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A bull in a china-shop
tables
The old tag about bulls in china-shops came sadly apart when the makers of a docu. a china. mentary film turned the 1,000-guinea pedigree Ayrshire bull "The Champ" adrift in
hop at Madresfletd, Worcesterchire. Fhe half-an-hour the bull tiptoed daintily amid
Evan occasional prode and showcases crammed with crockery without damaging anything. didn't roUED him, Ultimately an attractive halfer was called in.... The Champ moaed pur. full cry the posefully and waded through piles of cups and lucere like a Tiger. tank in badly needed sequence was "in the can."
Photo shows: The Champ gazes apologetically at a table swept clear by an accidental good-humoured filck of his tall. (AP photo).
LATEST TYPE ROCKETS
TO BE USED IN KOREA
A U.S. Air Force base in Japan, July 13.
to the
arrna-
Now typos of armour- piorcing rockets will be added soon
ment of American combat planes in the Korean war, General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, United States Air Force Chief of Staff, disclosed today. He said this in on exclusive interview with the United Press after he had made a flying trip to several American air bases in Korea and Japan.
Yugoslavia accused by Albania
London, July 13,
Albania has charged Yugo-
slavia with "persistent pro- Vocations and violations
territory,"
Albanian
Radio sald tonight.
of Tirana
These charges have been In a note of protest de- livered by
Albanian the Legation in Belgrade to the Yugoslav Ministry of
For eign Affairs.
in the month of June-the note sald-Yugoslava
com.
mitted even territorial pro.
and two vocations
#erial
provocations.
Albania demanded "an and this vile and tivity."
to
ac-
hostile
Har Premler and Com- mander-in-Chief, General Enver Hodja, was reported as bis saying, in a opeech In capital, Tirana, that the Al- banian Army was ready to defend "our Sociallat country against the American war- mongers and their sup. porters."Reuter.
JAP EXPERTS IN AMERICA ̧
San Francisco, July 13. free adkninistrators of the Japanese tax system completed nationwide survey of the United States internal revenue procedure here today.
They are Mamoru Takahashi, Sumlo Hara and Nomura Shiozaklj who visited tax offices in Chicago, Now York, Los Angeles, Cleveland and Kansas City before coming to San Francisco-United Press.
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Pilots of the Fifth Air Force had complained that their five-inch rockets were in affective against what they said were 60-ton Russian-built tanks used by the North. Koreans.
General Vandenberg praised the leadership and co-operation of the air operations on the part of all, from the top generals down,
joy to behold. as
Effectiveness of fire bombs
to be said General Vandenberg's visit gave He said: "It used
Force could not obylous lift to plots and ground that the Air
That is crews, especially at the advanced operate in bad weather, Korean base where F-51 Mus-not true any more. Young fellows, tangs are being utilised on what some of them not, battib-tested, appears to be a shoestring basis. are flying Jets under conditions rcial that would ground commercial This correspondent accompanied and milliary traffic in the States." General Vandenberg. Major- General Vandenberg said fre General Earl E. Partridge, com- bombs were again proving mander of the Fifth Air Force, effective against bridges and the five-inch and other high Air Force oflicers tanks, and that on their fight in a C-47 trans-rockets carried on the F-80s were knocking out bridges of a typ port,
which used to require several Generals Vandenberg and Par-medium bombers to destroy them, tridge assured the men at the
Impending of Korea-based Bighter Com- operations, he said the munists would soon feel the Major Dean Hess, who is com-weight of many more flights dally, munding Aghter operations at the |—Unlled Press. base, said each of his planes was flying up to three missions day. Major Hess with the Ninth Air Force, General Vandenberg's unit in World War 11.
Korean base that reinforcements speeding to the
Bre on the way.
whs
Morato high
per
formerly
General Vandenberg watched
en-
of the
The airmen sald the shooting Stara were able both to give punishment and to take it
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HAWAII FORCES ON THE ALERT
assignment.
move
THE BRINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY
DON
IDDON'S
1 HER TR 180 40A
DIARY
Business as usual in U.S.
