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Civil War Stepped Up
After Proclamation of
Greek Rebels' Regime
•y tha Aitooaiad Prats
ATHENS, Aug. 16.—The Greek
government acted today against
the newly proclaimed guerrilla
military government in “free
Greece,” seizing published copies
of the proclamation broadcast by
Gen. Markos Vifiades, guerrilla
leader, as soon as they appeared.
At the same time Greek 3rd Army
headquarters in Salonika announced
intensified guerrilla activity at a
dozen points, ranging from Wes
tern Thrace to Western Macedonia,
during the pafet 48 hours. Use by
the guerrillas of heavy mortars not
even available to government forces
was reported.
Gen. Napoleon Zervas, Minister of
Public Order, declared the setting
up of a “bandit government on
Greek territory” was a "comic man
ifestation of the Enver Hoxha
Marko6 radio station” but neverthe
less the government was "attaching
the necessary importance” to the
event.
Radio Believed at Tirana.
A Greek general staff spokesman
has charged that the guerrilla ra
dio was located at Tirana, capital of
Albania, where Gen. Enver Hoxha
presides as premier of the Albanian
government.
Police grabbed copies of the Com
munist-dominated EAM organ, El
leftheri Ellada as soon as it ap
peared with the proclamation, and
the public prosecutor said penal
action would be taken against the
staff who prepared the bulletin.
A Government official said he was
not surprised at the proclamation as
“Markos headquarters has been di
ror+imy Prtmmnulet WortHc in thP
mountains for months and previ
ously has announced a provisional
government would be formed.”
Some Government quarters said
establishment of a “Communist
government” would be advantageous
to the Greek armed forces who have
been unable to draw the guerrillas
into frontal battle. A fixed point
would offer an objective for Greek
forces, they said.
Proclamation Dated Aug. 10.
The guerrilla broadcast, heard
last night, said Gen. Vifiades in a
proclamation dated August 10 had
declared his headquarters assumed
all authority to form a “democratic
government.”
“Central authority will be exer-'
cised by central headquarters of the
democratic army,” the proclamation
declared. “General headquarters
shall take all necessary, legislative
and executive measures. All acts of
headquarters will be submitted for
approval to the popular national as
sembly as soon as it is called.”
The Greek government has been
predicting for some time that the
guerrillas would take steps to estab
lish a “free Communist” state in
Northern Greece.
The preamble to the proclamation
said “general headquarters is taking
into consideration the fact there
have been created in free areas of
Greece conditions for organization
of popular authority based on pop
ular democratic principles * *
It advocated the deposition of King
Paul I and his dynasty. Claiming
4U. l«rt G ay-v+ in
which the late King George II was
returned to the throne was “invalid
and faked.”
Liberation Declared Aim.
Declaring that the “primary aim
for the execution of all authorities
• • • is the liberation of all our coun
try from foreigners and their native
agents * * the proclamation said:
“The popular authority is accept
ing and encouraging every work and
assistance from foreign capital or
from international organizations
which will contribute to the pro
motion of the Greek economy and
which will be based on the principle
of equality. It will not recognize
and will suppress every privilege or
concession which has been allocated
to foreigners, individuals, companies
or states not compatible with the
meaning of national independence
or popular sovereignty. State con
tracts or provileges which have been
allocated to foreigners and which
are not compatible with popular
sovereignty will not be recognized.”
“The democratic army,” it con
tiifued, "is the armed section of the
nation which is fighting for the
freedom, independence and integrity
of Greece.”
a The government's 3d Army com
thunique said more than 150 houses
had been burned during the past
two days in the pillaging of villages
in: Western Thrace, near the Bul
garian border. Peasants in the area
are evacuating their villages and
moving to larger centers, the offi
cial announcement said.
21 Houses Burned.
Press dispatches said 21 houses
had been burned in Perithori, 60
miles north of Salonika, when the
village was looted by guerrillas and
some of the residents abducted.
Another band burned 22 houses in
three communities—Amohori, Ano
Kline and Kato Kline—within a 3
mile radius, just north of Phlorina
on the Yugoslav border.
Three persons were reported slain
and 10 houses burned when Korisos,
a mile southeast of Kastoria, was
attacked.
Three persons were killed and 20
houses burned when a band of 300
raided the village of Oine, a few
miles southwest of Kastoria.
An announcement' said units of
the Greek army’s 8th division in
flicted heavy losses when they made
contact with a strong guerrilla force
somewhere north of Ioannina.
