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Marine Identifies
Attackers As
(Communists
*
SHANGHAI, Aug. 5, —i/P)—Am
erican Marines in north China are
remaining there at their full cur
rent strength and “when we are
attacked we are going to shoot
back.” Adm. Charles M. Cooke,
Jr., commander of the U. S. Sev
enth Fleet, told a news confer
ence today as he discussed the
J^ly 29 ambushing of a marine
convoy near Peiping.
He identified the attackers, who
killed four marines, as Commun
ists. It was the first official
identification of them.
In Nanking, the pro-govern
ment newspaper Ta Kang Pao said
yesterday that “the hottest rumor
here is that President Truman
has instructed General Marshal
to prepare plans for withdrawal
oW U. S. forces from China” to
avoid another such incident.
Washington sources said they
knew of no basis for such a re
port; and in Independence. Mo.,
where President Truman was va
cationing, presidential secretary,
Charles G. Ross said he knew of
no order for withdrawal.
ff There have been some reduc
tions in Marine personnel in China
in the past, Admiral Cooke told
newsmen, but “there are none i
now in progress or ordered.”
Present Marine strength in Chi- 1
na is 22,000 to 23,000 men, he said.
(Unofficial estimates at the peak,
months ago, were 50,000.)
U. S. Major, Wife
Held In Custody
TRIESTE, Aug. 5, — (>F>—An Am
erican army major and his wife
and child were taken into custody
by Yugoslav troops near the old
Italian battlefield of Caporetto
in disputed Venezia Giulia yes
terday, military sources said to
^day.
The major was identified as
George Woods, a veteran of the
South Pacific, whose family re
cently joined him here. His home
address was not available immed
iately and headquarters of the 88th
Division, the American Occupation
Force in Venezia Giuilia, refused
to comment.
The report said the Woods were
stopped by Yugoslav troops while
’ touring the area near the demar
cation line in Venezia Giulia
* where two Yugoslavs recently
were killed in a skirmish with
American patrols and that the
family was still being held.
E i S E M H O W E R E N C I N E — With fitting ceremony, this streamlined locomotive was
named the “Dwight D. Eisenhower” in honor of the U. S. general by the British railways.
Britons Claim
U.S. Ship Salvage
LONDON, Aug. 5, —(>P>— The
derelict American freighter Am
erican Farmer limped toward Eng
land today under her own power
and in escort of a U. S. destroyer,
with the British loudly claiming
her as perhaps a $*,500,000 sal
vage prize.
A maritime legal battle was
shaping up in the din of British
newspaper headlines which com
plained American ships had tak
en over the collision-battered
freighter after a midget British
vessel had her in tow.
The 8,358 ton American Farmer
and the freighter William J. Rid
dle collided 700 miles west of
Land’s End Wednesday. The Am
erican Farmer is operated by
the United States Line. The
William J. Riddle is operated by
the Moore-McCormack Lines and
belongs to the War Shipping Ad
ministration.
New Zealander
Says Truman Is
“Gangster Tool”
WELLINGTON, New Zealand,
Aug. 5, —(A*)— Robert Semple,
New Zealand Works Minister, to
day withdrew a statement he made
at a public political meeting last
night that President Truman was
the “tool of money gangsters.”
He offered an apology “without
any reservation whatsoever.”
Semple explained that he had
assumed the President was res
ponsible for lifting price controls,
but “subsequently learned that he
had supported a policy in the best
interests of the people.”
U. S. Marine
Goes Berserk
On Killing Sp ree
TIENTSIN, Aug. 5—(/P)—A men
tally deranged American Marine
shot and killed a marine sentry and
a Chinese military policeman be
fore he was killed yesterday in a
running street fight. Marine Corps
Headquarters announced today.
Several military policeman and
Chinese pedestrians were wound
ed.
Marine Officials gave this sum
mary of the incident:
The Marine, whose comrades
said he evidently had been suf
fering from severe mental de
pression. climbed a wall sur
rounding his billet and shot and
instantly killed a Marine sentry.
