1947-06-23 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1947.

MARATHON FILIBUSTER Day And Night Session Of Senate

Fight Over The

Labour Bill

Washington, June 21. After a continuous 28-1/2 hour day and night ses- sion, the Senate tonight agreed to delay until Monday afternoon its vote on President Tru- man's veto of the Republican sponsored La- bour Bill,

The Labour Bill limits the right to strike and bans

the closed shop.

Freshdent Truman last night Truman's deserted it

vel. It anid they

DA "I shocking are 5-1 in praise of his artion. hiver ut legislation, but for - The demperatie leadership it- boter, bad for management and self kept hands of the bad for the country,”

Supporters of the hill are arging the Senate to follow the House of Representative

buster. It took no purt in the marathon talking.

Singing Cowboy cx- The Senate Demoratio lend- ample in overriding the Prester, Athen Barkley, in fact Join- dent's velo. A two-thirds unsuccessful Republican pro- majority is needel do this. |posals to get ʼn vote on Satur-

Repich Henn rebel" Senatorily. But he and the Repub Wayne. Morse this afternoon | Hein Tendership W02780 blocked Binued the surprise Leftwing | dramatically be a small group Blaster in the Senate against | honded by Mamie and Senator da bi, re-vated by 150 House Glen Taylor the "Ringing cos of Representatives yesterday buy" including Senstorg after being vetoed by the Pre-Claude Pepper and Harley Ki

All the talking on the Senate Boar was being done by on. Nat since potents of the bilt May 1927 has the Senate been kept in a round the clock sex. in. But the Senators seeT- es to be Hitle affected by weari- the Sume took nags in 1995, Plank room. Others dozed in their seats while the speeches The stretched out droned on.

siderat

Eggnogs And Tea Sipping eggangs whipped spam and eggs) atul drinking hot ten, Senator Morse followed the Demorerat Sconlors who had kept the Senate at a frst all night session for 12 years in an effort to prevent a Seunte vete on the bill,

Jorn

De couch in the rear of the

After dawn some

chumbur.

When a Senator raisóľ a point of order by saying that Senator Murse was leaning on his desk the latter replied: "Believe me, my feet tell me I am standing."

red-eyed Antonio, puregos Porin "hairdresser recently turned hatmaker, "Except for a handful of re-Senators drifted out in redan showed this tuner hat of black trite and bird of paradise feathers porters and one or two members, and came back a few hours later | topped oft with a diamond be elip from Van Clef and Arpels in Senator Morse spoke to an empty freshed. Some Senators seem-

eteunshaven and looking re- the French enpitel. (Anunciated Pres Photo).

house.

After 18 hours of continuouts. session, the Democrat Senators

waiting

to enjoy all the fun,

a chatting gully. { prin: we of the speakers thus {One aspect al the filibuster was

turned down a Repableau posal for a vate and Inter similar suggestion for a votes Monday or Tuesday,--Reuter,

A Marathon

#

honoured devices as reading a far has resorted to such time

telephone directory or the Bible or the Constitution to hold the Washington, June 21,

| floor. All actually talked alogi- "A marathon filibuster by in-the labour bill. surgent Democrats und Repub- While the filibuster was the Beans seemed certain to post-centre of attraction. hag-range) pone until Monday the crucial interest was in the test of po- Simate vote ott overriding Prelitlend strength between Presi sident Truman's labour bill dent Truman and his principal opponent in Congress Senator Prospets continued, how-bert Taft-vo-author of the ever, that when the Senate does bill auit Truman's possible op- finally

will join the point in the 1948 election

veto.

vote it

House in acting the Taft- United Press, Hartley bill despite President

Truman's objections,

Have

Weury Senators who been up all night were man- Denvering for

agreement which would put off the vole

until Monday to end the king-

Bargaining Phase Now

est continuous Senate session On

in 20 years, At 12 noon EDT

the Senate was in session for a

Lake Success, June 22,

Brutal Killing Of R.A.F. Officers

London, June 21.

The brutal killing of 50 Royal Air Force oflicers who participated in the great tunnel escape from Stalag Luft Three, chief RAF prisoner-of-war camp in Germany, will be recalled at Ham- burg on July 1.

The trial will open on that? day, before a military court, of

17 mumbers of the Gestapo on charges which allege their coin- plicity in the killing of so of fieers of the IAF, Dominion and 26 Allied air forces, who with others took part in a' muss es-}

the cape from the camp on night of March 24, 1944.

Many people were concerned

in the killings and as a result of prolonged investigations Little hope was held by Unit- those 17 Gestapo officials were Republican leaders at first yd Nations delegations for traced and arrested.

full 24 hours..

pro-

Baffling Palestine Crime

Jerusalem, June 21.

