CHINA WAR:
Fifth Army General In Red Hands
Moscow, Feb. 1.—Accordlug to the Chinese Communist Ifsin lua How axchey, the Communist troops in Manchuria have taken prisoner the commander of the Fifth Chinese Government Army. General Chen Kul-tan, Tass, Noviot news agency, reported to- day.
The Communiat troops cap- tured 7,000 officers and men and considerable booty in the fighting for Sinlitung. in Wes-
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New Currency For United States
BILL BEFORE CONGRESS
Washington, Feb. 1.-Representative Frank L. Sundstrom, New Jersey Republican, proposed today a totally new issue of United States currency, to "smoke out" foreign hoarders of American dollars.
DECREASE IN
WORLD FOOD
tern Manchurin, the Hsin Hun PRODUCTION
agency sald.
on the Man-
Americans holding the pre- them in for new ones of equal sent dollars simply would turn
value under Sundstrom's plan.
However, it would Ald
the
European recovery programme, said
aldes of the New Jersey Congress- man, by making foreign hoarders exchange their dollars for currencies of their own countries.
Sundstrom's bill is due for intro-
He is a member
measure would direct the The Treasury to call in all present cur- ency and "give new currency equal in exchange therefore,"
The capture of this town, it added, Lake Success, Feb, 1.-The has opened the way for a furtier | Lotal world food production fell duction in the House of Representa- Communist advance churian city of Mukden--Reuter. seven percent in 1947-48 naves tomorrow.
Yangtso River Traffic compared with prewar, but the of the Banking Committee. Hankow, Feb. 1.The strangula-population increased by 200,- a. United Nations flon of river commerce by opera-000,000. Bons of the Chinese Communists Economic and Sucial Council nud partly due to deterioration of report said today. foreign shipping in Shanghai, ha reaulted in shipping along section of the Yangtse being cut in half,
a shipping spokesman revealed. The spokesman, on official of the Seng Development Company, Min sahl that decrease in the arrival of Shanghai was caminodities from "remarkable," and that the bulk of goods arriving here for down-river shipment were rier and Signed mainly to the
in
But with the up-river teattle tung oil, sugar and other farm pro- arrivals dwindling. ducts
both and departures, the spokesman said the amount of trafic In these com- modities has decreased to less than 50 percent.
The shipment of goods to parts alosist the middle section of the Yangtse;ls also decrenstiut," he mid, attributing this mainly to the scarcity of supplies from Shanghai as well as disruption of the Peiping-Bankow
allway by the Communists.
At-Tchang. he said, ordinary traffic would result in daily ship- ments totaling · 10,000 pounds pil-
Ing up on the decks. Now, he said that figure has dropped greatly United Press.
PROTECTION AGAINST
ATOMIC WAR
Washington, Feb. 1.-Sevator
Alexander Wiley, Wisconsin
Republican, reported today that] Defence Secretary James For. restul and the Joint Chiefs of Staff are studying decentralisa- tion of the armed forces and the Federal Government for
security against an atomic at
tack,
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Writing in the periodical, Reserve Officer. Senator Wlicy said atomic war with Russin could turn the capital instantly into a "death trap for American liberty."
Asserting we are now living in
fool's paradise of apathy and Inertle" Ser
Hoarded Abroad
Sundstrom sold US$28,567,000,000 Unlied States currency was out- standing as of September 1947, and
declared:
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Shooting Accident At Winter Olympic Games
St. Moritz, Feb. 1-A Swiss policeman was shot in the leg, and Major Maurice Willoughby, of the Highland Light Infantry, a member of the British military team, narrowly escaped injury when a Swedish competitor in the Winter Olympics pistol shooting event loosed off a shot by mistake when he was turning away from the
range.
The general work production two years after the end of the war was also said to be less than years ago.
The greatest
reductions in food Prop pruduction occurred In the reglans which had large food de-
"No one knows how much of this ficits even before the war. The andunt is hoarded abroad by in- import needs of those regions had,dividuals (and private foreign busi- therefore, risen sharply.
[ness interests. Competent authori- Though production in the world's es estinate it runs into billions of food exportiut countries had great dollars.
