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BE ABOLISHED?

Cabinet Conflict May Hold Up Govt. Plan

For Legislation Reforms

Mrs. Reynolds, wife of former STRIKE WARNING

Senator Robert H. Reynolds of

North Carolina, was found dead in her bed at the sumptuous cstate home of her mother, Mrs. Evolyn Walsh McLean-owner of the $2,000,000 Hope diamond and a Agure in Washington society.

Since acquiring the 441⁄2 corat diamond that once belonged to Russia's Catherine the Great, Mrs. McLean has seen her son Vinson killed by an automobile olmos! nt the gates of her estate, has re- ceived numerous cronk letters threatening denth but never has hesitated to wear the great Jewel when she felt like it.

Beside Mrs. Reynolds' bed was

a bottle dr sleeping pills,

Chemical tests will be made to determine whether These enusEd death-Associated Press,

Conference In Cold Storage

Catella, Sept. 22.

Mrinal Kanti Rose, Preais dent of the All-India Trade Union Congress, today warned that clerks in the milkury accounte department

the of Government of Indier will be compelled to strike ogan u less Pandit Jawaharlal Nel, », Vice-President of the Talian Interim Government, inter- venes immediately to prevent what he describen un "victimi- sation"

workers. The workers called off their tree- tack strike early this mo. 21 ing-Reuter.

R.N. Boarding Party Kills One Jew

LABOUR M.P.

SUPPORT

(By Reuters Political Correspondent)

London, Sept. 22.

The conflict in the Cabinet over the abolition of capital punishment may hold up the Labour Government's plans to introduce a legislation for wide reforms of British criminal justice procedure.

While the Home Secretary, Mr. John Chuter Ede (holding strongly humanitarian views) wants to abolish the death penalty for at least an ex- perimental period of five years and in this he has the backing of the majority of the Labour members in the present Parliament, the rest of the Cabinet is still trying to make up its mind on the issue regarding the death penalty, according to reliable sources here.

The spirific prints on which the Cabinet has, according to these sources, failed to agree, include the following:

Four Points

1. Can the British Govern- ment introduce a legislation to Jerusalem, Sept. 22.

abelish the death penalty in One Jewish illegal im-Britain when the trials of war migrant was killed when criminals may result in the 600 Jews aboard the death penalty being passed on

them in other countries London, Sept. 21. illegal immigrant ship courts on which British judges The committee of the Pales-"Palmachun" resisted a sit? tinc conference set up at yes- terday's plenary session to con-boarding party from the. aider in more detail the pro-British

2. Should the abolition of the

envicted of freason and military

destroyer Ro-death penalty include persons.

gin on October 8. But diffe- renees of, opinión”in-the-Cabinet may now hold. this plan up. Most Socialists for years have

INDIAN FLOODS

Patna, Bihar, Sept. 12. Military help has icen sought to rush food to several hundred villager in South Bi- har deluged by unprecedented floods during the weekend it was officially announced here today.

rice

Thousands of acres of fields are now one want cheat of water,” an official spokes- man added. The water supply has been cut of in the town of Gaya where, besides ita 100,000 inhabitants, there are 100.000 piluring from South Bihar gathered for the Hirdu festival-Reuter.

Insolent

Franco

Brussels, Sept. 21.

Slaves In Burma

Nanking, Sept. 22. American B29 crewmen were living in slavery under wild tribesmen near the north Burma frontier after being for- ced down two years ago, according to reports reaching here.

These reports said at least three Americans, had been seen recent- By with "Lolo" tribes of western Szechwan province and that they were forced to lend herds, gather wood, and perform other monial nsks under abject conditions of servitude.

The reports placed the locality roughly west of Sichang, near where Burman, Assam and Tibet meet the #li-defined Chinese border.

It is one of the wildest moun-

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FOR BEVIN

(By Reuters Diplomatic Correspondent) · London, Sept. 22. The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Bevin, returns to the

Paris Conference this weekend after a fort-) night devoted to the affairs of Palestine. His first task will be to reforge the 'catçnte be- tween the British, and United States foreign, polley, temporarily placed in doubt" by “the Wallace affair."

The resignation from the United States Govern-)

ment of Mr. Henry Wallace, Secretary for Commerce, who, eight days ago challenged the "get tough with Russia" policy which Mr. James F. Byrnes, the United States Secretary of State, has been pursuing in Paris, ends period of embarrassment and ambiguity," President Harry Truman after some vacillation has now admitted the incompatibility between the views of Mr. Byrnes and Mr. Wallace and has come down declaively on the alde "of] the former. The possibility that Mr. Byrnes might return to Washington to find, like Pro

areas in the world with|sident Woodrow Wilson befors him. that the policy for which' be had fought in Parla was din- owned at home, is now virtually ruled out.

