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EQUAL 9 otto ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME PART I -GENERAL NEWS LIBERTY UNDER THE LAW TRUE INDUSTRIAL FREEDOM VOL LXV CC THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 28, 1946 DAILY, FIVE CENTS 77 MO REPS i 9 City Holds Off $13,000,000 Tax Increase Businessmen Crowd Council Chamber to Protest Plan Council Rejects Delay on Iranian Discussion; Soviets' Return Expected BY JAMES B. RESTOX, New York Times Correspondent NEW YORK, March 27. The Soviet Union took a walk at the United Nations Security Council meeting today, but they will be represented at the council's committee of experts tomorrow, and they will come back to the council when they feel like it, which will probably be on April 10. This action, which broke, temporarily, the rule of Big Five unanimity which they have supported from the start, was not a break with the U.N.O. It was not to be compared as some observers have been comparing it, with the German, Italian, or Japanese departures from the League of Nations, or an indication that the coalition which produced victory N.L.R.B.

SLAPS EMPLOYER FOR AIDING UNION ST. LOUIS, March 27. (JP) In a decision believed to be without parallel, the St. Louis office of the National Labor Relations Board today charged the American Car Foundry Co. of Madison, 111., with prounion activity for dismissing a workman who refused to join a union.

The company asserted the discharged employee left work early in violation of plant rules. The N.L.R.B. rejected the defense, finding that the workman's action in leaving early was used by the company "as a pretext to discharge him to satisfy those other employees who refused to work with him unless he joined the union." The firm was ordered to "cease and desist from encouraging membership" in the A.F.L. Brotherhood of Railway Carmen or any other union at its Madison plant. New Spy Case Interjected in House Inquiry Committee Votes to Investigate Espionage in Canada Illustrated on Pag 3, Part I WASHINGTON, March 27.

(TIE) The arrest of an alleged Russian spy in Portland, was injected into a Congressional inquiry of atomic spies in the United States and Canada today, despite an authoritative denial that atom bomb secrets were involved in the West Coast case. Counsel Ernie Adamson of the House Un-American Activities has been dissolved. UP) Wirerhoto RUSSIANS BOLT Russian Ambassador Andrei A. Gromyko, in foreground, walks out of the United Nations Security Council after motion to delay Iranian Case was rejected. Of the remaining 10 members of council only Secretary Byrnes (fourth chair from left) turns to watch leave.

Japs Broke U.S. Weather Work to Stop Codes, Colonel Disclosesi0n Wafer Front In Japan itself, however, fore casters were usually able to predict "generally clear tomorrow, followed by B-29's," since the giant bomber raids were usually scheduled on the basis of weather reports which the Japanese were able to intercept and decode. The three weather services, army, navy and civilian, showed a complete lack of cooperation in Japan in contrast to the pooling of data practiced by their U.S. counterparts, Gillenwaters said. MacArthur Praised The colonel, who drafted the weather instructions of MacArthur's surrender instrument, praised the general's administration in Japan and said the Japanese civilian population is "eating out of his hand." Gillenwaters 3-esterday visited Floyd D.

Young, regional government Weather Bureau director here. Rancho Vegas Hotel Leased Sanford D. Adler, heading a local svndicate. has leased El Rancho Vegas Hotel and Village in Las Vegas, from J. W.

Drown, representing several corporations as lessors, Atty. Aaron Levinson announced yesterday. About 92,000,000 is involved on a "comparatively short lease," with option of purchase and pro visions for improvements within 18 months sijpject to lifting of government building restrictions. The broker was Ed Tropp. The hotel properties, on a 49-acre site, contain 240 rooms.

EXPERIMENT it though some success labor- atory animals has been reported. Aiier ine mjecuons nave naa a chance to work, serum from their blood will be used experimentally in an effort to produce immunity in other, persons. Dr. Leo btaniey prison pnvsician, saia mat eiaooraie measures will be taken to pre- vent complications. ur.

