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Western

May Be Unified

Germany

Boy Shoots TENTATIVE PLANS

His Sister

"SHE WAS ALWAYS NAGGING ME"

Las Animas, Colorado, Dec. 16. Twelve-year-old Jimmy Melton confessed he riddled the body of his 16-year-old sister, Marie, with shots from a 227 calibre rifle as she sat in the holly and mistletoe decorated Ilving room because "I did not Uke her. She was always nag- ging me."

lle nid he played truant from school to kill his sister who kept house for him and divorced father.

Three-Zone Merger Proposed

London, Dec. 16.-The United States, Britain and France worked on tentative plans for economic consolidation of Western Germany preparatory to exploratory conversations on Tuesday night. French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault said he would accept a merger with the three zones provided it is profitable to France.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1947.

He declined to give the President's

ention to the breakdown.

Mr Marshall pluns to broadcast

High diplomatic informed sources said that the American Secretary of State, George C. Marshall, will begin with French Foreign Minister Georges Jimmy soid after killing her he

Bidault tonight the first of a series of western ran to the hardware store where his father worked and reported two power talks on the unification of western Germany. men broke into the house and shot her after slugging him. He changed The informed sources sald that his story after six hours of que Me Marshall set his staff of German tioning.

advisers to work early to-day draft- He said: "I ancaked

into the ing proposals which he might tenta- bedroom and got the rifle. Then I

lively advance to the Frenchman for opened the door o crack and saw the merger of the French zone with Marle sitting on the couch.

She the Anglo-American zones, now that did not notice me as I poked the the four-power organisation of alt rife through the doorway. The first Germany has been ruled out, for the shot hit her in the shoulder and she immediate future at least, by fell down. Then I ran into the breakdown of the Big Four talks room and fired four more shots that here. -hit her in the face and chest.”— M. Bidnult at a news conference

United Press.

said "there will be conversations to sce where we stand

western on

n report to the United States

on

Chinese Ship In Distress

San Francisco, Dec. 16. -The Globe Wireless today said that its Manila station heard a distress message from an unidentified Chin- ese ship saying it needed "'immediate "assistance" after running aground on Yoron Jima in the Ryukyu Islands..

The ship, identified only by its call letters, said the engine room was flooded,

The steamship Nippon Maru reported it was en route to the scene but it would be ten hours before it could arrive. The dis- tressed vessel asked any closer ships to give assist- ance,United Press.

Indonesian Allegation Of Dutch Threat

SUSPICIOUS ATMOSPHERE

FOR PEACE TALKS

Batavia, Dec. 16-Sufficient Dutch troops were massing in forward 'positions in Java to constitute a threat to the Republican capital of Jogjakarta, Amir Sjarifuddin, the Indonesian Republican Prime Minister, declared today.

He was speaking on board the U.S. Navy trans- port Renville, the vessel on which the Dutch-Indo- nesian peace negotiations under United Nations mediation, are taking place, in Batavia harbour.

Committee Proposes Interim Aid Cuts

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London, Dec. 16.-Tho Secretary of War, Mr Emanuel Shinwall, expects that British official war despatches rolating to opera- tions in the Far East during the carlier part of the war would start being published about the middle of Janu- ary.

Those relating to the loss of Singapore and the Malay Peninsula should reach their turn for publication within the following four or five weeks, he added.

Mr. Shinwell gave these facts in a reply to a ques- tion In the House of Com- mens today.-Reuter.

He was unable to say whether the ARCHBISHOP.

presence of Dutch troops. was meant as a threat to Jogjakarta, he added,

but it certainly gave the impression

that something might happen In the near future.

The Indonesian Prime Minister Anid that he agreed with an appeal for support made today by the Re- publican Socialist Party to Socialists throughout Asia,

A Netherlands East Indies Gov- ernment spokesman later empha tically denied that there was any of Dutch troops

Friday night on the failure of the MISGIVINGS ABOUT PROGRAMME concentration

"Big Four" foreign ministers' ference.

con -

Mr Marshall Was

to expected arrive home from London on Friday in the

President Truman's plane.---- Reuter.

