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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, JUNE 23, 1946
PRICE TEN CENTS
Stimson Revealed as Appeaser of Japan by State Department Paper
Succeeded in Curbing Old League of Nations, Seemed to Encourage IVIanchurian Incident Which Started the War
Washington, June 22 (UP)— Hitherto secret State Department dorumcntu on the Manchurian crisis of 1931 revealed tonight that then Secretary of State Henry U Stimson pursued a policy of peace with  Japan  at  any  price.
Japan's invasion of Manchuria touched off fighting with China and sowed the leedi for World Wnr II.
The documents showed that Stim¬ son who was Secretary of War when JBpan attacked Pearl Harbor, felt J.ipan had gone beyond "any proper intervention" In Manchuria. But he felt that China's great "ag- Rravstion" of Japan waa partly to blame for fhe Manchurian incident. China WantMl World War
He al-Ho accused China, In effect, of wantinR "very much to get all of the nationa of the world In war with Japan,"
*'\e have no lympathy with that snd we do not intend to get into war with Japan," the documents quoted Stimson.
The documents cover only the first three monthi of the Man¬ churian crisis, the start of Jap- nnr.te aggression which led to Pearl Harbor 10 years later. Japan in¬ vaded Manchuria in September. in,"!!. Two monthl later, the old leeague of Nations council met for a second time In Paris to consider tlic crisis.
For the firat time, the docu¬ ments reveal in detail the powerful behind-the-scenes role Stlmaon played in activitiei of the League, even though the United States was not a member. They show that he virtually "engineered," but took no rr.spon.sibility for, much of the l.PiiRUc's activities in connection with Iho Manchurian crisis. Stalled  Action  On Japwi
.stimson was revealed to have ordered Gen. Charles O. Dawes, unofficial U. S. observer at the I/TBpuc. to "keep your hand on the   houlder  or coat  collar"  of Coun-
Stimson Has No Comment
Cold Spring Harbor, N. T., June 22. i UPi —Henry L. Stim¬ son, former Secretary of War and of State, said tonight that release of the secret State De¬ partment documents on his role in the 1931 Manchurian crisli came as a surprise to him. He reserved comment, "I will say," he added, "that any one who wants to know how I stood on the Manchurian sit¬ uation can read my book. The Far Eastern Crisis', published in 1936. I had my say then and I see no n?ed to add to it now."
BILBO DEMANDS 'ANYMEANS'TO STOP NEGRO VOTE
Incites 'Anglo-Saxons'; Negro Veteran Charges Beating, No Registration
Jackson, Miss.. June 22. (UP)-» Sen. Theodore Bilbo tonight de¬ manded that the "red-blooded An¬ glo-Saxon men of Mississippi bar Negroes from voting. His demand came a few hours after a Negro army veteran charged that he had been beaten and flogged by four white men when he sought to register.
In one of hif strongest "white supremacy" statements of his cur¬ rent campaign for renomination. Bilbo said that if a few Ncgroe.' vote In the Democratic primsr>' this year, more will vote in 1947 "and from then on it will grow in¬ to a mighty surge."
They're Also Thirsty
Lines for liquor In Norway are reported to be longer now that rationing has been aban¬ doned than they were during tha
•horUc*. lyplcal of the daily acene Tt thia crowd shown out¬ aida of a atate liquor atore in Oslo.
2 Kidnapped Officers Returned in Jerusalem
Appear Onharmed as Rabbis Appeal for End of Terrorism
Calla for 'Any Mean*'
He  called  on every "red-blooded i By EI.AV SIMON
Anglo-Saxon man m Mississippi to     Jerusalem, Sunday, June 23.   (UP) resort to any meanji to keep hun-1 —Two of five British offlcera kld-
il   President  Ari.tlde     Briand     of dreda   of   Negroes   from   the   polls "«PP~. ""y Jewish  terrorUU  from U   President  Anstlde    Uriand    or ^^  ^^^ ^        • primary" !» Tel  Aviv club Monday were re-
.,..,, J    ..   1 ,.  .turned there and released by their
•And   if  you   dont   know  what|      („„   shortly   before   midnight that  means,  you   are  just  not  upjij,^  night
on     your    persuasive     measures,"     shortly  before the officer! were H'™»   Mded. ..      „.     ' set   free,   a   series   of   explosion!
