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France Granted Loan Of $1,370,000,000 For Reconstruction France's efforts to get back on her feet economically were backed today by a $1,370,000,000 credit from the United States. Agreements for the loan, French co-operation in an American-spon sored drive for general reduction of tariffs and other world trade bar riers, and easing of French restric tions on importation of American movies were announced last night. The credit is divided into two parts: 1. An Export-Import Bank loan of $650,000,000, bearing 3 per cent in terest, the principal to be repaid in 20 annual installments beginning in five years. 2. A $720,000,000 credit to settle lease-iend accounts and provide for French purchase of surplus Army and Navy property in France. The interest rate on this is 2 per cent. The principal is to be repaid in 30 annual installments beginning in five years. Joint Announcement. A joint announcement by Presi dent Truman and French President F?lix Gouin said discussions are continuing ior an additional credit —estimated at about $25,000,000— for French purchase of approxi mately 750,000 tons of United States shipping. Of the $720,000,000 credit, officials said, France will use about $300, 000,000 for purchase of surplus equipment originally costing this Government approximately $1,400, 000,000. The balance will settle lease-lend ‘‘pipeline" and other claims. Officials said total lease-lend shipments to France had been valued at approximately $2,660,000,000. with reverse lease-lend from France amounting to about $800,000,000. Much of the lease-lend military equipment was written erff as de stroyed or consumed. Victory Benefits Cited. The settlement took into account j the benefits to each country "from the contributions of both to the de feat of their common enemies." ] The surplus property to be pur chased by France includes Amer ican-built air bases at Casablanca and other points in French terri-! torv. France promised nondiscrim-! inatory treatment of American na tionals in the use of such installa tions. The agreements Included settle ment for $17,500,000 of all claims against the United States concern-; ing operation or loss of French ships! under American control during the! war. Officials said this covered loss of the French liner Normandie, burned at New York. As part of her repayment to this country under the $720,000,000 cred it agreement, France agreed to turn j over to the United States up to! $15,000,000 worth of real property! and up to $10,000,000 in francs to' be used for acquisition or improve- j ment of property or to carry out educational programs. Officials said the real estate involved probably! would be used as sites for Ameri can consulates. ] One of the agreements lifted tie flat, ban on importation into France of new American movies, and set up instead a "screen quota” system under which French theaters will be required to show French films for $150,000 Requested To Replace Leaky Water Gate Barge Testifying that the present j Watergate barge is “unsea worthy,” J. P. Hayes, general manager of the National Sym phony Orchestra, today urged a Senate appropriations sub committee to include in the In terior Department's National Park Service budget $150,000 for a. newf barge. Mr. Hayes, a former naval officer, told the committee that auxiliary pumps have been in stalled to keep the barge afloat during the Watergate concert season wdiich opens June 16 and continues through July 26. He said there is no alternate facility or location in Wash ington suitable for summer con certs of this kind. The $150,000 item had been included in the Interior Depart ment's original 1947 budget re quest, but it w!as struck out by the House Appropriations Com mittee. LOST. ARGUS ?£AMERA. creen leather rase: lost 1 a m. Jwy 20, 1040, AA plane from N. Y or airpo; c limousine. Substantial reward. Phone French Embassy. AD. 0900. —-29 BILLFOLD — Brown leather, containing valuable papers, money and credentials Liberal reward J V. BOUDREAU, 20'. 13th t. n r,, or GPO._ BLACK BILLFOLD. Saturday nieht. initials IZ Finder keen money. Call MI. 722' IDELL_ BRUNS VOLD. COAT PIN, aqua marine, rhinestones and pearl settings; around Ga. ave. n.w. and R. I. ave. n.e. Reward. Call MRS. VEII PNTHAL, RA. 45P9. _ —31. FILE FOLDER —- Red fiber. 2 sections, containing business papers, lost Frida or Saturday: reward. McKEITH. EX 1133 _—30 FOX TERRIER, black and white. Reward. 34 Sherman circle. Phone RA. 3537. —30 FOX TERRIER, black and white. RA 3537._34 Sherman Circle._—30 GLASSES, light tortoise shell rims; lost , Saturday. May 25, vicinity 3900 block Cenn._ave. Reward^ Cal 1 W0. 