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The only uniforms I see | Barry Truman had certainly here are those worn by police- abwn the Russians, that the American
Reds would retreat and the men, Boy Scouts, doormen, Kremlin elimb down, and bell-hops,
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Today we all know that they Since I got back to New York I'resident will have to push moro employers and friends have been and more chips into the great querying me by cable, nirmall..gumble, that the United States and Trans-atlantic telephone about and its allies ard hip-deep in at
ls it war- the Manhattan scene.
tremendous struggle......... like t Is it hysterical ? Arc there any air defence prepara-
luna 7
:
It is not worlike; it is not hysterical; and the only apparent aclonce preparations are the appointment of a former police commissioner as special alt-rold avviser and instructions to the cily's hospitals to be ready for any emergency.
Taking it easy
•
New Yorkers and all Americons except a handful of Communists are behaving with calm,
Fortunately, Mr. Truman han behind most all, the nuntry Him. The Isolationist Press and their paid parrota are
needling the President, but they are on the sot themselves.
For years General MacArthur. has been their hero, nimost their rod. William
Randolph Hearst
and Colonel McCormick have bowed down before the-com- nander. They can hardly desert him now.
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price tag oft peace"; and the *Medical'.' 'Association says it will put 3,000,000 dollars on the line to keep out socialised medicíno.*
Not many seam to realise that this is not the time for normality that dollars or even normalcy, alone cannot buy peace or even prevent medicina from being socialised,
most
At least one man I know is aware of all this, G. Ward Price,; Britain's
experienced Foreign Correspondent, who was coveting wars when I was learn- Ing my multiplication tables, has Just passed through New York en route to Tokio.
Globe-trotter
We got his áir transport tickets and we had Д several drinks.
drinkwell, luscious
flavors!
It is not President Truman but Secrettiry of State Dean Acheson
He has covered almost every who in getting the
abuse. "What's detaining the Dean big international story for The It anything, the folks appear nesk his enemies. "Actiesen's Dally Mall for the past 40 years, has been round the world six or whole Far Eastern polley has
seven times. blown up in his face," shout the vulgar,
ille too self-assured. Most of them today are lying on beaches, swimming in the occan and lakes, foofing, motoring gulping cold beer and Coca-Cola, and munch. ing hot dogs and hamburgers.
This, the Fourth of July, is the greatest holiday of the year, cele brating American independence of British rule.
Not that many people, even the professional orators, are saying much about that. They are clasp- ing the British in a tight embrace and murmuring: "You and I brother, are in this together." And we are.
Just when the Anglophobes were asking:_ What are the British doing?" It turned out that we actually were assembling of Korea even more warships than the United States itself.
This generous and bold action has been noted and greeted with applause. A pity our spokesmen in the Embassy and the Coneu- lates and the British information services did not publicise and ex- ploit it more. We are still lagging ad fumbling showmen, feeble in the job of claiming credit and capturing headlines.
Cue for speech
Even some of the undistin- guished Senators and Congressmen who were so busily investigating crime, gambling, the price of coffee, and homosexuality tan days ago are now shouting that Acheson must go.
batch of boobs, who This thought marijuana was a menace and Canasta a calamity, now strut A statesmen and call the Secret- ory of State a clown.
Ward Price took a look at New get into the, plane to cover this York and could hardly wait to latest war.
On Broadway, too, there is little sign that war for America could be very near. The latest talking point is whether the Todd's chorus girls in Michael "Peep
Show" wear sufficient clothes. The show girls wear so little and show so much that when one chorine sold the other night that she had something in her eye the answer was that it was probably her costume.
What astonisher me about the American scene after almost a month's absence is the pubilo's And the biggest hit in the tolerance towards the lunatle
cinemas is not a fingoist Ameri- fringe, whether they are dicharda can effort with Errol Flynn cap- demanding Acheson's scalp orturing Korea, but a sophisticated Communists and fellow-travellers and satirical Britlal
triumph, cheering Stalin,
"Kind Hearts and Coronets"-for above some of its audiences, I am afraid.
