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C. FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1947 U. S. Rejects Soviet Treaty Demand Nation 1NDONESIANS ARRIVE FOR UN CONFAB Awaiting customs inspection at Los Angeles Airport Wednesday night are President of ihe State of Eastern Indonesia Tjokorde Gde Rake Sockawati (left) and Premier of the State of Eastern In THE SENATOR IS JLEAKNIINU 1U rLi Senator Arthur donesia Nadjamoedin Daeng flight instructions from Mrs. Pearle Robinson in the cockpit of a plane at suburban Hybla Valley, airport.

The 82 year old publisher said he has joined the Congressional Flying Club, of which Mrs. Robinson is'chief instructor. to New York. Iliey are members ot the special Indies Mission to participate in United Nations deliberations on the Indonesian problem. UndergroundJews World Bank May Play Major Part In Plans Survey Reveals Varying Prices 1939 Dollar Value Cut In Half By Rising Costs By The Associated Press Your 1939 dollar is worth only about 50 cents today in buying the ordinary necessities of life, but it buys a lot more in some parts of the United States than in others.

An Associated Press survey of I retail prices in 13 leading cities in all sections of the nation revealed strikingly irregular increases. Some products have soared out of all relations with others compared with prewar days. Some cities where living costs were lowest in 1939 pay the most now. The survey showed: You can eat for less, by and large, in Minneapolis than in most cities. You pay more for meat in the packing capital of Chicago than elsewhere.

Your housing dollar buys more In San Francisco and St. Louis, and least in Denver, compared with the other cities. Your clothing dollar goes about as far one place as another, but buys a lot less than in either 1939 or 1946. Your meat bill has gone up much more, percentagewise, than your bread or milk bills. Butter and eggs rate much higher on your budget than they did comparatively, before the war.

In most items half or more of the price increase has come in the last year. But while your housing dollar buys only half as much most pla ces as in 1939. in Columbus and San Francisco it buy than it did in June. 1946. Three Fields Chosen Surveying typical products in the three fields of food.

clothing and housing marked by the Department of Justice for "price conspiracy" investigation, the Associated Press survey found in the 13 cities, item by item: Prices jumped 300 to 400 per cent in many cities in all sections of the country between 1939 and the present. In money, the range of increase was from 36 to 63 cents a pound. The packing center of Chicago reported the greatest hike. In 1939 it had the lowest priced bacon in the nation 18 cents a pound. In June 1946.

when OPA was dying. Chicago paid 42 cents, as low as any. But today it pays 81 cents a pound. San Francisco reported the highest price today. 87 cents, a jump of 44 cents since June.

1946. but only 53 cents higher than its prewar price of 34 cents. Pork Chops: Chicago led the nation, paying the highest presc price. 85 cents pound, and reporting the great Kill Seven Arabs ForEuropeanRecovery Washington, Aug. 15 JP) The multi billion dollar world fund and bank appear certain today to play part in the Marshall plan to re ve Europe's war crippled eco imy.

Camille Gutt, head of the S3. 800,000.000 monetary fund, will yesterday wrote off 1,000,000,000 leave for Paris today to discuss the in assorted debts owed to this coun joint recovery plans being drawn try by the Italian government, un there bv representatives of 16 This agreement, climaxing three Malewa who arrived enroute I Franpp and the Netherlands. The world bank likewise has made but two ioans one to France and the most recent to the Netherlands, jn a move to help the moderate De Gasperi Regime withstand Com munist pressure, the United States monins ot aiscussions. was aesign jed to take some of the sting out of the Italian peace treaty, which the American government trieQ sollen ounng uie peace conference. I i 7.

