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U.S. Visitors To Palestine Have Narrow Escape

Tel-Aviv, Sept. 5.-American Congressman,

Mr L. Somers, and Yale Professor Fowler Harper disclosed today that they narrowly escaped death yesterday when they were subjected to mortar shell- ing by the Egyptians during a tour of the front lines in southern Palestine.

Mr Somers told a Press conference that. a heavy mortar shell landed near their jeep while it was parked on the Negev road facing the Egyptian lines. None was injured. The party was accompanied by Mr Lloyd Ackerblom, of Philadelphia, United Nations observer.

Royalty Assembles In Amsterdam

Amsterdam, Sept. G.-Princess Margaret landed at the Schip: hol airport at 5 p.m. today and rode in a car through cheering| thousands

Amstel Hotel to

where she will live during her

Mr Somers presileted an "economic collapse of Israel in three or four weeks due to the unfair truce unless the $100,000,000 Import and Export Bank loan was granted or the truce j broken,"

The Democratic representative from the 10th New York District, castigated the State Department for banning

migration of Jews of iliary age from Germany to Isrart dia: "The State Department ja under the influence of the British Home Office which is trying to rob farnet of its victories,"

DRAINING TREASURY

The Congressman said that he and

visit as special representative of professor Harper were paying their the British throne at the inves-own way on the trip which was not titure of Queen Jualiana.

and

At the airport, she was greeted by the British Ambassador Hutch officials.

Grothored by any group, although both are members of the American He

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LONG-LIMBED BEAUTYU.S. MARITIME

League for a free Palestine. INFLATION

arkfeet: "It is imposible for you to exist as long as you are handicapped She und her sulle have the first floor

on the northern wing of the by this ant-Jewish truce which is

And

proventin swank Amstel Hotel, but her owndraming the treasury

of Israel the late King peaceful development room is one where Alfonso of Spain stayed in pre-war in an effort to force Israel to accept the unfair settlement of the Palestine problem dictated by the British. the came

visits.

With

her

C

of

Asked if he knew the terms of the settlement. Mr.

Duke Beaufort, Countess Halifax, and Wing Commander Peter Townsend. Also

Somers the ite

Ear and proposed Countess Athlone, who as Governnt said that he did not, but he was con- were Qurenced that “it will be unfair to the Canada, General of

Jews."* Juliana's hosts in Ottawa during the

war years.

Are

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CORDONED OFF

The Dutch police cardoned off the airport and the hotel's entrance, but there were no detectives conspicuous in her suite.

Princess Margaret wore an apricot edfoured coat and hat with beige shoes, gloves and bag.

Floodlit Amstel Hotel

filling with Royalty for

ready

The

DEFEATS

PROHIBITION

New Delhi, India, Sept. 5.- The promise that Prime Minis ter Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and his closest associates mude to Mohandas K. Gandhi may not he kept.

Mr Somern and Professor Harper will leave for Paris tomorrow 'and are due in New York next weekend.he asked Nehru

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UKRAINE'S

GRAIN and notables

tomorrow's ceremony.

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for

other wing on the first floor is re- rerved

CROP

Moscow, Sept. 5.-Nikita Khrush-

Chret Tony Wine Cloud, five feel, three inches tall, boards a chair in order to crown Marie Van Laeren "Güven of Height, 1948." Winner in Chicago's Tall Clubs National Contest is six feet, one-and-one-half Inches tall.

JAPAN TO

BE RE-ARMED?

statement

STRIKE

President Truman Is Powerless To Act

Washington, Sept. 5.-The West Coast maritime strike is a major milestone in the unfolding history. of United States labour law. It is a test of the Gov- ernment's power under the Taft-Hartley Act.

This is the first case in which a strike has taken place after the exhaustion of the "national emergency" procedures of the Act.

on

80-day "cooling off period". expired

anti- Thursday. An strikte injunction was dismissed, and the strike began.

President Harry Truman told his how conference he was powerless to do anything further to stop the strike except through negotiations,

Actually there is one more step in be taken under the national emer- Ionicy provision of the law, Tho President is supposed to send a re-

nort to Congreas recommending

"appropriate action."

ut this step means little in the present esse because Congress is no in session and isn't scheduled to bo

Knit January,

UNFAIR PRACTICE

inbour

American

Vice-Consul

Recalled

Sofia, Bulgaria, Sept. 5.-

official announcement An published in Sofia newspapers today said that Mr. Donald F. Ewing, American Vice-Consul in Sofia, waa recalled from his post after the Bulgarian authorities found him engaged in espionage.

