1949-09-06 — Page 1

TITO DOES NOT WISH TO JOIN THE WEST

London, Sept. 5.-Murshad Tito of Yugoslavia forences no danger of warlike com. plications despite the serious situation between his coun- try and the Soviet Union, Mr Konni Zilliacus, British Independent Labour Member of Parliament, declared here today after a week-end - terview with the Yugoslav leader in Belgrade.

Mr Zilliacus returned Inal night from a fortnight's visit to Yugoslavin during which he inct most of the national leaderk, ↑ He was recently expelled from! the Labour Party for non- adherence to its foreign policy

Zilliacus, gald Marsbul

Tilo told him that Yugoslavia remained a Communist regime. building a Socialist slate, and that the

hod no Intention of

jolning the capitalist camp.

From his visit and talks with

READJUSTMENT

the

But he added that the split between the Yugoslav state und the Eastern European camp was not complete.

There might be a readjust ment within the framework of the United Nations if and when, but only if and when, the bridge

between the Great Powers was closed to the point that the United Nations became a work ing reality instead of the world being divided into two comps.

armed

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Today's weatheri Light variable winds, Fair.

- Noon Observations: Barometric pressure, 1005.3 mm. 29.09 in. Temperature, 860 deg. F. Dew point, 78 deg. F Relative humidity, 82 %. Wind direction, WBW. Wind force, 4. knata.

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VOL. IV NO. 210

EDITHI MOLLER "FOUND"

99.

The 14-day-old mystery regarding the whereabouts of the 800-ton British Freighter Edkli Møller, In- tercepted by the Chinese Nationalist Navy whilst trying to enter Shanghai on Aurust 23, has now been cleared up.

The ship, according to Information received by the charterers, is being held by the Nationallats at Tingkat, in the Chusan Islands, off Ningpo.

The Edith Moller's cap- tain. "Paddy" Hall, and his crew are

Well

treated

con-

whilst awaiting the pletion of regollallons be- tween the British #n Chinese Governments for the vessel's release,

STORM 300 MILES FROM HONGKONG

Hon that it is intensifying.

for have been in, the region of The highest winds reported so 30 knots.

*

"At the moment the storm is "There is no prospect and no weak and harmless," the official Inclination on the part of the nnid, "but we are keeping Yugoslave to join the Western | close eye on ships' reports as

ho caid,

you can never tell what these at is not what Urey are forms are going to du next."

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1949.

BILL ODOM KILLED IN U.S. AIR DERBY Aircraft Explodes On Hitting House

Cleveland, Sept. 5.-Bill Odom, flamboyant round-the- world flyer and holder of the world record for distance flight, was killed today when his powerful fighter plane crashed and burned in the Thompson Trophy race.

aviatrix A

The 20-year-old flyer's was sponsored by Jacqueline

noted Cochran, plane smacked into the resi-j

cosmetics manufacturer. dential section four and aj half miles southwest of the Cleveland municipal airport, where a crowd of 75,000 was

The 225-mile, US$40,000 race was won by Cook Cleland of Cleveland, whose time was be low his now previous record.

present for the annual na-the

After the qualifying lights in

miles on hour.

n

να

LEADING

BROKER

4

DIES SUDDENLY

Yugoslav lenders, Air Zillacus The storm reported cast

Thompson ruce formed the impression that the of Pratas, in the China Seational air races. Yugcalay-Soviet split "on

Saturday, Odom said he would plane caught fire, and rather "fly around the world nny level of Communist parties is north of Luzon, is still

almost 300 miles from race oficinis suld there was time than pilot one of the complete and of Indefinite duru- tion, unless there is some major Hongkong, and the Colony is "no chance" that he could have speed planes around the closed change on one side or the other." unlikely to be affected by it, got out of his burning plane, course. However, he added that In which he had quailfled for he would see how he inade out according to an official of the Thompson гасе with an in speed dying.

