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Russians Kill
Last 4-Power
Unit in Reich
Berlin Kommandatura
'No Longer Exists/
Red Official Says
By the Associated Press
BERLIN, July 1.—The Rus
sians quit the Berlin city gov
ernment today and thus killed
the last functioning four-power
governing body in Germany.
A British spokesman reported this
latest development in the Berlin
crisis. He said the Russians with
drew from the Kommandatura, the
Allied body set up to rule Berlin,
with the statement that “the Kom
mandatura no longer exists."
The spokesman quoted Col. Boris
Kalinin, the Soviet chief of staff
here, as blaming the behavior of
Col. Frank Howley, American com
mander for Berlin, and introduc
tion of the Western currency into
the city for the death of the Kom
mandatura.
The fate of the Western Allies
in Berlin, deep inside the Soviet
zone and under Russian food block
ade. remained a question. The Unit
ed States and Britain, publicly com
mitted to withstand all efforts of
the Russians to squeeze them from
the city, stepped up their flow of
transport planes in an effort to
break the blockade.
Details of Session.
The British spokesman relayed
this account of Col. Kalinin's ac
tions at today s regular meeting of
the Kommandatura:
Col. Kalinin said the Soviet flag
and a Soviet sentry would remain
at the kommandatura building,
which is in the American sector,
until the Russians clear out their
archives.
He said Russia would continue to
abide by past four-power agree
ments reached by the Kommanda
tura. He told his fellow chiefs of
staff that Russia respects all deci
sions reached by that body, since
they were adopted by mutual agree
ment.
Co). Kalinin complained because
the Americans refused to apologize
for Col. Howley's behavior in de
parting from the last meeting of the
Kommandatura after 13 hours of
sharp debate. Col. Howley left his
deputy, William Babcock, to rep
resent him. At the time the Soviet
delegation seized on the occasion to
walk out, leaving the Question of an
other meeting up in the air.
Repeats Soviet Assertions.
Col. Kalinin repeated Soviet asser
tions that Berlin is an economic part
of the Soviet zone and should be in
cluded in the currency reform pro
gram for that zone. The Western
powers hold that the Kommandatura
is the proper body to introduce cur
rency reform in Berlin, which they j
regard as a four-power island in the
Soviet zone set apart by four-power
agreement.
At the climax to his announce
ment of the breakup of the Kom
mandatura Co. Kalinin invited the
British, American and French staffs
to have lunch with him.
•But in the future we will not
provide ajry meals." he added.
It is the custom for the power
having the chair to provide food for
Kommandatura personnel. The
Russians took the chair beginning
today for the month of July.
Orcupation 3 Years Old.
The Soviet boycott of the Kom
mandatura and all its working
committees occurred on the third
anniversary of four-power occupa
tion of Berlin. It appeared the.
Western powers would operate West
ern Berlin, with its 2.000.000 inhabi
tants, on a three-power basis while
the Russians ran their owm sector.
"The Kommandatura is not fin
ished.' said Col. Howley. "The Rus
sians just left it. There Is no legal
reason why it can t continue on a
three-power basis."
William Babcock. American deputy
commander in Berlin, issued a state
ment declaring:
"So far as we are concerned, there
still is a quadripartite government
of the city and we are ready to
maintain it. Before the Russian act
• See BERLIN. Page A-4.'
High of 85 Due Today,
Relieving Heat Wave
For the first time in more than a
week the District can expect cooler
weather that will keep the mercury
well below 90 degrees today and to- 1
morrow, the Weather Bureau prom
ised.
The District forecaster indicated
the skies would be generally clear
for the holiday week end. but did
not disclose whether more heat was
in prospect.
The daily high reading for Wash
ington dipped below 90 only once
since the 85 of June 23. That was
last Saturday's 89. Highest tem
peratures of the year thus far were>
reached last Thursday and Monday
at 95.
The forecaster said today would
be mostly sunny but the maximum
probably would not exceed 85. It
was a comfortable 77 at 1 p.m.
