodies of the the London constabulary, said. Wil- Police recovered on A-6, Col. 5.) Names of the dead were withheld. was pitching for Cleveland. varying amounts of local trade Queens Medical Examiner ""•Continued Page her home defenses in the grave 'Never was the need more urgent." i two victims last night. pending notification of next of kin. subterfuge and trickery liam Bennison said he found the international! Frequently They reported that Monleon was The were in crisis. The gravity of bullets and the frag- troops taking part international have been employed to get cargoes steel-jacketed combat who mis- situation in general, and of the Ger- J. Hoover Confined in the body of an experienced pilot, fire rehearsal when the an- Edgar controls. ments of a third power The cabinet already has past border for the French and British air Bulletin man in was reflected in 28. flew hap occurred. They were members particular, The Western counterblockade has Miss Hannah Laufer. nounced that demobilization of the of the force in World War II earlier, he of the Third Battalion, 505th Air- a suddenly summoned meeting Illness the of the She was dead, he said, before To His Home by pinched sharply economy was a for Joe Louis to 82d Air- armed forces has been slowed, re- top British cabinet officers and de- by Jesus reportedly pilot Loyalist Fight Again Dorne Infantry Regiment, of the Soviet zone. rented plane, piloted and that war chiefs with J. Edgar Hoover, director into forces during the Spanish Civil War borne Division and "B” company,; cruiting stepped up fense Foreign Secretary on Meneau Monleon. 31, crashed NEW YORK —Joe Louis of To keep the embargo lid fall of Monleon are Bevin. Federal Bureau Investigation, 2 from the After the France, 785th Tank Battalion. weapons being improved. as the Russians a salt marsh about miles to his home here tightly as long in a announced he will de- said it to those were Sir has been confined was interned concentration today ••The troops were In the right The War Office planned Among present their Berlin blockade, the New York International Airport the week with pneumonia, maintain but later to afld the bombs weren’t,” a increase from 6.000 to 45.000 the size Stafford Cripps. Chancellor of the for past after dark. Monleon diea camp escaped England fend his world heavyweight place said Western powers are plugging boraei shortly of the territorial services, Minister of War Enian- and his associates today they where he joined the RAF. public information officer said. auxiliary Exchequer: leaks. in the crash. for the Twenti- were uncertain when he would be Miss Laufer was the daughter of championship Seven bombers released 69 bombs the equivalent of the wartime WACs ;uel Shinwell, Minister of Defense Witnesses said last night they had I V. Alexander and Field Marshal able to return to his desk. All several vain Robert Laufer, New York fur mer- eth Century Sporting Club at from an altitude of 10.000 feet, he in the United States Army. A. Stopping Shipments. seen the plane make An FBI spokesman said Mr. Hoo- chant. Mr Laufer was a passenger said. Some fell around and among Women 18 to 40 will be recruited. Viscount Montgomery, chief of the At Helmstedt. major control point attempts to land at both La Guardia Yankee Stadium next June ver had been a "pretty sick man.' abroad the boat Bermuda The War Office said 25.000 are Imperial General Staff. . between the British and Soviet Field and at the International Air- flying Sky the ground troops was better j the winner of the Joe anti-aircraft and Mr. Bevin is to leave for but apparently feeling it came down Queen when it was forced down in against Shrapnel and concussion were re- needed for duty Sunday zones district, police were increased port. Once, they said, work Paris to attend the United Nations now. ; bounced the Atlantic last year. He. along Baksi-Ezzard Charles 15-round for most of the injuries. 20.000 for general ranging by 100, and police at the highway on a runway and then aponsible Mr Hoover was unable to attend with other and the names of crew from cooks to cipher clerks. General Assembly. The Foreign were boosted from 8 to 24. back into the air. passengers The officer said United States points bout scheduled for Madison men would re- meetings of district; a crew, were rescued the of the from which A call went out for 10.000 Office said he probably The amplified guard forces have George Edwards, proprietor of planes by members plane here this week because of; ‘ November 12. 20 to 50 to serve as special turn for a foreign affair* debate in attorneys 1 Island service, said Coast Guard Cutter Bibb. Square Garden the bombs fell would be withheld aged ■ iSee BERLIN, Page A-6j Long flying will the House of Commons Wednesday. his illness. v until more information is available.] constables in London. They be, » A a V *, I i