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FRANKLIN AND OIL CITY, PA, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1946. FOUR CENTS TRAGIC HOTEL FIRE IS UNDER rn UJ Bispuite i. JUL Probes Started to be Investigated fa9 World Bank Head i rjj jewels oioien From German Castle OPA EXTENSION BILL MAY CAUSE CHIEFS TO QUIT Senate Banking Committee Reports Measure Stripping OPA of Many Controls. WOULD END FOOD CONTROLS Six Separate cause Remains mystery; ueatn ma A I t.ii b. ss.

7 CLUBS, THEATRES CLOSED; Iiy KoliRKT T. LOlTiHKAX. CHICAGO UP Six separ-j ate investigations were begun today to find tne cause1 of the La Salle Hotel disaster in which 58 persons died. Meanwhile, fire-conscious city closed five nightclubs two Loop theatres on charges that they "repeatedly ignored' warnings to remove Are Charges I May in Alarm. Preliminary investigations failed to establish what caused the hre that spread through tne LaSalie IJotei lobby early yesterday snid within few short minutes vurued the lower Hours into a flaming death trap.

Mayor Edward J. Kelij and tire department officials charged that hotel employes delujed calling fire de-parlmeut for "15 or minutes" while they tried to put tliejfire out tueui-nehes. Avery Brnndage, chairman of the hotel management, denied the charge, and asserted that every fire precau-tioi. possiole had been provided. Hoy Slefeen, president of ilie La-Salle-Madisoii Hotel which operates the hotel, said the Are department was called within three minutes after the flames were discovered.

Me said the lire did not brean out until 1 -1N3 a. m. (EDT) and that the fire department was notified at 1 a. m. (EDT).

Jlifs Polity of Hotels. Mayor Kelly, however, said that "we lielieve there was a delay of from 15 to 'M minutes betw.een the time the lire was discovered ami time the fire department was notified." 'The fire department got there within one minute," Kelly said. "It seems to be a custom among hoi els to extinguish their own fires if nossible without calling the fire department." Division Fire Marshal John Fenn said he had established that the tire began at 1:15 a. and that the tire department was not called until 1:30 a. m.

Meanwhile, he said, employes and guests tried to put out the tire with siphon bottles and lire extinguishers, some of which were empty. Kelly appointed a committee to investigate. Other investigations were begun by the police, State's Attorney John Tuolty, the state tire marshal's Assistant Corporation Counsel lleiiry Eekhardt, and Coroner A. L. Brodie, who swore in a MuerSwri coroner's jury at the county morgue where the bodies of the victims "were taken.

Had Ope" Stair Wells. In addition, the state senate at Springfield adopted a resolution tc eou-dtict a legislative investigation. The resolution provides for an inquiry by live members of each house. Although the cause of Hie fire was not determined, it was believed to have stalled in an elevator shaft and to have spread to the Silver Lounge, a cocktail room. By the time the i'irst tire engines arrived the lounge and the lobby were blazing furiously and smoke and flames were up stairways.

Major Kelly said the hotel, built in 1009 of brick, concrete and steel Chicago's financial and rheatre districts, had open stair wells because an ordnance prohibiting them could not (Continued on Page (i.) ERIE GlXKILLED WHEN STRUCK BY GAR ERIE UP A five-year-old girl was killed and her sister was seriously injured today when au automobile jumped the curb following a collision with another car. The victim, Joan Dubinski, was killed instantly. Her sister, Arleen, was in a serious condition at a local hospital. Mrs. Anna Szyuminski, 27, an aunt, and her daughter, Carol Auu, were also injured.

The accident occurred when an automobile driven by George T. Foggin, of Buffalo, X. struck the four after first colliding with a car driven ny Jack A. Tupit.a, 21, of Erie. Petitions to Sign and Veto Case Bill Circulate in House WASHINGTON UP The congressional battle over latxr legislation became a race for signatures today as opposing sides petitioned President Truman to veto or sign the Case bill for permanent strike control.

Rep. Lyle H. Boren, author of a petition urging the President to approve the bill, claimed leadership in the scramble for signatures. He said he had 135 names' "at the last count and we have gained more since then' "We are going to present this petition to the President as soon as we have two-thiTds of the House," Borden said. It would take a two-thirds vote to override a presidential veto.

