Show NEWS RE REVIEW VIE W aid deadline requested ue ij S Is corn A 4 ill yield it beld down DEADLINE december I 1 apparently feeling that coil congles gres atonal approval of his request for million dollars in stopgap stop atop gap aid tor fol france italy and austria was assured U S secretary of state george marshall sounded a neav keynote speed he suggested to the house foreign affairs committee that a deadline of december 1 be established tor for emergency relief relic to the three hard pressed nations and looked ahead to an early march deadline tor for his four year 20 billion dollar plan for eventual european recovery state department w witnesses I 1 t n es s a s backed up marshalls marchalls Mar plea for speed they testified present funds would carry franco france and italy only through december Decem beri beyond which looms loom 3 11 the brink of chaos and lit li icil moral and economic unless additional help Is rushed across the sea also testifying before the house foreign group lewis douglas U S ambassador to england offered i a brief briel pointed summary of the whole issue of immediate foreign aid there can be no guarantee that tha aid program will succeed but it would be more mora risky to deny europea financial help and watch despair and pandemonium spread across them the continent finally it was wa the opi opinion rilon of secretary of commerce averell harrl harri manthai man that emergency european relief can be substantially met de spite supply problems problem sin in this country china too virtually forg forgotten ottin under the p press ress of urgent affairs in europe is the problem of china ravaged still co contorted in war constantly back into info greater political and economic corruption As a modicum of aid end and comfort to that eastern notion nation secretary marshall has proposed a million dollar dohar aid program to be administered in conjunction with the european phase of the marshall plan at tho the same time marshall held to io his stand that the suppressed report of lt gen albert on conditions in china would not be made public lc he intimated ted that it drew sucha such a dismal picture that to io release the report would be ba harmful both to the united states andio and to china CORN DOWN semi finals there wa was s a smattering of bad news in the agriculture departments semifinal semi final crop report of the year it had to do with corn and winter wheat the 1047 U S corn crop now stands at nn an estimated busath Us liels a decrease of bushels from a forecast made a month ago that is slightly below the 10 year 1036 45 average of and far under lost last years record yield of mo more r e than 32 billion bushels hopes tor for another bumper wheat crop next yeav year received a 4 thorough dampening with tho the departments announcement that about 25 per cent of the intended winter wheat acreage in the important great plains area had not been seeded by november I 1 because of dry weather simultaneously it appeared that r neat meat pio production had started a downward trend impelled by the reduced porn corn crop and higher feed prices department of agriculture spokesmen etl estimated mated that there will b be a cattle population of oi only ily 77 million 1 1948 86 million below the all time high of million on january Januar 1 1045 1945 As adult a result consumers will be eating less biet beef pork and poultry next year there just wont be as much to go around REDACTION riots terror communist borne trouble and terror was on the increase in france and italy spreading Sp reiding paralysis gripped the french port city of marseille at ala workers responded to a general strike callb by communist labor leaders after a day of rioting in which one parson was fatally wounded and sl six others seriously hurt in milin milan italy communists sacked rn anti red newspaper plant and attacked a police station in the course course of rioting which gripped tho the city in ia a state of near terror they demanded the immediate sup suppression of bf newspapers which incite people to hate and vengeance the tha suppression of organizations of fascist character and the arrest at once of all persons suspected for their activity against the italian republic in both marseille and milan the tha communists seized upon relatively unimportant incidents and managed to mainly magnify them to a point where they incite vio violence 1 lonce |