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THE WEATHER Temperature Rlsh 92 Low today Rainfall Season (Airport). Lest year.M Forecast Continued clear, not much chance in temperature tonight and Friday. Veteran Square Units Open Here See Page 9 Vol.59 TWO SECTIONS BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1Z, 1946 16 PAGES No. 37 TO TION Sawmill Unions to Aid Sailors U. Agrees to Delay Assembly to Oct.

23 37 Nations, More Than Required Number, Agree to Postponement Asked by 4 Countries UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, Lake Success, 12. nations, more than the required number, agreed today to United Nations general assembly for one month to October 23. Secretary-General Trygve Lie, who reluctantly proposed the delay at the request of Russia, China, France and Bel- Ross'Ex-Wife to Help in Fight onDrugJjabit HOLLYWOOD, Sept. Mrs. Catherine Hewlett Ross, divorced showgirl wife of Barney Ross, today promised the former lightweight champion all the help she can give in his fight against the morphine habit and said she hoped to fly to him.

Frends of Mrs. Ross said she was trying to arrange transportation to New York Airlines reported tha? so far as they knew' she hadn't gone east on any scheduled flights, but she wasn't her at mid-morning. Shaken by Report She was shaken by the report of Ross' technical arrest on a charge of possessing narcotics and saying she was "in his corner" sought seclusion. "I don't understand," she said. "I don't believe it.

"I lived with for a long four I never saw anything to indicate he was using drugs. It's not true. I don't believe it." Surrenders Voluntarily Ross, former lightweight and welterweight boxing champion, surrendered voluntarily to narcotics agents so lie could receive government treatments. Ross was a marine in 1942 when he fell in love with the dancer. He eloped with her just' before sailing, overseas to Guadalcanal.jjBut their' romance cooled following his return to "take our first real honeymoon," and on 6 she won a divorce here on.

charges of "extreme cruelty." She said was forgetting all that today "to help Barney." Haywafd Publisher Killed in Accident HAYWARD, Sept. 12. services were pending today caused by an exploding pocket of for Walter B. Stafford, publisher of natural gas today demolished one the Hayward Journal, who was in- building, damaged five others and stantly killed Wednesday night when he was thrown from a jeep that went out of control. He was 35.

The.accid«pt took place at an intersection when the jeep, failing to make a turn, plunged over an embankment. Stafford suffered a fractured skull and two broken legs. As one-time publisher of the Siskiyou Daily News at Yrekar Stafford was one of the advocates of a forty- ninth slate, to be carved out of a announced that up to today no United Nations member had opposed a postponement. Fourteen of the 51 United Nations still were to be heard from, but a simple 26 was sufficient, to approve the postponement which was sought chiefly by Russia. -The 51-nation njeeting originally was scheduled for September 3 but was postponed to Septehiber 23 when it became apparent that the Paris peace conference would interfere- Russia, complaining that It- and some other nations could not staff two international conferences at once, got support from China, France and Belgium when it became apparent that the peace parfey- would continue well into October.

The- United Stated which said it would not object to the postponement, has not answered lie's poll of U. N. members. Yugoslav Filibusters on Trieste PARIS, Sept. 12.

Faced, with resounding defeat' when he finishes talking, Alex Bebler of Yugoslavia today carried his marathon speech against the Big Four Trieste compromise into its fourth, day. For three days Bebler has succeeded in delaying a vote In the Italian political commission on Tugosiav amendments to overthrow the Big Four agreement. Privately the Yugoslavs admitted their fight was in vain. i In verbose, untiring oratory he at tacked the tentative Big Four agreement internationalizing Trieste and fixing the "French line" as the Ital. Ian- Yugoslav frontier.

He particu- larly condemned the decision 'to give the town of Gorizia to Italy. Reliable reports said Andrei Vish insky, Soviet deputy foreign minister, had informed other Big Fomvroem- bers he would support the Big Four compromise against 'his better judgment. Without his support, Yugoslavia had no chance of getting her amendments passed. Bebler's speech "nvas only an extreme example of the endless talking blocking concrete meats in the'" peace accomplish- conference. Everyone talked up work to complete the five peace treaties by October 23, but nobody has much about it.

