Lexington Herald-Leader from Lexington, Kentucky • 1

FAYETTE RED CROSS DRIVE IS HALF OVER NOW ExiNGTON Leader Eight Pages Lexington Kentucky Saturday Afternoon March 9 1946 Vol 58-No 59 Labor Front Exchange Of Sharp Notes Adds To American-Russian Tension Rililcs Now Sold On Rlack Market TOKYO March 9 A new product was introduced on famous today Tokyo's main street Is daily thronged with patronizers of hundreds of black-market stalls buyers of smelly fishheads and baby octopuses Now being sold on the are more than 50000 Bibles donated by the Bible Society US Army Air Bases nro NATIONS TEST WEAPONS IN Land tea and air fwte it the United States and Canada are testing arms and methods the far north as shown on map above The Army Air Forces interested in expanding its knowledge of arctic operations and in extension of tactical research during the year FLAGSHIP FOR The Mt McKinley above will carry a heavy cargo of when she heaves to off Bikini atoll for next May for be serving as the flagship for the joint Army-Navy peacetime atomic-bomb tests inr Governor Now Has Whip Hand On Budget Bill FRANKFORT Ky March 9 (ff) Republican Gov Simeon Willis today held the whip hand over any budget measure the Democratic-dominated Senate and House may pass at the current session of the Kentucky General Assembly Willis automatically gained control which he may or may not choose to exercise when the Gen eral Assembly adjourned Friday night until 8 (C T) Monday without approving an appropriations bilL The chief executive is empower' ed to withhold action on a bill for 10 days and only that many legislative days remain in the current session So if he saw fit he could wait out the 10 days and then veto the- bill or any section and that would be the day after sine die adjournment Consequently there would be no chance for the General Assembly to override the veto The House agreed on a biennial budget of approximately $88000-000 but in ensuing developments failed to pass an appropriations measure The Senate changed the riginal $92000000 biennial budget till to provide a basis expenditure of approximately $88000000 and added a provision that if during the 1946-47 fiscal year income exceeded $39000000 any excess up $2225000 be used to supplement appropriations for education wel fare and conservation The House acted to provide not only for using any additional revenue above the $39000000 annual estimate but also to use any unencumbered treasury balance after setting aside a $2000000 for current expenses It proposed also to raise the $2225000 top to i 13000000 The Senate passed its version without dissent sent the bill back to the House and recessed to await House action The amendment Incorporating toe formula was presented by Rep Adron Doran (D-Wingo) and won by a unanimous vote Soviets Accuse Of Pact Violation Reply Being Drafted By GRAIIAM IIOVEY WASHINGTON March 9 WV-A new tension troubled Russo-American relations today with Radio Moscow charging the United States violated a Big-Three agreement on Bulgaria and was working to sabotage it The State Department has not yet acknowledged receipt of the sharp note from the Kremlin but toe 'Soviet broadcast reported it already had been delivered and responsible officials here said privately that a reply already was being drafted The development capped an uneasy week which already has seen the United States register protests with Moscow on the situations in Iran and Manchuria in line with tob new sterner policy for international relations A State Department spokesman said there probably would be no official comment on the Soviet blast until Secretary Byrnes returns to Washington Byrnes reportedly was at his home in Spartanburg for toe week-end -Officials admitted privately however that restoration of Bulgaria to a global list of trouble spots which may possibly extend to include Turkey had considerably widened toe gulf of misunderstanding between this country and Russia The Bulgarian affair developed this way: At the Moscow conference of foreign ministers it was agreed Russia should give advice" to Bulgaria to broaden its Communist-dominated government with addition of two members from opposition parties Oppositionists declined cabinet posts subsequently offered however on grounds they would be mere figureheads with no real power Thereupon the Bulgarian with Russian backing-declared it had no further responsibility for carrying out the Moscow decision In a communication to Bulgaria made public Tuesday the United States sided with the Bulgarian oppositionists It said the never understood that pressure was to be applied to opposition parties to nominate two candidates for only inclusion In toe in other words with no real functions to perform Furthermore the communication said the held the view that the participation of toe oppositionists should be under conditions agreeable to both the government and the opposition Demands Given Support LONDON March 9 A Foreign Office spokesman said today Britain supported a United States demand