European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 4, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse A thirdly february 4, 1950 the stars and stripes Page 3 1 a r us 118 he w str and he is. Smen Richall of be Areld on,.lay be on in nits nod Irenem re by Idy plan seen to slash l China population report says Russia wants 25% Cut f by Edward v. Roberts j Washington Fob. 3 up tie Moscow meeting of soviet and chinese communist leaders May produce a plan for reducing the chinese population by 100,000,000, a report reaching Here said. The report relayed 1 rom Asia pc part of a growing pattern of rumours and whispers about the secret Kremlin conference from which . Officials Hope to discern j Jhu truth. This particular report said the us1sr a d suggested China s 400,-i 000,000 population must be re dated by 100,000,000. I the soviet Contention was said to be based on the economic conclusion that China s population could not be supported on the re sources currently . Expert on the far East Yphile inclined to credit the idea said he thought the 100.000,000 Fig lire too ,high." the report did not suggest How tie reduction was to be Mccoin a lashed but diplomats Here Sug tested two alternatives. Kiey pointed out Tusit one thous report said the user was demanding that China make Avail Able a 500,000-Man labor Force pos Wibly to work on vast soviet defense i Jye tems in Siberia secondly they said Large scale purges of politically unreliable adherents of the communists appear possible. They pointed out such purges had taken place in every area hitherto Ujj Jecen Over by communism. I informed officials Here also \ speculated that the Success of red China s plea for economic assistance from the user they have reportedly asked for nearly $3,000, of quo might hinge upon such a senator asks new do curbs Washington feb. 3 up chairman Pat Mccarran a Nev of the Senate judiciary committee it Rudny introduced an amendment to Stop entry of displaced persons Fato the . Whenever More than 4,800,000 americans Are unemployed his proposal also would bring the do program to a halt whenever Ore than 2,000,000 married couples Are forced to live doubled up in i household. Mccarran an outspoken opponent of president Truman s drive to liberalize the displaced persons act called his prop Siil a minimum safeguard to protect the people of the United he said he will ask the Senate to Lack his new proposal onto the do Bill approved by his committee last week. That Bill would raise the two year 205,000 do quota to j5fl, k q in three Yean. It also would remove some but not All of the provisions of the current Law which 8te president has criticized As Dos Orin Tatary. Stalin s guilt placed above Hirohito s Washington feb. S a Joseph Keenan chief prosecutor Ai the japanese War crimes trials said today there is far More to try Stalin As a War. Criminal emperor Hirohito of he told reporters that an investigation by . And chinese official thoroughly disproved claims that the japanese dropped missiles con Taining cholera or bubonic plague germs from planes Over China Dur ing the War. He said the Tokyo trials showed that Hirohito constantly attempted to dissuade his ministers from precipitate action toward previous agreement cited the chief soviet prosecutor at the Tokyo trials Gen m. Gohosky signed agreement with the prosecutors of 10 Oiler nations that Hirohito should not be tried a a War criminal Keenan said. All prosecutors who signed voted on who should he tried. Golunska signed. There was no dissension Keenan added. He said that soviet Premier Joseph Stalin s guilt 89 a War crib final was based on documentary evidence produced at the Tokyo trials of a 1940 conspiracy among Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini and former japanese foreign minister Yosuke Matsuoka aimed at dividing up the world. Hitler invitation Hitler invited Stalin to join1koenan said. Soviet foreign min ister Molotov Thea went to Berlin and agreed in principle to Joia the Only question was wha Russia s share of the loot was to be. Stalin s terms included the Baltic states part of Poland bul Garia the largest part of Romania a fair part of Czechoslovakia and control of the Dardanelles these terms were unacceptable to Hitler and that is the Only Rea son Stalin would not join pit owners agree to truce descending to Hull of sunken sub a British diver prepares to descend to the sunken Hull at the us sub truculent where 64 died when the sub was rammed by a swedish Tanker in the thames Estuary. Acme second Bridges attorney cited for contempt san Francisco feb. 8 the second of Harry Bridges two sense attorneys was cited Lor contempt yesterday by Federal judge George Harris before whom Bridges and two co Tefend Fruto Are being tried on govern ment charges of perjury and Eon i Tracy. Harris ordered a citation drawn n defense counsel James Macon Nistor cult icing the Bench. Previously defense counsel Vincent Kailian Drew a similar citation i lawyer reported asking Fri probe Washington feb. 3 ins congressional sources asserted last night that a Junior partner in the former Law firm of Secretary of state Dean Acheson is circulating a petition demanding a congressional inquiry into the Federal Bureau of investigation. The petition is being circulated on the heels of the conviction of alg or Hiss As a perjured for deny ing lie gave secret government documents to a soviet spy ring. Acheson defended Hiss both beforehand after the conviction. The circulator in Charles a. Horsky Junior member of coving ton burling Rublee. S. Rian and Shorb. Acheson resigned trom this firm on appointment As Secretary of state. East German Trade group arrives in Moscow London feb. 3 a a Trade delegation from East Germany reached Moscow yesterday the official soviet news Agency Tass said today in a Moscow dispatch monitored Here Tass said Georg Handke. East German minister of internal Trade foreign Trade and Supply headed the group. . Rejects belgian loan Washington feb. 3 a the . Has rejected an informal re quest from Belgium for a $50,000,000 Lonn to finance a Public works pro Gram government officials Eaid to Day. Order revises secrecy rules Washington feb. 3 a president Truman yesterday said a new order spelling out secrecy restrictions on military matters follows a prewar order with Revi Sions to conform with the unification program. Or. Truman added that reporters will have to make their own interpretation of the order that he won t interpret it Lor them. The exit Viive order made Public wednesday night officially us def the top secret Tabel to three previous classes of secret material secret confidential 1 and re both the new order and the original issued March 22, 1940, provide penalties up to a year in jail and 51,000 Fine for picturing report ing or releasing for publication material in any of the Security classifications. Newsmen fire questions newsmen peppered the president with questions about the order today. Some said the ban against re3ease of certain restricted Docu ments might withhold from Publica Tion matters having nothing 10 do with Security. The president replied that the order is no different from one that has been in effect since before the last War. He said it did nothing More than revise the previous information program to take cognizance of the creation of the department of defense and the establishment of a separate air Force. Canada orders expulsion of 2 czech legation aids Ottawa feb. 3 a dynamite explosion Here wrecked the front of a Coal mining company store and office building and dam aged Postoff Iee quarters in the Sam Structure. The Columbus mining co. Store was damaged heavily by the explosion company officials said. The Postoff Iee housed in the building also was damaged. Perry county sheriff John grow said he has found no clue yet indicating who Jet off the charge or Why it was done. Winnie called a die hard London feb. 3 up labor prime minister Clement r. Attlee on the eve of the general election Campaign tonight described Winston Churchill As an unreconstructed hard Core tory who still lives i the past and who has never accepted the Conception of a democratic world of Attlee made known his views on major opponent in the feb. 23 election his Confidence in Victory my his belief that the major Elee Ion Issue was full employment in an interview with the editor of the daily Herald official newspaper of e labor party. Attlee also inducted among the our most inspiring occasions Dur no his four and a half years a crime minister the Day Gen George Marshall outlined the proposals Aid in a speech at Harvard University. Citizenship Bill okd Washington feb. 3 a the House yesterday passed and sent to the Senate a Bill to restore citizen hip to americana who lost it by voting in the italian elections in. 1946 Antl 1948. Army to try out new ratio # food packet designed for Arctic trails Washington feb. 3