Loweu Kantz ot stantora University Medical School, who is in charge of the nroiect, said the first vaccine probably will be available in about three months and that it will be a ilong time thereafter before its i efficacy could be determined. Opposed by the largest and most representative delegation of businessmen to visit the City Council chamber in years, efforts to jam through a $13,000,000 tax program failed yesterday and the matter was postponed for a week. Action of the Council was interpreted as meaning that the seven proposed ordinances comprising the tax group may be subject to considerable revision before they are adopted possibly some eliminated altogether. Strongest opposition which developed yesterday was directed toward the proposed tax of 2 cent3 per package on cigarettes, a so-called occupational tax and the A of 1 per cent sales tax. Disagree on Procedure Proponents of the new revenue measures supported a move yesterday to approve all of the seven ordinances in a group, while opposition in the City Council believed the ordinances should be considered individually.

The test came upon the motion to continue the proceedings for one week. Those who voted in favor of the continuance were Councilmen George Cronk, Ed Davenport, Lloyd Davies, Harold Harby, Harold Henry, L. E. Timberlake, Lee Warburton and Charles Allen. Opposed were Councilmen G.

Vernon Bennett, J. Win Austin, Parley P. Chris-tensen, John Holland, Meade McClanahan and Carl Rasmus-sen. Representatives of wholesale and retail tobacco interests told the Council that experience in other cities showed that such a tax resulted in 65 per cent of tobacco sales shifting to other communities and creation of a large mail-order trade. Fear Bootlegging "Bootleggers will be selling Cigarettes in Los Angeles if this tax passes," one speaker told the Council.

Councilmen Cronk and Henry Jed a bloc unreconciled to the so-called occupational tax. They asserted that it is so loosely drawn that not only would it include professional men but also tax employees of banks, public utility concerns and many other businesses. Property Owners Speak Oscar A. Tnppet, appearing for the Chamber of Commerce, voiced the sentiment of a con siderable number of businessmen present that no hasty action should be taken and that the public should be furnished with competent figures on city needs before being asked for new taxes. William A.

Pixley, managing director of the Property Owners Association, demanded that after authoritative tax needs have been ascertained that the people be allowed to vote upon a method of taxation. In addition to the organizations already named, organizations represented at yesterday's Turn to Page 2, Column 5 FEATURES INDEX U.S. Aircraft Reported Forced Down by Reds A report that Russian military planes forced down American aircraft and held occupants incommunicado in Russian-occupied Germany is being investigated, says Sen. Bridges. Story on Page 2, Part On Other Pages AMUSEMENTS.

Page 3. Part H. COMICS. Page 8. Part II.

FINANCIAL. Page 8, Part I. HOPPER. Page 3. Part IL MLEMORE.

Page 6, Part I. P0LT20IDES. Page 4, Part I. RADIO. Page 7.

Part H. SOUTHLAND. Page 10, Part I. SPORTS. Page 6, Part H.

VITAL RECORD. Page 9. Part WEATHER. Page 9. Part WOMEN.

Page 6, Part IL $15,000 Kidnap Ransom Note Suspect Seized A man who, according to Sheriff's deputies, admitted having written ransom notes to Abe Gluskoter, 1125 E. 87th father of Rochelle Gluskoter, 6, missing since Feb. 15, was arrested last night when he kept a rendezvous in a vacant lot at 31st and Main Sts. The man was booked at the Sheriff's Firestone substation as William Edward Railey. 32, of 118 W.

31st on suspicion of extortion. He gave his occupation as photography. Railey denied any connection with the child's abduction. Aft mission Reported Capt. Gordon Bowers of the Sheriff's staff said that Railey, who was trapped by deputies when -he came to pick tip a package, supposedly containing $15,000 ransom, confessed that he had written a ransom note to Gluskoter.

The note. Bowers said, demanded $15,000 for the safe return of the child, who, the parents believed, had been kidnaped. Bowers said that the note, written three days ago, demanded that Gluskoter throw a package of money, in So, $10 and S20 bills into the vacant lot, which is across from Railey's home. The deputies were on hand when Gluskoter threw the package, and a short time later saw Railey leave his home, cross the street and try to pick sp the package. Bowers said.

