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GABLES RIVIERA PUBLISHED MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY AFTERNOONS VOL. 21 — No. 43 TWO SECTIONS CORAL GABLES, FLORIDA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1947. 12 PAGES TEN CENTS

REDO TO BEAR ON US BEWARE, UN FAILS, VANDENBERG WARNS

Ann Arbor, Mich., Nov. 3 (UP)—Senate President Arthur H. Vandenberg, R., Mich., lashed out at Soviet tactics in the United Nations today and said the responsibility would be "crystal clear" if UN failed to save the peace. At the same time, the Republican foreign policy leader said in a speech here that a separate peace should be written for the American-British-French zones of Germany if Russian demands produced a deadlock at the coming London conference of foreign ministers. Unless Allied wartime unity can be re-established. he warned, the present period may prove to be "only another truce before aggression." Vandenberg addressed a convocation at the University of Michigan. He hit hard at Soviet tactics "which most of us believe are incompatible with the peace." And in equally strong terms he denounced what he called "subversive infiltration" on this Continent; "where and the forceful imposition of police state rigors wherever Communism gets control." Vandenberg declared that the world forum provided by UN has spotlighted Russia's design for a postwar world. Vandenberg struck back at charges of U. S. "war-mongering" by Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky. He termed the attacks "the most amazing anti-American vitrifaction which ever belabored the ears of the world . . . we are curiously called 'Hitlerites' by critics who seem to forget that they, not we, were once in bed with him."

Strike Looms for 26,000 Textile Workers In South

Danville, Va., Nov. 3.—(UP)—The CIO Textile Workers Union today set up strike machinery to call approximately 26,000 union members away from the spindles in four southern states Thursday unless mill owners raise their wages 15 cents to match the scale of 95 cents an hour in New England. The walkout would close 190 mills and would involve about one-third of the organized textile workers in the south. The work stoppage would take a huge cut out of supplies of finished cotton goods, still in high demand and short supply. Mill owners appeared so far to be indisposed to match the union demands. George Baldanzi, executive vice president of the textile union, told a cheering and singing throng of 3,000 union members here Sunday that a 50-member policy committee had authorized a strike for Thursday if their wage demands are not before then. The immediate threat of a strike hung over Dan River Mills, the Cone chain in North Carolina with 5,000 workers; the Irwin mills in North Carolina with 5,000 and the Lowenstein chain in South Carolina, North Carolina and Alabama with 8,000.

Truman Asks Cities Focus On Veterans' Housing Problem

New Orleans, Nov. 3—(UP)—President Truman focused on housing for war veterans today in a letter addressed to the opening session of a five-day conference of the American Municipal Association. The President asked the delegates representing more than 9,000 municipal governments to bring their "seasoned judgment" to bear on housing "to provide decent homes for veterans within their financial means." "The municipalities have frequently demonstrated their patriotic concern . . . and in the months ahead they can make a major contribution toward a solution for the serious lack of rental housing and increasing the amount of low-rent public housing," Mr. Truman wrote.

Masked Bandits Kill Sergeant After Warning Him to Quit Police

Jerusalem, Nov. 3 (UP)—Masked youths today burst into the Jerusalem home of Sgt. Martin Gurevitz, Jewish employee of the criminal investigation division of Palestine police, thrust his wife aside, and shot him to death. Police authorities attributed the assassination of Gurevitz to the Jewish underground. He was understood to have received threatening letters warning him to quit police work. A band of masked youths cordoned off Gurevitz's house and several of them proceeded inside. Gurevitz took up arms, for when police sought to block their path, they fired three shots into Gurevitz's chest. One suspect was arrested.

Twin Babies Offered For Sale Held 'Stolen' From Orphans' Home

Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 3—(UP)—A young couple charged with trying to sell their infant twin daughters for $1500 face charges today that they stole the children from an orphan's home here. Rexford Brooker and his wife Louise were arrested recently in Pensacola, Fla., after a woman complained that she advertised to get children to adopt and that the couple had asked for the money. The Brookers were brought her for a preliminary hearing after probation officers charged the Brookers had spirited the twins from the Children's Home Society here, where they had been placed by court order.

Pastors Ask Jax Gambling Probe

Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 3 (UP)—The Baptist Parsons Conference here today planned to ask Gov. Millard Caldwell to send a special state investigator to make a study of gambling activities in Jacksonville. The Rev. R. D. Ingle, a minister who has campaigned against gambling, told the parson conference that the churchmen, tired of gambling interests, had promised a "full revelation" of the "everlasting disgrace." Ingle said he had received a threatening telephone call after he began denouncing gambling.

Knutson Maps 'Quickie' Tax Bill

Washington, Nov. 3, (UP)—Chairman Harold Knutson of the House Ways and Means Committee today announced his intention to introduce a revised "quickie" income tax reduction bill when the special session of Congress convenes at noon Nov. 17. The Minnesota Republican emphasized, however, that it would be subject to prior approval by the House Republican leadership. Effective date of the proposed cuts would be Jan. 1. Knutson, whose two efforts to get a tax cut bill through the last session were killed by President Truman's vetoes, said his new measure should save taxpayers at least $4,000,000,000 next year.

Nazi SS Officer to Hang

Nuernberg, Nov. 3 (UP—Lt. Gen. Oswald Pohl, former official of the Nazi S. S., was convicted of war crimes today and sentenced to be hanged. Fourteen of his henchmen also were found guilty. The verdicts were handed down by an American war crimes tribunal, headed by Robert Toms, Detroit, Mich. Three of the defendants were acquitted. All the convicted Germans wer found guilty of taking part in the Nazi extermination program in concentration camps.

School Vote Tomorrow Spotlights 2-Mill Boost For New Construction TRUSTEE RACE IS SECONDARY TO ISSUE OF OVERCROWDING

Voters from Coral Gables and vicinity will join with their fellow Dade Countians tomorrow in going to the polls to elect three school trustees and set the district school tax millage. The trustee race will play "second fiddle" to the vote on a proposed two-mill boost in the tax millage as only the three incumbents have qualified as candidates. They include F. H. McDonald, 144 NW Third Avenue; W. R. Bird, Homestead and E. L. Allsworth, 2029 SW Fifth Street. Write in votes will be permissible. Approval or rejection of the proposed increase in tax millage from seven to nine mills will decide the fate of Dade County's overcrowded school facilities. The voters will decide whether or not the school board can carry out its $12,-000,000 building program to provide adequate housing for a record-breaking 50,000 student enrollment. If the millage hike is approved, five mills will be earmarked for operation of schools and four mills for bus and building reserve funds. Voters, if they desire, may write in a different millage proposal in a spot provided on the voting machine. The trustees, who serve without pay, act in an advisory capacity, having custody of school property and recommending teachers to the school board for employment. All three candidates have long service records with the school system. Polls open at 7 a.m. and close at 7 p.m. Gables polling places and their boundaries include: DISTRICT 60 — Comprises that part of Coral Gables lying north (Please Turn to Page 3)