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- '- • \ •• ' - ; - *■■ ■ yr\ - - . ^ ... !-' ^ : ''- y - 'v . ' - * Jfhe JVeaiher Fair and Cooler Tonight; Increasing Cloudiness Tomorrow VOLUME LIH l*nll AM o d itodPrm fartie* D AIL Y Published Daily at 3:30 P. M. FIVE CENTS’ SABANAC LAKE, N. Y., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7,1948 FIVE CENTS 3 3 in R U S S I A N S FED JA P S SE C R E T S ;We'>andh*pp . Is Report From SumvorsEound HISS GOT DATA FOR KED AGENT By JOHN G. WINANT NEW YORK, Dec. 7 UP) — Another day of questioning be fore a spy-hunting Federal Grand Jury today confronted Whittaker Chambers, confessed courier for a pre-wrr Communist espionage ring. Chambers testified before the Grand Jury at length yesterday and was, closeted until early this --jnorning'-with—members oT~The' House un-American Activities committee who hastened here to talk with him. Chambers’ appearance before the Grand Jury coincided with the committee’s disclosure that the ex-Communist previously had accused Alger Hiss, former State Department official, of slipping him “resticted” documents for. de livery to a Russian agent. The New York Herald Tribune said od:y that Rep. Richard M. Nixon, chairman o the House un- American Activities subcommit tee 'which came here, had dis closed he will sk the Grand Jury for permission to appear JjfiJLorc it. Nixon, the newspaper said, wants to submit information he and other Tnembers of the com mittee have about the controver sy involving Chambers and Hiss. ;If ail awed to testify Nixon will ask the jury to urge appointment of a upecial assistant Attorney General in the case, according to the Herald Tribune. Chambers and . Hiss went be fore the Grand Jury yesterday in a follow-up to committee re ports of new and startling evi dence of a pre-war Communist underground. Neither Chambers nor Hiss would disclose the nat ure of their testimony. This same evidence, uncovered in a hollowed-out pumpkin on Chambers’ Maryland farm, is the object of today’s House commit tee session, to which Chambers was summoned. While Chambers and Hiss wore testifying in secret before the Grand Jury, the House group in Washington wrs publishing sworn testimony by Chambers that Hiss got government docu ments for a Russian agent. Hiss countered immediately by saying “I deny without qualifica tion the accusations made in that testimony.” As this ner.v chapter in the long Hiss-Chambers case unfolded, Rep. John Rankin (D-Miss), a member of the House committee, said today he is \convinced” the Russians fed purloined U. S. sec rets to the Japanese before and during the war. This, he added, in a statement at Washington, \Contributed to bringing on Pearl Harbor.” Rankin said \someone* in the State Department was guilty of espionage.” But he did not name any one. \Russia had a Japanese Ambas sador in Moscow during the en tire war, right up to the drop ping of the atomic bomb,” he said. “I am convinced that the Russians fed this information they received from the State De partment files to the Japanese Ambassador and that this conri- buted to bringing on Peal Harbor.’* Chambers’ charges that Hiss piped out government papers M a rs h a ll R e s ts A fter K id n e y O p e ra tion b u t R e s u lt n o t y e t K n o w n |2S £ w • * BRITAIN'S NEW PRIN C E GETS FIR S T A IR IN G —JS i s t e r r Helen Rowe, nurse to E n g land’s yoiTngest prince, the 21-day old son of Princess Elizabeth, pushes the youngster through Bucking ham Palace garden for his first tim e in open air._ C a rriage is same one in which Princess Elizabeth rode 22 years ago. The Princess did not go out. (fP Photo by radio from London) WASHINGTON. Dec. 7 (/P) - lowing a physical checkup last Secretary of Strie Marshall un- {summer. der.vent a kidnov r p e r a lio n today ' S u ,KRC,on1s \ i ^ o d to operate ■ then but because of the P: at Walter Reid hospitqj. FLYNN ARGUES, KICKS COP AND GETS ARRESTED NEW YORK, Dec. 7 — A bench w arrant for arrest of Errol Flynn was issued in magistrate's court today after the screen actor failed to appear on a charge of kicking a cop in the shin. NEW YORK, Dec. 7 Errol Flynn, a daring fighter-on. -the—screen,“ was charged today with kicking a New York cop on the shin. An expert boxer and fencer, the 38-year-old actor allegedly gave the boot to one of New York’s finest after one of the cloudy disputes that sometimes befall gentlemen in taxis after mid night. Flynn, released in $500 bail supplied by a night club proprie tor, hollered it was a \frameup.” The validity of what happened to whom was to be tested in court later today. This was the police vers >n of the incident: Flynn and a companion who identified himself as Robert Gra ham Wahn, 38, a movie publicity were riding in a taxi The State Department the