Bevin Asks U. S.
To Redistribute
Fort Knox Gold
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of production against starvation as
the government’s method of com
batting Britain’s economic crisis.
He announced a personal deci
sion to seek a customs union for
the British Empire and Common
wealth. He said the cabinet had
not reached a decision.
“I do not think we can avoid any
longer common defense and the
acceptance of certain common eco
nomic principles if we are to
avoid these constant recurring cri
ses.” '
“We have got to settle this bal
anee-of-payments business in the
world or it will be constant cha
os,” Bevin said.
“There are ways of settling it. I
know these Americans will be up
set, but I have got to upset some
body. My own conviction is that
she handicapped herself and caus
ed high taxation in her own coun
try by failure to redistribute the
Fort Knox gold.
“If you find another gold mine
in the world it would assist you—
it would be a great advantage—
but there is gold which has ad
ready been mined and it is doing
nofhing.
"I am quite sure that is one of
the readiest ways to assist in in
creasing the purchasing power of
the devastated areas of the world.”
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Lafayette, Indiana, where he has
enrolled at Purdue University for
aeronautical engineering.
Walter has been spending his
spare time flying for the past two
years and earned his private li
cense at the age of seventeen
years, the youngest student to be
licensed here.
Prisoners Drink
“Coffee Royals”;
6 Dead; 3 Dying
BELLE GLADE, Fla. (/P)—Six
prisoners were dead today and
th.ee others were dying after
drinking wood alcohol mixed with
coffee at a nocturnal “party” at
the state prison camp near here
last night.
At Talahassee, chief clerk S. L.
Walters of the prison division said
16 Negroes consumed a pint of
wood alcohol which was filched
earlier in the day by two men
working in the prison paint shop.
The two were listed among the
dead.
All prisoners who drank the poi
sonous mixture became violently
ill, and six succumbed during the
night. Three others were in criti
cal condition.
Walters reported that the pris
oners consumed the alcohol at a
surreptitious gathering after sup
per last night.
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U. S. Will Remain
Strong To Keep
Permanent Peace
_•
QUITANDINHA, Brazil, (/P> —
President Truman said yesterday
the United States is “determined
to remain strong” to back up a;
foreign policy based on a desire for
permanent peace.
He told the inter-American de
fense conference that this “is in
no way a threat” because “no great
nation has been more reluctant
than ours to use armed force.”
But, he said, “our aversion to
violence must not be misread as a
lack of determination on our part
to live up to the obligations of the
United Nations charter or as an in
vitation to others to take liberties
with the foundations of interna
tional peace.
“Our military strength will be
retained as evidence of the seri
ousness with which we view our
obligations.”
Nevertheless, Mr. Truman ex
pressed confidence that current
! international disputes can be set
s
tied without armed conflict and
gave this pledge:
“The world may depend upon it
that we shall continue to go far
out of our way to avoid anything
that would increase the tensions
of international life.”
Delegates burst into applause
when President Truman asserted
the United States “shall nPt for
get our obligations under the <U.
N.) charter, nor shall we permit
others to forget theirs.”
They applauded again when he
declared “without the Western
Hemisphere, no world prosperity
is possible.”
A Presidential reference to the
United States pledge to assist Lat
in America in a long-range econo
mic program also was cheered.
The delegates broke into loud ap
plause again when the President
declared “The United States seeks
world peace—a peace of free
men.”
There was an ovation lasting
fully two minutes when he fin
ished speaking. He was introduced
for the address by the Brazilian
foreign minister, Raoul Fernandez.
Mrs. Truman and the Truman’s
daughter, Margaret, listened to the
chief executive from the seats in
the second tier on the righ* hand
side of the conference hall. Mrs.
Truman wore a dark blue suit
with a grey hat. Margaret was
dressed in a grey suit.
The American foreign ministers
formally concluded their confer
ence at 9:21 a.m. <EST\ only 18
days after they sat down together
to write an unprecedented treaty
for hemisphere peace and security.
President Truman left the fog
bound hotel for the 45-mile trip
down the winding mountain road
to Rio de Janeiro, accompanied by
his staff and members of the U. S.
delegation to the conference,
headed by secretary of state Mar-1
shall.
The President arose yesterday
morning at 6 a.m. and took a walk
around the spacious grounds of
the U. S. Embassy with the White
House physician, Brig. Gen. Wal
lace H. Graham. He had breakfast
with his family. They left the Em
bassy about 7 a.m. for the trip to
the Quitandinha hotel.
Every eighteen minutes an
American adult dies of cancer of
the stomach. Of the 38.000 who
lose their lives from this cause!
every year, most could be saved if'
the malady were recognized early
enough and surgery quickly per-;
formed. ’
Mancheno Regime
In Ecuador
Easts Nine Days
*
QUITO, Ecuador i/P»—The nine
day-old regime of Col. Carlos
Mancheno was over today and
Mariano Suarez Veintimilla, the
reputed leader of a counter revolt
which caused Mancheno’s down
fall, assumed temporary power
over Ecuador.
Mancheno resigned last night as
counter revolutionary forces bore
down on Quito without opposition.
Diplomatic informants said he had
taken asylum in the Venezuelan
embassy and intended to leave the,
country as soon as possible. Other
sources said he had simply disap
peared.
Mancheno’s resignation was fol
lowed by an immediate cessation
of fire on all fronts and marked
the apparently successful conclu
sion of a counter revolt which be
gan last Saturday night.
The vanguard of the counter
revolutionary forces entered Quito
from the north soon after Man
cheno quit.
At 11:15 p.m. Suarez, accompan
j ied by colleagues of his conserva
i five party, entered the government
i palace and assumed authority as
vice president, the office he held
under the regime of President Jose
Marie Velasco Ibarra, who was
forced into exile by Mancheno’s
bloodless one-shot coup on Aug.
24.
Suarez immediately disclaimed
personal ambitions and said he
would remain in power only so
long as necessary to convoke an
extraordinary session of Congress
to designate a president for the
period until the next elections in
May, 1948. He said the Congress
would be composed of members
elected last June.
Tongass Should
Produce Million
Tons Paper A Year
JUNEAU, <>P)—“Southeast Alas
ka’s rich Tongass national forest
should easily produce more than
one millions tons of newsprint each
year,” Senator Capehart, <R.-Ind.>
chairman of the Senate small busi
ness subcommittee on newsprint,
said here yesterday on the com
mittee’s return from a five-day
tour of proposed mill and power
station sites.
Capehart said the estimated ca
pacity would “more than meet the
1947 shortage of newsprint and es
timated shortages of the future
. . . without harming the Terri
tory’s fishing industry or its great
attractions to toruists.”
“The committee is confident the
project is worthwhile in every de
tail,” he said.
Yesterday the committee was T<)
visit proposed mill and power
sites at Port Snettishan near here
The five days travels just com
pleted aboard the coast guard cut
ter Wachuset carried the Ujur-ng
Senators around Revillegigedo is
land out of Ketchikan and into
Wrangell and Petersburg with
! stops at proposed sites at Ward
Cove and Bradfield Canal along
! the way. At Wrangell and Peters
burg the committee joined with
the public lands committee in
hearings on Alaska statehood.
The Capehart committee will
hold a public hearing here today
after which it will move to An
chorage and Fairbanks for a duai
investigation of newsprint possi
bilities and municipal airport con
struction.
• Exiled President Velasco Ibar
ra was reported hurrying back to
Ecuador from Argentina*.
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