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42ND YEAR,  NO. 47 — 48 PAGES
ITNTTKD   PRESS
Win  New* Herrle*
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1948
PRICE TWELVE CENTS
Communists, deCaullists Clash in Southern France
—Ac«   Hoffman
Senator Alben W. Barkley. Democratic vic«-i)re8ldentl8J candidate, is seen delivering the opening address of a two-week campaign tour yesterday aftemoon at Artillery Park. He spoke to a joint labor rally.
Seen third from left In the first row Is former c:ongressman Daniel J. Flood, who was one of the principal speakers. At Flood'^ left Is C. B, Newell of Bethleiiem. regional director for United Steel- workers, who served oe chairman. Newell Is a Kentucky native and an old friend of the Kentucky senator. •
On Senator Barkley's right is Lewis G. Hines, legislative representative of AFL at Washington and former State secretary of labor in th* cabinet of former Gov. Arthur H. James. On Senator Barkley's right is Davis J. McDonald, International secretary-treasurer of United Steelworkers of America, CIO.   Hines and McDonald also were speakers.
Small Opens
Crowd as Barkley Campaign Here
1 Dead, 20 Wounded In Street Fighting
Paris, Sept 18 (UP)—One person was killed and at least 20 others were wounded when Communists and deGaullists battled and exchanged shots at Grenoble in Southern France today, police reported.
Dead was one Communist sympathizer who was shot near the heart in a clash with deGaullists In a Grenoble suburb as (Sen. Charles deGaulle drove through this morning.
The wounded, including two policemen, were casualties of a bloody skirmish that broke out between the two extremist factions after deGaulle spoke at CHty Hall nists   threatened  to  break  up  the
Truman Raps
.Slauhing at the RepubiicdJi party I challenge to his Republican oppo- for itl corruptness on a local level nent to make the same statement and i's concern only for special Flood also charged that his oppo- interests on a national level. Demo-1nent would have nothing to say rratlc and labor leaders, tieaded byiaboOt bis «Ste unless gelling pei- Senator Alben W. Barkley, yester- mission from "his political "boss." day afternoon spoke to a joint] y^^^ former Democratic congress- APL-CIOBrolherhood labor rally j^^n |„ further attacks on Luzeme at Artillcr>- Park that was at-' (ended by about 500 persona.
.Senator Barkley's most powerful .•(Wipe at the Republicans came wtien he categorically stated that "If the leadership of the SOth Con¬ gress had taken a firm stand against inflation and had imple- inf-nted It with the proper legisla¬ tion, we would have had a far more stable Europe today and the tlireat of Osmmunism would have been driven back still further."
The attendance cauaed consider- uhle comment  wiih many  persons
of   nil   political   faiths   fxpreaaing you keep your eyes open. til* opinion that the veteran Ken-'
Highlights of Barkley Speech
Following   are   highlights   from
county     registrations     said     that the address given by Senator Alben
registration cards are atill  flying w. Barkley of Kentuckey at Artll-
around" but not for Dem:crats. He charged that every registered Dem¬ ocrat is chocked weekly, but that on the Republican lists there are "40,000 false, phony and dead names."
In an open admission of the weakness of the Luzerne county Democratic organization. Flood said Ueve labor would have to give a hand, as would every>ne else, because "80 to 75 known corrupt election boards In  the  county will  operate   unless
lucky .senator and statesman de ,«erv»d a better reception despite :!ie political purpose of his visit. CX)P headquarters said it had men with counters posted in the park and they reported a tot.&l attendenre of 378 perstona. Persons in charge of the rally said "leaf than 1.000" while newsmen from out-^f-town papers and press as- .sociations said it looked like "about ,".00."
Enthuslas:ic applause and atten¬ tion marked the amall crowd, who greeted th« Democratic vice-presl- Inntial candidate with a rousing walcome that belied the small numbers.
1-. B. Newell of Bethlehem, re- ;,ional director of District 9, United Steelworkers, CSO, took immediate
Predicts GOP Support
Declaration lhat millions of Re¬ publicans Tirtll support the Demo¬ cratic ticket from Truman on down oame frcm Lewis G. Hines. who served in former Governor Arthur H. James' cabinet as secre¬ tary of labor and  industry.  Hines,
lery Park yesterday aftemoon:
The talk has been rife of third paties and fourth parties which were operating to defeat the Demo, cratic party in the coming election . . . If the Republicans really be- they are going to win in November, why ar* they so scared now.
and after he had left the city.
