.Cruise of U. 5. Ships flinked by Soviet to -Dardanelles Question By th» Associated Pr*« < LONDON. Aug. 29.—A Moscow broadcast last night said the Medi terranean jaunt of American war ships was "timed nicely with the Soviet proposal for revision of the Montreux convention” governing control of the Dardanelles. The Russian proposal is opposed by the United States, Britain and Turkey. A mman commentator said a lot of "fuss and pother” had been raised about the cruise in the "reactionary American press” and that Turkish newspapers were reporting ‘‘under screaming headlines” that the ships would visit the Black Sea Straits. The commentator said Russia’s proposals—which would give the Soviet Union bases on the straits— were "absolutely logical and fair.” "For a long time,” she said, ‘‘Turkey has been mistress of the straits and has continually utilized her position in a way injurious to Soviet interests. ... Is any further proof needed of the highly unsatis factory nature of the present straits reeime?” State Department Reported Split on Visit to Turkey State Department officials were reported today as being unable to agree whether Turkish ports should be included in the itinerary of the aircraft carrier Franklin D. Roose velt and other American warships scheduled to visit Greek ports next month. Other officials are said to believe that the vessels should call freely at all Mediterranean ports as a dem onstration of this country's rejec tion of isolationism and of its in tentions to fulfill its international obligations under the United Na tions. Theoretically the American ships are visiting Mediterranean waters as a gesture of ‘ good will,” but actually they were sent there as evidence that American diplomacy is armed. The Associated Press quoted Ad miral DeWitt Ramsey, Acting Chief of Naval Operations, as putting it plainly yesterday when he said: “We go where the State Depart ment tells us.” Conference (Continued From First Page.) inal phrasing, however, providing for destruction or removal of all Italian fortifications within 12 miles of the frontier. Polish Delegate Urges Work. Polish Delegate Wincenty IVinie wicz urged the Italian Political and Territorial Commission to forget petty differences and get down to work. He reminded the commission members they had taken a full month to discuss only six and one half of the Italian treaty's 92 pages, all of which must be considered by three commissions and the full 21 nation conference before it can go to the Big Four foreign ministers for final drafting. Mr. VishinsKv also expressed con cern over the delay, commenting: “This is the second month we have been sitting. We are only at the second article of the (Italian) treaty.” The draft contains 78 articles. Mr. Vishinsky opposed an Australian proposal to refer to a subcommission the question of transferring the Mont Cenis Plateau from Italy to France, as provided in the treaty draft. Gladwyn Jebb of the British delegation supported Mr. Vishinsky in opposing the Australian move. Sees Plan for Atomic War. Mr. Winiewicz demanded to know : "Are we fixing boundaries for ex enemy states or are we fixing boundaries for the potential enemies of tomorrow?” “There is an air of skepticism,”! he declared. "We are planning for j peace, not war—atomic war—as some delegates seem to think.” He urged the delegates to find a common ground for conciliation of i their differences. The Military Com- i mittee, meanwhile, adopted Article j 39 of the Italian treaty on condition that it could be altered later on the basis of observations to be submitted; by Italy. The article says the military, naval! and air clauses of the treaty will remain in force until modified by i agreement among the Allies and Italy or until Italy becomes a mem-, ber of the United Nations, by agree- j ment with the Security Council. — Employes 'Continued From First Page.) the field forces are affected as fol-‘ lows: Judge Advocate General's Of fice from 57 to 39; Provost Marshal General's Office increased from 222 to 312; Chaplains Corps increased by five from 31, while the Special Services decreased from 63 to 57. The departmental staff of Special Services will remain fixed at its present total of 20. Some “Field Workers" Here. The War Department special groups affecting the higher levels will have a slight decrease in the department but will increase by al most 3,000 in the field. These offices include those of the Chief of Staff. Secretary and Assistant Secretary of War, Joint Chiefs of Staff and several others. Actually, the departmental staffs of these offices will decrease from 4,829 to 4,592, while the field staffs will be increased from 8,667 to 11.508. Officials said the decreases ordered Jn the Washington departmental area do not include an unestimated number of employes classified as field workers but who are now at tached to Washington offices. Early this month the department announced it was sending 30-day discharge notices to 3,500 of its employes here as the first step in reducing its classified employes to 176,000 by July 1, 1947. Jackpot Winner Defines 'Bandit' Money for Police Ry th* Associated Press CHICAGO.—Plunking two fistfuls of coin on the bar, the stranger announced, "this is bandit money," and ordered drinks for the house. A customer slipped into a tele phone booth and called police. When the officer arrived, the stranger explained: "I meant one-armed bandits— slot machine. I hit the nickel, dime and quarter jackpots.” « BERKELEY, CALIF. SMOKE-BLINDED DRIVERS PILE UP—Tow cars are shown working to remove some of the 25 automobiles involved in a mammoth crash here yesterday when smoke from a city dump suddenly obscured the six-lane, high-speed East Shore highway. Seven per | sons were taken to hospitals for treatment. Officials today blamed two discarded Navy can i n sters of the type used by destroyers in throwing up smoke screens. _AP Wirephoto. Noyes (Continued From First Page.) amendments are taken up in the various commissions, whether there are any of them which the Big Four could agree in advance to accept or reject on face value. It is pointed out by many that a knowledge of how the Big Four