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Truman Seeks
v $350 Million for
Foreign Relief
Congress Urged to Aid
People of Liberated
Countries Still in Need
Washington, Feb. 21 (JP)
President Truman asked con
gress today to vote $350,000 for
relief aid to people of liberated
countries abroad. In a message
to the legislators, the president
noted that full scale supply op
erations by UNRRA are rapidly
drawing to a close, and said:
"On humanitarian grounds,
and in the light of our own
self-interest as well, we must
not leave the task unfinished.
We can not abandon the peoples
still in need."
UNRRA the United Nations
relief and rehabilitation admin
istration is scheduled to wind
up its operations March 31, al
though winding up activities
under way will continue beyond
that date.
Only Liberated Lands
Mr. Truman's recommenda
tion was only for liberated coun
tries. United States relief acti
vities in occupied countries,
such as Germany and Austria,
are financed by the war depart
ment from its appropriations.
There have been complaints
in congress about UNRRA's ad
ministration methods. Some le
gislators contend its services
have been used to support gov
ernments uncooperative with
the United States.
The president made no refer
ence to this, but recommended
that future United States relief
assistance be given directly ra
ther than through an inter
national organization, and "be
administered under United
States control."
Critical Period Here
Mr. Truman said the money
he asks is designed "for the ur
gent relief needs for the balance
of the year. He added:
"The most critical period will
be in the spring and summer
months, when UNRRA will
cease and their harvests are not
yet available.
"Swift legislative action
necessary if our help is not to
come too late.
While the aid was asked for
"liberated" countries suffering
from the "ravages of war," Mr.
Truman did not mention any
specific nations.
. The president said that in
some liberated countries,
"UNRRA will have achieved its
objective fully" when UNRRA's
supply operations cease. He ex
plained that means they will be
again "self-supporting so far as
the basic essentials of life are
concerned."
But in other liberated coun
tries, Mr. Truman said this is
not yet the case and what re
mains to be done, while rela
tively small and limited in time
and scope, is "none-the-less vi
tally important"
Moslem Insist
On Separation
New Delhi, Feb. 21 VP) A
highly placed official predicted
today that the whole Indian
problem would be dumped into
the laps of the United Nations
the moment that Britain drops
the reins of government in June,
, 1948.
Few observers believed it pos
sible that the disputing Moslem
league and congress party could
smooth over their differences in
the next 15 months to a point
where they could unite in form
ing a central government.
Moslem league sources declar
ed there was not the slightest
possibility that anything short
of complete separation from
Hindu-dominated parts of India
would satisfy the Moslems.
Conflict over which part of
India would be included in the
proposed independent Moslem
state seemed likely to send the
problem to the U.N.
At present Moslem league
ministeries control Sind in the
west and Bengal in the east, the
latter containing Calcutta, sec
ond largest city in the British
empire.
IRO to Get Funds
Of United Nations
Geneva, Feb. 21 (IP) The pre
paratory commission for the in
ternational refugee organization
got a new lease on life today
when Trygve Lie, secretary gen
eral of the United Nations, cabl
ed that "necessary" advances
would be made by the United
Nations.
Lie's message did not promise
any definite amount the com
mission had requested $250,000.
Alvin Roseman, U.S. delegate
said that Lie's reply indicated
that the latter realized the im
portance of the commissions
work.
Meanwhile the commission
prepared to close a 10-day ses
sion tonight with plans to recon
vene here April 15,
apital
58th Year, No. 45
$6 Billion Cut
In Budget Hit
By Vandenberg
Washington, Feb. 21 (P)
Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich)
told the .senate today he cannot
vote for a $6,000,000,000 slash
in President Truman's budget
because he deeply fears such a
cut would "jeopardize our win
ning of the peace."
The presiding officer of the
senate and chairman of its for
eign relations committee opened
senate debate on a house-approved
resolution to put a $31,500,-
000,000 celling on government
expenditures in the fiscal year
beginning July 1. This is $6,000,
000,000 below Mr. Truman's
$37,500,000,000 request.
Cripples Defense
Vandenberg said he applauded
this drive on swollen federal
expenditures," but cautioned his
republican colleagues not to pro
mise more economy than they
might be able to attain "with
out serious threat -to the public
welfare.
If the facts later justify a cut
of $6,000,000,000, he said con
gress can make it as it votes on
individual appropriations bills.