Tomorrow will be sunny and dry.
A favorable change in the wind last
night probably will continue to
maintain temperatures in the mid
eighties, the forecaster said.
U. S. Rubber Co. Raises
Tire Prices 5 to 7Vi%
By the Associated Press
NEW YORK. July 1.—United
States Rubber Co. today raised its
tire and tube prices from 5 to 7'_>
per cent.
The company, first to announce a
tire increase, said passenger car
tires would be up about 6 per cent.i
truck tires up 5 per cent and farm
tractor tires up 6 to 7', per cent,
depending on size. Inner tubes will
be 6 per cent higher. 1
Joint 3-Power Note to Russia
On Berlin Reported Prepared
Transmission Declared Awaiting Approval
Of U. S., British, French Governments
By the Associated Press
LONDON, July 1.—Informed
Whitehall sources said today the
United States, Britain and
France have drafted a joint note
to Russia demanding an end to
her blockade of Berlin and the
restoration of four-power rule
over, the city.
After formal approval has been
given to the draft by Secretary of
State Marshall. Foreign Secretary
Bevin and Foreign Minister Bidault
the note will be sent to the Kremlin,
possibly by the week end. the sources
said.
(Russian Ambassador Pan
vushkin talked over a "current
question" for 20 minutes today
with Undersecretary of State
Lovett at the State Department.
'The envoy refused to say on
leaving what issue they dis
cussed. But he said in response
to a reporter's question that he
did not deliver a new note.
'Officials said he asked for the
appointment with Mr. Lovett,
who has been acting secretary
during the absence of Gen.
Marshall, who has been at Wal
ter Reed Hospital for a physical
checkup. (
The American and French Am
bassadors. Lewis Douglas and Rene
Massigli, and Sir William Strang.
British Foreign Office expert on
Germany, put the finishing touches
to the western powers' demand in a
two-hour talk today.
A Foreign Office spokesman re
fused to discuss its contents.
But the Whitehall sources said the
note will emphasize that the three
Western powers will place all the
responsiility on Russia for what
happens to West Berlin's people if
the blockage is not lifted at once.
The informants said it was just
possible the three Western powers
will hold up actual dispatch of the
note to see whether a reconciliation
hint contained in a Soviet letter to
the British this week may be acted
on.
Marshal Vassily D. Sokolovsky,
the Russian military Governor in
Germany, told Gen. Sir Brian
Robertson, the British military Gov
ernor. that the road and rail re
strictions from West Germany to
West Berlin were not "permanent.”
The French have asked the Brit
ish and American governments in
the future not to take independent
action in Germany, saying that ap
parently their partners have done so
recently over Berlin, an informant
said.
As a result a semipermanent
(See NOTE, Page A-4.
'Occupation Statute'
Offered West Reich in
Lieu of Peace Treaty
Proposal Made by 3 Allies
In Presenting Details of
Self-Government Plan
By the Associated Press
FRANKFURT, July 1.—The
United States. Britain and
France today offered the 45,000,
000 Western Germans the right
to form their own federal gov
ernment and accept a substitute
for a peace treaty.
The government, giving Western
German officials full power except
in foreign relations, probably will
come into Weing early next year. It
would unite the three Western oc
cupation zones.
The Russians and their satellite |
states talked last week in Warsaw'
of establishing an Eastern German
state. Moscow and German Com
munists have expressed anger over
the plan for Western Germany.
German leaders did not imme
diately accept the proposal made
by the Weston power’s’ military!
governors. They asked time to dis
cuss it. but there was no question
as to whether the offer will be
accepted.
Told to Draft Constitution.
The German political leaders of
the three zones met with Gen.
Lucius D. Clay of the United States,
Gen. Sir Brian Robertson of Brit
ain and Lt. Gen. Pierre Koenig of |
France at United States Army I
headquarters, the former office of
the I. G. Farbenindustrie chemical
trust.
