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No. 34882

O'DWYER

Report ACCUSED

Revealed

Committee's

Findings

Washington, May 1. The Senate Crime In- vestigating Committee to- day accused Mr William O'Dwyer, former Mayor of New York, of contributing to the growth of organised crime in the city.

Washington, May 1. Lieutenant-General Albert C. Wedemeyer advised Pre- sident Truman nearly four years ago that Korea was threatened by a "Soviet controlled invasion of North Korean forces," it was dis- closed today when portions of his report, which had been kept secret since its sub. mission to the President on last autumn, when he was ap- Mr O'Dwyer was Mayor until September 9, 1947, were pointed Ambassador to Mexico. made public by the Senate From 1940 to 1942 he was a Armed Services Committee District Attorney, in New York. today.

The Committee, in "A United States withdrawal on gungsterism, said: "Neither a report which permitted the Soviet he (Mr O'Dwyer) nor his ap- Union to dominate the area polnices

toolt any effective

would result in க serious action against the top echelons political and psychological

of the gambling. treat

narcotics, lo China, Including

book- Manchuria, and Jupau," General Waterfront, murder or Wedemeyer said.

making rackets.

His report was made before China fell under the control of the Communists.

He also urged military ald and

supplies la South Korea) and proposed an

"In fact his action impeded investigations of sich rackets," It acted.

The Committee, headed by "American-Senator Estes Kefauver

(DC- afficered Korean scout force to mocant, Tennessee), also said replace the present constabulary that Mr O'Dwyer had nominated of sufficient strength

to cope for high public office friends of with

threat from the the

gamblers, Frank Costello North."

General Wedemeyer said that and Joe. Adonis.

The

the Russians dominated North Korea through the Communists.

MR O'DWYER

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1951.

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Hockridge Charged In Court This Morning

Committal Proceedings

Arms Possession

British Government Wins Vote

Test

London, May 1.

Mr Winston Churchill's bid to unseat, the Government by splitting the Labour Party over the raw material shortage failed tonight by 13 votes.

Commons by 305 votes to 292, sought to drive a wedge The Conservative motion, defeated in the House of between the three rebel Ministers, led by Mr Aneurin Beran-who resigned last week on this issue and the rest of the Party.

On

Committal proceedings against Ronald Charles Thomas Hockridge, 29, merchant, on a charge of possession of two automatic pistols and several rounds of ammunition opened before Mr J. Wicks at Central this morning.

Hockridge, defended by Mr D. A. L. Wright, on the instructions of Wilkinson and Grist, was seated in the dock.

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Discussed

London, May. 1 China's decision to re- qulation the property of a British-owned petroleum company was discussed by senior Foreign Office off- cials and representatives of the Shell Petroleum Com- pany in London today.

An official report on the move against the Asiallo Petroleum Company, Shell subsidiary, was still hwaited,

The Chinese Communist Prime Minister, Mir Chout En-lat, was reported, to have ordered the seizure For all the company's pro- Derty yesterday for rea- sons of "national security and in the interests of the general public." — Reuter,

Iraq Oil Dispute

+

Stranded

On Island

Formosa Authorities Reject Deportee

Manila, May 2. The National Defence De- partment revealed thes Chinese businessman Vicente Uy Tek has been on isolated Batan Island since April 25 when Chinese Nationalist authorities refused to let a Philippines Air Force plang land him in Formoss.

Uy Tek had been. ordered deported from the Philippines on April 25 on a change of profliser=". ing in 1940 by selling on the black market 800 sacks of sugar entrusted to him by the govern-" ment for sale at controlled prices,

Milltary Intelligence servico- agents on April 25 secretly arrested Uy Tek, who was at Britain Said To Beberty on bail, hustled him to

Modifying Terms

London, May 1. Britain has asked for a

the alport and placed him on an Air Force C-47 which took off. immediately. Barely 12 hours later the deportation was mado

by public

National Defence Secretary Ramon Magsaysay,

correspon-

A witness called by the prosecution this morn- ing, Frank H. Leyshon, business manager, stated that on the way to Queen Mary Hospital by car deeply distressed and expressed deep regret at with the Iraqi government, to Formosa. on the afternoon of April 6, Hockridge was very short delay of the oil talks who said Uy Tek had been sent being such a fool "to leave those things around." apparently to modify her Associated Press

"Whether he said guns or another word I am pitate developments in the last night reported Uy Tele wat terms in light of the prect-dent Spencer Mcosa in Taipeh RECOMMENDATIONS

not certain," said Mr Leyshon.

not on Formosa and that The Conservative motion ex- With the exception of one -óf

Anglo-Iranian oil dispute, Chineso Foreign Minister "Gambling profits are the presented anxiety that Britain's them who voted with the Can-

Det-Insp. F. Roberts, of Cen- principal support

it was learned today. Insp Roberts Did defendant of big-lime £4,700 milion arms programme servatives, the Libera is obstained.

