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THE COURIER-JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, KY. FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 27, 1946, SECTION 1 A rmy May Ban Sending Cigarettes to Germany U.S. Denies Reds Gave 'Ultimatum' to Ship Washington, Dec. 26 (AP) The State Department said today that the latest information indicated no official Soviet "ultimatum" Was involved in last week's enforced departure of an American naval vessel from the Russian-held naval port of Dairen, Manchuria. Shop, where today the volume of cigarette trading was between 200 and 300 per cent above normal as traders rushed to swap their stores of cigarettes for cameras chinaware, and furs.

Most Go to Berlin. Similar barter shops are sanctioned in Frankfurt and Munich, but most of the personal cigarette imports have been going to Berlin, where the market has been biggest. 9 The investigating committee ranging up to 1,200 marks ($120) per carton of 200 was setting up "a currency competitive to the legal currency," discrediting the legal currency, resulting in "maladjustment of fation goods and legal processes," "taking valuables out of the economy without replacing them." and inducing "undignified" trading for personal reasons on the part of soldiers. A second recommend: tion, already accepted, was to eliminate cigarettes as an item of exchange in any barter, center sponsored by the Army or Military Govern reached the Black Market, where Germans exchanged them for articles otherwise unobtainable. An officer at one of Berlin's three Army Post Offices estimated that parcels coming through his office daily contained about 1,000 cartons.

Some Furnish Homes. He said the volume of cigarette shipments from mail services and private senders had run so heavily the last three months that the staff sometimes had difficulty in handling regular mail. Parcels to individuals ment. This ban goes into effect January 1 at the Berlin Barter A dispatch from William H. Newton, Scrlpps-Howard writer representing the combined world press, reported the refusal of Russian military authorities' to permit an American businessman and two correspondents to land at Dairen from an American vessel which hurriedly left port 2 hours after the expiration of its authorized 48-hour stay.

Newton spoke of a verbal ultimatum by Russian military officials. No 'Fists After obtaining clarification of a "garbled" portion of a report from Consul-General H. Merell Benninghoff at Dairen, a State Department spokesman expressed belief that the Russian "ultimatum" which sped the vessel's departure was not "in any sense a fist-shaking affair." The" spokesman, Lincoln White, department press officer, told reporters that Benninghoff had informed him that the Soviet official in charge of the docks had granted a 2-hour extension of stay to the ship on his own authority. Then, becoming nervous, this official told the ship's officer the vessel must leave or he could not be responsible for the consequences. White explained that this apparently meant that he simply didn't know what the reaction of his superiors might be.

Today's explanation appeared to close the Dairen incident. Red Protest Rejected. In another development with a bearing en Rusian-American relations, the State Department today firmly rejected a Soviet protest over a fight between two Russians and Military Police in Shanghai. The Moscow press gave prominence to this incident after the publicati-ia of reports of the Dairen affair in American newspapers. An exhaustive investigation by American authorities in Shanghai showed, White said, that the Military Police became involved only after the Russians had beaten the driver of an American Army jeep which struck the Russians' car.

Instead of "seeking official intervention," the Russians were said to have pulled out the ignition wires of the jeep and then assaulted the driver, Cpl. Robert C. Carson. The M.P.'s thereupon subdued the Russians with "considerable difficulty." BURMA tfvHlUZON MARIANAS i'-'vY V' Pacific Ocean WSUM.J Vx-1 a Sevrfc Viu. GUAM PHILIPPINES 1 f)) INDOCHINAJ UsV jfyAlUU BRITISH Indian Oceon 2-00 jfJy "AUSTRALIA Byrnes Urged By MacArthur To Visit Japan Possibilities of Tour Doubted By Observers Special to The New York Times and The Courier-Journal.

Washington, Dec. 26. General MacArthur suggested to Secretary of State Byrnes in an exchange of Christmas messages given out by the State Department today that Byrnes visit Japan. In the absence of Secretary Byrnes, who is spending the holidays at Aiken, S. no indication was available as to his Observors believed, however, that he would find it difficult to act on the suggestion, in view of the time he will have to spend in prepar'ng for the peace conference on Germany and Austria in Moscow in March.

To Speak In Cleveland. It was announced also today that Secretary Byrnes will address the International Institute at Cleveland January 11. Sponsored by the World Affairs Council and Time magazine, the institute will consider the questions, "What Do the Nations Expect of the United States?" and "What Can We Do About It?" In his message to General Mac-Arthur, Secretary Byrnes said: "I want to congratulate you on the job you have done in Japan. Every thoughtful American remembers the wonderful service you rendered in the first World War. Your successes in the second World War made ell of us proud of our country and proud of you.

