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Girl Drowns As Car Plunges Into Canal PRICE riVE CENTS la Ttt Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS ntftfchlDKNT TRUMAN, apeak- Inu Uio other evening at Wash ington college, In Miirylnnil, where ho wa receiving mi hon orurv dcuree. clcacrlbctl lilnmi-K a n aniull-luwiirr, who prefers aniull btmtnrsa tu big btialm-aa nil iiinll cullcgea to big cui leuca. One of the thlnga I like ubmil Washington college," ho said, "' Unit It In niull college In rural community." T WOULD rather ire hun ilrrd steel companies limn one United States Steel," lie told hla hearers. "I would rather ace a thouMind amtill bunka thun olio Nutloiiiil City bunk, und a thousand Insurunco companies with (our billion dollura worth of oasrla ruthcr thun only one with four billion dollars." "Small bunka," he added, "give more men a chance to bu blu: shots. In u lurue bunk, you'll find one bill allot und bundled vice prealdciiln." . PRESIDENT TRUMAN tin- doubtedly deserlbea himself accurately. Ho la a amull town man. It Simula out In hla milli ner, lu hla reudy cordlnllly and liuliirulueas Willi amull town people. He talks WITH auch people never DOWN to them. H1 IS nilatukca are tlio mlatnkca of audi man. It aeema to thla writer, for ex ample, that lie made a mistake In his linndlliiK of the critical strike altuutlun week before hint. It would have been better If he had alood ulonc on hla war powera, which wilt EXPIRE when tiie wur officially end, In ateud of culling UKn conitrcaa for u special emergency program of lt-glalulion, which atlrrud tip hornct'a next of opHiaitlon In the aetiute mid tliun tended to muff what otherwl.no would have been ahnrp, clenr-cut action, Justified by the emergency Itself. Hut It wua at least understand able In a man who describe hiinaelt at a ainnll-towner. 11a must have been extremely lone- LLly at that moment and It must r- nave aeemed very desirable In deed to have the co-operation und aupport of congress in hla hour ol trial. Besides, taking action ALONE, on the authority of Ills war powers, niuvt have smacked to mm of one-muii rule, whereuj calling upon congress for help must have given him a reassur ing feeling Unit he was fo lowlmi the democratic processes, even in time ol emergency when de lay would have been costly. "THERE la a more cynical ex plunation. of course. Uy calling upon congress for help, he allured the odium, us wen aa mo responsibility, uy liUKsintf emertfixw-v I,i.i1ii l. congress takes its part of the ill will that is Inevitable in such aituiitions. There will be rilentv uhi will bellevo that buek-piissing, rather thun alinring of authority In tho democratic manner, wns rcspon alblo for whnt he did. There arc plenty of men In congress, most of whoso members fuco the re election test next November, who resent tho fuel Uint the President thus put tho bee on them, instead of carrying the lond wholly on his own anouiacrg. AS to Truman's preference for - - small Dusincss rather than bill and nnifctthlv imnll nnnnK. nouses and atutchousca rathei tllllll in till pnnltnl nt WikuM.,., ton It is probably a nostalgic hope, more or less shared by all of us in tho ordinary walks of lifo, but not too likely to come to nans EVER again In America. This is a hit rnnntru inH things have to be done in a big woy. In order to hold its own with business throughout the world, American business will have to be big also. In order to deal with big business, labor has to be big. All tne pressures of our mod ern llfo arc in the direction of moro slzo, more scope, MORE CENTRALIZATION. TT is doubtful if government will ever be brought bnck from Washington to the court housos and tho statebouses, In stead of Rotting CLOSER to the musses of the people, govern ment In America will probably get farther away from them year by year. It is too bnd, but such seems to be the trend. Jet Fighter Plane Sets Speed Record DAYTON. O., June 3 IP) A Jot-propelled P-80 fighter today act a new world record for 1000 kilometers of 462 miles on hour, Hying a round-trip between Day. ton nnd St, Louis In ono hour, . 