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Toll Of East Germany Falls Something To 120 6530UEENS ALHAMBRA 1300 9.30 Weather Into Line With
In Texas
Damage Nearing The
Billion Mark
Dallas, Texas, Sept. 3. The cost of Texas weather
in 1952 rose toward the $1,000,000,000 mark today.
The toll included $200,000,000
worth of crops, 2,000 ruined" Texae farmers, at least 21 lives nation's long-range atomic air
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The Nations
Collective Farms Introduced
Berlin, Sept. 3..
East Germany is now introducing Kolhoz farms (collective farms) on the Soviet pattern. She is the last of the "people's democracies" in] East Europe to do so.
The Cominform in 1948 recommended collec-
·
Shudder About
(langów, Sept. 3. A shudder rippled through the courtroom to-
the proscoutor day when told what Joseph McNeils had been selling as "pure
Scoich."
The recipe: one part real Highland Dow, two parts French brándy, three paris Dinish whisky.
The magistrate inca tho errant liquor dealer £320. --Associated Press.
DISTURBING
The cause of the destruction tive farming to drain off surplus workers for in- FACTS FOR
was searing. heat, stormé and drought.
dustry and increase farming efficiency in back-
A cold wave from the Northward countries. West finally broke the sustained
heat wave today but the drought continued.
Mr John White, State Com- sald missioner of Agriculture,
drought that August
alone "ruined" 2,000 farmers and an-
There are three types of Hundreds fled into Wot Ger- Kolhoz, ranging from partial to many in June to avoid resellie- complete State ownership of ment. They said the average
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leaving the land and animals in
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delivering their Dr Mossadegh took a look at In the oil the possession of the farmers, quotas face long impronment what is going on
business in other parts of the who are to pool their resources for "economic sabotage".
the Middle and share the profits.
Control officials accept no ex- Other forms of Kolhoz include quantiles
cuses for failure to deliver fixed "Evening Standard" City Editor,
of corn, meat, milk Ernest Eve. farms owned by the State but and eggs to the State,
think he would And the with the farmers still sharing If a farmer's heas die, he still production and sales figures the proceeds of their work and has to deliver his ang quota even rather disturbing", adds Ernest all-out collectivised Kolhozes though it mears buying eggs in Eve. "For while the mighty where formers own neither a Slate shop at four ines the refinery at Abadan remains idle, Innd nor animals but work as quota price.
the other Middle East oil- State-paid labourers, doing their Farmers have to sell their surproducing companies are cushing eight-hour shift like any brick-plus products to the State, too; in in a big way, layer.
although they get belter prices "From the rich oil-bearing fur these than for their quotas lands of the Sheikdom Reutor.
Kuwait, which nre operated Jointly by the Anglo-Iranian and.
Gulf Oll of America com- ponies, shipments to the United Kingdom have been soaring.
During a period of more than
In some placer in Texas excord- ed 100 degrees Fahrenhell, at least 21 persons aled of heat prostration.
Texas weathor on Monday night erupted into a 100-mile wind
and rain storm which struck the Carswell Air Force base al Fort Worth, the head- quarters of the Strategle Air Command, and demolished one Although the Deputy Prime $3,500,000 B-30 bomber, crippled | Minister, Walter Ulbricht, when several others and caused minor announcing Kolhozos for East damage to 20 more of the atcente | Germany called them "collec super-bombers.
Live production communities" There was additional damage and promised that they would
buildings and in- to Carswell
be voluntary, It looks as if most. stallations.
farmers will be obliged to join such communities if they do not want to be ruined.
For reasons of security" the Air Force refused to estimate the total storm damage to Carswell, but reports sald that the Agure could reach $50,000,000,-United
Press.
Singapore's Film Ban
Singapore, Sept. 3. Thirty-two American films were among 40 banned trom exhibition in Singapore last year, the Malayan fim censor, Jack Evans, said.
The remaining eight Included four Cantonese, three Hindus tant and one
one Egyptian film.
The communities will have advantages including the support of the Government, the banks and the tractor stations, which single farmers will not have.
The farmer who decides to join will pay 25 per cent loss lax, get better seeds and better prices for his products. have first call on the services of tractor stations.
MUST BE SOLD
Kashmir
Proposals Re-Worded
of
"They have been shot up to 7,904,000 tons, valued at nearly £80 million in the past seven mowalt's neighbour, Iraq, 18 Jalso boosting exports. Betweeti January and July of this year that country's crude oil ship ments to the United Kingdom leapt by £11,485,000 in valus to
£14,202,000.
Geneva, Sept. 3.
by Proposals
Dr Frank "At this rate, there will soon Mediator on Graham, the
for Persian oll in United Nations be no need
markets".-London and on
the demilitarisa-the world's slightly re-phrased, it is under-.
of Kashmir, have been Express Service,
stood, and are now being con- sidered by the Indian and Pakistan delegutions meeting
The former who stays out here. will be without interest-free loans and must deliver 10 per
The alterations in wording
cent more of his products to were made in the revised pro- the State at low prices based meetings here with the delega- posula following the recent
on 1044.
