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Gainestille Dailm Regisker
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GAINESVILLE, COOKE COUNTY, TEXAS, MONDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 20, 1948
NUMBER 97
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59 1H YEAR
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Dutch Forces Roll Unchecked
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Through Indonesian Territory
Indonesian republic, raced
Dutch paratroopers and
cream plant employes this past
would close down everything in
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Weather Forecast
to interfere with the international
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New York City’s Millions Struggle
To Work After 19.5 Inch Snowfall
Spy Probers Racing Against
Time to Quiz Eight Witnesses
Supreme Court Refuses to Take Any
Action in Jap War Crimes Cases__
TEXAS
LAUGHS
poe, the republic’s only oil center,
seemed about to fall.
The Reformed Church in Amer-
ica was founded by colonists
from the Netherlands, the first
settlers of New York and New
Jersey.
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Temperatures: Noon today, 51;
low last night, 42; high Sunday,
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rainian delegates.
The United States and Aus-
tralian delegates brought the
complaint against the Dutch,
following the launching by
Netherlands forces yesterday
of an air, land and sea attack
against the republic in Java
and Sumatra.
During the 50-minute session
today, Dr. Philip C. Jessup, the
American delegate, said the
United States feels “very grave
NEW YORK, Dec. 20 (P) —
The worst the weather could do
—19.5 inches of snow — wasn’t
enough to smother the nation’s
largest city today.
At least 16 persons were dead
as a result of the storm that
swirled across the northeast yes-
Mankel
FORT WORTH LIVESTOCK
FORT WORTH, Dec. 20 (P)—
Cattle 2,500; calves 1,500; cattle
and calves active and strong; me-
FOUND GUILTY OF DESERTION—Millard J. Allison, 35, kis-
ses his wife goodbye at Camp Hood, Tex., Dec. 16 as two of their
children look on after Allison was found guilty by a court martial of
desertion from the U. S. army as a sergeant to join the Canadian
forces. The court sentences Allison to six months at hard labor and
forfeiture of $35 a month from his pay for period of his sentence. Al-
lison’s military record shows that he distinguished himself in com-
bat as a Canadian soldier. (AP Wirephoto).
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BOYCE HOUSE
coast. Gentle to moderate vari-
able winds becoming moderate
to fresh southeast to south Tues-
day.
West Texas: Fair, warmer this
afternoon and tonight. Cooler pan-
handle and south plains late to-
day.
butcher and beef cows ,
canners and cutters $11 to $17;
dium and good slaughter steers,
yearlings and heifers $20 to $24;
common kinds down to $16; ---- o- j :c A.. ,:0,
$17 to $19; 52; low Saturday night, 41, high
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COOKE COUNTY FREE LIBRARY
GAINESVILLE, TEXAS
theater. He went to St. Jo about no use me ‘splainin' to you; you
six months ago to open the cafe. I couldn’t do it.”
"“Tehe
New Chinese Cabinet Is
Pledged to Fight Until
Honorable Peace Assured
NANKING, Dec. 20 (A3) — A cabinet pledged “to fight on until
we can secure an honorable peace” was formed late today by Premier
Sun Fo. 6
He did not rule out the possibility of a compromise peace with
Local Woman Injured
When Struck by Auto
Mrs. L. E. Dever, 413 North
Clements street, was given emer-
gency treatment at Medical and
Surgical hospital Sunday evening
for injuries suffered when she
was struck and knocked down by
on automobile on North Grand
avenue.
Her injuries were not believed
to be serious and she was dis-
missed after examination.
It was understood Mrs. Dever
was en route to church at the
time of the accident.
The car that struck her was
driven by Eugene H. Schmitz of
Muenster, who was accompanied
by his wife and baby.
Telephone Officials and
Workers Resume Talks in
Effort to Head Off Strike
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 20 (P) — Representatives of the Southwestern
Bell Telephone company and its 50,000 union employes resumed
talks today in an effort to head off a pre-Christmas strike.
Both sides entered a meeting--
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By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (A)—
House spy hunters, friends again
with the Justice department,
sought its advice today about
a forthcoming story of Commu-
nist espionage in government.