20 minutes, 31 seconds. Pilot I.t. Henry Johnson of Wright field thus cracked the record of 440 miles an hour set Mny IS by another P-80 Shoot ing Star over th same course. Tho 'pro-war record was 329 miles an hour, held by Italy. KLAMATH AFL Splits On Maritime Strike Plan WASHINGTON, June 3 (IP) AFL maritime unions appeared to bo splitting today on support ing the strlko of CIO acumen and dock workers achcduled Juno 13. The ClO-domlnatcd committee for marltlma unity aald today It hua received a pledge from Cap tain Hurry Martin, president of the AKL Masters, Mutes and Pilots union, thut his members will respect CIO picket lines. On the other bund, Joseph Ryan, president of the AFL in ternational Longshoremen's as aocliitldn, denounced tho threat ened strlko Suturduy aa "politi cal. AFL President William Green said recently thut AFL maritime workers would fulfill their con tracts Willi ship operutors In the event of a strike. International Aapact Meantime America's maritime crisis was taking on a broader internutlonul uccl tocluy. CIO maritime leaders, loosing still another critical blast at President Truman, appealed simultaneously tu workers in other lands for help In their ship ping strike scheduled June IS. Hurry Uridges and Joseph Cumin, kliigpma of tho CIO i maritime unions, sent a cable gram to tho World Federution of Trade Unions (WFTU) at Parts, They asked the WFTU in the event of a atrike to declare any merchant vessels muiined by the U. S. government to be "scab ships. I hey also asked for any other help tho Wr 1U could give The CIO la affiliated with the WFTU. (The AFL isn't). Also affiliated are millions of union members in Russia, Britain, France and other countries. The WFTU executive council has a meeting scheduled in Moscow on June 10-18. Highest Court Upholds Paper WASHINGTON, Juno 3 (IV) By unanimous action the su preme court today tnrcw out a contempt conviction of the Miami Herald and its associate editor, John D. Pennckamp, and wrote four opinions upholding a newspaper's right to criticize a court. The paper and editor were convicted in the Dade county. Flu., circuit court because of the publication of two editorials and a cartoon. The county court charged they Interfered with the administration of justice. The Herald was fined $1000 and Pcnnekamp $250. They ap pealed to the supreme court after the Florida supreme court upheld the convictions. Counsel for the Herald and Pennckamp contended tho paper merely criticized legal proced ures in trying to eliminate gambling and other objection able conditions in the county. Justice Reed said that any "danger" to a fair administra tion of justice ns shown in the record of this case "has not the clearness and immediacy neces sary to close the door of per missible public comment." "When that door is closed," Reed said, "it closes all doors behind it." Both Sides See Victor As Italians Cast Votes ROME, June 3 (P) Both re publicans and royalists predict ed victory by comfortable mar gins today as Italy completed a plebiscite which will determine whether the nation is to be a monarchy or a republic. The official verdict will not bo announced until after June 7, but first unofficial returns on tho referendum ond the concur rent constituent assembly elec tions aro expected soon after the polls close at noon today. "Wo polled 60 to 65 per cent of tho vote," said Rnndolfo Pac clardl, republican leader, con cerning the referendum. How ever, ho conceded that the house of Savoy's home stretch cam paign of last week had cut down republican chances for a more sweeping victory. A highly placed monarchist estimated that King Umbcrto would be upheld by at least 60 Ecr cent of the voters "If tho alloting was regular." Ho de clnred that several Instances al ready has been reported of Ir regularity at tho polls. While the clear-cut plebiscite Issue between the monarchy and tho republic overshadowed vot ing for the assembly, observers regarded the latter us equally, If not more Important, slnco the outcomo would Indicate the ex FALLS. OREGON. MONDi y Stettinlus Out As UN Delegate WAmiiNrvrriN. Junn 3 lI'i Prfi(iliiii Trumiin tnriuv accent ed tiie resignation of Edwurd It. btetllniua jr. aa una govern menl'a representative to the United Nutiona. Mr Tnimnn aalri he rllH an only because of Stettinlus' "earnest Insistence on ii ai a conference toduy at the White House. The White Houae mode pub lic a lf.tii-r thn nreaident ad dressed to the former aecretury of atuto wishing him "good for tune in wnuiever no uen-r-mines to do. Thla meeting was attended nlsn bv Secretary of State James F. Byrnes. House To Air Truman Bill WASHINGTON, June 3 UP) President Truman's emergency atrike control bill come bounc inn back to the house today straiuht Into a rump hearing called to air organized labor's opposition to it. Sixteen members critical of the measure both in its orlgi mil strike-draft form and as mollified b.v the senate Invited four top union chiefs to the unusual 1 p. m. (PST) session. They also called upon all their colleagues to attend the gathering which Rep. De Lacy ID-Wash.) said was designed to "stem all this hysteria." Invited to testify today are President William Green of the American Federation of Labor; President Philip Murray of the Congress of Industrial Organi zations: Secretary-Treasurer A E. Lyon of the Ruilway Labor Executives' Association, and President Harvey Brown of the International Association of Machinists. As passed by the house, the bill would give the president broad Dowers to seize essen tial plants if work stoppages occur and to draft individuals nccessory to run them. The sen ale deleted the draft authority, but left ' In .the j:ower to take over industries. Meanwhile, the fate of tills legislation remain closely tied in with the long-range case labor dispute bill which con gress scut to the president last week. Several administration spokes men on Capitol Hill have said they expected the president to veto the measure. 