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BALTIC AIR SEARCH GOES ON

HOPE OF FINDING CREW VIRTUALLY

ABANDONED

Copenhagen. Apr. 14. The United States Air Force has virtually abandoned hope for the ten men missing since last Saturday aboard the Navy Privateer plane, but ordered full-scale search in the Baltic to go on.

Search headquarters announced at mid-after- noon that ten of the B-25 search planes have been ordered to return to their home bases. But the statement was retracted ten minutes later, when it was announced that undiminished "maximum effort" had been ordered.

Airliner Explosion Mystery

London, Apr. 14.-Mys-

It is understood here that the decision to reduce the search was countermanded

the by

"highest United States Air Force quarters," possibly in Washington.

The 7th Rescue Squadron w-lil terp 20 to 25 planes patrolling the Baltic.

The belief is growing that four-engined the unarmexi

tery surrounds an explosion Privateer aircraft crashed and on board a British airliner sank in the Baltic without a over the English Channel trace after being fired upon by Soviet fighters, The Russians last night.

claimed

the plane had flown Soviet Republic of

The liver, with a full comple-over ment of passengers, was on Latvia.

the way to Paris when the ex Moscow raid yesterday that plosion damaged the plane and the steering gear and seriously Injured the stewardess.

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The Spanish Armada Treasure "Struggle In Asia Will Last Generation Or More"

The Duke of Argyll and his son the Marquls of diver when they visited naval Lorne chatting to a vessels used in the operations intended to get the trea- sure aboard the galleon Florencia. First reward of the search, reported today, has been modern style empty beer bottles. (London Express Servico).

Democratic Peoples' Policy

Spy Suspect Shot Dead Through Door

Hamburg. Apr. 14.-A British field security police captain Inst night shot dead through a lock-

ed door 1 Pellsh civilian

Under Review Britain Sets

BRITISH RECOGNITION

OF PEKING TO STAY

London, Apr. 14.-The weekly Econo- suspected of spying for amist, in a special article entitled "Policy for foreign power, a usually reliable | Asia," said today that the forthcoming con- ference of Commonwealth representatives

source told Reuter today.

The man's name was given us Junius Naleworowckl.

nald

215

The police

that they Gerinan, found

D9 well Polish, identity papers on him. A British Army public rela- tlons omcial said earlier that the captain entered a civilian flat to interrogate blm.

Free

at Sydney should include Americans.

"The struggle in Asia will be long. nations are accepting a challenge that will last a generation or more.

Records

London, Apr. 15-Bri- tain's exports last month reached a new record of 183,200,000-five percent the previous highest figure in January.

above

At the same time im- porte

£221,300,000

were the highest over.

Giving these figures to-

day, the British Board of Trado nald that in the first three months of this year Britain Imported £70,109,000 worth ΠΟΤΕ Foods than she sent abroad. -Reuter.

But if their co-operation Teargas

must last over decades it must begin to be effective at once."

In Canadian

American bi-partisan Bush Drama

The civilian was sald to have The Western powers have the Secretary of State, Mr attacked the captain, thrown done little more than to re- Dean Acheson, for making him out and locked the door.

a policy for the When the captain failed to Cognise that

six Asia is necessary. It praised open the door, he fired shots through the door, it was stated.

When the door was unlocked the civilian kliled by the shots. later, the British police found The captain was later arrested. -Reuter.

GREEKS TO Astounding Story

An Air Force spokesmen said TRY

been

AGAIN

Revealed In American Spy Trial

LEOPOLD

PLANS

BROADCAST-

country

foreign policy a major con- cern of the Administration Quesnel, British Columbia, because it would serve to Apr. 14,-A French-Canadian who had boasted he resolve unfortunate division youth,

be taken nover would

alive, between Democrats and Re-was captured in the dense bush publicans.

today hiding behind It said that on this bipartisan the 15-year-old girl to was American policy the closest accused abducting. possible co-operation

must be The capture cilmaxed an in- built between the United Stutes termittent teargas and gun bat and the Commonwealth as the the which had lasted through first essential to the success of the night. Brussels, Apr. 14.-King Acheson

a Western polley In Asia.

