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kMacArthur us Probe Os !e Os Japs knti-Soviet Crowd [Attempts To Storm Russian Embassy L r o. Dec. 22 — (UP) — AntiLt a- inonstrators tried to L the Soviet embassy today L Gen. Douglas MacArthur \ L,l for an Investigation by a Kral nation of the fate of thou- |. o f Japanese held in Soviet EcArthur denounced as a Lew-ruin" and the "callous-1 J of hypocrisy" a Soviet charge I American occupation officials L the Japanese government L<.«> "democratic groups." L demonstrators were repuls- ! ■by Soviet guards, who closed \ I embassy's iron gate and call I for reinforcements. Barred L entering the embassy, the Ln«trators threatened to reL In the streets outside "indefl-t L until the lite of the 37tt.<MMi Le*e prisoners was announc-Lvi-ver, they gave up their alt h strike five hours later after Loy officials promised to re|to their questions about the Ltier» on Dec. 28. L first, the demonstrators wen Lisfied with thia answer and Led diet members who tried ■mi them to go home. Finally b decided to leave but before M so. they borrowed Brooms k the .Soviet guards and clean [up the street. UnM three quarters of the 4tH» honstratora who maintained the ■ in a drizzle before the emry were women. Most of them I friends and relatives among miaaing prisoners. fce demonstration developed in 500 Japanese gathered out t the embassy after being wd away last week with a ■lse that more information on ' Japanese prisoners might lie hatde today. W Japanese appointed a dele km of five leaders to carry ir request for information to. l *-t embassy officials. They It'd *0 minutes without success tolly a number of Russian W«. one of them carrying a k told the crowd that the deleton would not be admitted, she demonstrators began shoutI "liars" and "why did you tok your word?" ktrtng the demonstration the *»”y gate opened wide enough tot a Soviet automobile drive 1 The Japanese tried to break •°<h The guards pushed them tk *nd managed to shut the to* Main. k'lliam Sebald. U. 8. represen h * oa the four-power allied ■HI for Japan, charged yester I that 376.92* prisoners of war 1 internees still were missing ■ 1 »*rhaps killed Inside Soviet fharge led the Soviet repre,Twrw Te Page Rlntotl "Tttwuf J* ‘•day's annual Christmas *’*•*. leeal merchants, bust- ** ,lrw «a. and industries, offer "**'• greetings and best *• friends and patrons J* *dd • holiday touch ** r 'ate for the season, the sections have been •* eroon paper.

China Liability To World Communism Far East Experts See Difficulties Washington. Dec. 22 — (UP> — Far eastern experts in the state department appeared to believe today that Soviet Russia has bitten I off more than it can chew in China These experts apparently f<el that In the long run China probably will Is-ome a liability not an asset to world communism. Their thoughts were said to add j up to this: "It is "wishful thinking" to expect a break between tile Chinese Reds and the Kremlin. Communism in China nevertheless Is doomed Itecause it never . can rebuild China's economy or ' Integrate her vast manjwiwer reserves into anything resembling an efficient Soviet satellite. But these experts warned that i communism's fate In China will take years to decide. For litis tea son. they said. V. S. officials are giving the most leisurely consideration to such problems as recognition of the Chinese Red regltiv t They appeared encouraged in ; their position by the stand taken ' yesterday by Sen. Arthur 11. Van denburg of Michigan. Repuldlcaa foreign policy chieftain. Vandenberg said the Red regime does out tiua'ify for American recognition, and would not until it had established complete control of the nation and has shown an ability and desire to uphold China's international obllga’lon*. There Is no tendency apparent among high department officials to expect a split between Chinese leaders and Moscow. For that matter. V. S. officials would not I be surprised if the current Moscow meeting between Chinese Red leader Mao Tse-Tung and Premier Josef Stalin produces an agree ment under which China will ! "front" for Russia in » drive to | communlze southeast Asia. Thei large Chinese minorities in south east Asia countries might serve as fifth columns in such a drive. Various counier-campalgua al ' ready are lieing planned. Details remain secret, hut they would ap ’ pear to involve economic assist- ! ance and a limited amount of arms . aid to such nations as Indonesia ' and Slam In addition. U. S. recognition of the new Indonesian re ; public is expected early in the new year well before any deci ! sion to recognize communist. China. Teen Age Christmas Dance Monday Night The annual teen-agers Christmas dance will Im- held at the American home next Monday night, starting at » o'clock. It was an- ! nounced today. The dance Is co-sponsored i>y Adams Post « and the Den. with the la-gion furnishing the orchestra and the dance hall. Morris McClure and his band will play for i the dance, to which te'-n-agers | home from college are invited 1 LT Library Will Close Sunday And Monday The Decatur public library will close Saturday night at « o'clock •nd remain dosed all day Sunday .nd Monday in observance <»f Christmas. It was announced day Regular hours will be resum Tuesdsy. Dec 27. — I WEATHER Clearing and decidedly cel* •e tenlfht, with temperatures t© i north »nd 15 t« 20 eewth perttea by Friday mo.niag. Friday partly cleudy •nd colder High 22 to 27 north and 20 te 20 south.

