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2 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH, Barristurg, Saturday, August 18, 194T 2 Nations Urge Customs Union Of 16 Members Paris, Aug. 16, (IP) France and Italy were lined up at the sixteen nation European economic conference today in favor of a continental customs union, while Britain was on record for a special study of the idea. Herve Alptand, chief of the French Foreign Ministry's Economic Section, gave his government's view in commenting yesterday on an Italian proposal of two days earlier that European nations form a custom union an arrangement for imposing and collecting customs duties in common. Alphand said France was considering such a union with Italy no matter what other countries might do. Earlier, Sir Oliver Franks proposed that a "study group" be set up to look into the cusioms union idea and consider the possibility of including all British dominions in any union for Europe.

He said that because of relations within the British commonwealth, his country could not make any hard and fast commitments." Alphand replied that concrete steps to lower European trade barriers were urgent, no matter how long it might take them to bear fruit, and that some or all the conferring nations should declare immediately their intention to enter into a customs union. The conference is drafting a report on Europe's resources and needs to be turned over to the United States by September 1 as a preliminary to American aid under the so called "Marshall plan." Sir Oliver said he had "gathered" from William L. Clayton, U. S. Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs, that American public opinion favored a European customs union.

Political Exiles Clash With Group En Route to Parley C. Aug. 16, (JP) Nicaraguan political exiles living in Panama and the new Nicaraguan government's delegation to the Quitandinha Inter American Defense Conference in Brazil, clashed in the air terminal nere lnpt A no man vra shot. .7" :7. ourg k.

ana uioria a. beneca, by PllCe Wh br0keil7' 153 Paxton street vor rpJ Ross Brant 26 Mt Union and uu porteaiy tne newiy eiecieu nit president of Nicaragua, suffered a cut under his eye irom a living vfist in the melee. Luis Somar nba, described by police as a member of an anti Somoza organization in Panama, was hit in the left wrist by a bullet. Witnesses said the party headed by Arguello Vargas arrived here by plane from Managua and was seeking reservations to continue the journey to Brazil, when the disturbance began. (Nicaragua was not invited to' the Quitandinha conference be cause no American government: Glenn R.

Grazier, 25, 1835iwitness before the House Com ized the new govern BerryhiI1 street and Florence Mjmittee on Un American Activities, has recogn ment since a coup deposed the recognized government last May. Supporters of the deposed regime have accused Gen. Anastasio bo nave accused uen. Anasidsio moza of responsioihty for the I.UU V. (The Nicaraguan constituent assembly yesterday elected Dr.

Victor M. Roman Y. Reyes president and Arguello Vargas vice president.) Witnesses said Arguello Vargas wrested a gun from one of the attackers and pursued another through the building until police arrived and found the quarry at bay behind a post, throwing handfuls of sand in Arguello Vargas' face, Police fired three shots and ended the trouble but they said they were investigating. The Managua party is scheduled to proceed on its journey tonight in its effort to gain recognition for the government and a seat at the Quitandinha Conference. Independents to Bar Film Export to Britain Hollywood, Aug.

16, (JP). The Independent Motion Picture Producers have lined up with major Hollywood studios in refusing to export films to England because of the recently announced 75 per cent, import tax on American movies. Donald M. Nelson, president of the Independents, stated that posi She estimated his salary at $2250 tion last night in a telegram to 'weekly and asked reasonable sup Eric Johnston, president of the 'port. Motion Picture Association of America.

Nelson urged that the Jurist to Return majors negotiate about the British Judge William M. tax througn United States Gov will rptnrn tn Dannhin ernment departments. Cartagena in Colombia was once the mightiest fortress of imperial Spain in South America. WmiMim DELIVERY SERVICE! SPHKIiY! EFFICIENT! MERCHANTS DELIVERY, INC. 137 N.

