Pacific Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 17, 1949, Tokyo, Japan WEATHER October 18 pressure area still over On becoming cloudy at night maxi mum temperature Outlook for cloudy with STARS AND STRIPE Dont Delay Mail Christmas Gifts TODAY VOLUME NUMBER 247 SHARE THIS PAPER October 1949 SHARE THIS PAPER WIRE SERVICES 11 Reds Plan To Ask Bail Appeal NEW YORK 11 convicted Communist party leaders are expected to peti tion the Court of Appeals Monday to grant them freedom on bail while they appeal the Their bail was discon when the jury return ed a verdict of guilty against them last They were remanded to jail to await sen this when they may receive a maximum pe of ten years imprison ment and THE FIVE LAWYERS for the convicted under jail sentences ranging from 30 days to six months for contempt during the long they will ask the Court of Appeals to reverse Federal Judge Harold Medi nas remanding The attorneys are preparing motions for a new for an arrest of and a mo tion to quash their own con tempt sentences before the 15 deadline set for their surrender to the Marshal THE MOTIONS for a new trial will be based on a con tention that Judge Medinas charge to of eight and four men on Thursday contained interpre tations of the Constitution not in accord with any prior decision by the Supreme MOSCOW First Russian reaction to the New York court conviction of 11 Communist Communist leaders was contained Sat in a Tass report head lined rough The official Soviet News Agency said in a dispatch datelined New York and dis in Moscow that the vent the jury after Judge Harold Medina in accordance with usual dure instructed the jurors in their on the lega the account Medina resume was done with agains the Community party leader and was favorable to the pro which strove to at tain prohibition of the Com munist WASHINGTON successfu government prosecutor of the nations top 11 was nominated by President Truman today to be a fed eral Red Peril Quirino Warns MANILA Elpidio Quirino warned Fili pinos that the threat of com was nearer than most of us In a campaign talk before tenant farmers at Pani central he stressed ic proximity of China to icse islands and declared already the agents of dan erous ideology are in your midst and coming to you at ead of Through and intimidation they re forcing you to help them a form of life which would imprison not only your houghts but your Quirino warned that ua ess care is exercised in the presidential elec the Philippines may again uffer as it did during the It was an offhand reference o his chief presidential rivi Fose Laurel who is candi date of the Nacionalista n the 8 Quirino has been devoting most of his electioneering against Laurel who he puppet Philippine during the Japanese occupa Relieved as Hea Of South African Force JOHANNESBURG Field Marshal Jan Christiar Smuts has been relieved of his post as commander in chief o South Africas defense force in the field and placed on th retired Minister C Erasmus has sent a letter t Smuts telling him of the actio taken by the governor genera in China Policy Statement Se OTTAWA External Affairs Brooke Claxton told the Sous of Commons that the govern nient would make a statemen on its policy toward Chin after conferring with Ambas sador Davis who is en route Visiting At Hyde Park Acclaims FDR HYDE PARK rime Minister Jawaharlal andit Nehru arrived here he was met by He was taken to the Roose elt Memorial then to the grave site he placed a wreath on tie tomb of President Franklin X Later he lunched with at her on the Roosevelt Paying tribute to This is a great nd solemn moment for me n having the honor to come o the home of one of the greatest men of our genera Nehru said for many years he had hoped to meet Pres dent Roosevelt and that he was very grieved because he had never seen him Nehru paid tribute to Roosevelt herself for your great work for the cause of Roosevelt said she felt visit to the United States would be a great bene fit to this country because you bring us some of that moral strength that we feel so strongly in The Indian Prime Minister will dine later Monday with Publisher David Walsh and his wife who is novelist Pearl NEW YORK York City literally rolled out the red carpet Saturday to great Prime Minister Jawa Nehru of India on his arrival from Washington for a six day The red tional symbol of was spread for Nehru at LaGuardia Airport when he stepped from a Air Force Constellation On hand to receive the In dian Prime Minister was New Yorks number one welcomer Grover who extend ed to the distinguished visitor 1st Chi WALKER SAYS Army Chief of Staff General Lawton Collins right is shown getting a part ing handshake from Walton Eighth Army commanding