Optimism Is Shown In 1950 Predictions I High Employment, More Production Foreseen In 1950 Washington. Dec. 22. — (UP) — After months of gloomy hedging and uncertainty, government and private economists came forwa-d today witli a sunburst of optimistic predictions almut 1850. Their forecast of high employment and near-record production were in sharp contrast to 1949 when unemployment hit a seven-year high and industrial output dropped to its lowest level in three years. lasui H. Keyserling. acting chairman of President Truman s council of economi'! advisers, said "the economic ouiliMtk Is certainly a lot better than it was at mid-year." He made his comment as lie left a White House conference with Mr. Truman on the president's forth coming economic message to congress. Herman W. Steinkrans. president of the chamber of Commerce of the , t'nited States, said he sensed u J “new understanding by the workers of tile Importance of doing a g<MMI job to keep the economy j strong" during recent travels throughout the country. New government reports backed I up their predictions. They indicated a higher economic level in 1951> than in 1949. but not quite as high as the all-time record year of 1948. | The federal reserve Itoard said business and agriculture loans in the week ending Dec. 11 were ris ing continually but hud not yet reached the pace of a year ago. The board also said construction contracts maintained a steady level throughout the steel and coal strikes. The commerce department dis I closed that retail sales on a nation wide basis did not suffer from the strikes, and that dividends paid by I corporations were ahead of last I year for September, October and November. Prices Are Boosted By Coal Producers Short Work Week Is Blamed For Boosts Chicago, Dec. 22. -(UP)— Illinois coal dealers today debated whether to absorb a new M-cent-a-ton increase in the price of coal or boost the price of the fuel to. consumers. T. E. Gorman, executive secretary of the Illinois fuel merchants' association, revealed last night that coal producers had increased prices to "offset the cost of operating under the three-day week" imposed by president John L. 1 Lewie of the united mine workers. lie said dealers will decide for . themselves whether to pass the ' higher cost on to consumers. Some retailers, he said, may “continue to absorb the increases " A 25-cent-per-ton increase about two months ago was not passed on to consumers by some dealers, Gorman said. "The inaction of governmental officials in this coat crisis borders on treason.” said a statement released by Gorman on liehalf of I the association. "They have Ignored the demands of the American public and are permitting a labor monopoly to dictate that whkb could paralyze this nation and drastically affect i the life and health of the cltlsens " The American retail coal aa»<M'iatlon yesterday called on presitTere Te Pane Mai

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Back In Harness I I P ■\ ■ I - VETERAN SENATOR Arthur 11. Vandenberg, ill) of Michigan in Ills first press conference since recovering from a serious lung operation, tells newsmen that Communist China "does not now qualify" for recognition by the (I. S It was the senior Glil* foreign policy spokeman's first news conference since last October.,

President Plans No Christmas Pardons Pressure Is On To Pardon 'Conchies' Washington. Dec. 22 (UP) President Truman apparently lias no plana to pass out special Christmas pardons this year to wartime conscientious objectora or any other federal prisoners. Mr. Truman has la-en under heavy pressure to release the objectors but justice department off! ciala said no yuletide amnesty for , anyone is likely. The president ! normally confers with department officials before handing out such pardons. The central committee for conscientious objectora is carrying on a campaign for wholesale amnesty for objectora who were jailed as violators of the aelactive serlvce law. But administration spokesmen said it would lie against the public interest to issue pardons while j other men still are subject to the i draft. Some 8.500 persons, many of them objectors, were convicted as violators of the present draft law. Os these, 1.230 went to prison and the remainder to work camps. All but 10 have been released and nine of those still jailed will complete their terms in the next tTara Ta l*aae Rlwbll

