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Royalty PRICE SKYROCKETING FEAR Wants 20- GAVE HIM CLUE
Back In Spain
"Madrid, Feb. 18. Five thousansk, cheerng Platously cheered Infante Don Jaime and Infanta Dona Christina, brother and sister of Pretender Dor Juan, when they arrived at Barajas airport in .aj Spanish airplane from, Lisbon-al. 1.20 ain, to- day
• Royalists
The Founder plantoud to study over to two bar for hin', "before takin ff ang din for
Jerlona
The pair སྱཱ1!}}wea
4Spanish soil for the first time
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since they fled with the R val Paintly in King
abulication in Amrd, 1981,
The Mayo at Maitrid Jean Mtreno Torres was the highest -offiein welcom'ng, The Royal. couple, N., Government Depre. sentatives APPR present Mit
Reaction To Pegging Of Exchange
LEVEL CROSSING U.S. Dollars Turned
TRAGEDY
Michigan City, Indiana,
17.
Aut electric ba anahest into how curryon csiling employees at a'vooropy, mud 13 to the ben net aparta Ma Joellent, while at least let others were mad.
Inprod und demkeo art. tered show the right of pag ar trepped In delive
Fuited ¡¡CAS
The
Social
י
Experiment A Failure
stitulys.
In To Bank
Shanghai, Feh. 18.
Prices of most of China's export commodities showed signs of skyrocketing less than 48 hours following the establishment of the new official exchange rate of 12,000 Chinese dollárs to one American.
Government does not check the upward ten- dency immediately.. exporters said prices of These goods again will soon exceed market prices in the United States and other foreign entries.
The new exchange ende would 'of Kwangtung especially Lu fre chilent exporters
21. ng. Kong, where sales are more
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TO MAKE HUBBY WORK HARDER
brador, Feb. 18, Nylon stockings for miners' HÜTER 2014 12 advocated by Arthur Horatt, general preven fary of the National Piton of Mineworkera, uz merafley 19, spur gand solidu ut road to surrrome' Brito?n'abul griván, "We got something for OUT- pirén,
de tape of public meeting, why not valors later
wives? Arracialed
Pres
Ammo Dump
profitable basis pritable. Rien, dealers, however, Has Narrow
that
Teen for sinal. ex predicted" legs mcree of commodity and Alay are stially a season of ree fa possible n March, Apri * prices, inpoortzuseenid.
Petised
Chort
HANICA
ready
UN invaremed.
thuring,
Furthermore, Paris, Feb. 1. ork, frating to lacur offležali There is
a shortage Because of increased veneria!, displenzate if thes ireneje Chine etrrency in Canton owrz among the prominent Js disease the French Minister of Press
Put the fact that during the heigh present wird: Lieutenant Gener Public Health has asked the pan.
of the financial crisis many people ught tonsiderabe Hong Kong al Kindelna Ponte and Martin National Assembly
dollars and greenbacks. Value of to restore ent Aloua, e latter being the i brad of General Franga's mili-mpulsory examination gf prod has of pede early all there currencles, is dropping, as
sub-holders are releasing them to tury househ til. Uaited Press,
If the Ministry's bill is pansesti te wratling matside the Cen-sume normal business.. 4.
There is no truth that may flt_will_doc_compokory the nit al Bank | Chinn fully to!
Women Kiitate da pratistul Siples dollars at newspapers in Cualyn has been or ninny ships closed on account prostitutia to andergs medival The collint rate of 12,000,
I was estimat that Assiciated Press.
of the recent financial prol-- inspection at State clinies.
Cntral Bank touch in yesterday | French polite and publie New York: Feb, 17,' health officers maintain that and foray bout US$300,000
tee the polis, but bi to Ta Mr. Samuel Eb Morison, noted the law passed dast April pruly, a few were willing to parts Harvard University hitoring whohibiting pristitution has prised with gold bars at what is gener was comin!-cloned in the naval re; } a fulture The Director of ally veined as the anastra. serve in 1942 to prepare the avai↑ Puddle Health stated that dative letal price of CN$480,- histiary of World War II, cling the five months" of the bun fost per sober. *. thit the United States was forevit
**** by 85 and venereal disease to abandon plans, for Icons in France in 1942 gr 1913 per cent. During the fret sis "Brénuse of British oppositiĝn.
the of práhibition 3.0NG
LATEST IN WAR STORIES
New Measures??
in the
Paris Newspaper Strike
Escape
Manchester, Feb. 18 Firemeu, helped by 100 i ru'diers, last night who a four hour battle to suge a larite an- munition stor from across which wept
a fire twenty at Beels,
seres of grassland Just outside Manchester.
Year Pact
Paris, Feb. 17.
The French draft pro- posals for a projected Anglo-French alliance evisages a 20-year pack with an underlying con- ception of defensive al- liance against Germany. it is learned today.
