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The Gazette and Daily, York, Tuesday Morning, September 25, 1945 National Discrimination Practices Seen Spreading During Conversion Gazette and Dally) Argentine Press Hails Navy Plea: To Oust Farrell Buenos Aires, Sept. 24 UP) A plea by retired Navy leaders that constitutional government be restored in Argentina won acclaim today from the powerful Afternoon Press and from political forces united in opposition to the military government of President Edelmiro Farrell. A similar statement signed by high Navy officers on active duty was expected to.be published soon. A high military tribunal reprimanded Gen. Arturo Rawson for participating, in uniform, at the "March of Liberty and the Constitution," in which 500,000 persons participated last Wednesday.

Rawson said the demonstration was patriotic, not anti-government, and bluntly warned that Argentines are doubtful of the army, which controls the Farrell regime. ters. In this same city, which he didn't identify by name, Ross charged that reconverting plants already have advertised for "white" or "white Gentile" workers only. 'To permit minority group workers now to become a disproportionately large part of the unemployed, even though it is transitory unemployment," Ross said, "is to invite their use as strikebreakers and to inject into already delicate situations the added racial hazard." He recalled that Negroes were used as strike-breakers after World War I. In 1919, Ross said, there were many race riots as a consequence of reconversion, he added that "we are in much better shape now because of our war experience, the Fair Employment Practice Committee, the "excellent" attitude of unions and many employers.

York Not Among Top 22 Salvage Collecting Areas York county was not included in a list of 22 counties which led the state in salvage collections during August. An Associated Press despatch from Harrisburg credited Lehigh county with an average of 21.4 pounds per capita, which was tops for the state. Lancaster was second with average of 21.3 pounds per capita. Collcy S. Baker, executive secretary of the wartime State Salvage program, meanwhile, said its state headquarters will close Friday, and its more than a half million volunteer workers throughout the Commonwealth will be "honorably discharged," effective next Sunday.

Collection of waste fats will continue under the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Junk dealers will handle waste paper, scrap metal and rags. No organized system has been set up for collection of tin cans.

Baker said that waste paper shipments were 70,559 tons in August, a drop of 1,272 tons from July while tin can shipments increased from 395 tons in July to 765 tons in August. Waste paper collections last year in the state averaged 48,753 tons a month. Baker said the monthly average was 68,718 tons so far this year. 114,000 in Italy. The Italian government had charged the Poles with aggressive acts agajnst civilians.

Officers at Allied headquarters acknowledged that most of the Polish corps were anti-Communist, Navy Plant To Be Made Permanent Blaw-Knox Ordnance plant will be run by Navy. Employes to come under Civil Service. The Navy ordnance plant now operated by the Blaw-Knox Corporation will be converted into a permanent part of the ordnance shore establishment within a year, Rear Admiral G. F. Hussey, Jr.

told the House Naval Affairs committee in Washington today. This report from the Associated Press is the first official confirmation of previously reported Navy plans, which include placing employes on civil service status. There are now approximately 1,200 employes working at the plant. At its war peak there were 2,200. After V-J day the night shift was discontinued.

Hussey safd that the plant probably will continue to manufacture 40 -millimeter guns and gun mounts for some time because these are required for armament of the postwar fleet. As soon as present contracts are completed, the Navy alone will operate the plant. Commodore Lee Johnson, in charge of the plant, said in York that plans were not yet complete enough to predict the number of persons to be employed permanently. Native Fascism In Indiana School Sept. 24 UP) About 500 white students who left their classes at Frobel High school last Tuesday in protest of increased Negro enrollment voted at a mass meeting today to return to their studies tomorrow.

However, they demanded police protection to prevent any clashes between white and students. The strike followed a fist fight between a white and Negro student at a football game. The high school at suburban Tolleston also was closed last week by a similar strike, but the students returned today. Froebel has an enrollment of about Tolleston about 250. Charles D.

Lutz, city school superintendent, had directed all students to report for school this morning or be deprived of an opportunity to present their grievances to a meeting of the city Board of Education tomorrow night. The Froebel mass meeting was in a public park. The school's Parent-Teacher association pleaded last week for resumption of "peaceful, fraternal relations" at the school. The plea was addressed to parents of both Negro and white students. Prowler Scared Off By Alert Neighbor A prowler who attempted to enter the home of Misses Lou and Anna Finkbinder, 218 Kurtz avenue, was frightened off last night by an alert neighbor.

U. $., Britain In Control Of Nazi Assets In Spain State Department discloses that the Allies have asserted title to all former German Government-owned property in Spain. Franco's request to reopen German schools in Madrid denied. Allied Control Commission is considering proposal to allow seizure of all German "private" property abroad. Washington, Sept.

