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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1947.

DEMOCRATIC REVOLT Congressmen Cross Party Line.

Anti-Inflation

Programme

Washington, Nov. 20.

A threat to the long range European recovery pro- gramme developed in the United States Con- gress today when a considerable number of Democrat members crossed the party line to form a solid bloc with the Republicans in op- position to President Truman's anti-inflation programme.

Government attempts to handle an emergency with measures.

emorgency

The President's address was by almost any text n genuinely commendable effort,"

A Mr. Joseph Martin,

Speaker

of the House of Representatives. Indiented, after conferring with the leading Republicans, that Truman programme had Bite chance of enactment In the special session,

European diplomatle quarters welcomed the President's speech : enthusinatleally, specially for th evidence of earnest appreciatiur

recover;

Mr. Truman, with his pro- "polico state methodIn" and porats yesterday for the return praise for the President's men, to pelee control and entering sage as "by almost any test a in the White House of what apprius in the poet 24 hours to genuinely commendable effort."" | long-range European have shifted the malt emphasis Senator Robert Taft, leading programme would entall In the present spevind session of | candidate for the Republican The only fene expressed whe Congress from Furetien to tones-Presidential nomination, naid lest Congress final consideratio: of the Marshall plun should be come ratangle in a fight that may develop over the domesti controls issue-Reuter.

pro-

the affiles and to have reduced that President Truman's the sense of avgeny previously) gramme meant the "aetting up] attached to the Fortabe 120. of a Federal Bureau with ifter

ally hundreds of thousands of employees aril agents prying in- to the daily lives of the people."

He said that it was a step to

Ten Proposals

Washington, Nov. 20. Here are President Truman's for reducing the cost of Bving and the present outlook for approval by Congress:

1. Restoration

The President als peers. have evoked w niegrations that the vast American éltet ek purls were one, of but the main,} cause of inflations and to have a completely totalitarian nation," ten proposals ralhed supporters ta Senior Prices, he said, could be healf Robert Taft's chain that The down in the United States by a Marshall Plan eng must, at the resurtion of Government sprid- very nust, be to flyprise than ing. A decrease In taxation the present overturns expend limitation of exports and

tama.

nts

Bie. Tranian appear, its addi tion tu have atmosphere of bitter politen] purtishinship over what is likely to prove the key run if the 1918 Presidential election.

the

President Truman will send a message du Fraynnast on Jong-range == **|{-letpi

plan to Binge wihin ten days or two weeks, Mr. Chades Horn the White House pose seen etary told reportera Vulný.

trition of the Marshall plan tof "a reasonable figure,"

for

consumer

credit entrols and restraint un creation of Inflationary bank eredit -outlook good.

2. Regulation "f speculative truding on cammodity exchanges

outlook – zoubtful.

4. Extension and strengthen-

of export controls-good,

4. Extension of authority to almente transportation facilities and equipment-geod.

The last public function at which Prinenga Elizabeth was seen before her wedding poster. day was the ceremony at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Day. At left above is the generat scene in Whitehall during the presalee servise. On right Her Royal Highness is laying a wreath of the base of the memarlat-—(APhotur).

THE

PACIFIC FLEET: BRITONS HUSH-HUSH

IN HOUSE OF COMMONS

London, Nov. 19.

measures The Government declined to be drawn into giving details of the British Pacific Fleet at question time in the House of Commons today.

Press Criticism The President's proposals to curb Inflation In the Unite States were "not so much programme for Amerlen s programme to level us down to 5. Authorization of

cluliste tandards of

nations to pertunde growers to market wow that are begging or cupitalist livestock and poultry at weights

help," the Mirror" declared today.

"New York Dally | approved by government-doubt-

The Flunucial Secretary to replied: "I am not going to ful. The "New York Daily News": 4. Expansion of government the Treasury, Mr. John Dog- led into making statements, unked “how enthusinatie

fustered agricultural conservation unle, said that he was unably | Commander Noble is quite en police state methods are Ameri.penters at home and measures to give information asked for title to make his own guesses Experienced obrva vray thought cans going to be when

to induce increased food produc- when Commander Noble, Con- and am not going to say who- they t 1 nbrond-doubtful. Congress would bank Pre et realise that they are

servative, asked for the size of ther these guesses are correct enduring 7 Allocation and Truman on many pants of his these grief's not for some future control of sentee basic commodities ships were now in or cast of inventory the Pacific Fleet and how many

"Nest," programme to prevent inflation { benefit of their own but for the doubtful, resulting from topup aid tof benefit of a jot of Europeans

strengthen Singapore, Europa. Int ententered that and Asiaties 2" Congresanen would baulk wt The "New York Times" said price contred much rationing. that be hoped we will bel

Opinion is divided between spared the anguished cries denouncing President Teoman's those who raise the spectre of plan as "totalitarluniem” a totalitarianism whenever the

Congress Baulk

$1,000

IN PRIZES

RULES OF THE

COMPETITION

The rules of the campellilan neo za follows:

1. The context is an Open Com- palliken, bat no member of the stuf

of Newspaper Enterprise Limited

may enter.

2. Pictures

entered must have been taken by the entrant, who will momalainko ( Bection. and must not have been entered in any other Cam » petition,

2. Na print or enlargement more than 10 kichen in the lungest dimens

Hon will be accepted.

4. The competition will be divided

Into the following Sectiona

5.

A. Portraits and People

B. Land or Beascapes

C. Action Picturen

D. Animals and Pala

E. For Chlidren Only

(Age limit 15 yours).

