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Speeds Arms Abroad
A DISTINGUISHED Briton is piixing business with pleasure on a
visit to this country. Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, mili
tary chairman of the Western Union defense alliance, is to address
the English-Speaking Union in New York next Tuesday. But in the
week since his arrival on the Queen Elizabeth, Monty has renewed
wartime acquaintances with Gen Eisenhower, his World War II boss;
Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chairman Ot ' - ! .
th U. S.Joint Chiefs of Staff; GeA.
Joseph L. Collins, Army chief of staff,
and other 'military and - diplomatic
leaders. .
. Everywhere Monty went he wore
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iiriiisn Army Daiue uress, wivn u
f rows of ribbons' and the black bert
he made famous: He was. accorded
vations. -
Western strategist
Marshal Monteomery . is the king'
pin planner for the Western Union,
comprising Britain, Belgium, France,
Holland and Luxembourg. It is these
plans which form the basic core of
North Atlantic defense strategy rqr
which Congress has voted $1,000,000,
000.
In Washington, just before Montyjs
arrival, the 12-nation Atlantic Pact
Council concluded its first working
gession since the treaty was signed
last ApriL It set up a key board to
speed the flow of modern weapons
and special equipment to Europe.
Standardization Goal
: One of the main duties of the sup
ply group will be to hasten standard
ization of military equipment among
Atlantic pact members to aid effective
area defense. I
An economic and financial commit
tee is to guard against any phase pf
the rearmament program placing tdo
heavy a strain on individual nation
economies. Economic recovery still
has priority over rearmament
Both boards are, to have permanent
headquarters in London. The United
States is chairman of each group for
the first, year.
The Ward Case
While American foreign policy
proceeded smoothlyln Europe quite
the opposite was true in the Orient
There imprisonment of American con-" .
sul-general Angus Ward by Chinese
Communists was on the verge of be
coming a cause celebre. " !
Secretary of State Acheson request
ed 30 nations, including Russia and
her satellites, tb bring diplomatic
pressure to bear on Chinese Commu
nists to free Ward and four membejrs
of his Mukden staff. I
Last Wednesday, the State Depart- )
ment received its first word from
Ward In more than a month. The consul-general
reported that he and his
staff had been convicted by a Peoples
Court in Mukden on a trumped-up
charge of beating and insulting two
Chinese employes In a wage dispute.
Jail sentences of from three to six
- months had been imposed by the court
but the new Chinese Communist, gov
ernment commuted the prison terms4
to deportation "forthwith."
In Short .
Blamed:. By a Canadjan Supreme
Court Justice, both owner and master
of the steamship Noronic for the fire
Which cost 118 lives September 17.
Eejeeted: By the Supreme Court, an
appeal by Communist fugitive Ger:
hart Eisler from a contempt of Con
gress conviction
Postponed: The Judith Coplon- Va
lentin Gubitchev conspiracy trial in
New York, until December 27, to per
mit Gubitchev's newly engaged coun
sel time to prepare a defense. .
Sentenced: By a federal judge tn
San Francisco, the chief defense coun
sel for Harry Bridges, to six months
for contempt of court, to be served at
conclusion of the trial. :f j .
Rescued: One 12-year-old boy, sole
survivor of 28 Jewish refugee chil
- dren and seven adults aboard a Dutch
mercy plane that crashed in Norway.
Chi
ina
Li's Bellyache
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In the I Orient where face is all im
portant, $ Nationalist China's Acting
President Li Tsung-Jen came down
with what may be
a strategic illness.
;A serious stom
ach ailment took Li
td a hospital in
British Hong Kong
while Generalissi
mo Chiang Kai-
shek c doled his .
heels in Chungking.
When Chiang ar
rived in She Nation- :
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he found 14 -gone,
on an inspection tour ft the National
ists' dwindling domain. . "
(Although Li insists he hopes to re
turn to duty soon, he has handed his
job ovei to Premier Yen Hsi-shan.
The Hong Kong press says Li may go
to the United States for treatment.
Discounting reports of, Li's illness,
one informed source said the Hong
Kong trip may have been intended to
force a .showdown with Chiang, to
force Chiang; either .to resume the
presidency or give Li greater power.
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RED BANNERS Chinese Communist supporters parade
toil after. Nationalist defenders
Quotes
Thg Shah of Iran, admitting
that his advisers Sometimes ob
ject to the risks he takes as a
private pilot: )Sometimes one
has to say hdL I say hell to
them; I
Norman Thomas, six-lime
Presidential .candidate of the So
cialist Party: One place we don't
retire; men at 65 is the place we
ought to begin in the U.S. Sen
, ate. At the age when a college
i professor stops working, a sena
tor is about eligible to become a
comrrtitlee chairman."
