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U. 5. Agency Spreads
Anti-Tito Propaganda,
Yugoslavia Charges
iy the Associated Press
BELGRADE, Sept. 25 —Official
Yugoslav sources said today the
Foreign Office had charged the
United State information service
had become a center for propa
ganda against Yugoslavia and
had asked the American Em- j
bassy to close the service and the
American reading room here.
A formal foreign office note, the
source said, accused the informa
tion service of distributing bulletins
against the Tito government in con
travention of Yugoslavia's press
laws.
According to this source, the in
formation service and the reading
room had been operating under an
agreement that called for the dis
semination of cultural and educa
tional information and news that
Would further American-Yugoslav
relations.
Charges “Slanderous” Articles.
The note, the source continued, as
serted that not all the information
given out was educational or cul
tural and in specific instances was
definitely anti-Yugoslav.
The main objection, the in
formant added, was to the distribu
tion of two articles from the Los
Angeles Examiner written by Eric
L. Pridonoff, a former Embassy
Commercial Attache, which were
characterized by officials here as
slanderous and “a grave insult to
the people and the government.”
Officials protested statements in
the articles, it was said, that ped
dlers of newspapers opposing the
government were attacked and that
Marshal Tito took orders from
Moscow.
Director Had Been Warned.
The Yugoslav government, the in
formant reported, several times had
warned Richard Breese, director of
the information service, that the
agency's activities could lead only
to “worsening of the relationship
of the two countries.”
The information service took ad
vantage of a "mark of courtesy on
our part,” the source quoted the
Yugoslavs as saying, to turn the
Yugoslav-sanctioned service into a
propaganda center and “openly in
cited the population to treason.”
Mr. Breese, who also has been
Embassy press attache, leaves for
the United States today. E. Bige
low Thompson, former OWI offi
cial from Boston, will succeed him
in both the Embassy and informa
tion-service posts.
STORM BREAKS SHIP’S BACK — Aground on the Goodwin
sands in the English Channel, the American ship Helena Mod
jeska lies broken in two after a severe gale lashed the southern
coast of England. _AP Wirephoto.
Navy Shuffles 8 Posts
As Five Admirals
Prepare to Retire
By the Associated Press
A shuffle of eight high command
Navy posts and several retirements,!
effective “within the next fewj
months,’’ was announced last night j
by Secretary of the Navy Forrestal
The shifts involve:
Vice Admiral W. H. P. Blandy,
commander of the Bikini atom bomb
tests, who will take over command
of the 8th Fleet in December.
Admiral John H. Towers, com- j
mander in chief of the Pacific Fleet, j
who will retire next February.
Vice Admiral Louis E. Denfeld
chief of naval personnel, w-ho will
succeed Admiral Towers.
Vice Admiral William M. Flech
teler, former assistant commander
of battleships and cruisers, Atlantic
Fleet, who will take Admiral Den
feld's old job.
Vice Admiral Edward L. Cochrane, j
chief of the Bureau of Ships, who
in November will become chief of
the Material Division, a post previ-,
ously held by Admiral Ben Moreell,!
who announced his retirement last
week.
Vice Admiral Earl W. Mills,
deputy chief of the Bureau of Ships,
who will move up to fill Admiral
Cochrane's position.
Admiral Fitch to Retire.
Vice Admiral Aubrey W. Fitch,
superintendent of the Annapolis
Naval Academy, who will retire in
January and be succeeded by Rear
Admiral James L. Holloway, jr., now
assistant chief of naval personnel.
Vice Admiral Harold G. Bowen,
chief of naval research, who will re
tire in November and be succeeded
by Commodore Paul F. Lee, now
head of the ship-technical branch,
Bureau of Ships.
Rear Admiral Luis De Florez. Ad
miral Bowen's deputy, who will re
tire October 1.
Vice Admiral Arthur S. Carpender,
director of public relations, who will
retire in November and be succeeded
by Rear Admiral Felix L. Johnson, j
now assistant chief of naval person
nel.
It was considered likely in Navy
circles that Vice Admiral Denfeld
will be promoted to admiral on tak
ing Admiral Towers' job and that
Rear Admiral Holloway will be
raised to vice admiral and Commo
dore Lee to rear admiral.
Mentioned for Top Post.
