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Evening star., 1949-07-20
Acheson Denies
Red Charged on
Italian Treaty
Secretary Also Says
Czech Church Attack
Breaks U. N. Pledge

breaks y. ~. rled9e
Secretary of State Acheson to-
day branded as utterly without
foundation" Russian protest
that Italy's membership in the
North Atlantic Pact would violate
the Italian peace treaty.
Mr.. Acheson also charged
Czechoslovakia's Communist gov
ernment with violating United Ma
tions obligations to promote OBJ
servance of basic freedoms by at
tempting to suppress freedom Of
religion In that Soviet satellite
state.
The Secretary told a news con-
ference that the Soviet protest
concerning Italy's participation in
the North Atlantic Pact was like
most other Russian protests about
the security treaty which have
disregarded the facts.
Pact Held Aggressive.
The Russian protest, sent to the
United States, Great Britain and
France. as we'll as Italy. charged
that Italy violated terms of her
peace treaty by signing the pact.
It also alleged that the pact is ag-
gressive and aimed at Russia.
Britain and Italy also denied the
Soviet contention today.
Mr.. Acheson said he had point
ed out a hundred times that the
security pact is not aggressive and
is not directed against the Soviet
or any one else.
1t also is not the case. he said.
that italian participation in the
pact violated the Italian peace
treaty. He recalled that in Senate
hearings on the pact he haa
pointed out that Italian participa-
ton would have no effect on mill
tary limitation or other provisions
of Italian peace treaty.
Reads Prepared Statement.
Mr.. Acheson read to his news
conference a prepared statement
deploring actions of the Com
munist regime in Czechoslovakia
directed toward "tyrannous dom
ination of religious organizations
by the police state"
His comment came soon after
press dispatches from Prague re-
ported that a Czech government
spokesman warned Catholic priests
that mass reprisals will be taken
against the clergy and their con-
gregations If the Vatican decree
accommodating Communists is
carried out.
Mr.. Acheson's statement fol-
lows:
During the past month the
present regime at Prague has
taken further measures in ac-
cordance with the system prevail
ing in the satellite states of East
ern Europe to suppress freedom of
religion in spite of the fact that
Czechoslovakia was an original
signatory to the United Nations
charter.
Pledge to U. N. Cited.
"All members of the United Ma
tions have pledged themselves to
promote respect for. and OBJ
servance of, human rights and
fundamental freedoms. The United
Nations has been engaged through
the Universal Declaration on HUI
man Rights and the draft Cove
nant on Human Rights in an
effort to obtain agreed standards
of those rights and freedoms.
THE acts of the present Czecho-
slovak regime directed toward
the tyrannous domination of
religious organization by the
police state are contrary to these
standards and as such are de-
plored by the Government and
the people of the United States" "
Mr., Acheson told questioners
that the United States still does
not consider the time ripe for
consideration Of a Pacific Pact,
Evening star., 1949-07-20
Typhoon Death Toll Now 28

TOKYO. July 20 (R.-Delayed
reports to national rural police
today raised to 20 the death toll
in q typhoon which hit Kyushu
and part of Shikoku Island.
Evening star., 1949-07-20

See HOME RULE, Page A-6D
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(See CRASH, Page A-3D
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(See ATOMIC, Page A-6.D
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(See CONDOR. Page A-3D
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(See ITALY, Page A-6.)
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(See TRUMAN, Page A-4.)
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-07
lO49 Property Tax Law Challenged

FAIRBANKS, lPy - Alaska's new Territorial property tax law has been challenged in the dis trict court here.
 Luther Hess of Fairbanks filed the challenge yesterday against the law enacted by the l949 legis- latude. His attorneys disputed the legality of the law on numerous grounds.
 The law is the fourth by the 1949 legislature to come under fire in courts. Those previously challenged were the income tax, fish trap tax and fishermen's li- censing acts.
 A large slice of anticipated rev enue for the financially hard pressed territory will be at stake in the court battle. The territorial senate finance committee estima- ted at the tune Of enactment, that the general property tax law Alaska's first on a territory wide scope-would yield about $2,00O,- 900 during the biennium.
 The suit asks a preliminary in junction to restrain at once the further collections of the property tax. It asks for a permanent in- junction after a final ruling on the validity of the act.
 Named as defendants in the suit are territorial tax officials headed by commissioner M. P. Mullaney who are responsible for collecting the tax in the fourth division and in the city and school district of Fairbanks.
 The suit asks the court to hold the tax law null and void.
 It is the first test of a tax law
 Continued on Page Two)
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-07
Wallace Ordered Atomic Materials Sent To Russia
tBY Douglas B. CornelD

