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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.