Pacific Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 28, 1948, Tokyo, Japan Weather forecast wednesday High Low condition Tokyo. 76 go fair Kyoto 78 60 fair Seoul 76 55 Cloud Sapporo. 60 40 fair stars and b i k i is City edition volume 4, number 227 share this paper tuesday september 28, 1948 share this paper up Apins Apps wire services of Fer,1, 4 Fil air rules of Walter Rundle Berlin. Sept. 28 up United states sources said today that Russia has filed with the four Power air safety Center he re a list of regulations which would knockout the Western air lift supplying blockaded Berlin. The proposed soviet rules would forbid instrument flights mainstay of the Berlin Supply run and would give f m Hiss seeks to Clear name of red charges Baltimore sept. 28 up Alger Hiss former state department official sought to Clear his name of communist give russian authorities the right to turn away any plane seeking to land at Tempelhof air drome in the . russians reportedly tried to Force the americans to accept the regulations. They insisted that the new Rule were now governing flights. But the proposed rules were rejected flatly by the Amer ican British and French Mili tary american official said thou can sum up the regulations in a few words they would make the air lift impossible the Sovie t Effort to choke the Aerial operation off through rules was disclosed As opera Tion titties went past its Hundredth Day. The regulations would provide j night flights along the air corridors Are would eliminate Between 50 and 69 per cent of the Traff Clow supplying Berlin. 2 flights through dense Clouds Are that would Knock out 30 to 50 percent of daytime traffic on a weather bases. 3 flights Over the various National sectors of greater Berlin will be made Only on permission of the appropriate command. Since the traffic patterns for All landings an departures at Tempelhof air drome have to Cross the soviet sector the russians Wouldhave veto Power Over every plane using the main Field in the operation.4 flights Are forbidden in All cases in which there storms Thunder hurricanes log icing conditions etc., along ice route or in the Vicinity of Landing or take off fields.", another provision which . Officials described Asim possible would require All other air control officers to in form the soviet controller of All proposed flights along Theair corridors and Over. Berlin at least one Day before the Dat of a Washington sept. 28 up diplomatic officials re ported that Russia is making periodic attempts to restrict flights of american and British planes into Vienna in the soviet controlled zone of Austria. Soviet efforts prompted offi Cial concern Over the possibility of a blockade . Berlin. F of Vienna 28 ins a authoritative big three Western source asserted yesterday that the Berlin air lift will be defended with All re sources at our disposal against any soviet attempts at phys Cial interference. The spokesman declared the. West is ready to assign fighter planes to protect unarmed air lift transport Craft if his statement came As fears were expressed in Paris of Sharp soviet reaction to the Western move to submit Heberlin Issue to the Security Council. An icy wave of pessimism spread Over the United nations delegates and there was wide spread apprehension that the soviets May retaliate to the Western decision to break of negotiations by attempting physical interference with the Airlift one Western official said the russians can Block the Airlift without actually shooting Down transport planes by sending regular formation nights Over american and British air domes in a tactic he said would make it extremely difficult if i of impossible for Western planes to keep up a steady Stream of Supply flights. 3 2 killed 30 injured Jar. In Tanker explosion Buenos Aires sept. 28 ins the explosion of an Oil Tanker in the Argentine port of Campana yesterday left two persons dead and More than 30 injured. The ship the Esso Salta was in the process of unloading 4,000 tons of Oil from Venezuela when it was struck by lightning. Following the blast the vessel burned and Sank. I charges by filing a $50,000 slander suit against his accuser time Magazine editor Whittaker Chambers. Hiss told the Federal court Here that he had been brought into Public odium arid con tempt and has suffered great pain and mental anguish be cause of Chambers untrue and false and defamatory accusations. The court action resulted from charges which Chambers avowed former communist made last month before the House in american activities committee and later repeated in part during a nationwide radio told the committee that Hiss now president of the Carnegie endowment for inter National peace was a leading figure in a prewar communist underground working inside the Federal government. Hiss flatly denied the charge under oath and dared Cham Bers to repeat it outside the congressional , where All statements Are immune from slander prosecution. The time editor accepted the Challenge a few Days later. Interviewed f on a Mutual network s meet the press radio program he said Alger Hiss was a communist an May be Bevin