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SCHUMAN'S CRISIS PLAN

Problem Of Wages And Prices

Paris, Nov. 24.

The new French Government, after a four and a half hour Cabinet meeting, tonight announced its decision to introduce a comprehensive solution of the wages and prices problem-the cause of the nation's present strike paralysis. It would also lay down the conditions in which public order and freedom of work would be

assured.

The Government spokesman., Calais, in the north, left their M. Pierre Abelin, Secretary of jobs, demanding a 25 per cent State attached to the Prime Min- wage increase,

Two thousand workers on atrike in Perle are handling milk supplies for children.

Ister, M. Robert Schuman's Of In Cherbourg, 14 ships with fice, said that there would pro-food and other vital 'commodities bably be a general increase in were held up. wages and that prices and wages inust "achieve equilibrium." ·

This was understood to mean that certain industrial prices might be further increased. "All measures taken in gard to wages and prices only be effective if public der la respected," he added.

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The railway strike spread northward today to Lenu, re-important depot in the conl mining area of Pas de Calala Department. Pickets prøvented nny traffic. Trains from Parle were diverted or halted at in termediate points,

the La-

The new Government, formed at midnight last night, today maintained a reticent attitude regarding the request by General Confederation of bour to receive a delegation to discuss the Inbour situation now threatening the nation with 11 general strike.

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BRITONS MURDERED

Calcutta, Nov. 24.

An unknown gunman, to- day shot dead, two British medical missionaries in In- dia 40-year-old London trained Dr. M. Al-Hatch and Sister Perceval, vi

The shoolings:occurred at Ranaghat, 45) miles from Calcutta.

The gunman attacked the two missionaries 'While they were having dinner at the station with a Russian mis- 'slonary and another nurse,

Sister Laws.

The Russian doctor es- caped by dropping to the floor, but Sister" Laws WAS seriously injured.---Reuter.

Glacier Tragedy

MILAN, 'NOV. 25,

Move To Benefit Industry

London, Nov. 24. British, industry is to benefit by having youths work an extra three months before being called up for national

service.

Young men born between Jan. 1. 1930, and March 31, 1930, will register on Dec. 6, but the next registration after that will bo be. June 1948, for those bira tween Apr 1 and June 30, 1930. This is a departure from prae- tice of the inkt two or three years of registering the quaster's age group each quarter,

The effect of the change will be that for the time being young men will, after the December re. gistration, be called upon to re. gister at the age of 17 years, 11 months to 18 years, 2 months, in-i Coal Miners

A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD BOY stead of 17 years, 8 months to 17 FROZEN TO DEATH IN HIS years, 1 months.

The Ministry of Labour states Over 160.000 miners In the MOTHER'S ARMS, WITH that the rate of intake, into the northem coalfields were still out, FIVE OTHER

down but M. Schuman, who represents UNDER TEN

CHILDREN Services will be slowed ALL LYING over the period affected, and the the Moselle Department, ex-UNCONSCIOUS IN THE Services will thus receive, smaller pressed appreciation of the con- SNOW, WERE DISCOVERED numbers for training during the The request was Interpreted infidence shown in him by the TODAY NEAR THE FRENCH-time when their releuses of train. ed men now serving are being some quarters as the first sign 5.000 miners who had returned ITALIAN FRONTIER

accelerated. that the promoters of the vast to work in that district.

The 'discovery was made by Industry will have the advan strike

rescue squad offleer after a tage of three months' extra ser. movement, paralysing ports and railways and spreading

tion had given the alarm. clandestine emigrant organisa-vice from each young man con. to part of the postal service, were beglaning Lo become anxious about their ability to re- main masters of the position and to maintain the loyalty of the rank and file workers.

The altuntien won: Decks-hundreds of thousands of tons of food remained un-

loaded as dockers at porta from Nice, south-eastern France, to

Portugal's Pioneer Orientalists

Paris traffic was still imped the Gare du Nord this morning ed but the "Golden Arrow" left

for London.

cerned before he is called up-

FLOATING MINE DESTROYED

The woman had tried to join Reuter. It was reported tonight to be her husband at Grenoble, in five hours behind ita schedule, France, with her young family. doubtful They had reached a glacier at however, and it was

Calais the whether it would reach

foot of the 9,990-foot in time to catch the cross-Chan-Mount Clapier, sear

Sol di nel bont for Dover.

Tendo, which leads down to the Besides Britain, several ImFrench Riviera, when, benumb portant rail links with Brussels ed with cold, they lay down on and other North Euro- the side of a snow mound. The

capitals pean

were Inter-

rescue sqund carried

the

rupted by the strike at the mother and her children down Gare du Nord, where extra police were on duty. A quarter to the nearest village where she of the local services at the Gare and the five children still alive St. Lazare were maintained.

were revived.

the mountainside.--Reuter.

