Pacific Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 5, 1948, Tokyo, Japan Weather forecast wednesday High Tokyo. 70 64 rain. Kyoto. 65 rain Seoul. 70 58 fair Sapporo. 63 45 rain tars and stripes City edition volume 4, number 233 share this paper tuesday october 5, 1948 share this paper up Apins Apps wire services train wreck blame fixed Liberator sabotaged by Frank Emery Seoul oct. 5 ins a top ranking Home ministry official in Seoul asserted Yeste Day that korean p communists were plotting to kill As Many americans As possible in South Korea. The charge was made after the Home minister t. Y. Yun disclosed that the Engineer of 1 a train filled with american troops confessed he caused the wreck South of Seoul of the Liberator and which took a number of american lives. The Engineer was quoted As having said he deliberately r stopped the train called the i Liberator on pretence of in Gine trouble. It. Was stand l ing at a Small. Station when another korean train smashed into its minister said the Eri Ginger implicated two South korean labor party leaders who then were arrested and allegedly confessed having ordered the train wreck As Parton the pit to kill americans. The labor traders were quoted further As having told the police that scores of korean communists were being sent into the american occupied South from the russian held North to carry out the alleged plot police announced the arrest of at least 20 armed North koreans who were said to have confessed they had been sent into South Korea to kill americans and also top Lead ers of the korean Republic. The police said they were Israel Delegate to oppose in plan on Negev seeking Many More such actual assassination or at tempt against americans in South Korea has been reported. A Israel Aii bounced sunday it will oppose any plan to relinquish Negev in return for Western is the desert area of Southern Palestine. The assassinated United nations Media Tor count Folke Bernadotte re commended that Negev be Given Arab Palestine and the jews receive Western Galilee. The israeli delegation at the United nations distributed a memorandum saying it will oppose any such move. The state ment said it would make trans Jordan 19 times As Large As memorandum said the proposed changes would Cut off about two thirds of Israel s territory deprive her of the Only land reserves available for development cripple exist ing and potential prospects for the scientific utilization of natural resources and stunt Israel s Progress and growth for generations to beneficiary of these changes which according tothe plan is to be an enlarged state of trans Jordan emerge from the proposed arrange ment with an area More than 19 times that of the state of Britain and the United states have expressed approval of Bernadotte s proposal. Paris oct. 4\ a an Arab Delegate to the United nations said today six of the seven Arab league states Likely will recognize the new Arab government of Palestine named the six As Egypt saudi Arabia Syria Yemen Lebanon and Iraq. The seventh league member vet wins National contest Caliao in hands of gov t troops rebels routed Acme photo Harry w. Yoder right 44-year old purple heart Navy Veteran of two world wars wife Mary and 20-year old son Harry or. Of it. Morris hi., look Over the $25,000 Check they won As first prize in a National contest against More than four and a half million competitors. In this largest contest Ever held in the ., contestants submitted bottle tops with designs hidden under the Cork and Brief statements about the product. More than 15,000 other persons won prize Money in the National Pepsi cola treasure top contest. Indians Svaip Boston . Pennant by Leo Petersen Boston oct. 5 up the Cleveland indians beat the Boston red sox 8-3 in their Post season play off game yesterday to win the american league Pennant. Manager Lou Boudreau s terrific hitting and Young Gene Bearden the Indian s sensational Rookie masterful Vod Law pc Wei t i ii Mam u-nay4 a Rin Alliv to arrests plotters late Flash $10,000,000 damage by typhoon Abby in blast at Okinawa typhoon Libby struck Okinawa with terrific Vio Lence late yesterday leaving in its Wake an estimated $10,00, Worth of damage to military installations there maj. Gen. William eagles Ryukyu Comman Der reported today. No report of injury or death on Okinawa has been received but by 3 30 yester Day afternoon the disposition of the Crew of a disabled Psi in Buckner Bay was not no casual ties were reported from iwo Jima where the storm struck a Lew Days eagles reported that the dependents quarters at Becknerville and aware were badly damaged. There Are about 55 Amer ican families. Living in the two areas which Are about seven Miles apart. Screenwriter petitions court Washington oct. 5 up i John. Howard Lawson Hollywood screen writer to Day. Appealed directly to the supreme court to set aside conviction for contempt of is under sentence of a year in jail and $1,000 Fine for contempt because he re fused to Tell the House in american activities commit tee whether he is a com a nudist Lawson asked the court to decide immediately whether congressional committees have the right to put this question to the committee and throughout trial Lawson maintained the question was violation of the Bill of rights. He was the first of 10 Holly Wood writers and directors indicted for contempt of con 2 Oil companies spurn Cio offer los Angeles oct. 5 up two major Oil companies flatly rejected