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Indian Trade Those Mall potholes: Drill squad starts at Palace Wallace's POCKET CARTOON
Union Leader Is Shot Dead
WHILE FLEEING FROM GUERILLA CAMP
London, May 5.-Mr P. Veerasenan, an Indian who succeeded Mr A. Ganapathy, the Indian trade union leader who was executed yesterday under the Malayan Government's emergency powers for carrying arms, was shot dead by Gurkhas on Tuesday, it was disclosed in Singapore today. Mr Ganapathy was Pre- sident of the Pan-Malayan Federation of Trade Uniona.
Mr Veerasenan was shot by a Gurkha patrol as he was fleeing with Chinese from a guerilla camp in thick jungle in Negri Sem- bilan. His body was later identified, the police stated today, by documents in Indian He was also writing found on his pack. carrying a rifle.
The camp describeed by a military spokes- man as the 1st Bridge Headquarters "National Liberation Army of Malnya.”
of
the
The Gurkha patrol was feter counter. attacked while examining the camp's seven huts.
no casualties. There were
Mr. Vecrasenan was also Pre- | to be raised soon in Parlament. of Parliament ident of the Singapore Federa- Many Members tion of Trade Unions, which was aro perturbed by the circum- reported to have gone under-stances of the execution, and op- ground in May last year. Mr prehensive of its effect on Asian Ganapathy was sentenced 10 op nion. death in March for carrying a
Mr Reginald Sarenten, La- revolver and six rounds of am- munition. The Indian Govern- bour Member, who was in the Go-Parliamentary delegation to In- ment asked the Malayan vernment to consider the ten-dia in 1040 and frequently спияс at The "very carefully" before champions the
out,
Lence
62,000 Ford
Motor Co. Workers
Go On Strike
Detroit, May 5.The CIO United· Auto Workers Union walked out of the Ford Motor Company in a strike that could close Ford's industrial empire and idle a total of 135,200 workers in 33 cities within three weeks.
About 62,200 workers began the strike at Ford's River Rouge and Lincoln Mercury as- sembly and manufacturing plants shortly before noon EST in a protest against an alleged "speed- Over 59,000 of the strikers are from the up." koy River Rouge plant, which sprawls over 1,076 acres along the Detroit river.
carrying it. since they had colonial peoples, today deplored Sentences
information suggesting that he had been dubbed a terrorist "in the hurry and heat" of the anti- terrorist operations.
Government an- The Indian nouncement on the Ganapathy "Whatever the Execution said:
of emergency regulations
falaya may be, the Government of India feel strongly that the Penalty imposed 01 Ganapathy was far in excess of the exigencies of the case, and they deeply deplore lus execu- 'tion."
Mr
the hanging,
..A term would have served the purposu much better," he said. "While appreciating the need for dras- tic action in Malaya and the measures necessity for severe
1 against those carrying arms, feel that nothing has been gain- ed and, indeed, something may have been lost by carrying out this oxecution."
of imprisonment
In Bombay, Indian trade
union leaders today criticised the
On American
Gun-Runners
Confirmed
The Mall pot-holes — which caused Mr Wilson Harris, MP, "aggravat- ed oscillation" are now being 'repaired; and to- day, while the King is at Windsor, the pneu- matic drill squad are busy outside Bucking- ham Palace, London Express Service.
Karens Still Losing Heavily
Latest Charge
Red Offer Withheld From Public
Washington, May 6.- Mr Henry Wallace, United States -Progressive Party leader, said here today | that a Russian offor on March 21 to lift the Berlin | blockade was deliberately [withheld from the public "because it explodes the myth on which the Atlantic Pact is based."
Mr Wallace was one of the.. seven witnesses scheduled to. testify before the Senntà Foreign Relations Committer to argue against the Pact.
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"This is our great-It may be
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Tnany different former Vice-President without discrimination offered a six-point basis for dis-pression. The rest of the world cussion which included:
and particularly Europe, which (1) A treaty to
a "source of form a had always been unified and democratic Ger- unrest and war," must learn the many, stripped of war-making same lesson. potential.
Mr
drive to
He will leave Geneva by plone for India tonight-United Press.
Nella will (2) Agreement to retrain Geneva later today after a visit from Interferencu in the inter-to the Swiss Foreign Minister, nal affairs of other naflons.