They were told they should draft
a democratic constitution on or
after September 1 for approval by1
referendum. The Western powers
informed them the boundaries of the
11 states of the three zones could be
altered to observe "traditional pat
terns " They were promised an “oc
cupation statute’’ in lieu of a peace
treaty. This would give the new'
government almost all powers of an
independent nation.
The three powers plus Belgium. '
the Netherlands and Luxembourg
had agreed at a recent London con
ference to form the new state. Other
provisions included international
control of the coal and steel of the
Ruhr, and continued Allied occu
pation until peace is assured.
"Token of Confidenre.”
Gen. Clay told the Germans:
“It is our sincere hope that you
will be able to develop a govern
ment structure which will contri
bute to the stability of Europe and ,
to the building of a lasting peace.” !
Gen Koenig said "these proposals
are a token of the confidence our
governments are showing you.” Gen.
Robertson outlined Allied proposals
for changing boundaries of the
states, which had been split up for
occupation purposes.
Gen. Clay stressed that the Allied
offers are merely proposals. He said
German suggestions for changes wih
be considered.
He said the minister-presidents of
the 11 states should convene a con- 1
stilutional assembly before Septem
ber 1 to draft a “democratic con
stitution which will establish a gov
ernment structure of a federal type
which will be best adapted to even
tual establishment of German unity,
at present disrupted.”
Gen. Clay said the constitution
(See GERMANY, Page A-4.>
Massacre of 5,000 Troops
Charged io Chinese Reds
By the Associated Press
NANKING. • July 1—A govern
ment spokesman charged todayi
that Chinese Communists massacred
5,000 National troops at Kaifeng.
The spokesman, Gen. Teng Wen
yi, said the 5.000 were machine
gunned on the banks of the Yellow
River. They included National sol
diers, Kuomintang (National Party)'
members and government workers,
he said.
Teng quoted Lt. Wu Chen of the
National 66th Division, which gar- (
risoned Kaifeng, capital of Honan I
Province, He said the officer feigned
death and escaped.
When American correspondents
asked to be flown to Kaifeng to
verify the charge. Gen. Teng said
Communist snipers in the area j
made that impossible at this time, j
The military spokesman said the
Communist army south of Kaifeng
apparently was preparing to chal
lenge government forces in a deci
sive battle for Central China.
I
Arab League Reported
To Have Turned Down
U. N. Peace Proposals
Bernadotte Plan Declared
Providing Annexation of
Area to Trans-Jordan
By the Associattd Press
CAIRO, July I.—A high Arab
League source said today the
league has decided to reject
United Nations proposals for a
solution of the Palestine ques
tion.
Arab and Jewish leaders are sep
arately preparing their answers to
Count Folke Bernadotte, the U. N.
mediator, on his proposals for a
Hoiy Land peace.
The league informant said he ex-;
pected Count Bernadotte to come
t» Cairo within the next two days.
Tewfik Abu Houda Pasha, Trans
Jordan Prime Minister, said today,
that Count Bernadotte's proposal
provides for annexation of tjie Arab
part of the Holy Land to Trans
jordan.
Housa Pasha declared this would
be tantamount to returning Trans
jordan to a dependent status, since
the proposed new state would be
under partial U. N. jurisdiction.
“I have notified the Arab League's
Political Committee,” he said, "that
Trans-Jordan is a soverign coun
try and cannot yield any part of
its sovereignty.
"I also told the committee Trans
jordan has no ambition whatever
regarding Palestine and only aims
at preventing the creation of a Jew
ish state and partition of the Holy
Land.”
Houda Pasha said the annexation
proposal was a "revival of the old
Jewish plan.”
After "complete liberation,” he
added, "Palestinians will freely de
cide whether they will have an in
dependent state, joining the Arab
League, or unite to Egypt, Trans- j
Jordan or any other Arab country.
Group Drafting Reply.