an offer by striking Cio refinery workers to end their month old walkout on agreement to submit their wage dispute to president of arbitration. Reis Taylor the Union Oil company re leased a statement he sent to the workers turning Down the Union offer. He said the cont Pany has the greatest respect for gov. Earl Warren and it. Gov. Goodwin j. Knight whom the unions proposed As arbitrators but that it does not consider the wage increase Issue a matter for outside san Francisco a similar announcement came from the Standard Oil company which termed the proposal unorthodox and pointed out that orderly Legal Means Are provided under the. Taft Hartley Law for ending such strikes. Both statements made it Clear that the companies in tend to stand Pat and Are confident of winning on their own terms. Seoul oct. 5 up the South korean government yesterday ordered the news Agency Korea press out of business and 1 arrested eight Agency officials on the charge of subversive activities favor ing the North korean communist regime. An official announcement also charged publisher Kim Sung Sik with embezzlement and with financing the North korean government through operations in Hon Kong where he now resides. Police surrounded the Korea press offices in Seoul yester Day morning and took into custody vice presidents Kim Yong Chai and Lee Choong hand six subordinate officials. Shortly thereafter metro Politan police chief Kim Tai Sun called a press conference to explain the government s action. He released the Tex of Lettey to Home affairs minister Yun Chi Yung Call Gufor cancellation of Korea press License and punishment of its . Police report charged that the Korea press always commended and adhered to the communistic views and denounced the policies of the new korean it referred to three news stories in which the Agency allegedly agitated the people against the government of president syn Man Rhee. Constabulary nabs China red suspects Manila oct. 5 up five More chinese communist suspects were rounded up yester Day bringing the total nabbed since sunday to 28. The five will be turned Over to immigration authorities for detention and hearings by the immigration Board. The con chinese communist suspects will be subject to deportation proceedings and that evidence has been obtained pointing to 4jress on tha same grounds. Their being communists. Five hitter combined to qualify Cleveland to represent the Unior circuit in the world series against the Boston braves the first game of which will be played in Boston wednesday. Bearden with a regular sea son record of 18 wins an seven defeats came Back to pitch after Only one Day s rest Laving Defeated Detroit Satur Day 8-0. Thirty three thousand fans jammed Fenway Park As the Sun shone brightly and there was a Nippy Breeze in the air for three innings the indians and red sox were held at even manager Boudreau mainstay of the indians afield and at Bat throughout the sea son stepped up with two Moulin the top half of the first in Ning and belted a terrific Home run blast Over the left Field the red sox in their half came right Back in this game of games and evened the one out Johnny Pesky rapped a double into Rig Center and took third when Ted Williams smacked a three and two pitch to Boudreau who threw to first for the out Vern Stephens rifled a sin Gle along. The left Field f Ouline Pesky romping Home easily to tie the score. Bear Den settled Down and Bobb Doerr grounded out. Cont. On Page 3 Russia imposes travel rulings Washington oct. 5 up the state department announced today that Russia has imposed new restrictions on the travel of foreign Diplo Mats and their staffs inside Russia. It said soviet censorship has withheld the. Story from the world for three Days. The new list of areas in which travel is prohibited for All practical purposes covers the entire territory of the user the department said one new restriction pro Hibits travel outside the radius of 50 Kilometres from Moscow without prior notification to the soviet government. Banking budget in 13-fold increase banking oct. 5 a Stab ulary indicated thai All the executive Yuan submitted revised budget for the Sec Ond half of 1948 calling for a thirteen fold increase in taxes the budget goes to the legis id Tive Yuan for approval. New element found containing uranium new York oct. 5 up a new radioactive Minera containing uranium has been found in a Small Mound o Green crystals discovered in the belgian Congo Columbia University announced yester Day. The University said the Mineral some Day May hav important the Mineral was identified by prof. Paul head of Colum Bia s department of geology and associates. Lima Peru oct. 5 a government troops held a control Over the port of Caliao yesterday after smash no a bloody revolt by sailors and civilians. Insurgents who seized an used the full firepower of War ships and heavily armed naval installations at Caliao Lima s port launched the revolt ear a sunday. By late sunday night government infantrymen sup ported by. Tanks and fighter planes had routed the rebels out of their fortified Strong holds and apparently had Cap tured All or them. There was no official Indica Tion of the number of casual ties or of How Many persons took part in the revolt. The government of president Jose Luis Bustamente River said in a communique it had confirmed that the opposition Prista party had inspired and directed the revolt. The communique said Many armed civilians