The French draft. is learn. ed. followes very closely the | wording and 'conren'l.n of the Franco-Soviet treaty.
neither
'London, Feb. 18. Two men charged with embezzling £250,000 and who led the police of many nations on a two- year manhunt over three continents were be- lieved to have been-located in Switzerland to- day through a photograph printed in "The „Tatler,” an English soclety magazine.'
innocuous picture showing a man in everung clothes between an attractive blonde and an equally attractive brunette was accidently spotted by a Walsall, Staffordshire, detective, Richard Greenhaugh. The caption under the picture identified the subjects as Mr. and Mrs. Aldritt Squire and daughter, Shirley, of London.
An
went
It provides that
Greenhaugh thought he re, Latin American countries - party should enter into a sys.cognised the pleture as that of for, the trail was lost.. tom of alliance directed against
We know these men #ther pery.
42. Suth America and then to. burond." Chief of Police T. Mark Watson of Walsall suid.
United Press.
The main differences to the Manci-Soviet treaty re that the alliance is placed within the framework at the United Nations and it provides in gen. eral' terins for Angl-French Creonomie enoperation,
In responsible quarters in Faris is felt that the value
new the
Angl French allange in the proposed form will depend essentially on how The Pretty Asediullowed up.-Reu-
3.
tel.
THE WEATHER The intrued anticyclone til ever
Begre high and extends on to Japan. storis aey forming an à trough E of Jazan
Today's Pocenat : 2311 wind), Might an inaleradyashornz akiunt. shur
fete prol) rudd,
Sparks fuling on dead-grass comin 1trarily were believet-to; haye started | the blaze between; the Manches-i tor Corp ration airport and the Manchester Ship Canal,
Yol Lordy's Windheri- Masha 13.8 deg. Fxhi
Suzumoms 47 der. Fat
Borthine: NII. Holofall: No. Total alore Jan
701 22. ma mutants averne of
Kendi t
4.TH 102.8 ul.
The flames, fanned by the wind, swept towards thefint. munition store but by antic digging of trenches and treating turn it d of the flanies the firenin and Nek. Hamidity soldiers diverted the bazd as tow Point it had reached the fore aguail rethin the store.
Wind Forre
from.
1626,3
*7
N
45 deg. F. NNE
1
6k,
Harold Aldrift Squire. 12: formerly managing director of Walsall hardware flim who, with Max H. Greenman," 16, his firm's Landon agent, were charged in a warfant issued on Feb., 14, 1945, with conspiracy to defraud €250,000' from 1940
to 1946,
.
Coal Ships Held Up
Scotland Yard, which tried to trace the nten through North and South America and Europe for 15 months, agreed with the
London. Fel. IS. identification. The Home Office Heavy seas off the novihenst was asked to open extradition English coast today delayed. 15 proceedings. The photographcoal ships and Jeopardised showed the Squires at. Palace
Hotel, St Moritz, Switzerland Government's hopes of ending at a New Year's Ball. The hotel te fuel emergency programine said the Squires checked out on Jun. 8.
Born Wealthy
in
The Squires registdred the King George V Hotel Páris from Jan. 9 to 28 then. according to the hotel, left by autermobile for an unrevealed destination.
Foon.
Unless the coal ships, main- tain steady deliveries from the northern mine area to Southern England it was feared the plaps
by
at for reopening many industries,
next Monday would be seriously retarded.
Fifteen coal ships at Sentiam Duck Gates in Durham County remaftigd in port' at noch be
use of heavy seas. Weather forecasters were dubious of any enange in conditions.
The Home Ofer said 1er extradition proceedings could be launched until thi Squires were actually in tody. The apokesman said it was not even certain what country he was. ir.. He said extradition would be asked if the Squiren were ar.
rentes.
Paris, Feb. 17. Newa-starved Parisiana to
of Comparatively
Colliers had taken advantage He said the American were women were arrested for prae-
In helping to save the in- Central Bank oficials, bow. day snapped up special editions"
calm. sens COMMONS WIT nut symnathetic with the comtising prostitution... ****, ** ever, "apined their the holders of of Swip and. Belgian news:munition the soldieza, alan, prel
since Inte-Inst week to move promise African Invasion which Police Tuffeinis
London, Feb. 17. majcin- delayed the Kureah frontal at-
gold will eventually be forced papers which had been rushed vented the fire reaching their: trates muy the prisons in Paris to sell their Holdings
In thousand to meet the nowa | huts, but not before 28 seres The usual Commons weekly
thousands of tuhs to Southern tack until 1944 United Press.
England and the increasing re- wittleisma Kot off to a good are, nuw su overcrowded with bank as a tightering of control | blackout hi Paris brought on by in the camp had been burnt.
