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I if ww WWvh'ov-w n-w- "I1 i i Six Portland Press Herald Portland Main Tuesday Morning July 29 1947 4 A Cripps Blames Red Demands Forres tal May Coordinate Services At op Level Only For Collapse Washington Jnly 28 (AP) James Forrest! the Nation's first oter-sU of defense hinted today New Secretary Of Defense Hint? Of Aim "I should like to observe that any law wiU only be as the administration of Outer Seat Rejected By China Unprecedented Blast Draws Russian Retort Technique Same As In Greece By Pledging Small Administrative Staff secretary that his idea is to confine the job to top-level coordination of the services and stay out of operating detail Hie Indication of his Intentions emerged Indirectly in a news conference ip a discussion of finances Forreslal raid that at first the unification of the armed forces under single cabinet officer provided for in a new law signed Saturday will add to rather than reduce the cost cf the military establishment Then he added: hope the added administration expense will be nominal "It Is my hope that UwUl not add large number to the Federal payroll because I think to some extent the success of this job wUl be reflected in the smallness of Its administrative staff" Tbe new indication of plans to restrict his set-up was taken as indicating a good deal of autonomy for the three coordinate branches of however as effective the people who constitute its administration and this one will take hard work over a substantial period of time before its accomplishments become he said have a' blueprint and charter but the blueprint and charter have to be manned by' people" He added that "in the long run I think it will be beneficial both in the operation of the military departments and In economy in the sense of getting the most out of our money" Right now Foirestal to a cabinet minister without office staff or officially that to He raid it has not been decided where he will have his new offices (reports have been frequent that he will-move into the army's huge Pentagon) and that he has arranged to money from the army and navy until Congress votes some for his new department when it return a next January the armed forces on the theory that the deeper he goes Into direct administrative affairs' the bigger' force he will need Yet to be picked are the three non-cabinet1 secretaries of the army navy and sir who wUl take over those phases of the defense business Forreatal apparently was talking mostly about his own staff however when he commented that the first Srlg job in making the new set-up work to to "get people" In the new post Forreatal will be responsible for the master defense plan of the United 8tates but he cautioned at the newt conference that the task of piecing together a general military policy will taka a' long time "It occur ha bald adding that the unification law' win hot "produce Immediate or miraculous results" Forrests! told his audience of reporter that In his Judgment the armed forces unification law "constitutes the most decisive and definitive step taken by this Country in the formation of a National mUitary policy since the foundation of the republic "It to a law which reflects an accommodation between many divergent points of view but a workable he raid- adding that that to the of the American system if An opponent of the closer form of service unification proposed while he -was Secretary of the Navy For-restal raid the final version has "the support and cooperation of all hands in trying to make it effective" I Cereal Shipments Offered By Soviets London Jaly 21 Sir Stafford Cripps told Parliament today that Russian demands for revision of a IS I loan agreement brought about the collapse of Brittoh-Russian trade treaty negollationa In Moscow last week The president of the Board of Trade said British negotiators offered a number of roncev inns but couM not go the whole way the Bo viet Government demanded as a con ciinon of agreement" Russia owes Britain $320000000 under terms of the 1941 agreement The Moscow radio said the talks broke down because Britain would not guarantee some deliveries of capital poods and because' credit terms could not be reconciled! i The British delegation headed by Harold Wilson returned from Moscow Friday after five weeks of intensive negolistions The British had hoped for wheat timber and canned fish The Russians wanted heavy machinery rails and pipes Cripps said that before the talks broke down the Russians offered to supply "really substantial quantities of cereals over the next four beginning with 1000000 tons of the 2947 harvest i Declaring the British Labor Government wished to expand trade with Russia Cripps said he hoped the failure of the Moscow talks was only "temporary He did not mention the Moscow radio report- which a spokesman for the Board of Trade called "very Russian-sided" While well-informed Britons did not rule out the possibility