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Kilian Convicted and Fined Stuart Reported 5,075 Civilians For Permitting Cruelty to GIs I Meet in Effort Lichfield Commander Lose Jobs is Fined $500 and HeadingChinese Army To Given Reprimand Coalition Move Speed Hf© Parley By Associated Press Here October 1 BAD Session After NAUHEIM, Germany, Aug. Committee of 5 Said I Begun 29.—Col. James A. Kilian of \ War Department Cut Australia Suffers Highland Park, 111., former com- To Have OK mander of the United States Chiang In D. C. and Field Another Defeat Army’s replacement depot at For Peace Effort Lichfield, England, was convicted To Total 53,079 th» ly Associated Press today of permitting cruel and *y the Associated Press 29.—The An estimated 5,075 War De- PARIS, Aug. Foreign unusual punishment of Amer- NANKING, Aug. 29.—General- Ministers of Britain, Russia, the partment civilian employes in ican soldiers imprisoned in the issimo Kai-shek United Chiang was re- the Washington area will lose States and France met depot guardhouse. this afternoon in an effort to ported reliably today to have their jobs October 1 as the result Col. Kilian was fined $500 and of find a way of the approved the creation of a com- President Truman's economy revitalizing reprimanded by the seven-officer Paris Peace directive, it was learned Conference. military court. Tire court convicted mittee of five, headed by Amer- today. before the In all the War Department has Shortly ministers gath- him after two hours deliberation at ican in Ambassador John Leighton ordered its civilian ered the office of Georges Bidault, the end of the personnel staff 10-week trial. reduced president and foreign minister of Stuart, to* clear the way for a by 53.079, according to fig- Col. Kilian was of "aid- COL. JAMES A. KILIAN. ures released France, the conference had wit- acquitted coalition government in by Maj. Gen. C. H. ing and cruelties for -—AP taking nessed another of the clashes which abetting” which Photo. all Bonesteel, president of the War nine enlisted parties. have bedeviled the guards and three sub- Department Manpower Board. peace making. Col Kilian's former and This was regarded here as the ordinate officers hate been convicted. adjutant The dismissals were ordered to An Australian proposal to establish most hopeful in the The court-martial cleared him also a former chaplain at Lichfield were development balance raises a subcommittee to collect factual Chinese situation granted to a civilian of of among the men who testified in his in recent weeks. data on the Italian-French charges "knowingly” permitting force of 672.579 on the pay rolls frontier defense. It came as fighting in the North cruelties. July 31. The new after was beaten. 13 to 6. in the Italian increased in and ceiling The chaplain, Capt. William I. sharply intensity, cuts commission after a heated Aus- The colonel had testified that if economy was placed at 519.500 Comfort, said prisoners occasionally as the Communists announced they tralian-Russia.n prisoners at Lichfield were mis- workers, including those in the field. exchange. got “shoved around," but that there might set up their own separate The four treated, he knew nothing about it. Ground Forces Hardest Hit. principal powers rfnd was no actual mistreatment. He "national government'’ rather than nine other nations voted The court found that Col. Kilian A total of 3.937 civilian against said "any man in a guardhouse will accept any new constitution in employes the Australian had .permitted these punishments: in departmental offices in plan. say he's mistreated." which they did not have a voice. Washing- of State Striking prisoners with fists and ton and an additional em- Secretary Byrnes. British The adjutant, Lt. Col. Robert The primary objective of Mr. 1.138 Foreign Soviet clubs, kicking them in the body, or ployed by the Military District of Secretary Bevin. Norton of Mountain View, N. J„ Stuart's committee would be to Foreign Minister Molotov and Mr. forcing them to stand nose and toes Washington are slated to lose their testified he never saw any evidence bring the Kuomintang and minor Bidault met in the building contain- against a wall or in other strained iobs. of prisoners being treated cruelly parties together in a 40-man state