Pacific Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 12, 1949, Tokyo, Japan WEATHER October 13 Low pressure approaching from Yellow Tokyo on Thurs cloudy with scattered Maximum 69 Mini Outlook for partly STARS AND STRIPES Indias Nehru Feted By Officials STORY ON PAGE FOUR VOLUME NUMBER 243 SHARE THIS PAPER October 1949 SHARE THIS PAPER WIRE SERVICES WATCHING Lawton Army Chief of at extreme left of forward reviewing is with other high ries afternoons review of troops at Imperial Palace With Collins is Alexander Smith and Walton Eighth Army Army Photo Chiang Returns to Canton As Red Forces Approach a Si CANTON issimo Chiang made return visit here on a warship Tuesday while Com munist forces smashed to within 40 miles of this pro Nationalist A delegation of top National ist headed by Acting President Li visited Chiang aboard the It was understood that they con the possibility of abandoning Canton without a Li and the entire Nationalist Dodge Returns On October SCAP Reveals T O K General Mac Arthur Wednesday announced that Joseph Dodge will return to Japan on 30 to assist the occupation headquarters in its consideration of the Japanese fiscal year 195051 budget and general financial Dodge is making the trip at the invitation of General as personally ap Tracy SALUTING salute to the passing colors is given at the review honor ing General Lawton Army chief of Shown left to are Hobart First Cavalry Division General Alexander and Walton Eighth Army who stood on the stand with General Army Photo MacArthur proved by currently acting secretary of the Army in the temporary absence of Secretary Gordon Dodge will ac company Dodge to General MacArthur also an that at the same time Harold Sheets of Santa who until his retirement from business was one of the industrial leaders of will come to Japan for a period of two or three Sheets recently serv ed as deputy to undersecretary of the Army Voorhees for mat ters relating to the occupation of While in Sheets will act as an adviser to General MacArthur on eco nomic matters relative to the Ralph who accompanied the tary on his recent visit to will return to Japan with Dodge and for a No Reduction Slated For Forces in General Collins Says TOKYO J Lawton Arm chief of said Tuesday th American occupation force Japan is about right the wa it is and will riot be reduce in He told a news conferenc that neither the disclosure o Russian atomic activity or Chi nese Communist victorie would affect the RUSSIAN possession of ato mic secrets and the Chines Communists victories will no change American tactical con sideration in the h As military men we hav to evaluate such h I wouldnt try to ki period of about assist Pa reels Before Collins troops afoot and in in review Chief of before Staff General J SALUTE FOR COLLINS Maj Gen Hobart First Cavalry Division com mander extreme right and members of his staff stand before the massed colors of FEC units to salute General Lawton Collins as he mounts the reviewing stand of the parade held in his Army PM Clarifies Ruling On Barter of Articles provost Far East Com announced as a result of inquiries about SCAP Circular espe concerning the tions on barter of articles pro cured from Overseas Supply Stores and Overseas tive Supply that the provisions of paragraph 4 of the circular apply to personnel as well as to occupation The pertinent portion of the circular is quoted as follows The bartering or otherwise trading of goods or merchandise purchased from Overseas Supply Stores or the Overseas Automotive Service to or with persons other than those authorized to purchase at Overseas Supply Stores or the Overseas Automotive Ser is Funeral Rites Wednesday For General Allen SAN UP services will be held Wednesday for Ro bert who for four years served as chief of the Following the services at an the body of Allen will be sent to Salt Lake Utah for burial in a family who retired as a major general in died of a heart Born in July he attended Washing ton was an honor gra duate of the school of the line in 1920 and graduated from the General Staff School in He enlisted in the Army in Lawton Collins Tuesday after at Imperia Palace Flanked by Walton Eighth Army com and Gen Hobar 60 to First Cavalry chief who commanded the assembled Collins stood stiffly at attention as the troops paraded in homage to distinguished visitor In his address to the troops and General Collins reiterated his earlier statemen that his purpose in coming to the FEC was to see what the soldiers are what their job is and what can be done in Washington to help The general added that he expects to visit all divisions of the occupation forces in the Far East Speaking of wartime fight ing in the Pacific he recalled that the troops battl ing against Japan put up with conditions which were more difficult than those encountered by the Allies in Our opponents in Europe were more but there were none more tenacious than the he Parading at eyes right as they passed the reviewing saw row upon row of high military officials behind the general and dele gates from most diplomatic missions in The list of those invited to places on the reviewing stand included Alex ander Smith BCOF General Walker Vice Charles chief of SCAP and FEC deputy chief of FEC chief FEC quarters and Service Head Group AERIAL above is a view of the palace plaza before for General Lawton Army chief of Army Photo Dollars Bought By Tito Government WASHINGTON International Monetary Fund has announced that via has purchased three mil lion dollars to finance im ports of food and other items from the The transaction was the first dollar sale to the Tito govern ment by the In ex change Yugoslavia transferred 150 million dinars to the j i Christiansen FEC deputy chief of See PARADE Page 2 the dinar being worth two House Group Clears For Military Construction WASHINGTON emergency mili tary construction for Ala ska and Okinawa has been cleared by the House Rules Committee for action by the House of Representatives this The would authorize the Navy and Air Force to undertake that amount of con The House Armed Services Committee said prompt action is needed in view of the in situation and the you into believing we dont weigh such As far as the occupation of Japan is I can anticipate no change in Americas Pacific THE ARMYS chief of staff said he thinks American forces in Japan have a stabilizing influence in the Far East the entire Far At pre sent it is essential to maintain troops General battlefield who won fame in the south Pacific and avoided political declaring I am a military man in the political He saic