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96th Year. No. 355. Phone ST. 5000 ** D. City Home Delivery. Daily and Sunday. $1.20 a Month. When 6 B? /■VJJivrrTVQ WASHINGTON, C., MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1948—FORTY-TWO PAGES. Sundays. #1.30. Nitht Final Edition. $1.30 and $1.40 per Month -L O High Court Rules Battle Rages Around Tientsin; Dutch Press On Traffic Normal Premier Bans Any Surrender IF HE CAN FIND Powerless New Chinese Cabinet Formed, Possibility In as A HEADLINE IN It Is Indonesia THERE, HE'S J As Disfricf Digs Of Red Compromise Not Ruled Out I GOOD! ^ By th« Aisociated Pr«s ] promise with the Communists, he In Cases NANKING, Dec. 20.—Heavy replied: Is Taken Jap “It takes two sides to Capital Out of Snow compromise. fighting was reported today on This cabinet is not a cabinet of the flatlands around Decides, 6 to 1, It Can't Tientsin, surrender.’’ Republic's Oil Center teeming metropolis of North Higher Temperatures Review Decisions of Red forces have severed rail and Also Near China. telegraph communications between Capture; Expected to Remove International Tribunal At the same time Premier Sun Fo Tientsin and its port city of Tangku, Casualties announced formation of a new cab- 27 miles down the Hwai River, pro- Light Last Trace Quickly inet pledged to fight on until an government newspapers said. By the Associated Press By the Associated Press honorable peace could be obtained. The stepped-up North China (Pictures on Page B-l.) The Supreme Court today re- Although he called it a “no sur- fighting left both Tientsin and BATAVIA, Java, Dec. 20.— fused to interfere with the In- render” cabinet, he did not rule out ancient Pieping, 90 miles northwest Dutch forces, clamping a nut- Washington dug out from ternational Military Tribunal the possibility of a compromise with of Tientsin, isolated. cracker operation on the fledg- under its first snowstorm of the the Communists. The Tientsin airport, 10 miles ling Indonesian raced which condemned former Pre- Republic, season in fine style with from town, was under Communist today mier Tojo and six other Japanese Mr. Sun said the cabinet selections unchecked through Central Java would be to President artillery fire. Ships, the newspapers traffic moving almost normally war lords to death. presented today after taking the capital. Kai-shek and said, were not permitted to leave and Chiang tonight prob- Tjepoe, the republic’s only oil only the white coating to The court, by a vote of 6 to 1, de- would be announced tomorrow. Tangku, although the town itself ably seemed cided it had no over the still was in center, about to fall. remind residents of authority At a news conference, Mr. Sun National hands. yesterday's 11-nation Dutch paratroopers and airborne tribunal. I said: At least two divisions of national storm. seized the With this decision the Supreme troops were said to be re- troops capital, Jogja- "I-can assure you we will not sur- trying to Tire Weather Bureau recorded a Court turned down con- karta, in lightning moves yesterday. requests by render outright to the Communists.” take Peiping's south airport, which victed They interned the top leaders of total of 5.4 inches of snow at Na- Japanese wartime officials He added that such a surrender the Communists had wrested from that it: ■the Republic, including the Presi- tional a fraction com- would mean that “China would be- government forces. Airport—just 1. Consider their ; dent, the Premier and the Repub- appeals. come a second Poland or Czechoslo- Spencer Moosa, Associated Press pared with the 19.5 inches that 2. Declare the international tri- lican army commander. vakia." correspondent in Peiping, said a buried New York, bunal illegal. Netherlands Marines who landed tying up buses Asked if his cabinet might com- See CHINA, Page A^4.i and trains 3 Order their immediate release. on the north coast of East Java during the morning rush The refusal presumably seals the early yesterday have reached the hour there today. doom of outskirts of Tojo and the six others Tjepoe. war-wrecked With temperatures in the low 40'g who were sentenced to die on the Britain Presents Plan Indonesian oil center inside Republican terri- Republic expected here today and gallows. Gen. MacArthur confirmed tory. Other forces