Molotov Answers
Aid Message
(By Eddy Gilmore)
MOSCOW <i*P)—Foreign Minister
V. M. Molotov, in the first official
Soviet comment on President Tru
man’s proposed aid to Greece, went
on record today in an interview
with Johannes Steel with the dec
laration he doubted the plan would
“restore democracy” there.
The best way to restore democ
racy to Greece would be to do
away with foreign intervention,
Molotov commented.
The implication that Greece was
no democracy at present was an
assumption advanced by Steel,
American writer and radio com
mentator, who put the question to
Molotov in this way: “Do you be
lieve that President Truman’s pro
posed American policy on Greece
will restore democracy to Greece?”
Molotov’s declaration on Greece
and other questions came in a se
ries of 10 questions and answers
put to him in writing by Steel,
who arrived in Moscow early in
the conference of foreign minis
ters. <The exchange was broadcast
by the Moscow radio.)
Molotov stated a compromise
was possible between Russia’s pro
posal for a unified Germany and
the United States plan for a fed
eral Germany, if the questions
could be decided by a German ple
becite.
Tariff Musi Protect
Fishing Industry
SEATTLE, (/P)—E. A. Ruthford,
who represented the entire west
coast fishing industry at state de
partment hearings last January,
said today Russian fishermen will
be in a position “to ruin the Amer
ican fishing industry” unless tar
iff protection is granted.
He made the comment in regards
to Senator Magnuson’s statement
to secretary of state Marshall yes
terday that Russians using 16 for
mer U. S. vessels have “invaded”
the northern fishing waters.
A similar viewpoint on tariffs
was expressed by Harold E. Lok
ken, manager of the fishing vessel
owners association. He however,
said he considers the Russian
threat “potential rather than ac
tual.”
Harold Grotle, secretary of the
deep sea fishermen’s union, said
fishermen are “100 per cent behind
any move to stop Russia from mov
ing in on the Bering Sea fishing
grounds.
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Krug Orders 518
Mines To Close
WASHINGTON, (£>)—Secretary
of the interior Krug Thursday or
dered the indefinite closing of 518
coal mines for safety reasons and
John L. Lewis commented:
“May God in Heaven forgive
him” for not closing them before
| 111 miners died at Centralia, 111.
Krug announced that 2,013 other
i mines in government possession
will be permitted to I'eopen next
Monday at the end of the miners’
six-day mourning period for the
Centralia victims, provided the
pits are certified as safe.
The 518 mines ordered closed by
i Krug because they are “believed
i dangerous”, employ 40,000 work
. era.
Lewis was testifying on mine
safety to a House committee when
Krug issued the order at the In
terior Department.
“I point out,” the united mine
workers chief said, “that secretary
Krug is doing now what he should
have done ever since the safety
code became effective. He’s start
ing to enforce his own code—but
after 111 men died at Centralia.
“Now on this particular day of
our Lord, Mr. Krug found 518
[ mines not safe.
j “May God in Heaven forgive
■ him for not finding those mines be
fore and not closing them down
before those men died.”
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More Safety For
Miners, Lewis Asks
_
(By Douglas Cornell and Max Hall)
WASHINGTON, (/Pi —John L.
Lewis’ demands for greater safety
| for men who mine coal in what he
1 called underground “slaughter
i houses” brought ready promises
! of help from Congress today.
Various House members urged
safety laws with “teeth.”
Lewis got some support, too, for 1
a proposal that the government
give back the $710,000 contempt of
| court fine on him and his united
mine workers union to help wid
ows and orphans of men who died
in the two big mine explosions of
recent years—Centralia, III., last
1 week and straight Creek, Kv., in
; 1945.
But members of a House labor
subcommittee who heard the
j booming UMW president testify
for six hours yesterday showed no
inclination to go along with his1
suggestion that Congress ask Pres-1
ident Truman to fire secretary of
the interior Krug. i
Mr. Truman himself left no doubt
j that he is standing squarely behind
' his cabinet officer.
Certainly not, the President de
clared in response to a news con
ference question whether he had
given anj- thought to removing
him. Mr. Krug is an efficient pub
lic official, the chief executive j
! added.
But he said he would leave any
reply to Lewis up to Krug.
As he had done before—and this
time with all the spectacular ora
tory he can turn on at will—the!
UMW chief again accused Krug
before the House hearing yester-1
day of letting 111 men die at Cen
tralia last week through “criminal
negligence” in failing to enforce
safety standards.
The subcommittee planned to;
give Krug his chance to fire back
I sometime after next Thursday. {
Krug advised a Senate subcom
mittee making an on-the-spot in-1
vestigation at Centralia yesterday
that a federal inspection of the
mine only a week before the ex
Moscow Meeting
Listed As Failure
MOSCOW, t/P)—Official sources
said today that Soviet foreign min
ister V. M. Molotov, despite his in
sistent demand for American and
British reports on China, had thus
far failed to furnish a Soviet state
ment in an exchange of informa
tion.
April 1 was the agreed deadline
for the exchange of information on
China demanded by Molotov. The
U. S. secretary of state, George C.
Marshall, sent Molotov a statement
last Monday, a few hours before
the deadline.
There has been no explanation
of Molotov’s failure to give the
Soviet side.
Meanwhile, a special committee
trying to plan on agenda for to
night’s meeting of the council of
foreign ministers on German po
litical principles was reported bog
ged down in disagreement. The
members were hopeful, however,
of finishing this work by the
scheduled time of the council’s
meeting at 6 p.m., two hours later
than usual.
Already, diplomats are begin
ning to argue whether the Moscow
conference should be written off
as a failure.
Gen. Lucius D. Clay’s statement
in Berlin yesterday that “all hope
has been given up of reaching a
settlement on reparations at this
conference,” was viewed by most
Moscow observers as a correct es
timate of the situation, but some
authorities argued that the final
evaluation could not be made until
the last session is held.
plosion showed “no imminent dan
ger” despite 55 items of noncom
pliance with the federal safety
code. But in any event, the secre
tary added, the report didn't reach
him until after the blast.
Axe Not Being
Used On Military
A ppropriations
WASHINGTON, (/?)— House ap
propriations committee members,
trying to pare down multi-billion
dollar army and navy budgets for
next year said today they are op
erating with ‘‘a scalpel rather than
a meat axe.”
They predicted there would be
no drastic cut in the $10,270,053,400
total for the two departments be
cause present conditions through
out the world make it risky to cu:
too deeply.
This was the concensus of a
number of committee members al
though Rep. Albert J. Engel <R.
Mich.> was the only one who
would permit use of his name. A
member of the army appropria
tions sub-committee, it was he who
used the ‘‘scalpel” phrase.
A navy subcommittee member
called the sea forces' budget “one
of the tightest ever sent to the cap
i itoi by.any President.”
“There just isn t any place m it
for a large cut,” he commented.
The President’s military budget
for the.year starting July 1 seeks
$3,504,546,300 for the navy and
$6,765,507,100 for the army.
During a recent Congressional
committee hearing, secretary of
| war Patterson cautioned that
“meat axe cuts” in the army bud
get might endanger national se
curity.
Republican fiscal leaders in the
House have set a goal of $6,000,
000,000 to bo cut from the Presi
dent’s 1948 budget of $37,500,000,
000. The army-navy figures ac
count for 27 per cent of the total
budget, while bills dealing with 33
per cent more already have been
passed by the House with an ag
gregate reduction of less than one
billion.
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