Several of the deputies ordered him to throw up his hands while other officers seized the package. Gluskoters Station Lt. F. B. Gompert of the Sheriff's posse, who had ordered Railey to throw up his hands, slipped on the handcuffs, as Bowers, accompanied by Sgt.

Victor Englund, helped take the Turn to Page 2, Column 8 Vote Registration Totals 3,701,596 SACRAMENTO, March 27. (JP) Registration for the June 4 primaries totals 3,701,596, Secretary of State Frank M. Jordan announced today. This is 359,735 under the last Presidential election total but 410,618 more than the figure for the comparative 1944 consoli dated primary. Of the total, 57 .60 per cent is Democratic and 37.72 Repub lican, a Democratic gain of 1.04 per cent compared with the figures two years ago.

Totals by parties: Democtatic, Republican, 1,426,493. MIDGET STARTS HOUSEKEEPING IN PHONE BOOTH NEW YORK, March 27. (JP) That old housing shortage gag "Why don't you move into a telephone booth?" came true today. A 45-inch midget was discovered enjoying light housekeeping in a booth in the lobby of a Broadway motion-picture theater. The midget said her name was Helen Magna.

Since she found there wasn't even room enough for a midget in New York, Miss Magna said, she moved into the booth with an alarm clock, a tiny stove, a loaf of bread, bottle of milk and a can of salmon. It is a decision by the Soviet government, carried out by their Ambassador in Washington, Andrei A. Gromyko, to leave th council for two weeks while th question of Red army troops in Iran is being discussed. It is a parliamentary maneuver and ex-, pression of protest against, the council. Psychological Blow It is, admittedly, a psychological blow to the hew organization and an illustration of tht Soviet thesis that the great powers should direct and even dictate procedure as well as issues of substance in the council.

But it is not a break with the council. In fact, the Soviet representatives say they will not only be in the meeting of the committee of experts tomorrow but it is reported that if tomor row's closed session of the council deals only with the -procedural aspects of the Iranian question, they may even attend that. At 5:04 this afternoon, at the end of what began to look strangely like a filibuster by the Soviet Union, the council defeated the Soviet Union's motion to postpone discussion of the Iranian case until April 10. -Only the U.S.S.R. and Poland voted for it.

Gromjko Speaks At 5:19, before the council had voted to invite the Iranian Ambassador to sit at the council table and tell wh3' he thought the case of the Soviet troops in Iran was urgent, the youthful, poker-faced Gromyko raised his hand and addressed the chair. As he was recognized the spotlights in the chamber room went on slowly. The chamber wa3 crowded. The delegates, weary of endless argument on legal points, frustrated by the lack of any rules of procedure, and frankly out of patience with the Soviet Ambassador's repetitive argument, turned indulgently toward him and settled down for what looked like another long speech. But he was brief and to the point "For reasons which I explained clearly enough in our meeting of yesterday and in today's meeting, Mr.

Chairman," he said in Russian. as representative of the Soviet Union, am not able to participate further in the discussions of the Security Council because my proposal has not been accepted by the council, nor am I able to be present at the meeting of the council and I therefore leave the meeting." Slow to Comprehend For a few minutes the audience did not understand the meaning of this, for when he finished speaking he waited expressionless in his chair until the translators had finished. The first indication the spectators in the chamber had that something of import had happened was when Charles E. Bohlen, the State Department's Russian ex pert, leaned over quickly as the Russian tpoke and interpreted for Secretary of State Byrnes. When the interpreters finished, however, Gromyko gath- ered up his papers on the smooth semicircular table, pushed back his green-b a chair and walked slowly from the room.