24 UP) State Department officials disclosed today that American and British agents are in direct control of all German Government-owned industries and other assets in Spain. This information was coupled with a disclosure that the United States has flatly rejected Generalissimo Franco's latest request to be allowed to reopen five Jarge German schools in Madrid and Barcelona. The United States and her Allies, officials said, have "asserted title" to all former German Government-owned property in keeping with the Potsdam declaration. There is a proposal now before the Big-Four Allied Control Commission in Berlin to permit Allied agents to seize private or so-called private German property abroad. In addition.

to Spain, this plan-would mainly affect German owned property in Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland. and Argentina. In the latter country, the United States has urged liquidation of German assets but has not stepped in itself and taken over. Similar action has been urged upon the other Latin-American countries in an effort to blunt dangerous economic spearheads. Meanwhile, State Department economic experts described the vast and subtle Nazi economic network which was allowed to grow in Spain during the war.

German purchases int Spain were centralized in Berlin under a Nazi Government agency" called "Hispano-Roak." The company operated along corporate lines but its stock was owned by the Nazi regime. Under "Hispano-Roak," a subcontracting company known as "Sofindus" was established in Spain and grew to be the clearing house for almost all of Hitler's economic and war supply wants available on Thprian peninsula. Report Asked On Park Tilford Stock Dealings Washington, Sept. 24 GW Senator Wheeler (D-Mont) today called on the Securities and Exchange Commission for a report on Park Tilford, stock dealings. He made public a letter to Chairman Ganson Purcell referring to an SEC investigation of distribution of the $1 par stock of the corporation, the David A.

Schulte Trust and Ira Hapt in 1944. He identified Schulte as- president of Park Tilford. "I am advised," he said, "that, from Sept. 9, 1942, to June, 1944, David A. Schulte and others, directly and indirectly, effected, alone or with others, a series of transaction in Park Tilford stock.

As a result the stock jumped from $15 to $20 up to approximately $98." He said he understood that Schulte paid back to the company $264,000 profit. (Special to The New York, Sept. 24 Malcolm Ross, chairman of the Federal Committee on Fair Employment Practice, warned yesterday that reconversion has brought a "disturbing" nationwide trend toward a downgrading of Negroes, Mexican Americans and other minorities to menial jobs in industry. Ross added that it is "too early td make a final judgment" of this trend, but he described himself as not being optimistic. He spoke at a conference on "Federal Responsibility for Guaranteeing Fair Employment Practice," held in the Hotel Commodore by the New York Committee of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare.

Discrimination Ross cited an eastern war. plant which recently cut back all its several hundred Negro employes except 12, who were retained as por- City Board 3 To Induct Six Today Local Selective Service Board also announces names of four registrants examined Aug. 25 and requested immediate induction. Six registrants of City Draft Board No. 3 have been ordered to report for induction into the armed forces today.

They are: Anthony Vincent Marsala, 36 West Princess street. Wilbur Carl Green, 378 King's Mill road. Clarence Herbert Young, 533 South George street. -Thomas Malcolm Hart, 52 Car-mita avenue, Rutherford, N. J.

Stewart John Senft, III, 727 South Beaver street. John Aaron Jones, 141 South ParJ avenue. Four examined Aug. 25 requested immediate induction and were forwarded earlier this month. They were: Edward Anthony Dietrich, 319 West ackson street.

Roy Ellsworth Baker, 345 Oak lane. Robert Walter Fink, 345 South Queen street. Walter Albert Glosser, 234 South Pershing avenue. Resigned Texas Prosecutor Begs Mercy For Akins (Special to The Gazette and Daily) a rn. a A 1U1 1UC1 Dallas assistant district attorney under Dean Gauldin, the prosecutor of L.

C. Akins, Negro, who has been sentenced to die in the electric chair on Oct. 7 for murder, has asked the state board of pardons and paroles for a hearing Monday in which he will represent Akins. The attorney, James H. Martin, was an assistant to District Attorney Gauldin when Akins was convicted.

He now has resigned and is in private practice. Walter Strong, a member of the board, said that the three-man board will hear Martin's plea for mercy for Akins, and then the entire board will read the full testimony on the case. Thousands of names of both white and Negro residents of Dallas have been signed to petitions asking that the death sentence be lightened, and many individual letters have been written to the board Italian Socialists Charge Poles Disrupt Activities Rome, Sept. 24 UP) The Socialist party accused Polish troops in Italy today of using arms to disrupt leftwing propaganda and said that as a result membership in both the Communist and Socialist parties had declined in the Adriatic provinces. Alleging Poles stationed in those areas broke up political meetings and forbade Leftist parties' members to wear their insignia, a Socialist bulletin labeled the tactics" a grave danger" to free elections for the provinces.

