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BRITAIN "CUT IN TWO"

No Traffic Between North And South

Slave For 30 Years

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Los Angeles, Mar. 5. A tiny negro woman, weighing only 90 pounds. told Federal Grand Jury today how a white couple, socially proniin- ent, kept her in slavery for 30 years.

Of The Great Thaw

Blizzard Of

London, Mar. 6.

Britain was cut in two today by a "blizzard of the great thaw" which cut every major road be- tween north and south. The Air Ministry Weather Bureau reported that

the "big thaw," confidently predicted two days ago when a warm front moved over France, stopped dead at the southwest corner of Eng

land where floods followed 36 hours of rain in South Devon.

U.S. Protest To Holland

Washington, Mar. 5. The United States is Holland protesting to against the recently-is- sued Netherlands regu- lations restricting trade Indies, the State Depart in the Netherlands East

ment spokesman stated today.

The United States Embassy

WISHFUL THINKING?

#fadrid, Mor, G.

The Spanish Government ficially denied a of "Generalicaims

⚫ today

Frusca's death.

A rumon, that the Conditio

•hise been assassinated" sens Iraced to the radio operator of the trans-Atlantic liner "America" who reported to American shoe slations that be picked it up early toilag Spanish · länskape from

broadenst

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published

in a late edition of the moл- ing payer Daily News" pro- voking Madrid's official denial. after the United Press had previously denied the story by confirming that Framed breakfasted normally--Unit- ed Press.

Taiwan Autonomy

Lendon tiny lay under the at The Hague has been instruct Demands

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Truman's Warning

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DANGERS OF AN ECONOMIC WAR

Waco, Texas, Mar. 6. President Truman, urging the world to reduce trade barriers, declared here today that' America as the "giant of the economic world" -had the choice of leading the nations to economic peace or war and he warned that in an economic war "nobody wins."

The assertion that there should be bi-partisan sup-

port for the United States foreign policy, but that there need not be bi-partisan support for her foreign economic policy, did not make sense "whether we like it or not,'

and

The future pattern of econo-, goods among Importera mie relations deponds on us." foreign markets among cx. President Truman. who wok porters and telling every trader speaking at Baylor University, what he could buy or sell and said that now, as in the year how much and when 1920, "we have reached the } where"~Router. turning point in history, na-

and

Paris, Mar. 6.

tional economics have been dia. DE RIBES DEAD - rupted by the war. The future is uncertain everywhere."

Economic policles were in 4 state of flux, he said,

She was the witness golst Alfred Wesley Ingalls, 66, retired attorney and member of the Mussuchusetts Legislature for 12

day of the hold a speeint meeting to con- On the second years, and his wife Myra Elizabeth blizzard rabbits were jumping | sider the new crisis. Ingalls, 62.

Lin- over telegraph wires in The negress said Mrs. Ingalls

where snowdrifts deepest snow blanket of the stopped paying her after she lncolnshire

more than 20 feet deep were winter. Added to the slush and lee residue from Tuesday night's reported..

Fierce stowstornis powered | storm was a heavy new, blanket by Gb-quilt-an-hour galea plica of wet snow which tied trum 12-foot drifts farther south and car and bus services in more prolonged the rail and highway tangled knuts than ever. nway. She also said she was not chars, Trains were “lost." Hum Thousands nonndoned the leaf ties, erpecially food, which are japresentatives of alx Taiwanese world. One of the most hearten- de Ribes was elected Arat Pre-

were loft going to work at all.

been in service for four years and threulchert to put her in gaol if she tried to leave.

The little woman said she work, ed from 4.30 nm. to 10 pm and

when members of her family Aried to see her they were sent:

permitted read anything or Bec

Ingalls im unvore outside the mediate family and was frequent- ly beaten by Mrs. Ingalls.-Unit-|

ed Press,

Bolivian Landslide t Kills 10

La Paz, Bolivia, Mar. 5. The authorities. report that 10 persons were killed and 60 injured in a landslide which swept across the highway run- ning up into the from La Paz,

mountains

drede

of

rising

charter

A member of the Popular Re-

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24-HOUR CURFEW

IN LAHORE

Lahore, Mar, 0.

A 24-hour curfeio itam bērn imposed on the city of Lahore today after the police had opened fire overal times on threatening croieds.

On one occasion troans and palien mened fire on a vialent crowd of riolere, some of whom were armed with guns, roho, bad earlier fired on E rivni nob, enaing fiva conuolitra.

Firing als tonk: piner lo disperts a threatening crowd outside a minsane and to stop stone throwing between rival gampa of rioters--Rouler.