'Jim Crow' Law Ruled Invalid WASHINGTON, June 3 (IP) The supreme court today de cided a state cannot require seg regation of white and Negro passengers in buses crossing state lines. The decision was given on a Negro's appeal from a Virginia supreme court ruling. The Vir ginia court upheld that state's Jim Crow law which requires bus drivers to segregate the races. Justice Reed delivered the high tribunal's 6-1 decision. Justice Burton wrote a dis senting opinion. Justices Black and Frankfurter delivered con curring opinions. The appeal was filed by Irene Morgan, a Negro fined $10 be cause she refused to change seats on request of a Greyhound bus driver. The bus was traveling from Norfolk to Baltimore. The woman was ejected and fined In the circuit court of Middlesex county, Va. tent of Italy's political swing, cither to the right or left. King Btllevsd Neutral King Umbcrto voted about 5 minutes before the polls closed. A small crowd of last minute voters cheered tho king as he entered and left the polling place in the fashionable Parioli section. Umbcrto, bareheaded and wearing a double-breasted gray suit, was accompanied by Falcone- Lucii'ero, minister of the royol household and his campaign manager. There was a minimum of police precau tions. Lucifcro told newsmen he had "reason to believe" the king turned In blank ballots both on the referendum and the assem bly election. The king, he said, was "above every passion and absolutely objective. ' Italian news agency dispatches estimated late last night that 65 to 70 per cent of tho country's 28,000,000 voters had turned out yesterday. Minister of the Inter ior Guiseppe Romita described the balloting as "perfectly free of incidents." Only one election death was reported and that was acci dental. A voter waiting in line al a polling booth near Vlterbo was killed when the firearm of a policeman with whom ha was talking went off. ,WE 3. 1948 (Telephone Soft Coal Mines Busy Once More By The Associated Praas The nation's 400.000 bitumi nous miners returned to the soft coal pits today, 64 days after they laid down their picks and shovels. And the back-to-work move ment promised normalcy again for fucl-atarved Industries and railroads. The paralyzed steel Industry immediately upped its produc tion rate in the Pittsburgh area to 35 per cent of capacity for this week, although the maga zine Steel estimated it would take "six to seven" weeks for resumption of normal output, U. S. Steel Corp., hardest hit of the steel firms, ordered a gradual recall of its 41,000 work ers Idled by the soft coal walk out, but a company spokesman aald it would take several weeks to get all employes back on their Jobs. Some bituminous diggers went back to the pits iriday and Sat urday. AFL-Unitcd Mine Work er leaders toured the coal fields over the weekend explaining terms of the new contract that includes a welfare fund and an 184 cent hourly wage boost. Few mines today were slated to re main closed. The soft coal strike began Ap ril 1 and continued unbroken save for a 12-day truce ordered by UMW Chief John L. Lewis. A third of the miners disregard ed the truce and refused to dig. Even as the soft coal miners returned to the pits, some 75,000 Pennsylvania anthracite diggers continued idle in a "no contract, no worn dispute. And In the face of the bitumi nous settlement another strike threat was posed unionization ot mine zoremen. Soviets Keep NUERNBERG. June 3 IP) Although Soviet Russia has re leased more than 10,000,000 men from military service in the past lu montns she still has approxi mately 6,000.000 under arms at the present time, according to the best information available to allied military authorities. This source declared that Rus sia was preparing to reduce her standing army to a long-range level of 3,000,000, but he pointed out that the red army is so con stituted that it can expand rapid ly in an emergency. It has offer ed special inducements to veter ans to re-enlist and has thereby assured the basic coordination of the army despite large scale de mobilization. Russian factories, this author ity said now are producing the biggest tank in the world the Super-Stalin mounting a 131 mil limeter gun. They