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Show r British Election Conservatives Would Retain Health Plan, Scrap Steel Deal LONDON, Oct. 7 (U.R) Winston Churchill's Conservative party will maintain Britain's national health service if they win the coming election but nationaliza tion of steel will be junked These were the major facts of Conservative party policy emerg ing today from a study of campaign cam-paign promises made in anticipation anticipa-tion of battling the labor government gov-ernment in a test at the polls. Prime Minister Clement Attlee, according to authoritative sources, sourc-es, must decide during the next Lee Defends Economy Cuts SALT LAKE CITY; Oct. 7 (U.R) Gov. J. Bracken Lee says he'll continue to do what he thinks is rtght for his state and his country. coun-try. Those-whox don't share his views, he says, will have a chance to get rid of him in 1952. Utah's chief executive was' a guest Wednesday at a ifanquet sponsored by Salt Lake City Elks lodge in observance of National Newspaper, week. In his address, the governor defended his economy program. He pointed out that expenses had been cut and that more work is being done by fewer people. Speaking -of local newspapers, the governor asked for more consistency con-sistency in the editorial columns. He said he had been criticized for cutting certain state expenses, then asked to undertake such expensive ex-pensive projects as a new polio hospital. Guest of. honor was the dean of Intermountain newsmen, Noble Warrum Sr., , senior editorial writer of the Salt Lake Tribune. New Polio Cases Decline 6th Yeek WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (U.R) For the sixth successive week, the number of polio cases throughout the nation declined last week. The public health service said that, a total of 1855 new cases were reported to it last week, compared with 2192 for the preceding pre-ceding week. Twenty-nine states showed declines, and 13 showed alight increases. Last week's total brought the number of polio cases for the year to 33,144, the highest in history. 5 Czechs, 8 Poles Ordered Expelled From Yugoslavia BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Oct. 7 (U5fi 'The . government has ordered or-dered the expulsion of five members mem-bers of the Czechoslovak embassy and eight members of the Polish embassy, authoritative sources at the two embassies said today. The Yugoslav ministry of information in-formation declined immediate comment. But sources at the two embassies em-bassies said the expulsion de- -mands 'were delivered yesterdaybi vakian denunciation earlier this week of friendship pacts with Marshal' Tito's regime. In addition, Czechoslovakia had expelled the Yugoslav ambassador ambassa-dor in Prague. 10 days whether to hold early general elections or try to post pone them until next year. Conservatives are sure they have in devaluation of the pound sterling a sharp weapon to help them at the polls. They have laid a number of campaign prom ises before the voters in event Attlee decides upon an early election. BUI Approved Their major specific promise will be to junk the labor government's govern-ment's plan to nationalize the steel and iron industry. The bill has been approved and is to become be-come law next spring. They also will abandon labor blueprints for nationalization of other industries such as cement, sugar refining, insurance and bus lines. But they will keep the nation al social services, which are very popular in Britain. Even the British Conservative party ' leans much closer to some of the basic policies of the labor party so cialized medicine for example man eitner tne Democratic or Republican parties in America. Conservative leaders are very cautious about their predictions of what they will do if they win. They know victory will throw in the laps one of the most critical financial and economic crises in Britain's history. Army Deserter Gets 10 Years NEW YORK, Oct. 7 (U.R) Anthony An-thony V. Martino, who became a two-family man while presumed dead in wartime France, was found guilty Wednesday of de sertion from the army and was sentenced to confinement at hard labor for 10 years. A five-man army court martial returned the "guilty" verdict after 30 minutes of deliberation. The presiding officer. , Lt. Col. Charles A. Weaver, announced that Martino was convicted by "a two-thirds vote." It was dis closed afterward that the vote was 4 to 1 for conviction. Neither of Martino's two wives were present, and they had not attended the trial. Reading the verdict to the dark-haired, spectacled defendant, defend-ant, Weaver said, "You will be dishonorably discharged and confined con-fined at hard labor for 10 years." Under the army trial review system, Martino is eligible for five appeals two reviews in this