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MARSHALL PLAN WARNING Might Not Be Sanctioned By Congress
A USE FOR BROTHELS
Londón, Judy Zá.
4 suggestion that, brothels in Soho-London's "vico" district-be requisitioned for the use of homeless families, wns malls by Dr. Joan K. Carritt when the housing crisis was discussed by the Westminster City Council to-
"You can pick out the brothels, because they are the been only houses that have renovated since the blitz" she
said.
Housing conditions in Scho and Pimlico we70 described by the City Councillors as a menace to health. Many peó. gile wero without kitchens, inks were shared by thres and four families, and there were no bathrooms or electric light.-Penter.
Cure In Greater Production
London, July 24. A warning that the U.S. Congress might not sanc- tlon a scheme based on the Marshall Plan for aid to Europe in time to help Britain out of her impending crisis was given to the House of Lords by Lord Brand, the distinguished Bri- tish economist and former Treasury Repre sentative in Washington.
Speaking in a debate on the second reading of the
BRITISH ATOMIC
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London, July 25,
John Wilmot, "Xfiniäfer · of Supply, told the House of Coinmons Thursday that research at the atomie enerou experimental station at Har- 'well "is making very good progress indeed." Associated Proas.
budget (which was passed without a vote), Leftist
Lord Brand, a non-party peer, alleged that "if we have not got money of our own and are not able to borrow, we shall have to cut imports, and in these circumstances we cannot possibly
avoid a crisis.”.
"If we get no help from abroad we shall be faced with making very large cuts in all importa not absolutely casen- tini."
Couldn't Get Along So He Killed Her
Colorado Springs, July 24. Undersheriff Henry Clark announces that David Downey, former leutenant in the U.S. Air Forces in Europe during the war, has con- fessed that he killed his pretty Czech war bribe on the mountainside near here. Clark said Downey, after two days' continuous de- nial, admitted killing his wife, Lolli Downey, "because we just didn't get along.". Clark said Downey confessed mountain ledge. after consulting n minister. He said the US$40,000 insurance he had taken out on his wife was not the motive for killing her.
Until today, Downey main. tained that his wife was killed In 1.60-foot fall, from a ledge in the mountains near here, but! a coroner's inquest. determined
that she died from asphyxiation
e.g. strangulation.
Downey told reporters he met
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Officials here were unable to discover Mrs. Downey's maiden name or home address-United Press.
Alexander Murder Echo
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Brand
Describing the Marshall Plan as "desirable," Lord warned that the "distribution!
Victory In Italy
Rome, July 24.
of wealth is not the cure in Leftist opponents of Italy's Itaolf, but the.cure is in greater non - Communist government production."
scored their firat Assembly vic- The Marshall Plan was need-tory today when they gairad ed particularly to increase in passage of a motion cancelling ternational trade.
the Minister of Education's or- Criticising the Chancellor of der dissolving the State Ad- the Exchequer, Mr. Hugh Dal-visory Board and replacing it ton, for being too "buoyant with a hand-picked committee. and optimistic" in his state-
Liberal Benedetto Croce joln-. ments about a budget surplus,ed in condemning the action Lord Brand commented:
of Miniator Guido Gonella in removing the Education Board and instituting a "confessional policy for schools." All pro- tests against Gonella's act" in- cluded demands that the laity! of schools be protected and charges that the Minister had shown too much partiality in his appointments.
"I am a banker and I am not accustomed, when a customer comes to me, to think that his credita' are high if he is over- whelmed with debt and his ex- penditures are twice as grent ns his income."
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The State Education Board was get up in 1945, to pass judg- ment on the qualification of ten- **If we are as a nation work-chers and professors. Gonella's now board continued that work, ing very hard, we are certainly not doing ourselves justice bebut members were chosen by the fore the world. We are clearly Minister without referring to
the Assembly for approval.| 17 not doing our best in the coal and building Industries, and Opponents Bald Gonella's moreover the shortening of board required all teachers to hours is at this moment in the state their political affiliations face of the world paradoxical and claimed that such action and not the beat prelude to bor-was improper..
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"IT'S A PLEASURE!” He said he courted Paolo Cortese, today of charges Lord
forecast that board before the Assembly was her for a year between flights of complicity in the assassina-Britain would solve her problem approved 218 to 194-United over Europe, Before he left tions of King Alexander of in time, "but not without a fall Press. London, the couple became en Yugoslavia and the French For in the price of imports, and not gaged. In January 1946, she eign Minister, Louis Barthou, without a considerable increase came to the United States and at Marseille in October, 1994. in international trade which we they were married in April' the
Cortese was charged with must hope the Marshall Plan sume year, after which they having contributed to the as- will help to produce, and not sassination through his alleged without much greater efforts About 'n week ago, the couple relations with Uatashi Icaders and much greater sacrifices on
The who carried out the slayings.
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Downey reportedly confessed,
The prosecution demanded: Lord Nathan, the Minister of acquittal because "no proof Civil Aviation, replied that Bri-
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The U.S. War and Navy Departments announced jointly today a hitherto top secret military operation the training of their armed forces in the use and development of atomic wea- pons.
The Departments broke a year's silence to disclose that Maj. Gen. Leslie Groves, wartime direc- tor of the Manhattan engineering district which developed atomic bombs, was the au- thor of the project. Rear Admiral William Parsons, USN, who also worked on the bomb.. is deputy,
The disclosure came close upon Energy Commission. Joint Task the heels of the revelation that Force the group that conduct the Union States planned to used the atomic experiment at a "Pacifle mystery island"-seal- | Bikini atoll-has been turned ed off from the prying eyes of the fover to the special weapons: pro. rest of the world-ps a major |ject, the Joint Commission-said. proving ground for new develop. Presumably that will include [records" and "some of the staff of The secret weapons project is that Pacific project.
WHISPERINGments in atomic weapons.
SHADOWing Sandla base, near AlbuquerThe new Facific island project,
que, as its principal Bold installa. | it was learned, would give top."" tion, the joint announcement sald.drawer¦ American personnel a Atomic Energytiny portion of the globe where "It is learned that the joint pro-super-secret weapons could be gromme already in 'effect for tested with the minimum chance about six months-worked in of outside observance.----United close contact with the Atomic Press,
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