occupied Toeran, pushing up to the high 40's tomorrow, it ap- their sentences, but stayed the exe- 15 miles southeast of Malang. peared that 12-hour cutions until the On Sumatra—the is yesterday’s Supreme Court To Get Out of Red Asks U. 5. to republic snow fall would > by be only a acted. Support made up of parts of Java and memory by Christmas. Some cloudiness was Justice Sumatra—Dutch troops took Solok. Murphy Dissents. forecast for tomorrow, but no more ; This is in the middle of the island. Justice Murphy dissented from With ERP Aid snow in the 1953 Struggle With Dutch Other immediate future. the court's decision but wrote troops occupied Singakarak, \ no Main Streets Cleared opinion. j 15 miles to the north, on the route I White Paper Calls for Official Also from At the height of the storm Justice Rutledge reserved decision Requests Dutch-held territory to the yester- most day there were visions of workers at this time and said that announce- Continued and of important Republican city of Austerity halting Aid to Holland struggling townward in ice- ment of his Sumatra, Bukittinggi. j today vote would be made bound traffic. Production Drive Under Truce House Probers Await Court But the snow-fighting later on. Justice Jackson took no Marshall Plan Lines Smashed. j Big Supreme Approves, 5-4, forces under direction of Refuse Di- part in the final vote. The Dutch announced By the Associated Press their forces rector William A. Xanten had the The other six NETHERLANDS TELLS U. N. Coun- members of the smashed through truce lines at a main streets cleared Dec. 20.—Britaii>an- cil That Intervention in Indonesia on All-Federal Worker D. C. this morning high court—Chief Justice Vin.-on LONDON, number of points on Java and Jury Reply Questioning and there was Would Be Useless. A-4 little interference to and Justices Black. Reed. Frank- Page Sumatra. Units raced nounced today a four-year plan through Frazier Narcotic Conviction Upheld; automobiles, streetcars or buses. furter. Douglas and Burton—said Sumatra's rich rubber-producing Commerical air to muster all her men, money By Garnett D. Horner traffic resumed in a brief, unsigned opinion: area, and were reported Witnesses approach- Eight Spy 'Blemish on Name of Justice/ Dissent normal operations to the West and “WTe are satisfied that the tribunal and materials to get the nation The Indonesian Republic ing Medan, a of the Says today major city South this morning after a crippling sentencing these is not asked the United States for north. petitioners out of the red by 1953. “po- Groundwork Already Laid By William A. Millen jteed by the sixth amendment to the day in which 60 per cent of the a tribunal of the United States. litical and economic Thus Constitution. aim is to make Britain self- support” in far it has been almost a1 flights were cancelled. Most of the “The United States and other The For New to Take The legality of a District jury its struggle with the Dutch. bloodless occupation. The Dutch | Inquiry The dissenting opinion was writ- cancellations were on New York Allied countries and now supporting by the time the Amer- composed entirely of Federal em- conquered Dr. Soemitro Djojohaaikoesoemo. call it a “police action.” The Neth- Mundt ten by Justice Jackson, with whom flights which still were grounded be- occupy and control Japan. Gen. ican-financed Many Months, Says was sustained by Justices and cause European Recovery ranking Indonesian representative erlands forces are well ahead of; ployes today Frankfurter, Douglas LaGuardia and Idlewild Air- Douglas MacArthur has been se- in Court in a 5-4 de- Justice Jackson Plan comes to an end. this country now, said he made their own time-table, following the the Supreme Murphy joined. ports were closed. lected and is acting as the supreme the By Robert K. Walsh wrote: The plan, set forth in a white "formal request” in a 45-minute quick seizure of Jogjakarta bv air- i cision. New York-to-Washington trains, commander for the Allied powers. conference with borne House Committee on Un-Amer- "On one I should paper', calls for continued austerity Acting Secretary' of troops in the first hours of The case involved was that of proposition reported running far behind sched- The military tribunal sentencing State the trial to be ule and self denial, and a