Germany in the near future. This is only one aspect of the entire Gor: mon question," the French official sald, "But we (the three western powers), must And some way of

SEEKS JAPAN

AIR SERVICE getting along."

The American delegation held 1 special meeting to discuss problems 10Panarising from the collapse of the Big

Four conference.

Russian Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov and his aides departed for

San Francisco, Dec. American World Airways announc ed it has asked the Civil Aeronau- tics Board for permission to operate a domestic air service in Japan.

The proposed service would con-

Deputies of the four foreign nect the main islands of Japan. It ministers scheduled a meeting for would link with Pan American's tomorrow to begin what may be world route which serves Tokyo un their inst joint effort to write a the service from San Francisco to trealy for Austrian peace and in- Calcutta. The proposed Japanese dependence. official American in- saidAssociated domestic service would branchi out formed

Press. from Tokyo.

To the north it would link Tokyo, REPORT ON BREAKDOWN Sendal

and Hachinobe, with Washington, December 10-Presi- Hokkaflo Island. The terminal would dent Trumani has be at Chitose. A southern route report from Mir Marshall, Secretary would connect Honshu Island with of State, on the breakdown of the Kyushu by way of Nagoya, Osaka London Foreign Ministers' con- and other points, The terminal ference, the White House disclosed would be Kanoya. Additional pro-jeight.

EDITORIAL

sources

received a

Soviet Currency Reform

full

LEAVING DOOR OPEN

London, Dec. 16.-The French For- eign Minister, M. Georges Bidault, today held out hopes of continued Big Four co-operation as speculation in London ran high about the Great Powers next

to all the moves vacuum in world affairs created by last night's collapse of the Foreign Ministers' conference.

Washington, Dec. 16-The House Appropriations bill which Committee today submitted to the House would cut US$88,000,000 from the amount Congress authorized for emergency foreign, aid and more than US$260,000,000 from the Army's request for Ameri- can-occupied areas.

he

threatening Jogjakarta.

There was no question of any new Dutch move against the Re- publican capital, he said.

REPUDIATES

HIS DEAN

London; December 10, The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Geoffrey Fisher, today issued a statement dissociating himself and the Church of England with the "actions and utterances" of 73-year old "Red" Dean of Can- terbury. Dr Hewlett Jolinson. Dr Fisher declared that it was necessary because of the widespread misunderstandings and SHOTS AT DELEGATES

misconcep- tions both on the continent and in The Netherlands

New Agency the United States, liable to affect reported today from the West Java relations of the Church of England capital of Bandoeng that "ex- tremists" had

with foreign churches and countries,” shot at delegates The Committee offered a supple- General William Draper told the from the districts of Tasik Malaya to make clear the position of Dr mental appropriation hill which (1) Committee that expected a and Tilamis while they were on their Johnson, well-known for his cham- provides US$500,000,000 slop-kap separate programme for industrial

way to the West Java Conference plonship of the cause of Russia and aid or 15 percent less than yester-recovery

be submilled to at which Indonesinns, prepared to her satellites. day's authorisation

rellef ol

Congress and a similar recovery plan co-operate with the Dutch, were

"It has been supposed and China; would be submitted for Korea. The expected to seek a separate state Dean of Canterbury must necessarily France, Italy, Austria and (2) provides only US$230,000,- statement was made in closed hear- or autonomous status for the be acting on the instructions of the 000 of the

US$400,000,000 requested lugs before the Appropriations Com-000,000 Sundanese people formerly Archbishop of Canterbury and re- by the Army for relief Military mittee, which were made publie in the Republic. Speaking at a press conference Government operations in Ger- today. hero-Arst of the four leading parti-ma

many

Koren and Austria, cipants to comment on the new

less. situation-M. Bidaull said: "My The impression and I stress the fact that it is my Impression-is that it givings about the soundness of the

foreign relief

programme. is my desire to leave the door open

The supplemental

appropriation for all possibile attempts at un overall

bill sent to the House today car settlement."

rict n total of US$772,504,000, of which US$500,000,000 was for cmer- Gency nid, US$230,000,000 for Army and the balance Federal operations.