w A NGTON, (P) - The House un-American activ i { s committee eyed former Vice Pres ident Henry A. Wallace and many others yesterday in a suddenly revived hunt for people who push ed wartime uranium shipments to Russia.
 Wallace commented that a state ment that he was involved is false, and part of "an unremitting effort to tarnish the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt"
 Chairman Wood D.-GaD prom ised there "isn't going to be any avenue left untouched" as the House committee digs into the story that persons in high places helped Russia get uranium and atomic information.
 For the sake of the American people, Wood told reporters, the story must either be corroborated or disproved."
 Much of it is old, particularly the part about several shipments of uranium compounds to Russia back in 1943, by way of Great Falls, Mont, and the Alaskan air route.
 But now big names are being brought into it:
 Wallace, who was fired from the cabinet by President Truman for siding too much with Russia on international policy, and Harry L. Hopkins, the late intimate and adviser of President Roosevelt.
 And today Woods committee
 Continued on Page Five)
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-07
Gen. Groves Don't Know How Much
 Uranium Reds Got

WARRINGTON, lP)-Lt. Gen. Leslie R. Groves testified today that Russia got some atomic ma terial from this country during the war, but he doesn't know how many shipments 'because we don't know how many leaked through"
 Groves told the House un-Amer- ican activities committee that within a month after he took charge of the atomic bomb project in 1942 he knew personally that the Russians were engaged in es- pionage on that project"
 The committee is trying to find
 Continued on Page Three)
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-07
Crack Alien Smuggling Ring

WASHINGTON, LP) - The jus tice department reported yester- day it has cracked a Havana-Mi- ami alien-smuggling operation and is rounding up 26 aliens slipped into this country since September. 2 Attorney general McGrath an nounced the arrest of two Grand Rapids, Mich, men in Miami They are accused of flying the aliens into this country.
 The accused men are Gaylord Saxton and Charles Cramton, both 26.
 In addition, McGrath said, three of the aliens have been picked up in New York City. He added that the justice department hopes to have the others in custody shortly.
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-07
NEWS IN BRIEF

SUN VALLEY, Idaho, (P)-HiS Imperial Majesty, the Shah of Iran, will spend five days here, starting today, officials at this re- sort announced Monday.
 They said the Shah, now in California, will wind up his na- tionwide tour here before return ing to Washington for departure to Iran.
 Good skiing snow blankets Boulder Basin, 16 miles north of here, resort officials reported.
 They said the Shah would be flown to Gooding in President Truman's plane and would be taken from Gooding to the resort by car.
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-07

FAIRBANKS, (P) Two dam age suit totaling $75,000 were brought to trial in district court Monday.
 Herman Ross, Anchorage attor- ney, and his wife, Martha, are suing the British Navigation Co.,, as OutgroWth of a highway acci- dent involving a company truck near Edmonton, Alta, Jan. 29.
 Ross is suing for $45,655 for spinal injuries. His wife seeks S30,775 for head injuries.
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-07

JUNEAU (P)-Rogers ConStruc- company and Babler Brothers of Portland, Ore, were successful bid- ders Monday on the construction and repair of 44.35 miles of high way between Palmer and Glenal- len. The Alaska road commission awarded the contract on a bid of S1,223,057. Six bids were submit ted.
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-07
MEDELLIN. Colombia. (R). -

MEDELLIN. Colombia. (R). - ouintuplets-five boys and all in good health-were born several days ago to Mara ArroYave in the little town of Angostura.
 Report of the births arrived by telegram from the mayor of An gostura only Monday.
 The quintuplets have been bap- tized Fermin. Ramiro. Rodrigo. Nabor. and Francisco. Their fa- liners name is Alfonso.
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-07

FAIRBANKS, (P)-Brig. Gen. Dale V. Gaffney was scheduled to leave here yesterday for his new post as deputy commanding gen. eral of the Air Forces Proving Grodnd Command at Eglin Field, Fla. Commander of the Ladd Air Force Base here since June, 1948, Gaffney will be succeeded by Col. John R. Kane, Ladd Chief of Staff under the departing general.
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-07

HONOLULU (P)-Clinton Stein, head of the federal bureau of in vestigation at Anchorage, Alaska, for the last two years, arrived Monday to take over the bureau here. He replaces John K. Num- ford, who has been assigned to
 Continued on Page Three,
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-07