that Bulgaria's government be broadened to include two members of the opposition before Brit ish-American recognition is accorded toe Sofia regime The spokesman said Richard Tol-linton acting representative in Sofia had informed toe Bulgarian government several days ago that Britain was associating herself with the memorandum of Feb 22 He said Tollinton had kept toe Foreign Office informed" of political activities in Bulgaria and added that there was to indicate" that toe American representative in Sofia Maynard Barnes had exerted pressure on the Bulgarian opposition The spokesman explained however that both Tollinton and Barnes had been trying to bring about a stabilization of toe Bulgarian political situation so that the country could be accorded British American recognition The disclosure of stand followed protest that toe United States communication to Bulgaria a decision of the big three foreign ministers and has caused the opposition to the Bulgarian government to toe three-power agreement Aged Cardinal Dies In Eire On Way Home DUBLIN March 9 John Cardinal Glennon archbishop of St Louis and the oldest 32 cardinals elevated to the purple two weeks during consistories at Vatican City died here at 8:51 a -m (1:51 a CST) today at the home of Sean president of Eire He was 83 years old The death was announced at residence The Irish-born prelate succumbed from complications which followed congestion of the lungs The notification of the 83-year-old death came in a tfhns-atlantic telephone call from Msgr John Cody a member of Cardinal party Bishop Donnelly said that nal Glennon regained consciousness shortly before he died and recog nized friends at his bedside Cardinal Glennon who left the Irish Missionary- Seminary at the age of 21 to serve in the Kansas City diocese of the Roman Catholic church had been a guest of since his arrival here from Vatican City last Monday He had received his red hat from Pope Pous XII Feb' 21 passing of the cardinal was announced at 9 a (3 a CST) by Monsignor Cody chancellor of the St Louis diocese Plans for the funeral were incomplete but Monslgnor Cody said is thought his body will be taken back to St Louis for burial in the which (Page 6 Column 4 Please) Busses Giving Some Service Despite Strike LOUISVILLE Ky March 9 () The Louisville Railway Company suspending strikecrippled operations overnight to avoid and violence" under cover of darkness partly restored its services today Members of the CIO Transport Workers Union declared a strike against the company operator of streetcars and busses in Louisville and environs at midnight Thurs day Walter Case TWU international representative said the union sought recognition as bargaining agent for the employees increased wages and Improved working conditions Picket lines were established early Friday at three car' bams and a repair shop operated by the company Union and company officials disagreed on effectiveness of the strike the first day Frank Miller company president estimated its service was crippled 50 per cent Union spokesmen esti mated it at 85 per cent Chute Plant To Re-Open For Civilian Production Plans to re-open the Irving Air Chute plant on the Versailles pike for manufacture of peace-time com' modities as speedily as possible were announced Friday from the Buffalo home office by Harold Rogers former resident manager here expect to engage in some type of textile work but we have not decided on anything definite Mr Rogers said Directors of the company which manufactured parachutes here during the war named Leslie I Irvin of Buffalo parachute Inventor and one of the founders of the 27-year-old firm as president for the coming year He succeeds George Waite who will continue to serve in a consulting capacity Mr Irvin has been vice president and director of the firm for years serving for 20 years as man aging director of the British sub sidiary He now plans to divide his time between Buffalo and London England serving both interests During the war the Lexington firm employed more than 1200 women at peak periods and on V-J Day had 1000 workers met Over Nation Strike Outlook Not So Gloomy Threats Of Walkouts Ended By The Associated Press The labor front after a week marked by threatening strikes against the communications and railroad systems appeared comparatively and somewhat brighter today The postponing of a walkout of nearly 300000 railroad workers scheduled for Monday after President Truman named a factfinding board followed settlement on Thursday of the wage dispute involving some 250000 telephone workers The CLO United Auto Workers announced in Detroit that the Nash-Kelvinator Company had granted an 18 -cent hourly wage rate increase to 8000 workers in plants in Milwaukee and Kenosha Vis The settlement was the fourth major wage agreement reached: in the auto industry Ford Chrysler and Hudson previously having granted pay increases The U-AW continued its negotiations with General Motors but there were no indications of immediate settlement of the strike