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FDNAIL CITY EDITION PUBLIC aSSiSs LEDGER An Independent Newspaper for All the People CIRCULATION: October Average: Daily Sunday 1,034,087 119th Year FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 28, 1947 CoDvrieht. 1947. by Triangle Publications. Inc. Vol.

237. No. 151 WFIL 560 First on Your Dial a THREE CENTS ill! II II fro Big Three Agree Germany Must Get Whole City Gives Thanks; 80,000 See Perm Triumph Thousands Attend Religious Rites; Todav Palestine Partition U.N. Up a Blind Alley Slam's Seat Vacated Pressure Applied Romulo Sparks Uproar I if, P7 i Wll Central Rule Soon U. Britain Reject Soviet Claim On Reich's Eastern Border as France Supports Russia on Issue Illustrated on Page 26 LONDON, Nov.

27 (AP). The United States, Britain and Russia agreed tonight, informants said, on the necessity of quickly forming a central government for all of Germany. Russia, however, balked at creating a commission to study Germany's final boundaries. U. S.

Secretary of State George C. Marshall and British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin flatly rejected Russian Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov's declaration that as far as the Soviet Union was concerned Eastern German territory up to the Oder and Neisse Rivers was ceded to Poland and required no further study. The Potsdam Conference placed this territory under provisional Polish administration "pending University Eleven Closes Season Undefeated, First Time in 23 Years Philadelphians celebrated a gala Thanksgiving Day yesterday with football and a parade sharing honors with the traditional holiday dinners and prayers of gratitude for the bounty of America in a world stricken by want and hunger. At Franklin Field, 80,000 gridiron fans gathered to see University of Pennsylvania complete an unbeaten season by defeating Cornell University, 21 to 0. Along Broad and Market 500.000 wide-eyed children and patient parents thrilled to the arrival of Santa Claus, escorted by the wonders of Uncle Wip's 27th annual Toyland Parade.

Hotels, theaters and cafes were thronged last night with holiday celebrants, as well as the vanguard of the more than 100,000 guests who will witness tomorrow's annual football game between Army and Navy at Municipal Stadium. Soldiers Seize Vital Centers in French Strikes THANKSGIVING REUNION AT THE COLLINS HOME James Robert Collins, respected Quake Lown welldigger, who was spared the ordeal of returning to Alabama as a fugitive from prison, happily reading to his boys, Billy, 4, and Jimmy, 9, after his release from Bucks County Jail. His wife, Agnes, sits nearby, resting after preparing yesterday's holiday meal. Story on Page 3. Aged and Needy Are Honor Guests At Turkey Dinners Their hearts filled with gratitude for the bounty of another season, Philadelphians yesterday observed a Thanksgiving as full-to-bursting with variety as were the festive tables at which they celebrated.

In places of "worship of all denominations, the day was opened with special services and prayers of thanksgiving, in which thousands took part. PARADE, FOOTBALL GAMES Climactic football games and turkey dinners shared their traditional place as Thanksgiving symbols with 13 Perish When Plane Crashes and Burns On Hillside in Alaska YAKUTAT, Alaska, Nov. 27 (UP) Thirteen persons were killed today when a DC-3 commercial cargo airliner crashed and burned during a pre-dawn landing attempt two miles from Yakutat Airfield. The plane plowed into a low hillside shortly after 7:20 A. M.

(EST) as the pilot made his landing approach through a light fog and drizzling rain. 1 IJ I nil II. IVleriiiaii NEW YORK. Nov. 27.

IT WAS surprise, after events of the iar.t 11 weeks in the United Nations, to find the finally had worked themselves into a corner up the dark alley of Palestine partition, s.r.d on the of adjournment have considerable unfinished business. The direct rr suit has been that several delegates had to cancel pj.ss.ase for Europe, by plane and by ship. Most of the 111' holding berths on the SS. Queen Mary, ever, got away. Without regrets.

