INDEPENDENCE OF JUGOSLAVIA

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26538, 28 September 1951, Page 7

INDEPENDENCE OF JUGOSLAVIA

Marshal Tito Seeks

Support Of West

(Rec. 8 p.m.) BELGRADE. Sept. 26. Marshal Tito claims that Jugoslavia can hold her own against the East provided she receives arms from the West.

Speaking at Chachak, Serbia, yesterday, he said: "We are able to defend our own independence if the means for defence are given us, and if we are given sufficient moral support.” All progressive people in the world were on the side of Jugoslavia in her conflict with the Cominform, he said. His Communist Government had finally rejected Soviet methods of running the country. Marshal Tito claimed that in Russia there was neither political democracy nor any improvement in the standard cf life, and he added: "It is obvious that they have completely lost every criterion of what a Socialist country should be.” U.S. BOOKMAKER SENTENCED CONTEMPT OF COURT CHARGES (Rec. 8 p.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 26 A Brooklyn grand jury indicted the bookmaker, Harry Gross, to-day on 10 counts of criminal contempt of Court The action was based on his refusal to testify against 18 policemen accused of accepting 1,000,000 dollars a year in bribes to protect his 20,000,000 dollars a year bookmaking syndicate. The maximum sentence on conviction on the 10 counts would be 10 years’ imprisonment and a fine of 10.000 dollars.

Gross already had been sentenced to 1800 days in gaol and fined 15,000 dollars on 60 contempt charges by Judge Samuel Leibowitz, who he defied last week.

Gross is also scheduled to be sentenced to-morrow on his plea of guilty to 66 counts of k bookmaking and conspiracy. The sentences on those charges could total <5B years. The Commissioner of the New York police (Mr George Monaghan) replied to-day to the scathing charges of the grand jury yesterday that there had been “venomous” graft and conspiracy in the Police Department for 10 years. Mr Monaghan announced that he would investigate the careers of 70 police officials as a result of the grand jury’s charges, which linked leading officers with gambling and corruption.

STRIKE IN U.S. AERO ENGINE WORKS

'Rec. 10 n.m.) NEW YORK. Sept. 26. American production of the Britishdesigned Sapphire J-65 jet engine was halted when 9800 workers went on strike to-day at one of the biggest aircraft engine production centres in the United States at Woodridge. New Jersey. The strike was called by the United Auto-Workers against the Wright Aeronautical Corporation after the breakdown of wage negotiations. A spokesman for the corporation said it had more than 1,000.000,000 dollars in defence contracts.

Eight Dead in U.S. Tornadoes.—Tornadoes swept the mid-West yesterday, killing eight persons and injuring at least 18 others. The eight deaths occurred in the farming areas of Wisconsin and Michigan. The tornadoes caused heavy property damage and loss of livestock.—New York, September 27.