News In Brief

Northern Advocate, 3 October 1944, Page 3

News In Brief

Baseball. —St. Louis Browns won the first American Baseball League pennant, defeating the New York Yankees at Si. Louis, 5 —2.

Terrorists.—The British Assistant Superintendent of Police at Jerusalem (Mr. P. J. Wilkin) was shot dead in the street there yesterday morning by terrorists, who escaped, says an agency message. Boxing.—Willie Pep gained the decision over Chalky Wright m a 15-round featherweight title bout at Madison Square Garden, New York. Pep’s dazzling speed and lightning left jabs ancl superior ring generalship kept his veteran opponent off his balance throughout. Pep wrested the title from Wright in November, 1942.

Bucharest. There are at least, luu.ooo homeless people in Bucharest as a result ot j British and American bombing and German dive-bombing, states the Bucharest correspondent ot the “Daily Telegraph.” The Government has decreed only one room for a couple, two rooms for a family of three to five, and three rooms for six or more.

Albania.—Allied airborne operations ,on the coast of Albania continue, according to Berlin radio. Allied landings, it is stated, have been made in the region of Valona and Khimara, 30 miles south-west cf Valona.

Unions.—Six Russian trade unionists, led by Vassilu Kuzne-Jzov, chairman ox the Soviet Trades Union Congress, have arrived in London for a meeting of the Anglo-Soviet Trade Union Committee. Hold-Up.—Three men casually entered the Ration Board Office at Newhaven. Connecticut, whipped out revolvers, herded four clerks and several customers into a cellar, and then fled with an unspecified quantity of the new issue gasoline ration coupons which the board had just received.

School.—Despite lack of transport and imprisonment of many teachers by the Germans, thousands of French youngsters on October 2 were attending school for the first time since France was liberated, says thei Paris correspondent of the Associated Press. Books* glorifying Germany and Petain have been eliminated and those banned iby the Germans have been put back on the shelves. Schools have been newly decorated in colours, with portraits of General de Gaulle.