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Bend Forecast
occasional ' high cloudiness
Friday; scattered . thunder
storms likely over moun
tains Friday; high today 87
92; low tonight 43-48; high
Friday 85.90.
, Bend and vicinity Fair
today and tonight; fair with:
THE BEND BULLETIN
LEASED WIRE WORLD
NEWS COVERAGE
CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
48th Year
TWO SECTIONS
BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1951
No. 184
ease-Rire Goiniffeirertce- Hangs Dim Balaimc
10 Dead, 5Q,QQQ Homeless
In
Pikes Broken,
WaterRushes
Through Cities
By Pat Carr
(United Prtaui Staff Correspondent)
ToDeka, Kan.( July 12 l -The
worst flood -disaster in Kansas
jhistory swept ;through cities and
farmlands oi tne eastern nan 01
ihB state today. At least 10 per
sons were dead in the .last 24
hours.
An estimated su.uoo were nome-
less. .. ?
Two huge' dikes crumbled here
early today and ilood water from
the Kansas river, iri its highest
Hood here since 1844 poured into
north Topeka and swept out one
of the bridges. Flood protection
on the south bank should have
two to three feet of freeboard
Jabove the 33.6-foot crest predict- i
But the rains continued un
abated. Northern Kansas, from
Goodland in the west to the water-washed
northeast, received
from one to four inches again
last nleht. Manhattan has receiv
ed almost 35 inches of rain in
May, June and the first 12 days
of July. . ...
City Cut In Two
At mid-morning, Topeka be
came a city of two halves, split
I... tlm flrnrl uih.n tha main
Abridge went under the flood at
"fL-uortn. ancnqrage. ,.ine water
lljw to-a J(Jppi h ui 14 feet at that
limiiit, above the tops of street
lights. Topeka businesses . were
hard hit.' All trucks, were pressed
into emergency flood relief work.
Big industrial plants were work
ing on an emergency basis only.
There was no way accurately
to pinpoint the number of home
less. Gov. Edward F. Am said
that even if he had an estimate
"I'd have to revise it upward
evpw hour. Thousands are being
driven from their homes hourly
as the rivers continue to rise.
In Shawnee county (Topeka)
alone, 15,000 were homeless.
Probably two score cities and
communities were inundated in
whole or 'part. Every farm home
in the Cottonwood valley between
Florence and Emporia was in
undated. Records Set
-The water rose, to the cross
arms of telephone poles as high
water records were set in the
Kansas, Marias Des Cygnes, Cot
tonwood and Neosho valleys.
Emporia braced for a double
(Continued on Page 2)
Senate Refuses
To Boost Funds
For Reclamation
Washington. July 12 (IPi The
senate refused today by a vote
oi 45 to 30 to add some $12,000,-'
. 000 to an interior department ap
propriations bill to finance the
sjfct of construction on new rec
lamation projects in eight west
ern states.
The vote was on an amend
ment proposed by Sen. Carl Hay-
den, D., Ariz., who sought to up
set a "no new start" policy on
reclamation projects announced
by President Truman and upheld
in earlier -action on the bill in
the house.
The DroDosal would have al
lowed starts on one project each
in California, Idaho, Utah, Wash
ington, Wyoming, Montana, Ne-
urasKa and Nortn uaKoia.
The protects had been recom
mended by an appropriations
sub-committee headed by Hayden,
but were turned down by the full
committee.
First year costs of the projects
would have totaled S12.026.450
and their ultimate costs would
have totaled $295,467,000.
The projects and their first
year costs (total estimate cost
in parentheses) included:
Palisades project, Ida., $2,500,
00 ($76,601,000):'
Yakima project, Kennewick di
vision, Wash., $1,174,000 ($10,736,
)). PRISONERS HELD HERE
Three prisoners, Adrean R.
i'obles, Robert B. Saldena and
'ecrge L. Belew. were held in the
I Det. 'hutes county jail last night
for J. S. marshal Andrew Bazar.
W men are being transferred
' cm Los Angeles to McNeil is
anc In Washington.
Kansas Flood Disaster
Hospital Ground Breaking
Ceremonies Held at Redmond
Redmond, July 12 (Special) Ground-breaking ceremonies
for the Central Oregon District hospital, to be constructed
here, were held Wednesday afternoon, with Boyd Simmons,
chairman of the hospital board, in charged '
; Completion or the new 35-bed hospital is expected by next
April, according to the contractors, Juhr and Spns of Port
land. Hans Juhr represented the firm at the ground-breaking
ceremonies.