will stand with regard to certain amendments offered might save con siderable time which would other wise go into needless provocative debate. For an amendment, to which the Big Four agree is virtually as sured of eventual passage, regard less of what speeches are or are not made by its zealous backers or opponents in the commissions. Conversely, an amendment in op position to which the Big Four stand shoulder to shoulder has absolutely no chance of receiving the two thirds vote of the conference W’hich it must receive if it is to be ac corded anything like serious con sideration by the foreign ministers when they sit down after the con ference to write the final treaties. Translation Too Laborious. These are not the kind of thoughts which a quixotic champion of the small power, like Australian For eign Minister Herbert V. Evatt, likes to think. But they are, so far as this conference is concerned, the facts of life, and there is discern able here a growing inclination to ward the belief that if the confer ence is ever going to get out of the woods the facts of life will have to be taken into consideration. Another common observation hav ing to do with the question of speeding things up is that it would be a great thing if some method could be worked out whereby the laborious process of translation might be streamlined. When Mr, Molotov talks for an hour in Russian, that'is bad enough. It is even worse when they get around to the English translation. When you have to sit there and listen for a third hour to the same speech in French, the experience becomes practically unbearable. There is only one ray of hope on the horizon in this respect. As in dications increase that the Nuern berg trials may end in perhaps an other month, official hands here are already itching to get hold of some of the fancy technical apparatus which has enabled those in attend ance at the war criminal sessions to hear translations of proceedings while the proceedings proceed. Whether there wrould be enough of such equipment to do the confer ence job, however, is another ques tion. Amendments Repeated. It seems likely that the gentlemen who are to meet this afternoon will devote some of their time to con sidering the proposition that in cases where the same amendment has been offered to all five treaties, things would move along faster if that amendment could be dealt with in the general commission rather than in each of the five commis sions which deal individually with the treaties. Australia, for example, has put forward numerous amendments which apply identically to all the treaties. These are now becoming the subject of long and heated de bate in each of the committees, as the "big guns" of the various dele gations hop diligently from room to room to repeat the same speeches for or against. There is only one hitch to the otherwise undebatable proposition that here is a case in which the general commission can perform a real service to the conference; namely, that Russia is dead set against the idea. The sound reason for her opposition is that all 21 na tions of the conference are repre sented in the general commission, which means she controls, with her satellites, a proportionately smaller vote in the general commission than she does in the specific treaty com missions with their more restricted membership. It is reasonable to suppose, how ever, that Secretary Byrnes will tiy once more this afternoon to persuade Mr. Molotov to let the general commission take some of the weight from the shoulders of the staggering treaty commissions. Finally, it is not unlikely that the Ministers will talk over the pos sibility that it might ease things somewhat if the commissions were allowed to sit from time to time in executive session, that is to say, in the absence of the press. There is some feeling here that even if the press were excluded from occasional sessions, the reporters would find out what went on and that therefore delegates would feel obliged to make as many political speeches as they make when the press is present. But it is possible, many think, that if the executive session device were employed occasionally, delegates might stick to the point for a while and do their speechmaking at press conferences afterwards. George Kafandaris, Greek Statesman, Dies »y fh« A«tociot«d Pr»i> ATHENS, Aug. 29.—George Kaf andaris, who served as Premier of Greece for about a month early In 1924 and who held portfolios In many Greek cabinets In the last two decades, died last night. i Father Skenan Heads Biblical Association ly the Associated Press I BOSTON, Aug. 29 —The Rev. Pat rick Skenan of Catholic University, Washington, was elected president of the Catholic Biblical Association of America at a meeting today at St. John’s Seminary. He succeeded the Rev. Matthew P. Stapleton, pro fessor of sacred scripture at the seminary. Other officers elected were: The Rev. William Kenneally, Denver, Colo., vice presdent; the Rev. Joseph Lilly, St. Louis and Catholic Uni versity, general secretary: the Rev. Francis Crump, professor, Oblate House of Studies. Washington, re cording secretary, and the Rev. John E. Steinmueller, Brooklyn, treasurer. U.N. Federal tax. Above excursion fares will apply to all intermediate points. 11 Express schedules daily to New York City 30 Schedules daily to Baltimore TRAILWAYS BUS TERMINAL 1201 New York Ave. N.W. ^ District 4224 British Close Roads To Tel Aviv on Report Of 'Suspicious Action' ly th« Aitocio'*d Pr#»t JERUSALEM, Aug. 29.