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U. S. WEATHER BUREAU TUCSON AND VICINITY: Generally clear today and tonight. Warmer this afternoon. Temperatures Yesterday: High 58 Low 3t Year Ago: High 64 Low 43 An Independent NEWSpaper Printing the News Impartially TUCSON, ARIZONA, TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 25, 1947 (SECTION A) TWENTY-SIX PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS VOL.

106 NO. 329 Entarsd as end-elss Post Office. Tucson, Arlzena RESERVE BOARD ARIZONA LEAGUE MEMBERS FLAY U.S.A.F. to Court Martial Maj. Gen.

Bennett Meyers CANADA PLACES PRICE CEILINGS BACK ON FOODS VANDENBERG IN STOP-GAP ASKS SPEED EUROPE AID; Wartime Activities of Former Air Force Officer QUICK BIG -4 VOTE URGED Called 'Shocking ScandaP by Air Secretary Symington; Monthly Pension Stopped WASHINGTON, Nov. 24. (IP) The army and the jus Deadlock on Peace Treaties tice department joined forces tonight in a crushing crackdown on Maj. Gen. Bennett E.

Meyers, retired air forces purchasing May Adjourn officer whose private wartime activities were oniciany denounced as "one of the most shocking scandals ever exposed tice department announced it would BRIDGES WARNS FOOD SHORTAGE HEREPOSSIBLE Michigan Senator Pleads For $597 Million Help To Threatened West Secretary Marshall Urged by Top Advisors to Seek Early Showdown Of Writing Pacts for LONDON, Nov. 24. (IP) Secretary of State Marshall on the eve of the foreign ministers conference to seek a quick showdown with Russia on the issues of Austrian independence and German unity, respon London Parleys With Russia on Issue Germany, Austria Top American advisors urged event of a complete deadlock Lancaster House In Whitehall. where the British foreign ministry has offices. After tomorrow's welcoming ad dress by British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin the foreign ministers are expected to devote Wednesday'6 session to discussion of an agendi a matter on which their disputes were unable to agree in preliminary talks.

Marshall. Aides Confer in the history of our government, In addition, the balding, 52-year- old officer faced a probable lawsuit brought by Mrs. Mildred La-marre, who flatly denied Meyers' testimony to senate war investigators that she was his "girl friend." "A suit for slander seems the only answer," she told reporters. Acting onlv two days after the senate committee heard final testi mony that Meyers made $150,000 from a secretly-owned war subcontracting plant while he was ac: tive in procurement (purchasing) for the air forces, Air Secretary W. Stuart Symington announced: 1 The $461 monthly pension which Meyers has been receiving since he retired from the army in 1945 on disability he said he had a nervous breakdown has been stopped.

To Recall Medals 2. Steps are being taken to strip the florid, fast-talking general of his military decorations the Dis tinguished Service Medal and the Legion of Merit. 3 Meyers will be tried by an air force court martial. Immediately afterwards, the jus Marshall conferred today with all said speedy action was nec top advisors, thrashing out someLccarv because "a new tvoe of Com top advisors, thrashing out some essary because "a new type of Imposes Control on Many Items to Offset Panic Buying, Rising Costs OTTAWA, Nov. 24.

(IP) The Canadian government beset by rising prices and re ports of panic buying since the imposition of its auster ity program announced to day that price ceilings will be reimposed on many processed foods. Finance Minister Doug las Abbott said he had in structed the dominion's wartime nrices and trade board to take necessary action to restore controls on the "more important varieties of canned fruits and vegetables." He said he also ordered the board to be "prepared to reimpose mark-up (price) control on fresh fruits and vegetables and canned fruit juices." East Dollar Shortage The "austeritv program, an nounced last week, is designed to ease a shortage of United States dollars bv cutting imports on arti cles ranging from automobiles and jewelry to fresh fruits. The action has produced a wave of protests from consumers and producers alike. Prices have soared, rocket ing as high as $500 in the case of some automobiles. There have been runs on fruits and vegetables in some places, Canada imports citrus and other fruits from the United States.

