Pacific Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 29, 1948, Tokyo, Japan Page two Pacific stars and stripes 1c sept. 29 Pope sad Over Berlin reports Rome sept. 28 ins Pope Pius Xii received the news of the deteriorating Berlin situation monday with sadness and a High Vatican spokesman said the pontiff and holy sea were following with greatest attention All developments and repercussions of the West Ern Powers decision to sub martial Law Mit the crisis to the Security Council. Vatican circles were sep tical that this move will solve the East West stalemate. Recent developments have affected plans for Celebration of the holy year but the holy see has ordered that preparations continue in any Case. Msgr. Sergio Pignedoli Secretary general of the holy see said we will have done som Good and made some Progress in religious orientation any Pope s preoccupation was manifested in a letter sent monday to the 22d social week celebrations of italian catholics at the University of the sacred heart in Milan. The letter signed by monsignor Montini acting Secretary lamented the Lack of univer Sal morality As the Root of an evil which we it condemns the recourse to purely earthly norms based solely on arbitrary it continues every one see and experiences As a result of the recent conflict that such re course to f Dree is disastrous for peace Loving draft platform for hew China group Acme photo president Soekarno above declaring his government s determination to quell a re Volt As indonesian communists seized the Industrial City of Matiun Madisen in East Java announced martial Law throughout the Republic on september 19. Photo taken at Batavia Java. V czechs charge . With bomb attempt banking sept. 28 up a group of More than 200 members of the legislative Yuan announced a decision to organize a democratic free Dom association to Forster socialism throughout China. The group which includes leading legislators fan Yuhsiu and we Hsieh to now is drafting a platform and rules of the organization to permit formal establishment. Fan told the United press that association will line up with the youth corps new Deal club in opposition to the Kuomintang s Reform club in the legislative Yuan. He said it will be composed of progressive and non clique Mem Bers of the Yuan. I Prague sept. 28 ins czech Security police accused United states agents saturday of plotting to bomb the czechoslovakian parliament build ing and kill ministers and members of parliament the police said that the plot was frustrated with the arrest of Joseph Koch who allegedly had been instructed to carry out the bomb attack by american agents. The Prague announcement said that two . Counter intelligence corps operators identified As Lloyd and Wasser Al Fingen told Koch to bomb the building. The announcement was the latest i a Long series accusing the United states of foment ing sabotage and espionage against the communist con trolled czech regime. Six Union army soldiers make Gar meeting grand rapids mich., sept. 28 up six old sol Diers weak of limb but Clear of Eye opened the annual grand Arr fit of the Republic Encampment today perhaps for the last time. The Union army veterans who Range in age from 99 to 107, have been meeting like this for 82 years but once there was a lot More of them. There were Good indications that this would be the last meeting. Miss Cora Gillis general Secretary said 22 Gar Mem Bers stayed at Home this Yar because of failing health. Four of those who showed up were in wheel chairs. There Are just too few of us left to make any More meet Ings worthwhile said James Penland the 99-year old youngster of the group. Penland who is senior vice commander made the trip alone from Tucson ariz., by train. He said he had a Fine James hard 107, who flew in from Rochester n.y., in a plane chartered by the Gannett newspapers said the Gar should disband and turn its records Over to a government Agency. But two of the old timers re fused to take that Point of View. William Osborn 105, Joplin to. And John h. Grate 103, Atwater his said the gatherings should continue As Long As there s a Gar member alive who can get to the l. Chappel of Long Beach calif., and Albert Wool son of Minneapolis both 101, Are the other members attend germans collect firewood Scap libraries popular with japanese masses stranger kills state trooper Acme telephoto with Winter coming on germans collect firewood in Grunewald Forest in Berlin As they be been doing for three years. . Air Force planes flew in 4,842 tons of Coal in 24 hours for a new record on september 18. Yellville ark., sept. 28 up nearly every Able bodied Man in this Small Moun Tain town joined state police men and sheriff s deputies to night in a search for a my Sterious killer who shot and killed a state trooper. The. Slayer a 24-year old Veteran of world War ii shot Sidney a Pavatt yesterday As the trooper and four others approached a lonely Mountain Cabin to question the Man about several recent burglaries. The stranger fled into the More than 100,000 japanese from teen agers to Learned professors made use of Scap s rapidly expanding reference libraries last month occupation Library officials reported today. They came to the libraries or More correctly information centers to read mostly new York and London newspapers popular magazines books and periodicals on Industry Che mistry and engineering and to ask questions. Established two and one half years ago to provide baby adopted As fire chief Ottawa kans., sept. 28 up Ottawa today lost its sues . Army club _ of Washington sept. 28 up the american Commer Cial co., inc., of Milan Italy today sued the . Officers and non commissioned officers club of the european theater for $1,513,932.it charged in a suit filed in Federal District court that ing. Italy City asks . Aid in Art recovery the club had reneged on most of a contract for 1,680,000 bottles of wine and Cognac. Defendants listed included defense Secretary James for Restal army Secretary Ken Neth c. Royall quartermaster