I heights above 18,000 Icot.

Chinese officials are unable to penetrate the savage country but a few missionaries were scattered there.

Mony

and

Houses

Damaged By Explosions

(By "Paul Fry") Residents

The uncertainty in the other

in American airmen tong delegations about. the future

Link have believed same of their miss-policy of the Western powers is Road, Causeway Bay, ing comrades parachuted safely also at an end now. Conse- yesterday afternoon pro- from disabled bombers when B29squently Mr. Bevin were being ferried from India to Byrnes need waste

Mr. tested to the Police that no time China in 1044.

discussing the fundamentals of their homes were under- policy.

going a minor "blitz" as The first practical issue claim- a result of demolition ing Mr. Boyin'e attention. in

The Graves Registration Ser- vice never has accounted for all Spain's reply to the Belgian (the missing-Associated Press, note, accusing General Franco's Government of complicity in

been in favour of the abolition the leappearance from Spain Too Much

of the death penalty. -

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..

Snooping?

posal that Palestine should be wena, three miles off the offenders convicted by a court against the abolition' and the Feuplo" claims that the forets and air and sea as Germany with any parties who tions had been heard over a

come an independent Arab

day at Lancaster House.

the

Paris will be the need to con- work being carried out vined the delegates, and per by Government in haps most, cutstandingly French Leighton Hill. of Lon Degrelle, lender of the

opinion, that Mr. Winston The Labour Government of Rexist... (Fascist) movement.

Verbal protests, addresscd ið Churchill's appeal at Zurich no one in particular. 1929-1931 set up a committék in was delivered yesterday to the

univeralty for à Franco-Gerinin voiced during the soccer mutth report on this question. Labour Belgian Government but is not

partnership on which to base the es yesterday at the Hong Kong members of the committee were expected. to be published for

Lake Success, Sept. 22. United States of Europe wa Football Club, when picces The American and British de- not inspired by the British debris and slabs of plaster fell unanimously in favour of end- several days. period of five years. Conserva bying the death penalty for a trial

legations to the United Nations Government, The reply was handed over Security Council

freely behind the goal-posts 4 were reported

Germany. Antonio tive members were against it.bySenor

the eastern end of the rowid. Gullon, completing separate challenges de- Labour. Majority Grain Spanish Chargemanding why Soviet Rudala 19 In this connootlon Mr. Berin.

It's like a hall of shrapnel" d'Affaires in Brussels.

secking data on Allied troop de will no doubt wish to discuss and one spectator. The Home Secretary, at that

The Sociallat organ

bases in time Mr. J. R. Clynés,

"La positions

the future administration of The explosion of the demoli- Wad

countries. The Spanish reply contains "fresh

Russian demand for an ac

an ac- show themselves interested. So wide area on the Island both ef state, held it first meeting to Lebanese coast early to-martial for such crimes as die Cabinet of the day supported solence to Belgium." counting comes up for preliminary there has been no high level Saturday and Sunday, giving

fare of the him on the grounds that the day, it was officially stat-sertion in

According to the paper, it hearing before the Council Monday ↑ British official comment on the rise to rumour of mines and;" Its tank is to elucidate in ed here.

chemy?

measure would not gain sufft- detail the plan for independence

3. Should poisoners

who clent support in the House of Bays, in effect that Spain. has against a firm array of opposition:| proposals made a fortnight ago nramunition dumps going up/·

to its admission on the agenda. by Mr. Byrnes at Stuttgart for carefully and

I was informed last night Although American tactics were setting up a provisional central that efficials of the P.W.D. are which was advanced yesterday Several other immigrants and plan the deaths of their victims that time strong Conservative by allowing Degrelle to escape still under examination here and terman Government in the near to investigate the work at the

unscrupulously Commons where there was at rendered a service to Belgium as an Arab counter-proposal to a number of naval ratings re-be exempted from the death, cpposition. Britain's scheme for provincial celved minor

So the question since In Belgium he is nothing in Washington over the weak-end, future. injuries during penalty in the sam. way as was

Nor has Mr. Bevin Since dropped.

then but a cause of discord among United States autonomy in Palestine.

delegate Johnson

son joined in the exchange between hable that the charges beings

request of the Police. It is pro- the clash. The effect of the decision to

man or woman guilty of mur-Labour opinion in favour of the the Belgiano,

was expected to ask. Soviet de Mr. Byrnes and M. Vyachealoved are on the over-large size. send the discussions into a çom-- The boarding party used tear der under high emotional atress, abolition has grown stronger In reply to the Belgian pro- the Russian motives for bringing frontier of Poland.