also are pro ducing jet-propelled planes and a Soviet version of the jeep. ine highest priority in Russia at the moment, however, he de clared, is being given not to arm ament production but to atomic development. Allied emissaries in Moscow do not doubt, this source said, that Russian scientists know the essentials of atom bomb manu facture, but they doubt that So viet plants will be making a fin ished product before 1948 or later. Farmer With Quadruplet Calves A W it-W-WfeJ Farmar William H. Iddlnga ruplat calvaa born to a five - on hla farm. The "quada" weighed a total of 143 H pounda at birth and are (left to right) Elmer, Emma. Eunice and Eloiia. AP wirephoto WEATHER NEWS Mai. ( t IS Mia. ,..4S Pr-elallall.a lail It .. .- airaam y,ar I Sal. - N-rmal ll.tl Lait Mar .....IS., raruull Clfir o ca-l. 8111) Number 10B36 Turk Quake Toll May Exceed 600 ISTANBUL, Turkey, June 3 OP) Government officials de clared today that the earth quake which devastated parts of cast Turkey Friday probably killed more than 600 persons. Village after village fell flat throughout the provinces of Mus and Erzurum, said Fczzi Kunsugil, deputy for Erzincan. I'lunea were pressed into serv ice to move food, medicine and other supplies into the stricken area.- The village of Varto, north west of Lake Van, apparently was hardeat hit, but the quake extended into Erzcrum prov ince further north. Damage to communications facilities de layed a full report on the ex tent of casualties and damage. Gl's Involved In Girl Deaths FRANKFURT. June 3 (IP) The deaths of two German girls in circumstances Involving American soldiers was disclosed over the weekend by U. S. army authorities. The U. S. army provost mar shal's office here announced that one of the girls had been found shot to death in the quar ters of an American lieutenant at Litzingcn on May 30. Fellow officers of the lieutenant, iden tified by the provost as Robert Hawk (home address ungiven) said the girl had shot herself during Hawk's absence because she was in love with him and he was about to be redeployed to the United States. In Nuernberg, the provost marshall's office said an Amer ican Negro soldier had admitted accidentally shooting to death a 19-year-old German girl as they lay in bed in her apartment. The Drovost marshal identified the soldier as Pfc Arthur Lee Cannell, 21, of Ponyville, Miss., and quoted him as saying that a pistol in his jacket, which was hanging near the bed, had been discharged accidentally when he reached for the jacket. ,, The provost said Cannell. was being held lor lurtncr investiga tion. The two Incidents brought to four the number of German girls who have met death within a month in circumstances in which American soldiers have been involved. Spaatz Opposes Aviation Study WASHINGTON, J une 3 (JP) Gen. Carl A. Spaatz told sen ators today there is serious "dan ger" in a proposed temporary study of this nation's aviation industry to determine long range policy. The army air forces command er and W. Stuart Symington, as sistant secretary of war for air. both criticized a proposal by Senator Mitchell (D-Wash.) lor such a study. The general said that if such a study is made it soon would be obsolete and yet there would be a tendency to "accept its word as law for years to come." Portland Station Canteen Closed PORTLAND, June 3 (IP) The Red Cross canteen and Trav elers' Aid-USO lounge at the Union station here, which served more than 1,000,000 servicemen and women in the past three years, were officially closed yes terday. of Wellsvilla. Ohio, diaolavs Quad year - old Hereford cow in paatura Newspaper Staff fcs2 . ' 4 ID Lad br their colorful publisher, left), the entire staff of the Wanatchaa Dally World turns out to aaaiat in logging enough assorted pine loga to male more man 40 tons of paper for the publication. Facad with a critical paper ahortaga, the Washington publisher agraad to deliver enough logs to make four carloads of ntwsprint and drafted hla entire force to compUt the daal. NEA talaphoto Federal Court Here Tuesday Klamath's first regular session of federal court will get under way tomorrow morning witn docket call before Judge James Alger Fee in the circuit court room in the courthouse. On the calendar for this session are three civil cases and five prison ers up for sentence. The prisoners, including Wil lard Williams, who was convict ed of second degree murder in the New Year's Day stabbing of Egbert Hugo Smith at Beatty, will probably be sentenced Thursday. In addition to Williams, prison ers to be sentenced include Law rence Dale Jackson and Osborne "Beeeie" Ball, both of whom pleaded guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon, ana two juv eniles. The three civil cases are: Ches ter Bowles, OPA