Abdel Rahman Azzam Pasha, sec
retary of the Arab League, said last
night that the league’s Political
Committee had gone over the pro
posals and appointed a subcom
mittee to draft a reply to Count
Bernadotte.
In Tel Aviv, an Israeli minister
said he though his government
would have an answer ready in "a
couple of days.”,
U. N. headquarters at Lake Suc
cess said Count Bernadotte dis
closed he had invited Jewish and
Arab leaders to Rhodes for separate
peace talks, but said he had no1
immediate plans for a joint round
table discussion. His peace pro
posals have not been officially re-1
leased for publication and he im
posed secrecy on both parties.
Azzam Pasha said Syrian officials’
were mistaken when they accused
an American warship of shelling
Arab positions along Palestine's
northern coast.
Informants in Montreux. Switzer
land. said Dr. Chaim Weizmann, I
President of Israel, will keep in close
touch with the political commission
of the World Jewish Congress meet
ing there. Weizmann arrived in
Montreux from Paris yesterday. j
Secretary of Labor Post
Turned Down by Steelman
By the Associated Press
President Truman said today that
John R. Steelman, his assistant, has
turned down an offer of appoint
ment as Secretary of Labor.
Mr. Truman told a news confer
ence that Mr. Steelman agreed with
him that he is more valuable in his
present spot than he would be in
tire cabinet post.
As a presidential assistant, Mr.
Steelman has devoted much time to
labor matters. He has been trying
for weeks to settle the railroad wage
dispute.
Mr. Truman said he has not de
cided on a man to fill the vacancy
created by the death of Secretary of
Labor Schwellenbach.
Hungary Arrests Four Priests
BUDAPEST, Hungary, July 1 i/Pi.I
—The Interior Ministry announced
today that political police have ar
rested four Roman Catholic priests,
including the secretary of Catholic
Action, for “inciting against democ
racy."
I
Yugoslav Troops
And Reds Rally
To Tito Support
Division Elects Him
To Communist Party
Session on July 21
By the Associated Press
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, July
1.—The Communists and soldiers
of Yugoslavia rallied around
Premier Marshal Tito today, giv
ing him strong support in his
defiant stand against the Co
minform.
Men who fought beside Tito in
his days as a guerrilla leader—
the 1st Proletarian Division of the
Yugoslav Army—elected Tito as a
delegate to the fifth Communist
Party congress, where Yugoslavia's
political future may well be decided.
Tito showed up in Belgrade yes
terday for the first time since the
Cominform blast on Monday. He
was greeted with shouts of ‘Tito.
Tito" from a youth brigade whose
work he inspected.
'Government radio monitors
in Washington reported today
that a broadcast from Com
munist headquarters in Albania
said that country stands with
Russia in the Communist crisis
over Yugoslavia.
'The broadcast accused Yugo
slav leaders of "open treason.” ,
'The monitoring service's rec-'
ord of the broadcast is being
distributed among top officials of
the State Department and else
where.
'It said the Cominform reso
lutions blasting Marshal Tito
had been studied at a special
meeting by the "plenum of the
Central Committee of the Al
banian Communist Party,” and
that the Central Committee is
“in_ full and unanimous solidar
ity” with the Cominform resolu
non. i
• Slovenes Back Tito.
Today the Central Committee of
the Communist Party of Yugoslavia
received a telegram from the Slo
venia Central Committee rejecting
the Cominfoim charges against Tito.
Said the Slovenian Communists:
"We cannot be shaken for a
moment in our confidence in our
leadership, the Central Committee
and Tito.”
The Cominform^the organization^
of the Eastern (Communist states
led by the Soviet Union—charged
Tito with conducting a hateful pol
icy toward the Soviet Union and
one opposed to Accepted Commu
nist theory.
The Yugoslav Party Congress will
be held here July 21. In a program
for the event published in the Com
munist newspaper Borba yesterday
the Yugoslav Central Communist
Committee upheld Yugoslav inde
pendence and called for a Balkan
bloc of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and
Albania. Bulgaria previously ad
vocated such a bloc.
