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US CONFLICT ON DOLLAR AID
Senate Committee Restores Most Of The Cuts
Bill Will Go Back For Compromise Arrangement
NEW YORK, June 13. A-final-conflict over dollar aid to Europe is now expected between the two Houses of the United States Congress following the Senate Appropriations Committee's decision last night to restore most of the 26 per cent cuts voted by the House of Representatives.
The full Senate is expected to support the recom-"
mendations of its Committee early next week and then, under Congressional rules, the two Houses must seek a compromise between their versions.
According to the Washington correspondent of the New York Times today, members of the Senate Committee claim that their negotiators will have the advantage in the talks.
rellef the fund
in other occupied countries and in Trieste, Chinn, Inter- national Children's Fund and the International Refugees Organisa-
contend that They amount of the appropriations as voted by their Committee Grecce, Turkey and the cannot be changed and that the only matter in the cuntroversy will be the period in which the European-recovery - programme funds can be spent.
tion,
Cut Restored In Committee
It will be impracticable, they add to compromise bet
Senator Styles Bridges (Repub- between the period of 15 months approved by lean of New Hampshire), who is the Senate Appro- the House of Representatives and Chairman the 12 months proposert by the priations Committee, snid that his Committee - the original tine Committee last night, in effect, suggested by the Administration. restored the $950 million which the House of Tomorrow, the Senate Appro- had been cut by priations Committee wi Iscuss Representatives, the Administration's req +1 fur ་ $150 million for economic デザー covery in Japan, Korea and the Ryukyus Islands,
The Committee will also de- hate other items in the omnibus Foreign Aid Bill, including ap propriations for ndministration
DENTISTS STILL OBDURATE
London, June 13.
British dentists may not take part in the new National Health Service due to begin on July 5 if a recommendation to this effect, made by the Coun- cil of the British Dental Asso- ciation here yesterday, is ac- cepted.
Mr. Edward Samson, President of the Association, sold that the recommendation not to participato in the scheme followed the refu- sal of the Minister of Health, Mr. Aneurin Bevan, to consider the Association's suggestions on fun. damental principles for participa.
tion.
The Council was not satisfied that there was any security in the proposed tees for dentists under the scheme", Mr. Samson sid
adding: The Minister has
*
First, it voted unanimously to: put the appropriations on basis of 12 month Instead of 15.
an unrecorded majority on a four Then the Committee agreed by milliard dollars appropriation for the shorter period.
Gruesome
·Incident
Pakefield,
Buffolk, June 13. Horrified sunbathers saw group of achaat children kick- ing human skulls around the beach near this town in North- east England.
Parish church officials die- closed today that the children tried to open a trapdoor of the bombed church and found skulls in the fourteenth-cen- tury vault.
The officials said the skulls were the remaine of bowmen killed in the Battle of Crecy. -United Pross.
Patricia Wanted A Change
Copenhagen Steamer Disaster
Copenhagen, June 13:
The officini death toll in the sinking of the Danish steamer Kjoebenhaven on Friday 'has reached, 31. ·
The authorities said 251 persons had been rescued. The number of missing is still uncertain, since there were some unlisted passen- gers on board when the vessel struck A mine and sunk in the
or between Denmark
and
There are 20 names on the off- clat list of the missing.
United Steamship, owner of the vessel, which had originally esti- maled 400 on board, sald it was not sure that there were still 08 persons unaccounted for,
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Guided Missiles
Washington, June 13. A growing group of De- fence Department scientists believed that guided missiles will outrank airplanes" "us" "the" supreme weapon within 10 or 20 years.
discoveries of modern
A cloak of secrecy covers the electronic experts who are at work on the problem of building controls that will make rockets hit
target.
