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Daily Worker Goes Out
Of Business After 34 Years
New York, Jan. 8. The Daily Worker, official organ of the dispansion- riddon U.S. Communist Party, announced today that it is going out of business. The paper will suspend publication with
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1958.
Macmillan's Non-Aggression Pact Is Considered
NATO Discusses Reply To Bulganin
Britain Submits A Written
Draft For Talks
Paris, Jan. 8.
its 34th anniversary, edi- The Permanent Council of the 15-nation
tion next Monday,
editor
The Worker, whose bas been under fire by both Moscow and the Party's Ameri- car Pelltburo, sold the Party high command had refused
it
financial sld, saging it was not in any position at the present the paper's time to wipe out $250,000 defcit.
The Communists will COE}< Unue to publish the Weekend Worker, which comes out on Fridays.
APPEAL
Folding of the Daily Worker. one of the skiest radical publien-
Born in America, enne nearly
four months after the Com- munists made an urgent, Inst- ditel appeal for Brancin) con- tributions to keep it allve. In a September, 1037, editorial, the Worker said I had hit "rock bottom" and had to cut both the size of the paper and the
number of editions.
11 launched A compaign 10 Increase the stumping circulo- flon and antions from Red sympathisers. lut curculation continued to fall reaching low point of 7.200, as compare with the 1930's peate of 10,000 to 60,000 for the Daily and 100,000 for the Workent Worker,
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The Weekend paper's circula- tion now is about 13,000, the Cominunate Press
uid. -United
M.
Atlantic Pact today began their task of harmonising Western replies to the Bulganin "poaco" latters, and sources close to Nato said they dis- cussed the British suggestion of a ,non-aggression pact with Russia
part of an overall East-Wast settle-
ment.
as
Paul-Henri Spaak, Nato Secretary-General, presided over the three-hour meeting, first since the momentous summit conference of Nato heads of government last month. Britain was the only country to have a written drafi before today's Council session. After a 90-minute "broad discussion" of how Western leaders should reply to the Soviet Prime Minister, the permanent delegates decided to continue their talks on Friday afternoon.
The United States, French, ; necessary safeguands for the Belglan and other draft repiles Atlantic Alliance before the were handed in to the Nato West embarked on any talks Council Secretariat tonight, aix with the Russlans, hours after the meeting ad- Journed, Fald,
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Nato spokesman
The spokesman told reporters that the British draft reply was "by no menna the only basis Jer toxiny's discussion."
Asked whether there was any suggestion that the Ameri- can, French and Belgian diuft replies were not tabled as fore- east yesterday because of some- thing in the British text did with or outdated other replies, the spokesman soid: "Nothing of the sort,"
'CONFIDENTIAL SQ
EDITOR'S
BODY CLAIMED
No Question
Ме United States Nato
sald spokesman "there is no question of base disagreement or failure to have cummon approach with the other Atlanti partners to the Bulganin letters,"
Not Opposed
He is reported to have said that Italy was not opposed to an East-West "summit" meet- ing but only after careful pre- parations at the level of Foreign Ministers to ensure a successful outcome,
ranged
in
over
discussion Today's
East-West relations general apart from the surprise suggestion of the British Prime Minister Mr Harold Macmillan for an East-West non-aggression ract. The Nato permanent representatives
believed
were
armed
to have touched on the Polish proposal for
"atom-free" an Central in
Europe, zune
the recent disarmament, and Soviet announcement that they reducing their were forces by 300,000 men.
Observers here tonight
agreed that when Western leaders made their in- said later that they did not sub- - dividunt replies to Marshal Bul-
delegation sources Renerally
Jelegation New York, Jan, B. The body of former news- paperman and Confidential edi t Howard Rushmore, who killed himself and his second wife in a taxi Inst Friday night, was claimed from Bellevue Hospital morque today by his first wife, Mrs Ruth Rushmore.
Private cremation ceremonies were held immediately at an undisclosed pince.
Frunch
were
m their draft reply until-to- ganin, they would "hold t
THE GI's GIANT EYE
Death-Row Author
Final Bid
Begins Final
To Escape Chair
Los Angeles, Jan. 8.
door open to the possibility of The prosecutor who helped send Caryl Chessman
and
other kuy
night because the French goy-
wished erument
to hear the new talks with the Russians on views of the other governments disarmament first
problems. permanent Pietro
The Italian Frances The body of Me
delegates Signor Rushmore had heen claimed
and was Alessandrini, who was under- earlier by her father
Arst at sent 10 North Carolina for stood to have spoken
meeting, urged funeral and burlu services. this mcming'a
the Courelt to take United Press,
all the
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A British Crossword Puzzle
2.
ACROSS
3 He's with me al mess (8)
7 Cheat a cheat? (6)
They take no part (8).
10 You now (0).'
13 Time-bomb's Betion (7).
15 Uncommonly underdone (4).
17 Brought into being (7).
10. Argument (7).
20 They easily get cut of hand
(4),
21 Travellers carry them (7).
20 Eagerness (0).
27 Formal compositer (0)
20 Rows and rows? (5).
20 Gives answern (8).
114
14
15
b
22
26
28
DOWN
Provide meals (5).