thatWU-aon'a return was another move In a long bargaining prpeeas there was increasing doubt that this wss the case Indicating that auccess had been almost in sight when the talks collapsed on Soviet credit demands Cripps said the negotiators had reached agreement "on: all matters ithin the trade field Including quantities prices and terms and conditions of shipment" He also explained that the contract for cereala wu drawn up "and practically ready for signa- lure" when the talks collapsed In connection with the 1941 loan sgreentant the Russians Cripps said specifically "asked for a reduction In the rate of Interest to a half of one per cent a waiving of the obligation to pay 40 per cent cash payment In respect to all contracts not yet signed and for an adjustment In the terms of the repayment of the credit so as to Spread the payments over 13 annual Installments instead of five" Tlw British negotiators he said were willing to meet the Russian re quest lor reducing the Interest rate and to waive the 40 per cent cash payment provision They also were willing to "go some way at heavy cost toward meeting the Soviet request for lengthening the period of repayment of all advances" he said but added that the British "could not-go the whole way" on thia point Russians Reveal Wheat Crop Good Moacew July fAP) A Tail communique presenting the Soviet ride of the recently halted British-Russian trade talks gava the Russian people today Mis first authoritatively published news that this year's wheat crop in the Soviet Union generally is excellent 1 The Soviet news agency report raid the USSR could have sold Britain 1000000 tons nut of thia harvest and 1500000 tons out of the' crop The communique also brought' good news to the people of Eastern European nations who hope lo buy or trade grain with the Soviet Union thia year Representatives of several countries watched the BrlfctohWBoviet trade talks as closely aa they could Some of them expressed relief when the talks broke down reasoning that If the Soviet Union sold Britain large amounts of grain this1 might cut Into the total hoped to get If Russia waa In a position to offer i Britain 1000000 tons of grain this year ft was believed she probably was equipped to furnish grain to Finland Caeeboalorakta Poland Yugoslavia Romania Hungary Albania Bulgaria and perhaps France Norway and Austria It also was of interest to the Soviet people that from the tone of the communique the Soviet Union apparently desired to do business with Britain They reasoned from this that the door definitely was still open to Western European nations and even to the United States for strict country -to-coun try business deals despite Russia's refusal to participate in tbe Marshall propoaal As grain from tbe already harvested whiter wheat crop poured Into lour mills the newspaper Soviet Agriculture criticized the way the Ukraine waa harvesting the crop saying that threshing was behind In Kharkov Kirovograd and other region concrete measures should be taken the newspaper added to speed up the threshing and delivery of the grain Some Moscow observers speculated hat the Soviet Union might enter the world grain markets in the future on a large scale and eventually be come a competitor of the United States and Canada volume porta It also was reported by one well Informed Moscow diplomat' that the Russians at one time during Die trade talks with the British had mentioned a figure many times 1000000 tons aa the possible grain export from the Soviet Union In 1950 the last year of the Russians' fourth flve-vesr plan It was pointed out that the effect of such a development on international wheat prices could be considerable Devers Reds Have Largest Army Deplores Claim Security It Lost Salem I1L July 28 (AP) Gen Jacob Devers chief of army around forces said today Russia has an army bigger than those of all other nations combined In an address before a soldiers and sailors reunion Devers deplored the actions of a group "which insists that we have no National security whatever" Then he added without mentioning the Soviet Union by name but leaving no doubt who he meant: "They suggest that we place ourselves and the smaller free nations which look "to us for strength and guidance completely at the mercy of their particular political paladin odd coincidence maintains an army larger than all the other armies of the world (Estimates of the current size of the Russian Army range upwards from 3000000 men The present strength of the United States Army Is sUghtly less than $1000000) Devers a member of the army general staff made two other obvious references to Russia when he said: "The true alternative to cooperation with other free people la a further shift of states between our Two from the sunlit side of the Iron Curtain to the darkness beyond" And at another point: efforts at disarmament thrjough the United Nations beginning with an open and above board offer to disarm ourselves of our most