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JAP WARLORDS GET U.S. COURT HEARING News Behind The News CopjrlKbt McC'luri- NATIONAL By Ray Tucker Washington has never shown such discouragement over prospective of foreign problems, especially relations with Russia, as he has since his return from his eight-week attendance at the meeting of tlie United Nations assembly. If it were not for his sense of duly and loyally (o President Truman, he would like to return to his farm and flowers in the i countryside of Virginia. The secretary of slate's report to the president and his associates uas entirely pessimistic, and Ins disappointment i be reflected in Mr. Truman's January message to congress on the stale of uijion, which has already been labelled i ironic "the stale of ALL THE NEWS Six I)ayg a Week for only $1.00 per month delivered 5 per single copy THE WEATHER and cold tonight, with 'oral frost.

Tuesday increasing cloudiness. Low lonigbt 36; liigli Tuesday 5, A HOME-OWNED NEWSPAPER UNITED AND ASSOCIATED PRESS DIRECT WIRES VOL. 48, No. 294 TWELVE PAGES SAN MATED, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1948 5c PER PER MONTH NAMED Whereas Mr a a had hoped resolutely i a he could reach an accord with Mololov and Vishinsky on Berlin and (ionnan crisis, he now draws only one consolation from recent discussions and disputes at Pans. The i scornful and belligerent a i toward various peace offers, he believes, has convinced every nation except those behind the "iron curtain" that Russia alone is responsible for the "cold war." I Such a situation, as Mr.

Marshall realizes, offers no hope for a final or even a temporary settlement of controversies involving Kurope, Palestine and China. It means thai the only two powers which can mount a war will remain at daggers' point more or less permanently, with an ever- present danger of a conflict. The cabinet member's unhappy state contrasts sharply with his expectations of only six months ago. Appearing before a congressional committee, he was asked how he planned to meet the Soviet's stubborn and frequent us? of its veto power to block any basic solution of postwar differences. Speaking i a confidence which he retained until his retvni return from Pans, he said: Q.

"My own view is, OtclDlllty and it is the view of my associates and advisers, that when we have achieved a little more of a feeling of security, when we have achieved particularly a little more economic stability in the world, these suspicions will be moderated. "Gradually, we will work into a baek-snd-forth adjustmenl that will lend itself, in general, to a more moderate point of view, and this would be the basis for getting together on some of the issues now under discussion." i Due partially to the operation of the Marshall plan, which will he accelerated under the recent White House decision for larger and more immediate expenditures, and to the proposed North Atlantic military alliance, Western European nations have achieved a sense of more security, but it is an armed security. LateRaceResults TANFORAN 10.70 7.30 4.60 Eniz Brooks 48.40 22.60 Val Victory 3.40 Second: Cousin Ruth 6.20 3.90 3.10 Holly Bane 7.00 5.20 Winsome Woman 6.20 TROPICAL Fifth: For Jon 10.70 5.50 5.60 Fish Fry 6.00 6.40 Happy Task 8.60 CHARLESTOWN Sixth: Lemour 2.60 2.60 2.20 Ariel Gift 6.20 2.40 Big Elm 2.60 TIRE RECAPPING 8-HOUR SERVICE finest B. F. Goodrifh Materials Used USE OUR CREDIT PLAN SMALLCOAAB City Headed for Unprecedented Christmas Season There were numerous indications today in shopping areas of San Mateo, Burlingamc, and elsewhere in Ihc county that the Christmas rush was under way, and there were many indications that San Mateo county was headed for an unprecedented yuMide season.

Based on the figures of the first six days of December, as compared with business done on comparative dates a year ago, all signs point to a new record in business volume in San Mateo' Burlingamc, and other large centers in the county. Business volume a year ago set a record approximately 15 per cent greater than any year. Leading merchants today are voicing the conservative eslimales thai Christmas volume this year, on the basis of early December and late November volume, points to an 8 or 10 per cent increase over lasl year's record business. S. M.

Leads DOOMED JAPS GET HEARING IN HIGH COURT These eslimales substantiate recent slate-wide estimates showing San Mateo county to be a state leader in increases. Charts a WASHINGTON, Dec a a show San Francisco's The supremo coin I bv volume on a par with last year, "The Ptnlndula'n Motor Alamcda slightly ahead. Northern California even and Southern Cah- 'ornia lagging on the babis of early December surveys. All business experts base this ncrcase on large population growth San Mateo county, steady pay- new money in the rolls and county. Parking Advice Downtown shopping areas reflect this population growth.

