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The Weather Eastern Pennsylvania The Gazette and Daily The news all the time without fear or favor, bias or prejudice. Cloudy and colder tod Vol. 120 No. 19516 York, Thursday Morning, December 4, 1947 Forty-Four Pages Price 3c 15c a Week iiDD ed In Frainig: Pass rat Measure passed after 5 days of bitter debate. Mass demonstrations grow but strikes show decline.

Troops guard Assembly from possible demonstration against government. Police use tear gas and clubs to disperse demonstrators in several cities. Paris, Thursday, Dec. 4 -CP) The French National Assembly approved Premier Robert Schuman's anti-sabotage and strike control bill early today after more than five days of bitter debate on the instrument designed to arm the government against a growing wave of industrial strife. An unofficial count showed the assembly approved the SMOKE RISES from burning; stock in Army and Navy store, height of fire early yesterday afternoon.

$15,000 Clothing Store Blaze Routs Families. Fells Fireman Traffic snarled for hour as firemen fight early after- KU rfAM Mirla St. Blaze discovered shortly after proprietor locked store to leave for lunch. State Fire Marshal's office called into probe in attempt to determine cause of blaze. Photo by The Gazette and Daily West Market street, during; 246 their apartments in adjoining buildings and stood in the street, their babies wrapped in blankets, until sure the danger was over.

Dog Carried Down Ladder To the delight of the spectators, firemen climbed to a third floor window above the burning store to bring a small dog down the ladder. Occupants of the second and third floor apartments, Miss Myrtle Kline and Mrs. Laura L. Robinson, were not home when the fire broke out. Damage to the three-story brick building, owned by Kurlansik, was negligible.

Kurlansik said, however, that insurance would cover only $5,000 worth of his total loss. He suffered severe losses once before, he said, when the Codorus flooded West Market street in 1933. erase measure 403 to 183. to 183. Only the chamber's against the Communists voted bill.

The vote came as mass demonstrations and damage to industrial equipment grew to alarming proportions throughout the nation, while the wave of strikes appeared to be declining. Under the terms of the law, which Schuman presented to the assembly last Saturday, he will have a new weapon against the rising incidence of sabotage. The law probably will be put into effect later today when it is published in an official government bulletin. During the final debate, a cordon of steel-helmeted police and troops guarded the assembly building against the possibility of a demonstration against the government. Punishment Increased As finally approved, the new law raises the maximum prison sentence for sabotage from six months to 10 years and fixes fines as high as 1,000,000 francs The use of fraud, threats or violence to start strikes, keep them going or spread them will be punishable by maximum five-year prison terms and fines up to 500,000 francs One section of the law which was under heavy fire as a violation of freedom of the press was eliminated yesterday.

It made equally punishable the "direct provocation" of sabotage or illegal strike tactics by "speeches, cries, threats, writings, printed matter, signs, posters or tracts." Jules Moch, interior minister, told the assembly forces had been stationed around the building-'to keep a certain number of. strikers from surrounding the Bourn palace (National Assembly)." Buildings Occupied1 Strong military forces were required during the day to wrest the southern city of Beziers from the control of several thousand strikers who last night after several hours' battle had captured all public buildings except the City hall and the sub-prefecture. Glenoble, high in the Alps, was cut off from the rest of France by telephone when several hundred persons broke through two police cordons and forced their way into the postoffice. An undetermined number of postal and telephone employes were forced out of the building, the prefect reported. Despite the use of tear gas, the (Continued on Page Forty-Two) See French Assembly U.S.

Bars Eniwefok To UN Inspectors For Atom 'Security' Lake Success, Dec. 3 UP) The United States formally notified the United Nations Security council today that Enivvetok atoll, newly designated atomic testing ground, has been "closed for security reasons." Eniwetok atoll, in the Marshall islands, is a part of the strategic area trust territory which the United States is administering under jurisdiction of the U.N. A communication signed by U. S. Delegate Warren R.

Austin told the council periodic visits by U.N. inspectors "are suspended until further notice, as permitted by Article 13 of the trusteeship agreement." Dealers Expected To Ask Retention of 20c Milk Here State commission announces hearing to "reconsider" seasonal pricing will be held sDec. 15 in York. Under present orders, price for grade milk is scheduled to drop to 19 cents Jan. 1.

Milk dealers in three other areas also ready to oppose automatic price drop. Indication that milk dealers intend to question the present seasonal pricing plan, under which York retail milk prices would drop a cent a quart automatically on Jan. 1, came yesterday with the announcement of a new price hearing set for Dec. 15 in York. The hearing is one of four in as many marketing areas called by the State Milk Control commission to ''reconsider" seasonal pricing, the Associated Press reported from Harrisburg.