10TH ST. 1 itfib Phone i Jll I Servioiog I 5204 ISLvl i i 1 I Zen Court Denies Retrial In Accident Gaim A new trial was denied Ira Toddes, New Governor Hotel, in his suit against the Hershey Estates, by Judge Robert E. Wood side in Dauphin county ouri. a jury previously rejected his dam" age tinmi. Toddes sought to recover aam ages when his right leg was frac tured while attending an event in the Hershey Sports Arena, December 18, 1944, alleging that he slipped on snow brought into the building on footwear of other patrons.

The estate claimed thatjSecretary of Defense Forrestal and heat the building was clean and pipes would not permit snow or or ice to exist in the passageways. VHV Home Fund Totals $1876 With canvassing completed in Mechanicsburg's Fifth ward, members of the VFW Post No. 6704 will continue their S25.000 fund campaign in the Mechanicsburg Naval Supply Depot. Contributions of $376 from Fifth Ward residents last night brought the total in the post home fund to S1876. Canvassing was directed by Ward Captain George Raffield.

The drive at the Naval Depot will be conducted by the public relations office, Admiral Fox an nounced today. It will last through August. George Graham, post commander, said today that in addi tion to the contributions from lo cal residents, several merchants have pledged sums of $100 or more which are expected to swell the total to almost $2500. "The fact that we haven't done quite so well as we expected will not stop us in going ahead with plans for the new home," Graham said. "We hope to begin constrnction as soon as possible and are planning to add to the fund by extending our canvassing to places in the greater Mechanicsburg district.

The drive in Mechanicsburg will be climaxed tonight by an old fashioned outdoor chicken corn soup festival at the Washington Fire House. Musical entertainment will be provided and refreshments prepared by the newly organized auxiliary will be available. 3Iarriage Applications Earl R. Lau, 20, and Dor othy E. Oren, 26, both of 'South Front street.

Alma G. Derr, 24. Middletown Richard K. Kreiger, 22, Harris a permit to go back to his native burg, and Eunice R. Sentencing was deferred pend Walter Harner 21, Muir, and ing the court decision on de Janet M.

Bixler, 16, WiUiams fense motion for a new triaL "ur on v. Defense Attorney Joseph Isser 9 tnH'fn: SEbU man said he wUl appeal if the mo NeStkr' 23, tion is denied, as he did after Eis William J. Moore, 26. Royalton, and Mary R. Wise, 19, Middle town.

John Clea, 29, 641 South Fourth street, Steelton, and Helen J. Trice, 31, 633 South Fourth street, Garrison, 21, 815 North Second street. Henry J. Hill, 28. 402 Ridae istreet.

Steelton, and Ada B. Gilisjin the passport fraud case without 3 2 Lincoln steelton. outward emotion. Later he told a John B. Corl.

22, 3601 North Sixth street, and Pauline J. Lats char, 21, Harrisburg R. D. 1. Charles S.

Washington, legal, 1223 Cowden street, and Helen W. Smith, legal, 1313 Currant street. John P. Patton, 28, and Doris L. Wise, 18, both of 2034 Susquehanna street.

Alfred H. Sheriff, 25, Enola, and Mildred E. Kurtz, 22, 2103 Walnut street. Fred W. Kepner, 26, and Norene jl.

ivicivnigni, JJ, doui oi rori Royal. Joseph J. Szeles, 24, 312 Mohn street, Steelton, and Helen M. Benedek, 22, 604 North Front street, Steelton. Richard C.

Slothower, 20, 2345 Derry street, and Beverlie J. Crrti OA 07 cfpAfit George H. Uhler, 49, and Susan C. Shade, 57, both of Williams town. Film Actor Sued Los Angeles, Aug.

16, (JP) Film Actor Alan Marshal, 37, was sued for divorce on cruelty grounds yesterday by Mrs. Mary Grace Marshal, 31, the socially prominent former Mary Grace Borel, of lon TVfaton Palif Thev marrioH I in 1938 and separated last year. County Court Monday after a two week vacation at i Mountain Inn at Caledonia Park. His secretary, Robert F. Wallower, will also return from a motor trip with his family at Bridgeport, Conn.