Beat Legace, 19, shoved the the missing Privateer was the

hus expressed girl in front of him when 20 Leopoki of the Belgians, interest in plane on which it fighters had

police were led to that the

the Commonwealth provincial fired. but insisted

whone insistence on return-conference which is to meet in their biding place by the bark- American plane fired first.

He shoved ing to his country after Sydney next month to discussing of her pet dog. nli hope han

five years' exile precipitated economie assistance to South-a rifle into her hands and urged vast Asia to which other in- her to shoot. She threatened almost

Athens, Apr. 14.-General 60,000

the month-old Belgian terested powers, such as Helland the offcera and was wounded abandoned of finding the mis-

Some sint crew alive,

Nicholas Plastyras, strong man

Government. crisis, will and France, are apparently to in the knee when the police quare miles of the Titic, from of Greek polities today aftreed

tried to nick Legace, Denmark east to within 20 to try to form a new Govern-

Garmische, Bavaria, Apr. 14.-Gustav Adolf broadcast to the nation to be invited."

Legace and the girl, whose name CHINA RECOGNITION miles of the coast of Latvis, ment

the police would have been covered four times,

This surprise development in

divulge, ran out of their cabin King Paul called him in after Mueller, a 19-year-old American Air Force.cor-morrow. clue as to without turniat hp a

an American Court-

the constitutional deadlock was The Foreign Office said today hideout, 10 miles west of here, The fate of the Privatter. Some 56-year-old Sophocles Venizels, poral, appeared before

the difficulties of before daybreak after the police aLiberal Premier, handed in the Martial here today charged with "attempted announced shortly after M. Paul that despite hern combed

Van Zvelane, Catholle and pro-establishing diplomatic rela had torred teargas bombs into twenty times during resiration of his three-week many as

with the Chinese Cem- the hut. espionage in favour of a foreign power." Cabinet. the exhausting six-day teares, old

flown back to Brussels from munist Government the British said.

The United States Ambas-

During the hearing the "foreign power" was Leopold Premier-dedigate, had tons

no intention of withdraw- Hampered by Intermittent for ador here recently called for a named by the Prosecution and witnesses as the two days talks with the King Ind

ing its recognition of the Pek-three hours until the pet dog the Cleneva. and squalls, the planes

stable government to make the centrated their starch on Friday best ure of American uld. Soviet Union.

M. Van Zeeland was carrying ing regime.

from King GRAVE CONCERN

General nrea east of Burnholm

Plastyras and his

according to island, off the routh-cast tip of disident Liberal Party win 45 Washington, Apr. 14. The Sweden, and pome 250 miles seats in last month's Reneral

There have ( election. of Latvia. State Department sold today that west

M. Venizelos and the of orthodox Liberals got 50 seats, Czechoslovakia was pressing been numerous reports

the area, and formed a one-Party Gov-ago. "deliberately planned propagan- wreckage sighted da attack" against the United but all to far turned out to be ernment.

General Plastyras may draw 11hoxes and other rubbish town States Embassy in Prague.

Reuter. conecm."-United Press.

The pilot returned to Northolt Airport and ade a safe land- ing despite a damaged rudder, It was first reported that the liner had been struck by light-

air expert: bing but examined the plane today are this. Other believed to doubt explanations put forward that the explosion was cared

or lighted match by chemicat in the toilet.

Officials, however, have de- clined to cominent pending a full Investigation Into mystery. Reuter.

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said this situation caused "grave off passing chips. United the four centre parties together.