Rep. Vito Marcantonio. N. leader of the "pro-labor" bloc, predicted that by tomorrow his group would have "between and WD" signatures on its petition to get Mr. Truman to veto the Case bill.

That probably would be enough to uphold a veto. The House today may get its second look at another labor bill Mr. Truman's emergency labor legislation but there was every prospect that final action will be postiwned until next week. HOUSE TO FIGHT DRAFT MEASURE Senate Version Reviving Teen-Age Inductions is Passed; Draft Holiday to be Issue. WASHINGTON UP House members said today they would not accept without a fight a Senateapproved bill to extend the draft until May 16, 1947, and revive' the induction of teen-agers.

The House last April passed a bill banning induction of 18 and 19-year-olds, declaring a draft-holiday until Oct. 15 and extending the life of tiie act to Feb. 16. Although the Senate approved its own bill overwhelmingly late yesterday, House member said the teen-age and draft holiday provisions were certain to cause hot floor fights and 'possibly a prolonged tussle in conference committee. Claims Boys Not Needed.

Chairman Andrew J. May, of the House Military Affairs Committee and author of the amendment prohibiting teen-age inductions, said he will continue to oppose the induction of teen-agers. Rep. Dewey Short, a leading opponent of any form if draft extension, told reporters: "I will figlit any effort to draft these teen-age boys. They don't need them.

They don't need the bill at all." With May and Short spearheading the opposition to the Senate bill, there is no likelihood that the Senate amendments will be accepted unchanged. Bill to Go to Conference. House leaders said the Senate bill will be sent to a conference committee to agree on differences in Senate and House versions. The conference proposals then will be returned to both hoiuses for acceptance. The Senate bill would provide pay increases ranging from 50 per cent, for buck private to 10 per cent, for higher grades of enlisted personnel.

The House did not include a pay-raise provision in its bill, but had provided and sent to the Senate separately a similar pay increase bill. It would provide 31) per cent, pay raises for lower rank officers and 10 per cent, increases for those above the rank of captain. The Senate would provide no pay hike for officers. Calls Increase a Bribe. May said that including the pay increase in the Selective Service bill to induce voluntary enlistments was a "'bribe," 'but there appeared to be good indications that the House would ac cept it with some compromises.

The two hills were alike on nnnt-( Continued on Page 6.) QTEETO ACT lil THREAT OF SHIPSTRIKE Action Planned as Two AFL Unions Prepare to Leave Jobs Today for 'Stop-Work' Meetings. OTHER, UNIONS NEGOTIATING WASHINGTON UP The House Labor Committee today-voted an investigation of current maritime labor disputes as more than 62,000 members of two AFL seamen's unions arranged to leave their jobs. Seven other maritime unions one independent and six CIO groups threaten a nation-wide shipping strike June 15 unless their demands for higher wages and shorter working hours are met. They are negotiating with ship owners here. Open Inquiry Tomorrow.

The House committee named a seven-man investigating subcommittee headed by Rep. Augustine B. Kelley, Pa. Kelley said his group may start its inquiry tomorrow, depending upon whether can schedule witnesses." The subcommittee was authorized to investigate any imminent or actual strike that affects the national interest. The action stemmed from the current outbreak of maritime disputes.

Kelley said his group planned to call union and Labor Department said it hoped to act in time to have some direct affect on current negotiations in the disputes. The inquiry was voted as the nation faced a crippling tieup of its merchant fleet. Reason Not Given. Vice President John Hawk of the Seafarers International Union of North America (AFL) said in New York that members of his group and those of the Sailors Union of the Pacific (AFL) would begin "stop-work" meetings at about 3 p. to- Continued on Page 6.) Music Temple At Lake Park Is Destroyed COXXEAUT LAKE The Temple of Music, a Conneaut Lake Park landmark, burned to the ground late Wednesday night for a loss estimated at $50,000.

It was a swift, spectacular fire. The mam part of tbe huge building and its airport hanger-like, steel-beam-but-tressed roof crashed to the ground only a half hour after the fire alarm was sounded at p. m. Thirty minutes later the big entranceway foyer smashed down. In one hour the big auditorium, which could seat more than 5.000 persons and had balcony choir lofts that could hold 1,000 more, was level with the ground except lor twisted steel girders.

