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1MB .. . lilies? iMMiiMi MSi IMreg My I HANK JHNKINH THIS Intoraliit commerce coiimiiib 1 molt (the brunch of our govorn iikiiiI Uiut tells thfl railroad whnl they can uhU can't dm authorize another 10 per emit Increase In mil height rule. (An Increase ol 10' i, was granted buck In October; thl addltlonul up Hilt It to ffl'i.l Tim railroads hud uskrd lor 30'; possibly on tlio theory Unit II thry don't ucluully have to have Unit much now thoy will luUir. Thiil Is one ol the peculiarities ol un Inlla noimry period. Every tlmo you h ist the price, you link on h Utile more Until you actually need lit the moment, 10 you will huve enough lu tuko euro a( contingencies. .jt,. ' pillS new lO'i 'up will mid, It I estimated, tome Old inlllloii dol lar to the imilnn'ii iinmntl freight bill, This lllltl.oou.oou will be udded to the cost, mid therefore In the price, ol nearly nil the thing wo buy. It hut to be. The flint rule of biwliiens thiil you muni Hell lor enouuli above cost to yield n profit. If there l no profll. your busluem will stand mill. Under modern con dlllonii, business (hut muiidn mill l really slipping backward. IA muchlnery I wurn out, It ha to be replaced. Itepluceineiit mum be puld for out of prollu. There In nowhere else for the money to come from. II your eiUlpment wear out unit you huvc no money with which to replace It, you're OUT OF BUS INESS. Ho, new com, sinh u added freluhl rule, have lo be added onto price. UKKK u the sequence, Itullroud wave arc boomed. That booU rnllroud coals. So, In lime, ruil freight huve lo be boomed. Tranortallon enter Into Uie com of nearly everything we tue. 8o prlcen generally have lo come up. When prlcen generally come up. paycheck buy lew. Ho It all ha to be done over again. VOU'VE teen a klllrn or pup chasing lu tall. It expend a lot of energy, but It OKI'S NOWHKItK. The fwler the kitten move, the lamer Uie tall move. lnllatlon work Ui ume way. HLL Ihu, of courw, U nothing new. " Everybody know about It. Bui nobody hat done anything about It. pENklflAL E1.KCTHIC company. one of the nation mujor manu facturers, decided thla week to do something.- It announce that, ef fective at once. It la CUTTING PRICES from 3 to 10 per cent on lot of lu home appliance. IU president. C. E. Wilson, ay tin euu will affect about 40V of General Electric bumiiem, and hould represent a saving ol around 0 million dollar a year to con lumers. TilKltE are some 140 million people In the U. S. AM milium dollar avmg would amount lo around 40 cenU per person. Alone. It's chlckenfeed. BUT wall. The statistician tell us that manufacturers' Inventories are high. A long as everybody think price are GOING HIOHKIt, inventories will may high. iYou rldom sell as long as you Ihluk what you have Is going to be worth more.i As long as you think food Is scarce, you keep your locker lull. When you think food la likely to be cheaper and more plentiful, you begin lo eat Into your locker. Suppose General Kleelrlc's action should cause OTHKRS to cut prices. Suppose It looked like the price drop might go on. In that event, people would start selling Insiend ol hoard ing. That might start the price snowball downhill. So. you see, the news of General Electric' price cut could be HIO news. MKI1AI. imUSSELS, Jnn. 2 i'i The Belgian croix dc guerre with palms was awarded todny by Prince Charles, regent of llclglum, to the United Slates' unknown soldier. The mednl wax nwnrded to the American soldier as representing those soldiers "who died defending the people, home and honor of th': ell Irons of the United Nations," Missing Merrill Man Case Clues Eyed In California The dlsappcurnnco almost a year ago of Milton Kleppen, DO-yonr-old cx-OI of Merrill, mny be coupled with a recent kidnaping and series of robberies around Eureka and Cicsconl City. Cull!., nnd officers hero aro checking for n connection t.i solve the mystery of the absence of the Merrill man. Reports received here by Deputy Sheriff Marlon Barnes