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Evening star., 1947-04-25

the only new thing in the picture
was that they are starting all over
again"
Two More Meetings Slated.
He referred to a meeting of the
American Telephone & Telegraph
Co.'S long-lines division and the
Union of Telephone Work
ers that opened in the Labor De-
partment this afternoon. Originally
scheduled for this morning, it was
delayed to permit a private huddls
of union representatives.
Two other meetings are due to get
under way tomorrow. In one, the
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.
will renew bargaining talks with the
Southwestern Telephone Workers,
union-a phase involving about
$4,000 of the $4,000 workers striking
across the Nation.
In the other, the Western Electric
(See TET ,EPHONF paoo 49,
Evening star., 1947-04-25
u. 5. Diplomats Fear
Reaction al Home 10
Moscow Talk Failure
Conference Is Regarded
As Only First Stoee Of
Attempt at Settlement
Rv Nn,xhoId No,.. l.
By NewboId Noyes, Jr.
Sior Stoff Correspondent

MOSCOW, April 25.-American
diplomats here are worried about
public reaction to this fourth,
longest and least productive ses-
sion. of the Big Four Council of
Foreign Ministers, which today
is consigned to history. They
are afraid it will be interpreted
back home as proof of the final
break between east and west.
They do not think it is. They see
it rather as the first stage of an
all-oat attempt to reach a general
European settlement with Russia by
getting at the heart of the problem.
They compare it to the Councils
first meeting on the satellite treaties
in London in the autumn Of 1945
That session, too, was a failure.
But after another year, on the
fourth try, those satellite treaties
were written.
What has happened? Why were
the Big -Four so completely unable
this time to reach any substantial
agreement? There are two points
which must be borne Ii, mind If one
is to answer these questions. The
first is general; the second more
specific.
The first is that Russia has been
pretty much accustomed to having
her own way at these conferences.
This time she found herself faced
with a new attitude on our part
a new firm line of policy at the
conference table. No longer did we
approach issues from the point OF
view that they had to be settled
whatever the cost to us; that the
producing of some kind of agree
ment" between the Big Four was
more important than the issues
themselves.
The western powers hewed from
the very beginning this time to a
line which amounted to insisting on
a genuine resolving of the issues
dividing us. There would be no
more CLOSED up compromises for us,
no more Potsdam, no more Yaltas.
There would be real settlement at
the core, or none at all.
This IS not to say that Secretary
of State Marshall came here to force
a showdown" between ourselves
and the Russians-to precipitate a
situation in which one side or the
other had to back down. Peace Is
not made that way. But it is to say
that he came here to find formula
by which basic interests could be
reconciled, and would accept MOTOR
mula which violated our basic in
terests.
The change of atmosphere was
more than Russia could take. 1T
remains to be seen whether she will
ever accept the idea that she must
get along with us on our terms as
much as we with her on her terms.
At any rate, she couldn't accept
this idea or get used to it here.
Truman Statement Unfortunate.
The second point has to do with
Americas new Truman doctrine.
enunciated just as the conference
got under way. There is no deny
ing, from the strict point of view of
success in Moscow, that the timing
of the Presidents speech and the
subsequent debate back home was
unfortunate. -.
It must have seemed painfully
clear to the men in the Kremlin that
any sign of appeasement on their
part would have been interpreted
in the United States as the first
fruit of our realistic new policy.
1--WE got tough and Russia backed
down. Let's have more of the same"
(See MOVES, Page A-6.l
Evening star., 1947-04-25
By the Assoeiated Press

A bipartisan bill redrafting al
laws regulating Federal elections
and making the, sky the limit or
spending in presidential cam
paigns will be introduced Mon
day by Senator Ellender, Demo-
crat, of Louisiana.
Senator Ellender said today the
measure will have the backing of
both Republicans and Democrats
on the 1946 Senate Campaign Ex-
penditures Committee which he
headed.
1t is designed, he added, to wrap
into single package changes advo-
Gated by members of both parties as
a result of experiences with the
Hatch Clean Politics and Corrupt
Practices Acts.
Senator Ellender told a reporter
the bill, which would replace both
Evening star., 1947-04-25
ENender to Offer Bipartisan Bill
To oRevise u. S. Election Laws
Sky Would Be Made Limit on Spending Z
sIn Presidential Campaigns Under Measure

