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U. S. Fleet Is Backing Its Policies
Powerful Force in Mediterranean Controls Lines of Supply—If They Should Be Needed
Chsutauqua, N. Y., J"Iy A" 'Y^' —Th* navy'a powerful Mediter¬ ranean Fleet U being kept on the move to back up American foreign policlca In that troubled area, the vice-chief of naval operationa aaid ioday.
"In the event of tudden war with \ European po\ver. it ia thia same fleet with its control of the ieas which would enable us to reinforce kitd supply American troops and clvillanp, or to evacuate them," Vice Adm. Arthur W. Radford »ald. ShowH the f1a«
Reciting: the navy'e rol* In diplomacy, Radford told the dia¬ mond jubilee cdeta-atlon oif the Chautauqua Instittitlon that the jcto U done v«ry simply—"by showing the flag" In foreign porU.
"Foreigners realize that the full strength of American might will not be used unless there has been a previous political catastrophe," Radford said. "However, they have a different Impresaion of ships which are capable of landing Mar¬ ines to spike local troubles."
People in foreign ports viewing American »hip.i. planes and guns, he added, understand the "punitive possibilities" of ships which can pin-point a target without setting off anothcf war.
"In backing up our diplomacy, the navy, with its possi1>iIUIea for local precise action, can break up small incidents befor* they mush- rootn Into catastrophic size," Rad¬ ford a.issrt<^d. "Tlii* consideraoion is what motivates much of tffe activities o* our restless Mediter¬ ranean fleet."
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Radford aaid the size of the pres¬ ent navy gives the United States a "superb instrument for backing up our  diplomacy."
"Our task forces are America's modern Minute Men," he stated. "We can depend upon them to dis¬ play seapower for peace at any time in any part of the word."
Radford's «trongly-worded review nf the nav}''s role and strength also included these points:
l.--The navy 1# not "loipeided," although carriers will deliver the "Sunday punches" in any future war.
2.—Tnr navy has Improved on Germany's wartime submarines.
3.-Experiments with submarines Indicate that th» he«t defense against a submarine attacker may be aiiotiier tuomarine ttattllng un¬ der water, "like giant fishes."
4.-Push-button warfare "atHl be¬ longs in the realm of fantaatlc magazine stories."
TlVO Valley People Are Hearing lOO-Year Mark
ELLIOTT ROOSEVELT TAGGED FOR SPEEDING
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., July 10 (i;P) —Elliott Roosevelt ia scheduled to appear next Saturday night before Justice of the Peace George Dietz, of the town of Poughkeepsie, to answer a speeding charge.
The late President's son was ar¬ rested yesterday by town Patrol¬ man Vincent Smith, who aaid Roosevelt was driving 60 mile* an hour In a S5 mile zone. Smith said hs was surprised when he read the nam* on Rooeevelt's driving li¬ cense.
Roos«velt r«c*lved traffic tick¬ ets twice previously in Dutchess county. In Jun*, 1M«, h* was given a suspended sentenc* for parking at a bus stop, and the following day he paid $16 for speed Ing.
MBS.  OLDSEY
Wilkes-Barre township on July 26 will honor Its first resident to reach the ag* of 100.
Honored guest at th* community- wide function will b* Mrs. Mar>' Oldsey of 142 South Walnut street, who was born In Theshen, Poland, on July 26, 1848, and came to this country BO years ago.
L^-ttiel Ktirley, who lived for W years in Kingaton before taking up residence in Scranton, also will reach the 100-year mark on Aug. 7.
Mrs. Oldsey nas lived in only one house since coming to this coun¬ try. When she moved into the South Walnut street home in the Warsaw section of the township there were but three homes. To¬ day thia is the most heavily popu¬ lated area of the township. Worka in flarden
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memory and enjoying hearing and vision of a person 60 years young¬ er, Mrs. Oldsey works each day in her little garden and does a good share of the housework.
She visits her physician one* a month and this week upon her re¬ turn told friends that ahe had been pronounced well enough to "even dance" at her century birthday anniversary.
