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Chinese Shoot
?'H?ir:nei! Marine
TIENTSIN, Dec. 10— (/P) —An
» unarmed U. S. Marine sergeant
was shot from a horse on the out
skirts of Tientsin yesterday and
wounded painfully in the face.
Marine headquarters said. The an
nouncement said the Marine en
countered .three Chinese civilians
on a narrow bridge spanning a
r ditch. The Marine smiled and
greeted the Chinese, who also
smiled and at the same time drew
pistols and began firing.
Headquarters said one bullet
struck the Marine in the face and
he jumped into the icy waters of
the canal and later made his way
out of the canal and met a Rus
sian woman who called the Ma
rines.
NEW YORK, Dec. 10 — i/P)—
* Rep. Hugh DeLacy. Democrat of
Washington, said the United States
should “get our beloved Marines
out of China and home to their
families,” in a speech prepared
for delivery at a dinner for inde
pendent citizens committee on arts,
sciences and professions.
DeLacy said “The course of our
ft policy at best indicates how thor
oughly bad on the spot improvi
sion can be, or at worst reveals
the policy is withering and rot
ting at the top.” DeLacy referred
to an (JP) dispatch from Tientsin
which said United States Marines
announced that the Marines had
fired twenty-four mortar shells
into a Chinese village after two
Chinese gunmen had killed one
l Marine and wounded another in
* cold blood.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Says Mme. Kai-Shek
Not Democratic
FORT DEVENS, Mass., Dec. 10
—Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt said re
cently that Madame Chiang Kai
Shek, wife of Generalissimo was
typical of the Chinese in that “she
can talk beautifully about democ
racy, but she does not know how
to live democracy.”
The inability to “live democ
racy” she said was typical of the
Chinese, “not because of any fa
cetiousness, but because they
never had opportunity to see or
• practice democracy in action.”
CHUNGKING, Dec. 10 — Ma
dame Chiang Kai-Shek declined
to comment on the statement made
by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
that the wife of China’s General
issimo was typical of the Chinese
in that “she can talk beautifully
about democracy, but does not
know how to live democracy.”
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The word alphabet is derived
from the Greek letters alpha and
beta which correspond to “a” and
•“b”.
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WAITING TO L E A V E—German displaced persons, young and old, wait in line at
Anhalitr station in Berlin for the train that will take them out of the German capital.
Patton Paralyzed
From Auto
Accident
MANNHEIN, Dec. 10— (/P) —
General Patton lay partially para
lyzed in a Heidelberg hospital as
prominent nerve specialists, sum
moned from England and United
States to treat spinal injuries he
received in an auto accident yes
terday. The Army medical bulle
tin said General Patton’s general
condition was satisfactory. He was
rational and spent a comfortable
night, but they declined to fore
cast the course of the paralysis in
the lower limbs, resulting from a
fracture of the third cervical ver
tebrae.
Mrs. Patton is expected to arrive |
in Paris tomorrow morning and go i
from there to Heidelberg, either
by rail or air.
The accident occurred when an '
Army truck turned off the side
road into the highway and crashed |
into General Patton’s sedan. Pat-1
ton and his chief of staff, Maj. I
Gen. Hobart Gay, left U. S. Fif-1
teenth Army headquarters yester
day morning to go pheasant hunt
ing near Mannheim. Gen. Gay
and the driver Pfc. Howard Wood
ring were unhurt.
BUREAU NURSE FOR
KOTZEBUE HOSPITAL
Miss Vivian Stahl, nurse for the
Bureau of Indian Affairs, is in
Nome enroute to Kotzebue, where
she will be attached to the nursing
staff.
Japs Used Poison
Gas Against
U. S. Troops
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10—</P)—
Charles Loucks declared the Japs
used poison gas against American
troops in a ‘few isolated instances’
notably in New Guinea late in the
war. The chemical warfare offi
cer on General MacArthur’s staff
said the most recent instance was
March 5, 1945, when a Jap patrol
set off vomiting gas candles in the
Signal Corps area at Biak, New
Guinea. Loucks said several Amer
icans were made severely ill, but
none were killed.