massive pro- Lovett. fighting yesterday. ican Activities members awaited Robert Frazier, sentenced to serve expect lawyers* nearly yesterday, were said to be op- these petitioners (the Japanese) Dr. unanimous: That a duction effort. Soemitro told reporters he Dutch casualty figures show they word from the Justice Depart- from 20 months to 5 years and fined jury, every erating normally today, as were has been set up by Gen. MacArthur also are member of which is in the hire of other Officials called it “a signpost for asked that the United States: meeting little Indonesian resist- ment today on whether they can S2.000 under the Harrison Narcotic routes. Some buses from New as the agent of the Allied powers. 1. ance. one of the lacks York were the future.” "Take into serious considera- Act conviction a District litigants, something running 40 to 50 minutes No question eight witnesses before after by Authority to Review. tion” off Marshall Plan Netherlands of being an impersonal jury.” late. The plan assumes that Britain shutting aid Army headquarters the new convenes. Court jury October 10, 1946. "TTwder the foregoing circum- Congress Ciiminal cases are in the will continue to receive American to Holland. said so far six Dutch soldiers have, Today's majority decision, written brought Normal Number of Accidents. stances the courts of the United 2. been At least two other witnesses, in- name of the United States. Justice help under ERP until mid-1952. Give full assistance In lifting killed and eight wounded in by Justice Rutledge, affirmed the Traffic here functioned remark- States have no power or former Assistant Jackson asserted that it cannot be authority the two-year Dutch blockade of the both Java and Sumatra. Three cluding Secretary of the lower courts and said ably well, even the to to Dollar Needs Reduced. findings during storm. review, affirm, set aside or an- Indonesian Dutch were wounded in the of State Francis B. Sayre, are denied that a jury composed entirely It estimates Britain's dollar needs Republic. Jogja- Frazier had shown no ground for [Police reported only 15 minor aeci- nul the judgments and sentences karta scheduled to be heard this week. A of Federal employes “has a one- Believed to IT. S. siege, the report said. believing he did not receive a trial i dents during the 24 hours at on these under ERP next year at $940,000,- Surprise ending imposed petitioners, and third may appear in closed session I ,8 a.m. with He said Mr. Lovett Leaders in Custody. "by an impartial jury,’’ as guaran- 7 (See JURY, Page A-6.) today—no more than on any for this reason the motions for 000, compared $1,263,000,000 in expressed today. 1948-49. great and grave concern” over the A Dutch communique said virtu- [week end. One pedestrian was leave to file for writ for Hoping to wind up the Hiss- petitions renewal of in Indonesia. ally all the high Republican leaders treated for cuts suffered ih a fall habeas are denied.” Without American help, the plan- fighting Chambers of its investi- corpus were in phase spy and one child was ners said, would be The Dutch attack on the Netherlands custody. Among slightly injured The opinion, called a "recovery grave- republic gation before the end of the U. S. Must New York Out technically those taken were year, Encourage Digging when hit a snow and there would be a apparently “came as a complete Dr. Soekarno, accidentally by “per curiam” opinion, presumably ly hampered the committee already has laid the shovel. * real risk of the whole surprise to the State Department, president of the republic; Premier was written Chief Justice Vinson. economy groundwork for a much broader by Dr. Soemitro said. Mohamed Hatta, Minister Capital Transit Co. reported little The Chief Justice being caught in a descending spiral.” Foreign ordinarily writes investigation. Risk to Avoid From Third Heaviest trouble. 