1947-06-04

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THE CHINA MAIL. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1947.

PARIS IS SHORT

SHORT OF BREAD May Expand Into General

Bakers' Strike

Strike May

Strike: Transport Workers Restless

Banks Unable To Meet Demands

Paris, June 2.

Hundreds of thousands of grumbling, ill-tempered Parisian housewives stood in tropical heat for hours today to get the five ounces of bread they have been reduced to by the bakers' strike. In some populous quarters, many went breadless.

Throughout the day, workers' delegations iam- mered at the doors of the Prime Minirte's office and the Ministry of Labour, démanding that the conflict be solved rapidly.

The 49-hour strike is due to and they can produce as ig as end at midnight Tuesday, but flour held out.. if the workera do not obtain The Government, however, var -Pasfaction, it is feared they maintain the Akimpy

Inight declare a milless

gen-

only with Frani ration eral strike.

diffeulty. Orders hav

The situation is grave but not catastrophic,- because many bakeries ure family affairs

Riff Leader Against Bloodshed

Somewhere Near

150- Rrent

Kone

ar i

the the

will

Army bakeries to get

production utmost small round Army loay yo to the bakeries for lo

The chief demand of Imkera' Lands is a 1,000-franc monthly production bonus. Grappling

with this, the Government is be- ing forced closer to the wall by the wabatlog elambur of wor kers for more pay.

Lille Strike

WAR ON GRASSHOPPERS

• Писков Alrea, Лине 3.. Argentina har just killed 180,-- 000 tons of grasshoppers in a military type campaign, with flame

throwers, aeroplanes and miles of embankments.

Despite the results reported by the Ministry of Agricul- fure, there still are enough transhoppers to reduce the curs crop. Clouds of the insects bruge to apprut early_ in the crop year-danocistei Press.

Molotov

Visiting Belgrade?

ונו

Mt. Asama Erupting

Tokyo, June 2.

England's Hottest Day Of Century

London, June 2.

This has been the hottest day in an English June in almost 100 years, with the temperature hit- ting 90 in the shade and breaking four records -one of which had stood since weather re- cords were first kept in 1856.

There was at least one death. attributed to what ranks in Britain as a major heat wave and river police along the Thames were kept busy. fishing out children who waded in too far to cool their feet.

Odilly was the sun Itseif Mitcham, Surrey, blacked out t which gave Londoners relief in

wan over a large part of the city. the late afternoon by setting fire Press dispatches from Naganto a huge used tire dump, which water on the blaze to keep

Thirty-five fire engines poured reported today thai Mount Asama, are of Japan's best known.

a cool from sprending to two vol-spread black smoke like

factories and firemen forecast an all-night canoes, began erupting yesterday an cloud over the elty.

Temperatures rone six degree battle,

afternoon.

ald

Smoke from the peak was re- ported drifting in the direction of Karuizawa, one of Tokyo's must popular summer resorts.

Reports from Kukamoto Mount Asama,

which started to erupt two weeks ngo, belching amoke and ashes. tween 20 and 40 per cent of 2,450 Acres of wheat crop J

been ruined by the volenie naher. United Press,

-tilt 33

Chr

in two hours, lo set new recorda ↑ The heal was blamed for tuiny of 90 and 87 on the Air death of week-old Christopher Ministry roof and in Kow Gar-Sands in South Kensington.

ens respectively. To records The weather bureau said June mira fell tant night the Air would be normal tomorrow, with Ministry high recording of 78, to cooling winds and

pusalbiy break the 100 record, and the thunder-showers-United Press. Kow Gardens recording of 64, to Rubber Dump Fire break the 1866 record,

London, June 3. Thousands of tons of Govern fire it a dump 15 miles southeast ment-owned pernp rubber caugh

of London carly last night and the flumes threatened nearby factories at buildings.

Temperatures started dropping ofter 4 p.m., however, when smoke from burning tires in the dump at the southern suburb f

Southport Deaths Mystery Deepens

Southport, June 2.

Eye witness, said the flame reached "almost uncontrollabi proportions" within half an hour. Gangs of men worked to elene

a fire break between the dunip and surrounding hours. A palni factory was evacuated.—Asselat- ed Press.

from

Belgium, Too

Brussels, June 2 Belgians walked to and work today In

sweltering heat wave as tram workers struck for the day in demonstration. Hunt- dreds of people carried their coats on their arms, in heat which

10 Belgium is not accustomed.

The strikers claim that pay in- months crenses promised many

Belgrale, June 3, Persistent but unconßrmed rumours circulated here Monday that Russian Foreign Minister | Molotov had arrived for a visit

and that Prentier Dimitrov of Dr. James Montague Houston, who last week per- Bulgaria was en route here. A general strike hit the tex-

High Yugoslav

formed a post-mortem in the mysterious death oficiala Anid | tije centre of Eille when the they had no knowledge of

of a colleague's fourth wife, died just as my- the GT by organizatlan order presener here of Molotov or other steriously himself today while Scotland Yard's ed workers to go on with de- High Russlan ofeials or of the

chemical analysts were seeking to determine:- mands for five-day week and imminent arrival of Dimitrov.

