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VOL. I NO. 49
MONDAY, NOVEMBER, 25, 1946.
MYSTERY OF THE TWELFTH DAKOTA
PASSENGER SOLVED!
DARING SHUTTLE Ukraine Claims
SERVICE RESCUE
BY SWISS PILOTS
12
PLANES LANDED ON SOFT
SNOW FEW YARDS FROM
GAPING CREVASSES
MEIRINGEN AIRPORT, NOV. 24. TWO SWISS PILOTS, MAJ HITZ AND CAPT VICTOR HUG, FLYING A DARING “SHUTTLE SERVICE" IN WHICH THEY LANDED PERIL OUSLY ON SOFT SNOW A FEW YARDS FROM . GAPING ALPINE CREVASSES, CARRIED ALL 12 SURVIVORS OF THE STRANDED UNITED STATES DAKOTA BACK TO SAFETY THIS AFTERNOON IN ONE OF THE MOST THRILI- ING AND BRILLIANT RESCUE FEATS OF RE- CENT TIMES.
In spite of their five days and nights in the sub- zero “ice-bowl," only two of the survivors were stretcher cases.
Among those rescued was a "mystery" passenger whose name was given as "Harvey of Detroit." He had not been previously listed among the people in the Dakota, the total aboård having hitherto been given as eleven.
All the survivors were taken at once by car and ambulance
to Interlaken where the United
States hospital train waited to
remove them to Vienna, the
United States Forces Headquar ters of the European Theatre.
Molotov Blocks
Decision
On Use
Of Veto At UNO
Delegate Shooting
Was Deliberate
New York, Nov 24.
to
Dr Dimitri Manullsky. Ukrain- ian Foreign Minister, in a letter to Mr James Byrnes, Secretary of State, to-day charged that the shooting last Wednesday of Mr Gregory Stadnik, adviker the Ukrainian delegation to the United Nations, was ❝ "pre- meditated attempt on the lives of two delegates to the United Nations General Assembly."
The latter called oa Mr Bymes to see that the American authorities bring to justlee the persons respon- sible.
The New York police had denied that any political implication was to
be found in the wounding of Mr Sladnik by n holdup man.
Dr. Manullsky, supporting
his charge that the wounding was deliberate, said the attack was made in a shop which Mr Stadnik and Mr A. D. Voyna, onother Ukrainian delegate, were accustomed to visit to buy fruit.
The Ukrainian Foreign Minister wrote:
the "The delegation of
SCHMELING "FREE OF NAZI TAINT"
Hamburg, Nov. 24. Max Schmellug, the former World's heavyweight champlon,' has been declared "free of Naxi taint"
Hamburg de- by. Nazification Court, the British controlled German News Service reported to-day.
. Schmeling has already re- sumed sporting neflylties, it was added seuler.
Ukrainian -Soviet-Socialist-Republic draws your attention to the fact that i against and |
The land rescue party had spent the night on the ice with the Dakota survivors whom they reached yes- terday afternoon. Arrangements to: carry the party a safety over the bazardous mountain ground route were scrapped after Fieseler Storch light aeroplane, piloted by the Great Powers véto in the the United Nations are Mal Hitz. managed to make
United Nations Security Coun-
EL
New York, Nov. 24.
BENEATH STALIN'S
PORTRAIT
The Charge d'Affaires of the U.9.9.R. In London, Mr. Constan- tine Koukin, drinks a toast with Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery beneath a floodlit portrait of Stalin. Occasion: Re. ception at the Soviet Embassy to mark the 20th anniversary of the "October" revolution.
U.S. Govt To Hit
No decision on the question of security of inciders of it deleg At Miners' Union
miraculous landing on the snowfleld was reached at the meeting near to the crashed plane.
The Swiss pilots, flying Fieseler of the representatives of the Big Storch slow-landing planes with Five here last night. both wheels and skis, made eight Mr Ernest Bevin, Mr round trips in about six hours to-
Welcomed By Father They brought down to Meiringen | Minister in the chair, the, first survivor, Brig-Gen Loyal Haynes, Chief of the United States
day.