Ns Y. Truck Drivers' Strike Called Off NEW YORK, Sept. 12. of A. F.

L. truck drivers climbed back into their vehicles today and started moving supplies to retail outlets shut off from deliveries for 12 days by a strike "of 25,000 members of the A. F. L. Teamsters Union in New.Tork and New Jersey.

Heavily loaded trucks thundered through Holland tunnel in increased volume as John Coulin, fourth vice- president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (A. F. announced 5000 drivers in northern New Jersey had returned to work in compliance with orders from Teamsters' -President Daniel J. Tobin. Mayor William O'Dwyer announced some members of Local 282, one of the organizations on strike for a new contract with a 30 per cent wage boost, had agreed to start wholesale grocery trucks rolling again.

Explosion Demolishes- San Diego Building SA DIEGO, Sept. 12. blast portion of northern California. was to be called. "Jefferson." It SEES GOP recent stock market' was all a plot, deliberately manipulated by Republican financiers to enrich GOP campaign chests and hurt the administration In the November elections, according to Democratic Representative Adolph J.

JV Sabath, 'above. He said he has 'requested the'Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate the amount of'short selling in re- Gent stock market operations. Industry to Ask- Flour Price He WASHINGTON Sept. 12. Industry petitions to take price controls off flour, bread, and bakery products will be filed with the secretary of agriculture In the next week, it was learned today.

A spokesman for the Millers National Federation said the milling industry will base its petition on the fact that wheat represents 80 per cent of the total raw materials costs of flour wheat is decontrolled. "It is pretty difficult to maintain ceilings on flour -with wheat otr price controls," the spokesman OPA on Wednesday granted mill; ers a price boost of 20 cents a-100 third increase in two months. injured at least 10 persons, 2 of them critically. The blast which took place in the basement of the Bay City Liquor store in the Normal Heights district started a fire which swept through; four stores and one apartment building before it was brought under control. 'Margaret Pearce, 30, was critically injured when she was trapped by glaines and was forced to jump.

She suffered severe burns and bruises. RETURNS TO BRIDE SAXTA MONICA, Sept. Ali Ipar, 25-year-old Turkish movie producer out of the army after two months' service, returned today to his bride of two weeks, Actress Virginia Bruce. Matson Steamship Sends Distress Flare SAN DIEGO, Sept. 12.

coast guard air station today reported intercepting a radio broadcast on the international distress band reporting flares 4C5 "miles west of here. The call was signed by the letters code the Matson Marine Falcon, now en route to San Francisco from Sydney. Efforts to contact the ship have failed, the coast guard said. Commander D. B.

MacDaimid, base commanding officer, left here by plane for the polnf off the coast. Jail Sentences Asked for Drunken Drivers SAX FRANCISCO, Sept. 12. The California Safety Council today proposed that second convictions for driving while intoxicated oacry a mandatory jail sentence. The proposal was offered at a meeting of the council in-San Francisco to discuss changes in the motor vehicle code.

London Police Mass to Break Down Attempt to Send Food to Squatters LONDON, Sept. 12. Police, plug of the squatters movement rushed 'reinforcements today to the were planning to extend their oper- site near ations. Communist Leader Harry Pollitt to speak at a rally of sup- tf-NEA TiSeDhoto SUSPECT investigator (right, face T'jout), prepares to use blackjack on anjjunobile salesman, wjio attempted tcfflee as-United States agents cracked" down, on violators of used cftr prices in Angeles. The salesman, was not held nor any charge lodged against him.

Auto Dealers Free on Bail in OPAjCase LOS ANGELES, Sept. 12. Sixty-seven Los Angeles used auto dealers were at liberty today on bonds ranging from $500 to $1000 each on charges of selling or offering to sell cars above OPA ceilings. Paul Barksdale d'Orr, regional OPA director, said the drive price irregularities was just and "my investigators will comb every- automobile dealer's lot. salesroom and prosecute everyone who is violating the OPA price ceilings." The OPA said many 1946 with only a few miles on the speedometers, found their way onto the.used car lots.

