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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1949.
MAN KILLS 12 IN FIFTEEN MINUTES
Shootings Were New Record
New York, September 6. Recorde of the New York Public Library Indicate that Howard Unruh established a now high in homicidal Infamy when he killed 12 persona In approximately 10 minutes.
Some
more
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The top criminal, with ra. gard to numbers. was Moscow taxicab driver who Mitted at least 100 persons for their money, but his victima were spaced over a consider. able period.-United Press.
MIGRATION REMEDY
FOR UK?
Washington, September 7. The Population Reference Bur- cat said today that Britain will never solve her economic prob lemus until about one-third of ho people move off their tight little island and find new homes in Australia, Canada and other Do- minions.
The Bureau said the 49,000,000 residents of the United Kingdom are at least 15,000,000 more than the small island con possibly support
Britons and urged learn lesson from Ireland,
to
"Ireland decreased her papula- Lion 50 per cent and raised her
Camden, New Jersey, September 6,
A 28-year-old American ex-serviceman wont mad in a busy street today and shot dead 12 people, two of whom were children. Four others were wounded.
A detective identified the man as Howard Unruh, who was described as a quiet, well dressed
mon.
After his outburst the street looked like a bottle-
field, the detective said.
Women
Little is known of Unruh In Residents his neighbourhood. describe him as quiet, rather handsome, man who lived plane well In and
always dressed
good tant
"He turned a Luger pistol loose on people like ducks on a pond," added Detective Thompson. The ex-Serviceman's neighbours said that they knew Httle about him.
Five
and two boys,
tante. Relatives of Unruh expressed aged two and five, were killed.
berserk The police said that they believed their opinion he went
"Was the worst miss slaughter on
incurred because of nervousneSS In city street
in American history, during his army service. Unruh surrendered when the
After the shootings police cor-
the are police shot tear gas into the room
robin{doned
and began where he had barricaded himself. house to house search for any
A detective later
this deed or
wounded that might killings: Unruh's have
'overlooked in been arepunt of the
to a drug excitement. house was next door store run by 40-year-old Maurice
One eye witness told how Un- Cohen. There is no frunt entrance ruh. n1 the height of the lto Unruh's house and Cohen house battle, calmly stopped his wild barrage to Jeun from A window and spil.--Reuter Associated Press.
Kave
at one time permitted Unruh to erans als yard to reach his own house from the rear. But recent ly, Cohen stopped this by build- ing a fence and a gate.
Today, Unruh walked into the Rug store, tramped upstairs and hoi Cohen's mother, aged 63, ns she lay in bed.
Single Shots
Cohen's wife Rose, heard hut and locked her 12 year-old on in a closet.
NOVELIST DEAD
D
the
and
Plane Loses. An Engine Over The Sea
"Honolulu, September 6. The huge flying bost *Philippine Mars" landed anfaly at Honolulu today with Ita 54 passengers and orew after throwing an engine 440 miles at sea.
The plot, Mr. W. L. Gar. ratt, said that sparks ignited the streaming patrol and oli when
engine the heavy wrenched from. Flames were extinguished with carbon dioxide, but the plane vibrat- ed violently,
Mr. Garrett was uncertain what went wrong with the engine, but said x propeller might have thrown a blade. Terrifia vibration torn the engine from the wing mount- Inge.
The "Philippine Mars" in a four engine plane Associat- nd Press.
CAPTAIN KILLED IN MUTINY
Suez, September £ Captain Capur (skipper of the 7,575-ton Italian ship Em. pire Rani, was killed at seo in a mutiny, the owners' agent reported today.
Paris, September 0. Lucien Deserves, 01-year-old
The agent, Hene Zarb. sait he French novelist, died here today.
had received radio message from He was chairman of the Aenderin
the Chief Officer of the Empire theGoncourt, second only to thRant requesting Sucz port poller French Academy among the lead- and Italian consular authorities bodies of French literature. to meet the ship when she docka Inkbes or Free is a Par-lo ship horadi.
The owners of the Empire
described
San Rani were
Porto Georgio de
of Genon -
Unruh tracked her down and
was secretary of the Gun- shot
her on the stairway. Thenian,
out and Cohen court Academy as long ago na he walked chased after him. Unruh turned 1903, and his first work was pub and Bhos.
Cohen staggered shed in 1882.-Reuter.
Enrough his gate and collapsed
dead.
An insurance collector was entering the drug store us Unruh after leaving rounded a corner
shot the Cohen yard. A single killed him.
