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No. 35379
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1952.
Eisenhower Begins
Visit Policy Talks Today
cannot be expected that
public any ideas he may havo formulated for resolving the Korean prob- lem until after his Inauguration as President 'next January. To do so might hopelessly prejudice the remaining prospects of the Peking Government - accepting the Indian truce
plan. It is fairly evident,
WAR IN
IN KOREA Five Men Die
TOPS AGENDA
Aboard USS Helena, Dec. 8. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower, five of however, that Mr Eisen- his Cabinet designates and top ranking military hower has reached certain leaders were to split into two groups today (Mon. conclusions in consequence of his secret visit to Korea day) for vital conferences charting US policy in This is evidenced by his the Orient.
In Fire
/ Rapid City, Dakota
Dec. 7. Five Air Force officers died today, when a fire £ two- swept through storey barracks at Itapid City air force base.
Six others were taken to hospital.
Several officers jumped
Vital London
Paralysed By Fog
NO RELIEF YET PROMISED
London, Dec. 7. Carrying blazing kero- sene torches, Londoners groped their way along the streets in front of fre engines to guide them. through thick, grey-green
Ham today.
haste in culling together As this big warship neared Wake Island, some several of his principal of the party prepared to fly to Pearl Harbour for to safety from second fog to a major fire at West administrators-designate for immediate discussions simultaneous, co-ordinated sessions. Eisenhower aboard the warship Helena and the rest of the party will confer aboard the and later at Pearl Harbour. Helena during the rest of its 3,300-mile voyage
from Guam to Pearl Harbour.
It la fair to assume
that
from these meetings will emerge policy decisions)
The Helena, cruising at a steady 27 knots, was apropos Korea which Mr expected to reach Wake about noon (8 a.m. HKT Eisenhower will be able to reveal
early ho Monday). desires after his inaugura.
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John Foster Dulles, US Secretary of State. tion. There are reasons to designate and chief architect of the Japanese Peace belleve that Mr Elsenhower Treaty, and two other Cabinet membora of the new was subjected to a good Republican administration are to board the ship at deal of high-pressure talk | Wake. from South Korean political' lenders, but it is
Charles E. Wilson, next De- "He's just unwinding from all not likely ho allowed him-fence Secretary wo eccom- | the months of work and travel," panied Eisenhower on his his- Hagerty explained. "Remember, self to succumb to their
toxic three-day tour of Korea, this is the first time he has had blandishments. The sugges-planned to leave the Helena at a real chance to sleep and rest tion that a thorough-going Wake and fly to Farl Harbour since he returned, home from UN offensive would quickly for conferences.
Europe on
on June 1. James bring the war in Korea to
The fact that advisers Jackson end 18 not
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digestible.
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floor windows дя the flames spread rapidly- Reuter.
Briton's
Torture
Story
Slashed With Sabre By Venezuelans
This typified the paralysed life the 8,000,000 residents of the world's biggest city have been leading for three days.
Tho⚫ weatherman said he ex- pected the fog to continue all through Monday and perhaps longer.
inuously rebeils rang
con-
but engines went no faster than three miles an hour. The fog deadened alarm bells.
Ono brigade stationed only 500 yards away arrived at a walking pace to find a whole block ablaze as flames ato. thre
of a packed interior furniture works.
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Unrest
In
Flares Up Tunisia
Paris, Dec. 7.
Unrest flared in French North Africa today in the wake of the gangland style murder of the acting leader of Tunisia's nationalists.
Shots were exchanged in the heart of Tunis between
French Residency.
has
The Admiralty succeeded in the first part of a major salvage feat at Singapore by the rais ing of the first 360-foot section of the giant Singa- pore Floating Dock which has been submerged since bombed by American alr craft during World War IL-London Express.
police and an angry mob of 800 trying to march on the Cupid Works
In
in the
between
Tunis and Parls were held up for five hours after correspon dents fled their first dispatches on the street noting there today.
covered with passenger
Union Troops Retake Post
Paris, Dec. 7. France-Vietnamese troops to
Overtime
Nearest to her record was inte
Canada came next with 9.2, New Zealand was 8.B and the United Kingdom had 83. Cay- lon's total number of marriages during the year was 53,013.