Bilbos  speech   came   after  Ktoy|rocked Jerusalem.   The cause was belcher.   Army  veteran   attending!not immediately determined, school under the GI Bill of Rights,;    xhe    offlcers,    Capt.    Rey    and charged In an affidavit that he had  Flight Lt. Russell, looking flt and
been seized,  flogged and beaten at	
Brandon  on   Juno  2  when  he  at¬ tempted unsuccessfully to register. His   charge   was   made   In   an   af¬ fidavit   made   public   bv   the   Na tional Association for the Advance In
France to prevent the League from moving "too rapidly" against Ja- psn.
He feared that atrong League sction would "Inflame" Japan. He I laimed "credit" for preventing the l^-ague from aending a military investigating commUilon to Man¬ churia.
"Our only Intereat In Manchuria in to prevent war." ha advised Hawes. "We do not care what so¬ lution is reached between China and Japan so long as it is done by
WESTERN EDROPE IS SAVED FROM
freshly shaved, were taken by authoritiea to a secret destination in armored cars, closely guarded by heavily armed  paratroopers.
Provost authorities said the other , three   oflicers,   presumably  still   in New the  hands  of terrorists,  were "ex- York, pected   to  arrive   here  during  the 'Sleeping on   Volcano*                          night."
In his speech, which  was broad-  Ordered Freed by Vndertround cast.    Bilbo   said   that   the   white;    Authorities would not permit cor¬ ing the United !?tales for "temper-ifieople  of Missi-viippi   are  sleeping respondents to talk to the released hir'  what  they   thought otherwise on  a volcano "and  it  is up to the offlcers,  who  chatted  and  laughed might   have  been  "unsparing  con- red-blooded   men   to   do  something ^ith   other  officers   In   their  club-
pacific means .
The documents showed that Stim- I ment   of   Colored   People sons    advice    and    counsel    were sought  and encouraged  by I.«ague cnuncil members.    But, by the end of 1931, Chinese oflicials were blam-
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Promise Indictments In KKK Investigation
room at the Yarkon Hotel — ap¬ parently none the worse for their 100-hour detention by terrorist! — until the armored can arrived.
At about 11 p. m., even before they were taken to the hotel, all Tel Aviv newspapers received mys¬ terious telephone calls to "tell your readers we° released two of the five oflicers we abducted the other day."
Meanwhile in Jerusalem, a reli¬ able source said British Maj. H. B. (Siadwick.   a   sixth   officer   in   ter-
AtlanU. Ga.. June 22. 'UP- — rto the proper authorities. He pre The grand dragon of the Ku Klux dieted indictments would follow. Klan. I>r Samuel Green, denied Arnall and Duke launched an all , tonight that klansmen had con-1 out battle against the Klan several I rorist hands who was reported to spired or threatened to kill Gov. Iweeks ago. This week they filed ihave "escaped" on Thursday, ac- Fllls   Arnall   but   a   state    official I quo warranto proceeding! to revoke tually had been released  to act ns
predicted     that     criminal     Indict¬ ment! would be forthcoming soon.
Arnall revealed the plot against his life yesterda.v. He said it was hatched in an Atlanta klavern and the plan was for two names to be drawn from a hat containing the names of klansmen volunteers for the job of "bumping him off" Ar¬ nall said he had heen informed of the plot by the FBI. Sa.vs Story Is False
fJreen said he had thoroughly investigated "and found thst this report is wholly false and without the slightest foundation of fact whatsoever. I have never been a party to any plot to killl. nor to any other unlawful act.
"I shall steadfastly maintain my Klan oath, to stay within the law snd to support the law and its agents in the proper performance of their legal duties."