legate Andrei Gromyke to explain Melotov about the western and mittee composed of the hende gas and grenades to quell what such as marital infidelity?

today commands the test, the note is sald to add that

Two homes in Link Road gairt . 4 In view of the recent majority in Parliament while a permanent surveillance

up the question. of Arab delegations and Sir la officially decrid as "very crime wave in Britain and the Conservativo opposition is too Degrale would accord ill with ask Gromyko to pin-point a char- ports the American rather than their windows have heen blowi In their protesta yesterday. Now, Johnson also was expected to it is known that Britain sup 3 and 7. They complained that Norman Brook of the British strong reaistance".

number of crimes of violence, weak numerically to thwart the delegution is to pince the whole.

Spanish chivalry.

Russian The trans-shipment of 600 is the present the right time Labour attempts, if they

ter provision covering such action the

interpretation

out, that porcelain work in conference in cold storage immigrants to one of the two to introduce the abolition of the mado, to make the abolition after being ordered to leave

Degrelle vanished on Aug. in the Council.-Associated Press. of the Potsdam agreement in while Mr. Ernest Devin, For-Liberty

balieving the decision to place bathrooms has been daminged vesaris eign Minister, returns to Paris ferrying uncertificated immi-

engaged in death penalty?

legal.

the German territory as far and that cracks bavo begun to The Government had planned

FLEET IN GREECE this weekend.

The Bill, which Mr. Chuter Spain, where he took refuge

west as the rivers · Odor and appear in the walls,MA grants from Haifa to Cyprus is to introduce its new Criminal Ede was to introduce at the after Belgium's liberation.

Neisse under Polish administra- Ore old lady has been con Itkely to start tomorrow. Justice Bill during the next next session, would probably It was announced on Sept. 4.

Athens, Sept. 21. Implications Plain Reuter:

that the Belgian Government session of Parliament due to be also. include the abolition

tion requires more than a for- fined to her bed suffering from Mediterranean birching, more psychological and was sending a note of protest Fleet, which is at present en exer-mal endorsement at the peace a nervous attack.

wettlement. educational treatment for offer to the United Nations against cises, arrived today off the port of

By the time the committed has reported-and observera Zire believe that the implica- tions of the Arab scheme even in detail are already plain and· do not require considerable examination-the attitude b the Jewish Agency to the latest move of its leader In London und Paris to tako part should "have been made cleur.

The committee is expected to meat overy day next week until Its work in complete. It is a purely fact-finding body and will not be expected to make recommendations to the confer-

ence.

Jewish organisations in Lon- doü' outside the Jewish Agency, such as the Anglo-Jewish Asso clation and Orthodox Israel Movement, are believed to be entertaining the idea of join

the conference next week to "present their 1Views, on tho #yulure of Palestine. 'to

British delegation, whether or not the Agency will send repre

entativos. Reuter,"

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Paris Gets Lively Over Human Rights

Paris, Sept. 21.

Rival human rights" proposals by the United

⚫ States and Australia led to a lively debate in the Paris Conference tonight over the Italian peace treaty.

The United States, through a "heavy blow. Senator Tom Connally, moved Nations."

arc

of

of

The

British

ders and more care for criminals the Spanish Government's al-Nauplia in the gulf of that name obscure whether the Eastern

But it is still completely Garters Not

when they are released from leged complicity in his disap-in south-eastern Greece..

From Nauplia the fleet will well powers in fact intend to chal prison. But some Socialista) pearance. want to go further and arguo! The former Rexist leader has for Cyprus and after visiting lenge the present provisional Polish frontiera or whether the

that if it is good enough to been sentenced to death in Bel-Egypt and Argostoli Cephalonia, difference of views about the 7000 FOR

abollah birching in Britain it in glum in his abgenes. Reuter, will retura of Malta-Reuter.

good enough to aboijsh flogging

in the British colonies in Afrien. In the years before the war' when Sir Samuel Hoare-now | Lord Templewood-was 'Home Secretary, he planned to Intro- duce reforma `on similar lines to those which Mr. Chutor Ede now wants.

Bigger Newspapers At Home Now

London, Sept, 22.

to the United fact largely based on Lord Britain's newspapers opened a circulation battle

Mr: Chuter Ede's Bill is 'In'

Templewood's

proposals

but:

to reliable sources

today, vying for the favour of millions more readers with all the tractions they can oram into six extra päges a week.

an "unagreed clause" to the Teeth Amendment Lost according treaty in the Italian Political and Territorial committee call footing as France, Yugoslavia Conservative party and the It put Italy on the same "back room" influences in the ing for a guarantes of human, and Greece, The United States coming of the war kil-ed: Lor! rights and fundamental

The papers now exist in a para-ed to allow each paper to carry dom to the subjects of the ter- rights was adopted by 14 votes

free "magreed proposal on hartan. L'empitwood's reforms.

dox; anparalleled demand has on at the volume it has been abre ritories under the treaty.