Some dealers privately complained that they had purchased cars for resale at higher-than- ceiling prices and stood to lose considerable "sums. Some used car lots were closed today, others refused to make sales. The arrests were made in Los Long Beach, Glendale and Santa Monica. Major Earthquake Noted PASADENA, Sept. 12.

major earthquake shock, centered SOOO miles distant in a northwesterly direction, was recorded at California Institute of Technology at 7:38:20 a. m. today. Dr. C.

F. Richter, seismologist, reported. The first shock was followed by another of undrtermined distance and direction at 9:47:57 a. Richter said. Shutdown in Lumber Threatens Expected to Walk Out Friday in Support of Maritime Strike SAN FRANCISCO, Sept.

12. sympathy walkout of all Pacific northwest sawmill workers was requested today by "Harry Lurideberg, A. F. L. maritime strike leader, as the intensified strike of A.

F. L. seamen spread to all shipyards and repair docks in the San Francisco bay area. In Seattle, Ed Coester, business agent for the striking sailors' union here, today announced the A.F. L.

lumber and sawmill workers had announced their willingness against to shut down the northwest's lum- the WSB." WSB Refuses Wage Increase Strike, Now in Eighth Day, Delays Movement of $200,000,000 in Goods in N. Y. Harbor By Associated Hopes revived for solution of the strike of A. F. L.

maritime workers today willya While House announcement that the President has ordered Reconversion Director John R. Steelman to try to work out a settlement today. The strike, which New York City authorities said had delayed movement of nearly $200,000,000 worth of shipping in that harbor alone, is going into its eighth day. "It's up -to Doctor Steelman to make a decision, probably in the course of the day," the President's press secretary, Charles G. Ross, told newsmen in Washington.

The Wage Stabilization which Wednesday night refused to yield to high pressure for wage increase approval from the shipping industry and a half million strike- idle maritime into conference with Steehaan to explain its position. Steelman has two courses, Ross said. "One obviously is to approve the finding- of the Wage Stabilization Board and fight it out, with all that that implies," Ross said. "The other is to agree -with the maritime the un Arabs Turn Down Anglo-OlPlan LONDON, Sept. 12.

A British source said several Arab league delegates at the Palestine conference emphatically rejected today the British-American experts' plan for federalization of the holy land. At least two Arab speakers ob- jpcted that independnce for their "brethren in the Holy Land" would be delayed indefinitely. One Arab representative cried that Palestine's independence should be granted now. Other Arab speakers, the source stated, asserted federalization would ast lumber and timber industry. her industry in support of the sailors' demand for employer- approved wage increases.

said the (tf JtJia Puget Sound Tacoma Dls- 'trict Council and Northwest District Council of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers' Union had telegraphed "100 per cent support" of the sailors to tha sailors' headquarters at San and had announced that "we stand ready to shut down the lumber industry in the northwest" if deemed necessary. To Establish lines Coester said he had been informed that the Marine Firemen's Union, an independent, would establish picket lines at 5 p.m. today. Lundeberg, operating director of A. F.

L. Sailors Union of the Pacific, said he expected the sawmill workers -would walk out at 8 a. m. Friday in support of the maritime controversy with the Federal W'age Stabilization Board over seamen's wage increases. About 80,000 sawmill workers in northern California, Oregon and Washington would be affected, the seamen's leader estimated.

F. L. unions, he added, control about 85 per cent of the Pacific northwest's be unworkable economically, emphasizing there were no guarantees any measure of self-sufficincy could be obtained in any of the zones. The attitude had been discounted earlier by Prime Minister Attiee, who in opening the conference said Britain regarded consideration of the plan only as "item number one" on I the conference agenda. The federalization plan evolved by British-American experts would es-1 tablish four zones in Jewish and two British.

These sources said the Jewish agency was expected to suggest the resumption of conversations interrupted eight days ago. BOOKED ON FOKGERY CHARGES GLENDALB, Sept. 12. Joseph Lynch, 22, arrested in Shreveport, was booked in city jail today on nine counts of check forg'ery. Detective-Captain W.

