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U.S. Govt Sues Oil Cartels Pyongyang Discontent

Kai Tak For $67 Million

Project

NOTHER step forward

A in the Kai Tak airport

development scheme is pro

disclosure mised by the that a British firm of con- aulting engineers has been appointed to give advice on the technical aspects of the project. To this extent the public mind is set at rest IS to whether

not Government has been mark- ing time on this very need.

or

ful undertaking. The con- sultant engineers have, as

a banle on which to work, the recommendations

con-

tained in the Broadbent report. These, of necessity, are relatively sketchy, for they comprise the appraisal and conclusions of a survey party whose functions were exploratory. Nevertheless, this report is noteworthy in that it envisages the prac tien! possibilities of jet air liners being able with safe ty to make use of an en- larged and reconditioned Kai Tak airfield. And the paramount importance the Colony's future airport

of

is that it be in a posi- tion to handle the jet and tomor turbo-jet planes of rów.

THE two experts will,

rightly, approach assignment with minds. None would suggest that the problem of convert ing the existing Kal Tak airport into a completely modern air terminal is easy of solution. The Colony is afflicted with natural

dis- advantages when it

Smashed

ALLEGATION OF Drugs Ring

BILKING THE TAXPAYERS

Washington, Aug. 22.

The United States Government today brought suit against four big American oil companies and six of their subsidiaries, accusing them of bilking the American taxpayers of $67 million through overcharges on oil shipments.

Three civil suits, seeking to recover the $67 million, were filed in the Federal District Court at New York City this afternoon.

An assistant to the Attorney General, Mr James McGranery, flew to New York to bring the action just 24 hours afte. the Senate Small Business Subcommittee on Monopoly made public a statement by the Mutual Security Agency (MSA), charging that it had to pay exorbitant

prices for Middle East oil shipped to Europe under the Marshall Plan.

Mr McGranery said in a statement that the American companies "violated the law" by using their subsidiaries to maintain a two-price system.

of three

New York, Aug. 22. A million-dollar mag- cotics ring was smashed with the arrest xhers and the confiscation of $2,000 worth of pure heroin, Federal agents an- nounced today.

The men, identifød na Angelo Abbrescia: 52, Ugo Marjani, 37, and Charles San Tora, 25, were arraign- ed before the U.S. Com- missioner. Ball for Ban Tora and Abbrescia WAS set at $60,000 each and for Mariani at $30,000.

The authorities Bald 30 ounces of herɑln was seix- ed in a raid on an apart- in Astorta, Long ment Island. They said most of the drug entered this country through #net. work operating in Italy and employing scamen-United Press,

at

Military targets Pyongyang, capital city of North Korea, were given a beating during the re- cent air strike on the city. This photograph taken from a United States Naval aircraft, shows a

DIPLOMATS railroad repair shop (right

DISCUSS

centre) and a roundhouse (upper-right); getting "clobbered" by "Sky

from ships to fast carrier

Expresa.

raider" bombers flying EGYPTIAN Task Force 77.- London

DEFENCE

Cairo, Aug. 22.

Use Of Japanese Bases

Claims Pressed By Commonwealth

Raid

ORGY OF MURDER

AND

ARSON

Stockholm, Aug. 22.

Tore Hedin, a "nice and kindly" village police- man, butchered his fiancee after she broke off their engagement, and killed seven other people in an orgy of murder and arson, police said today.

Hedin, 25, was dismissed from alemen of the United States his post at Husva three days bomber base here had been ago for threatening and mal- paraded and inspected by detec- treading his 24-year-old fiancee, lives looking for scratched faces. Miss Uila Oestberg, a nurse at were categorically denied by the United States authorities-cu- an old people's home.

In Sweden's bigg

biggest man- ter. hunt of the century, hordes of police were deployed- in comb- ing south Sweden

Most people in the more lonely

for

the killer.

districts kept their doors bolted atter the Police had warned that Hedin probably carries a gun and is "ingane and dangerous."

