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Nationalists Fend Off Chinese Boat Invasion
By UNITED PRESS
Nationalist Chinese defenders of the Matsu island group about 120 miles northwest of Formosa drove off what appeared to be an invasion flotilla of "several score" Chinese junks, dispatches from Taipei. Formosa reported.
The action at little Pei Kantang island, one of the Matsu group, coincided with unconfirmed reports in Taipei that Red China was massing air power and paratroopers on the mainland for a possible invasion drive on the Nationalist Formosa stronghold.
Another group of 50 Russian built planes was reported by the Nationalist Chinatone News agency to have been moved into east Chekiang province near the Nationalist outpost of Tachen, some 240 miles north of Formosa.
The Communists were reported to have moved 150 Soviet-built MIG jet fighters onto airfields in Fukien province near threatened Quemoy island, only 90 miles from Formosa.
Other international developments included;
London: Authoritative sources at the nine-power German Rearmament conference said that France has proposed that the United States, along with Britain, commit troops to the continent for the duration of the Brussels pact.
French Premier Pierre Mendes-
France was reported to have made
the suggestion in presenting his
"package idea" on West German
sovereignty and rearmament to the
conference yesterday.
The French "package plan" proposed controls and inspection of troops in rearmed Germany and controls on arms production in western European nations of the Brussels agreement. It has been proposed that West Germany and Italy be brought into the Brussels Pact group.
France also has suggested that the long French-German dispute over the Saar district be settled as part of the plan.
Nagoy, Japan; U.S. 5th Air Force Commander Lt. Gen. Roger M. Ramsey said that the United States is losing the air power race with the Soviet Union. He said that the American Air Force now is too small to beat off an all-out Red attack.
Guatemala City: President Carlos Costillo Armas reported today that his government has uprooted Communism in Guatemala just three months after his successful anti-Communist revolution. He said that 2,000 persons still are in Guatemalan jails on charges and detainment. He said that his government has balanced national budget and he expects new guarantees to foreign investors to encourage an influx of new foreign capital.
Bremerhaven, Germany: T he United States doubled its pilotless bomber strength in Europe when 550 officers and men of the 69th
60 Americans In Typhoon Toll
Tokyo—(U.P.)—U.S. Army and Air Force headquarters today issued revised lists of American casualties in the sinking of the railroad ferry Toya Maru. They revealed that 60 Americans are dead or missing.
Previously 57 Americans were reported dead or missing when the ferry capsized Sunday night in the typhoon-whipped Tsugaru Straits with a loss of 1,164 persons.
Three of the Air Force dead were women civilian school teachers. The Army included the wives and the daughter of two missing soldiers on its list.
Neither of the lists included two civilians who died in the sinking; Thomas N. West, representative of a West Coast cosmetic firm, and YMCA worker Dean Leeper, Carlock Ill.
Included in the list from this area is one from Kansas.
Clarence L. Davis, Corporal, St.
Louis, Mo.; MelinK in Day, PFC,
Stidham, Okla.; Teddy D, Graham,
PFC, St. Louis, Mo.; Richard L.
Hanneman, Corporal, Tekamah.
Neb; Bernard J. Leuchs, PFC, Farley,
Iowa; Vernon L. Sullwood, PFC,
Humboldt, Neb.; Frances L. Enders;
1207 North Walnut, Newton.
Problems of the Fulbright foreign study program were discussed in a faculty forum yesterday in Fraser theatre.
Fulbright Program Discussion Held
Manuel Espinosa, representative of the State department, led the discussion.
Explaining t he instructor exchange plan, Mr. Espinosa said its basic philosophy was to further mutual understanding among governments through the work of advanced scholars.
The Board of Foreign Scholarships is encouraging young scholars to apply, he said.
Guided Missile squadron landed in Bremerhaven today. The squadron's 75 rocket-powered pilotless planes are capable of carrying an atomic warhead 300 miles. The missiles arrive "within the next four weeks."