Most of Canada's wartime price controls were lifted September 15. On October 21 the meat ceilings came off. Warnsof Speculation Abbott urged Canadians "not to be misled by stories of coming anrl nnt trt nlav into thp Diivi hands of speculative interests by bidding up prices on every rumor that may be set in motion from time to time." The government, he added, noted with concern the price increases, especially on processed foods, which have taken place during the past week "under circumstances which cannot be justified by Increased costs." CANADIAN' DOLLAR HITS LOW LEVEL NEW YORK, Nov. 24. The Canadian dollar (free rate) fluctu ated sharply today in heavy dealings and sold at 11 per cent dis count or 88.50 U.

S. cents, the low- est level since December 3, 1943 when it sold at a discount of 11 per cent The closing price was 89.00 U. S. cents or 11 per cent discount, off 316 of a cent from Friday's final price. Traders assigned no reason for today activity.

sible sources said tonight. In the on these subjects Marshall should move to adjourn the conference for a long period, since such an impasse would doom the Big tour meeting in any event, the advisors were reported to have told him. Many observers believe the conference, which will open at 3:30 p.m. (10:30 a.m. EST) tomorrow, may be the last four-power attempt to; reach unified peace settlements with Germany and Austria.

All Ministers Present The arrival this afternoon of Georges Bidault of France com- pleted the roster of foreign minis- ters. Russia's V. M. Molotov reached London by plane from Berlin last night after the French railway strike kept him from going to Cherbourg to embark, Commenting to reporters on prospects for the conference, Bidault said with a smile: "A man must never despair; it is a sin." Meanwhile, approximately 500 aides, secretaries and experts fin- ished preparations for the confer- ence. The ministers will meet in Reds Reported Citations of Contempt Voted Against 10 Hollyivood Figures House of Representatives Backs Its On Un-American Activities Probing Alleged Communist Movement in Film Capital WASHINGTON, Nov.

24. (JP)ln rapid-fire order, the house today voted contempt citations against 10 Hollywood script writers, directors and producers who refused to say "yes" or "no" when asked whether they were Communists. By sending the citations to the United States district attorney for prosecution, the house over Aid Program With Gold Hoard Economic Specialist Says Reserves to Surpass America by 1967; How Large Store Really Is, Intense Secret NEW YORK, Nov. 24. UP) The Soviet Union has a huge hoard of gold, to eombat the Marshall plan.

Economist Charles Prince writes in the December Issue of "The mer specialist on Soviet economic of Commerce, predicts in the magazine, an unofficial publication, that ASKS POWER TO CONTROL CREDIT Supervisory Authorities Urge Permanent Curbs; Say Boom Dangerous WASHINGTON, Nov. 24. (IP) The Federal Reserve Board today asked Congress for authority to regulate in stallment buying permanent ly, and tonight the govern ment's bank supervisory board authorities asked the nation's 15,000 banks to curtail "all loans for speculation in real estate, commodities or securities." However, the Retail Credit Institute of America and four other organizations followed the Federal Reserve, proposal with pleas to the senate banking committee to turn down President Truman's appeal for establishment of consumer credit controls as part of the administration's cost-of-living program. Restrictions Lapsed There have been no statutory restrictions on installment buying since November 1. "Our country is experiencing a boom of dangerous proportions," the Federal Reserve Board, the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said in a joint appeal to banks to curb speculative credit.

They urged curtailment of speculation-motivated loans either to individuals or business. "As far as possible, extension of bank credit under existing conditions should be confined to financing that will help production rather than merely increase consumer demands," the three agencies said. Senator Tobey (R-NH), chairman of the senate banking committee, told reporters that instead of permanent credit controls, he favors a middle course which would grant authority to restore controls until about March 15, 1949. Says Need Acnte R. M.

Evans, a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, told the committee "the need for regulation is acute at the present time, but the need is not merely a temporary one." Evans suggested that the board be given authority to fix controls for at least three years if Congress were not disposed to make it permanent. He. said the board had in mind controls "in much the same form" as those which expired at the start of this month. In general, those required down payments of one-third with no more than 15 (Continued on Page 4A, Colnmn 5) Over Million Idled first time with his new govern Cherbourg, Brest, Nantes, La Rochelle, La Pallisse and Bordeaux voted to join their comrades who have quit in Mediterranean ports, including Algiers. Merchant sailors in Bordeaux, Brest and Nantes voted to strike, In Bordeaux the skipper of the American freighter John Mackay, which arrived today with a cargo of flour, gave French authorities until tomorrow morning to get the ship unloaded.