I might add. Amoii the latter was II.K.II. Prince Vaashti of Siam, who labored with the 5-nation assembly, only to wind up without portfolio. Siam, it seems, "had too much, so sorry," of liberation and postwar freedom. After two years out from under the Japanese yoke, the country said in effect: "Give us back our oppressor, We prefer the old Puppet." The puppet government, led by the Jap-imposed dictator.

Gen- era! Luanq: Songgram. does i rot see eye to eye with the Prir.ee. But this small difficulty as overlooked U.N. until yes- terday. when Siam's vote against partition presented an obstacle to the majority bloc trying to uirm out of an embarrassing situation in the Holy Land.

So. as last resort, there arose cucstions about Siam's status. Did a nation have a vote when a r.ew government even the same eld government the United Na- tions in war had kicked out re- turned to power? Among those ho seemed to think the dele- rate was out of order were the Soviets. For the moment, back-in; Palestine partition, they forget their qualms about Fasc- ist-s, Japanese puppets, etc. The Secretariat disclaimed any pari in events, but the Siamese Prince, even before he was ousted by the new Song-sram government, betook himself and party aboard the Queen Mary, thus settling the I issue, and the for its last session became a 56-member body.

If the U.N. must accredit puppet Government-, let them be the r.tr.t puppets. Puppets from the 1:::. that is. So the Arab vote a rains: partition was whittled to 15 leavir.2 the Zionists with 29 57 re.

and "all Thanksgiving Day to the beaboers out of 12 c-urate abstainers. That abstainers like Mexico, China. Colombia. El Salvador, Honduras, hold a tremendous balance of power, none denies. Most of them, unfor-tunatelv, are indebted in one way nr another to the U.

which in this is lock, stock and bar-i rel for partition. That is, it seems be. judgins from the steam-heated campaign led by Herschel Johnson, the American delegate. Liberia, which voted against In the committee hearings, was in the neutral category last heard. But the determined Arabs also were using influence, as the lobbying campaign readied proportions more reminiscent of the U.

S. Senate. You couldn't walk in the Flushing Assembly hall Continued on Tage 26, Column 4 Reds Ask Parley OnJapanesePact final determination of Po- land's western frontier." Molotov insisted that the Potsdam and Yalta conferences had ceded Eastern Germany formally and finally to Poland. Bevin and Marshall insisted equally firmly that no final decision had been made on this subject and that the German Polish boundary was subject to more study. France, in effect, supported Russia.

DISCUSSION IS GENERAL The Big Four Foreign Ministers, in the" third session of the current meeting here, covered a half dozen subjects. Conference sources said the United States, Russia and Britain reached a tentative agreement that a German government should participate in any peace conference and ratify any treaty. The Foreign Ministers discussed topic after topic in general terms, overriding protests of France's Georges Bidault that the agenda was not being followed. DEADLOCKS CONTINUE Despite apparent wide areas of "agreement," it was said none 6f the Big Four turned up anything new enough in their positions over those outlined at Moscow last spring to indicate any break in deadlocks on main issues. The ministers are attempting to draft peace treaties for Germany and Austria.

Marshall took a slight step toward approving a more "centralized" government than the United States formally had favored, saying of Britain's proposal on this point: "It gives more of a central organization for Germany than the proposal of the United States delegation and still more than, I believe, proposed by the French. It is in general detail very much in accord with the United States proposal and I think we can easily accept it in part i CALLED 'PREMATURE' The proposal for establishment of a big power commission to map Germany's future frontiers was made by Bevin. He was promptly supported, the informants said, by Marshall and Bidault. Molotov, however, described the idea as "premature" and declared that various suggestions for handling the problem should be given additional study, the informants said. The Soviet Foreign Minister, who fought the Western Powers for two days to have German peace treaty procedure put ahead on the agenda, led off with a long discussion on the need for a central Germany government and put this first on his recommendations.