Expresses Need For Visit. "During the past year you have demonstrated that you are a statesman as well as a soldier and I wish you a happy Christmas and true happiness in the year ahead of us." The general replied: "Appreciate deeply your fine message and reciprocate most heartily its cordial holiday greetings. When are you going to come over and see us? Believe if you could do so it would do much to orient American people as to the vital importance of America's interest in the future of the Pacific." Copyright. 19. Tariff Concessions To U.S.

By China Urged New York, Dee. 26 (JP) The Far East-America Council of Commerce and Industry filed a brief today with the State Department's Committee for Reciprocity Information, urging tariff concessions by China on American export products and a corresponding lowering of U. S. tariff barriers on noncompetitive Chinese commodities. The brief was filed in connection with the State Department's plans to negotiate a trade agreement with China.

Britain Expected to Ask U. N. For Ruling In Albanian Dispute THE ENCIRCLED AREA it East Indonesia, which has been state in the second step in the formation of a United States of Dutch recognition of the Indonesian Republic (1) in Java, islands. The third step will be "taken soon when statehood is The status of New Guinea (3) will be settled later. French Charge Rebels In Indochina With Posing As Friends While Plotting London, Dec.

26 (UP) Great Britain probably will refer to the United Nations Security Council, as a threat to international peace, its dispute with Albania over the mining of the Corfu Channel which resulted in the killing of 44 British officers and men, diplomatic quarters reported today. It was indicated that the Foreign Office was considering the exact procedure to be followed and the specific U. N. Charter articles under which the situation might be raised in the Security Council. Albanian Reply Secret.

Britain sent Albania what in diplomatic language constituted an ultimatum, demanding by last Monday midnight a satisfactory reply to its representations regarding the mining and its demand for compensation to families of men killed. Albania's reply was received Monday, within the time limit. The Albanian note has not been made public. But Belgrade dispatches have reported that it offered only a qualified apology for the incident, denied that Albania put the mines in the strait, and refused compensation. Apparently Albania ignored the AT RELISH ON GOOD FOOD GAS LUNCII ftth Across From Court Haas Open 14 Rears DsIIt Except Sunday estimated that 90 per cent of the cigarettes traded by Americans at the barter center eventually spots in Hanoi, the capital; stopped trains at all grade crossings to cut the city in two; chopped down trees to block traffic; put bombs on the Doumer Bridge; sabotaged Hanoi electric power plants, end attacked the central French-Viet Nam liaison office.

Viet Nam troops also filled the Yersin hospital, pretending to be ill civilians, it was said. Claim Attacks Repulsed. A French High Command communique issued in Saigon said French troops had surrounded the rebels still holding out in the native quarter of Hanoi and had attacked in a number of sectors outside the. city. The French now control the up more than 100 employees while looting the safe.

Meanwhile police were investigating two killings which appeared to have been the result of executions nrdered by. irregular "courts" of Jewish resistance groups and Arab nationalists. Irgun Zvai Leumi posted announcements that it had "tried, and executed" one of its members Christmas Eve "because he was found to be a police spy." Arab Sellinr Land Slain. The bullet-riddled body of a young Jew was picked up in Tel Aviv Tuesday. Police reported the slaying of Emir Mohammed Zeinati by Arabs in Haifa yesterday and said it appeared to have been the result of an Arab "purge." Arab" informants said they thought Zeinati was killed "because he was believed to have sold land to Jews and to have espoused Jew-Arab unity." Crawford Gets New Command.

Tokyo, Dec. 28 (JP) The U. S. today announced Rear Admiral George C. Crawford, Black Mountain, N.

has been appointed commander of Cruiser Division 13 based in the Marianas. Cite Acts Of Treachery Frem Orerseat tWtpetrhaa. A Trench Foreign Office statement yesterday angrily charged the Viet Nam rebels in Indochina with deliberate treachery, asserting that they lulled French authorities Into feeling secure while organizing their outbreak. President Ho Chi Minn of the rebel Viet Nam regime and others were accused of writing French officials, pretending they wanted friendly negotiations, while getting ready to revolt. As evidence of the alleged treachery' the Foreign Office said the rebels mined strategic Berlin, Dec.

26 U. S. oc- tMiratien authorities tonight studied a directive to prohibit the private importation of cigarettes into Germany by American personnel as a means of stamping out the ''cigarette standard" on the Black Market and safeguarding the German economy. A recommendation made to Lt. Gen.

Lucius D. Clay, deputy military governor, by a special investigating board would forbid the importations. Then now run at a rate of about $100,000 a mr-nth, Th? committee reported that the sale and barter by Americans cf cigarettes at inflated values U. S. Repeats Charire French Grabbing Saar Removal of Factory Is Protested Again Berlin Dec.

