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-—-—- , WORLD HEADLINES ALLAHABAD, India, Feb. 12 The ashes and charred bones of Mohandas K. Gandhi were scat tered from a brass urn into the holy Ganges river at its confluence with the Jumna today and, in the belief of Hindus, India’s assassin ated “Apostle of Peace” thus join ed the immortals in heaven. De vadas and Ramdas Gandhi, the martyred leader's sons, tilted thd urn and spilled the cremated re mains into the muddy green holy water from a white-painted war time “duck”. A crowd estimated at between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 lined the funeral procession or massed on the sandy river bank. A3 the ashes touched the water the multitudes joined in a great roar of “Mahat ma Gandhi Ki Jai” victory to Mahatma Gandi. Some wept, some stood mute, their hands clasped before their faces. ATLANTA, Ga„ Feb. 12—Rob ert P. Boylan, chairman of the New York stock exchange, said today that the current commod ity break represents a “healthy, corrective” break, and the mar ket should now stabilize around present levels. He believed the commodity prices had passed their peak and should level off despite rallies and fluctuations. The stock market has suffered a sympa thetic slump for psychological reasons he said. Boylan based tiis predictions of a stabilized commodity market partly on the government’s reported plans to buy more wheat and the dom estic and overseas favorable crop prospects. WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 The Senate foreign relations committee today adopted unanimously a string of amendments to the Mar Council Compiles UO Church Preferences j Completed results on the religious preferences of University stu I dents have recently been released by the University Religious council. Total preferences have been compiled from the deans’ information cards filled out by all students last September. The council’s religious pref erence committee, under the chairmanship of Rev. David Seaman, di rector of Wesley house, filled out individual cards on 5513 students from the information in the files in the dean’s offices and have sent them to the various churches specified. A total of 34 different churches were represented in the preferences, with the Presbyterian group having the largest number, followed I closely by the Methodist, Catholic and Episcopal bodies. Other students, 1 totaling 480, wrote only “Protestant” on the cards, and 1619 others left the space blank. The complete list appears as belbw: Denomination Men Women Total Presbyterian .367 250 617 Methodist .360 214 574 Catholic .323 181 504 Episcopal .230 256 486 Baptist .188 103 291 Christian .144 108 252 Congregational .*.Ill 85 196 Lutheran . 128 66 194 Jewish . 49 14 63 Mormon . 40 114 154 j Church of Christ . 15 5 20 | Evangelical U. B. 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WASHINGTON, Feb. 12—The American Legion today threw charges of “political cowardice,” “conspiracy” and “stalling” at the Republican and Democratic lead ers of congress, and at the house rules committee in particular, for failure to act on universal military training. “There is evidence of a conspir acy to stall on UMT,” said Nation I al Commander James F. O’Neill. J “More than that, there are indica ; tions the Republican leadership has ordered UMT legislation to re j main bottled up in the rules com ! mittce.” CAIllO, Feb. 12—The Arab league council met today to dis cuss what to do it' the United Nations security council sends an international force to Pales tine. The exiled grand mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin El Hus seini, who attended for the first lime, said the Arab states were “in complete agreement on po litical and military affairs.” The mufti’s presence was con sidered by the Arabs of no small significance. The council presi dent, Iliad Es Solh, said the Muf ti had been named to represent Palestine on the council. Arab league spokesmen re fused to say definitely what measures had been discussed or decided upon. The league’s po litical committee also met and was understood to have dis cussed the chances of unifying the various currencies. LONDON. Wednesday, Feb. 11— (UP) Foreign Secretary Ernest I Bevin attended a dinner of the An ' glo-Egyptian society last night un I der a heavy guard of Scotland Yard I detectives after receipt of an anonymous telephone message that an attempt would be made to as sassinate him, the exchange tele* graph reported today. Bevin was the principal speaker | at the dinner, held at the exclusive j Dorchester hotel. 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