Acting Chairman Mundt (R-
SD) of the House Un-American
Activities committee told report-
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By KENNETH LIKES i borne troops seized the capital, outskirts of Tjepoe, war-wrecked
BATAVIA, Java., Dec. 20 (A3)— Jogjakarta, in lightning moves oil center inside republican terri-
Dutch forces clamping a nut- yesterday They interned the top t Other forces occupied To-
cracker operation on the fledgling I leaders of the republic, including 5 , m
LY_____. -gmn-, - un-: the president, the premier and rean, 15 miles southeast of Ma-
checked through central Java to- the republican army commander, lang.
day after taking the capital. Tje- Marines Land Sunday
council for today was postponed.
It had been expected that Sun’s
success or failure in his attempt
to form a cabinet—a task he had
been at a month—would be an-
nounced at the meeting.
Several independent newspa-
pers reported Madame Chiang
would return here by Christmas.
Official spokesman for the gov-
ernment and Chiang said they
had no information on her plans.
One foreign source commented
that if Madame Chiang returned
without a public announcement of
the result of her Washington trip
it would mean she had failed in
her attempt to obtain increased
American aid for China.
helped all of , had lunch with Bob (Price) yes-
the elves dec-1 terday and he advised us that he
orate their tree 1t0111d elace dnurn evervthins in
X in the toy shop,
ogss Then they all
\ came over to
g5.08 the lodge to
dd-" help decorate
it was such fun! Of
ers he will meet today with Aelx
Campbell, assistant attorney gen-
eral. Mundt said the committee
wants to determine whether it
will call witnesses who testified
before a federal grand jury in
New York.
The committee held only a
brief session today and scheduled
Cooke County AAA
Group to Attend
Meeting in Denton
Six Cooke county representa-
tives will go to Denton Tuesday
for a meeting of seven North
Central Texas counties called by
B. F. Vance, state director of the
Production and Marketing admin-
istration for the purpose of ex-
plaining the 1949 peanut quotas
to ACA officers and county com-
mitteemen throughout the “pea-
nut belt” of Texas.
The Cooke county delegates in-
clude H. B. Newberry, AAA head,
County Committeeman C. M. Por-
ter, C. P. Clegg and B. M. Mask,
.and Mrs. Helen G. Moore, chief
clerk AAA.
Counties other than Cooke to
be represented are Denton, Gray-
son, Fannin, Tarrant, Johnson
and Hill. Denton was chosen as
the meeting place because of its
central location in the peanut
producing area.
The meeting will start at 10
a. m. in the Eagle cafe and will
adjourn at noon so that the entire
group may attend a Kiwanis
luncheon, as guests of the Denton
service club.
State officials attending the
meeting will include H. H. Mar-
shall, state statistician of PMA,
and T. E. Rattan, district officer.
Following the luncheon at the
Kiwanis club the group will re-
turn to the meeting place where
plans for the 1949 peanut market-
ing program and quota setup will
be further explained.
Intervention Useless
his ice cream manufacturing de-
partment with the exception of
bulk ice cream. The seat of trou-
ble, he thinks, is in his novelty
department where about 40 girls
are employed, and he feels that
he can beat the thing on that
basis. He was naturally anxious
for us to go along with him on
at least some curtailment and we
have decided to do so. He will
get a letter out to his customers
today in which he will claim that
sugar shortage is forcing the shut-
down and we will advise our cus-
tomers that novelties will be cur-
tailed 50 per cent and ice cream
quotas set up allowing dealers to
purchase ice cream and sherbets
up to their June purchases.
, On Sumatra—the republic is
Netherlands marines who land- made up of parts of Java and Su-
ed on the north coast of East Java 1 matra—Dutch troops took Sol.
air- early yesterday have reached the ' This is in the middle of the is-
--------------------------------------- i land. Other troops occupied
« SHOPPING DAYS
• TILL CHRISTMAS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (TP)— thur confirmed their sentences,' General Douglas MacArthur has
The supreme court today refused but stayed the executions until been selected and is acting as the
to interfere with the intcrnaticnal the supreme court acted. I supreme commander for the al-
Justice Murphy dissented from lied powers. The military tribu-
Borden Letter
Is Evidence in
Anti-Trust Trial
By BO BYERS
AUSTIN, Tex., Dec. 20 (A)—-
The state today introduced in 98th
district court a photostatic copy
of a letter from one Borden com-
pany official to another in 1946
explaining how the El Paso office
planned to “go along” with an-
other company in curtailing ice
cream production. The curtail-
ment was designed to stop the
C. I. O. from unionizing the milk
firms, the letter indicated.
