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· YUGOSLAVIA HIT BY COMINFORM BLOCKADE
Creator of Tarzan dies
Tarzana, California,
March 19.
Belgrade, March 20...
Tho Communist Information Bureau blockade against Yugoslavia has by now had a serious cumulative effect upon this country's already threadbare economy.
Not only has Marshal Tito's Government been forced to modif its key five-year plan for in- dustrialising the nation, but at this moment. stocks of consumers goods, important raw materials, spare parts, transport and machin- ery are dangerously low.
the
Sovici
Kashmir
Issue
and U.N.
New Delhi, March 10, Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah, Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, told reporters here today that the Security Coun- cil's appointment of a Mediator on the Kashmir issue would
not change the fattitude of the Kashmir Government.
coercion."
of
Edgar Rice Burroughs, faged 74. who created Tarzan, died today of heart allment. Crippled by heart attacks he
India had only accepted the had been ill for three months.
Council's resolution relating to the The writer had his breakfast:
appointment of a Mediator sub- While insignificant little new Montenegro to the Adriatle is ject to the reservation that they this morning and was lying int bed reading newspapers when ho displays have appeared in a order eventually to drain Lakel rojected the basis of the McNaugh- suddenly dropped them and handful of Belgrade shops on Seuturi.
ton proposals. closed his eyes. He had not done the whole this correspondent, Among the main shortages cro- "I the Mediator tries to base
ated by the blockade are cotton his any writing since he became ill. who has visited Yugoslavia and petroleum, which had been formula, fallure is certain," Ab- proposals on the McNaughton Burroughs was reading Sunday
the war, expected from the Soviet Union; dullah said. "We have made it comics with his breakfast when several times since he led. His doctor who was in never has found it in such aluminium from Hungary and absolutely clear that the
transport equipment from Czecho-tution of the Kashmir problem
only the sprawling ranch house on a grim condition of shortages.
slovakia. Chemical and mining is an overall plebiscite in Jammu regular morning call attributed
Railways and motor vehicles equipment are required. Yugo nad Kashmir under the condi- the death to a heart aliment and appear in worse shape than a slavia needs many essential items tions in which the people of the hardening of arteries.
Confined to a wheelchair he/year ago. Wom trucks now are to help expand her own expur State shail be able to determine
being run with tyres on only two | trade. said recently that his greatest
Xial con- pleasure in life was seeing the of their rear wheels.
factories planned for tween prices and the paper value on the sovereignty
There is no reasonable link be- their future freely and without structed jungle lord he created still swing- ing through trees in the forests. new industrial projects are Idle of the dinar. The official value of Jammu and Kashmir has never
because
Union. Burroughs, profile creator of Czechoslovakia and Hungary, re-dollar. The actual value to prob Kashmir Commission or by the
that currency is 50 dinars to the am been
questioned either by the "Tarzan of the Apeg" and count-tused delivery on promised ably one-sixth or one-seventh. less sequels once explained machinery for installation.The But this gap does not reflect itself Security Council, or even by started his lucrative writing
Pakistan, and
nobody had career because "I needed
Ing behind
because of lack of prices of available rationed goods.
the 50-called Azad (Free) Kashmir Government. unsuccessful salesman mechanical re-equipment.
Nation lacks gold
Before a plebiscite was possi- for an elaborate pencil sharpener, Sabotaga campaign
ble the entire Jammu and he read pulp magazines pro-
The most critical problem nowd to lawful Government which Kashmir territory must be reator- spective customers' waiting rooms
"Furthermore, Marshal Tito's facing Marshal Tito's Government ed until he decided to try his hand
regline is evidently being attacked is an absolute lack of gold or hard must then have time to resettle st authorship,
anci "If people were paid for writ- by a co-ordinated Cominform sa-currency reserves. Yugoslavia is and rehabilitate hundreds
the. sands of refugees, some of ing such rot," he said, "guretotage campaign. Last could write stuff just as bagl' Yugoslavia's largest steamship, somewhere between zero and whom were in India and some in
Burroughs was 35 years old at the 18,000-ton Partisanka, was $5,000,000 although the
actual Pakistan. mysterious fire. figure 15 that time and had tried and failed destroyed by a
Whatever the people of State secret. nt half dozen businesses and as | 15
It is reported that a few days This exchange is required for State then decided would be ae- many trades. Spurred on by the ago two other vessels, the 12,000-purchase of essential goods and ceptable to all. That is the pal- responsibility of supporting
ton Dubrovink and the 2,000-ton services in the West as well us for tion we have taken all along, both wife and two children, he dashed Kosma, were similarly burned, payments on pre-war debts and from the legal and moral points off his first novel, "Under the
This has not yet been confirmed for expropriated foreign pro- of view," he added.-Reuter. officially any more than recent perties under necords now reach- Moon of Murs."
tales of serious railway wrecked with many Western countries. But there is a strong presumption In a determined effort to work that bad damage has been done, out these exchange problema Yugoslavia has increased her ex-
money."
