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Show Popular Front Sought by French Reds PARIS Oct. 17 The Communist party, making its most determined postwar bid for power determined postwar bid for power in France, called upon Socialists and radicals Thursday to join in a revival of the prewar popular front in the November election campaign. This appeal was a counter thrust to Wednesdays scornfully rejected bid by Pres. Bidaults popular Republican movement (MRP) party for electoral unity with the Socialists against the Communists. The Socialists turned that down with the comment that the MRP must believe in Santa Claus. Watch De Gaulle There was growing belief here meanwhile, that Gen. De Gaulle had decided against accepting any MRP offer of the candidacy for president in the Nov. 10 elections, which will give France its first regularly elected government since the war. The general, who is credited with having split the MRP by his opposition to the constitution before the recent constitutional referendum, is expected to make his position clear by an announcement next week. The MRP has tried to mend its fences with both the public and De Gaulle by announcing that revision of the constitution will be one of its electoral planks. Hit by Communists Thursdays Communist appeal declared that this would provoke disorders and help the international trusts get their grip on France. The Communist call for alliance with the Socialists and radicals in France was similar to Communist party tactics used widely in Europe, where the party objective has been to bring non Communist votes to its support by alliances with non Communist parties. Superior organization has general given the communists control of such alliances. The Socialists are maintaining technical neutrality in the apparently developing fight for ma control of France between munists and MRP. BONES FOUND IN CHINA OF U.S. AIRMAN SICHANG, China, Oct. 15 (Delayed) The bones of an unidentified American airman who died in a B29 crash in March, 1945, were brought here Thursday by mountain scaling U. S. Army searchers who said months of work remained to prove or disprove reports that some survivors were living as slaves of the districts savage Lolo tribesmen. The body brought in Thursday was the fourth recovered from the wreck on 14,400 foot Mount Lianpao, southwest of hete. Six other crew members are missing, but what happened to them is still speculative, said Lt. Col. Herbert Wurtzler, who headed the search party. Arab Hits Truman For Plan on Jews LONDON, Oct. 17 King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia has messaged Pres. Harry S Truman a protest against his demand for immediate admission of a substantial number of Jews into Palestine, the London legation of Saudi Arabia disclosed Thursday night. The king in his message expressed great surprise at Mr. Trumans declaration supporting the Jews in Palestine. The Jews were the aggressors from the start, he said. Warren Protesting Pipe Sale to Russ SACRAMENTO, Cal., Oct. 17 Gov. Earl Warren Thursday wired W. L. Clayton, undersecretary of state, protesting Russias having a preferential position for iron pipe on the manufacturing schedule of A. O. Smith Corp. of Milwaukee. If Russia gets the pipe it would seriously delay construction of a 1200 mile natural gas pipe line from Texas to California and thereby add to southern California housing woes, Warren wired. Decisions Vital to Big 3 Seen At Mideast Talks in London LONDON, Oct. 17 The little publicized presence in England of many leading middle east personalities gave rise Thursday night to speculation that decisions of the most far reaching importance to relations between the United States, Britain and Russia were in the making. Among those here or expected within a few days were Premier Ismail Sidky Pash of Egypt; Lt. Gen. Sir Miles C. Dempsey, British commander in chief of the middle east; Lt. Gen. Sir Evelyn Barker, British commander in Palestine; and top members of the Jewish agency for Palestine. Could Talk Business While official quarters offered no explanation of the presence of these and other British, Arab and Jewish middle east figures, the concentration of men who could talk business closely followed disclosure that a major shift of British defense forces in the area was being considered. Foreign office sources confirmed the possibility that Britain might establish her main base in east Africa after withdrawing from Egypt. One influential publication, the Socialist Tribune, called for a new policy to establish the buffer that can prevent the clash between America and Russia at its most dangerous point, Bevin Must Decide Asserting that Foreign Secy. Ernest Bevin on hand himself for discussions that were generally believed to be going on was faced with a decision hardly less far reaching than Chamberlains decision to fly to Munich, the magazine did not propose any specific policy but said: Any British withdrawal from The Salt Lake Tribune 143 South Main Dial 3 1511. Issued every morning. Entered at the post office at Salt Lake City as second class matter under act of March 8, 1879 Subscription rates: Utah, Idaho, Nevada and Wyoming, daily and Sunday, month, 1.50: year in advance, 18.00; elsewhere in U. S daily and Sunday, month, 1.75. The Tribune is a member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use of reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also in local news published herein. the middle east would be followed by the most intensive American occupation which, by its very nature would result in equally intense counter pressure from the Russians. Nor could this country stay out of such a conflict. Step by step we would be drawn in the wake of American policy back into the political whirlpool of the middle east this time under all conceivable political and military disadvantages. Japan Invasion Hits Snag in U.S. War Game CHIGASAKI, Japan, Oct. 17 One thousand American troops stormed ashore 30 miles south of Tokyo Thursday in an invasion that looked like the real thing and would have been if Japan had not surrendered. The location was one chosen for a major American landing originally planned as Operation Coronet and scheduled for last May, if the war had continued. Biggest, Last Game Instead, it was the biggest war game in the Pacific since peace came. Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger, commanding the Eighth army, said ruefully that it also was the last, because of a shortage of occupation forces. Under protection of the Fifth air force and the busy guns of a cruiser and two destroyers, the invasion forces landed in the teeth of a noisy simulated defensive fire from Japanese pillboxes manned by other Americans. Men of the First cavalry and 11th airborne divisions hit the beach on schedule at 9 a.m., dug foxholes and set up light automatic weapons. Good It Was Practice Slowly they moved inland while more troops landed and heavy equipment began coming ashore. Here the invasion ran into difficulty that could have been bloody if it had not all been for practice. The landing ships could not get close enough to the beach to discharge vehicles properly, and some jeeps and trucks sank when they went off the ramps. In three days of rehearsals, troops had landed on the same beaches without difficulty, but this was the first time all equipment was unloaded. The operation lasted all day. When the show was over, the troops went home by train. Buys 20 Locomotives SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 17 Pres. A. T. Mercier of the Southern Pacific Co. announced Thursday 20 new Diesel-electric freight locomotives have been ordered for use by the railroad. |