James Byrnes, Mr V. Molotov, M. Parodi and Dr Wellington Kos attended the meeting, with the Soviet Foreign
TRIBESMEN BESIEGE ZENJAN GOVT
HOUSE
taking
situated; furthermore, that the evil- place in the very city where the Laited Nations Organisatio Is doers have not up to
now been
apprehended.“---Reuler,
Victim's Doubis
Moscow, Nov. 24.
He added:
of
Pocketbook?
New York, Nov. 24.
of
French Miner And Wife Kill Seven
Children
*The
The police were called in later to
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BANDIT ACTIVITIES SPREAD IN GREECE
COMMUNICATIONS INTERRUPTED IN NORTH PROVINCES
Athens, Nov. 24. Twenty-four gendarmes were killed, one wound- cd and three houses burned in the village of Vasará Lacooni in the Peloponese area yesterday when 150 guerillas attacked a small local gendarmerie garri- son, according to reports reaching Athens to-day.
"A battle" between Regular forces and two guerilia banda around Deskati, in Mount Flambourgs area was concluded · yesterday, according to reports by the Second Army Corps Command.
Six rebels were killed, thres wounded and eleven captured,
including one of the chieftains Cinema Forced To
and one woman fighting with the guerilias,
Guerilla bands estimated, to be about 2,000 strong are reported to be occupying the country between the southern slopes of Mount Tzena and the Yugo-Slav frontier, the Greek News Agency sald to-dny.
These bands are interrupting communications between Ardala and
the Greek outposts of the
Show Jewish Terrorist Film
Simon, Nov. 24. Five Jewish youths... to-day Archangelos игед, It was stated. forced a cinema house operator Convoys supplying the outposts have been attacked.
in the township of Rehovot, 10
The Archbishop of Salonika sent miles southeast of Telaviv, to a message to-day to King George of show a crowded house. a "re- the Hellenes expressing "deep
anklety of the Greek people in
Northern Greece" and asked for the TANKS AND JEEPS USED Immediate formation of a "Govern
ment of National Salvation. The IN BLACK MARKET RAID message also asked the King,to visit Macedonia as a token et unity of Greece and for moral support to Greece's northern provinces.
Premier Constantin Traldaris has completed the re-shuffle of his cabinet which was formed three weeks ago and the new ministers were sworn in to-day.
Mr Philip Dragoumis, the Greek Minister for War, when asked about the Yugo-Stay allegations of Greek aircraft infringing Yugo-Siav ter ritory, sald at Salonika to-day: "Our airmen receive standing orders to be attentive and these orders are faithfully corried ouif. Greece wishes to harm nonс neighbours."
of
her
Plea For Severance Of Relations With Franco
New York, Nov. 24. The proposal that countries main- with
Stuttgart, Nov. 24. total of 1,110 American millllary: police, French troops and German pollce, have swoop- ed on the border area of tho United States and) French zones
arrested 26
Germans .and
suspected of Inter-zona) black market
nellvilles БОЙ illegal It was
border crossings, announced here to-night.
The jolt Allied raid which took placo on Friday WHO conducted in a hundred square mile area near Neuflen, south ́of Stuttgart.
Using tanks and Jeeps, the Americans and French closed in, searching houses and country roads in one of the biggest Inter- Allied military police operations since the war.
They seized' a quantity of illegal liquor and merchandise-- Reuter.
audience.
recurrence.United Prens.
cinemn
POLICE AND STUDENTS
BATTLE IN CAIRO
Paris, Nov. 24. The Government to-night ap-"
Nine bodica-those of a min- peared headed for the strategy The New York correspondent of hitting John L. Lewis' and er, his wife and seven children tatning diplomatic relations a half hours, in which Mr Molotov the Ukrainian delegate to the UNO the Miners' Union pocketbook were recovered from a canalGen Franco's Government in Spain cruiting" film inviting Pales
After a discussion lasting two and Pravda, who interviewed Mr Stadnik.
in memorandum addressed to the i ufter the family had mysterious-United Nations General Assembly of Irgun Zvaj Leum), the Forces Advisory Board in Austria, categorically opposed any attempt in Roosevelt Hospital after he was rather than in sending the Union at La Basse, near Lille, to-night beaked to sever them was made tine youths to join the ranks at 11.40 mm, and the inst one, Capt to limit the use of the veto, they shot in New York, wrote to-day that chief to guol and giving him any disappeared from an outlying to-day, by The Nation Associates Jewish terrorist organisation. Ralph Tate, the Dakola pllet, at 4.45 decided to drop the question and slon which said the incident in which portunity to claim that ho we hamlet of La Bassec, leaving no (publishers of the American leftist p.m. and boylsh, he had a leave it to the Assembly.
being martyred for cause of
Nation).
