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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JANUARY, 6, 1948.

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TRUMAN'S CALL TO CONGRESS ALHAMBRA & LEE

Need To Act "With The Utmost Urgency'

Reiteration Of

Demands

Old

Washington, Jan. 4. President Truman today put the finishing touches to the lengthy. "State of the Union" message in which he is expected to warn Congress on Wednesday that they will be failing in world leadership unless they act "with the utmost urgency" to end inflation at home and to give a start to organised reconstruction in Europe, These will be the highlights of the President's legislative demands, which will constitute his political "platform" for next November's elections, as well as setting the pattern for some of the most important debates in the his- tory of Congress.

White House sources disclosed |totals of werken its administra- today that President Truman. tion, or any move to avoid com. undetermined by Republican op- [mitting the United States for the pozition to his earlier proposals, whole four-years period and the will reiterate his demand for the $17,000 million amount, will hav control of wages and prices and the mat serious repercussions. powers to restore rationing as the These arguments will be under- only way to halt the inflationary lined by Mr. George Marshall, th spiral which, if unchecked, might Secretary of State, and Mr. Lewis end in a serious depression be- Douglas, Ambassador in London. fore another 12 months are out. when they testify before the The inextricable link between Senate Forelan Relations Com- the stability of United States mittee next Wednesday cr Thurs- economy and the effort to begin | day,

KIDS' PARTY

TRAGEDY

Atchbold, Ohlo, Jan. 5.

The State Highway Patrol today reported that 10 chil-

killed dren were

when a speeding New York train crashed into * strighing party at a grade crossing.

First reports from xceno of the crash said the train struck a tractor and bobsted combination, Kill- ing ten children outright and sending two others to hospital

Communications

have

been cut because of the re- cont kce storm. - United Press.

Another Malayan

Piracy

J

Singapore, Jan. 5, European reconstruction an an Because this Is election year Masked pirate raiders, with orderly basis will also be stressed farid because foreign aid and in-guns blazing, hijacked a Chin- in the President's traditional fntion are the two issues expret-lese coastal vessel last night in message to the assembled Senatora jed to dominate that contest, they the Straits of Malacca. It was and Congressmen.

hkewise will make up the bulk the second act of piracy within at President Truman's message.

A week Malayan waters.

Truman Views

What the programme will be is pretty well known and White

anee

Dock Fire Dock Raging

Saigon

Paris, Jan. 5.

- The French News Agency sald that a raging dock fire in Sal- FOD, Indo-China, threatened the destruction of 40,000 tons. of rubber last night and that{ French Army' and Navy unita .were aiding in fighting the

blaro.

The despatch said that a co- 'umn of amcke rose more than 3,000 feet above the city and that Saigon and its suburbs were covered by a dense pal. of smoke.

Omcials said at least 2,000 tons of rubber stored nearest the area of the fire were cer- tain to be destroyed and that other stocks were menaced.

French cargo ships and one Russian freighter in the por were 'protected from the blaze the Agency said.-Associated Preat.

Film Stars

The narrow straite, which separate In Baton

Malaya from Sumaira, have been the lair of pirates since the days

nf

Charge

ships

A shipping company spokesman

Aid For China He is expected also to propose I use sources said that President an additional programme of ald, Portuguese freebooters. Truman will make it clear: totalling about $300,000,000, for

1. That he believes that rell.China and to call once more for said all Singapore passenger

voluntary measures legislation to outlaw racial dis- calling at Chinese ports henceforib which Republican leadership crimination in the giving of jobs, will carry armed guards. strongly espous-to beat info-education and voting privilegen. The current flare-up of piracy in tion is wholly inadequate to cope He is also expected to renew southern Asiatic waters was climas with what he considers an the plea for an increase in the et three weeks ago with the sacking "alarming" alluation.

Immigration quotas for displaced of the Dutch passenger ship persons from Europe 100,0000 a year-Reuter.

about feulz nil Hong Kong-Associated

Press

:

2. That any attempts to delav the Marshall Plan beyond March 31 nest, seriously in reduce its

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Washington, Jan. 5. Senator William F. Knowland, California Republi- can, demanded today that the State Depart- ment disclose whether there is any secret big three agreement promising Russia a substan- tial portion of dismantled Japanese industrial plants.

Paris, Jan. 4. Truncheons swinging, police charged a crowd of aoveral thousand flm stars and tech nicians

Weru who

blocking traffic In the Place de La Re publique here this afternoon, in a protest demonstration agains: he Franco-American film im- ortation agreement.

Several people were injurer' and nearly a dozen were arrest ed during the fighting, the po lice reported.

In the past year. French film production dropped 25 per cent

with a resuiting 60 per cent in- grease in the industry's unem- ployment.

The second largest industry in France before the war, with an average annual production of 120 Alms, it produced only 74 pletures in 1947 as against 94 in 1946-Reuter

ANGLO-DANISH TALKS

Knowland wrote acting Secre-l "If we are dismantling plante lary of State Robert, A. Lovett in Japan and furnishing the asking for "information regard- Russians with vital Industrial] ing commitments made to other materials and machinery there. nations at to reparations from n addition to what we have

London, Dec. 4. 'he Japanese economy and given them in

A Danish trade mission arrived Germany, we here today from Copenhagen for new where such agreements were ought to have our heada ex- Anglo-Danish trade talks which be made.

amined," Knowland declared. gin tomorrow.

"I would like to have an over- He added that if any secret The mission includex representa- all figure of the total repara agreement is turned up, he will tives of agricultural, industrial and lien amounts under considera lead efforts to have it voided. commercial interests and Government tion, together with the tentative He has contended that German experts. breakdown of allocations to the plant shipments to the Russians down last September when

The

previous negotiations broke USSR, China, Australia and should be halted on the grounds was unwilling to pay what the Food Britain any other countries considered that the Soviets have violated Minister, Mr. John Strachey describ possible recipients for repara- cther portions of the Potsdamed as "fancy prices" for Danish dairy tions payment," Knowland said. agreement-Associated Press. products.--Reuter.

The Californian, who has protested vigorously against

the shipment to Russia of dis- →→→ mantled German Industrial plants, told a reporter he has reason to believe that BOME agreement may have been made at the Yalta, Teheran or Pots- dam conferences to give the Soviets a "substantial amount; of similar equipment from Ja

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Markaresh, Jan. 4;

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