Indlcnlo Hint a mnn named Jnmea C. Klrby Is held In Jail nt Crescent City for kld nnplng a woman there December 22. Klrby In said to hnvo stolen two enra nnd commuted other crimes In that vicinity, nnd to Imvo left, a notebook In one ol the cms giving the nddrcHs of Mrs. Mlllon Kleppen, who still resides In Merrill. Mrs, Kleppen lold officers she v. us iicqunlntrd will' Klrby, nnd tho check la being inndc to see if Klrbv had nnythlim to do with Kleppen' tll.'iippcnrniire. The Merrill iiian left this county Inst March nnd went to Crescent City, where lie was to open n spnrl Ing goods glora, officers said. Ho was supposed to go to Pnrtlnntl to purchase stock tm his store, but (llfiiipponi'tKl nnd hna not been heard from or soon since. II I In iM i - ----.--T- , -i mlf((wiinii-t'- -i in ii 11 1 iffr-py mniFi ifflTri it- I'HICF. r'lVK U'.NTH ewDsii Mm Shot Winter Wonderland Proves To Be Washout As First Heavy Snow Hits Klamath H'rutlirr iat Kltiitmlh folk t plenty lu Ulfc itlmiil tltn flrnt Uy ol I1I4K rkw ti liruvy full of dump, Hrt muiw drift through the lmln mid roitt hlfhrr rlrvntliiiiM to drjilh af IN Inrhm of nrw mow Htop utrruily drrp park. Thurndur's ft 1 1 Hi mrttiirrd nt four Inrhm In town. MoturlaU Hrrr driving Mltli eu tlon mid frw rrldrntn were report ed lu itntn or rlty pullre. Mitre lliuu IWJ telephnm'K w-rtf out ut unvifc from luir- lunt nlKht until noon todity, itM hruvy hiiow broke down wlren nnd etimrd other lu" ruptiuiiJi. The MXith KUburbun nren wtu nffrctrd brtwrrn 10 find 11 hut utuht nnd crown ntarted out ot & o'clock tills moinlnic lo mend "US Reign Of Terror" Told MOHC'OW. Jan. 3 M'i-Uurta 1.U kov, writing In Pravda. the commu nist party organ, today described present day hie In tile United States us similar to that In linl Germany before the war. Iwikov said the United Slates was caught In the meshes of the KDI and that small scale reign of terror gripped the people. "There huve been no mas execu tion! yet In the U.S.A., such as are being oarried out In Greece with the blessings of American gencruls and diplomats, but the fate of any American nowadays Is In the hands of Uie notorious fascist iltcp. John E.i Hunkln iD-Mim.i and any de tective In the FIJI. "What are the limits lo this Utile terror?" Ijikov asked. "Whert l the dividing line when It becomes terror on a large scale?" Local Family In Smash-Up A New Vcur's Day accident ncur Phoenix, Ore., on the Pacific hlitn way, injured a Klamath Fulls fam ily, Mr. and Mrs. Jack C. Hayes ol route 1, and their two sons, Ralph, U, and Jack, 8. Mr. and Mrs. llnycs suflurcd lace cuts and shock and Uie two boys received minor bruises. I'lrst uld for all was given at the Community hospltiil In Mcdturd. The boys are students at Henley school. The Hayes automobile collided with one driven by Mrs. Hiilh Hood, Medford, who told police that through the heavy ruin she sud denly saw a slow-moving car in front of her. She applied the brakes and skidded In front of the oncom ing Hayes' car, she said. Coast Guardsmen Rescue Fishermen OCRACOKE. N. a, Jan. 2 (II -Const guardsmen working ngalnst heavy seas enrly todny rescued 21 men from a fishing steamer driven aground shortly before midnight on the beach of tiny Ocracoko Island. Another member of the crew of the steamer, the Charlie Mason out of Morchend City. N. C. died of a heart attack after leaping Into the ve.ter from the .stranded vessel, Chief Doatswnln's Mute J. L. Qas klll of the Ocracoke life boat station reported. He left n rnnch nenr Merrill nnd hnd n $10,000 Insurance policy. Recently a body was found nenr Rtirekn nnd remained unidentified until December 27. There wns some speculation that It might be the body of Kleppen, but n bnrcly de cipherable note Identified the bodv as that of Robert Ltidosl, 10, of Onklnnd, Jet Planes Set New Speed Mark TCKYO, Jnn. 2 (PI Helped along by tnllwlnds, two P-80 Jet fighter planes hnvo marked up what may bo new apocd records, tho U. S. fifth nitiorco announced today. The 3M) miles from Hiroshima, to