Divorce Suits Divorce suits were started in Dauphin County Court today by George E. Shelley against Mrs. Pearl E. Shelley, Burgau, N. charging cruelty and indignities; and Charles M.

Kinnear against Mrs. Esther K. Kinnear, 123 Say ford street, indignities. Ex Sheriff Dies Pittsburgh, Aug. 16, (JP).

Judd H. 'Bruff, 71, former Allegheny county sheriff, died today in the Soldiers and Sailors Hospital, Erie, where he had been a patient for seven years. He was sheriff from 1910 to 1914. Lancaster Livestock Lancaster, Aug. 16, 728.

Steers 50 to 75 cents lower than last week. Calves 73. Slow and steady. Hogs 205. Top price $28.50 29.

Heavyweights unsale able. Sheep 111. Light supply and steady. Industry Pledges Full Gas Supply To Armed Forces Washington, Aug. 16, (JP) The nation's armed forces have an in piedge that their petroleum needs described as "critical" jwiu De mei.

Howard W. Page, a member of the National Petroleum Council' Committee on military and government requirements, made the promises in reply to an appeal by other officials. Page, at a closed door conference conducted yesterday by Secretary of Interior Krug, said the industry will give top priority to military requirements. Remaining supplies will be parcelled out to other consumers. The Air Forces recently announced it had only a ninety day supply of gasoline on hand.

The Army and Navy also are faced with an urgent need for more petroleum. Along with Krug, the Government was represented at yesterday's conference by Secretary of War Royall, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and Lt. Gen. Hoyt S.

Van denberg, deputy commander of the Air Forces. Estimating 1948 military petro leum requirements at 100,000,000 barrels, or about five per cent, of domestic production, Royall said: "We urgently need this petro leum and we must have it to carry out the important occupations and defense mission of the armed forces." He added that the military does not want any type of compui sion, legal or fnoral," and ex pressed the belief that "we will not have to resort to either of these courses." Creation of a central procurement agency to forecast military oil demands was urged by members of the industry committee. Eisler Convicted By Federal Jury In Passport Case Washington, Aug. 16, (JP). Ger hart Eisler, 52 year old German Communist, today faced a possible five year prison sentence and $5000 fine as a result of his con on passport fraud charges.

A Federal court jury which I've icsumony ce cided late yesterday that he fraud Gently concealed his Communist connections and other information when he flDDlierl two vpars for 1C1 3 yiCVJUUS WU11V1L11UU UI1 UUIl tempt of Congress charge which resulted in a sentence of one year in prison and a $1000 fine on June 27. The contempt charge arose from eisler retusai to be sworn as a which has described him as the "No. 1 Communist" in America. Eisler heard the jury's verdict reporter it was a "most fair trial" but on a "most unfair indictment." "In the present political atmosphere," he added, "I did not expect any other outcome in Washington." The defense contended that Eisler withheld information from passport authorities only to protect friends and associates in Germany. His sister, Ruth Fischer, testi fipH Via tnTH Vlr hd nricinollv f.amo ho 1Qo, nt.

agent of the Communist International to "teach the stupid Americans" how to run the. Communist' party. Eisler denied this from the stand. He said his sister was "a rat." Gas lrUCK blast Bums 2 Autos, Hurts 7 Men Shelby, Aug. 16, JP) A I runaway tank trailer, loaded with; 2000 gallons of gasoline, caused a furor here last night when it exploded and burned.

The trailer broke loose from a truck, careened onto the main street, overturned and burst into flames destroying two parked automobiles, burning down nearby trees, setting a house on fire and injuring seven volunteer firemen. Burning gasoline was sprayed over the area, as the tank burst under the pressure of two explosions. 1 Louie Am 1 ill rv jswi FORMER OFFICER AND JAPANESE GIRL WED Frank White, former Army lieutenant of Somerset, and his bride, the former Pia Kurusu, daughter of Saburu Kuf usu, Japan's envoy to the U.S. at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, leave the U. S.

consulate in Yokohama after their marriage August 14. (AP Wirephoto from Signal Corps Radiophoto). Cumulative Auto Accident Report in City Reported to 4.30 a. m. Yesterday Motor accidents Riders injured 0 Riders killed 0 Pedestrians killed 0 Pedestrians inj'r'd 0 Total From Jan 1 680 151 1 8 110 Police tabu The statistics from Department records are lated by the Harrisburg.