It was only until a few years ago that she discontinued her prac¬ tice of walking to St. Mary's Polish Church on Park avenue, Wilkes- Barre. Now she attends St. Joseph's Church, Georgetown.
Only three of eight children are living. They are Gabrielle, at home; Barney Oldsey, printer at Yordy's Prlntery, and Mrs. Steve Dudock of Georgetown. She has 24 grandchildren, 14 great grand¬ children and thre;e great, great grandchildren. 8how8 Her Memory
Evidence of Mrs. Oldsey's splen¬ did memory was produced last week when she stopped Chester Strobel, township school principal, on thc street, called him by name and recounted incidents of 60 years ago. She also told Mr. Strobel that sho was one of the first customers of hia father, the late Joseph Stro¬ bel, who kept a meat market in Georgetown  for 50 years,
Barkley Taking Lead as Vice-President Candidate
Will Appease Soufh; Civils Righfs Issue Remains Big problem
Philadelphia, July 10. (UP)—It began to look tonight TlSe^'a Truman-Barkley ticket at tha Democratic National Convention.
President Truman was certain to be nominated on th* first ballot, on Wednesday night, as the program now is planned.
Aild sentiment was turning in many party circles to 70-year-old Senate Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky as a vice presidential running mate on whom a good majority could agree.
Leslie Biffle, secretary of the Senate Democratic policy committee,
predicted that Barkley would be nominated for the No. 2 spot. Mr. Truman has not yet given any publio word as to his choice but Biffle said he thought Barkley would be acceptaible to him.
Barkley long has been a favorite for the post among many Southern and border state Democrats. Douglas Refuses
The New Deal wing of the party had been plugging for Supreme Court Justice WiUiam O. Douglas for Vice President if they couldn't get him for President At ha Grande, Ore., however, Douglas said he wouldn't quit his court job to take either nomination.
Some old-line Democratic leaders from states with large Industrial votes, wher* Douglas presumably could attract votes, believed Bark¬ ley would do just as well. And, they flgured, Barkley would be ac¬ ceptable to the South w'Hereas Douglas would not.
Biffle told a reporter that Bark¬ ley's name "certainly" will be placed In nomination. The senator, Biffle added, would bring "great strength" to the Democratic ticket which will flght It out for Novem¬ ber's votes with the GOP's Dewey- Warren ticket. Will Appease SonUi
Acceptance of Barkley by admin¬ istration Democrats might do a lot to bring back Into the fold South¬ ern Democrats who broke with the
Big news events that she rs- Pre.»idcnt over civil rights. In any members during her first years in case, it would not widen the rift this country were the great bliz- as selection of a New Dealer like sard in New York and th<? Johns- Douglas would have.
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Boy on Bike Falls off Wyoming Bridge
A ten-year-old West Wyoming boy, riding a bicycle over a floor- less part of Wyoming Bridge, slipped off the sidewalk and plunged 60 feet lo his death In the Susquehanna River about 3 oclock yesterday afternoon.
Edmund Shemanski, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Shemanski, 527 Shoemaker avenue, was the victim.
Th9 body was taken out of the stream two hours later and at¬ tempts of West Pittston firemen to revive the lad with a respirator were to no avail.
Dr. Sidney Reish. Wyoming ave¬ nue physician, said death was due to drowning.
The boy's father Is a trucker and also   conducts  a smoke shop  and
BERNADOTE FLYING HERE TO REPORT ON PALESTINE
Lake Success, N. Y., July 10 (UP) —The United Nations Security CJouncil today planned to meet Tuesday to hear UN mediator Count Folke Bernadotte, who is en route here by plane from his Rhodes headquarters, make a per¬ aonal and complete report on the Ara* decision to renew the Pales¬ tine war.
UN offlclals said that If the sit¬ uation deteriorated rapidly over the weekend, the Council might go into emergency sessioQ Monday af¬ ternoon, shortly after Bernadotte arrives with his party of eight UN advisers.