The Squires, born wealthy serves had given promise of an binek market offender
the four-days old strike of and measurós by the Government ja
After they had the fire under start today: control the firemen returned to newspaper workers.
Refusing to exempl political and Greenman, whose first jobs early relaxation in poiver cuts. TRAIN DERAILED laborators that if all The anticipated.
From midnight until 8 a.m., I paid 10 shillings a week, were persons minishable under the . Mennwhile it Li officially ot; These special editions of for. salt the male Manchester to organs
the two-week reportedly accinted in various ships had brought 25,000 roid, which was electricity saving ban | New York, Feb., 15, priestitution--prohibition-act-timated that Chinese deposits Lelen papers were produced and Liverpool
enter.rises for 20 years before tons into the Thames, US$800,000, card special items to meet frozen over by water from their publication: the Lord Privy they imprisoned abral exévil
left England' suddenly Five people are reped to were arrested and
"The Ford Company announced Mr. Arthur Greenwood, airly in 1945. have been killed and many in there would be no room in the Government
expect the needs of the French capital. hoses. This was one of four Seal. quarters
that a Dagenham plant em thear Chinese depositors to sell ? Meanwhile, the only papers grússland fires in the Manches- remarked: "I should not have Greenmin sent his wife and ploying 14,000, workers, would furid when the "Red Arrow"" jail for them.
An official of the Brigade their holdings to the invern, appearing in Paris are English ter are yesterday. The others thought serious and enlighten children to Jamaica before the shut down on Thursday because Passenger -train
Mandaine Trice wille ment within a certain period language the Continentul were at Urlam and Urmstoned opinion would suffer by hav-war and the police-reportedly of shartage of small parts Pennsylvania Railvond"
fortnight in which to trace both the men to Mexico manufactured by firms hit by derailed today. Tw engines "It has not been practicable to after which it is rep ried they ily Mail and New York Her Lancashire and Sale, Cheshire, ing
think for itself."-United-Pressant thened to various other fuel-cuts-United Press," drawing the train front Detroit impose fong prison sentences intend to pulfil the names and a Tribune-Reuter
Take punitive to New York jumpel the truck, and those imposed so far have simultanern.dy
The evident occurred near not been sufficient to delig the measures in just all fallingsto Altoón, Pennsylvania.. The en-f rich ring of brothel owners who gines were pulling 14 e ighes, are prepared to pay "Does In-
stend and carry som."--Henter.
-Reuter
the
King's Speech At Capetown Banquet
Capetown, Feb. 17.
King George VI, in reply to a welcoming specch
by the Prime Minister, Field Marshal Jam Smuts, at a State banquet tonight said: "The loyalty and affection which have been shown us during these brief hours since our arrival will ever remain a treasured memory..
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do yo,
However. it is not clear "foreign klings" aprang rætual cash dee Fied in banks abroad or in chutes Chinese capital 'rvested Ein foreign countries--Associn-
ted Press and Reuter.
whether the term
Dealers Arrested
Shanghai, Feb. 48. Several perana were arrest- ej by members of the Shanghai- gung Gayrizon Headquer- mjazz-şömeeleg-for-trading inj
US Dollars.
The arres's were made by the Garrison authorities to! „strictly enforce the regulations:| promulgated by the Central Gwernment, bunning any tran- sactions on stud bars and
This is a wonderful evening would serve to strengthen, the foreign enprepcies. Central
for the Queen and me since it bonds of goodwill and friend marks the fulfilment of a long-ship among the members of the
felt wish." We would
have great family-the nations
many the Commonwealth.
came to South Africa"
years ago but fer compelling
"duties and the necessitica
war.
off
"Above ‘all, we" rejoice, in the
of fact that your Majesties visit)
News,
U.S. AMBASSADOR COMING TO H.K.
Nanking, Feb. 18. Ambassador Stuart will lenge, here on Friday.on
en-đụy trip by air to Shang- hai, Cation, Hong Kong and Fain Toland-
On Feb. 24 he will emplane from
Shanghai to Canton where he will remain__for for days, leaping for Hong Hang on Feb. 28 for a two- duy vinit. He will fly to Hei- nan. Island on March 3, re- turning to Nanking the fol lowing day,—Associated Press..
Chiang
Canton Position Appeal For
Discipline
►
Improves
Canton, Feb. 18.
Niec and other commodity
will present an opportunity tries today continue to drop
Nanking, Feb. 18.
-Reuters).
Qualifications For An Ambassador To China
New York, Feb. 17.
The "Herald Tribune," in an editorial today, said: "Dispatches from Washington indicate that Dr. J-Leighton Stuart soon will retire as Ambassa- dor to China..
"The post is the of extraordin- nry difleully us the Secretary of State. Gen. George Marshull. "nows only too well and it may The imnossible to find a new Am-
hocuador to Napking because: 'ĥe | should be a indin of Bheral views
Daughter
For Juliana
Amsterdam, Feb. 18
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1«cmmuiri!ཅ beral dements Guns started firing 467 Lin Chinese politics.
