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lOU Eery Ten in Faade4 U71 I Caaliata JaB. t. 1933 Wilmington, Delaware, Thursday, June 24, 1948 44 Pages Price Four Cent MrfflfD. AliyJIr' mm TP RJl fa) nri o) OJ SaltoBstall Joms SMpporters Of Governor Senatorial Hug for Dewey oviet Tightens New Yorker Plans To Blitz Convention As Roll Call Starts On Berlin; Electricity, Food Trains Gut Off Collapse of Day-Old Rail Peace Talk Likely WASHINGTON, June 24 (U.R). Negotiations in the month-old railroad labor dispute, resumed only yesterday, were expected to collapse today unless some progress is made on new contract terms.

Presidential Labor Adviser John R. Steelman conferred separately with union and industry officials late yesterday, trying to find a basis for new contract talks. At the end of the session, Steelman reported "no progress." He scheduled new conferences for today and indicated to the parties that a second "no progress" report Official Communist Press Calls Anew for Western Nation to Leave City Shutdown Spares Some Institutions General Clay Declares Americans Cannot Be Ousted From Capital By Action Short of War Mid-Western Foe of Gothainite Says 'It's All Over'; West Virginia Unit Head Climbs on Band Wagon; Bay State Move Seen Blow to Opponents By JACK BELL Associated Press Staff Writer PHILADELPHIA, June 24. The tide for Gov. Thomas E.

Dewey, already swirling the Republican presidential nomination close to his grasp, swelled higher today. Massachusetts' Senator Leverett Saltonstall got out as a "favorite son" in Dewey's favor. West Virginia gave him a boost. These developments just as the balloting started gave It the look of a bandwagon roll. Dewey's aides were working on an acceptance speech.

They expressed confidence of his nomination on the third ballot. A key Mid-Western leader, who has fought Dewey's nomination, told reporters "it's all over," but asked not to be quoted by name. Saltonstall announced he was withdrawing because he believed it "in the best interest of the Republican Party in Massachusetts." He said he was for Dewey and had asked the Massachusetts delegates to "exercise their own best judgment." There has been a terrific fight within the Bay State's 35-vote delegation. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, and others have been holding out for Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg.

Walter S. Hallanan, West Virginia national committeeman, came out for Dewey. He said the New Yorker at the head of the ticket would make it certain the Republicans will carry border i-" iff. Dewey to Get 8 State Votes On 3rd Ballot Delegates to Remain In 3 -Way Division for Taft, Stassen and New Yorker On 1st Test, Bacon Savs By WALTER R. BISHOFF Staff Political Writer PHILADELPHIA, June 24.

Eight of Delaware's nine delegates will cast their ballots for the nomination of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York on the third ballot when the roll call of the states gets under way this afternoon at the Republican National Convention. This was outlined by Gov. Walter W.

Bacon, chairman of the Delaware delegation, at a conference early today. Governor Bacon said there would be no change in the first ballot by members of the state group, which is expected to give Governor Dewey six votes, Senator Robert A. Taft two, and Harold Stassen one. On the second ballot, Governor Bacon estimated that Dewey would pick up one more vote from the Taft backers in the Delaware delegation. On Dewey Bandwagon On the third ballot, which Governor Bacon pointed out had been picked as the winning one for Governor Dewey, Delaware will be on the Dewey bandwagon with all but one vote.

Delaware's banner was displayed during two of the demonstration parades in Convention Hall last night and early today. Following the nomination speech for Governor Dewey, the. Delaware chief executive grasped the banner from its holder and was joined by Mrs. May E. Stout and other delegates who were pledged originally to give Governor Dewey their first vote.

IT. S. Senators C. Douglass Buck and John J. Williams and Bayard Sharp did not join in the parade on the Convention Hall floor.

Townsend Not In Parade Former TJ. S. Senator John G. Townsend, who sits among the guests on the speakers' rostrum, was not in the parade either. Delaware did not join in the Taft demonstration, Although two members of the local delegation Senators Buck and Williams have indicated their plans to support the Ohioan on the first ballot.

