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Teheran, Dec. 19. Beautiful 18-year-old Soraya Esfandiari was siricken with fever on Tuesday, daring the Inst week before her scheduled marriage to the Shah of T'ersia.

Court circles said Mss Esfandlarl contracted ty- phold shortly after sho arrived here last month but that she recovered. It was feared she had suffer- ed a relapse.

Court circles såld Shah Mohammed Reza Pablovi was extremely upset over his bride-to-bo's Intest Illness and was ready to postpone the elaborate Deremony Dending for Dea. 27, i pecessary. -- United Press,

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Roads to the village of Rantalai were littered today with the putrid corpses of pilgrims who had travelled to seek miraculous cures from a shepherd boy and had died of cholera.

Officials said at least 500 persons had been fatally stricken with the dreadful disease.

They were the last of 250,000 people who have tailed into the remote hills of Orissa province in the last six months for a universal panacea dispensed by a 12- year-old boy, Nepal Baba.

For months the young shepherd has been distribut- ing the bark of a tree to the lame, blind, deaf, mute and ill. Believers swore it possessed miraculous powers that cured everything from leprosy to ingrown toenails.

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Nepal Baba was sald to have been entrusted with distri- bution of the bork by mysterious holy man,

who himself had used it to the young shepherd of fover,

ADAMANT

Hanover, Dec. 19. Dr Kurt Schumacher, West German Social Democratic lender, said tonight that his Party would reject the Brussels decisions as long as the Allies failed to provide sufficient

troops to Allied

wrotect West

The Socialist leader said that German contribution to Western defence could have no effect on the acute danger from the East since a German mil- tary contribution would need

Germany.

the

several years to prepare.

For the whole period of their rearmament the Germans would not be in a position to defend themselves

and Allied

troops were insuficient to protect them.

The Allica must display in return for goodwill, Dr Schuma-

cure understudung

The holy man was sald to chor said. have given Nepal the secret of preparing the drug and tho

consumption of the powdered

|FALL BACK religious rites which follow

bork. Tokyo, Dec. 20. American 'rearguards fell back in face of relentless Communist pressure Tuesday into the besieged city of Hungnam and its five-mile waterfront.

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The United States Third Divis slon abandoned Tonpo aliport

By the thousands, men, wo- men, and children have stream- ed Into Rantalai on foot, ox-. cart, mules, buses, trains and, plane. during the past few weeks, by Cholera broke out In Orissa province two weeks ago but still they came.

POWDER A FRAUD Rantalal

was not able

The Brussels communique was handed to Dr Schumacher during

2 Party meeting in Hanover.

Earlier, he told the meeting, "We have the courage to say no now. We will also have the courage to say yes if conditions change.

"We want no national army but we accept an international army only if the others also no longer have national armies,

"One cannot defend oneself with men who are only half

outside Hungam on Sunday cope with the hordes secking free."-Reuter,

By Tuesday, the hammer blows food and a place to sleep. A of massed Chinese and North glass of water sold Jor 1/8. Korean forces had pounded the Medical and sanitation facilities Americans back into the Hung-were non-existent. nam pocket only two miles deep, The deadly cholera germ was and five miles long.

carried to the home of the miracle boy. The authorities, alarmed at the outbreak, insti- tuted an investigation,

A medical tested 1,500 cases, that the magic powder has not brought even the slightest re- lief In any case of serious dis- ability or ailment.

"This is no Dunkirk beachhead because we hold air and fire advantages," United Press Cor- respondent Jack Burby reported. "There is no panic. The men of the Third Division are confident." Mines, booby traps and barb ed wire, tangles littered the ground yielded to the Commu- nists in a series of withdrawals Into Hungnam.

The Yanks believed that they were outnumbered at least two to one on front lines, Burby reported, and the Reds could throw in 11 divisiong in the beachhead area.

United States forces methodi cally pounded every possible Communist attack around

the clock with howitzers, self- propelled guns, heavy mortars, anti-aircraft and also Naval guns. United Press.

Radio Aids To Enemy In Wartime

Washington, Dec, 19. Defence officinis asked tho Congress tonight for authority for President Truman to control radio television stations if neces sary to prevent the enemy from using their signals to guide planes or missiles to targets in the United States.

to

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PANIC EXODUS

The Government ordered the boy to stop dispensing the drug, They banned the flow of people into the town, but it was too late,

In the last two weeks estimated 50,000 persons travel- led to Rantalai. Today thousands who had fought to get into the village

fought to get out.

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Men and women were batter- ed down as they scrambled to get aboard trains. Latest reports said the cholera outbreak was spreading like wikifre.-Unlied Press.

Russians Clamp On Controls

Berlin, Dec, 19. The Russians have clamped stiff security controls on Sovjet- occupied Germany in an appar ent effort to halt the leakage of Information to the West, ac- cording to reports from behind the Iron Curiain fonight,

Air Force officials said that in cuse of an imminent alr at-

The controls were apparently tack radio stations either might designed especially to prevent be turned off or "manipulated" German anti-Communists from destroy their usefulness as carrying news of the Eastern navigational aid to enemy planes Zone into the Western sectors of and missiles.

Berlin. Recent reports of in- The Assistant Defence Secre- creased "police activity in the tary, Marx Leva, sent the draft East Zone, the Intensified check- of the proposed sweeping legis-ing of travel documents on lation to the Chairman of the Berlin-bound trains and the sen- Senate and House Armed Ser-tencing of German "spics" to Committees.. -- United death appeared to support re- ports of a stricter Soviet news blackout.

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Despite the new ruling pre- cautions, some informants are to make their way from the Soviet Zone' to Bur- lin. They report that the Rus- sian troops are carrying out Washington Dec, 19. routine duties, showing no sign The House Judiciary Com-that they are disturbed by talk mittee unanimously approved of rearmament in the West. President Truman's request for They said also that shipment (emergency' war powers and Ad- of reparations to Russia had

ministration leaders hoped to been speeded up recently get the bill through the House orders from Moscow. on Wednesday.

loaded with goods, In the Senate, however, Re-precision instruments and heavy publican Herbert Taft said be electrical equipment leave for will oppose efforts to rush the Russia dally from such leading bill through this Congress—cities as Leipzig, Dresden and United Press,

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