Otherwise, he said, the freighter will proceed to Antwerp. Freighter Tied up The American freighter Ole Railgaac was tied up in Brest, but in Cherbourg passengers and their baggage were landed from the U. S. luxury liner America, Strikes of building and metal lurgical workers, dock workers. merchant marine employes and school teachers continued to spread, In the automobile industry the big Renault works remained closed, but at one Citroen plant in Paris officials said 70 per cent of the men had returned to work.

The activity of some strikers in the coal mines kept others from returning to work. In the Lorraine basin, where 75 per cent had voted to resume operations, pickets guarded the pits and pre vented the workers from entering, Claims Labor Victoiy Cost Was Lend-Lease LONDON, Nov. 24. Winston Churchill said tonight he believed he could have persuaded President Truman to continue lend-leas? af ter the war if he had not been swept from power by the Labor party election landslide in 1945, Churchill made the statement in a telegram to Frank M. H.

Tay lor, Conservative candidate for the house of commons in the by-election at Gravesend, Kent "I see that the Socialists have been saying," he wired, "that the reason for the present shortages is that I neglected to make arrangements with President Roosevelt for the prolongation of lend-lease after the war. RESEARCH BODY Director Spear Is Blamed For Keeping Budget Act On Statute Books By LESTER X. IXSKEEP Star Staff Correspondent YUMA, Nov. 24. Militant representatives of 25 cities and towns of the state today bitterly assailed the Arizona Tax Research Association and its managing director, S.

A. Spear, as being responsible for a continuation of the 10 per cent budget increase limit law which was said to be strangling the municipalities. The association, by unanimous vote, approved a bill sponsored in the 18th legislature to give immediate budgetary relief, and advocated its re-introduction when the next legislature is called into session. In addition, an act of the 18th legislature permitting creation of joint city-county boards of health was scored by the Maricopa county delegation as having added an unnecessary burden to their already over-strained budgets. The cities and towns of that county said they were being given health service without additional cost prior to passage of the act.

Barkley Opens Attack The attack on the Tax Research Association was opened by V. B. Barkley, mayor of Glendale and president of the league, in his address to the 20th annual conference of the league Barkley charged that the Tax Research Association, and Spear in particular, are responsible for failure of the legislature either to repeal or amend the law which limits annual budget Increases to not more than 10 per cent, regardless of increases in population and costs. Pointing out that most of the cities and towns of the state have Increased in population by leaps and bounds, Barkley said it is impossible any longer to operate under the budget limitation law. While he prefers relief from the legislature, the league president said he would not heritate to take the matter to the people in the form of an inititative measure unless relief is given at the next special session.

Uses Blunt Language Barkley charged Spear with having told the Arizona Good Roads Association in Flagstaff last July that every city and town of the state increased its tax rate this year, whereas 24 cities actually reduced their tax rates. "I'll pass over this lightly," he declared, "by saying its a lie." The association president then called attention to the fact that the Tax Research Association has just increased the number of its employes from three to six, indicating that the increase in its budget must have been considerably more than 10 per cent He also scored the legislature for having voted itself $10 a day in expenses, while denying the cities (Continued on Page 5A. Colnmn 2) TRAFFIC MISHAP KILLS MAN HERE c.Uc rtorl Isaac W. fctepnenson ueaa After Striking rarKea Car, Police Report A man was killed last night when he drove his car, traveling an estimated 50 to 60 miles per hour, into the rear of a parked car on East Broadway just east of Park avenue, according to police reports. Identified from papers as Isaac W.

Stephenson, 45, Route 1, Box 417, the victim was pronounced dead upon arrival at the Pima county hospital. New York Club Stephenson's car registration bore the address of the Princeton Club of New York, 39 East Thirty-ninth street, New York City. His papers also indicated that he was formerly a Colonel in the U. S. Air Force, and that he recently had been taking flying instruction at the Garvin School of Aeronautics in Tucson.

