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TIIE ESC AN AH A DAILY PRESS XXXVIII NO. 83 pper eninsula eadino ewspaper ESCANAHA, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, JUNE 23, 1916 (A ssociated ress eased ire ews ervice (16 PAGES) MICHIGAN PARTIES PATCH UP FENCES TORN DOWN JULY 15 PEACE PARLEY FRIDAY IS DEADLINE FOR MINISTERS ON ITALIAN TREATY BY JOSEPH NAN Paris, June 22 rejected today another American attempt to convoke the general European peace confernce July 15 on grounds that the conference of foreign ministers was not yet far enough along in its work, an American informant said. The ministers then decided to set next Friday as a deadline for work on the Italian and Balkan treaties, and to speed up their activities by meeting twice daily instead of once. Soviet Foreign Minister V. M.

Molotov said he would be ready at the end of next week to size up the council's progress to date, French informants added. Very Near Agreement S. Secretary of State James i F. Byrnes appealed to the ministers to send out invitations now to the 21-nation peace conference, to keep in session right up to July 15 if necessary, and to let the larger conference pass on any differences which still remained, British nnd American sources said. Byrnes declared that the ministers were so near agreement on peace treaties that there could be no harm in sending out invitations now, an American source said.

By tacit consent the conference did not consider the keystone question of Trieste and the Italo- Yugoslav frontier at session, which was devoted mainly to issues of procedure, informants said. It was believed that the minis- were awaiting further developments in Washington and Moscow on last private dinner talks between Byrnes and Molotov, which were followed today by a trans-Atlantic telephone conversation between Byrnes and President Truman. Molotov was expected to consult with Moscow. British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bcvin asserted that the conference should speed up its work so that these treaty drafts would be ready in time. He said the ministers should finish their examination of the proposed treaties with Italy and the Balkans by next Friday, June 28.

Molotov concurred and the i-tors then agreed to instruct their eputies to draw up an agenda for is goal, beginning Monday mor- i with the Italo-Austrian frontier, the Franco-Italian frontier, ami the Italian fleet disposal issues. Byrnes declared the ministers not keep on passing disputed items indefinitely, and that the conference might as well agree to issuing invitations now to the other 17 nations for July 15. The secretary added he hoped there was still enough time to agree upon the outstanding points in treaties with Italy, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Finland, and circulate the drafts to the other nations by July 15. Border Move Denied As the ministers met for Saturdays informal session a spokesman for the British foreign office in London acknowledged that some precautionary troop move ments may have taken place in the Trieste area, but he described as Yugoslav reports that the present zonal demarcation line would be shifted eastward. The foreign office spokesman declared he was authorized to deny there was any intention to move the line nine kilometers (Continued on Page Two) Meat A nd Bread ARE INSERTED IN OPA BILL PRICE CONTROL LAW DIE TO EXPIRE JUNE 30 Shortages May Ease Up In July FRANK MCKAY WILL SUPPORT SIGLER SLATE LONG SNAKE JUST A BIT Bean, right, director of Brookfield Zoo, measures an Anaconda snake purchased from a New York animal dealer.

The price for a 21-foot snake was to be S450 hut Bean offered to pay S20 for each foot over that length il the dealer would slash the amount off the price if the reptile measured short. The snake, 13 feet 9 inches long, cost the zoo only $310. (NEA Telephoto.) Verdict On Truman's Administration To Be Decided In Few Days BY CLAIR JOHNSON Washington, June 22 legislators said today that what congress does in the next few days will do much to write the verdict on the Truman administra- tion. Both Republican and Democratic leaders expressed this view as they tightened their belts for a week of fateful action on several bills laden with political dynamite. The two most controversial issues to be decided during the week will be on measures continuing the draft and the OPA, The fight over OPA is regarded as the most significant politically.

Public interest in this has reached a near-fever pitch and terrific me is out on both key Mr. Truman will congressmen and the president re- He has expressed disapproval I the legislation as it now stands. garding the outcome. Also on tap are final votes on a batch of vital appropriation bills and on legislation extending wartime authority for federal allocation of scarce materials. The pressure is on in all these cases because the present laws run out at the end of the fiscal year, June 30.

In addition, decisions may come on: (1) domestic control of atomic energy; (2) President proposed reorganizaaion of federal agencies; and (3) new labor legislation. Scheduled action on EDUCATION JAM MAT BE SOLVED Army Navy Installations Suggested For Use As College Campuses Washington, June 22 ing his assignment to "smash the educational Marine Gen. Graves B. Erskine today studied proposals for turning big army and navy even college campuses. "The idea of shipboaard colleges 1 appeal to some said the resourceful two- star veteran of Pacific fighting.

it may be one answer to our He was appointed I for John R. Steelman, the British loan bill has been post- i new director of the Office of poncd a week. Mobilization and Reconversion. in the OPA dispute, tin main His specific assignment is to spe. i question seems to be whether con-j die transier of more government gress will adopt a measure which property, both through donat BY FRANC IS J.