Threat To Resign

Parla, Mar. 0. Premier Paul Ramadier to- day threatened to resign unless the French National Assembly supported His demands for a balanced budget.

Anguste Chanspetler de Ribes. President of the newly formed French Council of the Repubile, "The existence of the antion died at his home here at 4 amin at atako," he declared in a today of a heart attack.

debate on finance.

He said he would insist that publican movement, Champetter whatever final budget in adopt. od it must be balances. "If that ident of the Council of the Re-

December-United Press. public, successor to the old Senate,course is not adopted, I shall When It Vi formed last be obliged to realgn," he saith.

Ansociated Press.

Gromyko Says U.S. Is

Being Selfish

cd to make an oral protest and to emphasise that the regula

Shanghal, Mar. 6. tlona innued by the Netherlands Requests for Immediate in- East Indies on January 20stitution in Taiwan of locat

Private Trade "not only are paralysing trade Government as well as abolition with the NEI but also are de- of the present bureaucratic the type of leadership that the The decisive factor will be priving the world of commodi administration were voiced by United States gives to the in acute world shortage." passengera

organizations here at an emering developments since the war. strandeči. Villages were isolat-

Many electric trulos stalled)

The spokesman said that the gency meeting echoing the re- the President el ́and trees and telegraph poles (because of "ee Insulation"

on terree Inued by the NEI au-cently-quelled Taiwan incident, progress made towards draft said, was the uprooted by hurricane winds.

29 im- Power-carrying wires and rails thorities on January

They advocate that undering the world trade Weather experts of the AirSteam locomotives were over posed a virtual embargo on certocal self-government, the which should be completed at Ministry said in low pressure worked towing in electric traina. tain produce which the In- government and magistrates | Gonova next month. aren is bringing Aretle condi

donesians have for sale, on the should be elected by the "If nations can agree to ob don-bacle to England-and- Floods In-Devon- grounds that such produce Taiwanese, severe punishme: serve a code of good conduct in blocked the advancé of balmy Only one freight train move might be the property of non- should be

meted to the international. trade they willi spring weather in the Channelment from South Wales was donesians, Fed dividing line ran

Authorities responsible for the co-operate more readily In The captain of the United incident and those who opened other International affairs. The almost reported and very few passen- exactly midway, between Dover ger trains were reported mov.

States Liberty ship "Maitin

fire on the mass. Hard Calais, No weather

pattern of international trade Echrman," which was foreing, none on schedule.

Boized

the caft today predicted thaw bot

The "Daily Telograph"

yesterday by the NEI Govern- The representatives niso asked, that is most conducive to clearing weather and

cattorially consoled the Government, the spokesman said, had for compensation for the killed freedom of enterprise is one in informed his company in the and wounded and Immediate re- which the major decisions are temperatures were forecast.

Arrested. They made not by governments but United States that after load. lease of the

safe. cargo in Cheribon without also want guarantee that there by private buyers and NEI Government permit, he would be had been taken from Cheribon similar incidentą.

no recurrence of guard againat the establish. to Tandjong Priock

ment of monopolles, and car- tels," under The representatives durgas with ten, Dutch, alors sheduled to proceed to Nanking Pressure On

U‚S;- aboard, and under escort of a shortly to appeal to the Govern heading for regimentation of Dutch destroyer-Reuter. cent-Central News.

trade, President Truman added: "If this trend is not reversed the government of the United Gromykte declared: "The con- teresis of other countries to its States will be under pressure clusion of the envention pro÷ own narrow national Interest sooner or later to use these hibiting stemic weapons „įslan ure

Serious Defect same devices in the fight for sent task.

"Without conclusion of a con- markels and for raw materials. layed for many months. We are speak about international atomic

"Despite this, it has been de vention

seriously cne cannot "And if the government were told that we cannot

prohibit control. yield to this pressure it atomic weapons until the Soviel

"The would shortly find itself in the Union accepts the United States Baruch Plan is that it provide

seticus”) defest business of allocating foreign plan for atomic control.ge for turning the proposed inter "This amounts to desire to national cogtral authority into o

trust.

