| Show NEWS REVIEW ai aid d deadline Re requested freested ested U S corn Y yield beld down DEADLINE december I 1 apparently feeling that congressional approval ot of his request for 97 million dollars in stop stopgap gap aid for france italy and austria was assured U S secretary of state george marshall sounded a new keynote speed lie he suggested to the house foreign affairs committee that a deadline of december I 1 be established tor for emergency relief to the I 1 three hard pressed nations and loc looked ahead to an early march deadline for his tour four year 20 billion dollar plan tor for eventual european recovery state department witnesses backed up marshalls marchalls Mar plea for speed they testified present funds would carry france and italy only through december beyond which looms the brink of chaos and confusion political li moral and economic unless additional help Is rushed across the sea also testifying before the house bouse foreign group lewis douglas U S ambassador to england offered a brief pointed summary of the whole issue of immediate foreign aid there can be no guarantee that the th aid program will succeed but it would be more risky to deny europe financial help and watch despair and pandemonium spread across the continent finally it was the opinion of secretary of commerce averell harrl man that emergency european relief can be substantially met despite supply problems in this country china too virtually forgotten under the press of urgent affairs in europe Is the problem of china ravaged still contorted in war constantly back sliding into greater political and economic corruption As a modicum of aid and comfort to that eastern nation secretary marshall has proposed a million dollar aid program to be administered in conjunction with the european phase of the marshall plan at the same time marshall held to his stand that the suppressed report of lt gen albert Weder on conditions in china would not be made public he intimated that it drew such a dismal picture that to release the report would be harmful both to the united states and to china CORN DOWN semi finals there was a jmatte smattering ring of bad news in the agriculture depart departments semifinal semi final crop report of the year it had to do with corn and winter wheat the 1947 U S corn crop now stands at an estimated bushels a decrease of bushels from a forecast made a month ago that Is slightly below the 10 year 1936 45 average ot of and far under last years record yield of more than 32 billion bushels hopes for another bumper wheat crop next year received a thorough dampening with 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 1 because of dry weather simultaneously it appeared that meat production had started a downward trend impelled by the reduced corn crop and higher feed prices department of agriculture spokesmen estimated that there will be a cattle population of only 77 million on january 1 1848 1948 86 million below the all ume time high of million on january 1 1945 As a result consumers will be eating less beet beef pork and poultry next year there just wont be as much to go around RED ACTION riots terror communist borne trouble and terror was on the increase in france and italy spreading paralysis gripped the french port city of marseille as workers responded to a general strike call by communist labor leaders miter after a day of rioting in which one person was fatally wounded and six others seriously hurt in milan italy communists sacked an anti red newspaper plant and attacked a police station in the course of rioting which gripped the city in a state of near terror they demanded the immediate suppression of newspapers which in incite it c people to hate and vengeance th the 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 communists seized upon relatively unimportant incidents and managed to magnify them to a point where they could incite violence |
