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EUROPEAN CROP

PROSPECTS SAID MORE FAVOURABLE

Washington, July 31.

General crop prospects in Europe are relatively favourable despite hot, dry weather between mid-June and mid-July.

This is according to a report of the U. S. Agriculture

Department.

Nevertheless, production of Most European bread grains-a major import Department Item-is

expected to be about very five per enoit below last year and 10 per cent below the pre-war average.

good May A

is being harvested. Prokletion of course grains for livestock feed is like- to be about the same as last year.

countries, the i

reported a shid, good outlook for fruit. Olive oll output is also expected to be much larger than last year.

crop

AIRLIFT MEN GET PRAISE

London, July 31.

The Secretary of State for Au, thanked Arthur Henderson, has British airlift personnel in Get many for a magnificent achteve- ment.

"Now that the need for the alt- lift is ending." he said, "1 send sincere thanks and hearty com- gratulations on behalf of the Air] Council to all embers of the Air R.A.F., the Commonwealth Forces and British civil aviation who, in co-operation with the US. Air Force, have made possible the which magnificent chievement has been the source of admiration throughout the world,

"A job which appeared "almost Impossible has been successfully accomplished and the organisation built Liji and the experience gained will be invaluable, nol. only in normal al transport neti- vities, but also if an operation of such magnitude is ever again -necessary,”

The production of potatoes and other root crops, Important items in the European diet, may be down a little from last year be- valike of smaller Acreages ond tess favourable weather.

A lower sugue beet ylefd now in prospect will be partly offact, the Department said, by an in- crease in acreage,

Rice Crop

Rice output will probably be

be- below last year, largely Cause of a decrease In the screage planted.

In the Soviet Union, good crop prospects may be offset partly by large harvesting Department said,

losses, the

Continued widespread rains and cool weather during the first purt of July are said to have retartled the ripening of grain.

The harvest in Austria pro- mabsen to be the best of the post- wur Vis, --Associated Press.

Anglo-U.S. Ceremony In Sussex

Bexhill, July 31.

In the 1,200-year-old Church of 51. Poter's here today, members of Troop 65, Washington, D.C.. Senior Service Girl Scouts, al- international Girl Guides camp at Bexhill, had their Colours dedicated.

His message was sent to the Air Officers Commanding-it- Chief, British Air Forces of Occu- pation, Germany, and R.A.F. Transport Contaund, Als Marshal | tending T. M. Williams and Air Marshal Sir Brin Baker,-Associated Press.

. Dramatic Transfer At Sea

Honolulu, July 31. Six-year-old John Driskell, stricken with infantile paralysis aboard an Army transport in mid- Pacific, was brought to Tripler General Hospital "today after a dramatic transfer at sen.

The son of Sergeant and Mrs. Percy E. Driskell of South Port- land, Maine, the lad was brought ashore from the Coast Guard cut- ter Iroquois.

It had taken the boy and his father of the transport General William O. Darby before dawn on Saturday 1,000 miles North Honolulu.

ог

The transport is en route, from Yokohama to San Francisco.

Doctors sald an iron lung. that the Iroquois had taken along was not needed as the polio was not progressive and the boy's condition was fair,-Associated Press.

FAITH SHOES ARE THE BEST

were

The Stars and Stripes bone into the Church by Nancy Hamilton; escorted by H. R. T. Bawes and Peggy Wilson.

The Union Jack, carried by Bexhill Girl Guides, lay on the' Altar throughout the speelal ser- vice, which ended with a prayer for International goodwill from the American Prayer Book.

the

Canon W. Godfrey Bell, Rector, said: "I should like to think that when English Girl Guides pay # return visit tu America they will take their Colours with them and ask that they be dedicated in an American church."

