NEWS IN BRIEF
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dia’s-firebrand Socialist leader,
was cremated yesterday on a
flower-strewn pyre as' the great
city of Calcutta stilled its business
in mourning.
The P6-year-old president of the
United Socialist organization who
was he leading left-wing oppon
ent of Prime Minuter Jawaharlal
Nehru died of a heart ailment
Monday night.
Huge crowds lined the three
mile funeral procession’;; route
front t.jf, 1 o.'.io and thivw flower
. on the bier as it. passed at high
noon.
SINGAPORE, UP,- -The Singa
pore Anti-Tube i culosis Associa
tion’s F».C.G. service, with suffi
cient vaccin' for 500 peope
fringe of this colony’; tu!•• rcule
SATA said.
adults have been vaccinated with
More than 3,000 children and
B.C.G. by the association with
extraordinary good results. No
unpleasant reactions have been
noted and protection against the
disease has been 100 per cent on !
tin* people vaccinated, the official
said.
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WASHINGTON (/P)—'The House
ha approved legislation to p.»>
five school teachers in Alaska for
!< -• of*personal property iV> fires
which destroyed govern m e n t.
buildm-s i i the Terrilorv.
would receive $903.25 and Mrs.
T:-‘S ii- l!. Ward for loss of
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buildin at Iloonah.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence B. Wil
liams would reci ve $ 1,437 for
]o :j of personal property when
fire ties roy ■■ 1 a gov rnmentbui
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policy to other Soviet satellite
countries following its open break
with Bulgaria.
In Washington, state depart
ment officials hoped yesterday’s
action in evering relations with
Bulgaria would serve i s tin ef
tive warning to other iron curtain
ountries to toe tin- diplomatic
ine—or *< w
Tli ) ." who speculated 1 ;ui t
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‘orlure .imi i illiru“ of tin men.
The translator, ; native lulgari .n
later was seized by police and
tortured into making false confes
sions of sabotage and spying
which implicated personal friends
and members of the ligation, the
department charged.
Tnc legation was able to' save
this man, Michael Shiprov, from
the police until recently. Yester
day, the state department said,
word came that he had been seiz
ed by Bulgarian authorities.
Some 34,000,000 Britons will
vote in elections tomorrow to de
cide whether they want more or
less Socialism. The candidates .and
their workers are engaged in a
last-minute doorbell ringing cam
paign to try to win over inde
pendent voters who have not yet
made up their minds.
Both Conservative leader Win
ston Churchill and Labor Prime
Minister Clemente Attlee ex
pressed confidence in victory. The
struggle is between these two ma
jor parties and there seemed lit
tle prospect of the Liberal third
party making much of a showing.
The Liberals would become im
portant should the vote be close
between the Tories and Labor. In
such an event Liberals might join
with either party to form a coali
tion government.
In Washington Marshall Plan
administrator Paul Hoffman ask
ed for monetary assistance to help
Western Europe sell at least one
billion dollars worth of goods in
the American market next year.
He believe's greater two-way trade
between Europe and America will
help make for world prosperity.
In parts of upper Egypt rain
falls only about once in every five
years.
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