Legal Staff Resigns
Account Time-Wasting
In Pearl Harbor Probe
Washington, Dec. 14 (U.R) The Pearl Harbor committee's
legal staif resigned today with a charge of time-wasting and Chair
man Alben W. Barkley, D., Ky., threatened to resign.
Chief Counsel William D. Mitchell told the House-Senate In
vestigating committee that he and his three colleagues would quit
as soon as they could be replaced.
He said the hearings were dragging on much longer than he
had expected them to and that he and his staff had not yet been
permitted to present new data hitherto never made public.
BARKLEY MAY ALSO QUIT COMMITTEE
Barkley expressed regret at the legal staffs decision. He
added, however, that the time also had come when he must deter
mine whether his duties on the committee outweigh his responsi
bilities as democratic leader of the senate.
"If I must conclude that my duties in the senate outweig'h my
duties here I shall thereupon resign from the committee," Barkley
announced.
Mitchell notified the committee at the start of today's session
i that the hearings have reached a point where "a complete replace
iment of the committee's legal staff is necessary."
He said the legal staff has worked day and night and Sundays
for two and a half months preparing pertinent evidence that has
never been produced at any previous inquiry about Pearl Harbor.
NOT ABLE TO PRESENT EVIDENCE GATHERED
"We are all depressed," he said, "that because of the course
of the proceedings we have not been able to present it."
The decision climaxed a running battle between the legal staff
and republican members of the committee which began even be
fore public hearings were opened a month ago.
"Since the start of the hearings it has become increasingly
apparent that some members of the committee have a different
view than that entertained by counsel, either as to the scope of
the inquiry or as to what is pertinent evidence," Mitchell said.
"This has been reflected in the extensive examination by
some members of the committee far beyond what the legal staff
anticipated."
REPUBLICAN MEMBERS PROLONG EXAMINATION
Mitchell mentioned no names. But there was no doubt that
his remarks were addressed at three of the four republican mem
bers of the 10-man committee.
Members of the legal staff and some democratic members of
the committee had made no attempt to hide their irritation at the
, lengthy questioning conducted by Sen. Homer Ferguson, R.,
I Mich., and Reps. Frank B. Keefe, R., Wis., and Bertrande W. Gear
' hart, R., Calif.
Sen. Owen Brewster of Maine, fourth republican on the "com
mittee, has been absent recently because of the death of his father.
During the early stages of the investigation, however, he frequently
criticized the legal staff's methods.
Mitchell said that a month of public hearings has convinced
the legal staff that the inquiry cannot be completed by early Janu
ary as all of them had contemplated it would.
He said that at least 60 witnesses remain to be examined.
REPORT BACK TO CONGRESS DUE
Mitchell said the resolution setting up the congressional In
vestigation requires a report back to congress on Jan. 3.
The legal staff's resignation came as new doubts were rai.-ed
before the committee that Japan ever sent a mysterious "winds"
broadcast before the Pearl Harbor attack.
Naval evidence submitted to the committee piled more con
fusion on confusion already existing in connection with the mes
sage. One witness at a naval inquiry, the data disclosed, gave hear
say testimony that Gen. George C. Marshall, former army' chief
of staff, ordered destruction of evidence that the vital message was
intercepted before Pearl Harbor. Others said they had no infor
mation that the broadcast ever was made.
The message, if actually sent' and intercepted,' would' have
been a tip-off that Japan meant war. ,
BELSEN "BEASTS"
FILE TO GALLOWS
British Headquarters, Ger
many, Dec. 14 (U.R) Josef
Kramer, beetle-browed czar of
the. Belsen concentration camp,
and 10 other Belsen officials in
cluding three women were hang
ed in the red brick prison of
Hamelin yesterday, it was dis
closed officially today.
For more than six hours the
11 marched in turn to the gal
lows and were executed for com
mitting mass murders and atroci
ties in the camp where thousands
of Jews, Poles and other in
mates died in the months before
British troops reached it.
Kramer and Dr. Fritz Klein,
SS doctor who picked the vic
tims for the Oswiecim gas cham
bers, swung to their deaths
simultaneously at 12:11 p. m.,
the announcement said.
Ted Gamble Earns
Club's Gold Medal
Philadelphia, Dec. 14 (U.R)
Ted R. Gamble, national director
of the war finance division, U.
