| Show fib t Salt £ake STrilnmt 4A Sunday May 11 1947 Army Reveals Plot Behind Pravda Claims U S Threats Deny GirlRole AROUND THE WORLD MOSCOW May 10 (D— Pravda declared Saturday that an American official had threatened aix months imprisonment for an actress slated for a leading part in the Berlin production of “The Russian Question” a play which depicts some American newsmen g as propagandists Trie Communist party newspaper said other “foes” of the Konstantin Simonov play which opened last week in Berlin reto force sorted to "blackmail the German actors not to par- LONDON May 10 CD — The weekly News of the World said Saturday night that the speech of Dean Acheson U S undersecretary of state In Cleveland Miss this week had revived discussion in the British cabinet of the possibility of seeking a new British loan from Hess Mission WASHINGTON May 10 CD — Rudolf Hess deputy nazi fuehrer who made hla own secret mission to Britain during the war told the Britons that the United States coveted the British empire Details of the conversation Hess held with the Duke of Hamilton after the nazi had landed In an air plane in England in May 1941 were contained in the final volume e series on nazi of an aggression published by the War department and released Saturday night Offered Deal A transcript of the talks in which Hess offered Britain a separate peace by guaranteeing Britain's empire possessions In return for uncontested German control in conquered Europe contained these statements by Hess: “Germany has no designs on German America The peril was a ludicrous figment of eight-volum- t and withdrawal of U S mediation weakens Nationalists as communists launch :nCHANGCHU naw drives SHENYANG' Departing American troops leave orms pP’iMukden r t:u WAiitr :ft ’Sfil!pNAJlN::7 Sea if YONGyANGrrCVVONSAN VyiiNHCi iSf TfANftHHTlENlSIN - voters have "rejected" reds 1 t fctr 'IgtftfprTSiNGTAO Yellow f (Officials of the U S information control division in Berlin said the Pravda accusation was "sheer nonsense” and that they were “amused by such Inventions”) Commentator Yuri Korolkov who signed the Pravda article said the actress threatened with imprisonment was Lola Muttel and that she was living with her family in Switzerland when she was invited to play the part of Jessie in the production Korolkov continued: "After receiving an American visa the actress arrived in Berlin but the stamp was missing from o f'Ja pan ' JAPAN: Gen MocArthur says iTreoTldrt4Ai7x TAIANv?r‘ kMNSA ' PUSAN MOkPC WMoppol Hope seen ending deadlock between Americans and Soviets KOREA: Wartime Course NANKING of Yellow River L SHANGHAI for WHERE SOVIET AND LEFTIST INFLUENCE IS STRONG U S fEasVCJutiaSea imagination' Hitler's interests were European "If we made peace now America would be furious America really wanted to inherit the British em- pire” Chiang Order U S Soviet Map Korea Fate Hess proposed England should have a completely free hand in the reservation Challenged empire with the In Talks May 20 at Seoul that Britain should return many's former colonies In Rice Crisis when Washington officials were By ROBERT N Discount Eire a sole Ger- COOL taxis Marines Start China Exit PEIPING Sunday May 11 CD- -4 Five hundred U to marines left by tram Sunday for the port of Chinwargtao beginning the evacu ation of the First division's Fifth regiment from this north China city it marked the first major withdrawal of marines from Cnina as a unit From Chinwangtao the marines will sail for Guam Within a few days another trainload of marines will complete the evacuation of Peiping Others are expected to follow from Tientsin shortly The First battalion of the Hfth regiment will remain at Tangiiu Tientsin’s port to guard an ammunition dump and to furnish tram guards Sunday buglers sounded the color in an official ceremony at the American barracks in the for mer legation compound marking a formal farewell and dosing the book on 50 years of U S marine duty in Peiping interrupted only by the war L- TELEX Oaa plat -T- nrim AM ELEMOLD Invisible double-barrele- Kai-she- 31 level Shanghai police and soldiers from the Woosung garrison personally notified rice' shops of the generalissimo’s instructions and "requested” that they reopen but the vast majority remained shuttered for: the fourth consecutive day Attacks Continue Attacks on the barricaded shops continued in Shanghai and’ new riots were reported in Nanking Hwalntng (Anking) and elsewhere Chu Ching-hw- a chairman of the powerful Shangha irice dealers’ guild told Mayor K C Wu the shops would reopen if the owners were authorized to “shoot to kill” any rioters The mayor refused but promised better police protection Chu said the death penalty for rice looters had been decreed by Wusih city authorities in near-b- y and in Chengtu in western China The federation of industrial and utility workers claiming 800000 members threatened to strike and confiscate all rice stocks in Shang- hai unless the national government would permit