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Mystery Fog Kills 20 In Valley Town

Donora, Pennsylvania, October 31.

A mysterious fog, possibly containing industrial poison, which has dealt death to 20 persons in the Mononghala Valloy, lifted lato today --at least temporarily—and people were able to breathe again with caso.

set up

Wrong: Note For Admiral

London, October 31. Vice Admiral Sir John Edgell ended an after dinner speech abruptly before the Royal Naval Old Comrades Association last night.

"By mistake, I brought the shopping list, which my wife gave me this morning instead of my notes," he explained. United Press.

New

The fog has covered the Pitts- Within four hours yesterday.burgh area for most of the past se the fog had claimed the lives week, but it was at its worst in of 20 elderly asthma sufferers. this community of 19,180 and t

Webster across the river. who died for want of oxygen, No deaths were reported today.

Red Cross Clinic deadly The thick blankets of

The emergency `clinic mist are expected to close in by the Red Cross and the Amer again tonight, however, after the lean Legion in Donora yesterday skies cleared that afternoon. Be-was closed this morning when chuse some doctors believed calia for ojd slackened. The Fire sulphur fumes from the Amer-Departments have received oxs- lean Steel and Wire Company gen tents from out of town nail may have caused the

deaths of are prepared to numinister emer" aged persons, the Company shut gency treatments. down its zinc smelting plant to-

Some 60 persons remained in day,

the three local hospitals. Many ethere were confined to their homes and hundrade of normal

Cabinet For Peru

ngo,

Dutch Dissatisfied With Indonesian Reply

Batavia, October 31.

The Dutch Government regards tho Indonesian Ro-

0

public's reply to its proposals for a resumption of the political negotiations after á five- months' old deadlock as unsatisfactory, usual- ly reliable sources said in Batavia tonight. They said the Dutch reaction had been conveyed to

the Republican Premier, Dr. Mohammed.. Hatta, yesterday when Mr. Merle Cochran, the American member of the Security Council's Good Offices Committee, and Mr. T. G. Nara- yan, General Secretary of the Committee, fler to the Republicion capital of Jogjakarta. Lima, Peru, November 1. A new all military Cabinet was The same sources repeated to tell Dr. Hatin that he was sworn Manuel Odria, leader

In yesterday by General the statement made yesterday willing to resunde negotiations.

of last and Inter denied by

At the same Dulch

time, he would week's bloodless 'revolt

which spokesman at The Hague that press for the Republic's capacity ended" fr the overthrow of Pre-

ident Jose Luis Bustamonte's an invitation was also extended to full the truce,

days

to Dr. Hatta yesterday by the Rovernment three

Except for a few

Dutch, and Indonesian Provi- experienced politicans,

consists sional. Federal Governments to the Cabinet personk who had (difficulty of young newcomers on

Peru's come to Batavia for important received shots breathing

political scene.

"peace or war" talks with Dr. oxygen at the emergency centre

Bustamante, who refused

Stikker, to D. U.

the Dutch yesterday.

|sign_a_resignation, left Peru for Foreign Minister, who arrived Secretary Elizabeth Ostanber,

here by air tonight. of the Donata Board of Health, residence in exile in Argentina.

General Odrla, 32 a former In- They said the invitation had sakl; "It is a lot easier to breathe today, We think the situation is crior Minister, has announced he been sent by Dr. Hubertus Van will organise a provisional gay- Mook, Lieutenant Governor Gen- subsiding."

The Donora Burgess, Augunment pending a national elec-eral of the Dutch East Indies, The fog lifted somewhat when Chambon, reported that the situation. He has promised to convoke and it was fnconceivable that he a breeze sprang up after

a nallonal workers' congress aim was acting without the knowledge control" mid-tion was "under night, but later today blankets said he believed that as soon used at improving the working class. of the Dutch Government.

Sources

In Batavia also Bat of mist again began rolling in the fog lifted the town would He also has promised, to improve

conditions of agriculture, Peru's Dr. Hatta had received 11 from the Mononghala tiver anti) return to normal. even denser fog ts expected to A meeting of the Donora Board basle industry-Associated Press. Dutch Invitation and that he was

considering his reply. close in tonight.

of Henith was held this morning

Proposals for the resumption Tests are to be made tomorrow and was attended by offcials, of

of negotiations were made in Steel nail Wire by the Washington County Coro-American

formally by. Mr. Cochran in an ner's office on sample of blood United Press,

"oral nato" to both the Dutch taken from the veins of #78-

and the Republicans.