Max Petiplerre, to exchange (3) Agreement by both_na- BITTER FIGHTINGtions to give up
Instructions of notification of all military the 1040 Swiss-Indian treaty of The walkout came after
bases in other United Nation friendship and commerce. failure of Company executives Rangoon, May 5.-Three countries, and to stop export- and Union oficials headed by hundred Karen hill rebels ing arms,
International tho
President
(4) Unrestricted trade, free were killed in the past movement of citizens and free Walter Reuther to effect a settle. ment in last-minute negolla. three days of bitter fighting scientifle and cultural tlona. As the strike word dash-in the Daiku sector, about changes between ed through plants, workers
70 miles north of Rangoon, America dropped their tools and stream.
the Burmese Government ed out of the shops,
stated tonight,
the Was
Sorne of the Orst out come from the building where speedup at River
The Bouge pileged.
quickly established a picket line at the main gate to the River Rouge plant. They saying, Forried large signs
lacked
The rebel columns, which at- three Covernment strongpoints in the area, were "routed following daylong night Ing", it added.
Batavia, May 5.-The
Rebel concentrations in the Indonesian High Court to
OPENS NEW CHAPTER for the day upheld Lower Court
aren were feverishly digging in The Ford strike opened a
Just south of Dalku, where they sentences on three Ameri
in the new chapter
stormy had been strafed by Govern can airmen for gun
history of auto labour. There ment planes, the official com. has been only one other major | munique. sold. ning.
strike at Ford since the late Henry Ford built his first car Military observers here said
Malayan Government hanging of. Mr. Ganapathy. Mr Asoka Mehta, a prominent So- cialist, said: "The tragedy hangs like a pendant in the Common- wealth chain recently forged in London."
HURRIED EXECUTION From information now, at the Indian Government's disposal; a Reuter despatch from New Delhi stated, it appeared that not only did representations made on his behalt the
10 authorities in Secretary of the Communist Malaya prove
unavailing, but dominated that the execution was carried out even before the High Com- missioner for India in London had been informed of the result of an examination of the case by H's Majesty'n Government.
This "had been promised," the
note sald,
Mr John Thivy's report to the Indian Government Is under. stood to contain statements mande to him by Mr Ganapathy, In whom he anw several times prison. Mr Ganapathy told him that he committed no violence and said he was hiding in the jungles of Malnya for about five months, during most of which time he had been i
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Berlin, May 5-A British and two United States correspon~ dents were released by tho Russian quthorities in Berlin this hours' afternoon after several
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The men are serving prison terms ranging from 18 months
The High Court in 1963. The sprawling Rouge the outcome of the fighting Mr Manek Gandhi, who is to four years.
review of their cases was their plant was struck by CIO United around Dakku would determine
Karen Insur detention. and operations the fate of the All-India Trade last chance of appeal under in- Auto Workers
The three were detained last ceased on April Fool's Day, gents. Government. troops Union Congress, charged the donesian Inw,
1941. Ten days later, Ford } the area. were now engaging night, while trying to "run the and the Malayan Government
The three men are now in agreed to bargain with the the bulk of the Karen forces Berlin blockade."-Reuter. British authorities with the
withdrawn from all Central "Staliswyk prison, Sumatra. Union. murder of "cold-blooded
They were captured last Sep- The longest and costliest auto Burmese sectors for a "win or working class leader. This is the first fruit wo have reaped as tember with a Catalina flying strike was the 113-day walkout lose" thrust towards the capital,
bey added. with small arms in UAW's wage dispute with they
Southwest of Rangoon, Gav the result of the Nehru Govern bout loaded ment's surrender to British im- and ammunition and sentenced General Motors in 1948. A total
have infileted perialism by agreeing to remain in January by a Dutch magis- of 175,000 workers gained an erarment troops
the Commonwealth," he rate in the small part of Tan- 184-cent-hourly wage increase, heavy casualties on Karca rebels dugeng, Pinang, in the Riolw but not before they lost $128.-in-the-rles-growing arens north declared-Router.
the Kareng Archipelago, Southeast of Singa-000,000 in wages and the com- of Bassein, where
pany and dealers lost an esti- Water
to be burning were reported роге,
villages. inated $1,760,400. The American defending The parade of strikers from In the south-western coastal counsel for the three men, Mr the plants was orderly. Near strip, Government planes n Union sound bombed rebel concentrations in WIlliam H. Quasha, of New the main gate York recently appealed to the truck said: "To hell with Ford nine villages around Moulmein Netherlands Minister In
Everybody the policy.
port, Philippines for the airmen's re-picket line. Henry Ford I will In Upper Burma, a rebel com- About 200 strikers were at the mander and 15 other insurgents
an attack were killed in DEFENCE PLEA
gate in picket lines or standing railway workshops near Sagaing. nearby, Picket
lines revolved 25 miles south of Mandalay. At the trial the defence con- in circles of about 25 men each. tended that the three men Smaller numbers of pickets were
and ammuni- at other gates-United Pres. thought the arms tion were for Malayan planters
Communist Aghting the surgents...