S. treasury, will be presented
the Poor Richard club's gold
medal of achieven-ent for 1945
at the organizations annual j
banquet Jan. IV.
Club President Roger W. Clippi
announced last night that(
Gamble would be honored fori
his work in directing sale of
government securities ii the!
people during the war loan
drives.
Britain and Canada
Filibuster UNO Votei
London, Dec. 14 U.R Bri-j
tain and Canada today led a
filibuster aimed at preventing,
an immediate vote on whether j
permanent headquarters of the
United Nations should be in the
United States or Europe. i
Nations opposing the location i
of the UNO in the United States j
maneuvered and stalled as at
preparatory commission group
worked toward a vote of Amer-!
ica vs. Europe. They wore led
hv the British and Canadians. ;
Victory Loan Drive
E" Quota $525,000
'E' Sales to Dhte
$445,026
Remainder to sell $79,974
Television Sets to Be
Ready By Summer
RCA Announcement
Princeton, N. J., Dec. 14 (U.R)
By- next summer television re
ceivers co ting from less than
S200 to $300 will be on the mar
ket, Radio Corporation of Amer
ica1, has announced
RCA demonstrated table type
receivers at its laboratories yes
terday. The black and white
pictures were reflected on
screens ranging in size from 4V4
by 6 inches to 6 by 8 inches.
Company engineers also
demonstrated high - frequency
color television, but termed it
obsolete. Practical color televi
sion with an all-electronic sys
tem and no moving parts will
take about five years to put on
the market, engineers said.
EARTH SLIDES ADD
Croydon, Eng., Dec. 14 (U.R)
Earth slides in a 43-foot crater
added new perils today to the
task of two young engineers
toiling at the bottom of the dank
hole to neutralize a giant nazi
bomb.
The soggy earth shifted mena
cingly when the engineers hoist
ed the bomb into a vertical
position preparatory to opening
it with surgical precision and
tapping its 3,000 pounds of TNT.
Legal Verbiage
Confuses Solon
Washington. Dec. 14 (U.R
Sen. Harry Flood Byrd, D Va
said today there ought to be a
law that laws must be written
simply.
He riffled through a fat bill
on disposal of surplus cargo
ships. He took a deep breath.
He began to read, starting with
line 4. He came to the end of
the sentence 13 lines later.
"It's all very clear when you
begin, but you need a half-dozen
Philadelphia lawyers to tell
where you are when you finish,"
Byrd said.
"THE BODY" SEPARATED
Hollywood. Dec. 14 U.R
Manu McDonald, whose luscious
curves earned her the nickname
"The Body" and motion picture
agent Victor Orsatti have sep
arated and will "probably" be
divorced, Orsatti said today. The
parting wa apparently an amic
able one. t.ie separation was dup
to a "difference in temperi
ment." Orsatti said. They were
married Jan. 10, 1943.
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Fortieth Year
C. I. J.
SENATE DEFEATS
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Amendment to Add $3,300
Defeated 45-23; Senator's
Expense Is Also Defeated.
Washington, Dec. 14 (U.R)
The senate today defeated, 45
tc 23, a proposal to raise con
gressional salaries.
The vote was on an amend
ment to the first deficiency
appropriations bill by Sen. John
H. Bankhead, D., Ala.
The amendment would have
raised congressional salaries
from S10.000 -to $13,300, but it
was modified on the floor to
apply only on the six months
from Jan. 1 to next June 30. Ihe
measure also would have boost
ed the salaries of the vice presi
dent and speSkcr of the house
to $19,950.
Exoense Defeated
Earlier, by a. vote of 47 to 24,
it had struck Irom the first
deficiency bill a proposal to give
each senator an extra $2,500 for
expenses. House members now
receive an expense allowance of
that amount.
In ihe vote on the Bankhead
pay raise amendment, three re
publicans and 20 democrats vot
ed for the raises, and 24 republi
cans, 20 democrats and one
progressive voted against them.
The vote was preceded by an
appeal by Sen. Glenn H. Taylor,
D Ida., for passage of the
amendment. Taylor cited the
treasury reports that Louts B
Mayer, motion picture executive
sot $900,000 last year.