administrator versus M. T. Bratton and. others; Alma F. Hall versus Sears Koe buck and Company, and Ernest Newcomb versus tne boutnern Pacific. The use of the courtroom by the federal court, if the session continues longer than a week, may run into a conflict for space as Circuit Judge David R. Van- denberg has called the county grand jury for next Monday. June 10. Judge Fee, who will preside at the federal session, is down lrom Portland and staying at the Wil lard hotel. Chinese Reds Take 4 Cities Nanking, June 3 (IP) Com munist spokesman Lu Ting-yi announced tonight the capture of four government-held Man- churian cities and intimated that his party's forces would retreat no further in the in creasingly critical Manchurian civil war. Lu said the cities were cap tured when the government 184th division collapsed in east ern Manchuria and surrendered en masse. Simultaneously, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek returned to Nanking, where in an effort to bolster tne lading nopes tor oeace General Marshall was re ported to nave advanced a new peace proposal over me ween end. The return of the Chinese president and Madame Chiang in the American envoy's private plane from Peiping following a seven-day visit to Manchuria opened the way for resumption of .peace negotiations and for discussion of Marshall's new truce plan. Earlier in the day the chief communist negotiator, uen, Chou En-lal, talked with Mar shall for six hours, but what they talked about was closely guarded. - A secretary, close mouthed pending discussions between Marshall, Chou and Chiang said only that they "dis cussed the situation." ' The four cities which Lu said the communists had occupied were listed as Anshan, Hal cheng, Tashihkiao and Yingkow (Chingchow). Baseball Scores AMERICAN R H St. Louis 2 8 New York 12 18 Potter, Miller (1), Ferrens (5), M u n c r i,e f (7) and Mancuso, Schultz (S); Marshall and Dickey, (first game) R H E Chicago - 1 10 Boston 8 6 Lee, Caldwell (7) and Dickey; r errtss and Mcuan. . (first game) R H E Cleveland 6 12 Philadelphia 5 14 Embree, Gromek (9) & Lol lar; Marchildon, Harris (8) Rosar, Dcsautcls (9). Turns To Logging Rufus Woods (on logs farthest Unions May Vote On Strike Peace VANCOUVER. June 3 (CP) Chief Justice Gordon Sloan's three-ooint nlan for settlement of the 20-day-old walkout of woodworkers and sawmill hands may be referred to all union members for acceptance or re jection within the next few days. The strike committee, which represents all locals in the pro vince, met this morning to con sider the chairman's proposals for a 15-cents-an-bour wage In crease across the board, a 40 hour week and voluntary revo- cative check-off. General indications, based on unofficial comment, are that the operators will accept the recom mendations. The union's stand is obscure, but it is expected their executive will give the chief justice a tentative "yes" or "no answer tnis afternoon but it is apparently subject to change. Bombards U. S. MOSCOW. June 3 (IP) The Russian press criticised U. S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes and former tTesident Herbert Hoover over the weekend in a new barrage of comment directed at the Uni ted States. Prof. E. Korovin, writing In the trade union newspaper Trud, asserted that Byrnes was attempting to widen the pow ers of the United Nations gen eral assembly beyond the lim its of its charter. Byrnes' proposal to place dis-' pute peace threaties before the United Nations would be noth ing more than "a veiled return" to a proposal by Hoover, Koro vin said. He described Hoover as "one of the reactionary fig ures in the United States." The magazine New Times said the U. S. withheld credit to Poland as part of a "strategy of hunger," and that Hoover's recent world tour resulted in no concrete measures to relieve famine. "Many - worded assurances were made, pompous resolu tions were adopted and an in ternational organization with huge apparatus was formed, but neither resolutions nor promises nor the world trip up to now has fed the hungering," the maeazine said. Pravda.