George Yeh had informed tha of the Philippines Representatives anything about loaded?— racketeering and gangsterism,"

Charge d'Affaires, was based on production esti- Speaking in the debate, Mr tral CID, is conducting the say the Committee sald, recommen- mates

British-operated Iraq Petroleum Manuel Advesa, that the plang not accepted by the Anthony Eden, deputy leader of prosecution. Mr. H Wood-This took place on April 6 and legislation even ding

Company, who were scheduled had not been allowed to land outlaw Ministers responsible,

the Opposition, said that Mr dead, ADCI (Hongkong) was I am not vary sure whether he

did or did not. transmission across State bor-

to leave for

Nationalists were Baghdad. last because the ders of information for illegal Emanuel Shinwell, in his reply tion

The Defence Minister, Mr Bevan after his recent resigna-present.

from

the Cabinet had First witness called was W. Mr Wright On the evening Saturday, decided to postpone gambling.

E, declared it was obvious to mem- to the debate preceding the Decim

Jones,

Wink he was in t Other

the Government that for vole, said that Britain was go- proposals were

of the Public Works Depart-to hospital stiffer penalties for depe ped-ing ahead with her arms promaterials and machine tools for prepared of rooms 1 and 6 and.

there could not be enoughment, who deposed to plans he very distressed condition?

Witness: He was. ding the tightening of im-gramme. migration laws

Mr. Wright: In addition did corridos between-on-the- the programme, The Government the should explain this. Mr Eden second floor of Dina House.

he give you the impression country of undesirable aliens, about it," he said. "We are

said. measures to eliminate racketeers going ahead to provide our Oil Well Afire from the liquor and transport contribution to the North At

industries and bigger staffs for lantic Treaty plans for the de- Federai low enforcement fence of the West."

especially. the

The forces available to Gen- eral Hodge were adequate to with unrest in South Korea cope and to maintain order, but

completely inadequate,

maximum assistance from General MacArthur, to meet a Soviet-controlled invasion by North Korean forces."

with

General John R. Hodge was then in command of the United States occupying. forces South Korea. Reuter.

in

to

10

rid the "Let there be no mistake

also recom- of a

its

Teheran, May 1. An oit well at the Naft

`RESULT CHEERED The Bureau. Sufi feld, 100 miles north of Abadon, nccidentally epught mended the creation

Government cheering greeted the result of the vole," Ore last night and was today Federal Crime Commission, reported to be burning flercoly. The Commitice said the "most

Mr Shinwell. could be seen Such fires often burn for a shocking revelations"

shouting sroes the floor of the gesticulating with long time because of the great nation-wide investigation were Chamber, technical diMculties In ex-"the extent of the official cor- both arms towards the Govern- tinguishing the

ruption and connivance

ment benches, But his words Naft Sunt is one of the fucillating and

were inaxlible. promoting or series of Anglo-Iration oilfields ganised crime."

This produced a renewed stretching In line north from This corruption

con- outburst of cheering from the and Abadan, where the world's big-nivance was found at all levels excited-Labour-members. It

refinery

State continued until the Opposition situated of government-Federal, gest Reuter.

and local-It sald.-Reuter, leader left the Chamber.

13

COMMENT OF THE DAY

in

bers of

He added that Britain should not be defeatist on the subject |and he called for a Common

wealth conference on газу

materials.

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Chief Draughtsman that you accompanied Hockridge | their journey for a "few doverot informed in advance.

bozine which

Department,

Dina

to consider latest developments elsewhere, authoritative sources stated.

NOT WANTED

Mr Yeh also informed the

that Philippines official

the British industrialisis who Nationalist government did not recently returned from Iraq are want to receive any deportees to take now proposals to without previous understand. Premler Nur Pasha, Vesigned | ing

to meet the government demands

Hours later the National' Do- for higher revenue and Increased oil output, A Company spokes-fence Department admitted Uy man Insited here today that Tek is being held at Basce, on about half-way between

Northern Luzon and hitch but implied that earlier

Formosa. He has been there, plans were being revived.

the Department said, ever since April 25 when the plane carry--

warned not to

the delay was not due to any bet

Batan Island,

MAQ'S DEMANDS

Police photographer Lau that he had taken drink or Shing gave evidence of having alternatively that he was some-. taken a series Dina House on the instructions

of pletures at what intoxicmed? of Inspector Roberts.