Unsuccessful attempts by large
guerrilla detachments to capture
Kerasivo and Personyianni, west of
Konitsa and near the Albanian
border, were officially reported.
A guerrilla band of 300 from Mount
Parnassos attacked Ostia, less than
Last Straw Falls on Aching GIs;
Will Shepherd Mules to Greece
Pfe Charles McGrath, one of the 100 GIs training 1,000
mules as part of a $400,000,000 United States Greek-Turkish
aid program, poses with one of his more gentle charges to show
his reaction to word that trainers are going to Greece with the
mules. —AP Wirephoto.
60 miles from Athens, but were
driven back and are engaged by the
army and gendarmerie, while their
route back to Parnassos is held by
government troops, an announce
ment said.
Yugoslav Envoy Returns
To Belgrade From Greece
BELGRADE, Yugoslovia, Aug. 16
WP).—A Yugoslav government spokes
man said today that Charge
d'Affaires Serif Sehovic had arrived
from Greece on a "routine trip” and
that he had a return visa for Athens.
The informant described as
‘ ridiculous'’ speculation in the;
Greek capital that Sehovic’s de-j
parture might indicate that Yugo- J
slavia wished to break off diplomatic
relations with Greece.
U. N.
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that the provisions of the charter be
observed.
Norwegian Delegate Finn Moe
opened the fight against the agree
ment with a declaration that "if the
council accepts this agreement, it
will seriously undermine its own
authority."
He said the agreement had the
effect of defining the bank as an
"independent” agency rather than
as a specialized agency of the U. N.
“The Norwegian delegation is not
prepared to recognize the bank as
a specialized agency on its own
terms,” he said.
Deferring of Action Asked.
Mr. Moe proposed that the coun
cil defer action until its next session
ana tnat tne uenerai AssemDiy,
meanwhile, be asked to lay down
specific directives concerning prin
ciples which should govern special
ized agencies.
Although the session reflected the
growing economic split between the
East and West, it was generally
agreed that the council weathered
the Marshall Plan “crisis” much
better than had been expected.
At the opening of the meeting July
19, many delegates had been ex
tremely pessimistic over the possible
effects the Marshall Plan split might
have on the future work of the
council.
The issue did come up in connec
tion with the report of the Economic
Commission for Europe, but was
quickly passed over.
U.S. Is Sued for $3,926,025
In Loss of Salmon Cargo
By the Associated Press
SEATTLE, Aug. 16.—Suit for1
$3,926,025 was filed in Federal Court
today for the big canned salmon
cargo lost when the motorship Dia
mond Knot sank after a collision
with the steamship Fenn Victory
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days ago.
The action was brought by six
companies, owners of the cargo,
against the United States Govern
ment. The Government was named
defendant because the Fenn Vic
tory, operated by the American
Hawaiian Steamship Co., is owned
by the Maritime Commission. The
Diamond Knot had 108,946 cases of
salmon aboard.
A $2,500,000 libel action for loss
of cargo was also filed yesterday
in San Francisco against the Amer
ican-Hawaiian Steamship Co. by
Libby, McNeill & Libby, owners
of part of the salmon cargo. The
firm also filed in the action here.
Jesse Jones Donates
$50,000 to School
By *h« Associated Press
Houston Endowment, Inc., the
Jesse Jones foundation, announced
yesterday a gift of $50,000 to John
Brown University, Siloam Springs,
Ark., in memory of Mr. Jones’
parents, Mr. and Mrs. William
Hasque Jones.
The former Secretary of Com
merce has made several previous
gifts to the university, established
for boys and girls unable to aaenu
expensive colleges.
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FORT RENO, Okla., Aug. 16 —
Remember the 100 sweating Gls
gentling 1,000 United States mules
for the Greeks?
They’re a quiet bunch tonight.
The last straw has just fallen on
their aching backs.
They are going to Greece as
nursemaids to the mules.
And it will be no sight-seeing torn.
As soon as they get the mules—
sent as part of a $400,000,000 United
States Greek-Turkish aid program
—safely to a Greek port they will
turn right around and return to the
United States.
The mules and the Gls will not
all go together, however.
Five hundred of the mules and
50 of the Gls will sail from New
Orleans around September 1, Col.
Moris M. lAbbe, commander of the
remount station here, was advised.