IB STRIPPER; BRA I NS OF BANDIT R1NC mmm i Pepper Urges Strang Mate For Truman By JACK BELL Washington, Aug. 15. W5) Senator Pepper (D Fla), predict ing that President Truman will hand pick the Democratic pres dential nominee, suggested today that he chooses "a champion of the working man." The Florida Senator told a re porter, however, he doesn't believe Henrv A. Wallace and Mr. Truman could "pull together as a m.

ineretore repper saia ne not proposing Wallace for the No. 2 spot despite the former vice presidents strong suppoort ol organized labor viewpoint "I think Mr. Wallace can render nis DC3t service by continuing to oe a private wno speaKs nis mind freely," Pepper said. The Florida Senator said he has no doubt that Mr. Truman will select the man who is to run with him and that the convention will accept his choice.

"I think the President ought to pick somebodv who subscribes as completely as possible to the views of Franklin D. Roosevelt." The Senator "He ought too be someone who can command not only the strong but the enthusiastic support of organized labor and the working people in general." Wallace, who was fired as secretary7 of commerce in a disagreement with the President over foreign policies last September, has said he is not interested in the vice presidential nomination. But there are indications that the convention will accept his choice. Pepper killed off any such hope with his assertion after a White House visit yesterday that the "President should be and will be nominated and should be and will be elected." POISONING ATTEMPTED 4n tn nnisnn hich rank jng officers of the people's volun last nigni aunng a uiniicr pan. officials said todav Shortly after the dinner 11 offi to the hospital, where seven were detained for further treatment.

Indians Appeal For End Of Riots Dominion Of India Seeks Peace In First Act By G. MILTON KELLY New Delhi, Aug. 15. (AP) The Dominion of India, as its first official act. appealed tonignt lor cessation ot Hin du Moslem violence in both this country and the Dominion of Pakistan.

"What ever differences we have must be resolved by peaceful anc Democratic methods." Prime Min ister Jawaharlal Nehru's cabinet declared. "We are a free people today. Let us act then as free men and women." Great throngs of the dominions' 400,000.000 celebrated joyously their new independence of the British Raj. communal warfare, which has left scores dead this week in the Punjab, lessened in some centers. Lord Mountbatten transferred British authority at midnight to the larger dominion of India, whose 227.000.000 residents are over whelmingly Hindu.

He changed title from viceroy to governor general. M. A. Jinnah. the monccled Moslem league leader whose adamant stand largely caused di vision of the country, became gov ernor general of Pakistan and its mostly Moslems, Mohandas K.

Ghandi. the frail little lawyer who became knowi as the "architect of India's freedom" by his lengthy, mild cam paigning, began fasting, praying and spinning at his Belliaghatta "peace mission" in East Calcutta. Hundreds of thousands of Hindus and Moslems made what they called a "holy pilgrimage" to Gandhi's residence. Occasionally he present ed himseif on his veranda and received deafening cheers and slogans such as "the Hindu and Moslem is one." Gandhi had desired a united, independent India. The 3.000.000 Hindus and 1.

000.000 Moslems of Caluctta ended suddenly their year long warfare under the emotional upsurge ot independence. They joined freely together in celebrations with exuberance unbelievable before yesterday. But a senior police officer said: "If anything goes wrong. God help us." The sorest spot appeared to be Lahore, capital of partitioned Punjab, where communal violence continued. The unofficial toll in three days of rioting there mounted to 268 dead and more than 200 in jured.

At least 36 fires blazed in Lahore and mobs were reported looting. Crowds in this Indian capital were hilarious. They gave Mount batten a warm hearted reception hich the cousin of King George VI of the United Kingdom. until today emperor of India as well, returned in kind. Jury Studies Love Letters OfYoungPair Santa Ana.

Aug. 15 The lurid lo'c letters of two collegians charged with murder today were in the hands of a jury thai scanned the passionate missives for a possible motive for the yacht blast slaying of Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Ovcrcll.