Patrol Slays
Soldiers
Belgrade, May 5.-Two Hun- garinn soldiers who crossed the frontier into Yugoslav territory on April 24 und refused to re- called upon were tum when
He had no knowledge of the severity of the Malayan regu Intions. He left the Jungle in- tonding to surrender the revol- ver in his possession at the shot dead by a Yugoslav pairol, nearest police station, he said. was officially stated here to
had been given to him for day. self-protection.
It
When arrested while resting under a rubber tree, he told Mr Thivy, he did not attempt to resist.
VIGOROUS PROTEST
In
Indian High Commissioner London, will lodge a "vigorous protest to the British Govern- ment tomorrow over the hung-
The statement said that Yuga- slavin had protested to Hungary that the two men crossed the frontier legally. It added that
Jcase.
In-
The men were arrested on the
lonely-Dutch Island of Airabu, 200 miles northeast of Singa-
not bust our Union"
Join
Poland Urges
the
both Hungarians were challenged pore. The lying boat and "40 Arms Embargo
The
of announcement
an
Reuter.
on
War Losses Compensation
#t
ing in Malaya of Mr Ganapathy, Į (Budapest Radio described the High Court in Batavia where Assembly's Political
incident on Tuesday as "mur-decision can be expected "within He proposed Assembly Mr Karold Wilson, President
quote
the
an
London, May 5.-General Sir four times before the Yugoslav case of ammunition were con-
George Jeffreys, Conservative, patrol fired.
Lake Success. May S.-Poland asked in the House of Commons reated by the Dutch police.
Singapore formally proposed today that the toury when full payment would the Carlton Hire, 1
General As Mr V. K. Krishna Menon, the Yugoslav protest-delivered insi | Briton, was arrested on Alraby United Nations
be made of compensation for sembly proclaim
arms report that Hungary had pro- separate trial for seven year Polis Thursday followed a Budapest at the same time and gaoled at embargo against Spain. The war losses in Burma to civil und milltary officials employed shooting.
the His appeal is now before the Polish delegate, Mr Julius Katz-
time the tested against
of the Suchy, made the proposal in the there
Committeo. Japanese invasion,
quoted IL
four weeks" mixed three or It is understood that Mrder."
Court
ediet that would (1) Call for of the Board of Trade, replied Menon will call at the Colonial Yugoslav-Hargarian commission, officials said. the Indian which had investigated
The three men are Connie W. full compliance with the 1940 that he could not yet announce Offee lo convey.
extended scheme Gore, Oklahom, recommendation for withdrawal details of the
published last December. Government's strong feelings at shooting, as saying that the two Selgrist of the execution. Mr Ganapathy Hungarians turned back when Willam B. Hallem of Portland, of Ambassadors from Madrid.
(2) Recommend a ban on ex-
hope final decisions will was found guilty and sentenced they saw the Yugoslavs but the Oregon, and Albert W. Onstott port to Spain of "arms and am be taken very soon and that the to death by a Selangor Court on Yugoslavs fired before they of Yuba City, California-Amunition as well as all warlike scheme will be put into opera-
Rocinted Press. charges of carrying revolver reached the frontler.)-Reuter,
and strategic materin!."
tion immediately thereafter," he and ammunition.
(3) Recommend a ban on any added. agreements for treaties with One of the great difficulties Was getting particulars of It was generally agreed the Josses to employees of civil Polish proposal was doomed, arms, ho sald.-Reuter. like the proposal of four Latin American nations that the 1040 recommendation be rescinded.-- United Press.
Last-minute representations were made from India to the British Government to stop the hanging and have, the case re- examined, it was learned in London tonight. Britain sent urgent telegrams to the authori tles in Singapero.
The attitude of the Colonial -Office officials in London In believed to be that, under the Malayan Constitution, the Bri- tish Government had no Jurisdiction to interfere, aineo Selangor is a "protected State" COMMONS QUESTIONS
་
The Indian High Commis- stoner in London will probably Ipigó bis Government's protest with Lord Listowel, Minister of Stato for the Colonies. Thu Secretary of Stato for the Colonies
Mr Arthur Creech Jones,
is not due back until later tomorrow from a tour of Africa. Further questions on the hang- ing of Mr Canapathy are likely
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U.S. MARINES
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Malta, May 5---An American naval squadron arrived at Malte today and disembarked thou- Manila, May 3.-The Hukbala-sand marines on the west conal hap Commanduer-in-Chief, L for shore exercises.
and
M. Tarue, wan reliably reported The squadron includes the here today to be "concentrating" light cruisers Fargo near the village of Abar, near Spokane, the aircraft carrier the Quezon coastal town of In-Philippine Sea and the
fanta.
The disclosure
WRE
flect
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[aux)
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empreing
orts sald
Santayana of the Province.
by
D. Shormon,
Vico-Admiral F Commanding the
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hundreds of Chinese Commu- rists had landed in
racont weeks "along the Pacific coast In this. Province."Reuter,
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