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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1950,
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Ferocious Leopard Left-Wingers May Give New Look For
Escapes From Zoo
HUNT FOR
MAN-EATER
Oklahoma City, Feb. 26.- A safari of 21 Marines equipped with high powered rifles and walkie talkies and radios stalked its way through the suburbs of Oklahoma City today in search of a jungle-bred leo. pard.
:
Alded by
several employees
of the Lincoln Park Zoo frum whence the Leopard fled cap- Civily on Saturday, the Marines.
were poking cautiously through woodid uteR: in the vicinity of the zoo three miles Gl "T her.
In the immediate area und in the northeastern section of Oklahoma City there were peo- plo on the streets. House lights | in the section burned through- out the night and the residents
lept tinenally.
The Zoo keeper said the leopard was a killer but there wag no lack of volunteers who wanted to tako off on their first big game hurt. But only Marines and experienced Zoo at- tendanta were permitted to join the formal cearch.
Frazer, the Zoo keeper de- scribed the India-bred leopard a 170 pounds of "greased light- ning The beast had been con- ned in a 20-fool deep pit in
the Zoo. For A week he had
Hooded Woman's Body
Found In Lake
Alexander City, Alabama, Feb. 26.—A nude and hooded body of an elderly woman fished from Lake Martin confronted the police today with a Binister murder plot that they feared to claimed more than one victim.
have
"There may be another body in there," said deputy sheriff J. L. Ingram. He explained that the bloodstains found on the highway bridge railing near the body's location did not match the woman's blood in tentative tests. The woman had been shot three times with a 38 calibre weapon. Any of the shots-was-enough-to-kill her. She also had been clubbed on the head. There was no immediate clue as to who she was. She wore only stockings and shoes. Ingram estimated that she was 65 to 70 years old.
had been in water about two The woman
A gag days, a state toxicologist estimated. apparently made from a scrap of her dress had been thrust into her mouth. The hood made from an undergarment had been pulled over her face and knotted about her throatUnited Press,
Trouble
To Attlee
Το
VITAL PARTY MEETING
London, Feb. 26-As-the Prime Minister. Mr.i Clemet Attlee, planned his new Cabinet today, observers predicted that the fate of his Government may hang on the reactions to the Election deadlock at the Parliamentary Labour Party meeting on Wednesday.
The left wing, headed by the Minister of Health, Mr Aneurin Bevan, is likely to insist that there must be no compromise on the party pro- gramme for the sake of maintaining shaky office.
Govt. Expected To
Extradition
Indonesian Seek Westerling's
Djakarta, Feb. 26.-The Indonesian Government is expected to make
a formal demand to the British Embassy tomorrow for the extradition of
Mr Bevan, who pressed con- sistently for the nationalisation; of steel, is said to have threat- ened to resign if Labour went bock on Its 1045 pledge to transfer this industry to public ownership.
Mr Winston Churchill and his Conservative "Shadow Co- binet," who will meet on Tues- day, have it in their power to bring down
Ad- the Labour ministration within
short time and some Socialist leaders
been springing for the top in Captain "Turco" Westerling, leader of the rebel "Army of the Heavenly will not care if they do.
ing to escape. On Saturday he completed a seemingly impossi- ble jump to freedom.
Hunters were working against time because every passing hour increases the danger that the leopard right strike. The best had its lost meal more than 24 hours ago.
Host." He was arrested early today in Singapore.
here to-
his
An official communique said that the Government had contacted the British Embassy about Westerling's extradiction for "crimes perpetrated by him in Indonesia."
The Captain confirmed Diplomatic cireles
out that
Britain wife's story last week that he day pointed had no extradition treaty with had gone to Malaya in search
They said that t Indonesia.
of funds. Ile is being held in the certain whether
a detention camp on St John's Frazler said it should. be to was not
Government
Island, of Singapore. could hungry soon that it will cer- Indonesian
of a the extradition Algo tainly seck prey.
the destand
HIRED TAXI hunters were anxious to find Dutch subfret held by a for- the leopard before dark when join power. the night prowler would have increased advantage over seckers.