E. Hegi, who extradited Lynch, the latter had acknowledged -writing some 100 checks in various southern California cities. C. I. 0.

Participates. As President Truman today took the maritime strike controversy out of the hands of the wage board, the Continued on Pace Two S.F. Without Clues in Torso Murder Abbey lodge squartters fashionable Regents Park, fearing an effort by sympathizers to police cordons and bring water, blankets and medical supplies to the families which have seized the building. The reserves were summoned as the squatters developed momentum. Defj-ing government orders, squatters squadrons seized a shabby temperance hotel, staged a lie-down demonstration and threatened to occupy new buildings.

Foad Barred Police have made no attempt to evict squattei's but are trying to starve them out by barring supplies of food, water and other necessities. With the cabinet deliberating the situation there were indications that porters at Leicester Square. One Communist spokesman said that a Communist survey of London end showed enough empty dwellings to house families. Say Nothing Done He that the 'borough councils were doing little-oc nothing about housing lower income groups while extensive repair and building projects were going forward in 'better residential By employing what described as a "feint squat," the squatters drew police half way across London and then moved into the Ivanhoe in the central section of the city. Twelve families broke open the boarded-up doors and seized the Communists who are the spark- rooms before police could intervene.

l-XEA Teiroboto IKE ON Marshal Viscount Montgomery (right) talked to reporters daring press conference at the Pentagon in "Washington, D. while General Dwight Eisenhower, -who had been informed of death only a few hours before, sat dejectedly at Hie left. Seamen Rap WSB Leaders of strikingr'A. F. L.

seamen t'threat to the entire labor 'movement of the United States" the decision, of the "Wage Stabilization, Board in. standing pat on its earlier ruling 1 denying them wage hikes above those won by C. I. O. seamen.

Pledging a "fight to the bitter end," they promised to carry out "plans to secure support of the entire United States labor A. F. C. -I. O.

and independent unions to aid us in our fight to regain the right of free collective bargaining which the WSB action has denied us." In an earlier telegram to the WSB, the strike leaders termed the board's action as "criminal and union-busting," and added: "The further continuance of the greatest general maritime strike in the history of the United States rests squarely on your shoulders and the shoulders of those individuals who voted to deny our hard-fought-for wage gains." Increase Limited D. A. Investigator Probes Cornero; Ship Unmolested LOS ANGELES, Sept. 12. district attorney's investigator testified today that he tried his hand at blackjack, dice; stud poker and roulette as the state continued to hammer away at its contention that Tony Cornero Stralla violated state gambling laws by conspiring: to sot up games of chance on the S3 Bunker Hill.

Investigator Chet Sharp said he visited the ship at various times and that he met rio interference his investigation. He said he talked with Stralla who told him "ho had no intention violating any laws." Only five of the original eight defendants remained in the Municipal Court preliminary hearing. Charges against three have been dismissed on motion of "the because, of lack of evidence. The latest dismissal was in the case of John Caporal, who turned state's witness and told how he hired croupiers and dealers for the Bunker Hill. Albanian Troops on Greek Border NEW YORK, Sept.

12. "New York Times reported from Rome today Albania had "been steadily concentrating largo forces including two Russian Infantry regiments, on the Greek border for the past weeks." The Times correspondent, quoting "very good authority," reported: "Albanian troops were being aided wiia s-ssa SSBJESJS: the $17.50 a month increase secured by C. I. O. seamen the wage boosts negotiated by the A.

F. L. seamen. The S. I.

U. P. originally won raises amounting" to $22.50 monthly on the west coast and $27.50 on the east coast. Similar raises were won by the marine independent union. Wednesday night the stabilization board voted, 4 to with labor members -in Washington not to back down on its earlier ruling.

"No further action is contemplated by the board," announced Chairman W. Willard Wirtz. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 12. Admittedly without definite clews police centered their efforts in the Torso murder case to determine the hieavy wrappng paper in which parts of the body were found in an alley adjoining: downtown Paramount theater.

Parts of the'body identified by relatives as that of Ramon B. Lopez, 52, San Leandro nurseryman, were found wrapped in two egg boxes and ment-owned shipyards, Including six in a. three-gallon milk can. There Kaiser companies, it was announced were eight strips of five-foot lengths today, of 30-pound kraft brown, pin An official of the committee said Six Kaiser Companies Under House Scrutiny Sept. 12.