before departing by plane for Washington from Haneda Tokyo Monday morn General Collins cut short his tour of FEC Army in in response to a request for his return from the Secretary of the Army Photo TOKYO Chief of Staff General Lawton Collins took off from Haneda airport for Washington at cutting short his tour of the Far East in order to testify before the House Armed Services committee on General Collins revealed he took despite his df Mayor William In Democratic Japan NEW YORK Washington corre for the New York said Sun day that a great proving ground for democracy versus communism lies in who recently re turned from a flying survey of Japan said the stakes are mighty intensified by the sweep of the Red Army through in his article pub Sunday by the Journal reported A Communist victory over democracy in Japan would have disastrous global rever Nuns Attacked in Bowery 153 Nabbed NEW YORK arrested 153 men on charges of disorderly conduct in a wholesale raid on the New Yorks street of forgotten an attack on two The nuns were en route to register for voting were attacked in broad daylight by three men described as habitues of the It was the largest arrest ever staged in the A night court magistrate gave 103 of them suspended sentences and sent the other 50 to jail for 30 stiff sentences for disorderly Five Injured in Downtown Naples Riot Italy persons were seriously injured and arrested during a riot between Communists and neo Fascists in downtown The injured were two police men and The riot broke out when the leader of the neoFascist Balkan Social addressed a mass rally of followers in th Piazza Several hundred Communists attacked tht neoFascists with stones and British Try To Reach Red Agreement WASHINGTON has been making an earnest effort to reach a practical working basis with th Chinese Communists in the current negotiations at Peiping diplomatic authorities said Russian Envoy to New China Arrives TOKYO Peiping Communist radio monitore by the United Press in Tokyo said first Russian ambassador to new presented his credentials t Chairman Mao of the Central Peoples Government on Sunday The Soviet ambassador was accom by 11 diplomatic personnel of the Soviet rush order to visit Oki nawa Sunday because I was so concerned about living con ditions General Collins was high in his praise of General Mac Arthurs use of American roops in the Occupation of He said he had been during his brief isit with the way General has bent over Backwards to give the Japa nese a fair troops lave encroached to a very HONGKONG munist columns sweeping through the Canton region to the south China Sea have split Nationalist China into three widely separated centers of Several minor Nationalist such as the island city of Amoy and the Chushan Islands are under attack and their quick liquidation is OTHER Nationalist fronts are buckling under pressure Steamer By Reds Guns HONGKONG munist guns bombarded the British steamer Anhui when it was leaving killing three Chinese passengers and wounding 25 The Anhui arrived at Hong kong Sunday with three shell carrying ers fleeing from the Red threatened The dead consisted of a young a woman and a little girl aged Officers said the vessel was under fire for 15 minutes dur which over 20 shells from Red land batteries straddled the ship 20 minutes after it left Red fascism would Europe under the A ist Japan would drop all Asia vith its billion population and resources into the lap f Red A Communist Japan would American defense in the aying bare the West Coast of TOKYO got to do something about hous ing conditions at Army Chief of Staff Lawton Collins said before boarding his plane to speed back to Wash Okinawa suffered ty phoon damage the home knew how things were they wouldnt stand for He ad Okinawa has the requi sites of an excellent Its airfields still are but he United States Once to Soviet General 5ouglas MacArthur is holding he He is licking communism in There never was a more fertile field for sowing Com munist seeds than when the irst United States groups land ed in Japan on Cities were The nation was in economic The population was from the Japans vaunted militarist threw in their The Japanese em peror publicly renounced his The war cost Japan the lives of soldiers and mostly young Three million houses were leaving persons Japans financial loss from the war amounted to onefourth of its na tional Grief and to be fomented with hatred of the conqueror Here was a per fect recipe as prescribed by and Stalin for brewing of communism in a witchs Moscow vetoed any peace treaty with Japan and bided time to pluck the red plum in the A detailed saga of how General MacArthur brought order out of chaos is on Within a few years of the the