The letter was part of testi-
mony presented by the state in its
effort to prove that three El Paso
milk companies combined to fix
prices in violation of Texas anti-
trust laws.
Written by Jack Thompson,
then general manager of the Bor-
den company’s El Paso office, the
letter related to action taken by
Price’s Creameries as a result of
C. I. O. attempts to sign up milk
company employes as union mem-
bers.
The letter was written July 21,
1946, to Ben W. Putnam of Hous-
ton, president of Borden’s south-
ern division.
Thompson wrote, in part: “The
C. I. O. signed up Price’s ice
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military tribunal
States have no power or author-
ity to review, to affirm, set aside
or annul the judgments and sen-
tences imposed on these peti-
tioners and for this reason the
motions for leave to file petitions
for writ of habeas corpus are de-
nied.”
The opinion, called technically
a “per curiam” opinion, presum-
ably was written by Chief Justice
Vinson. The chief justice ordi-
narily writes such opinions.
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Two Men Escape Injury
In Automobile Mishap
Two men escaped injury in an
auto accident in Gainesville Sat-
urday at 9 p. m. at the intersec-
tion of North Taylor and Scott
streets.
A car, driven by J. M. Kinslow,
Gainesville, traveling north on
Taylor collided with a car driven
by Grady Willis, Wichita Falls, at
the street crossing. Both cars re-
ceived damage totaling $50 each.
Neither driver was injured.
terday and early today. There
were five casualties in New York
City, five in New Jersey and six
others in New England.
New York bore the brunt of the
storm—third heaviest snow in the
city’s history.
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U. S. Joins Complaint
Against Dutch Action
By JOSEPH DYNAN
PARIS, Dec. 20 (AP).—The Netherlands informed the
United Nations Security council today intervention is use-
less in Indonesia.
The Dutch delivered an official memorandum to the
council, which met for an emergency discussion of the new
fighting in the Republic of Indonesia but recessed until
Wednesday because of the absence of the Russian and Uk-
Auto Stolen Last
Week in Oklahoma
Found at Denton
An automobile stolen from in
front of a tavern in Oklahoma,
about eight miles north of Gaines-
ville, last week, was recovered at
Denton Sunday night, following
the arrest of Thomas Dan Estin,
21.
The car belonged to T. J. Brown
of Thackerville, Okla., who is a
Love county deputy sheriff and
was on duty in the area when the
theft occurred.
Solution of the crime and ar-
rest of Estin followed an investi-
gation by Highway Patrolmen
Lester Robertson and Bill Sim-
mons, and Texas Ranger Lewis
Rigler of Gainesville; Deputy
Sheriff Buster Gibbs of Denton
county and R. E. Allen, Denton
policeman.
Estin, who is said to be former-
ly of Era, has been living for
some time at Denton. Officers at
Denton said he has served two
terms in the Texas penitentiary,
following convictions in Denton
county.
Estin signed a statement, ad-
mitting theft of Brown’s car and
driving it to Texas. He told of
going to Era, where he removed
a license plate from another auto-
mobile. En route to Denton, he
threw away the license plate be-
longing to Brown’s car as he
crossed the Clear creek bridge
below Sanger.
When the stolen car was recov-
ered, it bore the license plate
from Era and another plate from
Tarrant county. Gainesville offi-
cers said they were informed the
latter plate had been removed
from an automobile on a used-car
lot at Fort Worth.
Estin was brought to Gaines-
ville about 10 p. m. Sunday and
after signing a waiver of extradi-
tion to Oklahoma, was placed in
the Cooke county jail. He was to
be taken to Marietta and turned
over to Oklahoma authorities.
Ranger Rigler said Estin was
wanted by federal authorities in
another case, for violation of the
Dyer act — transporting stolen
property across a state line.
Estin is married and his wife
resides at Denton, where she is
employed in a cafe.
Deputy Sheriffs T. J. Brown
and Buddy Young, and H. P.
