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British Paper Reports Reds Have Seized Control In Tibet
Calcutta, India—(U.P) —Communist China has completed the military seizure of the Himalayan Lama Kingdom of Tibet, according to the British-owned newspaper, The Statesman.
The paper was commenting editorially on a published dispatch from its special correspondent in Kalimpong, West Bengal frontier town on the southern boundary of Tibet. He quoted reports that a further 2,000 Chinese troops had entered Lhasa to bring the total of the Communist Chinese garrison in the Tibetan capital to 8,000 troops.
The correspondent reported that Lhasa citizens were struck by the appearance among the large camel and mule caravan driving through the town of a speeding jeep, the first mechanized vehicle to enter the capital with Chinese troops.
The jeep, according to the dispatch, traveled overland from the eastern Tibetan frontier, being taken to pieces and carried by mules over difficult mountain passes and reassembled later to be put on the road leading into Lhasa.
The editorial said the pattern of events in Tibet was clear. It declared:
"Key towns have been garrisoned by either Chinese or satellite troops, strategic roads are being built, aerodromes laid down and a radio network established. Militarily, traders (Tibetans who travel between Kalimpong and Lhasa) say, Chinese control is complete."
The correspondent said the Chinese are expected to bring more mechanized vehicles to Lhasa.
Observing that seizure of the administrative reins has been more subtle, the paper said in Lhasa Chinese "advice" is "tendered" and "accepted" by the Dalai Lama and his cabinet.
The appointment of the Dalai Lama and his cabinet and the Panchen Lama to China's Consultative Conference has been regarded abroad, the editorial said, as indicating the Chinese intention to integrate Tibet in the Chinese Republic.
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Nickel Beer Comes Back
Norwalk, Conn.—(U.P.)The five cent glass of beer put in at least a temporary appearance in Norwalk. Michael J. Demato started selling the nickel beer as protests against a move to hike the price of beer to 15 cents a glass. Five pennies buy a six-ounce glass of suds in Demato's tavern, one-ounce under what you get for 10 cents elsewhere in the town.
Naples—(U.P.)—For the first time in history, American naval power in the Mediterranean exceeds that of the British, who traditionally have controlled this vital water link between East and West.
U.S. Assumes Naval Lead
The realities of the situation are not yet reflected in the organizational and operational set-up at the headquarters here of Admiral Robert B. Carney, commander in chief of allied forces in southern Europe.
Officials here hope that the visit to Washington of Winston Churchill, British prime minister, may result in "clarification" of the command structure which will make for more tightly-knit and tougher organization of the southern flank.
The British have withheld their Mediterranean naval units, as well as the Gibraltar and Malta bases, from the over-all Allied control plan.
Although supposedly in charge of all allied forces—land, sea and air—on the southern flank of the anti-Communist front in Europe, the U.S. admiral actually has control over little more than the American Sixth Fleet.
However, they realize the "political difficulties" in the way of putting the British in the western Mediterranean entirely under Carney's command.
In addition to the U. S. Sixth Fleet, Carney now commands Italian land forces—exclusive of the northern "covering force" guarding the Italian frontier—the American air bases in North Africa and elements of the Italian and French fleets.
His area of command extends from Gibraltar eastward to a line drawn from the heel of the Italian boot down to Tripolitania on the North African coast, with immediately adjacent land areas. British vessels in this area and the Malta and Gibraltar bases are specifically excluded.
That does not mean, however, that the American Sixth Fleet is restricted to the western Mediterranean.
THESE THREE PILOT HAVE EDESTROYED $14\frac{1}{2}$ enemy planes and damaged six. Maj. George Davis (left), Hale Center, Texas, is leading jet ace of 4th fighter wing with six enemy craft destroyed. Col. Benjamin Preston (center), Hollywood, Fla., group commander, has destroyed three, damaged two, while Maj. Winton Marshall (right, Raleigh, N.C., has destroyed $5\frac{1}{2}$ and damaged four Russian-built fighters. They met here to tally scores.
San Francisco—(U.P.)—An experimental method of stimulating growth of leg bone by inserting a unique electrical "battery" into the bone itself may one day solve the difficult problem of correcting a congenitally short leg in children, a Canadian surgeon reports.
'Battery' Corrects Short Leg Growth
Dr. C. Laird Wilson of McGill University, Montreal, explained the startling new experiment to the clinical congress of the American College of Surgeons.
To produce increased growth, Dr. Wilson said, he inserted twisted wires of nickel and of constantan (an alloy of nickel and copper used to create electrical resistance) into a hole drilled in the shaft of the skin bone next to the epiphysis, the end-most piece of bone which demarks the growing line.
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In the case of one child, he said, the affected leg grew half an inch in six months, or 100 per cent more than the normal leg. The child experienced no infection, pain or limping as the result of the operation.
KU center Clyde Lovellette scored 548 of the Jayhawkers' 1,331 points last year.
W. R. CUSTER, president of Custer Channel Wing corporation, Hagerstown, Md., stands beside his invention, a channel wing plane which was demonstrated in Pittsburgh. Custer says his plane can take off in a few feet, rise vertically, hover in the air, land vertically and attain speeds of conventional aircraft. He claims that jet planes with the wing will be able to take off from a battleship.
Rich Middle East Oil Fields Found By French Geologist
Paris—(U,P)—Vast oil deposits have$ been discovered hidden beneath the barren, volcanic Harran plateau, between Syria and Turkey.
If exploited, they might greatly influence the strategic and economic position of the Middle East.
For years, no one suspected the desolate plateau in high Mesopotamia was anything but useless stone and sand. Oil prospectors used to detour around it on their way to the rich oil country of Saudi Arabia and Iran, farther to the south and east.
Today it seems they were bypassing riches which might set off fresh flows of oil in the two Middle Eastern countries and flows of dollars into their government coffers.
The oil resources, locked in the Harran desert, may run to millions of barrels, informed sources here said.
A great advantage for any future exploitation is their geographical location. The future wells would be only a few dozen miles off the nearest Mediterranean port, eliminating the need for extensive pipelines.
The discovery was made by Jean Mercier, a noted French geologist just back in Paris from an extensive geological survey of the Middle East. He announced it in a report to the French Academy of Sciences.
Mercier, who has been tramping the Middle Eastern deserts for months, traced the deposits through Utah and across the Syrian and Turkish borders.
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"These volcanoes are an unmistakable sign of important oil resources, since they can be found in all tropical and sub-tropical oil areas.' Mercier reported.
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In the Urfa district alone, Mercier said, he has mapped 145 such volcanoes over an area 22 miles wide and 70 miles long. They are an outward sign of oil resources, formed by pressure of oil gases pushing against the earth crust, he wrote.
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