Police estimated the Communist crowd at 3,000 and the rightwlng- ers at 20,000.
DeGaulle declared the present middie-of-the road government was "done for in advance." He said also that It might not heed his demand for a general election.
"In that case we shall do as we did   In   1940—restore   the   republic ourselves," DeGaulle stated. Queuille Asks Unity
In Paris, Premier Henri Queuille asked for national unity and said that failure of the National As¬ sembly to approve his new econo¬ mic program would threaten the continued existence of parliamen¬ tary government
French labor, which bitterly op¬ poses the Queuille plan of more taxes and no wage Increases, threatened to revolt against it and 1.—Tied up 19 mail rail liners for two hours In a protest strike at Lyons: 2.—Cut off power In Paris and suburbs in a series of brief token strikes; 8.—Said all truck drivers may go out Indefinitely and filling stations close If the gasoline tax is approved.
The Grenoble exchange of gun¬ fire climaxed a day tiiere of spor- adic fights between Ck>minunists and deGaullists. They were the fiercest outbreaks yei between the two factions
Special police reinforcements rushed to Grenoble when C!ommu
deGaulle   demonstration   finally quelled  the rioters,  but not  before three   jeeps   of   deGaulle'*   body¬ guards were set afire. Bloody Fighting
Report* from Grenoble said CJom- munists and deG&ullists, shouting insults, engaged in bloody fist fight until police succeeded In driving a wedge bettween them.
The Ck>mmunists staged a coun¬ ter-demonstration as deGaulle spoke to an estimated 20,000 in front of the city hall. When de¬ Gaulle concluded, the two extrem¬ ist factions boiled toward each other as they did once before at Marseilles.
The (General's speech was brief and ended an eight-day campaign through soutliern Franc* during which he appealed for a new gen¬ eral election and sought support for his Rally of French People (RPF) In the forthcoming muni¬ cipal elections.
The wartime leader denounced the present middle of the road government as "done for" and charged the French CJommunlst party was plotting against the state.
Some 3,000 Communists took part in the counter-demonstration near city hall, Grenoble reports said. Later the (Ommunlsts paraded the main streets, shouting, "down with De Gaulle."
Political observers said middle (Continued on Page A-2)
The Republican leaders know that they are the minority party. They know that they deserve to be the minority party because the repre¬ sent a minority of the people whose spokesmen are, the Grundeys, the Pews and the special Interests. They   know   that   they   can   win
national legislative representative , „ , ^^ .. „ „„„„i„ „» »u. ti_u S for the AFL, said he was appearing °"'y ^"en the people of the Unitea as a life-long member of the Re-(^^States are asleep or are lulled Into publican party and that his pres-! a false security by honeyed words
Stern Gang Outlawed For Bernadotte Death
ence at the rally could be con¬ structed "as symbolic of the re¬ sentment on the part of many of millions of Republicans against the reactionary leadership that has gained control of the national Re¬ publican  party.
Hines, who said President Wil¬ liam Green had asked him to urge Luzerne county to return Flood to
rognizance of the small attendance Congress also said In part with a biting assertion that al- ...^^ roacUonary leadership of' ti.ough the mines were workingL^p Republican partv permitted on the sixth day after "n an-jt^e enemies of organized labor to the min- ^^^^ legislation   that was  inimical
nounced  five-day  policy ers fven in the bowels of the earth would  get  the  light"  on  the  prob¬ lems   facing  labor   in   the   coming national election." "Criminal Conspiracy"
Although he followed Senator Barkley on the program. Atty. Daniel J, Flood, Democratic con- greasional candidate, brought a lot of the persons wbo started to leave back to their seats with a stinging charge that the much flaunted registration majority of the (30P In Luzerne county is there only because the registration de¬ partment is guilty of the "greatest criminal conspiracy in the history of the county."
