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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1947.

DEATH TOLL IN TRAIN CRASH Miners Trickle Back To Work

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(BY "THE TURF")

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1st Race

Outsider:-Roseinui,

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Outsider:-Kovicaburta,

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Flying Arrow Peggy

Outsider:Golden Wheel,

35 Seamen Rescued

Monterey, Calif., 24. The United States Coast Guard cut- ter Minnetonka reported early loday the rescue of 35 scamen who had taken to lifeboats after' the Richfield Ou Company tanker Sparrow's Point caught fre following a collision shority after midnight.

The Sparrow's Paint and the Canadian malorship Manx Fisher collided in a dense fog 15 miles off the central Call- fornia const. Four crew mem- hers were reported missing, anıl I was feared might still be ou board

burning tanker-

Associated Press,

CONTATTA STYLU DA FAR MEAN

AMBASSADOR

IN CUSTODY

"Safety" Measure

Plane Crashes Ferrign Affairs of the USSR.

the

MOUNTS TO

31

Several Women Victims

SHOCKING SCENES

London, Oct. 24.—A suburban electric train specding through a heavy London fog crashed into the rear of another packed train' near South Croydon station today killing 31 passengers and injuring 63 in Britain's worst rail disaster for two years.

Crowded to the doors with standing passengers, the leading train was inching its way through the mist when the second thundered into it with a splintering crash.

Soine bodies were badly

Beene

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Edinburgh, Oct. 24-Miners who have been on strike in the Scottish pits against delays in negotiations for El a week wage increases were trickling back to work today and resumption of nor- mal operation was expected by Monday.

Lord Hyndley, chairman of the National Coal Board had warn- ed that there would be no further talks on the wage claims unit all the miners were back at work.

Thirteen of the pits resumed today, although six more collieries joined the strikers, making a total of 86 pits wholly or partly Idle on against 93 mines on Thursday, Loss of production Monday has been 134,000 tons.

since

The workers complain that their "ake hoine" pay amounts to only £4-7-0 a week. Thin National Coal Board has agreed to con- sider a Nov, & claims for a £1 increase.—Associated Press.

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Manchuria Situation Practically Hopeless

Nanking. Oot. 24. The opinions of foreign milltary observers in the capital today, jaro unanimous in that the mili- tary situation for the Govern- ment forces in Manchuria · is

TRUMAN TO MAKE practically hopeless.

CRUCIAL SPEECH

Washington, Oct. 24.-President Truman was expected to warn the American people in a half- hour speech that unless Congress acts swiftly in the special session on November 17, there may be an economic disaster at home and abroad.

•

Put

These opinions, following closely the statement of the Minister of National Defence, General Chung-hal, carly in the week saying that "the war in Manchuria was likely to continue indefinitely," and the Premier,

General Chang

Chun's

ummary of the Government's post- conceding the Communists with the control of 90 per cent of Man- churin, all confirm the pesalmistie feeling which is prevailing in Gover. ment and military circles here.

Even if the much landed and de- bated American ald la granted The White House spokesman sold An additional $20,000,000 will be (China, the immediate effect on the today that the President's speech needed for Austrin, while the oc- Munchurian war will be very small," was likely to prove one of the most cupation Zones will need additional fald one highly placed observer with important of his career and woule appropriations of up to $800,000,000 lover 15 years experience of Chinese give the United States the frankest In view of Britain's inability to con- aftale. outline of political and economie tinue her share of the dollar upkeeji| problems they have yet received. of Germany.

The President will set a timetable for Congress action to deal with funds of more than $1,000,000,000 on these lines:

will meet

London, Det. 24.—The

former

The first two conches of the second. train Brazilian Ambassador to Moscow

telescoped, their roofs ripped and his Embassy staff are to be

and open

passengers taken into custody and allowed to flung through the air on to the railway embankment. leave the Islan capital only

One of the women when the safety and safe conduct

victims, who over the edge of an embankment of members of the Soviet Embassy numbered at least nine-was flung above a suburban street.

One woman was flung out from In Braz!!

Moscow under the wheels of another traini. are Recured, Radio reported tonight.

mutilated the first train under the wheels of and eight hours after the crash only the second. Portions of bodies were (Brazil broke off diplomatic rela- 10 of the dead were identifled. scattered

in nil directions on the tions with Russla last Tuesday),

Fifty-five ambulances, a number of track. The Radio declared; "According pollee,cars and more than 100 fremen to reports reaching the Minister of were rushed to the scene where res- to the

Some hundred ambulances hurried

and from

houses cuers worked frantically with oxy-bordering the line, housewives an from the White House, which aft of the Soviet Embassy in Rioacetylene torchies and axes to remove swering the cries of the de Janeiro have recently been sub- screaming victims trapped

Injured. jected to insults and attacks by hoo-wreckage. Toms operating near dhe building of the Soviet Embassy.