Miss Seth Smith, leader of the American contingent and Assist- ant Headmistress of the Potomac School, Washington, was in the congregation.-Reuter,

PICKED WRONG HIDING PLACE

to

Belgrade, July 31. The official Yugoslav Com- munist Party newspaper "Borba" today appealed to the new gra- duates of Yugoslav schools to save the true spirit of Marxism- Leninism from its distortion and betrayal In the Soviet Union and the Cominform countries.-Reu- ler.

Schoolgirls In Double Suicide

Tokyo, Auguel 1.

Two girls attending eum- mer school here plunged to their deaths from a fifth floor window while looked in each other's arms, the "Asahi" re ported today.

The

"Asabi death leap, asid

investigatore

• police learned, was by Tomoe Euda," 20. and Chizuko Ura, 18. of Kvoditsu -both graduales

Girls' Collage last March,

One of the girls recently received a marriage propanal. "Asah!" said, but declined to her roommate.- part from Asociated Press.

QUEUILLE SETS

A RECORD

COUNCIL OF EUROPE MEETING THIS MONTH

Strasbourg, July 31.

Detailed preparations are under way here for the opoch-making first session of the Council of Europe to be held in Strasbourg probably in August.

A special reception committee appointed long before the final decision to hold the conference here, has made plans not only for the housing of the conference itself, but for lodging of hundreds of delegates, advisers and newspapermen who will crowd this Alsatian city to bursting point when the Council begins its first meeting.

-The big University Centre has the main hotels and hundreds of been selected as the site of the private homes were bombed to conterence itself, Mr. Reno Palra, rubble during the last war. Prefect of the Haunt Rhin De

"We decided to

the partment, of which Strasbourg is

house Ministers and heads of delegations the capital, told the United Press.

in villas and flats in the suburbs, Plenary meetings will take place so they can have a little rest and in the Centre's main room, the fresh air between the meeting," "Aula" which can hold up to Mr. Paira said.

people.

Parla, July 31. France's National Assembly ad- journed today for an 11-weeks holiday, making it virtually cer-,1,200 tain that the Premier, M, Henri be the Queuille's Cabinet will first to last over a year under the Fourth Republic.

The Assembly will meet again

on October 19,

of the M. Queuille's middle road coalition took office on Sep- 12, 1048 and has already tember served longer than since the war.

any other

The Socialist Interior Minister, Jules Moch, predicted today that Government will remain in power until 1951 and wifi continue its Aght against the Communists, de Gaullists and poverty.-Associated Press and United Press.

POP

The galleries will be reserved for the Press and for visitors, and committees will hold their sessions

other rooms of the university

buildings.

The Council of Ministers, the power-wielding body of the new European organisation, will be located in the beautiful Palais de Rohan, an ancient palace built, out of the red stone common to the Ministers the region, und meetings will probably take place in its spacious, panelled library

Housing the delegates and press is the most serious problem town officials had to face. Several of

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Crossroads Of Europe

tion for both at the same time," he said

"Our main trouble is that we still do not know exactly when the Council will take pince,"

Mr Paira said,

of An extensive programme entertainment, including folklore shows and a special ballet and artistic season at the opera, hus been arranged for the delegates, who will also havo · "club" where they will be able to got together informally.

Mr. Paira has taken steps to and tho keep the shops open prices at the same level so that tourists and dologates will get a good impression of the town and want to come back.

He

the added: "Strasbourg, 'crossroads of Europe.' is the iden place for the Council of Europe, The

people

had here have an European mind' for Cen". turies, and have suffered so much from being a battleground they will do everything possible to help the European Union be cess."--United Press.

Tho

Turkey Invited

suc-

Istanbul, July 1. French Ambassador to Turkey, M. Jean Lescuyer, has been asked to invite Turkey off.

clally to Lake part in

the firal meeting of the Council of Europe, the European "Parliament", "It

ung on August 8.

M. Lescuyer called on M. Nec- mettin Sadak, Turkish Foreign Minister, who in on holiday in Istanbul, yesterday. Mr. Sadak is to leave for Ankara tonight to

the matter discuss

with his

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