Bulgarian Leaders Assailed.
Today Borba took a crack at Bul
garian Communist Party leader
ship for supporting the Cominform
charge. It asked how' the Bulgar
ian people can draw closer to a peo
ple whose leaders are charged by
Bulgarian leadership with “the most
fantastic things.”
“Isn't there danger in this for
the cause of further close ties and
brotherhood? it asked.
(The Belgrade radio broadcast
an editorial from Borba accusing
Bulgarian leaders of trying to
W'iden the split between Tito and
the Cominform. It appeared to
be the first hint of a widened
breach between Tito and Bul
garian Premier Georgi Dimitrov.
Both are Moscow-trained Com
munists.
("Some people may say that we
have decided to leave the Social
ist front and democracy and, also,
there may be a funny "official’
decision that we are not any more
in the front,” said the editorial.
“No one can expel our party and
our country from this front • » *.”
(Borba said the nationalist
charge against the Yugoslav
Communist Party and its leaders
“was fabricated at the last mo
Tsee YUGOSLAVIA, Page A-4X j
Commissioners Again Pick
Leahy to Direct Draft Here
The Commissioners today sent to
President Truman the nomination
of William E. Leahy, attorney and
wartime District selective service
director, to serve again as seiective
service head here under the new
draft act.
Mr. Leahy, who served as chair-:
man of the Washington Chest X
rav survey, w-hich ended yesterday.!
has been associated with District
affairs since he was graduated from
Georgetown University Law School
in 1912.
Also prominent in the practice of j
lawr here, he has been an assistant
United States attorney and for five
years was president of the Columbus
University Law School.
Late in April, after a conference
with Mr. Leahy on the draft ques
tion, Commissioner John Russell
Young said he had asked Mr. Leahy i
to set up plans for reconstituting a!
draft here in case the draft law":
passed.
What's Going On Here?
Housing Bill Signed,
But Truman Brands
It as 'Patchwork'
Congress Taken to Task
For Failure to Pass
Adequate Legislation
(Text of President's Statement
on Page A-5.)
President Truman today
signed the Republican housing
bill passed in the final hours of
the Eightieth Congress, but he
called the bill "a batch of po
litical patchwork” which is
I “practically nothing.”
Because of the President's asser
tion at his news conference today
that housing is one of the many
jobs left unfinished by the 80th
Congress, he was asked if he plans
to call Congress back in special
session this year.
He said he would not comment
on that at this time.
Fourth Blast in Two Days.
The President's blast at the Re
publicans was the fourth in two
days on signing new legislation. In
a formal statement, he said the
Congress had “failed miserably” to
meet long-range housing needs.
Mr. Truman's statement today
said “there can be no excuse for
such slipshod legislation.”
Congress had “ample time to en
act the housing legislation the
country needs,” he said.
"The failure to pass decent hous
ing legislation is a sad disappoint
ment to the millions of our people
who are so desperately in need of
homes,” Mr. Truman added.
The statement said the bill “was
passed by the Congress in the final
hours of the session, after the Re
publican leadership relused to per
mit the House of Representatives to
j vote upon the Taft-Ellender-Wag
ner housing bill.”
House leadership had blocked the
T-E-W bill because of its public-.
housing and slum-clearance pro-!
I visions.
Under the bill signed by Mr. Tru
man. the Reconstruction Finance
Corp. is given authority to buy GI
home loan mortgages of up to $10,000
each.
It permits banks and other lending
institutions to sell the RFC's Federal
National Mortgage Association as
much as 25 per cent of the GI
mortgages they hold.
Signing an appropriation measure
for the Tennessee Valley Authority/
yesterday Mr. Truman hit the House
for failing to provide funds for a
$54,000,000 steam generating plant
to furnish auxiliary power, declaring
the action "reckless and irresponsible
i SeeLEGISLATION, Page A-5.) j
Eight Die in Crash-Landing
Of Italian Plane in Belgium
By the Associated Press
BRUSSELS, Belgium, July 1.—j
Eight persons were killed today in
the crash landing of an Italian Air
Lines plane near the airfield at Keer
bergen, Belgium, about midway be
tween Brussels and Antwerp.