James F. Byrnes, former Sec
retary of State: Too many peo
ple are thinking of security in
: steady of opportunity. They seem
to be more afraid of life than
death.- 1
MR. LEWIS IS CONSIDERING THE MATTER
Dates
Monday, November 28
American Society of Mechani
cal Engineers meet in New York
City.
' Wednesday, November 30
Birthday (75th), Winston
Churchill.
New Zealand elections.
Friday, December 2
Democratic $100-a-plate din
ner in New York City.
Anniversary (126th), Monroe
Doctrine.
Prank
Westminster's High Hat
Someone and London's bobbies
would like to know who put a po
liceman's helmet atop the tallest spire
of Westminster, home of Britain's
Parliament
The spire is 310 feet talL the last IS
feet without a foothold..
It took a professional steeplejack
all day to put up a series ot ladders
and bring the helmet down.
A telephone call said it was the work
of two madcap medical students. The
helmet Was stolen, the caller said,
from a bobby in a roughhouse on No
vember 5 during student demonstra
tions on the anniversary of Guy
Fawkes' gunpowder plot to blow up
Parliament e
While a companion kept watch, the
caller said, two medical - students
climbed to the roof. Then tied to
gether with a . rope, mountainee'r
fashion, they scaled the slippery,; sheer
masonry of the tower.
Police last week were combing stu
dent lodgings and clubs. They said the
pranksters had several things to an
swer for, including a number of
broken tower windows.
in Can-
withdrew without a
fight.
Java
Jumping Coffee Beans
There are a number of reasons for
the record-high coffee prices which,
some experts say, may hit $1 a pound
early next year. i
Americans now drink more than 19
pounds per year per capita a third
more than prewar.
The U.S., easily the leading coffee
drinking country in the world, takes
two-thirds to three-fourths of the en
tire world's exportable production.
During- the war Brazilians, who
grow most of the crop, were unable
to obtain ships and millions of pounds
of coffee beans were burned.; After
that fiasco, Brazilian, cut down their
plantings. ' . i
The current Brazilian coffee crop
was hurt by a two-months drought
which, the U.S. Department of Com
merce says, has been broken, j '
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DIAMOND HORSESHOE The Metropolitan Opera in New York opened its! 65th season with
glitter on stage and off. Richard Strauss' "Der Rosenkavalier" was televised to six cities.
Mr. & Mrs. Veep
Vice President Alben BarHey,
71, and his bride, now honey
mooning in the South, were of
fered these formulas for ro
mantic bliss by Andrew McAff rey,
75, of Miami, Okla., and his 40-year-old
bride, who were ?mar
ried six months ago. '
McAffrey to the Veep: "Be
kind to her, but if she needs it,
give her a whipping every morn
ing and a kiss every night"
Mrs. McAffrey chuckled and
volunteered- her own formula to
the 38-year-old Mrs. Barkley:
"Feed him, love him, and be his
constant companion.
Taxes
Persistent Rebel
Vivien Kellems, the feuding Con
necticut manufacturer, has fired a law
suit at the government in her battle
against the income tax withholding
law.
The suit filed in Federal District
Court is an effort to recover $7,819
which. Miss Kellems says, the gov
ernment took from her "in the tradi
tion of the boldest bank robber."
Of VS. Secretary of the Treasury
John W. Snyder, Miss Kellems says:
"The only difference between Mr.
Snyder and Jesse James is that Mr.
James was, an outlaw and used a
gun."
Sought Court Test
On several previous occasions. Miss
Kellems has invited Snyder to indict
her for refusal to collect withholding
taxes from employees in her cable
grip manufacturing firm. She wished
to be indicted, she said, in order to
test constitutionality of the withhold
ing tax.
Throughout her controversy with
the government. Miss Kellems said,
her employes have paid their income
taxes themselves instead of paying
them through the company.
; Moved Plant
Miss Kellems, who recently moved
her plant 'from Westport to Stoning
ton after -a tilt with Westport zoning
officials, disclosed that before filing
suit she fiad made formal demand on
the Treasury for return of the $7,819.
She said!
"This the Treasury has refused to
do and therefore we are now per
mitted, under the law to bring suit
Unfortunately this suit will not test
constitutionality of the withholding
tax law."
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Lady Nancy Astbr, who recently
described film actresses as "wretched
glamor gitls," is the Motion Picture
Industry Council's first candidate for
Hi new "Flagpole of the Month"
award. The council, representing 35,
000 film workers, says it is tired of
people who attack fHollywood as a
means of getting their names in the
papers. The council s preparing flag
poles in various sizes from the tooth
pick variety : for people with midget
minds to the five-fopt economy size
for people who can't stand high
places. I
In Ballston Spa, p. Y, Dr. Harry
EJ Hansen, a veterinarian, picked up
a farmer at a drugstore who said he
wanted him to look at a sick cow. As
the farmer stepped ojjt at his gate, he
said: "I haven't a sick cow. Doc. But
you charge only $3 a (visit while a taxi
would have cost me j$5."