Then
Unruh paraded up and down the road, entering some shops. Single shots
killed
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house of Europe to one of the In n n barber shop he shot a most prosperous countries of man who was having his hair cut, Europe. Furthermore, her emi.
grants increased Ireland's influ- ence throughout the world and hekted to supply the homeland with much needed capitai,"
generally
Reuter.
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Problem
Pressing
Before Taiwan
Taipeh, September 7.
A car stopped for a traffle light. Taiwan's most pressing problem is how to increase
Unruh fired three times. Thres vomen tell. Finally he walked aletly back through the Coben art and barricaded himself in
room. Witnesses *1is
soid that hey saw Unruh load the Luger it least three times during the
hooting.
Incredible Shot
agricultural production to meet the daily in- creasing influx of Chinese from the main- land, according to L. F. Craig, local ECA director.
Craig
The best method, Mr. said, is by developing fertilisation and irrigation schemes.
its own needs," he said.
The Bureau noted that Britain ranks second only to Japan as the most crowded country in the
"Should local rice production world. Its population. per square
again hit the peak of 1,500,000 mile is more than two and a half
tons annually, which was the A detective said that Unruh times that of Europe
highest record during the Japa- was an incredible shot. He said and over 11 times as dense as the
While supplying local farmers nese occupation, alwan would United States, the Bureau sald, that the police found an arsenal with a considerable amount of then be able to export something It argued that British emi-f weapons in the basement of chemical fertilisers, ECA is also like 300,000 tons after supplying grante would better their own other deadly weapons were there will enable Talwan to produce Unruh's home, Knives, Guns and willing to help in any plan that standards of living, help make
enough such chemicals to meet their homeland self-supporting and greatly strengthen thinly.
auch Inhabited Dominions
a# Australia and Canada. "Such migration also would be to the best interests of the Unit ed States and world peace. though the United States Govern- ment has supplied Brilan billions of dollars since the end
it is
In
the dozens.
for its own needs. After answering questions two and a haif hours, Unruh Hisclosed that he had been shot the buttocks during his battle with the police. He was taken to Al-hospital for an operation.
With the war situation on the mainland steadily worsening, both the ECA China Mission and Its Chinese counterpart, the Council on United States Aid, will be Unruh, who served with an
here shortly. Another anmoving with artillery unit, was regarded as a Sino-American effort, the Joint bible bug" who often walked the Commission on Rural Reconstruc- tion, has already re-established its headquarters here.
of Work! War II, the British streets carrying a bible.
continued, if not in- Mitchell I. Cohen, County pro- crisis has
Exporting at least 15-secutor, said Unruh told him the
Dr. Trou would not be an shootings were part of a precon- 000,000 people
and for easter ceived plan
thot easy job. But it
Unruh and less expensive task to move a could clearly remember every de- 140-pound person once than to tell. move 1,400 pounds of food every year to support that person." United Press.
Bulgaria Mobilising Greeks
Trieste, September 8. Athens Radio alleged today that Bulgaria has ordered gencral inabilisation of all Greeks living in Bulgaria for service in rebel Greck "Democratic People's Army,"
the
The radio, heard in Trieste by"! the Italian news Agency Astra, quoted very reliable sources,
Greeks unable to serve in the army have been confined in Nazi- like concentration campo, the broadcast added.
There
Was no explanation
whether the "Democratic People's Army" represented the Bulgarlan Army or Greck guerilla forces fighting against the Athens re- gime. -Associated Press.
COST OF UN PROGRAMME
London. September 6. The United Nations Economic und Social Council's proposed programme of worldwide tech nical assistance to under-deve loped areas will cost between $15,000,000 and $25,000.000 ir the first year, Mr. A.DK Owen. the United Nations As- vistant Secto‘ary-General charge of Economie: Affairs sald today.
fr
The programme, he told press conference, is expected t provide for economic develop="|
·ment ̈misiona
"sources" and "to 'discover the most
developme promising, lines of in" various: pojinė
Special m
Ping-wen, famed agricultural expert and Chinese delegate to the United Nations Food Conference, who visited Taiwan recently, said selt sufflel- ency in production of chemical had "The neighbours
been fertilisers in the island's biggest talking about me for some timej need.
Derogatory Remarks
|and making derogatory remarks He admitted, however, that
about my charseter. I had been thinking about killing them for same time," Mr. Cohen Unruh as explaining.
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