of 175000 production workers They left their jobs last Nov 21 in support of demands for a 30-per-cent wage boost but the union now is holding out for a raise of 19 Vi cents an hour one cent more than the best offer The settlement with Western I electric the manufacturing unit of the American Telephone and Tele- (Paiet Column 5 Please) Bullets Riddle Motor Busses In Tennessee JACKSON Tenn March 9 (JPh-Two separate incidents in which shots were fired into Dixie -Greyhound -busses injuring one passenger' were reported Friday night by Sheriffs Tom Lewis of dadison county and Oscar Griggs of Lauderdale county A volley fired an uniden-tified parked car" into a Dixie bus south of here caused Injury to Ross Jackson of Murfreesboro Tenn Lewis said He was taken to a hospital here where-his condition was described as The other shooting occurred at Curve Tenn where Griggs said shots were fired into the rear of a bus No one was injured Sheriff Lewis said five shots were fired into the bus en route from Jackson to Memphis and that one went Jackson and lodged in the seat behind him Lewis said the bus driver reported the shots were fired from a car parked at the side of the road These are the and third incidents of this type reported in the last two weeks The sheriff at Holly Springs Miss reported a Dixie Greyhound bus fired upon two weeks ago None of the passengers was injured Members of the Amalgamated Association of Electric Street Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America (A of L) have been on strike at since Jan 7 Dixie busses are being manned by drivers represented by the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen Miss Mae Hicks Dies Veleran Clinic Worker Miss Mae Murraine Hicks anesthetist lor the Lexington clinic for the past 25 years died at the Britiing 343 South Broadway where she made her home at 11:30 Friday night A native of Midway she was a daughter of the late Harris and Hattie Murraine Hicks and had beat a resident of Lexington for 35 years She received her early education in the schools of Midway and her training at the Good Samaritan hospital Immediately upon graduation from training she became member of the Barrow Unit in World War I and served in Europe After the war she was In the Voluntary Nursing Unit 1 doing work in the Kentucky mountains She received her training at the Michael-Reis hospital in Chicago and returned here in 1920 to join the staff of the Lexington clinic She was a member of the Kentucky State Association of Registered Nurses and of the Baptist -church She Is survived by two nephews Robert Hicks and Newell Hicks of Midway and two cousins Albert Shouse and Miss Mary Shouse of Lexington The body was removed to the Milward mortuary chapeL Veterans Will Occupy Hospital In Louisville WASHINGTON March 9 (ff)-: Three Army general hospitals Nichols of Louisville Ky La Garde at New Orleans La and Finney at Thomasville Ga have been approved by President Truman for transfer to the Veterans Administration The hospitals will be used to care for veterans pending construction of new hospitals The administration said that La Garde will be made into a 500-bed general medical and surgical hospital Nichols will be used as 1000-bed hospital 'of the same type and inney will provide 250 beds for tuberculosis patients and 200 general medical and surgical beds Staffing of Nichols will be aided by the University of Louisville i Budget-Fight Blame Placed On Waterfield JBSBB 5- ASM 'eridators left Frankfort late Fri-STnight to spend the week-end ifteir homes but before leaving Smrof them agreed that if the r1 Assembly fails to adopt a viwt the blame will fall on Harry ij Waterfield (D-Clinton) speak-Vd toe House of Representatives Sen Moloney (D-Lexing-tao) majority floor leader in the nos house accused the Waterfield ton of refusing to make a single CTPwinn in conferences which nut held throughout the past nek between three-man commit-teei named by the two branches i toe legislature to seek agree-EOtima budget agreeable to both He Senate agreed to six of tem "mandates" presented by the 3eusa but declined to go along on menth which had to do with is clause relating to -evenue in excess of the amount aticipated in the respective 'ihe House Democrats aligned vith Waterfield whose stand on a budget issue has been interpreted solely in the light of his hopes of becoming governor of Kentucky kept the Senate waiting early Friday afternoon until at night while they batted angrily with Republicans and nti-Waterfield Democrats in an Oort to whip the House into line to dpfryt the Senate version of the budget for the next biennium Failure to compromise the $92-000000 House budget and the $89-000000 Senate plan delayed the matter indefinitely and Gov Simeon Willis now has the power to veto any bill that may be adopted at this session which ends March 2L Here are the prospects: The two houses may get together and finally pass a budget The Senate may concur in the de (FageS Column 5 Please) By JAY JAY Georgetown Street Recently