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Soviet to Try Officials Of Collective Farms In Purge of System •y the Associated Press MOSCOW, Sept. 20. — Soviet Russia today decreed a “liquida tion of violations" in the collec tive farm system, the backbone of this country’s agricultural economy, with prosecution of va rious officials for theft and other crimes. Prime Minister Stalin and Col. Gen. A. A. Zhdanov, secretary of the Communist Party Central Com mittee, signed the decree, the latest in a series of measures affecting Russia's postwar affairs. (On June 26 officials disclosed the autonomous republics of the Crimea anc. Cnechen-Ingush had been reduced to the status of provinces and many of their in habitants resettled in other parts of Russia for wartime treachery. Action has been taken against local parly leaders in the Ukraine accused of attempting to revive "burgeois - nationalist concep tions’’ and against composers, writers and editors who incurred the Kremiin’s displeasure. The release of Maxim M. Litvinoff. former Ambassador to the United States, as a deputy foreign min ister August 24 also aroused spec ulation abroad.! me decree cited incorrect pay ment for workdays to collective farmers misappropriatipn of pub lic lands for personal use. which It said had reached "mass propor tions”; the filching of collective farmers' property and undemocratic administration of the farms. Communist party. Soviet govern ment and agricultural, officials, were declared to be among the violators of the collective farms and agricul tural agreements to be Called to ac count in court. The decree said they were "law violators and enemies of the collective farm system.” "The abuses and violations are ; deeply harmful to the collective farm cause and extremely danger ous for the entire Socialist construc tion of our country',” it said. Council to Be Created The decree called for creation of a governmental council for collective farm affairs. It said that overstaffing of col lective farm administrative person nel h.ad reached such a point that many collective farms were ex periencing a shortage of able-bodied field workers while “service officials are plentiful, doing nothing but re ceiving salaries higher than” the workers. 'This practice, it said, may conse quently cause collective farmers to lose interest in collective farm labor. The decree said the mass misap propriation of lands was carried out by the administration and presi dents of some collective farms who illegally cut off sections to increase their personal property at the ex pense of the public economy. Filching of collective farm prop erty. the decree said, took in live >tock. grain, seed, fodder, meat milk, butter, honey, vegetables and fruit removed without payment or paid for at less than legal prices. The decree said other abuses in cluded the appointment rather than the election of farm officials in many cases. The order said this was not democratic, adding that some farms had gone for years without elec tions. A report was ordered by January 1, 1947, on the implementation of the decree and liquidation of the violations. The decree said filched collective property must be returned to the farms within two months. ; A Pravda editorial broadcast by the Moscow radio said the move was "a political significance of the first importance.” The Communist party newspaper said the practices outlined were harmful and alien to Leninism.” "The decree,” it reported, “says that workers in the party, state and rural organs and chairmen of the collective farms (who are* guilty of embezzlement and unlawful dis position of collective farm property, communal land and monetary means will be dismissed from their posts and put on trial as trespassers of the law and enemies of the col lective farm structure.” Atmospheric conditions hindered monitoring of the broadcast, but the London Daily Telegraph said falsifi cation of books was also mentioned. "All collective farmers will greet with great satisfaction the decision published today,” Pravda said. 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Tatsumi Kusaba. scheduled to be a leading witness for Russia at the international crimes trial, died violently early today. Rus sian Army officers said Kusaba had gulped poison in the down town room where they held him under armed guard. An American investigator. Capt. Mike Frisch of Ithaca. N. Y„ said the former commander of Japan's Kwantung army "died violently and vomited considerably." American intelligence officers said Kusaba arrived yesterday with two other Japanese prisoners whom the Russians plan to use as key > wit nesses against former Premier Toio and 26 other warmakers. A Russian spokesman said Kusaba insisted on wearing the uniform in which he was captured last summer in Manchuria. He said the poison presumably was secreted in the uni form. At dinner last night with the other two Japanese prisoners and several Russian officers, Kusaba drank several glasses of wine. He ate a hearty meal, then retired, ex plaining "I would like to be alone." The Russian spokesman said theie was nothing in Kusaba s attitude indicating he contemplated suicide. “There is unmistakable evidence he took his own life." the prosecu tion reported officially. "In his note book he mentioned certain failures in the performance of his military duties in Manchuria as the reason for his suicide.” American investigators said they culled this phrase from Kusaba s notes: "Give up for lost and forced to commit suicide." There was no explanation. Commanded Kwantung Army. Because Russian officers refused to talk, it was hours before even Americans in the Allied prosecution section could get details on even Kusaba’s arrival or his military record. The Russians bring in their own witnesses, as they recently did LT. GEN. TATSUMI KUSABA. . — AP Photo. Henry Pu-yi, one-time puppet Emperor of Manchuria, and retain armed control of them. Kusaba was commander of the Kwantung Defense Army from No bember, 1941, to February. 