BUENOS AIRES CF)-Suffering from chilblains? Pity the poor Ar gentians. Forty of them were treated here for sunstroke Mon day. It was hot for December in the Argentine capital, even though summertime has started. Temper atures got up to 100.76 degrees fa- hrenheit.
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-07
News of the World Al 4 Glance ---
Tuesday. December 6. l949 By The Associated PressJ

'By The Associated PleSS)
 Political chaos appeared to be enveloping what was left of na- China today as commun- ist armies neared Chengtu, the refugee capital.
 In the jittery city, there was a noisy clamor for Chiang Kai-Shek to resume the Presidency. In Hong Kong, President Ii Tsung-Jen or dered Nationalist officials at Chengtu to carry on under his or ders. Li is flying to the United States for a month and said he would telegraph his instructions.
 Meanwhile communist armies approached within 90 miles of Chengtu.
 In the United Nations the Chi nese Nationalists were offered a face-saver., The delegation has been urged not to press its de- mand that U. W. members com init themselves to nOn-recognition of the communist regime.
 The face-saVer for the Nation alists was introduced yesterday by Cuba, Ecuador and Peru. It would refer the Chinese case to the year arond little assembly for "contin- uous examination and study" The little assembly would report it's findings to the general assembly in the autumn of 1850.
 Non-communist nations, despite their sympathies, have made it clear they believe Nationalist Chi ma is on the ropes. Several nations including the British Common wealth group are expected to ex- tend a form of recognition to the communists soon.
 The U. s. state departments chief trOble-shoOter, Dr. Philip K. Jessup is leaving for China this month to make a last-roinute sur vey of Americas Far East Jiplo- matic problems in view of the mill itary victories of the Chinese con- munists who are now reported within 90 miles of the Indochina border.
 The West German press today came out strongly against the ere ation of an army of Germans as a western bulwark against the Rus sians. Western Allied officials have said publicly they have no present plans for rebuilding German army.
 The Soviet bloc in the United Nations charged yesterday that Field Marshal Montgomery, mili- tary chief of the Western Alliance Command advocates a West Ger man army. West German newspa- Oers in Berlin charge Russia is an East German army.
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-07
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Evening star., 1949-12-30
Lafayette Accepts Fund
Barring Jews, Catholics
By the Assoeiofsd Press

LANCASTER, Pa, Dec. 30
A. $13,506 bequest from the estate
of an alumnus who stipulated the
money could not be used for schol-
arships for Jews or Catholics was
accepted by Lafayette College to-
day.
The bequest by Frederick F.
Dumont was approved in Orphans
Court here by Judge John l..
Bowman. Mr.. Bowman. who died
in 1899 in nearby Ronks, served
80 years in the consular service.
He retired in 1884.
David B. Skillman, attorney for
the college at Easton. Pa. said,
1--WE don't, like the strings attached
that smack Of religious discrimi-
nation, but refusal of the money
would be depriving other boys OF
the benefits"
!. The award was the first install
ment from the estate to the COL
lege which may get additional
funds later.
Evening star., 1949-12-30
Jewish Social Fraternity.
Votes TO Admit heqroes =
BY the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 30.-A Ma
tional Jewish social fraternity
has voted to admit Negroes as
members. Gs
At its 40th national convention,
Phi Sigma Delta delegates yes
terday. also voted approval of the
pledging by the University of Wis
consin chapter last spring aof q
Negro senior, Weathers Sykes, %
The fraternity. which has nearly
5000 members in "a college chap
ters, adopted overwhelmingly this
resolution:
"No male undergraduate shall
be denied membership In Phi
Sigma Delta solely because Of his
race. color or creed.
Only two, chapters. from the
University of Texas and the Uni
versity of Miami, opposed the res
olution.
Delegates turned down a pro-
posal which opponents said would
nullify the resolution by setting
up an "unwritten gentleman's
agreement" that no other Negroes
would be asked to join.
Although voicing approval OF
the Wisconsin chapter in pledging
Sykes, the delegates criticized the
chapter for not first contracting the
National fraternity, as local units
are supposed to do on policy.
Evening star., 1949-12-30

named Kuwabara, told the court
go horses infected with glanders
were driven into the ranks Of ad-
vancing Soviet forces late in 1945
Chambers Is a deadly and highly
contagious disease affecting horses
and other non-ruminant animals
In Tokyo the wife Of 1t. Gen
Shire Ishii, whom the Russians
claim headed the germ warfare
organization, said yesterday her
husband had been missing FROM
his home for 48 hours.
Pravda had accused the United
States Of deliberately protecting
Gen. Ishii and other alleged war
criminals. An officer at Gen.
MacArthur's headquarters said
Gen. Ishii's whereabouts were un-
known. Another official said the
Russians had questioned Gen.
Ishii during the major war crimes
trials there land apparently were
satisfied he was innocent"
Gen. Ishii has been practicing
medicine in Tokyo. His wife said
he had left home two days ago
and had not returned.
Evening star., 1949-12-30
Mercy Killing
CONTINUED From First Page.)

