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Union Calls A Strike
New York. Feb, 15. The Textile Workers' Union of America today cafted a strike of woolien and wernied workers throughout
the industry
for midnight after a breakdown in negotiatlónss with the American Woollen
Company.
The call will affect 7,000 workers,
Mr Emil Rlove, the Unton's President, sald that the American Woollen Company refused to make A "reasonable offer" ta- ward meeting Union pre- posals on the grounds that price celling muxt bo Hifted before wages would be raised.
The Union was asking for 15 cents an hour ware increase with regular cost of living adjustments, a pension scheme and extra holidays.-—-Beater.
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MacArthur Has Authority,
To Cross 38th Parallel
BUT PRESIDENT TRUMAN ADMITS
POLITICAL DIFFICULTIES EXIST
Washington, Feb. 15.
President Harry Truman said today that General Douglas Mac- Arthur has the authority-given him by the United Nations to cross the 38th Parallel in Korea.
After saying Allied troops are still operating under UN authority regarding Parallel 38, he left up in the air whether there would be any sizable incursion beyond. that line. But he added there were political aspects involved. He said he didn't care to comment on the political angles.
The subject, which has been a point of difference with some of America's allies, was mised by newsner at the President's weekly news conference.
Storm Wrecks Five US
Ships In Tokyo Bay
Washington, Feb. 15.
The Navy reported today five American vessels, washed including the submarine Bugara, aground. by a storm in Tokyo Bay yesterday.
A spokesman said no loss of! life was reported in preliminary accounts received from Tokyo,
Neither was anything avail- able about the condition of the vegrels.
Sea
addition to the submarine, landing the other vessels were ship converted for use as an Aircraft supply vessel and three merebant vessels chartered by
Millitary
Transportį the Service.
The aircroft auxillary ship ue the Fabius. was identified The merchantmen were listed as the Bowdoin Victory, Coell N. Beam and the Robin Good- fellow.
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The submarine Bugara, built
in 1944, normally carried
85
officers and men.
ports indicated fie submarine
The Navy, said that later re-
had suffered
come underwater
were
The 38th Paralel milter was raised this way:
A reporter asked for com- ment on the fighting in Korca, where some South Korean Marines arc
already fighting north of the old border between North and South Korea, but most of the UN troops are hard presed south of it,
The President said he had no comment.
"Where do we go from here?" another inquired,
"Where do you want to go?" Mr Truman asked, smiling.
"Can you discuss going be yond the 3801 Parallel?" was the next question.
Mr Truman said that is a
A US Navy spokesman said the American transports Gen-military matter, that he had no CT C. G. Morton and Marine intention of doing so now. Phoenix reached the stern sec- tion early today and took off the passengers and some of the crew.
spokesman The Navy
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Later, he described it as a strategle matter in the hands of the Commanding General in the Far East
jected that
At one point today, Carl Mc- Cardle of the Philadelphia Bui- letin Interposed to say he assumed Mr Truman did not want
vant to be drawn into
discus- sion similar to the one of a few months
when the ago President told reporters use of the atomic bomb had always been under consideration, but he didn't
want to Use it in Korea
The statement caused excitement considerable"
in Britain
and the White House issued a statement saying the President had
по given uso ot the authorisation bomb.
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Associated Press.
Replying to McCardle, Mr Truman simply repeated that the Commanding General in the the authority feld has necessary to carry on milllary added that is operations and his business. Under further questioning, he
Me Truman also told the re- said the UN authority granted
that General George porters that by Friday morning at 6.30 last autumn to cross the Parallel Marshall's testimony today that the stern section of the Christer still is in effect.
military chiefs had agreed on 100 miles out of An English reporter inter-
four more American divisions Salen, was Yokohama and
making
"there is a lot of for Europe is in line with the port, ap discussion over the political President's belief and that is four knots towards
of the the Darently under its own power. aspects of the crossing
reason he so testified. --Associated Press.
38th Parallel."
the President answer- Oh, ed, adding there will be a lot more discussion on the sub- ject, too, but he didn't intend to comment on that today.
The British have been trying to locep the Korean Aghting as Umited possible and are zo
the to Crossing ported opposed 88th Parallel. Only last Mon- day the Prime Minister, Mr Attlee told the House of Com imons that UN forces should be kept south of the dividing lime until there is "full consultation with the UN."
COAL CRISIS TALKS FAIL
Sydney, Feb. 15, Efforts to end the Australian damage and that the merchant ship Bowdoin Victory received coal crisis collapsed today when A spokesman a group of mine owners refused heavy damage.
discussions until said the vessels "may be a ma- to continue
the miners halt their weekly jor salvage job."
one-day work stoppage.