Bayard Sharp, New Castle County chairman, sole supporter and backer of former Gov. Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota, was joined by Mrs. Sue Mas ten, an alternate, and several other Delawareans, in the parade following the nomination of their choice for the nomination. Early today Mr.

Sharp said that in his opinion the convention will reach a standstill after the second ballot, and he added that he "anticipates a definite trend away from Dewey as the 'stop Dewey' maneuvers begin to function." Sees 8 or 9 Ballots He said that he predicts it may take as many as eight or nine ballots before "the real people's choice is nominated." Mr. Sharp said he was not climb AP Wirephoto. Senator Irving Ives (left) of New York gives Gov. Thomas E. Dewey a hug and a handclasp upon his arrival at the New York governor's suite in Philadelphia.

They were all smiles despite the activity of other Republican leaders" in a "Stop Dewey" movement. Irguii Suffers Cliicken of Tomorrow Contest Wo by California En ry Awarding of $5,000 Prize Concludes 3 -Year Contest In Ceremony Held at Georgetown; Town Is Thronged for Festival California, famed for doing things in a big way, today added another "biggest and best" laurel to its crown of Tomorrow Contest in a holiday-garbed Georgetown where the three year poultry breeding competition came to an end. First prize of $5,000 for developing a superior type meat chicken was awarded to the Vantress Hatchery of Marysville, the judges Grip Russian Bloc Said to Plan German State Warsaw Parley Reported Prepared to Set Up New Government for East WARSAW, June 24 foreign ministers of Russia and seven satellite countries were reliably re ported today to be putting the finishing touches to plans to set up a separate government in. eastern Germany. One conference observer said that would be their most likely answer to the Western Allies' proposed federalization of western Germany.

This source added, however, that Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molo-tov and his colleague? probably would go one step further than the Western Powers. If a separate government is set up, he said, it still, in the opinion of Russia and her neighbors, would be a government aimed at German unity. Leipzig has been mentioned as a government center.

Conference observers who cannot be named said the eastern nations would declare any government formed to be open to all Germans. (The Western Powers invited the Russian zone to participate in formation of the German government but the Russians turned down the bid.) Such a government would be expected to seek recognition by the (See RED BLOC Page 4) Power Is Cut In Dover Area Ruptured Tube in Boiler Causes Failure; Repairs Expected by Evening DOVER, June 24 (Special). Dover homes were without normal supply of electricity and local industries were affected today because of a ruptured tube in the largest of the boilers at the municipal power plant. Charles C. Brown, city manager, said this morning that repairs are expected to be completed by tonight.

He explained the situation has made it necessary to shut off various circuits at various times throughout the day because of the shortage of electric output. One effect of the situation is that residents are not able to hear Republican convention reports over their radios and Dover's new radio station, WDOV, which was to have gone on the air for the first time today, was unable to inaugurate its schedule. The tube rupture occurred yesterday afternoon while a time when the city's second biggest boiler is being rebuilt. This left only two small old boilers to function with a capability output of 1,000 to 1,100 kilowatts, while the normal requirement is 2,400 to 2,500 kilowatts. With the aid of steam furnished by International Latex Corporation the power plant is producing about 1,500 kilowatts.

Because of the situation, Latex went off its circuit yesterday afternoon which cut down the required output to about 1,800 kilowatts. county airport reported a zero ceiling and one-sixteenth mile visibility at 8 a. m. Commercial airlines cancelled early morning flights. The fog lifted by mid-morning and airport operations were resumed.

The bureau revised an earlier prediction of showers and said they would probably arrive in scattered form tomorrow afternoon. Yesterday was the fifteenth rainy day of the month. Two successive clear days this June have been rare. Meanwhile, partly cloudy and humid weather, with maximum tem- (See FOG Pag Bp Associated Press BERLIN, June 24. The Russians disrupted the power supply and freight shipments in western Berlin today, but Gen.