Westerling said that he was stopped four times by the police on his way to Singapore, but they let him pars when lo produced his faked passport.
to his friends According whom he contacted here after his arrival last Thursday. Wes- no secret of the of in- terling made ✡ Dutch Navy fact that he had come to Singu Its The Dutch authorities maindonesia in
silence concerning re-Catalina flying boat and landed pore to seek material nid and rebel tained
Westerling's escape at night off the Malayan const, moral support for his ports that
friends
organisation. The weather was clear and to Singapore was engineered according to his
It Singapore. Army ofleers, sumy oo the reserve marines by Dutch
Westerling
flew out
Johore, and Into Singu
novel slowly through the woods was not known whether Wet- They said he hired a taxi at on orders from walkie talkies, terling's wife bad algo escaped. Pontian, in South They picked up tracks believed to inve
been
Westling was arrested by a rode nonchalantly made by the vicious fugitive and followed Special Branch police officer at pare. He told his friends thut Chinese in the his flight was not omcially au- them two milea from a point the home of
Singapore. He faces thorised but had been arranged where they were discovered centre
ndony by the pilot, who was a member more than a mile north of the charges of entering the
of his rebel movement. ZooUnited Press.
without proper papers.
EDITORIAL
IN
Europe And American Aid
IN what may be regarded as a reply to American criticism, the European Marshall Plan Council has issued a new report which gratefully lists the achieve- menta of that plan but appeals to the United States to co-operate with Europe not only in continued dollar nid but also in establishing a new trade pattern which will permit Europe to stand on its own feet in a new world. The report points out that, thanks to Marshall Plon old, Western Europe has reached, and in many instances surpassed, pre-war levels in both production and foreign trade. But it also notes that, despite this achievement, which has cut Europe's previous dollar deficit in half, the deficit is still around four billion dollars and will continue to run above two billion dollars after the. Marshall Plan ends. This deficit does not arise becauso Europe fails to work enough or lives too high, since living standards are at 10 percent below pre-war. The report, admits that the search for a new social equilibrium, as expressed in the full-employment programmes, hampers drastic readjustments; but it puts the main responsibility on other factors, in- cluding the loss of overseas Investments, Eastern the curtailment of trade with Eprope to 40 percent of pre-war (paralleled by similar trade strangulation in all territories folling under Sovlet of dollar domination), and the loss earnings by Western Europe's overseas possessions. But the most important factor, in its view. is the unbalanced American balance of payments, caused by the doubling of American exports as com- pared with pre-war, with a corresponding
•
increase in Europe's dollar imports. This, says the report, has completely upset the old trade pattern, and a new pattern must be found to enable Europe to live. To achieve this new pattern, Western Europe pledges itself to continue efforts toward European economic integration and the wider European market urged by Ameri- 'can authorities. But this, says the report, will not by itself solve' Europe's problem. Rather, it declares, the "most urgent single task" confronting Western Europe is to cut its dollar Imports by shifting purchases to non-dollar areas and to ex- pand its exports both to the United States and
to all areas in competition with American producers. It therefore urges and that both European governments European producers take all necessary measures to achieve this end, But it ap
under- for American penla implicitly standing and toleration of this effort, and explicitly for American co-operation In reducing American trade barriers now hampering European exports, such as high tariff rates, red tape in tarli ad- ministration, licensing and quarantine and restrictions, shipping. subsidies limitations on the use of natural rubber. In short, what Europe urges as the ultimate alternative to dollar ald is a new distribution of world trade, through which Europe can recapture and expand necessary markets. This may impinge on American Interests, but need pot do so harmfully if world trado can be expanded sufficiently to enable both Europe and America to live. The report does not perhaps, tell the whole story, but it is dificult to see any other alternative.
He told one of them that is
movement was powerful as a guerilla element, but would not be efective enough to over- throw the Indonesian Govern ment with it had "real backing from outside."
ANXIOUS ABOUT WIFE
.
ma-
They foresce great perman- ent damage to Labour's cause If the Government, lacking in
Parliamentary effective
its existance, Jority, prolon unable to clve the country the strong direction required fo Lecovery.
But if Labour wanted to tem- porise, the Liberals, whom both the Conservatives and the So- cialists blame for the Election stalemate, may be useful to the Government "In a balance power posillon.
of
CABINET SPECULATIONS
The Liberals do not want an- other Election-it would prob- ably mean their extermination as the public might regard it as a waste of time to vole Liberal again and plump instead for the Tories or for Labour,
help.