Brown, all of Thackerville, came
to Gainesville when advised of
recovery of Brown’s car. They
continued on to Denton to drive
the automobile back to Oklahoma.
The car was said not to have
been damaged, and several ar-
ticles in it had been placed in the
“turtle” of the machine.
with three U. S. Conciliation
Service commissioners at 10:40 a.
m. (CST).
No strike date was set but
Frank P. Lonergan, vice presi-
dent of Division 20, Communica-
tion Workers of America (inde-
pendent), said, “if no agreement
is reached and there is no outside
intervention, there will be a
strike before Christmas.”
Conciliation Commissioner A.
E. Johnson called the situation
“as deadlocked as it can be.”
Negotiations have been going
on since last spring. The contract
between the union and company
expired last May. Both sides are
still 8.3 cents an hour apart on
a wage increase with the union
demanding a 15 cents an hour
and the company offering a 6.7
per hour raise.
lodge. Mother c______ [_ - / .
Claus and 1 week. . . . Paul (Edquist) and I
bulls $15 to $20.50; good and
choice fat calves $22 to $25; com-
mon and medium kinds $17 to
$21.
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Woman Injured in
Automobile Crash
One person was slightly injured
in an automobile collision Mon-
day 8:18 a. m. at the intersection
of East California and Denton
streets.
Mrs. L. H. Hutchinson, the in-
jured person, was taken to the
Medical and Surgical hospital,
where she was treated for a cut
on her forehead. She was re-
leased immediately after treat-
ment.
The accident occurred when the
I car driven by L. H. Hutchinson,
going west on California, collided
with a car driven by Miss Ima
Sue Roane, Valley View, who
was going south on Denton.
The Roane car damage amount-
ed to approximately $300 while
the Hutchinson car received dam-
ages amounting to approximately
$120.
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course, the elves who make all
the bright colored balls and tinsel
had charge of decorating the
trees.
You should have seen them at
work. Naturally, they had to
climb the trees as they are such
little people. To them, the trees
were miles high. So, high up
among the branches were small
elves dressed in bright red, green,
yellow and blue suits whose jin-
gle bells on the tips of their toes
tinkled merrily as they worked.
As they climbed among the
branches they festooned long
ropes of red, yellow and green
tinsel. Then they hung all kinds
of colored balls. Now close your
eyes and see if you can’t see
them at work trimming those
Christmas trees; Listen closely
and perhaps you can hear the
other elves singing carols as they
hand the decorations up to the
elves in the tree.
Here in Santa Claus land, we
just love Christmas.
Love,
SANTA CLAUS.
high for year,
109; low for
year, 9; baro-
metric pressure,
29.82.
East Texas:
Fair, warmer
tonight a n d in
north portion
this afternoon.
Tuesday mostly
cloudy with a
few showers
near the upper
minated in a “long and friendly”
weekend conference with Camp-
bell and U. S. Attorney George
Fay.
The committee wants to get the
testimony for its repor t before
the new congress takes over on
January 3.
First, it wants to question the
eight, or as many of them as the
Justice department says aren’t
needed in prosecuting indict-
ments returned by a New York
grnd jury.
These indictments are against
(A) 12 Communist party leaders
on grounds they conspired to
overturn the U. S. government;
and (B) Alger Hiss, former state
department official, on grounds
he lied in saying he never turned
government secrets over to Whit-
taker Chambers, former courier
for a Communist spy ring.
Statement Issued
Acting chairman Mundt
(R-SD) got out a statement—on
pink paper—last night saying the
committee would appreciate it if
the Justice department would let
it quiz:
Donald Hiss, brother of Alger;
Miss Alger Hiss; Miss Elizabeth T.
Bentley, who admits she was a
messenger for a pre-war Red net-
work in Washington; Chambers,
Henry Julian Wadleigh, William
Ward Pigman, Franklin Victor
Reno, and Hedda Gompers.
That was the first time the
committee sad mentioned the last
two. All the others except Pig-
man, a former worker at the Na-
tional Bureau of Standards, have
appeared previously before the
committee.
Mundt told reporters that Reno
might be able to throw some
light on “the Aberdeen proving
ground situation.”
That was a reference to state-
ments of committee members that
around 1938 the Russians evi-
dently got information on the su-
per-secret Norden bombsight out
of a civilian at the army’s testing
station at Aberdeen, Md. .