"That's -more than the whole
senate got," Taylor said, adding,
''of course, maybe he's worth
more.
WIVES OF GI'S IN
Los Angeles, Dec. 14 (U.P)
Two wives of servicemen In
Germany were jailed today with
male companions on parole from
San Quentin, and charged with
25 robberies.
Mrs. Dorothy Hester, 23,
mother of two; Mrs. Carolyn
Kaylor, 24; John Stewart, 23,
and Charles Thorn, 31, were ar
rested after a nightwatchman
grappled with Stewart during
an attempted hold-up.
Police said the men confessed
to holding up liquor stores to
gain the $200 a day they "need
ed" to keep the quartette in
liquor and the women in clothes.
Both Stewart and Thorn are
on parole from robbery sen
tences and Thorn is wanted for
car theft and forgery charges
in Eureka, police said.
Tule Lake Japs
May Change Mind
' Washington, Dec. 14 (U.R)
The justice department is con
sidering a plan to hold rchear
ings in the case of many Tule
Lake Japanese who previously
renounced American citizen
ship, a spokesman said today.
The spokesman said the at
torney general has the plan
"under consideration" but that
there Is "no comment at this
time." It was said that some
of the Japanese have relatives
and families in this country and
that certain other mitigating
facts may make it advisable to
hold rehcarings.
Four Missing as
Fire Razes Hotel
' Glenwood Springs, Colo.. Dec
14 'UP! Four persons were re
ported missing today after an
early-moning fire which de
stroyed, the Hotel Glenwood. At
least eicht others were injured.
C. H. .McCarthy, owner of the
hotel, said he had been unable
to account for three persons list
! ed on the register, and snothxr
! whom he was sure was in the
building at the time of the fire
but whose name he did not
know.
JOE CRONW TO ACT
Hollywood. Dec. 14 (U.R)
Joe Cionin, manager of the Bos
ton Red Sox, has been signed
'or a role In "Play Ball, Son."
movie version of the book by
Bert V. Dunne. Producer Herb
Lamb announced, today.
Vn -rull Leased Wire
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Pickets Let G. M.
SAYS CIO CHIEF
Worse Economic Disaster
Than 1929 Warns Murray
in Opposing Strike Control
Washington, Dec. 14 (UP.)
The senate labor committee
today postponed until after
the holidays consideration of
labor dispute fact - finding
legislation which President
Truman wanted passed by
Christmas.
Washington, Dec."l4 (U.R)
CIO President Philip Murray de
clared today that the nation is
rushing toward an economic dis
aster more catastrophic than the
crash of 1929.
He said that a decline in
workers' take-home pay com
bined with corporate profit
hoarding could lead only to a
depression far more severe than
"the havoc which followed the
crash of 1928."
Opposes Control
Murray appeared before the
house labor committee in op
position to President Truman's
proposal for a 30-day cooling off
period before strike action to
permit study of labor disputes
by fact-finding committees.
He called the president's pro
posal futile, deceptive and aim
less. He charged that the pres
ident had backed down from his
original program of maintainine.
high wages and regretted what
he termed Mr. Truman's lack of
"fortright and courageous ac
tion." As Murray spoke members
prepared to go into executive
session to consider two alto na
tive proposals. They are (1)
shelving of the president's re
quest for enactment of his anti
strike program, and (2) limita
tion of committee hearings in an
effort to comply with adminis
tration requests for passage of
the measure before the Christ
mas recess.
Allies to Leave
All of Italy But
Northeast Corner
Rome, Dec. 14 (U.R) The
scheduled allied withdrawal
from Italy, except from a small
northeastern corner, added fur
ther confusion today to the na
tion's actual status.
Italy still has no peace treaty.
The allied commission, how
ever, announced today that all
remaining Italian territory un
der allied government, except
Veneziaciulia and Udine prov
inces, would be returned to
Italian administration about Dec.
31.
MRS. MANSFELDT SOBS
AS PENALTY IS ASKED
San Francisco, Dec. 14 (U.R)
Mrs. Annie Irene Mansfeldt
wept today as Prosecutor Nor
man Elkington asked a Jury of
six men and six women to find
her guilty of first degree mur
der in the jealous shooting of
Mrs. Vada Martin, a conviction
which carries a mandatory pen
alty of death or life imprisonment.