The private correspondence of George Bud'i Gollum and his sweetheart. Louise Ovcrcll. was admitted as evidence as the slate concluded its 12 wecks prosecu But the hundreds who storm ed the courthouse, intenl upon hearing the secrets of the young lovers, were disappointed as they had to watch the jury read in silence the letters exchanged by Bud and Louise in jail. Most of the 300 persons who 'crowded into Judge Kenneth Mor risons tiny courtroom rushed outside into a conidor when they heard a newsboy shout the news of the Overcll trial. In their newspa pcis they avidly read the news that had been denied them.

The courtroom bad been as I quiet and motionless, all day. as, a mausoleum. Alt day long trie jury had read, letter by letter, the words of erotic correspondence that passed between Itemise the IS year old heiress to the $5.50.000 estate of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. waiter E.

Ovcrcll, and "Bud" Gollum. the 21 year old navy radio who won her heart in his let ters from overseas. May Go On With Meeting Peace With Japan Will Be Signed By 11 Nations Washington. 15. (AP) Thp United States has re jected firmly a Soviet demand that the iob of drawing up a peace treaty for Japan be left to the biff lour racmc pow ersthe United States, Bri tain, China and Kussia.

The. American position was dis closed in a note made public today by the State Department. It delivered to Semen K. Tsarapkin, Russian charge d'affaires, by Charles E. Bohlen, departmental counselor, two days ago.

In the note, the United State maintained its unbudging position that the treaty should be drafed an 11 nation conference. And it made plain that this eoun try will proceed with that work even if Russia refuses to attend. However, it expressed its hope that the Soviet Union would par ticipate in the Japanese Peac Treaty Conference to be held "in the near future." There has been no definite date set as yet for the confernce but the 11 nations which have been invited to attend are this country, Britain, China, Russia. Australia, New Zealand, The Netherlands, France, The Philippines. India and Canada.

All but Russia have accepted the vita tion. The United States note was in answer to one from Russia July 22, which the Soviet Union called for examination of the Japanese peace treaty problems by the Council of Foreign Ministers. This would be line with the procedur followd in drawing up peace treaties for Italy and Hitler's Balkan satellites which produced long wrangling before the drafts procedure followed in drawing up proved. Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov, in suggesting that procedure be followed in the case of Japan, accused the United States of acting unilaterally by inviting the 11 nation conference. its reply, the United States said that none cf the agreements reaHipH Yalta Potsdam eastern commission to act upon policies in the occupation of Japan.

jt js ll)e view of the und. States governments the note said, "that this action constituted a recognition of the primary interest of these powers in post surrender pol icy metiers for Japan and hence in the peace settlement." ine nole pointed out that such an power Japanese peace con ierence weutd be free to determine its own procedure. The United States has suggested that a two thirds majority vote orevail in its decisions. UN Atomic Group Votes Down Plan Of Soviet Union Lake Success. Aug.

35 tiP) The political committee of the United Nations Atomic Energy commission decided by 10 votes today lhat 1he Soviet Union plan for an international control commission is not adequate as at now stands. It left the way open for further talks however. The United States, which insist ed repeatedly for a vote, and nine other members of the committee voted for a Canadian resolution which was stubbornly fought by Russia. No negative vote or abstentions were taken, but Russia and Poland were on mord officially against the proposal. Several of the majority said the action did not mean the Soviet proposals were rejected.

They insisted that the plan could be takdn up again whenever the Russians brought in additional material such as answers to questions asked by Britain. Andrei A. Grorrryko, of Kussia. told the committee its adoption would make "more difficult" the task of reaching agreement on an iwerriatjonal atomic central smb. nations.

Although no official announce ment has been made, the purpose of Gutt's trip undoubtedly will to advise the 16 nation commit how his international agency can help. President John J. McClov al readv has pledged the full coopera tion of the S.9.100,000,000 interna tional bank, companion institution tion. Similar assurances of aid from Gutt would greatly facilitate the European planning since it would I open up another source of funds, American government officials; known to be hoping both the I fund and bank will step in with loans and thus reduce that amount the United States will have to pro I ide. The 16 nation program is Eu rope's answer to Secretary of State Marshall's implied promise that the United btates will provide adci tional billions for their recovery if they agree to a coordinated ap proach to the problem, making; full use of all European resources.