As an
Calling found
the mining industry is said to be fall-in terms of workers' wages andmised
Although Burroughs had no training in writing, the editor of a pulp magazinë bought his, maiden attempt for. $400, and Kurroughs realised he finally had found his calling.. lie spent thu next few years supporting
in his family by working during the day as department manager of a business muguzine and writing book-length serials at night.
Tarzan, was sold to
Butuma believed to bave reserves
4
This has in no sense. how-ports to the United States. But over, had (any material effect essentially. Yugoslavia never can! upon the regime's absolute de-export enough to hard currency termination to continue an in areas to buy her own needs there. dependent Ideological attitude. The regime refuses to iknuckle under alther to the Bavlat coalition or to the West.
well fed.
In this prevalling situation there are three evident re- quirements to ease the crisis. First of all. Yugoslav efforts to
re-
the
Employees barred from Secretariat
Washington, March 19.
The Commerce Department has branded 27 employees as bad security risks and barred them from the Secretariat, even though they have been form- ally cleared of disloyalty
,
The first of his series of novels Food supplies appear to remain about the improbable jungle lord, adequate despite distribution diffi- expand trade with the sterling Above all, Government and West European orcos-which magazina culics.
for workers and party have met with some success charges, it was disclosed today. for $100 during that period, and messes its successor, "The
Return of meribers serve plentiful meals. must be encouraged.
The
countryside, sided by the Tarzan," was bought in 1913 for
In addition, six other employees In this connection diplomatic traditional shrewd methods of intervention $1,000 after it had been turned
now under investigation were re- required to end a down by Burroughs first patron, pensant hoarding, is said to be stalemate halting a $120,000,000 garded as so suspicious that they
Cold Chicago winters and
Westway commercial accord with have all been restricted to cer the
Germany. Its completion tain success of his writing led him to
jobs Furthermore, despite modifien was blocked at the last moment quit his editorial job and move
The Department's loyalty check tions forced by international poll to San Diego, California,
by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's programme was criticised by the Until A. A. McClurg published state planners are pushing political ineptitude.
House Appropriations sub-com- "Tarzan of the Apes" in book rough some extraordinary and
mittee, trade channels withi whose chairman; John Second, perhaps impractical form, however, Burroughs con- They are still
projects. the outside world must be Im-one
Rocney, said
*the State Depart- building a sidered he was living a hand-to-
proved. A conference of
to ba "quite clear Jadministrative eity across mouth existence. dependent on
pean railway
held at Dubrovnik. After
exports soon will f the sale of every pulp story he River from the capital. They are wrote. McClung & Co. previously Blowly tunneling a sluice across Greece's elections it. is hoped that merce Department was "honey-
the un
Yong-delayed tall link to combed" with Commualsts. Salonika may be reop
reopened. Use The House group made public of free port facilities there by recent nearings which the Yugoslav ships would terminate Commerce Department
revealed existing jani of
of plied-up ex- that 300 employees
WETC
tabbed port goods at Rjeka (Flume). by the Federal Bureau of In- Finally, Yugoslavia desperately Vcaligation as possible subver needs, besides swift
had declined to publish the novel, bul Burroughs sald the public demand for the story made the flrm ask for the privilege of printing it.
Contracts for motion pictures. books, newspaper comic strips and royalties from other sources came in regularly after that, and Bur- roughs moved to the San Fer nando Talley, founded the town of Tarzana, California, and led
busy and prosperous life.- United Press.
a
ARAB WANTS TO QUST ABDULLAH
Cairo, March 19. Commenting on the alleged exchange of friendly letters' between King Abdullah of Transjordan and Moshe Sharet of Ismel during the Palestine war, Al Mistri today demanded the ouster of Transjordan from the Arab League:
new Sava
Italian ship's post-war maiden trip
be
Euro-me but added that i
the public
an idea the Com-
on small-scalo, som long jalves. Two hundred and seventy-
specific three were acquitted" but 27
commitments un a large scale were still regarded as not fully that will enable her economists trustworthy. In addition, 71 to amend their basic planning for were discharged or allowed to the coniing year with some con, resign. Twenty-five
New York, March 19, The Conte Biancamano ar-crete assurances.. rived here today 24 hours late on her maiden post-war voyage from Italy. There, were 453 passengers aboard the liner, which was remodelled at a cost of US$3,500,000.0
The passengers included two unscheduled occupants. One was
stowaway and the other was 10-pound girl born to Mr. the height of gales which tossed and Mrs. Honald Navarra during the liner about. The parents, both 18 years old, were travelling from Malta to resettle in Canada.
"The time has come for the Arab League to cut off relations Captain Luigi Gulinelli said the with Transjordan -- a country which betrayed Arab unity in the Palestino cause," it said.
crossing was among the stormless ho had experienced, with winds reaching 65-mph velocity. He said
The time has come to severe the ship, whose average speed this decayed member from the 20 knots, was doing about 12 body of the Arabs of the world, knots between the Azores and the bury it in the ground and heave United States coast. --- United dust thereon."---United Press. [Press.
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