EDITORIAL

Preta

Profits Out Of All Proportion

THE nanouncement that a Government

THE

Appointed committee is to

consider

of

that.

and advise on practical methods reducing the retall price of lish will give comfort to thousands of consumers if they seriously believe that positive action factors Few of the will he token. dominating the situation' are contestable. Firstly, and astonishingly but for reasons fairly clear to all interested, fish imported from Britain is cheaper in the market than first-class are the daily catches from a fishing zone like the waters bounding Hongkong.

wholesale Secondly, the market figures bear no sound economic relation to the cost to the consumer. In spite of the Government's declared opinion that forty percent gross profit should be more than adequate return for the retailer, the average is close to 100- percent when it does not exceed Remembering how vociferously the lanns fought the oficial scheme originally, and how quietly they settled subsequently to acquiescence, the conclusion to be drawn prescats no difficulty. The operators have neatly adjusted themselves to present-day conditions. The fishing community f satisfied, the middlemen rest in content, and the iden of grievance and complaint occurs only to the consumer. For middle- men, the wholesale market offers no complications; It Is, on the contrary, n distinct set. Auction purchases are confined to a single enclosure, the creation of an effective ring is simplified, and with the ring comes easy understanding that members do not descend to the level of spiritedly outbidding one another. Tho operative principle compares with that of contractors tendering for Government building work. What Is the answer? When the Government, appointing Ita "committee, wishes it to be made clear from

the outset that it is committed to a policy of encouraging fishermen's co-operatives,

unwitting witting of

it points the solution. From the moment it is accepted that the key is to he found in breaking down the disparity between what the fishermen receive and what the consumer has to pay, progress becomes hopeful. Government's insistence that the whole- sale fish market scheme has been of real service to the fishing community is conceded, but

The quite irrelevant. complaint is not that fishermen earn too much but that retail prices are too high. To alter that, the Government's commit. ment to foster fishermen's co-operatives furnishes constructive suggestion, connected with the art of killing two birds with one stone. Co-operatives do not imply the necessity of creating organisa- tions to provide bulk supplies to middlemen. All the way through fls processes seeking to improve the lot of fishermen

market gardeners, Government has stalled mid-way anıl folled in what also should be a primary. objective, stabilising the cost of living as far as possible. Faced with its own admission that price reduction might bo effected, readiness to go the whole hog ahould today be axiomatic. The simplest method of cutting excessive profits to a combination co-operative, embodying both supply and rotall branches. Build the co-operative system with a clear under- standing that its activities will ultimately cover the field from the catching of fish to disposal in the retail market. The only alternative, if results are demanded,

and

would be strict control of all market prices and profit margins, and yet another expensive inspectorate, Self-control has had its opportunity; reform in that department/ would prove a futile pursuit.

The confidential document re

rested Mueller.

near

| Leobotanique

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Germans.

from the

n

Britain recognised the Peking cirelor government on January 6th but The small, neatly dressed

diplomalle relations have not Air ferred to the activities and scope

of the Russia Department of the close to the Belglar: Cabinet.

He had spent eight hours with yet been established. corporal joined the

Informed sources said the Force two and a half years Oberammergau intelligence

King today, their third to 11:0 wit-the A German post office school, according

only contact the British repre- talk In 18 hours.

sentative is able to make with Belgium's Goverment crisis official of Garmische toldnesses.

19 Government month's referens the Chinese they then opered follows lasi

through the Embassy uf The Court that Mueller pust-, They said ed a telegram to the Soviet the door to the adjoining room dum, in which the King had Soviet satellite power,

tion

Members of the Lords and Consulate at Berne early in and the thres entered and ar- majority of votes on the ques-

of his return

which October last year, asking to

beran with the Commons are planning to raise with today

The Defence Counsel charged liberation of Belgium from the the question of Britain's rela- be put into contact

that the two "special"

Chinn whon the tions with

reconvenes next Russian citizens.

hud provoked Mueller agents

Liberals in the Coalition Gov. Parliament spy. Mueller's The post allee offcial said he to

Intention ernment in power at the time of week.-United Press. did not despatch the telegram when filling

telegram the referendum opposed # but notified the American au was to get Into "Ideologieat Catholic proposal to call a joint thorities.

touch with some genuine Com- seaston of the two Houses to An American Counter Intelli-munists."