Then—so no partiality will be
shown—the original 50 Gls will re
main in the United States and the
other 50 will go with the other 600
mules at a date to be set later.
One of the saddest looking mule
skinners, when word of the trip
seeped out, was Pfc. Charles Mc
Grath, who lived in San Francisco,
Calif., before he took up the Army
as a career.
“I was all set to get married
next month,” he moaned. “And now
what have I got ahead of me?
“A honeymoon with a mule,
instead.”
Others among the group took the
news philosophically.
“As long as it’s a round trip
ticket and I’m coming back, what
can I lose but a little skin?” Thomas
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he applied salve to rope burns on
his hand being hauled around by
one of the mules during a "gentling”
session.
“Anyway, the mules are staying
in Greece.”
The mules have been in training
here since the later part of June
and have been taught to carry
packs, both as led and free animals
and have undergone a gentling pro
cess in sessions which looked like
amateur rodeos. "
In addition, they have had their
hooves manicured and their fetlocks
sheared in a trimming pen where
they were thrown and tied to keep
them from taking the trimmers
apart.
The pack animals will be shipped
without shoes—a point that brought
a grin back to even the most glum
looking GIs.
“Wait’ll the Greeks try to shoe
some of them," they chuckled.
$375 in Useless Bonds '
Are Reported Missing
Loss of five unissued United
States Savings Bonds with face
value of $375 was reported to police
yesterday by Charles Demma, man
ager of the Apex Theater, 4813
Massachusetts avenue N.W.
Mr. Demma said he missed the
bonds, which the theater offers for
sale to its patrons, in an inventory.
The bonds were without owners’
names and without the stamp of
the selling agency which is re
quired to make them valid, he told
police.
U. S.-Soviet Parley
On Lend-Lease Debt
Reported Dragging
Sy Hm Auociotad Prm
The United States and Soviet
Russia were reported yesterday to
be making "very slow” progress
toward agreement on the $11,200,
000,000 American lend-lease sup
plied the Russians as war-time
allies.
American officials retain hope of
an eventual lend-lease settlement,
despite the virtual breakdown of
efforts to agree in other current
conferences.
Closed-door negotiations which
began more than three months ago
were said by authorities to have
run into difficulties at the start
because of lack of Soviet records of
what materials the Russians actually
received before VJ-day and were
still using.
More recently Russian responses
were said to be slow to specific
American proposals. This could be
put down in part to the character
istic insistence of Soviet representa
tives abroad upon referring policy
questions back to Moscow for an
swer.
jsaiiv aewiun| uinunur.
Almost daily sessions are con
tinuing laboriously, nevertheless, on
a "working level” with American
officials assuming their opposite
members are acting in good faith
here regardless of suspicions of
Moscow's tactics elsewhere.
Only in these Washington talks
are Americans and Russians facing
each other across conference tables
with even moderate prospects of
an eventual meeting of minds. The
latest negotiations to be written off
are those of a joint Soviet-American
commission on Korea’s future, for
whose lack of progress Secretary of
State Marshall has blamed Moscow.
Even if a Korean report is sub
mitted by the commission next
Thursday, as Gen. Marshall pro
posed to Foreign Minister Molotov,
American officials look for disagree
ment even on this. As a next step
there has been under consideration
a plan for referring the Korean
problem to the foreign ministers of
the Big Four Pacific powers—Russia,
Britain, China and the United
States. A stalemate among these
might be referred to the United
Nations.
In any event it has been stressed
officially that the United States has
no intention of giving up the effort
to restore Korea to independence,
free of domination by Russia or any
other foreign power.
Talks Started April N.
After disregarding for a year
American requests that Russia talk
over a iend-lease settlement like
the other allies, Moscow sent a
group which began talks April 30.
The time consumed since then is
not far out of line with the six
months required to reach a final
settlement with Britain for a much
larger lend-lease account.
Negotiators must agree on at least
three basic points. These are:
1. The total material which
reached Rusisa, after losses through
plane and U-boat attack and other
| causes. The United States has vo
luminous records, hut t.hf> Russians
were leported to have advised they
were too busy fighting before VJ
day to keep detailed inventories.
2. The amount of lend-lease ma
terials expended or destroyed as a
part of the war effort. The Ameri
can policy in negotiations with other
allies was to write this off entirely.
3. The amount and value of ma
terials Russia still has and their
disposition. These were settled for
with other allies on the basis of 5
or 10 cents on the dollar.