powerful weapon have been defeated Our efforts to set up a world security police force have been thwarted Our concern at threats to the political and ter rltorlal integrity of small nations has been branded as 'imperialism by those who are themselves the aggressive Imperialists" Lake Rarecm Jaly 2S Chins turned down Outer Mongolia a bid for -United Nations membership with an unprecedented blast which 1 drew a Russian retort that certain -Fsr East parties might like to force a investigation similar to toe Greek rase Calmly announcing a certain Chinese veto the Outer Mongolian application Dr Shuhsl Hsu charged to a warm meeting of toe Security Council Membership Committee that he Outer Mongolian Republic had carried out a "full-dress invasion with paraphernalia of modem warfare including aircraft" In the harshest words China haa yet pronounced against a neighbor in the Dr Hsu said the "armed invasion- of the Chinese province of Sinklang by the applicant state not ended even to lay" He said Clues had cast aside doubts last year ani supported the Mongolian Peoples Re- -public Alexei Krasilnikov Russian parti- cipant in the heated exchanges tn the committee last week over Albania called the Chinese statement "distorted" and rfatoe" He said that regiment of Chinese soldiers pene- rated about 12 miles into Outer Mongolian territory and was thrust out by -the Outer Mongolian soldiers who never crossed the Chinese boeder-Creeltles Reported He also declared that the bodies ef five Outer Mongolian mien who had been tortured were found in the are occupied by the Chinese troops "Such provocative actions on too rt of the Chinese troops ud certain nrident are to remind us ot similar action en the northern border of Greece" Krasilnikov said to poesi- ble there are parties to the' Par EssS r-ho would like to repeat wfcst has happened In Greece slso to detract the world from the civil war to Chic and what is going en In China "It is possible there are parties in China who would Ilka to create dr- -cumstances to make it necessary for an investigation commission The Soviet delegation believes the commit- -tee will not consider seriously these -distorted icciuatlons" Dr Hsu who rat smiling i too Russian spoke said he would reply after studying the text Hayden Raynor United States dele- gate supported by tbe British delegate raid there wga a complete vacuum of -information about Outer Mongolia and its international relations He said it maintains diplomatic relations only with Russia and had been recognized only by Russia and Chins He ques- -turned whether It is an independent state Kasslan Kepliee Krasilnikov replied that everyone had had an opportunity to learn to facts about Outer Mongolia Aa toe Security CouAcil took up the Balkans case once more the commit- tee passed over Albania's application -temporarily The committee received notification' that Albania had sub- '-i mitted to the InternaiionM Court of Juatice in the Corfu mine case but toe United Statea raid there wrra about four other items it questioned about -Albania Seven delegates from Syria Britain -United States Chine Brasil France and Belgium supported the applies- tkm of Transjordan but final action waa held up for Russia to speak Russia vetoed the Transjordan appll- cation last year and there haa been -no announced change to her attitude There ere eight other applications on file and papers from 'Bulgaria are raid to be en route to the i Marginal Way I Extension Out For This Year Preliminaries Far From Completion Hopes of Portland city officials feT extension of Marginal Way to Wrah- -ington Avenue this year have been Just about dissipated by the Stats Highway Commission City Manager Lyman Moore disclosed Monday I doubt that we could actually undertake any construction operations this Lucius Barrows chief engineer of the state agency told Moore in a letter Portland's City Council last month urged the State use this share of Federal aid road funds to make an immediate start on the Marginal Way project which even- tually will be pert of 'a through-ettv highway Before the project can be undertaken the Highway Commission muss have the results ot a traffic survey which it expects to complete by mic-August Barrows Informed Moore But time would still be needed to complete other preliminaries Includ- tag drafting of specification advertising for bids and awarding of a contract he pointed out SToora expressed hope tost these preliminaries eoukl be completed dur-' ing the winter months so that the project would be ready to start at tbs outset of next year's construction 1 eason City officials estimate that Portland's -share of Federal funds plus state matching funds over a three-year period will amount to atout 700006 S'- Wi it! a a JL British Labor Government At Crossroad Paper Demands Attlee Step Out London July 28 Politicians and voters weighed tonight the chances of Britain's labor government weathering the Nation's growing economic