The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-04-01
CONFLICT
 STARTED
 BY RUSS
BottIing Up Roads In and Out of Berlin Against
 Western Powers
(By The Associated Press)


 A conflict between Russia and the Western Powers bottled up the western road and rail transport in and out of Berlin today. The americans. refusing to submit to Soviet inspection, resorted to planes to bring in passengers and freight.
 U. S., British and French au- thorities protested the sudden Soviet orders for inspections, ef- fective at midnight last night.
 Gen. Lucius D. Clay. U. s. Mili- tary Governor, said the traffic stoppage could not be broken im- mediately without the use of force.
 British and American authori- ties ordered their train command CTS not to yield to the Russian order that all passengers and freight entering the Soviet zone be inspected at border control points. The result was that four east-bound passenger trains were stopped at Marienborn. Soviet check point five miles east of the British zone boundary.
 Communist Claims
 In Moscow, the Communist news paper Pravda declared "the par tition Of Germany has become a completed fact" It said the four powered allied control council had ceased to exist as the governing authority. A Russian-licensed Ger man newspaper suggested the vest ern allies get out of Berlin. The western powers hase some aS,U0o troops and civilians there. About 10000 are Americans.
 Tn Washington, the State De- pertinent reasserted that U. s. forces will remain in Berlin. The Russian move stirred calls in Con- gress for immediate passage of the draft and building up of the worlds greatest air force.
 For More Defense
 President Truman advised Con- gress an additional $3,0O000o,000 will be asked for national de- fense.
 A committee of Senate and House members agreed to drop Spain from the list of nations eligible to get American aid un- der the European recovery plan. The decision to cancel the Houses invitation to Spaigi came after the President announced he was utterly opposed to such a move.
 The House passed an omnibus glcbal aid bill of $6,205. .000, 900 last night. Senate and House con- ferees worked on the final com promise, hoping to have it in shape for the Presidents signature by the weeks end
 AhC il0uoC htPt III ilo Diil tiiC invitation to Spain to join in the European aid program on terms set by the 16 Marshall Plan nations.
 The Greek army rammed a wedge through key Communist defense point in the mountains northwest of Salonika and pounded guerril- las with artillery fire. A Greek army announcement said the guer- rillas fled.
 In Italy
 Italy may. be gripped by a gen. eral strike at the time of her April Is election test between Communists and anti Communists. The Communicated General Con- federation of Labor, claiming six million members. threatened the walkout in protest against the disappearance of Sicilian labor leader They charged that right ists had kidnapped or killed him.
 Despite vigorous Russian opposi- tion, the United Nations Security Council at Lake Success appeared ready to order an investigation of Moscow's role in the Czechoslovak coup in which the Communists seized power.
 Fighting continued in the Holy Land Arabs battered at the be- sieged Montefiore Ghetto in Jeru- salem with mortars and Jews re- taliated with sniper attacks on an