He also touched on the attend¬ ance by telling the crowd "that .vou came here of your own free will, you were not driven here," He tied this statement in with an as-wrtion that those attending (30P meetings can't always say that.
"If elected I will vote for the repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act." flood said. Halted by applause on this statement he continued with a
to the best Interests of our peo pie. This legislation took the form of the Taft-Hartley Act which w«a conceived by the National Associa¬ tion of Manufacturers, also pre¬ pared by them, and received a favorable vote in accordance with the Instructions issued by the high command, despite the fact that lesa than 15 per cent of the mem¬ bers of CJongress, who voted In favor of the Taft-Hartley Act were fully aware of the contents of this Act
"One of GOP's foremost spokes¬ men, former Governor Stassen of Minnesota, in his Detroit speech just recently, carrying out the propaganda line of the reaction¬ ary leadership of the Repulican Party, had the affrontery to at¬ tempt to  say  to  million  of  union
or false and spurious issues.
Labor will vote In the coming elections because it has seen Ita rijjlits and privileges, fought for and obtained over the long stretch of tne years, attacked and reduced by a RepubUcan dominated Con¬ gress.
Recently someone called the Re¬ publican party the political arm of the National Association of Manu¬ facturers. When one compares the legislative program of this associa¬ tion with the program of legisla¬ tion completed by the recent Re¬ publican Congress, It Is obvious that the comparison Is not without merit.
This organization conducted a $3 million advertising campaign to de feat ail forms of price control.
I have no objection of men In the professions in business or industr>' forming associations for all legal and legitimate purposes. What I do object to is the use of the power of such groups or organiza¬ tions In controlling or attempting to control the economic or social policies of their government for selfish purposes.
President   Truman  gave  the
men and women throughout thei leadership of the Republican Con- oountry that labor has faired bet- gress one last chance to do some- ter .since the enactment of the thing about inflation. He called it Taft-Hartley Act. I into special session the latter part
"There   you   have   It   again,   thejof July. It gave him  only an  In- attempt   to   create   the   Impression \ finitcsmal part of the legislation he
(Continued on Page A-2)
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recommended. What it gave him was a slight curb on the consumer credit involved in the purchase of such things as automobiles, radios and other similar articles.
In view of this record, the Ameri¬ can  people ought to  know that if they refurn a Republican Congress steel   mesh   and   interspersed   with I and elect a Republican as President burglar alarm wires. 'f' the United States, they will have
If   a  safe-cracker   cleared   those j no '"ight to complain at what they hurdles, he still would face an in-j get from such an administration, side strongbox of six-ply laminated i
ite Millions in State Balance uge Vault Is About Bare of Cash
0y MOREY J. POTTER | covered   with   a  two-foot   layer  of
United   Press   Staff   Correspondent tough    concrete,    reinforced    with
Harrisburg, Sept. 18 (UP)—The Pennsylvania SUte government's cash balance stood today at tl20,- 660.445.21.
But Treasurer Ramsey S   Black admitted   as   we   approached   the ^*-^"- Some of the steel layers are   ip-r   nKINTFRRATF^ treasury's massive valut that therel^''''¦"*"y   impervious   to   blow;-"-'    uioim i i-wnM i i.«», wasn't enough money inside to buy '      " H   file   clerk's   lunch.
On the way into the vault, we passed a 110-ton revolving door walked past tear-gas jets and gun PorU down a cage-lined corridor nig enough for a tennis court. Well Protected
The vault is 35 feet below the basement floor of the $5,500,000 State    Finance    Building,   and    Is
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Every hour, around the cloclt, a Dallas. Tex. Sept. 18 (UP)-An guard calls from the vault tele-1^-84 army jet plane disintegrated phone. Anv time the guard fails|today while flying more than 600 to call within 31 minutes time, day •""^s «" hour at low altitude, but or night, Sundays and holidays, the pilot escaped without serious police squads head for the vault,'"JUO' when he was cataplted out on the run. and parachuted mto a lake.
Black,    a    former    Pennsylvania 1    Upwards  of  15,000  persons   saw
Railroad conductor, told mt- only two other men know the safe com¬ bination — Arthur K. Fickling, director of the treasury's bureau of securities, and Harry J. Troxell, head of the vault crew of coupon clippers.   Ofificials  of  the  company
the incident at Hensley air base, where the jet was participating in an Air Force Day show.