The plane was a three-engine Fiat
owned by the Avio Linee Italian on
a regular flight from Milan to
Brussels
Air line officials said four of the
dead were passengers. All of the
Italian crew except the hostess were
killed. Three passengers and the
hostess escaped injury.
An air line announcement said
the aircraft was trying to make an
emergency landing near the field.
An air line spokesman said the
dead included one Englishman, two
i Belgians and a man of unknown na
i ticnality. No Italian passengers were
: aboard.
Maryland Schoolgirl, 13, Killed
Accidentally by Her Sister, 14
By th* Associated Press
DEALE. Md„ July 1—A school
girl was shot and killed in her bed
today, Anne Arundel County police
said, when a rifle held by her elder
sister went off accidentally.
The victim was identified as
Jacqueline Spindle, 13, Sgt. Homer
Dawson said.
He said the girl, lying in bed be
fore breakfast, was shot by her
sister, Dorothy Mae, 14, in their
first-floor bedroom at a summer
eottage near Deale Beach, which is
about 35 miles from Washington.
. L
Dorothy told police she had arisen
and was "fooling” with her brother's
.22-caliber rifle, Sergt. Dawson said.
The gun discharged accidentally
and a bullet went through the
dozing girl’s head. She died in
stantly.
Dr. John M. daffy. county medical
examiner, issued a verdict of acci
dental death.
After questioning. Dorothy was
released to her father, James
Spindle.
The girls’ mother. Mrs. Sally
Spindle, was reported to be in
| Washington at the time.
4
N. Y. Store Clerks Terrorized
By Union Reds, Official T estifies
House Subcommittee Told of Threats to Crack
' Skulls of Employes if Leaders Are Disobeyed
By the Aisociated Pres*
A New York department store
executive testified today that al
leged Communist union leaders
have created a reign of terror
among white-collar workers in
New York.
Threats of skull-cracking and
actual physical violence were dis
closed by E. Marshall Palmer, per
sonnel manager of Oppenheim
Collins Co., before a House Labor
subcommittee.
Mr. Palmer said: “Our people are
living day by day in a great deal
of fear.”
The House group, headed by
Representative Kersten. Republican,
of Wisconsin, is investigating the
infiltration of Communists in Amer
ican labor.
Earlier, James Schoff. president of
Bloomingdale's Department Store,
had related how three right-wing
members allegedly were kicked out
of a New York union for accusing
union leaders of being pro-Com
munist. Mr. Schoff said the three
employes of Bloomingd^le's were
thrown out of the union local after
a hearing in which they were denied
legal counsel.
Several Incidents Cited.
Mr. Palmer recited several in
cidents of alleged terrorism which
he said had frightened employes of
his company.
Gordon Greenfield. secretary
treasurer of Oppenheim-Collins.
backed him up, test’fying tlvit Hie
firm's employes are “terrified of do
ing anything not ordered by the
union." He added:
"The old loyalty to the store has
been squelched. It is considered dis
loyal to the union to do anything in
the interest of the store."
Mr. Palmer said the incidents in
(See UNIONS, Page A-3.)
Rites for Slain Girl
Conducted as Hunt
For Killer Continues
Police Renew Apoeal
For Clues in Death
Of Carol Bardwell
Funeral services for 11-year
old Carol Bardwell-were held
this morning as police continued
the hunt for her slayer.
The pretty sixth-grade Sacred
Heart student was found Sunday
evening in Rock Creek Park with
her throat slashed.
More than 50 persons attended
the 8:30 a.m. prayer services at
the Bardwell home, 1635 Webster
street N.W.. before the procession
moved to the Shrine of the Sacred
Heart.