Jap Commodore
To Testify At
Court Martial
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10—(A5)—
Commodore Ike Hashimoto,
captain of Jap submarine 158,
which is reported to have sunk
the U.S.S. Indianapolis last July
thirtieth, will arrive to testify at
the court martial of Capt. Charles
McVay, III. Capt. McVay, who
commanded the Indianapolis is
charged with negligence and inef
ficiency in the loss of the heavy
cruiser.
Hashimoto is in the custody of
Lt. (jg> Allan Smith, arrived in a
naval air transport. Smith is said
to have left Jhpan December 7,
to bring Hashimoto to Washing
ton.
| Communists Will
Defy Any Nation
In China
YENAN, Dec. 10 — f/P) — Gen.
Peng, vice commander in chief of
the Chinese Communist armies,
declared the Communists will
“definitely oppose” any country
obtaining a sphere of influence in
any part of China. Peng said he
recognized there were elements
and individuals in America, such
| as General Hurley and former
President Hoover, and Senator
Vandenberg, who feared the Chi
nese Communists would affiliate
with Stalinist Russia, but he as
serted that their grounds for any
such assumption “had never been
made clear.”
He told newsmen “the position
of Chinese Communists remains
still for a free and independent
China.”
Victory Loan Sales
Reports Slow
JUNEAU, Dec, 10—Incomplete
Victory Loan sales through Decem
ber first total $949,860.75, of which
E sales are $622,875.25. Individuals
other than E $178,728, and corpo
rations $148,257.50.
Nome sales total $1,181.25. The
report does not include federal
employees’ deductions and alloca
tions as the reports are slow in
coming in.
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NUERNBERG, Dec. 10—</P>
German military loaders were
urging Japan to get under way in
the spring of 1941, but had no idea
the Japs might strike the opening
blow at Pearl Harbor, according
to a hitherto secret German com
mand order disclosed at the
Nuernberg war crimes trial, whicr
American prosecutors laid before
the four power tribunal.
The directive was signed March
15. 1941, by Field Marshal Keitel,
chief high command, proposing
the Japs attack Singapore as a
means of “forcing England to the
ground quickly, thereby keeping
the United States out of the war.”
That Keitel was reluctant at
that time to fight America was
seen in his warning to the Japs
that attacks be extended to bases
“of American naval power only, if
entry of United States into the
war cannot be prevented.”
In court, the session was mark
ed by the plea of innocence by
Ernst Kaltenbrunner, once dread
ed number two man in the Ges
tapo. American prosecutors turn
ed to evidence of collaboration be
tween Japan and Germany in
spreading aggression throughout
the world.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10—i/P>—
General Marshall upheld the ac
curacy of the forecasts of the
Army’s intelligence division which
I were made regarding Japan’s ma
jor military attack plans in the
critical prewar days before De
cember 7, 1941. Marshall told the
Senate and House inquiry, that
the Pearl Harbor attack was a
“slash, but not a proposed inva
sion at all.”
He added the main Jap offen
sive was aimed to the south, just
as the intelligence division esti
mated earlier. He testified he held
the opinion in November, 1941,
that the movement of the Japs in
Thailand and the Gulf of Siam
area would involve United States
and Britain in the war.
*"l)i<l Hirohito Push
Japan Into War?”
TOKYO, Dec. 10 — “Did Em
peror Hirohito help push Japan
into the war?” This question
which by its nature once could
not have been asked publicly in
Japan, is out in the open now.
The unprecedented question was
asked last week at a plenary ses
sion of the House of Representa
tives budget committee.
Replying to the question Pre
mier Kijuro Shidehara told the
House he personally believed that
Hirohito had no war responsibil
ity, and added that the occupa
tion authorities have not raised
I the question with the government.