However, a British spokesman, reporting that his government was maintaining heavy diplomatic pres¬ sure to get the Arabs to reverse their war decision, doubted there would be any serious flghting dur¬ ing the next few days.
Get Makeup iHan
Democrats Will Be Prettier On Television Screens, Anyway
Philadelphia, July 10 (UP) — Bcience being wonderful, the Dem¬ ocraU are going to look prettier come Monday than the Repub¬ licans did three weeks ago.
Hemember Thorns E. Dewe.v's 5 oclock shadow at 11 a.m.? Trie- vision did that to him. But on the Democrats it's going to be easier.
Having seen the hard jaws, the anemic pusses, the bleached phiz- ***•""' apparently unshaven jowls or Republicans, the technicians of television decided their raw young *" "•'edcd some refining.    •
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out that politicians are better for scaring children than for collecting votes.
King, a 35-flve-year-old with ex¬ pressive eyelashes and skillful Angers, has turned, room 803 of the Bellevue-Stratford headquart¬ ers hotel into a touch-up-for-tele- vision studio.
There the Democrats vill under go    tests    to    determine   whether their mugs  have  any business be ing  televised  or  should  better  be left at home.
How the tests turn out will re¬ main a secret between them and the high priests of television. Pre¬ sumably, however, if science and art have their way, only those with high 'TV-appeal" will be per¬ mitted to go under the fierce and feature-distorting glare of the Klieg lights In Convention Hall. Some Sure to Balk
Some men, the big tough guys that grew up in the gas house diatrict or on the wheatlands of Kansas, are going to shy' like a locoed bronc when King's fluttery fingers fiddle around their faces. • But they needn't think he's out to make them look like sissies. By lo means. There's nothing lacey about using makeup for the tele¬ vision camera, and the he-mert or the hustings needn't be afraid Of what King does to them.
ActuaUy," ho said, "they'll onljj look as though they had a dis- eusUngly healthy tan.
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Tiny Textile Center
Saved by Closing of Dam;
Buildings Left on Brink I
(ionic, N. H., July 10 (UP)—The C3ocheco River bank collapsed to¬ day and this tiny textile center waa threatened with complete destruc¬ tion for 12 hours until an upriver dam was closed, apparently elim¬ inating the danger.
The landslide expanded the 200-foot river bed another 50 feet, swept away the foundation of a garage and 'eft one house perched on the brink of the chasm. Threat¬ ened by the crumbling ground were seven other houses and a Catholic church. Dam Shuta Off Swift Flow
Authorities decided the collapse had been caused by the swift- flowing river and closed a monitor dam a few miies north of Gonic. In two hours the broad Cocheco was reduced to a thin, muddy trickle.
The yawning river bed was lit¬ tered with scattered debris. On the muddy bottom were the re¬ mains of backyard flower and vegetable gardens. Hundreds of trees were uprooted. A gally-ipaint- ed lawn swing rested atop a gnarled tree trunk.
Meanwhile, residents and civil officials worked feverishly erecting barricades along the banks to pre¬ vent the landslide from continuing. However, most believed the danger had passed with th* closing of the dam.
YOUTH WHO CHEATED DEATH TWICE NOW 7
Cheyenne, Wyo., July 10 (UP)— Forrest "Nubbins" Hoffman, who twice won hospital battles against death, will be seven years old to¬ morrow.
His first fight againat a death- threatening kidney ailment in 1944 tugged at the he^rt strings of the nation. His parents, fearing that he would not live, gave him Christ¬ mas a month early that year.
Last December ho was rushed to a Denver hospital again in the same near-death condition from a bljidder obstruction. Nubbins said then he would "fool" th* doctors and live. He did.
restaurant on the Port Blanchard side of th* bridge. It was believed the boy was taking groceries to the business establishment when the tragedy occurred.
Slipped off Footwalk
While th* bridge has been clos ed for repairs a long time, with barrltades on both sides, mine workers use the sidewalk part of the span to get to their employ ment. Young Shemanski was going over the same way on his bike.