Reds rally
The first political meeting 1 covered when I returned turned
out to be a mammoth Communist rally. Madison-square Garden was occupied by 18,000 frenzied idiots screaming applause for the singer Paul Robeson, Communist Party secretary Gus Hall and Left-Wing Congressman Vito Marcantonio.
This trio claimed that the North
Communists are "Aghting exploitation, slavery and Wall-street
Imperialism. Poor Wall - street, which gets poorer by the minute and drop- ped gigantle fortunes last weekć.
As we go on giving aid I hope
Korean our representatives here will grasp their opportunities. That is what they are paid for.
The Americans are pointing out, that they are now the rightly; champions of free peoples every where, and this is our cuc to Bay: "We too, friend."
Perhaps, also, the British can give some tips on air defence. By
now there should be some boxes
tus around the town.
In the early stages of the last war we in New York had air raid drills to distraction, armlets, sirens, radio warnings, beams, and black-outs.
of sand and fire-fighting apparu-
Now, when American soldiers are actually in battle, we have nothing but soothing words pune- tuated by harsh warnings from elder statesman Bernard Baruch, who has been demanding ele- rentary precautions for months.
comes
Sad about a star
Judy Garland is, of course, still big entertainment news. And now that the sad story out of the sleeping pills and ben- zedrine, of the girl's tension and nervous fear of failure, everyone is on Judy's side.
The Heard around the town! country is not praying for Con- gress. It is looking at Congress and praying for the country.
More Important than taking the Government out of the red is backing the Government to beat the Red.
It has remained for the G.I. to show Stalin that the UN. packs
I watched the crowd roar. heard it boo Truman's' name, listened to it cheer Stalin and K.O. dance in the aisles for Socialism.
World
Footnote!. Wherever every thoughtful American went this How long will the Amerleans holiday week, Korea went with stand at thelr street-corners,
him. their bars, and their cafetarlax and let the enemy get away with this?
For
Perhaps they have become too even-tempered, or maybe the heatwave saps their indignation, New Yorkers weeks now have been robbed of their best evening newspaper, the "World- Telegram and Sun," which cannot go to press unless it bows its head and hands over its money to a
nothing.
I have been asking what hap-Radical guild. And they say pens if war comes to America, and am assured the blue-print is ready.
The big freeze
The experts say everything is set to
A declare national emergency all weges, prices, and rents frozen; strikes in all war-essential factories outlawed,
commodities
Instead, on their news-stands is an eccentric publication called Compass, so Red it prints its headlines in purple and currență ly demands that Nehru mediate the "world,conflict" and
an nounces that the U.S. war chariot
not the Russlan needs brakes. The U.S. war charlot chariot, not the Korean Communist chariot, but the charlot at their
wicked
and basic known warmonger,
household equipsubject to con-
scription as soldiers are, private
Honolulu, July 13. fighter and transport operations The Army today alerted its at another base in Japan after an ground forces in Hawaii for almost zero ceiling stymied his shipment to Korea, a efforis to land at a second Korean air field. He closely questioned the which would strip the islands pilots un the combat effectiveness Kround defences of everything Star except National Guard troops of their F-80 Jet Shooting fighters, and found them
Lieutenant - General Henry thusiastic in their praise
Aurand, commander of the Army plane.
in the Pacific, said the fifth registetioning of food, clothes, petrol, Uncle Sam himself the well-
team hnd been mental combut
Instead of boxing the Compass, ordered to prepare for overseas Labour will be
its editors are botching it.