the presence of witnesses, orally
admitted injecting the air.
Woman Was Suffering.
Mr.. Craig quoted DR.. Sander as
saying the woman had suffered q
long time and that members o1
her family had asked him if any.
thing could be done to bring ar
end to her suffering.
The county solicitor added that
DR.. Sander made no attempt to
conceal the fact he gave the
woman a fatal injection.
1t was an entry over DR.. San
der's signature in the records OF
the Hillsboro County Hospital
where Mrs. Borroto died last De-
cember 4-that led to hisArrest.
Dr.. Biron said hospital staff
members he refused to identify
had called his attention to a no.
tation that the air was injected
into the WOman'S veins
Dr.. Biron said the notation was
made and signed by DR.. Sander.
County authorities. checking
the hospital records. arrested the
Manchester physician as ne walked
into the institution to visit an
other patient.
DR.. Sander. a former Dart
mouth College ski captain. was
arraigned at the home of Munich
pal Court Judge Alfred Poor.
In a warrant read by the nudge,
DR.. Sander was charged with
"feloniously and wilfully and OF
his malice aforethought killing
Evening star., 1949-12-30
|Japs Plotted 10 Drop
Germ Bombs on Soviet
Cities, pravda Says
BY the Associated Press

MOSCOW, Dec. 30.-The Com
munist Party newspaper Pravda
reported today from the germ
warfare trial in Siberia that the
Japanese plotted during the war
to drop bacteria filled bombs on
all major Soviet cities in the Far
East.
Groups for the germ campaign
were trained and ready. said the
Communist Party organ in a dis
patch from the war crimes trial
of IL Japanese charged with pre-
pairing meteorological warfare.
Pravda said the japanese also
had planned to hide germs in
candy, in canes and in fake foun-
tain pens which were to be dis
tributed behind the Allied lines
by spies.
Bayoneted Prisoners.
According to the dispatch. Gen.
Otozoo Yamada, former COM
mander in chief of Japan's Kwan-
tung Army and one of the de-
PENDANTS, testified his men in
training exercises used bayonets
on live Chinese prisoners tied to
posts.
Yamada, said Pravda, used this
teaching method to accustom his
soldiers to the sight of blood. The
army commander said he had been
ordered to do this and could not
disobey orders, Pravda reported
Pravda related that a Japanese
witness testified he saw cages in
japanese germ experiment sta
tions in Manchuria in which germ
infested prisoners were placed.
The witness, a Japanese named
Khotta, said he had been ordered
in l945 to esetimate food require
ments for 100000 rats on which
germ-infested feas were to be
nourished Later Khotta testi-
fed, the feas were to be dropped
to spread plague and other dis
eases.
Horses Injected.
Pravda said the trial also heard
statement that the Japanese
had carried out germ warfare in
China with devastating effect"
Khotta also testified Japan
spent 100000 yen (about ST.
10000 at the wars outbreak a
year on the germ warfare unit
731" In Manchuria, the Moscow
radio reported.
Moscow radio said another wit
ness. described as technical
worker in Germ Warfare Unit 100
Evening star., 1949-12-30
$111,S67,770G Given
By 333LocaIities in
50 Chest Campaign
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK. Dec. 3O.-Com-
munity chests in 333 localities in
the Nation raised $111,867.770 in
their 1850 campaigns, the Com
munity Chests and Councils Of
America, Inc. reported today.
The national organization said,
however. that not all of it's 1,10l
members have announced cam
paign results.
A total of 1852 community
chests in the United States. Hawaii
and Canada obtained $188, ,061 1928
in their 1949 drives, it said.
Giving was on the rise in more
than half of the 333 places report
ing, the organization said. One
fourth of the number increased
income by per cent or more over
1949.
Reports Broken Down.
Here's the way the organization
broke down the reports:
Thirty EIGHT red feather drives
did better than planned and also
topped 1949 marks. A total of
152 made out better than last
year, but failed to reach an
nounced goals.
OF the others, 109 not only
failed to reach 1850 objectives,
but also failed to do as well as
In 1949. Thirty-four chests re-
ported for the first time.
In an article to appear in the
January issue of Community. the
organizations monthly publica-
tion. Mrs. Esther Moore said the
results of the drives nationally
appeared to be spotty Mrs. Moore
is the organization director of
statistics and research.
Contributor Reaction Cited.
Mrs. Moore wrote: THE cumu-
lative effect of the ever-increasing
number of campaigns seemed to
hit with full force this year,
creating reactions among con-
trie:.sors which ranged from in
difference to open rebellion"
In Detroit and Flint, Mich, she
added. where the protest against
repetition and competition reached
the proportions Of a citizens cru
sade. labor and management alike
took an active hand in producing
remarkable overall increases over
the amounts raised in separate
campaigns
Mrs. Moore said that in San
Jose. Calf, volunteer solicitors
raised 1927 per cent of their goal
and topped 1949 by -18.5 per cent.
Dayton. Ohio. she said. reported
contributions of 1913 of the 1850
goal, or 4.3 per cent over last year.
Albany, N. Y, and Dallas. Tex,
were reported among cities which
set a record of voluntary giving.
Evening star., 1949-12-30
I'D. {. Men GET Year
In Fairfax Jail Break