storm after the pro-labor London Daily Mirror called on Prime Minister Attlee to resign Attlee summoned his top-ranking ministers Including Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevln and Her-ert Morrison government leader in the House of Commons to a conference this evening at No 10 Downing Street to discuss economic policy The same subject is expected to be discussed Wednesday when Attlee meets with labor members of Parliament In a caucus The Mirror said the invitation extended Attlee to attend the caucus yras "more In the nature of a In its editorial the first of its kind from any strongly pro-gov-emment newspaper the Mirror called for thq naming of a new labor prime minister and -said: "There Is no constant central control of government Mr Attlee leaves It tq others His cabinet system should go So should Mr Attlee The prime minister's residence declined comment on the editorial These questions occupied the attention of political circles: Will Attlee's government be driven by economic necessity to utke conservatives and liberals into partnership as did the last previous labor government under Ramsay MacDonald in 1931? Or will cabinet ac eepting its heavy majority In the House of Commons as a five-year mandate from the people continue to shoulder the burden of postwar recovery by itself until its term of orflce expires in 1950? Some conservatives said publicly they expected 1931 to repeat itself and the possibility was recognized Jn a week-end speech by Bevln who begged the workers not to let this happen Feu the past two weeks political columnists have discussed the possibility of a coalition govern' ment Conservatives have no united policy on this subject Some want a coalition others want no part of the present government's troubles and still a third group would prefer a general election In the hope of reducing the Labor majority or returning to power themselves Judge Questions Rent Act Validity Feels Landlord Dealt With Unfairly CbwlMl July ZS Commenting from the bench Federal Judge Paul Jones today expressed "grave doubt" the recently en acted rent' control act was constltu tional He made the observation while con Uniting to Sept 1 his hearing of i peUtlon by the housing expeditor and the area rent control director for a permanent injunction requiring Mrs Florence Howie landlord of an apartment building to provide normal and established utility faciliUea "I have a personal feeling that the landlord under these laws has been unfairly and inequitably dealt with" said the Judge "There to grave doubt to my mind as to the constitutionality of this rent act But the Congress has seen fit to enact It and the matter haa not yet been presented to me to such a way that could dispone of the question of the constitutionality of It because nobody yet has asked for a fuU hearing on that question and usually the court on its own motion determine the constitutional Judge Jones added am throwing out these words for the benerit of the expediter so he will know the lines along which the court to thinking Gretchen Merrill Figure Skating Choice New York Jaly 21 TheUS Olympic Committee tonight announced the following figure-skating teams to compete in the winter games at St Marita Switzerland next Winter: Ladies singles: Gretchen Merrill -Si- Zs 'V' fcyv('Ald Gannett Air Photo PAYSON PARK FORM THE Aerial view of Edward Payson Park between Ocean Avenue and 'Back Cove Lower left and lower right are the memorial gates at the entrance to the park Upper left is the recreational area with a trailer show of the Children's Theater Xne in action The park's extensive wooded areas are only partly shown 5000 Boys Vanish From Pay son Park Third Largest Bought For $26262 In 1916 Survey Recommends Expanding Play Areas Construction Of Field House There i tlon's survey Issued In January 1943 recommended that the playground area be enlarged to three and one half acre This new area' if -developed aa the survey suggests would Include two additional tennis courts a multiple use hard surface area for paddle tennis badminton volleyball shuffle board roller skating handball and outdoor basketball courts aa weU aa facilities for field semes such aa soccer field hockey and modified football The survey team also recommended the construction of a field house with the usual shower dressing room and toilet facilities for men and women The Park Department has long ought a skating pond for the park aa well aa two more soft bail diamonds This Summer Florence Levin to on duty at the park to plan and to supervise reereatUm The visits of the Theater Inc trailer shows to this park are usually well attended Ed iter This article en Pay-sen Park to the third In series en the htoterx end race ef Portland's parka By Calvin EeUs (Staff Writer) The Edward Payson Park Ocean Avenue and Baxter Boulevard to the- third largest of the' city's park -areas Its 4775 acres waa purchased from William Payton of Boston for $26262 In 1916 