Admiral Denfeld has been men
tioned frequently for the top job
in the Navy, chief of naval opera
tions, now filled by Admiral Chester
W. Nimitz. Some Navy officers re
garded Admiral Denfeld’s assign
ment to the Pacific as a preliminary
tour of sea duty, grooming him to
. take over from Admiral Nimitz at
the end of next year.
Admiral Blandy's appointment
raised considerable speculation at
the Navy Department also. The
8th Fleet, his new command, is
at present a paper force, having no
ships. A Navy spokesman explained
that it is a task fleet under the
Atlantic Fleet commander. Admiral
Marc A. Mitscher, and expands
and contracts according to the as
signments he gives it.
Admiral Mitscher himself com
; manded the 8th Fleet, which
then consisted of one carrier, for
four months this year before tak
ing over command of the Atlantic
Fleet. In view of Admiral Blandy's
successful carrying out of two
atomic bomb tests in the Pacific
this summer it was speculated that
his appointment to the 8th Fleet
was an interim one, pending an
other big assignment.
Admiral Towers, who was born
in Rome. Ga.. is a pioneer naval
aviator. He started flying in 1911
and in 1919 got the Navy Cross for
trying a trans-Atlantic crossing in
the seaplane NC-3. He failed, but
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Pacific Fleet and later became dep
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He will be 62. the official retire
ment age, next January.
Driver Held in Crash
Involving Five Cars
A motorist was due to appear in
court today as the result of an acci
dent which police said caused ap
proximately $1,000 damage to five
automobiles yesterday.
Le Roy R. Moten. 34, of the first
block of Fenton street N.E., was
charged with driving while drunk.
According to police, he w^as the
driver of a car which struck a taxi
cab operated by James P. Walker,
22, colored, 521 Florida avenue N.W.,
in the 1200 block of Eighth street
N.W. Police said the cab careened
into a parked car which rammed
the vehicle ahead of it while Moten’s
car proceeded 100 feet and struck
another parked automobile, which.
| in turn, hit another and sent it over
the curb into a tree.
The mishap added to the total
which is balking the Capital s effort
to overtake Milwaukee for first place
in the national traffic safety contest
for large cities. Washington now is
second.
Police Inspector Arthur E. Miller,
in charge of traffic, said yesterday
that the 209 accidents recorded here
last week represented the year s high
for a seven-day period.
Danish Fishermen Report
Detention by Russians
By the Associated Press
COPENHAGEN. Sept. 25—Crews
of four Danish fishing cutters, re
turning from the Baltic, reported
today they had been intercepted off
the German coast by Russian naval
craft, taken ashore and detained for
several days.
The fishermen said they had run
in close to the coast to avoid a storm
and were trying to help a German
cutter in distress when the Russians
fired warning bursts from machine
guns across their bows.
Taken to Warnemuende, they were
questioned, their vessels searched
and "everything resembling weapons"
thrown overboard by the Russians
before they were released, the fisher
men said.
were without many essential items.
Mr. Sheridan, who with other
committee members visited numer-;
ous United States military installs-1
tions throughout the world, added j
"I could honestly say it was the!
first time in my long attachment to;
military affairs that I found an
Army without shoe polish."
He said he had reported these con
ditions to Gen. Eisenhower during a
recent conference.
(In Seoul; Gen. Hodge said,
“I have no comment whatso
ever.”!
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CAB Authorizes Pact
Of Airlines Reducing
Fare to London by $50
By tho Associated Press
You’ll soon be able to fly to Lon
don $50 cheaper than the current
$375 fare.
The Civil Aeronautics Board last
night approved that and a number
of other new tariffs—a few of them;
higher—worked out by agreement1
among the airlines.
The CAB action thus marks an
end to competitive rate making,
i across the North Atlantic. The |
agreement on a common scale be
tween points was worked out in
June at a meeting in New York of
the North Atlantic Tariff Confer
ence of the International Air Trans
port Association.
The three United States lines in
volved are American Overseas Air
lines. Pan American Airways and
Transcontinental and Western Air.
Here is a sample of the new rates
and the old from New York to points
overseas:
New
Destination Fare AOA PAA. TWA
Newfoundland $104 *110 $04 $110
Shannon. Zrie $302 $334 $340 $344
London *325 $375 $375
Paris $.345 $375
Lisbon $331 $205 $375
<Fifteen per cent Federal tax is additional )
The differences in present fares
results from Pan American's de
termination to fix rates independ
ently—a step which all but barred
the airline from England last year
and which led to considerable in
ternational debate.