Bigger, Easier G. I. Loans Assured
As Congress Agrees on Amendments
Washington, Dec. 14 UR)
Bigger and easior-to-get loans
and more liberal education ben
efits virtually were assured vet
erans today as house-senate con
ferees agreed on amendments
to the G.I. bill of rights.
Mii-miMi. iu-.. i '"k'k
iiom widespread niMmiMdciiun
wnn some oi me provisions oi
tne oru-inal bill, now go to tnc
respective houses for approval,
The changes In the bill would:
1. Permit the government to
guarantee veteran real e state
loans up to $4 000 instead nf
the present maximum of $2 000.
Loans also would be granted for
a wider range of purposes. In
addition they would be easier
to get, through making "reason
able value" of property the
basis for the' loan instead of the
"normal reasonable value." The
latter provision has made it dif
ficult to obtain approval of
loans since it does not allow for
present high price lcvclj,
MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1945.
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(Aemt TeUphoto)
Fnct-flnding board appointed by President Trumsn to Investigate Oeneral Motors auto strike are (lett to
right). Milton Eisenhower, president of Knnsns Stale College; Judge Walter P. Stacy, chairman of recent labor-management
conference, and Lloyd K. Garrison, chairman of WLB. Stacy Is chief Justice of North Caro
lina Supreme Court and Eisenhower Is brother to U. S. chief of stuff.
"Trail of Tragedy" Evidence
Is Assembled in Cline Case
San Francisco. Dec. 14 (U.R)
r.VlULIlLC LUIlt-l-HlMIS I I I I C U
Leonard Cline's transcontinen
tal "trail of tragedy" was assem
bled at a conference of San
Francisco and Portland, Ore.,
police here today in a prelimin
ary attempt to establish a basis
for a possible murder charge.
Cline, 55-year-old ex-convict
held in the city prison on sus
picion of forgery, challenged in
vestigators to try to prove that
he had murdered any of the
eight persons who died or disap
peared after associating with
him. Investigators accepted the
challenge.
Police Inspector Gene Fergu
son and Detective C. H. Robert
son of the Portland police de
partment conferred with Dis-
PAITON TO LIVE
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Heidelberg, Dec. 14 (U.R)
Gen. George S. Patton today
was pronounced by his physi
cians out of danger "barring un
foreseen complications."
Col. R. G. Shurley, Louisville,
Ky.. Patton's physician, added.
however, that Patton still faced
the possibility of partial paraly
sis for the remainder of his life.
"Barring unforeseen compli
cations." he said, "Patton Is out
of danger at this moment. But
the general Is not out of danger
of partial paralysis for the rest
of his life."
Patton is net yet able to move
either his hands or his legs but
has regained control of his right
shoulder.
U. S. Airlines Face
Low British Quota
Washington, Dec. 14 (U.R)
United States Airlines will be
permitted to fly only 500 passen
gers a week into Great Britain
under a "temporary" quota set
up by the British government.
This policy Is strongly oppos
ed in principle by the United
States. It refused to accept a
similar stipulation at the Chi
cago aviation conference.
2. Raise subsistence allow
ances for veterans taking educa
tional or training courses from
the present $50 a month for sin
gle veterans and $75 for mar-
I rled veterans to $65 and $90 a
, month. Disabled veterans would
get $105
month instead nf the
j present s:2, with extra allow-
anees for dependents. The age
i l m it would be lifted on veterans
j wanting to go to school and they
j would be permitted to take
correspondence courses and
j vhort -period, high-cost technical
courses.
One major Ciiriiitfe, accepted
by the -conferees after a bitter
debate, is expected to cause
thousands of additional ex-servicemen
to apply for G. I. bill
benefits. The amendments elim
inates the provision of the G. I.
bill .deducting from any future
..onus and payments made un
der the bill. Many veterans re
frained from takim; advantage
of benefits for fear tluy. would
i lo:e future giants.
Office
trict Attorney Edmund Brown
of San Francisco and other in
vestigating authorities.
Nationwide Trail
"Although It looks as though
we may have a murder case,
we'll have to go back to Port
land and talk to the district at
torney before we take any ac
tion," Ferguson said.