Col, John P. Kenny, commanding officer of Hensley, identified the pilot as Lt. William Hart of Walker air base. Roswell, N .M. Hart suf-
that installed  the  safe in 1938 do:fered shock and a miner cut above
not   have   the   combination,   Black an eye.
said. i    J.   W.    Faliis,    fishing   from    a
Tel Aviv, Israel, Sept 18 (UP)— Israel today outlawed th* Stem group, accused assassins of UN mediator, C!ount Folke Bernadotte. Some 400 Sternists wero arrested and scores of the gang's hideouts were  raided by police.
Th* cabinet met In emergency session tonight to map even more drastic action against the terror¬ ists who killed the peacemaker the nations of the world aent to Pales¬ tine to mediate between Jews and Arabs.
An offlcial government statement denounced the killers as "insane . , . gunmen, traitors to the people and enemies of Its liberty."
Hazit Hamoleuth, (Fatherland Front,) a splinter group of the Stern terrorists, boasted to UN offlcials In Jerusalem and foreign diplomats here. In no^s «ent last night, that "we killed Bernadotte because he worked for the British and carried out their orders." Damage Soviet Car
Despita the Stemist boast, a street crowd here swarmed over a Soviet embassy car today, tear¬
ing off a Russian flag and doing some damage to the car before police drove it off.
Sternists last night warned James MacDonald, U. 6. Ambassa dor to Israel, to get out of the country because "you are not wanted here." MacDonald reported the threat to Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok and a heavy army guard was placed around his house.
The government cancelled all visas. No one was allowed to enter or leave the country as a national dragnet sought Nathan Friedman Yellin, Stem group leader, fellin was last seen In Tel Aviv Thursday and is now believed in Jerusalem.
Ychezkiel Saharov, Inspector gen- eral of police, said he was sure that the "crime was perpetrated by Lehi (Hebrew name of the Stem group)." But he added that the letters signed by the Fatherland Front appeared to be  "phoney."
This correspondent is now free to report that Bartley Crum, pub¬ lisher of the New York Star, told (Continued on Page A-2)
U.S., SAYS S[N. MARTIN
Charges Democrats Gave Peace to Stalin After 'We Won War'
Greensburg, Pa., Sept. 18. (UP)— Sen. Edward Martin, R., Pa., said today that Republicans "must con¬ vince the American people that continued Democratic appeasement of Communists at home and over¬ seas threatens our safety and security."
Speaking at an organization meeting of the Westmoreland county Republican committee, Mar¬ tin charged that President Tru¬ man "has blocked those who are working to eliminate disloyalty and treason from important places In our government."
"Mr. Truman," Martin said, took the {|ame attitude when for¬ mer (3overiior of Pennsylvania, CJeorge H. Earle, warned him about the growing danger of Commun¬ ism at home and abroad. That was back in February of 1947, and
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Says Their Leaders Lack the Imagination To Prevent Depression
Boston, Sept. 18. (UP)—Presi¬ dential candidate Henry A. Wallace charged tonight that the Republi¬ cans and Democrats are leading the United States "not only to war and depression but to totalitarian¬ ism."
In a speech prepared for a paid, police-guarded political rally at Boston Garden, Wallace aaid that "only the program of the Progres¬ sive Party can save our country from disaster." 44) Policemen on CTuard
Forty Boston  policeman,  briefed to  control   any   egg-throwing   out¬ burst   such   as   marked   Wallace's recent southern tour, were assigned to  patrol   the   Garden.    The   force was   expanded   from   30  when   the Socialist   Party   of   Massachusetts announced    it   would    picket    the rally. Wallace  said   the  "hour  is  late, Mr.   Truman   replied t     'People  are but Progressive victories in Novem- wrought  up about the COmmunistjber  can   mean   the   difference  be- bugaboo  but I am  of the opinionjtween   prosperity   and   depression;
that the country Is perfectly safe as far as COmmunIsm Is concern¬ ed.' "
Costly Appeasement
"If It were not for the appease-
between peace and war."
