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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1950.

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Germans look on as workmen erect a new American sign giving the locations of U.S. headquarters and the Military Police. U.S. officials, in an effort to counteract East German and Soviet propaganda în Berlin, have started the use of signs to publicise the Stars and Stripes.

Stalin's Search For U.S. Speeding

Grave:

Son's Big Reward Offered

Oslo, Nov. 30.

A Norwegian claims to have seen a picture of the dead body of Marshal Stalin's eldest son, Yasha Dugashvili Stalin, whose fate has remained a mystery since he was captured by the Germans at Smolensky, the Oslo newspaper, Bagbladet, re- ported today.

A recent report said that Marshal Stalin had offered through the Russian newspaper, Red Star, 'fo pay a reward of one million roubles (about £90,000) to anyone who could find the grave of his son.

According to the Dagbladet, a Mr T. H. Nordahl, of Oslo, stated that Keis, the leader of the Názi Todi organisation in Harstad, Northern Norway, showed him the picture in 1944, saying that ho had taken it in the town of Slonim, in Poland.

Nordahl added. he believed that all the. Germans of the Todt office in Harstad, who also saw the photograph, were now living in Germany. He named some of them as Ernest Key- berg, Erika Reyberg, Marianne Flamm and Dr Kochler.

Yasha Dugashvill was the only child of Marshal Stalin's first marriage to Catherine Svanidze. After he was captured at Smolensky while serving as an artillery captain, the Germans kept

and him as a hostage there were reports that he died in a prisoner-of-war camp in Bavaria in 1944.

But

Correspondence

Up Civil Defence Plan

Washington, Nov. 30. The administration asked to authorise Congress today the creation of a civil agency unlimited powers with almost

to mobilise United States

sources.

re-

The Bill, prepared by the

National Resources Board, was sent to the Capitol on Thursday, it was promptly introduced by Representative Carl Lirsam, Democrat for North Carolina and chairman of the Joint Con- gressional atomic Energy Com- ¡mittee. The measure would speed up civil defence, with an administrator responsible only to the President. He would be

civil defence planning.

Comforts For The responsible for all preliminary

Troops In Korea

for the

The bill also would authorise- the administrator to distribute funds to states

de- for civil Sir-The Hongkong Branch

the fence activities, including of the British Red Cross Society construction of air raid shelters; is making preparations to or- grant the Administrator a whip. ganise Comforts for the Troops hand over civil defence PTO- in Korea. It is hoped within a grammes of each state by au

him to thorising

withdraw few days to have available. knitting wool and knitting in- tions are

federal money when specifica- mot met; authorise structions

making of any state to enter into civil de- balaclava helmets, socks, mit- fence pacts with Canada, Cuba,...... tens, gloves and scarves,

Mexico or European possessions It is

In the western hemisphere. The proposed to set up two Depots, pacts would have to be ap-

in. Kowloon

the and one, inproved by one

Secretary of.. the Civil Defence Hongkong, for the distribution State and of wool and instructions and Administrator.

All employees of the new"! the collection of the finished

agency in sensitive positions :) articles.

would have to undergo FBI security check. All other per... sons connected with civil de- fence would have to sign loyalty oath-United Press.

of

We feel sure that the people

welcome Hongkong will later it. was rumoured this opportunity of doing some- that the had escaped to Switzer-thing of urgent and real value land and was living under an assumed name in Paris.

The Swiss authorities at the time denied that he was in Switzerland and said that inter- views he was purported to have given were "pure fiction."- Reuter.

Safari By Air

Sydney, Nov. 30. An Alice Springs airline has plarts for taking overseas businessmen on a safari in Aus- tralia's buffalo and crocodile country in the Northern Terri- tory.

It is hoped the venture win arouse Interest in the Terri- tory's buálness potentialities and attract business Investments.-- Reutor:

for the servicemen in Korea.

Subscription to the Fund for the purchase of wool are most urgently needed, and may be

sent to the "Comforts for the Troops in Korea Fund," C/o the South China Morning Post.

will

Co-

American HCL At New High

+

Washington, Nov. 30. The United States Govern The Secretary of the Branch would be pleased to know ofment's cost of living hit a new

all-time high today. organisations who

Nearly a million workers operate by taking bulk supplies whose wage contracts are tied of wool and arranging for the up the rise and fall of the index knitting to be done by their will receive a pay rise of two

to three cents an hour. ·

The new index covering Tel. No. 30921 every morning prices on October 15 was 174.8. 9 am to 1 pm. from Satur-percent of the 1935-1939 base Hay, 2nd December.

members.

Mns J. CRUTTWELL, Hon. Secretary, H.K. Branch, British Red Cross Society,

P.O. Box 509,

period, an increase of 0.0 per- cent since September 15. It... was 0.2 percent higher than the cond previous peak of 174.5ink" August and September, 1948 Reuter.

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