Bidault commented: "If we change our agenda as soon as we begin, it is not worth while spending two days determining what our agenda should be." Marshall, Bevin and Molotov stressed the need to form a central German government as soon as possible. Bevin, however, warned such a government should be created in a way that it would neither become a Continued on Page 6, Column 4 Autos Kill Three, Injure Scores In Phila. District Thanksgiving Day traffic accidents in the Philadelphia area brought death to three persons, including a Phil- adelphian, and injury to more than two score others. The most serious mishap was the crash of an automobile and a PTC stream lined trolley at 41st st. and Lancaster which resulted in the death of one man and serious injury to four others.

Killed in the West Philadel JACK HOt'CHINS phia collision was Jack Houchins, 22, of 3755 Walden st. Those injured were Edward Hollingsworth, 23. of 5253 Chancellor Thomas Zeitsinger, 25. of 2633 E. Ann Benjamin White, 25 of 3427 Wallace and Edmond Lovelle, 25, of 4042 Powel-ton ave.

The other dead are Robert H. Mc-Kinney, 56, of 10 Page Bar-rington, who was run down by a bus p.t Oaklyn, and Willie Jenkins, 45, of Hightstown, N. victim of a hit-run driver who escaped. Police said the accident which Continued on Page 3, Column 6 Argentina Drops Death Plot Case BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Nov. 27 (AP) Federal Judge Oscar Palma Beltran today dismissed sedition charges against 11 men accused by police of plotting to assassinate Mrs.

Juan Peron, wife of the Argentine president, and members of the government. Palma ruled the left some doubt that the accused took part in a plot. Newspaper reports said the men belonged to an extreme Rightist group. Police charged it was planned to kill Mrs. Peron with a bomb.

Crowd Acclaims Colorful Bands at Traditional Game By OLIVER II. CRAWFORD Before 80,000 Thankskiving Day football fans at Franklin the University of Pennsylvania completed its first undefeated season In 23 years by whipping Cornell University in the 54th renewal of their ancient gridiron feud yesterday afternoon, 21 to 0. With only a 7-7 tie with the U. S. Military Academy marring its record, the 1947 Pennsylvania eleven became the first since 1924 to finish its season undefeated.

In that year the team lost a post -season game not considered part of its regular schedule to California. In 1908 Penn had an undefeated season. FOOTBALL HISTORY MADE It was this rare thrill the thrill of seeing football history made that overshadowed the traditional color and spectacle of Penn-Cornell meetings for the 80,000 fans. Bob Deuber's seven-yard sprint for a first period touchdown and Skippy Minisi's passes to Art Littleton and Bob Sponaugle for later scores, put the final touch on Penn's unbeaten year, including earlier victories over Lafayette, Dartmouth, Columbia. Navy, Princeton and Virginia.

GOAL POSTS DOWNED The goal posts went down almost with the final blast of the referee's whistle and Jubilant Penn fans swarmed onto the field to carry off the Red and Blue players in triumph. Bonfires sprang up in the emptying stands and the exits through which the players struggled to reach their dressing rooms were blocked with cheering fans. Police finally cleared a path for them through the press of happy humanity, but made no effort to interfere as individuals splintered the goal posts into precious souvenirs of one of Penn's greatest football campaigns. Highways and byways leading to the huge red brick stadium in West Philadelphia were Continued on Page 2, Column 5 Truman Secretary In Naval Hospital WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 (AP).

William D. Hassett, secretary to President Truman, was reported in a -satisfactory" condition today at the Bethesda (Md.) Navy Medical Center, where he was admitted last night after being stricken by "acute pain in the chest Capt. Leslie O. Stone, commanding officer of the Center, who issued the report, said Hassett is under observation. Hassett 'spent several weeks in the Army's Walter Reed Hospital recently undergoing treatment for a stomach disorder.

M'Arthur Shuffles Jap Princes, Police TOKYO, Nov. 28 (Friday) CAP) Japanese Princes and Japanese police were shaken down and shaken up, respectively, last month in "significant developments to facilitate democratic reform," Gen. Douglas MacArthur reported today. Outlining occupation and government activities during October, the Supreme Commander noted the pro posed decentralization of Japan's national police system, and the recent reduction of 51 Princes and Princesses to "commoner" rank. The police reorganization plan proposed an over-all strength of bluecoats, of whom 95,000 would be in autonomous city and town units.