Xo one knows how the fire started, Clyde M'CAdoo, Conneaut Lake Park fire chief, said. Fire authorities were continuing their investigation. Park authorities said the big wooden frame temple, built around steel girders and a concrete floor, -bed been used recently for storage. 5,000 Watch Spectacular Blaze. More than 5,000 spectators rushed to the scene as the spectacular 'Are lighted the sky for miles around, showering sparks as sections of the building crashed down.

Tbe Temple of Music was set off by itself along tiie highway which flanks Conneaut Lake Park. There was no danger to any other structures. Fire Chief McAdoo and park firemen were at the scene only a few minutes after the alarm, but "she was a goner then!" Firemen fed one stream of water on (Continued on Page 6. pattersoTapproves atomic control plan Senate Version of Control Leg islation Acceptable. WASH LNGTON UP Ad voca tes civilian control of atomic energy today appeared to have won their battle over supporters of military control.

Well-informed congressional sources reported that Secretary of War Rob ert I. Patterson has advised House Speaker Sam Rayburn, that the iS'enate-npproved version of atomic control legislation was acceptable to htm. The Senate bill would provide an all-civilian, five-member control commis sion with the military relegated to an advisory role. A bill recommended by the House Military Affairs Committee would set-up a nine-member commission on which members of the armed forces could sit. After talking with Patterson, Ray-burn conferred with Chairman Andrew J.

May, of the House Affairs Committee, and ex pressed the administration wish for fast action on the Senate version. May called a closed meeting of his committee today. May said it whs possible that tlu might approve the enate bill at this one meeting. Americans Involved in Theft of $1,500,000 Worth of Jewels Seven Months Ago. CASTLE USED BY U.

S. TROOPS FRANKFURT UP The theft of crown jewels valued at $1,500,000 from Kronberg Castle, on the grounds of which lives a sister of the late Kaiser Wilhelm, was reported today by U. S. Army officials, who said American personnel was involved. The theft was disclosed seven to the day after it was rfiinrt-ed to have occurred.

It confronted U. S. authorities with one of the most startling cases of the occujmtiou. Value Placed at S7M. Kronberg.

a castle, is ou a sprawling estate of some 400 acres about 10 miles north of Trankfurt. Princess Margareta, 74. the Kjiser's sister, lived in a small villa on the edge of the grounds since the I. S. Army took over the estate in April, 1W5.

(The, magazine Newswee-k in New-York, estimating the value of the jewels at S7.OWMI00, said a high ranking American officer was involved, and that the gems were "extorted'' from lrincess Margareta). Margareta's son, Prince PhiHip, of Hesse, titular bead of the House of Hesse, now is held iu au American civilian internment camp near Darmstadt. He and two brothers were active members of the Nazi party. The princess was said to have held aloof from politics. Yanks are Redeployed.

The theft was said to have occurred last Nov. 6 but the loss was not reported until April 11 ty which time Americans who had been using the castle as a lodge had been redeployed. While declining to offer actual details of the theft, officials denied that any "extortion" was They said that the family explained that the jewels bad been placed tn a container and buied basement of the castle for safekeeping in October, 1044. The theft was reported to the theatre provost marshal by a womati member of the family who placed the estimate of $1,500,000 oi. the- val'ie of the jewels but said that itl er personal items of sentimental value" also were lost.

Deny High Officer Involved. Officials refused to details of an investigation of tbe theft. They denied a report that a high off iter was involved in the case but they said U. Army personnel were indicated. Chiang Orders Nationalists to Halt Fighting NANKING UP Generalissimo 'Chiang Kai-Shek today ordered Na tionalist military operations Suspended in Manchuria "to give the Communist Party an opportunity to demonstrate their intention to carry tt agreements they have previously signed" to end Ch'ina's civil war.

The truce will go into effect at noon Friday. Gen. George C. Marshall will 'have broad powers to rtad a basis for permanent settlement of the civil war. In taking this action' the (Nationalist) government in no way prejudices their rights under the Sino-Soviet treaty to recover sovereignty of Manchuria," Chiang's order said.

