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Hoover Picked
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To Help Relieve India's Famine
Washington, Feb. 7.
President Truman has picked Mr Herbert Hoover to help avert famine in India.
Mr Hoover, prominent Republican who was President of the U.S. from 1928 to 1932, directed Belgium relief after World War I. He has re- cently headed a famine relief study.
Mr Hoover told reporters after a White House call Wednesday that he would serve as an adviser to Presi- dent Truman in helping to organise the transportation and food resources to supply the need in India.
The US has never in all the countries of the Indian history failed to be helpful to Ocean arca, Some of those have surpluses and some may them- selves need help, he commented.
a famine-stricken people," he sald.
On the subject of cost, Mr
The Democratic Administra- Hoover commented that India tion under Mr Truman wants itself has some money
to make a grant of 2,000,000 food. Associated Press.
tons of grain to India, but must
get approval and $200,000,000 of
financing from Congress.
to buy
Mr Hoover's association with US Train Disaster
the project
13 expected
smooth the way toward
gressional acceptance
Administration plan.
to
Con-
of the
Some Congress members have unenthusiastic about the been idea chiefly because of Indian Prime Minister Nehru's friend.
ship for Communist China.
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Presidential Secretary Joseph ADMISSION
Short
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Truman-Hoover preliminary
reporters
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meeting was conference the President will hold Friday with the chairmen and ranking tho Republican members of Senate-House Foreign Relations committees.
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described both meetings as bi-partisan steps to deal with India's food crisis.
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Woddbridge, New
Jersey, Feb. 7. The engineer of the "Brokers Special" admitted today that he speeding at twice the re- rutallen mit when his jammed commuter train plunged off a trestle here, killing 82 persons in the nation's worst rall wreek since 1918,
The Federal Bureau of Inves- Mr Hoover made it plain that he expects a large share of the gallon entered the Inquiry and
out of United assigned four agents to investi food to come States stooks but said plans must gate the "possibility of sabotage." be worked out also for use of At least five other agencies from countries inunched investigations of the surplus foods much nearer India where the rush-hour tragedy, which injur be ed 500. A total of 121 persoon transportation problem will
were still in hospital this after- in critical Mr Hoover said the pro- noon-15 of them
condition. gramme involved in some
less.
way
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THE FOURTH TEST MATCH-
Simpson And Sheppard Carry On For England
Cautious But Confident Batting This Morning
Confronted with the virtually impossible task
This morning the United Nations forces are pressing of forcing a win for England in the fourth Test against the last Chinese match which was resumed this morning at defence line covering Adelaide, Simpson and Sheppard, the overnight Seoul, the South Korean batsmen contented themselves with playing the capital, now threatened by bowling strictly on its merits and scoring only off the United Nations nibbling the loose balls.
"cautious offensive."
This followed a Chinese From the point of view of trying to earn a draw these five mile withdrawal almost tactics paid as, after an hour's play, they were still to- to the banks of the Han gether and had advanced the score from 114 for 3 to 167. River running through Scoul,
At that stage their fourth wicket partnership had realised 63 runs.
Sheppard was the batsman boundaries when occurred
ond he
took
But the United Nations forces will first have to winkle the Chinese and North Korean who Reds out of strong positions in opportunity hills controlling the road enter-scored three of them during the ing Seoul before a direct assault first 60 minutes of play. on the war-blighted South
The wicket gave the appear- Korean capital can be launched. ance of being less lively than yesterday, and speed merchant And faced with
superior Lindwall was taken off after one numbers though no "hordes" over. He could obtain no "lift" the United Nations troops are from the pitch and was not get- taking them carefully.
ting the ball to go through with any pace.
*
The Chinese hill positions are being pounded by the biggest The spin bowlers, Ian Johnson arullery barrage since El and Bill Johnston were imme- Alamein and plastered ceaseless air bombing.
The Labour Government tonight defeated by 10 votes an eleventh-the troops move in. hour attempt by Mr Winston Churchill's Conservatives to prevent nation- alisation of Britain's steel industry.