Simmons turned the first
turn with the shovel were
Lester Houk, J. W. Sehrunk
and Gayle Bartel, members ot
the board, and three Redmond
doctors, Howard Wells, Rob
ert Unger and R. F, Jones.
Another member of the board,
Chester T. Lackey, was not able
to attendthe program.
Brief Talks Made
Also speaking briefly at the
ceremonies were Joe C. Brown,
new president of the Redmond
chamber of commerce, and Fred
Baer, new manager of, the Red-
montl chamber.
A tape recording of the rites
was made by Kessler Cannon of
radio staion KBND and will be
broadcast on that station tonight
at 6:30 o'clock.
The hospital Is to be construct
ed on the Rennolds tract, which
lies a quarter of a mile nortn of
Redmond and a quarter of a mile
east of the new Redmond high
way. It will be a modern one-story
cinder-block structure built in the
shape of an "H". The building will
be fire-proof throughout and will
be constructed at a cost of $429,
000. Cigarette Gets
Blame for Fire
f -' i v ' " ' ' . ' ' '
' ;A cigarette, tossed carelessly
from a passing automobile was
blamed today for, a fire which
licked through more than an acre
of young pines on the Brooks-
Scanlon, Inc., tree farm south of
Bend late yesterday anernoon.
Only quick work by volunteers
and fire fighters from the Bend
district of the Deschutes nation
al forest prevented the blaze from
spreading to a forest service
plantation southeast of the
Brooks-Scanlon farm, according
to Gall C. Baker, fire assistant
for the Deschutes national for
est. The tree farm is located about
six miles south of Bend along
highway 97.
Seen by Lookout
The blaze was first sighted by
the fire lookout atop Lava butte
and a 10-man crew under Ken
neth Clark, district assistant, was
dispatched immediately to the
scene. In the meantime, two passers-by,
A. D. Craft and R. E.
Schroeder, members of the local
staff of the bureau of land man
agement, had spotted the fire and
were at work checking the
flames.
The fire fighters were joined
minutes later by two more passers-by,
Charles Overbay and Ray
Ellstrom, both members of the
staff of the Deschutes national
forest, and within a short time
several nieces of heavy fire-fight
ing equipment were on the scene
after being rushed from the for
est service warehouse in Bend.
Baker today credited the quick
work by the volunteers and the
members of Clark's crew with
saving the area from a larger and
more disastrous fire.
The blaze was first sited at 6
p.m. and was not brought under
control for more than an hour,
Raker said. Forest service per
sonnel remained at the scene of
the fire all night to prevent a
possible flare-up. -Baker
said it was obvious that
a motorist's cigarette had caused
theblaze.
The young trees burned In the
fire were between 10 and 15 years
old, he reported.
NEWSMAN DIES AT SALEM
Isaac Valentine McAdoo, 79,
mid-Wlllamete valley mtblisher
and former editor of the Labor
Bender in Bend, died Tuesday In
a Salem hospital, according to the
Oreponlan. A native of Missouri,
he came to Salem In 1911. and was
eniDloyed bv both dallies there,
before coming to Bend in 1918.
Later he published the Tribune
at Scio and the Star at Gervais.
He was a member of the Oregon
State Editorial association from
1921 until his death.
shovel of dirt. Others taking a.
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Court Orders
15 Communist
Leaders Freed
New York. July 12 IP Judge
Learned Hand of the U. S. court
of appeals today ordered 15 in
dicted communist leaders to be
freed on the original bail posted
for them by the clyil rights. con
gress.
The 15 went to jail last night
after Federal judge Sylvester J.
Ryan revoked their ?l7b,uuo ball.
Judge Ryan had held that their
bondsmen were totally unre
sponsible." Judge Hand also paroled In
$10,000 ball each, two trustees of
the bail fund of the civil rights
congress who had been held in
contempt by Judge Ryan and
given six,month jail sentences.
The two trustees, detective
story writer Dashiell . Hammett
and Dr. W. Alphaeus Hunton,
were admitted to bail pending an
appeal .; of .their; contempt cita
tion. ;
". Arreiited June 20
Judge .Hand ruled that, the 15
leaders were to be let .out of jail
on their original bail until the
federal district court inquiry into
affairs of the ball is completed.