Motor Club of 29 Dutch Killed Battling Indonese Following Truce Batavia, Aug. 16, (JP) An official Dutch summary issued today listed Netherlands casualties from the time of the cease fire order to date at 29 killed, 91 wounded and one missing. The Dutch communique indicated, however, that Indonesian activity had slackened but said three armed Japanese fighting with Indonesian forces were killed during clearing actions in Central Java. The communique also said the Indonesians destroyed several bridges south of Malang and fired at a Dutch outpost in Batoe, northwest of Malang. A Dutch armored patrol in Northern Sumatra met with heavy mortar and automatic weapons fire, the communique added, while Dutch patrols operating near Leuwiliang on the main highway 10 miles west of the mountain resort of Buitenzorg in Java, reported repulsed Indonesian attacks and inflicted some casualties.

The communique said that at; SoebSh in the Pekalongan district the Dutch discovered a mass grave containing the bodies of 23 Chinese who, the Dutch said, had been killed by grenades and rifle fire after first being tortured. Australia Expects Visit by MacArthur Canberra, Australia, Aug. 16, (JP). Australian officials said today that Gen. MacArthur probably would visit Australia when he relinquishes his command in Japan, and that a grand scale reception was being planned for him.

Mac Arthur said, recently that he expected to retire after the conclusion of the Japanese peace treaty, which he believed would be achieved within 18 months. By Hanan PI UJ i my mi I I I i i fhU fSKMIit MUSI WillUmsport 0 l.t Juniata River Map. Depot 20 3.9 Newport .22 3.5 Susquehanna Sunbury 16 t.S Harrisburg 17 3.9 3.5 Woman Sees Sister Killed in Auto Crash En route Friday to attend funeral services for a relative, Mr. and Mrs. W.

G. urley, 417 South Sixteenth street, saw an automobile crash in which Mrs. Bur ley's sister, Mrs. Henrietta Naomi Stevenson, 51, East Lansdowne, was fatally, injured. The sisters were to attend services for their brother.

The Harrisburg pair was following Mrs. Stevenson's automobile when it skidded on the wet highway near Newton Hamilton and turned over three times. Mrs. Stevenson, a registered nurse, died of a fractured skull a half hour after admission to tije Blair Memorial Hospital, Huntingdon. Their brother, John Peter Levan Sheets, foreman of the Pennsylvania Railroad shops at Wilmington, died Friday in Altoona.

AAF Reorganizes World Wide Bases To Step Up Power Washington, Aug. 16, (jP) Seek ing to increase combat punch, the! Army Air Forces is reorganizing its bases in this country and over art Cl I he new AAr program, set up after a two year survey, converts the 16 bases in this country and an unannounced number overseas into air "wings." Heretofore they have been known as "groups." The plan gives each wing commander control of all units at his base combat as well as maintenance and supply, hospital and any others. Up to now, maintenance and supply units, for example, have been under direction of service and supply headquarters. The AAF said a group ordinarily is made up of three or four squadrons, with each squadron having from eight to 20 planes. It said wings, as previously known, consisted of three or four groups.

The AAF added that besides a saving in manpower, the change is expected to increase the combat effectiveness, mobility and flexibility of the wings. Deadline Near For Fuel Oil Tax September 1 is the deadline for owners of vehicles which use Diesel or fuel oil to register with the State Revenue Department in compliance with a new law. The law, which provides for a four cent a gallon tax on the use of Diesel and fuel oil by vehicles, covers all persons en gaged in the retail and wholesale of fuels, as well as carriers transporting fuels for delivery in Penn sylvania, David W. Harris, revenue secretary, said. The licenses must be obtained from the newly established fuel use tax division of the department and owners must file monthly re ports of sales and deliveries.