Under Sundstrom's plan, foreign by increased, large part; of the addi-hatters of American
money would
The policeman tional output were being constimed
was taken the pistol shooting and occupied the domestically.
be required to turn it in
to the
away country
to hospital. government of their
Major first four places at the end of the missed his next: second event 111 the military within a certain time limit. In ex- Willoughby
Pentathlon. change, they would receive
the three shots and finished last in equivalent in the currency
Finland took the first two places of their
combination--cross These countries then would the event, which was the second in the Nordic country,
country skiing and Jumping-the exchange the old dollars for new of the Pentathlon series.
winner being Heikki Hasu, with Scandinavia took the chief honours 448.8 points.. Loday. Reidar Linklev, a 27-year- postinant, captured the second speed skating gold medal for Norway by winning the 5.000 metres race in eight minutes, 29.4 seconds. Sweden supplied the first four in
The result was that some couns tries now consumed 30 percent less per head than before the war,
while others consumed as much as 15 percent more.
own
The lack of cennontie balance this would give American dollars the world was manifest, not only to foreign countries which are badly in shortages of supply in several need of dollars to buy Americand intry countries, the report efalmed, In goods and help. them along the road (International transactions, it WIS
to recovery." Sundstrom explained. in the forel transactions of most reflected in "unprecedented dedcits
countries."
Huge Sum Saved
"And this, in torn, would save the The report contended It was United States government a feuge sum essential that national and inter-of miney which would otherwise be national action be considered now, required for Europeah_rellef." when the levels of employment are Sundstrom said incidental benefits high in almost all the world, to fof his plan would include "destrue-
full
tion of black markets" and a closer employment is maintained if it should prove that check on the wealth of tax evaders the fasters underlying the high who do business In eush rather levels of economic activity are not than keep books--Associated Press. permanent.--Reuter,
ensure
that
OSCAR SLATER
DEAD
Ayr. Scolland, Feb. 1.-A! Silesian named Oscar Slater
died yesterday in the obscurity
Slater, who was 75 years outlived the judge who
Labour Party
To Boycott
Hague Parley
The ice hockey tournament, which is still the subject of dispute, with the International Olymple Committee bonning it from the Olympies and the International Hockey Federation still considering it a an Olympic event, provided no surprises.
Carara beat Great Britain three to n. United States beat Italy 31 goals to one, Switzerland beat Austria 11 I wo and Czechoslovakia beat Puland 13 gols to one.-Reuter.
10
Skating Protest
St. Moritz, Feb. 1.-A protest by inations against the pairings fo" the 1,500 metres speed skating in thei Winter Olympics tomorrow morn- London, Feb. The Na-ing was this evening overruled at n
ing Union
Travel Ban Totional Executive of the Labour meeting of the International Skat
Switzerland
To Be Lifted
Party has decided to boycott The pairs will now skate tomor- the conference on European row according to the times the com- unity which it is proposed to petitors accomplished in the 500 hold at the Hague carly in May, metres race on Saturday. informed quarters here stated today.
The French Socialist Party, it is
Party in de-
thought here. may align itself with the British Labour ellaing to take part in the meeting
The Labour Party decision. is thought to be based on:
Morgan Phillips, general London, Feb. 1-1t was be-secretary of the Labour Party, to- of the new generation that has fieved in responsible circles inday declined either to confirm or forgotten one of the most cele-London today that the ban on deny the report. brated murder casos in criminal | Britous spending their holidays |
in Switzerland would be lifted history.
old, on or about May 1 as a result entenced of the Anglo-Swiss trade talks him To Hang 30 years ago-for-brutal-which-were-successfully-con- Senator, Wiley odded: "We murder, on December 21, 1003, ofcluded last week. must decentralise or risk the des-
82-year-old Marion Gilchrist
Sir of national extinction.""
Glasgow.
outlived also
An official communique on the Senator
sought Talks is to be issued simultaneously Wiley bas introduced Arthur Conan Doyle, who legislation embodying his ideas
that Slater in London and Berne tomorrow, and of for 15 years to prove preparing for an atomile assault which was innocent and finally surrended. It is taken for granted that this might wipe out Washington
point will be included other large cition.
But Slater spent 18 years in Peter-
It implies that Switzerland has Approaching Mr Forrestal on the end Prison "eating hit heart out,"
Coman Doyle said,
thebeen brought within question he received the reply, "
the scope of heartily agree with you that decentra-evidence of a witness who identified Mr Ernst Bevin's recent announce-ing to European unity as a whole. Fisation
she saw coming!ment that a resumption of foreign him as the ma of federal activities adynningeous from the viewpoint of
Miss Gilchrist's frein
apartment. | travel would be allowed to countries national defence. I have appointed Slater's death
was com1- sentence
where arrangements had been made to prevent a drain on Britain's gold Air Secretary W. Stuart Symington, mated to life imprisonment.
or hard currency reserves.
tiny of
chairman of a
LIVE
He
persistence that the
small committee to Conan's work with the Joint Chiefs of Stalfitness was intimidated finally won The sum pemitted
Inken to be and with the National Security Re-Slater's release in 1924.
