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FOOD PARCELS FOR PRINCESS Unusual Wedding Gift From U.S. Committee Will Go To Widows

Ilse Koch "Quite Motherly"

Munich, Oct. 20. Hospital officials here to- day said lise Koch, wife of the former Buchenwald cammandant, was far from the hardboiled overseer shin Was in Buchenwald days and

was "quite 'motherly" about the birth uf her fourth child.

When she was shown the baby, Ilse smiled warmly and asked she might keep him. She was told no.

a

A guard, armed with pisto), was stationed at the door of the hospital delivery ron during the birth.

After the delivery, the re. turned to the four-bed ward which was reserved for her alone. A least one guard is on duty outside her room at all times-United Press.

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And Children

London, Oct. 29.

An unofficial wedding present from thousands of Americans to Princess Elizabeth was announ- ced tonight-food parcels to be distributed among Britain's widows and children.

Wha

rapid-

CARE Cooperative for Amari-prevent to Princess Elizabeth, a can Remittance to Europe-an- pendant of eight Queensland opals nounced that "many thousands" each set off by six, small Queens- of 22-pound food parcels would land sapphires.

The largest of the opals is of be sent as wedding presents to the Princess, beginning about light shade and the others aro November 1 and continuing for black. The black opal several weeks after November 20.ly becoming one of the world's

Unofficially

It

expected rarest gems as it is found only that probably 60,000 packages In Lightning Ridge in Queensland

which is being worked out, would be sent,

Princess Elizabeth, accepting The Queensland branch of the the mass shipment of parcels, do- Saint George Society is to ad elded that they should be disa matching pair of opal earrings. tributed throughout the British Lieutenant Mountbatten will re- Isles to widows with children. celve a polished. fumed Queens- She discussed the distribution land maple, cigar and cigarette problem with welfare agencies | bux. and the British Food Ministry.

Ballot

by

Recipients will be chosen ballol and an equal proportion will be allotted to nech section of Britain.

Catholic Protest

Meanwhile, the National Board of Catholic Women sent letters of prolext today to the King and Queen against centuries, old inws Buckingham Palace announced that prohibits Roman Catholles that the Frincess planned to send from presenting a loyal address unate of thanks to each donor, approving the forthcoming inar-1

ringe of Princess Elizabeth. The recipient widow will receive) The letters echoed complaints by nil the name of the Anteri

ATA" | voleed recently by the Vatican enn dasor of her food packages and wil be asked to return it radis and lie British "Catholic immediately to enable CARE to Herald" which asked how mucit

show the guaranteed delivery,

"His

Women's letter saul.

Chinese Customs Statistics

Shanghal, Oct. 30. Chinese Customs statistics today reported that, during Aug ist, imports totalled C.N.$38,510,000,000 while ex- ports totalled C.N.$478,000,- 000,000,

The statistics showed a 30 percent gain in imports over · July while exports showed a 102 percent increase over the previous month.

Cotion thread Chemical and dye. products, medicine stuff were the chief importa during August, Tung oil or ..woodoll arid animal products were the chief exports. United Press.

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Plymouth, Oct. 29. King George today

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longer is the dead hand of lin-named two streets of the She als will be encouraged to Catholic body from falling its mouth, one of the worst tory to be allowed to prevent the new city centre of Ply- Glasgow, Oct. 29.

establish Correspondence with the Princess Elizabeth will American friend who paid for and first and deepest civil derive.

bombed towns in Britain. launch Bri-sent the package. tomorrow

Majesty's millions and unveiled the founda Each package, delivered with a Roman Catholic subjects share to tain's new dollar winter of good, wishes from Prin- the full the joy of the nation at tion stone, commemorat- ning Cunard White Star Elizabeth, will include four this time and have been pained ing the work of

of canned meat, butter. to hear that their ecclesiastical liner Caronia (30,000 kinds

shortening, war, powdered milk, leaders, the Catholle hierarch are struction. tons) from the famous powdered egg. fruit juices, cho-alone debarred from presenting a Fittingly The called the John Brown shipyard cute, ten, soap, yeast and dried loyal address," the Catholic streets

Parade Royal

and fruits.

Armada Way" because of the The committee directing the "His Majesty will be aware of port's historic sociation with Sister ship of the 35,000 ton campaign for food parcel gifts to the outstanding part taken by Sir Francis Drake and men of Mauretani, the Caronian will the Princess includes: Douglas

Roman Catholics on the wat is Armada, who defeated the serve either Da a new occan Fairbanks, Jr., Quentin Reynolds, effort, especially as he has with greyhound on the Atlantic run Cole Porter, Dr. Robert Millikan. his own hands decorated with the Spaniards. or as one of the most luxurious Mrs. Vincent Astor Randolph Victoria Cross and other decorn-

1learst and Colby Chester.

tion for war gallantry a far high- cruising liners in the world.