Both Arnall and the FBI were mum on Klan developments but As- si.«ilant Atty.'Gen. Dan Duke, for¬ mer Marine and vigorous prosecu¬ tor and foe of the Klan, said he was ready to turn over mounting evidence against the hooded order
the Klan's charter, Serious Uiargea
The suit contained charges of murder, falae arrests, aasault and battery, "wilfully, wantonly and ma¬ liciously committed by officials of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan."
It said that a secret committee of EJast Point and Oakland City posts, near Atlanta, had flogged 23 identified persons and committed one murder, that of Ike Gason in 1940.
The legal department of Georgia also charged that the Klan last April secretly planned the organi¬ zation of trucks, cabs, busses and other means of quick mobility for "possible  use  in  an.v  emergency."
Arnall predicted success in de- chartering the Klan but explained that this might not end Klan as¬ sembly in Georgia.
"However, it will remove sanc¬ tion by the state of such an organi¬ zation." he said, "And also, the purpose may be served by public education and public enlighten¬ ment to the evils of the group that preaches racial and religious prejudice, intolerance nnd hatred."
Worlds Illicit Drug Supply Cut off in Japan by U.S. Army
Washington, Juno 22. (UP) — Japan's once far-flung narcotics in¬ dustry has been stamped out, cut¬ ting off 90 per cent of the world's Illicit drug supply, the Army dis¬ closed  tonight.
The Army has wiped out the Sources and Illegal supplies of opium, heroin annd other narcotics which the Japanese spread illicitly to most of the world before the War.
Poppy growing, once a major Japanese agricultural Industry, has heen eliminated in the course of the IT. R. Army health program in
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Japan. Every one of the country's 300.000 poppy farms, plus 100.000 others promoted hy the Japanese in Korea, the source of huge stores of opium, have been wiped out.
Details of the ''rnckdown on the Japanese drug Industry were re¬ ported to Maj. Gen. Norman J. Kirlt. U. .S. Army surgeon general. by Col. Crawford F. Sams. Sams Is Gen. Douglas MacArthur'a pub¬ lic health and welfare chief in oc¬ cupied Japan. Raiaing Nation's Health
Sams' disclosed that the Army's preventative medicine program in Japan was raising the health of the Japanese "far beyond the level at¬ tained under Japan's own impetus.
But he explained that while the Japanese as a nation are becom¬ ing healthier, nearly 8,000,000 Indi¬ gent  Japanese   scattered    through
Liaison offlcer between British offl cials and Irgun Zvai I.*umi, Jewish terrorist organization. Ma.r Have Met Term*
It waa uncertain whether the British had come to terms with Irgun, but there was apeculatlon that the two terrorlats condemned to death recently by a military court—a sentence that led to he kidnappings—would no be hanged.
Hagana. the conservative Jewish underground army, earlier had terrorists to release the officers, or "we shall have no alternative but to abduct the captors' captives."
Unconfirmed but reliable sources indicated the two rele'ased officers were not harmed. They apparently were set free shortly after leading rabbis communicated with the Stern gang, radical Zionists, to "release them immediately and uncondition- all.v. The honor and good name of our people and the Holy Land de¬ mand this Imperatively." Leaflet Bombe Exploded
Earlier last night, streeta, cafes, and cinemas emptied quickly when four leaflet bombs exploded.
Police rushed to Zion Bquare, Jerusalem's Times Square, to col¬ lect thousands of pamphlets and snatch them from the handi of passersby.
Heavy detonations were reported also at Haifa and Tel Aviv and also were believed to hava been leaflet   bombs.
A few minutes before the explo¬ sions In Jerusalem, 2.000 persons In (Continued on Page A-3)
For Dog Lovers
Wyoming Valley alwayi haa had more than its share of dog lovers.
Tho dogs, of course, range from some of the flnest breeds to be found In the world—champions nt the best of shows — then through all the hunting dog classes, the pet.i and then "just dogs" but well loved just the same.
For these, with reading for alt kinds of owners of every age. the Sunday Independent presents this week a new feature, "Dog Notes." by Peter Boggs.