Heretofore, some owners of large trucks or tractors which used Diesel or fuel oil purchased the type burned in home furnaces and evaded the four cent a gallon gasoline tax, Harris said. RIVER BULLETIN Feet Sc Tenthi Station! 8 a Binghamton 14 2.4 .17 Corning 18 3.2 Towanda 16 1.4 Wilkes Barre 22 3.0 West Branch Clearfield 10 0.5 Renovo IB 0.4 Lock Haven 21 7 1.4(5 .10 0 .47 .12 0 0 .07 0 0 0 Victory Parade On Fete Program At Williamstown A Victory Parade, heralded as the largest ever held in a community the size of Williamstown, will highlight Victory Day today at the Williamstown Homecoming Celebration. The parade which will form 6 p. m. will include twelve fire men's organizations, many veterans' groups and auxiliaries, civic, social and fraternal units and commercial floats.

Prizes total $1400. Brig. Gen. Charles C. Curtis.

native of Williamstown, and now of Allentown, will lead the pa rade. Gen. Curtis, a veteran of three wars, is now in command of the National Guard encampment at Indiantown Gap. He will be accompanied during the parade by his military staff and twenty two Williamstown residents who are participating in the military program at Indiantown. The parade will form at the end of West Market street and march east to Walnut, to Broad, west on Broad to Grand avenue and then counter march to the judges' stand.

Lt. Col. Paul Wesley Bare, acting chaplain at the Veteran's Hos pital at Coatesville, a former Wil liamstown Methodist minister. will lead a contingent of the town's veterans. The veterans will be seated in a special grandstand near the judges' stand during the counter march.

Harry A. Stites, chairman of the parade committee, said the parade will last about two hours. Following the parade, a band concert will hp nrpspnteri frnm to 11. At 11 p. m.

a fireworks dis play will be set off at Stony Park. Robert Ramsey is in charge of the fireworks committee. Tomorrow, the closing day of the five day celebration, will be in honor of 20 Williamstown veterans who died during the war. Brig. Gen.

Carlos P. Romulo, Philippine envoy to the United Nations, will speak. He will be introduced by Congressman John C. Kunkel. Pastors of all the town's churches will participate.

Following the service at 7 p. m. wreaths will be placed on twenty crosses which will be lighted in the high school field. The ceremony will be conducted by the Rev. Robert C.

Klingensmith, Williamstown Lutheran Church. Gen. Romulo will arrive in Harrisburg at 12.25 p. m. and will be met at the station by a motor contingent from Williamstown.

Following a dinner at the Penn Harris Hotel, Gen. Romulo and Congressman Kunkel will be driven to Williamstown. Yesterday, Mummers' Day, was marked with a pet show in the afternoon and a Mummers' pa rade in the evening. Pet show winners include: Best trained pets, two cocker spaniels owned by Woodrow Don Moyer, Williamstown; second prize, a dog, owned by Harry E. Stutzman, Orwin.

Most attractive pet, E. Neal Kopp, Williamstown: second prize, Patricia Stuppy, Wuhamstown; most unusual pet, Rosemarie Ruch, Orwin, a little raccoon, and second prize, William Jones, Williamstown; largest pet, Clair White, Williamstown, a goat; smallest pet, Dolores White, Ly kens, a Mexican Hairless. Turtles, beetles and guppies were not qualified in this last category. Other prizes went to Elaine Evans, William Keen, Mary Ann Tucker, Dorothy Wert, Gene Minnich, Doris Dolan, James Ad ams, John Falic, Donald Sponic, Pauline Griffiths, Peggy Fernster machcr, Merlene Bowerman, War ren Machamer, Sonia Hoffman, Charles Kutzer and Robert Sipe, all of Williamstown; Charles Whitehead, Philadelphia; Mildred Allman, Halifax, and Blanche Polm, Harrisburg. Mummers' parade winners are: Musical organizations: First prize, Carlisle Indians Band, Carlisle American Legion Post, dressed in Redskins' uniforms; second prize, Williamstown Veterans' Band, dressed as McNama ra's Band, with derbies, green ties and frock coats; third prize, Williamstown High School Band, which played "Put On Your Old Gray Bonnet," with all girls wearing bonnets, boys dressed as farmers and led by Mrs.