Witness My principal IC- action

as to the cause of his Chief Insp. J. A., White, al-actions

was deep shock, He tached to Central Police Station, was speaking fairly coherently, Speaking for the Government, testified that as the result of a He was in a very bad state of Mr George Strauss, the Supply telephone message he went to high tension.

He found Minister, claimed that all the room 6 in Dina House. Ministers of

had accepted the 4.45 automatic pistol lying ona George Victor King of the defence estimates.

It was loaded with a Inland Revenue

The British delegation wil; being him was he removed. residing at 14, King's Park, said heated by the managing diree-land in Formosa. He said America had

hammer was fully he knew the accused for a real The pistol desire to

Although the old profiteoring tor of the Iraq Petroleum Com- see that scarce raw cocked. There was a faint grey number of years and he was pany, Mr H. F. Gibson, who charge was used to deport Uy

which then a Llout. materials were fairly distributed fim round the muzzle

Commander in usual among North Atlantic countries. was

will be assisted by a number of Tek, ho was among a number when a gun had the Royal Navy. He remem-

here who Mr Strauss sald member of the

that every been recently fired, The bartel bered on-one occasion at the experts; The Iraqi Goverment of wealthy Chinese Government smelt shared the anxiety of the resign-cordite which indicated the gun House, he was shown a Colt .45

of strongly

burning accused's residence in

wants the same rates of profitave been accused by a from the Iraq Petroleum Com- Fines House of Rep

Committee of

evading ing Ministers about the serious had been fired within two or automatic pistol, similar to that

pany as the Americans are results if raw material supplies three hours previously...

paying Saudi-Arabia for her exhibited in Court.

come tax payments recently

In announcing the deporto- did not improve.

Witness said he remembered of Img also demands that oll

tion, Mr Magsaysay

said Uy it WAS produced from the production be increased more Tek was sent to Formosa "in bottom

quickly

than hitherto, parti-pursuance of a policy designed Cross-examined

wardrobe.

cularly in the les-eveloped to break unscrupulous business Wright, witness disagreed that area of Başra. it was at Humphrey's Building

mine the nation's economic that the accused showed the gold price stipulated under the

stability." with agreement

the Iraq automatic to him.

Mr Magsaysay and Foreign William Arthur Jolliffe, mer- Petroleum Company be cal- | Minister chant of 255, Prince Edward culated on the basis of the "free scheduled to center today with Road, said he had known the market", gold price instead of President Elpidio Quirino accused for about and

three years the

controlled gold price the next step in Uy Tek's case,

Associated Press. and was a very close friend. He United Press. remembered that during a con- versation, defendant told him that he was in a position to get rearms for self-protection for his wife and himself in case of necessity.

Witness sald he did not know whether Hockridge actually

Patience Near Exhaustion

ATIENCE grows thin in the preten-

Pour pink place in Paris where

the question of peace or war between East and West has been so tediously argued for the past nine weeks. And if there is anything remarkable about the wearing-out signs, it is that com- plete collapse of the negotiations has not stirred the political dovecotes long ere this. If the Big Three deputies still persist in efforts to arrange accept- able talking-points for a future con- ference of Foreign Ministers, it is an earnest of their determination to make an all-out attempt to ease international tension, rather than simple faith in the sincerity of the Soviet approach to the issues involved. Failure could have only one meaning. The process of building up Western defence barriers against the day of armed conflict would require to be further intensified. It. could only be interpreted as an admis- sion that the last hope of handling a split world without apprehensions of -war had-faded. The refusal of the Big Three to surrender to that grim con- clusion without a further endeavour to break the existing deadlock is to be applauded, but it is even more satis- factory that they have, at least and at last, called an end to nonsense and that the responsibilities for decision are to be placed aquarely in front of the. Kremlin. Mr Gromyko's skill in aide- tracking will be hard pushed. It will be for Russia to declare whether or not she is genuinely interested in a round- table conference seeking a solution of East-West rivalrics and demonstrating ...the ability of countries with ideological differences to exist. peacefully side by alde. Buch a showdown had to come, It is, in fact, overdue. For weeks. Gromyko has led the Big Threo repre Bentatives deep into an undergrowth of

Western

Witness accompanied Insp. Roberts to room No on the same floor where he picked up an empty 49 case.

of the world belonged ex-All the parts were in good con-owned any firearms.

clusively to the United States. dion.

BEVAN SPEAKS

Mr Strauss' replied that there wig no reason to be unduly pessimistle.

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On April 8, at Central Police Station, he received from Insp. Roberts spent 45 bullet and three 45 automatic pis tol magazines, each containing He said, "I is too carly to seven rounds, Ho also WES say whether we will get the handed two pistol

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aw materials we need for our

Taw.

defence programme and our

holsters.