Written by an experienced and the  country  face starvation  unless]  highly successful trainer nf dogs, the Jnpancsc-direited. U, S.  Army-;   this   is   down-to-earth   and   prac- alded   feeding   program   worka   cf-j   tical   information, fectlvely in the coming year, |     gee it today on Paga A-%
London, Juna 22. (UP)—A bread famine in weatern Europe ha.s been temporarily averted deapite the fact America has delivered only a frac¬ tion of 78,000 tona of grain prom¬ ised, authorities said in dispatches from the continent today.
Brejid nationing In Britain, how¬ ever.   Is   regarded   aa   a  certainty.
Former French Food Minister Henri Longchambon, In a press coiiference, said his government had secured enough bread to last until the August wheat harvest. Last  IHinute Food
A Hamburg report aaid the worst food disaster in the British occupation ione of Germany waa staved off by the dramatic arrival of six food ships. A senior food official said the first of the ahips docked 24 hours before supplies would  have run out.
British newspapers have adopted a rationing-for-sure line and men¬ tion July 21 aa the date when ra¬ tioning will begin. An unofficial guess is that the common ration will ba 10 ounces per person daily, scaled up to 16 ounces for manual workera.
Longchambon expressed cortfl- dence in supplies, despite the fact that BO bakeries in the suburbs of Paris have cloaed fo* lack of flour. He predicted that difficulties wouid diminish with the arrival of grain ahlpmcnta from North and Bouth America. Franc* Imprevlng
He also Indicated that the over¬ all food picture In France waa Im¬ proving. He predicted increased distribution of sugar, wines and potatoes. Algerian wine Is being imported In greater quantities, he said, and the basic ration will be raised from two to three liters per month  In July.
Potatoes, he said, would be dis tributed at the rate of two kilos a week until rationing Is lifted In September. Meat and milk short¬ ages, however, will remain.
2 OUNCES MORE CANDY GRANTED BRITISH
London. Juna 22. fUP) — A two-ounce Increase In the British candy ration will become effective Sunday, bringing the toUl four- week  allotment to 14 ounces.
At the same time the food min¬ istry announced that children and expectant mothera In the lower in¬ come brackets would be provided with free milk, orange Juice, cod liver oil, or vitamin tablets.
No Final Agreement Yet on OPA
Congress OK's Passing Boosts to Consumers, Provides for Decontrol Of All Farm Products
Red Says Anti-Labor Drive In U.S. Is Prelude to War
Soviet HiNtorian C'harjrcs Efforts of Reactionaries Part of Plan to Impose American Rule, Roman Fashion, On World
Moscow. June 22 (UP) — Soviet historian Eugene Tarle today charged an anti-labor drive in America was the first step in prepara¬ tion for a third world war and that "American "imperialists' are seek¬ ing a "Pax  Americana' on  the rest of tho world.
Writing in the Red Army newspaper Red Star, Tarle compared the anti-labor drive in the United States to the crushing of the labor movement by Adolf Hitler and said it wa.i a necessary preliminary to "the more remote crusades  Amcri
a se-
Washington, June 22. (UP) — With time rapidly running out. Senate and House conferees failed again today to agree on four major ] "The Com'munist party  and  Stalin
can   reaction.iries  are  planning Anniversary of Intaainn
Tarle's  article   was  one  of rles   published  today versary  of  the  Nazi Ru.s8ia.     The   press   generally   ex¬ tolled   the   fighting   power   of   the Red   Army   which   Red   Star   said
NEW YORK'S TUBE STRIKE IS ENDED
New York. June 22. (UPl—The 24-day-old atrike of the railroad brotherhoods at the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad ended today when company offlcials agreed to pay Increases recommended by President Truman's apecial fact¬ finding board.
The company granted operating employees IS's cents hourly in¬ creases and reinstated 46 main¬ tenance workers who had been flred for refusing to cross picket lines In sympathy with the Brother¬ hood of Railroad Tralnment and the Brotherhood of Engineers.       «
The strike resulted from a re¬ fusal of the company to abide by agreement reached In the nation¬ wide railroad negotiations on the grounds it was not represented. A fact-finding board declared Its position in error. The line oper¬ ates between Manhattan and New Jersey,
phases of price control extension legislation and recessed until Mon¬ day night
They called It a day after ap¬ proving an amendment that would make consumers foot the bill for price Increases granted to manu- facturera and knocking out the OPA's maximum average price regulation, which is designed to spur production of low-cost cloth¬ ing.