A $6,000,000,000 cut might re
quire taking $2,500,000,000 off
the armed services allotment, he
said, and added:
"I deeply fear that would jeo
pardize our winning of the
peace."
Taft Urges Haste
For that reason, he said he
personally favors adoption of an
amendment by Senator Millikin
(R-Colo) which would limit the
budget cut promise to $4,500,000,
000.
Senator Taft (R-Ohio) urged
that the senate act without de
lay. Taft, who heads the republi
can policy committee, told a re
porter he sees no reason why a
decision should not be reached
quickly on the proposal by Sen
ator Millikin (R-Colo) to put a
ceiling of $33,000,000,000 on
government costs in the year be
ginning July 1.
The house specified a "limit"
of $31,500,000,000 co m p a r e d
with Mr. Truman's request .for
$37,500,000,000. :
Lower Figure to Win
With three 'or four economy
minded exceptions', senate demo
crats lined up behind the Milli
kin suggestion as offering the
best escape from what they con
sider the too-deep cut pledged
by the house yesterday.
Chairman Bridges (R-NH) of
the senate appropriations com
mittee, who wants to go the full
distance with his house republi
can colleagues, predicted that
Taft and Millikin will take
along about half of the repub
licans and are certain to win
with the lower figure.
Marshall Held
'On Top of Job'
- Washington, Feb. 21 (JP)
George C. Marshall today rounds
out his first month as secretary
of state with his top aides con
vinced along with Senator Van
denberg (R-Mich), that he al
ready is "obviously on top of
his job."
Marshall observed the occa
sion by turning away from the
grind at his big oak desk for
a two-day trip to receive honor
ary degrees from Columbia and
Princeton universities.
It was the cabinet officer's
first absence of more than a few
hours from his three-fold task
of (a) mastering thorny prob
lems of foreign policy, (b) deal
ing with urgent current issues,
and (c) preparing for the March
10 Moscow conference of the
Big Four foreign ministers.
Atomic Scientists to Quit En Masse
If Politicians Reject Lilienthal
Washington, Feb. 21 Dr. Karl T. Compton said today that
scientists will quit en masse and the atomic energy program will
become "a hollow shell" if political and special interests win their
fight against David" . Lilien-;
thai.
Compton, president of Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology
and a leader in development of
the atomic bomb, expressed
"disillusionment and disgust"
over senate delay in confirm
ing Lilienthal as chairman of
the atomic energy commission.
Compton, who is president
of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, warned that further
delays would reduce the nation's
atomic energy program to "a
hollow shell."
Compton expressed his views
m a letter to Senate President
Arthur H. Vandenberg, (R
Mich). He said that scientists would
quit atomic projects en masse
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Salem,
Soviet Budget
Calls for Cut
In Army Costs
Moscow, Feb. 21 (JP) Dele
gates to the supreme soviet (par
liament) debated today a 1947
budget calling for a decrease in
expenditures for the soviet arm
ed forces and increases for in
dustry, public health, sport, com
munications and agriculture.
Total income for 1947 was es
timated in the budget at 391,500,-
000,000 rubles and expenditures
at 371,400,000,000 rubles, of
which 18 percent would be as
signed to the armed forces as
against 24 percent last year.
The budget, submitted to a
joint session last night by Fi
nance Minister Arseni G. Zver
ev, would assign the armed for
ces 67,000,000,000 rubles this
year, as against 72,600,000,000 in
1946.
Value of Ruble
(The ruble is not quoted in
foreign exchange trade.) The of
ficial exchange rate is 5.3 to the
dollar. The diplomatic rate is 12
to the dollar. Russian govern
ment finances include many
items which, in the United
States, are handled by private
capital.
Russia's estimated .expendi
tures would total about $70,075,-
000. 000 at the "official" rate; or
$30,950,000,000 at the "diploma
tic rate.
(President Truman's budget
for the fiscal year starting July
1, now under scrutiny of con
gress, calls for appropriations of
$37,500,000,000. Of this about
$11,200,000,000, some 30 per
cent, would go for defense.)
Accents Internal Economy
The budget recommendations,
expected to meet with general
approval of the many hundreds
of delegates from all over the
U.S.S.R., conformed with the an
nounced policy of Russia to put
less emphasis on the army, navy
and air force and accent the in
ternal economy in connection
with Prime Minister Stalin's
five-year plans.