All Saved

From Mined

In Albania Reported

Gen. Hoxha's Struggle For Leadership

Belgrade, Aug. 22. Weatern

diplomatic

sources here viewed with |chution today recent reporta brought by Albanian. re- fugees of sporadic resistanco to the regime in many parts of Albania.

The reports repeated earlier rumours of an imminent Government shakeup involving the dismissal of the Premier, General Enver Hoxha.

There

have been indicating here that for a year General Hoxha has been engaged in a struggle for leadership with. Mehmet Shehu, Deputy Premier ; Head of the Foreign: Interior and Defence Minis- tries. Enver Hoxha has held the power since the war.

ard

The decisions by Shehu speeding

up collectiviation which were taken while General Hoxha was in Moscow last year were replaced by a" alower tempo polley apparently brought by General Hoxha from Moscow.

General Hoxha was believod to have survived Soviet dia.

pleasure over an incident in

February last year, when a bomb WDS Bald to have ex- ploded near the Soviet Mission in Tirana,

..

NO. EVIDENCE

Any disgrace of Goneral Hoxha would thus appear to meen a new shift in the Soviet atitude and there is so far no evidence of the

2 **Albania has so far escaped the recent purges which have decimated the Communist Party leadership In other Cominform

countrica.

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Under this system, the suits | overcharges after that date, plus said, the irms charged the interest and costs," MSA-representing the United The Senate committee state- States Goverment more for ment mentioned Gulf Oil Com- ail shipped to European coun- pary but the Justice Depart quite fries getting. Marshall Plan aid ment said that today's suita their then they did American cus covered only those claims which tomers buying the same pro- had been referred to it by MSA open ducts.

for collection and that nothing MSA stopped financing concerning Gulf Oil had been Middle East oll to Marshall sent to the Government, Plan countries last June after The major companies named the oil firma allegedly refused as defendants in the New York to make refunds on MSA pur-actions were among those med Egyptian defence was a

subpoenaed chases made over the last three records have been

for Grand Jury examination here main subject discussed Sat years.

on September 2 in the Justice содея The three New York recovery Department's investigation into the recent meeting of the to dealing with large and sults named there defendants an alleged international oil cartel British, and American Am

Mr McGranery said in his bassadors with the Prime and asked for these recoveries: What must fast aircraft.

Socony-Vacuum Oll Company statement "This action is of Minister, Aly Maher, re- never be forgotten is that of New York and its wholly great knportance not anly the commercial importance | owned 'subsidiary,

Secany - because of the $67,000,000 which liable sources here said.

It was understood that the of Hongkong is Jargely Vacuum Overseas Supply Com- the Government seeks to recover

discussed Included

All roads leading to the dis- bound up with its airport pany of Fort Lee, New Jersey, but also as a test of whether the aspects

trict were cordoned off and the facilities; that if the Colony $14,118,498.

defendants, having control over Egypt's ability to defend her-

police were dragging the lake 2・・ Tokyo, Aug. 22. near where Standard Oll of New Jersey the supply of Middle East crude self against possible aggressors,

Hedin's car WOB its wholly-owned sub- oil shipped to countries parti- her acute lack of modern arms

found. The British Common-

In Hedin's car, the police sald

The Hague, Aug. 22. diary, Esso Export Corpora- alpating in the foreign air pro- and' equipment, and her role in

which found a lotter in they.

The 1.113-ton Belfast motor-may be expected. The on, both of New York, $31,-gramme, can block the efforts of any future war.

talks have been purely wealth is pressing the the Government agencies to pro- 705,610.

for more Hedin said "this criminal case

ship Fairhead had rescued eight

Throughout the summer, there Standard on of California, to

tect Government funds committed exploratory and in general terms, United States

the will be solved in the water crew and the captain's family has been a steady influx of 10- European recovery

practical support in and the sources stated. San Francisco. and the Texas defence,"

Since

the Egyptian army negotiations with Japan leading the police, to believe that from the sinking 351-ton Dutch Company of New York City and

· ACCUSATION

garla reporting active resistance coup a month ago the British

selt. An-empty-skiff found early today off the Dutch their jointly owned-subeldiaries:-