Witnesses told police that Steph enson's car passed them just prior to the accident at 10:15 p. m. and that it was traveling between 50 and 60 miles per hour. Police reported that car tracks indicated that the man did not notice the narrowing of Broadway east of Park, and that he did not pull far enough to the center of the street to clear the vehicle. Went to Telephone Laura Shlmpata, 1500 North First avenue, owner of the parked car, told police that she and one of her passengers, Frederick Rossi, same address, had gone across the street to telephone a garage to come fix a flat tire on her Her other passenger, Alejandro Roce, student at the University of Arizona from Manila, Philippine Islands, was reported to be sitting in the car when it was struck, but was not present when police arrived.

He was located about midnight at his residence, 1429 East Ninth street, and sent to a local hospital where he was reported to be uninjured. Early this morning police had been unable to contact Stephenson's survivors. The body was taken to the' Arizona Mortuary. Neiv French Premier Confers With Aides as Tie-ups Spread Schuman May Tender Wage Concessions to Prevent, go before a federal grand jury here tomorrow and seek indictments against Meyers. The charges were not detailed in advance, but the senate war investigating subcommittee which probed Meyers suggested a study of possible war fraud, corruption, perjury and income tax evasion charges.

Attorney General Clark announced last week that the income tax phase of the case would be presented to a grand jury in the city where Meyers filed his tax returns. Officials disclosed today they were filed at Baltimore. Committee Thanked Symington expressed gratitude to the senate committee, headed by Senator Ferguson (R-Mich), for unfolding what he called "the sordid story" of Meyers activities. At the same time he said he was sure that the committee "anxious to remove any semblance of stigma from the faithful and (Continued on Page 4A, Column 1) rAmmiJfao LOIIiniUlCC, whelmingly bacKea its committee on un-American activities, wnicn had questioned the men in its in vestigation of alleged Communism in Hollywood. Maximum punishment for con tempt of Congress is a year in Jail and $1,000 fine.

Claim Constitution Violated The 10 contended that by inquir ing into their political beliefs, the committee was violating the constitution. Although each of the cases was handled separately by the house, there was only one roll-call vote and it triumpingly upheld the committee, 346 to 17. Representative Thomas (R-NJ), chairman of the committee, told the house the 10 were subpoenaed "because our investigation had disclosed that they were Com munists or had long records of Communist affiliation and activities." One Roll-Call Vote Fifteen Democrats, one Republican and the lone American-Laborite member opposed the citation of Albert Maltz, the only case in which there was a roll-call vote. Favoring it were 209 Republicans and 137 Democrats. In addition to Maltz, who pre pared the scenario for "Destina tion Tokyo" and "Cloak and Dag ger," these men were cited: Alvah Bessie, whose screen works included "Objective Burma." Herbert Biberman, director of "The Master Race." Lester Cole, who wrote the screen version of "Blood on the Sun." Edward Dmytryk, director of "Hitler's Children" and "Crossfire.

'Forever Amber' Scenarist Ring Lardner, author of the scenario for "Forever Amber." John Howard Lawson, who wrote "Action in the North At lantic" and "Blockade." Samuel Ornitz, who wrote "It Can Happen to You" for the screen. Adrian Scott, producer of "Murder, My Sweet." uauon irumDo, whose screen plays include "Kitty Foyle" and uur vines Have Tender Future Status Sentence on the charge on which auiiivan, his undercover agent, Harry T. Hendricks and J. P. Christy, alleged collector for Sullivan, were found guiltv is a fine of $1,000 on each count or a year in prison.

Some legal authorities have expressed the belief that if the fine alone is given, the offense becomes a disdeameanor, while others maintain that the offense, being punishable by a prison sen tence, is a felony. Sullivan told of checkine the law to find out what his status would be and explained he would make such an examination in the case of any other public official involved in like circumstances in an effort to "anticipate" what the state supreme court might do. "I make no exception in my own case," he added. Sullivan's appeal is expected to be filed within a few days. It will automatically stay execution of the sentence which Judge Edwin Beaucamp of Maripa County Superior Court will pronounce December 13 until the supreme court hands down its ruling.