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Test Match
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the
fourth
by diately brought into the attack, Australia Wor Then but while they showed that the Test match by 274 runs with 180 wicket was taking a little spin, minutes to spare. England's they too could not obtain any innings came to a close at 3.20 pace off the plich.
United Nations forces coc tinuing their "right"hook drive are pressing heavily against the Chinese Reds om 'the' central front and are further north than the Seoul line.
But General Matthew Ridg way, United Nations
THE 150 UP
batsmen played adently, though cautiously,
Both
coa-
The 150 was sent up after a Field total of 210 minutes batting,
and the fourth wicket partner [...........................................ship reached 50 in 30 minutes.
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p.m. Australian time, for 228 runs. Brown did not bat.
Evans was caught at slip by Ian Johnson off the first ball from Keith Miller's first over :scoring 21 'after lunch, after
runs. Bedser was caught by Morris in the covers off the next ball for a duck. Tattersall was caught by Morris off tart John- The first hour's play today son for six, and John Warr was produced 43 runs which,
of clean bowlett, by Ian Johnson urse, was a useless rate for for no score. Extras achieving a win, but did make 23 runs
It was announced this morning that Freddie Brown, injured in car accident, would only bat if the circumstances demanded, the circumstances being
presumably
totalled
TEST SCORE
The existence of the One clergyman Labour Mem- and his Party and the coun- on ber half walked and was half try touch harm in many ways, Government depended
Mr Churchill called the na- travelling from York via a Lon- the result of the House of carried into Parliament after he said: Commons vote as an ad- don hospital, to the division lanalisation plan a "destruc-
issue" and tive have lobby.
major would
stumbling block notionel stopped nationalisation of A Welsh momber, who was in unity and national safety." The Attorney-General. Mr the industry, due to come a coma some weeks ago. and
This act will be a deep and Theodore Parsons, and Mr Alex into operation on February who is still ailing, was brought
injury to the whole Eber. assistant prosecutor for
he of rearmament,” Middlesex County, said In a joint 15 under a bill passed by by his wife from a North Wales township over 180 miles from
a draw & bare possibility. statement: "Speed has been the House last year.
London. indicated as an apparent factor
When the score had been ad- Labour registered 308
The Government's "invalids" London, Feb. 7. in the cause, of the accident.
not
vanced to 157, Simpson was 45 until shortly
Tokyo, Feb. 7. compile Strike fenders falled
the votes against 298 for the again | When
all
Mr Churchill said that steel
Sheppard 24 not before the vote was due.
Reuter's correspondent Warren not out and
12 Mr Winston Churchill led the was a vast and infinitely com- White today
win
extras having will determine Conservatives and Liberal
out, with the London evidence, to
wounded for the been conceded. is a sumclent opposition.
business Conservative Party's attempt plex
upon dockers' support in the pay dis- whether there
which second time in eight days on economic Jic to topple the Labour Govern- Britain's
and Wednesday when
Te crippling ports on amount to present to a grand pute
At that point England B sniper's now
iry for consideration."
Seven of the nino Liberals ment in a industrial Merseyside,
speech charging possibly her physical existence bullet hit him in the shoulder as quired 340 runs to win with
At 1.15 (HKT) England had Officials said that only about
he was crossing a rice paddy three and a half hours left for Mr. Eber said the engineer,, voted against the Government. Prime Minister Clement Attice depended. 350 of the 27,000 dockers in the
aThe other two were away ill.
taking with Joseph Fitzsimmons, made
"unpatriotic It was being cut in twain with
British and two play which would need a scor-scored 211 runs for the loss of Port of London were on strike formal statement saying that, Mr Raymond Blackburn, the step"
top" in pressing for the a rough and ready way for no American soldiers, 500 yards ing rale of a little more than a four wickets, the not out bats- had although he
read orders one Independent montber-nationalisation of stcel today the same figure as Jes-
at this purposę but Party politics at a north of Anyang on the Western run and a half a minute. men being Sheppard and Evans.
moment of grave danger.
battle neAssociated Press. terday while in Manchester requiring a speed of 25 miles an formerly of the Labour Party-time."