Both San Mateo and Burlingame police departments are experiencing headaches in handling traffic in the Christmas rush. Police Captain Harold Bauer today urged that autoists seek parking on Baldwin, Fifth and at Dlher localions several blocks from the downlown areas. A similar plea was voiced in Burlingame. There is one decided difference in Christmas shopping Ihis year as compared with lasl year and that is that Christmas merchandise is more abundant. Larger Stocks A year ago there was an acute shortage in many lines of popular articles.

Shoppers, aware of this, began buying in November. The long waterfront tieup in San Francisco created somewhat the same fear this year and caused a flurry of.early November buying. Local merchants, profiting by last year's experience, stocked earlier this year and more plentifully. Six days rush of December Christmas shopping and a week late November buying caused merchants to wonder if they could supply the demand. Nearly all agreed today that, for the most part, there would be merchandise enough.

In some cases, however, buyers today rushed to wholesalers to replenish supplies in some lines threatened with depletion. Less War Toys A record sale of toys is reported, (Turn to Page 4, Column 5) a 4 vote hearing to two 6 Cabmen Held OnOvercharges CAvHtT- Service) SAN BRUNO, Dec. independent taxi drivers from San Francisco were taken into custody here late last week by agents of the state public utilities commissions, police here revealed today, after they allegedly overcharged passengers traveling from San Francisco to Tanforan. Taken into custody and later released on $25 bail each -were Moc B. Shulman, 50, of 771 Twenty- fourth avenue; Vance G.

Nielsen, 22 225 Fifteenth avenue; Maurice Manuck, 42, of 1520 Thirty- third avenue; Charles H. Freed, 59, of 1962 Twenty-third avenue, and Cecil W. Hunt, 32, of 695 Ninth avenue, all San Francisco independent cab drivers. Six different agents from the slate, posing as race track fans, hired taxis in San Francisco and asked to be driven to Tanforan, Friday afternoon, police here reported. loday granted a Japanese wartime officials convicted as war criminals and sentenced to he hanged.

Four Disagree The court's action was made known in an opinion by Justice Jackson. He said he had agreed with Justices Black, Douglas, Murphy and Rutledge Ihal Ihe Iwo Japanese should have a high court hearing. That meant a contrary view was held by Chief Justice Vinson and Justices Reed, Frankfurter and Burton. The appeals were filed on behalf of General Kenji Dohihara and Koki Hirota, former premier of Japan. Death Delayed The appeals challenged legalih of trials conducted by the interna- lional military Iribunal at Tokyo.

After the appeals were filled here last Monday, General MacArthur announced that execution of the sentences given Dohihara and Hirola and of five other condemned Japanese warmakers would be deferred pending supreme court action. None of the five olhcrs filed appeals. Among Ihem is wartime Premier Hideki Tojo. General MacArthur previously confirmed the sentences of death on Ihe gallows given by Ihe military Iribunal to the top seven war criminals. He also confirmed prison sentences given 18 others, all but two- of whom were life sentences.

Evil Omen Doihara was a Japanese undercover expert in China and Manchuria. Chinese called him "the bird of evil omen." Hirota was a career man who attended a pre Pearl Harbor conference of former premiers at which war plans were made. 'Jackson said he had refraincc from participaling in earlier simi lar appeals filed by Germans con vicled in the war trials. He said that he did this to avoid embarrassment for the United States, since he had served as chief Unitec States prosecutor at the trials of the top Nazis. He said that in the case of the two Japanese, the court split 44 so that he had the deciding vote.

lye his After paying lares demanded by the drivers when they reached tl track, each of the agents took driver to the San Bruno city jail, where all were booked on violations of section 1514 of the public utili- Ohm to faM I) Search Fails on Plane Lost in Pacific State Dep't Official Gave Papers, Claim Chambers' Accusation Is Bared on Eve of New Probes WASHINGTON, Dec. house un-American activities committee released today sworn testimony of Whittaker Chambers that A Hiss, former state department official, gave him "restricted" government documents a were a to a Russian agent. The testimony was read to reporters by Representalivc Nixon II was part of that brought out in preliminaries to a 575.000 libel suit Hiss has brought against Chambers in Baltimore. 'Nixon read only excerpts. Former Red Chambers is a senior editor of Time magazine, says he is a former member of a pre-war red underground in Washington.

He has said, and Hiss has denied, that Hiss was a member of the Communist "apparatus." It is because of these statements that Hiss, now president of the Carnegie Foundation for Internalional Peace, is suing Chambers. Nixon quoled Chambers' testimony in Baltimore this way: "Sometime in 1937, about the middle of the year, J. Peters introduced me to a Russian who identified himself under the pseudonym Peter. The Russian, Peter, was one Colonel Bykov. (Represen- talive Rankin said Bykov has been identified as head of Ihc Russian secret police in the United States at that time.) His Agreed "Colonel Bykov was extremely interested in the Washington apparatus.

