Pacific Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 31, 1949, Tokyo, Japan WEATHER FORECAST January 1 Low pressure center to pass To kyo area early Sunday occasional snow clearing early Monday Maximum temperature 47 Mini Outlook lot fair and STAR AND IPES Train Falls into River Argentina A passenger express train crashed into the river when a bridge collapsed over the Rip The number victims was not immediately VOLUME NUMBER 312 SHARE THIS PAPER December 1949 SHARE THIS PAPER WIRE SERVICES India Recognizes Communist China Joint Chiefs To Visit FE In February WASHINGTON UP United States top military lead ers will visit the Far East early in February for a firsthand on the China The Defense Department said the Chiefs of Stafl will make a personal tour of inspection to Hawaii and Japan to survey the IN JAPAN they will get a full report on the China situation from General Douglas who is reported tobe urging firm action to keep the Chinese Communists from seizing The Defense Department that the Navy and Air Force leaders will not visit THE ANNOUNCEMENT said the trip had been contem plated for several months but that this was the first time in which all of the chiefs could get away They are General Omar chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Admiral chief of naval General Hoyt Air Force chief of The Joint Chiefs of Staff had previously visited the Austrian and Alas kan A SPOKESMAN said the four top military officers will not visit either the Philippines or Korea on this The announcement did not specifically mention the China situation but its timing plainly linked the military trip to the troubled Asiatic William Knowland urged the State Department Friday to put pressure on Bri tain to withhold recognition from the new Chinese Com munist Fan Leaves Estate To Actress Sheridan SAN FRANCISCO David 67yearold leaving his entire estate to his favorite movie Ann In a beautifully penned will written in Johnson said he was giving to my beloved Ann picture and to no one of Holly care of Warner the contents of my safe The cash in the safe box amounted to Jh Johnsons rodm authori ties found hundreds of pictures of the onetime oomph girl Tokyo Soldier Goes Berserk Slays Self TOKYO Army authorities said an enlisted man went berserk Friday killing two Japanese and himself and slightly wounding a Japanese police The whose identity is withheld pending notifica tion of of shot 19 yearold Ito in her hornin the Sakamoto He fled in a About ten minutes later shots from the rickshaw slight ly injured a Japanese police killed Gihei who happened to be walking along the the The soldier then went to the Provost Marshals enter ing by a rear door shouting Whats the matter with you you find a mur derer He then put a pistol to his temple and He died in Tokyo General Hospitals re An Army press release said in part A soldier recently assigned to duty in Tokyo committed suicide Friday night by shoot ing himself in the head after he had shot and killed two Japanese nationals and wound ed a Japanese The soldier went berserk about 7 in home of a Japanese national in the Saka moto district where he shot and killed Hiroko a Japa nese He left in a rick shaw and approximately ten minutes later shot and killed a Japanese He also shot Akio a Japanese The bullet struck a fountain pen and metal inflicting a minor flesh Chiang To Broadcast HONGKONG Central News Agency dispatch from Formosa said General issimo Chiang will make a New Years Eve broad cast to the Chinese people at Saturday 10 Tokyo It said the generalissimo will review the events of the past Treaty Signed Nam Gets Greater Powers SAIGON Fri day bestowed a large measure of domestic sovereignty on Viet Nam in French High Commissioner Leon Pignon and former Em peror Bao Dai signed the agreement giving IndoChinese greater control over their own persons watched the ceremonies atthe city hall Bao Dai heads a French backed IndoChinese govern ment which is opposed by the nationalist forces of Moscow trained Ho Chi The agreement implements a treaty signed last March by Bao Dai and French President Vincent Auriol That which the French Parliament still must ratify gives the new IndoChinese state of Viet Nam a sort of dominion Viet Nam includes the IndoChinese coastal states Annam The agreement signed Fri day gives the Bao Dai govern ment control of local courts dealing with Viet police primary anc secondary education and loca French pros will serve in the courts at Saigon and Haiphong for ten The French High Commis will retain reduced security forces under his com mand and mixed courts will settle disputes between the Viet and other citizens of the French Calls VA Negligent Toward Mentally III WASHINGTON Veterans of Foreign Wars have accused the Veterans Ad ministration of failing to pro tect the right of veterans who are no longer able to protect their own VFW rehabilitation director George Ijams leveled the charge in a letter to assistant VA administrator Willis Ho He chided the agency its concern over the failure of many families to visit veterans in view of VAs failure to protect the rights of hundreds of these The agency said in a public appeal earlier this week that hundreds of such veterans might be rehabilitated if their family ties could be a firm Historians doubt the acy of the legend that Betsy Ross designed the Stars and Cochran Discusses Loan with Sukarno JOGJAKARTA Merle first American ambassador to the United States of presented his credentials to President Sukarno and the two immediately began the possibility of an American loan to the Cochran told reporters after the meeting that he outlined to Sukarno the requirements necessary for a loan by the United States ExportImport but we are leav ing it up