Sullivan and his co-defendants have until December 3 to file motions for a new trial. New Walkouts but Seizure "of Railways, Other Industries Hinted; CHICAGO TYPOS OUT ON STRIKE Walkout Voted Six Dailies Affected; Picket Lines Set CHICAGO, Nov. 24. (IP) Union Printers struck tonight in Chicago's six daily newspapers. Members of AFL Chicago Typo graphical Union Local No.

16 voted to go on strike at 9 p.m. by a ballot which officials announced was 330 to 61. The strike followed a five-month! dispute between the union and the Chicago Newspaper Publishers as sociation, representing the six daily newspapers. The union delivered a wage demand to the publishers yes terday. The publishers in a stat ment declared wages were not the issue, and that the only issue was the union no-contract John J.

Pilch, local union presi dent, sent representatives to call out the printers on all daily news papers, ne saiu toKen piCKei lines would be established and added that "we'll be docile." The Tribune, the Sun, and the Chicago Journal of Commerce, the j. morning newspapers, already had published early Tuesday morn ing editions before the printers walked out. Union pressmen are not involved in the walkout. The three afternoon newspapers involved are the Chicago Daily News, the Chicago Daily Times, and the Chicago Herald-American. J.

Loy Mahoney, managing editor of the Chicago Tribune, said after the strike call that "we're going to get out the newspaper" and that "we hope to give our readers full coverage in cooperation with other newspapers of the city." Less than an hour after the strike order was issued, five automobile loads of pickets left the union meeting hall on the west side to picket the newspapers. WASHINGTON, Nov. 24. (IP) Quick emergency aid to thwart "Communist aggression" in western Europe was urged by Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich.) today as another Republican senator. Bridges of New Hampshire, declared that "meagre rations" at home might result Opening senate debate on the administration proposal to send Italv, France and Austria up to $597,000,800 in stopgap food and other supplies, Vand- Com- mUnism" with terror and sabotage for weapons "is on the march." Supporters of the winter relief measure, already approved unani mously by the Vandenberg-headed foreign relations committee, predicted that the senate would approve the bill on Wednesday or Thursday.

(The measure contains no actual funds; an appropriation bill will have to be acted on later). Committee Deadlocked The house foreign affairs com mittee, writing its own emergency aid bill, was reported deadlocked on the question of whether this aid should be regarded as a tapering off of help to Europe or as the preliminary to a long-range recovery program. One member, who asked that his name be withheld, told reporters: "There is a fundamental split in the Republican party on this, despite what you hear about there not being any disagreement at alL" Bridges, chairman of the appropriations committee, said his group was conducting hearings on the question of raising funds, for Inter ira relief with "unprecedented'' speed. In suggesting a "strong probabU-itv" of food shortages at home, however, he 6aid the committee would grant "no blank check requests." If the U. S.

ships food to the full extent contemplated by the state department and if next year's do mestic crops are-poor. Bridges said the American peop'e will be sul ject not only to rationing but po sibly to meager rations." Able to Supply Aid Bridges, who later conferred with President Truman on the (Contlnned on Page 4A. Column J) ARAB PROPOSAL IS LOSTJN U. N. Plan of Single Palestine State With Jews Living In Minority Defeated LAKE SUCCESS.

Nov. 24. V-The United Nations Palestine committee tonight rejected an Arab proposed sovereign single state of Palestine under which the Jews would have lived as a minority by 29 to 12 with 14 abstentions and two delegates absent The committee, after being In session for more than 13 hours. adjourned at 11:17 p. m.

and scheduled another session for 1030 aon, (EST) tomorrow. Find Decision Wednesday Delegates anticipated a committee vote on partition sometime tomorrow and It was expected to go to the general assembly Wednesday for a final decision where a two-thirds majority la required for adoption. Because of the high number of abstentions in voting on the Arab proposals there was still no adequate Indication what would be the fate of the partition plan. Before the committee turned down the proposal for a sinele state, one other Arab proposal was rejected and a third ended in a tie vote. The committee first voted down a two part proposal to refer the legality of the proposed Holy Land partition to the International Court of Justice.

