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. ■ ... -v jy r iS^Ti The Weather Fair and Cooler Tonight; Milder Tomorrow; Night Rain DAI \ , ■- ■ 3-- Published Daily at 3:30 P. H. * ■■ 1 VOLUME LUI FIVE CENTS SARANAC LAKE, N. Y., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4,1948 FIVE CENTS >o-v£ ->rJSHgf r*^J&7Z Mme. ‘Encouraged’ after P i S S SOCIAL CALL A PLANNED EVENT Ey JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (JP) — Mme, Chiang Kai Sheck, “en couraged” atior her second. visit in two days with Secretary of Stats Marshall, is expected to meet Presiden t— Trum an early next week. The White House call is due to take place under conditions em phasizing its social, rather than its official, nature. Diplomatic informants said the appointment was fixed for a time when Mrs. Truman could be present. That would follow the pattern 1- set at both meetings between j China's first lady and the Secre tary of State. On those two oc casion Mme. Chiang was accom panied to W alter Heed -Hospital — where Marshall is undergoing a physical checkup — by Mrs. Marshall. After yesterday’s visit, the wife of China’s president told report- j ers: ' - j “We talked about China and I j —am e n c o u raged.” Then she edi alist a n d Red. A rm ie s M o v e to w a rd s C h in a ’s V ital B a ttle By SEYMOUR TOPPING NANKING, Dec. 4 ( ^ —Chi nese Nationalist and Communist armies moved tonight toward a head-on collision south of Suchow n. hpw hattlp which mav deter- Hwai river defense line, 100 miles northwest of Nanking, and headed north to meet the three Nationalist army groups that a- bndoned Suchow Wednesday. Carried in Kept in Punt Dr WASHINGTON, D e e 4 (AP) — Activities committeeisaidtoday ithasu w& _t, ing the person who slipped secret State department ] . .*1# n_ _ _______ h t r J.X ____ a self-described Communist agent before the i mine China’s fate. Five Communist columns under Gen. Chen Yi eased their pres sure on the government’s new* ,* Tsaochu»ng^|p FKuchen F Wuho.: smiling “I would like to know anybody ! who has seen and talked with General Marshall and does not come away encouraged.” I She gave no indication whether Marshall had given some sign that the United States definitely would aid the Chinese govern ment to resist the Communists or whether she simply had found hi a attitude toward China's plight syAfethOtic. - K B a s considered somewhat siftS icant that her conferences w ibrM arshall as well as her pro spective meeting with the Presi dent are characterized by the presence of their wives. By Wash ington practice, that detracts from the official nature of the meetings. t That was considered to be in line with Mme. Chiang’s mission here, as outlined by both Am erican and Chinese informants: To do all she possibly can, infor mally, to obtain American com mitments to help to the Chiang Kai-Shek government far beyond anything this government has yet been willing to do. Truman HelpsPresent Silver to Missouri STATUTE MlltS Yochi *7/ REDS CLAIM SUCHOW CAPTURE — A rrow s indicate Chinese C o m m u n ists’ continu ed drives tow a rd ^.Nanking, fenders w e re reported blocked 25 m iles south of Suchow in th e ir effort to retreat south w a rd to relieve rem n a n ts of 12th A rm y Group, trapped south of Suhsien by Red colu mns. All N a tionalist troops in corridor north of Nanking w e re striving to reach and bols ter th e capital’s new defense line on south bank of Huai River, about 100 m iles north of N a n k ing, P Map) Chen Yi’s force was estimated at 150,000. Three other Red col umns, totalling possibly 75,000 men, already are engaging the 250,000-man Suchow garrison a- bout 30 miles south of the big base. . In addition to those Communist' force*;, twro other columns were reported approaching the battle scene from the east. Thus, it ap peared the three government army groups — constituting the core of Chiang Kai-Shek‘s streng th in east China—would be con siderably outnumbered. While official attention was riveted on the impending battle, the frantic scramble of Chinese to leave Nanking and Shanghai continued—and with Uragic re- tpri- ly carrying 4,000 refugees blew up and sank near the mouth of the Yangtze river late last night. More than 3,000 were believed drowned. The Nanking garrison attemp ted to slow down the exodus from this capital by closing the main gates to railroad yards and to the Yangtze river docks. Gen. Tan Gen-Po, garrison commander, or dered all transport facilities pla ced tmder military control, For the first time in days, there was considerable optimism in official Nanking circles regard ing the military