13 sand trucks and The ambitious calls for American concern over the situa- Agus Salim, former Premier Sutan. Capital Despite such opinions. program Will 15 tion was indicated two other Sjahrir and Gen. Soederiman, com-' Require “Many Months." snowplows put in service at 3 The court two weeks doubling production of oil from by agreed agr> mander of the Chairman Mundt said this a.m. yesterday, some streetcars were British-owned fields, the out- conferences on Mr. Lovett’s schedule Republican Army. Acting to grant a hearing on petition of raising today. Australian Ambassador The Dutch also announced that would require "many months" to GE Head Snow in delayed, but only one minor delay two of the convicted put of coal 25 per cent and building Nor- | Bust, Says History Japanese—Gen. w'as man J. O. saw their forces had broken old uncover wartime disloyal acts by reported this morning. domestic agriculture to an all-time Makiri Mr. Lovett through Except Kenji Doihara and Koki Hirota, some Federal on the immediately after the Indonesian truce lines at several points in Java employes and disclose Far From Is Sixteenth street hill, which former of At that high level. Economy Still Transportation Slowed; piemier Japan. left and Sumatra. a "Communist espionage hazard" he required additional sanding, buses time the Such efforts wil be aimed at build- representativve his office. Sir court split 4-to-4 and Jus- The declared still exists in the Gov- At Least 16 Deaths Are found the a Benegai Rama Rau, Indian Ambas- Indonesian government, be- Peak, Wilson going easy early today. tice Jackson cast the vote, ing up 100,000.000-pound ($400,- Attaining deciding sador. had an fore branded the ernment. The 000 000) surplus of appointment with Mr. Jogjakarta’s fall, on American Automobile Asso- saying important issues were at foreign exchange At its executive the Tells Profit Blamed Storm in East 1952-53. Lovett later in the Dr. Soemi- Dutch land, sea and air offensive as meeting today Hearing ciation answered 399 distress calls stake and the court should rule on by Last year Britain had a day. tro said those a “dastardly” attack, to committee expected a Justice De- but few the 630,000,000-pound ($2,520,000) defi- conferences also con- comparable By th« Associated Press yesterday, more than are question. to its to ex- J. A. cit. cern the Indonesian situation. Am- the Japanese assault on Pearl Har- partment reply request \ By O'Leary serviced on an average Sunday. Arguments were heard last week bor. amine the witnesses if not NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—The Success of the bassador Makin told reporters he following This country can overcome the Most of the calls were for cars with Solicitor General B. plan, the govern- needed for Philip had discussed the with Not grand jury investigation worst the weather could do—19.5 stalled the cold and not the Pearlman. ment said, “will depend on full co- matter Mr. Told of Repudiation. vicious cycle of boom and bust | by representing the Gov- or court testimony : with other Lovett but he declined to elaborate. American and Australian members inches of snow—wasn’t snow. This morning the AAA pre- ernment. arguing that the court had operation countries in Whittaker Mrs. that will enough The State refused of the U. N. Chambers, Alger by adopting policies pared for a rush but was no Western Europe and the Common- Department Good Offices Committee surprised jurisdiction over the internation- Hiss, Donald Hiss, Miss Elizabeth T. to smother the Nation’s largest wealth.” any comment on Mr. Lovett's con- notified the Security Council that encourage risk capital to go into to find business only slightly above al tribunal. Bentley, Henry Julian Wadleigh, | ferences today or this Government's the committee as a whole has not city today. i normal. French Criticize Restrictions. William Ward Pigman, Franklin a steadily expanding industrial attitude toward the turn of events yet been apprised of the Dutch However, at least 16 persons were Taste of Everythin*. It has been under study by the Victor Reno and Hedda E. in Indonesia. Lincoln White, de- repudiation of the Renville truce Gompers. economy, Charles Wilson, pres- dead as a result of the storm that Almost Marzani Organization for European Eco- everything in the book, Trial partment press officer, said the agreement. Aberdeen Mentioned. ident of the General Electric swirled across the Northeast yester- sunshine and Upheld Co-operation in Paris for the Co., except hail, got into jnomic United States’ position will be stated said the Dutch Mr. Mundt said Mr. Reno, who day and early today. There were the act the last two months as They suspended during storm. Britain's contri- in the was not