Legality Questions One part dealing with the legality of creating a partitioned Pales tine, was rejected 25 to 18 with 11 abstentions and three delegates absent A second part dealing with the legality of U. N. enforcement of partition, was rejected 21 to 20 with 13 abstentions and three delegates absent The tie vote came on an Arab proposal regarding Jewish refugees recommending: 1. That countries of origin should be requested to take back the Jewish refugees and displaced persons belonging to them. 2.

That those Jewish refugees and displaced persons who could not be repatriated should be absorbed in the territories of members of the United Nations. The vote on this was 16 to 18 with 23 abstentions and two dele- gates absent The proposal therefore will be given to the general assembly in plenary session for decision. PARIS, Nov. 24. UP) The ranks of striking French workers, estimated at a million strong, swelled steadily tonight as Pre mier KODert scnuman met for the ment to taice steps for meeting the threat to the French economy.

Government informants said Schuman had decided on "very ener "it is probable by 1967 the Soviet Union gold reserves will equal or surpass that of the U. 5. "Exactly how big the Soviet gold hoard is," Prince states, "nobody outside the Soviet Union knows. Beyond the statement that it Is the world's second largest gold reserve, official sources in Washington, New York, London, Paris and Zurich are unwilling to go." $22 Billion U. 8.

Reserve "The best informed opinion Is that it is certainly worth more than S3 billions, and probably not more than $17 billions. The'U. S. re5fe 18 $22 billions." Prince says behind a screen of intense secrecy, gold production In the hoviet Union has Increased rapidly. "In 1936.

the Soviet Union ranked 15th among the gold producing countries of the world. In 1936, she moved up to second place, and in 1940 claimed to occupy first place "If, as the Russians insist" Prince continues, "they have surpassed the gold production of the Transvaal, they would be producing today well in excess of ounces a year, or more than $350,000,000. This compares with current U. S. production of ounces and the Canadian output of 5,311.00 ounces in 1940.

Grand Gold Strategy "Meanwhile, the Soviet's grand gold strategy, as indicated in the articles by Soviet economists, Y. Vintser, S. S. Prokopovitch, and V. Mikhailovsky, is to combat and foil the Marshall plan by stabilizing the ruble on a gold basis." Prince outlines the following as possible: Russia could establish a ruble area and with her currency pegged to gold could effectively compete with the dollar and "certainly displace the pound sterling in crucial trade areas and eventually affect the price structure of the international market" his problems at a three-hour luncheon given by Ambassador Lewis Doug- las.

Included were Republican Ad visor John Foster Dulles, Ambassador Robert Murphy and Gen. Lucius D. Clay, American commander in Germany. Similar delegation huddles were held by Bevin in the foreign office land Molotov in the closely guard- ed Russian embassy, Informants said that Marshall's (Continued on Page 4A, Colnmn 2) Set to Combat Soviet's Yellow Metal united Nations world, tnnce, for problems for the U. S.

Chamber PLOESER SEEKS TAX REDUCTIONS WOUld Jvelieve Million Of Income Levy, Help Small Business WASHINGTON, Nov. 2i.VP The fuse of an explosive tax battle was lighted today by separate proposals for removal of about 6,000,000 low Income persons from the tax rolls, and for tax exemption of the first $25,000 of net in come of all corporations. Rep. Ploeser (R-Mo), chairman of the house small business committee, presented the corporate exemption suggestion to the house ways and means committee, to settle "the nation-wide controversy over the tax exempt privilege of co-ops." Simultaneously, though unrelated to Ploeser's proposal, a movement of undetermined strength was. astir to put into the next tax-cutting bill a provision for an increase in personal exemptions probably from the present $500, to $600.