"The following matters must be settled satisfactorily within- the 13-day period Detailed araugements to govern complete termination of hostilities iu Manchuria. Detailed arrangements and time schedules for the complete restoration of communications China. A definite basis for carrying out without further delay the agreement of Feb. 25, 1946, for demobilization, reorganization, and integration of the armed forces of China." ITALIAN QUEEN AND FOUR CHILDREN SAIL Report Humbert Will Join Family Aboard Cruiser. ROME UP Queen Marie Jose sailed from Naples today for the exile brought on by the ballot bos liquidation of the Italian monarchy, and King Humbert II prepared to join her.

The queen and her four children departed aboard the Italian cruiseir Duca Delgi Abruzzi, the ship which carried the former King Victor Emmanuel, father of Humbert, and Queen Elena to exile in Egypt last month. The destination of tiie cruiser was not disclosed. A rumor circulated tta Humbert would board the cruiser at Caeta and It would proceed to Egypt. A reliable Vatican source said Pope Pius would urge Italian Catholics to cooperate with the new Republican government. The Vatican informant said the pontiff will take the first suitable occasion to express his cooperation with the new regime.

The occasion ni.iy be Ihe next meeting of the Catholic Ac-lion Association. PATTON ROUTE ACROSS FRANCE TO BE MARKED PARIS IT The victorious path of the late Gen. Gecrze S. Third Aney drive across France will ie outlined a series of luminous milestones from Av-raiichttj to Metz, it was announced today. Plans for the project were by a committee of mayors of all French communes along the route.

Markers will he a torch of liberty, visible at night, spaced a kilometer apart on the highway. BLACK MARKET IN BREAD REPORTED Prosecution Threatened in Philadelphia as Bread and Meat Shortages Continue. Iiy United Press. The first black market in bread was reported today as the lines of bread-seeking housewives across the nation grew longer. There was no.

relief from the meat shortage. A survey showed that many cities were taking official steps to save bread and assure equal distribution of reduced supplies. At Buffalo. X. churches were asked to hold prayers Sunday to assure everyone "a just share of the staff of life." At Philadelphia.

Office of Prica Administration officials reported a black market was developing in bread. Some relief was foreseen, however, with reports that the winter wheat crop being harvested in Texas and Oklahoma was about. 25 per cent, above expectations. Meat Shops Closed. The survey showed these conditions New York Most meat shops were closed.

Butchers gathered at the OP A office and protested angrily that OPA investigators were taking bribes. Lines formed for bread before stores opened. Many were sold out by a. ni. Housewives, unable to buy sugar or flour, complained at the sight of thickly frosted cakes overloading counters instead of bread.

Chicago Groceries and bakeries sold out of bread before noon. Most bakeries asked customers to form lines or gave them cards with numbers. Meat remained scarce. Philadelphia OPA officials threatened prosecution of black marketeers charging 50 per cent, above ceilings for bread. Tie-in sales, in which the customer is forced to buy something else to get bread, were common.

Bakers reportedly diverted white flour to nalung expensive cases. oaser-ies cut production 10 to 25 per cent, and retailers i held bread under the counter for regular customers. Protests Slaughtering Quotas. Detroit Mayor Edward J. Jeffries sent a telegram to Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P.

Anderson urging re-imoval of all meat slaughtering quotas. (Continued on Page 6.) ACCUSES PROMTNENT HUBBY OF REPEATED BEATINGS PITTSBURGH IP The wife ot a socially-prominent metal company executive today sought a divorce on the grounds that her husband repeatedly knocked her down, broke her nose, ribs and other bones and blackened her eyes. Tearfully, Mrs. S. Marshall Gish, the former Evelyn McKaig, told Judge John P.

Kennedy that her married life in Fox Chapel and other exclusive residential areas "was far from a bed of roses." green channel. They haven't moved since the German shells hit. There are changes, too. Iu the heart of the landing area, next to what was a Nazi blockhouse, there is a monument. Its dedication reads.

"In proud memory of our dead. First Engineer Special Brigade, Hour OMO D-Day. 0 June 3944. Nearby is Felix Lereveretig's "De-barqueuient" and bar, enjoying its grand opening day. Two years ago tiie proprietor was a prisoner of the Germans and the iba3ic part of his cafe was a.

German pdlllbox. Inland from the beachhead, where every yard gained cost a tlio physical scars of war are 'vanishing. The debris-strewn village streets of Sainte Mere Eelise, Carentan and Isiguy memorable names are teat. Ruined houses have given way to clean-picked vacant lots. Fat cows munch quietly along the bloody miles from Caen to Valognes.