further told Congress today. United Nations communication between Batavia identified, might five casualties in New York City, five It started at 2:56 a.m. bution to an over-all for the Security snowing 4-4 plan Council. and throw some light on “the Aberdeen Testifying before the joint House- in New and six others in New By High Court, 19 ERP Kalieorang Saturday night, a Jersey yesterday and continued until 8:39. nations. situation." Will Go half hour after the committee had proving ground The Senate subcommittee studying cur- England. Most of the casualties After an 11-minute it started The Supreme Court today, by a The French have criticized the Republic On. pause that been notified of the action. committee recently was told that were blamed on exhaustion. 4-to-4 decision, upheld the convic- in the British Charging the Dutch attacked military rent corporation profits, Mr. Wilson again and continued until 2:45 p.m. belt-tightening plan Government military secrets, includ- roads left the snow’s tion of Carl without warning while "we still w'ere Eighteen members of the committee said the industrial economy of this Icy by sweep But meanwhile, sleet, freezing rain, Aldo Marzani. 35-year- because, they say, it closes United information about the in a of are at ing Norden over the Midwest figured in at least snow and entered the old former State em- stage negotiations.” Dr. Kalieorang. country is still far from attaining pellets fog Department Kingdom markets to a wide range were stolen from Soemitro said the attack will The committee told the bombsight, the its six traffic crash deaths in Northern ploye charged with lying about con- of luxury goods such as wines and not Security peak, picture. the Council that "in of the Army’s proving ground at Aberdeen, Illinois. The sleet in at 7:57 nection with communism. fine in Western bring professed Dutch aim of repudiation “It is, in fact, my belief that we set a.m., con- textiles, produced Md., and given to Communist New York bore the brunt of the :restoroing law and Order. Renville truce agreement, the Neth- agents have to our tinued to 10:24 a.m., and appeared Justice Douglas took no part in Europe. 10 only begun recognize erlands have not fulfilled the re- years ago. storm—third heaviest snow in the from 10:52 am. to 1:05 the case. The usual printed decision The dispute has delayed Despite the capture of its top lead- full potentialities,” the industrial- again p.m. comple- of Article 10 of Miss Gompers might tell the city’s history. was the court tion of ers. Dr. Soemitro quirements the ist continued. “There is funda- and from 2:10 p.m. until 2:45 p.m. lacking, merely an- the 19-nation program that said, the Indo- committee about Communist activi- truce reason Started The in at 7:57 nouncing through a list was due to be submitted to ERP nesian republic government will agreement.” mentally no why we should Shoveling Early. fog dropped a.m., typewritten ties in Washington before the war, of continue Dutch authorities have described not continue to go on to ever Using experience gathered in the lasting until 10:24, and reappearing decisions published ori the bulle- officials in Washington last month. functioning. He said the Mr. their offensive as action'" Mundt said. He added that she last Decem- from 2:46 until 6:25 tin board that it had affirmed the Success of the effort young republic«vas "all set” for "police greater heights. We have seen how record 25.8 inch fall of p.m. p.m. to restore pro- is not a suspect. conviction tracted against Indonesian terrorists. wrong were those gloomy prophets ber 26 and 27. the Metropolitan area Freezing rain was clocked from 8:39 by an “equally divided Britain’s credits abroad, the white guerrilla warfare, and that Mr. Mundt said Miss Dutch paratroopers the way ! Gompers of disaster who toward the end of started As a result a.m. until 9:39 a.m., from 11:03 a.m. court." ; paper will on arrangements had been made for paved shoveling early. said, depend foreign is a formed Government employe its outside lor capture of Jogjakarta by drop- the war predicted a shrinkage in nearly everything was moving— to 12:08 p.m. and from 1:24 p.m. By action, the court ruled that markets for British made goods. assistance to strengthen the and has down on fivei appeared before the com- until 