The

1. The cause of the death of, on his wife's death and order- only concrete

fact

thail salary adjustments,

Dr. Robert woukl

George Clements ed Dr. Houston to examine her sary

tu credence Workers

plante either 10 petrol

rumours was the arrival in wealthy fourth wife on May body. Houston was found dead walked out, demanding a 10- Belgrade's railroad yards of a

27.

today in his Southport infirmary per hour production brilliant Red streamlined railroad 2. The cause of the death of and the police refused any de-ave not been granted and brinus, Transjugt slowed around car such as has not

been keen

Dr. Clements himself on

Ray they are striking as a Maytails pending the inquest here since the high ranking Rus- 30 after he told his son,"I Pert and many pump atalionis

minder to the Government, They skun - generals attended the nil-

plan to retri work or arrow were Slay congress last December. It

vital organs of

as usual--United Press. also was noted that the

អារar. labour about the Russian Ambassador's transport villa had been increased. Asau-

might clated Press,

Cairo, June 2. Abd el Krim al Khat- tahi, who led the Moroc-fre

ran Riffs in an insurrec-

tinn against the French shut down. Negotiations more than 20 years ago, fruitless. said today that he want- Sources ed to return to Morocco circles say the road

close 10

to work for its "political size

171423 are restless and

independence."

upin the gas workers' strike to press demands for

In an exclusive Interview with more money-making the situa

tion grave for food distribu-

tisi

the United Press, Abd el Krim

sald there should not be further

bloodshed, "I believe imperialisni While this cruseless clamour

is dying, but France and Spało | ?f more money is being heard, must recognize that fact."

Emmanuel Moniek, Director of

He said it was possible thr the Bank of France, before the French Government intended to | National Credit Counèll today

Jend

ammorrow.

ttle worried" and after The

Faith-Healer And

Millionaire's Son

use him as a tool against the flatly stated the country could A Sultan of Morocco, "but they will not afford it, never succred."

"After 21 years, I reaffirm my

Cannot Stand It

allegiance to the Sultan and en-production costs are such that With few exceptions, he said,

expressed during his recent visit. they cannot stand an Increase

tirely support his present attitude,

both

10 for

writing a six-line note which the Mrs. Clements and her 67-year- police have not revealed,

pl husband were sent Clements died after the South-Inboratories in London port coroner stopped the inquest checking and the inquests Into their deaths were postponed petuling examination.

Clements, his first three wives and Houston were ull natives of Ireland. His fourth wife, 47-year-old Amy Victoria Clements, was the daughter of a Liverpool businessman, Re- ginakt Barnet who left her 422,386 when he died in 1940. Clements, whom a witness de- scribed as "very fusay in his examination of women patients", slyned the death certificates for hia frst two wives-Edyth Aunn Mercier, who died 1920, and Mary MacGrenry, who died in 1927 and who was the mother of his son, His third wife, Kathleen Burch, dlcd in 1939.

(By Ralph Dighton)

Palm Spring, Cal., June 3. millionaire vintner's seven-bedroom home, with a huge swimming pool, has become the scene for attempts by Avak Hagopian, bearded: young Armenian faith healer, to cure the wine producer's invalid son.

The estate of the father, Kreker Arakelian, an im- migrant Armenian who came to California and turned grapes into a fortune he estimates at US$10,000,000, is known as "Dream of the Desert."

Houston, who was 39, marri cả and the father of two A member of Avak's party, children, had completed the ex- Colonel Sumbat Yechiazarian, amination of Mrs. Clements be. Iranian Army officer and fore hia death. Southport doctor, said the healer has ef- Criminal Investigation officers fected many cures in Iran. suld they could not comment en "Inspiration OfļGod” his death until an inquest had

If a French Unlett meant a tree of salaries". allance of independent states with "A great many businesses are France, I should be the Inst to in difficult circumstances," the condemn it out of revenge for the Director said. "The banks them. past.

selves do not have a sufficient "But today I see many Arab margin of deposits to face any

There his son, Vaughn Ara-1 wearing blue негде trousers and Asiatic states liberated, while massive demands for credits." kelinn, 07, ill with epilepsy and and green suede shoes. Morocco remains under the same M. Monick said any general related ailments since he was: form of domination ns in 1926. increase in wages would

in-atruck by a motor bus as a What I want for Morocco is aboli- tensify considerably the Infin-nine-year-old boy, lies unaware tion of artißelally imposed ulvi- tionary tendency of 1946.

of the forthcoming ministra slons plus its political indepen.

Another report to the Coun- tions of Avnk, 20-year-old dence."

The 65-year-old

ell said there was no hope of uneducated mechanic who re- Rif Icader seemed to have lost none, of his any marked increase of produc-putedly has effected miraculous flery spirit during exile. At the tion in France. This report said cures by prayer alone, interview, he was dressed in n the formula for production dark cotton gown, with a yellow bonuses would risk devilerzing turban and Moroccan sandals. nominal salaries very United Press.

as there would be no counter- part in increased production,"

French Protest

Paris, June 3. A Qunt d'Orsay spokesman said Abd El Krim, in a letter to the French Government asking for re:j lease from his Reunion Island exile for health reasons, had given his word of honour not to try to excape and described himself as now a "loyal friend of France.”