by the city to be named to honor of hto brother The park serves as a picnic area and playground for toe Corner East' Deering and Woodforda sections of the city as it to easily reached by Baxter Boulevard Parts of It remain wooded and provide shaded picnic areas although there are no facilities for picnickers Its present playground equipment to meagre but Includes two concrete tennis courts a baseball diamond swings and seesaws' The National Recreation Asaocis- Cleric Cites Data On Russiaii Zone Washington July 28 (AP) The Rt Rev Msgr James Griffiths of New York said today that clergymen In Europe were reliably informed that more than 1000 young boys have disappeared off the streets of Berlin In the Russian-zone" He did not say what had become of them' Msgr- Griffiths Is one of 13 Catholic Protestant and Jewish clerics Just returned from a 35-day visit to Europe at the invitation of the War Department They teld a mass news conference before reporting to Secretary of War Royall Monsignor Griffiths chancellor of the Roman Catholic ordlnariate which selects Catholic chaplains or the ermed forces said the clerics also were given to understand that young boys were disappearing from Vienna streets He stressed that his Information about the youths whom he described aa between 12 to 17 years of age and showing qualities of leadership was authentic as far as the Berlin reports were concerned He said he was not able to Identify these sources but they were absolutely reliable The clergymen said that "the recovery of Germany must be an essential part of every plan for the recovery of Europe and hence of The clergymen said that "Ain erica may be confronted with thia dilemma: either to reorganize Western Germany as a separate economic and political unit or to pour endless sums into diseased starving and dismembered Germany The implications of this axe likely to affect the life of every man woman and child Peverada Suffers Fractured Ankle Anthony Peverada 28 of 168 Cumberland AvnueJ suffered fractured right abkle Monday when ha tripped on a stone In hto yard Peverada was taken to the Maine General Hospital to toe ambulance by Patrolmen William I Berryman and John Spencer He later was transferred to toe Marine Hospital Peverada- recently had signed to play football tola Fan with toe Port-land Sagamores He was a Portland High and Idaho University end Arthur Christopher Addresses Rotarians Ingalls Probation Plea Due Today 1 Appeal Action To Depend On Outcome Saa Diego Calif July 28 (AP) Clifford Fitzgerald said today he would ask probation for Lira Alfred Wesley Ingalls 62 when she appears in Federal Court Tuesday for sentence on her conviction of enslaving Negro inald Dora Jones Fitzgerald said the outcome may determine If he would press an appeal Prosecutor Eugene A Tolln disclosed that the decision on whether the Government will again try Ingalls husband 64 Massachusetts' lawyer and former legislator will be made by the Attorney General in Washington The Jury which convicted Mrs Ingalls July 19 disagreed In the case of Ingalls Jointly charged Bhb is confined in the San Diego County Jail while he continues on liberty under $2500 bail Reports of the probation officer and a court-appointment psychiatrist who have examined Mrs Ingall In the last few days are to be submitted to Judge Jacob Weinberger before the time of sentence Rem-Rand Contract Is Ratified 5-Week Strike Finally Ended New York July 29 (AP) CIO electrical workers today ratified an agreement providing an eight-cent hourly wage increase and six paid holidays annually and ended a five-week strike against eight plants of the Remington Rand Company The agreement reached here Bun-day after a week end of negotiation between the -typewriter and office I equipment firm and the United Electrical Worker Union was accepted by the $003 striking employes- with only a few acattered votes cast against the settlement union spokesmen said The plants shut down during the work stoppage which was marked at times by bitter Hurries of violence on the picket lines are in Tons winds North Tonawanda' Syracuse Dion and Herkimer and Benton Hsrbor Mich The strikers' who sought a 15-cenl hourly across the board increase wow expected to resume work Tues- day except: in Syracuse- A company spokesman raid he did not know when the plant there would be reopened The company's Syracuse buildings put up for rale during the strike gull are listed on the real estate market Besides the general increase the settlement cans also for arbitration of the remainder of the original demands for a 15-cent hourly raise Present wage males vary from plant to plant the union raid adding that they range from 614 to $1634 en hour at Syracuse: from $74 to $133 at the Tonawandaa and averaged 1123 to 12 at llon and H-rkimer At Benton Hvrbnr women workers are paid a minimum of 70 cents hourly and men II Historic Lighthouse Destroyed By Fire Phlladetphts J-ilv SB His tone Ellington