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FRIDAY, OCT. 14, 1949" e

British Speed Plans

To Defend Hong Kong

Against Red Attack

Step Up Military Preparation in Case Communists Decide to Launch Assault

3: The Red tide in Asia creeps closer fo Hong Kong every day. The British are not sure whether the Communists are. planiing so attack them there, but they are preparations for defense. Those preparations are described in the following dispatch by the

vice president and general foi manager of the United Press, Row on a tour of the Far Sf

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~ By JOSEPH L. JONES, United Press Stat Correspondent | E - HONG KONG, Oct. 14—The British are going to defend Hong Kong against any assault, but they don’t know whether the Chinese

Communists will attack them or not.

“Of course, old boy, that's what I'm here for,” the army said.

#T wish I knew whether they were going to try.” When Canton: falls, 40,000 troops here expect to go on “phase 1'

14 (UP)—The Communist-domi-inated National Assembly passed

come effective Nov. 1. Informed observers said their passage meant the crisis had come. in the long and bitter struggle between

the church and the state. The assembly voted after hear-

-—a semialert or state of readi-;

ing two leaders of the anti-Cath-

ness with leaves limited to six on enner or They already have stepped up y y

training and preparations.

olic campaign plug the bills and} denounce the church. They were Justice Minister Alexej Cepicka and Josef Plojhar, excommunicated priest.

No opposition vote was cast. No pro-church speech was made in the debate. Keystones of Drive The new laws were keystones in the government campaign to stamp out church resistance to communism. They had the ef-

All arms are here — green-| 1 1 capped commandos, kilted Scot- on er Mn js highlanders, wiry little Gurk-| as and tank regiments. . This afternoon, artillerymen| ‘How's Beer Business?’ were training with 42-inch mo-! 3 bile field guns right in the center | Bill Asks Ira of the city two blocks from the Times Washington Bureau railway station, where four trgins! WASHINGTON, Oct. 14— daily spewed out fugitives from ‘How's the beer business, Ira.” Canton all this week. ! That is the way the Junior SenCrews said the field pieces have ator from Indiana greeted the] ONE: Reducing the clergy to a range of 18,000 yards. That Democratic state’ chairman here. the status of civil service emwould be plenty to reach from the Then both laughed loudly. | Ployees. 11 church af paved roads around the crown| For Sen. Willlam E. Jenner TWO: Putting 2 F rs ¥ colony deep into the hills-on the had his troubles with -the beer f2irs under the control of a govChina side of the 20-mile land permits in Indiana when he. was Smeaton ca. 1d ’ frontier. passing them out as patronage in) iki > a sa Some o Spitfires Ready {his role of Republicann state;!h® business and profession chairman. Now the Democrats] Men arrested in the drive were beA couple of squadrons of 8pit- have the ‘job and Ira Haymaker, ing sentenced to forced labor fires are parked at the airport/their state chairman, has his|S2MPs a oars and an ocasional spotter plane is troubles also. : visible on distant patrol. {© Mr. Haymaker, who remained To ommans, maid The sentences The medium aircraft carrier over here after Justice Sherman many persons were sent to camps Triumpn is within call and the Minton’s inauguration Wednes-| oo hot known. Estimates of the cruiser Belfast, flagship of this) day, said he is certain that Presi-| n,m per arrested in the campaign| naval station, heads a group of a 9¢nt Truman will send the name|,oqingt the Czech middle class half dozen destroyers plus! of former Indiana Supreme Court

: ran as high as 40,000. smaller units suited to the island-|JUd8e Nathan Swaim of Indian-| pe pew bills were approved

Gigantic Tulip A Bulbs Reach Here

of “the tulip of the future” —gi-| gantic and exotic new nybrid convicted by a Budapest Peoples plants developed by the Dutch Court Sept. 24 after a week's tulip growers behind the backs of|trial. It was the first big Comthe occupying the early war years—in a show- Moscow purge trials in 1938. ing here next spring.

arrived here by air transport yes- ————————— terday, They came from a tulip farm in the Sassenheim district ETED BY TOPE of Holland to William R. Cooley, Oct. 14 (UP)—His holiness owner of the 1l-acre nursery, Pius XII received U. S. Rep. John Wayside Floral Gardens, 730 McSweeney (D. Ohio), and Mrs. {Pendleton Pike.