They had then added 25 runs that 130 men returned to work to-hour over the temporary trestle, abstained.
Mr Churchill charged
for the Ofth wicket. Some sick and bedridden the Labour Government was day, reducing the total on strike he was going 50 miles an hour
Disruption would follow na- tionalisation, he maintained. brought endangering Britain's In the North-West to just over just before the crash-United Members had been
economy Press.
hundreds of miles to vote. 11,000-Reuter.
Just
to appease the left wing
The decision to nationalise Commander in Koren, is keep of the socialist party. He sold had brought in lis train a hosting the line of his advancing draw the chance of earning the sicel industry, working of trouble which could only be troops
draw for England. DO straight 0.5 At the luncheon adjournment smoothly
ended by a general election, Mr possible across the peninsula in England were 186 runs for four management
being
Churchill continued.
their methodical "slow march" wickets. into confusion at a time when
Simpson w35
ont. asked
wants it was being
advance. He to lead
It the Conservative Party
caught by Jimmy Burke off Britain's read
He de- rearmament.
petition of the disaster and de- came to cloved: "Sir, it is crazy."
mediately repeal the Steel Act and he has one great worry on with 26 runs, and 22 runs were power it would im- feat in the north last November Bill Johnston after scoring 61 Sheppard was not out Mr Churchill noticed that It would adopt for the steel in mind: the coming thaw from extras.
bitter political foc, Labour industry Minister Aneurin Bevan, was which the
which may favour the Chineso unions had Reds.
For a thow will make paying no attention to him but themselves put forward for
the Korean talking to a colleague instead. a revival of the former Irenhe
raised mud roads Mr Churchill remarked Jelly and Steel Board which would
for his quagmire trapa
supply "I don't want to Interrupt have general control and super- not depending on one hundredth columns with the Chinese Reds you." Mr Bevan replied: "You vision of the industry. babble a lot, you know,"
Interrupted almost from the of the United Nations mechanderdd start to finish of his speech, Mr transport but on "coolic" su Churchill declared, that
lines which will be more mobil, That is one reason why General The Minister of Supply, Mr general election could not long Ridgway is not sticking his own George Strauss, replying for be delayed.
or his troop's necks out too far the Labour Party, accused Mr
until he knows just what hap- Churchill of trying to infame
Dens when the thaw comACA,—— dissension parly
by his
The Supply Minister, Mr London Exppress Service. speech.
Georgo Strauss, who answered Mr Strauss said steel na-for the Government,
declared tianalisation was now a Jaw that in the coming months Bri-
COMMENT OF THE DAY
THE
Not Very Much Clearer
THE Soviet reply to the Big Three request for a clarification of the previous Russian note on the question of a future conference of the Council of Foreign Ministers hardly does justice to its intention. Of verbiage there is much; of clarification little. Best example of this is the paragraph dealing with the Big Three objection to the agenda being based on the Prague Declaration. This is how the Kremlin "clarifies" the original proposition: "The Soviet Government starts from the principle of the legal right which members of the Council of Foreign Ministers have to submit to examina- tion by the Council any proposal touching the questions admitted to the agenda." Conceivably this means that the Russians adhere to their proposition that the Prague Declaration should be taken as a basis for an agenda when the Big Four meet, but that they are willing to have this debated by the Council of Foreign Ministers after it has been convened. If this be the ex- planation it is not likely to meet with a happy reception from America, Britain' and France, who, from the begin ning, have categorically repudiated the Prague Declaration and who have no intention of changing their minds on the subject. It is noted that the Russians concedo the possibility of widening the discussions to include problems other than the future of Germany, but the famillar propaganda noto continues to be the main theme of the reply, ie, the Western Allies are remilitarieing Germany, restoring German war industry and taking "numerous other measures tending to the hasty preparation of a new war.' No mention, naturally, of the Soviet. creation in Eastern Germany, of a so4:
called police force which, overnight, could become an effective military machine. Regrettably the conclusion is forced upon one that the Russians have no host intention of joining in a conference aimed at finding solutions will use the to problems, but they