make the final decision, 25 a

Government The seven-man Court, com- agent said,

The Bence Corps

resigned the CIC Hed-poped of United witness, that

States Air and since then the country has quarters gent Mueller, alias Force Staff Ofleers ranking bad only a caretaker adminis Wattson (the sender's name from Major to Colonel, ad-tration which has been unable

the trial until tiven on Mueller's telegram), ajourned

to find a way out of the dead- lock.---Reuter, dummy reply dateline Berne, morrow-Reuter. announcing the arrwal of two Soviet Russians at Garmt.clic for Uctober 0. The substitutes were CIC agents,

The two witnesses said they Jasked Mueller why he wanted to carry out espionage work for the Soviet Union. They told the Court that Mueller replit: "1

to refure take any moley as I have Leen a convinced Com- muust rice my youth. Miy father fought side by side with Lenin in 1917." Muller, wh word during today's procced-

ings,

in the

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Lie Bid To End The

U.N. Impasse

Lake Success, Apr. 14.-The United Nations Secretary-General, Mr Trygve Lie said today that

who hardly spoke he would probably go to Moscow next month. ngs, had told the Court earlier There is "something of importance" to discuss that he was of Swits origin. with the Kremlin in connection with the deadlock He also sold he had been stea in the world organisation, he said.

DOCUMENTS

The two stated today Mueller on he had any documents.

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to the American Forces' intelligence school at

He made it clear at his Press | "If I have time and deem. It Oberammergau,

here, near

conference that no final deci- necessary, when the alleged incidents Iated by the witnesses had oc-slon has been made for him to Foreign Office in Mocow that I visit the Soviet capital during am in Europe, if they want to curred.

three-week trip to Europe. so me or I want to ces them. But he announced that Kons- In Paris or Genova I will

decide tantin Zinchenko, the Russian whether

to go to Moscow." Assistant Secretary-General in

for Despite his preparations that they asked

of Security Council

in Europe, Mr exhaustive tatka October 8 whether charge

to secret affairs, would accompany him Lie held little hope for

a quick to Europe because, if the trip zelement of the United Nations centred about the Soviet be helpful on that impact to oust the Muller sald he had, and on to Moscow should be arranged,

Chinese their request promited to supply he would

of Mao Nationalists in favour such the next day, the witnesses irip." said.

Comments. Tse-tung's

"As for 09 I can judge," Mr at a hotel here, with three other planned CIC

notes of ministries in London and Paris Lie said, "the Chinese situation agents making

consultations with

unchanged. The deadlock Is can't see any poil- French Minister, M. Robert liere, and

the and evidence, Schuman,

British live way in which the question Ernest can be solved at this time or Muciler handed over several Foreign Secretary, Mr

next ave or six latter's health within the the which was Bavin, it documents,

weeks, I still hope the question secret and one confidential. The permits.

can be solved before the next secret one was said to refer to

"If Genor:Jissimo Stalin is in meeting of the General Assem- Bubotage activities against the

will see bly." That will be in Septem- Soviet occupying power carried Moscow, I probably out by Soviet Zone Germans,

YOU ALL' ber-United Press.

They met again the next day

their conversation from the ad- for Joining rooni.

According to the

one of

The burly Norwegian sald hoj

to visit the foreign

the

Bolivia Govt Resigns

Buenos Aires, Apr. 14.-The Government of Bolivia resigned lodny after handing over to a allitary junta, according to La Pax Radio, heard here,

No confirmation of this report

far has co Reuter.

been received.

noi

The police had failed to find them in the dense bush for

girl had with her barked. Tho police said the two were armed with a .22 rifle and two knives.

The girl was only slightly In-

The jured.

youngsters were puze brought back to Quesnel. Tho

girl was taken to hospital and abduction the boy gaoled on charges. The police sald further charges would be laid against Legace and and possibly against the girl-United Press.

Suicide Of Actor's

Wife

Beacon, NY., Apr. 14. Frances Seymour Fonda, 42, wife of the actor Henry Fonda, WBA found

her dead with throat slashed today in Craig Hause sanatorium here.

Mira Fonda had been a patient at the sanatorium str.co sho suffered a nervous breakdown, but was believed to have been making a good recovery and her discharge from the sana. torium WAB expected soon.

United Press.

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