Soviets Grabbing Workers

Hof, June 21.

Russians in the occupation zone adjoining Bavaria were reported by the German frontier police today to be forcibly recruiting people in the Oberschelma district for work in the pitch- blend mines-a source of uranium, the raw material for atom-fission, and radium. For that reason, Germana | wishing to enter the Russian zone from Bovaria were being warned not to continge thetr journey,

Fugitives from Oberscheima were quoted by the police saying that women and young people as well as men were be ing recruited from the streetsi to work in the mines, where con-i ditions are alleged to be in-1 jurious to health because of the absence

from of protection radlam rays.

At Rue near Oberachelma, it was stated, a uranium mine has been started in the market square, Extensive mining

VAA also said to be going on near Bad Braumback, where ratio. active gases are found.

Joachimstal in Czechoslovakia, where mining for uranium orc was begun 18 months ago, lies roughly midway between Ober-) schlema and Bad Braumback.

The Russians were said to he packing ore in large cases and sending It to Berlin for dis- patch by air to Russia-Reuter.

the at the the

New Britten

Opera: Cool Reception

ASIA I.L.O. CONFERENCE

Genera, June 21. The governing body of the International Labour" Organi- sation today decided that preparatory Asian

regiount conference he held in New Dethi from Oct. 27 to Nov. 10. The regional meeting for the Near East

and Middle East will take place ut. Cairo from Nov. 24 to 20.

(D-

The labour conference day was divided up into com- mittrex dincunning tehnient or- vanian!ion problems of the ennference. Next werck the conference_will dent with the Director General's repart.-- limited Press.

Resurgent Japan: A Warning

Singapore, June 21.

The Australian Minis- ter of Immigration, Mr. Arthur Calwell, who ar- rived here today on his

London, June 22. Benjamin Britten's new comic opera "Albert Herring" received only a mudicumn of encouragement from London music crities yester-way to London on # "populate or perish" mis- The third major work of Bri- sion for Australia, wärn- tain's 33-year-old operatic white

day.

hope, it received its premalere at ed Malayan newspaper- Glyndebourne, in Sussex, on Frt

day night.

The London Times concluded its review by saying that Britten's musical methods were

leading "him up a blind alley."

men of the menace Japan might again constitute in the Pacific.

of

"Within 15 or 20 years Allied occupation forces leaving The general feeling seemed to Japan, the Japanese militarists be that the work failed to equal WIII probably begin forging Britten's "The Rope of Lucretia" Weapons more terrible than and "Peter_Grimes." The libretto those they used to devastate by Eric Crozier was based on Malaya, Indonesia and other Maupassant's "La Routeir de Pacifle countries", he said. Madame. Husson" and concerned Within an hour of his arrival, the antics of a village bumpkin, Mr. Calwell visited the graves one Albert Herring, who kicked of Australian servicëmen over the traces after being chosen Kranji Cemetery, пед King of the May.-Associated Johore causeway. Press.

NEW ATOMIC

PLAN

Lake Success, June 21.

A new plan for world control

of atomle energy designed to

bring together Russia and the|

at

the

He told the press that "there are important historical links now between Malaya and Aus tralia".--Reuter.

ENTERTAINING SENORA PERON

London, June 21.

A recoption Committee

wpy

A special court of in-Western Powers has been draft-

ed by experts from China, Bri- formed today under the chairman- quiry, convened today to tain, France, the United States ship of Lord Davisson, chairman investigate the peculiar and Canada on the Atomic of the Hispanic Council, to co- had he determined to smuth bridging the widening gap in The War Office tonight stat-"escape" of Maj. Roy Energy Commission.

ordinate suggestions for enter- the filibuster, even if it meant East-West relations until theed that the ease for the

The plan. would-limit the de-linn, Kenneth Grubb, Secretary taining Senora Peron of Argen- slaying in session vatil Sunday | four poger London peace con- scention will be that they were Farran, who was

extra-gree of sovereignty a concerned in the killing of 12 dited from Syria to face would have to surrender to the was named secretary of the com- nation General of the Hispanic Council, night or Monday morning. But fernee in November. at dawn on Saturday, the Re- A virtual deadlock, between of the officers, who were shot at charges in involvement projected world atomic energy mittee. United Press. publican whip, Kenneth Wherry, Russia and the Western powers lx widely separated places in in the kidnapping of a licies

body by outlining specific po- proposed an unanimous agree on a major United Nations western Germany and German

beyond which Jewish

atomic ment to vote on Monday. The peacekeeping machinery led | vccnpied territory. Included in

youth, started control could not go. It has flibssterers refused to give in some delegates to predict that the number of the accused are the Holy Land's most not yet been officially adopted Rf first. Büjt-later,—Senator | the four power-delegations on the chiefs of the Gestapo In baffling crime investiga-by any of the major Powers. Wayne Morac, one of the in the German pence settlement Hume of the wowns concerned tion in recent years.