Russia in 1947 will spend 131,
800,000,000 rubles on her inter
nal economy, which includes ap
propriations for-industry, agri
culture, transportation, commun
ications, trade and stocks. Last
year the U.S.S.R. spent 95,700,
000,000 rubles in these fields.
Search on For
Missing Flier
Eugene, Ore., Feb. 21 (IP)
A forlorn search began today
for the third airplane to disap
pear this winter into the scat
tered mountains of southern Ore
gon.
Aboard the light, single-en
gined craft was a pilot identi
fied as Douglas Locke, ferrying
the Avion four-placer from Los
Angeles to Beaverton, Ore.
Like the others, his disappear
ance was not reported at once
because of his failure to file a
flight plan.
He took off from Red Bluff,
Calif., last Sunday afternoon,
saying he would land here or at
Lakeview. Three hours later the
airport here heard a plane report
it was lost. That was the last
heard.
Missing in previous flights are
Vernon Coulter and his mother,
both Portland, lost after taking
off from Red Bluff last October,
and Robert Lee Rubottom, Mc
millville. Ore., lost after leav
ing Klamath Falls, Ore., Jan
10.
Private fliers and army search-
rescue units from McChord field,
Wash., and Hamilton Field,
Calif., are expected to aid when
the weather allows them to fly
if convinced that political and
special interests would be sue
cessful in blocking Lilienthal's
appointment.
His letter was introduced into
the record of the senate atomic
committee now considering the
appointment.
Members were prepared for
a test of strength on the drive
of Sen. Kenneth McKellar, (D
Tenn), to block confirmation.
Compton said further delay
in acting upon the nomination
would be "a blow to progress"
in both military and industrial
applications of the new power.
The entire program, he said,
would be reduced to little more
than "glib talk" if action ap
proving Lilienthal was not im
mediately forthcoming.
Oregon, Friday, February
Seek Victims of L.A. Explosion
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destroyed by a violent explosion in Los Angeles, in which the death toll was 15 and cf the 158
injured several were feared dying. An area four blocks square was damaged. (AP Wirephoto)
No Spring Opening Event
But Summer Festival
The Salem Retail Trade bureau, meeting Friday at the Cham
ber of Commerce, voted not to promote a spring opening event,
but instead to work towards a summer festival to be followed by
a fall opening more elaborate than in former years. Opening
events have not been held in Salem since prior to the war, and it
was the intention to renew the?
custom this spring. The date
would have fallen on Thursday,
March 13. Restrictions that still
exist on delivery of merchandise
was the reason given for the
action taken.
"We regretted reaching the
decision against a spring open
ing," said Mai Rudd, manager of
the J. C. Penney store and pres
ident of the trade bureau. "The
merchandise situation was the
reason. Automobile dealers are
able to display cars, but can't
make delivery. That is also true
of tractors. Clothing merchants
can display, goods,, but can't de
liver in quantity."
The merchants are laying
plans for a summer festival to
be held in June, and further dis
cussion will be given the mat
ter at a meeting next week. A
tie-in with manufacturers and
canneries is proposed to give the
event a tourist appeal.
Tentative plans for a fall
opening call for a tie-in with the
Salem Saddle club, the Cher
rians and other organizations
that may add to spectacular fea
tures. "Our plans," said Mr. Rudd
"will call for cooperation, and
a cooperative effort among all
concerned will, we believe, be of
great benefit to the community."
Boy Suicides
When Dog Lost
Chicago, Feb. 21 (U.R) Some
things are too much for a boy
to take and the loss of his
Christmas puppy was more than
Joey Craig could bear.
Home from school yesterday.
the 13-year-old youngster look
ed high and low for the mongrel
dog that his parents had given
him as an extra special holiday
present. Leash in hand, Joey
and his two sisters recruited
their playmates and scoured the
crowded stockyards neighbor
hood. But there was no sign of
Blackic.
Hours later the boy and his
sisters returned home, the leash
dragging forlornly behind them,
"I'm going in the bedroom,"
Joey told Ellen and Norma Jean.
"When I knock you can come
in."
They waited, but there was
no knock. Pushing into the bed
room they found Joey, hanging
by his neck, his body dangling
at the end of the old rope leash.