The bride of 60 years and the bridegroom of 14 were parties general marriages, The youngest .
16 bridegroom old and the
to
Was
at a frantic creeping pace be-
In Casablanco, French driver in French if he could be hind torch bearers.
the Communist-taken to the Sadiki Hospital in Morocco, mes Hagerty, Elsenhower's
Southampton, Dec. 7. casily Press Secretary, said that both and Hughes were summoned to
It was only by feeling the dominated General Confederá- Tunis and climbed up berdos Elsenhower's spasionz
that they tion of Labour called a general the driver. An adventurous British bent of the flames board the Helena Andlested that the
Colombo, Dec. 1. the Helena and thoss between General might get in come work seafarer charged on Sunday could fight them.
strike as terrorists exploded two R Eisenhower's life-long Wilson and high military leaders on speeches to be made when he he was tortured by Venezue
A private car then arrived at Cupid has been busler than Unable to spot dangerous bombs,
the scene of the incident and over last year in Ceylon and training has him
Tunisia was under martial Hached saying it would be even a man of 94 and a woman with # brilliant ordinated and will deal primarily trip.
heightly Injured by czas to law, with a 2000 to other and quicker for him to tak bat set of a succumbed to his darts military mind. But he has with the Korean war,
Hughes will be a special White doing research in
engines
and heavily-armed police and car, climbed into the back seat
Romance was BO much in the dlac given signs that Boarding at Wake were to be House assistant in charge of Orinoco Delta for American control the fire and an estimated soldiers were patrolling the of the private car air that not only were there he possesses. statesmanlike Dulles, George M. Humphrey,sporches and reporter leden
Mmong dames/was, donc | xtreets following the slaying-of-| Secretary
Later, when the driver ledrti- some 2,000, more marriages of Treasury-designate: Jadison,
concerns. qualities, and it is these e Govenor Douglas McKay of magazine and one of Elenhower's edliar of Fortune
Thieves and thugs lurked and
Hached, Terhad
38-year-old scurried
ed that the attack had been 1951 than in the previous year, will have to use to, the full Oregon, to be Interior Screetary; speech writers during the election
Dod Drabórie, who ad cu: Scotland Yard's emergency tele labour union
through the fog and leader of the most were made on Hached he returned but Ceylon topped a whole list if he is to exert effective General Lucius D. Clay, former campaign, is stated for a plice e 6 Cole, told newanen phono alarm sounded throughout world and nominal leader of the and found the driver's seat of with a figure of 13.4 per 1,000,
back here from Trinidad on:
to the scent of the accident of countries in the marringo rato influence on bringing the accupation comunander in Ger- In the Republican administration
to Ale a protest the day and
and night.
Nea-Destour movement. Korean hostilities to an many and of Eisenhower's-but the nature of the job was he intends
ono
with
the United
Reports piled up of robberies,
bullet-the Hached's battered, end. The idea of forcing close advisers; Joseph W. Dodge, not disclosed.
burglaries and assaults as police
ridden body was found on Fblood and the body' of the car United States' with a'rate of the Communists to accept C, D. Jackson and Emmet J. Hughes was reported to have Human Rights Committee.
squad cars crept Impotenily at
adside south of riddled with 25 bullet holes 10.5 per 1,000. Australia and day on the truce
France-Presse. conditions byn
had a leading part in drafting Hughes, likewise-advisers.
The 48-year-old seaman walling pace to answer calls.-
-the capital. Eisenhower's "I shell go to spectacular military victory
showed reporters scars on his United Press.
Communication Karea" speech, during the cam-
wrists. Ho is tempting in theory. Butj
said he was held
WEATHER MIXTURE paign.