Simultaneously the Egyptian cruiser "Emira Faouzla," which arrived at Tunis last week with 300 tons of wheat and rice to help relieve the supposed famine Thoro, was brusquely ordered-away- by the French authorities today after a French destroyer, had pre- vented it entering the port.

Avak arrived in Los Angeles after a 10.000-mile plane trip from Cairo, financed by the rapidly, elder Arakelian, who said he has spent US$250,000 in un- successful efforts to heal his

son.

One" bright spot in the situa- tion is the announcement by the

Another SON, Diram, said Federation of Small Businesses that if Avak cures Vaughn "my and Store-Keepern that they will father will build a memorial in not strike as planned on Wed the form of a foith-healing cen- nesday, Their requesta for intre open to the people of the creased economie liberty and world."

"I examined the patients be- been held.-United Press. fore and after the treatment," said the colonel. "All he does

is to touch the patient, then he is through the Inspiration of says a prayer in his behalf and God." asks the patient to think and believe in the prayer as spoken, for his

Avak has a six-month visa American trip und As a medical man I will vouch | Arakelian sald he hopes thint for these cures. They are au- be can stay here at least that

thentic. Whatever he is doing long--Associated Press,

less Government contrul, are be- j The family, which has con- ing studied by the Government, rections virtually throughout

United Press.

the world, first read of Avak ni year ago and sent a London agent to Iran to investigate, A theti ment for Avak after being satisfied about the validity of "his" atre," "Diram said.

"Sure I Can Cure” American and British "I have seen' other cases

"SELF-RULE” IN -GERMANY.

The

Berila, June 3

Poem Draws Protest From U.S. Envoy

Prague, June 2. spokesman of the United States Embassy today announced that Ambassador Laurence A. Steinhardt had protested to the Czechoslovak Foreign Office against a poem appearing in a Prague Communist weekly which was a "direct incitement against the head of a friend- ly state."

The French Government denied authorities proclaimed offletally to- | similar to his, many cases un- there was any famino in Tunfalo day in their economie merged doubtedly worse, and I am sure and was incensed at the cruiser's zones the creation of a central I can cure him." said Avak attempting to enter the French. Agency empowered to pars when he arrived at the Les controlled port without previous legislation designed to speed the Angeles airport.

economic rehabilitation Df 40,- The Armenian, with piercing 000,000-Germans,

black oyes, long hair and The proclamation gave the Ger- Bold it is believed the Emira mans in these 'Innes the greatest | Ailky beard, was wearing a hoodj "Tvorba" poem in part runs:- Faouzia" would now go to Malta measure of to discharge its cargo-United they have yet received under the throat with two large silver

authorization.

The Quai d'Orsay spokesman

Press.

"JANE"

self-administration

occupation-Associated Press.

„BRIC'S EITHER IN THE BLACK MARKET" AND IS COMPILING LISTS OF WOMEN WHO MIGHT · BUY DRESSES OR COUPONS-

OR HE'S A GOVERNMENT GHOOP OR "TEC-ON THE ANYAGAME "TRACK....

EXCUSE ME A MOMENT-

The poem, by "national, Mr. Truman, the Court of Im- artist" S. K. Neuroan, appeared perialiam is arriving. It makes in the May 21 Issue of no difference if he is considered "Tvorba."

a hero, busy and rapacious. A free translation of the Wo despise every dollar boob.".

It is learned that the United "We despise the unsightly States note sent to the Foreign dollar rival and his hordes of Oflce requested no specific ac- engraved pins.' lo Was 'ulso' pimps and sluts Attention, { tion. The Nationalist Socialist

and

cape

fastened at

the

THAT WAS LORD LOVACE!– HE\/WHAT DID I TELL PHOCET - MÁY HỘP SAYS HIS DAUGHTER'S BROKEN YOU, JANET-WHAT) UNDERSTAND PSYCHOLOGY, WITH "ERIC-AND HE WANTS YOU}} PRIČE FEMININE

"TO đo ROUND AND COLLECT PSYCHOLOGY ÎHIS-CONGRATS AND CHEQUE,

·FOR; BUSTING UP,

"THEIR "LITTLE

ROMANCE!

NOW?

BUT I DO KNOW WHAT MAKES A TEERS DAUGHTER BASH HER BOY FRIEND OVER THE HEAD IN ♫

„A SWANK HOTELL

Daily, "Svobodne Slovo,” 'de- mand that the Communist Pre mier, Klement... Gottwald, die- | own the poem "and finally de- cide to put some order intỏ hir party's press. This sort of thing already has cost the re- publle many. billions (of) crowne) in economic losses. It in privato affair what the poot thinker of his allies but not à private affair If the Commun“ Int Party prints attacks in its official paper."--United Press :

Parks, June 8.

Pierre Cathala, Finance Minis- ter in France's wartime Vichy. Government was arrested hero Monday on charges of collabora ting with the enmy. —Asaudià End. Proud,

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