~of these laws, will (a), tighten exist
1g provisions calling for reports of
smpaign contributions apd expend-
: 1tures, but (b), relax those limiting
expenditures and restricting dona-
tions by individuals.
The bill will cover only elections
for President, Vice President, Sem
ator and Representative.
Although not yet finished, Senator
Ellender said the bill, among other
things, will:
/. Remove the Hatch Act limita-
ton of 100000 which political
committee can receive or spend in
any one, calendar year. Political or
ganizations have called this pro-
vision ambiguous, and only last
Tuesday James s. Kemper, treas
urer of the Republican National
Committee, called for its repeal.
2. Repeal of the Hatch Act pro-
Evening star., 1947-04-25
Chinese Reds Tried, Too Hard,
To Convert 2 Seized Americans

and looked fit and healthy. OF the
Communists who held them from
March l to April "a, Capt. Collins
remarked:
''They tried to convert us, but
they should have stopped after the
first seven days. We might have
been convinced then. We were
treated o. K. and didn't suffer bit. "
Asked if the Reds ambushed them
when they were first captured, Capt.
Collins replied:
We'll, you know there are indi-
viduals. But I'd rather not talk
until I clear with the Embassy"
The two assistant military at
taches met Ii Li-san, Communist
foreign affairs chief In Manchuria,
but failed to see Gen. Lin Piao, COM
n1ander in chief OF Red Armies in
Manchuria. They said they had
since heard unconfrmed reports Of
his death.
Evening star., 1947-04-25
U.N. Committee Gives UpHope
OfFuII Accord on World Police
MiIitoy Stoff Group Resumes Sessions
To Complete First Report by April 80

The committee resumed It's dis
cussions in the wake of an extraordi-
nary Soviet statement denying a
newspaper report.
The Russian statement said:
THE New York Times and some
other newspapers of April "A pub
lished reports as If the Soviet rep
reSentatives on the United Nations
Military Staff Committee wants to
have the reports of this committee
kept secret even after they are sub
mitted to the Security Council.
Such reports published in some
Of the newspapers regarding the
position of the Soviet representa-
tives are false ones. The Soviet
representatives on the Military Staff
Committee did not make any pro-
posals of such character and did
not even discuss this question with
anybody"
The Soviet statement followed an
official announcement from the
American delegation denying sim
ilarly published report that the
United States had joined with the
Soviet Union in calling for sup
preston of the report. The Amer
ican statement said the United
(See MILITARY. Page Al
Evening star., 1947-04-25

States-would meet briefly in Sep
TENDER during the United Nations
Assembly sessions in New York and
hold their next formal conference
at London in November.
Big 3 Session Not Discussed.
Gen. Marshall said a possible
meeting of the Big Three-Presi-
dent Truman, Prime Minister Stain
and Prime Minister Attlee-had not
been discussed during his stay in
Moscow.
The Secretary is planning a for
NAL radio report to the American
people soon after that.
He said there was no possibility
OF a German treaty at Moscow be-
cause of the vast number Of con-
siderations"
But I had hoped" he continued,
"to get more agreement on funda-
mental issues, which would permit
more work to be done between now
and the next conference"
Clarification is Achievement.
Apparently still fresh after the
first leg of his long flight to Wash
ington, the Secretary indicated that
the mere clarif1cation of the issues
blocking Allied unity in Germany
had been an achievement.
Eve brought them into the light"
he commented.
He refused comment on whether
Western Germany would become
more unified In the next few months,
but declared:
II do not think the difference of
opinion between Russia and the
Western Allies was increased at
Moscow. 1t was clarified. We came
to a clear understanding of what
were the disagpeements."
Gen. Marshall was met at the air.
field by Gen. Lucius D. Clay, the
American Military Governor of Ger
many, and talked with him during
the short stopover while his C-54
was being checked and refueled.
Notes French Attitude.
He indicated satisfaction with the
attitude of the French delegation
at Moscow.
THE feeling was that the situa-
ton with the French has improved" :"
Gen. Marshall commented,
He refused to hazard guess as
to how long it would take to settle
the key German issues, which in
clude reparations.
These critical questions must be
reconciled." Gen. Marshall said.
THE question is; How long can
Europe endure while we are strug-
Cling with these problems
Evening star., 1947-04-25
Businessmen Stop
Telephone Strike by
EncncGng Pickets !
By the Associated Press