Sergeant at Arms
Pleads Innocent
Washington, Feb. 21 (JP)
Kenneth Romney, former ser-geant-at-arms
of the house for
16 years, pleaded innocent to
day to charges of attempting to
defraud the government by con
cealing a $143,863 shortage in
his accounts.
Romney was arraigned before
Federal District Court Judge
Blitha J. Laws, who set trial for
April 21.
The sergeant - at - arms office
serves as a "bank" for house
members.
Jonrmal
21, 1947
Rescue workers search the
Price Boom in
Pork Predicted
Chicago, Feb. 21 (U.R) A price
boom in pork developed today
and livestock men predicted it
would hit the housewife's purse
in about two weeks.
The increases will continue
for about three months, live
stock men said. Before it is end
ed, some butchers may be sell
ing pork roasts for 90 cents a
pound and center chops for
$1.25, one source said. Easter
hams, he said, may retail at
$1 a pound.
The boom resulting from the
small spring pig crop already
has hit the hog market, where
shipments from the farm have
been gradually tapering off.
Hog prices spiraled to record
levels yesterday in the nation's
major hog markets.
The public, however, will not
pay the increased price for its
pork appetite immediately. Hogs
in the form of fresh pork
generally take between seven
and 10 days to travel the circuit
from the stockyard to the kitch
en. In the case of ham and ba
con and other cured products, it
takes about two weeks longer.
Bad news for the budgeting
city housewife also developed in
the Chicago grain mart. Whole
sale wheat futures prices soar
ing 30 cents a bushel since Jan
uary 1 foreshadowed a possi
ble hike in the price of flour and
cereals.
Drivers Escape from
Exploding Truck
Grants Pass, Feb. 21 (IP)
Two truck-line drivers escaped
injury when their truck, laden
with 50 barrels of paint thinner
being shipped from Seattle to
southern California, caught fire,
exploded and burned on Pacific
highway, 10 miles north of here
last night. ,
Edgar O. Southard, of Seattle,
was at the wheel when his relief
driver, Lyle Smith, of Los An
geles, noticed flames working
out from around a rear wheel,
state police said. Both men fled
to safety before the blaze reach
ed the highly-inflammable truck
load and set off a scries of ex
plosions as one barrel after an
other let go.
The truck was operated for
the Los Angeles-Seattle Motor
Transportation company. Truck
and cargo were reported con
sumed completely.
The Weather
(Released by United States
Weather Bureau)
Forecast for Salem and Vicin
ity: Partly cloudy today and
tonight becoming cloudy witn
occasional light rain Saturday.
Little change In temperature
with lowest tonight 38. Maxi
mum yesterday 57. Minimum to
day 38. Mean temperature yes
terday 45 which was 2 above
normal. Total 24-hour precipi
tation to 11:30 a.m. today 0.
Total precipitation for the
month 3.43 which Is .02 inch
above normal. Willamette river
height 2.8.
Price Five r
wreckage of a two-story building
Blast Death
Toll Fixed at 15
Los Angeles, Feb. 21 (JP)-
After a night spent probing be
neath glaring searchlights, po
lice today fixed the death toll
from the city's worst explosion
in 37 years at 15.
Of the 158 injured sufficiently
to require hospitalization, sever
al were feared dying.
The scene, as police and fire
men shifted the blasted rubble
of an electroplating plant, resem
bled somewhat a garishly-lit
night-time movie set. Except
that there was nothing fictional
about the carnage.
The one-story brick plant of
the J. J. O'Connor corp. at 932
Pico blvd., a mile from the cen
ter of downtown Los AngeleSj
blew apart in a blinding flash of
chemicals at 9:45 a.m. (FST)
yesterday. But it was hours be
fore a clear picture of the dis
aster could be pieced together.
Police and fire officials fin
ally agreed that it was caused by
the detonation of perchloric acid,
an extremely unstable substance
kept under pressure in refriger
ation because at room tempera
ture it is a seething, heavy li
quid. But how the acid was set
off remained a mystery.
O'Connor told reporters "we
were doing something lor tne
government." This, he later am
plified, was the aluminum-plating
of hospital beds and chairs
under a secret trade process. Not
in the plant at the time, he was
reported in collapse at his home
last night.
Snow Postpones
United Nations Meet
Lake Success, N. Y., Feb. 21
Heavy snow which swept the
eastern seaboard today forced
postponement of the United Na
tions security council session on
the Albanian case.