mentioned here was toe feet that the Georgetown pike niters Lexington running due south and thus the outlying section of Georgetown street is one of toe few Lexington streets true to the cardinal compass points However it twists before it reaches Main street How it' once ran straight on south to Main but was diverted to conform to the 45-free angle characteristic of most other streets in this town is related by the learned Horse-ejiRs an expert on early Lex-ir-ftou history A Cordwainer Did It In 1814 says Horsefeathers one John Dillon a cordwainer pur-based from Mrs Mary Owen Todd Russell (daughter and heiress of ibe CoL John Todd who had been tilled at Blue Licks) an area bounded by Main and Short treets Hie Georgetown road and town line then 155 feet east ol! Jefferson street He also bought sdjacent land west of the George-toad and platted the whole into lots To even up his sub-f'rtnon and make it conform to plan he ob-permission to close the ole Ifrgetowa road and to open rjesent measly narrow bottleneck of Georgetown street be- Main and Short" Is Right yes before I forget it and you know is the old name for i Koemaker Welt Horsefeathers is a good name narrow strip of et for it blocked that highway was nd made it necessary to traffic across Third street 4 says our contributor Jtcordwainer made tight-fittiOf! Grant Street on the street subject rwteathera wants to suggest that pmsent North Eastern and SrSdera avenues (often writ-wWieastem" and confusion of strangers) North and South Grant gjrp The portion above Main he says originally was street by Gen David fiSSS? be laid out that Gen Grant Secesh will waive that later was changed to while the present South rwr' venue was named Drake Drake developed 111 Rbe interest of i our ePt says be called Grant street Quick Results ST PAUL Minn March 9 () take long for Eugene Benolken 30 World War II veteran to get results from an advertisement he placed in thi St Paul Pioneer Press It read: exchange my medals earned while saving your home for a place to call home fer my wife and me" He got more than a score of offers shortly after the ad appeared Reds Banned From Holding Rank WASHINGTON March 9 American Communists were barred oday by the War Department tom holding commissions or undertaking any of the responsibilities' Radar and atomic energy especially will be off bounds The new policy was announced Friday night under pressure of inquiry The department's reexamination of its policy relating to disaffected or subversive soldiers apparently coincided with discovery in Canada of Soviet Union espionage operations Duties in connection with secret or confidential codes also were specifically barred to soldiers either disaffected or subversive The department- defined --subversive personnel as any engaged in activities of any sort directed against the military security Disaffected soldiers are' those who lack loyalty to the government and Constitution of the United States The announcement did not mention Communists A department spokesman said however that membership in the Communist party would be considered as a disqualification for the sensitive duties covered by the new policy It is possible also that former party -membership would be construed as disqualifying Army personnel The new policy has been transmitted to all interior and overseas commanders They will be responsible for making it work Disqualified soldiers will not be permitted to attend officer-candidate schools nor to take aviation training They will be barred all duties in connection with information education or orientation of troops More Clothing Due But At Higher Prices WASHINGTON March 9 (UP) Clothes-needy Americans were told today that more shirts and shorts and women's and chil drens' cotton dresses should be on the market soon but that prices would be somewhat higher The increase was expected to follow action in raising ceiling prices on nearly all cotton textiles and yarns by five to 10 per cent and granting a five-per-cent price increase to man ufacturers of scarce cotton cloth' ing A large part the increase wil be passed on to the consumer but OPA said it should mean more shirts shorts pajamas dresses work clothing and other hard-to-get apparel within three to four months Wholesale Price Due Up On Meat Monday WASHINGTON March 9 Higher wholesale price ceilings for all grades of meat will go into-effect Monday as a step in settlement of the packing-house work ers strike the Office of Price Administration has announced The OPA said the increase did not apply to retail prices which it announced previously would be about 1 cents higher The new wholesale prices wil average at toast 45 cents per 100 pounds for beef and veal about 50 cents for lamb and 55 cents for pork Some increases will be forthcoming for sausage lard and beef liver the OPA said Wholesale ceiling prices on sales to the government were increased another 25 cents per 100'pounds Ten Dead In Crash ALBUQUERQUE March 9 Death toll in the crash of a B-29 Superfortress in west