The' church was almost filled as
the Rev. Paul Repetti, assistant
pastor, officiated at the requiem
mass. A double line of Carol's
white-clad schoolmates flanked the
church entram:e as the coffin was
borne in by six friends of the girl's
father, Wiiliam P. Bardwell.
New Appeal for Clues.
As the flower-blanketed white
coffin was lowered into the grave
at Mount Olivet Cemetery, a new
appeal came from police enlisting
public aid in producing clues to the
identity of the girl’s slayer.
A 22-year-old grocery boy who
reportedly was leaving town when
detectives arrived was questioned to
day by police after a tip from a
newspaper.
Lt. Jeremiah Flaherty, chief of
the Detective Bureau's homicide
squad, said he was satisfied that the
youth had a good alibi. He said he
spent Sunday afternoon at a base
ball game on the Washington Monu
ment grounds and Lt. Flaherty said
this was confirmed by "several” per
sons with whom police had talked.
Positive information that the slay
ing victim had been raped came from
Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald
yesterday.
New support Sought.
The report in which police are;
now placing the most credence is
that which placed a man with a
bloody shirt and face at Fourteenth
street and Park road N.W. between
4:30 and 5 pm. Sunday. The time
coincides closely with the estimated
hour of the murder.
He was described as about 35
< See 3LAYING7~Page A-4.)
Japan Reported Open
To Tourists After July 15
By the Associated Press
ST. PAUL, July 1.—Northwest Air
lines reported today that for the
first time since the war, tourists
would be allowed in Japan, effective
July 15.
The company said the Japan
Travel Bureau was arranging seven
day trips through the country at
weekly intervals at a cost of *175 to
cover all expenses.
L. B Kinporte, airline gales direc
tor, said the line was accepting res
ervations for these tours, to include
both ancient and modern Japan
He said the only documentation
necessary, beside air travel space
and a confirmed tour reservation,
was a valid passport,
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Dewey Blasts Failure
To Consult 6.0. P.
On Foreign Policy
Says Democrats Apply
Biportisanism Only to
United Nations Affairs
By the Associated Press
ALBANY, N, Y„ July 1.—Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey declared today
a United States bipartisan for
eign policy he “founded” in 1944
has applied, in the main, only
to United Nations’ affairs.
At a press conference, the Re
publican presidential nominee said:
"The bipartisan policy has not:
applied in the other fields of for
eign affairs in most of which there
has been no consultation by the ad
ministration with the Republican
leadership.”
He listed “the other fields of for
eign affairs” in which he said there
had been no consultation by the
Democratic administration with the
Republican leadership as the
"Greek-Turkish policy which was
handed to the American people
without consultation, the Potsdam
Conference and the entire China
policy or lack of one.”
“I have been discussing the facts
and will draw conclusions when the
campaign gets under way.”
Confers With Dulles.
Gov. Dewey’s statement followed
a conference in the Executive Man
sion last night with his foreign
affairs adviser, John Poster Dulles.
He said Mr. Dulles, a United
States delegate to the U. N. General
Assembly, had been asked to serve
again as a delegate to the Assembly
meeting in Paris next fall. He said
he believed Mr. Dulles should ac
cept.
rie aescriueu ins wuiciwivc
Mr. Dulles as "one of a series of
important meetings" with Repub
lican leaders on national ana in
ternational affairs prior to the cam
paign.
Gov. Dewey disclosed he had
talked with Sen. Vandenberg, Re
publican, of Michigan: Senator
Taft, Republican, of Ohio: House
Speaker Martin, and Representative
Halleck, Republican, of Indiana,
since his nomination.
Silent on Berlin Situation.
Gov. Dewey pointed out that he
appointed Mr. Dulles four years ago
as his representative to “co-operate
with the Administration in present
ing a united front to the world in
war time in the formation of a Unit
ed Nations.”
Gov. Dewey had no comment on
the Berlin situation in which the
Russians have halted land trans
portation into the American, Brit
ish and French sectors.
“The situation is developing.” he
observed.