The youths drew pistols and told bandaged head, but he was laughing
clue but the smoking ruins of After declaring that he would not he was shot was a "ick up."
It urged members of the United the operator to run the film whose "The as he left the plane to confront the accept elther the British, United
his 400,000 faithful followers, American press eagerly
their house.
Nations to make contact with the dialogue said "Join our ranks to journalists and photographers, He States or Chinese proposals, Mr seized on the police version and even
Saturday night's revelation by an
Spanish Republican Government-in- save your country," There were a was welcomed by his father and Molotov proposed that the Big Five before the lavestigation had been administration source that President
followed a disappearance
mong the Karl Kobelt, the President of the should draft a resolution asking the¦ completed stated that Mr Stadnik was Truman and top authorities would notice from local authoriiles to the Exile and other Spanish democratic few scattered cheers Swiss Federal Council, who had Assembly to declare:
the victim of a robbery attack," the be meeting carlier in the afternoon 35-year-old miner, Dumortier, that groups, with a view to their sup- porting the provisional government correspondent wrote. arrived shortly before in a special
When the youths withdrew they plune,
Firstly, that it considers inoppor The New York police would do bet- $200,000 daily against the Mine to 16 years, would be taken from
bet-40 approve plans to recommend fines the seven children, ranging from two of Spain.
It also declared that the "Franco took the Alm with them. One said, tune any attempt to revise the
their parents, Mra Ralph Tate, the pilot's mos
on the ground, the Government is enjoying substantial "We have got more programmes United Nations Charter, and second-fer if they would withhold these an- Workers and Lewis personally in the
authorities said, that both is found guilty
elsewhere." event that he
the economic support from the leading ther, was suffering from shock and ly, that it rejects all proposals tand-ouncements until the Investigation
over and would carry on Investiga contempt of court, painted to parents were confirmed drunkards. members of the United Nations, was unable to return the welcoming ing to limit the use of the veto.
The police are now detailing one Mr Molotov said that the only tions with greater energy. One has governmental strategy,
When told of this, the two parents States. Argentina, Sweden, Belgium throughout Palestine to prevent a
among them Britain, the United armed guard to ench smiles of her husband, Brig-Gen Tate, Deputy Commander of the way to improve the use of veto only to recall the publicity given to
The exact ee. of the Union's declared they would "all disappear and The Netherlands."--Reuter not by ading to the police in Amerien to be surprised strike fund is oot known, but it is together." United States Forces in Austria, rights was
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at the lack of efficiency displayed by the New York police in this matter" other unions with known resources that it is in millions and known Reuter,
of $40,000,000 have informed Lewis investigate the remains of the house, that they are square behind him, which had apparently been set on
No Direct Comment
fire with petrol. As no trace of any However, the Justice Department fodles was found, it was thought to make a direct comment that the family had gone to another refused to on the report, but there was little part of France. doubt the Government had modified
The Arat intimation
of a mass Its original plans 'to neck gaol for Lewis for failure to keep the miners suicide came to-day when a barge working. Teheran, Nov, 24,
Governmental officials man discovered a hair ribbon and a 00 'the know that pulling Lewis in guet will small girl's underclothes Broadcasting an "urgent appeal" for help, Tabriz radio
canal bank.. not produce a call immediately. Inst night reported that 5,000 armed tribesmen had entered
They also realise and admit
Dragging operations led to the dis- the record that putting the Minerscovery of nine bodies tied to cach Zenjan in Northern Persla, killed 20 people, besieged Govern
chief behind bars might make Lewin other with a thick rope. They were ment House, the police station and the Post Office and were
martyr and provoke sympathy laboriously drawn out by a team of London, Nov. 24.
strikes in
In other industries. altacking members of the Democrat Party..