Ministers, M. Bidault said: "No date

for

or 3 ec expressed mis-

the

for other

would

CUT-IN-TWO ECONOMY

A self-

presenting satd.

that the

his views," Dr Fisher

REPEATS WARNING

"I find it necessary therefore to repeat the warning given by Arch- bishop Lang in 1937, when the Dean was publicly rebuked after he had

In a speech at Strasbourg. violently denounced General Franco

in

About 25 Indonesians, including some former mem

members of the Repub- lican Army, were temporarily ur- rested when they demonstrated oul- Gen Draper said the request for side the Conference hall. US$19,000,000 for Korea, under this Amir Sjarifuddin said that the Included US$4,-Indonesian Republic would have to Appropriation bill 310,000 -for-raw- fibres, textiles, raise the West Java question with

materials, maintenance and repair

commitice it a new state was form- M Bidault was replying to the

US$1,408,000 for chemicals and basic checurity Council's good offices chemical materials, US$5,164,000 for ed. question

"The Dean's office and jurisdiction of whether the three

railways and electric apare parts and The Indonesian

Minister Prime western powers should

now pro-

this country does not extend be- supplies, US$1,830,000 for paper and endorsed the remarks made earlier yond the confines of the Cathedral ceed to a settlement without Russin,

paper-processing material, Asked if there would be another

US$2 by Dr Mohamed Rocm, the Repub 408,000 for cement and other supplies llcan Minister of the Interior, that of those limits, he speaks and acts body of which he is head. Outside session of the Council of Foreign NO PROVISION FOR CHINA

for Irrigation and land reclamation. the Republican Government would

He said the has been Axed but the institution funds for aid to China In its bill of Korea was an example of "one plebiscite in "Dutch-created Indone for what the Dean may say or do

The Committee did not provide

only for himself; the Archbishop of economic condition ask the United Nations to conduct & Canterbury is neither

responsible exists for always and this is one of although such aid was authorisatin of the worst situations of economy stan state" it the present concllls-nor has the power to control it.

at present the good things one can find in the the measure

Hetion efforts falied. Potsdam Agreement."

President Truman's signature. The cut in two I have ever seen."

"In view of the special and world- "Wits never Committee said it did not see at to said Korea

DUTCH ACCUSATION

wide associations which surround provide any money for Chinese ald Sustaining nation in our time."

To-day's Dutch communique ac- the name of Canterbury, it is neces- on the grounds that no programine

"It was part of the Japanese cused the Republican Government of sary to make the position quite had been submitted for China. economy," he added..

As for ald to France, Italy and Gen Draper did not go into detail trying to obstruct and retard

negotiations while strengthening its Last October, Dr Johnson return- Austria, the Committee said, "While on the proposed programmes for

own economie position.

ed from a nine week tour of castorn the Committee is far from convinced Japan and Korea, not did he say Members of the good offices com Europe to say that he was deeply that the programme is sound or that when they would be submitted. He mission considered that separale impressed with the need, to tell the It will be efficiently administered, it said the two programmes, plus the discussions with the Dutch al people of Britain and the United does recognise the need to be met programme of recovery for Ger- Indonesian delegations were proving States the truth about what was and that the present bill offers the many. "have a very direct bearing the most fruliful way of settling { happening in those "splendid Леж only opportunity to provide such as-on achieving the broad objectives of

worlds."Reuter. sistance as the United States may American polley." be in a position to render and has The economics ehlef agreed with therefore determined to approve the Representative Franit Keefe (R¢- in its basic form with publican) that the "programmes in programme certain exceptions hereafter explain-Greece, Turkey, Germany, Austria, and Korea are all Of US$80,000,000 reduction, US-so intimately related that they are $00,000,000 was taken from the all part and parcel of a whole amopal Intended for France and programme, whether it is adminis- US$22,000,000 from the amount intered by the Army or State Depart- tended for Italy.

ment, as the ultimate `Impleinenta-

posed routes on Honshu would serve President Truman't press secretary

No plans had been made for talks Niigata and Kanasawa.-Associated said that the President has been in between the British Foreign Secre- Press

contact by cable with Mr Marshallery, Mr Ernest Bevla, the Secretary of State, Mr George Marshall and M. Bidault before the departure of the two visitors expected within the next 48 hours, it was stated.