situation north west of here. Officials expressed belief the forthcoming fight south O Suchow will result in a govern ment victory. Informed foreign military quar ters said that even partial Nation alist success could delay for 60 to 90 days the necessity for gov ernm ent evacuation of Nanking. WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 GT)— President Truman, cruised toward the Naval base at Norfolk, Va., today to honor the historic bat tleship Missouri, named for his state. Mr. Truman and his party left Washington last night aboard the yacht Williamsburg. It was due to moor alongside the 45,000-ton “Mighty Mo’’ at Norfolk’s pier 7 shortly after noon, Eastern Stan dard time. \ The president was to take part there in the presentation of a 281- piccc silver service to the famed vessel, on whose deck the Japan ese signed surrender papers off Tokyo in 1945. The silverware is the gift of the net sin non appropriated by the legislature, and was to be presented by Gov. Phil Donnelly. ARMY PLANE LOST MUROC AIR BASE, Calif., Dec. 4 JJPJ — A CM7 Army trans port/plane from Albuquerque, N. M.t was missing today after She pilot radioed the field here he was approaching for a landing. Air traffic control headquar ters reported that the pilot said he was ^pproaching for ~a“ lantb ing at 7:05 p. m. (PDT) yeste; day. But the plane never reached the field. The sky was overcast at the time. FINED $700 FOR DOING BOUNDRY LINE BUSINESS VALLEY FIELD, Que., Dec. 4 (.4*)—AJDundee grocer who con ducts business in Canada and the United States without mov ing from his counter has to pav $700 for violating ^foreign ex change regulations. Marcel Machabee’s store strad dles the international boundary line. His merchandise is in Can ada, but the customers stand in the United States,\ He pleaded guilty yesterday to charges that he had failed to “declare and offer” U. S. curren cy in his possession to authorized Canadian dealers; that he had given non-residents Canadian money illegally and that he had failed to keep proper records. A charge that he dealt in U. S. cur rency was- withdrawn. He was given a choice of pay ing the fine or serving up +o a year in jail. Police Chief Killed By Striking Students CAIRO, Egypt, Dec. 4 OP) Police Chief Selim Zaki Pasha was injured fatolly today by an exploding hand grenade in a stu dent riot at Fuad university, po lice announced. Police told newsmen three po lice guards also had been killed, by grenades of striking students. The university opened this mor ning after a two-day close-down which resulted from a previous student strike against British pol icy in the Sudan. WALL STREET NEW YORK, Dec. 4 GT) A creeping advance carried the stock market ahead fractions to around 2 points today. It was the fourth day in a row th a t the general price level has slanted ahead. Buying was pretty well spread out, with some of the best gains posted in the oil, rail, chemical and motor groups. Trading was slow, in line with the usual pattern of Saturday business. ^ T r a v e l i n g T r u m a n s W o w ’E m a t D i n n e r o j N a t i o n a l P r e s s C l u b NAVAL BUILDING BURNS ■ R O STON, P e r 4 t;p ) ~ Fiam- es swept through three floors of the nine-story Fargo Naval build ing today, forcing out 65 officers and causing loss set at $100,000 by the Navy’s district fire m ar shal. ' The blaze started near the ladies’ lounge in the second floor officer’s club, the Navy reported. A P P R O V E “aRTTISH PROPOSAL PARIS, Dec. 4 CJP )—'The much- amended British proposal for con ciliation of the Palestine problem was approved narrowly today in the United Nations political com- - mittee. The margin w a s f a r too ^ m a n got a.toj^laugh when she narrow to assure its adoption by the general assembly, By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (£>)— The piano team of President Tru- daughtof— Margaret m a n and wowed ’em. They played a duet last night ‘The Jenny Lind Polka”—at national press club dinner for fathers ancljiaughtcrs where they were hS^or guests. The crowd loved it. and no one had a better time than the Tru mans. “Daddy taught me thX when I was about 10,” M argaret explain ed, “and I don’t think we have played it since.” A singer of some renown,. Miss said before starting the duet: “I do belong to a union, so I got special dispensation to do this with a non-union mepiber.” Then they went at it. slowly deliberately. And when they were done they got a big ovation, Introdcced as the “Traveling Trumans,” the president and his daughter were only one of a num ber of acts in the two hours of entertainment. Secret Service Agent