Japa nese nation has rejected Red fascism and is eagerly seek ing the American way of Even in Hiroshima and the the Japanese Communists See PROVING GROUND Col 3 some maintenance work is of Galled back from tion trip to tell the Armed Ser vices Committee the Armys in the dispute over Collins declin ed to reveal what he will say to Navy charges the Army and Air Force representatives combined to outvote the Navy He likewise declined com ment on the strategic import ance of or to extend his remarks on the politica value of holding Bu he was voluble in praise o what American troops have done in Japan and of the co operation shown by the Japa on the Japanese For up around Sendai they have gone nto the hills for field training o avoid interfering with the areas economic He said he Had found Ameri can coming along fine in that part of area he visited sefore his inspection tour was Ive been delight ed with what Ive Were getting the troops back into fighting shape He cited for particular praise a simulated infantry using live by a company of the Seventh Divi Those men were really absorbed in Youd have thought a real war was Collins avoided all questions on his testimony before the House committee regarding Armed Forces He pointed out that hehad not been a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff when the strategic decisions regarding the and Air Forces roles were He said he not the op on his current trip to estimate the soundness of Navy claims that its morale was being wrecked by the Defense Departments HONGKONG munist taking over the whole of the frontier between this British crown colony and warring China Sunday and were expected to be in complete control by mid The Nationalist to was evacuating Canton by junk across the Pearl River to Chungshan to be to Nationalist reconnaissance showed that the last National ists were rushing to an evacua tion point at on the peninsula just east of the deep There a fleet of junks was taking them across the Pearl of the Red spurred on by the unopposed occupation of Canton About Nationalist troops confront the attackers who outnumber them at least four to 600 miles by air Nationalists Fire On Flying Trader NEW YORK American steamship Flying Trader has reported to her that she was fired on by a Chinese Nationalist vessel while leaving Shang hai The President Isbrandtsen of the Is Steamship said the Flying Trader re ported the action took place outside Chinese territorial The ship carried 50 crew men and and a cargo worth about He said he had notified the State Department of the report because it is time all that sort of thing is WASHINGTON The Chinese Nationalists have apparently released the American freighter Fly ing Trader which a Nation alist warship had halted with gunfire off presi dent of the Isbrandtsen Steamship of New owners of the tele phoned the United Press from New York that he had received a mes sage that the ship was underway He had no other details and could not say definitely if the ves sel was free of her of Canton and the lew seat of the Nationalist is one of the defense Guard ng the northern and eastern to Province are about troops under Generals lu and Sung CENTERED at 250 miles northwest of 5s he best Nationalist an estimated men under Jeneral Pai More than 350 miles south ast of Pai is nomi lally linked with that jut for all practical purposes s The intervening province of Kweichow is vir defenseless and is the Reds for the obviously aware of s keeping lines of communi cation open south and south west to the Gulf of Tonkin and he IndoChina 250 miles from THE BULK of the man garrison that flew west rom Canton apparently is try ng to join Pai but the Reds are in close The third main Nationalist and probably the for the Reds to s Chiang island fortress of 100 miles off the east China To reach the Communists would have to cross the open sea amphibiously and face an estimated troops when they That unless re sistance is nullified in some Roses Hubby Returning TOKYO husband of Tokyo is on his way back to He sailed from San Francisco His visa has an expiration date of The States Lines vessel will return him about 27 the Associated Press learned Moch Vows Lineup PAR IS Premier said Sun day he will complete formation of the new French cabinet who has been trying to set lip a coalition govern for three told reporters France will have a govern ment Monday at When I take a stand I keep Peo ple will have to get used to He made the announcement it had been rumored Moch might have to abandon his job of inability vorking agreement with othe Moch was reported to hav to form an al ocialist His chie difficulty was the bitter con over how to hold ge and price lines which brought the fall of the