Despite these official declarations. usually well-informed quarters in London believed that the three Ministers may meet tomorrow to make immediate decisions on the future of Western Germany, writes Reuter's Diplomatic Correspondent. MERCER POSSIBLE Asked whether France will join the other two western zones, M. Bidault snid today that a merger was possible but not inevitable or Imperative.

F

a

world bloated from in- flated

currencies. Saviet Russia's devaluation, of the rouble is of profound olgullicance and carries with it'something of a challenge. A variety of con- structions can be placed on this reform, the majority of which would, in part, represent

the capse and the anticipated effecis of the measure. Unquestionably Russia

burdened 144 seriously with inflation, and this dramatle devaluation is intended to Rame way towards relieving the situation. It is also fairly plain that the Soviet authorliles have become concerned over extensive black market operations (known

·

›

Thirdly

no

dence. Only those holding more than 3,000 roubles deposit can escape a conversion of old Currency to new without sub- stantial losses. The bigger the

bank balance, the worse the ex- change, amounting In some cases to 10 old roubles to one new- sufficient to malte a man who was comfortably off into a compara-

pauper. As

compensation,

Live

mercial" rates, and a promise that

a wide range of consumer goods

will be de-ralloned: To

the

པ་་

large

workers who have small op portunity

amassing savings this is naturally greeted as the "commercial price") and

magnificent

manoeuvre, and are seeking to

eliminate these

given certain conditions li could activRles.

become widely beneficlat. the reform

The appears to be aimed at stabilising >key condition is that the Soviet prices at such a lovel that the government is able to maintain workera can hope for lower living cosis. Whether the decreen will succeed in their designs in a this question unanswerable at Ques stage. The fact that the Kremlin can impose them without ́giving to thought

International

It

financial reactions is indicative of the unique position in which Rus-

પ sla has placed herself Is, for example, unthinkable of Britain devaluing the pound sterling with- out parallel or compensatory action being taken by other nations who

pariners

International

are

finance. As one commentator has observed, the Soviet Union-has metually repudiated. its own cur- renoy, and in such an arbitrary manner as to be without prece-

its grip over prices and com- modtiles. The range of daily necessities which comes under the revised price list is admitted- ly impressive and if effectively controlled could and should

ed."

Zones.

The

Ilated four other tisht Zone. guarantees which France hoped for

"NOT SATISFIED"

Ruhr.

only

FUTURE OF KOREA

(Continued on Page 4)

the

clear.

Millionaire Backing Air Expedition To W. China

for the

uncharted

Chicago, Dec.. 16. Milton, would search Reynolds, millionaire aviation mountain range reported by war- | Ilme "hump" pilots and would also enthusiast, announced plans to attempt to discover: He said he would define the ob- day for an air, expedition into

as "savings of democratie

The largest portion of the Mili-tion of what we conceive to be the the Kremlin offers new stabilised

tary Government request was in-foreign polley of the United States." "There may be a merger which is prices for commodities, some set at 400 percent

profitable for France and one which tended for food in the British Zone below ruling "com-

Under of Germany,

the bizonal is not. I will choose the profitable OFC."

he declared.

agreement,

United States and The

Britain wore to bear equal coste of the three

Firstly, whether the Yellow River treaty, between wertern powers for the disarmament feeding the population in the two jectives of Germany had not yet been dis-

But because of the status processes and nations whose ideo-western China to search for an gorge is the greatest in the world;

Secondly, the source of the Yellow unmapped mountain range and cussed, he said, but such a longterm asked for funds to take over the

of the British finances, the Army logies are similar to our own"

River: Gen Draper fold the Committee to seek solutions to other scien guarantee

Thirdly, the geological origin of tee was of major importance greater share of feeds in the Bri- the situation in Korea was "now in tific mysteries. 10 France.

the unmapped mountain range; the hands of the United Nations." Reynolds, who M: Bidault

sponsored two Fourthly, whether the region was "It was hoped that elections could

round-the-world covered by ice during the lee age; record-breaking the economic dainchment of the The Committee allowed

he said. "If the Koreans flights, sold the expedition would be held."