to them to make an Error Caused Crash NEW DELHI Indian government inquiry committee Friday reported a pilots error of judgment was the direct cause of the crash of the Dutch KLM Constella tion that killed 13 American Hews correspondents near Bombay July The correspondents were among the 45 persons who died in the They were turning from a tour of Indo Reds Restrict Travel HONGKONG munist officials have clamped down on movement of Chinese civilians in and out of the big south China metropolis of Chinese press dispatches from that city said that all exit permits to resident for leaving the city have been sus Stringent restrictions also have been placed upon people coming into the Building Bids Sought TOKYO States Army engineers have invited Japanese suppliers to bid on construction equipment and supplies re quired in the extensive con struction program now getting underway on Pro authorities are seek ing catalogs of building ma terials and supplies from Japanese Bidault Wins Vote PARIS Georges Bidault won an un expectedly confidence decisive victory vote of in the French National Assembly in his second major showdown on his bitterly contested high tax budget for In two successive votes on the budget articles calling for increased the As sembly the chief of Frances coali tion government an impres sive 18vote RING OUT THE RING IN THE Richard 1 Vz yearold son of and John Information Headquarters Eighth is shown above depicting the New Old ori the left is holding a scythe anc depicts 1949passing from Army Photo Top Level Commands Shaken Up Navy To Retire Kinkaid WASHINGTON Navy Friday night announced a shakeup of top admirals that included the retirement of Admiral William Atlantic fleet and Admiral Thomas Eastern Sea Frontier com The Navy said Blandy will retire 1 and be succeeded as Atlantic fleet commander by Vice William a deputy chief of naval opera Blandy was commander of Operations Crossroads which conducted the atomic bomb tests at Bikini in Kinkaid will down on May 1 and be succeeded as commander of the Eastern Sea Frontier by Vice Oscar Vice Robert a deputy chief of naval opera will succeed Vice Donald Duncan as com Economy Rise To Truman Advisers Predict WASHINGTON President Trumans top eco nomic advisers have predict ed that the economy will con to expand in but warned that in later years it may suffer periodic The Presidents council of economic advisers also said in its fourth annual report to Truman that another depres sion like that of the 1930s could destroy the American system of free enterprise and ree The council made no spe but it hinted that it might favor standby price and wage con rols after saying that the wartime controls were abo ished too soon and that rent control still is mander of the Atlantic Second Task Fleet in Carney will be succeeded by Vice Adm Francis now conduct ing a special survey of anti submarine Duncan will relieve Vice Arthur Struble as a deputy chief of naval opera with Struble for a Pacific Fleet Rear John now commander of Fleet Air at will re lieve Vice Calvin Dur gin as deputy chief of naval operations for Durgin will succeed Vice Gerald Bogan as commander of the Pacific First Task Bogan will be given an aeronautical shore prob ably that vacated by Cassady at Like Bogan figured prominently in the unification It was a letter from Bogan to Secretary of the Navy Francis Matthews which helped touch off a con gressional investigation of the The which tore the indorsements of Admiral Louis then chief of naval and Admiral Ar thur Pacific Fleet said that Navy morale had fallen almost to despondency under the De fense Departments unification Airline Sues Rios WASHINGTON ern Airlines Friday sued Boli vian pilot Eric Rios Bridoux for for recklessly ramming its passenger plane here 1 in an accident which killed 55 In a suit filed in dis the airline asked damages for loss of the nlane It made no claim for other Pistols Issued to Officers Of Japans Coast Guard TOKYO Guard officers have 3een issued pistols as a SCAT in Tokyo has Up tr the Coast Guard was un The Maritime Safety Board las been assigned pis for distribution among its of whom 620 are aboard Coast Guard Each vessel carries three o four No on Monday Pacific Stars and Stripes will not be in observance of the official Reg ular publication schedules will be resumed Reds Repulsed On Two Islands In Invasion Tries HONGKONG Communist attempts to lane on two islands of retreat off the mainland have been government re ports said The most determined Rec attempt was against Matsu Island off the Chinas eas coast about 100 miles north west of the Nationalist strong hold on the officia Central News Agency The second was a smaller feeler operation against Hai big island off the south But the Nationalists as that even here the at tackers lost These claims coincided with the first reliable reports that the Communists have infiltration of Formosa itself These accounts said Red troops made isolated landings from junks along Formosas long then vanished into the The assault on Matsu ap the most Many military observers believe the Reds must subjugate Matsu and strongly defended Quemoy about 160 miles to the southwest before attempting the bid operation against For Both islands help to screen as does the blockade base of Chusan nearly 300 miles north of Central News said several thousand Communist troops landed on Matsu Christmas night from a nearby island and were repulsed with heavy Nationalist military sources said Matsu is being reinforced against another Red attack ex at any Na warships assisted the defense by bombarding Red positions on the Min River delta opposite Boy Friend Queried In Socialites Death LOS ANGELES San Marino was found shot Friday and her aoy oilman