United Press. surgent Republicans, said he muy be The critical turning and also members of the special and his colleagues would con-point of East-West relations. squads which, it is alleged.

The inquiry committee kept its

BASILICA TO BE sent to vote any time next They agreed

meeting secret, announcing only) it was obvious were formed on top-secret of that it is headed by Cal. L. L. week.

that what happens at the Lon- ders from Berlin to carry out Brighton, superintendent of Pales-

RESTORED Public Support don session will have a great the killings.

Budapest, June 21. Though apparently abandon-effect on the pattern of future Preparation of the enxe has.

Forran was brought back from restoring the dome of the A gift of 1,000,000 Jorins for ing all hope of getting a vote relations between the Soviet been made possible only by pro- Syria on a warrant that he was famous basilica, ruined by fire; on Saturday, the Republican and the Western powers.

longed and extensive investiga-wanted "la connection with the yesterday, was voted todny by The stalemate here on econo- lons carried out by a team of disappearance Jeadership's #trategy seemed to be to let Morse and his ng-/mie controls, world disarma- the special investigation branch Rubowitz, 19-year-old Stern Gang cil on the proposal of Matyas Alexander the Hungarian Economic Coun- ROCintes talk a few hours morement and the creation of a glo-j of the RAF, and by the work of 'member. Rubowitz Is believed to Rakosi, Deputy Premler before agreeing on the post-but police force wne regarded as the war crimes interrogation

just a stage in the jockeying unit.-Reuter. ponement.

The filibuster-a procedural and bargaining phase of the device by which a Senator eun final German peace settlement. hold the floor for prolonged Associated Press

periods to prevent 'n vote on any given measure-is being carried on by supporters of the Presidential veto in order to al- low the public to react to the President's radio speech outlin- Ing his reasons for vetoing the bill.

INDIAN REDS DISPROVE

CRUISER'S DUEL WITH SHORE

Batavin, Juno 21. New Delhi. June 21. A gun duel between a Dutch The Indian Communist Party cruiser and an Indonesian shore adopted a resolution today: con- battery near Muntjar, south of demning the British plan for Bandjuwangi Java's

on

cost

tine Police.

of'"*

have been murdered,

Farran's first escape to Syria, ls return and his subsequent dis-' appearance were linked by the

Palestine press to rumours that British "pro-Fascist" elements had Infiltrated the Palestine Police with the intention of warring against the terrorists under the gulce of maintaining law and order-United Press,

the duel took place on June 19.

Naval sources here say that

The White House already has transfer of power to the In-coast, was reported today by announced that several hundred dians as "an award which does the Republican News Agency. telegrams had been received by not give India real indepen- A Republican communique is the only vessel' in the vicinity -mid-morning on Saturday on dence.”—United Press,

aued in Jogjakarta said that is a destroyer.-Reuter.

"JANE"

HEAVENSPRITZ MAS GOT LOOSE!—THAT'S LET THE CAT-I MEAN DOG

OUT OF THE BAG!!!

STEWARD!

THERE'S A DOG ON THE PLANE!!!

"ARE YOU SURE, SIR?-DID THE OTHER GENTLEMAN

SEE IT?

COMMENT?

A CHIEN?-MAIS NON, STEWARD!~ MONSIEUR MUST

HAVE BEEN

DREAMINO!

ANY ONE SEEN A DOG?

HEY

NONSENSE- PIST!- DOGS

FIDO ROVER-

CAESAR!

AREN'T ALLOWED!!

and Communist leader.

Since the old Roman Catholic Cathedral was ruined in. the Battle of lica served sa the main Roman Budapest, the Basi- Catholic Church,

The Dome was a copy of the dome of Florence Cathedral.

Reuter.

U.N.R.R.A. AT END IN BELGRADE

Belgrade, Juno 21. officially closed its offices here UNRIA's Yugoslav mission

today after more than two years work in which it shipped moro than 100,000,000 worth of ro! llef goods in the country,

At its peak, the mission, led by Colonel Mikhail Sorgefchik, former Red Army quartermas- ter in Persia, employed than 180 foreigners and 300 local employees-Reuter.

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SCHACHT APPEAL

Frankfurt, Germany,

June 22.. Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, former President of the Gerinan Reichs- bank, today appealed against hla bentence of eight years in a labour camp, passed by a Stutt gart denazification, court, accord ing to DENA, the German News Servico in the United Staten zone-Router.

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