Lucius D. Clay served notice that no action short of war is going to force the Americans from this city. Clay, the American military governor, said in Heidelberg the moves by the Russians indicate they "are trying to put on the final pressure to drive us out of Berlin." He said this could not be accomplished "by any action short of war." Ail food shipments on rail lines running from western Germany were halted. Power from plants in the Soviet zone was restored in most sections of Beslin this afternoon after cuts of varying length, but it was expected to be turned off again later In the evening. General Clay said he had no plans for cutting off water and power to parts of the Soviet zone Supplied from the American area state of Bavaria.

He said the west-, ern sectors of Berlin had enough water supplies of their own and could furnish about half the normal power consumption of the area. The British halted shipments of Ruhr coal and steel to the Soviet zone. An official spokesman said it was a policy decision taken in the wake of the Soviet action choking off rail freight shipments for Berlin from western Germany. The Russians said their freight embargo was due to technical rea- (See BERLIN Page 4) $3,749,000000 Navy Bill Becomes Law WASHINGTON, June 24 (JP). President Truman today signed into law a bill carrying $3,749,059,250 to maintain and expand the Navy and Marine Corps during the year starting July 1.

The measure includes funds with which to start construction of a aircraft carrier to cost an estimated $127,000,000. It will be the largest afloat. The Navy had asked $3,927,738,700 for the year. The House first cut this by and the Senate restored $125,000,000. The final total was a compromise midway between figures of the two chambers.

By the use of wartime reserves and previous appropriations, the Navy will have more than to spend in the next 12 months. would signal the end of White House efforts to mediate a private agreement. This could mean the government is ready to enter into direct bargaining with the engineers, firemen and switchmen if the rail industry fails to settle the dispute privately. Coal Operators Believed Ready To Sign Pact Z7 Pay Boost, Pension Levy Jump Accord Reported To Have Been Reached WASHINGTON, June 24 Soft coal operators, except for sieel company mine interests, were reported ready today to sign a new contract with John L. Lewis giving miners a $1 a day wage boost and doubling the pension fund royalty levy.

Such a wage increase would be 12 cents an hour. Miners now receive a basic pay of $13.05 cents for an eight-hour day or $1,631 an hour. The new rate would provide $14.05 for eight hours at an hourly rate of $1,756. The welfare fuind, from which pensions would come, is accumulated now through a 10-cents-a-ton royalty levy which is passed on to consumers. During the last year this has raised $45,000,000.

Under the proposal reported ready for signing this royalty would be boosted to 20-cents-a-ton and would raise an estimated a year. Prom this Lewis wants to pay his retired miners $100 (See COAL Page 4) Doze in Square Costs Man Shoes Victim Reports Loss To Police Headquarters Close By It was a gloomy, foggy night in Wilmington. On a park bench in Rodney Square, close by the police station, Richard Mansfield of the 900 block West Third Street, had fallen asleep. Through the murk, a figure tiptoed up to the drowsing man. With nimble fingers, the shadowy wanderer went to work.

This morning at 6:15 o'clock Mansfield awoke, let out a yell, and made a beeline for police headquarters. He'd been robbed. He told his story to a sympathetic sergeant, and immediately police wires began to hum with the news of the theft: "Description of shoes Man's, low black, size 8, valued at $11. Nothing else taken. No suspects." He i Arrests Deaths Strike Hard in Giiu-Riiniiing; Unit Vows Rehellion TEL AVIV, Israel, June 24 (P).

Irgun Zval Leumi surveyed heavy losses of manpower today in an ill-fated attempt at gun-running and vowed to rise against the Israeli government. The crisis over the Irgun arms ship Altalena led to the resignation of two cabinet ministers yesterday even while government forces made a series of arrests. Peter H. Bergson of New York, head of the Hebrew Committee of National Liberation, and 25-year-old Monroe Fein of Chicago, captain of the arms ships, were reported by Jewish sources to have been arrested. Israeli shock troops were reported to have captured 60 Jews, believed to be among Irgunists who landed from the arms ship, in a series of raids on revisionist party headquarters and the publishing plant of the Irgun newspaper.