State Police investigated and said they believed the rear wheel of the bicycle slipped off the side walk at a point where the bridge is without a floor, plunging the youngster to his death. The floor less area is the distance between two piers. Only a little boy saw the accident and he ran away.
Steve Soltis, a mine worker, was on his way home when he saw what was believed to be a head In the stream below. Another little boy vms on the bridge with a bi cycle and he ran, according to poi Ice, when Soltis Inquired if any¬ one was swimming below. In the middle of the channel. Then the object dropped out of sight Soltis notified the police.
Brings up Body
A little while later John Chmar- ney of RD2, Wilkes-Barre, put a boat out from the Port Blanchard side of the bridge and began to dive in the area just ^elow the bridge. After going down five times, he brought the body up at a point 75 feet down stream short Iy after 5 oclock. The bady was in nine feet of water, State Police aaid.
First aid men from Jermyn- Green colliery worked with the West Pittston crew In an attempt to revive the boy. Police Chief Joseph Shady of Wyoming bor¬ ough as well as men from Wyo ming Hose Co. also lent a hanS. But the body had been in too long. It was also believed that the vic¬ tim strui.'k a pier on his down¬ ward plunge to the river but there was no verification of the latter report.
Five membera of the State Police from Wyoming Barracks were at the scene and one expressed doubt that a more detailed report would be obtained unless they found the other boy.
MUSSOLINI'S SON MEETS WIFE, TWO CHILDREN
Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 10 (UP)—Vittorio Mussolini, son of the late Italian disctator, was re¬ united today with his wife and two children whom h6 had not seen since his arrival in Argentina two years ago.
Ursula Maria Buvoli, Vittorio's 34-year-old wife, and their two children, Adrian, seven, and Guido, 10, arrived aboard the Italian liner Francesco Morosini.
Vittorio, wuo works as a road contractor in Diamante, northern Argentina, met them at the doclc. TheyTiinted that Edda Ciano Mus¬ solini, II Duce'a daughter, wanta to join them in Argentina.
honey of Wyoming was still in the vice presidential running. He said that his name will be placed tn nomination by Gov. Lester C. Hunt of his home state.
A group of Westeran and Mid¬ western Democratic leaders adopt¬ ed a resolution advocating CMa- honcy's election. The grouip in¬ cluded leaders from Colorado, Nebraska, Montana, Wyoming, Kansas, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michi¬ gan, North Dakota and Utah. It was stressed, however, that the resolution was not binding on the more than 200 delegates from thoae states.
Some Northern congressmen have been urging that the ticket should be balanced with a. vice- presidential nominee from one of the big, populous Eastern states. But the desire to try to heal the rift with the Bouth: seemed to be turning many of the leaders toward Barklej'. Civil lUghU Rift
Still vexing the divided Demo¬ crats was^ the civil rights issue. A plank-draftlng subcommittee worked secretly today to find (Continued on Page A-2)
Russian Planes Warned They Fly af Own Risk
Plans for Stunting Won't Stop Airlift Of Food to Berlin
Berlin, July 10. (UP) — The United States warned the Russians today that their planes will be flying at their own risk if they insist on carrying out planned "Instrument maneuvers" along the western Allied air corridors to Berlin which are crowded with American and British transports carrying supplies to the blockaded city.
Simultaneously, an authoritative American spokesman said the U. S. will not knuckle under to a new Soviet order claiming the right to inspect automobiles leaving this blockaded city.
The new American  "get  tough"
Jews Sfrike Swiff ly as Arabs Rejecf Truce Plan
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James Roosevelt Called 'Hypocrite', Scheme a 'Disgrace'
Philadelphia, July 10. (UP)—A divided California delegation today refused for the time being to pledge its 64 votes to President Truman at next week's Democratic national  convention.
The delegates at a stormy caucus here also tabled a resolution to oujrt James Roosevelt from his Democratic srtate chalrmanahip be¬ cause of his leadership of the effort to block the nomination of Presi¬ dent Truman  by  the  convention.
