Show World y News Today To ay t Queuille Franc Plan Wins Major Maior Test Testo It o Compiled from Chicago Dally Daily News UP AP and INS reports T r 4 French Premier Henri Queuille won a major test on his save sav saveS saVe S the thc franc plan The national assembly finance committee approved its stiff new taxes 22 to 13 Only the Communists voted against the bill The national national national na na- na- na assembly Itself will begin debate on the plan which is aimed at at raising francs In new revenue S About 90 per cent of workers at the Renault automobile factory returned to their jobs after a two day strike In the metal industries where to workers staged Jt demonstration Thursday shop shops were in operation again ain Friday However dock workers in Brest and Sete near Marseille quit work Thursday night and Friday c- c Reds Non-Reds Ousted From Berlin Control T The licensed American Rias Bias radio reported that non Corn had been ousted from the city government In the Russian sc ii tor of Berlin in the first 24 hours of a purge of the Socialist Unity or Communist pary S The purge was launched with a call by the leadership to cleanse the Socialist Unity S E D party of dissident right wing elements American sources believe believe- it presaged an attempt of the to foment new disorders here Walter German Communist boss announced that a aeo eo control commission had been established with branches in every state and and district of the Soviet zone to carry out the purge r Raids by 20 or more heavily armed Russian troops at three points in the American sector were believed made to kidnap anti- anti Soviet and Communist anti-Communist Germans Thirty or more such Germans already seized either cither have been tried and given harsh sentences or arc are facing trial in closed sessions of ot Russian military courts Bevin Cabinet Review World Crisis S to Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin reviewed the international situation situation sit sit- before a suddenly summoned meeting of key cabinet members members mem mem- bers hers and Britain's defense chiefs in London Among those present were Sir Stafford Cripps chancellor of ot the ex exchequer Minister of War Emanuel Minister of Defense A. A AV Alexander and Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery chief of th the imperial general staff U. U S. S Cuts Sentence of Nazi Woman I U. U S. S officials in Frankfurt disclosed the life Ufe sentence of Use Ilse K Koch Ch widow of the former commandant of Buchenwald concentration camp has been commuted to four tour years They said the evidence against did her did not support all the charges Gen Lucius D D. Clay American commander in Germany commuted commuted com corn muted the sentence of ot the year old woman accused of having m made de lamp shades from the tattooed skins of camp inmates the officials said The sentences of ot 12 other Buchenwald defendants convicted In war crimes trials at Dachau in m August 1947 also were shortened th they y said laid The action was taken June 8 0 The U. U S. S army public relations chief said Baid the failure to make th the commutations public at the time was due to a slip up on ou our part Germans Flee Russ Uranium Mines Two Germans who escaped from the Russian uranium mines in Sax Saxony ny looking beaten and worn after only a few months' months work said Bald 20 Germans died there daily The two are Willy Schmidt 38 and Horst Geilert Gellert 22 They 8 said d the they were forced into the mines at Aue in Saxony where more than Germans are employed j m in what amounts to slave labor How they ey escaped s is a secret Schmidt and Geilert said they had to work in the mines because t they ey refused to join the Communist p patty party ty Th They y gave this picture Each man must dig three cubic meters of ore dally daily wh whether the it takes eig eight the primitive tools or 16 Scientists examine e ethe the hard r rock ck f for uranium r uranium basic substance in the atomic bomb The mines have ha no no vater nater pumps nor elevators The men men are areV given flame V only open e lamps Explosions occur regularly S E Wr MacArthur Mac Rejects Russ CriticismS Criticism S Gen Douglas MacArthur rejected Russian criticism of his labor Jabor policy and nd said he would not let Communist dictators spread d disorder anarchy and revolution in Japan He s said id that before the Russians criticized him they sho should ld practice what they preached MacArthurs MacArthur's statement came in reply to charges by Russian Ambassador Ambassador Am Am- Alexander before the far eastern commission in mW Washington th sh claimed that MacA MacArthur's MacArthurs policies toward J Japanese government work workers rs constituted a violation of the allied I program for Japan under the Potsdam declaration 1 z No s segment of Japanese society has been afforded more liberal 1 gains gams since the surrender than has Japanese labor MacArthur said enjoys It more privileges and protection here than in many democratic democratic demo demo- cratic countries |