Mundt said Hedda Gompers can
“throw a lot of light” on Com-
munist activities here in Wash-
ington about 10 years ago. He
added that she is no suspect.
the court’s decision but wrote no nal sentencing these petitioners,
opinion. I (the Japanese) has been set up by
Justice Rutledge reserved de-General MacArthur as the agent
cision at this time and said that of the allied powers.
announcement of his vote would “Under the foregoing circum-
be made later on. Justice Jack-! stances'the courts of the United
no witnesses for tomarrow.
Would Question Eight
Mundt earlier named eight per-
sons the committee would like to
question before issuing its report
on the investigation. Most of them
have appeared before the New
York grand jury.
Mundt said that "somemisun-
derstandings” had been elimi-
inch fall of last Dec. 26 and 27,
the metropolian area started
shoveling early. As a result nearly
evervthing was moving—though
slowly.
Commuters from suburban
areas found trains a few minutes
late and buses and trolleys slow.
But .they got to work. Subways
and elevated lines in the city
were operating near normal.
Only the Long Island rail road,
paralyzed in last December’s bliz-
zard, announced the cancellation
of 24 regular morning rush-hour
trains.
The snow, which started fall-
ing in the city at 6:20 a. m. yes-
terday, began to abate at 8 p. m.
and ended at 2:10 a. m. today.
Accompanied by High Winds
The storm, which roared up the
Atlantic coast with high winds,
was moving farther out to sea
today after sweeping much of the
northeast and giving many sec-
tions their heaviest snowfall of
the season.
Areas hit included large parts
of New York state,, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, New England, Vir-
ginia, Maryltnd, the District of
Columbia, and West Virginia.
The storm closed the Metropol-
itan area’s three major airports—
La Guardia field, New York In-
ternational airport and Newark
(N. J.) airport.
Schools were closed today in
some metropolitan area suburbs
and in other states.
Number of Death Occur
A number of deaths here and
elsewhere were blamed on the
storm, most of them from over-
exhaustion.
A forecast of clearing weather
and above-freezing temperatures
todav gave hope that the city’s
almost 20,000 snow removal men
with their thousands of trucks,
plows and other apparatus would
make quick work of the third
heaviest fall in New York’s his-
tory.
Mayor William O’Dwyer, who
held an emergency meeting with
key o f fi c i a l s yesterday, mar-
shalled all the city’s- facilities to
cope with the storm.
Advance warnings from the
weather bureau and the bitter
lessons learned from last year’s
record snawfall which crippled
the city for days helped city
forces and transportation lines
Boats Are Slowed
do a better job this time.
Tugboats, ferries and other
craft in New York harbor were
slowed to a crawl during the
storm, when visibility neared
zero.
The last word from the mayor
was “eveyrthing is very much
under control.”
"Everybody wanted a white
Christmas, but this is too white,”
he commented.
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Singakarak, 15 miles to the north,
on the route from Dutch-held
territory to the most important
republican city of Sumatra, Buk-
ittinggi.
The Dutch announced their
forces smashed through truce
lines at a number of points on
Java and Sumatra. Units raced
through Sumatra’s rich rubber-
producing area and were reported
approaching Medan, a major city
of the north.
Thus far it has been almost a
bloodless occupation. The Dutch
call it a “police action.” The
Netherlands forces are well ahead
of their own time-table, following
the quick seizure of Jogjakarta by
airborne troops in the first hours
of the fighting yesterday.
Netherlands army headquarters
said so far six Dutch soldiers have
been killed and eight wounded,
in both Java and Sumatra. Three
Dutch were wounded in the Jog-
jakarta seige, the report said.
A Dutch communique said vir-
tually all the high republican
leaders were in Netherlands cus-
tody. Among those taken were
Dr. Soekarno, president of the
republic, Premier Mohamed Hat-
ta, Foreign Minister Agus Salim,
former Premier Sutan Sjahrir,
and Gen. Soederiman, comman-
der of the republican army.
The Dutch also announced that
their forces had broken through
old truce lines at several points in
Java and Sumatra.