Tel: 27880
P.I. DISASTER
White House 11 Known
To Be Killed
The White House is getting a new look-and No. 1 America as it is known in the United States is having a two year overhaul. The building is 150 years old and while reconstruction of the south portico is going o3- see picture-President Truman and his family are liv ing in Blair House, across Pennsylvania Avenue,-Lon- don Express Service.
Coup d'Etat In Bulgaria Fails
Berlin, Feb. 26-An unsuccessful coup d'etat in Bulgaria, resulting in the arrest of General Kinov, the Army Chief of Staff, and many Army officers, was reported today from Sofia by Die Welt Am Sonntag, the official British newspaper in Germany..
Assocates-
Damage Amounts To 5,000,000 Posos
Manila, Feb. 27. Eleven persons were killed and more than 100 injured a fire and explosions which destroyed a largo section of Batangas City on Saturday night and the Batangas provincial thorities estimated overall damage
5,000,000
in
ревоз.
at
au-
At Icnst 30 people were eriously injured.
Among the dead-mostly Con- Tabulary men-was the com→ officer of the 100th manding Company, Captain Numeriano Ant. Injured, but not seriously. was Mrs Fellelano Loviste, wife governor of
whoso houso
at the provincial Batangas, destroyed. "general"
Wi
Francisco Medrano, of the Batangas
her, who is now back in
government service was re- parted to have been wounded in the right hand; his house was demolished.
The Constabulary and civilian authorities are investigating the cause of the fire, which started in Constabulary headquarters, all of whose buildings were completely demolished by the fire and by exploding bombs and emmunition.
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RECORDS DESTROYED About 80 houses in Batangas were totally or partially stroyed and oficials expressed fears that the death toll raight be higher when all the debris Wijs cleared. Batangas vincial Capitol, which
badly
Pro
is near
the Constabulary barracks, was
and damaged
many official rocords were destroyed. The Red Cross and other re- lief agencies have started suÇ- couring victims of the
tragedy. Preliminary investigation showed that the fire started at or near the guardhouse of the Constabulary compound, spread
artillery shells.
and
ombly and reached a store of causing a series of terrific blasis which destroyed stlass windowa à mile away. One firere than
great explosion fore a crater ad 1.etres wise and 10 meirea
drims drep. About 500
of foline, stored in the Can- tbulary compound also caught
re
Governor Loviste, who e820p- his house Ls demolished. said he was in "Peace on
e unhurt although
his library wading Earth."-Ualted Press.
Asmara Rioting
Asmara, Feb, 201⁄2-Looling,
Backed by the Liberals, une
According to the report, General Kinov, with Government parly may have & majority of between 20 and 80 in Parliamentary divisions. But Labour is not expected to court the support of the Army, had planned to seize this support to the extent of power shortly after the death of the Prime Minis- Westerling had expressed capitulating on nationalisation or ter, M. George Dimitrov.
other aspects of polley-on auxlely for his wife and three which the Liberals night de- General Barrajanov, the chlet According 10 the report, children who, he said, were in mand pledges in return for their Bulgarian Political Commissur, General Kinov then called a hiding in Indonesia. He was
General Toschev, head of the number of senior officers of the afraid that they might be held The probable personalities
Bulgarian Army together, told as hostages by the Indonesian in the new Cabinet was a tople Sofla Garrison, and the Minis-them
of hig belief that Mt. authorities.
of lively discussions in political ler of Transport, M. Markov, Dimitrov ha been murdered fires and bomb throwing con- It is assumed were to have bren General and asked them to join him in tinue in the native sectors of Some quarters in Singapore quriers today.
overthrow the Com- Asmara during the curfew-free Plot to a diplomatic tangle that the Cabinet hierarchy will Kinor's immediate predicted
munist Government.
tours. would develop over Westerling's remain unchanged.