Henry Nicholson convulsed the crowd and Mr. Truman, too; with an im itation of the president’s standard back platform campaign speech. Afterward, Mr. Truman told the 400 fathers and daughters present that he wanted to as sure Nicholson that everything was all right. “He’s not going to get fired,” the president chuckled. m m W POLICE GRAPPLE W ITH COMMUNIST HECKLERS — Berlin W e stern Sector poiice grapple with a Com munist heckler (right center, bareheaded) at a C h ristian Dem o c ratic rally in the Bor ough of Spandau in the British zone of the city, as another dem o n s trator (right, cicarette dangl ing from m o uth and w e a ring cap) pushes his w a y tow a rd police in an attem p t to free h,s compan ion. Anti-Comm unists in the audience pounced upon the hecklers and, w ith the aid of poiics, tossed out 15 of them . It wias another incident in divided Berlin. The newly-form ed Com m u n ist rump governm e n t has been recognized by the Russians “as th e only legal organ o f the city adm inistra tion” of Berlin. (fP Photo via radio from Berlin to New York) By DOUGLAS B. WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (AP) — Midget fifaos sf secret State Department papers, pulled from a pumpkin b y mm «d- mitted former Communist agent, suddenly have «et tbe M td spy hunt going again in Congress. The House un-American Activities committee took to tke radio and telephone to round up members for more hearings soon. From Whittaker Chambers, a Time magazine editor who says he used to be a Communist courier, the committee g * more documents to add to those produced from microfilms he hid in a hollow pumpkin on his Westminster, MiL, iarm. Evidence Uncovered in Chambers-Hiss Fight Robert E. Stripling, the com mittee’s chief investigator, told [‘reports: i \We expect to show conclusive- : :y the source of the documents material obtained by the com mittee. Therefore, they said, they had no comment. Stripling said the microfilms, encased in m etal tubes a little . from the State Department to [bigger than, a lipstick case, ap- ! Chambers.” j parently had been in the pump- | W h ittaker Qiambers, now a j k h r “oniy’a : l i i ^ '\ s senior editor of Time magazine, j Chambers and*his wife, he said, Overlei told the, committee las sum m e r;had been in B altim o re Stripling i he was an agent for the Red ur.- j said he assumed Chambers put j derground in .Washington in the the films in the pumpkin w ith [ 1530’s. I the thought that his home m ight I Stripling said that “very im-] be searched in his absence. . - I p o riant” new documents had j W here the films have been for j been seized. He said these were 1 th e last 10 years, Stripling didn't | in addition to ., microfilms of I say— N or was he wiHing to guess State Department papers Cham-1why Chambers never produced bers had secreted in a pumpkin j them on his own. T h a t is some- on his M aryland farm and t o ’ thing to be developed at the BERLINERS AREJ ASSURED YANKS TO HOLD FIRM By RICHARD KASISCHKE BERLIN, Dec. 4 GR) — Gen. Lucius D. Clay spiked a Commu nist election eve scare campaign today by assuring Berliners the United States will not be forced out of the four-po.wer city. Western Berliners vote tomor row for a nesv city administration. The U. S. military governor, answering Communist declara tions that the western powers wouid withdraw from Berlin next month, said: “Responsible representatives of the U. S. government have declar ed the United States will not be forced out of Berlin. “My own. headquarters will con tinue in Berlin and there will be no departure of our families, ex cept in iiDrrr.a. routine as staff members leave and are replaced.” The Russian and German Com- 'munists have been hurling prop aganda broadsides in their press and over the radio obviously de signed to keep western Berliners from voting in tomorrow’s elec tion. They h^ve asserted the west- ’e r r r power:; will withdraw, -th-at- Clay will be recalled and that the United States’ firmncss-to- ' SHANGHAI, Dec. 4 <JP) — A small ship crammed with Chin- -ese\ war refugees exploded and sank just outside Shanghai late last night, with a total expected to. exceed 3,200 lives. * If reports are even approxi mately accurate, it r.vas the worst marine disaster in modern his tory'. Some 4,250 Chinese were re ported aboard the ship, the China Merchant Steamship company’s 2,099-ton Kiangya. It blew up amidships and sank in less than an hour near the mouth of the Yangtze river. A company spokesman said the Kiangya had a capacity of 1.186 passengers but that it “of ficially” Was carving 2,250 — wards-Russia policy in