central New Mexico while on practice bombing run was set at 10 today Names of the victims were with held by Army officials at Kirtland Field pending the usual notification of next of kin Army officers said the bomber crashed Thursday afternoon in the rugged country about 35 miles west of La Lunas 60 miles south' west of Albuquerque ersons Die In Storm In Wisconsin By United Press Eight persons were dead today southern heaviest snowstorm of the season The storm struck Wisconsin late Friday after moving on high winds through the Mississippi valley and i Dr eat Lakes regions It sent midwest temperatures downward Friday night and blanketed some areas with several inches of snow today The storm of near-blizzard proportions In southern Wisconsin almost paralyzed public and private xgnsportation there Five inches snow fell in Milwaukee and nine Madison A 45-mile-an-hour wind drove blinding before it and produced one of the worst traffic snarls in history I Snow-choked streets in Madison forced temporary discontinuance of temporary bus service Six persons died in Milwaukee as the result of the storm and two persons were killed in an automobile accident at Madison Snow plows had opened most streets and roads today and traffic began to return to normal Fair weather was predicted for- the week-end The weatherman reported that snow continued to fall in Michigan Ohioand northern Indiana with some light showers reported in the lakes region Temperatures were expected to rise in the central-states area today and Sunday as the storm moves farther east New England and the Atlantic seaboard states enjoyed mild temperatures with some rain reported Soviets Annex Tk I lrailiail District TEHRAN March 9 WV-The northern portion of Gilan province from the Soviet border to Shef-arud a distance of approximately 50 miles was reported by reliable diplomatic sources today to have been annexed by the government of Russian-occupied Azerbaijan province An official in the United States embassy said the report is Foreign observers have expected such an action since Tehran newspapers last month reported that 600 had occupied Karganrud and attacked SMefarud on the Caspian coast The last reports received in Tehran said a Column threatened Pah-levl but halted some distance north of that Caspian port on the approximate language boundary within Gilan province To the north residents speak a Turkish dialect alsar used in Azerbaijan while to the south an ancient Persian dialect is spoken A self-proclaimed autonomous government was established in Azerbaijan last December Meanwhile Iranian troops commanded by CoL Nasrollah Noghbeli waited at Weramine for Russian troops to withdraw from Garmsar in eastern Iran so they might pass through to garrison Seitinan Shahrud and Meshed An American' officer said upon his return from that region that the Russians had evacuated Semnan but had no move to quit Shahrud Shahrud was one of the towns the Russians said they were evacuating last Sunday was eaten up in research and ex perimentation We became perfectionists and asked manufacturers to make things they never had made before Our only consola tion Is that we now know more about building postwar houses than anyone When Burnt a wealthy 46-year-old contractor started building the house a year ago he had no idea he ever would become associated with Henry Kaiser He planned to use the model home to exploit his own business VH UUSinCSot But now as president of Kaiser Community Homes Inc he's too busy planning to turn out homes by toe thousands to worry much longer about his house' not sorry I built it but I our job now is to turn out good houses as fast as we can to relieve the he said I I ROBERT MEYER Robert Meyer 14 lV'tYl I 9 Dies Suddenly Robert Meyer 50 owner and operator of Blue Gate Farm on the Military pike died unexpectedly at 7:10 today at his home He had spent Friday in Lexington attending a luncheon of the Lexington Optimist Club and the Blue Grass Club dinnermeeting Mr Meyer had been a resident of Fayette county for 12 years moving here from St Louis He purchased the Stanhope farm located seven miles from Lexington on the Military p(ke and practiced advanced farming methods in its development He was reared in Colorado and spent his young manhood in St Louis He was a member of the Episcopal church and the Fayette County Farm Bureau and was past president of the Pisgah Round-Up Club Survivors Include his wife Mrs Helen Wulfhig Meyer a son Lt Robert Meyer with the United States Army in the Philippines two daughters Misses Lucy and Elise Meyer and a brother Garrett Meyer of St Louis The body was removed to the Milward mortuary Funeral arrangements will be announced after the arrival from St Louis of his brother Tenth Grocer To Resist OPA 'Jerry Moore doing business as Jerry Moore Poultry 534 South Broadway Friday aftemon joined nine Lexington retail grocers in resisting OPA siiits pending in United States District Court here on the grounds that the complaints were not definite and specific that