2 Thief does it (5).
One divides my vash (5).
4 How
(4)
make cats sallafy
5 Biblical mount (6). '
Followed on (8).
Puls up (0).
11 Creepy" (5).
12 Does not encourage (5).
14 Regards with apprehension
(0).
15 Speaks gratingly (5).
British Troops
The rest of today's meeting was devotes to the problem of payments difficulties resulting from the stationing of British troops in Germany.
Dep.
to death row nearly ten years ago Dist. Atty. J. Miller Leavy was due to take the stand today to be questioned by the con- demned man.
Levy's
second
appearance
On trial in a field-test.
15 this new 100-inch
of camera — one
in
Last Of The Romanoffs?'
Woman Claims To Be Anastasia, Grand Duchess Of Russia
Hamburg, Jan, 8,
A woman, prematurely aged by sickness and hard- shup in a squalid hovel in a Black Forest refugee camp will tomorrow be the central figure in a drama to be played out in the sombre, wood-carved Hamburg Civil Court house.
The woman, known as Anna Anderson, will once more plead for recognition of her claim to the new legendary name of Annetaria Nikolaevna Roman- off, Grand Duchess of Rasalt. daughter of Nicholas II, lost of the Russian Czati.
For the last 24 years Anna Anderson, or the Grand Duchess
tralled Anastasia, has
from court. house to court house, from one charitable organisa- tion to another, trying to ob- tain legal recognition of her claim to royal blood. Her story has inspired two films, à
play and countless magazine
and nowspaper articles.
Two
PRISONERS BEAT A WARDER
TO DEATH
Duisburg, Germany,
Jan. 8.
leading lawyers will Prizonar beat a warder to closh tomorrow, Dr Paul
death and injured another Leverkuchn for Anna Anderson and Dr Von Berenberg-Gossler for persons brought before the court by Annu for having accused her of being an im- postor.
CZARINA
in a mutiny at Moors Prison near hore today, Police said.
Police said several prisoners weaving mais sprang at a 44- year old warder na he entered a Among the
the workroom, and beat him to princely family of Hesse, of death with iron tools. whom the last Czarina of Russia
latter are
was an
Princess issue, and
A second warder received Barbara of Meckleberg, whose several blows on his head, but grandmother, Princess frene of some prisoners of the 18 in the Hesse, was a sister of Czarina | rooITI went to his aidh Two Alix, and therefore an aunt of non-mutineers meanwhile slip- tho-Grand Duchess Anastasio, ped out and alerted other
Once more Anna Anderson worders.
will
many
how,
tell the story
which so
courts have heard, of Two minutes later police from because of a soldier of a nearby Police Station storm- Folish origin, she alone escaped fed the workroom with pistola from the massacre of the Im-draw, and broke the resistance mulineers, who had taken a key from the dead Her lawyer said recently: | warder, "I'm confident,
the
perial Russian family on the jot the night of July 18, 1918.
latest items of equipment with the U.S. Army. Keystone.
use
Peking Expels Ting Ling From The
Party
Poking, Jan. 8.
leading woman author Ting Ling has
on the stand at a U.S. Supreme Court-ordered hearing
on the China's of Chessmart's 1948 was delayed yesterday while the convict-nuther asked
Fighting In fronscript
Algeria
A Nato expert's study group reported that Britain was justi- fled in appealing her Nuto alles to help solve the Anglo- West German disagreement" on payment of
Algiers, Jan. 8. future ecimated at £50 million from Fighting betwveen French April this year to maintain security forcos
Algerian and Bellish troops on the Continent. | rebois in the Oran district of The Council referred the ex- Algiers during the post low pert's report to the goverments days has resulted in the death of for study.
09 rebels and the capture of seven prisoners, military sources caid here today.
In taking the disputo 1 Nato, Britain invoked + 1 [ "escape clause" of the 1954 Paris. agreements under which she undertook to keep four divisions and facileal Air Force, or their equivalent, on the con- tinent for the rest of the een- tury, Reuter,
ttiol
for a demonstration,
Chessman demanded that, Mrs Winifred Gurney, a veteran of
30 years as a court reporter, transcribe "cold notes" taken by Ernest Perry, the original re- died porter in the case who before le could prepare the transcript.
inaccurato.
believe in
colla-China Mail
Anastasia, Grand Duchess of Four men, belleved to be the Russia." Dr Leverkuchn, who ringleaders, were locked In has plerded for Anna Anderson darkened for
10 years,
that Special. added among the "irrefutable" proofs of Anna's Identity was the foot that she spoke English like a cultivated English person—"'in English as taught in an Imperial Courl"
Dr Leverkuchn considered us unacceptable Berlin court's rejection last year of Anna's claim because her ears did not resemble those of the Princess Anastasin according to an off- cial photograph of the Car's daughters,
witnesses Two
Paris will be heard, the daughter of the personal doctor to Czar Nicholas II. Mine,
Melnik Botkin, and Felix Da Dassel, former odicer in the Imperial Russian army-France-Presse,
from
With Interest
Lisbon, Jan. 5.
been expelled from the Communist Party aftor 25 yours, a usually reliable East European Communist source said here today. A Local shopkeeper, notified that he owed SL Joseph's The source said three other Hospital US$3.50 for first al
writers, including treatment, sent the institution a Communist the noted short-story wilter and check for US$85, critic Feng Hauch-feng had nisa been expelled.