8437. —3J GOLD SEAL RING. Sunday night, in cab or in front of 2120 10th st. n.w. DU Qfloo, Apt. 005. Reward._30* HANDBAG, woman s. lost in taxi on Sun day: containing money, traveler's check and misc items. Reward. Call RUTK SLOAN. Hay-Adams Hotel._ HANDBAG, lady's, black leather, contain ing keys, bank book, other personal pa pers: Saturday afternoon on R I. ave. • ne.) bus. Finder please call WI. 2370. —29 KODAK DUO. 820, camera coupled range finder, with accessories, in brown leather >ipoer case. Silver Sring. Md . Saturday.' May 26. 3 xf. m.: reward. CO. s27«>. —29 NECKLACE, round, gold, flexible choker, nr. Bridge Market. Bethesda. May 18 about 7 p m. Reward. Box 249-G, Star. PIN. large amethyst. Tues. eve.: senti mental value Mail to MRS. EDGAR A FULLER. 213 14th st.. Santa Monica. Calif., and receive reward.__• REWARD FOR RFl’TRN of platinum but terfly pin, 2»/b inches long, containing dia-i monds and large sapphire: pin lost May 27. i 1948. between 10:30 am. and 12 noon in! the 900 block 7th st. n.w. Call DICKSON ADJUSTING CO .. RE. _8389._—31 _| SCOTTIE DOG, iost since April 28th. t Tlease return. $25 reward. Woodley 4131._^_—1 WALLET, old, brown, sum of money, sev eral license cards, vie of Hecht Co., May 27: liberal reward._Oliver 1014. —30 WATCH. Waltham, pocket. Sunday. Conn and Eye st., or in taxi. FR. 2524. Re ward_—-30 ! WATCH—Man’s yello\$~ cold pocket watch in a cab early Saturday night. Reward Box 330-J, Star. 30* WIRE-HAIRED TERRIER, female, in Mt Pleasant vicinity. Call CO. 1255 after 5 P.m. Reward _ _ , -—31 WRIST WATCH, lady’s. Sat., vie. May flow er_HoteL__Reward:JME. 9811. —29 WRIST WATCH, lady’s, 17-jewel Hamil ton; yellow gold, engraved "D. A R. from Grandmother. June 9, 1942”: lost around 1st of May. on Minn. ave. bet. Eli pi. and Crawford pi. s e . or on Crawford pi. Re ward. Alex. 5888. _30 _FOUND.’ BLOUSE, unfinished jersey, found on P **• Sat morning. May 25. Call TA. 6747, 6833 Colorado ave. n.w. BUNCH OF KEYS found at Conn. and~R ft . 1 o clock. May 28. HO 6549 JOHN HARTSFIELD. bet, 11 a m. and in p m FOUND, female dog. part Spit*, In North Arlington. CH. 1926. a FRANCE GETS LOAN—Secretary of State Byrnes is shown signing agreements under which France gets American credits of $1,370,000,000, as French Ambassador Henri Bonnet (centeri and Leon Blum, chief French negotiator, look on at ceremony in State Department yesterday. —AP Photo. not more than four weeks per quar ter, being free to exhibit their I choice of foreign or domestic movies for the remaining wTeeks. Provision ] is made for ending this quota sys tem as soon as Fiance's motion pic | ture industry recovers from war dis I organization. | The agreements W'ere signed late I yesterday by Leon Blum, former j French premier here as a special j negotiator, and Secretary of State i Byrnes and Secretary of the Treas ury Vinson, after 12 weeks of nego tiation. Mr. Blum left immediately afterward to return to Paris. Presbyterians End Assembly With Call For More Ministers By the Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.. May 29.— The 158th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America closed today with a call to each pastor to enlist at least one young man as a candidate for the ministry. A standing committee dn theo logical seminaries headed by Dr. Paul S. Heath. Kalamazoo, Mich., reported to the 880 commissioners of the assembly that the church should ordain 300 ministers a year to offset the death rate of the clergy. The assembly voted. 415 to 164, yesterday to delete from a report on industrial relations a section saying: "Under no circumstances should peacetime military draft be used to force the end of a work stoppage. Such use of military power is noth ing short of totalitarism." Supports Right to Strike. The report supported collective bargaining and the right of labor to strike subject to "the requirements of public order and wrell-being.” A report that it would be "unwise strategy’’ to advocate immediate national prohibition also wras ap proved. The assembly yesterday took the Roman Catholic Church to task for allegedly "pressing claims for a favored position" in the United States. It approved a report which said aggressiveness on the part of the hierarchy of the Catholic Church "at times involves political action and pressures upon sources of pub lic opinion and public policy.” The report, submitted by Dr. Mor ris C. Robinson of Minneapolis, Minn., said: "There are certain tendencies within the United States, which if given full expression would curtail the religious freedom which wre as a nation enjoy. Won't Conceal Issue. "There is no virtue or gain either in concealing or in magnifying the issue that exists between ourselves as Protestants and our fellow Chris tians of the Roman Catholic Church'. "We raise it at this time in the confidence that by free and friendly discussion the cause of mutual un derstanding and of democracy will be best served. “We refer particularly to the aggressiveness of the Roman Cath olic Church in pressing claims for a ! favored position for itself as a church.” The report said that the true head of the Christian