This would remove from income taxation millions of the lowest in come persons. Ways and means committee Chairman Knutson (R-Minn) told reporters that Ploeser's proposal "is certainly worth looking into." "The- thinking is in the right direction," he said. "Tax reduc tion tends to accelerate business and actually to Increase over-all tax collections." But on tax relief for individuals. he stuck by his Idea for percentage cuts for all the 48,500,000 taxpayers. Bills embbdying this principle were killed twice by presidential vetoes earlier in the year.

good will and Intentions toward Rusla was the decision of the parliament to bar all foreigners from searching for oil In northern Iran, and the promise to renew oil dis cussions with Russia after five years of Iranian exploration of the region. Qavam, who negotiated the pro posed oil agreement in ApriL 1946, while Russian troops were still in Iran, Informed the Soviet Union that according to law he was permitted to discuss sale of oil to foreigners but not oil concessions. "The Iranian said Qavam, "after hearing my reports on the discussions, decided thlt my action did not agree with this article and considered our negotiation as 'null and void'." He said "I personally reported our agreement and the negotiations to the majlis, together with the Russian-proposed agreement and requested the majlis deputies not to take any decision in haste. The majlis took another decision. herebv protest agamsi tne so- vlets' charges of breaches, because Sullivan Checking Statutes Soviet Charges Against Iran 'Strongly9 Rejected by Qavam getic measures to prevent more strikes, coupled with possible con cessions to the workers already off their jobs.

The informants did not elab orate on what measures would be taken. Asked if the government would requisition railreads and other strikebound industries, they replied "it might" Slight Raise Wages These sources said Schuman might grant the strikers demand for an increase in the basic mini mum monthly wage from 7,000 francs (about $58) to 10,800 francs provided the workers agree to end the walkouts informants predicted that demands of the Communist-led General Labor Confederation (CGT) for an immediate 25 per cent wage increase pending negotiations for revision of minimums in all brackets would be refused. Meanwhile, an intimate of Gen eral de Gaulle said the general had cancelled a speech scheduled for delivery in Paris Thursday to avoid embarrassing the new government in its struggle with the CGT. Rene Mayer, Radical-Socialist who open ly supports de Gaulle's Rally of the French People (RPF), is min ister of economic affairs and fi nance in the new cabinet. Strike Situation These were the" latest reports on the strike situation: Postal workers, mostly postmen and truck drivers, began to strike In Paris and the provinces before getting instructions from their union.

Telegraph service was af fected, since telegrams are gen erally delivered by special postmen. The telegraphists' -union voted against striking. Telephone service remained normal. Line after line of the French railroad system was blocked as the CGT switched its tactics to take strike votes in individual stations throughout the nation. On some lines nearly all stations voted against strikes, but the line was tied up because the trains could not go through stations that voted for the walkout.

Troops Protect Workers Troops moved into the north station in Paris to maintain order and protect workers who voted to return to their jobs. All other stations in the capital were tied up or running only partially. Sub urban lines were mainly hit. Dock workers in Le Havre, To Determine PHOENIX, Nov. 24.

P) De bonair, jaunty and seemingly un-worried by his conviction on charges of conspiracy to violate the state's gambling laws at his trial last week at Safford, Atty. Gen. John L. Sullivan today freely discussed his case with reporters here. Sullivan declared he has no intention of resigning and added: "I am checking the law to find out what my status will be between the date of imposition of sentence and a final determination of the case of the supreme court." Gov.

Sidney P. Osborn said he would take no action at this time in regard to Sullivan. "Until sen- tence, has been pronounced and I have been officially notified. I lack authority to act," the governor explained. Arizona's law provides for the removal of any public official who is convicted of a felony.

However, the legal questions as "to whether the governor can declare an office vacant immediately upon a trial court conviction and sentencing and whether, should the sentence be a fine without a prison sentence, the felony becomes a mis demeanor, have never been de termined. TEHRAN. Iran, Nov. 24. Premier Ahmed Qavam rejected tonight as "unreasonable" Soviet charges that the action of the Iranian parliament in ruling void the 1946 oil agreement with Russia constituted "hostile activity" on the part of Iran.

In a detailed reply to a Russian note delivered to Qavam four days ago premier said: "With my proclamation in the Iranian majlis (parliament) that we desire to continue our good re lations with the Soviets, the Russian charging of Iran with hostile acts and laying responsibility for consequences on the Iranian government seems unreasonable and I hereby reject these charges seriously and strongly." Th Russian note, hinting that the Soviet Union might break diplomatic relations with Iran, said the parliaments action was "In compatible with normal relations between the two Qavam, in referring to future relations between the two countries, said in the note that the best signs and symbols" of Iran's I have fulfilled my promise.".