The Truman pledge motion was offered by Delegate William M. Malone. He withdrew it after a noisy debate during which many of his colleagues complained It was too early to take sudh  action.
Objecting delegates also argued that under California law the dele¬ gation already is pledged to Mr. Truman, at least on the first ballot. Tempers Flare
The delegates met in a tiny hotel room and tempers grew hot. John P. McE3nery, vice-chairman, offered the motion to fire the lato Presi¬ dent Roosevelt's son from his state party post. He called Roosevelt "a hypocrite" and his stop-Truman efforts a "disgrace."
After voting to table the Roose¬ velt motion, the delegates debated Malone's proposal. They were not, however, in any mood to agree, and   Malone   withdrew   It.
Delegation Chairman John F. Shelley ruled the anti-Roosevelt motion out of order but permit¬ ted a vote later. The delegates tabled it, 40 to 7. When his name was  called, Roosevelt  said   "Pasa."
Before recessing the delegates approved resolutions asking party platform planks calling for repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, for federa¬ tion aid to education, enactment of President Truman's civil rig4its program, U. S. support of Israel, public housing as proposed in tihe Taft-Wagner-EUender housing bill rejected by Congress, and govern-j ment spending for irrigation andi reclamation.
The Californians postponed, how¬ ever, consideration of a tidelands oil plank. The delegation is split on whether such lands should be-| long to the federal government orl to the state. \
McEnery earlier had criticized the son of the late President for acting as spokesman of tihe Cali; fornians and for being a leader in the pre-convention drive to block Mr. Truman's nomination. "Damnable  Disgrace"
At the caucus he called Roose¬ velt's anti-Truman activities "a damnable disgrace." And as Roose¬ velt sat silent in a corner of the jammed room, McEnery labeled him "a hypocrite beyind the shadow of  a   doubt."
Roosevelt had been a strong sup¬ porter of Gen. Dwight D. Eisen¬ hower for the Democratic presi¬ dential nomination until the gen¬ eral issued bis flat "no" statement yesterday.
McEnery said Rooaevelt had tied California Democrats "to the con¬ servative South, Boss Hague of New Jersey and the KeUy-Nash machine"  of C^hlca^o.
Tel Aviv, Israel, July 10 (UP)- Jewish troops in tanks and armor¬ ed cars captured the big interna¬ tional airfield at Lydda in one hour today while Israeli warplanes pounded Arab troop concentrations in Syria and southern Palestine.
The Israeli government accepted a proposal to extend the truce agreement for 10 days, but the Arabs rejected the plan, and hos¬ tilities were reported throughout the Holy Land. Israel Accepts
Israel announced its acceptance of the short-term truce extension in a note sent by Foreign Minis¬ ter Moshe Shertok to th* United Nations at Lake Success, but Ab¬ dul Rahman Azzam Pasha, secre¬ tary general of the Arab League, said in Cairo that the Arabs had rejected the proposal.
"If we refused the truce exten¬ sion while United Nations observers were in Palestine," Azzam said, "how (Xnlld we accept it now when the observers have left?"
Kleanwhile, Jerusalem rocked un¬ der its heaviest bombardment of the Palestine war as the Jews in¬ troduced their secret "King David" heavy mortars and the Arabs laid down a barrage with 25-pounders. Casualties were light, however.
A Jewish communique said 300 Egyptians were killed during heavy fighting in the Negev, and an \rab source in Beirut said 250 J.'ws were killed in a 36-hour battle be¬ tween Nazareth and the Lebanese frontier. A communique from the Trans-Jordan Arab Legion said Jewish forces suffered 25 casual¬ ties in another skirmish near Je¬ rusalem.
Lebanese sources in Beirut said an Israeli striking force was dis¬ astrously defeated while trying to cut Arab commimications between Nazareth in northern Palestine and the Lebanese border.