John is being questioned by The blonde beauty who in the news in 1936 when she filed a dollar suit against he late radio executive Don was found lying in a pool of blood in the living room of icr surrendered to police for questioning by his attor told authorities Miss Mc aughlin shot herself in the climax to a lovers He aid when he ran to investi gate the shot he found the gun her NEW DELHI government and Generalis recognized the Chinese Comt simo Chiang Na government severed diplomatic LONDON reports said Can ada would announce its recognition of the Chinese Communists after the Com conference in Colo which starts 9 and closes another British do is expected to an recognition when Brit ish Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin arrives for the confer ence next SIMILAR announcements by South Africa and Pakistan are anticipated Responsible French quarters in London said the French government was ready to rec Communist China as soon as arrangements can ha made with other Western pow THE CHINESE Nationalist flag still fluttered above the Nationalist embassy here dur ing the afternoon but diplomats gave a farewell party for Nationalist ambassador Chia who announced he had been instructed by the Nationalist government to withdraw his in the Nationalists announced sever ing of relations with AFTER the New Delhi China told the The un fortunate consequences of the recognition munist regime in Peiping Friday and official London re ports said Australia and New Zealand would follow next week on INDIAS action as the first British Commonwealth coun try to recognize the Chinese Communists was announced in an official At the same the Indian Urgency Given To Ceylon Talk By Indias Nod LONDON lead as the first Commonwealth member to recognize Com munist China gave new ur gency to the Commonwealth ministers conference which opens 9 at One of the first effects of Indias initiative is widely ex here to be an Indian proposal at the conference for Burmas membership in the Burma was the first non Communist country to re cognize Mao Chinese It is known that both Great Britain and India have long considered the manysided war in Burma as a danger to the security of all southern There is a fear that Com may infiltrate into Burma and manage to cripple Burmese economy Large British and Indian investments in Burma and the importance of Burmese ex ports to the rest of Asia make that country of the greatest Snow Checks Threat Of Northwest Floods Canadian cold front moved into the Pacific Fri temporarily checking the threat of floods but adding fresh snow to the storm plagued Rivers in both Washington state and British Columbia were expected to recede as freezing temperatures turned rain into snow and trapped moisture in the higher moun ain British mean was laboring to dig out from under a 30inch of snow which slowed transportation and cut com with the rest of he Snowdrifts in the interior were reported to be from ten to 20 feet deep at places and nowhere was the blanket of snow less than 30 Communist of the Chinese regime will be Korea Gives Nod SEOUL Republic of Korea Friday recognized he United States of borne out by history what my government and people are fighting for is the common cause of freedom which should be dear to the hearts of all WASHINGTON Department spokesman Mi chael McDermott refused to comment on Indias of the Chinese He said the action was In dias own and its High State Department that India kept the United States fully informed of its plans and that the other governments are do ing the They refused to say whether any other governments have notified the United States of the dates on which they intend to recognize the Chinese Com Top Jet Engine For Commercial Use WASHINGTON Civil Aeronautics Administra tion has approved for commer cial use the most powerful jet engine currently in production in the United made by General It delivers of thrust or driving rough ly equivalent to horse power at 375 miles an General Electric pointed out that Canada and Britain are producing jet transports and said CAA approval of its en gine clears the way for its installation when jet trans ports get beyond the drawing board stage in this Plans Retaliation against Satellites WASHINGTON State Department Friday stern ures against Russian satellites or mistreatment of Ameri cans with the growing ibility that it may close Polish and Czech consulates in the Lewis Charged WASHINGTON court action to restore the five day work weekin the Southern Coal Producers Association hern filed law violation charges against United Mine Workers John Lewis in the rowing industry drive for Truman Backs Shah WASHINGTON dent Truman Friday assured the shah of Iran the United States will support Iranian re quests for loans from the World Truman also in formed the shah that the intends to help the Iranian government through the Point Four program which the Pres ident has proposed to Con Star Flees Fire BEVERLY Loretta Young and her three children fled unharmed from their suburban home as a brush fire raced to wards them across a nearby Three hundred firefighters controlled the flames and no homes were Pastoral Prostitution BOISE Baptist minister and his wife pleaded guilty Saturday to vagrancy charges after admitting they had resorted to prostitution because the 38yearold pastor couldnt support his wife and three children on a clergy mans Boise police iden the couple as Roy Butler and his Gas Plant Burns DETROIT sion by a fire roared through a gasoline plant Friday injuring at least six persons and spewing flames 200 feet into the Academy Bids High WASHINGTON than 150 municipalities throughout the country have made bids for the site of the proposed Air Force an Air Force spokesman has