"The Progressive Party," he said, "is going all out to prevent a Truman-Dewey depression — a de- presS'ion which would make the Hoover depression look like a very ment 6f Joe Stalin by the present' small one indeed." and the preceding Democratic ad- As for C3ov, Thomas E. Dewey ministrations we would not be pay-'of New York, he said his Repub ing such a terrible price today," lican opponent for the presidency Martin said. "If it were not fi> is the "perfect example of what the appeasement of Joe Stalin,  it I  mean by men  who  don't  know
would  not be necessary for  us  to spend  billions  of dollars  In   Mar
I    When any of Ihe three men who motorboat puUed Hart out of thejshall  Plan  money  to  prevent  the i (Continued on Page A-2) 1 water. (ConUnued on Page A-3)
how to keep America g^ng with¬ out plotting for war." President Truman,  he sisid,  uses .(continued on Page A-2)
B-29's Raid U. 5. from Bases All over World;
GOP Policies -?«'««"'* f^^ '"'P-^: To Farmers
Charges Opponents Stirring up Cities Against the Farmers; Warns of Boom, Bust
Dexter, la, Sept. 18 (UP)—Presi¬ dent Truman made his bid today for middlewestern farm support with a campaign doctrine alleging that Republicans are "gluttOns of privilege" dedicated to Wall Street instead of the people.
Mr. Truman on the first big stop of his big western tour In quest of reelection, spoke befor* a sun-bak¬ ed cornfield audience of more than 70,000 persons.
After a hectic morning of plat¬ form speeches across Iowa, he climaxed his farm-belt tour with a 3,000-word indictment of Repub¬ lican agricultural policies. He ap¬ peared before spectators at the sixth annual national plowing match here, 40 miles from Des >,foine,?. .,»,
The President left Washington yesterday with a promise to "give 'em hell" during the course of an 18-state campaign swing. Today, it was easy to see what he meant. ¦Fork in Farmer's Back'
For one thing, he said Republi¬ can members of COngresa—"tools" of Wall Street—had "stuck a pitch¬ fork In the farmer's back."
As his campaign train rolled through the lush cornbelt on a tour that will take him through 18 states by Oct. 2, Mr. Truman rose before dawn to mount his attack at whistle stops along the way to his major appearance here.
He asked the farmers gathered here to recall the depression of the early thirties, and to put the blame for it on the Republican party. He warned his audience of "boom and bust cycles — with the accent on bust."
"How many times do you have to be hit on the head before you find out what's hitting you?" he asked. "It's about time that the people of America realized what the Republicans hav* been doing to them."
He charged that the "slick pro¬ paganda of Wall Street" has been used in an attemp "to stir up the city consumer agalnat the farmer by downlrght dishonesty."
As evidence of this, he said, the Republicans have attacked "the (Continued on Page A-S)
Washington.    Sept Forty-nine    B-29's United States from bases stretch¬ ing half way round the world today In the Air Force's greatest demion- stration of strategric bomber range.
The  global  birthday party,  cele¬ brating thc first anniversary of an
18 (UP)—I Another B-29 flew the Japan- raided" the Minneapolis 5.666-mile course, long¬ est of the day, tn 23 hours and 30 minutes. This gave the ahlp. commanded by Capt. 'William A. Buckley, Reseda, Cal,, an average speed of about 240 miles per hour. Its  elapsed time  compared  favor-
independent Air Force,  covered  a;ably  with   that  of  B-29's  making
quarter o<f a million miles of B-29 flying. It was climaxed by preci¬ sion timing of the Superforts' ar¬ rivals at 25 cities across the nation.
At Boise, Ida. the 48th and 49th ships came to rest on the airport runways at 6 p. m. (BUT) nine hours after the flrst and second had scored the opening "hits' Pittsburgh this morning.