Military police gave chase and
trapped the man but he refused
to surrender. They tried to shoot
his carbine out of his hand. A shot
killed him.
During the exchange of fire, a
Chinese policeman, Chu Yinsheng
was killed at a street intersection
by the deranged Marine.
100-yr-old Woman
Bakes Pies On
Anniversary
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 5, —(P)—
Mrs. Frances Snyder celebrated
her one hundredth birthday to
day by baking pies for a party
tonight with 45 members of her
family representing four genera
tions.
“Hard work never hurt any
body,” is her only recipe for
longevity.
Jewish Agency
Rejects Plan
Semi-Partition
I LONDON, Aug. 5, —— The
Jewish agency executive rejected
today the British-American cab
inet committee's proposal to di
vide Palestine into a federal state, j
British government sources said
Prime Minister Atlee would ask
his ministers to submit the Pales
tine problem to the United Na
tions if President Truman rejects
I the semi-partition plan.
A Jewish agency communique;
issued in Paris said the group,
“.regards the British proposals,
based on the report of the com- i
mittee of six as announced by Mr.
Morrison in the House of Com
mons, as unacceptable as a basis;
for discussion.”
!
Russian Newsmen
Get Permission
To Enter Japan
TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 5, — (/P)— I
General MacArthur has approved '
a request for the entry into Japan |
of five more Russian correspond-1
ents, his Public Relations officer;
announced today.
The five include two from the
Soviet army newspaper. Red Star,
one each from Pravda, Izvestia
and a radio correspondent. Two
Tass men already are here.
The request was forwarded by
Lt. Gen. Kuzma Derevyanko,
Russian member of the Allied (ad-j
visory) Council for Japan.
(Recently the Soviet command- j
er of the North Korea zone, oc
cupied by Russia, declined a re-!
quest for American correspond- j
ents to enter that zone. )
JERUSALEM, Aug. 5, —,/p)—The
British clamped a security black
out today on Haifa, where 2,250
jews without immigration certifi
cates were held aboard ships. The
British also were reported send
ing large numbers of troops to
ward the North Palestine port.
Jewish circles buzzed with wide
spread talk that the outlawed
Hagana Jewish organization might
attempt to disemoark the Jews
by direct action.
One Jewish spokesman, rent tid
ed that Haifa is a EriL.-h naval
base and guarded by large num
bers of police and troops, asser
ted: "They 'The Hagana* have
the men and they have the arms.
If they decide to unload those
they’ll unload them.”
Four or five other ships, cram
med with 5,000 more illegal Jew
ish immigrants, were reported
heading for Haifa.
The British took 1,000 old wo
men. young girls, pregnant wo
men and ill persons from ihe
docked immigration ships but
resolutely refused to allow the
others to disembark.
The tension at Haifa increased
after a spokesman for the out
law Irgun Zvai Leumi, which
boasted of bombing the King Dav
id Hotel, headquarters of the Brit
ish Army and Palestine govern
ment with 91 deaths, asserted
over its illegal radio that “new
and heavy blows against our Brit
ish enemies” were brewing.
Ra jah, Dead, Alive,
Died Saturday
LONDON, Aug. 5. — (/P»—An Ex
change Telegraph Agency dis
patch from Calcutta said that
Ramendra Narayan Roy. Rajah
of Bhowal, who won a 25-year
fight in the courts last week to
prove he was legally alive, died
Saturday in Calcutta while wait
ing for King George VI to sign
an order restoring his vast do
main.
The Privy Council, highest ju
dicial authority in the British Em
pire, last Tuesday recognized the
Rajah’s claim by dismissing the
case of Ranee Bibhabatii, “widow’”
of the Rajah, who said Roy died
at Darjeeling in 1909 and was
cremated.
The Rajah maintained that
while his funeral pyre was burn
ing, a heavy downpour drove his
mourners to shelter. The rain
revived him, he said, and he was
rescued by passing beggars with,
whom he lived for 12 years while
suffering a loss of memory.