London, June 13. Blonde, 18-year-old Patrida Fricker decided she was "fed work. up" with England and farm
She wanted a change. Yesterday, she arrived beaming at London Airport. She had just But the fact is that a cloalfied finished a 1,300-mile trip to Stockholm,
slipped out in re-
Top Bressional hearings.
cent Congr
that
छ
She had made the trip withi
The Navy has developed only 26 in her purse.
guided missile
can knock stowed away on a Swedish down enemy planes at least seven ship and had to press the Cap-miles away. A control operator
She
The effect of this was to restore $800 million of the House cats. The figure was raised still further by taking the $150 million for Japan and Koren out of this total and considering it as a separate Item added to a a $1,000 million Ipin's clothes for her passage. aims the radio beam at the ap- public debt transaction previously
"At Stockholm. Was looked preaching bomber. A T-rocket authorised by Congress,
and
$55 after by
by two detectives, whom I propelled missile rides the beam million appropriation enacted ear-persuaded to show me the sights, to the target as much 15,000 yards They left the cell door open at from its finding point. The Navy available for the first year of the
This would bring the total sum night in case I was frightened. sold the weapon will be ready for
Yesterday, the British Govern- fleet use by 1950-United Press. European recovery programme to ment flew her home-for nothing. $5,055 million. The full amount "I had a swell time," she said, originally asked was $5,300 mill-and went happily home to the tion.-Reuter.
To
farm at Tavistock.-United Press,
ENGLISH CHANNEL
FOG SINKING
-Cherbourg, June-13. -
The American freighter, Southport, limpod back to Cherbourg today bearing the 28 crew mom- bors of the Finnish vessel Finnberg after the two ships collided.
not Tie
granted us anything on our mug. gestions for clinical freedom."
A representative body of the Dental Association will encet in Birmingham next Sunday to dis- cuss the Council's recommenda- tions.Reuter,
Finnberg sank after the accident which occurred on Saturday in a heavy Channel fog after the Southport was 22 miles on her way to Savannah from Cherbourg-with a varied cargo.
The
American ship's hull Finnberg Wos making four was damaged. It picked up knots. After the collision Robert all the Finnberg's crew and
said he did not know the other
British Officer's turned back to Cherbourg un- ship had sunk and thought
Escape
London: June 13.
der its own power.
might have
continued on
11
Ita
The vessel re-entered port at course since it could not be seen. reduced speed. It will be re- patred at Charbourg Arsenal dockyards.
Nevertheless he circled around the всена and they finally came across the Finnberg's two boats, one with: 18_and_the_other_with_10_para sons, all uninjured.
Linburg
of
tho
The Communist "Free Greece" The Finnberg was on route radio reported tonight torrillas captured the inter-of phosphates.
that from Sfax, Tunisia, with a cargo preter for a British offleer when The captain of the Southport. they sulzed the headquarters of o
Captain J. F. Robert, sald the collision Government battalion recently in stove a hole six yards high and Finnberg who was accompanied the Epirus.
four yards broad in the side of by his wife Lea, said the vessel the ship. The hull remained un-sank in 10 minutes, leaving them damaged below the waterline. hardly time to put out the boats. at seven knots with zero visibility He and his crow praised Rober! when the watch spolted the ship and his men for their handling of the rescue and their care on
THES
"The Greek brigadier, Franga dakis and the British officer just escaped half dressed" the radio
Moniicra for the Greek News Agency in London, who recorded the broadcast, said reception fall- Robert sald he was navigating ed on the British officer's name.-ahend by radar. He signalled the
ciated Press.
other ship through the fog. The
Spotted By Rader *board.—Associated Press.
Professor
ARMY ABDUCTIONS Attacks
BRING PROTESTS Congress
Tsingtao, Juno 13.
| Large-scala press gang activitios by unidentified units of the Nationalist Army have brought dozens of protests from municipal authorities to garrison officers.
The complainants, said that several hundred able-bodied Chinese were seized, forced into waiting trucks and driven. to concentration places in the last two days. One woman was badly, beaten when she 'tried to rescue her husband.
sending
be
Hanover, N.H., June 13, Dr. Frank Graham today. accused the House of Repre- sentatives of being reckless, irresponsible and Isolationist.
FIRST SNAG
Tel Aviv, June 18. A liner carrying 420 persons to Israel anchored in Tel Aviv har- bour toplight, confronting Count Folke Bernadotte with his first Immigration problem under the Jewish-Arab truce.
Late tonight, lighters began bringing immigrants ashore
der supervision of United Na tions observers. Jewish officials barred the port area to newamen. -Associated Press,
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