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ON TODAY'S EDITORIAL PAGE Mr. Welles's Vindication: Editorial. Wrong Way to Fight Fascism: Editorial. What of Our Wildlife By E. Sydney Stephens.

F.I NAL (Closing New York Stock Prices) Vol. 93. No. 213. (68th Year).

ST. LOUIS, SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1946 16 PAGES PRICE 5 CENTS ST.L PATCH KEITEL ADMITS HE 'UNIVERSAL' FOREIGN POLICY TO STOP COERCION OF WEAK PR 0 CLA IMED BY TR UMA ORDERED MURDER OF RED PRISONERS, WOMEN, CHILDREN POLES TO PUT FRANCO ISSUE UP TO U. BRITAIN BACKS U. S.CALL FOR BIG 4 TALKS WARM TAKF1! iBYRNES URGES MINISTERS Zrn TO CONFER ON PEACE PACTS Blind War Hero Decorated in Denim PRESIDENT CALLS Secretary Seeks to Speed Up Drafting of Treaties to Avoid Postponing Paris Parley Scheduled May 1. peace conference, scheduled to open in Paris not later than May 1.

Byrnes consistently has contended that the conference should convene by that date, established in the Moscow communique of Big Three foreign ministers last December. Russia has suggested postponement because the foreign ministers' deputies, meeting in London, have made negligible progress on the drafts of proposed treaties with Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Finland. Text of Byrnes' Appeal. The text of Byrnes's message to the four foreign ministers follows: "I should like to suggest a meeting at Paris beginning April 25 of the Council of Foreign Ministers made up of the foreign ministers of the states which are concerned with the preparation of the peace treaties which It was agreed at the Moscow conference should be submitted to a peace AwrlafM Ptt Wlrfphnto. Wearing overalls but retaining his soldierly bearing, CHARLES B.

WOODSON of Parkville, blind war hero, receives two medals the Silver Star and the Purple Heart from COL. REX J. ELMORE at a ceremony in the Woodson home. The veteran was wounded near Metz in 1944 as he was aiding a wounded comrade. The bullet severed the optic nerves.

MRS. WOODSON holds their one-month-old son CHARLES and daughter RUBY KATH ERIN 2. mm ivitiviDtK SEVERRELATIONS 'Decision Based on Fact Present Regime Is Endangering Peace Statement Issued by Embassy Says. LONDON. April 6 (AP) The Polish Embassy announced today Poland had instructed its delegate to the United Nations Security Council to bring up the matter of diplomatic relations of member nations with Spain.

Poland considers that the United Nations should break off diplomatic relations with the Franco government," the statement said. The Warsaw radio announced last night that the Polish Government had decided to recognize the exiled Spanish republican government of Jose Giral. The embassy statement was made in reporting the government's action. Menace to Peace, roles Say. The statement said: "The decision of the Polish Government was taken in view of the fact that the present regime in Spain is endangering international peace and that peace is indivisible.

"It should he added that Poland feels entitled to raise the Spanish question before the United Nations not only as a member of the organization but also remembering that some thousands of Poles have fought and have been killed in the defense of democratic and republican Spain. "During the world war against the Axis. Polish soldiers escaping from France and elsewhere in order to join the forces of the United Nations fighting against Nazi aggression were imprisoned by Franco when crossing the Spar.ish border and jailed in the ill-farned concentration cami, Miranda Del Erbo." Previous Effort by French. France previously had made efforts in diplomatic exchanges with Britain, the United States and Russia to place the Spanish issue before the U.N. Russia replied favorably to the proposal but Britain and the United States turned it down.

In New York last night the French asmbassador to the United States. Henri Bonnet, said France had no intention of raising the question of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's government at the Security Council session. Bonnet, France's delegate to the Council meetings, said the question now was one for the Council of Foreign Ministers of the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, France and China. He added that If the five nations failed to act. NATIONS SHOULD PARKWAY AN PLAYGROUND TREASURE HIDDEN TO REBUILD JAPAN IS FOUND IN BAY LAN By ALEX II.