1944, then was attached to the general staff in Tokyo. He retired tempo rarily December 2. 1944. but was re called two weeks later to become chief of the continental railroad command. The bodv was removed to the United States Army's 42d General Hospital where staff doctors per formed an autopsy with two Russian doctors as observers. Normally, a routine report would be available in 10 days The trial continued, meanwhile, with Deputy Prosecutor Frank S. Tavenner explaining, at the court’s request, that he did not mean to exonerate civilian defendants by his assertion yesterday that the military forced its will on the Japanese government. "Each of the accused had a clear understanding and opportunity to choose the path he followed," Mr. Tavenner said. "We make no claims that duress was applied toward a single accused.” He spent the entire day reading documents tracing Japan’s entrance into the Axis alliance Volunteer Firemen Risk Lives To Quell Blaze on Gas Truck Crawling on top of a burning trail er-truck loaded with approximately 5.000 gallons of gasoline, two Fairfax volunteer firemen today extinguished the flames with artificial fog at the risk of their lives after nearby resi dents had left their homes for fear of an explosion. Traffic in the area was tied up nearly two hours. The firemen wrere Chief Marcel Pfalzgraf of the Fairfax department ! and Myron Cupp, a member of the department. Sergt. Cecil E. Brown of the county police said they put out the fire in the can and then crawled on top, i playing their hose on the blazing tank. Sergt. Brown said the truck be longed to the Coastal Tank Lines, 1943 New York avenue N.E. He said the driver. O. J. Conner, told him the truck backfired as it was i passing Fairfax High School and Writ Issued to Return Witness to Michigan United States Commissioner Need ham C Turnage today signed a re moval warrant for Charles F. He mans, wanted in Michigan as star witness in a legislative corruption case. The action was taken at conclu sion of a hearing during which He mans’ attorney O. R McGuire, sought to attack legality of Hemans’ indictment by a Federal grand jury in Detroit last Monday. The indict ment charged him with fleeing the State to avoid giving testimony in the preliminary examination of 22 defendants accused of conspiring to block enactment of an antibranch banking bill in 1941 Commissioner Turnage held the indictment •’substantially” charged a crime and explained he could not go into the matter further at a remov al hearing With concurrence of Mr. McGuire, he revoked Hertians' $5,000 bond and ordered him taken into custody by the United States Marshal. LOST. 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The truck driver then notified nearby residents of the danger of an explosion and stopped traffic. When firemen arrived from the Fairfax and Penn Daw Volunteer Fire De partments, the flames were shoot ing 30 feet in the air, Sergt. Brown said. Chief Pfalzgraf said it "w’asn't too dangerous as long as the tank was burning on too." . — ' No Bother! No Fuss! Jack & Jill diarer SERVICE , -I w TWICE WEEKLY DELIVERY A large supply of steril- > lzed surgically clean and downy soft diapers Eco nomical and convenient service TELEPHONE GLEBE 4141 16b9 Ft.Meyer Drive.Mingtefl.V* Plane Crash (Continued From First Page t during the night to drop food and medical supplies for the survivors and extra rations for the rescue party said they could see lights near the wreckage. The first rescue party reached the big DC-4 by landing a seaplane on Gander Lake, eight miles from the trash, and then taking rubber boats down a small river to the scene. The other party moved up the main southwest Gander River in 10 boats to a point where the wreck could be reached through a mile of wilder ness. Gander Lake is fed by two rivers, one running into the southwest end, and the other into the northwest arm. The rivers are navigable only by canoes. Personnel from the United States air bases at Gander. Stephenville and Argentia were recruited to aid in the rescue work. The airliner, piloted by Capt. Ester, former RAF flyer, left Brus sels Tuesday night, made one fuel ing stop at Shannon, Eire, and made an instrument approach for another refueling stop here early Wednesday morning before disappearing into the fog which obscured the wreck age until yesterday. Admiral Moreell to Head N. Y. Construction Firm The office of Admiral Ben Moreell, which two days ago announced his retirement from the Navy and as Federal coal mines administrator, effective September 30. said yester day he will become preifldent of the Turner Construction Co., New York City, on