The jurors are film celebrities and fans lucky enough to snare $5.50 tickets to the premiere of the pugnosed singing star's comeback picture, "A Star Is Born." Nearly four times as many Hollywoodites clamored for ducats to the opening that's the most dazzling and balloyhooed since "Gone with the Wind" flashed on an Atlanta screen.
The picture started on a $3,000,-000 budget and wound up costing $6,000,000. The shooting schedule stretched to 10 months.
for on the big reels of celluloid hang the future of the explosive and highly talented actress. The behind-the-screen story of this movie is a star-is-born story, too.
Hollywood (U.P.)—Judy Garland's career may depend on the verdict of 2,819 jury members who will parade into a glittering theater on legendary Hollywood boulevard tonight.
Three top film executives anonymously say if the critics and audience shrug at the extravagant film. Judy may never work again in filmville.
Garland Career Tied to Tonight's Film Premiere
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But most film experts agree that if the picture is a success—and with star names and such publicity it is likely to be one—movie-makers will rush to hire Judy, so-called "temperament" and all.
Big-eyed Judy had a phenomenal career as a child star at MGM, but her grown-up life has been troubled with unhappy marriages, held-up pictures, fights with her studio, illness and an attempted suicide.
She quits movies to regain her confidence and success on the stage in New York and London. Then she returned to Hollywood, to a happy marriage and child with producer Sid Luft and another try at the silver screen.
Only one executive said he feared the picture may be Judy's greatest but her last because of the trouble that dogged the picture.
Producer Jack Warner agreed to release and finance her property, "A Star Is Born." After eight days of shooting the company changed cameramen and switched to Cinemascope. The difficulties were only beginning.
Judy was sick off and on. After differences of opinion with the fiery star, the musical arranger and the costume designer quit. Judy finally was so afflicted with insomnia that the company had to shoot at night so she could sleep by day. She put her heart and life into the picture, and her insistence on perfection boosted the cost.
The movie ran more than three hours when she decided to add another musical number. New songs had to be written, new sets built. That number alone took 24 days to shoot.
Diplomat Assumed Alive in Hungary
Washington — (U.P.) The U.S. has some evidence that former diplomat Neel Field died in a Hungarian prison although the State Department "assumed" he was alive yesterday.
Administration officials reported the evidence today. They were supported by Josef Swiatlo, a high ranking secret police official from Communist Poland who has taken refuge in this country.
At a news conference yesterday, Mr. Swiatlo told the inside story of the diplomat's mysterious disappearance behind the Iron Curtain in 1949 along with his wife Herta, and brother Hermann.
"From my conversations with the vice minister of Hungarian security," he said, "I understand that Noel Field is not alive any more."
Although he said nothing about whether they are alive, he later revealed his doubts about Noel to a small group of reporters.
In the case of Hermann,
Swiatlo said to me, leaving
Poland was still alive. But if
he alive today, I do not know."
He also isn't sure about Herta.
He also has government officials shared Mr. Swiatlo's doubt about Noel but they said this country assumes he
2. Officials called Mr. Swiatloi's defection to the West of the "highest value" since he had access to secret data on Poland's Communist party and its operations. They said this helps offset the recent desertions of high ranking West German officials to communism.
1. Informed sources disclosed that Erica Glaser Wallach, a German girl the Fields informally adopted after she ran away from the Nazis, is being held in a Russian concentration camp even though she is married to an American. The American's name was not revealed.
is alive. The government demanded the release of all three Fields in notes to Poland yesterday.
Meanwhile:
Mr. Swiatlo, a deputy chief in Poland's ministry of public security, said he broke with communism when "I saw clearly that the central committee of the Polish Communist party was devoted to the Soviet government and not to Poland."
3. The U.S. is understood to be questioning still more "important" escapes from the Iron Curtain.
Noel Field, who worked for the State department from 1926 until the mid-1930s, vanished in 1949 in
Czechoslovakia where he had gone to gather material for a book. From Mr. Swiatlo it was learned he was arrested for spying and that his wife, Herta, who had followed to look for him also had been seized.
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