blames Russia for crisis Bevin and Marshall meet terror reign says soviets responsible in Albania due if atomic War hits world to slav break photo photo above shows Ernest Bevin left British foreign Secretary and George c. Marshall Secretary of state of the United states at the meeting of the in general Assembly in Paris at which Bevin blasted the russians and charged them with responsibility if a new War comes. under consideration election affects labor says Green Washington sept. 28up Al president William Green said today that the whole future of labor will be affected by the outcome of the november in a nationwide radio Broad cast Green exhorted Union members to Register and vote this fall he explained that the Al league for political education has not endorsed nor will it endorse any political party As a whole nor any party but he noted that the league has compiled a pamphlet show ing the voting records of every member of Congress to guide Al voters. Workers troubled by High prices housing shortage and other current ills have Only themselves to blame. Green t blame Congress he declared blame yourselves and millions of other Ameri cans who failed to vote in 1946 and thereby failed to elect a Congress which would truly represent food shortage seen san Francisco sept.28 Washington sept. 28 up there is Little pro Spect of private american capital playing a major Rolen foreign recovery according o a study made by the Brook Ings study conducted by the Institute s or. Cleona Lewis said that while american capacity for accommodating cans abroad is Large the capacity for Aid receiving nations to sarvic3 Jach Loans is Sovare civil War May Rome sept 28 up an estimated 300,000 italians turned out in a communist show of strength and heard Palmiro Togliatti declare his attempted assassination Hac created a climate for Civi War which May yet come to Italy. Togliatti spoke directly about 40,000 persons who jammed into the stadium of Marble at the sports grounds Mussolini built it was the communist Leader s first pub Lic speech since tie july 14 attempt on his life. The others in the Mammoth crowd who came to the first communist conclave since the april elections attracted by a Daylong program of wrestling boxing cycling athletics and medieval joust ing heard the speech from hundreds of loud speakers which blared Over a half Mil radius. Togliatti spoke for about 40 minutes. His voice was weak at first but returned to its old Power As he denounced the government As imperialist warmongers he called the assassination attempt f for me and for he charged that the act was premeditated and created a climate for civil War which May yet bring its russian Public unaware of event Moscow sept. 28 up the decision of the Western Powers to take the Berli crisis to the Security Council was not made Public Here to Day. There was no official Conr ment. It was pointed out that the soviet position regarding the jurisdiction of the unite nations on the German prob Lem was stated strongly and clearly in a recent comment by pravda on the reports by United nations Secretary general Trygve lie in which Yakow Victorov pravda s for eign editor wrote Trygve lie s report tries to go be mond the framework of questions within the jurisdiction of the United nations. For instance he permits the possibility of raising questions regarding Germany though his excellency knows the peace and consequently the German question lies within the exclusive t jurisdiction of the Council of foreign min Belgrade sept. 28 a resistance to the albanian government s split with Premier marshal Tito of Yugoslavia has caused reign of terror in Albania it was reported today. The reports said albanian authorities have issued orders for their militia to shoot on the spot anyone showing pro yugoslav sympathies. The montenegrin people s front newspaper probed published in Tesine capital of Montenegro near the albanian Border was the source of the dispatches printed in Belgrade. Newspaper said Many albanians were fleeing into Yugo Slavia including army office Sand militia men. It was one of these militia who said he had received orders to shoot any one showing sympathy for has alighted herself with the co inform in it denunciation of Tito. The split has Cut off the tiny country from land communication with the other soviet satellites since Albania s Only neighbors Are Yugoslavia and Greece. The reports supplement unofficial information received Here during weekend thai there Are Many armed ban sin the mountains of the wild newspapers quoted an albanian militiamen As saying most of the people do not be Lieve in the slanders the newspaper said hundreds ref persons including Heads of local govern ments and other officials,.havebeen arrested. Still greater numbers Are said to have fled into the mountains. These facts added to an increasingly critical food Situa Tion Lead observers Here to be Lieve the unrest might possibly flare into open revolt. Four charged in atom conspiracy Washington sept. 28 up the House in Ameri can activities committee charged four persons including two american. Scientists and a communist party