Herbert Brownell
dungeons for Ave of New in primitive
London, Dec. 7. tice, be achieved · is not
Europe had a weather mix- WUson to Pearl Harbour by certain. The possibility of
General, is another Cabinet ap- plane for conference with
Orsborne said ho was seized ture of heavy fog and brilliant
CALM RESTORED the Chinese Communista General
today, according to re- sunshine Omar
pointee sitting in on the con- by N. Bradferences.
wallo the Verrezuelans He
Later reports from French becoming amenable to the Chairman of the
accompanied doing research on plants for the ports from Reuter correspon
dents tonight. truco plan originated by Chiefs of Staff.
dew Eisenhower to Korea niso.
officials said two students and Bradley
American Geographical Society REDS REACTION.
These reports lacluded:
one policeman were slightly in- India and approved by the directly from Guam-to-Pearl United Nations General Harbour yesterday. (Sunday) (The Korean Communist arm.
of Yen Cuhn about 60 miles romances, had resulted in were badly hindered today by a
calm pletely nature of the paralleling Radio-in what apparently was Assembly cannot yet be
Two more Timistan leaders south of Hanoi which Vietminh marriages while in 1950, there abandoned. Admittedly the conferences indicated that both the first Red reaction to Elsen-only after interventions came thick blanket of fog which lay
political the
were taken into custody and captured carly yesterday, the were and military ap-hower's Korean trip-retterated American Ambassador in Venc-over the whole of North Ger-
On the 753 such marringto propaganda line adopted by proach to the Korean situation an old charge that it would only zuela who was investigating the
On the other side of the ple shipped to a spot in Southern. French Press. Agency, reported
ture, there were more divorces the Peking and Pyongyang would be synchronised.
serve to spread the war and in case of an American air burg, Bremen and Berlin were rounded up on Friday as the
All flights to and from Ham Tunisia, joining some 15 others from Hanoi tonight,
The French Union Forces met last year than in 1950. General radio stations Is dia. The
Helena is expected to crease the suffering of the named Steve Mumay bag held delayed for hours. All traffle authorities removed nationalist no resistance. They found the marriages dissolved were 544 couraging, but the pro-
Pearl Harbour on Thurs Korean people.
in the same `gaol.
the Berlin-Hanover and leaders
further bodies prevent
French of 13
and compared with 187 in 1950. The Hawailan time.
(The propaganda broadcast,
air London-Hanover
routes, insidents.
Vietnamese in the post which divorce rate was very heavy BOAT SEIZED officially and categorically
Tokyo; quoted
cancelled on Friday, remained An pficial French report frem had been abandoned by a force among Kandyan, Slobales and the Korean his voyage and get- repudiated by the Peking enjoying
Muslims, but in both cases the Tunis said the police returned of 50. commentary
Orsborne, explained the Vene- at a standstill. Central News Agency. It said: zuelans Government. If and when ting some long-delayed rest.
nicknamed him the No chipping could leave Ham-re when a mob streaming out More than 200 Vietminh were rates have been declining-pro- With a they are, the suggestion that smooth seas
a tropical storm abated,
Tho
behind the conspiracy gave the Helena slogan Asians for the defence Dangerous Captain," said they burg harbour, and about 20 of the Grand Morque opened are
years-United Press, the impasse be broken by
yesterday,-Reuter. keet yesterday. The of Asia is the extension of the seized, one of his boats, the vessels were anchored in the as they tiled to force their way killed in their attack on the postgressively during the last Ave military action may recom- President-elect was up early for war. Eisenhower is the latest Argosy, which is now laying off Elbe estuary between Stade and mend itself. But not until breakfast and then went back of
List of American Trinidad, and later rammed and Bruensbucitell a long
Det sank his seven-ton yawl, the Munich Southern Germany thon..
to bed før most of the day.
plot aggressors,
barked in bright sunshine in Korea is betraying the real Mirage,
though temperatures were down desires of the American people.
Orsborne told this sixry;
to freezing point in some areas. "They accused me of gun-Roads all over the country were uning but the only guns I had icy or mow covered. were these given me by the The Bavarian Weather Office Wincester Company for experi- reported, excellent mepts.
for winter sports in the Bavar-
BLUE SKIES
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Eisenhower Intenda to spli Korean blood 10 -3well the war profits of American capitalists, The Korean people must op
Eisenhower as President- elect and affen their deter
"I was also cuspected of trying mination against
Elsenhower.")-Associated to get people off an island which
the authorities tried to keep The Hague Blue skies and Press.
secret from the world.
normal temperatures prevalled "On the island they hold moreover Holland today. Visibility than 1,000 political prisoners at the Hook of Holland was MEN FIGHT professors, doctors and people of about a mile.
good standing. There is a lot of
Antwerp Thick fog extending disease and the prisoners along the whole Belgian coast dually die off.