Wales mine New South owners said they would take no in conferences further part until the miners discarded the stop-work practice designed to enforce wage demand4.
aimed
The Navy reports also indi- cated some damage to the other two merchant vessels ——-Also- ciated Press.
All crow
the storm
PASSENGERS RESCUED
Tokyo, Feb. 16. len pessengers and 87 members of wrecked Swedish motor vessel Christer Salen are safe, rescue ships radioed today.
The bow of the ship broke off on Thursday in a storm about 200 miles east of Tokyo,
at
The conferences, ending the dispute, have been under way here between mem- bers of the Federal Government, the trade unions, the Joint Coal Board and the miners-United
Press.
COMMENT OF THE DAY
CONSULTATIONS
Stockpiling
Programme
Announced
Command
Rear - Admiral A. K Scott-Moncrieff, D80, who has been appointed to suc- ceed Vice-Admiral Sir W. G. Andrewcs, KBE, CB, CBE, as Flag Officer Com- manding the Fifth Cruiser Squadron, and Flag Officer Second-In-Command of the Royal Navy's Far East Station.
Avalanches Bring Death, Destruction
|PO ́RIVER BURSTS ITS BANKS
EXPORTS OF
RUBBER
Decline
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In Sales
To Red China
London, Feb. 15.
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Decapitated
4
By Plane
Buenos Aires. Feb. 15.
A small plane on; off the heads of four people when it dipped in a fare. well salute at the Para-
kway Encarnacion Airport, according to Prem. re- poris reaching here today. They were friends come to bid farewell_to A tenant of the Paraguayan Air Force and
DOTH- pánton who were Bound
for Brasil-Reuter.
Exports of rubber to China from Malaya fell from 9,302 tons last November to 7,180 tons in December, Mr Harold Wilson, President of the Board of Trade, stated in the House of Commons U.S. today.
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He added that there were no exports or tran- TO RELAX shipments of rubber in British ships from Britain to Russia in the same period.
Return For HK
Guarantees
Mr Wilson was replying to Mr Fitzroy EMBARGO Maclean (Conservative) who had asked how much rubber was exported to Communist China from In Malaya and how much had been shipped from Bri- tain to Russia during November and December Washington, Feb. 15. - last.
The United States is willing to ease the restric- exports to Hong- return form
to
Clausen, of the British Colonial tions on Office, was elected Chairman). '.
Mr Edelman
asked whether kong in the Minister would co-ordinate guarantee that no Ameri- his rubber polley in the meat, can goods will be reshipped time with that of the Unked
auri
stop shipments of ru
rubber to In answer to Mr Walter The talks began
after the
Last
Mr Maclean later asked, "Is It not a foot that a ship with a cargo worth three million (ster- Hing) of rubber is now on its way to the Soviet Union?"
Mr. Wilson replied, "If Mr Maclean is suggesting that it is States and introduce the neces from the British colony to sailing from this country sary control to resist the rubber China, authoritative should like to have particulars. sollers who were taking ad-source told Reuter today,
Asked by Mr Lennox Boyd vantage of the Present situa- This offer is now being con- (Conservative) whether
the ilon.
sidered by British officials in Government were taking steps There was no reply.
the Anglo-American talks here. Hussin and China, Mr Wilson Fletcher
(Conservative) Mr Americon Government Milan, Feb. 15.
replied, "We are keeping a Wilson said that the conference your Mountain slides and floods watch on the situation and if would not affect
In any way Hongkong there are any undue or large the work of the study group on caused deaths and serious
those
required essential needs. damage in the Italian and
the He added that ho hud no It was reported that the Br Swiss Alps today, adding to situation."
idea how long the conference | tiah oficial, told the State. the toll of the most tragic
Mr Sidney Silverman (La- would last. Neither could he Department that Hongkong was, Alpine winter for years. bour) asked, "Can the Minister say what recommendations It
tell the House what advantage might bring forward-Reuter. Avalanches thundering down is expected to be derived by the Italian Alps, killed four this, process of denying a large more people, bringing the death part of the world population of roll since Sunday-jo, 14. -
scoems to raw materials they cannot produce?"
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shipments of rubber we shall rubber have to reconsider
Mr Wilson, "I should think that Mr Silverman, would gea- lise what the policy of His Ma- and other Jesty's Government
is in the matter governments
of control of
and
strategic ship as I made clear,
have
A mass of snow-over 1,000 yards wide was threatening Ludrigno in the Seriana Valley north of Bergamo,
The village was deserted to. London, Feb. 15. -Mr Hugh Galtakell, Chan- day except for 15 people who sellor of the Exchequer, told refused to leave their homes. control the House of Commons today Police were standing by to rements an
these controls to move them in Government was that the
case the snow petended to rubber not been The Secretary of State, Mr spend £140,000,000
on stock-broke loose.