"He should be adept at negotia- 4.m. today, bringing the popula Jon with men of extreme opinions tion into the street to count under discouraging clccunstances.
the salute which told them "He should be politically-mind, finally Crown Princesa Julian ed so that, he can detingutsh bo- had given birth to A fourth tween the appearance of reform| daughter-n six pound 10 oúncé
50 common, in: China--and actuality. He should have sound girl-which leaves the succes
sion unchanged, lincwledge-of-whút Im happening in Asia at present and of its his ed the Dutch, came when the
The news, which disappoint
torical background.
Ho should-that is almost guns were silenced after 51 overmuch to hope for—Speak{ shots. Had it been a, bủy baby
But thank God victory. the men women and children of gradually. The best grade rice is qurs and that at st I can tell all South African races of sold at about CN$100,000 agleul In a broadcast to the nation Chinese. He should be a courtelle first male heir to the my South Afriwa people In greeting and offering loyal paruinst CNS270.000 on Febru person how deeply I honour affection to their King and hry 11- them for the splendid contribu-Queen-teater.
Alterante, are being made in 'tion To it they made.
Checring throngs waved British chick the smuggling of rice out "You, General Smuts, have and South African flags and, the guided your country with sure Royal Family acknowledged” the hands through the second nyovation with smiles and nods..
well de tite fira; world war and The King was in a white uni- Comic Strip hired the Chinese people to and order can tend to grave mis- villages throughout Holland.
the whole
Commonwealth do deeply indebted ip you?
Like all nattens you
and the
Queen word"-U-E favourite, blue topped with ostrich have feather hat and Harasol.,
Princess Elizabeth waru belgėj creus and Princess Margaret Rase aftermath of war but statea-light pink. N
hard problems tolve in the
· Emanship has not fulled you in
Legislation
his
over the, Central Broadcasting out gentleman because of the high Dutch throne in more than 60 Administration's network to hic placed on courtesy in the years since the death of Prince
Orient. He should be n civilian- night on the eve of the 18th or at the very least, a military Alexander in 1884-the guns Anniversary of the Inaugura-ngure with a civilian attitude of would have, boomed. 101 times. Llon of the New Life Movement, mind; the temptation of military. As the guns began, Church I'resident Chiang Kai-shek ex-men- to put great stress on law, bells, also tolled the news tɔ,
strictly observe the of takes. In China,
Despite the disappointment, the Movement in order to help should have the knowledge need and only workers were those in "In addition to all this today lah gay national holiday- Government enforce, the newly ed in an ambassador :anywhere adopted Constitution and, the such as the understanding
vital industries or street ven- Indianapolis, Feb. 17: programme for China's économ-country's essential freign pro- dors out before dawn, with Unauthorizel use of atomi: le reconstruction.
blems and their relations to the stocks of oranire ribbons and Princesera, traveling bonus may soon be legal in, the| "The President urged the country to which he la assigned, fings.. A the past hundred years and I abroad for the first time. zeemed slate of Indiana, it was learned people to make China a united
"For some, one with all these Princess Juliana's heir con am confident, it will guide you amazed at everything from the today,
nation by strictly observing the exceptional qualifications there is tinues to be Primless Beatrix. stondly towards a just and strikingly beautiful mountains in Lexisintion to that effect, dos laws of the country and by Job open. The pay is not too now ning years old. United contented relationship between the backround to the tree-lined pile ridicule on the part of some shouldering their individual in China and the work is ordueur. Pres
streets and exotic flowers. all dwellers in your many peoThe party leave by train on survived efforts to kill it and has members of the Legislatore, has
responsibilities. je plod, land
Friday, for a 10,000 mile tour of been, advanced to the third readPointing out that extrava By achieving gucha rela- the youngest British Dominion, ing final vote in the Senate. gance was the main, cause of iribution to world peace. It is n tionship you can slow to the Associated Press.
Senator Charles Flomics, au- the collapse, Fresident. Chiang that offers a great challenge.
Job with disadvantages but one troubled world how the pouples.
thor of the bill, said it would urged the Chinese people to United Press. Pod of different ruco ond..coluar
Paris, Feb. 17.
prevent atom bombs falling into economize-in every respect, so, espec Flo may Hys and work together for Twenty one miners were in the hunds of gongstors. F
as to preserve avery strength t the common to. / 25 dated-four seriously In Car Critica of the monstrosal for reconstructing the clintry:
In his welcoming speechman, southern France, whon Senator Fleming had been reading
* President Chlang dlaò, urged | stepping General: Smuta? baldi, South | The descending, care struck the to many comic strip United employers and employees to ex China' Afries was convinced the visit bottom heavilyReuter
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