Mr Felix Maurice Ellis, a the Royal Observatory this average speed of more than 400 Pollec at Berea,

a suburb. lending Hongkong stock morning.

said Odom's plane crashed into Odom had Become of a house gf two people living broker and prominent Jew- were taken to Ish resident, died suddenly as a weak tropical depression, is ing feats in speed and distance Bereu Hospital. The storm, officially described aviation's heroes with his dar in the house

at his office this morning slowly towards the flying. In 1047 he piloted Mil-

five minutes after arriving moving

WOMAN KILLED Colony, but there is no indica-ton Reynolds "Bombshell,"

there from the Hongkong stripped down attack bomber,

the Police said

plane ex- Club, where he lived. ascund the world in 73 hours. break by 18 hours the previous e ave minutes, 11 seconds to ploded when I hit the house

"huge mushroom-- of Aged 54, the late Mr Ellis been a member of the record set in 1939 by multi-moke and fame" went up from had

the dwelling. Firemen, who Hongkong Stock Exchange since nullionaire Howard Hughes.

poured tons of water into the 1023, Before the war, he AGAINST THE BEST flames, said they believed ind- Į partnered Mr A. J. Edgar in the firm of Ellis and Edgar, but Odom flew a light Brecherafting Odom's body would be ex-

tremely difficult.

since the end of the war had plane from Hawall to Teeleverd, New Jersey, non-stop, to set an was killed and two other persons his own account.

A woman in the house also been carrying on business on

international distance record injured. for solo flight in any type of

A member of the old Hongkong plant.

The plane bulleted almost Volunteer Defence Corps, the In today's Thompson World's Largest

the house, late Mr Ellis was held prisoner race, completely through Odom was competing against owned by Mr and Mrs Bradley by the Japanese in Shemshulpo Cable Ship

the best speed plots In the Laird. Both Odom and Mrs Camp III the war's end. He United States, He has

com- Laird were believed to have been was ill for over a year in camp, London, Sept. 6. The world's pleted only a few lups of the killed Instantly as the nose of and after release spent many Jurgert

and was in third ship, Britain's | rnec

place!

the rear of the months plane struck WESTERN LOANS

the recuperating in 8.050-ton Monarch, has been when he cracked up as he house and did not stop untu It United States. Belgrade, Sept. 6. Reliable chartered by Italy for cable rounded a pylon out of sight of emerged from the front. reports indicated today that laying and repairs off Gibraltar the spectators.

He The plane exploded a second

Is survived by three the United Sales and Britain and in the South Atlante,

in the house brothers-Arthur,

France, Odom was flying a US$100,000, after it hit, selling would buttress Yugo- was announced tonight-iku-radically-modified F-51 Mustang on fire and blowing out two Fred, in Los Angeles, and Al (Continued on Page 5)

walls. Firemen ter"

worked lighter in the race, in which ho

for bert, In Hongkong-and more than an hour to find the sisters, Grace and Sophie, both body of Mrs Laird.

of whom are living in Francisco, He is the uncle of the flim actress, Jenn Loring.

The funeral will take place at the Jewish Cemetery, Happy Valley, at 5.30 p.m. tomorrow

mark of respect, the Hongkong Stock

Exchange of the Hongkong Club was also flown at half mast.

striving to do. They remain

inchanged in

their conviction

that capitalism is dangerous

potentially

and

Thing

and that as Commulld

ing a Socialist community they

belong in the camp of

Socialist states."-Reute.

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EDITORIAL

the

cable

A Question Of Criticism

NE of the things the historian of the According to

Oore to decide is whether,

or was

during the summer of 1919 just preceding the Washington dollar talks, American public opinion was

not highly. critical of the way Britain was handling its economic crisis. He will find that n very strange conflict was going on between international Journalists. On the one hand, British Journalists, stationed at home or representing their papers on the other side of the Atlantic, were vividly informing their British readers that Americans considered Britain

on the brink of ruin, and put particular blame on the Labour Government. On the other hand, American Journalists and broad.

casters were saying that Americans had nothing but sympathy, if not admiration, for all Britain was doing to pull itself out of the mess. The highbrow Economist was among the former. It visualised Britain. "In the pillory," and learnedly refuted the (alleged) American state- ments that Socialism was the beginning and end of all that alled Britain. Nothing that was happening to Britain, it said portentously, would not have happened under any

other form of government. Then came the reply from veteran British reporter and broadcaster, Alistair Cooke, 'In New York. He said the alleged "rising #ide of criticism" In America was scarcely #ripple, and. Britain's problems were probably understood just no well by the American public as they were by the British. If the Americans were. critical at all, they were critical of the British Labour Government for hurrying its welfare state into being before it could really afford to. And then, tripping lightly into this controversy, like a lend- lease Sherman tank, another British correspondent. enbied from ・ New York:

That resounding crash you hear i British prestige hitting rockbottom."

the

One of the Laird children- Crolg, aged 13-was burned critically. The child's

grand- father. B. J. Hoffman, suffered second degree burns.