John Byerly and Buddy Becker riding in a horse and buggy; fotirth prize, Wiconisco High School Band, with boys and girls both dressed in gingham gowns and bonnets; fifth prize, the "Fabulous Dutchmen," a group of Orwin residents led by a 5 year old girl who performed a hula hula dance. Most comic float, Clarence Weist, Williamstown, an old, fen derless car decorated in red, white and blue; most original float, Miss Martha Pluswick, 4, Williamstown, dressed as Carmen Miranda and seated on a huge grapefruit; second most original float, Williamstown Water Company, "When Old Friends Get Together." Most comical group of 10 or more, choir singers from the Tower City Methodist Church, who impersonated Spike Jones' City Slickers; second most comical group, Virginia Bowerman and partner, Williamstown, a bear and an organ grinder; best male impersonation, Miss Katherine Murray, Pottsville, dressed in formal male evening clothes; best female impersonation, James Adams, 10, Williamstown, dressed in woman's evening gown; bicycle built for two, Roy Ney and partner, Tre mont; most comical pair, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Davis, Williamstown, symbolizing the high cost of living, with the man dressed in Gl shoes and cracker barrel, and the woman in burlap. Best juvenile couple, Carol and Lee Workman, Williamstown; most! comical individual, Franklin Up deerove.

Muir, "Rip Van Winkle most original individual, Gina Vallee, Philadelphia, a Mexican; best decorated bike, Betty Suchar, Williamstown. Other prizes: Dakota Council, No. '34, Degree of Pocahontas, Williamstown; "Moonlight Riders," a gfoup of Williamstown people; "Beach Bubble Blowers," nine Williamstown women; "Maggie FRANCIS S. FOX Concert Planned By Legion Band Francis S. Fox, cornetist.

will be soloist at the American Lesion ana concert tomorrow nieht at 8.15 at the bandshell at Reservoir Park. George F. Rheam, former di rector of the band, will be guest conauctor. rox, a former member of the band and a graduate of William Penn High School, is now studying music at XNew York University. March, "Washington Bi Centen nial," Sousa; overture, Weber; march, Tosey; cornet solo, "Blue Danube." Strauss (arranged by Leona May smith) march, "Washington Grays, Graffula; overture, "Cru saderj," Buchtell; march, "Price of the Wolverines," Sousa; songs, "Girl of My Dreams," "Rose of Picardy," George Kobler, baritone soloist; march, "Tribute to Sousa," Goldman; seceltion, "American Salute," Gould; characteristic, "El Relicario," Padilla; songs, "Dianna," the Rainbow," George Kobler, baritone soloist; march, "Gilmore Triumphal," Brooke; "The Star Spangled Ban ner," Keys.

Mob Victim's Widow Asks $50,000 Damages Minden, Aug. 16, (JP) A $50,000 damage suit against Sheriff Oscar H. Haynes, has been filed here by the widow of John C. Jones, a Negro slain by a mob August 8, 1946. The suit was filed in the name of Carrie Lee Jones, who now lives in Los Angeles.

Jones and Albert Harris, 17, were taken from the Minden jail by a group of White men after the Negroes had been arrested in connection with a reported attempt to enter a White woman's home. Jones' bullet riddled body was found close to the spot where Harris, who had been beaten and left for dead, was found. The latter testified in a Federal Court trial of six men who later were charged with depriving the Negroes of their civil rights. AH six were acquitted. Rebels Fleeing From Asuncion, Paraguay Says Buenos Aires, Aug.