Seventeen members of the U.S.
communist - party "second eche
lon" leadership were arrested
June 20 on an Indictment charg
ing conspiracy to teach and ad
vocate the overthrow of the gov
ernment by force and violence.
Judge Ryan sent 15 of them to
jail last night. He revoked the
bail which the civil rights con
gress had posted for 14 and
which Trustee Frederick Vander
bilt Field .had posted personally
for one. He disqualified both the
CRC and Field from further ac
tivity as bond men in his court.
Judge Hand's ruling came
shortly before a senate sub-committee
was scheduled to convene
here to question Field about ac
tivities of the ball fund and the
persons who donated $80,000 to
the fund as ball for four convict
ed communist leaders who on
July 3 skipped, bail and became
fugitives to escape serving prison
terms.
U. S. attorney Irving H. Say
pol argued that Judge Ryan's ac
tion was taken after new evi
dence had been presented con
cerning the' bail fund and Its
trustees. -
The order will free the com
munist leaders at least for one
night. Arguments about the bail
fund will be resumed before
Judge Ryan tomorrow and may
be concluded then. Judge Hand
made it plain he was allowing
the defendants bail only until the
inquiry is concluded.
Field was sentenced to 90 days
for contempt but is free on $10,-
uuu ban pending appeal. -.
Deschutes Forest
Receipts Higher
The Deschutes national forest
yielded an estimated $1,270,000
In receipts during the 1950-51 fis
cal year, W. E. Naylor, admin
istrative assistant of the 'forest
service office In Bend, reported
today.
Naylor emphasized, however,
that the figure was a tentative
estimate. An exact figure, he said,
will not be determined probably
until tne iirst part or August.
Receipts by the Deschutes na
tional forest for the 1949-50 fiscal
year totaled $436.651., or a little
more than a third of the estima
ted receipts for the 1950-51 year.
Estimated receipts in all na
tional forests in Oregon and
Washington for the 12-month pe
riod just ended total $26,276,927,
compared with $13,797,402 for the
1949-50 year, according to the re
gional forester's office in Port
land.
Second Vote
On Water
Bonds Slated
Voters of Bend will bo given a
second opportunity to approve a
Dond issue, totaling tnis time in
excess of $750,000, for improve
ments to tne municipal water sys
tem. Decision to go ahead with a
special election, probably late in
August or early in September,
was reached by the city commis
sion at a special meeting last
night after W. O. Culhbertson.
city manager, had declared Bond's
water situation to be no better
than last year. -
ah city parKs now are irrigat
ed with water pumped from the
Deschutes river, and we .have
some "70 fewer accounts than at
this time last year, yet water
pressure In the eastern part of
Bend if anything is even lower
man a year ago, uutnDertson
asserted. "
When the special election is
held the voters will, be asked to
approve: i
Items Listed - '
1 A 5,000,000 gallon storage
reservoir on Awnrey outte, at an
estimated cost of $273,500. This
would be built of reinforced con
crete. and would be covered.
2-4-An 18-inch supply line to
connect the existing line with the
proposed new Awnrey uutte res
ervoir; estimated cost $78,900.
3 A 24-inch feeder line from
the Awbrey butte reservoir to the
present distribution system; esti
mated cost $58,550. -
4 A 600,000 gallon reservoir
on Pilot butte, designed to provide
pressure in the east section of
Bend; estimated cost siz.uuu.
5 A 12-inch extension line on
Lafayette avenue to the new Pilot
butte reservoir; estimated cost
$23,700.
6 A -16-inch supply line from
Tumalo creek, diverting water at
a dam above Shevlln park, with a
booster pumping station near
17th and Newport streets. Esti
mated length of this line is 2G,500
feet, and would have an estimated
capacity of 3.5 million gallons of
(Continued on Page 5; .
Reds Complain
Of 'Blackmail'
Tokyo, Friday, July 13 (IB
"$he Chinese communists, giving
wnat tney cauea me "true ver
sion" of the Interruption of Ko
rean cease fire talks, said today
that the allied command used
"blackmail tactics" in an attempt
to get correspondents of the free
press Into Kaesong.