Ona by one country to impre views

Coal Fears

A new coal shortage was

ment which "must think the weather is perversely anti. Socialist" by recalling that it was the rains of July 18. 1848, feared as snow prevented work that rained away the Corn Laws log the open cast mines, and ́ Heavy rains had undermined eltics as large as Birmingham proving our climate to be no the cliff alongside the high-reported food supplies threnten-party man way, and it gave way. A bus ed. At Birmingham only 40 per Thirty-six hours of rain and two houses were buried, cent of milk was delivered, and caused extensive flooding in The landslide also crushed a door-to-door bread

deliveries South Devon today. Boats number of Women washing, were cut off. clothes in a stream at the foot The Premier's Fuel Emergen-stranded in the upper floors of of the cliff.-United Press. ey Committee is expeclea

World Control Of Narcotic Drugs.

Lake Success, Mar. 5.

The United Nations through the action of the 11- nation committee of the UN Economic and Social Council today took over from the de- funct League of Nations worldwide control of narcotic drugs, but wrangled and failed to agree to banish Japan forever from the narco- tles tradę...

The Committee, at Russia's request, postponed action until meeting on a proposal to forbid Japan to export any narcotics and to limit Jap- anese imports of narcotic to quantities which the Control Board estimates essential for legitimate home needs.

were used to rescue people

to their homes at Brixham. Some ronts were flooded to a depth of six feet.

the

Pan-American Overseas Air- lines and BOAC trans-Atlantic | planes switched their terminala

io Prestwick, Seotland. Incom- Ing flights from the East and South Afrlen were pegged at! Malta, Marseilles and Hordeaux,' New York City postal!" authorities would be proud of letter-carrier Samuel Jones, Jones, who delivered mull and then crawled five miles through the snow to Bylchau peal office before collapsing from exhaus. tion. It took him eight hours to reach the post office. abandoned truck has not been found by searching parties. United Press.

Traffic Stopped

of

London, Mar. 6, Two planes parachuted supplies to. Glenshice, Perthshire, and in Wales the Carmarthen Assizes were cancelled for the first time in fifty years as the town was cut or by snow.

Birmingham, headquarters the London, Midland and Scottish running today "as and when they Railway, said that trains were

can." With only one exception, all Midlands sidlogs und mar Pre-shailing yards are blocked and all last freight traffle stopped.

New Zealand's Wulter. Nash The officer said before provoked a division by objecting United States Army took over the to permanent prohibition of Jap-Japanese medical supply arsenal anese narcotics exports despite in Tekyo nfter the war ended, the China's efforts. Dr. S. See point- two officers remeved quantities of ed out Japan used cplum as a narcotics worth, several hundre "political weapon," favouring its thousand yen and disposed distribution in China to under them in the black market. mine pubile morale and health. The two former officers

Britain's J. Alexandre support apprehended the Tokyo ed China's efforis, hut as New feclural narcotics cficials Zealand stubbornly held out Rus-month.-United Press. ala asked that decision be post.

poned until the next meeting- United Press.

cf

were

Oyler Dead U.S. Supply

· Detroit, May 6,

The death cccurred

of Ralph H. Oyler, internationally Of Meat To

known authority on narcoties and

"dope rings, who spent 32 years In Britain

the government service and was credited with the breaking up of Mame of the most notorious nar-

Washington, Mar. 6.

"Key" Terrorists Arrested

Jerusalem, Mar. 6.

Twenty-five key underground terrorists, believed ...to include some very prominent figures, were arrested by British Army Operations "Ele-

arc

to

phant and - Hippo" and are being down to Rebellion

Kenya in special airplanes, it was learned to- day.

At least n score of the 25 are believed to be prominent in the Jewish community. All were

arrested In the Measkoarim ouarter of Jerusalem and Tel- Aviv.

Six home made

Kronales were found near the scene o attack.--United Press.

Building Bombed

Jerusalem. Mur, f.

A bomb explosion outside be taken to Nairobi where the ed the Tax Assessment building It is believed the Jews would Halfa today complete y wreck. British are forming their cen- In Hadar Carmel, the Jewish tral strategic base for the Mid-quarter on the slopes of Mount dle East. The report circulated a new terrorint attacks, were carried out.

CID ofejais refused to dis- close the identities of the 25 "active soldiers" and remained mum about other aspects of the secretive operation

Carmel.

world was

In Honduras

Guatemala City, Mar. 6, Persistent reports of rebel. flon in the neighbouring re- publics of Honduras and Sal- vador were circulated here to-1 day, but no confirmation could be obtained,

Travellers from Honduras mobilise its armed forces to kafd. the Government and

face the threat of a revolt re- portedly led by Gen. Rufino Solis.

