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Chinese Notes Special Drive On Americans

Reds Get Mixed On Party Line In Their Papers

Seen Using Ward

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1049, ~ 3 id

Mr. President — What About Angus Ward? , .. an editorial «+» Page 14, Talburt cartoon .. . Page 14.

By CLYDE FARNSWORTH

HONG KONG, Nov. 15—

churia are frying to use the Angus Ward case to drive 2

block American recogni encourage British refognition.

This would tend to split British-

¢ what the State Department does— and at the same time the Com-

munists will continue to go easy|

on the British, '

In the official Communist reprimand for a Canton newspaper that got the party line tangled.

The Commercial Daily Yeh Hwa Pao thought the “British were fair game and quoted a speaker at a student rally as claiming that an old anti-British demonstration at Canton was part of the anti-imperialist struggle.” y The official newspaper N Fang Jih Pao, put the Yeh Hwa Pao right. It published a letter

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Well Treated

“It is Russian policy to treat Americans and the British dif-

propaganda used to be against both, now it's against Americans alone, In such a pattern the Ward

against British officials anywhere| cretion of the court In all cases

in China. I understand that the British consular people in Mukden are comparatively well treated. “The Ward case obviously was trumped up. There was no real

. |not guilty of a sex crime.”

Today, the defendant faces| .i; ‘my, greater length of theito his demands” Miss Levy told court. °°

Act Incomplete A loophole In the state’s new criminal insane act was blamed!

State’ Prison Farm instead of to a hospital. = : : Judge George M. Ober of Speedway Magistrate Court cited need for broadening of the law to include psychopathic investigations in cases “where the accused is obviously mentally disturbed, but

To invoke the new law, a specific sex crime must be charged, the judge pointed out. Faces Grand Jury This “serious escape clause” was responsible for sentencing a local young man to 90 days on the Indiana State Prison Farm for

The man, who has a record of 13 arrests on misdemeanors here and who, as a youth, was sent to the Ft. Wayne School for FeebleMinded, was convicted of unlawfully retaining a car he had bor-

grand jury investigation ofa grand larceny charge in connection with the conversion conviction yesterday. “This man is in serious need of psychopathic attention and not, criminal corrective measures,” the judge commented. “But there was no legal way I could help him in this éase.” Judge Ober urged amendment of the.law to aid the mentally disturbed “under the sound dis-

resulting from overtime parking to murder.”

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Ward Case Recalls Plight

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Scoreboard Shows Six Americans Confined,

6 Others Missing in

By ANDREW TULLY, Scripps-Howard Staft Writer

iled by Reds

Communist Areas

auto vehicle conversion yesterday.

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nearly 200 spectators

er Corps. Costing approximately $850,000, the new bridge has a concrete roadbed measuring 730 by 44 feet, Sidewalks are 8 feet wide. ‘Started in 1948 The span. was built as a part of a major flood control plan formulated by the city flood con-

the spring, 1048

Under future plans levee conwill undertaken

new structure will lessen the flood hazard for areas upstream, the engineer stated. The. federal government supplied the major portion of the cost which also awarded the buflding contract. The city paid for the approaches to the bridge and street drainage projects. 3 Drives First: Car Following the brief ceremony, Toney Flack, West Side publisher, drove the first car across the bridge with other West Side businessmen as passengers. Ed Drew, used car dealer, followed in a 1905 model car. Spectators included top city officials, businessmen, West Side residents, civic organizations and children from Schools 16 and 67,

Bishop Manning Still In Critical Condition

NEW YORK, Nov. 15 (UP)~— The Rt. Rev. William T. Manning, 83, retired bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, remained in critical condition at St. Luke's

entered the hospital Nov. 4.

Traffic Starts Rolling

; winds the bridge, Mayor Feeney cut the barricade tape today by a, ldcal magistrite. fof| , {sending a 23-year-old man to the

to tle Conrad.