26 UP) A French-American dispute over French initiative in the rich Saarland vndened today. The Americans declared the French already re-yarded the Saar as a unit apart from their German occupation zone, and demanded again an explanation of recent actions there. Lt. Gen. Lucius D.

Clay, U. S. deputy military governor, asked the French about a report that the big Robert Bosch electrical- parts plant was removed from southern Vuerttemberg into the tSaer. Trench Say Matter Trivate. This was the second time the Americans had asked about the plant- In a meeting of the Allied Control Authority's Co-ordinating Committee, Maj.

Gen. Robert Noiret, Clay's opposite member, replied that the French did not feel obliged to report to the other occupying powers on "removal of a factory from one place to another within our tone." The dispute developed publicly last week end when the French ent 1,200 customs officers into the Saar to set up a customs frontier between that territory end the rest of Germany. German political parties here charged that this, in effect, was a change of frontiers and an "amputation of the Saar from the German economy." The dispute over reports that the French were stripping industries in other parts of their t( ne for the benefit of the Saar first arose a month ago when the Americans asked the French bout the Bosch plant, which produces magnetos, dynamos, and electrical equipment. When the French delayed in replying, the matter was brought up by the Americans again in the Committee. Senator-elect Begins Term Olympia.

Dec. 28 (JP) Governor Mon C. Wallgren today appointed Republican Senator-eWt Harry P. Cain to the United S-tcs Senate, effective tomorrow. The Governor appointod the 35-year-old former Tacoma immediately after accept-i-g the resignation of Senator 'dh B.

Mitchell, defeated Democratic incumbent. Cain's regular term of office, to which he was elected last mTith. normally would begin eniiry 3. In Mitchell said: "I have decided to take this 'ep in the bent interests of the ate. It is my wish to do whatever I can to facilitate Hie work cf my successor in office and to improve the opportunities for e'fe-ctive representation of the people at the nation's capital." Senator Johnson Denies He Wants To Be President Denver.

Dec. 28 UP) Declaring "I would rather be independent than be President." U. S. Senator Edwin C. Johnson in a letter to The Rocky Mountain News, tonight denied any presidential aspirations.

I have seen many excellent senators deteriorate into spineless shadow boxers once they become afflicted with the presidential Johnson said. "It is a falsi and incurable malady, and it leaves the victims wobbly and frightened at every little squeak." The letter was In response to a story published by the paper a month ago declaring Johnson, who has announced he would rt be a candidate for in 1948, would seek the Democratic nomination for President. Cfjc (Tottritr-lonrnal cf the Tocus. Nov. SI, 5V6 The LounviIJe Dally JoumL ISM; Tne Mminir Coumr.

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JOe week Couriar-Journal, Sundav and Louisville Times, all to address, 50c week. contained as many as 25 cartons, he reported. Barter-center point values have been reduced more than half since September. But still a port able typewriter can be obtained for five cartons, a Meissen set of Chinaware for 12 persons for about 27 cartons, a Leica camera for 40 cartons, a radio for 10, a vacuum sweeper for 7. In direct dealings with Ger mans some persons reported ob taining electric refrigerators for 5 cartons and men's suits made to order for 5 or 6 cartons.

Some American families are reported to have furnished their homes by bartering cigarettes. Morse Blames Prestige Loss On 'the People' Saya Officials Abroad Have Been Let Down Washington, Dec. 26 (U R) Senator Wayne Morse Ore.) said todax the people had "inexcus ably" let down U. S. occupation officials abroad and had played into the hands of anti-American elements by reducing military forces there.

Morse is just back from a tour of Europe and the Middle East. While abroad he criticized the youth of IT. S. occupation troop in Europe and demanded that Congress appropriate more money to support American policies in occupied lands. Asks Foreign Policy Support.

Following up this plea, he said in a statement today that "The Truman Byrnes Vandenberg -Connally foreign policies not only must be supported, but must be strengthened if we are to win the peace and avoid another war." European ideologies driven underground during the war are smoldering, preparatory to erupting, he said. "The American people should recognize the realistic fact that we cannot afford to retire into the supposed security of our own national comfort," he added. The statement continued: "Our failure to supply adequate personnel and security protection for our. own military stores and property abroad and our weakening of the security forces of our Military Government has played right into the hands of anti-American elements. Says Prestige Suffers.