his visit to the Far East has NO political HE SHOWED this when asked by a Japanese re porter what the United States would do if the Chinese Com took Some American military men have regarded Formosa as a neces sary link in the United States Pacific defense Collins said any reduction in the size of the occupation and a consequent trim ming of occupation costs for was beyond my ken field of He added See NO REDUCTION Page 3 Police Smash By Iranian Students TEHERAN policemen and five students were injured when a raiding party of 150 students tried to force their way into the office of the Iranian Minister of The students intended to demand a reversal of the law which switched responsibility Iranian students from the Finance Ministry to the Minis ry of The raiders overpowered 50 before a truckload of gendarmes arrived and fired shots in the air to disperse Police seized the ringleaders of the raid and put them into Toll Rises to 140 TORONTO death oil in the 17 fire aboard he steamer has risen o 140 with the death of Miss in a hospital Guard Frontiers Of Bradley Warns WASHINGTON eral Omar chairman of the Joint Chiefs of said that the Western demo must maintain their frontiers on the boundaries of that nation or group of na tions which threaten the wel fare of the Bradley warned the Inter American Defense up to plan for the defense of the if there is another world we will all be affected by it and many of the nations represented here will be in Without mentioning any na tion by Bradley and we also know that there is for the next 20 so far as we can figure only one source from which such a war could Bradley explained to the board members that the Unit ed States at present is chan more assistance to the nations of Western Europe than to those of our hemis He added First things must come first and there is no im mediate threat of aggression from communism our two He although it was a difficult assistance must go to those countries most exposed to the Communist cabinet will flee Canton Wed informed sources and the last Nationalist officials will leave by MILITARY REPORTS said Communist forces plunging southward had bypassed the last Nationalist defense force at 40 miles north of and were racing on without An official notice to foreign diplomatic representatives said the capital would be abandon ed by the Nationalist govern ment by next Un official hints passed out with the note advised foreign diplo mats to get out and not wait for OFFICIAL announcements said the new capital of Nationalist China would be established at Chungking It was that major government mili tary forces would go to the is land fortress of Chiang arrived at 25 miles downriver from Tuesday morning and called a conference of top and military RELIABLE SOURCES said the Nationalists discussed whether any defense of Can ton will be attempted after the government leaves the Premier Yen left the conference several hours later and took off by air for Li return ed to and the cruiser carrying Chiang sailed down river from The military situation on the northern front collapsed over night when the last Nationalist defense force under General Li abandoned Ying 70 miles north of and fell back on LONDON Chi nese diplomats in Britain have the Nationalist bassy said It was not clear why they Moch Stalls Acceptance Of French Premiers Post PARIS Moch tough Socialist Minister of th Interior who smashed the Com strike waves of 194 and agreed to try to form a new middle coalition govern President Vincent Auriol in the 56yearold cabine veteran to accept designation as premier Tuesday bu Moch withheld his decision His major problem will b winning support from th led by former Premie Paul who believe hat wageprice pro gram inevitably will lead ti seeking an end to he cabinet crisis UL LE Allied Council Meets Nothing Happens TOKYO 97th meeting of the Allied Counci or Japan opened and closed in stopwatch time Wednesday n a floodlighted Newsreel cameras were trainee n the Soviet Kuzma anc Chinese Minister in anticipation oi ome action by either party to show that their countries no Nothing happened maintained diplomatic Czech Police Grab Hundreds in Raids PRAGUE were reported to have of persons in a series of dawn raids carrying a mass of Czechs into its second One source said that this time was the worst of all in the seizure of persons to number in the The to be in the same categories as those arrested I exigencies of national throughout a week of small business former factory and holders of big blocks of real Winning Norwegian Election OSLO antiCommunist Labor govern ment Tuesday appeared well on the way to swelling its one vote majority in the Storting parliament as a result of Mondays With many votes still pre liminary surveys indicated at least five new seats would be won by Prime Minister Einar ruling Labor Vinson May Demand Naval WASHINGTON Carl Vinson has threatened to override Defense Secretary Louis Johnson and press for construction of a super aircraft carrier capable of launching naval atom powerful chairman of the House Armed Services said he might ask Congress to authorize the Navy to resume construction of its USS United plaguing called in rightist leaders Tuesday after Moch had informed him that they alone threatened to fight any coalition government sup porting his compromise wage price He said he had support from his own party and the Catholic Popular Republicans as well as conditional backing from the Radical problem is to decide whether the 313 votes he will have without support from 30 rightists area sufficient margin in the Na tional he must have 310 for a vote of one of Frances financial told newspapermen Tuesday he believed program of boosting the lowest bracket wages and slashing prices could only lead to a new de valuation of the Avelino Back in Manila After Barnstorming Tour MANILA Ave presidential candidate of his wing of the split Liberal has returned to Manila from a barnstorm ing tour of the central Philip Avelino will rest in Manila a few days and then resume his campaign in the Luzon President Elpidio who campaigned in northwest ern Luzon over the was expected to resume his political tours Nacion alista Candidate Jose Laurel s still confined to his residence due to an attack of Lama Against Thomas Announces CALCUTTA can radio broadcaster Lowell homas came out of forbidden Tibet and reported that the Dalai Lama wants help from he West against Thomas was carried into the utside world on a He injured his right hip when a horse threw him gainst a rock pile 70 miles rom the Dalai Lamas A plane brought him for