official with attempting to steal atomic secrets for Russia. In a 36-Page report to con Gress the committee called for indictment for a Clear Case of conspiracy to commit espionage of these persons Clarence Francis Hiskey chemistry professor at the polytechnic Institute Brook Lyn . He worked on Ato Mic research at Columbia and Chicago universities during the War. The committee said Marcia Sand Hiskey s former wife helped Hiskey arrange contacts with a mysterious soviet super spy known As Arthur Alexandrvich Adams. John Hitchcock Chapin a chemist who worked with his key on the Manhattan atomic bomb project at Columbia and Chicago. He is new employed at a brewery in Newark . Bit player slain Young Marine held Hollywood sept. 28 up police today investigated the murder of movie bit player Henry Schwab 30, who was found beaten to death in his apartment. Mrs. Anna rados Schwab s Landlady found his body yesterday. Detectives said the actor s Skull was smashed and that his body had lain in the apartment about 10 Days. His rooms showed no evidence of struggle but the Telephone wire had been Cut. A 17-year old Marine Jero me k. Leaf of the Eltoro Alif-., Marine base came to the _ apartment looking for Schwab shortly after police arrived. He was held for questioning. In braces for Brawl by r. H. Shackford Paris sept. 28 up As the United nations braced it self for the East West propaganda Brawl Over the Ber Lin Issue in the in Security Council there was a growing belief that the soviet Union would Challenge the Council s right to discuss the matter. The soviet Challenge would be based on article 107 of the in charter which specifically relegates the matter of the Japan peace treaty As Well As of Germany to conferences among the victorious Powers. On the eve of the mos historic tug of words in the United nations Short life Marshall Bevin and Schuman decided to make urgent their complaint that the crisis i Germany has been precipitated by Russia and threatens world peace. Effect of submitting the complaint As urgent to remove the Normal three Day waiting period and allow immediate consideration of the threat to peace Issue. Soviet newspapers already have indicted that Russia will invoke article 107. And american British and French diplomats freely admitted that Russia s veto Power in the Council would nullify any at tempted action. But they declared that the main accomplishment in those circumstances would be to bring into the world spot Light the whole history of the negotiations Over the beleaguered German capital which Western observers Are confident will result in world indictment tactics. Of soviet China reds begin fall offensive banking sept. 28 a with the fall of Tainan the communists fall offensive against nationalist armies opened on widespread fronts Over an area of Many thou Sand of Square Miles red troops were in motion in obviously Well planned strategy to pre vent the government from re grouping its armies for effect Ive counter assaults. Most critical after Tainan s. Loss was the situation in the corridor toward Manchuria where Iii Piao started his manchurian forces toward vital Chin How Supply base terminal for the government Sair Supply route into Mukden. Military sources said the already isolated Pihsien 30 Miles Northwest of Chin Chow cutting off at least one government division which faced annihilation. They Are probing the outer defences of governor general fan Han Chieh s Chin How base. American fliers to stand smuggle trial Manila sept. 28 a the United states embassy Here said today the three american fliers who were arrested after departure from the Philippines september 13 will be tried for arms smug gling in the Netherlands East indies. The charge against them improved carries maximum penalty of ten years imprison ment. The americans Are Connie Wilburton Seigrist president of the insular airways corporation in Manila and his two associates Albert Wendell Onstott and William b. Hallam. Sokolovsky recalled Berlin sept. 28 a the British licensed German press service said today mar Shal Vassili Sokolovsky rus Sian commander in Germany had been recalled to Moscow for consultation. There was no official confirmation. By Edward Curtis Paris sept. 28 a British foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin yesterday warned the delegates for 53 nations that the Berlin crisis May wreck the United nations and grimly declared Russia alone will be to blame if the Black fury of an atomic War engulfs the world. Double dealing charge levelled at Josef Stalin by John a. Reichmann Washington sept. 28 ins the Western Powers yesterday used strongest Lan Guage Short of a declaration of War to accuse soviet Premier Josef Stalin of double dealing and the soviet government of illegal and coercive Meas the grave charges were contained in the 24,000-word White paper agreed upon by the United states Britain and France which was released Early yesterday morning after they broke off negotiations on the Berlin blockade. In effect the Western big three served notice that they will remain in Berlin despite the warning by Russia that it will try to Stop