KELLY Washington, June 22 senators and house members working out differences in price control extension legislation today approved five out of six in' ntr denounced as "booby by Stabilizatoin Director Chester Bowles. Simultaneously, the conferees announced themselves in agreement on all but four major points of dispute. They will meet again Monday nil lit (8 M. Eastern Standard Time) in an attempt to resolve those remaining differences and push the bill first to the house, then to the senate, for final ap- I proval. I Time was pressing the Price control expires at mid- i holding back nii ht, Sunday, June 30, unless 1 price controls cnngress acts to extend it and the June 30.

(By Associated Meat and bread- two main sta- pies in the diet were harder to find yesterday (Saturday) than at any time during the war. Prospects were that the tight supply would continue at least the remaindei of the month. In July, trade sources believe, things should start getting better. Economic stabilize! Chest Bowles predicted meat would be available for a lew months after July 1, regardless of how Congress derides on the question of future price ceilings. The bread shortage, Bowles l'd, would be 30 days.

The department of agriculture supported contention that, some of the current meat shortage was caused by some shippei ivestock to set' if are dropped after iion, a trade association of millers, echoed prediction of an! improved bread flour outlook in 30 days for parts of the country 1 but said the lull benefit of the current winter wheat harvest be realized generally until about September 1. A federation spokesman said a bumper wintez wheat crop harvest is well under way in Texas and Oklahoma, but added that 'AN WAGONER FINDS DISCORD AMONG DEMOCRATS Detroit, June 22. Michigan Republicans and Democrats alike sought Saturday to mend their shattered political fences in advance of the November campaign. The high command of the Republican party i sued a statement in Detroit at a special press conference called by Kim Sigler, their nominee for governor. OPA price regulations prevent! Tn Grand Rapids, Frank Mc- millers in other parts of the coun- Kay, one-time Republican national buying try from buying this grain, the added shipping costs making such a transaction unprofitable undei price ceilings.

Most midwestern and eastern jSiglet Novombei states will start receiving this new' committeeman, whose name brought up frequently in the GOP primary campaign, announced that he was going down the line with late, whom BILL DENOUNCE!) AS ANTI-LABOR President Is Undecided About Signing Union Racket Ran Measure and many observers expect him I to veto the final version, which is 1 being worked out by senate and house conferees. If this occurs, some of these law makers said privately, the public will blame the president for killing the agency. Others con- tended, however, that by vetoing i the bill Mr. Truman could "pass the back to congress. Nearly all the legislators agreed, however, that regardless of what happens it will have a potent effect on the political future of tin president and his administration.

The draft issue is still a hot one, although most leaders expect passage of the compromise legislation finally approved this week by senate-house conferees. and sale, to schools. He is hi ad of the retraining and reemployment administration, department of labor. Government authorities have estimated a record-smashing total of 2.080,000 students will seek admission to colleges next fall and that about 500,000 may bo turned, away, including 290,000 war vet- BY JACK BEL I Washington, June 22 President Truman was reported today as undecided what to do about the Hobbs labor "anti- bill although many of his friends on Capitol Hill said! they believed he would let it be- come lawr. Officials who discussed the mat- ter with the president alter the senate unexpectedly passed the measure yesterday said they I gained the impression Mr.

Truman would like to sign it but remains SxJ'SMM 0usted Methodist Pastor had suggested. Erskine army and including some perhaps our gre panding cnllcg making educai more people no He said some states have developed plans lishing colleges in facilities left over from and it has been sugge- might be vised. said today abandoned training centers, I air tields, "are ht carni pe for liable ex- ancl to approves the legislation. Impasse Possible The four points still in dispute. fundamental in character Senator Downey (D-Calif), one of i conferees, told a reporter that "an impasse still is Still to be settled are: 1, How long to extend OPA.

Thei senate voted for one year, the' house for nine months. 2. Whether to end price control June 30 on meat, poultry and dairy products, tobacco and petroleum, as provided by the sen-j ate. The house did not specilioal- lv take controls off any commod-l I Establishment of a decontrol board with authority to override the price administrator on lilt-; ing of controls from non-agrieul- tural products, and the secretary of agriculture on farm commodities, 4. Ti size and duration of food! subsidies The house voted to halt! meat subsidies June 30, all others, Dec.