Germany will be reversed. The aparcnt intention is -to frighten Berliners by persuading them that the Russians will soon be the sole occupiers here and the Communists-wHi-txr in a po sition to take reprisals against those who voted. The Communists, who this week set up a -separate rump -government ~ wfrfeheLafms- -to- rude- .11 Berlin, are boycotting the elections. The Russians have for bidden voting in their sector. ChristinSG^ackages Must Go off At Once WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 OP) — Unless vou mail your Christmas pacages right now they probaly will arrive after the holiday. Postmaster General Donaldson said in a statement last night: “This year's Christmaq mail added to the present everyday rec ord volume has created the most acute mail congestion and trans portation problem in the entire history of the postal service. Only by the. immediate mail ing of Christmas parcels can the senders be- assured that their gifts will arrive prior to Christ mas.” ■mostly from Nanking. He said another estimated 2.0C3 clamber ed aboard at Shanghai. There seemed no way of determining just how many. Late tonight about 209 bodies ^ _ j Rep. Mvnadt a mmmi* Stripling said the committee i tee member, said the microfilms had served a subpoena on Cham- alone provide “definite proof” of bers’ lawyer, Richard F. Cleve- the existence of “one of the most land of Baltimore, for documents extensive espionage rings in the and sworn statements taken in history of the United States.” connection w ith a libel suit pend- The State and Justice depart ing against Chambers there. This $75,000 damage suit again st Chambers was filed by Algm- sny HUBBY SEEKS A DIVORCE FROM RED SPY WIFE were reported recovered and at [Hiss,, foi'mer high State Deoart- least 3,000 persons were reported, naent official. Chambers has still missing. i testified Hiss was among the Between 100 and 400 have been j members of a pre-war P„ed un reported rescued thus far. derground'in the capital. Cause cf the blast had not been j Chambers first made the ac- determined. The welter, of re-dcusation at Congressional ports adv.- need several reasons— I h earings last summer. Hiss Communist sabotage, an under- j ed it. water mine, or an explosion of j When Chambers reoe overstrained boilers. , j some of his accusations : It was the-first major disaster t broadcast,. Hiss sued him in the frenzied exodus from 1 libel. - Shanghai and Nanking. B o th1 Robert E. Stripling, the- < cities are menaced by- Chinese j^jxtec’s chief investigator, m reporter he couldn't disclose men's had no immediate com ment. In a statem ent- last night. Hand: also said; The committee has uncovered \shockiqg” evidence that before the war “secret documents of direct significance to our nation al security were fed out cf the S:a?e department by a member of -he Communist underground W hittaker derground Chambers member ” The wasn't id- Communist armies now engaged ' in critical — possibly decisive — BINGHAMTON. Dee. 4 nT) Sgt. John Biccnish is seeking a divorce here from Galina Dunae- v’a BiconXh, the Russian woman blamed for the desertion of an other American soldier in Mos cow last spring. Galina, the I'. S. State depart ment said at that time, is a So- viet sov. who seduced Set, James M. McMillin from his dut ies. The 21-vear-old McMillin, from Boulder, Colo., defied Army orders to return to the United States. - He acted not on political con viction, the State departmei but because of an infatuation for the beautiful Mrs.-Biconish. - - Her husband, whose home in is Binghamton, returned from Mos cow' about three years ago, soon after the wedding. - When Galina came into the news last May, Biconish said he loved her and did not believe she was a spy. , But he explained he had no hope Soviet authorities would let her join him in this country, and for that reason alone he wished to divorce her. Legal notices now appearing in Binghamton newspapers announ- ~ro his intention to end the mar ri- . In M gocow . both Biconish and McMillin were stationed at the, U. S. embassy. The State depart ment said it did not know wheth er the latter had acquired any confidental information. 