00 E V EN IN E VERYBO D Y: In the · h ili ines, Ra ymundo alarca seems sure to be aected p resi den t - if t h e other candidates lay the p olitical ga me in the P a larca way. H e p r op oses to ? rove his own superiority - in a aeries of athletic events. He su 6 gests a foot-race, a tennis match, a boxing bout. Offerin g to meet - outstanding p erformers in those ; threes orts. Other p olitical c a ndidates - to do the same, and see how they make out. Instead of a battle of ballots - h a ve it out with running shoes, tennis racquets and boxin g gloves. Tod ay's d is p at ch from anila says - the other candidates are not likely to accept this way of electing a resident. SHRINE --------- Int e old rovince of uebec, a record-breaking number of pilgrims an visitors - today celebrated the favorite religi c us festival in French ~anada. St.Anne de Beaupre - the two hundred and ninety-ninth anniversary of the famous Canadian shrine. More than a thousand eople gathered - at the center for miraculous cures. More - tan ever before. It as in Sixteen Fifty-Eight, that a French settler, with crippled legs, dragged himself to the foundation of the first chapel - and was healed, on the day of the Feast ot St.Anne. ilGCI In India, this next - is an im p ortant headline. A bus-load of armed men - proceeding to a section in the foothills of the H imalayas,. For a campaign - against a tiger. A bounty of one thousand dollars - for the head of the Master Stripes. This tiger, a aan-eater - that baa killed seventeen villagers. Terrorizing the p eople of the district. Other countries aay have troubles of a new fangled sort. But India still has its old ene ■J - the tiger. CH£SS --- .. Dallas, Texas, announces a sports event_ scheduled for October. A meeting - of champions of thirteen countries. Including the world's champion - Smyslov of Russia. Easy to guess the g a■e - chess. At which - the rtussians have always excelled. Thia may have, perhaps, so ■ e international significance. The appearance of Sayslov in Dallas - so ■• sign of an easing of tensions between East and lest. Ho chess champion of the world has played in the United States eyer sine@ Nineteen Thirt1-Two - when Soviet Russia gained supreaac7. For the United States, Samuel Beschevsky of New York_ will battle across the board against the other champs. Tonight, the Long Island •eel• is in a Manha~tan hos p ital - seriously wounded. For a couple ot weeks, he cr e ated a scare among Long Island householders - evading a manhunt, slipping out of traps. So elusive - that they called George Larned, •the eel•. But he was caught - in uptown Manhattan. tarly today, Larned held up a restaurant at one hundred and third street and Broadway. But his getaway was not slippery enough. Chased by the cop1 - at the ■• But they felled hi ■ - with bullets. Not at all difficult - identif7ing hi ■ aa •the eel•. Because he still had the builet wound in hi1 leg - incurred in the battle with Long Island police, when he escaped fro ■ a robbery atteapt. Last night, Long Islander• were still worried - believing •the eel• was lurking in the woods around ho ■es. But, actually, he was in u p town Manhattan - tryin g a hold-up. At last reports, foraer President Truman still refuses - to autograph dollar bills. Earlier in the da7, he hurled a blast at Attorne7 General hrownell. for prohibiting hia from signing his name on the national currency. But, now, he won't do it an7wa7. Which ma7 sound a bit confusing - and it ia. So let's ■ erely suaaarize the puzzling events. At Independence, Missouri, today, H.S.T. waa chatting •i• Lon Gentr7, architect for the Tru■ an Libra17 Building. And, in the course ot the talk, the architect asked the for■er President - to autograph a dollar bill for a friend. Which ■ ight have seemed to be - in line with an old custoa. When in the White House, H.S.T. often wrote his name on bills for friends. Today, however, he refused, and said indignantl7: 'That Attorney General would love to p ut me in jail.' UBUSliC!iEY In Moscow, the stateaent that Soviet Russia had the bJdrogen bomb - before the United States. Which information enamates - from Ihrushchev. Who was doing some talking before a group of Americana. li e said: •te had the hydrogen bomb before you - and our bombs and rockets are not worse than yours.• All the ■ ore interesting• because one arguaent for constructing the A merican hydrogen boab was that, if we didn't, the Soviets would. But now we hear - they had already done so. At least, if we take Ihruahche-.• a word for it,. IIQMAN - 2 The story got on the news wire, and, proaptly, drew a re p ly from the •Treasury De p artaent in las ington. Where the statement was issued - that it was all right tor H.S.T. to autograph dollar billa. But, when tlat permission caae, the toraer President replied - no, he wasn't going to do it. And explained - •It's againat the law.• The logic ••1 seea a bit coaplicated. But, it aay not be so complex as it eounds. Maybe H.S.T. just doesn't want to autograph bille, and hand the ■ around to friends. He has a lot of friends - and it might be ex p ensive. Word from the stricken area of southern Japan is that t w enty-seven inches of rain fell in a little more than twelve hours. roducing a deluge, which is called - the worst ever recorded in so short a space ot time. The d eath list may run as high as three thousand. Sevent7- nine thousand - left homeless. Railways washed out - at fifty-one places. Communications - disrupted. Yesterday, the only co ■aunication between the stricken area and Tokyo was p rovided b7 - aaateur radio. The U.S. Air Force - providing helicopters. Aiding the Japanese - in rescue work. Whole families were wiped out b7 landslides or flash floods. One wo ■ an, washed out to sea, was found clingin g to a bit of floating wood. Drifting - for twenty hours, before being rescued by a fisherman.