wage increases by Monday In an open letter to the government and to the Shanghai city authorities tne federation threatened to take over all utilities and form "our own” local government The letter warned the government against “using force on us” because "the police are with us” Partial Strike Employes of the Chinese government radio administration already were on a partial strike accepting only official government and press messages for either international or domestic delivery They called this a “hungry work schedule" saying they were too famished to handle the usual volume of business They said they would go on a complete strike unless they got more pay within 24 hours Students and a wide assortment of workers joined in demonstrations throughout Shanghai placarding the city with demands for relief from the economic pinch TOKYO FIZZLE Ear-Pie- ce Tiny tiny TELEX brings you back to the world of sounds clearly beard And hide your 7 OTSU Ibarak Prefecture Japan May 10 (UP) — The discovery of a score of concrete-line- d sites in isoof ravines lated north Tokyo where haK-doze- Tokyo The scouting party found hydrogenerating plants inflating TELEX HEARINO CENTER platforms and other facilities —once I most the elaborate and highly sciI IW rad FREK folder oa the TELEX entific installations in all wartime I and TELEUOLO No obligation Japan The area is only one mile from beach described by the Nagahama i l a Citr ( cavalry scouts as "one of the most m war beautiful surflands in the world” r E MORRIS CO 804 Jat BUI Exploring cavalrymen poked Tr Bait La Cltr Ctah through the rusted boilers and disgen B--ll openly discussing $500000000 project for unilaterally strength southern Korea ening U in the pattern of the "Truman doctrine” ld ist Seek Korean Ideas The United States government has indicated its willingness to resume joint efforts toward ful filling the pledge of freedonvfor Korea but Secy Marshall re cently advised Russia that the State department will insist that all Korean political elements be consulted in the formation of a new government That precaution is based on the fact that failure to agree on what constituted "democratic” parties and organizations caused the breakdown in negotiations When the commission ran into a stone wall at its last meeting in May 1946 a U S army announcement said it was because the Soviet delegation had refused to consult with Korean groups collaborating with the Americans in southern Korea until they renounced their opposition to allied trusteeship of their country Marshall also emphasized that the United States favors “estab her in 1943 lishment of a self - governing His points were: 1 Immediate establishment of sovereign Korea independent ©f a provisional Korean democratic foreign control and eligible for government "on the basis of broad membership in the United Na participation by Korean demo tions” Behind this sparring lies the cratic parties and social organizafact that each of the occupying tions” 2 Free elections "on the basis powers accuses the other of buildof general and equal suffrage” ing up Korean elements favorable 3 Aid to the resultant inde- to its philosophy In the past year when the 38th parallel demarcapendent Korean state These proposals were made to tion line has been a wall between Secy Marshall at Moscow April the zones a real Korean schism 20 at the end of the unfruitful may have been deepened Big Four conference on Germany Redistribute Land and Austria They came at a time For 4 D years before V-- J day Korea's 22000000 inhabitants were exploited as colonials by Though a rich and Japan Continued from Page One country all but a hand war slain in retaliation for the ful of Koreans lived In extreme poverty death of 21 German soldiers Since allied "liberation” the SoThe indictment charged that viets in the industrial north have Rendulic commanded the army Comthe encouraged People’s group that evacuated Finnmark mittees of Law and Order which northern province of Norway took over from the Japanese with burned homes churches food live- a program of land redistribution stock and caused hundreds to die and the nationalization of all of exposure shot scores for re- Japanese property The Russians fusing to leave their homeland and are said to be raising a Korean “left some 61000 men women and "red” in their zone which children homeless starving and includesarmy most Korean industrial destitute centers Rendulic’s Second panzer army In China where domestic dif was charged with razing villages ferences of the left and right have and burning the inhabitants alive been expressed in a were All the defendants accused civil war present confusion may of rounding up civilian populations be pointing toward a solution and holding them in prison stockDr James Yen founder of of ades aa hostages against acts Cina’s mass education movements sabotage that a peace by exhaustion “When attacks took place these says is near “Both the government persons were without benefit of and