Apple trees are heavy with, blooms. The tb-k'knes of the hedgerows is beautiful now, uot deadly. The nasty vertical poles planted by the- Germans to snag parachutists and gliders are gone from the fields. In the American cemetery at La Cambe, standing in soldierly ranks, are 4.534 white crosses. On each ihere is a printed name in ft out and a dog (Continued on Page 0.) WASHINGTON UP The Senate Banking Committee today agreed "without enthusiasm or objection" to send to the Senate floor an OPA extension bill reversing many of the government's present stabilization policies.

Price Chief Paul Porter and Economic Stabilizer Chester Bowles reportedly have said they will resigu if the Senate bill is approved by Congress in its present form. Plans Minority Report. Banking Chairman Roleir Wagner, D-X. said he would file a minority report. He expected several other members of the committee to join him on it.

Democratic Leader Alben W. Bark-ley, said that since he would put the committee bill before the Senate he could not join the administration dissenters. But, he said, the factthat he reported the bill "was not to be regarded as an endorsement of its various provisions or of the bill as a whole." Barkley said he did not believe that any member of the committee, which worked on the controversial measure for nearly two months, was "for all of the bill." Food Controls Shifted. In its present form, the bill would strip OPA of controls on food, lift ceilings on meat, poultry and dairy-products and eliminate OPA's maximum average price rules designed to increase production of low-cost eloth- mft. ui iuuu vuii- trols retained would be transferred to the Agriculture Department.

a member of the Republican block which succeeded in writing into the demned by administration officials, said the bill left the committee with "no objection and no enthusiasm." Xo committee vote was recorded on the decision to report the bill to the Senate. The Senate will begin consideration of the bill Monday. Provisions of Measure. The present committee bill would 1 Extend the price control act to June 30. KH7.

2 End meat, dairy and poultry price controls July 1. (Continued on Page 6.) END OFlCNtlACITE STRIKE SEEN MONDAY Negotiators Work on Final Details of New Contract. NEW YORK UP A possibility that the nation's 76,000 anthracite miners ill be back to work by Monday was strongly indicated today. An agreement on the general issues of a five Vent a ton levy for a miners' health and welfare fund and an lSVa cent hourly wage increase has beep reached by mine owners and the United Mine Workers (AFL), Ibolh sides indicated. Xegotiations to settle the week-old strike were to continue today.

Observers close to the sessions which have been going on four weeks said everything has been settled except the mechanics of applying the wage increase. Officially, the negotiators have reported only "continued progress." nomination for the position is made. laid aside pending legislation to praise the selection with ringing eloquence. Austin sat red-faced with embarrassment through the eulogies and then responded with quiet dignity. "It is like a divine dispensation that I should have, at this time of my life, and experience, the opportunity to serve my country and to serve mankind in this especial he said.

Austin, 68, a quiet and dignified expert on International law, emerged as a leader in the struggle for international cooperation for peace in when he made a speech denouncing narrow isolationism. A year later he was included in an inner council of 20 men summoned bv the late President Roosevelt to consider the course of the United States in the shadow of gathering war clouds. In February, he and a -group of congressional leaders began-meeting tlwir, Cnovatorv aF 'StotO Cordell Hull to plan getting peace-minded nations together to prevent another war. 1 Those -meetings culminated in the Dumbarton Oaks conference In Washington in the fall of 1044. It grew into the San Francisco conference of 1945 at which the United Nations uuiiei as Bifcucu.

Eugene Meyer, above, editor and publisher of the Washington Post, has been elected president of the $9,000,000,000 World Bank, organized to aid war-devastated countries in the task of reconstruction. One of the nation's ace' financial experts, the 70-year-old publisher served long terms on the Federal Reserve Board and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. SPANISH ISSUE UP FOR DEBATE New Clash Due in Council Ses-, sion Today as Russia Insists on Diplomatic Break. NEW YORK UP The Big Three squared off today for another bitter clash in the United Nations Security Council over a proposed diplomatic- quarantine of Franco Spain next Sep tember. Russia wants action now.