2:45 Marzani had lied as accused at "The fight “in all ping Magowo airfield, our standard of living—a falling though slowly. p.m. his balance envisaged is a pre- respects.” mittee in closed as a wit- | miles east of the took sessions from suburban areas To it there were snow trial, to a in the “You are now city. They backward rather than a steady- Commuters top off, superior State De- carious one, depending very largely witnessing only the ness. the field without resistance and march ahead. found trains a few minutes late and ‘pellets, too. tiny objects classified partment about membership in the1 on factors outside our control—es- beginning of a whole chain of fate- Mr flashed an Chambers is the avowed pre- Communist and ful the "all clear” for airborne “Certainly we have and will al- buses and trolleys slow. But they neither as snow ndr sleet. They fell Party using the pecially on the readiness of the events,” Indonesian repre- war Communist reinforcements come courier who ac- elevated 'from alias of "Tony Whales." The United sentative To in. ways have an ever expanding market got to work. Subways and 1:05 p.m. until 1:24 p.m. Gov- States to buy manufactures, emphasized. cused Alger fornfer State De- ernment One Fire in Hiss, for new and better so lines in the city were operating near Coldest mark of the period was contended Marzani petroleum and raw materials from He said the Indonesian Capital. products long ; op-; govern-1 partment official, of having slipped 29 at 10:38 era ted as a Communist the Only one fire w'as observed in the as our system is not thwarted or normal. degrees last night. By organizer ini sterling area,'’ the planners ment would continue to do its best him copies of State Department New York in 1941 and The Indonesians said ear-! impaired, and is able to produce Only the Long Island Railroad, (See A-3j 1942. declared to check Communists in the coun-! capital. secret in WEATHER~Page documents 1937 and 1938. in last December's blizzard, | The Court of struck out i lier that Jogjakarta had been those products at prices which the paralyzed Appeals They promised "a slight improve- try, but told reporters he feared the Mr. Hiss was indicted a Federal by consumers can afford. announced the concellation of 24 nine counts of the indictment; ment in the standard of but “will bombed. Truck-Train Crash Kills living, renewed fighting gravely in- grand jury on perjury counts last trains. Marzani as A Dutch advance eastward in regular morning rush-hour I against being outlawed made it contingent on greatly ex- crease the danger of Communism.’! week. He has denial all the Cham- Must Encourage Capital. the statute of Central The important commuter line had by limitations. Mar- panded home production, particu-! Dr. Soemitro is the Indonesian Java supported the Jogja-j bers “We must, therefore, as a nation, 41 Near Buenos Aires charges. met increasing difficulties in the zani, through his lawyers, told the1 larly in agriculture. trade and finance representative to karta operation. Netherlands troops see to it that we encourage new Donald Hiss Also Accused. early morning, caused by mechan- ty th* Associated Press Supreme Court that the evidence "The productive efforts that the the United Nations, with headquar- j along the Batavia-Jogjakarta trunk growth and new development so before Donald Hiss, brother of Alger, was ical failures of equipment and drift- BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 20.—For- put the District Court jury, United intends to make ters in New York. He came to railway advanced 40 miles from the that there will continue to be more Kingdom accused Mr. Chambers last sum- ^ the area of by ing snow. were killed involving nine stricken counts’, are on a huge scale, and to Washington by train last for Gombong to Poerworedjo, and better products at prices which ty-one persons yesterday apply night mer of having belonged to a Com- The which started prejudiced him. He contended also sector his conference with Mr. about 25 miles west of Jogjakarta, increasingly large numbers of our snow, falling when a truck carrying 47 picnickers every of productive indus- Lovett to- j munist here before the that he was no Another Dutch "apparatus” in the city’ at 6:20 a.m. yesterday, rolled down a hill into the side of under obligation to try,” the white said. day and said he was to column moving j people can meet. In this way -we can paper returning war. to abate at 8 and ended make any statement at all on his New' York this afternoon. hope that our economy will over- began p.m. a train. (See-INDONESIA7Page A-4.1 Mr. former State De- Communist connections. Wadleigh, come the vicious cycle of inflation at 2:10 a.m. today. A watchman who witnessed the Victor to Wed (See SPY on the outskirts of Buenos The court acted quickly in the /sfcLaglen INQUIRY. Page A-6.)