following announcement. \General Marshall underwent a kidney operation at W alter Reed hospital this morning fob ACUNZO SEIZED IN COUNTERFEIT MONEY PASSING ! conference the operation was de issued layed until today.” Marshall’s condition after the operation was not immediately made known. When it Is known it may determine whether he re mains as Secretary of State. President Truman told a news conference last Wednesday he had asked Marshall to stay in the cabinet and Marshall had agreed. At the sme time, the President sid he had received no informa tion on the condition of Mar shall’s health. The former Army . Chief of Staff, who will be 68 years old Dee. 31, has been living in the hospital since his return from the Paris United Nations meeting Nov. 22. He held several confer ences with President Truman im mediately upon his arrival here. Late, he stopped appearing at his office and spent all his time at the hospital. Until today the State Depart ment publicly and his associates there privately had insisted that WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (.PI — The Secret Service announced today the arrest at Baltimore of John Acunzo, 30, on a charge of passing some 25 $10 and $20 counterfeit notes in Baltimore night clubs last Sunday. Officials said this counterfeit money was identical wth i\con- siderable quantity” of counterfeit notes recently -passed in New ( York, Philadelphia and elsewhere j he was only in the hospital to un- in the Middle Atlantic seaboard dergo physical checkups, area. ; 1 Thursday and Friday he The Secret Service said its j broke his hospital routine to re- Baitimore agents and police there ceive Madame Chiang Kai SheK, seized a car Acunzo was driving jiwife of the president of China, and found $1,000 in counterfeit and hear her appeals for more bills in the car. Acunzo also, had which went to the Russians wore disclosed by Nixon. The testimony came from pre liminary proceedings in a $75,- 0001i be 1 suit Hiss has filed iagainst Chambers, and named a \Colonel Bykov” as a Russian agent to whom Hiss allegedly gave the documents. > Missing Plane Found; AirDefenseGroup To Hold a Part of Madison Barracks Three Are Dead COLUMBUS, O., Dec. 7 (IP) — A Dayton,ri>., businesman and two women employes were found dead in the wreckage of their plane hoar here yesterday^ They had been missing since Saturday on a flight from James town. N. Y.,-to Dayton. The victims wore VV. J. man- c hard,\ 48, general manager of General Motors, aero products di vision; Miss Vivian Johnson, 29, and Miss Betty Charles, 28, all of Dayton. - Two hoys oxeretstng a dog found the wreckage in a corn field 10 miles west of Columbus and hhly half a mile from heavtty-Travelcd U. S. route 40. ^ 0 0 in counterfeit money in his pocket, the Service added. Acunzo gave his address as South Norwalk, Conn., officials said. The world’s longest aerial cable railway transports ores 60 miles 'from Sweden’s huge Boli- den mines near the Arctic circle. China’s fight against the Com munists. Aides at the State De partment said that he had been fully informed of world develop ments and had continued to work on papers at the hospital. In M arshall’s absence from his office, Undersecretary of State Robert A. Lovett runs the State Department. WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 UP)— The Air Defense Command has acted to retain “some” facilities at Madison Barracks, N. Y., the office of Rep. Kilburn (R-NY) TcportetTycstetdayT” Kilburn’s office said the in formation “sets at rest” rumors that the entire barracks was to be included in a disposal by the W ar Assets Administration, Bidding for the sale by_the W AA o barracks closes tomorrow. The Air Force Defense has surveyed Madison Barracks am ted by a police The police — patrolmen Joseph Bergeles and Joseph Gardner — thought the 22-year-old driver had an unusually youthful appearan ce. When the driver got out to show his credentials Wahn leap ed out and allegedly used abus ive language. Flynn, a man of hair-trigger temperament, sat quietly in the cam. Then everyone was taken to a police station. There, with one wordx leading to another, Bergeles charged that Flynn kicked him in the shin as the* policeman walked behind him. ' Flynn and Wahn were remov ed to another station which has cells. Flynn was charged with third degree assault, Wahn with j disorderly conduct. i John Perona, operator of the El Morocco night club, appeared j with bail money after receiving a ! frantic call from Flynn’s wife who was not in the taxi. Per ona said he didn’t believe it at first because \the Flynns are al ways gagging.” By LEIF ERICKSON HONOLULU, Ike. J (AP) — Thirty-three survivors of a mid-Pacific plane crash were rescued after floating in shark- infested waters niore than 40 