Gov. Dewey said he "founded the
bipartisan foreign policy to lift our
(See DEWEY, Page A-5J
Freezing in Wisconsin
CHICAGO, July 1 (^.—Freezing
weather hit the area near Land O'
Lakes in northern Wisconsin during
the early morning hours today as
coo! air covered the North Central
States. Chicago's low was 532 de
grees.
4
Truman Denies
Any Intention
To Step Aside
Predicts Nomination
On First Ballot and
Victory in November
By Joseph A. Fox
President Truman said flatly
today that he has no idea of
stepping aside for another Dem
ocratic presidential candidate.
He added that he expects to be
nominated on the first ballot at
Philadelphia and then beat the
Dewey-Warren ticket in Novem
ber.
The President described as fool
ish question No. 1, a reporters query
as to whether he would withdraw
from the race in view of internal
strife in the Democratic Party. He
told another questioner that he did
not take the Southern revolt over
his civil-rights program too seri
ously.
The question of Mr. Truman's
outlook on the forthcoming cam
paign was raised at the first news
conference he has held in several
weeks. At the outset, a reporter
asked the President what he thought
oi Democratic National Chairman
McGrath’s assertion that Mr. Tru
man would be nominated on the
first ballot.
Running Mate Up to Convention.
Mr. Truman said Senator Mc
Grath was correct. When another
reporter wanted to know if the
President favored a free and open
Democratic convention, he said the
Democrats had always had a free
and open convention.
Asked for a comment on the Re
publican ticket, the President
laughed and said he would com
ment on that at the proper time.
A reporter then recalled that on
his Western trip Mr. Truman
praised Gov. Warren of California,
the Republican vice presidential
nominee
The President quickly responded
that he likes Gov. Warren and that
he has nothing against Gov. Dewey
Mrs. Roosevelt Okay
As Running Mate, of
Course, Truman Says
President Truman said today
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt would
be an acceptable Vice Presiden
tial running mate, but he in
dicated by the. way he spoke
he did not take the suggestion
very seriously.
Mrs. Roosevelt's name was
mentioned in a recent article
by former Republican Repre
sentative Clare Boothe Luce. The
President was asked at his news
conference today by Ernest B.
(Tony) Vaccaro. Associated
Press reporter, if the former
first lady would be acceptable
to the President as a running
mate.
Mr. Truman replied: Of
course. Tony, of course.
Then the President asked
what the reporter would ex
pect him (the President* to say
to that.
At Hyde Park, Miss Malvina
Thompson, secretary to Mrs.
Roosevelt, said Mrs. Roosevelt
was visiting friends and was
not available for comment.
either, but he replied that he is go
ing to beat them both in the forth
coming campaign.
Asked if he would be agreeable to
having Gen." Eisenhower on the
ticket with him as a vice presiden
tial candidate, the President said
only that that would be up to Gen.
Eisenhower, and amplified that the
choice of a running mate w'as up to
the Democratic Convention
Definitely Won’t Retire.
Mr. Truman then repeated to an
other questioner that he was sure of
enough first-ballot votes to insure
his nomination and agreed that he
was not taking the Southern revolt
seriously.
“You definitely wont retire?” a
reporter asked.
The President responded with an
emphatic certainly not. and said that
was foolish question No. 1.
Mr. Truman would not discuss his
campaign plans saying he would
make an announcement after the
Democratic Convention, which opens
July 12.
He would not say even when he
expected to start the campaign.
The President yesterday spent
some time with Senator McGrath,
who told reporters that he and Mr.
(See DEMOCRATS, Page iA^5j
Liner Queen Elizabeth Sails
After Search for Time Bomb
By the Associated Press
NEW YORK. July 1.—The giant
liner Queen Elizabeth, searched
from stem to stern on a report that
a time bomb had been placed
aboard, sailed for Europe early to
day.
A similar bomb threat was re
ceived when the Queen Elizabeth
was here on a previous trip.
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