'It

ex

FIRST EXPERIENCE

Wis Odom's perience In dying a closed course race, although he had piloted every type of craft from Cubs to four-engined glants.

Steve Devillo, who finished third in the Thompson race, was closest to Odom when he got into trouble.

Beville said: "Bill was out tool far on the third pylon und was trying to correct his position

saw

Press.

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King Abdullah On Salisbury Plain

A "battle" was staged on Salisbury Plain by the School of Infantry for the visit of King Abdullah of Jordan recently. The Middle East monarch is seen here consulting his programme, while Major-General Glubb Pasha, famous commander of Abdullah's Arab Legion (in bowler hat), is talking to Lieut-Gen, O. L. Roberts, GOC-in-C, Southern Command. (Photo: British Army News Unit);

TUC CONGRESS OPENS:

Labour Looks Ahead To General Election

Bridlington, Yorkshire, Sept. 5. — The chcers of nearly 900 dele- Kates, representing 9,000,000 British trade unionists, tonight gave momentum to a great "Close the Ranks" movement of the annual Trades Union Congress, which opened here today.

Testing Rhine

Leaders of the three In the General Election, he wings of the Left-the TUC, sald, a Labour defeat would the Labour Party and the mean a reversal of the polity of progressive socialisation, full Co-operative Movement employment and social welfare. keyed their

"What lies before us is es Congress speeches to the forthcoming

sentially a continuation of the General Election, in which

effect we have been called upon to make to maintain our free-

the Government will be dom and our democratic way of life. Buch heavier, tasks yet await us," he added.

Defences fighting to retain office.

Sir William Lawther, Presi

COMMUNISTS HIT

the

Fuerth, Sept. 5. Some dent of the TUC set the tone of dress a quiet and serious con- The Congress gave this ad- 110,000 soldiers, sailors and today's proceedings when, ad-sideration, only expressing it airmen were strung out dressing the delegates, ho

re-feelings when a small group of closed at noon today, The floralong Western Germany's plied in forceful language to delegates booed part of Sir

critics-bath Conservative green valleys and rolling Communist-of the Labour Go- Arst

and William's attack on the Com- hills today, waiting for zero vernment and of Britain's in-

munists. hour in the first joint field dustrial acheivement,

Other delegates drowned the "Slanders and lies about our boos in a chorus of cheers. manoeuvres under America's

country are having serious con- unified Services command.

For several hours, the Con- "Exercise Harvest,"

sequences," he said. "They are gress celtled down to reviewing which sowing the seeds of suspicion the activities of the leadership puts its emphasis on an attack and il-will against us in other during the year, but this after- from the East, will come as parts of the world, particularly noon the close to actual warfare as pos-in the United States."

"Close the Ranke" sible.

movement wan resumed and Directors of the operation are

Criticism of British workers

consolidated with speeches by too quickly. He turned over in

waiting to soo

fraternal delegates from how the joint was contradicted by the facts, he the air and flow along on his

command will work in the field, þasserted.

the Co- "We should not have Labour Party and back for a short distance, then

A high officer today described achieved-as we have achieved operative Union. dived right into the house." Milan, Sept. 5.-Commun- the exercise as the first stop a total Industrial production

C. W. Turnty,

TRAGIC WEAKENING who was on ist workers and riot police, abroad towards the adoption of of more than 25 percent above the ground and saw Odom's

a Aral form of joint-command. prewar if British workers were Mr James Griffiths, Chairman

SEA FORCE plane hit the house, said: "The supported by armoured cars,

lying down on the job." whole house

of the Labour Party and Minis- soemed to catch fought a pitched battle to-

The Navy has a miniature fro at once.”

day in Milan's industrial sea force on the Rhine, which

ter of National Insurance, Second in the Thompson race district of Sesto San Giovan-will patrol and transport men

recalled that it was Just 50 Rone Puckett, who also ni, "little Stalingrad." First and tanks. The Air Force will Sir William then struck out at years since a Congress of Trade Odom

to Lakto the. Unionists decided uso jet planes from Fuersten- the Communists, Their activi» crash. United unconfirmed reports said ono feldbruck.

ties in the recent stoppage in

Initiative 111 Establishing Д policeman and two workers

The exercise crophasises the the Port of London were dis. Political Labour Party, were killed..

defence of the Rhine, which graceful and discreditable."