Tokyo wnn Mown lu 27 minutes by intent. William K. Thomas, 0011 Sllrd street, N. W., Seattle, Wash, an I average ground speed of 777.7 miles per hour, hendqunrlcrs reported. On the following day, Lieut. John B. Clilchcilng of 57 West Both street, Now York City, flew from Mlsnwa in Northern Honshu to Sen dnl a dlstnnco of 176 miles In 13 minutes, 27 seconds, for an average ground speed of 700 miles per hour. wireji l(x:utrd nil over the iiron. The nlrcult Ui Hly wiin out thin morning but It w,in expected to be cleared by noon. The Lukevlew circuit nermed umtf fci-Lcd A broken wire In the Klrk nrU put out phones to the north and the C'raler lake ranger station was not aviiiliiblc although Just what the trouble was at that point the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company here could not determine. The Crater hike line oerutrs out of C'hlloquin and controlled by the West Const Telephone company. There were some phones out on l.akei.horc drive today but most were back In commission later in i the morning. i lindnssah hospital bus which eye- i The Cnlllornla Oregon Power j witnesses said was attacked on I compuuy, in resoiise to a cillery as i Mount Scupos by Arabs using auto- j to condition! on the line, said Inle ! matlc weapons and grenades. Police j this morning that "there was a lot I opened fire on the Arabs and cap ut trouble, " most of It caused by i tuied the house from which they I heavy snow breaking off tree limbs i had fired. ' which fell, severing wires. The i J-Way llattle Mills addition circuit una out one - A squad of Huganu men rushed and one-half hours shortly after I to the scene and a three-cornered midnight, the California avenue line ! buttle between Jews. Arabs and Uie : feeding the north end of town was' police ensued. One policeman was. out for two, noun at about the same ; rcixirtod wounded and both the time, and the Lakcshore drive Hue I Arabs nnd the Jens brought up re- i was out for a period of three hours. hiforcemems before the battle The Poe valley line was affected ended. from 3 a. m. until 10 a. m. today. ! An Arab was found shot in Jaffa. Most of the repair work was com- I an Arab constable was killed in pleted by noon. Lvdda when he and three other ; (Iremen reported a day free of i Arab constables irfused to surren- Petrillo Trial To End Today CHICAOO. Jan. 2 iJ'h-Gove ment and defense oounsel pres closing arguments today In the. t CHICAOO. Jan. 2 !) Govern- ment and defense counsel present closing argumenu today i ,he. ml of James C Petrillo. AKL muslcl - ans union leader, on a criminal cliarge of violating the Lea act. pa.ssed by congress to curb his P0"""' Otto Kerncr Jr.. U. 8. district attorney, told Judge Wulter J. LuBuy, Hearing the case without a jury, that Petrillo "wllllully" vlo- lated the law by calling a strike at station WAAP. Chtcngo. when It refused to hire three employes It contended were unnecded. The prosecutors said that although the strike was unsucceosful In that the siatlon continued operation. Uie law wan violated because It forbids coercion regardless of Uie result of coercion. At the conclusion of argument Judge Lulltiy is expected to Ink the cusc under advisement to pre pare his decision. India Asks UN Action NEW DELHI, Jnn. 2 M') Prime Minister Jnwnhnrlul Nehru, accus ing Pakistan again of helping in vaders of the border state of Kash mir, said tonight India hnd ap leuled to the security council of the United Nations December 30 for in tervention. Tribesmen from Inc Pakistan Northwest province Invaded Knsh- mlr In October, while the state will was independent. The Hindu ma- harujah soon afterwards acceded the predominantly Moslem state of India. Undeclared wnr hns been hi progress since. t Foreign Minister Sir Mohammed Zafrullah of Pakistan said ill Kar achi yesterday that Pakistan "would welcome Intervention by the United Nations security council lor the purpose of a Just and fair settle ment") Bank Condition Statement Asked WASHINGTON, Jnn. 2 idv-The comptroller of the