The House merchant marine committee will open an investigation September. 23 "of wartime profits made by 19 private operators of govern- including fighter planes, a email number of medium tanks, molars, machineguns and ammunition. Reporting Russian field batleriea were arriving In Triana from Belgrade for service on the slrategic Island of Saseno, In the Bay of Valona, the dispatch said: "The.Albanian government is believed to have ceded Saseno secretly to Russia." Valona Harbor was reported being mined. Defenses were said to be undergoing strengthening along the whole coast. Albanian troops near Greece were reported equipped with winter and summer uniforms, made in Yugoslavia.

Trenches and dugout? were reported being built on the road from Valona to Shoshica and Porto Palei-jfio. The dispatch said the Albanian army totaled 70,000 men and that recently recruits from older classes had been drafted. machine-glazed wrapping paper used the group wanted to know whether TriAHrvi "nnv nnnnnwiriTiablft nrofits" were in bundling Up the dissection victim, "any unconscionable profits Police urged any shopkeeper who: made by the companies, sold or gave away eight or more strips of such paper to notify them at once. profit," the official added. Prices Increased for Cotton Goods WASHINGTON, Sept, 12.

OPA today authorized higher prices i for several electrical household appli "We are not questioning the right 1 ances ae ther work gloves, cotton of the companies to a reasonable rugs and many types of low er cost rt-f-ftotot ii. Truck Drivers' Strike Takes Effect Two Counties; Many Men on Jobs OAKLAND, Sept. 12. 1 he had expected word to go on strike reports from northern California in-I for two days. At Santa Barbara dicated today that only in I Wednesday State A.

F. L. President county and parts 0 4 Napa county "a'm "er the A. b. truck drivers striKe was being felt.

James Marshall, spokesman at the teamsters union headquarters here, said 'the strike was taking effect in all of northern California, but drivers in' the" rich' Sacramento valley and at Modesto kept on the job. Still Move Frnit president of the teamsters' for Stanislaus, Merced and Mariposa counties, said at Ujat trucks were still and vegetables to processors. that the request of international officers of the union for -At suspension- of the strike order sifll effect in his district. At Sacramento, Secretary llarty of. the teamsters' union said he had-not received word from the union- to "call a strike amd that his men "were still trucking fruit and unions in northern California.

Four Canneries Close Four canneries in Napa county had shut down and two in Alameda county felt the strike. One cannery at Decoto closed because farmers were unable to deliver enough tomatoes to keep workers busy. The cannery at Centerville had slowed down and was -working on a. backlog. Disagree on Bate The -negotiating committee agreed with truck.

-operators on an hourly wage boost ift cents but cotton clothing. Price boosts ranging up to 15 per cent were allowed on knit underwear and nightwear for men, women and children: cotton hosiery; men's bandana work handkerchiefs and waterproofed clothing such as worn by fishermen. Cotton rugs were increased by from 50 cents to $1.50 at retail to cover a 15 to 20 per cent price boost to manufacturers. OPA set next Tuesday for the effective date of price increases on low-cost electric fans, electnc irons, hot plates, sandwich grills; toasters and bowl-type space heaters. The boosts, ranging up to 15 per cent, were made to spur production.

failed when to reach- an" agreement on 'it should become effective. vegetables to said 'settle the dispute. Operators offered, to make it retroactive to September 1, and the union held out for May 1. President Ray B. Wiser of the California 'Farm Bureau Federation appealed to operators and drivers to 4 COUNTERFEITERS ARRESTED IN N.

Y. WASHINGTON, Sept. 12. The secret Bervice today announced the arrest of four counterfeiters in New York and the confiscation of $110,00 in counterfeit $20 bills. It was-the biggest haul of bogus money in the past 10 years.

Those arrested' were Joseph Soroka and Joseph G. Giarusso. both of New 1'ork City; Joseph Paternoster, proprietor of Newark, X. printing plant, and George A. tarkin, also of Newark..