The MSA report requested by attitude has been to see what over the continued use of Hedin might have drowned him-ship Peto, which struck a mine fugees from Albania and Bul-

the Dutch coast the regime Seventy-one Baleln Petroleum Company: the Small

policy of the now regime bases here, usually reliable drifting today on the lake near Businco Subcom- the Ltd., n Canadian corporation; mittee accused the five oil com- would be and

But they brought no evidence to allow sources said today.

where his car was abandoned of the Peto were brought in to. California Texas

Terschelling by the lifeboat of an Oil Company

organised large scale British diplomats here feel heightened this belief.

Brandaris later today. The movement threatening the Gov- Lid., Caltex Oceanie Ltd, and pantes of "price discrimination Egyptians to make the first ap proach towards reopening dis and on a worldwide scale,"

CONFESSION that practical support has not

owner captain of the Peto, crument. Meanwhile an independent oil cussions on these subjects.

General Naguib and Egyptian been forthcoming in Japan, so

Captain

On E. Mooy, is still representatives Hedin's letter allegedly con- board

The the Fairhead with his

Albanian telegraphic agency circulated seven oll companies army leaders will be for some Commonwealth

a sporch by are said to be negotiating with tained his confession to have:

Hacked to death Miss Oest-wife and two young sons.

Most of the men in the Peto General Enver Hoxha to the Washington,

gion, where full support berg and the 54-year-old head the was declared for Britain in the of the old people's home, Agnes were asleep when the disaster trade unions on the five-year plan. "Albania is. resoluto and happened. Ludin: sailors' case.

The explosion wrecked the vigilant with a revolver at the redio and put electric lighting belt and a rifle at the shoulder," out of action-Reuter.

The sald-Reuter, ·

focal

is to maintain its position and prestige ав л point of international trade in the Far East it must be equipped with an adequate airfield for civil aviation. It is of Bome encourage ment to know that Govern- advisers ment's technical

port.

and

Mideast Crude Sales Company,

all incorporated in the Bahama news service alleged here to Islands, but with home offices day that

New York City, $21,427,722.

in

State Department in The suits said those cinime re will be charged with forestalling time preoccupied with attempts

British cources in Japan said it was now belleved "practical- ly Impossible" to conclude workable agreement with the present Japanese Government over the bases:

Set fire to the home, causing the deaths of a man and three women:

are satisfied that Kal Tak can be developed sufficiently to meet all future demands. We trust that the British engineering experts will be able to agree with the main conclusions drawn In the

extending Broadbent Report that Kal presented overcharges between competition among themselves to carry through the sweeping

and

their control internal reforms, May 1049 and May 31, 1952. ever the world movement of ail Tak can be made into

WEAKNESSES The court was to award the through separate local market- worthy International air-Government "such additional ing arrangements from 1920 to But they are conscious. of

eums os may be due for alleged the second world war.

Egypt's comparative defence Toplatis Ollgram publishes a weakness in training, stores and

Killed his parents Alfred, 74, special supplement preseasting equipment.

and Hilda Maria Hedin, 57, and what it sald was a summary of TWO

have pronouncements

set fire to their house. the main points of the Ferieral strengthened the beller here Trade Commission's

The negotiations are between

The police said Hedin also that the Egyptian Government

'the United Nations and Japan- | confessed to a ninth

murder suppressed international oil re- would be willing to negotiate

at Tjoernor, port to be published on Monday outstanding problems with Bri- Britain is almost solely concern last November

where he was a policeman. by the Senate Small Business tain and America In return fored. Only the British Common- Committee.

wealth Division of all the non- The police said when Miss military and economic ald President Truman carlier One was the news yesterday American units. In Korea main- Oestberg broke off the engage classified the report ng secret be that Britain will resume training tains its own supply lines and ment, the couple quarrelled.

the only major Old-age pensioners, therefore uses cause of its possible adverse cilities for Egyptian

by the noise in Miss Oestberg's effect on United States foreign and will sell non-operational non-American bases here. relations.

material to Egypt, The

The 90-day period of grace room, went there and found to- Was today's statement by which gave Commonwealth that Hedin had slipped hand- the General

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Committee sources said day that some sections of

long-

officers

alber

attracted

feeling abroad, would be delet forcim to reforces the use of facilities they culs over the girl's wrists and

report, which might cause

ed from the published sion.

ill-would be

Ver-

The companies involved In clude the British controlled Anglo-Iranian and Royal Dutch Shell companies.