After alerting listeners to Its
early Friday morning broadcast
to stand by lor the "true ver
sion" of the breakdown, the Chi
nese communist radio Pelplng
said the allies tried to get their
correspondents into Kaesong
without red permission.
"The American delegates In vi
olation of the agreement arrived
at as the basis for the talks wil
fully sent newsmen toward Kae
song and therefore their sincer
ity regarding a desire for peace
is doutjtiui, tne red radio said
quoting communist cease fire ne
gotiators.
Irony Seen
The communists objected to the
presence oi newsmen alone, and
not the regular United Millions
delegation, the broadcast said.
Ironically the red version was
given, over radio Pelplng, from
a dispatch of a correspondent of
tne (jninese communist New Chi
na News agency.
Throughout the cease fire talks
communist correspondents have
been In Kaesong while the reds
refuse entry to correspondents
ior tne world free press.
BOND ISSUE CARRIES
The office of the Deschutes
county school superintendent an
nounced today that an $18,000
bond issue had been passed bv n
vote ,of 16 to 4 In an election in
the Alfalfa district yesterday.
The money will be used to con
struct an additional classroom to
the present one-room Alfalfa
school building, and to remodel
the present structure.
Envoys Study
W
This picture, taken before the UN delegation -abruptly broke off
the peace parley with the reds today, shows Maj. Gen. L. C.
Craigie (left) and Vice-Adm. C. Turner Joy sitting on the steps of
a house in Kaesong, Korea. They were going over papers during .a
recess in negotiations with the communists, regarding a possible
cease-fire in Korea.
Provisions of Peace Treaty
With Japan Disclosed; No
Reparations Contemplated
' ' ' ; By James E. Roper .
' ' (United Prma Staff Com'unoriilciit . , -
: Washington, July 12 (OP.) The United States announced
today detailed allied plans for. a soft Japanese peace treaty.
' Japan gets full' freedom to rearm" aid 'buila up' its indus
trieSrJapan loses some Island-possessions, but otherwise goes
almost unpunished for the Pearl Harbor attack and all the
savagery that followed.
"The treaty is truly one
: : ' :
7 Die in Blast
At Allison Jet
Engine Building
By Keith L. Martin
(United Prvea Staff CorreflKnknt)
Indianapolis, Ind., July 12 itB .
A gas explosion and fire wrecked
a closely-guarded jet engine ex
perimental building at a General
Motors Corp. defense plant today
and killed seven of eight mem
bers of a skeleton crew on duty.
Maj. Harold E. Wilber, air
force commanding officer sta
tioned at the 75-acre plarrt, said
the explosion was accidental. The
plant is operated by the Allison
division of GMC. The blast de
stroyed test cells of experiment
al plant No. 3, used to house the
overflow from testing in main
experimental plant No. 2.
Names of .the .dead were with
held until relatives were notified.
Carl Gartner, 33, chief of plant
guards, was burned seriously. He
was taken to a hospital.
Vapor Blamed
Wilber blamed gas vapor ior
the blast. He said there was "pos
itively no sabotage involved."
"It was just an Industrial acci
dent," Wilber said.
The explosion occurred in a test
cell of a windowless. experiment
al building where jet engines are
tested before they are released
to the air force on government
contracts. Fire broke out Imme
diately but was put out within
two hours.
Wilber said 20 test cells were
destroyed by the explosion. Each
was 20 by 50 feet In size with
concrete partitions separating
them. . -
The explosion, heard at least
eight miles away, wrecked the in
terior of the experimental build
ing. It destroyed the partitions
between cells and left only the
12-inch concrete outside walls of
the building standing.
The fire was brought under
control within three hours after
the explosion.
Gi BILL EXTENDED
An ex-GI who received training
under the bill of rights may re
sume training or change his
course to another field, provided
he completes an application for
further benefits by July 25.
This jvas announced today by
C. C. Coyner, veterans service of
ficer in Bend. Coyner said the ap
plication must contain a record of
past training.
The service officer announced
he will assist In filling applica
tions at his office at room 21
O'Kane building, and urged vet
erans desiring the further train
ing to contact him Immediately.
Peace Points
1
1
. . fNRA RaAituTmUnhatai
of reconciliation," said John
Poster Dulles, the republican
leader who negotiated the
treaty of the United States.
"Never in modern times have
the victors in a great and bit
ter war applied this principle,
"They have, in the name of
peace, imposed discriminations
and humiliations which have bred
new war. The present treaty
would avoid that great error."
