MARCH 22,1946
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All Russians Didn't Leave Mukden As Claimed---Chinese Nationalists
(Following is the first eye-witness dispatch by an American correspondent from Mukden since the Soviet troops withdrew and Chinese Communists began an effort to seize the city from Chinese nationalist forces.)
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By REYNOLDS PACKARD
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Mukden. (UP)—Chinese Nationalist troops fighting off a Chinese Communist siege of Mukden today questioned six Russian officers and soldiers allegedly captured near a Communist artillery position outside the city.
The two Soviet officers and four enlisted men told the Nationalist Headquarters that it was all a mistake. They said they accidentally were the position when Nation.
near the gun position when Nador alist troops attacked it, and said they didn't know Communist troops were there.
Two other Russian soldiers in uniform were captured by the Nationalists in territory wrested from the Chinese Reds. These Russians said they were stragglers. Both carried sidearms and rifles.
The beleagured and gutted city of Mukden was virtually surrounded by Communist troops. The Communists were doing their utmost to capture the city from the Nationalist troops, to whom the Russians handed control when they evacuated last week.
All railroad and highway traffic into Mukden has been interrupted by the Communists, who are infiltrating into the city and fighting battles in the downtown area.
I dashed into Mukden at night three days ago aboard a handcar along the railroad from Sinmin while snipers peppered it with red tracer bullets.
Field reports from the fighting at the southern edge of Mukden said the Communists were using Japanese guns. The skirmish in which the six Russians were said to be captured arrived around 75-MM. It was the first report that the communists were using artillery.
Most of the six Russians carried sidearms when captured, the field reports said. All were in Red army uniforms.
The Communist gun position at Suchiatung, 18 miles south of Mukden, inflicted 20 casualties on Nationalists, field reports said. Nationalists counterattacked, forcing the gunpost to withdraw, and captured the Russians.
I saw the six Russians in Mukden today. They included an artillery major, a navy lieutenant, and four artillery and infantry soldiers, including an interpreter for the Chinese language.
The Russians said they were en route from Changchun to Dairen on official business when a blown bridge near Suchiatung halted their train. They were continuing on foot when captured, they said.
Some Russians remain in Mukden. The Yamato hotel, which was renamed the Intourist hotel during the Soviet occupation is still run by the Soviets.
Mukden is under the strictest martial law and nighttime curfew. Fighting has occurred almost in the center of the city. Communist troops are massed on all sides, and have been attempting to sneak forces into the city.
The Communists have been concentrating their attacks along the railroad between Mukden and Sinnin. 50 miles to the southeast.
I reached Sininm yesterday aboard a third-class passenger train from Chinchow. It was the most crowded train I have ever seen.
People were draped around the locomotive and heaped perilously upon roofs of the coaches. During the trip scores of persons were searched for Communist documents.
Four persons in my coach were stripped baby-bare by searchers after suspicious documents had been found on them. Two of them were tied with cord and handed over to the police.
The train was unable to proceed to Mukden because of Communist attacks on the line. I joined company with a determined group of seven Chinese Nationalist field colonels who were being rushed to Mukden to reinforce the defenses.
Nine of us,including the driver, crowed aboard a tiny hand and gasoline railcar with a capacity of
Ideals, Not Profit Should Be Motive Muni Urges Filmland
Hollywood. (UP) - Paul Muni believes it is high time the movies, the most persuasive of all American influences, shifted emphasis from making money to doing good.
"Can you imagine a producer cruiser crassing for $2,000,000 profit?" he inquired. "It is incompatible to combine money-making and doing good."
Muni said he didn't think the two objectives had been successfully combined.
The movies have made plenty of money, he imitated; now it's time to use that money on making better movies.
"The films are the most influential and persuasive instrumentality for creating precedent," he pointed out. "The drama has always been a mirror of life, but movies are so influential that people in life now mirror the films."
For example, Muni said he once heard a doctor use a phrase in speaking to a nurse that had a familiar sound. He remembered the phrase, when he heard it in the next movie about a doctor he saw.
"The doctor obviously saw the same movie," he said. "I imagine that frequently a director, who is unfamiliar with the medical profession, for instance, works out his own way of doing something on the screen. A doctor who sees the picture notices the new technique. Next time he needs to do that thing, he uses the movie technique and he emulates what he saw in the movie and actually plays a part.
"You might say that the negation makes the positive, in (that case)."
In the Charles R. Rogers production of "Angel on My Shoulder," the Academy award-winning actor plays the part of a gangster who, after his sudden death, is returned to earth in the body of a judge.
"The theme of the picture is the basic conflict between good and evil," Muni said. "In the end the good comes out. It is a naive approach, but we are doing it with tongue in cheek."
Harry Darby, president of the American Royal association and Dallas R. Alderman, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce American Royal committee, said they were working out plans for the organization of the October event.
Kansas City, Mo. (UP)—Farm leaders and businessmen in Kansas City today revealed that plans were underway for a gala American Royal show here next fall.
American Royal 'Gala' Next Fall
Simultaneously, farm leaders said they expected an attendance of 15.000 members of the Future Farmers of America to the organization's convention to be held in conjunction with the American Royal.
It was like a slow-motion dash through snow covered no-man's land at 30 miles an hour over the 50-mile stretch. Snipers pinged red tracer bullets at us repeatedly, but nobody was hit.
six and made the ride into Mukden after night fall.
Hollywood. (UP) — Swing trombonist Benny Benson, for whose love a bobby-soxer twice attempted suicide, said today that he hardly knew her.
Female Falls Bandman Flees Suicide Fails
"These young girls think a guy tooting a horn is an idol or something," he said. "They make fools out of us."
The 19-year-old girl, Patricia Dove Littleton, was recovering from 30 sleeping tablets she gulped as she sat in the crowded Palladium ballroom listening to her idol play with Bob Croshy's Bobscats.
A 350-word note to the handsome blond musician, written as she listened to his music for what she hoped would be the last time, poured out her "burning" love for him.
"She was dating another man in the band, and used to come up all the time and ask, 'Who doesn't he talk to her?' a friendly fellow so I used to talk to her.
"I hardly know her," Benson said. "I've never been out with her. I've been happily married for a year and a half, and my wife can prove that I've been home every night 10 minutes after we close."
Benson said the girl had been "hanging around the bandstand" ever since they came here from San Diego.
"Then one day she said, I think I like you better—I think I'm in love with you!"
'Pro' Screwball To Sell Cheese To Man in Moon
Hollywood. (UP)— Professional Screwball Jim Moran, who has sold an icebox to an Eskimo, found a needle in a haystack and painted a cow purple, launched a project today to sell green cheese on the moon.
"What can a fellow do?"
Moran said he is organizing the first rocket flight to the satellite.
"I will be the first to spend a lost—not last, I hope—week-end on the moon," he announced with a flourish of his cigar.
Moran said at first he had planned to ask aviator movie-mogul Howard Hughes to build him a scientifically-equipped rocket plane. Moran wants one complete with bar, pressurized flying suits, and, for atmosphere, a rockette from New York's Radio City chorus line.
However, a spokesman for Hughes said the plane-builder was too busy putting together his 750-passenger flying boat to monkey with rocket ships.
"Moran's looney" the spokesman observed.
Unperturbed, Moran now is casting around for a daring engineer. Many already have drawn plans for space cruisers, he said.
Topeka, (UP) — Gov. Andrew Schoepel today reappointed Frank Furein, Topeka, to a four-year term on the state board of social welfare.
Furein Reappointed
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