Katakama Japan’s i
1st Christian Head !
TOKYO, </P)—Tetsu Katayama,
Japanese Socialist party leader
and his nation’s first Premier un
der its democratic constitution,
was invested in office by Emperor
Hirohito at the Imperial palace
Saturday afternoon.
Outgoing Premier Shigeru Yo-;
shida, speaker of the House of
Representatives Komakichi Mat
suoka, and Speaker of the House
of Councillors Tsueno Matsuidara
witnessed the ceremony.
General MacArthur earlier
praised Katayama as Japan’s first
“Christian leader” and saw rising
in the Orient “hope for the ulti
mate erection of an invincible
spirtual barrier” to ideologies hos
tile to democracy.
The supreme commander issued
a statement on Katayama’s over
whelming election by the Diet
yesterday. Katayama, a life-long
Presbyterian, likewise is the first
Premier elected by the Diet under
the new constitution.
Britain Will Share
In Aid Program
WASHINGTON, t/P>—1The State
Department says Great Britain
will get some American dollars
out of the $400,000,000 Greek
Turkish aid program, but only by
selling the Greeks military equip
ment.
Undersecretary of state Dean
Acheson denied at a news confer
ence late Friday that there will be
any “kickback” of funds to cover
British expenses in supporting the
Greek armed forces since March
31.
The British may obtain several
North Star Heads
For Alaska
SEATTLE, (i*P)—Famous for her
cruises to the Arctic and Antarc
tic, the sturdy little wooden mo
torship North Star Saturday was
on her way to more than a score
of little settlements in the islands
of the Bering Sea and along the
far-flung Alaska coastline.
The North Star is laden with a
cargo of supplies for government
schools, hospitals and reindeer
stations and is not expected to re
turn to Seattle before July 20.
Her passengers include a number
of Indian children en route from
a government school in Oregon to
Sitka.
Voyaging through the Alaska
Inside Passage, the North Star
will go to Sitka and then to Kodi
ak Island and the Alaska penin
sula. She will call at Anchorage,
Chignik, Perryville, Belkofski,
King Cove, Pilot Point, and Kan
akanak and then head for Nuni
vak Island in the Bering Sea,
home of large herds of reindeer.
Voyaging northward the North
Star will go to St. Lawrence Is
land.
Homeward bound, the North
Star will call at Adak, Atka, Ni
kolski, Unalaska, Akutan, Kodi
ak, and Seward.
millions in badly needed dollar
exchange, he added, by delivering
munitions of a type which could
not be obtained elsewhere. This
is because the Greek army now
uses British equipment.
Similarly, Acheson said, Italy,
Rrance and other countries which
need American dollars to buy
goods in this country may be able
to supply some of the things which
; the United States will send into
Greece.
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College Students
Stage Battle
BALTIMORE, l/P) — Embattled I
students at Johns Hopkins uni
versity fought off 250 invaders
from the University of Maryland
.with sticks, stones, fists and fire
hoses early Saturday in a fracas
umpired by 200 policemen.
Eleven of the battlers wound up
in jail on disorderly conduct
charges. Magistrate Reuben Cap
lan reprimanded them after a
hearing but dismissed them all in
ample time to be on hand when
the starting whistle blows for a
“Crooshul” lacrosse game at Col
lege park Saturday afternoon.
Objective in the battle was a
400-pound bronze terrapin which
Hopkins students swiped off the
Maryland campus early Friday in
reprisal for a paint-daubing raid
a few hours earlier on Hopkins
buildings and sidewalks in mid
town Baltimore.
Both sides still are holding hos
tages,, a couple of dozen on both
sides sported shaved heads as
their badge of battle, and the ter
rapin still was secreted at Hop
kins.
Italians To Form
New Government
—
HOME, </P)—Alcide de Gasperi,
who resigned as Italy’s Premier
11 days ago, announced Saturday
! that he had been asked to form a
; new government, his fourth since
, the end of the war.
Leaving provisional President
Enrico de Nicolai’s residence af
ter an hour-long conference, the
Christian Democratic party’s lead
er told news men the would “re
serve decision according to cus
tomary procedure.”
That meant he would confer
| with leaders of other parties and
| of his own about the prospects of
organizing a cabinet before giving
a definite answer as to whether
1 he would accept the post again.
“My program is well known to
all,” de Gasperi declared. “It con
sists in an appeal to everyone to
collaborate in solvin'* our econo
mic problems for the salvation of
our country.”
He resigned because of criticism
of his economic policies.
Communists Cut
Chinese Railroad
NANKING, (/P)-Communists
cut the Peiping-Mukden railroad
at several points south of ' the
Great Wall Friday night, again
severing the nationalist lifeline to
Manchuria as fighting continued
around Changchun.
The Reds appeared to have re
entered or retaken Kungchuling,
35 miles south of the Manchurian
capital, Nationalist dispatches re
ported. _ ^
The Communist forces Friday
captured the famous prewar sum
mer report of Peitaiho, near the
Great Wall, and the nearby rail
station of Nantatzu.
• Port Chinwangtao is under at
tack or many have fallen to the
Rods.
Both Peitaiho and Chinwangtao
are former bases of American Ma
rines.
One report described hot fight
ing inside Kungchuling and an
other said that the Communists
were erecting defense works there.
The United States consumes
more tin than all the other na
tions of the world combined.
Lost—Ten
Million Dollars
CARACAS, Venezuela, IfP) —
Missing: $10,000,000 in crisp, neu
500-Bolivar banknotes of the Cen
tral Bank of Venezuela. Some
where between New York and La
Guaira.
The Banco Central of Venezuela
announced Saturday that a “bun
dle” of 500-Bolivar banknotes
sent by the American Bank No*
company on May 10 was miss :i
between New York and the air
port of La Guaira.
The rest of the shipment, 103
boxes with ten million each—
1,030,000,000 Bolivares, arrived or.
board a Grace Line ship and w •
received at La Guaira airport by
the bank officials.
The ship which brought the
money is back in New York.
About the missing money; it may
not do anybody but the bank any
good; the entire missing series was
cancelled. It is numbered A48001
to A50000.
Russia Objects To
Freedom Of News
LAKE SUCCESS. (/P) — United
Nations consideration of a proposal
to eliminate world-wide peace
time censorship of news was as
sured today.
Despite Russian opposition, a U.
N. sub-commission decided by a
vote of 9 to 1 that this subject
should be considered at next year’s
international conferenc on free
d m of information.
The sub-commission also adopt
ed a proposal that the world con
ference should consider measures
to protect accredited correspond
ents against arbitrary expuLsion
from foreign countries.
Both actions were taken Friday
by the sub-commission on free
dom of information and of the
press, which is drafting proposals
for the international conference to
be held either in Geneva or Prague.
The proposals, both of which
brought Russian opposition, were
presented by the United States.
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