The Brazilian authorities facili Salt Lake City."Oct. A fourated these atideks and encouraged tuner compartment only-one of 11 passengers survived. An iron These reports are engined transport plane, flying from the booligans Los Angeles to Denver. crashed in causing great indignation among the bolt had run through his arm and his foot was trapped under a smashed Bryce Canyon, Southern Utah, the Soviet Plow to ensuring the safe- iseal. When firemen freed him he. ty of the former Brazilian Ambas-smiled gratefully and asked for a

cigarette. ador and the staff of the Brazilian

Croydon Bremen Jacked up one end Embassy in Moscow, the appropriate

In Flames

United States Airlines announced to- night,

The pilot said by radio that the

*With

public.

#

In

ONLY ONE SURVIVOR

The overall bill to be presented to Congress 15 somewhere about $1,500,000,000.

to

"It will boller morals but will not win the war. Even the United States decided tomorrow to grant financial and military aid to China and American industry turned over to wartime production, it would be over six months before the first rounds of aminunition reaches Nationalist rifles in Manchuris," the observer continued.

Noveniber 17 and receive a message sun, "quickly coming to a stand-elding factor.

on

the

Rowin

the which came through the awirling President 1s expected to deliver in Available in time to keep supplies dreds of miles stretches of railway

fox.

ran out with blankets, hot water and sheets, which they tore up. for bandages,

A passing bus skidded to a stand. still and the driver and conductor loaned out and amashed down the railings to make a path for the res

Some of the passengers with less

cuers,

Une

to the

bolli

1. The Foreign Affairs and Banking and Currency Committees

ITALY IN BAD WAY will begin nearings simultaneously on November 10 on the aid programme show that France is now in a position State Department calculations and the price situation.

to and dollars for her basic food the Secretary of State.

Senior Cabinet officers, including and raw material needs until the

CHAOTIC DISLOCATION Mir George ond Marshall, will testify.

of January, but donger 14 "The chaotic dislocation of com- foreseen of many branches of in- munications in Manchuria in the de- 2-Both Houses

unless Junds

Bre made "I have seen photographs of hun- across the Atlantic without burning from end to end. person to a joint session.

interruption. 3. On November 18, the Ap-

"This is the biggest handicap the Under the current United States of propriations Committees

to face in Man- Government has relief

programme, Italy's coal ship-churia. These sleepers cannot be Chtimbers will also start hearings. ments лго

4-The ald

assured through Novem- replaced as Government officials say funds for

and the ber programme

her and

wheat shipments that occupied arcas, particu-through December.

the reserves have been farly Germany, should be approved

used before Christmas.

up and there is no possibility of re- But in other respects, Italy's situation is much more serious then placements for many months.

The shortage is most acute and that of France and unless supplies of

Govern- on the railways that the raw materials aro made available

ment chulmed to have repalted. promptly, important sections

three Italian Industry will come to a halt. The sleepers are used over

their A Republican spokesman stressed carrying capacity.

alt yards apart, thus miting they are not prepared io "With winter coming on, recon- write m

any "blank cheques"

for struction work will be brought to a European ald and will investigate standstill shortly." the situation closely before taking any firm action.

Even this date may make im- possible to avoid some breakdown in a fairly strong assurance that funds ,will be forthcoming which will avert serious political repercussions.

tail section of his plane was burning jet organs have given instructions of a carriage to remove two peopic had mediately after their iniprion suppiles to Italy, but It is hoped for

and he was attempting a forced land- inge It was stated tonight by the dis- trict manager of the United States Airlines.

He sold that the pilet was unable to land and the plane crashed, and was apparently burned.

The plane was carrying 40 pas- sengers and a crew of four.

An eye-witness said tonight that there were no survivors from the

crash.

parture

from

One old man,

10

for then to be taken under sur-trapped under the springs, but both veillance and for permission to be were dead. given to them to

Moscow only leave

his arm broken, attention and after the security of the staff of the spurned immediate Soviet Embassy and their safe de-ordered first aid workers to attend to

Brozli have

been worse cases.