31. The senate voted for a 81,110,000.000 subsidy fund food subsidies barred alter next May 1. Denounced by Bowies Five of the changes specifically approved by the comerecs had The Bumper Wheat Prop National Federa- ai tr, the ted lining war, ships been charucti trap lion bombs earlier inn eliminated a for similar cr which would to obtain the i ized by Bow It and "delayed it a news conference eek. The conference 1 which came in iticism a provision have required OPA consent of the I d- Uovernment Takes Over Freighters 'Pied Up Ry Strike Toronto, June 22 (TP) Smoko began rising from the stacks of freighters all along the Great Lakes today as firemen shovelled coal into the bunkers in preparation for resumption of lake shipping after a month-old strike. The Canadian government announced yesterday its decision to seize approximately 100 freighters tied up by the Canadian union strike, and the seamen celebrated the decision.

Iv Brand, of the Canadian navy, a member of the Canadian shipping board, was named to superve government operation of the ship; 1- -ginning Monday. 1 In S. Richar of Winni- I peg, a member of the Manitoba j.1 court of appeals, was named by rnment to conciliate the over hours which brought grain when the harvest northward through Kansas. The harvest began in southeast Nebraska yesterday (Saturday) and already has stated in Kansas. Although relief was forecast, a spot survey of cilie: across the nation showed butcher shops either had no meat to offer or could meet only a small percentage of the demand.

Bread supplies, although somewhat improved in some stdl were war below demand. The Baltimore Evening Sun said moat supplies had reached the lowed level in that history, with no beef or obtainable. Slaughtering Stopped Tn Chicago and Kan: as City, two of the nation's major packing centers, slaughtering operations were at a record low. Most plants maintained skeleton i crews. In Pittsburgh, navy officers running the coal mine: I under government control appealed to Washington for more food for the miners who have threatened to quit work unless they receive more bread, flour i and fre meat.

Bowles aid the outlook wa for about 135 to 110 pound, of meat a pel: on this year, compared with l(i!) pounds demand and the pre- wav average of 1 AT MARYSVILLE Denouncing the bill as in its existing form, the CIO proposed last week that it be amended to provide specific exemptions from the felony penalties for legitimate labor activities such as picketing. The. (iives First Sermon At Cass City Cass City, June 22 1 1 The Rev. John Safran, ousted pastor of the Marysville, Methodist church, todav prepared president himself had suggested! an inaugural sermon for his Soothe same sort of provision when day bebut before the congrega- he vetoed the Case-bill contain- tion here. ing the identical wording of the Meanwhile, the Marysville Hobbs measure.

church, left in a turmoil over his But a surprise move by stand on racial discrimination. Hatch (D-NM), long-time friend of Mr. Truman, put the proposal through the senate Friday without any amendment on an apparently unanimous voice vote. Weather LOWER MICHIGAN: Partly cloudy with thundershowers Sunday and turning cooler in the extreme north portion in the afternoon. Warmer in the south portion.

UPPER MICHIGAN: Mostly cloudy and cooler Sunday with scattered showers. High Low ESCANABA 78 53 Yesterday Alpena 60 Lansing 62 Battle Creek 64 Los Angeles. 76 85 Marquette 90 Miami 70 Milwaukee 69 Minneapolis 80 New Orleans 74 New York Bismarck Brownsville Buffalo Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland 65 90 66 76 86 78 Denver 86 Phoenix 108 Detroit 68 Pittsburgh 72 Duluth 75 S. Sle. Marie Grand Rapids 61 St.

Louis 83 Houghton 68 Traverse City 5i Jacksonville 96 Washington 80 Bloomfield Hills Pilot Killed In Crash ear Home Pontiac. June 22. pilot, identified by state police as Fred Bohls, 44. of Woodward avenue, Bloomfield Hills, was killed today when a small plane crashed into a field near his home town. State Trooper Emmett Bradley of the Keego Harbor barracks said Bohls was the lone occupant of the craft, which had taken off from' Pontiac airport.

State police and CAA Inspector i Thomas Murphy of. Detroit said i cause of the accident was not de- termined. The plane struck nose first and was practically demolished, with body tossed clear of the wreckage. HOTEL FIRE MINOR Detroit, June 22. fire in the bottom of an elevator shaft in the Norton Hotel in downtown Detroit was extinguished Saturday with or.ly negligible damage ported.

succeeded in engaging a retired Baptist minister, the Rev. A Pegg of St. Clair, to conduct ih Sunday services. The Rev. Safran, reassigned Cass City at the request of the Marysville trustees, said his sermon will be Similar to one he delivered for the first time when he became pastor at Marysville a year ago.