Two Washington men who were
among four Fairfax County pris-
oners recaptured shortly after
they broke out of Jail last Friday
were sentenced to one-year terms
today in Fairfax County Court.
The men, Charles Riddle, jr..
20, of the 1900 block of Newton
street NV. and James Sebastian.
"a, of the 400 block of Fairmont
street NV. pleaded guilty to jail
breaking charges before Judge
Paul Brown. They waived grand
jury action.
Both had previously been sem
fenced to eight-year sentences for
the armed robbery of j. H. Heat
wole. SO. of 4140 Lorcom lane,
Arlington. owner of Britt's Res
taurant, 1911 Wisconsin avenue
NV.
The two other men involved in
the escape received one-year jail
sentences Wednesday in Trial
Justice Court. They are Max N.
Cecil, 80, Durham, N. c., and Rob-
ert C. Mosley, 10, of the 2100
block of North Pollard street, Ar
lington.
They are to be tried on house.
breaking charges in Arlington
next week.
The four escaped by saving
through bars of their cell to an
outside window. Cecil was ar
rested three hours later in WASH
ington and his three companions
were picked up later the same
day in a Bladensburg tavern.
Evening star., 1949-12-30

and numbering Mrs. Abbie Bor-
roto."
Mr.. Craig said Dr. Sander turned
to him after the warrant was reao
and said:
There was never any malice ir
my heart. It was an act of mercy.
Mr.. Craig said DR.. Sander told
him his patient died within 10
minutes after the injection, add
ing that her death from cancer
might have been a matter of a
few hours"
| Asked if DR.. Sander knew the
injection of air would kill Mrs
Borroto, Mr.. Craig said:
THAT was the purpose of the
injection"
William ]. Starr, the doctors
attorney, said he was satisfied
that when all the facts are known
the doctor will be fully vindicated.
Mrs. Borroto, mother of two
grown daughters, died two week.
after her admittanee to the hos
pital. One of her daughters. Mrs
Charles w. Chester, is living ir
Hanau. Germany. The other, Miss
Else Borroto, is a resident of Man.
chester.
Mrs. Borroto's family was de-
scribed as one of modest means.
DR.. Sander, a staff member OF
/ the Elliot Hospital in Manchester
was born in Schenectady, NJ Y.
and moved to New Hampshire as
a youth.
He studied two years at the
University of Munich in Germany
and received his medical degree
! from New York University's Medi-
cal School in 1887.
Evening star., 1949-12-30
Uranium
fcontinued From First Page.)

Of State-owned land in the area.
Il has also obtained prospecting
rights on an adjacent l.7o0-acre
tract owned by the Ford Motor
Co.
The ore company, subsidiary
Of Jones g. Laughlin Steel Co.,
said explorations will begin next
spring to find out whether there
are mineable quantities.
Near Detroit Area.
As large uranium deposit readily
available to the Detroit industrial
region could be Of great economic
and strategic significance. Ne
gaunee is about $50 miles north
west of Detroit.
;"The mineralization occurs IN a
strong, faulted shear zone marked
BY a massive quartz vein in states
belonging to the upper Huronian
series" L. P. Barrett, chief geolo-
gtst for Jones & Laughlin. said.
EF. G. Pardee. State mining en-
gtneer, said, 1--WE seen the out
c3ppping. It's commercial posi-
bHities cannot be estimated yet,
First they'll, have to drill it OUT