Surplus products of which tions.
the collective farmers will have There is no change in the 10 per cent more must be sold general sense of the proposals, to the State, but at freely bar- it is understood. The altera
tons, like the proposals, ore
A total of 816 films were censored In 1951. American gained prices. films increased from 360 in 1950
A campaign will be waged 811ll secret,
the Kulaks
Dr Graham Crich Ulbricht's delegations, Herr
to 301, and British films fell against
from 53 in 1950 to 41.
Associated Press.
French Ave and Russian two many there are still many to bo praxious to finish the ton
Making
The Desert
Bloom
London, Sept. 3. A tree-planting expedition left Britain today for the Sahar today met both Desert with a sick full of 20,000 He in also ex- pench pits from all over Britain Homskong Alms numbered farmers). 233, Indian 121, Egyptian 27, speech showed that in spite of pected to have separate feet-to reclaim waste land.
the delegations to- Hundreds of persons crowded the much-vounted 1040 Comings with
around the leader of the expedi land reform in East morrow.
Both delegations are known
Richard Baker, in Igar Square, to drop their capitalists-Kulaks—today who
a sack after Mr own up to 250 acres,
ference by the week-end if peach pita In possible, though it is not likely Baker had appealed for British making the to break up because progress is co-operation
ct fast enough.
Descat bloom. The conference ig still in
A puzzled postman delivered difficulties over the old disputea bagful of packaged peach pits the character and number of sent well-wishers who were
by to remain on not able to be present. troops which are
onlookers Some either side of the cease-fire line when demilitarisation plete.-Router.
Gold Seizure By Ceylon Police
Colombo, Sept. 3. The Police seized gold bars worth 50,000 rupees from three Frenchimen passing through Colombo today.
The Frenchmen were later handed over to the customs au- thorities-Reuter.
He said that rich farmera are those who own more than 50 ACTES of medium-quality lanü, "But," he added, "many farmers with less than 50 acres are aslo capitalists because their land is highly productive." He stated that 40.0 per cent of all East farms are smaller than
German 20 acres
Collective farming will bring advantages for East Germany's economy, it is claimed, such as concentration of certain crops
Stopped The Clocks in the most favourable areas, a
The
Yokohama, Sept. 3. railway
authorities started an intensive investiga- tion when 01 electric clocks In four Tollway stations all stopped at 3.20 A.M. They found that a thief had stolen 330 foet of electric cable connecting tho clocks."
-United Press.
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approach farming, and better State control over produce and marketing. It will also release more men
for work in factories.
STRONG OPPOSITION
The present East German State, once a purely ogricultural
in
gobbled
is corn-poaches from push-carts so that
they could contribute pils too.
Mr Baker, the founder of the Men of the Trees Society, left a forester and for Keryn with
They desent transport expert. plan to plant the pits in the foothills of the South Sahara and ask the natives to tend the seedlings when they come up.- United Press,
Plans For
Improved Map-Making
Paris, Sept. 3.
part of Germany, has taken A European body to make ex- great steps to industrialise itperimental research into photo- self by founding steel plants and grammetry-the art of measur- increasing uranium and liguite ing with photographs--has been mining. Labour offices through-recommended here.
Indian Envoy To U.S.
London, Sept. 3.
Mr G. L. Mehta, India's Am-
to bassador-designate
the
out the land now search schools The Organisation for European United States, arrived here to- and lists of pensioners to re- Economic Co-operation, pro-day from India ch route to crult farm hands to substitute posing the flea, said the Washington for the workers "drifting from expansion of its 18 member Mr Mehta wit stay in Lon- the land."
countries called for topographi- don for about a week before Collectivisation is so strongly cal maps of excellent quality.
to the continuing his Journey West These were essential for all United States-Reuter. authorities expect the major engineering projects. Kolhoz drive to increase
results could ba Better monthly stream of at least 100 obtained if the services using East German farmers who give
methods photogrammetric up their land and
countries could flee to the individual West to escape from State con- pool their resources, its an-
Berlinowever, that the
trol.
the
nouncement added,
in
Ralfway Says It With Flowers
Copentingen, Sept. à. Meanwhile thousands of East The organisation, open to the Ay service to passenger", German farmers living in die governments and semi- the Troldhedehanen, a privately- tricks along the 650-mile borden governmental agencies of mem-owned railway company in Jut- with West Germany have been, bera countries, would consist Innd, has ordered its train to "resoftled" to mako room for of a. stearing
committee, an stop at intervals to give the police brigades building barrier executive bureau and scientific passengers a chance to pick to stop "Western aponta" from committees to carry out the blooming heather. Associated getting into East Germany,
Press
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