RECORD TRAFFIC TO LONDON

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26126, 31 May 1950, Page 7

RECORD TRAFFIC TO LONDON

MOTORISTS RETURN FROM HOLIDAYS

(Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, May 30. Officials of the Automobile Association said to-day that holiday traffic on Bntains roads yesterday—at the end of the first week-end of free petrol marketing for 10 years—was “a record even for pre-war days.” Motorists returning to London from holidays created a traffic jam extending over 140 miles on 14 highways into the capital.

FUTURE OF GENERAL MACARTHUR

MAGAZINE REPORT OF OFFER (Rec. 8.15 p.m.) NEW YORK. May 29. “General Douglas MacArthur has agreed to accept a 100,000-dollar position with Remington Rand, Incorporated. when he leaves the Army,” said the “Cosmopolitan” magazine to-day. The magazine added that the General who is 70 years old. said that the heavy pressure of his duties in Japan and increasing tension elsewhere in Asia made it essential that he stay at his post. “If I returned home even for a few weeks I Relieve the word would spread throughout the Orient that the United States was abandoning the Pacific and that set-backs in China were forcing us to pull back.”