The inquiry Into the deaths
and cremation of Cline's elder
ly, well-to-do women compan
ions, now extended throughout
the nation. Various aspects were
under investigation in Califor
nia, Oregon, Florida, Georgia,
Texas, Illinois, Indiana and
Ohio.
At Macon, Gs., It was disclos
ed that the ashes of a woman
believed to be the "missing
link" in the chain of deaths had
been found at a mortuary under
the name of "Mrs. Alma Car
ter." Police believed "Mrs. Car
ter," cremated at the request of
an "F. A. Klein," actually may
have been Alice W. Carpenter,
Bloomington, Ind., missing wi
dow of Cline.
Jesse B. Hart. Macon morti
cian, reported thnt "Mrs. Car
ter" died in her hotel room Feb.
19, 1944, shortly after arriving
here with "Klein." who was
listed as her nephew.
To Exhume Ashes
In Bloomington, relatives of
Mrs. Carpenter said that ashes
sent there for burial as those of
Mrs. Carpenter would be ex
humed in an effort to establish
Identity. The ashes arrived
few days after a long-distance
telephone call, purported to be
from "A. L. Cline at Chicago,
which informed the relatives
that Mrs. Carpenter died In
Dallas, Texas, on Oct. 17, 1944.
Authorities here believe the
woman who died in Dallas ac
tually was Mrs. Delora Krcbs
Cline, Cline's last wife.
In Columbus, O., Frank H.
Ward, attorney for Mrs. Delora
Cline, said she had willed her
entire estate to her husband.
Ward filed the list of the con
tents of Mrs. Cline's safety de
posit box, revealing 32 Items
including securities and cash to
tailing $200,000. In addition
there were two diamond rings,
sent from Dallas Nov. 4, 1944, 17
days after the death at Dallas
of "Mrs. Alice W. Carpenter,"
now believed to be Mrs. Cline.
District Attorney Edmund
Brown said he expected to file
a forgery complaint against
Cline as a stalling action pend
ing further Investigation of the
deaths and disappearances.
Okinawa Veteran
Goes To Pen For
Drunken Driving
Los Angeles, Dee. 15 (U.R)
C'pl. John C. Pearson. 22-year-
I nlri vpti-mn nf Cllt i naufO Inrlnv
began a one to 10 year prison
! sentence for manslaughter grow-
ing out of
traffic death,
posed as
I drivers.
example to other
! Pearson pleaded guilty to
striking 78-year old William
I Pover 4n a crosswalk last Nov.
2 and driving more than a mile
with the body on his bumper be
: fore officers stopped him.
Pearson said he "blacked out"
Deer.
"It Is hard to send this fine
boy away, but his plight should
serve as an example that drink
ing and driving will not mix,"
Superior Judge William R. Mc
Kay commented in passing sentence.
.TRIBUNE
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MARCHING EAST
By United Press
A new cold wave is close on
the heels of the nation's first
general snow, which blanketed
most of the northern half of the
country from coast to coast, the
weather bureau predicted today.
. Thermometers were expected
to drop below zero in many
areas of the midwest and east
during the weekend as cold
winds moved south and east
from Canada.
Snow flurries, almost over In
the midwest, continued in east
ern states. . Eric, Pa., registered
seven Inches of snow today.
Cleveland, O., had six Inches
and Chicago's fall measured four
Inches. '
At least 27 persons were dead
and scores Injured as slippery
roads and sidewalks made traffic
hazardous.
The coldest city was Big
Piney, Wyo., where thermomet
ers plunged to 27 below zero
But Miami crowds basked under
a warm sun as the temperature
remained in the middle 70s.
MERCURY SLIDES
TO YEAR'S LOWEST
Valley residents continued
shivering in below freezing tem
peratures today when the ther
mometer dropped another three
degrees early this morning,
bringing the year's lowest tem
perature of 16 degrees, accord
ing to the local weather bureau.
Camp White reported 18 de
grees there.
Warmer weather beginning
Saturday night or Sunday morn
ing was forecast, with Increas
Inn cloudiness tomorrow over
the state.
Wholesale Fraud
Charged Against
Insurance Firm
Denver. Dec. 1 4 (U.R) A
"wholesale conspiracy" to de
fraud the United Slates govern
ment and the veterans' admin
Istration. under the soldiers and
sailors relief act, was charged
today against a national frater
nal benefit Insurance company
of Kansas and four of its agents
In Colorado.