SINGLETON WASHINGTON, April 6 (AP) Britain today joined the United States in pressing for a speed-up in final peace settlements with five of Germany's vanquished satellites. A Foreign Office spokesman in London disclosed that Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin had agreed to Secretary of State Byrnes's proposal, announced last night, for a meeting of British. United States, French and Soviet foreign ministers on April 25 in Paris. He said Bevin had sent a reply to Byrnes indorsing the suggestion. French approval also of Byrnes's proposal is virtually certain, a dispatch from Paris raid.

Byrnes disclosed that he had dispatched the proposal from New York yesterday to Foreign Ministers Molotov of Russia Bevin of Britain and Bidault of France. His aim obviously is to avert postponement of the 21-nation European COMMONS VOTES AUTHORITY FOR BRITAIN TO AID U.N. IN NON-MILITARY SANCTIONS LONDON, April 6 (AP). THE House of Commons passed on second reading yesterday a bill enabling Great Britain to comply fully with any United Nations decision which would apply economic and other non-military sanctions against aggressor nations. Minister of State Philip Noel Baker called the bill a "modest step" toward the creation of "effective machinery to stop aggression." Both Conservatives and Laborites indorsed the bill.

BASIS FOR SETTLEMENT AGREED ON IN DETROIT CAR STRIKE Full Membership of Union to Pass Tomorrow on 15-Cent-an-Hour Hike. April 6 (AP) A basis for settlement of the six-day-old strike of 5200 street car and motor bus operators paralyzing Detroit's public transportation system was reached late today, i Representatives of the striking iunion and the Street Railway Commission agreed to arbitration 'of the last disputed point the is-jsue of proper pay for the opera tors "check in and check out" time. Union leaders announced they had accepted the city's offer of a 15-cents an hour wage increase which will raise the top pay to $1.32 an hour. A 44-hour week also was agreed on with overtime pay at time and a half for anything beyond eight hours a day or 44 hours a week. The terms will go before the union's full membership for ratification at a mass meeting tomorrow afternoon.

If approved, street cars and buses probably will resume service late tomorrow. 376-Year-Old Whisky Sold. SINGLETON PARK, Lancashire, England, April 6 (AP) A gallon of 376-year-old whisky sold for 24 pounds ($96) at a sale here this week. It was in a glass jar sealed in 1570. The buyer hurried off with it without indicating whether it was for immediate Says He Considered It Correct 'It Was a Well-Known Fact Lives Were Not Respected in Eastern By ANN STRINGER NUERNBERG, April 6 (UP) Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel admitted under fiery Russian questioning today that he had ordered the indiscriminate murder of Soviet prisoners, women and children.

The former German chief of staff hedged, cringed and quibbled while Gen. Roman Rudenko, cross-examining in a fire and brimstone manner, pinned him down on Ger man orders concerning partisan activities. "Do you remember nn order authorizing the cruelest measures because human life cost absolutely nothing in the eastern territories?" Rudenko asked. "Yes," Keitel replied. "You signed this order?" Again Keitel said, "Yes." Rudenko asked, "You considered it correct and apt?" "Yes," Keitel replied.

"It was a well-known fact that lives were not respected in eastern and So viet territories." Considered It Right. The Soviet prosecutor quoted another order which stated that "troops have the right and are obligated to take any measures without restriction against women and children." "That is correct," Keitel said. "You consider this order right?" "Yes. But of course no German soldier and no German officer ever thought of killing women and children." To that Rudenko said, "There were such cases. Millions of them." Keitel replied, "I do not believe that." A report bv Adm.

Wilhelm Ca-naris, the late German intelligence chief, protesting against the mass killings of Russian prisoners wa; mentioned by Rudenko. He asked Keitel if he agreed with the Canaris report. Keitel. answered, "I shared his views." Rudenko then submitted to the war crimes tribunal the original of the Canaris report, on which Keitel had written a marginal note. This note to Canaris said, "These suggestions are according the your soldier's view of the conception of conducting a war as a knight, but do not fit in with the new idea of this new war.