Its title is Faith of a He will make no direct reference to racial problems, he said. Although he has not modified his philosophy toward minority groups. The Rev. Safran said letters and telegrams commending him on his stand have arrived from all parts of the country. His transier was requested after he called for greater employment opportunities for Marysville Nt- goes at a high school baccalaureate.

The Rev. Fred C. Bireham. permanently assigned to the Marysville church from Lake Linden, will arrive June 30. ONSTANCE WEDS I II Til Jet Plane Delivers Truman Letter I 160 Miles An Hour Schenectady, N.

June 22 jet propelled Army fighter rushed an airmail letter to President. Truman today at an average speed of 460 miles an hour while an aviation engineer predicted rapid improvement in the new type power plant. A P-80 Shooting Star, in the first delivery of U. S. airmail by a jet plane, took off from Schenectady at 12:18 p.

EDT, and arrived in Washington, a distance of 370 miles, 48 minutes later. Another P-80 flew 840 miles via Dayton 1o Chicago with an airmail letter for Mayor Edward J. Kelly, 2 hours 22 minutes, including a 20 minute stop in Dayton Reginald G. Standerwick, who directed engineering work on the first flyable American jet engine, meanwhile, said he expected fast progress in improving the jets. dispt on Tb orators hour 12 bout had ap Board that I the GSU charges that the op- in eight- standarr operators said tlmj the War La boi in eight-hour Th ill' it control will not ships, and 11 to picket enger ships tied eral district attorney before starting enforcement prosecutions.

The five which were approved in spite Bowles' denunciation were: A provision declaring that ceil-l into effect, ing for producers, manufacturers Governnn and processors must reflect their! ext( nd to i i prices during the base period Oct.1 the union 1-15, 1941, plus the average in- the few i crease in unit cost throughout the by the trike, industry in question since then, A ban against requirim whole- fi I her, H) lltCI salers and retailers of items such as automobiles and household appliances to take less than the established peace- i time mark-ups and discounts. Elimination of or, 1 maximum average price which was issued to keep i industry forecast The hui hm Repo ished 1 "tiie from I oit. New i a meat 25 pounds, director ah for produitie. Chairman Resigns Murray D. Van Wagoner, the Democratic nominee for governor, sought to discount the resignation ol Dr.

Ira C. McCoy as Democratic chairman of Huron county. Sigler called new men to GOP headquarters in Detroit to issue the following statement: "All Republicans in Michigan are now concerned with one goal in the party and victory this fall. The hard fight in the primary must now be forgotten and the party must pull together in llhs common objective for building a better Michigan for all its citizens. The good of the state and nation is oui common The statement bore name and also those ol Arthur Summet field of Flint, national commit- toeman; Mrs.

Dudley C. Hay, national committee woman; John A. Wagner, state Republican chairman; and Mrs. Rae C. Hooker, state vice-chairman.

Brown To Retire Meanwhile, in Lansing, chief primary rival, 72-year-old Vernon J. Brown, announced that he is retiring to "lead the life of a country when his term jas lieutenant governor ends. Brown, who was defeated in the primary by Sigler, said he will take no part in the coming campaign but asserted that ho is not lie added that Sigler would neu mb ecu upj noi it to 10 Lht D. 11; ondit little Ghs Alb elter in hiladelp N. and bad Richmond, Roches- no se the inklin of in Dr nan to Calls For Slash In utoniohile Prices Dell oil.

June 32 Pi Waltei Heather, GIG United Auto order. Workers president, aid today an doth -1 automobile forecast the production of 6,000,000 cars a year for the next three years is unlikely unless automobile prices are reduced, inflation embed Riverside, June 22 In a dim-lit chapel, surrounded by Hollywood notables, Constance Bennett became a bride today for the fifth time. She and Col. Theren Coulter were married by Lt. Co! Tunis L.

Dordill, chaplain of re- 12th Air Force at nearby March Field. Ahducted British Officers Are Set Free In Jerusalem BY CARTER L. DAVIDSON Jerusalem, Sunday, June 23 i-P) military authorities disclosed last night that two of the five British off it ers who were kidnapped from an club in Tel Aviv June 16 had been released. The announcement said the two officers were freed within a te.v i yards of the hotel from which they were abducted by an armed gang. The hotel housed the offi- club.

