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Republic Steel Hits
WAA Lease oi Huge
Furnace to Kaiser
By th* Associated Press
CLEVELAND, Aug. 18.—Republic
Steel Corp. complaihed today
against a War Assets Administra
tion decision to lease the Govern
ment’s biggest blast furnace to
Kaiser-Frazer Corp.
One of the world’s largest, the
furnace and coke ovens are owned
by the Federal Government, but j
have been operated by Republic
since they were built early in the
war.
WAA announced yesterday In
Washington that Kaiser ^Frazer!
would take over the surplus plant
September 1 on an agreement that
provides an option to purchase the
property.
Republic had bid earlier this year
to buy the plant, but was turned
down.
“The loss of this furnace,” its
statement said, “will force us to dis
continue completely the sale of pig
iron in the North to foundries and
merchant pig iron users, and, in
addition, curtail our steel-making
operations,
“We have exhausted every means
at our command to prevent the
inevitable shutdown of many of the
plants who have depended on us
for pig iron. The fate of these
plants is now In the hands of the
Government.”
Republic said WAA’s asking price
on the plant was “ridiculous” and
that it “had no choice but to re
ject their proposals.”
But in Washington, War Assets
'Administrator Jesse Larson said Re
public had refused offers to continue
operation or acquire the property.
He said the agreement with Kaiser
Frazer will avert a shutdown.
Tucker Corp., another auto firm,
also had been bidding for the prop
erty and until yesterday it was not
known that Kaiser-Frazer was
interested.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer quoted
one WAA official in Washington as I
saying Kaiser-Frazer got the lease
because Republic was "trying to
blackjack the Government into a
low rental price and not getting
away with it.”
Clarence Lawry Funeral
Held in Takoma Park
Funeral services for Clarence
Lawry, 63, former periodical manager
of the Review and Herald Publish
ing Association in Takoma Park.
Md.. were held yesterday in the
Seventh-Day Adventist Church
there. Burial was in George Wash
ington Memorial Park.
Mr. Lawry. whose home was at 718
Kennebec avenue, Takoma Park,
died Saturday in Washington
Sanatorium.
In the publishing business most of
his life, Mr. Lawry was connected
with the Review and Herald as
assistant manager, periodical man
ager and manager of its Columbia
Union branch here.
Several years ago he left Wash
ington to become credit manager
and assistant business manager for
a Seventh-Day Adventist publica
tion in Illinois and later served as
secretary-treasurer of the Advent
ist Conference in Madison, Wise. He
returned to Washington in June.
Mr. Lawry is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Maude Henry Lawry; a
daughter, Mrs. Margaret Eckenroth,
and two grandchildem, all of Ta
koma Park.
Julian J. Garner Riles
Set in Fredericksburg
By the Associated Press
FREDERICKSBURG, Va.. Aug. 18.
—Funeral services for Julian J.
Garner, 75, former president of the
Virginia Wholesale Grocerymen's
Association, will be held in the
Methodist Church here at 3 p.m. to
morrow. Burial will be in City
Cemetery.
Mr .Garner died at his home here
Monday night.
Born in King George County, Mr.
Garner spent most ol his life here.
He retired from business in 1945.
Mr. Garner served two terms on
the city council and was a past
exalted ruler of the local Elks lodge.
Surviving are his widow and two
Bisters, Mrs. M. D. Hill and Mrs.
J. J. Minor of Fredericksburg.
Work Sfarls lo Finish
Batlleship Kenlucky
By the Associated Press
PORTSMOUTH, Va., Aug. 18.—
Work has been resumed on the
partially completed battleship Ken
tucky but her future appears un
certain. She is being readied for
floating oitt of her building dock.
The Kentucky originally was de
signed as a 45.000-ton super dread
naught. Near the war's end work
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By tha Associated Prats
PARIS, Aug. 18.—French politi
cians took another—somewhat star
tled—look at Premier Andre Marie
today in the light of his show of
strength last night in the National
Assembly.
His 2>/2-week-old coalition gov
ernment has been regarded as a
shaky one, but he whipped a balky
group of deputies into line last night
with a threat to resign. Political
observers regarded it as a real dis
play of power.
On Premier Marie's insistence, the
Assembly passed by a vote of 385 to
202, a bill giving the government
power to regulate taxes by decree.
The Assembly previously had
voted, 325-215, to amend the meas
ure to require legislative approval of
tax changes. The Upper Chamber
of the Legislature already has ap
proved the bill in the form asked
by the government.
Passage of the bill gives Finance
Minister- Paul Reynaud the power
he had sought to deal with the
French financial crisis, and prepare
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Harriman Names Himself
Chief of Reich Aid Mission
ly the Associated Press
Marshall Plan Ambassador W.
lAverell Harriman today designated
; himself as chief of the special for
eign aid mission to Germany’s bi
zone and appointed Norman H. Col
lisson as his deputy.
Mr. Collisson, a special assistant
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aged ail United States coal mines
when the Government seized them
to end the 1946 coal strike. He then
was a captain in the Navy.. Recently
he headed a technical mission sur
veying German industries.
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headquarters of the Economic Co
operation Administration and by
EGA here.
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riman is assuming direction of the
bizonal mission personally “because
of the importance of the bizon^in
the overall European economy.” Mis
sion headquarters is at Frankfurt.
Forrestal Denies Summons
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ly th« Associated Press
j Secretary of Defense Forrestal
says he was not “summoned'’ home
from an American-Canadian cele
bration yesterday, but returned ac
cording to plan.
When Mr. Forrestal left the Og
densburg <N. Y.) ceremonies mark
ing the joint defense pact, it Was
announced there that he had been
recalled for an “important confer
ence at the White House.”
But Presidential Secretary Charles
G. Ross quickly said no such meet
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