Therefore I approve such measures and I stand behind them." Admits Writing It. Keitel admitted that he had written it. "Then," said Rudenko, "you, who were called field marshal, who called himself a soldier, you by your own bloody resolution in Continued on Page 5, Column J. BILL TO CURB PETRILLO SENT TO WHITE HOUSE Fine or Jail Provided for Coercion to Hire Radio Standby Musicians. WASHINGTON, April 6 (UP) The Senate today completed congressional action on a bill to curb Music Czar James C.

Petrillo in his dealings with radio broadcasters. It adopted, 47 to 3," and sent to the White House a conference report accepting a stringent House bill designed to regulate the activities of Petrillo's American Federation of Musicians (AFL). The bill calls for a $1000 fine and-or one year in jail for attempts to coerce broadcasters to hire standby musicians and pay tribute for use of recorded programs. It prohibits union interference with broadcasting of non-paying agricultural and non-commercial educational or cultural programs and any action designed to block radio programs originating from other countries. RUSSIAN UNION ORDERS WORK STOPPAGE IN MOSCOW PLANT Paper Reports Action Taken Be cause Management Didn't Put in New Ventilating System.

MOSCOW, April 6 (AP) The central committee of an electrical trade union has ordered temporary cessation of work in the polishing and galvanizing departments in a Moscow factory, the trades union newspaper Trud reported today. The newspaper said the ventil lating system in the factory for the past two and one-half years had caused numerous employe complaints which the director did nothing to satisfy. The union's central committee investigated and ordered a new ventillation system and other remedies. Although the director promised to carry out the order, the newspaper said, he never did. 21 Policemen for Nylon Duly.

NEW YORK, April 6 (AP) Police Commissioner Arthur Wal-lander did a little cost-accounting yesterday and discovered 21 policemen, working a total of 170 man-hours weekly, are required to maintain order In New York's nylon lines. FOR POWERFUL RESERVE FORCE TO GUARD PEACE Says in Chicago That U.S. Intends to Join With Other Republics in Americas for Common Defense. (Text on Page 2-A. Pictures Everyday Magazine) la Bv ERNEST B.

VACCARO CHICAGO, April 6 AP) President Truman proclaimed today a "universal" American foreign policy aimed at stopping "coercion and penetration" of the weak and calling for powerful peacetime military reserves. Speaking at an Army day celebration in Soldier Field, where he renewed his appeal for extension of the Selective Service Act, unification of the armed forces and a universal training program, the President declared that: 1. One "universal policy mut guide United State relation with every country, "no matter how remote." 2. In return for American recognition of "important Interests" of Great Britain and Ru-ia and others in the Orient, these countries must respect th Interest of the States In pence and security in that area, 3. The United Nations have right to insist that the sovereignty and integrity of the countries of the Near and Middle East where outside rivalries might "erupt Into conflict" must not be threatened by coercion or penetration.

4. The United States hope "for the peaceful settlement of differences which have arisen between colonial people and colonial sovereigns in all areas." 5. The United Nations Security Council "is fully capable of settling disputes between any nations of the world, however different their philosophies, traditions and interests, if It respects "the legitimate aspirations and needs" of fellow mem-lers. 6. "The United States Intends to join with the other sovereign republics of America in a regional pact to provide a common defense against attack." Using some of the strongest language he ever has employed in discussing America's new global foreign policy, Truman declared its immediate objective "is to support the United Nations to the utmost." World Trade System.

This country stands ready, he added, to provide necessary support for a world trade system ti "strengthen and safeguard th pence." The President, after reviewing a parade of Army might, said universal training, a year's extension of the draft and unification of the armed forces are "the foundation stones which hold the promise of a strong nation." "They are essential if we are to maintain our leadership on the road to peace and freedom," he said. If the country is to carry out its new worldwide obligations to support the "peace and freedom" that are "the very root of our foreign policy," the President said, "we must remain strong." Asserting this is America's duty under its United Nations membership, he added: "We cannot on one day proclaim, our intention to prevent unjust aggression and oppression in the world and the next day call for immediate scrapping of our military might." Remote -Beginnings. In proclaiming America's intention to assert its interest in peace and security everywhere, the President said: "Remember that the First World War began in Serbia; that the peace of Versailles was first broken in Manchuria and that the Second World War began in Poland." He asserted that the control and reform of Japan "is only a beginning" of American policy in. the Orient. "We seek to encourage a quick revival of economic activity and international trade in the Far East," Truman said.

