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U.S. ATTITUDE TO
FRANCO
CAUSES
SPAIN PROBLEM"
London, Oct. 1.-The British Labour Govern- Iment today finds itself in a dilemma because of the United States moves to make friends with the Franco regime in Spain.
Asked what Britain's views are on the question of bringing Spain into the Western Union defence bloc, Whitehall spokesman declared:
The policy of the Government has
ENGLISH GIRL been repeatedly defined, and
RELEASED
only last week it was again re- affirmed in the House of Com- mons that our attitude has not changed. We do not like the Franco regime and do not wish BY RUSSIANS to recognise it, and there con- sequently can be no prospect of our getting closer to Franco Spain lu order to bring the peninsuln into our defence system.”
Berlin, Oct. 1.--Joyce Kleinch, the 19-year-old English wife of a German former prisoner of war, who escaped to Berlin after the secret police in the Soviet Zone had arrested her, was tonight preparing to return home to England.
The question diplomatle quarters In London are now asking will Madrid begin to hring: pressure to proponents of closer relations with
bear on Loudon to patch up the quarrel which led to the withdrawal of the Powers' ambassadors from the Spanish capital?
Sitting in a hotel with her hus- bauit, 22-year-old Waldemar Kletsch, her 18-month-old son and four-month-old daughter, she told British military experts, among Router: "Four weeks ago, we went them the new Supreme Comman- to a dance in the town hall, and der-in-Chief of the West Europeun when four Russians heard us talk- Defence bloc, Ficki Marshal Lord Ing in English, they dragged us off Montgomery, are reported to be all in favour of adding Spain as the to the police station.
"They let us go after I had told
ixth power to the five already them Üst I WAS ROL a spy. bu included in the group-that
next
day, when my husband at work, the same four Rustin, France Belgiam, Holland
the
wis
JC-
zinns came and took me to the focni
They again Kosimandaturn, cured the of being a spy,
"When I denied their charge, they knockeit me atout, and, during a hours, naked me period of reven such questiona na; What is the Aring doing in England? Are the factories there making munitions? Where are the big army camts? new airfields been
7 built?.
Have
Day
"The Russians eventually relented
had got me, but after
home I
I
found that o Russian guard had been placed in my mother-in-law's house. My husband and I decided and we got to make a run for it away through the back door. We succeeded in reaching Berlin with nothing more than n lant of bread." -Reuter.
Bird Chased Through
Bicycle Whool Alfarobe, County Mayo (via Dublin) Det. A farmer cycling gear here was stariled to see a bird Hy frutically right through the Broken of the front wheel of his bicycle. A moment later the biye turned
Ind 6 somersault- tossed him into the ditch.
It won't leprechaun. It was cat which had been chasing the bird.---United Press
TITLE FIGHT
and Latsenbourg.
un-
UNASSAILABLE BASTION Millary stratrytists recognise that Spain would form an almost assailable bastion in Europe in the event of way. It would also prove an ideal base for landing and storage of war stock.
the
effect on the results of the next minded people swinging away from Goneral Elections, with moderate- the Labour in the belief that their pledges mean nothing.
It is difficult to see any way out for the Labour Government.
It may be," one qualifed obser- "That the altuation may Iver d
to tense that we shall be cbliged to seek friendship with remuin Spain, which could hardly neutral. That would be
Government only could enter into a military pact with General Franco, by stompeding pubile opiniau, and that would be an operation of no mean size."- United Press,
way that the Attlee
the
PROHIBITED
MARRIAGES
Californian Law
Thrown Out
Sun Francisco, Oct. 1-A Californian law prohibiting the marriage of white persons to those of negre, Mongolian, or Malayan blood was thrown out State Supreme today by the Court.
The start. declared that since the right to marry is the right to join in marriage with the person of one's choice, a law prohibiting a person from marrying a member of another race restricts his choice, thereby restricting his right to marry.
The court held the law violated the equal protection of the Laws Clause of the United States Consti- tution.
It could provide air basus for Superforts, and it is believed that the United States some time ago made known its desires in this respect.
for The problem
Atllee Cabinet is a face-saving one. Un- doubtedly Mr. Ernest Devin. the Foreign Minister, would be pre- The court directed that the Los pared in the interests of Western Angeles county clerk should issue & defence to come to an agreement | marriage licence as requested by with
Franco. Spain despite the Andren D. Perez, a white woman, distasteful nature of such a switch and Sylvester S. Davis, a negro.
"Mar- in Labour foreign policy.
Today's ruling declared:
is something rlage
more than a civil contract subject to regulation by the State. It is a fundamental right of free men."
The court split 5 to 2 on the Issue.
The minority pointed out that 29 States in addition to California had laws harring the marriage of whites to sicgroes.