EASTON, Md, April 25.-The
telephone strike here apparently
was broken today when between
80 and 35 businessmen sur
rounded two pickets of the
Maryland Federation of Tele-
phone Workers and demanded
that they leave.
The pickets left, and at least
five nonstriking operators i'm
mediately went back to their
switchboards and restored
service here for the first time
since the Nationwide strike
began April 7.
Some of the men in the crowd
volunteered to contact more op-
orators at, their homes and
bring them to work.
Chief of Police Walter B.
Wood said there was no dis
order.
Evening star., 1947-04-25
Late Bulletin
Weirton Raises Woqes

WEIRTON, w. Va. R.-The
Weirton Steel Co. and its in
dependent union today an
nounced an increase in the
basic minimum wage rate from
81 to $1.l6H per hour and an
increase Of 111a cents hourly
for all hourly, piecework and
tonnage employees whose wages
are above the present mini
mum.
Evening star., 1947-04-25
By the Assoeiofed Press

JERUSALEM, April 25.--Bombs
blasted police billet in a suburb
of the all-Jewish city of Tel Aviv
tsday, leaving at least two per-
sons dead and seven missing.
British troops of the 1st Infan-
TRY Division. alerted against a
blood for blood" reign of violence
threatened by the Jewish under
ground unit, Irgun Zvai Leumi, sur
rounded Tel Aviv as rescue workers
dug in the debris of the billet at
Sarona. .
All traffic was halted Immediately
between Tel Aviv and adjacent
Jaffa.
In Jerusalem, all incoming and
outgoing traffic was stopped by
heavily guarded roadblocks as the
British checked on an anonymous
telephone call-believed a diversion
ary hoax-that three British off,
GERS had been kidnapped.
May Dissolve Agency.
Rumors persisted throughout the
uneasy city that the British were
considering dissolution of the Jewish
Agency on the ground that it had
failed to curb Jewish extremists and
thus had forfeited the right to speak
for the Holy Lands Jewry.
The troops ringing Tel Aviv sug-
gested the possibility of drastic
military breakdown on the Jewish
city, in view of the recent. warning
to Mayor Israel Rokeach that such
action would follow renewed vio-
lence.
The explosives which wrecked
the orderly room and telephone ex-
change OF the Sarona billet were
planted in q mail truck driven by q
man in police uniform, British au-
thorities said. The driver disap-
peared. The blast came about 80
minutes after the van was driven
through the gate and parked next
to the orderly room.
Mine Taken From Bridge.
Later, officials announced police
had discovered that bridge on the
outskirts of Jerusalem had been
mined, but that the mine was re-
moved without damage. The same
bridge was blasted twice In previous
outbreaks. once with the loss OF
three British Army men and two
Arabs. al
The Sarona billet, home of many
British ofi1cials and headquarters OF
the Palestine Mobile Forces, was at
tackled last month, but the attackers
were driven of at the time, after
laying down a gunf1re barrage.
The Sarona blast came as British
authorities attempted to run down
the report OF the kidnapping of three
British soldiers in the heart of Jeru-
salem by members of the Jewish
underground.
Businessman Held Briefly.
This report followed the an
nouncement that British business
man had been kidnapped during the
night from a fashionable Tel Aviv
Beach hotel, but had been released
unharmed when his abductors dis
covered he was a Jew.
The entire center of Jerusalem
around Zion Square was cordoned
off as British troops checked the
reported kidnapping.
In recent days, Irgun Zvai Leumi
has threatened reprisals at 10-to-1
for the deaths of four Jews hanged
by the British last week and of two
others who committed suicide while
awaiting execution this week. The
Jews had been condemned for tax
ing part in raids or carrying arms
Evening star., 1947-04-25
Dispute Over Steward
Closes Plymouth Plant
By the Assoeiated Press

DETROIT, April 25.-A dispute
over disciplinary action against a
shop steward closed the Plymouth
plant OF Chrysler Corp. today.
A company announcement said
$500 first-shift workers were sent
home after l58 employees of the
sheet metal department left their
jobs in protest against a three-day
loyon given a shop steward.
The Plymouth workers are mem
bers OF Local l58, CIO United Au-
tomobile Workers. There was no i'm
mediate union comment,
Evening star., 1947-04-25
Ambassador Smith
Returning in May
For 2-Week Visit
BY ths Assoriatsd Prsss

MOSCOW, April 25.-The
United States Embassy said to-
day that Ambassador Walter
Bedell Smith is planning to go
to the United States for a two
week visit early In May.
An Embassy official denied,
however. reports that Gen.
Smith was returning to Wash
ington to become Assistant Sec
retary of State.
Evening star., 1947-04-25
Truman and Cabinet
Discuss Phone Strike,
But Without Aetna
Presidential Intervention
Appears Unlikely; Union
And Company Confer
BULLETIN :,