Two years abroad anmaally would be limited to sources Board on the broader aspect ates investigation was ordered and £35 for adults and £25 for children, of the
the problem.
Criminal the date of May 1 has already been Scottish Court of "For the past 15 months the Joint
disclosed as the earliest probable Chiefs of Staff have been studying Appeal set aside the conviction,
date for the relaxing of the general
be the
actual
the
dispersion and protection of mill- In Parliament. Sir Bainsey Mac-travel ban, and it was believed to- tary facilities and other national Donald said of the case: "It fills me day that it would
de-
agencies in the light of new velopments, weapons and operatio
nal techniques."-United Press.
CONVERSION OF
FRANC
Na-
Paris, Feb. 1.--Leading tionalised and private banke working hard behind closed doors today to prepare for an invasion of customers who have only Monday and Tuesday in which to hand in their 3,000 franc notes, now declared illegal
fender.
with horror."
The Government gave Slater £0,000 for his wrongful imprison
meni.
One of the neighbours around his fotir-room bungalow knew who Slater was when he died,—United :
Press.
Odom All Set
For China
ante
The arrangements with Switzer- land will equally apply to all the other countries concerned. originally mentioned were France, Holland and Norway.
1. The lack of faith that an organi- sation deriving its main inspiration from the Conservative Leader, Mr. Winston Churchill, is likely to take for European unity,
When the 10,000-metres event is
held, there will be similar pairings.
This means that two Norwegians. two Dutchmen and two Swedes will be competing against each other- Reuter,
a α-
Soviet Paper's Attack
Feb. -The Soviet- Moscow, licensed newspaper, Taegliche Rundschau, today bitterly criticised the International Olymple Commit- tee's decision to cancel the lee hoc- key tournament-at-the-Winter Olym-- pic Games at the request of Ameri- van teams.
"I can only be termed
of the Olympic liberate mockery idea to cancel ice hockey play un- ter the pressure of two gangs of trans-Atlantic businessmen involved 2. That Western European unity for months in the
dispute over the paper says-Reuter. must be conceived as a road lead-eligibil. Feb. 1.-Gilbert Dodds. who is 28-year-old Boston. athlete, The development afirms the de- also an ordained minister, broke cision a year ago that Labour Party his own world indoor inile record members should withhold their sup-
Wane- port from Mr Churchill's Unitedst night by winning the
nker mile at the Madison Square According
Garden in four minutes, 5,3 seconds. The previous mark was four minutes, 6.4 seconds, set in 1944.
The new gure also equals the American outdoor record set by Sweden's Gundar Haego, at Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, in July, 1943,
Europe Committee..
to
influential Labour quarters, the de- eision to stay away from the Hague
s conference is nut a lan in the sense thut Labour bans, for instance, as sociation with
y Communist
activity:
"What we do in a case like this," one authority explained, "s to re- fuse to go ourselves and to suggest to our members-whether In Purlin- ment or out of it--that it is not de- sirable to make propaganda through such it conference."—Reuter.
New
INDOOR MILE MARK
Detailed Plan For National Lottery
London, Feb. 1-A detailed plan for a £2,000,000- 000 state lottery to reduce Britain's income tax and the national debt has been submitted to the Government.
and Members of Parliament.
Income Tax Reduction
Chief sponsor is Máj. Dennis should be 100 first prizes, 100 second Eric Smith, banker and manag-prizes, 200 third prizes and so on Ing director of a London dis- down to 1,000,000 tenth prizes, count house. His associates Include E. P. Smith, Conserva- tive Member of Parliament for the income tax alone would enable They said the amount diverted to Ashford, Kent, and Godfrey its reduction by two shillings six- Bulter, brother of the Earl of pence or three shillings Carrick.
Announcement of the lottery plan aroused widespread Interest, but it appeared unlikely that the govern- ment would approve it.
and other approved institutions to buyers anywhere in the world..
Half In Prizes
pound.
on avery
The lottery should be held once the provision that it must be sanc a year for three or four years with tloned each year by Parliament, they
said.
Tho sponsors suggest that 2,000.- Britain has and state ottenes off 000,000 one-pound tickets be offered and on for almost 500 years, the last for sale through post offices, other on October 18, 1820. The first was Loverment departments, banks, Boated by Queen Elizabeth to obtain
funds to Insurance companies, stockbroker and for other public works.
Improve Britain's harbours The first prize was listed £3,000 in cash, several hundred pounds In silver and gold plate and "good tapissarie mcete for banglaga and The £2,000,000,000 proceeds would other covertures and certain sortes then be apportioned as follows: of good linen cloth."
