September 4, 1949

OYSTER BAY, L. I., Sept. 3 -- Swelled to 130 craft, the Long Island Sound championship racing moved out here today. It also was the seventy-eighth annual fall regatta of the Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht Club.

PARIS, Sept. 3 -- Walter Schevenels, former Belgian labor leader and liaison officer for the European Recovery Program's Trade Union Advisory Committee, declared today that it was estimated the Marshall Plan had cut Europe's unemployment total by between 6,000,000 and 12,000,000.

NO one is angrily denouncing Sean O'Casey's "The Silver Tassie" today. The young people who dub themselves the Interplayers have been acting it for seven weeks in their air-cooled theatre at Carnegie Hall; and most people recognize it as a vigorous and biting drama about the horrors of war by a fiery and gifted dramatist.

comment on inquiry pol repercussions; cartoons on Truman-Vaughan relations

Retailers optimistic

BOSTON, Sept. 3 -- Supported by a lusty 16-hit attack, Ellis Kinder today pitched his eighteenth victory as the Red Sox walloped the Philadelphia Athletics, 10 -- 3, before 21,269 Fenway Park fans.

For the fourth week in a row, last Thursday the hottest topic at the President's press conference was Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan, the President's military aide. General Vaughan -- who had spent the preceding two days testifying before the Senate investigations subcommittee on "five per centism" -- was at his usual post, directly behind the President. A reporter put the big question:

Indianapolis chosen as test city for Natl Elec Mfrs Assn research in marketing methods as part of all-indus program of planned lighting

TUESDAY night Ken Murray's "Blackouts," the eight-year wonder variety show of the Pacific Coast, opens at the Ziegfeld, and another theatre season will be under way. To be sure, "Miss Liberty" and "A Night in Spain," having bowed in July, will find themselves in the 1949-50 record books, but tradition still regards September as the beginning.

ESSEX JUNCTION, Vt., Sept. 3 -- Nibble Hanover, one of the world's top trotters -- now retired to stud -- was purchased for $100,000 today by L. B. Sheppard, owner of Hanover (Pa.) Shoe Farms.

This Wednesday in Washington the chief economic and diplomatic Ministers of the United States, Britain and Canada gather for the most important Anglo-American conference since the end of World War II. Their purpose is to explore the means of keeping Great Britain a going concern in the economy of the world.