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Show HIGHLIGHTS . . . in the news REHOBOTH. This Delaware summer sum-mer resort town had a blackout of several hours and an airplane caused it. The plane, carrying a man and woman, crashed to a forced landing through electric power lines and burst into flames. Although the pair escaped instant death, the town was thrown into darkness for several sev-eral hours. There was annoyance but no casualties. ROME. Foreign Minister Lorko-vic Lorko-vic of Croatia, sprang a sensation when he accused the former United States consul at Zagreb, John J. Meily, with being a spy, and with giving illegal aid to enemies of Germany and Italy. YORK, PA. Physicians, nurses, school and health officials banded into an army to attempt to quell one of the nation's most serious outbreaks out-breaks of infantile paralysis. All public meetings were being banned, and end-of-summer holidaying was at a standstill. NEW YORK. Having confessed 10 murders of women, Jarvis R. Ca-toe, Ca-toe, 36, was held in jail as a score or more cities on the eastern seaboard sea-board asked detectives to question him about still other unsolved murders mur-ders of women. WASHINGTON. A further cue is forecast in oil supplies from producers pro-ducers to dealers during the remainder re-mainder of September. At the same time Admiral Land, head of the maritime commission, said it was his opinion that the pipeline pipe-line plan of the oil companies' sponsorship, spon-sorship, would not be effective. He recommended the construction of 100 oil barges, to be towed back of existing tankers. Others criticized Land's statement, state-ment, holding that a further shortage short-age of tankers on Britain's part, and the need for more tankers to aid Russia might leave the barges with nothing to tow them around. In the meantime the senate was ! investigating the problem. |