From Brisbane Tomorrow's launching will be

er proportion of Roman Catholics the third big occasion at John In Brisbano (Australia) the than members of any other rell- Brown's shipyard for Princess people of Queensland will short-lous denominations." United Elizabeth. She was last there ly end to Britain as a wedding Press, Reuter, Associated Press, in 1944 to name and launch the battleship Vanguard,

Munich

In 1938, during the eriais, when only 12 years old, she was held up by officials to! watch her mother launch the 80.000 ton Queen Elizabeth.

Princess Margaret was also there but the King was kept in! London by the crisis.

The new Cunarder will differ in many respects from her sisters in the Cunard fleet. Her lines

will be graceful like those of a luxury yacht and she will have a single raked funnel--Reuter.

Divorced

Diplomat Appeals

mitted adultery with Spanish diplomat.

was

Signalman Blamed For Croydon Crash

London, Oct. 29.

The signalman, who said he was working in a fog for the first time, admitted today that he was responsible for the Croydon (London) train crash in which 31 people were killed last Friday,

Hornee Hiller, a 20-year-old former prisoner of war, told the Ministry of Transport Inquiry

that he passed as a signalman Wave Of

last May and Friday was the first

day he had had to deal with fog.

After he hud

actions

described his Child Murders

immediately before

the

train carrying workers to the city centre crashed nto the rear of another citybound

train, the Chief Inspector of the Railways asked him, "You are frankly ad. for mitting your responsibility this acciden17"

Hillier did not reply but nodded his head.

Rangoon

Rangoan, Oct. 29.

murders

The wave of child and abductions In Rangoon reached climax today

of the most

city's primary

when.

The King said: "My Lord Mayor, the Queen and I are very glad to be here today and to take part in this historic ceremony. When last we come to Plymouth, we saw with deep sorrow the heavy damage which the enemy had wrought on your aucient city.

"We were grieved that many of your citizens had been killed, thousands made homeless and that your civic life and your industry been crippled."

The King thanked each and every citizen for the part hel or she played in defeating the enemy and congratulated them on the foresight and confidence which had inspired them dur- ing the darkest days of the war to look forward to this inc work_of_pence.—Reuter,

He Fooled Nazis And

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Annual

London, Oct. 29. Victor Cavendish- He admitted making mistake

through inexperience and sald It conducted a vigorous campaign Bentinck, former British would not have happened but to round up vice-gangs specin-asked for two years' im-

lising in perversion.

prisonment for Hans van Ambassador to Poland, for the fog.

More Bodies today, appealed against

About 10 bodies of teen-age Meegeren, whose forged Three more bodles werd 're boys-some of them badly mull. separation decree grant-covered from the wreckage

of lated have been discovered in the paintings fooled art con- dealers and ed his wife on. the the Edinburgh to London express city's dumps during the last fort-noisseurs,

SATURDAY, 8TH NOVEMBER, 1947. big-shot Nazis into pay-

The First Bell will be rung at 2.30 p.m. and the first raco grounds that the judge train early today increasing the night, police reports said.

deeth toll of Sunday's crash to Doctors certified that the boys who heard his original 27.

had been the victims of hideous ing thousands of dollars will be run at 3.00 p.m.

Through numbers (7 races-$14) may be obtained at the for what they thought divorce suit threw out Beved that all victims had now

Railway officials said they be outrages.

Building also The police were combing

Office of the Treasurers, 1st Floor. Exchange his charges that his wife been located in the wreckage.

city for a number of toon-age were Vermeer and de tickets for the Special Cash Sweep on the last race as well as

those for the "Hong Kong Derby to be run at the deserted him and com- Firty-five ton mobile cranes boys and gitis reported missing Hoogh originals.

were used to move the locomotive while on errands,

The court is trying van Mee. Race Meeting in January 1948. The latter may also be pur- a+and

clear remaining shattered Panic stricken parents today goren on charges of forging paint-chased at the Club Branch Office. No. 382 Nathan Road, coaches. The crash occurred crowded the local schools, tockings and is expected to pronounce

MEMBERS' BADGES AND ENCLOSURE. when the express struck a switch, away their children, and forced sentence in two, weeks.

them to close, Reuter and Associated Press.