the air lift into the former German capital. The allies said the Berlin Issue must be settled by the United nations As a threat to International Stern language the White paper said the Issue is that the soviet government has clearly shown by its actions that it is at tempting by illegal and Coer Cive measures in disregard fits obligations to secure poli tical objectives to which it is not entitled and which it achieve by peaceful Means. It has tolerated disorders has threatened the Ber Lin population with starvation disease and economic has tolerated disorders and attempted to overthrow the duly elected municipal government in Berlin. This attitude and conductor the soviet government re Veals sharply its purpose to continue its illegal and Coer Cive blockade. The White paper s marshal Ling of the charge against the soviet government was in sup port of a Flat statement that Pacific settlement of the Ber Lin dispute is no longer pos was the most significant conclusion drawn since it will enable the Western pow continued on Page 4 groups added to subversive list Washington sept. 28 up the loyalty review Board disclosed that attorney general Tom Clark has added four More organizations to the Justice department original list of subversive groups including several japanese totalitarian " the japanese groups com ing under the heading of organizations engaged in totalitarian activities include the Black dragon society in the United states and the Kihei Seinen Kai an association of United states citizens of Japa Nese ancestry who have re turned to America after study ing in list now totalling 123 organizations has been divided into two separate classifications naming 23 As totalitarian 15 As fascist 82 As communist six As subversive Fouras groups advocating violence to deny others constitutional rights and five As committed to overthrowing the government by violence. Keep powder dry Truman san Antonio sept. 28 up president Harry s. Truman advised the nation to keep our bullets in order and our powder dry As he closed sunday Here with a repeated Appeal for world peace. Been spoke solemnly against a background of Security Council preparations to debate the Berlin blockade crisis. In one of the greatest demonstrations in United nations history delegates cheered the briton s searing attack on rus Sia As he closed Britain s major policy speeches before the , addressing soviet Deputy foreign minister Vish Insky directly warned that Britain would defend herself against any russian attack. When he had finished Al except the delegates of Russia and her satellites jumped to their feet to cheer and applaud the British Delegate. Cries of Bravo and tres Bien could be heard even outside the As Sembly Hall Vishinsky who had take notes throughout the speech strode from the Hall when Kevin and finished. Vishin sky s face was set in a grim mask. Bevin accused Moscow of double dealing untruthfulness and evasion As he pounded Home these three main Points in a policy declaration before the in Assembly 1"if the Black fury the incalculable disaster of atomic War should fall upon us All i can say is that one Power will alone be responsible for the evils which May be visited upon 2"it is better to Hae our difficulties now than to live in a fool s 3intimating that he sees that the end of the United nations unless the East West conflict can be solved he dec Lared if we cannot proceed on a world basis As we had hoped we must proceed on a regional basis. We must work with those whom we can work it was a typical Bevin crisis speech delivered with such emotion that his voice broke at intervals. The Impact was electrifying. All delegates except the ones from the russian bloc cheered. Soviet Deputy foreign min ister Vishinsky took notes throughout the speech and strode out of when Bevin finished. The Berlin crisis rumbled around the world. In Moscow foreign diplomats were asking whether Russia would with draw from the in and whether the in itself would fall to pieces on the Issue. The first real collision of the Western Powers against rus Sia in the Security Council is expected when debate begins within a week. American British and French experts worked throughout the Day on the text of a joint note to the Council charging Russia with endangering the peace of the world through her Berlin blockade. The document is expected to reach the Council yesterday Diplomat said , Secretary of state George Marshall and French foreign minister Robert Schuman might sit in the coun cil for the debate. A soviet press officer said he could not deny nor affirm that foreign minister a m. Molotov would their action in breaking off direct talks with Moscow and throwing the explosive Issue to the 11-nation Council the Western Powers risked a russian walkout or soviet and the United states Are prepared to give up the presidency of the Council Dur ing the crucial debate a re liable source holds the Gavel Dur ing september under the monthly rotation plan and the United states is due to take Over october. 1.argentina, next in line for the chair presumably would Ake Over. Secretary of state continued on Page 4
