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Rioting Flares Up
Anew In Cairo
CAIRO, Nov. 5—A new out
burst of rioting yesterday carried
Cairo into the third successive
day of violence. About one hun
dred looters broke into a number
of shops and carried off goods, but
police soon blanketed the area and
the situation eased, although it re
mained tense.
Meanwhile Egyptian officials
and Arab newspapers expressed
regret for Friday’s riots in Cairo
and Alexandria, in which it was
reported ten deaths occurred and
left more than four hundred per
sons injured. Violence started dur
ing a general strike protesting the
Zionist claim to Palestine as a na
tional home for Jews. Most of the
early damage was done to Jewish
snops.
As riots spread however, stores
of foreigners and even Egyptians
were raided. Marauders damaged
not only Jewish church property,
but also that of Greek Orthodox,
Syrian and Armenian churches.
More than nine hundred persons
were arrested in the two major
cities.
Cairo was placed out of bounds
for Allied troops.
“Quiet Before
Storm” In
Indonesia
BATAVIA, Nov. 5—(£>)—Dutch
officials are understood to be con
sidering a plan to gain firm con
trol of a small part of western
Java as a rallying ground from
which they could extend their ef
forts to end the native Nationalist
uprising in the East Indies. The
Dutch plan to bring in many more
troops. Although there is no offi
cial announcement on the subject,
some unofficial estimates of the
size of the reinforcements run as
high as twenty-thousand men be
fore Christmas.
Strife torn Java was quiet after
a flareup and sporadic fighting in
the northern section of Bhtavia
during the night, but it is like the
quiet before the storm. But the
picture as a whole is blacker and
more ominous. Tens of thousands
of trigger-happy Indonesi a n s ,
armed to the teeth are determined
on a revolution.
The British are in a dilemma,
and apparently undecided whe
ther to fight their way through
and return the island empire to
Dutch control or merely continue
to disarm the Japs, rescue inter
nees and defend themselves. At
COAST GUARD'S *OLD AND NEW*
Official Coact Guard photo.
In its constant vigil over life and property, the Coast Guard employs
a wide variety of ships, planes, and aids to navigation. Here the newest
of these devices—the helicopter—hovers over one of the oldest—Boston
Lighthouse, which has stood at the present site since 1716 as a sentinel
of safety to ships moving along the New England coastline. Helicopters
have proved effective in rescuing stranded survivors in isolated areas
where plane landings are impossible.
Two Planes
I Forced Down
| In Pacific
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HONOLULU, Nov. 5 — </P) —
Seven ships and six airplanes
j searched the Pacific ocean four
hundred fifty miles east of here
for eleven men and a woman
missing in a forced landing at sea
of an ATC Liberator Saturday.
Meanwhile two escort carriers
steamed toward Honolulu with
twenty-three survivors of a forced
landing of the Pan American
Honolulu Clipper, and with eight
survivors and the bodies of seven
victims, one a woman, of the
crashed Liberator.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5—(^P)—
Selective Service banned induc
tion of all men with three or more
minor children. This will apply in
practice to men eighteen through
twenty-five years, since older men
have been exempt from draft
since the end of the war.
present the Dutch will not accept
American mediation.
Bus Employees
Strike For
Higher Wages
CHICAGO, Nov. 5—Bus driv
ers and other employees of the
Southwestern Greyhound Lines,
Inc., left their jobs in seven south
ern and western States, joining
the striking Greyhound workers
in nineteen eastern states. Ap
proximately three hundred work
ers walked out in Texas.
Other points affected were Ok
lahoma, Missouri, Kansas, New
Mexico, Colorado and Arkansas.
W. C. O’Kelly, business agent for
Amalgated Street Railway and
Motor Coach Employees Union,
AFL, in the southwest, said the
union is asking one cent a mile
increase in drivers pay, iriore than
the present four and one-half
cents a mile.
The company has offered five
and three-tenths cents, and ten
per cent increase for maintenance
men.
There are less than 34,000
whites in the Belgian Congo.
Gen. Yamashita
Ordered All
Filipinos Killed
MANILA, Nov. 5—(/P)—A Fil
ipino testified he heard Japan
ese Lt.-Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita
angrily refuse to revoke his order
to “kill all Filipinos and destroy
all their cities.” He was Joaquin
Galang, second witness brought i
from protective custody as a sus
pected collaborator, at the war
crimes trial of the erstwhile
“Tiger of Malaya.”
The first witness Narciso Lapus, I
who admitted freely he was
friendly with, the Jap invaders, ,
then directly accused Yamashita
of having ordered the islands “rid
of Filipinos before the Americans
return.”
Galang testified that Yamashita
had showed great anger when
General Artemio Ricarte, Filipino
politico of the militarists, be
seeched the Jap commander in !
the Philippines “I take this time
to ask you again to revoke your i
general order to kill all Filipinos,
and destroy all their cities.”
Yamashita rose, Galang said, j
with clenched fists and shouted: j
“An order is an order. It is my or
der and because of that it should
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not be disobeyed. It should be fol
lowed—happen what may hap
pen.” The witness said he over
heard the argument at Ricartes’
house.
Sixteen Aleut
Captives Returned
To United States
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 5—</P)
—Sixteen of the forty Aleuts
seized by the Japanese when they
invaded the island of Attu in 1942
arrived here Saturday on the
transport Gen. Brewster, were
taken in charge by the American
Red Cross. With them were a
month-old infant and a two-year
old child, born in a Japanese pris
on* camp on Hokkaido.
Army headquarters here said
the group would be returned to
Attu.
HOME ARTS CLUB TO MEET
TUESDAY EVENING
The Home Arts Club will meet
at the home of Mrs. Paul Carlson
Tuesday evening.
An interesting program has
been planned, and each member
is going to tell something about
her own State.
Communists Say
CHUNGKING. Nov. 5 — </P) —
The Chinese Communist “New
China Daily News” reached new
heights of virulence against
United States, charging Lt. Gen.
Wedemeyer’s promise that Amer
icans would avoid participaiton in
the Chinese internal strife “noth
ing but a lie.”
The charge against the com
mander of American troops in
China was carried in a dispatch
from Communist headquarters in
Yenan. Americans, it said, not
only armed and equipped Central
Government troops, “but invaded
our liberated areas in North
China and opened fire on us, ar
rested some of our army person
nel and disarmed some of our
troops.”
When American Marines first
landed at Chinwang, Communists
sent representatives to contact
them, “they fired upon us and we
had to reply.” the dispatch said,
adding that the Communists with
drew af4er an hour of hostilities.
About seventy thousand U. S.
Marines have been stationed in
the Tientsin-Peiping area in North
China to aid Nationalist forces of
Chiang Kai-Shek in disarming the
Jap forces and policing until Chi
ang can move in reinforcements.
American officails emphasized
that the Marines had been ordered
to stand clear of China’s civil
strife and take no sides.
Reports reaching Chungking
said ten thousand Chinese Com
munists were attacking National
ists in the suburbs of Kweisui,
capital of Suiyan Province in In
ner Mongolia.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5—</P)_
The White House said there had
been no clashes between Chinese
Communists and United States
Armed Forces. Eben Ayers, assist
ant Press Secretary made the
statement to reporters.
GIs Reenlist;
Afraid Of Labor
Troubles At Home
TOKYO, Nov. 5—More than fif
teen hundred American soldiers in
Japan have applied for reenlist
ment. Eleventh Corps headquar
ters said most of them felt “the
army is the best place for younff
men, in view of uncertainty of
labor conditions at home.”