£ 1,000,000,000 in prizes;
Subsequent state lotteries were £950,000,000 to the state, com-held to raise funds for the colony prising £500,000,000 for the redue of Virginin to help finance the war tion of the national debt, £300,000,000 against
Fronce, to help bulld towards reduction of the present in- Westminister Bridge across the come tax of nine shillings In the Thames, and in 1757 for the personal pound, £100,000.000 for the purchase enrichment of the then King George.
more food | of
from the Empire. Prizes ranged up to £30,000-Unit- £43,000,000 to nid the elderly anded Press. the and £5,000,000 for medical research:
£50,000,000 for, expenses, com prising £20,000,000 in sales com- missions and £30,000,000 for organisation.
The
sponsors make no specific proposals on the amount of the individual prizes, but suggest there
Iraqi Censorship
Lifted
tonight lifted the censorship in the Bagdad, Feb. The Iraqi Cabinet national press and foreign correspon- dence.
Fifteen papers suspended by the previous Cabinet were freed, and also feedom of the press nounced.-Reuter.
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France's new currency mensures have compllented the case, but the highest London Authority. 1135 slated that it is still hoped to make the necessary arrangements.
Switzerland raised the point that her exclusion from the arrangements would violate the most-favoured nation clause. Now that it has been conceded to Switzerland, any other could of course thião the
or destre to discriminate.
Dodds sprendeagled five rivals, who represented the best in Ameri- C. and had them strung out round the 100 yards boarded track witen he finished.
Glenn Cunningham, In a paced run, once did the indoor mile in four
U.S. ARMY KEEPS minutes 4,4 seconds-Reuter,
SURPLUS
ARCHERY RECORDS Copenhagen, Feb. 1-Two world Washington, Feb., 1.The U. S. records were broken in the Inter- Army is going to keep a lot of um- national Archery Tournament, which munition it had planned to let go as ended here today. surplus.
Mrs. Bura, the British champion, and
Edith Misu
Rosengren, ol
women's John R. Steelman, assistant to Denmark, both beat the President Truman, said today the record of 1,003 points with 1.136 and Tuesday the Finance Ministry would Wearing a broad grin, betray-me point. Beliain has no inten- Army's estimate of steel and iron 1.112 points respectively, while Hans have to grant an extension.
serap it could provido Industry Deutgen, of Sweden, beat the men's There were still no details todaying tremendous self-confidence, as to how or when the repayment Bill Odom, 28, climbed into his need to prxcepting the overriding through demilitarisation of surplus record of 1,398 points with, 1,142 ammunition has been cut in half. points, while Einar, of Denmark, self-converted
scored 1,340 pointa-Router.
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The
reserves,
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travel to
that a Cabinet heraber and said he still plans necessary, arrangements
Switzerland further impiles that Steelman said this resulted from
would begin.
It is understood meeting on Wednesday will discuss
sums.Router,
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Dresurvey of Army stockpile needs.
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the repayment to holders of small to be in China before Valen-made to rectify the trade balance He added that whatover is "reclassi-
between Switzerland and the over- fled as non-surplus will be mula- The Hague, Feb. 1. The conclud-Holt: 17.00-Big Ben.. Racio newssel:
Indo-Chinese Hold
tine's Day.
seas sterling arcu.
tained as a national asset in the Ing stages of the Dulch open table atrong Britain had herself a favourable ammunition
championships had stockpile."---Associated tennis balance with Switzerland throughout | Press.
foreign challenge, especially from last year and could have afforded
Czechoslovakia, who won the first finals--the women's doubles-when to allow travel. What upset the situation was the heavy deficit of overnens sterling aren with Switzerland.---Reuter.
He sak he would be leaving San Francisco in 10 days and ought to be in Western China in another four In Marseilles
days. Marseilles, Feb. 1.The police to-
Odom's plane, "The Explorer," was about 2,000 confined Chinese workers to their camp nt purchased and converted at the Altus the Mazargues, outside the city, to pre-army air base.
-day
Indo-
vent any disturbance during a visit
of the French Mininter of Expliot Carroll Salee will pick up some
M. Francols Affairs,
Servicemen's
From Dayton, Ohlo, Odom and co-
instruments from the U.S. Air Force
China
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Fifth Anniversary Of Stalingrad
Persia Socking
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and 10 passengers for the The Indo-Chinese had planned a jaunt. demonstration to protest against the arrent last week of Tran Nguc Danh, The party will attempt to measure Moscow, Feb. 1. The Soviel leader of the Indo-Chinese auto-the height of the Amne Mochene Union today celebrated the Aft nomous delegation in Paris, for Peak in Western China, reported to anniversary of finnl victory over the alleged acts against the integrity of be higher than Mount Everest. 330,000 strong German Army trap- by a special parliamentary France.-Router.
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