But how to reconcile such a step with the repented insistence by the Socialists that there con be no rapprochement with Madrid so long an the totalitarian regime, with its record of close association with the Nazis and Fascists in the Axis, Insts?
WOULD MEAN SPLIT Political observers believe thai any gesture to Franco such as in- clusion in the West defence bloc, admission to the UN and inclusion In
Whenever challenged, the minori- ty said these inws nave been up- field as valid exercises of legisla tive power by both State and shattering Federal courts,-euter.
the Marshall Plan, would spit the Attlee Government, and it would furthermor have
FREDDIE MILLS CHALLENGES
BRUCE
WOODCOCK
Lonilon, Oct. 1.-Bruce Woodcock, recent victor over
Lee Oma, was challenged last night by Ted Broadribb to meet Freddie Mills in a title fight.
Broadribb, manager of Freddie Mills, world light heavyweight champion, today scoffed at a reported offer of US$25,000 for Mills to defend his title against Harold Johnston at Philadelphia next January.
Saying that he had seen no enlile yet, Broadribb asked "What do they take us for? Gus Lesnevich, from whom Mills won the title,
offered $150,000."
was
He and that Mills would have a holiday after his coming South African Bght with Johnny
$500,000 PAID FOR STALLION
New York, Oct. 1-The British- red stallion Alibhai, sold by the Ralph Aga Khan to Hollywood film mag- nate Louis B. Mayer in 1039 for
and then maybe the ground will
be ready for a champlonship Right $18,320, has now been sold to a
with Bruce Woodcock."-Reuter.
Player Charged With Gambling
Car-
St. Louis, Oct. 1.Former dinal pitcher Dizzy Dean con- firmed
taday
thut he has been summoned to appear before Dase- ball Commissioner A. B. Chandler to discuss his reported gambling.
Dean denled that be personally had ever wagered on the outcome of ball games, Gambling by players
is outlawed.
breeding syndicate for the record United States price of $500,000,
Allbhat, by Hyperion out Teresina, is acknowledged as the
reond greatest sire United States,
of
the
be
Coming Events In The Sports World
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LONDON FIRE... DRILL
London fremen pour water against a tower in a demon- stration of a method evolved during the war to fight incendiary, bombs. By this means, the available water supply is divided among as many hoses as possible.
Communists In Occupied
Losing Japan
Tokyo, Oct. 1.-Soviet Russia is, intensifying her campaign to discredit the Allied occupation of Japan under Gen. Douglas MacArthur because of a realisation that the Supreme Commander's action in forbidding strikes by Japanese Government labour unions has "broken the back of a Communist plot to gain control of the Japanese nation," high American authorities said today.
Belligerent Speech By
Sardar Patel
and a satellite of the USSR,
Closed Door Talks On British Loan
Washington, Oct. 2-Ameri- can delegates to the Interna-
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Salution of yesterday's puzzle.-- ueled to be laid down, Patel said ning power as quickly as possible
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The informant traced various Enow; 10. Earn: 17, Orntion; 10, Vis; become difficult for India to main--
10, Reins; 21, Elder; 22, Aria; 23, tain friendly relations with Britain, moves which have been made.
Esoteric. Down: 1, Conserve; 2, Patel's speech reflected bitterness his country since the start of the
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Moron; 15, Ware; 17, Olls; 20, Sic. scize Communists temporarily to demnations of India's invasion
various industries Hyderabad and Foreign Secretary papers, f an effort to organise the Page 13:-
and
Solution to Skeleton Crossword on some news- Ernest Bevin's statement thereon.
of February. general Patel said that India believed in
strike non-violence first but violence it and finally the effort to carry out necessary.
strikes in key huge HOT CLEARC
comfort"
unions such as the railway
•
was
1947,
TODAY Cricket--Colony Interport XI v. The Rest, Heerelo ground, 2 pm CCC v. RAF. Happy Valley,
Lawn Bowls First Division
the saint He quoted
of Non- Gen MacArthur understood the League: IRC v. HKFC ut Sookunpoo violence, Mohandas K. Gandhi, as motive behind each of these moves (4 p.m.); Friendly: KBGC v. HKCC experienting "feelings of joy and as il
Was
made, the informant sald at Austin Road.
when he heard Royal His programme to encourage Football First Division
League: Indian Air Force,pinns dying over the Japanese people and their go- at Boundary Street; Dila House KMB v. Army
towards Kashmir.vernment to defeat these moves on Kitchee South
"A" at China
United Press. Caroline Hill; Club v. St Joseph's at
their own initiative. In times, when the Japanese government obviously Нирру Valley; Navy v. Police nt
was unable to resist Communist Causeway Bay (Kick-off at 5 p.m.).
pressure, such Second Division: Police v. Kitchee nt Boundary Street; PCA v. South Chlia at Caroline Hill; Club v. CAA
ht
February Cold Rubber
Army round Production
The world TCCONI syndicate at Happy Valley: War Dept. Chinese nrlee {s believed - to $640,000 paid In August to Mr & Myerscough, Dublin sportsman for his Irish sulllon, the Phoenix. Reuter.
a
Olympic Games Romance
Dean sald he tr quently had been, asked "by millionaire oil Prague, Oct. 2.-Emil Zniopek, the friends in Texas" which teams he Czechoslovak Olympic distance star, "kes" and said they may have will be married to, Dana Ingrovn, made some bets for him.United the country's champlon women I'ress.