_| and depression with which for 60. Storm Goes Out to Sea. crash, Dec. 20 Star to Seek Divorce the truck's brakes case, inasmuch as oral arguments RENO, Nev., (JP).—Actor Communist Strike many years it has been cursed. The storm, which roared up the Aires, said ap- were heard only the week before Victor McLaglen said he and Mrs. EL PASO, Tex., Dec. 20 UP).— Editor's “To accomplish these objectives Atlantic Coast with high winds, parently failed on the steep hill. of Screen Star Merle Oberon has Scripps-Howard sea Some of the others in the truck last. Marzani was convicted on Margaret Pumphrey, formerly there must continue to be encour- was moving farther out to to- would here to- made a date for 1 to were Railroad authorities May 22, 1947, and got a l-to-3-year Seattle, be married January agement of capital—of the risk cap- day, after sweeping much of the injured. The came in at Fails to said one of the on the sentence. day. couple here Saturday appear court Juarez, Mexico, j Tie Up Italy Son Found Shot at College ital—which. frankly in the hope of Northeast and giving many sections passengers from Hollywood. It will be Mr. to seek a divorce from Lucien but as an essential their heaviest snow of the season. train was hurt. By the Associated Press By the Associated Press gain ingredient third Mrs. Wil- McLaglen's marriage, Ballard, comeraman, Attorney ROME, Dec. 20 —The Communists of our entire economic structure, is Areas hit included large parts of Truman Off Pumphrey's second. liam A. Cocke said. RHINEBECK, N. Y., Dec. 20.— led a 24-hour strike of government (See PROFITS. A-2.) ~(See SNOWSTORM, Page A-3J Wednesday William Gordon Sorrells, 19, son of Page workers but failed Timbers Charred today apparently the late John H. Sorrells, executive For in in an effort to paralyze the country. Holidays Missouri editor of the Scripps-Howard news- to The government gave armed pro- In 1814 President Truman will leave here Own Chair Parade papers, was found shot in the Man Freed Court Held Become Bringing tection to thousands of the million by High Wednesday to spend the holidays stomach early yesterday On a dormi- i or more government workers who with hU family in Independence, tory porch at Bard College near Truman Desk Banned Barrett refused to obey the strike call of the Mo., it was announced at the White by Proposal here. in Case Called Similar A desk built from White'' i Communist-directed General Con- Again largely House NEW PROTESTS Planned on Re- chairs or Mr. was a today. barrels, tables, ladders, Sorrells freshman at A man freed last week a when D. House timbers which bear marks of of D. federation of Labor (CGIL). by Su-; Today, Judge George Taking off from National jection C. Suffrage Float. anything else that could be used as the schools. He was reported in Airport Steel-helmeted riot police arrested preme Court ruling that he had Neilson ordered Upshaw held for the the fire that wrecked the structure at 10 a.m. in his plane, the Independ- Page B-l a seat. Of course, a seat could be critical condition at Northern the torch one leftist striker in the 'southern been detained illegally before ar- grand jury in $5,000 bond, his attof- when the British applied ence, the President in the official stands. will arrive in bought Dutchess County Health Center to- in a nev, William S. did was exhibited today Pres- 28 STATES Send Word on Plans for port of Bari. A government raignment, appeared Municipal Thompson, not in 1814 by Kansas City early in the afternoon. to his Participation in Violators would be fined up spokesman said the striker had day. Court on a new charge today and mention the Supreme Court decision ident Truman as one of prize He expects to return to the Inaugural. of the Capital $100. or if they