'borgemen" and Flood water six feet deep Justice Department officials
elvil engineers and were identined.-Neuler. The Teheran newspaper Etelaat enthusiasm but it did not make clear swirled through the South Wales likewise silent on queries whether reported to-day that several. Azer by whom the alleged reprisals were town of Mountain Ash to-day the Government planned to impour baljan Democrats had been killed begun.
after landslides and floods had approximately US$7,000,000 which Meanwhile, Premier Ghavami told blocked the two main roads and welfare fund from per ton royalties
had been paid into the Mine Union's | "TELEGRAPH". FEATURES in Zenjan, 180 miles north-west, of Teheran, in "reprisals" begun im- mediately after the entry of Persian nor-General of Azerbaijan, that his rallway from Cardiff and Aberon coal mined under Government
darc.
operation, but it has been suggested forces into the city yesterday morn-statement on
that this would be another solid "The "Telegraph" has received a Ing.
sent to all parts of Persia "to main-their lines flooded to above the plat
Both stations at Mountain Ash had blow at the Union's
pursq
number of requests for the fame of Premior Ghavam ся Sultanoh tala peace and order"
In the meantime, the serlousness Saturday, November 16, containing stated last night that disorders,„In- ] Azerbaijan.
form level,
of the situation at home and abroad the first of the varies of article en top atomic warfare by James Cameron, eluding the forced marringe of giris
Firemen rescued people from flood- was Dr Dhavid had cabled the Premier
reemphasized by two and the wounding of a Central asking if he intended sending troops ed houses at Buckfastleigh (Devon) Government oficials.
special correspondent of the Government delegate had compelled to Azerbaijan.
today
and when the rivers · Dart The Secretary of War, Mr Robert London Dally Express. A limited him to order
Patterson, In a speech at the Over number of copies are available of the military occupation the
The Premier's reply, offelally an-Mardie overflowed their banks.
Firemen waded through the water seas Press Club at Washington on 10th, and 3rd.. of Zenjnn, which was occupied by nounced to-night, was that security
will be Azerbaijan Democrat National Army forces
coal night, sald Bent thmughout to rescue the proprietress of a river- Saturday
strike not
would only forces last December.
Fersin. The elections beginning on alde cafe, who was, marooned. Elelant's report from its corres- December 6-will be held in Aber- Many roads on the south, south-supplies badly need in the wartorn pondent in, Zenjah said the local baljan under the control of special kast and cost coast. of England and Afayor William O'Dwyer of New population greeted the Persian Inspectors and Imperial forces dis- further inland are impossable be York this morning told New Yorkers forces' entry into the city with great patched from Teheran,--Reuter. cause of fooding---Neuter,
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Dr Salamullah Dhavid, the Gover-
Thursday that the Army and gendarmerie would be
Included
Serious Flooding Follows Heavy
Rains In UK
the
cut
of
the
01
The Anal Instalment of these (which momentous investigations hre published by special arrange ment) will appear in our Isgile Saturday nort,
of
Cairo, Nov. 21. Anti-Government demonstrations in Cairo continued to- day when for the second day running the police and students fought pitched battles in the streets with guns and stones. The casualty list so far reported is one policeman killed, four students seriously injured. More than 30 students were arrested.
Yesterday more than, a dożeń
Armoured Cars, Used polico, and about 20 students were
Calro, Nov. 24. hurt during a four-hour struggle in
The police to-day charged 400 which the students tried to march cars to break up, a demonstration deca-nge students with six armoured to the Royal Palace to ask Kio In front of e Khellvo Ismail Farouk to dismiss Premier Sidky Secondary School in the heart of Pastin's administration and call off downtown Cairo-
near the govern, y the Anglo-Egyptian treaty talks, ment centre..
To-day rioting resolved into a The students withdrew into build- series of nkirmishes around Fuad el Awal University.
the ings and hurled rocks, desks and The first chairs from windown and roofa..
sut The police did not open fire and re- clash occurred when students firo to two trams near the British tired a short while later, when the Army Headquarters.
students again broke out into the streets, and made bonfires out of their equipment.
Later four students were badly hurt by police fire as 200 students, hurling stones, advanced across the 100-yarda · "no-man's-land in the street near the University-Router.
Yesterday, students staged on. anti-Sidky demonstration which was likewise-broken up by the police. United Press.