hours aboard two overcrowded life boats. Their four companions aboard an ill-fated C-54 transport plane were listed today as dead. The 37 aboard were Air Force „ personnel. — _ | The suvivors were picked up by the carrier Rendova last night 520 miles south w e s t Yif-timz — Johnson island at the dim a x of a dramatic air and sea search extending over two days. When the plane crashed into the ocean Sunday m im ing, only two seven-man life rafts could be found and inflated, survivors re ported in a radiophone interview. Sixteen to eighteen men were packed on each raft, said Lt. Col. ; William R. Calhoun of Birming- ' ham ,Ala., pilot of the plane. I The took turns clinging on the outside. Sharks were seen cir cling around the overcrowded -POSTAL DEFICIT T0BR1NGHIGHER 2ND CLASS RATE NIXON VIEW S FILM — Rep. Richard Nixon (R Calif) (right), who made a dram a tic flight to W ashington from a Panama-bound steam e r, views m ircofilm s of_state departm e n t papers with Robert-' Stripling, chief investigator for the House Un-American Activities comm ittee. The film s were found on the M aryland farm of W h it tak e r Gham b ers, adm itted form e r Soviet agent. (fP W irephoto) WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 f .*> . Postmaster General Donaldson said today he would ask the hew ' j Congress to boost rates on j mail except first class. I Donaldson told newsmen th at ^ j higher rates \will have to come \ t . ; on all low revenue-producing \ rafts from \the Time the piane„, mail.-! - - | was \ditched” until the survivors „U lie talked with reporters at the j Pic^ed UP- !White House after conferring! ad shark repellant ’ with Mr. Truman. aboard the raft and used it at ail C h in e s e R e d s S p ring a B ig T r a p o n N a tional F o rc e s A id in g A rm ie s He said the%President is “not acquainted-—with—the—situation, but he will be.” In reply to a question, Donald son said he would ask Congress times to keep them away, Cal- iioun said. He said to the best of his knowledge everyone got out of the plane when it hit the ocean to increase rates after clearing:■ miles southwest of Honoiu- th e m a t t e r Through the White lu. By SEYMOUR TOPPING NANKING, China, Dec. 7 (rP) trapped, arrny —Government sources admitted today Communist armies have en circled 110,000 Nationalist com bat \troops on the centra] China front southwest of Suchow. These sources said the three House and the Budget Bureau. , He said increases would be ask- 1 ed for second class mail, news- (papers and magazines: third, . . ■ . class, circulars and advertr'sing; ; mSht anc. a fourth jumped over fourth class, parcel post; an<j i dGard. Monciay after m o re^than special services, such as money —Btrt—Capt. James M. Lane of the Rendova radioed that two men wentdown with the plane. He said another died Sunday orders. Donaldson groups had been ^onaidson told reporters ) Post Office Department would the ST. LAWRENCE A TRADE HIGHWAY OF IMPORTANCE Supreme Court Split Over Right to Review WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 A dramatically broken Supreme Court tie gave seven former Jap- . _ _ anose warlords a new lease on American- help, for Nationalist j j f e today—the seventh anniver sary of the day of infamy they helped plot. , . Splitting five to four, the Tri bunal agreed yesterday to con sider whether it can pass on the indings of the International court in Tokyo which doomed the men to hang as war criminals. Justice Robert H. Jackson, who took leavq from the bench in 1945 to prosecute Nazi Germany’s war criminals, cast the deciding vote because, he said, \the is sues here are truly great one. CHRISTM AS AT HOME WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (,T) — The president, Mrs. Truman and M argaret will eat their Christmas turkey in their home at Indepen dence, Mo. .Mrs^ James Helm, White House social secretary, said today that the first lady expected to go to Missouri about the middle of December. Her mother, Mrs. D. W. Wal lace, who has been viuiting the The office quoted an A D C spokesman assay in g : “We’ve acted to prevent these (housing) facilities from going familw here. omd- Margaret _will go with Mrs. Truman. Mr. Tru man will go to Independence later. two other northern Now York military installations for “pos sible future use.” The others are Pino Camp and Plattsburg. Kilburn’s office said Madison Barracks would be used for its housing facilities, not as an in stallation, In the event a “pro posed activity” were carried out by the AT>.C in northern New York.