We have witnesses in recent Army officers say is the logical

years He warned the nation's trade

a tragic weakening of Both the police and workers point of defence in any attack unionists not to become involved Social

Parties in Democratic used machine guns and other by an Eastern power.

in strikes acustic

en-many lands and sometimes that automatic weapons in the riot. Although $10,000 men of the

gineered by

aglia weakening began by movements The baltic followed a distur:U.S. armed forces will be in the

tors." Recently tho

strike ngainst the Social Democratle bance carlier in the day in field, about 05,000 will be weapo hdd, been abused, Sir Parties and their Industrial or downtown www

Millan, Some 200 directly engaged in the opera- William said.

ganisations," he said. Sydney,

of Sept. 5.-Radio employees

"In With the field troops will be undur, trade union polley would like to

ere those in Britain amateurs in the United States mechanical works, once one of

rupturo to sea a and Australia co-operated to the greatest armo works in

say that unofficial strikes her Grind."""cold send Aureomycin, a new drug, Europe, demonstrated in fronting 30 officers and 700 men.must be outlawed," he declared.

that the by ale from the United Stales of the Breda offices against lay~ | Associated Press. for a young woman seriously offs at the plant.

Sir William developed this Labour Party was planning ani ill in Sydney.

point in an important declara- extension of democracy to the. riot poller HEAT WAVE INtion of his personal estimate of industrial field and the Tinda The woman's father, who la wearing helmets, charged and

the

of a radio amateur, sald that on broke up

...futuro rola.. trade Union Movement would there- the demonstration. August 31 he

unionism in Britain. ENGLAND

by acquire was asking a

new opportunities To keep other demonstrators

The movement was New York, amatour about the from entering the heart of the

at the and new responsibilities. drug when another amateur at efly, the police threw up road-sweltered in a heat wave today go on in the old way, "treating London, Sept. 6. Britons parting of the ways. It would

CUMULATIVE ATTACKS Kalamazoo, Michigan, said he blocks across main streets. worked for a pharmaceuticnt Shortly after the street blocks one of the hottest September dustry on the manifestation of an which he thought would follow after sleeping fitfully through every difficulty that arises in In- He described the results firm which handled the drug.

The next day the drug was tried to crash through, night for many years. At 10 irreconcilable confilet of interesta Labour electoral defeat, "Wo

a.m. tho, highest-ever tempera-Į between its way to Sydney and it police fired several volleys over

employer and em-have seen cumulative attacks on" was given this morning to the their heads in an effort to halt recorded in London-81 degrees new duty of guiding the advance and the wolfare state.

ture for that time of day was ployee." or it could assume the the polley of full employment pallent who was suffering from the charge.

There Fahrenheit. virus pneumonia,

towards Industrial democracy are those who prescribe an un- The workers opened up

Surprised 'onlookers cheered "the developments that are now known dose of unemployment Tonight her temperature had two machine-guns, wounding when a young girl began to taking place by which capitalisos a remedy. If unemployment dropped from 104.0 degrees two policemen and two Cara-swim in one of the fountains in tie profiteering enterprises are was a remedy, the Britain of Fahrenheit to 102 degrees,--" binieri. One of the policemen Trafalgar Square this after being transformed into pubile the thirties should have been a Houter.

later died—-United Press.

noon-Reuter.

services."

(Continued on Page 5)

klm, "dreadful, hand- rubbing, smug renetionurles" were sitting in their "treasure house of dollars" chanting: "We told you so-Socialism won't work." He continued: "These people want to see Britain wrecked and ruined. The more acute the crisis, the more delighted they are.” Now, we are aware that types such as these do exist in America, and they probably would not shed many tears If Labour` Britain lay "wrecked and ruined." But why pick on American reactionaries? There are many in Britain who express exactly the same sentiment. Rather would we accept the saber view that no American criticises Britain for the enjoyment it gives him, and what criticism does exist is the same wholesome, middle-of-the-road critlelan Britons make.

WES But, as The Economist points out, no amount of criticism— whether it comes from America, whence it is expected, or Europe, whence It in resented-will help to solve the gigantic problems that face Britain. The average Englishman enn forgive the Americans after all, they have given or lent dollars to Britain. What he finds hard to forgive is the constant nagging of European states, who say Britain is retarding "their" progress. At times of stress, ho is apt to remind his Continental neigh- hours that during the war Britain spent all its foreign assets for the comman cause, while they, although admittedly suffering privation at the hands of occupying armies, were nevertheless able to preserve their wealth more or less Intact. Nono of this, of course, will help to solve the problem-that is up to the financial wizards forgathering Washington-but it might at least clear the air a bit so that the people who are involved in it can understand each other

In

a Bitle better. It might also help the poor historian!

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