They alao agreed to give the Secretary of Agriculture authority over price and decontrol policies on agricultural producta.
But, with just a week to go be¬ fore the present price control law expires, they still remained dead¬ locked on these major questions:
1.—Abolishing price controls on specific Items such aa meat, poultry and dairy producta.
2.—The length of time OPA should be extended.
3.—Creation of a decontrol board.
4.—Subsidies. Barkley Won't Predlet
Conferenea Chairman' Alben W. Barkley, D.. Ky., refusing to pre¬ dict when the conferees would have a bill ready, said he hoped Con¬ greas could get a bill to the Senate by next Saturday, OPA ia sche¬ duled to expire at midnight June 30 unless Congress acU before then.
He said he had no Idea whether President Truman would veto any extension bill and refused to pre¬ dict whether, in auch a case, ad ministration forces would fry to put through a simple extension resolution without crippling amend¬ ments.
Sen. Walter F. George, D., Oa said he thought that, in event of a veto, Congresa would pass a reso¬ lution extending OPA's rent control powers. But he, too. refused to pre¬ dict whether a general extension resolution would get through.
While conferees remained dead¬ locked. Economic Stabilizer Chester W. Boles appealed anew for con¬ gressional approval of strong OPA legislation. Itema Agreed on
Barkley disclosed that conferees have agreed on the following:
1.—The Senate's general formula for price decontrol, providing that a commodity shall be taken off the price control list as soon aa supply and demand are in reasonable bal¬ ance.
2.—An amendment by Sen. Ken¬ neth  S.  Wherry,  R.,  Neb.,    which would open the consumer's pocket- book  to  pay    for  price    increases granted   manufacturers    under    a previously-adopted   amendment   by Sen. Robert A. Taft.,  R.,  O,    The Taft   amendment     provides     that manufacturers  may increase their prices  to take Into account all In creases   In     cost     since     October, 1941.     The  modified   Wherry   pro vision would permit many such in creases  to  be  paased   on   to   con' sumers.
3. — The ao-called Bankhead amendment introduced by the late Sen. John H. Bankhead, D., Ala, This would ban maximum prices for items made In whole or In part from cotton, unless the maximum price equals the cost of the cotton, milling costs and "a reasonable profit" based on the average earned from 1939 to 1941, inclu¬ sive.
4.—An amendment authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to allocate feed which he controls to livestock and poultry raisers In domestic areas where feed short¬ ages exist. Revtaurant Prieea
8.—A ban on maximum prices on food Items served In restaurants If no   maximum   price   ts   placed   on (Continued  on   Page  A-2)
BIDAULT CONFIDENT OF NEW REGIME TODAY
have     made     the     mighlicst     and toughest of  contemporary armies."
American imperialist.s, Tarle charged, are trying to Impose a "Pax Americana" on Ihe world through threats of force just as the ancient Roman Empire Im¬ posed ils "Pax Romans" on a world which it had conquered and en¬ slaved.
"A year has passed," Tarle wrote, "since Germany's capitulation and we naturally have the right to ask ourselves: Are these lessons of history being taken into considera¬ tion or has the ancient saying 'History teaches onl.v that history doesn t teach anybody' justified it¬ self? See* Faaclala Active
"It cannot be said that these les¬ sons have been taken into consid¬ eration by all In equal measure. Buoyant fascist agitations are de¬ veloping, reactionaries are again greeting with enthusiasm war¬ mongers' speeches, medals are struck  in their honor,
'They are being rewarded for their eloquence with doctor's diplomas by ancient European uni¬ versities and new American col¬ leges. The press belonging to the stock exchanges and trusts reiter¬ ates appeals from fierce mouths for undisguised aggression, for a march eastward.