Javelin hurler in what flowered Into
V. Tramways | Arihy (Kowloon) v. University at Chatham Road: Army (HK) v. St Joseph's at Sookungoo; Dockyard v. KMB at Causeway Bay (Kick-off at 3.30 p.m.)
Swimming-Colony Championship Finals at Victoria Recreation Club: Men's 50 Yards Free Style, 100 Yards Breast Stroke & 300 Yards Medley Relay: Women's 50 & 440 Yards Free Style & 100 Yards Back Stroke. (First race at 9.30 p.m.). - TOMORROW
Football First Division League:
the threatened general strike. the Supreme Commander did not. hesitate to intervene personally. That was what happened in the Ashida the Cabinet recommending that Japanese workers should not be permitted
strike.
To General's letter to
Be Increased
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than 800
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FAVOURABLE REACTION The reaction of the American Washington, Oct. 2.-The U.S. Re-
General people to
MacArthur's construction Finance
Corporation methods in catrolling this situation yesterday it has approved plans have been obviously favourable, ar for an increase of more percent in the production of the informant said. Editorial and other
cold rubber,"
comments have vigorously supported RFC said this rubber,
General's polley. manulac-the co tured at near freezing temperature, violence of the Moscow outburst
The Informant concluded:
"The gives about 30 percent longer millenge in tyre treads.
against General MacArthur's policy Eastern v, RAF at Caroline ; The plans, call for installing re- comes from the realisation that the An romance during the London Olym- Wan V. CAA at Caroline frigeration
USSR has virtually lost the game equipment im ; (Kick-off at 5 p.m.).
chin Japan."--United Press. Verdict In Boxer's Games
Second Division: Solicitors v. Tal-plants. Total cost will run around Both were in the Czechoslovak
government-owned synthetle rubber koo at St Joseph's (Kick-off at 3.30 US$3,500,000, officials estimated. Their frat banns were announced p.m.). Chicago. Oct. 1.--A coroner's jury
Hockey Association yeateruny,
IFC chairman Harley ise said Fixtures:
the Beth are today returned' a verillet of neel-
programme is expected to be 20, Zatopek is o
Club de Recreio v, IIK Police, King's donial death In the case of Kid
Lieutenant
year. It safel Park, 0.30 pm. RAF
Civil completed within In the Czechoslovak Dynamita, 22 year old Dominiten Army, She WDA D
from boxer who died after a prize light teacher and nurse at the Bata Shoe here Wednesday night
factory
Death Inquiry
team.
The jury, which recommended In-Press. created saferansely from barnag, natad :
niter Dynamita's manager, Tony
fghlor, that the Wednesday
Roiss, testified he warned the
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Remarkable Run On
Standard Petrol
Zandvoort, Netherlands, Oct. 1-
able achievement in motor car rac- ng on the brand new Zandvoort cir- cult where Prince Bira of Sinm recently won honours In an all- British event.
Service, King's Park, 10 a.m.; Cable it will raise the plant's production | The Dutch press reported a remark- kindergarten Wireless v. Dutch HC, King'a this "superior rubber
Park, 20 a.m.; Khalsa SC v. Uni- 21,003 to 100,000 long tons yearly versity, Sookunpao, 0.30 a.m.; Army city
The eight government plants are v. Dockyard RC, Bookunpoo, 8.30 | managed by private rubber concerns p.m.).
under a fee arrangement.' Lawn Bowls-Open Rinka Semi-
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for the government's strategic stock plic.
INDIANS DROP A GAME.
Oct.
1,-Indians'
Re- Meetings-Annual General Meet
Dr Jerry Icarns of the Cook Cleveland, . County coroner's office testified that American League lead dropped to ing of the Hongkong. Football there was no evidence of a previous ue, game as they lost to Detroit ferees Association, brain injury-United Pross.
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The fastest round made by Princo Rouge, Lousiana), Nogatuck. (Con- Bira in o Manaratti .(race trim, 311,necticut); and
Borger (Texas), special racing petrol) was 2 minutes, Associated Press.
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