army area and three in Washington. Martino, who remained silent throughout the two-day. court martial, had told authorities pre viously that amnesia accounted for his disappearance from the combat area in France Jn October, 1944, and his attorney had tried to show Martino was a "constitu tional psychopath." ' Martino left a wife and two children in Waterbury, Conn.. when he entered the service, and acquired another wife and child; on Staten Island, N.Y., during thej rive years ne was presumed; dead. i PROVO. UTAH COUNTY, UTAH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1949 . f TW ST 4 -v? h . , II IL QCf3f wmtewti man yt ; nit ttMOS it ms Vr f i 1 K ftKtttn tt a tm&r '"' ' v -; n y f s 1 jTV A w &3 t I r : .. ($ More Propaganda British Mother Makes Things Tough In the United States LONDON, Oct. 7 (U.R) A British mother visiting her sick daughter in the United States reported in the pro-government pro-government Daily Mirror Wednesday that .misery and suffering in America can be compared only wii i:r gl?nd in the days of Charles Dirk-ens. Dirk-ens. The tabloid Daily Mirror published the letter from "Mother, Danville, Ohio," alongside a cartoon of a cigar-smoking doctor sporting sport-ing a loud necktie and pointing point-ing to a sign: "Better Die-Tit's Cheaper!" , Wrote the British mother: "When I .came to America a couple of months ago, I was feeling rather bitter about Truman Signs Arms Aid Bill WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (U.R) President Truman has signed into law the $1,314,010,000 foreign arms aid bill, predicting it will relieve the world's free nations from the fear of aggression. In a formal ceremony at the White House, the president scratched his name to the measure with evident relish. In a state ment, he said the assistance was necessary because of the "unsettled "unset-tled conditions of the world." While congressional foreign af fairs leaders and Secretary of Defense De-fense Louis Johnson looked on MrTruman said that this nation's objective is .the creation of "peaceful and stable conditions throughout the world, so that men may lead happier and more fruit- j ful lives. our own government. But a few weeks here have revealed re-vealed to me what a wonderful wonder-ful country our great little England is. ' "I found my daughter very ill indeed and when I asked the doctor what I could do for for her, he replied, 'Go buy your darter a casket unless you can pay $6 -a day for her for months of streptomycin. "Expectant mothers are refused re-fused admission; to a hospital unless they take with them a $30 deposit. The balance, $75, is paid when the husband collects col-lects his wife' and child four days later. "The misery and suffering I have seen here are only comparable com-parable with England in the days of Dickens. There is a great deal of .unemployment, and for the unfortunate people there is no relief except ex-cept the help of neighbors. ? "When people discover 1 am from England, I' am plied with questions, particularly about our' health service . . . I know now for a certainty that we have the finest government in the world." Cars Wrecked On Great Northern ST, PAUL, Oct. 7 (U.-A faulty switch was blamed today for throwing two Pullman cars qf the Great Northern's Empire Builder off the tracks, ripping tha- aide from one and injuring several passengers. The 12-car train, bound for Seattle, Wash., was traveling only 15 miles per hour last night when one of the Pullmans was hurled Against a concrete pier, shearing away its side. Only eight passengers had reservations res-ervations in the car, however, and none in the roomette compartments compart-ments on the damaged side. Authorities said the first seven cars crossed the switch safely, but the eighth and -ninth were derailed. de-railed. The last three remained on a parallel track. Nearly all passengers In the two cars were shaken and bruised. RUNAWAY TRAILER MEMPHIS, Tenn. (U.R) It wai easy to find Flossie, a cocker spaniel, when she took off from the back yard, Her owner advertised adver-tised "please return my dog with a six-foot-long leash trailing behind be-hind her." OCT. 7 MARKS the 100th anniversary of birth of James Whitcomb Riley, the "Children's Poet" whose verses, which first appeared in an Indianapolis. Ind.. newspaper, made him a figure of national re-' nown at the turn of the century Riley'a birthplace (above) is a museum in Greenfield, Ind., where also is located the original "Old Swimmin' Mole" which he immortalized in verse. Some of his beat known work includes "The Raggedy Man," "When the Frost ia on the Punkin," "Out to Old Aunt Mary's." Riley died in 1916. Hia birthday waa made' an official holiday in Indiana. (Internttiontl) WANTED ALL KINDS OF HIDES! 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