Giving visible substance to Presi¬ dent Truman's Air Force Day statement that the nation Is "se¬ cure In its own strength" and shows to the world Its "determina¬ tion to maintain the cause of peace," the mighty Superforts sweipt over the United States In criss-cross fashion after flying all night frotn these bases:
Mlsawa, Japan; Shemya, the Aleutians; Anchorage, Alaska; La- gens Air Force Base, the Aaores; Barber's point, Hawaii; Keflavik, Iceland; Cioose Bay, Labors der; Kindley Air Force Base. Bermuda, and Furstenfetdbruck, Ciermany. Great Demonstration
Their performance, a striking demonstration of the potentialities of long-range air attack on this nation via Its Polar and ocean ap¬ proaches topped an Air Force Day program which  also Included:
1.—^Announcement that Maj. Richard L Johnson, test pilot and war ace, has set a new world speed record of 670.981 MPH In an F-8« stock production-model jet—a pre¬ cedent in speed contests.
2.—Disclosure of new details ai>out experimental jet fighters and a sonic research plane now In the ground taxi and flight test sta«e.
3.—Shuttle; flights ever hundreds of cities by mammoth, six-engine B-36 Superforts from the 8th Air Force at    Fort Worth, Tex.
The B-29 "raid" was marked by only one major mishap. It waa thc forced landing In Alaska of a Minneapolis - bound B-29 from Japan. The plane set down gin¬ gerly with one engine on flre, an¬ other dead and its bomb bay tanks leaking.
considerably   shorter   flights.
The Air Force estimated that for all the flights the average deviation from estimated arrival time was only 20 minutes. Many planes were within minutes of predicted   arrival   times.
Besides the 40 ships that made at the "raid" and the one downed In Alaska, several others flew ss "extras" and landed at Roswell Air Fore* Base, N. M.. and other bases. Whether their landings were occasioned by "mechanical difficulties" or other factors was left unanswered at the end of the day. Over 6S0 m.p.h
The new world speed record was established at Muroc Air Force Base, CJal., Wednesday by Maj. Richard L. Johnson, a spunky, 30- year-old test pilot with a dis¬ tinguished  war  record.
Jchn»rn~4fl the ^atn*. filer irtio on Labor Day weekend missed a new apeed record at the Cleveland air races when a (ight-apeed camera failed to record one of hU passes over the official 1.86- mile  course.
At Muroc he had no such diffi¬ culties and easily pushed his F-86 jet fighter to a record without ever approaching Its maximum speed. He topped the 650.796 mph record previously held by Marine Lt COI. Marlon E. C^l In a Navy D-558  Skystreak.
Presdent Truman led the nation In tribute to the air force on the first anniversary of Its Indepen¬ dence. He lald that "with a na¬ tion secure in its own strength. We manifest to the entire world our determination to maintain the cause of peace."
Today also was the first anni¬ versary of the establishment of a National Defense Department Dej fense Secretary James Forrestal suggested in a statement that (t was an appropriate time for the Army, Navy and Air Force "to congratulate each other on their unification for the common good."
BERNADOTTE URGED UN TO ACT ON HOLY LAND
Paris, Sept. 18 (UP) — Count Folke Bernadotte's last letter to the United Nations warned that the Palestine situation had reached an "extremely crucial stage" and called for "urgent action' by the General Assembly, it was an¬ nounced today.
The murdered mediator's letter to UN Secretary General Trygve Lie came with a 36,000-word prog¬ ress report which will be published next week.
Bernadotte's letter appealed to Lie to take personal responsibility for placing the Holy Land question on the Assembly agenda, and call¬ ed for "prompt action" on meas¬ ures to preserve the peace and aid more than  300,000 Arab  refugees.
"I may inform you quite frankly that this report on the mediation effort in Palestine is presented . . . because I am convinced o< the urgency and necessity of action on the question of Palestine," Berna¬ dotte wrote.
Valley Scene
Grood Ifi// ambassadors streaming hack from trip to Canada laden with packages, possibly to appease wives.
Little boy eating hot dog at football game being reminded it was Friday—and dropping the weiner like a hot potato.
Ashley police workinp last night with flashlights, hours after storm had put out street lighting system.
In Ted y's Sp^rt Section
Brooklyn moves to second place In National League with 3-2 triumph over St Louis Browns—B-1.
Lou Boudreau, Jim Hegan homer as Tribe hand Senators 18th straight defeat as Yankees bow   to  Detroit—B-1.
Both   Boston   clubs  win—B-1.
Larksville wins over Nanti¬ coke.  13-0—B-1.