INTEGRAL PART

held under the Allied occupation stuffed a handkerchief in her aid if attacked of

expired on July 27, mouth to stop her screams, has

with Britain The police said Hedin first Observers here believe that

Hation with

Ulia ogree killed theto, wout out a between

when the future talks Western Powers and the new ment

mairon, Agned Ludin, ran to her pending

Then which will give all forces Eight- regime would be conducted on the United Nations of a contract help, he murdered ber alo

to his

these lines...

a

Communists

Raided

and

and

Hedin went

But they considered it tooing with the United Nations in parents' home, killed them--30

to facilities in Japan.-Reuter. ww

murderer-and burned Ollgram quoted the report as early to prophesy the chances of Korea legal status and the right that they would dot know be

down the comprehensivo

house, the police saying

marketing concluding the local

alleged. arrangements "were an integral agreement, which would solve

He then returned to the old part of the pattern of concen- most of the urgent problems Extypt and the

people's home and set it alight trated big company control over confronting

probably to wipe out all traces the world oil resources and Western Powers.

IMMEDIATE NEEDS

of the trade."

the murders there, they said,

· needs

Firemen rescued most immediate

13 inmates, The Commission was said to

of modern arros and)

Cairo, Aug. 22,

but four were suffocated by the have described as "discrimina-are

fumes." The bodies of Ulla and palice oll equipment and increased train-

The Egypilan the big companies"

today tory"

were

found in pricing system which, it was ing facilities for her army, which carried out their fourth raid of Amos Ludin

against Communist Miz Cestberg's room-Reuter.. alleged, gave the cartel members has never fully recovered from the week

SUFFOLK MURDER. all cost savings resulting from the effects of the Palestine War cells, when they swooped on a

Mildenhall, Suffolk, Aug. 22. exchange of oil supplies, and General Naguib was reported

About 60 persons-30 Ameri irrespective of to be anxious to obtain a solid house in the Calro suburb of the origin of shipment, at sub- understanding with Britain and They found printing macan servicemen and 30 civilians States based on chinery and Communist litera-have been questioned about stantial pront to the companies. Egypt's national aspirations, so ture:

the blood stained clothing found The Commission was also reTM

Threo that material and technical ald that

Egyptian students and at local laundries ported

charged to have

Armenian да

trader

This

his follows the murder of international oll interests sought mishit be forthcoming for his to restrict oil production to rmed forces

Neither Britain nor the United arrested and charged with Com-22-year-old Mrs Heather Abbott who was found beaton, to death had set maintain the prices SERENTAKZIA

States have so far Introduced the munist activities.

Cairo Radio, reported tonight in a fold near Her home.. throughout the

he work

problems which have bedevilled About

trini of the Police Explanations of the blood- two-thirds

of the Anglo-Egyptian relations in the

el stained clothing-mostly of fights world's privately-owned tanker part year British evacuation of Superintendent of Kats feet and all the important pipe-te Canal Zone, the future of the Dawar, who was arrested after and road accidents were up- lines outside the United States Sudor and Egyptian participation the recent rioting at the Marcopted. are owned, or, controlled by the in the proposed Ailled Middle mille companies-Reuter.

the

the United

Kubbeh..

that

the

WOTO

there will open next The search gobs on but earlier East Defence Command-autor. Bunday in Alexandria Reater reports today that officers and

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Another exception is Bulgaria, where rumours are again circu- dating that Premier Vuliso Chervenkov no longer enjoya Moscow's confidence and his re- placement by Georgi Chankov-

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