Gutt. a noted Belgian financial expert, win take with him fc. 11. Bernstein, his director of research, and Robert Rolin. a special aide.

The three plan to spend up to two weeks in the French capital conferring with the planning com nuttec Under its charter, the main pur 1 1 Capper (K receives Deaths Attributed To Recent Blows During Strife Tel Aviv, Palestine, Aug. 15. (if) Hagana, the Jewish under ground defense organization, announced today it had executed seven Arabs "for the brigandism which has been responsible for recent attacks on Jewish settle ments." A Hun fisht took nlarp nnnf ficial sources said, near an Orange grove shanty which housed the Arzos. there are possibly a doz en dead," police said. "There are some bodies still under the debris." Four Arabs were found shot to death in the yard.

The house itself was demolished by a blast early this morning. The house was i bout six miles from Jewish Tel Aviv and Arab Jaffa, see nf bloody racial clashes which have taken a heavy toll in dead and wounded since Sunday. Hagana's communique said it had found the house "which was the headquarters for the birgand ism which has been responsible for the recent attacks on Jewish settlement in the plains of Sharon and for the attack on the Fan Hawaii cafe (on the Yarkon river) Sunday night." At the cafe 20 men. described by Jewish sources as Arabs, killed four and injured 10 others. Leader Killed 'Our soldiers executied the leader of the brigands and then executed six of his men found in the house." the communique said.

In the continuing racial strife near the boundary of Tel Aviv and Jaffa, two Arabs were found stabbed to death near the Hatik va quarter in the same area where two Jews were killed yesterday. One Jew was found shot to death in the Saba colony. 32 miles north of Tel Aviv and Jaffa. The new killings brought the toll of dead since Sundav to at least 2817 Arabs and 11 Jews. Forty Arabs and 17 Jews have been wounded seriously and about 50 Arabs and Jews have been hurt.

Property damage in the strife ridden sectors of Tel Aviv and Jaffa has been estimated by some sources at more than $2. ooo.oao. Troops and police in Tel Aviv searched the Jewish federation of labor building, "red house. in Tel Aviv, but apparently found nothing. Meanwhile, what amounted to a full scale exodus was in progress in the squalid border area of Tel Aviv and Jaffa.

Crowds of sullen Jews and Arabs stood by and watched thousands of their number move their possessions. The crowds milled along dusty streets and alleys of the Abu Ke hir quarter, hard by the traffic vortex where Jaffa and Tel Aviv streets merce into the Jerusalem road. Arabs who have lived beside Jews for years literally arc iiprooling their slum shanties and carting them toward what they hapc will be the safety of all Arab Jaffa. One police officer said 2.000 persons had nwed out of the trouble areas since Wcdnesdav. Uneasy Calm The calm which descended upon the cities by afternoon was a tense and uneasy one.

Near Tel Aviv. Jewish and" Arab villages and tarm communities were gilding for defense, in full expectation of continued clashes. Observers said they belisved the next three days Saturday. Sunday and Monday would be crucial. The three day feat of Ra madhan will be celebrated over the week end to max the end of a month long moslem fasting period.

In Natanya, meanwhile, army and police arrested IS persons in pre dawn raids. Among those arrested were members of the revisionist party, members of the municipal council and the owner of Naianya's largest diamond tutUm work (above). year old former conta ins provisions giving the dancer has admitted 'Council of Foreign Ministers "any i I authority in connection with a Jap that she was the brains ot a'anese peace settlement" Mai joretu Grav Crabtreei The nole hen reviewed the de cision in Moscow in December, jhaiitlu. ring that committed io set u3 the llpower Far est increase. cents.

ocr iso. j. i iccr organization, militant pn and the greatest jump 48 cents, vatc army" of the anti fascist peo sincc June. 3946. Minneapolis pic's freedom league, was made Three Killed By Explosion At Coal Mine West Frankfort, 111., Aug.