currency today Issued a call for a statement of tho condition of nil nntlonnl banks at the close of business December 1047. The federal reserve board -called for statements on the condition of banks In Us system ns of December 31, nnd the Federal Deposit Insur ance corporation Issued a similar rnll on FDIC-lnsiired bunks which nre not federal reserve members. Firemen Answer First '48 Call The first fire alarm or 1018 brought the Klamath Falls truck rolling through slush covered streets lo 201'i Oregon avenue where the lllll (lowland house wns filled Willi smoke and a goose was scorching In the oven. Firemen looked around, fixed a frw dampers and went hack home. They mild an overheated stove resulted In the call placed at 10:66 a. m., first of the new year. KI.A.MATII FAI.I.H, OKKOO.N, HtlDAV, Hncnital RllC I,! ,P , , , KaRed With Gunfire sprayed a Jrttlsli runeral proces- I sion Willi bullrta ui (he Mount of ' Olives today, police said, as com munal strife Ignited by Hie I'nllc I Nations derision Ui partition rales tine continued for the 34th day. The unofrlrial count of dead since ; Arab-Jewish violence erupted at the ' end of November mounted to Sl.t, 1 Including 3M Arabs and 2.10 Jens. I The Jewish nurse was aboard Arabs and a British constable was killed In the Prtah Tio,ra area while escorting a Jewish convoy from : Jerusalem to Tel Aviv. Four Jewish women and a British ; policeman were wounded by snipers ' in the Tel Arlv-Jaffa border area, a ; reliable source In Tel Aviv Kkiri . ,,, .M .... . u Uhoollng In Jnlfa 'Drovokcd the $.j'V?t , 1 Ar(ll.. , Ul( Ara0" ; clty all(l were pimninf to piode , . barrel bomb All slinm rlmd lm. i mediately nnd hundreds of armed i ! Arabs storted a search. The Melte- : ment died down after an hour in . wlilch not Jew was found In the ! city. j Seventeen persons-four Jews, 11 i ! Arnbs, oermnn nnd a Pole-died ! In sporadic outburst of violence on ' I the new year's first day yesterday, j Rlfle rrilcllfd roM the i o( 1F Mounl of ollves , ; niornlng. as Arab snipers attacked . . , jmlsh funeral procession, and i pullre said one mourner suffered : serious wounds. A short Urn later , Arabs attacked a Jew ish bus In the 1 j Jaffa gate area or Jerusalem, but ' no casualties were reported. (In London, an authoritative nrltlsh government source snld yesterday it was entirely possible that Britain might abandon her j mandate over Palestine before the I current target date of May 15 be- : cause of the continuing strife.) i Fresh Storm Hits New York NEW YORK. Jan. 2 (PI A heavy Ice storm fastened an loy grip on the New York metropolitan area todny nnd storni-hnrried resident were warned a new storm with high ! winds and freezing temperatures ! j would strike before nightfall. . j An rivln, operations were can-1 i celled nt LnCUiardln field. Pennsvl- I vnnln railroad officials snid trains fiom Chlcngo nnd the West were I arriving two nnd three Hours lntc ! Many commuter trains were lntc. No cnsunltlrs had been reported , In late morning. Three of-thc six mnin line tracks of the Pennsylvania railroad were put out of service nt 10:17 n. m. (EST! when freight cars left the ' tracks nenr Ellwibeth. N. J., the railroad said. ' , Derailment of five freight cars op tho New York Central railroad near Peeksklll, N. Y delayed all traffic on the rond, the company announced. The Twentieth Century Limited first of the through trains clenred arrived at Grand Central at 11:15 a. m. EST one nnd three quarters hours Inic WAA Takes Over Alcohol Plant PORTLAND. Jnn. 2 iP The Portlnnd wnr assets Administration todny took physical possession of the government - owned nlcohol - from -wood-wnstc plant nt Springfield. Possession followed receipt of of ficial notification that the plant only one of Its kind hns been de clared surplus. A protection and maintenance crew, under Carl Levi, hns been ns slgned to the property which con sists of 17 buildings on 12 acres of land. The plant, which cost Uie govern ment between $3,000,000 nnd $4,000. 