All four had been deprived
writers of membership of the union and were, not now even entitled to cali themselves) literary workers,
OLD FRIEND
Perry's job was taken over by Stanley Fraser, a distant rela- Uve of Prosecutor Leavy, Chess- man charges that Fraser's Security forces also launched version of Perry's notes are an operation In the southern Constantine area in the course of which 94 rebels wero idlled In yesterday's demonstration, page six and
made prisoner Mrs Gurney studied a France-PreSOC.
taken at random from the 1,821-
Ting, who is an old friend ofį read. It page transcrip! and
many Chinese icodors, Including minutes of Mao Tse-tung, was branded us after about ten study.
a "Rightist" in August last year because of her "anti-Party" thoughts and activities. As far as is known, she has never con- fessed to her "ertors."
DISASTER THREATENS
FLORIDA'S INDUSTRY
Chicago, Jan. 8.
Then,
FOUR LINES
Chessman handed her two more pages. She read them
She was the best known as well after studying Perry's symbols for about 45 minutes. Person to be attacked during Henll-Nightist campaign" Four lines puzzled the veteran the reporter, but she said that was which began last Spring when A cold wave moved in behind the worst East because she didn't know exaci- the Goverment felt that wide- spread criticisms of the Party Coast snow storm in years today and threat-r what she was reading. were getting out of hand. ened ruin to Florida's billion-dollar citrus "The prosecution claimed Mrs
It is believed here that the Gurney's "cold reading" WOR industry.
"remarkably close" to Fruser's period of punishment is about Other parts of the northeast transcript, which Chessman has to begin.-Reuter, fee and horne fires occurred were buried in up to 18 Inches challenged as being fraudulent- through a wintry area stretch-of snow. It was Connecticul'sly prepared by a court reporter with a record of arrests for Ing from the Mississippi. Valley worst snow in nine years, The
intoxication. to the Atlantic.
11 inches at Atlantic City, New
Death due to snow, cold,
The dead included 20 dooths Jersey, made it the worst slow In traffe or blamed on weather-storm in years. caused heart attacks in Now England; two highway victima and four heart attack fatalities of
in New York; three deaths in New Jerrey; highway deaths in
10 Allude to someone else? (5), Pennsylvania, Iowa and Wis-
10 Ho's in the red (8).
10 Lies unconscious? (6).
22 Runs into (5).
23 Bacon partner (5).
23 Getman, maybe (4),
24 Ons of (ve (5).
the
The East's worst cold wave
the Benson followed BDOWS.
Chessman, known as the "Red Light Bandit" for his raids on lover's Lane in the guise of on oficial car, has lived in death row. longer than any other person in U.8. history. Weathermen issued gold wave
Since his conviction on 17 of 15-below ZCTD warnings contin; and 11 fro victima, Li addition, an airmen dial when temporatures in northern Maine counts of burglary, kidnapping sex offences, the - a plane crashed in a Florida and zero readings through the end
roan has ralutorm.
mountains no far south as west spoken condemned
avolded alx execution dates by Maryland and
west Virginia
Jegal mapouvres financed by CENTRE
moet ominous predle the sale of books he wrote in
San Quentára.
جس
CITY
Tha
WEDNESDAY'S SOLUTION.Merous 1 Elpeds, 5 Punts, The centre of the storm, too, whoever, was for tourist 8 Acom, 9 Repair, 10 Enter, 11 Sauce, 12 (Winiam) Tell, 13 which caught the East by sur- and citrus-rich Florida, The When he won the new trans- Easel, 10 Temple, 18 Credit, 20 Grea, 23 Borg, 23. Adknit, prino on Tuesday. nlabs, War - TRITCLITY, was expected to drop cript hearing, Chemman claimed 23 Horse, 20 Tomato, 27 Orbit, 28 Bluns, 20 A-scent. Dawb working its way slowly through below freezing clone. into the it would be his final dght to 1 Bursting, 2 Pogulace, 3 Dois, 4 Scraped, 5 Precept, 0 Armeni.. the Bay of Fundy jalo Wednta-. Bater aquilken, area, bringing 7 Thoma. 14 Serado, 15 Longboat, 18 Tenders, 17 Militia, -10. day. Snow still fell in northern, a pommĺble, douth
Now England, Reason, 21 Roost, 24 Tota
blow
vold the death “pecially) a
Malayan Workers
Want Rise
Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 8. More than 320,000 Malayans of In the National Union Plantation Workers want higher wage from April this year.
The Union will ask the Mas layon Planting and Industziel Employers Amociation to can -eel the present wage agreement when it expires, at the end of March.
The working committed met
for more pay --Beuter.
to battle which he said he was | tonight to discuss the demand
ware kazi wineFaltad: Fans-
He enclosed a note thanking the hospital for the treatment he received there in 1920-United Press,
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