"If the next 20 years are to be something else besides an armistice between wars, we must make clear that we are in Europe to stay for whatever period of years future events- demonstrate that it is necessary for us to stay, until the nations of the world learn through the functioning of the United "Nations the habits of peace." By letting down Military Government and State Department officials rendering "devoted service" abroad, Americans have permitted U. S. prestige to suffer among the Allied and liberated countries, he said. He said hungry Europeans were easy prey for those who wish to stir up distrust of the United States and its aims. "People haunted by the specter of starvation and disease find little sustenance in discussions of political Ideologies even that of democracy," he said.

"They become easy Victims of propaganda, disseminated by those who seek falsely to attribute to America the sources of Europe's ills." Some Far Eat Marines May Senrl for Families Washington, Dec. 26 (JP) Wives and other dependents of some Marines in China may join their menfolk under an authorization of Secretary of the Navy Forrestai which was made public today. Officers and enlisted men of the rank of staff sergeant and up may apply for their dependents to join them, the Navy said. This privilege previously had been granted to Army and Navy personnel in the Far East. 16: Always a hit with boys and girls, the sweeter ttiting TEXSUN grapefruit is the right healthful refreshment in between meals.

The rich vitamin value in each TEXSUN grapefruit is good for Be Surf It Says: 03 i JIX.UN CITRUS EXCHANGE Assaelattd Press Wlrsphete. proclaimed as a provisional Indonesia. The first step was Sumatra, and some smaller conferred on Borneo (2). entire European quarter of Hanoi, which has a population of 1,000 Europeans and 3,400 Eurasians, and have "easily repulsed" several Viet Nam attacks to break out of the encirclement in the native quarter. It was the first time the bloody fighting in France's Far Eastern colony had been blamed directly on Ho, who had been looked on by many in France as a moderate, helpless against more ardent Nationalists in thi Viet Namese ranks.

The accusation came as dis patches from the embattled colony reported that Ho, who fled his capital at Hanoi at the outset of the fighting last week, had re-established his Govern-, ment at Hadong, six miles to the southwest. Holiday Deaths Hit 308 Total By the Aseeefated Press. Christmas holiday violent deaths, most of them from traffic accidents, totaled 308 throughout the country Traffic fatalities accounted for 253 deaths and miscellaneous causes claimed 55 victims between 6 p.m. Christmas Eve and midnight Christmas Day, a final compilation showed last night. The traffic deaths were far in excess of the 150 forecast by the National Safety Council for the same period.

A council spokesman said it would be a near-record number, after inclusion of those dying' from injuries suffered during the period. U. S. Plans to Ease Trust-Fund Rules Washington, Dec. 26 (JP) The Internal Revenue Bureau said today a relaxation of its regulations governing family trust funds was under consideration.

It said details probably would be made known soon so the public might comment on them before final action. Present regulations contain strict requirements that individuals get rid of all interest in or control over trust funds if they are to escape personal income taxes on the income of such trust funds. 7stw I Si lJa. NORCROSS AMERICA'S 6 1ST-LOVED GREETING CARDS frnT: fiVrrri STOfTi ntrrrrcr. )02I2' $11,000.00 Palestine Rebels Steal 4 $104,000 In Diamonds Frem Overseas Dlsaatehee.

Jerusalem, Dec. 26. Two bands of armed Jews robbed two diamond factories 40 miles apart almost simultaneously today and made away with nearly $107,000 in diamonds, cash, and bonds, police reported. charge that if she did not mine the channel she permitted others to do so. Albania already has complained to the U.

N. of the Britons' sweeping the Corfu Channel free of mines, asserting that the ships which carried out the operation violated her sovereignty. Britain holds that the channel is an international waterway and that she acted only after mines had damaged two British destroyers. Bulgarian Newspaper Banned Permanently Special The New Terk Times and The Courier-Journal. Sofia.

Bulgaria, Pec. 23 (Delayed). A permanent ban on publication of the opposition Democratic Party's newspaper, Znames, was announced today. The severe punishment is based on the strict press-law regulation. The newspaper, despite numerous warnings, continued the systematic publication of news items and articles said to have misrepresented the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and other countries friendly to Bulgaria.

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and Mrs. F. E. Atha today filed suit for $30,000 damages against their landlord, charging he tried to break up their marriage in order to evict them. The suit against Everett Clay, real-estate operator, accused him of telling Atha "wholly false" stories that he saw Mrs.

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A few minutes earlier a band of three men carrying tommy guns invaded the Shamir diamond factory in Tel Aviv and escaped with $24,000 worth of diamonds, $3,000, and some Government bonds. When the cashier pleaded with them to leave him "what's left of my salary," the robbers gave him $68 and warned him to lie on the floor until he heard an explosion. The explosion was a "scare" bomb to cover their escape. They sped away in a blue limousine. Police were using bloodhounds in an effort to track them.

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