Text Made Public
Dulles made public the text of
the Japanese treaty as the United
States and Great Britain wrote it
after consulting their allies.
Enough other western powers
have approved the treaty to make
sure that the pact will be signed
in San Francisco the first week
In September.
Dulles announced that the
treaty will be followed quickly by
two separate arrangements for
mutual defense in the Pacific:
1. A Japanese-American agree
ment that will allow the United
States to station land, sea, and
air iorces in japan, inis arrange
men would be signed immediately
after (he main Japanese peace
treaty is signed,
, 2. A mutual security agreement
among the United States, Aus
tralia, and New Zealand. This
pact, modeled after the Atlantic
treaty, is nearly ready. Dulles
(Continued on Page 2)
Western Oregon
Seared by Heat
(By United Prnrn)
Eastern Oregon was (he only
area in the slate to escape the in
tense heat Wednesday.
All of western Oregon, even the
coastal areas, was scorched by a
strong east wind which sent temp
eratures soaring and humidities
dropping.
The Portland weather bureau
said that Eugene led the heat pa
rade with 102 degrees. The Wil
lamette valley city also recorded
a humidity reading of 12 per cent.
Onlv other Oregon city to top
100 degrees was Roseburg with
101.
Weathermen said the unusunl
thing about Wednesday's heat
blast was thai the coast areas
also sweltered. Northhead, which
uually stays below 70 this time
of year, recorded 91. Newport, As
toria and Seaside also were in the
90's.
Other highs In the interior were
Salem and Medford, 99, Portland
and The Dalles, 94.
Except for The Dalles, the east
ern part of the Btate was com
paratively cool with no tempera
tures over 90 recorded.
Refusal by Reds
To Admit Press
Brings Impasse
By Earnest Hoberecht ,
(United HreM Slnff Corrripondent) .
UN Advance Cafnp Below Kaesong, Korea, Friday, July J 3
(UP) Neirotiations tor a cease
interrupted Thursday when the
the allied free press to enter
being held. - t . !
Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, chief United Nations negotiator,-,
sent the following ultimatum to North Korean Gen. Nam 11,
the. chief communist negotia-- . . . . ...
tor, by helicopter at about 111 ft I 41J .-
a.m. Thursday (9 p.m. Wed
nesday EDT) :
. "There, will be no further
negotiations until and unless
the communists Cease all in
terference with the UN authorized
personnel or convoys."
1 Fourteen hours later, at 1 A.m.
today (11 a.m. Thursday EDT) no,
reply had been received, and red
radios had failed even to mention
the matter. -
The correspondents were" alert
ed late last night to be ready- to
go to Kaesong today. However, so
far as is known, no assurances
have been received from the reds
that they will be admitted. Nor is
there any definite Indication that
the cease fire negotiations will be
resumed today.
Now Up' to Reds
As of this morning it appeared
nothing further could happen un
til the reds replied to Joy
It was hoped the breakdown
was only temporary. But the ne
gotiations already had been sus
pended -.for one full day; while
soldiers died on. -the fighting line,
and quick red action was neces
sary- to- permit a resumption to'
day,
This was the first test of red
good faith and the first direct op
portunity to find out if the com
munists really want a cease fire--
not a sham conference which
might cover a gigantic double
cross.
The reds stopped a truck con
voy containing 20 newsmen, along
with other UN personnel, nine
miles south of Kaesong. The
trucks turned back. When It be
came evident the reds did not in
tend to admit the correspondents,
Joy sent his ultimatum.
It was believed Joy acted on In
structions from Gen. Matthew B.
Ridgway, supreme UN - com
mander. And it was assumed Ridgway
may have had direct orders from
Washington and the UN regard
ing the allied attitude.
Indicating the importance he
attached to the free press issue,
Ridgway had waited alongside the
road when the allied convoy start
ed for Kaesong to wish the cor
respondents good luck.
Now he and his command await
ed the red reply which was the
next step.
Held by Reds
It looked like a showdown, Kae
song, the "cease fire city," Is sup
posed to be neutral ground. Ac
tually it is neio oy tne reus, iney
are running the town and tne
cease fire conference, insofar as
its physical aspect is concerned.
UN authorities have been inform
ing the reds thus seeking their
approval of UN personnel select
ed to go to Kaesong.