In August or the early fall of 1947, I arranged a meeting belween Alger Hiss and Colonel Bykov. For lhat purpose Mr. Hiss came to New York, where I met him. "Colonel Bykov raised the question of procuring documents from the stale department and Mr. Hiss agreed." At lhat point Nixon said Hiss' lawyer named Marbury inquired: "What?" Nixon said Chambers went on: "Mr.

Hiss agreed. Following that meeting Alger Hiss began a fairly consistent flow of such material as we have before us here. The method was for him to bring home documents in his briefcase which Mrs. Hiss usually typed. WASHINGTON, Dec.

-Former Undersecretary of Stale Sumner Welles has advised house spy investigators that publication (Turn to Page 2, Column 4) S. S. F. Arrests Alleged Bookie COMtr Newt ScrtlcO SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. Maritte, 40, employe of Sil's Smoke Shop, 207 Grand avenue, is free today on bail of $500 after his apprehension Friday at that establishment on a charge of bookmaking, Police Chief Louis Belloni revealed today.

Belloni said Maritte was taken into custody by Capt. August Tcr- ragno and Officer Danny Lombard! after the two police officers went to the smoke shop shortly after 11 a. rn. Friday and found charls used in taking horse racing bets in a rear room of the establishment. Maritte apparently used a regular home radio to get racing results, Belloni reported.

Appearng in court later in the morning, Maritte entered no pica, Belloni said, but paid the bail set by Judft S. JL Karastatiris On Probation Itrtnirat City REDWOOD CITY, Dec. Karastaliris, 54-year-old cafe- man who pleaded guilty to a wife- beating charge following a hammer attack upon Mrs. Milly Karastatiris 30, at their Emerald Lake home last May 27, was placed on two years' probation this afternoon by Superior Judge Cotton. The jurist described it as a "very aggravated but in granting probation said, "I am influenced bj the knowledge your children mighi become wards of this court it I sentenced you to jail." He admonishcc Karastatiris: "You arc to guard your temper and you must not use violence; you must not even use strong language." The defendant's attorney, Hay mond Daba, said Karastatiris woulc voluntarily submit to a psvchia trisl's examination.

1 The cafeman fled to Mexico after the assault, bu returned here and surrendered him Kit Life Returns ToS.F.Port After 95 Days 1500 Longshoremen Co to Work on 77 Ships Tied Up SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 6. a i i coast's trikcbound a rc- ipcncd today with longshore streaming back to the docks. The costly 95-day-old tie-up ended with ihc CIO longshoremen and members of four other unions returning to work. Employers by 8 a.

m. had ordered 92" gangs of longshoremen-- mlwecn 1200 and 1500 workers-to load ten ships. In Los Angoles, 68 gangs, sonic 2000 longshoremen, were working 19 ships. 77 Get Ready Of the 77 ships strikebound in San Francisco bay. seven had steam up last night and the other 70 were Deing readied.

There was a delay of several lour in gelling Ihe men back to the obs because of a short notice of work resumption. Newspapers and radio stations ivcre co-operating by carrying a oint union-employer plen for the men to report at the i i halls as promptly as possible, for assignment. Sailors Assured By noon the port was operating about 25 per cent," said Robert Mayer, employer spokesman, in a stalement. "By 7 o'clock tonight it probably will be operating 90 per cent and iy tomorrow morning should be oing full blast, with probably 2000 to 3000 men working." The last obstacles to maritime jeace were removed yesterday when the non-striking AFL Sailors Union of the Pacific received a (Turn to Page 2, Column 3) 2 Polio Victims Flee Flames Count? News Sen Ire) DALY CITY, Dec. family of four, including two young polio victims who had just returned From the hospital today, were forced to flee their residence at 384 Bellevue avenue when a pre-dawn blaze did approximately $8000 damage before it was brought under control by firemen in an hour and half bailie.

Taken to Neighbors The owner of Ihc home, Busier Hazel, discovered flames shortly after 2 a. Fire Chief Elmer Kennedy rcporled, when he was awakened by smoke and crackling of flames coming from a basement and garage under the living quarters of the home. After telephoning police, Hazel carried his two children, aged two and Ihree years, who had just been returned from Ihe hospital, from (Turn to Page 2, Column 1) Uranium Found In Colorado Mine NEW YORK, Dec. of a rich vein of pitchblende in an old mine in Colorado has assured the United Stales for the first time of enough high-grade uranium for all its needs for atomic energy- and Ihc making of atomic weapons, an article in the December 21 issue of Look magazine said today. The article, by Nat Finney, said that the discovery, which would make the nation independent oi uranium imports, was made in the 100-foot-dccp tunnels of Old Caribou Hill mine near Boulder on the eastern slope of the Rocky Hope Wanes as Morning Finds No Survivors Flares, a Seen Last Niffht Missing by Daylfchl JOHNSTON ISLAND, Dec.

mid-Pacific disclosed no trace loday of .17 air force men miss- in a clHi'Iinl C-54 transport. Three separate search planes liaii reported Ciarch from survivors i night; one plane dropped a boat, and another circled the spot. Dawn, however, showed an empty, tossing ocean, mocking HIP early optimism of air force and navy searchers that the missing men, or at least some of them, had been found. Mrs. Lorena Danker iloto nnd Urn in the office nt Yuni.i, An.

