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6666 THE DAILY DIGEST
Vol. XV February 26, 1949 No. VI
COMMUNIST BITES OLYMPIC CHAMPION AS RIOT IS QUELLED
Plainfield, N. J. — Miss Buggie Schooonmaker, three times winner of the Women's Olympic Diving cham
pionship, was reported resting com fortably at the Muhlenberg Hospital here today, after being bitten by Vir ginia Pratt, well known Communist leader, at a Communist riot yesterday. The wounds are not serious, although
Miss Pratt's ferocity was extraordi nary, and Miss Schoonmaker had some difficulty in holding her until the ar rival of police. Miss Pratt is among
the ringleaders in the present revolu tionary movement, which has been very violent of late and has been
causing the present government much concern.
CONCERT STAR HURLS PIANO; STARTLES CUBAN AUDIENCE
Havana, Cuba.—Mme. Mary Musser, celebrated concert pianist, startled a distinguished audience here last eve ning by an exhibition of temper rarely equalled on the concert stage. Mme. Musser, who has just returned to us
after a lengthy rest-cure at a friend's estate on the island, was in the midst of Beethoven's Sonata in C flat, when she apparently sensed a draft from off stage. Rising and seizing her piano, she hurled it bodily into the wings. A perceptible murmur ran
new ambassador from the United States, was formally welcomed by the Norwegian Government.
Miss Edwardsen went first to the palace where she was greeted by their Majesties, and thence was escorted to the embassy on the arm of Crown Prince Olaf. This is the first time an honor of this sort has been conferred upon a foreign emissary.
Miss Edwardsen's education at the Hartridge School, and her subsequent studies abroad, especially in Paris, have admirably fitted her for the lofty position which she now holds.
NOTED ARTIST DOES
SCHOOL MURALS
Plainfield, N. J.—Miss Betty Bro- kaw, mural painter of international fame, has been called in to execute a number of frescoes around the walls and floor of the beautiful Hartridge School swimming pool, which is being done over this winter. Miss Brokaw has announced that the general theme of her work will be “Moral Precepts for Young Girls." “I am much in
terested in progressive education," she says, “and feel strongly that pleasure and instruction should be harmoni ously combined."
RECOVERY AHEAD, SAYS PRESIDENT OF EXCHANGE
AFTER CONFERENCE WITH SECRETARY OF LABOR
through the audience, mingled with
the rustling of programs. Several New York.—“There is every reason
stage hands having been called, how ever, the instrumlent was replaced
and the concert continued.
FIRST WOMAN AMBASSADOR ACCLAIMED BY
NORWEGIAN GOVERNMENT
Oslo, Norway.—The American em bassy, decked with flags, was the scene of a ceremonious reception here today, as Miss H. Jane Edwardsen,
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to believe that the present depression will be over within the next six months," said J. B. M. Sparks, Presi dent of the New York Stock Exchange in an interview here today. “We have hit rock-bottom; prices can go no lower. America has faced other finan
cial crises successfully—those of 1893, 1907, 1929. I, for one, am firmly con
vinced that prosperity is just around the corner." Miss Sparks has just re turned from Washington where she