the Communists realize in investigation or trial summarily creasingly that the party that does hanged or shot” said the indict the most for the people will win ment in the end What the people want most is peace and a full rice NAZI CRIMES for inflating the balloons These generating plants were located in several adjoining canyons set in sunken concrete circular walls into which pipelines from the generating plants extended It was on the concrete emplacements that bags were filled and bundles of explosives fastened to balloons with ingenious timing devices for automatic release of destructive loads Col Clendenen said "a high de gree of scientific skill and engi neering is shown clearly by the masterful planning and shrewd military ingenuity’ The search party established that the balloons were launched early each morning and late each afternoon taking advantage of eastward gales There were two types of balloon weapons one carrying explosives dropped by timing devices the other being self destructive Noise and Bones ' Scotland May (UP) — Workmen heard unearthly yowls from the municipal incinerator Saturday and found a human skeleton when they looked There was some excitement until investigation showed no connection between noise and bones The skeleton had been discarded by a medical student and the yowls came from a trapped cat EDINBURGH 10 'When the general rehearsal was approaching Lola Muttel was suddenly called out by one of the American officials who stated that she was accused of traveling 11 legally through the American zone and was thereby threatened with six months imprisonment ’But' said the American official ‘you may avoid punishment if you ra fuse to play “Miss Muttel was compelled to refuse to participate in the play about a week before her premiere in Jessie’s role and it was given to another actress ‘The actors engaged In the play were threatened with being placed on some blacklists and there were other threats especially to those who reside in the western sectors of Berlin” The commentator said the play was “not at all directed against America or the American people but against certain elements of the American press the-role- ’ Maps March on Iran Claim Major Defeat NANKING May 10 (NYT) — Military headquarters here Saturday night claimed a major defeat for the communists in Shantung A headquarters spokesman announced the capture of the red mountain stronghold of Lalwu 50 miles southeast of Tsinan and asserted the communists had suffered 20000 casualties In the Laiwu battle Sees Pledge to Britain LONDON May 10 CD — The TEHRAN Iran May 10 CD— London Observer said Saturday A reliable informant quoted & night the Conservative party will leader of remnants of the separatist Azerbaijan militia Saturday aa saying they planned to start a campaign In the north against the Iran government this summer "exactly as the partisans are now fighting in Greece” publish & declaration Monday promising that in the event of its return to power the party will not attempt to denationalize the Bank of England or the mining industry The Conservative statement the Observer said asserts that aa much freedom aa possible Foil Brazil Plot will be returned to road transport RIO DE JANEIRO May 10 CD some parts of civil aviation and — An army general announced Sat the Liverpool "cotton market i fear Saturday that a number of municipal administrations in large British zone cities were bn the verge of breakdown because German officials were unwilling to shoulder the responsibility for the food shortage This new angle in the deteriorating food situation was disclosed as leaders of mine workers in the Ruhr defeated a proposal by left wing unionists to call a two-da- y strike of 300000 coal miners to protest food shortages Union representatives attending a meeting at Bochum said a large majority opposed the walkout on the grounds that it would do nothing to alleviate the scantiness of food supplies and increasing tension in the Ruhr and would retard vitally needed coal production Reports have reached Berlin from both Wuppertal and Brunswick that the city councils have announced withdrawal from their duties until there is a visible improvement in the food situation In the present circumstances they assert they cannot be held responsible for law and order In Essen the city council distributed leaflets stating that it wa not responsible for tjie food shortage Rudolph Amelunxen minister-presideof which includes the Ruhr was understood to have told Lord Pakenham British parliamentary minister of German affairs that without further help the big cities were faced with complete collapso i of food supplies Lord Pakenham was in Berlin Saturday discussing with top British control commission officials all aspects of the food situation At Heillngenhausen in the Ruhr 700 workers returned to their factories today after having walked out two days sgo in protest sgainst the food supply which German officials said was so short that the normal