can’t pay be sent to to interfere with the “consti- Circumstances shooting his attorney indicated he would in court. Christmas gifts. on December Page B-l tried 29. the to 60 were not determined.) as a District workhouse for up to work.” immediately argue that police had violated the But later Mr. re- Constructed of pine repro- Mr. Truman will be tutional- right Thompson told accompanied You can't bring your own chair— days. from noVth to south Ormsby Robinson, college public re- high court s ruling. he felt “violated” duction of a George Washington by Secretaries Mathew J. Reports porters police had Connelly or even an orange crate—to the lations director, said that “all cir- The Andrew J. desk now in the Smithsonian Insti- and Maj. Barrett's proposed regula- showed the only truly bad effect defendant, Up- the ruling by holding Upshaw from Charles G. Ross. desk was the inaugural parade under rules drafted tions also renting of the strike to be in the leftist cumstances point to accidental shaw, 36, colored, is charged with the time of his arrest. 11:30 tution, the office-size Mrs. Truman and Miss Margaret require persons p.m. by Police Supt. Robert J. Barrett rooms to transients during the fes- north, where the government’s shooting.” housebreaking in the disappearance Friday, until this morning without gift of White House carpenters. already are in Independence. The are of and turned over by the Commis- tivities to with service was Else- Mr. Robinson said Mr. Sorrells of $337 worth of small oil heaters trimmings mahogany, Late this the register the Inaug- railway crippled. bringing him into court. afternoon, President sioners to was found two other students obtained when a window sill was today Corporation Counsel ural Committee. Persons renting where trains ran and postal, tele- by from a warehouse last Friday. that Is holding the annual reception for No. 2 Precinct police reported removed in the contro- Vernon E. West for study. in the services went on who rushed him to the hospital here. Five earlier the constructing members of the White space buildings along parade graph and other days Supreme the defendant was charged with House staff. A list of do's and donts for- Dr. William versial balcony last year. long route must keep a register of who without much trouble. In Rome Thompson, college Court handed down an important about 6 Sat- housebreaking at pjn. The President also received the throwing of confetti (in- uses the space and sus- rode mail trucks and physician, who treated Mr. Sorrells decision, ruling that a confession Railroad Executive jbids report any police guarded urday, about 18 hours after Upshaw from the cabinet Dies at the said the bullet was a leather letter files cluding tom-up telephone books), picious persons or actions. entrances to the central post and hospital, purportedly given by Upshaw in arrested in his home. CHICAGO, Dec. 20 was and White House staff and a port- UP).—Thomas carrying an imitation revolver or The plan also includes a general telegraph building. of .22-caliber. He said the bullet grand larceny case several years I Alex Police pointed out that the courts able television set from some of Graham, 54, general auditor i using "ticklers or any other device parking ban in a large part of the Apparently heartened by the gov- entered Mr. Sorrells’ lower abdomen ago was illegal because it was ob- for the Rock i were closed at noon Saturday, and the "kids” around the White House. Chicago, Island & capable of use for the annoyarme of downtown area during the 24 hours ernment’s ffrmness, many public and passed through his chest out of tained 31 hours after the man was for that reason they could not bring A bound album of engravings of Pacific Railroad, died of an ap- any other person.” of January 20 as well as the clos- service employes headed back to the body. arrested, during which time he did heart in their prisoner for arraignment every President came from Secre- attack in his home The chair regulation bans the ing of streets necessary to the pa-, work later in the day after tiisi Mr. Sorrells’ mother lives In not appear before a committing 1 A-6.1 of the Treasury Snyder. Sarentere last night. sale, giving away or use*of boxes,I rade. strike call. / I (§ee UPSHAW, Page tary m obeying the Memphis. magistrate. A