I don't think most New Yorkers building will be halted, manufac- fully realise the peril or grasp ture of non-essentials banned, the crisis. Business and pleasuro instalment credit barred, and as usual is the polley, and very forced saving ordered.
nice too. Well, what is Washington wait-
Holiday traffle jams set records ing for t
Only fools think the and headlines, point out that for General Aurand refused to re-
Korean crisis will peter out and more Americans are being killed real where the unit would be that America and Russia will be on the roads than on the Korean, He said: "I have
would Or when it
leave
come lifelong pals. The time to front; 50,000,000 Americans are Hawall. The combat team
мото higher morale anywhere
was begin to stop wasting money, vacationing and spending
nicterials, and man-power is now. money and travelling more miles among these young fellows, who part of the American forces sta- are operating under unbelievable tipned in Korea until July 1948,
Despite the calmness and the than ever before; union leader American us when
troops dificulties and taking them
were confidence here, the mood is very Walter Reuther announces the part of the day's work, and that withdrawn from South Korea. different from a week ago. Then, United States should spend 13,-
United Press.
Jalmost everyone was saying that | 000,000,000 dollars; "to take the. wives, too.
The Air Force Chief of staff wives then talked with several
of officers and enlisted men, who set up a canteen to serve food and hot coffee for pilots and plane crews on their return to base.
Fors
for the
for
All leave of Army personnel in
the Hawaiian Islands was can- celled today and troops alerted. General Aurand issued the or- ders temporarily cancelling fur- loughs.
never
scen than
sent
"Some of these difficulties will be evercome," General Vanden- berg said, "with the arrival of now equipment. This will include electronic alds of all kinds and how discoveries in the rocket feld."
Pilots praised
These are new types of armour.
piercing rockets, and are on their way from the Ualled States. The Oghter forces have had a great
Norwegian Premier advocates peace appeal to the Kremlin
The
Stockholm, July 13. 1. To contribute towards put--| happy, it would pay heed to
such an appeal. Primeting an end to the war in Korog Norwegian
Dwishes: 1, Minister, M. Einar Gerhard- and inducing the North Korean
"If the Soviet Union w to withdraw to the 30th Farallel.
the world new 2. To tako part in the United there will be peace in son, today urged a
today and in the days to come. deal to do with the relatively slow "Stockholm Peace Appeal" Nations' work ngain.
"I believe," he added, "that progress of the North Koreans in which would ask Russia to 3-To agree to an effective all responsible people in the the last few days. Ho quoted help end the Korean war and control of atomie energy,"
world will help in trying to pre- Lieutenant-General Walion H.
vent the use of the atomic bomb. Walker, Commander of the Eighth return to the United Nations.
But they want more than that.. Army as saying 'the Reds would have both much farther along had
They want to try to prevent war itself."
M. Gerhardson, who arrived
Peace
To contribute towards con-
from Oslo this morning," asked a cluding peace treaties with Aus- it not been for air force opera- Social Democrat Youth rally at trin, Germany and the other
Meanwhile, 1,000,000 -- Amari- tions
nearby Skarpnacck to send out countries which have still not
cans 'havo' signed ine Stockholm for the F-80, General this new appeal, which first and had peace. Vandenberg sold the plints have foremost should be sent to the the Soviet Union attaches petition to outlaw the atomic
Unian n' fealing of security in it because Soyiginal Stockholm Importance to what people think bomb, its sponsors announced. of its demonstrated ability to net (Tho
ORE In this world, il must, know that In New York today,
cignatures da a stable platform for rockels Appeal" adopted at a Commune the ordinary people in all coun
Of these, 100,000 were obtained after the Horean and guns.
lat-led World Peaco Partisans tries would rally: 100 per cent to
In Stockholm, last such an appeal."
war started. M. Gerhardson Congress
Me. Denti Acheson, the: U.S. *****It is very pinasant to know March seeks to gutiaw, the atomic declared, one m
Secretary of State dentursted that we have weapons that can bomb.).
And If the Soviet Union the appeal: yesterday: as-pulling a wanted to make the peoples ↑ preintur:/suponi ül-bank-fatth gemod
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* be turned from the offensive M. Gerhardsen asked for this
ingridet an attack from the air, four-paint appeal to the Soviet
If there shevist be off, fche said. Unlunt
of the whold World, joyful and evasion.Bauter.
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