000, will be appraised nnd put up for sale, the WAA reported, JANUARY 2, 1048 Telephone Sill What Winter m4 WWsm A four-inch snow last night, coupled with woriu drizzle and rising temperatures this morning, turned Klamath Falls into - something less than a "winter wonderland," as this picture aptly illustrates. Mareella Williams has to hurdle an island of slush to cross Main street In front of the courthouse. Industrial Leaders Asked To Aid In WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 Sen ator Brooks tR-III.I, one of the severest congressional clitics of ad ministration foreign policies, said today he w ill head a group demand ing that operation of the .Marshall plan be divorced from the state de partment. Brooks told a rrporte. lie and others of like views intend to press In the senate for "business manage ment" of any European recovery funds that are voted. "If any other method is used, it will be simply 'operation rnthole,' " Brooks declared. "I am in fnvor of the intelligent investment of Amcricnn money in Western Europe to get production. It must be done under the control of men who nre engaged In produc tive operation In America and not by hangers-on from government de partments." Brooks said he thinks leaders from the fields of Industry, ngricul ture nnd lnbor should be called in to organize Uie recovery program, in Navy Calls Off Cruise Weather conditions prevailing along the Pacific const prevented the nnvy from currying out its plans of an clght-day speclnl destroyer cruise arranged by the 13th U. S. naval district public Information office. Two Klamnth men, Henry Semon, Klamath county representative In Uie legislature, and Malcolm Epley, managing editor of The Herald and News, left here early Thursday morning for Medford where they wore to Join the Oregon contingent, board a NATS plane and fly to San Diego. Icing conditions nt Seattle prevented the plane from taking off and lay citizens from Northwest cities, gathered In Portland and Medford, returned to their homes when the cruise was cancelled. Still another group was awaiting the plane at San Francisco. Semon and Epley spent the dny with the H. P. Bosworth family In Mrdford nnd returned here late last Mailt. The cruise wns to have given thapr fiTh 1 innpnriy eignt unys ni sea, en ruuie San Diego to Bremerton, Wash. No. 1227 Wonderland? Marshall Plan much Uie same way as they were employed to get large scale produc tion going in tne unnea states alter the Pearl Harbor attack plunged this country into war. Industry Loans "We ought to send these men in with directions to make loans direct to industry and not make any grants to governments." Brooks snid. "For instance. In the Ruhr coal fields we could get production If we offered the miners consumer goods as a bonus for digging more coni. A foreign government couldn't do that, because Its action would prob ably cause a strike In other vital In dustries such as transportation If it wasn't paralleled there." The Illinois senator said the loans could be handled through a new or existing government agency but In sisted that It should be entirely sep arated from the state department, except for a coordinating link. Brooks said he was "not so much impressed" oy the threat of com munism to the Western European countries. To halt communism's spread has been one of the cardinal purposes of the Marshall plan. The Illinois senator comniunicnt ed them to Chairman Vnndenberg (R-Mich.) of the senate foreign re lations committee earlier In the week when a half dozen western senators called on Vandeiiverg to discuss the European recovery pro gram. Vnndenberg. who has declined comment on the meeting, wns rep. resented as offering no objection to a "business" administration of the aid proposal. But he was said to have contended thnt It could not be completely divorced from foreign policy nnd thus must have a close link with the state department. Late Spud Bulletin SAN FRANCISCO, Jnn. 2 lUSDAl Potatoes: 11 unbroken, 6 broken enrs on track: arrivals, Cali