15 UP) Three men were killed and others slightly injured last night in a mine explosion which brought hundreds of people to the shaft fearing it was a third major disaster in Southern Illinois with five months. For more than two hours, a crowd of about 2,000 milled around the property in the belief that many of the night crew of about 100 men had been killed or trapped. Not until about 11 clock when many of the workers came to the surface, unaware of the blast, the worst of the shock and two hour suspense dispelled. Harold L. walker, state superin tendent of mines and minerals, said the blast "probably was a local gas explosion." One man, working in a neighoring entryway, said he saw cloud ot smoke ana aust in xne area but that he did not know there had been an explosion until he reached the surface after the ghfs work.

Mine company spokesmen said only the five men were in the blast area, and that all other workmen had been accounted for and were not injured. The accident occurrea Detween 30 and 9 p. mine officials said, in the New Orient mine of the Chicago. Wilmington and Franklin Coal Co. it is me largest one baft mine the world, employing norc than 1.100 men who produce about 10.011 tons a day.

The mine is about a mile north of here. In two recent Southern Illinois disasters. Ill men were killed in an explosion at a Ccntralia mine March 25 and on July 24 an ex plosion in a mine across town here from the New Orient killed 27 men. sion on Conventional Armaments, which has been sidetracked through the long summer debates on Indonesia. Egypt, and the Balkans, was postponed indefinitely once more to permit the delegates to discuss Indonesia.

The same nations are of. the armaments group and virtually the same oeJccatcs sit on ootn itic icouncil and the commission. Van KlctTens sought last night. to hold up adjournment of the council after it had heard former Premier Siitan Sjahnr, of the In donesian Republic, attack the ccn tarics old Dutch rule of The Neth eralnds East Indies and demand an arbitration commission. Meanwhile, the Unitdc States delegation studied the blast fired yesterday by Soviet Delegate Andrei A.

Gromyxo against a new American resolution to settle the Balkan conflict. Gromyfco also attacked the program of American aid to Greece. understood authoritatively that the U. S. delegation did not feel there was much new in Gro speech.

It was noted, also that Gromyko oade no answer to the United States statement thai the general assembly might act ifj the Security Council was blocked! by a Russian veto. Gromyko leu no doubt, how ever, that he would veto the newj American resolution when a vote it; taken. The Balkans debate; was recessed until next Tuesday1 afternoon. i usi. ui un.

uui.Mi.. numerous Hold ups lhc fund is to keep the currency of its 43 member governments on aii'Soum. 1 aken into custody at tcn ncei. nouutr. c.iii iliiu funds to nations temporarily short of monev needed for current trade transactions.

Since beginning operations about a year ago the fund thus far has extended such assistance only to Dutch May Propose Board To End Indonesian Trouble Inter American Delegates navs the lowest price today, oi cents, and had the least increase over 1939 or 37 cents a pound. Bound Steak: Wide variations, both pres ent nrices and in increases in last eight years, were reported by various cities. Chicago has the highest present price. 9.i cents Mimri and the Inchest rate of i crease over 3939. of 70 cents, and over 3946 of .2 cents.

Mm ncapolis reports the lowest price. 6fi cents, a jump 32 from the 3939. and only corns from June. 394G. Bread Up Toe Bread: Between 3939 and the present, bread prices advanced fvam two, to nine cents a loaf: between June; 3346 and today.

the increase var ied from none at Denver Ho foarj cents at Philadelphia. Present prices ranee from 33 cents tonnvfr. 32 cents in Minneapolis BoMon and San Francisco to 17! rente in Dallas. Prewar prices varied from 6 cents an New York to! 23 in St. Louis.

Butter: Prices todav are irova 2fi it cents a pound feigner than in 3939 in the various ernes rrpwwijj and from fine to 27 cents above June. Atlanta currently pays 13 je lowest prire 7f) ends, and San Francisco and Philadelphia the highest. SB cents. 3n 3939 New York was lowest with 26 3 2 cents and Minmeatjolis next with 27. Kansas City was highest with cents.