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Budapest + Court Upholds | Sentences

Rajk, Others To Be Executed As Western ‘Spies’ BUDAPEST, Hungary, Oct. 14 (UP)—The Budapest Court of : 'Appeals today confirmed the death sentence of former Foreign Minister Laszlo Rajk accused of

spying for Yugoslavia "and the Western powers.

. The court also confirmed the isn't Adolf, but it sure [sentences of five men convicted No, it jt Ads in the {with the former No. 2 Hungarian looks like him. The man i |Communist, who was found guilty above photo is Anastas Mikoy- of treason. Russian | They are: an, a member of the Dr. Tibor Szonyi, described by Politburo who was among those the government as an American present when the Soviets were sPy and sentenced to death; said to have set off their first |3catn; Lazar Brankov, a former atomic explosion in the Urst-Urt [Tugosiav Siplopat ho remained » . {in apest when Tito broke Jesurt last dabye His help has re- | (ith the Cominform, sentenced to a little, hasn't it.

{Andras Szalais, sentenced to

life in prison; Pal Justus, sentenced to life; and Milan Ognyeovics, nine years in prison. Col. Gen. Gyorgy Palffy and another army officer, Bela Koron(ay, also accused of plotting against the government, face Indianapolis will get a preview courts martial. Rajk and the others

were

Germans dJuring munist treason trial since the Rajk's sentence was appealed {by his attorney over Rajk’s Some 3500 of the precious bulbs protests.

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy,

Pope

McSweeney in private audience at The public next spring will be hig summer residence here yes-

invited to see the tulips in colors terday. previously

thought impossible,|

studded estuary of the Pear] 2POlis to the Senate shortly fori,s a formality by the Communist- and ranging in unfolded size U. 8, ENVOY RESIGNS

River. {appointment to the U. 8. Circuit| Hong Kong is prosperous from foourt of Appeals in Chicago. its gurrent trade, although it has Still Undecided lost some of the edge off its boom. | He failed to learn, however, They gave the RO POR

controlled assembly, sitting in a building overlooking Wenceslaus

Ten to 20 miles to the north, who will be named as U. 8. attor-|er to: ' those 40,000 troops are preparing! ney in Indianapolis. He is back-| ONE. Stop any church appoina mobile defense in depth. It's!ing the organization candidate, tee from archbishop down from | not a fixed defense. There is no|John E. Hurt, state committee assuming office if he is pro“little Maginot line” through the! secretary. Justice Minton, Rep. nounced “politically objectionsteep green mills and rice paddies. John R. Walsh, Anderson, and able.” No pillbexes stud the peaks as in| some others are backing Marshall TWO. Run the seminaries the other Oriental “hot spot, Hanley, Muncie city attorney. A|Where the priests are trained. Northern Korea. third term for the incumbent, B. THREE. Control all property “It's a defénsé of men and ter-| Howard Caughran, has been/and monies of the church. rain. On the hillsides or snuggled, talked as a compromise. FOUR. Impose fines and imback in the valleys are tents gis- Mr. Haymaker remained here! prisonment on priests who dispersed in groups of eight to 50. [to try and find the answer. jobey. — New roads were being built, “It’s still up in the air, and I'm| FIVE. Control religious edusometimes with bulldozers but! going home tonight,” he said. cation.

Mostly by long lines of coolie| Mr. Cepicka charged that the | abor.

{ | Vatican and the church hierarchy | a Jas i9sh Xowloon escar Named Class Secretary |, Czechoslovakia, headed oh whose highest peak, Taimo- mes State Service Archbishop Josef Beran, were ad-| shan, towers 3100 feet, is a tough p, RICHMOND y os. aad of Mies vocating treason. | natural barrier to invasion. It 18 ana Mrs. Fred Puen of Valley “A crime is a crime, even if it unchanged since the Japanese wills has been: elected secratary|18 ordered by the Vatican or the, took Hong Kong on Christmas of the freshman class at Earlham | bishops,” he said. “A traitor canDay 1941, but otherwise the mili- College, Richmond. Miss Mary tary situation is now quite dif- Ann Sellars of Mooresville ‘was

contending he had to obey the ferent. elected women's social chairman.

orders of the Vatican.”

larger than a dinner plate.

the world market for several ‘personal years.

not hope to avoid punishment byl.

RANGOON, Burma, Oct. The bulbs, which were devel-|(UP)—The resignation of U. 8.

Iwas announced today.