fornia 7, Oregon 2, Nevada 1; mar ket slightly stronger; Klamath Rus sets No. 1-A 4.46-60; No. 2-A 3.35. LOS ANGELES. Jan. 2 (IF) OJSDA) Potatoes: 33 unbroken, 7 broken cars on track; 23 cars arrived by truck; arrivals. California 10. Ore gon 1, Utah 2, Idaho 17; Idaho Russets No. 1-A 4.50-60. V 74 y it 0 ? Konitsa Siege Broken After Bitter Battle ATIIKNS, Jan. 2 UP Greek Mar Minister (leorge Htratos said today guerrilla forces were fleeing Into the. (irammos mountains after a "crushing defeat" Inflicted In the battle of Konitsa, where a week long siege of the government gar rison was lifted yesterday. The offensive against Konitsa was believed to have been aimed at cap ture of a capital for a Greek com munist government, existence of which was proclaimed in a Christ mas Eve broadcast by Insurgent leader Markos Vafiades. A general staff communique re viewing the seven-day battle said: "This Is the first fruit which has been reaped by the bogus govern ment of Slavo-communist!." Column Held Up The communique said one column of troops entered the town and re lieved the Konitsa garrison yester day, but that a second column waa held up by fire aimed at the Bouro zani bridge, 11 miles west of Ko nitsa. The communique disclosed that on the first day of the attack the Konitsa garrison, consisting of some 900 men. was "completely isolated . . . to a considerable depth" when a force of more than 3000 guerrillas made a frontal . assault. Some sources estimated that the rebel strength totaled 10.000 men. Guerrillas forced their way into FBI Enters Grain Probe WASHINGTON. Jan. 2 UPb-The federal bureau of Investigation Is Inquiring Into grain trading by Brig. Gen. Wallace H. -Graham, President Truman's personal physician, Sena tor Knowland iR-Callf.) said today. Knowland made public a letter he received this morning from the New York brokerage firm of Bache and company, which handles Graham's account, and which said In pan: "Information in regard to the account of Brig. Gen. Graham has been furnished to the government as the FBI called upon us and ob tained same." No Indication was given as to when the FBI began its Inquiry, but Knowland said he la trying to find out from the hrokerage office. -... Graham has contended that he gave Bache and company a free hand in handling his account and that he did not know last September that he owned 60,000 bushels of wheat futures. Training Plane Crashes Into Bay . SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2 MV Officials at Hamilton field an nounced today a slngle-engined advanced trainer aircraft crashed Into San Francisco bay yesterday, apparently carrying its two oc cupants to their death. Names were withheld by the air force officials until the bodies are recovered and positive Identifica tion Is made. Marin county sheriff's deputies were assisting in grappling i operations. The aircraft's home base was listed las Fairfax field. Kansas City, Kas. 1 The two occupants, a pilot and one I passenger, had taken off at 10:69 I a. m. for Hammer field, Fresno, j Calif. Illinois, Key Midwest State, Evenly Divided By GEORCiF GALLUP Director. American Institdte of Public Opinion PRINCETON, N. J.. Jan. 2 Illi nois, key area of the Midwest, third largest state In number of electoral votes, is today almost evenly divided in its party preference for the crucial 1948 pres- fWj State - wide polling by the Institute finds the Prairie State, which went demo era tic in the last four elections, leaning democratic again now but only by the slimmest of margins. The state has 28 electoral votes. When Illinois voters were asked. "If a presidential election were held today, which party would you vote for the democratic or the republi can?" this is the way they voted: Democratic 91ri Republican 49 This vote compares with the trend lH recent vears as follows: ILLINOIS TREND (Presidential Elections) Dem. Rep. li:i 50.8 43.2 1938 59.2 40.8 1940 51.2 48.8 1944 51.7 48.3 TODAY 81.0 49.0 Today's poll does not constitute a fercenst of the outcome