"Perhaps where Hitler failed new  Marlboroughs will succeed "
Tarle said that the reactionaries on the .inni-jhad "many worries to overcome invasion oft before their final provocation and recourse to war. Their greatest opposition is among their own peoples who don't want a new butchery. In order to begin a big war in our times the prcliniinnry work of preparing strategic bascii is not sufficient.
To End Study Of Italy by Next Friday
Big 4 in Agreement; Italians Protest Loss Of Navy, Merchant Fleet, Crippling Reparations
By EDWARD W.  BEATTIE
Paris, June 22 (UP)—TR< Big Four foreign ministeri agreed tonigiit to complete tlieir stud.v of the proposed Italian and satellite peace treatie.s by next Friday,
The agreement was reached at a secret informal meeting of  the ministers  which  was confronted   with    a   sharp he's right. For thr preparation of jtaijap protest against an uni-
more   remote   cru.iades   the   reac-   , , *¦•"'•'-•='>' «6"'»'oi, on um
tionarics are trying to begin with lateral    action    on    Trieste,
against divestment of Italy's colonies, loss of her navy and
Internal Job First
"No - an internal job must be done at home such a.' the "Hitler¬ ites did so fully and so completel> in their time.
"Philip Murray told President Truman recently: We are on the eve of an anti-labor crusade.' And
B crusade against their own work ers"
However, said Tarle. the reac¬ tionary campagn was being op¬ posed by democratic elements in the United States and Britain and "in general the organizers of the third world war are greatly ham¬ pered by the fact that the peoples are remembering too well the sec¬ ond world war.'
"A real stable peace in our day." Tarle said, "will only he such a peace to which no adjectives are added from nny other state. It will be no 'Pax Romana' In new clothing. Thnt i^ impossible now, although It seems desirable to some, and 'leadership' by any one coun¬ try on a world scale is a com¬ plete impossibility,"
F
EGYPT WITHOOT [
Calls it Leading Arab Country; Guest of the King
Paris, Sunday, June 28. (UP) — President George Bidault an¬ nounced that formation of a new French government was expected today as a result of a Communist note, taking a new concllatory attitude.
Communist leaders Maurice Thorez and Jacquez Duclos, who delivered the note yeaterday, said the Communist party would partici¬ pate In the new government if Bidault assured them he would support their program for a gen¬ eral Increase in wages—not ne¬ cessarily 25 per cent.
The note said "Communists have firmly decided to lake within the government all Its responsibilities arising from results of the elec¬ tion." In addition to wage Increases, the Communists demanded price freezing and black market repres sion.
B.V WALTER CX>LUNA
Cairo. June 22. (UP>- Haj Amln Al Hussein, Mufti of Jerusalem, came to Egypt without prior knowledge of the Egyptian gov¬ ernment, he was quoted as say¬ ing todsy hy a close friend "of King Karouk,
The inside story of the Muftis flight to Egypt was presented by Mustapha Amen Bey. editor of the Egyptian weekly Akhbar El Yom, and close friend of the Egyptian monarch.
The Mufti was quoted as saying that he picked Egypt as his place of refuge "because Egypt is the leading Arab country, the seat of the Arab League and the heart of   the   Arab   movement.     I   also
RED ARMY PAPER BLAMES U.S. FOR
Points to Supplies For Chiang and Aid To Aviation Plans"
By M. a HANDLER
Moscow, June 22. (UP) —The army newspaper Red Star today attacked American interference In China and charged that the United States was responsible for China's civil war.
M. Vassiliev, International com¬ mentator for the Red Armv organ, charged that both Chinc.se and world opinion "considers the United States military aid to the Kuomin¬ tang as one of the reasons con¬ tributing to the development of the civil war in China."