Junior Commerce Board
To Select "Carnival Kid'
The Junior Board of Commerce
will hold a “Carnival Kid” contest
tomorrow to start the second week
of its summer carnival at Wis
consin and Western avenues N.W.
The contest, which will be held
at 8 p.m. at the carnival grounds,
will be judged by Washington radio
performers, including Bill Herson
of WRC, Mike Hunnicutt of WOL,
Jimmie Gibbons of WMAL, Eddie
Galliher of WTOP, Jerry Strong of
WEAM and Milton Ford of WWDC.
Children under 7 years of age
are eligible.
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Army Improving
'Artificial Moon'
For Infantrymen
The Amy is devising ways to
improve artificial moonlight to light
up darkened battlefields.
The War Department has just
revealed that exhaustive experi
ments have been under way at Fort
Benning, Ga., for the last several
months to improve the Infantry
mans “Dogface Moon.”
A system of lighting combat areas
by indirect searchlight beams was
tried in World War II with vary
ing success. By lighting terrain
features, infantrymen can spot
enemy gun positions and front-line
boundries can be clearly defined for
aircraft attack.
Amy scientists are experimenting
now with artificially produced cloud
formations for reflecting light.
A solid cloud base 500 to 5,000
feet high, according to scientists,
gives the best reflection. By pointing
80O,0M),000 candlepower beams at
artificially created cloud masses a
bright glare is obtained.
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Alliance, Inc.)
Science Librarians to Heel
At U. 5. Naval Observatory
The science-technology group of
the Washington chapter of the
Special Libraries Association will
meet August 26 at the United States
Naval Observatory, Massachusetts
avenue at Thirty-fourth street NW.
U. S. Lyons and Morgan Cilley,
members' of the observatory stafl,
will speak and conduct tours through
the clock house. The 12-inch and
26-inch telescopes will be available
f°r use, and there will be an exhibi
tion of rare books.
Mrs. Grace Savage, librarian at
the observatory, will be hostess for
the meeting, which will be limited to
members of the science-technology
group and one guest each. Ralph R.
Shaw, librarian of the Agriculture
Department, is chairman.
Allan Swim to Speak
Allan Swim, editor of the CIO
News, will discuss ways of improv
ing labor-management relations at
12:15 pjn. tomorrow in the Lafayette
Hotel at a luncheon sponsored by
the National Capital Forge of the
American Public Relations Associa
tion.
Beer License Protests
To Be Heard Tomorrow
Two hearings will be held tomor
row on protests against the granting
of licenses to tavemkeepers seeking
to sell light wines and beer by the
drink on their premises. The hear
ings will be the only ones held by
the Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board this week.
Neighbors of William S. Williams.
600 Division street N.E., will appear
before the ABC Board at 10 a.m. to
morrow to protest against granting
a license to operate a tavern in that
section, and at 2 pm., neighbors in
the vicinity of 1400 Swann street
N.W. will protest against granting a
tavern license to Neroy Joney.
Civitan Club to Hear
Address on Russia
Walter Hubbard, author and head
of the American Automobile Asso
ciation public relations department,
will speak on Russia at a luncheon
of the Washington Civitan Club at
12:30 pm. Tuesday at the Mayflower
Hotel.
A dinner meeting, followed by a
business session will be held by the
Civitans at 6:30 pm. August 26 at
the Mayflower Hotel. The annual
j boat ride will take place at 8 p.m.,
i September 4, on the Potomac Line.
Race Relations Program
Announced by Chicago U.
ly tHe Associated Press
CHICAGO. Aug. 16.—The Uni- j
versity of Chicago today announced
institution of a five-year program of jj
education, training and research in
race relations.
The university said the program
would emphasize "fundamental re
search in race relations and minor
ity problems” and would seek to "in
fuse authentic knowledge concern
ing * • * these problems * * * into
the curricula of' general education
and of adult education.”
Sociology Prof. Louis Wirth was *
named director of the program,
which was financed by a grant of
$150,000, shared equally by the Car
negie Corp. and the Rockefeller \
Foundation, to the university's Divi
sion of Social Sciences. j
Oil Workers Pick Toledo
KANSAS CITY. Aug. 16 (/P).—To- (
ledo, Ohio, was chosen as the site \
for their next national meeting by
the Oil Workers International Union
(CIO) delegates here today in the
closing session of their convention.
O. A. (Jack) Knight, of Hammond,
Ind., incumbent president, was re
nominated.
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