Then on April 14, witness re-

Before Mr rauss spoke, Mr Eden, who was the chief Con servative speaker in the debate, sald that Mr Bevan and the other resigning Ministers had HAIRS ON GUN made grave charges which the potty details and then round and round

Describing the Government must either accept

.45 weapon, Insp. White said that a number in circles. Whenever the Big Three

or refute

Mr Eden deplored the harsh of halts were caught between bristled; he made a minor concession

words" used about America by the barrel and barrel bushing and neatly brought them back again-om-of-the-resigning Ministers and between the barrel bushing

Amid protests from some La-and the plug. The allde into the circular movement. The obvious

bour members he said, "It was part of the body were conted inference is that Russia has been the United States alone which with congealed blood. saved and reason

On returning to room No 6, is

the life of deliberately stalling,

Europe"

witness received from

Insp. because the West appears to have lost In calling for a Common-Roberts four envelopes which its urgency about the rearmament of wealth conference Mr Eden he found to contain the body Western Germany.

added, "There is no need to and barrel of a 6.35mm. Geçmen Unwillingness of

talk as if all the raw materials automatic pistol and the slide. the Big Three, up to now, to recognise these facts subscribed handsomely to the atmosphere of futility. They de clined to realise that no conference hus ever failed-or even could fail, if both sides were in carnest-because the proposed agenda was in the wrong order. When the Foreign Ministers of the Big Four meet,, if they ever do, they will talk exactly when and how they like. Nothing is more unlikely that they would feel themselves bound meticulously by the form or phrase- ology of an agenda devised by deputies. "The immediate duty of the Big Three Deputies, therefore, is to agree to an agenda, without worrying should it seem to imply advance con- sent to any specifle course of action, but proving that the West wants peace "if it still can have it; and leave it to. -

the Foreign Ministers to do the argu- ing. Let the Foreign Ministers meet and thùa dlacover whether Russia has any real intention of accommodating her ambitions to the growing strength of the West. Make up our minds that a bargain can only be struck provided · both sides are prepared to give some- thing up. Alternatively, of course, the West can call the whole think off. But if we hrò intent or penco, the Big Three cannot fail to scize the initiative, Implying that if Kremlin policy repro- renta a bluff, it is called:.

unduly

now in saying that we' will not."

in

by Mr

The hearing is proceeding.

British Losses

In Korea

London, May 1.

essential civil production, but ceived from Insp Roberts two we are not justified here and loose rounds of 6.35 mm auto- The British War Office to- and night announced the names of matic pistol ammunition

was loaded 371 soldiers killed, wounded or Mr Aneurin Bevan,

magazine which

seven rounds, speech of only

miasing in Korea-the biggest with two minutes,

Assistant list so far. A. Ewins, F. accused the Conservatives of "old fashioned Party Jousting Quarry Superintendent PWD in framing their motion which an expert on arms and balls expressed

that the who has given evidence in arms anxiety arms programme was based on cases at the Supreme Court on production estimates not ac many occasions, deposed to testa

108 cepted by the Ministers prin- he had carried out with bath

The total killed guns each of which was in good

or missing elpally, concerned.

was 40 officers and 140 men Reuter. working order.

Mr Bevan said that he, hoped that they could have a dia.

F.H. Layshon, business mana- cussion on raw materials and ger, testified that on April 6 ho defence production another day accompanied Hockridge to the in a "more serious context" Queen Mary Hospital, It was

approximately 8.20 p.m.

than the Conservative mation.

Ho hope that the Govern~ ment would be able to get raw materials

from States THEO ́ono time seemed

Fifty-two officers_and_810_ men of 11 regiments were in- cluded in the list, the highest being from the Royal group Northumberland Fusillers with

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Malayan Govt Bans 411 Publications VERY DEEP REGRET Witness ́eald · that - Hockridge

Singapore, May 1, United the

The Federal Government has expressed ivory deep regret at than at epocaly, also

***** (being such a 2001 to leave those banned 411 publications, in the that it would not be entirely things around. "Whether he Malay, European, Indian and scomful of any help his realms or another word I Chinese languages. Also, banned signation might have affertiod. am not certain," ackled Leyshon, is the book of the Indian leader, Mr Bevan mild that he and was very deeply distress-Sarat Chandra Bose, entitled The Indian Suuggle, 1900 10 Mr. Harold Wilson, former Replying to Insp. Roberts,

1036 President of the Board of witness gaid that there was TO The London Communist Trade, would prefer to be conversion whatever regard- newpaper, Dally Worker, is proved wrong thom right in quas prior to Hockridge's asking the bared publications, Router.

>Router;

It further demands that the Practices which tend to under-

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