No Trace Found
Of St. Jo ‘Santa
Claus’ Robber
Officers have uncovered no fur-
ther leads on- the man who, pos-
ing as Santa Claus, hele up and
robbed a St. Jo cafe owned by
Wing Lee, Chinese, Saturday at
4:15 a. m.
The man entered the cafe wear-
ing a Santa Claus mask over his
face and asked Mrs. Wing Lee
if she had any money. When
she answered in the affirmative,
he produced a pistol and de-
manded the money.
The Santa Claus bandit took $7
or $8 from the woman and re-
lieved a waitress of $3 tip money.
The man left after warning
Mrs. Wing Lee that he would kill
her if she gave the alarm. She
kept silent until 6:30 a. m.
The bandit sped away in a 1939
automobile driven by a stockily
built man. Mrs. Wing Lee said
that she had seen no other per-
son.
Wing Lee is a veteran who
trained in Camp Howze before
going into battle in the European
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the Communists.
Sun said the cabinet selections
would be presented to President
Chiang Kai-shek tonight and
probably would be announced to-
morrow.
At a news conference, Sun said:
“I can assure you we will not
surrender outright to the Com-
munists.”
He added such a surrender
would mean that “China would
become a second Poland or Czech-
oslovakia.”
Asked if his cabinet might com-
promise with the Communists he
replied:
“It takes two sides to compro-
mise. This cabinet is not a cab-
inet of surrender.”
Gen Wu Te-chen, secretary
general of the Kuomintang (gov-
ernment) party, is the new vice
premier. Former premier Chang
Chun, a peace advocate, report-
edly had agreed to take a cabinet
post.
The scheduled meeting of the
Kuomintang’s central political
son took no part in the final vote.1
The other six members of the I
high court—Chief Justice Vinson 1
and Justices Black, Reed, Frank-
furter, Douglas, and Burton—said
in a brief, unsigned opinion:
“We are satisfied that the
tribunal sentencing these peti-
tioners is not a tribunal of the
United States.
“The United States and other
allied countries conquered and
now occupy and control Japan.
Santa’s Tree
Is Trimmed
For Yuletide
The North Pole
Dear Children:
We trimmed our Christmas
trees today. We set up one huge
tree in the toy shop itself and
another in the
gw living room of
eseA. Santa Claus
concern” at events in Indonesia.
m me memoranaum, Tne ivetn-
eranas sala n naa empowereu
me Luten mgn commissioner m
Indonesia To take any steps lie
thousnt necessary to estapiisn
stannty in me Lutch East inaies.
"No intervention on me part or
international organizations of tne
trienaiy powers can be Oi Iurtner
assistance,” said tne memoran-
dum, presented by Jan rierman
Van koyel, chiet Dutch delegate
to tne U. N.
The Dutch statement, received
by the council after its brief ses-
sion, said further talks with au-
thorities of tne Indonesian Repub-
lic were futile, since the Republi-
cans had failed to cooperate in
carrying out agreements to create
a United States of Indonesia by
Jan. 1.
Believe Dutch ‘Broke Faith’
After the meeting a U. S. dele-
gation spokesman said the Amer-
ican government feels the Dutch
have ‘“broken faith” with the U.
N. Good Offices committee which
has been trying to mediate the
Dutch-Indonesian dispute.
He said that unless the Dutch
forces withdraw to the positions
held before the attack, the U. S.
will withdraw its representative
from the G.O.C.
The coloied defendant w a,s
accused of chicken-stealing and
the evidence was overwhelming.
After the jury had brought in the
verdict of “Guilty,” the judge said
to the prisoner:
“George, there’s one thing
about this case that I can’t un-
derstand. How could you go into
that backyard where there was.
a bulldog, force open the chicken
house door, and go right past the
window where the owner was
asleep, with a whole sack of
chickens, climb back over the
fence and get away without,
arousing anyone?”
The Negro said, “Jedge, ain’t
demned former Premier Tojo and
six other Japanese war lords to
death.
The court by a vote of 6-1 de-
cided it had no authority over the
11-nation tribunal.
With this decision the supreme
court turned down requests by
convicted Japanese wartime of-
ficials that it:
1. Consider their appeals;
2. Declared the international
tribunal illegal;
3. Order their immediate re-
lease.
The refusal presumably seals
the doom of Tojo and the other
six who were sentenced to die
on the gallows. General MacAr-
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