They were also reported to have Mr Herbert Morrison is likely
Detailed plans were worked A hand grenado thrown at future. It was understood thei to remain Icader of the House been arrested.
out but the news of the alleged the fire brigade did not explode he could claim Dutch nationality, f Commons and Mr Ernest Shortly before the death of M. coup reached the Bulgarian Se-last night. The Brigade. Ing
which occurred unless he has other ideas, Dimitrov,
cret Police, the newspaper said. been threatened by hooligana. said that it was unlikely
So far the police have found It is expected in Sofia that Netherlands Government would
was called to the Soviet Union, the Soviet commander, Mar-00 unexploded hand greandes with the Indonesia ter
statement quarrel
The pressure of economic where ho issued a
shal Konley, would be sent Government over Westerling" events point
since the beginning of the In- M. Dimitrov's from Moscow to take command cidents last Tuesday, Stafford that he was at to Sir
The United Nations Commis- the new Republic was geruine Cripps remaining at the Trea-bedside. But on his return to of the Bulgarian Army, in the In its extradition request and sury. The transfer of the Food Sofia he was reported to have same way that Marshal Rokos- sion la continuing hearings of could prove the charges against Ministry, Mr John Strachey, tu sald that he signed a prepareil sovsky assumed command of the the evidence of different him-Reuter.
another job would not surprise statement, without having seen Polish Army, the report added. Eritrean political pariles-As-
-Reuter. observers as his Department has M. Dimitrov. been under heavy public fire.
Defence Minister 15 A now nino
not
Improbable Lord Alexander, the often criticised holder of the office, was recent ly given n Peerage and the Government reshuffle
the
but one high diplomatic source | Bontinue as Foreign Minis- Moscow last July, General Kinov
Two Tigers In NT
may see
Death Of Sir
London, Feb. 26.-Sir Harry Lauder, the famous him "switched." The War Scottish comedian, died to- Mr Emanuel Shin-night. Sir Harry, who was Two tigers, one believed to be Minister,
had been very large, have made their npwell, has been mentioned as a 79.
111 since Hang "possible" for its job-Router. pearance at in Ma
August. district in the New Territories
WELCOMES DECISION The Ittle, dynamic comedian during the past few days.
Bombay, Feb. 20-Tho Prime with the stout heart, roe front week Job In On Saturday, several villingers,, Minister, Mr Clement Attlee's, ning shillings
Britain's nfle: they had kept observation decision to carry on in office is the pis
勿
Vannths ago
to become
fur u
in the area, reported to the to be welcomed, Mr Herbert highest paid musle hail cater- Felice and yesterday a search Bulleck, Chairman of the Bri- tainer.
For a long time was on e Union Congress, brink of death, but about thr party, headed by Chief Insp. G. tiah. Trades Your, set out armed with three said here today.
he railed "We were rather sorry at no ha tas: Christ ruites and a Winchester.
having working majority,
mas in the bedside company On the brink of a cliff on the though we had anticipated hiBolde,
with a stream running number of people in Britain of his nkee, Greta, and his old Str nearby, the Police party found would be upset by the postwar friend, Dr John Stewart. Its
Dr Slowar's Harry Was austerity programabour the mangled and
patient. The doctor came out rarcass of a cow. Not very tag: Nevertheless,
for his distant away, another gorod given everybody a square deal." or retirement to care
friend and went to live with regards the chances of an- enrcass of a cow was discovered as well as that of a calf
half-eaten
othor
he sald.
has
|sociated Press,
Harry Lauder
The nation knew the minstrel and compacer of that song.
Ho was a stocky Utile Scot, famed throughout the world for his idited bow legs, tam o'shanter, crocked blackthorn walking stick and an infectious chuckle which always preceded his rich baritane singing in brood Scols' dialect-Sir Harry Lauder.
Ilarry Lauder, who atarlod life in a flax mill, became the highest salaried music ball artist the world. He was born at "ortobello near Edinburgh on um. 4. 1870. nad started work in the flax mills as a child.
Later he becamo a coal miner. He made his first publle appear- ance when he was only. 12 years old when, in (miner's garb, he song. I'm a Gentieinan 6UL" General Election, immedi- [aume-Reuter,
An enterprising London agunt Intely, Mr Bullock said: "If the "GRAND OLD MINSTREL
anve Lauder bis first real chance In the course of securing the Tories force another Licction It
nt Gatti's Restaurant in Londo
than 20 hillside the search party came will be so much the worse for Daring the Battle of Britain, could do not better than quote, in 1600. Lauder was across cave but the tigers them, especially after the elec-Wiraton Churchill, that master "Keep Right C to the End of Years of #ge and he became an were not there.
torate has had a chance to think of rhetoric, was whipping up the Road," the song of "a grand immediate success, Tho search is continuing. twice,Router.
SIR HARRY LAUDER
the national spirit. He said he fold minstrel,”