Jewish sources said Bergson was taken in custody near Kfar Vitkln. Kfar Vitkin is five miles north of the port of Natanya, where the arms ship first tried to land its 600 tons of munitions. Irgun announced that Abraham Slavsky, a New York travel bureau operator who helped arrange char tering of the arms ship, was among those killed in the fighting. It said one of those wounded wax Samuel Merlin, secretary of tht "(See PALESTINE Pare 4) A. Fflix diiPont Critical REHOBOTH BEACH.

June 24 (Special). A Felix duPont. a director and former vice-president of the DuPont Company, is critically ill at his home here. Mr. duPont'i health has been gradually failing since he returned to his home from, Florida in April.

His condition haa been considered serious eince aa attack suffered June 14. states in the fall elections. Blow To Foes Even after Hallanan's move which was not unexpected the anti-Dewey forces were talking bravely, but Saltonstall's move was a heavy blow. Before the Massachusetts development, Harold E. Stassen professed belief Dewey actually was losing ground.

He said he understood three Kentucky delegates, two from Washington and one from Utah had left the Dewey camp. At a noon news conference Stassen said he would have an important announcement this afternoon. He refused to give any hint of its nature. The former Minnesota governor said he was more confident than he had been two hours earlier that Dewey has been stopped. He said he had talked by phone with Senators Lodge, Taft and Saltonstall.

and Gov. James Duff of Pennsylvania about the methods by which the convention could decide in open balloting its choice for the top G. O. P. nomination.

About the time Saltonstall was holding his news conference. Col. Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune, got out a statement naming Rep. Charles Halleck of Indiana as Dewey's choice for Vice-President.

Halleck came out for Dewey yesterday. McCormick said "Dewey will not be nominated because the delegates realize he will be hard to elect" and declared: "Everyone knows that the Indiana delegation was bought by the vice-presidental nomination for Halleck after Governor Green turned down the offer for the Illinois delegation." Sigler Plans Poll Gov. Kim Sigler of Michigan told reporters he would take a poll of his delegates to indicate where they wanted to go if the nomination appeared lost to Vandenberg. He said: "By the time we get down to the ends on the second roll call we ought to have a pretty good idea (See CONVENTION Pae 4) Half-Day General Strike Called by Italian Reds ROME, June 24 OF). The Communist-led General Confederation of Labor today called a half-day general strike of all Italy' industrial workers for July 2.

The strike will protest the breakdown of negotiations with manufacturers for higher salaries and increased family allowances. The strike was described as the first of a "series of measures to be gradually adopted." ganization responsible for managing and operating the cemetery grounds. The difference between the cemetery and the unused burial ground is a property line marked only on deeds. The church burial ground, however, is alongside the canal banks, while the cemetery property begins where church land ends some distance from the canal. An earlier statement that U.

S. Army Engineer plans for the D. Canal would result la the removal of an estimated 2,000 bodies interred (Se CEMETERY Pa 4) by winning the National Chicken Star mper Vie at Track $10,000 Georgetown Event Attracts Strong Field Of Steeplechase Horses Tomorrow's Entries At Delaware Park Appear on Page 37 By TURFMAN Neios-Journal Handicapper With few exceptions, the country's best steeplechase horses will compete in the two-mile Georgetown Handicap at Delaware Park today. The Georgetown is one of only two steeplechase features decided over Delaware Park's 'stakes course," said by many close followers of the jhedgehoppmg sport to be the most uif I lcult course at any recognized American track. The other is the two and one-half-mile Indian River Handicap, to be renewed one week from tomorrow.

Both carry $10,000 added purses. Five in today's Georgetown field ran in the recent Temple Gwath-mey Steeplechase Handicap at Belmont Park. They are Adaptable, Elkridge, Floating Isle, Canford and Sun Bath (See RACES Page 37) FREE TO OUR READERS The News-Journal Company bat had printed in pamphlet form the seriei of seven articles on How To Read A Weather Map which oppeored in the Every Evening. JournoU To obtain a copy of this pamphlet sena your nome otd otJdVeM (please write legibiy) to News-Journal Co. Wilmington 99, Del.

ing off the Stassen bandwagon by the third ballot, and that his prime interest is that the man the people (See STATE G. O. P. Page 4) Delaware Basin Head To Be Named Monday PHILADELPHIA, June 24 (P). A successor to Ell wood J.