they were filed In the name of Chester Bowles described as although Bowles no longer holds that office Mud that an OPA Investigator used entrapment methods in an attempt to induce the defendants to violate price regulations A motion to dismiss the action against Mr Moore similar to motions filed earlier in the week in behalf of nine grocers who are members of the Central Kentucky Independent Food Dealers Association was filed Friday by Mr attorneys Delmar Howard and Elmer Drake The nine grocers are being defended by the law firm of Stoll Muir Townsend Park and Mohney employed by the association to act for its members The complaint against Mr Moore had stated that or about Jan 14 1946" one Henry Dunaway an OPA investigator purchased from the defendant quantity" of sirloin steak at a price above the ceiling A motion to make the complaint more definite and specific asked that the government be required by the court to state the exact date the amount of the of meat the price paid by the investigator and the amount by which the OPA claimed that exceeded the price set by the regulations The motions in the Moore case will be heard March 22 by Judge Church Ford along with the ones in the cases 1 fS a iflanctiurian City At i Keportea Abatiaonctl (Page 6 Column 3 Please) John McCIung 66 Passes Funeral services for John Brels-: ord McCIung 66 of toe Welilng-on Arms apartments Main street and Woodland avenue who died at 3:45 Friday afternoon at St hospital will be held at 10:30 o'clock Monday morning at the Milward mortuary chapeL The Rev James Kennedy rector of Christ Episcopal church will officiate snd private burial will be in the Lexington cemetery Mr McCIung a native of Xenia Ohio was a son of the late Dr Lee and Mrs Mary Brelsford McCIung He had lived in Lexington most of his life and was a member of Christ Episcopal church He is survived by his wife Mrs Margaret Wilson McCIung a son Garret Wilson McCIung of New York City and a daughter Miss Mary Louise Wilson McCIung also of New York Queen Mary Placed Under Protecting Guard SOUTHAMPTON March 9 (UP) Police strengthened toe dock guards for the arrival of toe Queen Mary today and sought Hired aliens for questioning about toe fire aboard toe 85 000-ton liner Queen Elizabeth Friday Descriptions of toe wanted men were circulated around the docks where -the damaged Queen Elizabeth and five other big passenger liners were berthed Police refused to disclose either the Identity or nationality of toe men- Robert Crail general manager of the Cunard White Star Line said that he believed the fire which burned in the Isolation hospital of toe Queen Elizabeth for more than two hours was caused by sabotage There have been fires aboard six other ships in British ports within eight days Influenza Conquered NEW YORK March 9 Wartime research in the opinion of a world-famous biochemist has freed mankind from the scourge of uncontrollable influenza epidemics Dr Wendell Stanley of the Rockefeller Institute after receiving the American Chemical New York medal for his contributions to the chemistry of viruses said today new vaccines to combat heretofore unknown varieties of influenza viruses could be developed in a matter of days Ti vo-Bedroom Postwar House Cost Builder-Owner $175000 Trustees Will Seek President For Centre DANVILLE Ky March 9 (UP) executive committee of the Centre College board of trustees today appointed a committee to suggest names for presidency of toe schooL The vacancy was created when Dr Robert Lee McLeod Jr copresident was granted a leave of absence in December 1942 to enter toe Navy as a chaplain and subsequently resigned from in November 1945 At toe same Dr Robert McMullen co-president resigned effective Oct 1 ieu THE WEATHER For Lexington: Becoming partly cloudy with diminishing wind late this afternoon Fair and slightly colder tonight Low 28 Sunday fair with rising temperature High 55 Temperature: Highest yesterday 60 lowest last night 34 average 47 normal 42 Highest on this date in previous years 78 in 1925 lowest 5 above in 1932 Precipitation: For the 24 hours ending 6 a this date 26 inches Accumulated excess since Jan 1st 01 inches Daylight: Sun sets today at 5:39 rises tomorrow at 5:57 a By RALPH DIGI1TON LOS ANGELES March 9 (P) Fritz Burns head man of -Henry mass home-building venture who opened his own house" to the public week disclosed today that the two-bedroom dream home had cost him $175000 The one-story U-shaped stone and plywood structure Is equipped with all the electronic and mechanical gadgets a housewife dbuld wante: bathrooms and kitchens die-stamped out of metal for mass-production a fully automatic laundry that tosses clothes out ready to iron: dust- precipitating air conditioning and even a revolutionary germ-killing lighting system the first Burnt said lot (on fashionable Wilshire (boulevard) cost $75000 The rest CHUNGKING March 9 Central News Agency said today Russian troops had withdrawn completely from Mukden and that fires had broken out in several parts of the city A-.