opportunity for futile polemics and an anti-West propaganda campaign. There are two slightly encouraging concessions made by the Soviet: the first, already noted, is an implied willingness to con- sider subjects other than the demilitari- sation of Germany; the other that no objection to a Russia will raise preliminary meeting of Foreign Minister deputies in Paris to prepare for a Big Four conference. This may provide the means for obtaining a complete clarification of Soviet intentions and be objectives, although it would inadvisable to pin too many hopes on this inasmuch as the Russians have added a restrictive rider to the effect that this preliminary conference would not be entitled to make an examination of the substance of the questions placed on the agenda for the Big Four talks. This restrictive clause tends to cut condition across
fundamental advanced by the three Western Powere which is to insist that some preliminary consideration of the problems is neces- Bary in order
their to determine formulation and their order in the pro- jected agonda, so ́as to show their relation to one another and to permit the solution of individual problems within the framework of the main prob- lem, which is peace between the Com munist world and the free world. The Western Powers are united on this point and unless the Soviets are willing to concede it, the prospeèta of a conference of the Council of Foreign Ministers aro not particularly bright,
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could be no going back on its fain was more likely to see a decline than'an increase in her Imolementation on Feb. 15.
RIVER THAWING
no
Tokyo, Feb. 8. The Allied offensive today went cloon to Sead, and US tanks and artillery hammered at Chinese Red troops backed
The rearmament programme steel production. made it even more necessary The raw materials position that such a basic industry be in the last few months bad against the thawing Hon River. brought under Government developed in a way which must control. Ho added, however, make It doubtful whether a Artillery wheeled up. within that the raw material position continued Increase in produc-easy firing range of the amashod
and
was likely to get worse
be
on the
that it was likely there would on was, posible-at any rate and almost deserted city where
for the time being a decrease in the produc- tion of steel during the com-
He ority of the Irop and } the last line of bills south of ing months-Heuter and United Steel Federation, because the Scout. Press.
Conservatives would no doubt blame any less favourable pro- duction on nationalisation.
Minister
"It
typinis was reported wwging.. ited to say this now, The Rods before them dug into
LAST-MINUTE ED
London, Feb. 7.
ded,
Throo tank-tipped task forces for the third" straight day in Wodnesday rolled ahead along
Mr Winston Churchill, Op- the Government's policy that this Western front in gains of position leader, launched a whatever chortage of materials up to two miles. One column last-minute bld to prevent the there must be carried, out"
drove to within four millen of be, our armament the Han, which flows past Scoul Industry being token orders
steel
to
DOS
over by the State on Feb: 13. Ha announced that n. team The Eighth Army apntrunced
Speaking in the House of was being appointed, drawn that the two ather
from publicly owned
armoured and Commons today he 'described privately owned sections of the ankter columns struck hoary ro the Government's decisiot to go ahead with the nationalisa-
that all iron sistance eight to 10 miles south- Assig tion of steel
the West of Scood. An requiremen of as a "deed of and
arma partisan aggression."
number of Russian-mado mixes programme would be alowed the advance. Ho wald that
My Strausa Was
sold that astonished that tho Prime more delay in nationalising the
Minister, Mr.
As menacing on the thaw Clement Attlee, steel industry would sously were the flashing bayonets of carrying personally unprecenfurt would no longer be US, troops as they fought for drated
Britam and overwhelming responsibilities, should go
drove the
out able to import large quantities ward with their Turkish allies. of his way to add this: "new, of, wrap from Germany because
Ona :-- spectacular .... American harah burden.?
they were no longer avaliable bayonet charge Frup, nationalisation of steel and fron ore would be seater Chinten from videl hill three provoked auch. ill-will. and owing to (must do the. Früne
Mindering House Anxican buy me weg of Anymg-Agos
Evans, the next man In, had not opened his score.
At 1.30 pm, H.K. Time Eng- Jand were 221 for 5, Evans out 21, Sheppard not out 40.
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