Church was Jesus Christ and not a state official or an ecclesiastical hierarchy. Patterson Says Army Manpower Situation Is Now Deplorable By the Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY, May 29 Secretary of War Patterson said today the Army's manpower situa tion is •'deplorable'1 because Con gress exempted teen-agers from the draft. “All that has been accomplished bv four years of fighting can be jeopardized in the next 30 days,” I the cabinet officer declared in ad dressing the governors’ conference. Pledging that the Army will not advocate continuing selective serv ice "when it has become reasonably clear that our manpower needs will be met by volunteers,” Mr. Patter son added: “Right now the conditions are de plorable. With an extension only to July 1, and with 18 and 19 year old men exempted, the Selective service authorities are frustrated and helpless. “The exemption categories, for one reason or another, cover just I about every man in the country. A survey made last week showed that ' only 36,000 men are left in the draft pool, and this in a Nation of 140 millions.” Mr. Patterson, urging the Gov ernors to support a draft bill which would be a “real extension and not a paper one,” cautioned against “taking chances” or indulging in i “wishful thinking” of an all-volun teer Army. The Draft Act expires July 1. with House and Senate far apart I on what form it should take after that. Mr. Patterson said the War De partment proposes to make the postwar National Guard organiza i lions strong ‘ pillars in the struc ture of national defense.” He added that in the war Na tional Guardsmen made a brilliant record on every fighting front and "proved once more the value of the trained citizen-soldier." Both Gen. Eisenhower, Chief of Staff, and Admiral Nimitz, Chief of Naval Operations, were special guests of the conference today. Think of your War Bonds In terms of financial security, freedom from worry—and hold them. 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Hagner & Company INCORPORATED Real Estate 1321 Connecticut Ave. N.W. Telephone DEcatur 3600 Weakness Is No Peace Path, Patterson Tells Veterans of 'First' Weakness was never the path to peace and the Nation cannot be made safe by disarming, Secretary of War Patterson told veterans of two World Wars last night at the annual Cantigny day dinner of the Society of the 1st Division at the Mayflower Hotel. "We must do what we can to see that the Nation never again experi ences the period of utter weakness that was our situation before World War II was thrust on us," Mr. Pat terson added. The War Secretary was a company commander in the Army’s 1st Division in the World War. Maj. Gen. Terry de la Mesa Allen who was with the “Red One" Divi sion in North Africa and Sicily be fore assuming command of the 104th "Timberwolf" Division, called for maintenance of discipline in the Army. "You mothers, sisters and wives must insist that we don’t breed ’softies’ in the Army,” Gen. 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Sewer Find Is Linked To Mrs. Corens’ Death Montgomery County police today were investigating a snjall quantity of what they said "might be human flesh’ which was found yesterday in the sewer leading from 4515 Gladwyne drive. Bethesda, former home of Henry H. Corens. 45-year old automobile painter convicted in May, 1945, of murdering his wife. The material has been sent to a laboratory for analysis. Corens’ wife, Pearl, 31, disappeared from her home February 12, 1945. Her head was found February 27 in Fairfax County but the torso still remains missing. Corens is now serving an 18-year sentence in the Maryland Penitentiary. The material, about enough to fill half a bucket, was found by Wash ington Suburban Sanitary Commis sion workers after they had received j complaints by the present owners of the house, Mr. and Mrs. George Harps, that the sewer was “stopped up.'' Harry Stine. 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Morrison Stands By Statement on Food By the Associated Press LONDON, May 29.—Herbert Mor rison today stood by his statement that the United States had agreed, to help feed India and the British zone of Germany and said Will! Clayton, American Assistant Secre-! tary of State, would bear him out. He told the House of Commons that a clear understanding existed1 between the American and British; governments on the question of American supplies for Germany and India. The deputy prime minister said it was “a pity that a subordinate of ficial—a United States public rela-, tions officer, I think it was, should have entered into the matter.” Michael McDermott, State Depart ment public relations chief, last week denied statements attributed to Mr. Morrison that the United States had made commitments to India and would ship food from the American to the British zone of Germany. 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