The United States and Great Britain barring a last minaite reversal of policy oppose-; -diplomatic break with Spain, now or i September. AVhatever the final result, the decision will not be as lop-sided this time. Five members of the 11-nation council favor a sub-committee recommendation that the general assembly be asked in to "recommend" that all United Nations sever diplomatic relations with Franco If he is still in power. United on One Point. The Bi? Three, almost for the' first time in UN history, will be in agreement in so far as they will oppose in part the stub-committee's legal doctrine that the council csn order enforcement action only in case of a breach of the peace and not in case of a potential threat tc the peace.

Big Three unanimity will end there. Soviet Russia wants the Security Council to order nil United Nations to sever diplomatic relations with Franco Spain now. 'The United States and Britain have argued for uioiitlis. that such a step might touch off another Spanish civil war. Johnson Represents U.

S. The United States will be represented at the council table today by a new delegate Herschel V. 'Johnson, career diplomat, who will be the U. S. interim represent a five until Sen.

Warren R. Austin, can take over permanently next January. The council will meet at 3 for the first time in two weeks the maximum recess the rules allow. U. S.

WU1 Return Four Charged With Treason in Germany WASHINGTON UP Four Americans under indictment for treason will be brought here from Germany soon, it was learned today. W'hether all four actually would go to trial on treason charges has not yet been decided by the government. An official said that sufficient evidence to try "some" already bad been obtained in Germany by special in- 'vefctigators sent there by Attorney General Tom C. Clark. The official added that it was likely the other eases might developed to a point to warrant trial.

The four Americans were among ekrlit persons indicted by a Federal grand jury here July 20, 194:1, on charges of treason because they allegedly broadcast propaganda for the Nazis. One has been committed to an insane asylum here and of the others, only four are in custody of American authorities in Germany. They are: Robert H. Best, formerly of Sumter, S. one-time newspaper correspondent; Douglas Chandler, formerly of Baltimore, Edward Leo Delaney, formerly of Olney, 111.

ar.d Constance Drexel, formerly of Philadelphia, Pa. Ezra Poundthe poet, was hospitalized here after being found of unsound mind by Federal court. He had been brought here from Europe to stand trial. EARTHQUAKE IS RECORDED. NEW YORK UP A slight earthquake, centered about 4,400 miles from New York City iu an unknown direction, was recorded today' on the Ford-ham University seismograph.

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Austin Named to United Nations Post Normandy Beachhead is Peaceful But Haunted WASHINGTON UP Eight years of warring against isolationism bore fruit for Sen. Warren R. Austin, Vt, today with his selection as United States delegate to the United Xations. Austin welcomed the opportunity to broaflen the scope of his tireless efforts to mold a world of peace based on mutual respect and understanding. A constitutional provision prevents his formal appointment as head of the 1.

m.o.m united xations dele gation, succeeding Edward R. Stettin- 1 lis, unui ins present Senate term empires next January. in the interim, the White House announced, Austin will be named the President's special diplomatic representative to the UN. He will have the rank of ambassador and adviser. Sen.

Wunn R. Austin said ne Aoatln (B) would resign from Vermont the Senate as goon as 'his commission for the interim post is received. Senate reaction to the While House appointment left no doubt of his prompt coufirmutiou when the official United Press Staff Correspondent Ilayues Thompson lauded on the Normandy beachhead in, the tarly hours of D-Day, two years ago this morning, as a Ninth Air-force Aviation Engineer. In the following dispatch lie describes the sa.ue historic, beach today. UTAH BEACH, Normandy UP --lit is peaceful here new, but haunted.

This is the kind of peace the 30.1S9 Americau soldiers who lie buried in iriuo cemeteries near here died to win. A gay, horse-drawn French circus iJias pitched its camp on the beach to lure the runes of visitors attending memorial services. Two years ago G. died at the same spot. The guns, the flaming trucks and lbui sting shells, the burning tanks are gone.

Without the screaming clatter of gunlhe you can hear the channel -waves gliding softly ashore. Vet there Is much to recall those I turbulent hours after dawn of June tl, ll'JU, When Allied forces breached the continent. Burned out tanks and amphibians (tstreakcd with dirty yellow rust litter 1 retches of the shore. Capsized assault boats lie next to them. Some of our force fell there, never eveu touch-ling foot ashore.

Dead bulks i.f small troopships wnl-ilow jut if oiiuk iu tho blue.