The United Nations announced
the council would meet Monday
to continue debate on the Brit
ish charges against Albania.
The announcement came as
Great Britain made it "clear she
would oppose a Columbian pro
posal to refer to the internation
al court of justice her complaint
that Albania is responsible for
the deaths of 44 seamen in two
roval navy destroyers blasted
by mines in Corfu channel last
October 22.
British delegate bir Alcxan
der Cadogan remarked tartly
that the international court of
justice is "not a police court,
Worst Snowstorm in Years Hits
Eastern Coast Maine to Carolina
(By the United Presil
The worst storm in years buried most of the eastern seaboard in
snow today. It howled up from the south riding on tailwinds of
30 to 50 miles an hour, headed through Virginia, West Virginia,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and
New York, curved through New
England and out to sea. By
noontime 20 persons were dead.
Weathermen had predicted it
would shift over the Atlantic
north of Boston around noon, but
at mid-day it still raged, leav
ing behind two to 19 inches of
snow and piling drifts six feet
deep in rural sections.
The storm grounded all air
planes. It delayed ships at sea.
Train travel was slowed from
minutes to more than three
Uniform Basis
Adopted for
Sary Boosts
"Ht&vQ&tee Adopts
fa comparative to
urner drares
A uniform salary schedule for
state officials was adopted today
by the joint ways and means
committee, which said it was
worked out in relation to what
is paid in other states.
Heading the list is the gover
nor, who would get $10,000 a
year, compared with $7,500 now.
In addition, he would get $100
a month for expenses.
Five other officials would get
$7,500. They are the secretary
of state and treasurer, who
would get a $2,100 boost; the
attorney general, who would get
$2,500 more; the public utilities
commissioner, who already gets
that much; and the state high
way engineer, who would get
$300 more.
Police Salaries Ok'd
The committee also approved
the state police salary bill, in
troduced by Speaker John Hall
and already passed by the house
Hall had charged that the com
mittee was attempting to- bury
the bill, which provides large
increases for all state police
officers.
The state health officer would
be boosted from $6,720 to $7,
000.
The following officials would
get $6,600 a year, their increases
ranging from $600 to $1,800;
superintendent of public instruc
tion, liquor administrator, pub
lic welfare administrator, bud
get director, tax commissioners,
unemployment e o m p e nsation
and industrial accident commis
sioners, state forester, director
of agriculture, state police su
perintendent, and superintend
ent of state hospital.
Other Salaries Listed
The following would get $6,
000 a year: superintendent of
Fairview home, superintendent
of tuberculosis hospitals, deputy
state hospital superintendents,
state engineer, adjutant gen
eral. These officials would get $5,
520 a year: labor commissioner,
prison warden, game supervisor,
unemployment compensation ad
ministrator, industrial accident
administrator, director of veter
ans affairs, secretary of retire
ment, deputy secretary of state,
(Concluded on Page 13, column n
Baby Victim of
Childish Prank
Victim of a ghastly childish
prank the four- months - old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. A.
Reynolds of the farm labor
camp, died Thursday night in a
local hospital after its mother
had found the child lying on
the burning embers of a cook
stove in the kitchen of her home.
From what information could be
eathered by Sheriff Denver
Young the child was placed in
the stove by a 6-year-old Doy,
son of some farm labor camp
neighbors.
Mrs. Reynolds told the snerui
that she, with three other chil
dren, had gone to the home of
Mrs. Omer Adams, her sister-in-law
close by about 2:30 Thurs
day afternoon leaving the baby
in his crib. She said she had
been gone but a few minutes
but on her return missed the
baby from its crib, heard muf
fled screams from the stove and
found the infant lying in the
ashes. Some glowing coals had
charred the child's clothing and
burned it about the head, shoul
ders and feet. The child was
rushed to a hospital but suc
cumbed about five hours later
Mrs. Reynolds told the sheriff
when she was returning irom
the Adams home she passed the
6 - year - old boy about 20 feet
from her home heading in an
other direction. She said the
hov mumbled a few words when
they passed and then broke into
a run. The lad when questioned
bv the sheriff finally admitted
the act, said Young, after telling
what apparently wore some
imaginative stories about a boy
named "Blackie," being with
him in the plaoc.