Behind him strode his advisers, and back of them a straight-backed Russian general, symbol ofthe army that fought so gallantly in the cause of peace. The action of the council somehow stopped while Gromyko took his walk, and reporters, with less dignity, rushed for the exits in the mistaken impression that Gromyko, who is not a talkative man, would somehow explain his actions. But ence the door closed behind the departed Turn to rage 5, Column 1 Committee said the Portland ar rest was discussed at today's closed committee meeting, but refused to divulge what action, if any, was taken. The committee voted to send at least two agents to Canada within the next two weeks to see if they can uncover any interlocking activity between foreign i n. ii i ly rings auegeuiy nuiiuug cuom-ic information in the United States and Canada.

Linked With Redin Adamson, Chairman John S. Wood (D.) and other committee members refused to say whether the Canadian "trip was linked with the arrest in Portland last night of Soviet Navy Lt. Nicolai Gregorovich Redin. Adamson said the committee had a "pretty fair idea" of Red-in's operations even before the Russian officer seized by F.B.I, agents as he was about to leave the country aboard a Soviet vessel. Redin was accused specifically of getting secret informa- Developments on, th arrest of a Russian naval oiHcr on spy charges in Portland, will found on Pag 4.

Part I. ion for Russia about the U.S. destroyer tender Yellowstone, now undergoing repairs in the Bremerton Navy Yard at Puget Sound. The Yellowstone, a converted Libertv ship, served as a floating base for destroyers and presumably carried elaborate re pair equipment and other de vices which the Navy classifies as Not After A-Bomb Navy Department spokesmen said emphatically that the Yellowstone was not one of the ships scheduled to participate in the forthcoming atomic bomb tests. Other sources said Redin definitely was not accused of seeking atomic secrets.

Spokesmen for the State and Navy departments acknowl edged they had been watching the Redin case closely for some time, but indicated his activities were regarded as "secondary" in comparison to the more impor tant atomic spy case in Canada. Both departments said the af fair was entirely in the hands of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and F.B.I, representatives here would not comment. The House committee was equally reticent, despite earlier inaications that it would make public its discussion of the case. Adamson said the committee planned to hold spy hearings outside Washington and might hear witnesses in Seattle. Light Rains Fall; More Predicted Those light showers foreseen by the weatherman materialized last night with just enough rain to dampen streets and send late theatergoers scurrying for cover.

More sprinkles are forecast for today and tomorow, with cooler temperatures. Yesterda's thermometer reading reached a high of 68 degrees after a low of 50, the Weather Bureau reported. GIVE TO RED CROSS A donation of $5.20 will pay for swimming lessons for 20 children or adults in the Red Cross year-round water safety program. Send your gift today to Red Cross Fund Campaign Headquarters, 1218 S. Men-lo Los Angeles 6.

Reuther Beats Thomas to Head Auto Workers ATLANTIC CITY, March 27. (JP) Walter P. Reuther was elected president of the C.I.O. United Auto Workers by a majority of 125 votes over R. J.

Thomas, the incumbent, at a boisterous climax of the union's convention today. The official vote, announced by Reuther, was: Reuther, 4445; Thomas, 4320. Reuther assumed the presidency of the gigantic union immediately. Melees Break Out Fights and melees among the delegates occurred during the balloting. Reuther's election was announced formally by Secretary-Treasurer George F.

Addes, who presided over the roll call, but the official figures were not available until tonight. As Addes made it known that a new president had been elected the delegates set up a bedlam. A moment later Reuther and Thomas shook hands. Reuther had rushed across the stage to his rival, offering his hand. Tears in His Eyes "It was a good race," said Thomas, tears in bis eyes.

"We'll work together, Tommy," replied Reuther. The decision climaxed a battle in Reuther and Thomas frequently had resorted to personalities and now and then to invective. In losing, Thomas relinquished the post which he had held for six years. Automobile Kills Boy, 6 Six-year-old Don R. Loeffler of 3325 Fithian Ave.

was killed yesterday on Huntington Drive near Eastern Ave. when struck by an automobile driven by Hu bert O. Butler, 35, of 301 Story Place, Alhambra. The driver was not held. Injuries received in a truck automobile collision on Garvey Road in Baldwin Park that killed three other persons last Monday caused the death yesterday of Hans G.