The article quoted at length from American press reports of the conflict in China, citing dis¬ patches from a number of Ameri¬ can  correspondents In  China,
decided on Egypt because I regard ' Point to Supplies
Farouk   as   a    brave    leader   who |     Vassiliev   quoted   from   a   United
l''n°''vlJl!IiIl!''.^"',"-'"*' P"""'''*''" "'Press dispatch from Nanking, quot- '
triTnt.or, .   o.- ^^^   ^   leader   of   the   Democratic'must import most of her food and
an  Egyptian affair, Hea%'ily Guarded
The mufti's residence is now sur¬ rounded by 500 men, armed with Bren guns and also equipped with armored cars, the account revealed. Several other residences are being guarded similarly to camouflage the mufti's real whereabouts, which will not be announced until security precautions are complete.
On the evening of his arrival in Cairo he drove to the center of the city and strolled the streets. He walked past the press syndicate building, crowded with newspaper¬ men specuLiting on his where¬ abouts. He also strolled past the famous Groppis tearooms, filled with Syrians and Lebanese chat¬ ting about the mufti's escape, and later sat down in a public cafe and drank coffee while reading newspaper accounts of hia arrival in   Damascus.
He said that he decided to leave France after reading accounts oi the Arab conference at Farouk's Inchasse Palace.
"I   felt   these  words   like  a   call for me to  return  to  my  country, he  said.     "His  majesty's   kindness has  even   exceeded    my    expecta¬ tions." Calla nn  King
When he went to see Farouk. he said,   they   met where   the   m had met with
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merchant  fleet   and   against over-burdensome reparations.
The secrecy cloak was Invoked in order to ease the delicate taak of the ministers as they spar for position in an effort to achieve a settlement of the ticklish Trieata issue.
Double I'p Work
The mini.sters, seeking to sp««d up their deliberations, agreed to meet twice daily next week if nec¬ essary to complete work on the two treaties by the agreed dead¬ line. They Instructed their depu¬ ties to draft nn irienda for the week's discussions over the week¬ end.
The Italian protest was received amid many signs that behind • thick wall of secrecj- the foreign ministers were taking active stepa toward a settlement of the thorny Trieste issue, key to Ihe whola Italian peace treaty and possibly that of fhe satellite nations as well.
The ministers invoked a secrecy curtain behind whicii they would be more free to put forward com¬ promise offers and argain over a settlement. There was optimism In some quarters, particularly French, that the basic dispute over whether Trieste should go to Italy or Yugoslavia might be compro¬ mised, possibly with a decision to internationalize the port and call for a plebiscite on the disputed sur¬ rounding territory. Oet Italian Protest
The Italian embassy handed the Big Four a note of protest against decisions already made to strip Italy of her colonies. An Italian spokesman said that Italy waa la the position of a "not fully anea- thetlzed patient, lying helpless un¬ der the surgeon's careless knife."
"Although Italy spent the last twenty months of the war fighting alongside the Allies she now ia stripped of her colonies, her navy, her merchant fleet and will almost certainly be saddled with a repar¬ ations bill which would come dan¬ gerously near to wrecking Italian economy." the spokesman said.
He said loss of Italy's navy would leave her without protection for her 5.000 milea of coast and that loss of the merchant fleet would he even more tragic because "Italy
I League in China as saying that "Crhiang Kai-Shek would not he in a position to continue the war If the United States stopped supply¬ ing   him.'
The dispatch reported that "a big meeting took place In Kalgan sev¬ eral days ago at which the par¬ ticipants   stated   that   for   a   long
raw  materials.'' Want of Refusal
The note was delivered as tha Italian cabinet officially announc¬ ed that Italy would not accept a unlateral decision affecting Trieste, Venezia Giulia and western Istria.
The announcement    said:    "The
FIRE IN N^W HAVEN THREATENS A BLOCK
time now they have been indignant Italian   cabinet    interpreung     the over the United States' Interference   true feelings of the  Italian  nation (Continued  on   Page   A-7) and constituency echoes the trepi¬
dations of the Italians of Trieste, western Istria and Venezia Giulia and calls upon the four friendly foreign ministera not to reach a decision which Italian democracy newly born as a republic could ab- June 22. (UP) j»o'"tf'y ""' accept."