In Illinois next November. Extensive further polling will be conducted at Inter vals to niensure the trend of senti ment ns the presidential campaign progresses. Today's results Indicate basic party strength irrespective of can didates. In the last ten years such polls have shown a high degree ol accuracy in measuring political sentiment In presidential elections. iHf''l fT'V'41 Konitsa the third day, Uie com munique said, but were annihilated. An authoritative source said the Konitsa siege was directed by a, "Balkan staff" consisting of Rus sian, Yugoslav and Bulgarian offi cers operating from 8kopt)e, Yugo slavia, 66 miles north of the Oreek border. Stratos said some of the fleeing guerrilla units had crossed Into Al bania eight miles north of Konitsa. Military sources In Athens said number of the guerrillas actually were trained in Albania and Yugo slavia and all their arms and am munition came from those two countries. Overseas Cable Strike Starts NEW YORK. Jan. 2 (P) Union overseas communication workers went on strike at four cable com panies today, tlelng up an estimated two-thirds of their facilities for transmissions between the United States and the rest of the world. The walkout, which Involved soma 3600 employes, began at 12:01 a. m, (EST) and came while federal con ciliators still were attempting to bridge differences between union and company negotiators. The dispute stemmed from their failure to agree on provisions of new contracts to replace those which expired last midnight. The companies are the cables cuV vision of Western Union Telegraph company, MacKay Radio and Tele graph, Inc., the Commercial Cable company and All-America Cables. The unions are the CIO American Communications association and the Independent All-America Cables Employes association, whose mem bers had voted to Join the CIO un ion In strike action. The last-ditch effort to avert the ticup involved the ACA and West em Union with conciliation officials hoping that agreement between th company and the union would serve as a pattern for overall settlement. Negotiations with the other com panies were broken off earlier. France Signs New Treaty PARIS, Jan. 2 P France signed a treaty with the United States today accepting conditions affixed by the U. S. congress In granting $622,000,000 winter aid to France, Italy and Austria. U. S. Ambassador Jefferson Cat fery and French Foreign Minister Georges Bldault signed the docu ment in the Clock room of the foreign ministry in a session open to the public and heralded by an unusual amount of publicity. Cafi'ery said the grant was "the response of the American people to this emergency situation." France will receive up to $328. 000.000 of the allotment, voted to Ude over to the three countries until such time as the Marshall plan for European recovery becomes effect ive. The Marshall plan, contem plating American grants of $17, 000,000,000 over four years to West ern European countries, still must be approved by the U. S. congress. Illinois is the fifth large state . whose political sentiment at present has been reported by the Institute. The results in the others follow: Dem. Rep. New York 53 47 Pennsylvania .... 51 49 Ohio 51 49 Michigan 47 ,53 Illinois has the distinction of ranking first in the country In voting participation. In both 1944 and 1940 the Hlinols vote was the equivalent of 53 per cent of Its total population, with New Hampshire and New York next with 61 per cent. In 1940 the proportion of citi zens of v'otlng age In Illinois who voted was 82 per cent. Traditionally, as every resident of the state knows, the Chicago area goes democratic, while the down state area Is republican. This tug-of-war between the two parts of th state has meant that Illinois Is not easily classifiable as regularly dem ocratic or regularly republican, al though the OOP has enjoyed n slight advantage. In the last 12 presidential elections the state went democratic five times, republican seven. PARTY STRENGTH TODAY 1 II I INOIS V " ifC . r