Fifthly, the altitudes of the Saar, a federal regime for Germany, US$100,000,000 out of US$237,000,000 themselves want an independent be conducted jointly by his com- peaks in the unexplored menular Muscum of are believed to reach 14,000 to 25,000 a special regime for the Rhineland, requested for that purpose, saying itore, American policy is to dove-pany and the Boston

It would consist of 10 feet. and the international control of the was "not satisfied from the facts lop that so that we can withdraw Selence.

there is a proper sans that

technicians our occupation troops. The Rus-scientists- and 10 developed

and Reynolds

Bald have refused to admit

the expedition that would leave Chicago before Janu Authoritative London quarters 10-basis for the appropriation of possibility. That has been party night will be

would also attempt to photograph night made it clear that the collapse requested for taking over the cost on in the United Nations despite 1.

the mysterious Lako Kolonor from made in the air. the conference will in no way of feeding in the British Zone of the Rusalon vote. Whether or not specifically constructed four-engined

upon

Besides Washburn, Reynolds and affect the impending trade agreement occupation to the extent requested." between Britain and Russia, Reuter's.

the they will permit the United Nations C-87 capable of cruising at 35,000 Odom, invitations to participate in Committee contended Tho

that

to go into Northern Korea 1 do not feat. William P. Odom, who piloted the expedition have been sent to Political Correspondent wrote. cornerstone of economie recovery in

This is regarded as purely n Europe was

know. We stable monetary n commercial agreement not affected system."

pilot on the expedition,

sachusetts Institute of Technology's by pollilent Issues, it was stated.

European

governments made efforts

Gen Draper

Final arrangements for the ex-

department of neronautics; Prof The collapse of the conference toward stabilising their

money people were Industrious and willing pedition were completed on Monday Richard F.

Goldthwalt, will probably be discussed by the systems, it would be impossible to

to do all possible toward recovery. | by Reynolda and - Terris Moore, geology department of Ohio State British Cabinet at its next meeting achlove economic recovery.

Ho sald, "It is evident that an ex- President of the Boston Museum, University; and Mr Grant Ross on Thursday. The Foreign Secro- It added, "No assistance of lasting ceptionally fine job has been done in and Bradford Washburn, world-technician from the Boston Unifer- tary. Mr Ernest Bevin, was ex-beneft can be rendered and no per public relations and in leadership on famed explorer and director of the sity optical research laboratory. pected to make a statement on the manent improvement in the econo- the part-of the occupation authorl-

The expedition will be based at subject in the House of Commons hic condition of the peoples involved ties in maintaining the confidence, Washburn and his wife recently Chengtu, China, and is expected to before Parliament adjourns for can be expected until the currency co-operation and assistance of the climbed Mount McKinley in Alaska. cover approximately 50,000 intles Christmas recess.-Reuter..

situation has been forthrightly met." Japanese."-United Press.

Reynolds sald the expedition United Press.

afford

· cost of ilvlnż, without 'reducing the standard. Devaluation of currenty

is no novelty, but ap- plied by a nation free of inter- national monetary strings, it in an experiment in finance and cconomics which will be watched with lively Interest by the outside world. At this stage i would be just as premature to condemn' It as a certain, falluro, as it would be to express the conviction that It must succeed.

substanifally lowered

of

"I bald that unless the Southern would welcome them in the planes on the global flights, will } Prof, Walter McKay, of the Max-

per sald the Japanese'

musuent.

the

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