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Advertisers are requested to note Under a different section of the Jaw, however, Mr Robert N.

that not loss than 24 hours 'noties Denham, General Counsel of the

prior to the day of publication should National Labour Relations Board,

be given for all commerofal dieplay en formally charge a union or un

advertisments, change of copy etc. employer with an unfair

The announcement said that Mr Notices and classified advertisement practice. He then can seek a tem-wing was trapped on a Sofla street will be received up to 10 a.m. and

block the injunction to burary

while getting important espionage urgent notions until noon on day of alleged unfair practice pending

information from two Bulgarians." Issue. Galurdays not later than decision by the five man NLRB.

0830. Mr Denham has accused the C10 It sald the United States Minister, Donald Reid Heath, was advised of Longshoremen's Union of unfair Ewing's activities and had him re-

labour practice in seeking to con- called, tinue its hiring halls. The hiring Union hails are places where the

Sodu newspapers carried the an- sians up job. applicants and furnish nouncement under the headline: them in rotation to the employers "American

Caught as needed.

these hiring Mr Denham says halls violate the Tatt-Hartley Act because they favour members of the Union. Similar hiring halls on the great lakes have already been ruled the illegal by the NLRB. Since hiring halls comprise one of the issues in the West Coast dispute, Mr Denham presumably could, if he chose, ask for an injunction hult the walkout.

to

USC

its

to

Before Gandhi was assassinated to introduce the prohibition of all alcoholle drinks throughout the antion as soon possible. Gandhi hoped that pea- sants and workers would buy rice

Whether the Denham office will and curry for their families instend

Tokyo. Sept. 5-Speculation

Is authority of drinks for themselves. The cam-

that Japan would be permitted choose

the dispute another question. If paign begun orally.

international ars during last year were to re-arm if the

were over wages only. Mr Dentam Some bars ordered to shut down by the Nation-situation continued to worsen would have no authority to seek an alist Government. It looked much has increased in Tokyo 18 a injunction-Associated Press.

ΟΙ e the watered down version the Swedish Crown Prince Gustav Adolf and Princes

that tho chev, a Communist leader in the the American prohibition. Soaring result of General MacArthur's

the recent made Louise, the second floor will be ac- Ukraine, reported in a telegram to

prices, however, have

reflect on Its non-country had become "an asset cupled by Prince Olav and Princess Marshal Josef Stalin, headlined in government Martha of Norway, and

alvojolle the third all Soviet papers today.

polley. that the floor will be occupied by Pringe Axel | Uzmine has fulfilled is plan for

The nation normally gets $1,000,- upon which the free world may and Princess Margaretha of Den-

000 annually in liquor taxes. It confidently count." deliveries to the state one complete prohibition is imposed this

General Mac- mark.

ninath and seven days earlier than money would be spent.

on other Commenting on

The stoppage by New Jersey The rooms above Princess Mar-st year.

Arthur's statement, the newspaper commodities, thus increasing demand

Chika Nippon said today that al-drivers, coupled with the ave-day- Haret's apartments are occupied, by

and forcing prices up.

expected truckers, is of Luxembourg, The Ukraine, often described as the Grand Duke

Last week, economic experts and though Japan's existence might be old strike of almost 10,000 New York "bread 27-year-old Prince Jean who arrived the.

boskel of the Soviet

business leaders told Mr Nehru that considered as a stronghold for the seriously foud and other shipments today-United Press.

Union," had given the state so far

the nation could not afford the peace of the Orient, it was a mat- in the metropolitan area.

Since tomorrow (Monday) is a this year 7,000,000 bushels more

luxury of prohibition. The drinking ter of course that mobilisation of bread grain than in last year's en- population believes that some bars its military potentiality should be hoilday, the full extent of the State walkout will not be felt until Tues- tire post war record crop.

may be opened soon. They feel sure limited to emergency cases.

day. "that" no "more" bars-will-be-ordered to close at least not until the in- flation scare ends.-United Press.

SITUATION

OBSCURE

Bangoon, Sept. 5-Obscurlty

situation still overshadows the in Terasseria where Karen In- Burma Union surgents alded by military police last week overran

and

the two districts

occupied towns of Moulmeln and Thaten

Government Both the

and the Karen National Union (KNU) bead- quarters in Rangoon are awaiting

Krain

The press said this

the year Ukraine Republic had raised pro- duction of the most valuable grains— wheat and rye and delivered to the Government 150.000.000 bushels 25,000,000 more wheat and early bushels more rye than last year.

The Ukraine would deliver almost another 20,000,000 bushels of bread grains over the above target figure.

Associated Press

the return from Moulmein of KNU No Lives Lost In President Saw Ha U Gyi who flew

there on Saturday for negotiations.

Flying Boat Crash

an

Singapore, Sept. 5-All sengers and the crew of seven es- caped uninjured today when

of Qantas Australian flying boat Airlines prashed and sank on taking acute oft at Sourabaya, Java,

KNU headquarters expect him in return on Monday with u report. Meanwhile, scores. of Burmese are ovacuating the rice growing delta Burma for nrcas of southern Hangoon.