A bill restricting picketing
In the District and, among 9TH
er provisions, limiting pickets
to one for each Is workers in
volved, was introduced in the
House today by Representative
Hoffman, Republican, of Mich
igan. He said the picket line
in front OF the telephone COM
pany tends to monepolize" the
sidewalk and impedes traffic.
President Truman and his
cabinet discussed the telephone
strike today as Government
conciliators started new meet
ings intended to end the 19-day
walkout.
The strike was brought up during
the cabinets 35-minute session with
the President, but there was no in
dication that the White House was
planning to intervene.
Secretary OF Interior Krug said
Evening star., 1947-04-25
Effort 10 Boost
Funds
in House
Hydro-EIectric Power
Marketing Division
Is Voted Down
BULLETIN

The first Democratic effort to
increase Interior Department
funds failed in the House
this afternoon. Representative
Gore, Democrat, of Tennessee
moved to add $164,417 to re-
store a hydroelectric power
marketing division in Secre-
tary Krug's office. The amend
ment lost on a voice vote.
Evening star., 1947-04-25
Marshall Declares Time
May Reveal Accomplishment

MOSCOW, April Is (P.-"I am
sorry that we did not make more
progress" Secretary of State Mar
shall said this morning Just before
boarding his four-engine plane for
home, but I imagine that as we
(See MARSHALL, pana AA
Evening star., 1947-04-25
Bomb Blast Kills
Five in Tel Aviiv
PoIiceBuiIdinq
Six Persons Injured;
City Is Surrounded
In Troops Search
BULLETIN

JERUSALEM R.-An Off
cial British announcement to-
day listed five as dead, three
missing and six hurt in the
bombing of a police billet at
Tel Aviv.
Evening star., 1947-04-25

(see POLITICS, Page A-6.)
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(See MOVES, Page A-6D
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(See MARSHALL, Page A
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(See MILITARY, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1947-04-25
Sunday Reading

(See APPROPRIATIONS,
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-07-04

Mrs. Richard Price and Mrs. P.
j. Higginbotham was appointed
at the meeting.
Mrs. ], M. Epting, president,
presided and DR.. L. E. Green,
pastor of the First Baptist
church, led the devotional on
THE Greatest Problem Facing
Evangelical Christinanity." which
subject he developed along the
line of people placing Materials
tic things above spiritual mat
tiers.
Mrs. John Cole gave the well
come and Mrs. Henry Gautier
was the program chairman. The
program included an organ and
piano duet by Mrs. P. j. Higgin-
bothm and Miss Betty Jean Rob
inson, a solo by Miss Mary Ellen
Eubanks accompanied BY Miss
Elaine Avara. a reading by Miss
Katherine Wright. a solo BY Mar
lowe Miller.
Following the business session
and program. refreshments were
served to the IS council members
and five Moss Point visitors press
ent.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-07-04
Power Franchise
Is ApproyedI In
Light Vote Here

Pascagoula voters Tuesday au-
thorized the city government to
issue a new 25-year power fran
ehise to the MiSsissippi Power
Companv vote of 1877 for,
the !fanehise, with l34 against.
The margin for the issuance of
the franchise was 263.
Only little more than 500 of
the eity more than 1000 quail
fled voters went % the polls in
the election. eF
The vote by precincts was as
follows
South Pascagoula, SO for and
"a aga3tAt; City Hall, 1893 for and
81 asAht; North Pascagoula, 102
for aid 43 against.
The power company's present
franchise does not expire for two
years, but because of proposed
new construction and financing
Officials said that they wished to
be assured fx0perations that
would JUSTLY costs.
A new provision in the fran.
chise' voted yesterday will be
payment to the city by the com
pany of two per cent of gross
revenues from power sales in
Pascagoula. This will yield APP
proximately $4,000 in revenue
to the city.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-07-04
FPHA Not Ready
To Announce Price
Of Navy Houses