San Francisco, Nov. 24. The Navy announced today that the unti-aircraft cruiser Oakland detonated a Japanese) mine off the Oregon coast while speeding at 20 knots to rush an appendicities victim to hos

pital.

iated Press.

water,

The Italian authorities пте Anti-aircraft› gunners hit the Representatives of American Investigating who Was res mine which went up in a great shipping companies have made ponsible for leaving the wo-shower of smoke and preparations for the road trans- port of passengers to and from man with her young family on the Oakland reported.-Asso- Continued from Page 6) Chiun and its civilization. The Cherbourg in the event of there Book of Fortresses ta an being no railway facilities for encyclopedic work, undoubtedly aengers coming off the liner the most exhaustive written America (20314 tons), due till then. The plans which reach Cherbourg today, illustrate this book wero drawn

by Pedro Barretto de' Rezende who wrote a new edition of the work. Neither of these has yet been published.

Citroen Works

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About 15,000 workers three Citroen motor car factories in the Paris region resumed

The general reliability of the work. The any-Communist group old Portuguese historians 18 "Labour Force" within the CGT nowadays increasingly realised

and even

350,000

workers

in the study of Asiatic history, was holding a meeting later to caustic critica like day to urge all the

metal workers on arike, in the Professor James Murdoch, who Paris area to return to work. made no secret of his dislike for the Roman Catholic Church, candidly confess the accuracy of Portuguese historical writ- ings. The traces of the Portu- guese ploncers have been ob literated in very many places where they flourished, but the language, religion, usages and influences which they introduc- ed have not.

The Renault motor are to hold a meeting tomorrow. Employees running the pestal, telegraph and telephone services were on strike. Post offices In soven districts of Paris closed and their strikers been told officially that must resume work ог suspended.

were have

they

Ship Murder:-

STEWARD'S STORY OF INCIDENT IN CABIN

Southampton, Nov. 25.

A ship steward, James Camb, 30, of Glasgow, was committed for trial today to the Hampshire Assizes, when he made his fifth appearance charged with murdering the actress, Elleen (Gay) Gibson, who disappeared on Oct. 18 from the liner Durban Castle in shark-infest- ed waters off West Africa on a voyage from South Africa to England.

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Captain Arthur Patey told the before Christmas. Certain be magistrate that "he turned the ship | quiries had to be made and there

rcund and carried out a search were people on the way Twelve thousand teachers are for the body after Miss Gibson South Africa who would not ar

shortly beftre Major Boxer concludes by still out, but there is said to be was reported missing, and that elve unli recalling the words penned by strong opposition to the

he conducted a full inquiry, in the date.--Reuter. strike course of which Comb was inter- Joao de Barros four conturles within the Teachers Union, Oneviewed. ago, "The Portuguese arms and Faris paper sald that more than Elleen Field, a nurse and ste. pillars placed in Afries and in 700 teachers had resigned from wardess, gave evidence of a con. Asia, and in countless isles the Union,

versation Camb had with her

when she went to call her in the

beyond the bounds of three con- Professors at Paris univeral- about Miss Gibson, and of find. tinenta, are matorial things, ties were asked to strike for ing Miss Gibson's cabin

empty and time may destroy them higher wages by bills posted on morning, But time will not destroy the the walls of the universities— religion, customs and language

which the Portuguese have im- planted in these lands.”

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Hollywood Directors In Trouble

Washington, Nov. 24. The House today turned over

Camb in a statement from the dock at today's hearing, said In a low voice:, "I am not guilty of this charge, I did not kill Miss Gibson. She died in the way. I have described. My mistake was in trying to conceal what hap. pened."

"Hell Of A Splash" Detective Constable M. Plumley had said that Camb had told him, "'I cannot understand why tha officer on watch did not hear something. It was a hell of a splash when she hit the water. I had my hands She struggled.

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Last week tion of Communism In Holly-

Camb was stated to have said in court that" after wood.

En rapid fire order the House Intimucy in ber cabin on the Dur upheld recommendations of ita ban Castle, the girl suddenly

clutched me foaming at the in case the relation, or friend Un-American Activities, Com- | mouth."

nominated to the office is un- mittee that the 10 men be pro- He had tried to revive her able or unwilling to act when accuted for their failure to an with artificial respiration but the time comes, modern swer definitely, when asked threw her timp body into the sen whether they were members of after the watchman bad startled the Communist Party. Only him. one rall call vote was takes

Drink Of Run: 846 for a contempt citation and Detective Qulalah of the South- 17 against

ampton pollee, who interviewed The 10 men-facing maxi Camb aboard the liner, gave evi.] mum punishment, of one year dence that tho, steward had ad- in jall-ang a US$1,000 fine. If mitled, visiting Miss Gibson'a convicted-are Albert Maltz cabin on the night of her disap Dalton Trumbe, Samuel Ornitz, Pearance to ask her "If she want ed some lemonade with her ruum." John Howard Lawson, Ring He denied this, at a previous in Lardner Ajnr, Horbert Blber-terview,

man, Robert Adrian Booth, Captain Arthur Patoy. In com Leator Cole, Alvan Bessie and mand of the Durban Castle, seld Edward Dmytryk. Dmytryk is that It Comb had, bien. In the a director, Biberman a director cabin of a woman first class pas. producer, Scott a writer and enger he would have been liable

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