Since -he Imperial Household Council stripped ranks and titles from the 51 members of Japan's royalty, only immediate members of the imperial family remain. PARIS. Nov. 28 (Friday) (INS). Crack French occupation trooDS seized control early today of strike bound rail and communication cen ters as the National Assembly back, ed the government's vigorous anti- Communist moves with a vote of confidence.

Premier Robert Schuman's pro gram to stem Communist sabotage and halt intimidation of workers won parliamentary backing by a vote of 322 to 186. This represented a loss of support since Schuman received a vote of 412 to 184 when he took office six days ago. 2 MILLION ON STRIKE Soldiers took over railroad stations, roundhouses, and telephone centers in lightning raids as the number of strikers climbed to and threatened to reach 4.000,-000 this week-end. Police started clearing Communist-led strikers out of vital railroad yards where they have been haltins traffic between Paris and southwest France. RUSSIANS PROTEST The occupation troops from the French zones in Germany and Austria went into action amid the following developments: 1.

Receipt of a stiff Russian protest note demanding further explanation of the French expulsion of 20 Russians accused of strike agitation. 2. A government explanation of the use of troops which declared. "The government has been forced Continued on Page 5, Column 3 Finnish Workers Weaken on Strike HELSINKI. Finland, Nov.

27 (AP). The government said tonight support for a strike of more than 40,000 government employes had "weakened" among the workers. In a communique issued after a government committee received strikers' representatives, the administration said also that telegraph and telephone connections with almost all cities were under control and that preparations were going forward to resume railway traffic. The government ordered police today to occupy communications offices and was reported to be planning conscription measures to combat the walkout, which began at midnight Tuesday. 3n tfje Snquirer FRIDAY.

NOV. 28. 1947 Departments and Features Amusements 40 Bridge 32 Business and Financial 41 Comics 34, 35 Death Notices 47 Editorials 24 Feature and Picture Page 26 Obituaries 18. 19. 20 Port in Storm 33 Puzzles 34, 35 Radio and Television 33 Sports 36, 37, 38, 39 Women's News 30, 31.

32, 33 Frank Brookhouser Page 29 John M. Cummings Page 24 Samuel Grafton rase 26 Louella O. Parsons Page 35 Portraits Tage 24 George E. Sokolsky Page 26 Mark Sullivan Tage 26 Tremendous Trifles rage 26 Danton Walker Fase 34 Washington Background Fe 26 Walter Wlriehell Tag 34 the annual Uncle Wip's Toyland Parade, a feature of the day which has come to have a tradition of its own. Once the throngs assembled to watch Uncle Wip and Santa Claus make their triumphal entry -had melted away, streets in the city's downtown shopping section presented an aspect of Sabbath quiet, for all Philadelphia was on holiday.

Only a handful of utility workers, gasoline station attendants, drug store employes and restaurant workers carried on the routine chores required to keep the city's wheels turning: POST OFFICES CLOSED All post offices were closed for the day, and regular mail deliveries suspended, except for special delivery matter. Only lock box service was provided at the General Post Office, the William Penn Annex and North Philadelphia Annex. Incidentally, yesterday was a holiday for the humble but all-important egg. Although the Government previously had cancelled "poultry- Continued on Page 2, Column 4 500,000 Watch Toyland Parade Illustrated on Page 2 Fully 500,000 children and their parents lined Eroad st. and crowded the sidewalks of Market st.

yesterday before noon to watch the wonders of Uncle Wip's 27th annual Toyland Parade unfold themselves. Wide-eyed and vocal, the young sters hailed ihfcir favorite storybook characters from Montgomery ae. to i City Hall, thence to Spruce back to Market and down to the Gimbel Store. The climax of the parade, under Gimbel Brothers' sponsorship, was the arrival of Santa Claus and the official inauguration of the pre-Christmas season, which this year is bound to be a little better than last, as what Ckristmas isn't? FUN ALL ALONG THE LINE Special guests sat in a reviewing sjand at City Hall, but they had no more fun than the tens of thousands of devotees who thrUled to the music, marveled at the sights and welcomed St Nick all along the line. Some stood on stools, others sat orf stepladders, still others took advantage of office windows.