Members are reminded that they and their ladies MUST Four art experts testified today Infuriated crowds gathered at the police station, demanding the how they discovered van Mec. wear their badges PROMINENTLY DISPLAYED throughout the were not Meeting. geren's "old masters"

NO ONE WITHOUT A BADGE WILL BE ADMITTED TO surrender of the men detained by so old, although the first news of the police on suspicion pf being the forgeries which shocked the THE MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE. members of vice gangs.

Badges admitting non-members to the Members' Enclosure art world came from van Mee-

tax Aro obtainable 1. The police said that this "ungeren himself two years ago.

Club Rooms at $10 including and precedented and unique crime He confessed in order to clear through the Secretary un the written or personal introduction wave" was probably due to the himself of charges that he aided of a member, such member to be responsible for silchita eto.

Badres admitting to Members' Enclosure will NOT be on. tightening up of the Brothels Act the Nazis in looting valuable Honolulu, Oct, 29. him, fed from Britain in 1989 Colonel Robert McCormick, with a view to suppressing pro-Dutch paintings. He then said he sale at the RACE CODESE.

The Treasurers' Compradore Office will close at -11a.m. and committed adultery Ineditor and publisher of the stitution, France in 1936 and in California "Chicago Tribune," sald

A high police authority said had painted them himself.

The courtroom was darkened and the Secretary's Office at 12.00 noon. Bath Offices at 1st on that a number of persons had al-while X-ray photographs of the Floor, Exchange Building. In 1942.

Tuesday night: "I would like ready been detained, but the plotures were shown to illustrate A limited number of tiffins will be obtainable at the His wife won a separation-de-General Douglas MacArthur to gangs were still at large-Reu- the difference in paint structure Club House, provided they are ordered in advance from the cree on ovidence Bentinck'a adultery: United make a triumphal return home (ter.

between van Meegoren's works No. 1 Boy (Tel: 27818) ►

NO CHILDREN WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE CLUB'S and originals-United ProsS,

PREMISES DURING THE MERTING, AGA KHAN - FROM OPERATION

Cavendish-Bentinck

dis. missed from the Foreign Service while he was Ambassador-de. signate to Brazil after his wife, Clothilde, won a divorce action last March?

His attorney told the Court of Appeals that the divorce Judge rejected Cavendish Bentinck's evidence that his wife deserted

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Bookmakers, Tio Two man, ste, will not be permitted te operate within the precincts of The Hong Kong Jockey Club Refreshments will be obtainable in the Restaurant in the during the Fines Meeting. Pabllo Enclosure,'

he is the only good general to come out of the war.".

McCormick and his wife ar rived on route to the Orient They were grested at the air-

Åthoni, Oct. 29. port by hula dancers and a ́TO TOUR

group of friends, who piled leis Two railwaymen and Ava Greek

Paris, Oct. 24.2 ITALIAN COLONIES] (flowered rings) about their Communists were killed yesterday in

The Aga Khaß left the Americas Decks.

Asked for his reason for the guerillas attacked an econed train, hospital here tonight after recovering malignant tumour, his perstaty A12 day programme of visits by trip, the Colonel replied: "This from Salonike, official sourets sald from is operation for small son

today. the four power investigading 'commis is for fun, I've reached

an nge The small military escort festuted stated. lon to the three former

inted fiat Passée for Barvants will be inued to Private flag, hóōlders Italian when I like to have furt/"

The doctale hare not fozisied and the tuerlina; were chased away, colonies of Eritten, Hallan Somali

McCormick said he had a by fresh Greek trasph

be remple in bed, since his recovery: ONLY on application to the Secretary, 1st Floor, Exchange has been so rapid, but have advires Huilding..

**Aut pernotif found Tollering with Servants' passes in their” Thim to reit's deal few days good den for the option will forferi she same and will be removed from de

KINGFORST OF "Ats Khan expect remaln in Paris another two or three weeks

London, Oct. 29.

land and. Libya, was approved by high regard for both Gell. The railwaymen and

twa Gred

the Deputies of the Big Four For MacArthur and Senator Robert soldiers were wounded-Reuter.

Mialsters when they met, ai) Toft, but does not know whether than

Lancaster House, Lofting, today,

The Deputies decided ther the la-Gen. MacArthur is interested

next

readgating commission would fly in becoming a presidential can with Gon, MacArthur and I do to displete his confiisscence, bla from London to Cairo on its way didate. We

not know how he feels."

Ito Eritreston November (7----Rameet. I **I have had no correspondence, added,--Associated Press.

he secretavy. Räded. His plaise after the

períou are still indeReuter-

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