----- boyorkPour reach.” The ADC spokesman was fur ther quoted as saying the “pro posed activity” had not received final staff approval. An ADC spokesman previously told «a reporter there was an chie Command might recall Ma dison Barracks from (WAA) stir- list.” He added that such action, “if it is to take place, must occur between now and Deo. 8.” A WAA spokesman confirmed that the barracks still was on its surplus list. WAA--was advised only informally that the Air For ce had expressed-an interest in \looking over” the one-time Ari my posVhc added. WALL STREET NEW YORK, Dec. 7 U P )-T h e stock market tlpped-downwa^d-at- tradc oday. In fairiyriictive business, losses of fractions were spread among-it issuer.. A few moved against the trend or small gains. NOVEMBER PR O F ITS DOWN NEW YORK. Dec. ? t/P> — The Fr-Wr-WooKvorth stores re ported today a one per cent \drop under last year in its November sales, lt was the first time in more than three years that the chain had a November decrease. OTTAWA, Dec. 7 UP) — The Canadian deputy minister of transport says the St. Lawrence river and the lakes and rivers connected with it form the “most unique highway of trade to be found in the world.” J. C. Lessard said last night in a radio address that traffic was moving over the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence route probably was greater than that using the en tire European inland waterways. Lessard added that develop ment of the St. Lawrence seaway project would increase the traffic on the inland waterways. The project calls for deepening the canal from 14 to 25 feet. ' LessarcT\said that during the eight months of navigation more freight tonnage passes through Sault Ste. Marie canal than through the Panama. Suez, Kiel compressed on a front eight miles long and five miles in dep th. They were trapped by the Communists as they marched sou th from Suchow to rescue other encircle government forces. Eight or nine Red columns, commanded by- General Chen' Yi, were said to have completed the encirclement of thri lorm er Su chow garrison. The trap was sprung about 50 mt.es southwest oi their lorm er base. Civil officials, evacuated from Suchow with the troops, were re ported hampering operations of the encircled armies. i The government sources' con firmation of Communist reports came shortly iafter Nationalist forces announced they had aban doned two towns on the northern fret to Reds marching toward Peiping. > p ' rlhe bulk of Chen Yi's forces were repored concentrated south have an all-time record deficit of $550.000.000 at the close of this fiscal' year next” Juhe^SO. He said that compared with a ‘ _ deficit of $310,000,000 for the fis- ‘ : hirty hours on a raft In the rurk infested waters. All survivors were “well and happy” when rescued. And Cal houn sounded calm as he told the story over the radiophone from the Rendova. We. didn't decide to ditch.” Caihoun said. “We jus: ran out cal 30. which ended last J u n e ; 0: --titude'^ after two of the i planes’ four engines failed on a ________ : liight from Okinawa: Every thing possible had been jetrson- ed to keep the plane in the air as long as possible.. 'ihe plane sank in 12 minutes. WASHINGTON. Dec. 7 '.?) - * Sunday night a B-17 search Gov. Thomas E. Dewev will meet j Plano ?iIotcd b-v CaPT; ;vilcn «• ' S 'turtpv b 'ous saw tired from the Dewev Meets Truman At Gridiron Dinner President Truman night for the first time since the election. They ill speak at the annual gridiron dinner here. On Friday. Dewey will greet members of the “Castle Rock sur vivors association\. This is a group of correspondents who were with Dewey on his 1944 presidenti.-l camapign when the train was in a minor wreck at I v of the government pocket to pre-1 Castle Rock, Wash, vent an attempted ureak hrough j Paul Lockwood, Dewey’s sect: in an effort to... contact he eneir cled Twelfth Army group. Last night the Communist rad io claimed 20.000 casualties a.- ready have been inflicted on the tary, notified members that the New 'York Governor will ‘make these propos3ls_at the meeting: \To increase the association’s membership by admitting the 2nd. 13th and 16th Army groups j survivors of - the move recent caught in \air tight encirch mont.” Another Communist broad cast said Nationalist troops at tempting to march south were ’’stampeded\ when they came un der attack. With the four major army groups defending east China en- and Manchester ship canals, com -1 circled and facing possible de- bined, for an entire year. ' Tra f reu gTf 1 Ke \“K a IiT r^ al hae; varied from a low of 20. 500.000 ton in 1932 to a high of 120.300.000 tons in 1942. CLAIM CAR DEALER ’SMEAR’ WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 k IP) — The National Automobile dealers struetion. military circles in Nan.- association said today committee “smeared 000 n$w car dealers House j t he were giving renewed atten tion to defenses along the Hwai river and the lightly held Yangtze river. The rivers are the final barrier to Communist assaut up on Nanking. Foreign military observers say the government must decide who wreck and to change the oftieia! ame of the organization to 'The Survivors, Inc.’ ” — ----- \The recent wreck” was an al lusion to Dewey’s defeat Nov. 2. Asks 816,0.00,000 for Relief of Refugees - life rafts and dropped a reccua i boat. Calhoun sari they knew ' the.plana was circling over them , but did not know i. dropped a 1 rescue boat. j Monday morning searchers ( found no sign oi the life rafts, j More than a score rif Air i- or- ■ ce and N a v y planes, aided by ' four naval sum ace craf t, criss crossed the area for nine hours , be tore a priva’.ter spotted them. The Rendova was, ordered to take the survivors to Kwajaiein. about 900 miles away. The C-54 was one of a flight of five ferrying Air Force per sonnel from Okinawa to their base at Spokane. Wash. Aboard the four-engine, land based craft was a. crew of seven and 30 members of the 9$th bomb ; ground personnel who had been training for three month on Oki nawa. : Calhoun coneurrer in the ree- : om men dat ion of Lane that sear ch for the four lost men be ab- r . d o n e d . . ________ _______ ”T=? them to trade practices uncover ed in only five local cases. Bv restricting its hearings to to concentrate its forces a- some 457‘ long He” Hwai river or reinforce by Jinkingrthe riTr t if led norta.-bank...o-rihe Yangtze. The official central news agen- cy confirmed the suicide of Gen- the Washington area, the tra del oral Huang Po Tao, late comman- group said, the committee head ed by Rep. Macy (R-NY) failed toprov e its charges that new car buyers in generall were “gouged” out of $450,000,000 during the first seven months of 1948. FILM S SHOW PUNCH LONDON, Dec. 7 (jp>~Slo\v -m n tin n film s d isclo s e d to d a y that Lee Savold drove a low blo.v to Brupe Woodcock's groin just be fore he—was disqualified in the fourth round o last night’s heavy weight elimination bout at Har- ringay arena. The American fighter cocked his right fist behind him and drove it into the lower loft grein of the Bvitiph Empire champion. Woodcock partly parried the pun ch with his left,,-forearm. der of the Seventh Army group. Communists virtually destroyed the group in a ten day battle on the east flank of Sucho w last month. Spencer Mocua. Associated Press reporter at Peiping report7 ed northern Communist armies drevc down the raihVay from Je- hoi toward Peiping t oday; buT that Peiping itself was not par- ticlularlv excited abolt it. NICKEL PLATE BURNS COPPER CU F F , O n t; Dec. 7 iTPl— F ire last night destroyed the . main Canadian Industries Limited chemical building, a t the International Nickel company smelter. Damage was estimated at $1,000,000, No one w^as Injured. Influx of Displaced People not Damaging “7'- f 1 The While .House announced day that Preside?:’ Truman w ; ask. Congress for up .to Slo.tXYVNO for aid to Palestine refugees. _ It said that such an appropna-‘ r>T.T, T, tt ^ tion would bo (his cvumirCs-share - BtrFA L O , Dec. t jJP) -The under an aid resolution adopted. chairman of the I . ^ displaced bv the United Nations General. P»mson< commission satf last Assembly Nov.\ 19. i uight tears that 200.000 displaced ' Vhe U N re<-iimion contem-! Europeans would upsot this coun- ptatW 'that \approximately * $29.-.: try’s economy arc unfounded. 500,000 w ill bo required to uro- i Ugo Carusi made the statement vide relief for 500,000 refugees at a dinner as he received the. Tn<TfitV\ frornTNv5^fr~annuori aw ard~of the Floremine festive I society, an American- Italian group. Saying that about 70,000 fam i lies would be admitted to the Uni ted States under he Wiley-Rever- cj ab law, Carusi asserted: \A ennpM nf fnthnil rrnivri« .«p» - to wreck this nation. for ihO'Titnr bcr 1, 1948. August 31. 1949. The resolution riso had :n mind an additional amount of ap proximately $2,500,000 for admin istrative costs. MEET MME. CHIANG WASHINGTON, \Del President Truma dame Chiang Kai the W h ite-Jlouse 1 1-T*' ~'no* going will meet Ma- especially when we bear in m+ntl nek on Fnda\. that Europeans at tim* - day. President uil se G, Rom. said the. generalissimo wit: the President and M unnounoeci ,ij>_h£i:e by thc mUiiana, without pre planning and with no voluntary rotary Charles * or welfare agencies to assist aiFo of-China’s | them.” be the guest-’of i —■—d G — ----- *—i—„~ s. Truman ( ( WOMAN’S BODY ON tHOItl at tea at 3 p.m. lESTi Friday-. Madame Chiang will be aceom-; OSWEGO,'Dec. 7 (IP > —- The panieci to Blair House the tern- body of an unidentified woman porary residence of President and (was .found today o nthe shore of Mrs. Truman bv .Mrs. George C. I Lake Ontario a short distance 'Marshall, wife of the secretary | from rom Cuwego State Teach- of Stri*. . * » ' eolieg^ . i