In Wilne, Eng., Samuel W. Rose,
25, saw a plane crash on the opposite
bank of the River Dejrwent while fish
ing. This is whatf re did: stripped,
swam 100 yards, ripjped off a, plane
wing to release the ilot and a pas
senger, made first aid splints from a
rail fence, trotted ojne and one-half
miles in his uhderwejar to get an am
bulance, helped speejd the victims to
the hospital, then Went back to his
fishing and caught tffrce perch.
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RESCUE-Eightttn U.S. airmen are picked up at tea off Bermuda
by a Canadian destroyer. They were spotted from the air three
days after bomber had been forced down in heavy seas.
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Global Junkets
Congressional trips to all parts of
the world probably will cosiHEaxpay
ers well over $150,000 this yean
A checlj shows 120 House members
and 30 senators either out of the coun
try, have been, or plan to go. It ranks
as probably the greatest exodus of
Congressmen in history.
Many lawmakers work long hours
on the trips trying to learn where
money is 'spent, what conditions exist
abroad and what must be done in the
future. But it is not all work. Foreign
nations usually are anxious to enter
tain. Many take their families along
although they usually pay extra travel
costs from their own pockets.
; Statistical Record
Behind : them is the enactment of
440 federal statutes at the first session
of the 81st Congress. These are the
so-called "public laws" as distin
guished from "private laws." The dif
ference is that a public law deals with
a general subject or a group of people
while a private law usually affects
only one or a few persons.
The new public laws cover a wide
range of subjects, from extension of
rent control to exemption of artificial
legs from import taxes.
Most of the new laws are permis
sive rather than prohibitive in nature.
For every bill that became a law,
an average of 12 failed to pass-.
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THERE are mounting signs that
the old spirit of German na
tionalism, so feared by the French,
is not far beneath the siirface In
either east or west Germany.
Only this month, the Russians,
flirting with ex-Nazis to win political
strength, stumbled upon evidences of
characteristic German stubbornness.
Under the new east German State con
stitution, former Nazis were: accorded
civil rights. The first act of the former
Nazis, banded together within the
National Democratic . Party,' was to
lasn out against turning private ent
prise into so-called peoples-owned
industries. .- i t - i
In addition, the Socialist Unity
(Communist) Party has acknowledged
existence of the "nationalist" jspirit
within its ranks and ordered a wide
spread purge. Party functionaries call
it Titoism," but western 'observers
say that "ism" was prevalent long
before Yugoslavia's marshal broke
with the Kremlin. i 't k
Old Deadly Traif
All four occupation powers appear
to be sensitive to the rebirth jof the
old Bismarck creed of "Germany for
the Germans." Western allied officials
are keeping a file that shows scatterpd
but increasing evidence that 'Germany
would like to h5id back down an old
deadly trail. .
How much of the growing German
spirit of independence is "nationalist
and how much is pure Nazi; is debat
able. However, almost any major Nazi
who has escaped trial for war crimes
up to now can face most German
courts without too much fear, unless
he. personally is linked with aii indi
vidual war crime.
- The changed attitude toward ex
Nazis is shown by the recent convic
tion ot Gertrud Scholz Klink, head of
Hitler League for German Women. A '
French zone German court found her
a "major Nazi" but ruled the 18
months she had already spent In jail
waiting trial was sufficient punish
ment . J: j
Her co-leader in the malei division,
Baldur, von Schirach, head of the
Hitler Jugend Hitler Youth) got 20
years in 1946 from the International
War Tribunal at Munich, j jji
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Tribe Sold I
PerilBack
The Cleveland Indians, baseball's
1948 world champions, were; solid last
week to a Cleveland syndicate, Suc
ceeding the flamboyant Bill Veck as
president of the American League
club is Ellis W. Ryan, 43, native
Clevelander insurance executive, f
The revitalized Cleveland club is a
tribute to Veeck's flair for showman
ship and executive ability. Veeck and
his associates bought the club June
22, 1946, for a reported $1,250,000. In
the last two seasons, Cleveland;: drew
nearly 5,000,000 fans to home games
in the huge Municipal Stadium. ;
The sale price was a reported $2,
200,000. In addition to the franchise,
the new owners got League Park, the
'old. stadium valued at $500,000. and
working agreements with 13 minor
league clubs. . j f .if
Ryan's first act was to appoint! Hank
Greenberg. former Detroit home run
slugger, as general manage. v
Veeck's profit on the sale . was esti
mated at $500,000 on a 30 per cent
stock holding His explanation of why
he sold so profitable a property was: ,
"The only way a man can i make
money under the present tax setup is
to sell something he has created and
take advantage or the capital gain
provision. i f i
I could have borrowed the thoney
1 needed in any. one of several places
but I couldn't have paid it back in
less than 20 years because I couldn't
have made enough out of salary and
dividends after taxes. I don't want my
children to be in hock to a creditor."
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