The Minister was then asked Dean Acheson, told a news con piling of strategic raw materials At Tabucello village, in the if he could say whether the ferenco yesterday that the
од rubber now Brembana valley of the Ber conference United States is consulting on milltary and political questione Yesterday, it was announced gamo Alps, an avalanche reach
£16,000,000 would beled the cemetery about 20-yards with Allied countries having that
in Korea. He spent on this in the next six troen the houses of the village. fighting
weeks-up bo the end of the added that was about as far as
in discussing the financial year. he could go matter now.
mon
Disadvantages Of Controls
PRICE control is very much in the
even
The American Government has taken all-embracing powers and has already enforced reductions in the cil and in the automobile industries with the promise of others to come. The Irish Government, with an wider exercise of power, has brought In an order limiting prices for a very wide range of goods of all kinds to the levels existing last December. Mexico is the most recent recruit. Though the British Government has recently authorised increases in the maximum prices of utility clothes and blankets, it too, holds unlimited powers under the Supply and Services Act. Various members of the Cabinet, from the. Prime Minister downwards, have from time to time stated publicly that should the need arise, they would not hesitate to impose them and, in fact, as from January lower profit margins than under the previous price control have been enforced on importers, wholesalers and retallers of knitting wool. All the evidence now points to a further upward pressure on prices in the early months of 1951. Before this is met with further price controls, all Governments might pause with profit to review the evidence of the useful, ness of price controls in general, both as instruments of policy and as means for checking Inflation. The first lesson to be drawn from the post-war ex-' perience is that over a fairly wide area, prices are beyond the control of Indivi- dual Governments, This applies by and large to the commodities for which there are world markets; but it applies." also to other less obvious commodities, entering though only marginally into world trado. It is this which has pro vided the conditions for the "double pricing" of "British coal, to take one example. Importers of British coal have not been able to control its price; bisically, it was the determination to
preserve a free market which prevent- ed American pre-emption of part of. the Australian wool crop. Judging by Ministers' recent specches, the British Government has now come to accept this fact. If it is, wise it will turn its propaganda resources to persuading the British public to accept it as well. Economic prosperity is now an accept- ed weapon of the cold war. Economic prosperity for raw material producers, especially in the Far East, is best fur- thered by high prices. These considera- tions will perhaps prevent the overt of raw materials from price control being widely adopted as a major wea pon of policy. There are, however, less open methods of price control which ought to be re-examined as well. One of these is the price control that is implicit in the placing of a celling on food subsidies."Another haa been the control of the price of coal in Britain in Its initial stages the re- ault of a Ministerial directive and more recently perhaps cordoned by the Government rather than directly order. ed. The reasoning which has led to these policies tins seemed to many sound on the surface; in the short run they have helped to control the rise in the cost of living. But there are dip advantages. Argentine ment has gone off the market altogether. There is a danger that Danish butter will be: diverted from the British market. Tho effect of price control has been, in fact, to diminish total supplies. Even now it is not at all certain that higher prices will not after all have to be paid. If pricea had been allowed to rise car Hor supplies would be more certain now. In re-examining this kind of cou-. trol the Government must remember that during the coming year the most Important objective of all is the. In- crease of total supplies of almost all commodities
next year.
Further south the Po-River Other facts Mr Gaitskell gave burst its dykes, flooding farm- Inna and marooning villagers were as follows:
The cost of defence per head on the upper floors of their The River was rising of the population would rise houses, from £18 in the current year two inches an hour.
£36 in 1953-54.
Orders for machine tools had been placed in Germany, Swit- berland, France, Italy, Belgium and United States.
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APPEAL FOR HELP
From Vienna
,,
It is reported that a party of mayors from the
In Lessach valley Corinthia,
The effect on the home market where the 10,000 population has of rearmament would be that been cut off from the outside the people would have to do world since early this month, with less clothing, fabrics, fought their way out on skis to equipment, appeal for help from the pro- vincial government.
domestic radios, pottery and glass.
In his budget he would have
valley to see that domestic expendi-. The situation in the ture
was down 40 avold was reported to be “most scri- inflatiorx
ous", with snow so deep that Land and buildings would clegraph poles have been have to be requisitioned not buried, only for, defence production but
The Tyrol provincial goveZTI- for accommodation and storage,
Local housing programmes ment reported today that aval might be affected, but the anche damage in the Tyrol was Government would do its utmost estimated at 87,000,000 schill- to keep to the present rate at lings. 200,000 new houses'
a year,- Reuter
Sailing Time
Postponed
Govt Wins Again
.