The Ancient Order of United
Workmen of Kansas was Indict
ed by a federal grand jury on
charges of conspiracy to defraud
both the government and the
veterans' administration.
More than 300 insurance pol
icies were alleged by the gov
ernment to have been sold to
newly-Inducted members of the
armed services under the pre
text that the premiums would
be homo by the federal govern
ment, through the veterans' ad
ministration. CALIFORNIA CROWDED
Los Angeles. Dec. 14 (U.R)
California hound veterans can
count on neither a home nor a
joh here if they continue to ar
rive here at the present rate, the
United Stales employment serv
ice warned today. "For the
present," Assistant Veterans'
Employment Representative Hoy
Stockton said, "we must advise
residents of other states who
consider moving to California to
make sure first that they have
both a home and a job waiting
lor them."
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VOTES TO STRIKE
FOR $2 JAY BOOST
Walkout Would Affect 200,
000 Workers in G. E. and
Westinghouse Plants.
By United Press
CIO United Auto Workers
pickets let non-striking office
workers enter five General
Motors plants today. Picket
lines were relaxed for the first
time since the start of the strike
at Flint and Pontiac, Mich.,
Janesville, Wis., Linden, N. J.,
and La Grange, 111.
At Cleveland, O., Common
Pleas Judge Frank S. Day ruled
that strikers must limit their
picketing at the GM Fisher body
plant, allowing some plant en
trances to remain open.
The CIO United Electrical.
Radio and Machine Workers
union announced that Its work
ers had voted overwhelmingly
t. strike If necessary to enforce
demands for a $2 a day wage
boost. The strike would affect
some 200,000 workers in plants
of the General Electric Co..
Westinghouse Electric Corp., and
the electric division of General
Motors in 16 states.
Late unofficial returns show
ed that 111,860 voters favored
the strike and 23,817 opposed it.
472.000 Idle
Meantime, labor's demands
for more take-home pay to cush
ion the loss of high wartime,
earnings kept 472,000 U. S.
workers away from their Jobi
and complicated the reconver
sion program.
At Chicago, contract demands
of the Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Engineers and the Brother
hood of Railroad Trainmen had
stalled the biggest labor agree
ment negotiations In history.
Intervention of the national
railway mediation board was
asked by representatives of the
nation's major rail systems, act
ing under authority of the rail
way labor act.
Railroads spokesmen said tha
three-week negotiations were
stalemated, by demands of en
gineers and trainmen for "a
half hundred rule changes."
"The rules opposed by th
brotherhoods," the carriers said,
"range from demands for two-'
hours' pay for the employes'
time In having their watches in
spected, to limiting the length,
of freight (rains to 70 cars and
passenger trains to 13 cars."
GM To Aid Board
On other labor fronts, the acid
test was to be applied to Presi
dent Truman's plan of naming
fact-finders to probe trouble,
spots. The General Motors
Corp. announced it would aid a
board appointed Wednesday to
investigate the strike of CIO
automobile workers throughout
the GM system.
In this way, the president
could try out the key tool In
his labor program without wait
ing for legislative sanction. Mr.
Truman has admitted, however,
that without congressional pow
er the board could not examine
General Motors books.
The union has contended that
CM officials should allow study
of its financial records to show
whether or not the corporation
could pay the 30-pcr-ccnt wage
increase asked without raising
prices.
There appeared little hope for
settlement of the Greyhound bus
line strike, crippling transpor
tation in 19 northwestern states
and expected to continue
through the holiday rush sea
son. International Typographical
union demands that its members
be paid In full during a current
26-day strike-closure of three
Seattle newspapers A'ere termed
unreasonable by publishers, who
repeated offers to resume nego
tiations of wage demands.
FAR EAST RELATIONS
MAIN BIG THREE ITEM
Moscow, Dec. 14 (U.R) A
settlement of far eastern rela
tions among Soviet Russia, Unit
ed States and Britain, particu
larly the control of Japan, stood
forth today as one of the great
est issues facing the Big Three
foreign ministers meeting tomor
row. It ranks second only to tha
knotty problem of utomlo
energy control on the highly
elastic agenda, observers believed.