ing the famous clock room where positions for protracted periods. The Washington Military District, at the Lichfield guardhouse. council which would serve as an the Big Four of 1919 framed the More than a score of soldier wit- one of the separate Army areas, had Col. Kilian himself remarked early interim coalition governing body treaties which nesses. most of them former 4,304 civilian on its rolls they, too, hoped prison- in the Lichfield trials: until a more employes “There must permanent administra- 31. would end war. ers of the Lichfield July The reduction of 1,138 will guardhouse, have been something wrong at tion is formed at the November 12 j Amendments First Task. testified about such i leave it 3.166 civilian emploves. punishment. Lichfield which was concealed from national assembly. D. C. Wife Killed Commissioners Move j Navy Captain's Hardest hit of all Their first task, it was believed, Col. Kilian received the branches of the Legion me. It looks like have Twaif, vans Ull OLUdl l. they passed j War is the was to devise a common ground of Merit in October, 1944, for "ex- Department Army Ground the ball to the old man." Premier T. V. Soong called on for j Forces which will suffer a dealing with the 300 amend- ceptionally meritorious ’* service as He In Calvert Street reduc- is 55 years old. He was Ambassador Stuart and To born today pre- Bridge Leap Part ol tion in the field of ments to treaty drafts which have a replacement depot commander. in 'Recapture' 34,527 by October Nebraska, obtained a degree at sented the names of the government 1. At snowed the conference under. As More than 200.000 AGF headquarters, however, American soldiers the University of Missouri in 1914 members—Wu Te-chen, secretary Mrs. Armand J. Robertson Was Mother of met the to four had 2; civilians will be increased from 1.297 they only preambles passed through the Lichfield and served as an officer in of both the general the Kuomintang, and U. 5.-Held Land Here ;to which of the treaties had been before the * 1,498, means that 201 em- adopted depot Battle of the Bulge. First and Second World Wars. Chang Li-sheng. Minister of the In- Husband, Pacific on in in commissions. The conference Veteran, Duty Japan ployes are being added to the pay- terior—who are slated to serve roll. Itself had yfct to pass on most of <Picture on Planners to around the same conference table Page B-l.) Urged Study these, having passed on less than Second Army Cut 8,600. Russian witn Communists Chou En-lai and Sites After 200 of the 55,000 words in the five Band Leader Benter Mrs. Armand J. 42, son always in Congressional A decrease of 8.600 Prejudice Tung Pi-wu. Robertson, appeared good spirits. civilians has treaties for "She loved that a been Bulgaria. Italy, Ro- a now baby girl.” to ordered on the payrolls of the The government choices are sched- wife of Navy captain serv- Failure Order Survey mania. Finlahd and Hungary. neighbor said. "She hardly ever let ; 2d Army which has its headquar- uled to leave for the summer capital in and mother of two Secretary Byrnes was the first to On Accused of ing Japan the child out of her arms." ; ters in Baltimore and includes Transjordan's Auto Sale at Kuling tomorrow’ to receive in- By John W. Thompson, Jr. arrive at the Quai d'Orsay. He was children, 120 feet to her Capt. Roberston left Washington Maryland and Virginia in its area. structions from the generalissimo. plunged The District Commissioners accompanied by his advisers for the about three weeks ago, it was said, Reductions in other The committee probably would not death from Calvert Street today urged the National Capital components meeting. Senators Vandenberg, Re- U. N. Bid to assume command of the cruiser j of the Army Ground Forces are as Charged Above Price begin until next at 7:30 a.m. and publican, of Michigan, and Con- Ceiling functioning early Bridge today. based at Yokosuka. Park Planning Commission i follows; 1st New' week. Chicago, Japan. Army, York, 8.174; of The coroner’s office said it would to initiate a of Federal nally, Democrat, Texas, and his The other child, James, 9, also lives study i 3d Army, Atlanta, 3,976; 4th Armv, Australia Assails Stand Former Officer The most difficult be- issue a certificate of suicide later interpreter, Charles Bohlen.