London, Feb, 15.
The Labour Government tonight defeated by 21 volen the Conservativa Opposition's ensure dow nouncing it as unequal to carrying out Britain's de- fence programinse,
Voting after the two-day debate on defence in the House of Commong wast
For the Government: *208.
Opposition:
the For
287.
The
Left-wing Labour
Party members averted a possible
Government de- fest by supporting
the
Attlee Administration #t- self despite their announced oppolito, to the rearina-
ment programme,
Seven Liberals opposed the cenere.
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[Report of the debate
‚ appears on Page 1]
or
feared that peasants In Was
Carinthia and the Easterta Tyrol would have to slaughter Doep many of their livestock. anow prevented the peasants taking place in London was from bringing bay for the considering the limitation animals
from the mountain prohibition of exports of rubber pastures where
It had been to China for use in weapons of amcloed.
Switzerland called up 1,000 war against British troops in
||-Korea*** reservists of a sapper battalion. He replied; "I do not know Salling of the troopship Em today for cellet work in the what the conference might con- pire Oryell for the The East Tessin where another avalanche rider before its deliberations are was postponed today because of was!
of was reported --Heister.
Southampton, Feb, 15.
a defect in the main generator.
Fifteen hundred troops.
families were on board, Qildlaby
mid they doubted the map Tories Retain
"Orwell would be able to leave before tomorrow Associated From
over and it would not be pro-
for me to comment at this stage
When asked by My Maurice Edelman (Labour) why he had convened the conference, Mr. Wikon said that its
più poos, 28 stated in a comminunique issued after the opening session, w Bristol, Feb. 15. to review the present and The Conservative Party re- prospective supply and demand tained its Bristol West seat in position of natural and synthesis
Parliamentary by-election to- rubber maleo
Seat
day. BE
Voting was as follows:
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was also to consider whether any agroed
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Toomm-
Bit Walter Moncton (Commendations should be submitted to governments, bearing in mind: servative), 22,210,*****
Mr Harold Lawrance (La the intervite of both producers
8,072; 2411 4B
Consum The Conservativo
added that Britisti coloniaă
To Receive Dues. London, Feb. 15. The Prime
Minister, Mr Clement Attlee, told the House of Commons. today that the Government of India had now agreed to pay a former em ployee of the Indian Hallways, bour)-8 Mr TM.. G. Wheeler, his duce from the Railway Provident War 17,1443% compared with and dependent-territories wore Fund amounting to £5,767-14-7, 12348 in thn General Election separately-reptwecuted,
In February, 1950, Air Attlee, who, was replying The YAGBUCY to a question by Air John-Mellor the death of Mr (Conservation) added that she Me, LAWration) question of interest on this as a paciastkaD
mdint, which became tie on the Dovembers 10, 1948 (was bein
majority
(Ten natione, ace, represented catiwed by at us, the confor
Strengthen
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the export "$0"
goods excep for minimun
not receiving sufficient "minimum" supplies for its own. use and that the question of ta guarantee of this nature waż academic.
However, an officihi of the United States Commerce Depart ment told Reuter today that the volume of goods now being Eent was sufficient to meet there needs,
officials werg.
The American sold to have expressed this opinion in the forhol tiscussions?
Istanbul, Feb. 15. Behind the. closely, guarded and to have sold that exports United States would not be increased until commulato here, American the guarantee had been given... diplomats and Army, Navy and The difference of opinion on Air
attaches in the what in Hongkong's minimuna Force
discussed Middle East
essential requirements is ap today to strengthen the West's parently one reason for the defences against Communism extremely slow progress which
oficials admit has been made.
American officials
said thab ported to have additional goods which might be sent because of an agrees ment reached here
bo could
in this vital oil-rich aren.
In this second day of the secret, week-long conference, it became apparent that military questions had become as impor- tant,
if not more important, than economic and political used in Hongkong's normal exe matters. Unlike the last Middle port trade with Southeast Asia East talks in 1949, in which the and Africa but not with China. military had litle
the-Reuter. Part current talks are studded with Service, chiefs · and representa- ilves.
The
Casualty List
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United States Secretary for. Air Thomas Finletter, here to
Washington, Feb. 15. survey Turkish air installations,
announced American summoned air attaches through=" out the Near and Middle East combat casualties in Kotea, Tosh for a series of conference to 58,035,tóday, an increase of United Press.
647 in a week,Router.
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