consumer ration in the Ruhr amounted to three pounds of bread per week and nothing else nt tr T t b) rV 'WM ats M fii an 'K C- sentence passed on German Field Marshal Albert Kesselring made him feel “very sad" Leese who has left the army and therefore is free to speak his mind declared that “Kesselring was a very gallant soldier who fought his battles well and squarely Eighth army men who fought against him had no complaints about his conduct They will tell you that Kesselring set a very good example in the treatment of prisoners — farbet-te- r example than the Italians Stressing that Kesselring had always "behaved like a soldier Leese added that “if things had gone the other way the man sentenced to death might have been me” - ' nttjk m& Xi -lf ii iiti ADMITS KESSELRING PENALTY ‘SAD’ LONDON May 10 (CTPS)— ' (iykiiiPi y EX-FO- E Lt Gen Sir Oliver Leese who commanded the Eighth army In Italy after Marshal Bernard L Montgomery said in an in terview Saturday that the death ”-- T !i lc bowl” tilling apparatus of the generating plants which produced the gases I BERLIN May 10 CD — Responsible British officials expressed the well-develop- ed two-year-o- U the Japanese in 1044 launched bombing balloons intended to blast the United States was announced Saturday A first cavalry division reconnaissance party led by LL CoL C C Clendenen Jackson Heights L I came across the entrenchments in n a greeen-cla- d canyons on the peninsula 125 miles north of V - Army Finds Site Where Japs S Launched Balloons-for-- TELEMOLD secret Associated Press Writer Who wants what in the- mysterious east (northern division) is gradually becoming known An exchange of letters between Soviet Foreign Minister V M Molotov and U S Secy of State George C Marshall on the subject of Korea shows an apparent similarity of purpose in the intentions of the two occupying powers regarding that strategic peninsula After a deadlock of almost exactly one year during which the joint aljied commission did not meet and the division between northern and southern Korea deepened ominously the Russians announced that they were ready for new talks at Seoul on May 20 Denying Soviet responsibility for the deadlock as charged by Marshall Molotcfv suggested a three - point program to give Korea the democratic independence which the allies first prom-ise- d urday that a budding plot against the government of Prea Eurico Gaspar Dutra was smashed with the arrest of a number of sergeants The announcement made at a news ccfiference by Gen Zeno-bi- o Da CoSla commander of the Rio deJaneiro military region madfTho reference to the political the United States “Great significance is attached cout of the alleged plot by the British government to the speech made by Mr Dean Achesor NOTHING’S NEW American undersecretary of static in which he advocated American WASHINGTON May 10 (UP) dollar assistance for the world not —Former Pres Herbert Hoover as charity but as common sense proposed a close post World and good business” the paper’s War I parallel of the “Truman doctrine” nearly 28 year ago political correspondent wrote "The cabinet I understand is when he was director general now considering the advisability of relief for Europe it waa disof discussion with Washington on closed Saturday night He prothe possibility of another American posed then that it was “the loan to Britain duty of the west to put forth “There is good reason to believe every possible effort to tide react very Europe over this period of temthat Washington-wil- l favorably to any approach Britain porary economic difficulties” may make” her passport INFLUENCE "STRONG rXp hfWINOiUftl SHANGHAI May 10 CD— China’ rice crisis continued riotously In Shanghai and spread to other cities Saturday despite a d order from Genk eralissimo Chiang that municipal authorities protect shops and punish hoarders Rice the main food of millions of Chinese has risen to about 20 inU S cents a pound a 500 crease In three months while wages remain frozen at the Jan et ticipate” Jit so-call- ed The interviewer said he had led Hess into a discussion of Ireland’s position in the German peace proposal Hess replied said the interviewer that “in all his talks with Hitler the subject of Ireland had never been mentioned except Incidentally Ireland had done nothing for Germany in this war and it was therefore to be supposed that Hitler wouldh not conrelacern himself in Anglo-Iristions The final volume of the series elaborated a plot of high nazi officials including Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel chief of the high command of the German armed forces to assassinate the French General Giraud That plot was foiled by the chief of the German bureau of foreign intelligence A dm Canarls who subsequently was reported executed by the anti-Sovi- bribe-takin- CHINA: Jntemal corruption Germans Spur1 Acliesoit Talk Stirs British Food Crisis' Hope for New U S Loan British Claim ?w! 1ft t r t ‘Fi jI pij I'- - ' '!- - r 133S7 GStS) A i'll |