An occupant of the fourth coach of the second twin described the crash. "We were about half a mile on side of Purley when the London there were three sharp jolts and the carriages began to sway. Feuple in

The Radio, quoting a Tass message from Montevideo, declared that on October 2, M. Sokolov, the Soviet d'Affaires, and the First Charge Secretary to the Russian Embassy in A wliness at Bryce Canyon air-Rio de Janeiro, were attacked as

the plane, trailing they left part said that smoke und dames when it crashed, Bad eggs and stones were thrown bumied

completely out

after at

1 them, the report alleged,

among these injured was M. Sokolov's struck the ground-Reuter.

Ave-year-old son.

Destructive Fires

Bar Harbour, Maine, Oct. 24-

wiped Tho Ares which practically out Bar Harbour, the holiday town of millionaires, and six other New England communities, have caused more than $20,000,000 damage and cust Alne lives throughout the New England states.-Reuter,

EDITORIAL

car

and

The. Brazilan envoy to the Soviet Union is Senhor Murio de Pimental Brandao.-Reuter.

Rangoon Hurricane

hun-

my compartment were thrown on top of each other."

"When the train stopped, raw could not see what

serious injuries went back

been dressed, and helped with the more serious cases.

Firemen, who cut through the wreckage with oxy-acetylene flame cutters, described the behaviour of the injured and the other passengers as "absolutely magnificent."

FINE RESCUE WORK They were full of praise also for

wamen who ransacked houses for the things-the-Injured nuded.

the

their

nn

PRICE LEGISLATION 5.-Congress will go into recess for 10 days or a fortnight over Christ- mes and according to the President's tion after the new year. plan, will tackle price legisla-

time, have finished this phase of The Committees should, by that their work and completed bill will "Many housewives have

be rendy for open debate. sheets, tea or milk left," a fireman As soon as the step-gap pro said. "They were wonderful. They gramme is out of the way, the Com-

many and kept

up the mitice will tackle the Marshall plan

itself.

The debate on the plan should the open

before the end of Jarlary, raising hopes that it can be compitied clothing by March 31 at the latest.

was happening be-escued morale. ប

cause of fog-visibility was only I fow yards."

"Passengers were pulling seats out of carriages to

make the injured more comfortable. There were cries of 'mind the live rall,”~~~Associated Press.

Lu

An appeal was launched for sheets housewives, who cannot buy more replace those torn up by without surrendering cupons.

and

State Department officials maky na A woman who lives opposite the secrat of the fact that the $042,000,- scene of the collision said: "There 000 BODIES SCATTERED

"absolute was a derrific crash. I ran to the stop-gap plan is an Rangoon, Oct. 24-Severul

Reuter, in a description of the window and saw two coaches wreck- Increased before Congress returns,

may vo to bo dred persons were left homeless disaster, reports there was a blindinged and hanging over the embank- when winds of hurricane foree flash and a crash, The Inst two ment. We got out one young girl. "Interima aid will not increase long- An official of the Department said: demolished more than 200 dwellings conches of the leading train were Soon after we had laid her on a in the Rangoon river delta town of thrown off the tracks and the first cent she died. There were lots of measure to keep the ship allost until

rango productivity-it is just Myaungmya.Associated Press. two coaches of the following train young women on the train and we repbles are made."

were splintered, smashed and teles- could see them wedged under the coped. The driver was killed. wreckage."

The coaches hung at a sharp angle

Bold Social Service Plan

MUCH

of

of the Labour Govern- meni's domestis legislation has been, and promises sill to be, highly controverslat In one case, Nationalisation; another, the pro- posed reform of the House Lords. To many this tinkering with the consßitutional rights and privileges of the Upper Ilouse ap- pears to be an affront. Opponents are certain to make strong points out of whether anything of real value will result from amendin legislation which has stood the test of time, and

and also of the fact that the Labour Government has no direct mandate from the, elec- torale

bring about constitu- fional changes. This type of lerblation, as already noted, is ex-

to

the

plosive In His effects upon different

of political shades thought within the British Isles. But in the field of social service, the Government is

is pursuing a programme which is comunanding general respect. One far-reaching plan which has now advanced to the concrete stage is the building of the first of the satellite towns intended to absorb surplus popula tion from the seriously over- London crowded cities such as and Glasgow. Stovenure, the first contre on which work has startet. typifies the contribution, these satellites will make towards curing congestion and wretched

.com-

Hying conditions. When pleted, at an estimated cost of £30,000,000, the Title market

people

by

overn

iL

of

town will have grown to a self- contained communal unit capable of accommodating 60,000 In modern homes, surrounded ample open spaces for recreation and with factories and

work avaliable for all. The experiment is one of the most ambitious ever undertaken by a Brliish ment. To carry it out successful- is a delicate operation, for ly will involve moving hundreds thousands of people

of people over the next five to 20 years, and at the sanie Alme it wali

bo necessary to over- natural reluctance ef people to move from old associa tions in the big elites. The ad- vantages of the egtellite towns, are obvious-good, modern homes, plenty of space for recreation,, diversified