October 1. Admiral Moreell will succeed J. Archer Turner, who is becoming chairman of the company’s board of directors. The present chairman, Henry C. Turner, is retiring. During the war Admiral Moreell served as chiefs of the Navy Bureau of Yards and Docks and in this position directed the Navy's con struction program and headed the Seabees Alumni Back Expansion Of G. W. Law School George Washington University Law School alumni last night in dorsed a plan to enlarge and im prove the school and asked the Board of Trustees to start a $2,000, 000 campaign to carry out the work. The action, taken at a meeting at the Lee-Sheraton Hotel, culmi nated four years of study by the George Washington Law School Ex pansion Committee, of which How-i ard P Locke is chairman. Charles R. Allen, association president, pre side^ What Will "The Nose" say to "The Haircut"? Find out tonight at 8:30 P.M. WTOP Listen to JIMMY DURANTE end GARRY MOORE —on the olr tonight tor your local Resell Drug Store When Your Camera Clicks Think of M Hicks I M j I I For Your Naorost Hickt Photo Finish* •« Doalor Phono Michigan 2050 CAPT. RAY JENNINGS. Found airliner wreckage. ( —AP Wirephoto. j — Lost Airliner Found By Alexandria Pilot Capt. Ray Jennings, 32, pilot of a Trans World Airlines plane, who first reported the wreckage of the trans-Atlantic Belgian Sabena air-! liner, lives with his wife Winifred' and two children at 12 Edgehill drive, Alexandria. Mrs. Jennings said her husband • is not expected to return for about a week. I Capt. Jennings, who served with jthe Air Transport Command during the war. was flying a regular TWA scheduled flight from Boston to Gander, Newfoundland, and Shan non, Ireland, when he spotted the wreckage. He has been with TWA since - ! August, 1942. and has flown the ' Atlantic more than 100 times. Bom in New London, Wis.. Capt. Jennings has a 3-year-old son David and a daughter Nancy, 2. YMCA Is Host Tonight At United Nations Ball The YMCA will sponsor a "United j Nations ball" at 9 o'clock tonight with representatives of eight foreign embassies expected at the YMCA gym. 1736 G street N.W. Embassy representatives invited to attend were those of France, the | Netherlands, Greece, Turkey, Mex-I ico. Cuba. Honduras and the Domin ican Republic. A queen of the ball will be chosen by a committee composed of Jose A. Sera of the Cuban Embassy, Ramon Ramos, professor of languages at Southeastern University, and Lloyd F. Sanborn, assistant general sec retary of the Washington YMCA. Dancing to the music of Tiny Meeker and his orchestra will con tinue to midnight. Jimmy Gibbons, local radio announcer, will act as master of ceremonies. Peru produced more tires and more beer in 1945 than in previous years. I Silvester Avoided Publicity on Case, Gen. Surles Testifies A former director of War Depart ment public relations testified be fore an Army court of inquiry to-1 day that the bureau had given no publicity to the case of Maj. Gen. Lindsay McD. Silvester, who was re lieved from his command of the 7th Armored Division in the European Theater and demoted to his perma nent rank of colonel. Maj. Gen. Alexander Surles, who held the public relations post throughout the war, was the only witness at a brief session of the court called at the request of Col. Silvester in an effort to clear his record of what he claims were “un fair'’ charges of lack of aggressive ness as a divisional commander. Later today. Gen. Jacob L. Devers,t chief ’ of the Army Ground Forces ’ who commanded an Army group in Europe at the time, will testify. After Col. Silvester was relieved from his command in October. 1944,! while serving in Holland with the British forces, he returned to the United States and later was hos pitalized at Walter Reed Hospital.1 Refused to Be Interviewed. He was exonerated by Gen. Surles \ of any attempt on his part to bring, newspaper publicity to bear on his case. On his return here the officer conferred with Gen. Surles at the War Department and the latter ad vised him to go to Fort Knox, Ky , armored force base, and attend to his own “knitting,'’ for a while, it was testified. Gen. Surles said that later, at Walter Reed, Coi. Silvester was visited by a newspaper reporter through arrangements made by the Public Relations Bureau. Col. Sil vester refused, however, to be inter viewed about his case, desiring no publicity at the time, he said. Col. Silvester was commander of the American 7th Armored Division during the battle of Europe. He was sent back to the United States and demoted after his outfit came under command of British Field Marshal Montgomery. Gen. Eisenhower, Army Chief of Staff, was said to have testified earlier that the late Gen. George S. Patton, jr.. was "unsure of Col. Silvester's abilities but sure of his personal courage.” The 7th Armored under Col. Sil I vester was a part of Gen. Patton's 1 3d Army in its dash across France to Metz. Gen. Eisenhower also is said to have testified that no spe cific instances of “failure” were con tained in Col. Silvester's record. _ Government controls over private! commerce are still much in evidence in French Morocco, j Enroll Now for Clouet llortlnc Oel. I FRENCH GERMAN-SMRISH BrrWt Method It Available Or.lv at ™E BERLITZ SCHOOL of LANGUAGES }•■ <»* Ere). 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