general Thomas to. Lafkin and undersecretary of army William h. Draper or. No army funds were involved in the suit Only funds of the Chib which is supported by Sale of commodities to its officer members. The firm which has offices in Washington charged the officer s club contracted to buy 840,000 bottles of Chianti wine danish communists have Tito trouble special meeting talks Udine Italy sept. .28 up police announced that they had asked Baltimore md., authorities to help track Down 11 manuscripts valued at $1,500,000, which were stolen from the 14th Century san Daniele Library Here last i replaceable Manu scripts were stolen. Three were traced to London and were reported recovered by Scotland Yard. Two italian University students allegedly implicated in the theft were arrested Here upon their re turn from London. And 840,000 bottles of Cognac to be delivered Between a gust 1946 and october 1947, at a Cost of $2,255oop. It said the club paid $741,000 for some 600,000 bottles delivered Between october 1946 and february 1947. But the suit charged the club has re fused to accept or pay for further shipments. Ujj the suit said the listed defendants were agents of the officers club which it said is a recreational organization operating under army regulations. The club the suit said has a membership of More than 100,000 and assets believed to be More than $5,000,000. Copenhagen sept. 28 ins danish newspapers reported yesterday that Den Mark s communist party is having Tito the papers said danish communists were split Over whether to follow the Moscow line As. Laid Down by the co inform or develop their own policy. This Issue split Yugoslavia under marshal Tito from the co inform and led to the Strain in the polish communist party which was healed Only after difficulty. A danish communist Leader revealed recently that Strong forces within the communist rugged Mountain country after the shooting. Bloodhounds and air planes were brought in to Aid in the search but no Trace has been found of the killer. Police searching the deserted log Cabin from which the Man fired on the group found army discharge papers bearing the name of a Soldier who had been absent without leave from fort Lewis wash., for several have been unable to establish whether this Man is the actual killer or whether the papers were stolen. Only one person in this area has Ever seen the killer who has been living in an old cel Lar for at least two weeks Kenneth Arno a former ser Viceman said the Man came to his farm Home several Days favorite citizen honorary fire chief Herbie Engle age 3 was abandoned at a Hospital Here last tuesday by two travellers who said they were in route to Bartlesville okla., to find Herbie s Mother Herbie was t forlorn. His wide Grin won the town s heart. The mayor visited him and a local Lodge took up a collection. He was appointed honorary fire chief. The baby was on its Way to Fame and Fortune when his father Warren Engle of Rochester minn., Learned where he was. Engle said he and his wife were separated and that she had custody of year publications from democratic countries for the japanese people the centers have proved one of the most popular innovations of the occupation. In August approximately 4,500 japanese daily utilized the ten Scap libraries then operating throughout Japan. In Tokyo alone 29,000 Japa Nese crowded into the two Story modernistic Library next to the army s big Ernie Pyle theater during this was 12,000 the month More people who used the Library in aug ust a year Scap officials have turned to the libraries for in formation. An army War crimes investigator came to the Tokyo Library to obtain a the infant. He did t know How the Book on therapy. Party of Denmark Are seeking to dislodge it from its adhere ago and asked for a drink of said the stranger claimed to be a Veteran of the Philippines Campaign. Defense ministers hold urgent talk Paris sept. 28 up the defense ministers of great Britain France and the Bene Lux countries met for urgent discussions of joint defense preparations. The United states and Ca Nada for the first time were represented by observers. The opening session of the talks which is expected to last several Days began at the Burns the wished to prove and Shock prosecution that Japa to us Sioux Liiro a Iii several act to uce Cui hence to the Moscow line. French ministry of defense. Baby got drove All saturday night with a brother and Sis Ter in Law and arrived Here Early sunday. At the Hospital he showed Herbie s birth certificate a letter from the she Riff at Rochester and other officials reluctantly let Herbie go with his father. Biologist to study fur seals in Japan Washington sept. 28 a biologist. Ford Wilkes 33, will Fly to Japan next week to dig into that nation s Long guarded secrets about fur was one of the last men to leave the Pribilof is lands summering place of the . Seal Herd after the Japa Nese attacked Pearl Harbor. In Japan he will seek to discover whether the japanese knew More about Seal habits than do americans and what Nese doctors could have saved the lives of injured Amer ican War prisoners by giving them proper medical treat ment. The libraries were started in november 1945, when the Tokyo unit was opened at a temporary site. Other units were established in Kyoto and Nagoya. Early this year a rapid expansion began with branches set up at Niigata Osaka Kobe and Fukuoka each with a nucleus of 3,000 books and 400 magazines subscriptions. In the past two months branches were established at Shizuoka Nagasaki Taka Matsu Yokohama and Hako Date. Within the next few weeks libraries will be set up at Kumamoto and Hiroshima completing a Japan wide information centers for the japanese in or within easy reach of every City of More than 200,000 people. The japanese really haves found Cut about Seal Migra Tion. Hero preacher to tour churches Acme telephoto -., Karl Westman a twats Ajmat j i a ant f that take so Long Terry. Ami its 6allev.fllo-mum the stewardess Lotisha ills nor. I
