| Show World News Today I Soviet Armed Forces I I Under New Boss Complied Compiled From Chicago D lIf D Ily tUP t w UP DP AP AI and I DS D'S S Reports Report The Soviet armed forces got a new boss Friday Moscow announced that Marshal Nikolai A. A has been relieved of his duties as minister of the armed forces and the job taken over by his deputy Marshal Alexander M. M However apparently retained his posts of deputy premier premier premier pre pre- mier and member of the policy-making policy Politburo It seemed to tobe tobe tobe be just another case of Premier Josef Stalin relieving his top advisers of departmental duties to leave them free for policy-making policy and special special special cial tasks is the fourth deputy premier and Politburo Politburo member to be relieved of a departmental portfolio within the past three weeks Only one Politburo member Alexei N. N remains in charge of a ministry He is a R. minister of light industry sky Vasile is a year old professional proCessional soldier who has been credited with minding master-minding the Soviet victories at Moscow Stalingrad Stalingrad Stalingrad Stalin Stalin- grad and Leningrad during World War Var II n. He is a former chief of staff of the armed force British Editor Draws Jail Term The editor of the London Daily Mirror drew a three-month three jail term and its publishers were fined for printing unprivileged material in the case of John Haigh Britain's suspected bath acid killer Haigh 40 had sought a writ of attachment against the London tabloid for a story printed on March 1 4 describing him as a vampire murderer and linking him inferentially with six alleged murders under investigation In by Scotland Yard Haigh is charged with the bath acid slaying laying of Mrs Olive Durand-Deacon Durand 69 A courtroom packed with London's outstanding newspapermen Witnessed the sentencing of Mirror editor Silvester Bolam who was I escorted to Brixton prison to serve his term as soon as the hearing I ended Th The kings king's bench had ruled earlier that the Mirror had committed committed committed com com- the lithe gravest contempt of court by publishing the story linking Haigh with the six unsolved murders Chiang Aids Withhold Funds Reliable official quarters said the pressed hard-pressed go government government gov gov- v- v vi i was being denied about in treasury funds held I by retired President Chiang shek's Kai loyal subordinates Privately Chinese officials say Chiang controls near nearly y a third of the governments government's hard specie assets Most of these funds they say are in the province port of Amoy Formosa and other So South th China points Another portion of the assets are tied up in bank accounts the government is unable to draw upon What hat in other countries promptly would become something of a major scandal has been held back for two reasons First fear of Ch Chiang ang who still controls controls' much of the Nationalist army and the Ute secret police second in face conscious China officials are reluctant to say openly what wha they are complaining about bitterly in private They They- say sayan an attempt is being made to keep up the fiction of a united Nationalist force Bevin Sails for U. U S. S Pact Signing Britain's foreign secretary Ernest Bevin sailed for the United States on the Queen Mary He and other European leaders are to sign the ne new north Atlantic Atlantic At At- lantic antic defense treaty in Washington early next month Paul-Henri Paul premier and foreign minister of Belgium was to board the ship at Cherbourg Foreign Minister Joseph Been Bech ech of little Luxembourg Luxembourg Luxembourg Luxem Luxem- bourg is also to sail Each will sign the treaty for his country Also booked on the Queen Mary were ere Hector McNeil British minister of sta state e and Andrei A A. Gromyko Soviet deputy foreign minister Each heads his c country's delegation to the United Nations Nations Na Na- general assem assembly bly opening in New York April 5 |