previous Laborites Rush Program To Avert Economic Ruin LONDON UP Prime Minister Clement labor government rushed work Sun day on an emergency program designed to save the British from a possible economic Dun kirk in the wake of devalua Attlee ordered his cabinet economic committee to finish the program over the weekend to meet the challenge of Con servative leader Winston The labor governments pro gram expected to include new economy and austerity meas Sunday when he declared the has planned meas ures bound to be unpleasant o us Morrison spoke at Doncaster at a Labor party He ures will be presented by Att lee or Chancellor of the quer Sir Stafford Cripps to the House of Commons when it meets in irregular session next Attlee has called a cabinet meeting for Tuesday to give the program a last minute study just a few hours before Parliament DONCASTER ish Deputy Prime Minister Herbert Morrison hinted al 1 further government austerities You will soon be hearing of the governments decision to bring the British economy into Some of the deci sions are bound to be sant to us all but they are far less unpleasant than the alter native of drifting into econo mic chaos and unemploy Morrison urged that his listeners not be discouraged or misled by what he called defeatist LONDON Sun day Pictorial reported that Winston Churchill led its poll of favorites for prime min ister if the Conservatives win in the next Churchill received votes against for Anthony deputy leader of the Tory Bulgars Involved Smuggler Ring VIENNA of Interior probing a smuggling announced that they had definite proof that the Bulgarian Legation here had shipped thousands of by diplomatic transaction out of In his Max Schwarz and Herbert Brecher were arrested earlier along with eight Communist police officers and some 20 Austrian government officials and mer According to police reports the ring bought up essential metals and textiles in Austria and shipped them to the Eas by the Danube Shipping Investigation was suspended over one month during the national election Ministry officials said arrested six Austrian driver of the Bulgarian Legation who had driven special truck with Bulgarian license plates These officials said were used to transport ille to the East under protection o Bulgarian diplomatic trans Authorities said bribed Au trian officials had sold ball bearings to representatives o Brannan Calls For Basin Plan The Popular MRP agreed Republicans after hard WASHINGTON of Agriculture Charles Brannan has asked Congress to authorize a 30year agricultural con servation program for the great Missouri The program calls for tripl ing efforts to make the basin secure against and an other great It was made public last Its submission to Congress was delayed pending Budget Bureau In forwarding the proposals to Brannan said Sec of Interior Julius Krug had raised some objec tions to the program and that complete reconciliation of views could not be WASHINGTON James Kem said Saturday night that Secretary of Agri culture Charles Brannan vio lated Recovery Act by approving shipments of Canadian wheat to Britain under the Marshall bargaining to take the un popular finance and economic portfolios provided Moch could agreement by other cey parties to his economic This stipulation made neces sary a new round of talks between Moch and other party i after its 75cenf Wage In Senate Talks WASHINGTON House and Senate INS conferees have agreed on a 75centan hour minimum wage which would go into effect 90 days Moch has been on uncertain ground because of the no confirmation given him by 311 members of he French Assembly The conferees said that the would bring 300 million dollars in wage increases at least one million The measure is still subject to Senate and House Two Others Hanged At Budapest for Treason BUDAPEST charges that they spied for the Hungarian Foreign Minister Laszlo and two others in the celebrated Titoist trial were hanged Saturday United States and i A foreign ministry spokes Egyptians Given Life For Premiers Death CAIRO mem bers of the outlawed Moslem Brotherhood were sentenced to life imprisonment for their part in the murder of Egyptian Premier Pasha on They were the accomplices of Abdel Ahmad sentenced to death last Sunday for the actual Ten other also mem bers of the were acquitted on grounds of in man announced the executions former 2 Com munist leader Tibor and Andras the Bulgarian sufficient Their appeals were rejected by the Hungarian supreme They were sentenced to death 24 after a week long trial in which they ab pleaded guilty to the and seven other de fendants said they plotted to overthrow the regime to create one which was and instead of The other defendants receiv ed jail