Dilemma

raised their circulations to reford to build for itself during the 90- to atx,, the Slav countries vot-] Now they have been revived heights while newsprint restric day campaignAassolated Press Australia, through Colonel.ing against. the

the British Cabinet is facce tloņa, have cut them to their

Shortage W. Hodgson, moved a similar The Australian amendment, with the dilemma of either sub- similest peacetime, size in a cen- amendment but with the ad, which put the teeth into the mutting to pressure from futury. dition that those receiving the United Staten proposal, was ceded territory must under lost by 14 votes to six, taka to recognise these obliga- There was also a wrangle which no regulation or offcial allow Yugoslava of. Italian action shall conflict.

nationality to acquire Yugohlav Colonel Hodgson asked had nationality, META the United States put forward. The chairman put it to the

Women

meaning of the. Potsdam agres- mont la purely theoretical. Whether or nut these aspects of j cho German' problem will be dia. cussed or a four power basks when Mr. Bovin roca' back to Paris depends among things on the estimates which the delegation lenders nake about the conference time table: condemned by Dr. A. G. Mearns, Senior Lecturer in Hygiene at Glasgow

London, Sept. 22... Garters, suspender other belts, "roll-ons," and

overwarm .coats

were

No Confidence The fact has to be faced that the present arrangement by University, speaking at which the conference must com- St. Andrew's.. pleto its work in time for the He condemned them as "bad for United Nations General Assenheath because they impeded cir bly to open in New York ou culation, October 20 looks like breaking "Not satisfjed aven with oxist down. To the cutelde world the ing machinery for keeping cutstanding. fact about the paal tockings, some typists have week's work in Paris, has beef quired the habit of using handfula the sharpness of conflict overf you go into the outpatiente rubber bands as well, he satos New York, Sept. 22. Newsprint shortage. In the the future statute, of the" free United States is ruining ahezu sons of Trieste and not the department of one hospital 'I Lagu

you find not only rubber banche: of the current supply despite the passage of cortáin” sárved but bestiaces, and even ** bits a kanough paper-now in world wide tion and has resulted in the There is no condence among The showdown must come carcity--to priat two extra pages decline of publishers stocks to observers in London

THE WEATHER postpone the United Pressure le highest over." 1/ next month so that the ovira. Shtos days a week and print all the lowest recorded levels, the further crisis over whether or

ery Association', reportag Last why was the proposal limited been lost, anfd, "You have grant outline its programme for the This new freedom to fill the

the King's aposch, which will

ad or thât the timing of the The report says the current Council of Foreign Ministors ridge extending theref to the treaty with Italy 7:

ed more rights to the Italians next season of Parlament -

arket may reveal,, to some ex-Canadian supply: til the United mention, due to consider the cross Korea and Japan to Mr. Alos Bebler, of Yugo than to the Yugoslava. *** THE

Pacific. It fa low in an extensi dant, how far to the Left the Bri-}{ Staton is at the annual sate or

(Cantiunted on Foge: 2 Col)trough from the Gulf of Br Italians living enst!" of the

tish; political, mind has travelled. 8,400,000 tons, the highest in

fat"Dally: history, but the

across the Philippinda: tou Pacific "Eoff the by Marine The typhoon in nitriaĵod fo

followers la Parliament and But boginning today, four pagè allowing the legislation to pro papers will be free to expand in ceed or opposing the majority sise and circulation. of its members on 'an fisua” in!

strong feeling!"-

tions as fundamental laws and over a Yugoslav amendment to which, the majority" has a very: The Government has allotted high levels of Canadian produc- clausos in the. Balkan tregtica. „string?" added the, doctor.

not to

that a b

'n proptaal with no teeth, and vote, and, belicying that it had ment's plans can be revealed.in/ The "copies the pubile will actually American Newspaper PubILO Nations: Annombly will be avoids tower. Yangtzo valley and in

to slavia anid lie thought it would tallan trentier have been given]

be humiliating: for......an Alledi country to have such classes the right to opt for Italy Che

you have, refused the right to]

imposed on it in a trouty sinugodiave in Italy to on) %[" fod" with an ex-fubcintimation:] •Puroslaviana thank you ARAZ Belgium thought, the countries

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