Troelsen, 25, of 10S0 Washington Pomona. Hopes for Settling Cannery Row Fade WASHINGTON, March 27. (JP) A Labor Department official said tonight that Federal con ciliators have abandoned all hope of settling the labor dispute in Northern California can neries, where about one-third of the nation's canned fruits and vegetables are packed. This official, who declined to be identified, said the A.F.L. Teamsters have rejected a proposal that an interim election be held by the National Labor Relations Board to determine a temporary bargaining agent for the cannery workers during the slack season.

It was a C.I.O.-A.F.L. jurisdictional dispute that caused the strike. Correspondents who chafed under wartime censorship rules against mentioning that inexhaustible topic the weather will be further vexed to learn that the Japanese got all the meteorological data they wanted, much by intercepting and breaking U.S. weather codes. This was disclosed yesterday by no less an authority than Gen.

MacArthur's top weatherman in Japan and the Philippines, Col. Theodore R. Gillen-waters, former operations chief of the Army Air Forces' worldwide weather service. Home on Leave Col. Gillenwaters, who is now on terminal leave at his home, 1437 J2 Veteran West Los Angeles, also revealed that the Russians are stripping their zone of jointly occupied Korea of weather' instruments and equipment and have bluntly refused or ignored repeated requests by American officials for exchange of meteorological in formation from the area under Red army control.

Despite the fact that theyl broke U.S. codes to obtain forecasts and reports on Pacific weather, Col. Gillenwaters said, the Japanese failed to take maximum advantage of the information. "The information in Tokyo was authentic but very little of it got to their field commanders and the records we found indicated that when it did they made very little tactical use of. it," he asserted.

"Japanese forces followed a broad storm front in their approach to Midway and evacuated Kiska under cover of dense Aleutian fogs, -but these were very elementary applications of the science. A half -day strike on the water front is scheduled for tomorrow by the 3000 members of the C.I.O. International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union. The members have been directed by the union's president, Harry Bridges, to go to a mass meeting in Wilmington Bowl beginning at 2 p.m. All C.I.O.

locals of the union from Seattle to San Diego are to participate in a similar "stop work" action. It will virtually paralyze all shipping on the West Coast for the afternoon. The move was ordered as a preliminary in preparation for the regular strike of the union for which no definite date has been set. Representatives of Waterfront Employers Association and the J3ridges union are in disagree ment over new contract terms. The regular strike had been set for Monday but Bridges postponed it indefinitely yesterday at the request of the U.S.

Conciliation Service. U.S. Intends to Win Peace7. Says Truman Washington; March 27. (JP) President Truman today de- iclared we are on the verge of the greatest age In history" and the United States will not "shirk" its responsibility to lead the world to peace.

"The Lord Intended us 25 years ago to lead the world to peace," the Chief Executive declared. "We shirked that duty. We are not going to shirk it this time. We are. going to take our place as He intended us to take it.

"We have won the war and we are in to win the acef toa We have the trained citi. to win The President spoke on the south grounds of the White House where he pinned Congres sional Medals of Honor on Navy Comdr Richard H. Q'Kane, Dur- ihami x.H., and Master-Sgt. McGaha of Cosby, iTenn. Gen.

Tai-li's Body Found CHUNGKING, March 27. (JP)- Official dispatches today report' ed the body of Gen. Tai-li, chief of the Chinese secret police killed in a plane crash near Nanking March 17, had been found and removed to Nanking. SAN QUENTIN CONVICTS. AID VACCINE SAN QUENTIN, March 27.

(JP) A step toward the development of a vaccine to protect humans against the microbe which causes rheumatic fever, scarlet fever and other crippling diseases was taken today when 25 San Quentin prisoners were chosen to receive inoculations of the disease-producing organisms. The convicts, all volunteers, will receive injections of dead hemolytic streptococcus, a mi crobe whose various t3Tes is re sponsible for more than 30 diseases. Among them, rheu matic fever is a maior cause of heart disease. So far there is None will be available for gen-no medical preventive, al-jeraluse..