'Biconish now is at the Army Language school at Monterey, Calif. His newspaper notice says that if Galina does not appear or ans wer “judgement will be taken by; default.” nature of the new document, but iron battles less Than 203 miles, north west of Nanking. The steamship had sriled from Shanghai en route—to’—rvinkpo (Ninghsienh abbut , '200-mmiles south of here. It was jarnmed with Shanghai and Nanking resi dents attefhptfhg to reach the relative safety of Chekiang province. A company spokesman said the Kiangya’s capacity was 1,186 passengers. He added, however, that thousands of refugees had swarmed aboard on each of the ship's recent tri-ps_. The spokesman said the vessel | in toch at once with Rep. Murdt had carried at least 4,000 passen-! i,R-SD> about the next steps in, gers. ■ i the search for spies. Survivors — some of whom j -in addition to the microfilms, were injured — reportedwhat Lhe i the said that they were very ant and were obtained' by poena. He said they didn’t co: W h ittaker Chambers. - who has testified he was a former Com munist courier. Chambers row is an editor of Time magazine. There was none of 'he earlier drama that surrounded the .tak ing over of 10-year-oid midget films of secret State Department papers which Chambers hid in a hollow pumpkin on his Maryland farm. Stripling said he was getitngi Mur.dt indicated . that micro film copies of top-cecret diplo matic. notes and report? were turned o%er to “Russitn Commu- n:s: agents.’’ W hether the film? obtained from Chambers were •port- additional copies, he didn't say. he did add: \These documents are of such startling and significant impor tance. reveal such a vast network of Communist espionage within the State department, that they far exceed anyhing-yet brought before the committee in its ten- year history.” He said U. S. agents had been after -^he-_micr©fttms for ten years Robert E. Stripling, chief com mittee investigator, related how a suhjoena w as'served on Cham bers Thursday ordering him (A) to produce the microfilms and iB) to turn up at the new hear ings that are being planned. ship w ent down shortly after a ; ed more important papers from tremendous explosion. One said j Chambers. it might have been sabotage, lo calise he noticed two junks pass ing the stern of the ship a few ■Her. —~ —u. He said they might have losed a mine..-Shipping—men were in clined to blame overstrained boil ers for the blast. mittee investigators to his M ary land farm where the microfilms Geo. L. Berry Dies; Pressman Union Head PRESSMEN’S HOME, Tenn., Dec. 4 i.T 1 - - George L. Berry, 65-year-old president of the In ternational printing Pressmen’s unio*Ldied today. Death came to the labor lead- er. at one Dame a member of the United States Senate, at his home at- \6:15 'a.m.—Tie had been ill since T u e s d a y and in declining health for years, v Berry hac^been active head of his union almost continuously since 1237 when he was first elected president. T o r o n t o f e e l s h e a t TORONTO, Ont.; Dec. 4 (.=P)— Toronto experienced its warmest Dec. 3 on record yesterday. The thermometer hit 52 degrees. Wea ther Bureau officf^s said the previous high was 51 in 1914. te Department officials said were cached in a hollor.ved-but had seen hone of the new _ p umpkin kept behind the house. Yesterday, he said, I i esteroay. tie said, more docu- LoulrMayer Marries ggf 5 were obtaiaed-iron' Chara- Mrs. Lorena Danker j Stripling wouldn’t discuss their significance. Nor -would he say YUMA, Ariz., Dec. 4 GT' — , w here the commitee got its tip Louis B. Mayer and Mrs. Lor-; that Chambers had the 10-year- ena Danker, widow of radio pi?> °’d microfilms. Apparently, he ducer Dannv Danker, reached i said- documents w ere slipped out ------------------ s ------- the State department, copied here by tra in *early today ----- , . . . - planned to.be married later in ] 0** fitoV and then returned. H e the day. ^said ^ flims lnclude such *«- ----- Justice of the Peace R. H. as: Lutes will perform the ceremony. Mayer, one of the nation's highest-salaried people, was div- -orcd last May 17 from his first A diagram of a technical in strument with operating instruc- ions. A 1938 telegram to the Seerw. wiie, Margaret, oner n - . -------- ----------- - of marriage. He is head of Metro-\T**rar concerning a co n w s a tf e n - w ith a former Chinese official In Goldwyn-May Moscow about the chanr^ 0f Russia siding with China to fight Japan. A note handed th e 1 Germ air Ambassador by “Mr. Welle** William C. Bullitt i ' ador to France in 1998. ’QUAKE ROCKS MEXICO ISLE MAZAtLAN, Mexico, Dec. 4 (JP) — An ea rt hqua-ke- rocked Mexico’s Maria Madre island pen- - -at—eoiony with “destructive force late yesterday. One man was re -1 Welles isy a form er orted killed and many injured, jof state; * Medical aid- sped today to thej The Bullitt telegram island, the largest of the Islas Marias group. The group lies in f h e ' Pacific about 75 miles from the mainland and 130 miles joutfc of ed “strictly secretary.” A “must b« ftffeT ‘ notation said the It - 4