The halt in negotiations came
after nine hours of talks Tuesday
arW Wednesday which seemed, ac
cording to UN authorities, to
bring the prospect of an armistice
much closer.
UN supreme commander Gen.
Matthew B. Ridgway had Inform
ed the reds in a formal statement
delivered by Joy to North Korean
Gen. Nam II at the Wednesday
meeting that as of Thursday the
western press would be consider
ed a pHt t of the UN delegation.
Ridgway conferred for three
hours here today with Joy and Lt.
Gen. Sir Horace Robertson, com
mander of British forces in Japan
and Korea. The meeting ended a
half hour after Joy s message had
been delivered and Sir Horace left
Immediately by Jeep, apparently
for Seoul.
The breakdown In the talks oc
curred while reports from the Ko
rean war front spoke ominously
of a huge buildup of red forces
and warned of fears of a gigan
tic double-cross" by the cfhemy.
The reports said 400,000 reds were
massed above UN battle lines and
more are coming in.
When a one-eyed Chinese com
munist officer at a red command
post nine miles south of Kaesong
turned back a UN convoy Includ
ing a truckload of 20 correspond
ents this morning, he automatical
ly stopped the talKs.
(Continued on Page 7)
tire in the Korean war wore
communists refused to permit
Kaesong -where the talks are
ieos mutiny
Hall Million
Men, Report
8th Army Headquarters, Ko
rea, July 12 tui Nearly nair a
million communist troops massed
behind a steel ring on Korea's
west central front today but hard
hitting UN patrols punched as
much as seven miles Into enemy
territory to the east to feel out
red strength.
Front reports-said UN high
command levels were "pessimis
tic about the military situation"
in the face of the red build-up.
UN supreme commander Gen.
Matthew B., Ridgway, keeping
close to the bogged-down armis
tice talks in Kaesong, was aiert
to the danger of a communist
doubfecross on the fighting front.
He was in. close contact- wltn
Jront line posts. '
More Coming In
, The powerful red forces strung -out
In thp west-central sector
numbered 400,000'-md "IWHit?W;
ports said "more are coming In"
Steadily. Heavy weapons, supplies '
and big self-propelled guns trund
led up to the communist front
area. ,: v 'V-:,:' vj.',-''';v'
To the rear, but not far, the
reds were rushing a fresh string
of airstrips to completion, to ac
commodate jet fighters. .. ,
The - continued appearance of
Russian-built MIG 15's over North
Korea, despite their steady loss
es in combat with U.S. Sabre
jets, fostered belief the commu
nists were trying to get all the
air combat xperlence possible. .
ratrois Active
Front action was limited but
UN patrols were still nunchln?
"into red defenses everywhere,
primarily to- test communist
strength and keep tab on the en
emy buildup. ..,.
un the central front patrols
got within 2!6 miles of Pyong
gang, the apex of the former
Iron triangle now in allied hands.
without meeting opposition. Near
Kumhwa, an enemy group was
beaten back in a strike at a UN
outpost and In another short fight
uin patrol puned obck.
North of Hwachon, which Is ,
east of the enemy buildup area,
UN troops advanced from
to seven miles without being
fired on. Only one fight occurred
in this area and patrols withdrew
after a short clash.
3-Way Defense
Treaty Planned
Washington, July 12 im The
United States, Australia, and New
Zealand have reached tentative
agreement on. a three-way de
fense treaty, the state ' depart
ment announced today.
A state department spokesman
said that Ambassador John Fos
ter Dulles, Australian ambassa
dor Percy C. Spender, and New
Zealand ambassador Sir Carl Ber
sendsen will meet at the depart
ment today "to record their agree
ment on the draft text of a tri
partite security treaty."
The treaty still is subject to
consideration by higher officials
of each government but the an
nouncement itself indicated an ac
cord Is assured.
No terms of the treaty were
disclosed immediately. The am- '
bassadors will meet at 4 p.m. E-,
DT in the diplomatic room at the
state department and the text of
the draft agreement will be made
public at 6 p.m. EDT.
Department press officer Mich
ael J. McDermott, who made the
announcement, said It was not yet
known "when or where" the trea
ty would be signed. It is expect
ed that It will be signed soon af
ter the Japanese peace confer
ence scheduled to be held In San'
Francisco the first week In Sep