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To Investigate
Fate of Red-Held
Jap Prisoners
(By Russell Brines)
TOKYO, (Ah—General MacAr
thur yesterday denounced “cal
lous” Soviet “hypocricy” and
started a move for independent
investigation of the fate of 376,000
missing Japanese war prisoners
captured by the Russians.
He said he had requested Wash
ington the begin negotiations for
an investigation either by a neu
; tral nation or the International
i Red Cross.
The America occupation com
mander issued one of his strongest
attacks against the Soviets after a
Russian walkout of the Allied
Council for Japan Wednesday.
This was followed by renewed
Russian charges the United States
was assisting the revival of Japan
ese fascism.
The Soviet mission was under
determined siege by 200 Japanese
i representatives of anxious rela
tives of missing war prisoners.
They were told the Soviet answer
to requests for information on fur
ther repatriation “appeared in this
morning’s papers.” Presumably
this referred to a letter charging
“oppression” by the Japanese gov
ernment which Lt. Gen. Derev
yanko. head of the Soviet mission,
addressed to General MacArthur.
MacArthur said the letter show
ed “a callousness of hypocrisy I
can not fail to denounce.” He
termed it a smokescreen to dis
tract attention from the repatria
tion issue.
W. J. Sebald, head of the occu
pation diplomatic section, earlier
h-ad termed the letter “unadulter-,
ated twaddle.”
The Japanese crowd around
the Soviet mission became clamor
ous at times. Once Russian guards
pushed them back when they at
tempted to enter the compound.
The delegation went to the em
bassy to keep what its leaders said
was an appointment made last
week with Soviet officials who
promised answers to questions on
repatriation. The Japanese said
they represented the ‘Tokyo chap
ter of the Council for Acceleration
abroad.”
Sebald told the council Wednes
of the Repatriation of Japanese
day, after the Russian walkout,
that probably 374,041 of the miss
ing Japanese prisoners had died
in Soviet prison camps. He read a
lengthy account of the Russians
treating prisoners brutally in “dis
! regard for humanity.”
Yugoslavs Ignore
Stalin's Birthday
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, (/P)—
Yugoslavia’s army day celebattion
yesterday was marked by charges
that once-friendly Russia used to
sell Premier Marshal Tito second
hand arms and useless gunpowder
at exorbitant prices.
The charge was made by Lt.
Gen. Otmar Kreacic, political chief
of the Yugoslav army, in a speech
at a select celebration party at
tended by Tito and his top-rank
ing colleagues.
Despite this double-dealing by
the Russians even before the com
inform split in 1948, Kreacic said,
Yugoslavia built a modem army
patterned after the Red army.
The Balkan nation ignored Jo
seph Stalin’s birthday celebration
Wednesday.
Labor Pot
Continues to Boil
(By The Associated Press)
Cleveland workers and late
Christmas shoppers were left
without mass transportation yes
terday by a sudden strike.
The nation’s sixth largest city
was caught almost without notice.
Most persons relying on the tran
sit system first learned of it from
: early morning news broadcasts or
! by long and futile waits at bus and
trolley stops.
The walkout was voted by the
AFL transit union which is seek
ing a continuance of the company
policy of 96 hours pay for two
week vacations. Under a proposed
| new formula the amount would
1 be reduced, the strikers say.
In Detroit the FBI began inves
tigating Tuesday’s unsuccessful
attempt to dynamite headquarters
of the CIO United Automobile
Workers Union. The big union
claims it is victim of a “terroristic
campaign.”
Joseph Curran, president of the
CIO National Maritime Union,
I found “Death to Curran” smeared
in red paint over his garage in
Franklin Square, N. Y. He said
he thinks “the Commies” had a
hand in the smearing.
In St. Louis a leader of the CIO
communications workers said the
Southwestern Bell Telephone com
pany may be struck at any time.
Frank P. Lonergan said the union
is “having trouble” keeping mem
bers on their jobs in Missouri and
Texas cities which he did not
name. The company also operates
in Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma
and a segment of Illinois.
The three-week-old .anthracite
Standardized Arms
In Five Years
WASHINGTON, (A*)—1The U. S.
Britain and Canada plan to build ^
military equipment to a common
interchangeable standard but it
may be five years before the new
standardized items come off the
' p-oduction lines.
j Governments of the three coun
i tries announced the plan this
week. The aim of the standardiza
tion plan, they said, is to make
military weapons and supplies
usable by the armed forces of all
three nations.
If artillery, for eaxmple, were
standardized, shells made for the
guns of any one of the three would
fit the guns of the other two as
well. The same would be true of
aircraft parts.
Member sof the staff of the sec
retary of defense told reporters
that the three countries will keep
i each other informed about allcon
j ventional types of weapons, com
j munications equipment, transpor
; tation, engineerig and quartermus
i ter equipmet and medical supplies.
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ALASKA AIRLINES
AIDS SANTA CLAUS
Alaska Airlines were Santa’s
helpers this week when they
j brought in gratis Christmas trees,
one for each room in the hospital.
The trees were decorated by the
I
j nurses assisted by Nell Muncy, -g
! who is seeing to it that all chil
dren in the hospital for Christmas
I will have packages under their
Christmas tree.
coal negotiations weer resumed in
New York. They are expected to
be the last until after Christmas.
Santy sez:
If your digestion’s good
An* you've plenty firewood,
An’ you sleep well nights
An* enjoy a citizen’s rights.
What more Merry Christmas can you havet
We a;rree. . . .
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CAVOTA’S