—British troops closed all roads leading to Tel Aviv today and conduct^ large-scale searches in the all-Jew isn city as police received reports of a “suspicious action,” possibly an attempt by the Jewish underground to liberate 500 Jewish detainees at the Latrun camp. A number of Jewish settlers were detained during the day's searches in Tel Aviv and two other com munities, and some were brought to Jerusalem in a caged truck guarded by armored cars. Passengers in busses and private cars underwent identity checks. Telephone communication with the city was halted for 40 minutes after the Postofflce Building received a warning from an anonymous caller that it would be blown up. Despite the search no curfew was imposed. Road Near Camp Closed. Troops closed the road near the Latrun camp leading to Gaza after police received information that a "suspicious action” was in prepara tion and rumors were heard that Jewish unground forces planned to liberate the 500 detainees at Latrun,! including three leaders of the Jew ish Agency—Moshe Shertok. Isaac Gruenbaum and Dr. Bernard Jos eph. They were seized in the mass arrests just two months ago today aimed at halting underground ac tivity in the Holy Land. Searches in the villages of Ru hama and Dorot ended with no addi tional njunltlons or sabotage ma terials uncovered, such as that found yesterday. Trial Held in Jerusalem. Meanwhile, in Jerusalem attention centered on the trial of Jacob Al calai, alleged member of the Stern gang charged as a confederate with 18 other young Jews sentenced to death recently for bombings at Haifa. The Inner-Zionist Council opened! a meeting at noon with Jewish Agency leaders Rabbi J. L. Fishman and Eliahu Dobkin participating. At the RAFA detention camp more than 750 detainees ended a 36 hour hunger strike. A delegation representing the strikers told the camp commandant their strike was not only intended to urge their release but also to protest against British policy toward the Jews in Palestine. ^nier secretary Resigns. In the political sphere an inform ant today said Sir John Shaw, chief secretary of the Palestine govern ment, is relinquishing his position “within a few weeks” and returning to England. Shaw has been at tached to the Palestine government for nine years. He is a long time career man in the British civil service. No details were given here con sidering his future plans except that he will take a lengthy leave before any new assignment. Reports from Jerusalem that Sir John Shaw would relinquish his post were seen in London as a sign of a rift over the Labor government's Palestine policy. One government informant in Lon don said the task of the civil admin istration in promoting moderation and conciliation in the Holy Land was being defeated by what he called “the miniature jackboot of the Brit ish Army.” He forecast that the whole issue would be ventilated at the highest governmental level ‘very soon.” Efforts to discover the precise cause of any rift were unsuccessful. I However, active friction between '■ civil and military chiefs in Pales tine has been reported. In Paris, French police and Scot land Yard security officers both denied reports published in London that special measures had been taken to protect Foreign Secretary Bevin after discovery of a purported Jewish plot to kill him. These offi cials termed reports of the alleged plot “a silly rumor.” The London reports said 14 Jews were “reported in Paris to have sworn ‘to get’ Bevin. The Chilean Government has ordered price reductions in a long list of drugs. Tr=- ===== Civil Liberties Union Asks Full Hearing for 5 Fired at Aberdeen The American Civil Liberties Union today asked Secretary of War Patterson to give a full and fair” hearing to five War Department employes at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md, who were dismissed on communism charges. Arthur Garfield Hays, counsel for ACLU, wrote Mr. Patterson that the seriousness of the charges jus tifies granting the employes the right to refute the accusations if they can. Mr. Hays declared the dismissed employes should be granted the “elementary rights” that all Gov ernment employes have when they are fired—a chance to learn the specific charges against them and the right to a hearing on the accusation. The five workers were dismissed under wartime legislation which grants the War and Navy Depart ments the right to fire anv employe without specifically divulging the charges against them. The workers, all members of the CIO United Public Workers of America, have asked for specific charges and the right to a hearing but the War De partment has said this cannot be granted in the interests of na tional security. No Specific Charges. The five employes have been given the opportunity of appealing the dismissals to an Army board of review. This has been done, but the employes contend they are handicapped in appealing since they do not know the specific charges on which they were fired, other than that they were dis missed for communistic activities. The ACLU, an independent or ganization with no union affilia tions, said it agreed that Govern ment employes of questionable loy alty should be dismissed, but added that in view of the serious charges made against the workers involved, they were entitled to a hearing. Informal Hearings Urged. "Certaintly any such severe pun ishment as discharge for the reason here given with the disabilities in curred should be inflicted only after the most carpful investigation of the facts at a full hearing,” Mr. Hays said. Mr. Hays proposed that the War Department make the chargef against the employes sufficiently precise to permit an adequate reply. Informal hearings on these charges should be held with the stenographic record to be supplied to the persons involved, the letter continued. The "letter said that if informal proceedings cannot settle the matter the employes should be given a formal hearing with a right to pro duce witnesses on the question of their alleged divided loyalty to the United States. UPWA officials have charged that the employes were dismissed because of their union activities. U. S. Opposes Delay * Of U. N. Assembly &y the Associated Presf PARIS. Aug. 29.—Arkady Sobo lev, assistant secretary-general of the United Nations, conferred yes terday with Secretary of State Byrnes and was told the United States opposes postponing again the United Nations General Assembif session. The Assembly is scheduled to open In New York September 23. ■, Mr. Byrnes, it was reparted, told Mr. Sobolev tftat he thought the Peace Conference and the Assembly could be held simultaneously if nec essary. . AiflM OIL BURNERS Installed Complete With 275-gallon Tank I Immediate Delivery 3 FEARS TO PAY Terrell Heating Co., Ine. Southern Bide. 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