The party statement followed a request by the Allied Command to the Italian government for a stop to what were described as provocative Leftwing acts against the Polish soldiers, who number about Urges Continued Scrap Collections Local Salvage chairman says scrap paper is still needed. Continued collection of scrap paper was urged yesterday by Mayor John L. Snyder, chairman of the local salvage committee, who claims that "salvage to help get the boys home" is now as important as salvage for winning the war. (In July when state salvage officials were calling for increased collections of tin cans, Mayor Snyder called off the tin can collection in York that month.) Although the official state and national campaigns are being closed at the end of this month, the mayor said he hoped that York city and county groups would continue their collection work. Paper is still needed in the mills, he said.

Besides the industrial need for paper, Mayor Snyder pointed out that groups collecting and selling paper could buy needed equipment with the money earned, lie cited the York Haven school which had bought books for elementary school children and the Civilian Defense police who had been able to buy uniforms and many others who were able to purchase sports and educational equipment with their earnings. "Besides," he said, "It is a lesson in thrift for our citizens and youngsters. The war showed us Gazette' and Daily) placed critics denounce the pact as a sell-out of Hungary. The five-year agreement gives the Soviet government an equal share with Budapest in the management of large-scale Russo-Mag-yar companies to be founded for development of all basic branches of Hungarian industry, tfade, natural resources, transportation, and agriculture. A joint company is being established for the exploitation of Hungary's bauxite deposits the largest in Europe.

Combines Proposed The pact also proposes the founding of Soviet-Hungarian combines for development of the steel and iron industries; oil fields, refineries, a processing plant and the sales of finished oil products, coal, electric power plants, chemicals (especially drugs and nitrogen); farm and electrical and other machinery; shipping on the Danube and Tisza rivers; air lines; trucking and motor traffic. A joint bank will be created to finance trade between the two countries, including numerous enterprises born of the proposed pact. The USSR agrees to supply an unspecified portion of the machinery and material and capital to prime the giant network of bi-national companies. The methods of accounting and division of proceeds are left undefined. They are all to be regulated "on the basis of commercial and financial agreements to be concluded by two governments, taking into consideration Hungary's export possibilities and credit balance." Hungary Coalition Lashes Against London Deadlock On Peace Treaty Max Reiss, 220 Kurtz avenue, told police he heard a noise at 8:45 o'clock and when he went to investigate a man fled from the Finkbinder yard.

Police said a check showed that a hole had been cut in the dining room window screen at the Finkbinder home and the radio aerial wire, evidently mistaken for a telephone line, had been cut. The outside cellar door was found open and the front door unlocked, police reported. West Coast Fascists Continue Attacks Oh Returning Nisei Watsonville, Sept. 24 UP) This community had its first recorded case of hostility against returning Japanese before dawn today when unidentified persons hurled a blazing flare toward the Buddhist Temple, which is being used as a hotel for Japanese-Americans. The flare set fire to shrubbery but, there was no other damage.

Chief of Police Matt Graves said. The hotel guests included three Nisei servicemen on furlough and many families who have sons in the armed forces. District Attorney John L. McCarthy and Graves issued statements declaring that acts of violence or mob riots would not be tolerated and would be "prosecuted to the full extent of the law. (Special to The Budapest, Sept.

24 The Hungarian Communist and Social Democratic parties which dominate the government coalition, today struck out aggressively against the reported deadlock in London among the powers over the signature of a peace treaty with the present Hungarian regime. The Communists formally denounced "any foreign interference with internal Hungarian affairs which aims to impede the development of democracy and which would help Hungarian reactionaries." This was a clear reference to the possibility that dissatisfied moderates in the coalition may demand the suspension of the impending Budapest and national elections and appeal to the Western Powers to guarantee a democratic vote. Too Merciful In a full, front-page editorial in Nepszava, Social Democrat leader Arpad Szakasitz assailed foreign critics who find democracy lacking in present-day Hungary. Defining democracy as "service for the people," he said the regime hadn't served the people "mercilessly" enough and had been overlenient with the real enemies of democracy Hungary's reactionaries. A bitter struggle is raging in Budapest over the question of ratification of the Soviet-Hungarian pact of "economic cooperation" which gives the USSR a 50 per cent control of virtually the whole of Hungary's economy.

The issue threatens to precipitate a major government crisis. Some highly Buenos Aires Transport Union Votes To Strike Buenos Aires, Sept. 24 UP) A 24-hour transportation strike in this city starting at midnight tomorrow was decided upon tonight by delegates to the Tramway Unions congress to support demands for 30 per cent wage increases and a 40 hour week..