- communist partv or gan, said Russia had replied fav orably to a reauest from Ar gentina for the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. - French Communists Lose; DeOaulle Return Rumored PARIS, June 3 UP) French communists received their sec ond setback within a month to day as returns from yesterday's election for a new constituent assembly showed that the middle-of-the-road popular republi can movement (MRP) had be come the nation's strongest po litical party. Socialists took an even sharp er defeat than the communists, as the political pendulum swung away from the left, continuing the trend noted In the May 5 referendum when a communist socialist constitution was re jected. Although returns still had not been received from the colonies, which hold 60-odd seats, the MRP was assured of at least 10 more seats than it held in the last assembly and at least one more seat than the communists previously held, the ministry of the interior said. Judging from returns In the last two elections, the general trend will not be affected by returns from the colonies. - - The MRP victory also was & shown in the popular vote from i Jf ranee and Corsica which.. gave Three Other Teen-Agers Avoid Death Grace Arlene Rowell, 18-y cer oid Tulclake high school girl, drowned Saturday night when the car in which she was a paa aenger with three other southern! teen-agers plunged from state) highway 39 into the J canal a mile north of the California Oregon state line. Don Groves Jr., 18, the driver, hla sister, Geraldine, 16, and Ar dis Marie Long, 17, escaped from the car as it sank in 10 feet of water. The plunge followed a glanc ing collision with a machine driven by George Alvin Schrleb er Tulelake, who started to turn left on the highway Just aa , Groves car aougnt to pass. Mrs. Schreiber, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Wahl, and a small child, occupants of the Schreiber car, escaped injury. The Schreiber car came to a stop on the canal bridge. Schreiber and Wahl leaped from the machine and ran to the canal bank. They heard screams, and plunged In to give aid to the youngsters struggling in the water. Wahl was unable to awi,m and survivors of the wrecks struggled to shore with him. Drag Canal Lights of the submerged car was atill burning as others ar rived to give aid. State Officer H. G. Wilson of California came from Tulelake, and State Officer Reed of Oregon state police had charge of the investigation for uie uregon authorities. The Oregon police obtained dragging equipment from the sheriffs office, and the body of Miss Rowell was located four hours later, about 12:30 a. m., approximately 400 yards from the submerged car. A wrecker outfit from Tulelake pulled tha car out of the canal. The young people were en route to Klamath Falls to at tend a dance. - Miss Rowell was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Rowell of Tulelake. Don Groves and hi sister live at Newell. Miss Long'a home is at Tulelake. While police were investigat ing the fatal accident, occupants of a passing car were arrested on liquor charges. James Grant McKinney, Tionesta, was arrest ed for drunken driving, and Her ry Edward Ford, Tionesta, for being drunk on a public high .way. Tha arrests were, .made by California Officer G. C. Wilson. Although out of his official juris diction, he took the action as a citizen, and came to Klamath Falls today to sign charges. McKinney is out on bail of $150 on the more serious charge, and Ford's bail was ?10. They were siated to appear in Justice) Joseph Aloysius Mahoney'i court this afternoon. Ex-President Of USSR Dies LONDON, June 3 (IP) Mich, ael I. Kalinin, former president of the Soviet Union, died today after a severe illness, the Mos cow radio announced. Kalinin was 70 years old. Ha was succeeded in his post as chairman of - the presidium of the supreme Soviet, a position equivalent to president of tha Soviet Union, on March 19 by Nikolai M. Shvernik, former president of the all-union Soviet trade council. Kalinin remained a member of the presidium, how ever. Nip War Criminals Must Stand Trial TOKYO, June 3 (IP) The In ternational trials of Japan's ac cused war-makers opened today with the tribunal blocking their last-minute efforts to escape prosecution but the 26 prison ers were allowed 10 days more in which to prepare their de fense. The court, meeting in a glare of flood lights in the grim war ministry building where many of the defendants are accused of plotting J a p a n's disastrous plunge into aggressive war, will be reconvened at 9:30 a. m. it a majority of approximately 360,000 over the communists, their nearest rivals. The popular vote In yester day's elections and last October was: MRP 5,491,180; in Octobef 4,842,371. Communists 5,136,334; in Oo tober 4,817,603. Socialists 4,165,813; In 0 tober 4,495,402. The popular vote showed that the communists, although they gained in total vote, were not able to match the gain of the MRP. Of the three parties, the socialists alone lost in popular strength. Maurice Schumann, one of the MRP leaders, said In l'Aube that his party may demand the pres idency of the government. George Bidault, present for. elgn minister, is the leader ol MRP. Even before the final tabula tion, rumors were heard at the ministry that the MRP might In vite Gen. Charles de Gaulle te return as head of the new pro visional government. These re ports were without any eon, firmatlon, however.