The new hearings were called on the petition of dealer organizations, it was stated. Chairman H. N. Cobb said the commission would take testimony of any nature which may benefit producers, dealers and consumers and specifically "the necessity of reconsidering the effective dates of producer and consumer price changes as fixed by orders now in effect in these areas." "Precautionary Move" Informed of the setting of a hearing date, James Sutcliffe of the York Milk Dealers' association, said he' understood the action was an area-wide precautionary move by the dealer in case "feed prices don't go down or milk Navy Deletes Talk Of Anti-Sub Patrol in Foreign Waters Admiral's reference to Mediterranean patrol censored by Navy, but he does declare U.S. NavX shiPs in Mediterranean are there to support "our for- eign policy." Princeton.

Dec. 3 An admiral's speech reporting that the United Nations has a "small detachment of shore-based antisubmarine planes" as well as other forces in the Mediterranean was revised at the last minute today to eliminate the reference to an anti-submarine patrol. The speech was prepared by Vice Adm. William M. Fechteler, deputy chief of naval operations for personnel, tor delivery 1 at the Nassau club.

As distributed in advance to news agencies, the original text contained the first official reference to the presence of a U. S. anti-submarine patrol in the Mediterranean. Shortly before Fechteler was due to speak, however, the Navy in Washington announced deletion of this reference. Fechteler's thesis was that the Mediterranean channel must be kept open so that superior air and sea forces of the United States can reach Europe if.

needed. In his speech, Fechteler said the Navy ships now in the Mediterranean are there to support "our national interest and our foreign policy." through the streets smashing windows and laying waste to foreign property. Policemen used clubs' in beating back demonstrators before Egypt's royal palace, reports from Cairo said. British and Russian property appeared to be the main target of the Cairo mobs. The fighting in Palestine continued tonight following the bloody battle on the Tel Aviv-Jaffa border and the night's operations indicated also the Arabs were out to inflict property damage wherever possible.

Lumberyard Set Afire A large, Jewish-ownedvhnnber-yard in Haifa was destroyed-by fire and shortly afterward a small Arab shop in the same area was (Continued on Page Forty-Two) ce pioodshed. Increases, Fire of undetermined origin caused an estimated $15,000 damage to Joseph Kurlansik's Army and Navy clothing store, 244 West Market street, shortly after 1 p. yesterday. One fireman was overcome by smoke which caused residents of apartments next door to flee to the street. Traffic was rerouted for more than an hour and coaches on some York Bus company routes ran as much as half -hour behind schedule.

Probe Ordered Cause of the blaze has not been discovered. Fire Chief L. Ellis Wagner immediately ordered the premises closed, pending an investigation by representatives of the State Fire marshal's office. The alarm was sounded from Box 13, Market and Newberry streets, by Curtis L. Moreland, 263 West Market street, who peered through the glass of the front door to see if the shop was open and saw flames enveloping the show-room counters.

Kurlansik said he had locked up the store only a few minutes earlier and walked to his home, 117 North Newberry street, for lunch. Only explanation he could offer for the fire was that might havedropped a cigarette into waste paper piled behind the counter. Within seconds after the alarm was turned in, fire apparatus and several hundred spectators jammed the main thoroughfare. Clothing Destroyed The flames were brought quickly under control, but not before they had burned through piles of clothing on the counters and shelves and charred two of the wooden walls. Smoke and water accounted for a large part of the damage.

Stock in an adjoining storeroom was saved by the connecting door which was closed. Dense smoke seeped up into. second and third floor apartments and into adjoining buildings. Mothers Evacuate Aptsv Royal Fireman Delmar Martini was overcome by smoke as he manned a hose in the front door way. He was treated on the scene, Several vounz-mothers.

Irignt- ened by the smoke, evacuated Bloodshed Increases As Arabs Go On Rampage In Middle East At least 31 in Pa lest imp alone reported killed in two days. Wounded number in hundreds. Two Arab movements for a holy war are set in motion. Property damage rises. Prospects of full-scale civil war recognized by British.

production doesn pick up before Jan. 1. In addition to the York hearing, others will be held Dec. 17 in Harrisburg, Dec. 18.

in Reading and Dec. 19 in Allen town, covering the York. Harrisburg, Reading-Berks and Lehigh Marketing areas. Philadelphia and Lancaster areas will have similar hearings starting on Monday. These were requested by the Interstate Milk Producers' association, which previously informed the commission 'such action would be taken if feed costs continued to remain, at present levels or increased.

The 20-cent price for grade milk became effective Oct. 1. in York for a three-month period. Under the commission's ruling at that time, the price would be 19 (Continued on. Page Forty-Two) See Dealers Expected Jerusalem, Dec.

3 UP) The flame of hatred against those who played any part in the United Nations' decision to partition Palestine burned fiercer and hotter through the Arabian world tonight and reports from Alleppo to Aden brought news of new bloodshed, destruction and pillage. Palestine alone counted its dead at 3117 Jews and 14 Arabs by unofficial tabulation and its wounded in the uncounted hundreds for the. past two days as Arab mobs and Jewish defense forces, backing up British police and troops, skirmished in all quarters of the Holy Land and feught a major hand grenade and machmegun battle on the "border separating the all-Jewish city of Tel Aviv ana au-AraD JLfi 5torrne4.