The prices of the navy, Green
and Bruce houses in the Pasca-
goula Federal Public Housing
Project have not yet been made
public by the Washington office,
the Chronicle-Sta learned this
week in a telephone call to re-
gional headquarters in Atlanta.
A team of estimators has al
ready fixed the prices on these
houses and it was thought that
the Washington office would an
nounce the figure by July /.
However, Congress has made no
appropriation of funds to carry
on the FPHA office so far and
that is the matter which is pres
emily occupying the Washington
officials.
The conditions of the sales have
not yet been fixed. Regional head
quarters said il was hoped that
Congress would permit sales to
occupants on term of 90 percent
down payments and government
guaranteed loans for the remain
ing 30 percent.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-07-04
Church Group Ask For Platforms
Of Candidates; Urge Woman Vote

A campaign to eliminate the
sale of intoxicating liquor and
the operation of gambling devices
in Jackson County and Pasca-
goula was launched by the coun-
ell of Church Women of Pasea-
goula at a meeting Monday af-
ternoon at the First Baptist
church.
The organization went on rec
ord as requesting all candidates
to publish the platform on which
they seek public office in order
that the voters may know what
kind of program they plan if
elected to office. The council vot-
ed to make known to the candi-
dates that we are unalterably
opposed TO the sale of liquor and
the operation of slot machines. "
A committee was appointed to
publicize this campaign, to inter-
est the women in this movement
for good government and to en-
courage every woman to go to
the polls and vote on election
cay. August 5.
A nominating committee com
posed of Mrs. Robert Carter,
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-07-04
Large Mouth Bass
Released In Four
County Streams

A truck load of large mouth
black bass, commonly known as
green trout, we're released in the
headwaters of four streams in
Jackson County YESTERDAY morn
ing as a result of the efforts Of
the Jackson County Hunting and
Fishing Association, it was an
nounced by A. NJ. (Bud) Pelham,
president.
The fish, ranging from three
TO five inches in length, were re-
leased in Bluff Creek, Bayou
Sock, Bayou Castell, and Mary
Walker Bayou. No accurate es.
innate of the number was avail
able, but it ranged into the tens
of thousands, MI. Pelham said.
The fish were procured from
the Federal Fish Hatchery at Lv-
man through the efforts of the
sportsman group, which was or
gained several months ago. Merle
F. Palmer is vice president, John
H. Cole, secretary, and A. j.
Franklin. treasurer.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-07-04
Truffic Islund
recommended For
HighwdY Junction

The Mayor and City Council
men of Pascagoula were con-
sidering this week the recommen-
dalton of a state highway de-
partment expert that a traffic
island be constructed at the in
tersection of U. S. Highway 80
and North Pascagoula Street.
A. M. White, assistant Engin-
eer of Maintenance for the Mis-
sissippi Highway Department,
recommended that the island be
formed on the south side of the
intersection in front of the Tri-
angle Service Station.
Ii would serve as refuge for
pedestrians and as direction
marker for Highway 80 west
bound motorists.
Mayor John X. Watts said that
negotiations with the Standard
Oil Company, owner of the
property, had begun and that the
city would endeavor to construct
the island.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-07-04
Two Men Hurt
In Fall From
Back Oh Truck

Two Pittsburgh, Penn, youths
were under treatment at the
Jackson County hospital Thurs
day for head injuries suffered
when they fell from the back of
a pickup truck at Gautier We'd
nesday after they had abandoned
a stolen automobile and caught
a ride toward Pascagoula, State
Highway Patrolman w. c.. Gray
reported.
They are Ralph A. Otto and
Charles Proviano who were turn
ed over by Patrolman Gray to F.
b. l, agents to face charges of
having stolen an automobile in
New Orleans.
According to Officer Gray, the
men stole an automobile belong
ing to Henry E. Landry of New
Orlean about $3.50 a. m. Wednes-
day and were driving along the
coast when they ran out of gaso-
line near Bonds place on the
highway near Gautier. They
abandoned the car and hitch-hik-
ed a ride with Mr.. and Mrs. John
H. Buckhalter of Biloxi who were
riding toward Pascagoula, Officer
Gray said. Mr.. Buckhalter told
the patrolman he insisted the
men get in the back of the truck
after they suggested riding on
the side of the automobile. They
did not get into the back, he said
but sat on the tail gate with then
legs hanging over. AS the truck
reached Gautier the chain hold
ing the tail gate broke, throwing
both men to the highway.
They were rushed to the Jack
son County hospital in Fails and
Stokes ambulances.
Officer Gray said before the
men abandoned the stolen car
they had picked up C. E. Lynd
of Kreole who was hitch-hiking
home but Lynd told the officers
he became frightened at the
way they were driving and left
the automobile at the Biloxi
bridge.