"To do that, we stand ready to extend credits and technical assistance to help build the peace." Interests in Far East-Granting American recognition of "important interests" of Great Britain, Russia and other countries in the Far East, he declared: "In return we expect recognition by them that we also have an interest in maintaining peace and security in that area. "We expect understanding on their part that our objectives are Continued on Page 2, Column 5. Continued on Page 5, Column 3. M.P.s on Iran Trip Give Up Hope of Entering Province, Arrange to Return Home. By SAM SOUKI TEHRAN.

April 6 (UP) The two-man British parliamentary mission to Iran gave up hope of entering Azerbaijan province today because the Russians failed to give them permission. They scheduled a plane back to Cairo for April 10. Red Army checkposts still bar the way into Azerbaijan, which is occupied bv Soviet troops. All travelers wanting to enter the Russian-occupied areas must carry passes from the Soviet embassy. The British charre d'affairs, 31.

I Faquhar. tried to obtain passes for the House of Commons members, Laborite Michael Foot and Conservative Brig. A. II. Head.

He was told the request must be forwarded to Moscow. Requests to Moscow no mally require six weeks for an answer and often go unanswered. Correspondents' requests have been ignored. Soviet-Iranian Compromise. The Soviet-Iranian agreement signed yesterday said that the future of Azarbaijan was an internal matter for Iran.

Iranian political observers considered the agreement a compromise in which each, nation gave way on one major point. Premier Ahmed Qavam acceded to Soviet desires for Iranian oil by agreeing to formation of a joint oil company, while the Russians dropped their demands for recognition of Azerbaijan's autonomous government. The Russians agreed to "influence" the Azerbaijan administration to string along with the Tehran government. The next step will be election Continued on Page 5, Column 8. ever to traverse the Dardanelles, as it entered the Bosporus and anchored.

Turks said this was the first time since 1700 that porpoises had come through the Sea of Marmora into the four-knot current of the Bosporus. They hailed this as a good omen. The battleship's mighty guns fired a 19-gun salute as the Ambassador's body was taken ashore with American military and diplomatic leaders in attendance. The body was borne through the streets on a four-wheeled gun crriage drawn by seven black horses-American correspondents removed their shoes as they entered the heavily carpeted mosque where the service was held. On arrival, the Missouri and her escort, the cruiser Providence and the destroyer Power exchanged salutes with Turkish batteries in a series of volleys that rattled windows.

Thousands of spectators lined the shore. Adm. H. Kent Hewitt, Ambassador Edwin C. Wilson and Alexander Weddell, State Department representative, led the American delegation in the funeral BAR BRITISH Ml fflNKE BAAN Continued on Page 5, Column 7.

Warmer Tomorrow THf, TEMPERATURES. COMPLETE TEXT OF REPORT ON ATOMIC ENERGY CONTROL IN SUNDAY POST-DISPATCH THE COMPLETE TEXT of the State Department's Report on the International Control of Atomic Energy will be published in a special section of tomorrow's Post-Dispatch. With the report will be printed individual statements of appraisal by the members of the State Department Committee which directed the study and of the Board of Consultants who made the study and wrote the report. This important statement runs close to 30,000 words. The authors urge that it be read.

They offer it, not as a final statement of policy, but as a basis of public information, understanding, discussion and decision. JAPANESE GENERAL ACCUSED IN DEATHS OF 2000 CIVILIANS Troops Charged With Beheading and Burning Bodies of 17 Amer-cans in Philippines. TOKYO, April 6 AP) Japanese Lt. Gen. Takeshi Kono was accused todny of responsibility in the deaths of about 2000 civilians in the Philippines in specifications filed by the Allied command legal section.