Funeral arrangements arc in
charge of the Clough-Barrick
mortuary.
hours. Commuters to large cities
got to their jobs late. Schools
were snowed in. Thousands of
rural residents were marooned.
Business in the east and govern
ment in Washington slowed to
a walk.
Fires imperiled the lives of
hundreds. Many fled into the
storm from blazing homes.
In Newark the city hospital's
fleet of ambulances were snow
bound by drifts blocking the
doors of the ambulance garage.
Airplanes were not flying.
House Debates
Overriding of
Governor's Veto
Close Vote Indicated
On Snake River Power
Dam Issue
The Oregon house of repre
sentatives opened its debate to
day on whether to override Gov
ernor Earl Snell's veto of senate
bill 99, which the senate already
had voted 27 to 3 to pass the bill
over the veto.
Prospects were that the ques
tion would be extremely close,
with 40 votes of the 60 members
necessary to override. The bill
originally passed the house 46
to 14. '
The bill, sponsored by eastern
Oregon legislators who say it
would enable the Idaho Power
company to build a power dam
on the Snake river and thus re
lieve a power shortage in that
area, would permit power com
panies to keep their dams for
the period for which they were
licensed, unless condemnation
proceedings are brought. The
law now in effect, passed in
1931, permits taking over on
the basis of net investment, less
the total of certain items.
Gallagher Opens Debate
The house debated the ques
tion for more than two hours,
with only the closing argument
to be presented in the afternoon.
Rep. Martin P. Gallagher, On
tario, opened the debate by say
ing the present power law has
made power development by pri
vate companies impossible, but
Rep. Lyle Thomas, Dallas, coun
tered by saying no private plants
were built since 1931 because
of the depression and the war.
Rep. J. E. Bennett, Portland,
again threatened a referendum
if the house approved the bill,
and Rep. Robert E. Duniway,
Portland, denied there is a pow
er shortage in eastern Oregon.
Snell Denies Rumors
Anskering that the governor
wanted the bill passed over his
veto, Duniway read a letter from
the governor saying the report
is "absolutely false, unfair and
without foundation." The gov
ernor said the bill is not in the
public interest.
Rep. R. C. Frisbie, Baker, said
the present law kept power de
velopment out of Oregon, that
senate bill 99 is in the best in
terests of all the people, and
that the proposed dam would
bring to the state $250,000 a year
in taxes.
Rep. Alex Barry, Portland, de
nied the sponsors' claim that
senate bill 99 conforms with the
federal power law.
Those who took the floor
against the bill, and who voted
for it when it was first passed,
were Barry, Rep. Frank Doer-
flcr, Salem, and Rep. William
Niskanen, Bend.
Soviet Troops
In Reich Cut
Berlin. Feb. 21 (U.R) The Sov
iet army has completed a big I
scale demobilization and trans
fer of its troops in Germany, I
Gen. Joseph T. McNarney
ported today.
Berlin observers believed the
Soviet occupation forces had
been reduced to fewer than 200,
000, or about the same as the
American forces in Germany.
Marshal Vassily Sokosovsky I
advised McNarney of the com
pletion of the troop movements.
McNarney reported It in his fi
nal Berlin press conference as I
military governor in Germany. I
Lt. Gen. Lucius D. Clay, who I
takes over from McNarney on I
March 15, announced a sweeping I
reorganization of U. S. forces,
with most of the leadership!
transferred from Frankfurt to I
Berlin.
McNarney said Sokolovsky I
told him yesterday that the troop
movements were completed, and
correspondents again would ba
issued permits to visit the Rus
sian occupation zone.
The zone was been scaled off!
since last October, when the ma
jor redeployment move began.
Soviet Zone to Be
Opened to Newsmen
Berlin. Feb. 21 (JP) The Soviet I
zone will again be opened to the I
American press after a five I
months blackout, Gen. Joseph T.
McNarney disclosed today. He 1
said that Marshal Vassily Soko
lovsky, Russian commander-in-
chief, had informed him that
passes into the Russian zone I
would be issued to American I
newsmen "with a minimum of I
delay" now that Russian troop
movements have stopped.
American correspondents last I
went into the Russian zone in I
mid -September to report on I
elections. Later applications tol
tour the zone were rejected by I
the Russians on the grounds I
that it would be "dangerous"
for correspondents to be in the
zone while Red army troops
were being redeployed.
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