"The suggestion that I was halted shipping on the Scheldt
alfinland today.
Belgium had trying to take the prisoners away cloudy weather. Now York, Dec. 7. was ridiculous. I'did not know
Oslo It was cold but bright A furious battle between men where the island is and had no and clear here. The temperature
as wave accommodation for anyone else
WBE -8°C (23°F). ind fieh regod today · after wave of tiny herring on the Mirage."
deithin... their swam
to
HERRINGS
to
were
to the French Residency.
Tunisians trying to leave, the
Medina quarter Arab stopped and required to show their identification papers and simdar controls were in effect elsewhere in the troubled pro- tectorate-United Press.
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MURDER STORY
'n
_a
Tunis, Dec. 75 A wilners in the Ferhad: Hached murder caso sald to- day that the Trade Union leader, Ferbad Hached, was driven off to a hospital in a car alleged to have contained two or three persons dressed in European clothes after Hached's own car had crashed into a ditch as the result of a gun bitack from a ❘ passing car.
The witnes, Abbret Harso, a Tunis tramways truck, Uriver, said he left Tunis depot carly last Friday morning to take a The Hague-dater reports told Jerryload of workers to working of dog in many parts of Holland Drons. On his return; he said,
French employeed reducing traffic to a walking when two
were still riding at the rear of Orsbome said the Vénézuelanspace. Visibility was dry to
his lorry, he said he saw an on- 500,000 persons in three accused him of being friendly ten yards,
Some small ships-me ground com
coming passenger car which in Rotterdam harbour but came swerved sharply and crashed political leader, anil added: Herring by the million started with General Medina, a former
When I menacing the cold water intake
called mo a Har, serious damage was reported.****
road, Marry plane services were The witness said. that at the Lighting Company's 300,000 slashed me with a mbro and kilowatt plaut here just a week matched my false teeth cut cancellot
MILWALES.
the wrecked car, but, that he with a sword they thrust in my Berlin-The radio warned same time another car passed F*** drivers tonight that there would heard no sots fired at Hached's Sosman said he be areas of thick fog The for 18 days at chang war Continuation of the and held in chains for a go
and mist,”--Reuter. water of the bay before it is one time.
told newamen that
a Long Island power
threatening to cut off the M
to
countos.
SABRE ATTACK
quipment of the Long Island him the old I did not know off under their own power. No } into a ditch at the side or to
ago.
Suicide
tode fo
schools of herring Wellbe
in on the tide this
ing and crashed ogalast tho was kept in different dungtons Weather forecast for East Ger
huge screens that strain
pumped into the power, plant
"Oraborne'
and used to create steam. The the Am
American Ambassador supplies parts.pl
of British Ambassadory. Bir as they heayn Robert Urquhart, after he had thelshovel, 20-ian:?? crews been held five menina, Song, have been labouring right and Before released from prison, day to keep the fish from half- Oborne wald the Venezuela ing the water intake and stop guys ma 10 lijections every 21 the machinery-United hours to put some life in
Associated Press: CANA
last tree to brought his pase to the attention
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FIRST VICTIM
Car
The truck driver then mid- how well dressed man emerged from the smashed car stop. and algnalled him Although slightly bent-over" the man did not appear to have any Tokyo Dec. 7.
injuries and Harrs gold that at The first victim this season seemed as if the driver of the dmong mountain climbers acal-
passer car had been thrown ing mow covered Mount Full hard against the steering wheel
by the force of the was reported today.
elimbers,
The man who was later dis- ** One of three Tadapi Kato, 20, tell and rolled covered to have been Forked to his death Reuter.. phils | Haobod› them? malod the truck
May be GILMAN'S have got it
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