Turner, former chairman of the Interstate Commission on the Delaware River Basin, will be named Monday. James H. Allen, secretary, said yesterday action on a successor to Turner who served the four-state organization until his death last March, will be taken at the two-day annual meeting at Pocono Manor, Pa. Progress made in soil and forest conservation since the last meeting will be reported Monday while a dis cussion or the ijeiaware Basin stream pollution program In Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Delaware will be discussed on announced. The Pacific Coast entry of Cornish-New Hampshire crosses scored a total of 159.8 points to top the 39 other finalists from 25 states in the A.

and P. Pood Stores sponsored Chicken of Tomorrow contest. Thousands of contestants and spectators including some from Canada and from 42 states converged on Georgetown for the award presentation and the festival parade to be held tonight. Awards are being presented in the Georgetown High School auditorium this afternoon, where entries are exhibited. Other winners sharing in the $7,000 prize money offered by the A.

and P. stores announced by the. judges are: Second place, $1,000 prize: Arbor Acres Farm of Glastonbury, whose White Rock entry scored 151.5 points; Third place, $500 prize: The joint Maine entry of Poultry Growers H. E. Bates and E.

J. Bittner, whose New Hampshires scored just a fraction of a point below the Connecticut entry. Delaware, represented by the Indian River Poultry Farm of Ocean (See CHICKENS Page 4) Catholic Bishop Bars All Beauty Contests WHEELING, W. June 24 Bishop John J. Swint told Catholic girls of the Wheeling diocese yesterday to stay out of beauty contests or be excommunicated.

His warning came after a Catholic girl, Miss Gertrude Bedway, dropped out of a contest here. She said the bishop told her to withdraw or be expelled from the church. Bishop Swint confirmed the girl's explanation. He called modern beauty pageants "totally pagan" and "absolutely immoral," and protested the "incident exposure of girls' bodies before the public. Church Ban Reported On Hungarian Regime VATICAN CITY, June 24 Reports reached the Vatican today that Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, primate of Hungary, has excommunicated the members of the Hungarian government and parliament who on June 16 nationalized Hungary's Catholic schools.

Announcement of the excommunication, the reports said, come in the form of publication of an article In the code of canon law providing such, action, "a priori," against persons "passing laws, decrees or reso lutions against the liberty rights of the Holy Mother Church." i 'Soupy' Fog Envelops Area, Canal Widening Will Doom Slowing Traffic; Man Hurt Older Part of Cemetery Only TODAY IS REGISTRATION DAY It you haT reached tit 0j of 21. changed your place si residence, or com to live la Delaware since the last election you must ieq-Uier to cat a oto for President next Novemser. Tonlaht 'will be the last chance for roters to register at night before the elections. Registration will be held In the Public Buildina bom 7 to o'clock. Two registration days ere scheduled throughout the tat on July 14 and Oct.

II. In Today'g Paper CONVENTION NEWS 4.6-7-i-U-lt Amusements 24-2S Answers to Questions 1 Classified 4-4i-42-4J Vomit Cttlbertsort on Contract Death Notices 44 Editorials Financial X9 Obituary 44 Bjutio jj Society 2S-M Sports Jg-JT Wmas Interests gg Weather Ma Dense foe covered Delaware this morning, retarding traffic on highways and waterways and practically eliminating It on the airways. A 76-vear-old man was injured in a two-car collision on Mill town Road, near Marshallton, shortly alter 7 m. State police said the crash was due to poor visibility along, the road. The mist, which began to get really "soupy" shortly alter 4 o'clock this morning, was thickest and most persistent in northern New Castle County.

'ihe U. S. Weathsr Bureau at the Bethel Cemetery, which is ad jacent to historic Bethel Methodist Church near Chesapeake City, will not be affected by proposed improvements on the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. Any effect the planned excavation for making the canal 100 feet wider. will have, it turns out.

involves not Bethel Cemetery but the old arid of lately unused burial grounds of Bethel Church. This was disclosed today by C. P. Davidson of Wilmington, a member of the board of directors of the Bethel Cemetery Corporation an or.