Times’ Story On Welfare

: and opened the

Quarrels Blamed

Defense Contends Shooting Accidental

A series of marital quarrels ied to the death of Claude Conrad a jury was told today as opening statements were made in the first degree murder trial of Mrs. Myr-

Defense Counsel Miss Jesale

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Mrs, Conrad sobbed as Miss Levy outlined the defense’'s strategy in her opening statement.

demands upon his wife and threatened her life if° she refused to comply,” Miss Levy told the court.

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Vacation Nov. 28 In Key West

Pay U. S. Fines

~The White House announced today that President Truman Of $1 420 000 will fly to Key West, Fla., Nov. ’ y 28 {ur a vacation of SpPTORImALES Levy Is for Failing The news of his trip actually To Obey Court Strike ime ‘it haa been announced Ban lost Year HS. na WASHINGTON, Nov, 15] THE WHITE HOUSE yacht, (UP) —The United Mine|the U. 8 8 Wiliamsherg. a

furlough without notice.

Bojangles in Hospital '

For Check on Heart NEW YORK, Nov. 15 (UP)-— Bill (Bojangles) Robinson, 71, noted dancer, was under observa-

{tion for a heart condition at the

Columbia - Presbyterian Medical Center today. Mr. Robinson's physician, Dr. Robert Levy, sald the dancer was admitted to the center's Harkness Memorial Pavilion last night. Hospital officials said Mr. Robinron would undergo “rest and a checkup.” They said his condition was not serious.

Birthplace: 57.50° N., 31.45° W. Doc Stork Picks Out Atlantic Airliner For Birth of Baby to U. S.-Bound DP

Crew Pitches In for Midair Delivery; Follows Directions Radioed From Scotland NEW YORK, Nov. 15 (UP)—A Scandinavian ~irliner on which

Here Comes the Bride—

Veep, Mrs. Hadley fo V In Simple, Private Rites

Barkley’s Son, David,

families of the bride and groom President Alben W. Barkley and

Suspect Questioned In. Molesting Cases

A 25-year-old man was being held today on a vagrancy charge for questioning of recent molestings of women here. The suspect was arrested by Sgt. Ed Clark and his squad shortly after midnight in the vicinity of 10th St. and Broadway. Two women have been attacked and beaten in this neighborhood within “the past two weeks,

pital s Ilinols-Bound Hospital officials said the bishop| Mrs. Leokalia. Rolblecki, Polish refugee, gave birth to her fourth| Mrs. Rolblecki, mother of three spent a “restful night” but his|child over the Atlantic ocean, arrived at New York International/other children, and her husband, condition had hot Alrport at 10:43 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) \ Were on thelr way to Ahlgre, cause of his lliness has not been| She gave birth to a daughter without the aid of a doctor. phan the plane way ous hous : When the plane landed at Sydney, Nova Scotia, its first stop . A AE a ety ares Mirth. she was fosling so Of kavise Sompany one of our head of the New York diocese. He|york, v: Ay on ta He 531d the plane was bouncing, passengers likely to give

the child was born.

around in “bumpy” weather when

“It was not quite what I ex-

Reporters Invited—Photographers Barred ST. LOUIS, Nov. 15 (UP)—Only members of the immediate Will ‘attend the wedding of Vice

St. John's Methodist Chapel Friday morning. Richmond Coburn, spokesman for the couple, revealed at a press conference today that there would be no ushers or other

.jand Mr. and Mrs. William TheilPaducah.

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attendants, with two exceptions, William W. Rucker of Palm Beach, Fla., will accompany y Hadley to the altar and Mr ley’s son, David M. Barkley, serve as best man. Reporters will be permitted to attend the brief and simple service but photographers will be barred from the chapel. There will be plenty of pictures outside, however, and arrangements have been made to telecast the wedding party on the trip to and from

church. Informal Luncheon An informal luncheon at the

Sayman will follow the ceremon and the “Veep” and his bride leave for their honeymoon immediately thereafter.

their four sons, Washington. Mr. and Mrs. David M. Barkley

Dorothy, Paducah, Ky. , Mr. and. Mrs. Cecil Hulf, St Louis. "

Mr. and Mrs. William Theilman man Jr, : Mr. and Mrs, O. B. Denker and

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and their children, Alben II and| Mrs. Julia Fowlkes, St. Louls: | .

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