International News
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Berlin and disrupt western plans
for a united government in west
ern Germany.
China told foreign diplomats it
has no intention of moving its cap
ital from Nanking, although supe
rior communist forces are press
ing upon the city from about 100
miles away. Most heads of mis
sions decided to stay.
The outnumbered government
troops are divided. The commun
ists in North China forced Chiang
Kai-Shek’s men to leave two key
points, 70 and 90 miles northeast
of Peiping.
American officials moved slowly
in the face of urgent Chinese ap
peals for help. Officials believe
military and political conditions
are so unstable that no immediate
help is possible. Another uncer
tain* y is whether Chiang can re
main much longer in power.
Trans-Jordan said a group of
Palestine Arabs have asked their
King Abdullah to rule over a union
with Arab-Palestine. Syria’s cab
inet resigned as a result of unrest
over Palestine. The Jews renewed
claims to Jerusalem.
.The United Nations seemed
likely to delay a security council
vote an Israel’s membership until
the general assembly decides the
country’s political future. Accept
ing Israel may cost the U. N. the
membership of six Arab states.
Secretary of defense Forrestal
said the U. S. must supply West
ern Europe with “a generous mea
sure of equipment.” Italy’s chief
af-stpff, Gen. Efisio Marrau. is
3xpected in Washington to ask
lelp in modernizing and strength
ening his army of 250,000. The
Russian newspaper Izvestia warn
'd Scandinavian countries against
orming a military bloc.
.Costa Rica’s revolutionary pres
dent, Jose Figueres, took the re
reshipg step of abolishing the
>int sized army of his pint size re
. tublic. He explained his country
3ves peace and needs no army,
ijst police.
Britain raised -from 12 to 18
lonths the service terms for men
rafted into the British armed
services. The communist newspa
pers unci radios of Red Czechoslo
\.ikia opened attacks on the Ro
man Catholic Church.
Friday, December 3, 1948
Chiang Kai-Shek’s government,
admitting the loss of burning Su
Ichow, hinted today it will make a
fighting retreat into mountainous
South China if the communists
take Nanking.
Smoke columns 8,000 feet high
rose from Suchow, 211 miles
northwest of the capital, indicat
ing the Chinese at least succeeded
in destroying vast stores there to
keep them from the communists.
The quarter million government
troops from Suchow are moving
south to relieve an army group
trapped at Suhsien. The commun
ist armies appeared to be better
led and in better fighting mettle
and certainly in larger number
than Chiang’s dispirited troops, j
The threat to Peiping in
North China increased after other
communists cut the 100 mile rail
Iroad leading to Kalgan.
Mme. Chiang, who flew from
China to put on the bite for per
haps a few more billions in Amer
ican aid. saw secretary of state!
Marshall for an hour. President
Truman said he would talk to her
at some later date. She was making
some progress but official Wash
ington appeared pretty cool.
The United Nations approved a
new American plan for broad con
ciliation on Jewish and Arab
boundaries in Palestine. The pro
posal disregards the plan of Count j
Folke Bernadotte, the mediator;
killed by Jews in September. The j
political committee rejected a pro
posal that the conciliators follow
3ernadotte’s recommendation that
Arab Palestine be given to Trans- '
Jordan.
Rioting in S yria this week may
be a prelude to other outbreaks
simmering in Egypt. Iraq and most
other Arab countries over the fail
ure of their armies to defeat Jew
ish troops in Palestine. All the
Arab countries seemed restive.
Coming as a surprise to exactly
no one. the Russians recognised
the rump communist regime “as
the only legal organ of the civ”
government of blockaded Berlin.
The elected city assembly, which
was ousted from city hall in the
Russian sector, condemned the
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LOS ANGELES (/P)—When vice |
president-elect Alben W. Barkley
arrives here Monday for a Demo
cratic victory dinner, he will be
greeted by Gov. Earl Warren, his
defeated Republican opponent.
The Democratic state committee j
said last night they had asked
Warren to designate an official
state representative for the Ken
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Warren designated himself.
Russian action as a violation of the
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tors will vote Sunday. The com- ,
munists, knowing they face heavy
defeat, have been heckling politi-1
cal rallies and trying to get Ger-1
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The U. S. hanged four more
German war criminals. This made
a total of 91 in recent weeks. The
Frenh assembly voted for the gov
ernment to urge the U. S. and Bri
tain to repudiate their recent de
cision to return to Germans man
agement of the coal and steel in
dustries of the Ruhr.
The mutual defense treaty of 19
nations of the western hemisphere
drafted at Rio de Janeiro last year
—became effective. It is based on
the U. N. charter and provides im
mediate military assistance by all
the American states to any mem
ber attacked by another hemi
sphere nation. It calls for immedi- '
ate talks if an outside power at
tacks a member.
Communist Czechoslovakia said
it would try three Greek Orthodox
priests on charges of plotting to
create a huge Ukrainian republic
from parts of Russia and her com
munist neighbors.
Pravda, the Soviet mouthpiece,
thumping at Marshal Tito, said
700 Yugoslav students at Lenin- |
grad adopted resolutions denounc- i
ing the Yugoslav premier.
Sentenced For
Threat to Truman
NEW ORLEANS, i/P)—A young
man pleaded guilty to a charge of
hreatening the life of President
Truman, was sentenced to prison
for three years, then told a federal
judge he still intends to carry out
his threat.
20-year-old Dennis E. Porter
was sentenced Wednesday by U.
S. district judge Herbert Christen
berry.
"I feel that President Truman is
not adequate to supervise the peo
ple of the United States,” Porter
said after he was sentenced. “And
a lot of other people probably feel
the same way but don’t say so.”
Then he added: "The United
States doesn’t mean anything to
me anyhow.”
Porter threatened the Presi
dent’s life in a letter sent to the
White House. It was written while
he was in jail at Franklinton, La.,
serving a sentence for defamation
of character.
Harold Kenny, senior contact
representative of the Veterans Ad
ministration is scheduled to arrive
in Nome on Dec. 8, to assist any
veterans who may desire informa
tion or help relative to any bene
fits for which they may be en
titled.
Sailors Safe; Row
Fourteen Miles
SYDNEY, N. S., (/P)—Six crew
men of the 62-ton coastal trader
M. and L. Lodge saved themselves
early yesterday by rowing 14
hours from their burning ship.
They pulled through rain, sleet,
fog and a bone-chilling wind V<> the
safety of Scatarie Island, 45 miles
from where their ship caught fire
Wednesday morning. It was en
route from St. Johns, Newfound
land, to Halifax, The men had
been believed lost until they step
ped ashore soon after midnight.
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night with greetings for the Is
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“keys” to the Northwest.
The plane landed at 11:18 from
Seattle, Wash., carrying a variety
of products from that section of
the mainland. A crowd of about
500 welcomed the plane. The air
lines’ president, Croil Hunter, was
kissed by girls of six races—Fili
pino, Korean. Chinese, Japanese.
Hawaiian and Caucasian.
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