The charges allege also that Kono's troops beheaded and burned on I'anay Island the bodies of 17 United States citizens connected with the Central Philippine College and the Baptist Convention. Allied officials said 14 subordinate members of Kono's command also would be prosecuted on atrocities charges. GUILLOTINE FOR "drT PETIOT PARIS, April fi (UP) The French Ministry of Justice announced last night that Dr. Marcel Petiot, who was found guilty of a series of murders and condemned to death, will be executed by the guillotine. Dog Brings Home Nylons.

BROCKTON, April 6 (AP) Mrs. Jeanette MacDonald says her dog came home with a mouthful of brown paper package which contained a pair of nylons. Truman Informs He Favors Vote By ERNEST B. VACCARO CHICAGO, April 6 (AP) President Truman advocated the ballot for 18-year-olds today in an unprecedented 'teen-age press conference which highlighted his Army day welcome here. Going immediately to the conference from a parade through streets lined with hand-clapping spectators, Truman submitted to 20 minutes of questioning from the high school journalists which he said was tougher than any he has undergone from the questioners in Washington.

He told them: 1. He didn't see why any intelligent boy or girl of 18 should not have the right to vote if they prepare themselves since they proved in time of war that they can shoulder citizenship's highest duty. There's no reason why the ballot 1 m. Sfi 9 am. 5 2 a.m.

5 10 a.m. 59 3 a.m. SS 3 1am. 1 4 a m. 54 12 nrx.n 64 5 a mi.

54 1 p.m. 65 a m. 54 2 p.m. 67 7 a 54 .1 p.m. 69 a m.

56 p. n. 69 Normal maximum this Catr. 61 Dtumal emmum, 4 3. Tw-'iar'a tigh, 69 at 1:30 p.m low.

50 at 6 a.m. t'n)-n count 24 hours to 9 a.m.: Sycamore, l.ifl; oak. 354 Geisha Girl's Tip Leads to Discovery Cache Believed to Be' Worth Two Billions. By FRANK I. WHITE TOKYO, April 6 (AP) A geisha girl's tip led today to discovery of two truckloads of precious metals ingots believed to be worth 30 billion yen (two billion dollars) in the mud of Tokyo bay.

An informant said he had been told by Japanese Army officers the money was to be used "in building up a greater Japan after things have quieted down." The Ingots were located by Lt. E. V. Nielsen of Stamford, an officer in the Thirty-Second Military Government Company. The original tip came, Nielsen said, from a geisha girl.

She told a Japanese employed by a civilian interpreter for the Military Government that a large sum of gold had been dumped in Tokyo bay. Nielsen said developments indicated her story was a planted tip. Investigation showed the girl's story came from a small social club composed of elderly Japanese small shopkeepers and businessmen. "Finally," Nielsen said, "one of the social group told me that 'because the militarists- had been the ruination of Japan we didn't want them to get hold of the huge supply of precious He said he trusted the Americans and for that reason would tell the whereabouts of a laborer who worked in dumping ingots into the bay." The laborer designated a dock at a former Japanese maritime school on the Tokyo waterfront now used as a boat slip by United States First Cavalry personnel. Nielsen brought up the first ingot weighing 75 pounds: It Continued on Page 5, Column 4.

Teen-Agers for 18-Year-01ds shouldn't be extended to them by every state, he added. 2. That he was opposed to a pending congressional proposal to extend the Selective Service Act for nine months, asserting he thought it necessary to draft men for another year in order to bring home men who have been abroad beyond what they should be. 3. That universal training is necessary for this country to meet its obligations of leadership and will supplement, rather than interfere with, the education of the nation's youth.

He told them that the training he proposed was not conscription in any sense and that no one brought into the program would be required to serve in the Army or Navy in time of peace. The United Nations, he told his Continued on Page 3, Column 4. Commission Program Presented at Public Hearing at Clayton Airports Proposed, and playgrounds and airports was presented ny me im. iouis county Planninn" Pnmmiscinn at a 1 1 1 i hearing last night at Clayton courthouse. Peninsula Parkway, a proposed of new road, would follow the outer uounniiry 01 ine county i tni Rivcrview boulevard, at the north ern city limits, to Jefferson Bar racks, on the south.