Last night's approval runs only!
until February 28, 1947.
Before that date, IATA presum- j
ably will reconsider the entire fare
structure.
There was no immediate indica
tion when the new fares would be
come effective.
Sheridan Seeks Recall
Of Gen. Hodge From Korea
By the Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 25.—Rep
resentative Sheridan, Democrat, of
Pennsylvania said the House Mili
tary Affairs Committee has recom
mended that Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge
be relieved of his post as American:
commander in Korea.
The acting chairman of that com- J
mlttee said in a radio interview last !
night that on a recent visit to ]
Korea he found morale of American
troops the "lowest" of any he ob
served. In addition, he said. trooDs
China Reds Reiterate
Refusal to Talk Peace
Until Fighting Stops
By th« Associated Press
NANKING, Sept. 25—Chinese
Communists reiterated today that
their peace negotiator would stay
on the sidelines in Shanghai until
a cease-fire order is issued in
[China's civil war and armistice talks
are arranged.
Wang Ping-nan, Communist
spokesman, said that either the
[government or the United States
negotiators must take the steps or
Gen. Chou En-lai, head of the Com
munist delegation, would stay in
Shanghai.
Wang insisted that either Gen.
George C. Marshall, special Ameri
can envoy, or Ambassador John
Leighton Stuart could get a cease- i
fire guarantee from Generalissimo j
Chiang Kai-shek, and that the;
Marshal bi-partisan military- com
mittee then could agree on terms of
a general armistice.
The lattter committee Is made up
of Gen. Marshall as chairman, Chou
for the Communists and Gen. Hsu
Yung-chang for the government. It
has been inactive since June 30.
The Communist hope Chiang will
reconvene the Marshall Committee
when the Generalissimo returns to
Nanking shortly from the summer
capital at Kuling.
But the Communist spokesman
emphasized that he believed the
main impetus mast come from the
! American mediators.
“If American support to the gov
ernment is made contingent on
peace, the United States would have
the power to affect the situation for
good.” he said.
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staff member of the National Tuber
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been named assistant to the execu-!
tive secretary of the Montgomery
County Tuberculosis Association, it
was announced yesterday.
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Temporary Wage Raise
Averts Miami Bus Strike
By the Associated Press
MIAMI. Fla . Sept. 25 —A threat
ened strike of Miami bus drivers
was averted last night when the
Miami Transit Co. and union lead
ers reached an agreement on wage
demands.
A joint announcement said the
company and union ‘have reached
a temporary agreement whereby
W. O. Frazier, president of the
union, will recommend to his men
that the buses operate.'’
Mr. Frazier, president of the
Amalgamated Association of Street,
Electric Railway and Motor Coach
Employes of America, Local 1267,
AFL, was to make his recommenda
tion at a union meeting today. It
was regarded as a virtual certainty
that the union rank and file would
follow his recommendation.
R. D. Freeman, vice president and
general manager of the transit com
pany, had agreed to meet wage in
crease demands of its employes for
the next week while the city col
lected additional information to de
termine if a 1-cent increase in fares
is justified. Fares are now 6 cents.
200 Chinese Killed
In Sumatran Fighting
ly the Associated Press
BATAVIA, Java, Sept. 25— A
Dutch army spokesman said today
that fighting between Indonesian
and Chinese forces still is going on
at Bagansiapiapi, Sumatra, where
at least 200 Chinese already have
been killed.
The spokesmn said the fighting
broke out when the Indonesians de
manded that the Chinese surrender
their arms.
An Indonesian army spokesman
said talks with Allied headquarters
concerning a Java-Sumatra truce
would be renewed tomorrow.
Untrue Wife Ordered
To Return All of
Veteran's Allotments
By the Associated ?ress
CLEVELAND. Sept. 25—The
former wife of a wounded war
veteran must pay him $1,120 she
collected in monthly allowances
and disability pension checks
while he was in service.
Common Pleas Judge Samuel
H. Silbert so ordered yesterday
in granting Norbert J. Anchulis,
32. a divorce from his 28-year
old wife, Ruth, on grounds of
adultery.
"111 see that this woman goes
to jail for contempt if full resti
tution is not made,” the judge
added.
Mr. Anchulis, a tank driver
wounded and burned at Salerno,
testified he found his wife living
with another man when he re
turned home.
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