It was understod that progress was made in the very private con¬ ference held over the dinner table last night by Secretary of State James F. Byrnes and Foreign Min¬ ister V. M. Molotov which lasted until about midnight. The two min¬ isters talked not only of Trieste but   of  a   number   nf   other   issue*
New Haven. Conn -The entire New Haven Fire De¬ partment was called out tonight to fight a five-alarm fire which start¬ ed in a wholesale grocery ware¬ house and threatened to engulf an entire square block on the out¬ skirts of the city's business district.
The  fire  started  shortly  after  7 p. m. in the Hodes Brothers grocery
warehouse and spread to the build-i before the Big Four, ing of the Tower Electric Co. be-j French Encouraged fore it was brought under control French quarters were encouraged short./ before 11 p. m. by 11 cn-i^^^^,,,^ jW ministers had not gine   companies. ^  .    ,    . Itaken   anv  aggressive   attitude   to-
No one was injured hut  damage ,^.^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^„^ ^ad exhibited
was    estimated    at    »K50,000.     The
signs  of realizing  that  failure    to
blaze    destroyed    niore    than   two    ^ '       j  ^^ j        tj,^ ^ m^o .
"f.",n*'    """    "^T''carloads   of   canned   goods,   sugar!?f.\" ufti   20  years   earlier ;^„d  ^„ff„   delivered  yesterday   to f"^""^' King Faud, father of   ^^    warehouse. '        I    The
6.000,000 AUTO OUTPUT CALLED A PIPE DREAM
Valley Already Has Consolidation
Nearly every time the ques¬ tion of consolidating some valley towns with Wilkes - Barre - to make one big city — the effort has   been  defeated.
But, in a manner which Is purely unofHcial. Wyoming Valley nas consolidated with Wilkes¬ Barre but it only works one way. . . , It's working that way again on sewage disposal and the Veterans'  Hospital.
Read   today's   Editorial   Paga.
Detroit, June 22 (UP)-The auto¬ mohile industry's forecast of n.000,000 cars annually for the next j five years was called a "pipe dream " tonight by Walter P Reu¬ ther, president of the CID United Auto Workers.
ministers.   It   was    learned, A pall of smoke covered a square|hope to start discussing the satel- mile of the business district. ' (Continued  on   Page  A-2)
500 mph Jet Planes Sfart out World's Fastest Mail Service
Dayton, and one to Mayor Edward Kelly in Chicago. 1910 Speed Compared
He  said  the post-war production |,„iip,   o^   hour  ca'rrvine   lettera   to L ¦* '.''''¦'l.i''' ""^   from New York boom will end before it starts "un-^'^ ! ,'^\   °\\,    ,   ^ . r.    .      F''^ '" ^""""y '"  ^* minutes and
Schenectady. N  Y . June 22. (UP)
¦¦^ojet  planes  streaked out of
Schenectady   today   at   almost   500
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less the prices of automobiles are sharply and Immediafely nduced, unless the general inflationary trend of our econon ' is curbed ind unless other steps are taken to ad¬ just upwards the purchasing power of the great mass ol American consumers."
"By 1947 the indust; v will be back In the pre-war rut of seasonal part-time production — production geared to the needs of the people and   the   economic   health   of   the I
Ination," Reuther aaid.
official.') in Washington. Dayton Ohio, and Chicago in the fastest mail delivery yet known through¬ out tho world.
The first P-80 "Shooting Star." leavine Schenecladv. at 12;18 ED'T, whooshed into Washington al 12:05 EST, making the 392 mile trip In 49 minutes, wilh a letter for President Truman from Assist¬ ant Secretary of War. W. Stuart Symington. Its average speed was 480 miles per hour.
The   .second,   carried   a   letter   to
I Orvllle Wright, pioneer airman, in
20 seconds. The pilot, Capt. Martin L. Smith. Cato, Mo., said a slight headwind delayed him. In 1910 Glenn Curtiss fiew the same rout* in two hours and ."il minutes and won a $10,000 prize for speed.
Smith's plane flew on to Schen* eclady, landing here for twe minutes   after  buzzing   Albany.
Symington described the feat- part of an Army air show—"aa on* more step in our proclamation ttt the American people that our strength In the air will decid* tlM destiny ot our country."
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