Dispatches from Amman, Trans
Jordan, said a Jewish center was set afire near Bab El Wad, north¬ west of Jerusalem, and that Jew¬ ish units approaching Bab El Ead were repulsed with heavy Jewish casualties. CaU "One-Sided"
Arab leaders in Cairo said the 10-day truce extension proposed by UN Mediator CJount Folke Berna¬ dotte was "unworkable and one sided." They said fighting would continue until the Arab League's political committee reaches a for¬ mal decision on the proposal.
The Israeli government, it was learned, has consented to the short term truce extension, but its troops moved with precision to cap¬ ture the Lydda airfield without los ing a man, according to an offi¬ cial Jewish communique.
Bernadotte, his desperate appsal for   a  truce   extension   apparently doomed, was en route to Un head quarters  at  Lake  Success  to  dis cuss the problem with United Na¬ tions officials.
DOUGLAS NO CANDIDATE BUT SILENT ON DRAFT
Portland, Ore., July 10. (UP)— Supreme Court Justice Williain O. Douglas tonight disavowed ambi¬ tions for either the presidential or vice presidential Democratic nom¬ inations, but refused to commit himself on the possibility of ac¬ cepting a draft for either office.
Douglas, who motored here from La Grande in eastern Oregon this afternoon, said he would not quit the Supreme Court for party nem- inatlon.
"I have not been a candidate, am not now a candidate and will not become a candidate either for the presidential or the vice presi¬ dential  nomination,"  Douglas  said.
"Does that mean you would not accept a draft?"  he  was  asked.
"You may draw your own con¬ clusions."  he  replied.
He said earlier at La Grande he did not plan to resign from the court.
BLIND GIRL ADVERTISES FOR 'GOOD' HUSBAND
Bcarbro, W. Va., July 10. (UP)- A 23-yeBr-old blind girl advertised today for a "good man" who will marry  her «nd  give her  security.
Her only requirements are that he be under 35 years of age and have a steady job.
She Is Julia Yackie. who lost her sight in an automobile accident in infancy. Her father was killed in a coal mine accident seven years ago. Her mother is seriously ill with  a heart  ailment.
Julia said the future holds noth ing for her unless she finds a husband. So .far, her classified newspaper advertisement brought only one promising offer, ahe said
CXhers niave called but they could not provide security. One came from a penniless, unemployed man
Valley Scene
Dallas hus driver aaking well- dressed and sophisticated young lady, "Why don't you whistle?" after he almost had missed her signal and had gone well down the road before stopping.
Central eity chimes striking the quarter hour five minutes late all week—to confusion of office workers.
Central city bartender rending news item of record number of cars on the road and comment¬ ing, ".And I can't even find a guy t.i drive me fishing to¬ morrow."
Wyoming applianee company owner studying displays of other firmt in the same busi¬ ness.
tactics came within 24 hours after publication of western protests to the Kremlin, demanding the Soviet Union cease its "intolerable" star- vation siege of Berlin. Plan Instrument Flights
The Russians announced yester¬ day they planned daily instrument training flights along the air cor¬ ridor to Berlin "near air fields and at logical places" without noti¬ fying the Berlin air safety center, which i« supposed to relay Infor¬ mation on planes In the air over Germany. The Russians did not say how long the nuineuvers would continue.
Maj. Gen. W. E. Hall, chief of the armed forces division, said the Russian announcement gave no in¬ dication of what types of planet would be used or when maneuvers would start, but said they would be carried on "from gro\md to 10,500 feet during daylight hours."
American officials said the Rus¬ sian move would endanger th* lives of Allied pilots and might be designed to force a halt in the mass flights of food planes to Ber¬ lin the American reply that the Russians would be risking their own necks if they earry out the maneuvers indicated the gigantic air lift will continue to operate. Reds Protest  Allied  Flights
In another move threatening the air shuttle service, the sole supply Une for 2,500,000 people In western Berlin, the Russians protested to American and British officials against "systematic vioilation of the most elementary air securitv rules."
