Wallace Says State
, Dept. Kept Earlier
Soviet Offer Secret
- charge.
The Russians told the depart
ment on March 21, Wallace said,
that they were prepared to end
the blockade on the “sole condi
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tion” that the Big Four foreign
^ ministers meet to consider the
• whole German problem.
A Big Four agreement announc
ed today provides for a meeting of
the foreign ministers -May 23,
eleven days after the lifting of the
Berlin blockade and the Western
counter-blockade of the Soviet
zone in Germany.
Wallace, former vice president
and now head of the Progressive
party, was one of seven witnesses
scheduled to testify before the
Senate foreign relations commit
tee yesterday to argue against the
12-nation defense alliance.
The committee is laying the
groundwork for a vote on the
treaty which is not binding on the
United States until ratified by the
Senate. For six days it has heard
^ those in favor of the program.
Now those against it have their
turn.
Wallace, in a prepared state
ment, urged the committee to
withhold action on the treaty until
after a foreign ministers confer
ence is held on the German situa
tion in New York.
. “This is our great—it may be
^ our last—opportunity to arrive at
a peaceful settlement of our dif
ferences” with Russia, he said.
He said the administration esti
mate of the cost of the North At
lantic military pact is “a plain
fraud on the American taxpayer.”
He predicted the eventual cost
will be as high as thirty billion
dollars instead of the slightly over
one billion dollar figure some have
set.
He charged the defense pact
was “aggressive to Russia.”
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lie pushed forward in Bonn, Ger
many today. Target date for for
mation of the new republic is July
15.
German police enforced the
Russian blockade inside Berlin
with gunfire today—six days be
fore the barriers are due to be
lifted. German guards fired a fu
sillage on the East Berlin boun
dary in a vain attempt to halt an
automobile racing into the Amer
ican sector.
Military observers in Shanghai
said the big communist push for
the city may be on, as strong Red
attacks were reported rolling up
on the southwest and northwest.
The communists stabbed deeper
into central and southeast China,
with apparently little resistance.
The economic crisis in Shang
hai deepened. The municipal gov
ernment abolished the cost of liv
ing index, which has been used
for the past three years to figure
wage levels. There was uncertain
ty about the whereabouts of Chi
ang Kai-Shek. One report said'he
was still in Shanghai. But his pri
vate plane was gone from Lung
wha air field.
The United Nations assembly’s
special political committee neared
a showdown vote today on the
question of the diplomatic boycott
of Franco Spain.
With Latin American countries
and the Slav bloc sharply divided
on the issue, observers predicted
no positive action could result be
fore the assembly’s slated adjourn
ment nexfc week.
In Quebec, embattled asbestos
workers who had blockaded road
approaches to the city of asbestos,
halting traffic for a day and a
night, abandoned their positions
early today without further fight
ing. The strikers have been de
manding a 15-cent hourly wage
boost.
Cairo police today announced
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| The $50.00 milk fund prize was
won by Hilding Larsen of Little
Creek.
The boxing matches were dis
cussed and various methods of im
proving them were brought out. A
much better show is expected next
time. A vote of thanks went to all
the men who participated and to
Ernie Kling for his very able man
agement of the contests.
A vote of thanks went also to
the men of the army base who so
willingly gave of their time to
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Hollywood Park
Destroyed By Fire;
Five Million Loss
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chunks of masonry fell, and sent
firemen running for their lives.
A Hollywood Turf Club spokes
man said the loss was covered by
insurance.
One fireman, inspector Clifton
Freeman, 30, Inglewood, was seri
ously injured as all available In
glewood equipment plus some of
Los Angeles vainly fough! the
wind-swept blaze.
Some tiiree hours after the blaze
was first reported at 11 p.m., it
was under control.
The stands were a total loss, but
the valuable horses on hand for
the coming meeting were saved
because of the stable’s location a
half-mile from the main racing
racing oval.
The disastrous fire realt a death
blow to Hollywood Park’s meet
ing, scheduled to start May 17, but
Santa Anita Park quickly offered
its facilities for the season.
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