At Harrisburg, the Governor (Mr. James Duff) ordered 11 thorough investigation to find out whether the disaster could have been overted. Investigaturs from the State Department of Pubile: Health arrived on the scene this morning and began making tesis

of the air and of the bodies.

Worse Expected

of

and

veur-old victim. A post-mortem | PORTUGAL, NOT revealed nothing unusun about the physical condition of the, ANXIOUS TO JOIN

man's orgaÐIR,

Tho Washington County Coroner, Mr. L. C. Gray, re- ported that all but one of the victime were

between 42 and

All

a

from

75 years of age and

chronic Bufferers been nsthma or heart conditiona.

1

Lisbon, October 31. Portugal not likely to be among the frat nations to join the Western Union, according to om- cial circles here.

The sources pointed out that was already closely Portugal allied to the West through its renty with Britain and facilities granted to the United States.

salt The sources

Portugal by their physicians to get out of

her independence very tow until the fog had ifte, valued

the moved 10

mountains, but highly and would have the gravest there was no panke among the doubts of any formal adhesion to

Western Union.-Neuter. public.

Many asthma suffereds, warned

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Will Cost More To Be Naked

Lelcester, England,

November 1. Niulis, like everything else, will cost more. Th: British Sun Bathing Association decided at its mnuni

meeting yesterday. to double the old membership Ive of five shillings a year.

Before deciding if the mago- Biatlons could have a useful re- suit, · prominent Republican sald here today.that if Dr. Stik- kar decided that the Repubile. unable to keep the truce provisions, ho

the expected truce agreement to collapse and the Dutch Army would prob. ably march on Jogjakarta, the Republican capital.

"Democracy

On Tria!"

London, November 1.

A group of Bellish, Com. munleta jald funeral wreathe at the foot of the statue of Franklin D. Roosevelt yester- day. On black bordered card was the Inscription:

* "in

memory States Democracy, on trial. November, 1, 1940,"

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The gesture was a protest against the prosecution of 12 Communists whose trial s due to begin in New York today. Associated Press.

Low VD Rate In British Zone

The

rate

London, November 1.

venereal dilecase The Republican Indonesian among British troops in Ger- Dr. today many is still decreasing, Ministry of Information

famed denir a Dutch charge that there Marie Stopes, world were stil about 1,300 Dutch sub-British authority on sex hygi- freis held as prisoners or inter-ene said yesterday. nees in Republican territory.

Before July 21, the statement

¡suid. auki. 2,030 persons were evacuat per thousand every weeks," ed to Netherlands territory, and She has just returned from a

Many Indo-sociological afterwards 2,483.

tour among British re troops Europears and Chinese had

and Germans mained voluntarily.

They had 1ish zone..

"At present the rate is only 1.5

she

the Eri-

never been prevented from leav The figure, she said, la Jow ng and many had become Re-when one takes into account the

Since then, Mr. Cochran is be-Dubllean citizens,-Reuter. lieved have given the Republic the amendments suggested by the

Dutch and the Dutch request that the Republie keep the military and economie clauses of the Ren- ville agreement providing for truce in Jaya and Sumatra.

Truce Failing

CLASHES NORTH OF

RANGOON

Rangoon, October 31.

fact that the figure Includes coses of reinfection,

"I want to askure mothers," she wald, "that the fantastic figures about venereal diaense in the British zone which have been circulating in Britain are incorrect." A clash between Communi-is

and "Knowing how ,anxioux and armed Karens in Pegu, a

mothers arc town about 60 miles North of intserable

many George Mills of Liverpool, Pre-

Later, Mr. Cochran is believed Rangoon, was reported in a Gov-feeling as a resuit of wild stories

elreulated. I took the op." being silent, sakd the organisation is thriving, and an official statement to have transmitted the Repub ernment communique today.

The communique announced portunity of looking into the added that "the conference gave's reply and comments to the that minor skirmishes hud oc figures for V.D. among our young unple evillence of the

growth of Dulch authorities in Batavin.

curred in the Hanthawaddy ets- troups in Germany. towards косіві

According to Dutch sources to-triet South of Rangoon, while in "I found that they were feas- the movement

day, the truce is

deteriorating the Bassein area of the Irrawaddy suring. Charts revealed that the up nakedness." Everyone was fully dressed, the alarmingly in West Java. Dr. Delta, Government forces had rate among young soldiers is old weather probably being res-Stikker consequently was expect-captured two boatloads of rice lower than it is in Britain.”—As- ponsible.--Associated Press.

by well informed cireles hore from the rebels.-Reuter.

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