The drive wnnlH rtnee ihrnnch frPVA flnpur Memorial Park and Babler State Park and would touch on six proposed new parks, as well as scenic noints on the Missouri. Mississippi and Meramec rivers. From Riverview boulevard the proposed narkwav would follow a northern route to the Missouri river, then turn toward Creve Coeur Park, and Babler Park. Succeeding sections would brush the Franklin and Jefferson county lines to the Meramec river, to the Mississippi river and Jefferson Barracks. Three Tarkways Included.

Three nronosed auxiliary park ways are included in the plan. The first, called Maline tjreeit rars-ilrl follow a seven-mile course from Bellefontaine road to Midland boulevard, in Overland, to Creve Coeur Memorial Park. An extension of Midland boulevard into University City wouia xorm the second auxiliary parkway, the third would extend for eight miles from Watson road along Gravois Creek into Recommendations lor nine pio-posed major parks, in addition to Creve Coeur and Babler parks, and 70 athletic and recreation grounds were presented at the meeting. Two of tne major pants would overlook the Missouri river in the northern section of the county, one would be situated on the Meramec river and one on the Mississippi river. The athletic and recreation grounds are proposed Continued on Page 3, Column 6.

PENALTY DIFFERS FOR BEATING WIFE AND MOTHER-IN-LAW TORONTO, Ontario, April 6 (UP) Harold Guyatt discovered that there is a difference, between beating one's wife and one's mother-in-law. A police court magistrate fined him $10 for beating his mother-in-law, then sent him to jail for 10 days for beating his wife. Protection for Watermelons. MONROE, April 6 (UP) With every 50-cent purchase of watermelon seeds, the Lanz Hardware Store offers insurance two shotgun shells free. THE EMERSON ELECTRIC MFG.

COMPANY needi women 18 to 40 tor light factory work. No experience necessary. Apply Employment Office, 417 North Broadway. (Adv.) 'Mighty Mo' Welcomed by Turks, Anchors in Bosporus Off Istanbul Wrtibcr in other cities Page 2B. Official forecast for St.

Louis and vicinity: Partly cloudy to cloudy and somewhat cooler tonight, with lowest temperature tomorrow morning about 45; generally fair and warmer tomorrow, with highest mperature in afternoon about 72. Missouri: Becoming partly cloudy in west and north portions; light show-eis in southeast portion early tonight; cooler in southwest por STEPHENS SLID HOME. POST-DISPATCH WEATHERB1RO mo e.T tion tonight; lowest temperatures 4S to 50 in north, near 50 in south poitions; partly cloudy and waini-er tomorrow. Illinois: Clear in north and clearing in south portion tonight; cooler, with scattered frost in north tnd central portions; tomorrow increasing cloudiness and warmer. Sunset, 6:29 o'clock; sunrise (tomorrow), 5:37 o'clock.

Stage of the Mississippi at St. Ixuis. 20.2 feet, a fall of the Missouri at St. Charles, 14.2 feet, fall cf .4. 'A'l inft'irr ani ittw.7t.

aupplicd Cmted Statca Wtath-: ii'tii ill ISTANBUL. April 6 (UP) The "Mighty Mo" and her booming guns have Turkey in a froth. The press calls the courtesy visit of the battleship Missouri with the body of the late Turkish Ambassador to Washington, Meh-met Munir Ertegun, one of the most important international events of the century-Thousands of Turks have swarmed aboard the battlewagon since it anchored in the Bosporus off the Dolma Bahtche Palace yesterday morning. Special souvenir Turkish cigarettes, stamps and scarfs have appeared as a sign of hospitality. A tremendous sign "Welcome Missouri" hangs on the harbor lighthouse.

"Welcome Missouri to our land," said the banner headline in the newspaper Yeni Sabah. Editorially, the newspaper commented: "There is a meaning in the Americans sending this most powerful ship, but it is not a meaning toward Russia or any other country." A school rf porpoise frolicked around the Missouri, largest vessel 1.