Pacific Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 23, 1953, Tokyo, Japan RIPES UNOFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF UNITED STATES FAR EAST Entered as class matter in the Tokyo Central Post 0fflce October 1953 23 C o n t r o 1 of West Berlins shifted from the Socialists to the conservatives but all factions pledged unity on one common against city parliament elected DrY Waither Christian as lord mayor to succeed Socialist Ernst who died of a heart attack He will serve until the next municipal election in Schreiber got the 62 votes of the Christian Democrats and tire Free against 57 Socialist votes cast for Otto City Hall Minority Thus the the lead party in Berlin since the found in the minority at city The new who served as deputy to Reuter two years and as acting mayor since Reu ters immediately prom work for a coalition of parties in the anti tradition that Reuter Spokesmen for con servative wings said there Would be no change in the citys long established policy of resisting Soviet A shakeup of the on other matters is Routers old called the consisted of six four Christian Demo four Free Democrats and one Win Confidence Vote On Guiana Policy 23 Prime Minister Winston Church ills Conservative government won a vote of confidence today on in British Guiana where charged international Communist conspirators were trying to set up a Red The vote was 294 to The government won the vote of confidence when it defeated a vote of censure introduced in the House of Commons by the Labor Censure Tacked On The Conservatives introduced a motion approving the govern ments action in suspending the constitution in Guiana and send ing in troops to prevent a Red The Laborites tacked on an amendment containing the censure The Labor amendment em deplored the actions and speeches of the leftist Peo ples Progressive government in Guiana and condemned the methods tending to the establishment of a totalitarian but said suspending the constitution should have been the not the first Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyt earlier charged flatly that an international Communist conspiracy tried to set up a Red state in British Guiana and he demanded parliamentary val for the Deposed Premier Cheddi a handsome East Indian dentist who married an Amer ican and learned to pull teeth in sat in the distin strangers gallery along with his deposed educa tion of West Walter Schreiber victory cigar lit by his defeated op Otto who succeeds the late Ernst is leader of the conservative majority on West Berlin city like is a member of the Socialist AP Laos Gets Eyes State Office Tells Concern 23 UP State department express ed concern today over the differ ences between France and the Vietnam Department Spokesman Lin coln White said at a press con ference that while the negotia tions between the French and the Vietnamese on the inde issue are a matter between those two governments the department is obviously concerned any development which disturbs relations or coopera Thel spokesman made clear that such cooperation is regard ed in Washington as vital to to the success of French efforts to protect Vietnam against Communist Reds Make Bid The powerful French Com munist party bid strongly today to exploit public desire for Indo Chinese peace by offering to vote nonCommunist for the next premier in return for a to pull put of the war Party Leader Jacques 2 French dangled the bait as Premier Joseph Laniel prepared hand Vietnam a strong note asking a formal pledge of its intention to remain in the Laniel summoned Vietnamese high commissioner Prince Bu Luc to a meeting today at the hotel residence of Frances to present the note which followed a pub lic outcry over the possibility Vietnam would demand full in dependence once French Union soldiers won the The cabinet decided on the note to Emperor Bao after a congress of Vietnamese Na in Saigon voted last week to reject membership in the French Transportation Lack Halts RGR Leaves 23 has been suspend ed temporarily because of a curtailment of transporta headquarters an here An announcement concern ing the future operations of the program is expected next Pact Leaves Nation Under French Union 23 and Laos today signed a treaty of friendship and association which establishes the Indochinese kingdom as a fully independent and state but keeps it within the French President Vincent Auriol anc King Sisavang signed re for France and Laos in a brief ceremony in the French white the Ely sees climaxing days of negotiation over the exact terms of the agreement The document was the first of what the French hope will be a series of new accords with the Associated States of Indo Cambodia and In the first article of the France recognized Laos as a fully independent and sovereign it Laos will assume all rights and obligations under international treaties previously signed by the French on behalf of Under the second article the Laos freely re affirms its membership in the French which was des Continued on Page 4 Minute ManAA Gun Crews Planned By Wire Services SAN ay Army Secretary Robert Stevens said today the Army plans to make minute men out of national guard craft units in order to bolster the nations air Under the Stevens national guard antiaircraft bat talions would be up around Industrial areas and other vital UP The guardsmen would actually be stationed at the units but be on call in event of an much the same way that members of volunteer tire department are on call to to answer tire Minute Men They would be true minute men in every sense of the Stevens The Army secretary unveiled the plan a the National r Guard the past generally Page 2 nni In PW v f Slates t 23 prisoner met today with a warning from their chairman that running out in their efforts to break the deadlock over interviews with North Korean antiCommunist prisoners the told newsmen that the North Korean war captives had not yet sent any word to him in answer to his request that they peacefully attend AP re Polish and Czech members of the commission were present at this mornings having ended their walkout The Poles and Czechs on one side and the Swedes and Swiss on the other are deadlocked on whether to use force to drive North Korean prisoners before come back to commu nism The prisoners refuse to leave their compounds and the Swedes and supported by the majority vote of re fuse to force them No Suggestions Indian of the said he was going into todays meeting with no suggestions on how to solve the Asked about the possibility of an indefinite recess as he pro posed unsuccessfully said one side is against a He would not disclose which side opposed it but said it was a good Because time is running Continued on Page 3 23 told the world today it will build a major atomic power wars most de force to the construc tive uses of The announce ment was made by Thomas a member of the atom ic energy It is this natrons first full scale attempt to harness atomic energy for peaceful Murray termed the move Americas answer to recent Soviet atomic weapons Details Told Murray disclosed these de tails The AEC will build an in power reactor produc ing at least kilowatts of electrical Thats enough for a city of Cost Many tens of millions of Time Hopes are geared to having an operating plant in three or four Place The project may be located at or near an AEC facility for separating Uranium the fissionable material in the from natural ura The AEC has one such facil ity at Oak Its building others at and Rickover Named Boss Hyman George atomic reactor has been given the responsibility for the hew was chosen as be cause of his unique experience and accomplishments in build ing propulsion power reactors for the commission and the Another factor is that the power plant is of a design in from a naval The Westinghouse ion will be the principal con tractor Britain Constructs Atom Power Plant 23 Britain is building a fullscale atomic power plant and is ready to start work on a sup ply minister spokesman said The Announced last May by Supply Minister Duncan Sun days is under construction in the Calder hill area of A government spokesman said it supply around kilowatts to a big atomic re search The spokesman said the first power plant will be based on a conventional atomic pile con suming natural The he will use a breeder which con sumes uranium but at the same time produces fissionable pluto and so needs less refuel Airman Abandons Suicide Try After on Bridge Girder SAN 23 surefooted young airman with an inclination suicide played a deadly game of mouse with rescuers on the windswept girders of the San Francisco Bay bridge yes Then he changed his mind and gave up without a Jerold es was by saw him over railing on the of the bridge between Yerba Buena island and San Within minutes a contingent of highway patrol San Francisco firemen and Coast Guardsmen were on the A Coast Guard patrol boat cruised under the play ing a searchlight on the girders to assist At Harbor Emergency hospi the airman admitted he had gone onto the bridge to commit suicide but refused to Its none of your he