Newport, Wyoming victors— B-2.
Bloomsburg STC sinks Wilkes B-3.
Ashley  nips  Luzerne—^B-1.
Pittston Township clip* Exe- teiv-B-i,
Meet with Molotov for Talk on Berlin
Moscow, Sept. 18 (UP)—U. 8. Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith and the envoys of Britain and France met for two hours and a half today with Soviet Foreign Minister 'V. M. Molctov in what had been scheduled as th* "deci¬ sive" conference on the EJsat-West crisis in Beriln.
FVench Amibassador Yves Cha- tajgneau, British special envoy Frank Roberts and Smith went to the Kremlin at 5 p. m. (10 a, m. mfT) and left at 7:30 p. m. (12:30 p. m. EDT). They refused to com¬ ment or to say whether the nego¬ tiations are progressing or will be continued,
Roiberts and CSiataigneau left the Kremlin fivs minutes earlier than Smith to allow the American ambassador to discuss a minor technical question with Molotov. The question was understood to be of strictly American intereet and not related to the four-power talks.
Tenth Conference
It was the tenth Kremlin confer¬ ence between Russia and the western allies since the thre* western envoys first talked with Premier Josef Stalin Aug. 3.
Befor* going to th* Kremlin, the three envoys met for 30 minutes at the British embassy, after which they were driven to the conference in separate cars through a drizzling rain. When the meeting was over, they drove to the American em¬ bassy to confer before writing their separate reports to their gov¬ ernments.
It was generally believed in Anglo-American circles here that today's meeting would be "decisive" in determining whether a settle¬ ment of the Berlin crisis can be reached at this time. Know Where They Stand
After seven weeks of protracted negotiations, both Russia and the western powers know exactly where they stand on the limited problem of a single currency for the four- power city of Berlin. An agreement in principle on the currency prob¬ lem was reached two weeks ago In a meeeting with Stalin and Molotov.
It waa reported authoritatively at that time that Russia would lift the blockade of Berlin in return for the recognition of the Soviet mark as the only valid currency for Berlin.
German Refugee to Pay to Restart. Sight for Blind Hitch-Hiker
guided Peddicord into th* sleeping car, but the train left before ha could be informed that Karlin would pay for transplanting a new cornea onto his  eye.
Karlin, a wallpaper nvanufac* turer, said he wanted to psy tha cost of the operation becaua* "it is important to help another hu« man  being in distress."
Karlin said he was a refugee whose wife and two daughters had been killed by the Nazis during ,. . . . the war. He said he escaped to He didn't know when he boarded ^^^^ United States, the train that Henry Karlin, a peddicord had hoped to b* ad- Saratoga Springs, N. Y., business- n,jttg<j t,, Columbia Presbyterian man, has offered to pay for the HospiUl in New York on a oharity operation Peddicord needs to re- j,asis. atore his sight. He was blinded 11 m, Qnly Hop* years ago in an explosion. Good Luck Dune Fast
The father of two children ac¬ cepted the offer of the radio pro¬ gram, "We, the People," for an expense-paid trip to New York in
Detroit Sept. 18. (UP)—Clarence Peddicord groped his sightles* way Into tower 8 of sleeping car 3341 cn a fast train to New York to¬ night almost too happy and full of hope to sleep.
For the slight 30-year-old blind man, a weary week of hitchhiking day and night across the nation from Portland, Orcein search of aid for his eyes was over. But he still wasn't aware of the full ex¬ tent of his sudden good fortune.
"That is my only hope," h* aaid. "If I couldn't get in that way, all my efforts would mean nothing." Peddicord started out a week ago from Portland with a lettered suitcase, a week's supply of sand- exchange for an appearance on itsjwiches, and $7. He hitchhiked 24 program. 'hours a day until he reached Chl-
Good luck came almost too fast'cago, where a motorist let him for Peddicord to believe It for 24 j sleep for five houra In his hotel hours   ago  he   arrived  In     Detroit i room.
broke, hungry, but determined to| That was the last bed Peddicord. hitch-hike the rest of the way to saw until he reached Detroit New York in hope of getting a where the radio show arranged to free operation on his eye*: A  United   Press    corraspoodent
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