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Stalin Hails East German

State as Turning Point

Premier's Statement Regarded as Among Most Important of Recent Times

By HENRY SHAPIRO, United Press Staff Co MOSCOW, Oct. 14—Premier Stalin's letter formation of the new East German state was regarded by diplomatic observers today as one of the most important Soviet documents of recent times. Premier Stalin's letter said that the “organization of a German democratic peace-loving republic is the turning point in European OT hns addressid jointly 18 gra was i President Wilhelm Pieck and Pre- Russia Reported mier Otto Grotewohl of the new East German government. The Ready for Pact message exp confidence| - that the neighborly co-existence! BERLIN, Oct. 14 (UP) — A

new wars in Europe.” Foreign commentators called particular attention to.the Premier's statement that the German and Soviet peoples bore the heavjest sacrifices of the late war and that jointly these two nations possess the greatest potential for

clude a separate peace treaty

Doubt

of Germany and the Soviet Union high German source said today, “would exclude the possibility of that Russia had promised to con-

with East German) within three |

{Soir, was the author of a disThe source, close to the newly patch in the July 30 issue of Saestablished government of the medi Soir stating that Russia

East German state, said the “Ger- "21 acquired the atomic bomb.

Of Red Atomic Blast July 10

Conflicts With Time Truman Probably

Meant in Release

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 (UP) —Well-informed circles here were puzzled today by the claim of a former Soviet officer that the first atomic explosion in Russia occurred July 10. Yves Delbars, diplomatic core respondent of the Dally Paris Presse; and the weekly Samedi

He obtained from the sources

peace.

with the

his message.

message said.

“Establishment of a German iT; ’ democratic peaceloving republic is! Tired of lliness, Walks

the turning point in European Into Mountains to Die

history.”

Gls in Schools Told Of New Regulations

intend to change schools courses in the near future.

14 | changes.

erans wishing to make

sume it after Nov. 1, he said.

“If these ‘wo peoples manifest a resolution to struggle for peace IN8 on a draft of the treaty. ,

“ te you, / many and Poland. That was the| BL it EE Tou: ine established after the war people, on occasion of establish-i Which gave Poland a slice of ment of the German democratic Eastern Germany. repidlic and on your election as/ president and minister-president man remi (premier) of the German demo-|Vvival cratic republic,” Premier Stalin’s| formant said.

Veterans attending school under west of here to die, Sheriff Nor-/ the GI Bill today were advised/man Short reported today. by M. D. Cummins, regional Vet-| erans Administration manager, a penciled note that he had been| to consult the VA at once if they|ill for some time. or

Mr. Cummins said new VA /damn good for anything any more. regulations, effective’Nov. 1, will|The easiest way out is to isolate correct, they said, it is likely that impose new requirements on vet- myself on some mountain range the explosion to which Mr. such and starve to death.” They also will apply! The sheriff said it would re-|July 10. In 4 copyrighted United 8 ii the heat of Pra eo. 0ped under cover, will not reach Ambassador J. Klahr Huddle forito veterans who have discon-| quire “considerable strength o {Press dispatch from Paris, quate ify ne an o gues and health reasons” tinued a course and plan to re- purpose” for a person to starve Silov also said that Russia has

man democratic republic,” as these that information an interview state is known, already was work- ahout atomic development in the {Soviet Union and what the

same exertion and The source refused to give de- sources said about the details of strength as they waged war, |talls of the draft treaty, but said the explosion in Russia. peace in Europe can be considered jit called for German recognition | secured,” Premier Stalin said in|0f the Oder-Neisse line as the|gjlov, formerly a Soviet officer

The source was Maj. Boris

permanent border between Ger-lin Germany. Comment Declined | Top government atomic experts {declined to comment publicly on {the report. 'But other persons The draft treaty forbids Gerlitarization and the re- WhO keep in close touch with anti-Semitism, the in- atomic affairs said they did not |believe the July explosion was | tied. ———— {the one President Truman had {in mind in his Sept. 23 announcement. : | They said they had been under the impression that the United COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. States has instruments for detectOct. 14 (UP)—A sick man who/ing an atomic explosion anywhere said he was “just tired of sur. ithin hours and RAL ME pi {ing” walked into the mountains development only a short time be(fore his : disclosure. They pointed out that Chair Harold L. Kresge, about 45, lefti man David E. Lilienthal of the

jatomie Energy Commission re3 portedly found out about the 1 know my working days are Russian explosion only two or over,” the note sald. “I'm just no|tnree days before the public. If these widely-held views are

Truman referred, occurred later than

{himself to death. [no stockpile of A-bombs.

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