16, (JP) The Paraguayan Government maintained today that its united forces defending the capital. Asuncion, had insurgents on the run. Paraguay's embassy here said the loyalists were chasing the reb els south toward Villeta and east toward Remanso Castillo. (On the other hand, the insur gent radio was quoted in dis patches from Brazil as reporting the rebels had occupied Lambare and Villa Morra on Asuncion's edge and were pushing into the Capital. (The radio said, these dispatches reported, that Government flyers all had thrown their planes in with the insurgent air force and that that force now had air supremacy over Asuncion and was bombing the Government palace, military school and other military targets.) A Paraguayan Government communique said a Government corps from the north had joined another defending Asuncion and the united corps were "fighting vigorously and effectively against rebel centers which still are trying to resist in villages around the capital." and Jiggs," Anna Ruch and partner, Williamstown; three Hawaiian dancers, Virginia and Kathleen Adley and Barbara Michaels, Williamstown; Clair White, Williamstown, a goat and covered wagon; Mahlon Lauer, Barnesville, boy on pony, and Anna Troutman, Philadelphia, fancy Mexican dress.

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KEYSTONE OIL A CAMP HILL H. America Offers Radio Frequencies To Small Nations Atlantic City, Aug. 16, (JP) The United States offered today to join with other major powers in giving up some short wave broadcasting bands to smaller nations. William Benton, Assistant Sec retary of State for Public Affairs, made the proposal before the In Broadcasting Conference attended by delegates from more than 60 nations. "The United States," he said, "is willing to reduce its transmit ters and we are willing to accept fewer frequencies than we are now using.

If other nations will do the same all of us should be able to obtain a fair and equitable share in the available frequencies." Benton urged all counties, to refrain from using the airways for "spreading lies and distortion and for engaging in international slan der." He said that when the "rare and precious world asset an international broadcast frequency is debased and polluted, we are all of us infected and the disease is hard to combat." Benton added that approximately 75 per cent, of the world's population "regrettably lives today under and radio offers the surest mearts of reaching the individual with information direct from its source and without intervening selection, processing, slanting or suppression." Gen. Bradley Sails For Inspection Of Troops Abroad New York, Aug. 16, ()Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chief of the Veterans Administration for the past two years, was en route to Europe today for what he termed a "general inspection" of American occupation troops in Germany, Italy and Austria and to "reorient myself into the Army." Sailing aboard the Army transport, the Gen.

Edmund B. Alexander, the "doughboys' general" of the recent war declined comment when sailing here yesterday when asked by reporters whether he would investigate pharges by Scripps Howard columnist Robert C. Ruark that American officers in Italy were living lavishly and that there was general dissatisfaction among enlisted personnel. Bradley referred the newsmen to a War Department statement which said yesterday the general would include Italy on his tour but added that Bradley's trip had been decided long before Ruark's articles were published. Bradley also withheld comment on speculation that he would sue ceed Gen.

Dwight D. Eisenhowei as Army Chief of Staff when th latter becomes President of Columbia University next year. Bradley did say that the six week trip "is part of the job to get me reoriented." The War Department statement also said Gen. John C. H.

Lee, American military commander in the Mediterranean area, had indicated last winter a desire to return to this country and then retire from active duty. Much of Ruark's criticism of Army activities in the Mediterranean theatre was aimed at Lee, 60 year old native of Junction City, and a 1909 graduate of the U. S. Military Academy. General Bradley and his wife, who accompanied him, occupied a comfortably fitted suite of rooms aboard the Army troopship.

"I am going for the Army on Army business, so I felt I should go on an Army transport," he said. Gen. Clark Doubts Russia Wants War iLos Angeles, Aug. 16, (JP). Gen, Mark W.

Clark, former Allied administrator in Austria and now commanding the Sixth Army in this area, says he doesn't think the Russians want war. "If we can let them understand that we will not sacrifice our principles, I feel the chances ol avoiding war will be much better," Gen. Clark told a civic gathering yesterday. The General said he sees firm foreign policy" and universal military training as the United States' best safeguards for the future. A WORD TO THE WISE Our pen department is freshly slnrked with new K147 Top Brand Pent and Sets No war holdovers.

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