— Santa Claus, Reindeer On Display At G. E. Plant

Children, this I* new*! Santa Clans. with four of hi* prancing reindeer, ha* arrived at the General Electric plant on N. i Ninth street. And the lead reindeer I* none other than "Rudolph, the Red Noted Reindeer." Last even Ina a preview of the artistic sign fashioned by G. E employes was given and crowd* gathered in front of the lawn to witness the speetacle. The sign will he lighted every evening until after the holiday*. Santa Clan* ride* In a multi colored sleigh holding the rein* to the four life-siced reindeer Off a few feet to the south, there is a lighted Christmas tree and from It float* Christmas music One of the favorite records played Is the pops

— Martinsville Man Dies Os Injuries Indianapolis, Dec. 22 — (UP) - j Roy Fdwln Hine. 57, formerly of • Martinsville, died yesterday of in juries suffered when he was strut k by an automobile here Dec. 17. — ... —. No Real Clues To CIO Bomb Attempt Many Tips Checked In Detroit Attempt Detroit. Mich . Dec. 22. - (UP) The FBI and police today checked "many tips" received about the a’- | tempt to dynamite the CIO United \ Auto Workers headquarters, but admitted “frankly, we haven't a single real clue." Two men. one a former minor UAW official, were released after brief police questioning. Authorities emphasized that they were not consldered suspects in the case, but gave no reason for questioning them. DynamUers tried to blow up the four-story mid-city building late Tuesday when they put a Christmas wrapped package containing 39 sticks of the explosive on an outside basement stairway. The explosion was prevented by j one faulty fuse and friction tape wrapped too tightly around the ot!i- ‘ er, iMilice Inspector Joseph V. Krug (Tara la rase Kia tot >

lar song which feature* Rudolph. Luminous paint was applied to the sign and a "black” light is thrown on the character*, which bring* out the coloring and highlight* the symbols which every child and grown-up associates with Christmas. Atop of the north bay to G E building number one. there is a large electric sign, at least 40 feet long with 30 inch letters, I which flickers on and off. "Merry Christmas " The G. E emblem also is illuminated The display is one of the most attractive ever seen in Decatur The public is Invited to view the Christmas decoration that is guar anteed to enrapture the children and those who want to be indoc ; trisated with the Ynletlde spirit.

Cold Weather, Slippery Highways Taking Toll Os Lives In United States

Stalin Appearance Ends Celebration 70th Birthday Is Observed By Russia Moscow. Dec. 22—(UP) — Premier Josef Stulln'* 701 h birthday celebration lasted into the early i niorninK hour* today, featuring mar it s clone a rare personal ap- ’ pearance by Stalin on the stage of the Bolshoi theater. The theater was the acene of a Kahl meeting of the central committee of the count II of minister* Among the guests were the member* of the politburo and some 2.000 other*, including visiting for eign communist leader*. Stulln received a tremendous ovation when he walked upon the stage. Anionß the most prominent . guests was Chinese communist I leader Mao Tse-Tung, who received i thunderous applause when he greet- j 'ed Stalin in Chinese, which was I translated into Russian Mao hailed Stalin as the leader of the working class of the world i and leader of the International I communist movement. He expressed great personal happiness at his participation in the celebrations and *ald that Stalin was the teach er and friend of the workers of I the world and of the Chinese people. Mao wished Stalin long life and health on behalf of the Chinese people and the Chinese communist party and hailed the Soviet Unioft a* the bulwark of peace and de mocracy of the entire world. Prominent leader* of the communist parties of other countries spoke following Mao, including visitors from Hungary, Spain. Finland, Germany, France, Austria. Korea. Mongolia, Cxechcslovakia (Tara Ta r««e Kight I Dewey Calls Parley On Wafer Shortage Dewey Criticizes Handling Os Case New York. Dec 12.—(UP)—Gov. | Thomas E I»ewey ordered city officials to meet him In an etnerg ency conference today to find out I their reasons for "delaying so long'' . taking measures to meet a serious water shortage. Dewey came to New York from the state house at Albany tor a j "full discussion" of the problem with city and state water supplyexperts and acting mayor Vincent P. Impellitterl. He said the health of 6,600.000 residents was endan gered by the still dropping level of I water reserve In city reservoirs, now down to 34 6 percent of ca-1 pacify. At the present rate of deerease, a failure of pressure would occur In 62 days Hut officials expected winter rain and snows to hold off such a crisis, and chief engineer Edward Clark of the water depart inent announced there would be no "water holiday" this week because of the Christmas holiday* and probably none the Friday be fore New Year. Dewey's criticism of city hand ling of the shortage problem was the second in two days Both times he charged New York's Democratic city administration should have acted sooner So far. conservation measures, which Included a 24-hour holiday last Friday during which residents (Taro To Po«e Klaai)