This influx to Rangoon worsening

already shortage of accommodation and roising tocat market prices.

ON OTHER FRONTS

Why

On other Burmese fronts, Satur- day's official communique said the altuation in Mandalay district

to nurmal but in the returning adjacent Schwebo district, five in- surgents were killed in an encounter with Government troops.

AL

the Further cast at Monywa, on Chindwin flyer, Government forces in a met Red Flag Communists

our battle klling. four-hour

14 and Capturing 10.

Palcl

further north Communist rebels. have imposed taxation upon villages, the communique said. It two-hour, fight took place added when insurgents attacked a police station in the Magwe district south of Mandatoy.

Threo rebels were killed, the rest retreating and carrying away thele wounded. Associated Press.

Moscow. Students

Protest

London, Sept. 5. Students of Moscow University have seht a Jetter

Oklahoma to. students of

United Slates Universlly in the protesting against the alleged bar- ring of a negro girl from the law. school of the University, Radio Moscow said today,

In-

A Tass dispatch beard by the Soviet monitor in London reported the Moscow students wrote: "Wo cannot concaiva- of national equality or oppression in our coun try" which is "one friendly family." -United Press,

Bevin To Attend

Paris Parleys.

London, Sept. 5.-The Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin, will lead the British delegation to the United Nations General Assembly in on September 21, Paris, opening

The newspaper suggested that the potentiality country's military should be relied upon when only as a last resort.

The paper Shin Yura said that although the situation in Japan won settled temporarily it could well be foreseen that political trouble would as soon "as the Occupation Forces withdraw.

occur

MENACE OF COMMUNISM

TRUCKERS TO STRIKE New York, Sept. 5. The largest truck drivers' union in New Jersey at midnight against 'all employers voted unanimously today to strike who have not signed contracts on the Union's terms by that hour,

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expelled from Bulgaria in July "for PRISONER OF WAR Camp Life dispatchies United Press.

Some 3,500 of the 4,700 members"

International of Local 478 of the Brotherhood of Teamsters will join walkout at Newark, New Jersey. The other 1,208 already are covered by contracts.

the

Estimates of the total number of truckers who may be involved in the strike ranged upward to 20,000.

The

478 President of Local warned, as members met to vote for the strike: It might take four, five get this thing six weeks to straightened out. I point this out to you so you will be fully aware of what this thing means."

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One of those killed, Engineer D. G. Reygate, was to have salled for Britain today in the liner Empress of Australia witch called here on her homeward voyage.

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The menace of Communists in a country which has no army to de- hut pressure of work will probably fond itself should be keenly felt. compel him

to hand over to Mr helor McNeil, Minister of State, "Japan finds herself in a position ponder seriously over her 14 pas-fl: the opening stages, the Foreign to

connection future course and her Cike stated today.

The other delegates will be Sir with all of East Asia," the paper

added. the Attorney Hartley Shawerosa,

"The fact that Japan' must exist General, Mr W. G. Hall, the Finan cial Secretary to the Treasury, and without

the GRAIN FOR EXPORT carlier today after self-defence makes Sir Alexander Cadogan, Britain's problems which confront us more

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OPEN AIR

permanent

EXHIBITION

Large crowds went to Victoria Embankment Gardens, London, to see the opening of the Open Air Painters Exhibition. The Idea for the exhibition, which shows the work of living painters, came following the success of the Sculpture Exhibition in Battersea Park, London. Some of. the crowds looking at the exhibits at the Open Air Paint- Ing Exhibition at Victoria Embankment Gardens, London.

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These are the Brst published com- ments on the possibility of Japanese re-armament since the reports of 18 enths ago that Japan hoped to be granted un army of about 100,000, a small navy

and an air force for local defence.-Reuter.

GOVT. LEADERS

AT VARIANCE

Athens, Sept. The possibility of & Government crisis loomed today party lendors were at odds over the selection of the personnel for a Greck delegation to, the United Nations.

The Right Wing Populist leader, 1. Constantine Tsoldaris was under- stood to be Insisting upon the leadership of the delegation in view of his position d's Foreign Minister.

The Liberal leader, M. Sophocles Venizelos, was pressing for a Liberal party representation while Premier Theinetocles Sofoulis, also a leading Liberal, indicated that he would participate, only, as a delegation chief...

'M. „Venizelos" demanded the LI- berals to withdraw trom the present coalition Government unless they ara represented in the UNO group.

Meanwhile a flurry of 24-hour token strikes

for were scheduled next week in Athens and Piraeus by gas, rubber, textile and paper workers-United Press

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