"In spite of the severe air cata¬ strophe on April 6, which, aa it is known, was caused by the Brit¬ ish, cases of disorderly flights by British planes through the air cor¬ ridors without thc permission of Soviet military authorities and even without information in ad¬ vance are continuing."
The Russian general was refer¬ ring to the April 5 mid-air col¬ lision between a British transport and a stunting Yak fighter plane in which 1! persona, including the Russian pilot, were killed. Britain has biamed the accident on the Russian plane.
"(Concrete cases of severe viola¬ tions -oif air safety rules by British planes were noted in April, May and July." the letters said, "and were protested by Soviet Lt. Gen. Mihal Dratvin on April 15, April 199. May 5 and June 10. "However, British authorities have not taken the necessary measures to protect air safety."
Gen. Nevil Brownjohn, British deputy governor, described the Russian letter as "the same routine protest they send us every three weeks or so. I attach no particular significance to this one." he added.
B3arlier, American officials had shown no excitement at the Rus¬ sian announcement of air man¬ euvers believing they would report each flight to the Berlin air safety center. U. S. Won't Permit Inspections
The authoritative American spokesman, outlining the U. S. at¬ titude to the Russian "Inspection" order.-jiaid^"by international agree¬ ment we have the right cf free access to Beriln. That does not mean we will allow ourselves to be subjected to Russian inspections. We  will  never agree to that.''
The spokesman pointed out that precedent was set by Gen. Lucius D. Clay, American commander in Germany, in early April when he attenipted to inspect trucks and refused to comply with Russian trains coming into Berlin from the western occupaticn zonfes.
(In Woodford, England, wartime Premier Winston Churchill warned that if the Russians do not yield in the Berlin crisis a shooting war may result. He described the wait for Moscow's reply to the western Allies' notes as "our an.xious hour." (See Page A-12.)
There was no comment from Rustian sources here on the publi¬ cation of the protest notes by the western governments. The Russiaa- (CJontinued on Page A-2)
Qarain Market Skids
See End of Food Shortage, High Prices in Big Crop
Chicago, July 10. (UP>--Grain i prices skidded on the Chicago Boafd of Trade today because ex-! perts predicted that bumper corn and wheat crops will soon end the^ world food shortage. U. S. Depart¬ ment of Agriculture forecasts of a near record wheat crop and the biggest corn crop in history forced the prices downward. Ck)rn tum¬ bled below $2 a bushel.
Grain traders said bumper crops would  mean the end of the ivorld food shortage and an eventful de¬ cline In U. S. meet prices, Need "Consumer Boycott"
But there was no sign yet of lower meat prices. Livestock and wholesale meat were selling for the highest prices ever. Agriculture department officials said only a "stiff consumer boycott" could head off   the   upward   spiral.
Tb«  Department  of  Agriculture
estimated this year's corn crop at 3,326.862,000 bushels and the com¬ bined sipring and winter wheat crops   at   1.241,451,000   bushlls.
If the forecasts prove true, traders said there was no doubt that the short supply which has characterized American agriculture for t.ie last several years will dis¬ appear this fall. They said that if production meet« expectations, the countiy may find itself with un¬ wieldy surplui. Can C^t Europe's Shortage
A Department of Agriculture spokesman said it would iake sev¬ eral years to restore the European food supply to normal. But it seemed almost certain the U. S. output, combined with the first heavy European -crops, would go <i long way toward achieving the gcal.
Some traders, however, were in-1
clined to consider tlie Agricultui^ estimates "entirely too optimistic." They pointed out the flgurea wer* baaed on "near perfect" crop con¬ ditions. Anything could happea before the corn is harvested, they said.
But the grain miirket was in^ fluenced by the department's pr«- • dictions. Ojrn futures feM below 12 per bushel at Chicago, marking n drop of more than 20 oents la the lost seven trading days.
Wheat, which has resisted ths downward trend, gained up to H ot a cent a bushel in July, Sep¬ tember and December deliveriea Traders said liberal buying for ex¬ port cushioned any downward trend and prevented prices from slipping. Oats closed H lower, Mf beans  3Va  lower.
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