Interests, first-class up-to-date factories, schools, full

facilities, shopping plus welfare, and health centres. But the iden

la be "gold"

come

communal

tiles hay to the sentimental elty tenement dweller, and this

may prove to be

the hardest part of effecting one of the greatest social services ever envisaged by a British govern- ment. Nevertheless, unless the Stevenage plan succeeds, Britain's down planning and development schema may well be retarded for fifty years or more.

(Continued on Page 12)

or stop-rap aid. get about $350,000,000 about $200,000,000.

France will and Italy

Bradman & Co. Flog Indian Bowling

(BY K. S. DULEËPSINHJI, REUTER'S SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT}

Adelaide, Oct. 24.-The In- Bradman, which I consider was a wickets. Tom Ball, a fast-medium dian bowling was ineffective on mistake, especially seeing that spin bowler, claimed three of them for 38. the easy-paced Adelaide wicket wickets the captain should try every won the toss and sent New South lid not worry Bradman. On such W. Brown, the Queensland captain, todny. The medium bowlers had 160

Pace thing and pace in the obvious thing Wales in to bat on a tricky wicket. runs scored off them without securing a single wicket.

to try against a newcomer, at least is tactics at first succeeded, three from one end.

wickets falling for 25 in 40 minutes. Nayudu dropping Bradman at A partnership of 72 between Kelth dia with weak bowling and on a stopped the rot-Router, square leg boundary was costly. Miller and J. Moroney temporarily India, heart-breaking pitch, cannot afford to drop catchies.

The Indian bowling had its first test on a typical Australion wicket, although today's differed from the old Australian wickets when I was here 20 years ago. This wicket was inpleed like getting a wicket. Mankad son, a 10-year-old Scat today suc-

Brabourne,

similar to that Bombay.

Phadnar. In his first two overs

find

And

lata him when he won the first two

NEW SNOOKER CHAMP. London, Oct. 24-Walter Donald-

ceeded Joe Davis as the world pro- who kept a good length, Was

champion. with

fessional anooler Amarnath and his team now rewarded two wickets. Mayudu

Joe

vas at the Leicester Divis realise how important is the placing bowled a couple of good overs, but Square Hall, London, to congratu of the field on Australian wickets

Inter falled to a length.. against players not afraid to go for

Sharwate, playing in his first game frames to gain a winning margin of the bowling. That South Australia

without practice, kept a better 3 frames to.49 in the final over scored 379 runs in five hours wit length, but no bowler worried tha

and a half dozen snicks Fred Davis, brother of the retiring convince Amarnath that the placing batsmen

champion, who is giving up the title of the field is most Important,

the nearest approach were

beating

after 20 years. The batsmen were on top, all day the batsmen during the day's play.

The match does not finish until The Australians found gaps in the tomorrow, but Fred Davis often toyed with the. Indian weld to score rapidly, without taking overtake his rival.

cannot bowling

Nichols and Crulg laid the founda-

rick. Bradman is still there and tion of the big score, and Brodman the Indians have another hard day carried on by scoring 100 in an hour before them tomorrow.Reuter. and 40 minutes. Amarnath and Phadnar did not bowl a single bail

and

The new champion will not reign

unchallenged long, for next year's final is from April 19 to May 1, and SHEFFIELD SHIELD MATCH. Donaldson is due to meet Kingsley Brisbane, Oct. 24-Arthur Morris, Kennerley of Birmingham in the to Bradmon, and Hazare sent down young New South Wales Test opch-quarter anal.. only four overs while Don was scoring batsman, was dismissed for 10 "That match is due in Newcastle," Ing his

century.

in the opening, game of the Shefeld said Donaldson today, "but there Amarnath should hava put on Shield programme against Queens seems to be some doubt about Ken- Phudnar or himself at one end as land, which began here today. nerley being home from India In soon as Bradman entered. India's At the close, New South Wales had time. It has to be played in March captain relied on spin against made 249 for the loss of seven at the latest."-Reuter.

thut

of

The general impression, however Is that they would "go along" with Reuter,

President's plans eventually

the

Speaking on American military aid granted to China to date, an adviser described it as "junk" which had bean rotting on the Paciße islands before passing Into Chinese bands. (Continued on-Page-12)

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