U.S. COMMUNIST STABBED

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25608, 24 September 1948, Page 7

U.S. COMMUNIST STABBED

COMPLAINT TO NEW YORK POLICE SLIGHT WOUND SUFFERED IN ATTACK (Rec. 7 p.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 22. Mr Robert Thompson, New Yolk State chairman of the Communist Party, told the police that he had been stabbed and beaten by two or. three unidentified men in an alley to-day. A doctor said that he had superficial stab wound in the abdomen, lacerations, and bruises. Mr Thompson is one of the 12 Communist leaders indicted by a Federal grand jury on charges of being connected with a group advocating the violent overthrow of the United States Government. Mr Thompson was carrying a considerable amount of money, but the attackers aid not attempt to rob him. The New York State Communist Party and the national Comm:nist Party to-day made a joint statement calling the attack on Mr Thompson attemnted murder and placing the responsibility for “this Fascist onslaught” on “the bipartisan conspirators of the Republican and Democratic Parties, who have instigated a violent Red scare to pave the way to Fascism and

The Communist Party has offered a 15,000 dollars reward for,the arrest of the men who knifed Mr Thompson. His condition is not considered serious.

Recall of Turks Sought.— Reuter’s Bucharest correspondent says that the Rumanian Government has demanded the recall of the Turkish Military Attache (Major Fazil Cilglu) and two legation secretaries for helping persons violating the Rumanian currency laws to escape to Turkey.—London, September 23.