This was the second' act of violence in Palestine today, an carlier one being a raid on the Orion Cinema in the heart of ed that a plot to overthrow The Guatemalan press report- Jerusaleta when a gang of four President Custanoda Castro of armed men held up the managerador had been put down All British troops guarding force there. The plot reportedly and got away with £200 in cash.

and that a state of niege was fni arcurity zones in after the explosions, as

Jerusalem resulted from discontent over were put on the alert tonight, the outcome of the

red, election of mayors and deputies. green and again red flarea shot | into the sky in drizzling ralevadorean plotters had been de- It was reported that 26 Spl. from command poats.

ported to Honduras. United All traffic in the city, came Press; that the to a standstill. ;

They said they are "known terrorists" meaning that their CID archives" "black lists" and names, probably appeared it

probably included, some mem bers of the "Black Buad" dark-skined Yemenite Sephar- di youths.

It was reported

.:

Heavy, drifts in, South Wales mining valleys have prevented catch did not include Menahem

Thirty minutes after the

thwusands of workers reaching Belgin or David Friedman Yel-inst explosion terrorists lobbed

recent

the pits, and in Monmouthshire lin, commanders of the two hand-grenades at a military STOP PRESS

the pit are Idle by the dozen.

In. London, Buers were unable dissident underground armed police lorry in the Street of

..

Camp Attacked

1 Prophets.

to climb steep hills, and icing on forces. conditor rails caused cancella- tion of electric railway

One British lance-corporal Arvicen. Trains from Wales and the West ried out another

Irgun Zvat Leumi today car- Is reported to have been in. Country were arriving hours Jale

'small ⠀ arms | jured.—Reuter. or not at all.

and mortar attack on Hedera An official at Victoria Station camp; halfway between Haifa British said this morning: "We are sendt- į and Tel-Aviv. Three Clinton Anderson, U.S. Seing trains off as usual, hut Foglar recently returned from a

we soldiers were wounded as were cretary of Agriculture, sald an have no idea if

An f any of them have two of the attackers who established over Mongolia and China, and secret norectics mission to Tokyo, Wednesday that America had got to Brighton." where he was an alde en agreed to supply Britain with The blizzard

caped.*.. which

Patenting, eqthward) and Douglas MacArthur's stalt,

Army and police forces now remare la moderately-high to the E of During the 1911-28 period He enough meat by the spring to oatheast England, haralding the are searching the atas aided the Falloniuss. A depression is moving

slow thaw, caused leing u on

· kended; the Narcotics : Bureau', of { prevent a cut, in the proscht roads, and rallways described as by dogs who are following the font (paross' 'the' Bmw' ot^Japan: «another }

rings in this country, C

Haw York, when he was credited | British ration:

with seizing more than $1,000,000 Shipments will be limited, to

Dr. drugs United Press

swhot

blood; trails.

THE WEATHER

become

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the worst for thirty years Trains Stuck worth pt.

beef and possibly surplus tur

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keys, ho said. No pork will be Railway trains were stock in the Tokyo, Mati #2 - Included because of short snow for nearly, 24 hourk-one ON OTHER PAGES General Headquarters Pilblia domestic supplies, Anderson (Continued on Page 8. Col. 3). Health and Welfare Section nars added. S "cotics" control, omeer discienéd to. Anderson also said that the day that two former : Japanese | United States will help: Britain. Naval Lirutanants committed sule build-up stocks of wheat, be on Monday night, drinking fore the autumn of 1947 so that conide las make (Abans Britals will not be dependent wine) after vealing intors upon current Fallon, which, wah), expedias sla"

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New Delhi, Mar. 6. Reports from Lahor, sald today that the "whole town Is. aflame" a heavy rioting con- tinued throughout the day until this evening when an official statement, said the

situation was brought u under control.

Troops with full ment stood by to move swiftly

War,

equip-

to any part of the Punjab.

· Report" of a 24-hour curfew, later, denied, brought loting mobe out of their huto-fand fighting raged

througho Lahore, Somerof-the- rioter used guns and casualties wan reported.", Both);

«mfiltary opened fr

ed to the casualin Do: estimate 2 of th

number

Lake Success, NY.; Mar. 5. M. Andrei Gromyko, Soviet delegate, accused the United States of sub-ordinating the interests of the United Nations to its own "narrow ná- tional Interest" in the Security Council here. today.

The Soviet Union, she said, considered it impossi

ble to have atomic control until all nations have signed the convention prohibiting atomic weapons.

in the

dictate terms and in an attempt Vaelto add the

it would only; on others. In order to provision-tikti promis should be strengthen its, monopoly in the shared according to the amount atcmic feld

jof stock held to get a complete "In this respect, the United picture," Bald M. Gromyko.--~.

sub-ordinating the In- Reuter,.

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