Thoil identities were not disclosed. The Army would divulge no information eore-erning the other three ofticei still in custody of their abductors. BLAST KILLS 16 ing manufacturers producing low- priced garments. In a related provision. the conference also approved special price treatment for manufacturers of cotton and and the purchasing pawn of con- woolen textiles.

rumors i rni od. A survey in the June i sue of the Federal Reserve bulletin, Reuther said in a prepared mcnt, showed that only 2,800.900 persons definitely plan to buy ears at present, "By 1947, the industry will back in the pre-war rut of ENGLISH MOVIE ACTRESS SLAIN Nude llody l)iscovered In Hotel Room In I Victim Strangled a puts hi ers Th rea ten To Blow Off Head Of Mayor's Wife McKeesport, June 22 OV) Mayor Charles A. Kinkaid said today that an anonymous caller sonnl produc ion, bo had threatened to the, of his striking, white-haired wife unless he called off hi: anti-gambling campaign. Mayor Kinkaid, a former steel executive, said that his wife answered the telephone in their home while he was away last night and an anonymous pei on with a heavy, foreign accent told her: "If that good-for- nothing husband stop what he is doing today, blow your head Kinkaid, who wa- elected mayor of this industrial city of 55,355 on the Republican ticket in his first political vcntuia last November. gave a fighting by declaring he was "going ahead to clean up the rackets in JOINS BABSON SCHOOL ern- fcss- join work aid.

He railed on business, ment, labor, consumer, ional and farm groups Jo forces is. this for "full production, full coi sumption and full Search Continues For Bodies Of S. Airmen In hina Washington, June 22 One of the most difficult searebe in all history is being in China in an attempt to recover the bodies of 1.000 American service men, mainly aviators who bailed out or crashed in that country during the second World War. In addition, 500 isolated graves have been located, Col. Charles Kearney, in charge of gtaves registration work at headquarters of tiie United State: forces in China, Kalamazoo, June 22 (A P) Rome, June 22 per- Edward B.

Hinckley of Kalamazoo reported to Maj. Gen T. B. Lark sons were killed and 70 were in-I college announced his resignation in. the quarter master general jured yesterday when a mine; Saturday to accept the preside! Reward- an offered bv both the dump exploded neat Cam of thi: Babson School of so.

a dispatch to the Rome news- Administration at Wellesley Hills. Chine -e government for informa- I paper Avai.ti said today. 1 effective Monday, Julv 1 1 tion leadin? to recovery of bodies. BY HARD lOMTKINS Loudon, June 22 Scotland Yard detectives today ought the bedroom slayer of Mrs. Margery Gardner, 33-vear-old English film extra, who brubed, nude body with legs tied together was found in a wildly-disordered room a hotel in 1 he fashionable west end.

Detectives said they wanted to question a tall, fair-haired English colonel, said to be known in society circles, concerning the dark-haired death, but connection with the case was not disclosed. lla body ot Mr: Gardner, mother el a three-year-old daughter, was found yesterday in the hotel room with smashed tables, broken chairs, and shattered glass indicating a violent Police said a post-mortem showed Mrs. Gardner had died of suffocation, Inquiries weie made at the arty Panama club in Bohemian Chelsea, which Mrs. Gardner was believed to have visited with a party of on Thursday night. Police aid there wore about 150 poj oi in II club that night, but only one of the attendants was certain he had seen Mrs.

Gardner there. Friends said the actress was well known in the Chelsea artists district. Still on the list of unsolved crimes was the slaving of Mi F.li/abeth McLindon, former housekeeper for King George II ol Greece She was shot in the back i neck in a Belgravia mansion last week. Thev Del Herma oral J) Treasu Si git place his own choosi can nominating troll July 5. i plot Jhis party where he is em over leadership GOP com mitt ci A "home seeks the retention as county I has accused McKay in reportedly trying appointment el strum 1 best fellow- Were toi Brown now trying to climb on McKay said of the "home group.

"1 have alway been a Republican and 1 am going to support the Republi- the Kent county organization of Gerald R. chairman and ol to foster the in YV, Wall- (Continued on Page Two) Today's Hews Highlights TWIN BILL Both Fscanabo teams will play at home today; First game begins at 1 p. m. Page 14. bass season will open Tuesday.

Page 12. ROUGH ON RATS Extermination program will be launched in Escanaba. Page 6. AIR fleet of planes will arrive in Esea- naba Monday. Page 16.

APPEAL asks public to help in search for body of John Thompson. Pages 9 and 11. SWIM Instructor at Gladstone beach will start classes Monday. Page 11, at plant at fair grounds in Manlstique plan expansion. 13.

I I I A no.N—Two- -eek posts in Mumsing township school election to he held Julj 8. Page 10..