affiliated with Arista were rebels first strike occur red police col. Felix Pielag Stagnaro said when about 40 civilians Well equipped with Navy arms attacked a Caliao police station. A police squad routed them Pielago rapid order sailors and civilians seized the naval Aca Demy naval armory port Royal Phillip and the National government declared a stage of seige and sent Large troop contingents to Caliao to bolster the army Garrison army source said the number of killed and wounded at the Caliao Garrison was heavy because it was attacked by rebels on Shore and from warships at sea. . Rejects com Promisson atom control atom bomb not lost says Navy Washington oct. 5 up the Navy today again denied a report hat an atom bomb mysteriously disappeared from one of its ships during the Winchell said in a radio broadcast last night that an atom bomb was lost when the Cruiser Indianapolis was sunk in the Pacific in july1945. He said divers Hac searched the wreckage but could find no Trace of the bomb the Indianapolis carried component parts of an atom bomb to Tinian for the army air Force and later was sunk by torpedoes from a japanese submarine in route to Leyte Gulf in the Philippines. The Navy said no divers were sent Down to. Locate the wreckage of the Indianapolis saying the ship went Down in one of the deepest parts of the Pacific where no divers could reach Nehru to talk with in London new Delhi oct. 5 up prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru is leaving for London by air today and will have a talk with George Bernard Shaw an official spokesman said today. W. Allies to press Berlin Issue in in elected by Joseph l. Kane Paris oct. 5 ins the United states yesterday rejected Russia s so called com Promise offer on atomic Energy . Delegate Warren r. Austin told the United nations political committee that the new soviet offer is really the same old National instead of International said the United Sta Tes stands by the majority re port of the atomic Energy commission which endorsed gradual imposition of internal ional control measures before demanding destruction of sex sting atom the floor after Ukraine had bitterly attacked the West Austin declared i Hope i will not say any thing to make it More difficult or the committee s task to arrive at decisions free from hatred and other improper but Austin added that the United states was willing to continue negotiations if the soviet Union accepts the principles of effective International control embodied in the atomic Energy commission s majority report based largely on american proposals Calls for the creation of an Independent International Agency which would own All atomic resources and production facilities and would inspect each country s atomic american statement indicated that soviet Deputy foreign minister Andrei Vish Insky will be closely questioned on the exact meaning of the plan to see whether it was possible to avoid suspension of efforts to secure atomic control. Acme Galioto foreign minister Herbert v. Evatt of Australia above was elected president of the United nations Assembly recently in Paris. Veto soviet bid for talk Ukraine red blasts On atom Contro new Hurricane hearing Florida Miami fla., oct. 5 up a new Hurricane boiling up out of the Caribbean sea threatened Southern Florid with its second devastating storm in two preceding the Hurri Cane already were falling i Miami and moving northward toward Lake Okeechobee where a Sorm two weeks ago did most of its $25,000,000 dam age to crops and new storm was reported entered near the South Shore of the westernmost tip of Cuba with 90 to 100 Milean hour winds at its Center Hurricane Force winds covered an area of about 40 Miles from the Center an reached out 100 Miles. Gales property restoration Manila pet. 5 a the United states philippine War damage commission announced today the awards for restoration of government total $35,629,459. The philippine property now emperor s press conference scene of noisy confusion by Hazel Shore staff write this morning at 9 o clock the Niho Bashi Mitsuyoshi department store was the scene of the biggest circus in the history of occupied Japan. The excitement was caused Bya quiet unassuming Man in a conservative Brown suit accompanied by a lady who wore a sea Green silk Kimono an enormous Pearl on a Small Dia mond Pendant and an amused smile. The emperor and the Empress visited the National newspaper week exhibition. Hundreds of japanese photographers and newspaper re porters crowded the narrow rooms. They Verc joined by representatives of every Allied publication news service and Public information office in Japan. They pushed they yelled they tripped Over photographic equipment and the emperor and the Empress be Gan to sympathize with sub Way passengers. Hoping for a press Confer ence the american correspondents were ready with questions concerning. Everything from the Cleveland indians to Christmas shopping suggestions. There was no press conference. In fact several of the foreign correspondents went away without actually seeing the guests of Honor rather than be crushed to death by the picture mad mob Frank White of the associated press Earnest Hoberecht of the United press and Howard Handleman of International news service finally managed to fight their Way through the photographers Long enough to Greet the couple and put in a Brief plug for their news ser hour later the emperor and the a Quie exit and the noisy