The competition will run for a period time weeks commencing with the week ending Deluber 6, and terminaling during the week ending November 19, and the Newspaper Enterprise Limited will award months By prints of $50, $33, and $10. On eamplation of the term of the com- petition, prizes of $37, 425 and $10 will be awarded in auch Bection. Th three best pictures entered with bu awarded the Grand Prices af 1250, $100, and $50.

$. All phaleyrapha suhtuilted must be available for reproduction In any of the publications of Newspaper Enterpries, Limited, and melb mccompanied by the ailached coupon; madertaking that any peliwinning pleture or a closely similar picture of abo sam zabject or altuation, has not been and will not be entered in ang ther newspaper contest in the Colony, the copyright for pahilation to Hong Kong of ali prise-wialng pictures,le ^belang to the “Bandar Herald."

7. The decisions of the Judges (ta

Se anunced later) in the Monthly

and Section Prites to be Anal,

8. Indstúr of the throa" Grand Prizes to be chosen' by popular vals, following an exhibition im to held in

December.

Mr. J. P. Thomas, Cunserva- ive, pointed out that there ind heen reports giving detailed in. formation fron

RESCUED

St. Johns, Newfoundland.

Nov, 19. Firty-one Survivors of the

crew of the wrecked British freighter Langlee Crag were tonight au board the tiny whater Dlar Olsen after being narooned four nights on Sarred Island off the worth coast of New- found*ang.

All the strelvars were re- ported to be well after their dramatle rescue.

Two members of the crew were drowned when the shitp was stranded on the rocks Jast Saturday. Reuter,

high-ranking Queen Mary"

Battered

H. Extension and ing of rent contrai...-good,

When Commander Noble Authorization of consumer said that there could really bestralian naval officers about ratining on basic products In} short supply-poor. ings and wage cellings-pour-i

10. Authorization of price cell. if the strength of the Pacifiche "very alarming" cuts in th

Pacific Fleet.

United Press,

na secret about this and asked

Fleet was two cruisers eight destroyers, Mr. Dugdale,

HONG KONG

'SUNDAY HERALD'

Photographic

Competition!

Was It not time that Parlia ment was told if these report.

were correct or not?

Southampton. Nav, 20. Delayed by violent Atlanti Mary docked here today 12 dorms, the Cynard Beer Queen

Mr. Dugdale reiterated that it was not desirable to give hours late with 1,526 passen.

general dispositions of the Pacific Fleet.

The Australian and New Zea-' land-Govertiments had been in- formed of the cut and the Government, had received no re- presentationg from

theni.- Reuter.

WAR RISK DEMAND

Hont lulu, Nov, 20. Merchant Marine cooks und stewards of the Congress of dustrial Organisations Union asked today for restoration of war risk compinsation and insurance. because of recent appearnces of drifting Japanese mines In Hawaiian waters.

Such mines also have been re ported in constal waters of the North-west United States-Asso- cloted Press.

vers including film stars Bob Hope, Robert Montgomery. Loretta Young ,and Alexis

mit

Commodore C. G. Dngs- worth said: "I Have known such a heavy wenther massage for an cast bound trip in November."

Dever

smashed port hole. A woman

The liner escaped with a

passenger injured her wrist and some crockery, was broken.

Associated Press.

U.S. TANKER DELIVERIES

Washington, Nov. 20. Maritime Commission officials today insisted they were legally bound to deliver 96 tankers to foreigners because the commit. London, Nov. 19. ment was made before domestic It was reported from Glam-mns sought the vessels, organshire that five miners "Ucti! the Attomey General fainted during the showing of tells us cur own general counsel is wrong, we committed to

vice.chairman.

The "Hong Kong Sunday Herald" takes pleasure in offering the film, "The Birth of a Bahr." our prior decision," said Raymond

prizes totalling $1,000 in a photographic competition to be held during the months of October and November. •

Entries will be published in the pictorial magazine section of the "Sunday Herald" each week during the course of the competition, and it is proposed to award

Monthly Prizes;

Section Prizes;

And Grand Prizes For The Three Best Pictures

Submitted

at Mncatex. One was a grand- MeCeough, the father-Reuter.

United Press.

A BRITISH CROSS WORD PUZZLE

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The Best Picture, To Be Chosen By Popular Vote, Will Be Awarded A Prize of $250 The competition will be divided into five

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sections as follows:

A. Portraits and People.

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B. Scenes and Views

C. Action Fietures

D. Animals and Pets

E. For Children Only (Age limit 15).

COUPON

The accompanying photograph is entered in Section

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Clues Across

1. Stringed

instrument.

S. Parcel out.

a. Pluck,

10. Keen.

9. Attack.

of the "Sunday prize-winnlar

11. Landowner, 12. Chine. 15. Concise, 15. Calm

Herald Photographie Competition," on the undertaking that no picture or closely similar picture of the satuo subject or situation, will be entered in any other nowspaper contest in Hong Kong.

Name

Address Dato

18. Stopped.

20. Fascination, 22: Uninteresting. 23. Financial check.

25. Make do.

26. Emply.. 27. Drain. 28. Worked

diligently.

29, Scatters,

Yesterday's Crossword

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1. Seizes. 2. Example. 3. Dye plant. 4. Tells,

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5. Warded off.

6, Heavy,

7. Lays bare. 14. Control,

15. Strives to

equal,

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24. Sharp.

Pitiful, 30. Avid, 31 Spur; 12 Debar, 3 Note

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