Yet by far the greater part of the huge throng stood along the sidewalks to watch the display. Biggest spectacle of all was a green-eyed yellow dragon a monster that measured 60 feet from the tip of his smoking snout to the last of his 13 lashing tails. He was an altogether terrifying sort of dragon, Continued on Page 2, Column 8 Civil Aviation Parley a Failure GENEVA, Switzerland. Nov. 27 (AP).

The International Civil Aviation conference ended a 24-day meeting today after failing to reach an agreement on commercial air rights. The representatives of 29 nations had attempted to draft such an agreement, but gave up because of apparently irreconcilable differences between groups of nations. The principal conflict was over the right of long-distance air lines to carry passengers between cities outside their homelands. A Coast Guard party reported the twin-engine transport was "demolished" and all aboard were killed outright. Townspeople and officials from Yakutat ranger station recovered the burned bodies.

Most of the dead were residents of Oregon and Washington, returning to their homes on charter rates after the plane had unloaded a cargo at Fairbanks and Anchorage. WAR VETERANS PILOTS The plane belonged to Columbia Air Cargo of Portland, Ore. The company reported the airliner was piloted by Jay B. Haworth, Portland, a Second World War Army pilot. Co-Pilot was T.

A. Keranen, 26, Vanport City, also a veteran war pilot. The Civil Aeronautics Adminis- tration reported the pilot had asked for and received permission to make a straight approach to the runway at Yakutat Airfield. 500-FOOT CEILING The CAA said the Columbia Air Cargo Co. plane had intended to make a resular stop at Yakutat as part of its Anchorage-Portland run.

Continued on Page 3, Column 8 Cruising Red Car Discovers Fire Flames discovered at 115 o'clock this morning in the office of a gasoline station on the northwest corner of 13th and Pine sts. were quickly extinguished by Engine 1, from 18th and South st. Police Sergeant Joseph Mangeney, cruising in a red car, saw the fire and summoned fire equipment by radio. UNESCO Group Blasts War Idea MEXICO CITY. Nov.

27 (UP). A subcommittee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization today adopted, by 9 to' 2, a French proposal calling on all people concerned for the dignity of man and the future of civilization to denounce the "perni cious" idea that war is inevitable." The United States, Canada, Aus tralia, Brazil, China, France, India, Mexico and The Netherlands supported the proposal. Poland and Czechoslovakia opposed it. Polish Delegate Jan Drohojowski said he would resubmit to a plenary session his country's demand for U.N. 'legal action" against warmongers.

ARF VOU C.OOI AT CONVERSATION? In DcfrmmT Iisrrst Olctt RurjjPKS lists 30 faults tliHt mnr must talk. Renti how not to bp a con versa! ion I lwrp. othrr articles ot lasting interest in Reader's Diiresn. -Advt. LONDON, Nov.

28, (Friday) (AP). The Russian News Agency Tass said today the Soviet government had suggested that Foreign Ministers of China, the United States, Russia and Great Britain meet next January to discuss a peace settlement for Japan. The Tass report, which was from Moscow and was distributed by the Soviet monitor here, said Russia suggested that the proposed special ses- sum be held in China. mussia proposal iaces a cniu re ception in the United States. (Diplomatic authorities in Washington viewed it as a revival of the Russian contention that the major powers should dictate the Pacific settlement as well as a peace treaty with Germany.

TALKS BOGGED BY SOVIET (The United States rejected this idea in September after Russia refused to take part in an American-sponsored move to turn over arrangements for a Pacific peace conference to representatives of the 11 nations which took an active part in the war with Japan. The prelimin ary talks have bogged down for weeks because of Russia's attitude and objections raised by China. (The Nanking government propos ed this month that all 11 nations make decisions in drafting the treaty Continued on Page 4. Column 6 U.N. Teams to Go To Greek Borders ATHENS, Greece.