newspaper crowd continued to laugh athe Young photographer who had yelled hey bring the emperor Clown Here the Light s Paris oct. 5 up the Ukraine s Dmitri Manuil sky sneering at the american magnanimous offer on atomic Energy charged president Truman a major objective was of keep America s monopoly Over the atom bomb for a new Manuil sky in the political committee debate continued he bristling soviet attack on he West not Only on its Al eged atomic War policy but on its individuals. The spokes Man charged that Wall Street sabotaged the american new Deal and its place has been taken in the West by men who have disregarded All International agreements and replaced them with the rattling of atomic weapons and other Means of mass extermination. He accused United states officials including Truman of ambiguity and said that while Warren Austin was making Fine sounding statements in the Security Council about America s magnanimous of Fer on atomic Energy tru Man and american military leaders were saying something bitterly Denoun ced the West for not knowing anything about the soviet Union and not wanting to know he accused the West of getting its information from the garbage pails of White russians peo ple thrown out of Russia and Hitler s allies. He indirectly accused the West s military attaches in Moscow of engaging in espionage suggesting that the West should learn about what is going on inside russian frontiers from your military attaches who some times visit our War establish ments with czech reds plan full scale purge Prague oct. 5 up the intensifying purge of anti government elements is expected to reach full scale this week with passage of new Laws against anti government activities. Parliament was slated to approve Laws wednesday under the Tilte of acts for the defense of the people s demo cratic one provi Sion was expected setting up of Camps for forced labor in which persons sentenced May serve All or part of their terms actually Camps Are already in operation Anc some persons not under for Mal sentence have been sen to them according to report heard Here. It is said tha among those sent to the Camps so far Are persons arrested in movie Heaters Here Las month for coughing and Shuf fling their feet during the showing of an officially approved film on the anniversary of the Munich pact. By r. H. Shackford Paris oct. 5 up the United states great Britain and France decided today to reject Russia s new bid for a big four Confer ence and go ahead with their complaint to the United nations that the soviet blockade of Berlin threatens the peace. The foreign ministers of the Western allies made their decision despite an implied russian threat to Boycott the Security Council if it takes up the Berlin crisis. When the Security Council met to take up the Berlin charges russian chief Dele ate Andrei Vishinsky shouted pounding the table before i insist that this item e excluded from the Agenda. The soviet Union will not be a party to such violations of he but while the Council was meeting Secretary of state George c. Marshall British. Foreign Secretary Irnest Bevin and French foreign minister Robert Schu Man met yesterday at the French foreign office. They formally agreed to re act the russian proposal for big four conference Maden a Surprise note to the Western allies sunday night and to adhere to their determination to conduct no fur her negotiations with the so Viet government so Long As the Berlin blockade continues. The Council got bogged Down in an argument Over the manner in which the speeches of the delegates should be translated and adjourned until 3 . Today without Tak no a vote on putting the Ai led complaint on its program. United states Delegate Phi in Jessup and British Delegate sir Alexander Cadogan re plying to Vishinsky s threat to walk out made it Plain the Allied charges will be pressed regardless. Accusing Russia of repudiating the machinery of the United nations for settling Dis Putes Jessup said the soviet Union is unwilling to have world Public opinion examine to record in this Case. If the soviet Union wants peace let it Welcome this resort to an Organ for world the firmness of the Amer ican delegation was due partly to the belief that despite their threat the russians will not walkout and let them selves be accused of threaten ing the peace. British delegates were not so sure about the walkout but they agreed that Russia s ask ing for a big four conference indicated she was worried and might be looking for a layout. The Council met at 3 12 . For the greatest test the United nations has undergone in its thee years of life. Vishinsky lashed out at the Western Powers for appealing to the United nations charging that they were trying to junk the Council of foreign ministers which he said is the Only body legally entitled to Deal with questions relating to Germany. For 22 minutes the gesticulating soviet Delegate pounded away on the argument that an article in the charter forbids the United nations from inter vening in matters concerning the defeat of Germany and Japan. Maps Hunt for japanese pos Manila oct. 5 ins United states army military police and philippine authorities combed the Bush covered area near the town of Rizal yesterday in search of six escaped japanese War prison manhunt began after the fugitives were spotted in the area by a milk Vendor Early yesterday morning. The prisoners bolted from an american army stockade at Mandal Yong on septem Ber 26