Eggs: Price jumps were erratic across the nation. Today's quotations were 52 cents a dozen higher than 3939 in Boston and San Francisco. and only 39 cents higher in Xan sas City. The increase oveT Jane. 3946, vaned from two cents in New York to 26 cents in San Francisco The west coast eitv pavs the CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN she also admit L.

I cd. hc Rc he to men living with her shots ol mor jpbinc ln.Torc sending them out ion Ending Strife Mexico and several other countries arc known to favor consideration of hemisphere economic problems ai mis mcetang. Argentina has announced shc; would pTvpccc a special Inicr Anacriran Economic Conference' some time before the Bogota conference set for next January. The commission was to pick a sleering committee and committees on credentials, aggression, miscel laneous matters and an Intcr Ameriean securily force to be ap prover ai a conicrcnce of American states in JJocola. Colombia.

nr1 January. The confcnen.ee itself, long delayed by North American Argentine differences, was scheduled to start at 4 p. m. '2 p. EST.) On the program were an opening speech by President Eurico Caspar Dutra of Brazil, a response for the delegates by Foreign Minister Jaime Torres Bodet of Mexico and an address by Secrelari' General arygvc iic of the nited Nations.

Nicaragua was not represented at the conference. Her government established by a coup oetat last May has not yet been recognized The seat of the meeting was the block long former grill room of Brazils S15.000.000 Quitandinba hotel, mountain resort outside this town 45 miles north of Rio De Janeiro. To Work On By PHIMP CLARKE Pctropolis. Brazil. Aug.

35 Delegates to the Inter American Defense Conference agreed at a preparatory session today to support, mediation ef torts in the 5'ara gnayan aval war. a cJcga1wn mrmbrr said upon leaving tho closed meeting. Raul Feraanrlrs. Brazils foreign irii 1er, was unanimously chosen presidcnl of the conference, hut asked that the delegates confirm the election later al the first plenary session 'at 2 p. m.

EST. ontcrence at taon io support mediation efforts ol Kraal and Argentina to end the wl war Para en av had been airced here bv laaslo Pneto. former lorcign minister ot Paraguay, self styled "observer" for the rebels, Fernandcs as a scholarly 69 ycar old diplomat who was a delegate to the 11939 pC'Mv conJerence and to ihe I caguc ol Nations. The preparaloiy commission for the conference, which as to write a treaty of mutual defense, met with all the 20 nations participating represented. Chile's foreign minister.

German Vergara Done told newsmen he would oppose the Argentine pro i posal to include discussion ol economic questions. Cuba, however, announced she would press for a treaty clause against "economic aggression." By HARfcELSON Lake Success. Aug. 35. The Nelhcriands was reported ready to day to propose creation of a three man arbitration board to try to 'settle the Indonesian dispute inde pendently of vac unatcd A reliable who said ihe had talked tr.th Netherlands Representative Dr.

fccilco van KlcJTcns. Trcportcd the new Dutch plan to be as follows: a. A Mire man areitrawn oare ould be set ur alone Sines similar to terms of Article 17 in the Ling gadjati agreement signed at Ba tavia last "March 25 between The Nelhcriands and the Indonesian Republic. z. nine internaiionai tonn.

Inslice would beasked at the same lime to decide whether the U. N. Security Crunci3 had jurisdiction over the Indonesian question. Van Klcffcns was expected announce his plan at. the opening of today's council session at 3 p.

'(EOT'). Sntan Sjahrir. former premier of the Indonesian Republic, could not be reached immediately for comment, but he seemed certain to oppose at least the second point, which would antomaticaijy remove the Indonesian case from the Council's agenda. The plan provides that one mem ber of a three man board would be designated by The Netherlands, one by the Indonesians and the third by the other two. A meeting of the U.

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