Truman Calls Cabinet Into 1950 Preview Study Proposals To Be Made By Truman in Annual Messages Washington. Dec. 22 (UP) — President Truman called his cabinet in today for a special preview of hl* 1660 "fair deal" program White House sources were re . luctant to discuss the purpose of the meeting, but It apparently covered every phase of the proposals he will send to congress early next year In his messages on the state of the union, the budget and economics. Since returning from hl* Florida vacation. Mr. Truman has met with many of hi* top advisers to get last minute Information The cabinet meeting was the first one scheduled since Mr Tru man's return It also may be the last before congress reconvenes because the President leave* tomorrow to spend Christmas at his Independence. Mo., home and does not return until Wednesday. Foreign problems obviously have priority. Mr Truman conferred with secretary of state Dean Acheson immediately after hl* return from Florida, and met with Acheson. budget director Frank Pace and deputy foreign aid admlnistra tor William Foster again yesterday Some of the program appeared to shape up this way: Foreign affairs — A continued fight against the spread of com munisni and the subjugation of free people. The program will call for continued foreign aid on a fairly broad scale liefense Continued heavy spend ing for national defense a* long a 1 world conditions remain unsettled Economics Mr. Truman has re(Tara Ta I’sae Klabo Central Soya Party Here Friday Night | Christmas Party To Be Held At School The seventh annual dhriatma* party for Central Soya company employes and their families will take place Friday evening at 7 o' clock at the Decatur high school gym. The party is primarily a children's event and is sponsored jointIly by the company and the employes' recreation association Major portion of the evening's entertainment will be a six-act stage review Issiked especially for the occasion. which will feature an exhi bition of two trained cats in a fiveround boxing match. Gifts for children through !$ years will tie distributed by Santa Claus at the conclusion of the • stage show. Committee chairmen for the event are as follows: program and entertainment. Paul Loomis and Robert Johnson: gift purchase and distribution. Ross Way and Anne Smith; scheduling. Jesse Schlickman and Ross Way; publicity. Der- 1 wood Marker, indoor decorating Joseph Oeiberg, outdoor decorating. Paul Htiyard Joseph Hrennafl will act as mas ter of ceremonies.

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Scores Os Small Communities Are Crippled By Icy Storm In Midwest Chicago, Dec 22 <PU) — An : Ice storm crippled communications of scores of small midwestern communities today, and cold weather or slippery highways took at least 23 live* aero** the nation About 20 Missouri towns and many communities In central and lower lllinol* were cut off from wire communication by the Ice. some since midday Wednesday. Conditions were expected to improve today. In southern Indiana, rains averaging two inches in 36 hour* were expected to bring the Wabash liver above flood stage downstream from laifayette. i Five persons, two of them children. burned to death at Charleston. W. Va.. in a fire which started from a defective heater. Two persons were burned to death when their trailer home in lowa caught fire, and two soldiers going eastward from Ft Warren. Wyo., to their homes for the holidays died in an auto accident on a snow covered highway. Traffic accidents claimed two more lives in Oklahoma and three In Oregon Texas counted nine dead In two days of wintry temperatures, one in traffic, eight in fires including a mother and four children who died in a fire at Houston today. While the midwest battled ice and dropping temperatures. Buffalo. N. Y., thermometers recorded 36 degree*, highest ever noted on Dec 22 in the northern New York *tate city.’ A heavy fall of freezing rain spread a 1 Inch layer of glare Ice over wide portions of the Mississippi valley. Some village* were left completely without communications as the Ice broke telephone and telegraph lines. Highways in the central Missouri area were dangerous. Even railroads were slowed a* the ice disrupted their signal and telegraph systems. A vast network of amateur radio operators swung Into action, working voluntarily through the night to i transmit official communications for police, railroads and news servI Ices. The glaze storm struck heaviest in the area extending from Sedalia. Mo . to Quincy. 111. but extended northeastward across Illinois and Indiana into southern Wisconsin and parts of lower Michigan The eastern portion of the country was still enjoying springlike weather which sent the merucury into the sO's at New York and set a new high for 69 for Dec. 21 at Uruisville. Ky. But forecasters said the good weather would pass quickly a* the midwestern storm moved eastward Cold weather lingered over the California fruit groves and orchardIsts stoked smudge throughout the (Tara Ta Paar Five! JWOPM/* mwr ( '-T iicx