Nov. 1" (UP) The United Nations Special Committee on the Balkans decided today to station observation teams along Greece's frontiers with Yugoslavia, Albania and Bulgaria. The committee adopted a resolution asking the U.N. secretariat to request permission of the four nations involved to station observers "near and on both sides of the frontiers." Yugoslavia, Albania, and Bulgaria, along with other nations in the Soviet sphere, are boycotting the committee. The committee planned to leave for its headquarters at Salonika, Greece, in a few days.

On WFIL Today 360 FIRST ON VOCE DIAL 10:00 A.M. My True Story 12:30 P. M. Sleepy Hollow Gang 8:00 P.M. Dashiell Hammett's Fat Man 9:30 P.

M. The Sheriff 10:00 P. M. Fights: Roche vs. Kron-owitz 12:00 Md.

Inquirer news and sports WFIL-TV CHANNEL 6 Inquirer Television News 8:40 P. M. Wrestling from the Arena WFIL-FM 8:30 P. M. Treasury of Music Aid Program Opposition 4 Media Families Flee General-Alarm Fire A spectacular general-alarm fire, spreading rapidly from its source in a basement boiler room, swept through the three-story Shellbourne Apartments in Media yesterday, driving four families Col.

Walter Pew Elopes With Paris Divorcee Col Walter C. Pew. former executive of the Sun Oil Co. and v. ealthy New York petroleum engineer, has been married at Elkton, Md to Mrr.e.

Solange Remondet, a blonde Parisian beauty he met while servir.c overseas in thei Alarms Administration WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 (UP). High Administration leaders today were reported gravely alarmed by the turn taken by the Congressional debate on the President's $597,000,000 Emergency Aid Bill for France, Italy andi Austria. Instead of quick Senate approval, as predicted by Senate President Arthur H. Vandenberg, the measure ran into unexpected snags there, and heads into even more trouble in the house.

The Senate resumes debate on its bill tomorrow, with passage expected next Monday. Senator Carl A. Hatch N. prophesied meantime that the Senate will authorize the full amount. But he said he "rather expects" the Appropriations Committee which mus vote the actual money to cut the "funds to about $450,000,000.

He foresaw a sharp floor fight to restore the cut. Six members of the Appropriations Committee were among the 30 senators who voted yesterday to cut the authorization to $400,000,000. The motion was defeated by the votes of 56 other senators, including 12 Appropriations Committee members. A nip-and-tuck battle also is forecast in the House, where the Foreign Continued on Page 8, Column 8 to the street and destroying the belongings of two others. Fire companies from three nearby communities were summoned to help the hard-pressed Media Fire Company in battling the blaze, which turned three apartments at the rear of the building into blackened shells and caused heavy smoke and water damage to three shops at the front of the building.

TROOPERS HALT TRAFFIC Traffic on E. State between Monroe and Jackson was halted by State Police who were called in to keep order. Service on the Red Arrow trolley lines from 69th st. to Media was also suspended in the vicinity of the borough as firemen laid hose lines across the tracks. The flames, which were leaping through the roof of the frame and stucco building within a few minutes after the first alarm was sounded, drew hundreds of residents and passersby to the scene.

Breaking out Continued on Page 3, Column 5 Second World War, it was learned yesterday. i.r.e marriage, climaxing a romance or the 46-year-old oil expert, was solemnized on Wednes day at a quiet cere mony at the home of Rev. Percy K. Lambert, pastor of the Free Will Baptist Church at Elk-ton. It was the second a -riage for both.

Pew, son of the iate Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Pew and a nephew of J. Howard Pew and Joseph N.

Pew. was divorced at 1943. from the Nr Oct. ontmod on Tac 22. Column 4 I'M rltr rt.bnm Trl TK IVf't MLEI I 1 JO.