Angeles. Majcr, the head ol MOM accompanied by a party nl i 1 I FILM MAGNATE, NEW BRIDE SEEK SECLUSION HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 6. (LPJ-- Film Magnate Louis B. Mayer and liis ex-chorus girl bride were honeymooning today following their elopement across the Arizona desert.

Florists in Ontario. reported that a shower ot bouquets for Lhc honeymooning couple were being ordered sent to a collage at the swank Arrowhead Springs hotel, near San Bernardino. But hole! clerks said Ihal if Mayer was Ihcrc, they didn't know it, The ex-junkman has to be back in Los Angeles Wednesday in case he's called to lestify in a suit by Writer Lester Cole, whom Mayer fired he refused to lell congress he was a Communist. Mayer, 63, and one of the highest paid men in the nation, married Mrs. Lorna Danker, 41-year-old widow of an advertising executive, in a two-minute ceremony in a Yunia, jailhousc Saturday.

Trailed by reporters and photographers the newly-weds changed ears in the middle of the desert and eluded their pursuers. They were believed headed for Palm Springs but have not been located in thai resort city. BERLIN WORKERS OPEN DEFIANCE OF RUSSIA HONOLULU, Dec. of the crash-landing of a United States air force ransporl plane were sighted i i on a sifc-raft in the Pacific today, and rescue ships pcd to the scene. Thirty-seven persons were aboard the four-engincd C-54 ransport when it ditched 340 miles southwest of Johnston island, Ihc air force did not know how many survived.

Planes on Way A lifeboat was dropped near the raft and a navy Privateer search hovered overhead until its gasoline supply ran low and it was lo return to its base. Two other planes were dispalched from Johnston island to keep watch over Ihe survivors. Capl. Allen Tollz of Chicago, B-17 pilot who firsl sighled Ihe flares lhat led to finding of the crash survivors, said he could see one life raft clearly despite the darkness last night, but could not lell if Iherc were more. Survivors Sighted The Privalecr circled the raft but had no report on the survivors.

The air force said the bomber messaged at 12:30 a. m. (5:20 a. m. EST): "Circling survivors.

Can (Turn to Page Column 2) BERLIN, Dec. Labor defiance of Ihc efforts of Comm i Hans Witle lo seize control of the Berlin electrical administration forced his rcsignalion lo- day from the hoard of directors of the big combine. The municipal power administration was split between the Soviet and western scclors of Berlin in Ihc wake of an overwhelming anli-Communisl vote in West Berlin. Emboldened by the vote, clcclri- cal workers threatened to strike and force the breach in the power administration wilh the resignation of Wittc. A scheduled 3 p.

m. (0 a. m. KST) walkoul in prolcsl againsl Wiltc's police methods of plant control and illegal arrest of workers was put off for the time being by the workers' council of the non-Communist trade union. The workers were directed in stead to stay at 'their posts at leasl unlil shifls changed.

All non-Corn- munisl workers were ordered lo rc- (Turn to Page 2, Column 5) RED FORCES PUSHING BATTLE FOR NANKING NANKING, Dec. The Chinese Communist radio reported tonight thai Red forces had completed "an air-tight, encirclement" of the national former Suchow garrison in the developing battle for Nanking. The garrison, comprising some 110,000 combat troops, abandoned Suchow Wednesday in an effort to reach the trapped government twelfth army group in Ihc Suhsien about 45 mile.s to the south. If the Communist broadcast, ii true, il means that only-the government troops on the new Hwai river defense line enjoy freedom of movement in the region. The line was set up recently 100 miles northeast of Nanking, but is manned by rcaltivcly inferior troops.

The Kcd broadcast boasted Ihal 20,000 government troops had been "annihilated," and added: "If these Iroops refuse to surrender very soon, they will be cn- (Turn to Pige 3, Column 2) F.H.A. Title I Loans Are a Big Help San Mateo properly owners do well when they avail themselves of an FHA. loan to remodel or modernize their, homes. While new FHA regulations require a down payment and an estimate of the materials and time required low monthly payments make it possible to piy Fur needed improvements out of income. Slop in and see us (or full details..