lighthouse which raided ships on the Delaware River Nehru To Ask To Act In Dutch War WillBar Plane Over Country New Delhi India July 28 (UP) Pandit Jawaharla! kehru head of India's interim government said today that India "within few hours" formally would ask the United Nations to act in the Dutch-Xndonesian war 1 Nehru said Dutch planes hence forth would be barred from flying over Indian territory He said airlines of other nations also might be banned if found to be transporting military aid to Dutch forces- India was acting in consul ta-ion with the British and United States Governments and had received "sympathetic from them Nehru told a special press Conference He said he expected the new Moslem-dominated Pakistan' dominion would cooperate in the air ban Nehru spoke bitterly of Dutch action in the East Indies making It clear that India no matter how strong her ties with Britain stood Irrevocably with the rest of Asia "The mere presence of a cola nisi regime of foreign troops in any Asian country is an Insult and a challenge to Asia" Nehru said "Any attempt to continue colonization not only will en danger peace but also will come in the way of economic recovery the world Nehru said he proposed "within a few hours if nothing happens to make formal appeal to 'the United to stop Dutch military action Only an end to the Dutch offensive would- stop such an appeal he said so-called police action is a well organized war with bombings of towns on a large scale he said "The Indonesian Republic has no means uf meeting this air attack either from the air or from the ground It is i very simple affair to bomb de fenseless people and kill them" Nehru said the question of direct military aid to Indonesians had not yet been considered because "we are not at war with the Dutch Government" He said India however would use all her diplomatic powers to intervene in the behalf Child Slightly Hurt In Fall From Auto Four-year-old Woodrow Wyman Jr son of MT and Mrs Wyman of 1437 Washington Avenue suffered only abrasions of the face Monday night when he fell out of the roar seat of the automobile being driven by hto father near Allen's Comer police reported The boy wns taken 'to the Maine General Hospital by Patrolman Thom- aa Doherty and4 was discharged after treatment The per capita consumption of fresh leafy green and yellow rozetsblea rose about 20 per cent between the 1917-11 war period sod 194J Boston 8 champion Eileen Seigh Brooklyn -Men's sineies: Richard Button Englewood James Grogan Berkeley Calif John LetUngarrer St Paul Minn Pairs: Yvonne Shermtn and Robert Swennlng New York City: Carlo and Peter Kennedy Seattle Wash Augusta Factory To Try To Resume Work Augusta July 28 Two departments cutting and stitching will start work Tuesday morning In an attempt to get the whole production line going said George A Flowers plant manager tonight alter a day of management attempts to conciliate differences that caused a total shutdown Friday of the Taylor Shoe Factory His negotiations have been between the management and employes directly he said In the walkout of six welters last week that threw 400 employes out of work Taylor workers are not represented by a union officially The Brotherhood of Shoe and Allied Craftsmen (independent) had claimed enough membership to negotiate under the law and will hold a mass meeting to discuss settlement Tuesday night hi Gardiner said local President Fred Merrlthew tonight A group of employes obtained "separation slips' today to en able them to apply for onemploy ment compensation company of fleals said Oreno Jaly 28 (AP) A stratlon lecture by Past President Arthur Christopher of tbe Old Town Rotary Club tonight concluded the second day of toe 'annual assembly of toe 193rd District of Rotary International at the Penobscot valley Country Club Christopher outlined by example toe procedure for indoctrinating rew members in the alms and objec tlves of Rotary A fellowship ban quet opened the evening program Perley Turner ofi Brunswick past district governor 1 Felix Ran iett of Bangor secretary and Dr Harry Trust of Bangor past district governor were afternoon apeak era since post revolutionary days before it- was abandoned in was de strayed by fire today Flames raced through the frame dwelling and left the lighthouse once Deleware most popular land mark a smouldering rubble Volunteer fire companies from nearby Essington were summoned but the blase had si ready gained too much headway Fire investigators raid cause of the bias was not determined CONSTANT A familiar sight on the streets of Farmington these days is a dog in the carriage of a bicycle enjoying all the comforts of life from a sitting position Mira Jean Jackson ten-year-old daughter of Road Commissioner and Mrs: Charles Jackson does the' pedalling while her pet Sonny a ten-year-old lax terrier rides THESE "I thought you could use new wallet for your birthday Dear Your old one practically falls apart every time i.