Soviets Demand
Large Reparations :
Or No Treaty \
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rehabilitation of war-ra v a g e d
areas.
For the first time, a Soviet offi
cial acknowledged that the Rus
sians were taking large-scale cur
rent production reparations from
the eastern zone of Germany. Blam
ing the western powers for a rep
arations breakdown on Germany
wide basis, Vishinsky said that “in
the Soviet zone we have fulfilled
our reparations quota rather well.”
French officials predicted that
Soviet Molotov’s delay on the Saar
issue would hurt Communist pop
ularity in France and tighten co
operation among the three western
powers in Germany.
Molotov last night withstood
four separate efforts of French for
eign minister Georges Bidault to
get Russia to agree immediately to
economic integration of the coal
bearing Saar valley with France.
Both Secretary of State George C.
Marshall and British Foreign Sec
retary Ernest Bevin have endorsed
the proposal, under which a com
mission would be set up at once to
make detailed plans for the mer
ger.
Still Crises As
Truman Starts
Third Year
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Feeling
line and looking fit, President Tru
man Saturday began his third year
in office with a flying trip to
Grandview, Mo., to visit his 94
year-old mother who is bedridden
with a fractured hip.
The President left Washington
at 3:10 a.m. <EST) in his personal
plane, the Sacred Cow.
He told reporters during a 15
minute wait before taking off that
he was feeling fine and noted that
c isos are just about as numerous
today as they were two years ago
when he succeeded the late Presi
dent Roosevelt upon the latter’s
death.
Accompanying the President in
his personal plane on his third trip
to Grandview since h s mother was
injured Feb. 13, were Presidential
secretaries Charles G. Ross and
Matthew Connelly; a personal sec
retary. Miss Rose Conway, and
Major General Harry H. Vaughn,
military aide. i
The burdens of the Presidency
seem to rest lightly on the chief
executive as he ends his second
year in the White House. He is
nearing 03. his birthday is May 8.
He is still an early riser, quick
of step, and gets a lot of fun out
c flying, yachting—and just plain
walking* His personal physician,
Brig. Gen. Wallace Graham, says
the President’s health is “the best
it has ever been” and that he has
the energy of the average man 20
yearj younger.
LOS ANGELES (^—Lifeguards
e mated there were 1,800,000 per
sons rushing the season at Los An
gde- area beaches yesterday.
There were 111 rescues but not a
single reported drowning. A pre
summer heat wave blistered this
locality for the third successive day
the mercury reaching a high of 93.
BEND, Ore. (/P)—Mothers here
are darn happy that the basketball
season is over.
During the basketball season,
h'^h school students dance in the
gym in their stocking feet. This
protects the maple court—but
wears hundreds of holes for moth
ers to darn.
Murderer of Four
Million To Hang
WARSAW, </P)— Rudolf Hoess.
convicted of silling four million
prisoners whne he was German
commandant ai Oswiecim concen
tration canij . went bacs to Os
wiecim today—to be hanged.
Tne 4 i-y< ur-old ex-colonel was
conVigLcd o the mass murders m
O.WtCcim uschw'iu* by the nine
judge Polls: supreme national tri
bunal April 2 after the pro>ecu
lion had charged him with respon
sibility for 4,000,000 murders by
gassing. Hoess disputed the figure,
saying he could count only 2,300,
000.
Seek Solidarity
Of Americas
•
(By Jack Dell)*
WASHINGTON, </P) — Senator
Vandenberg 'K.-Mich.> was report
ed Saturday to be preparing an ap
peal lor intensified effort by the
Pa 1 American Union to seal west
ern hemisphere solidarity.
With the Senate on a week-end
holiday from its debate over the
Greek-Turkey assistance program,
Vandenberg drafted a major for
eign policy speech for Monday’s f
gathering of representatives of the
21 American republics.
Several other Senators were still
seething over Friday’s salvo by
Henry A. Wallace against the
G eek-Turkey plan—his assertion
in London that Britain should re
fuse to take sides between the
United States and Russia.
Senator Lucas (D.-Ill.) told
newsmen “it should be thoroughly
understood in this country and
throughout the world that he is
speaking only for himself.”
Senator Eastland (D.-Miss.) ac
cused the former vice-president ol j
trying .to “induce the friends and
allies of this country to desert
her.”
Colleagues predicted the Van
denberg speech Monday will be
scanned closely the world’s for
eign ministries for signs of the
trc nd of bipartisan foreign policy
abroad, as well as in the Americas.,
Woman Has Twins;
Continues Work
LIBERTY, Mo. (/P)—Her physi
cian ordered her to bed for what
h i termed a “well-earned rest” to
day but petite Mrs. Theda Pearson
f etted to “be about my house
work” after the unattended birth
of premature twin daughters.
The 24-year-old, 100-pound wife
of a north Kansas City laborer,
Walter Pearson, 46, delivered her
self of the infants in the living
room of their farm home near here
late Thursday afternoon.
When the husband returned
from work he found his wife sit
t ng on a day bed in the living
room peeling potatoes for supper,
tha twins, Carolyn Sue, five pounds
and Marilyn Lou, 3'^ pounds,
wrapped in blankets beside her.
They had been born two hours pre
viously.
Pearson was met by his two sons
who told him as he approached the
house, “We got a lot of little sis
ters.”
The father called Dr. C. M.
Smith of Liberty, who examined
the mother and twins. “You did a
good job,” he said.
Said she: “That second baby
surely was a surprise.”
The twins were given a good
chance of survival.
RCA-Victor
Strike Settled
-L.
CAMDEN, N. J. UP)—Less than
lou hours before a strike deadline
i the ilCA-Victor plant in Cam
ion. a settlement was announced
nig it by commissioner James
rockett of the U. S. conciliation
service. . #
Crockett said terms of the agree
rent were worked out jointly but
>a. they would not be disclosed
■ itil they are submitted to a mass
meeting of the union. The union
had demanded general wage in
n-eases of 29 cents an hour, while
u‘ company had offered two and
one-half cents.
WASHINGTON. </P)—A federal
grand jury today indicted Gerhart
Eisler, alleged Communist leader,
on charges of swearing to false
statements when seeking to leave
the United States in 1945. Eisler,
54, German alien who has been
living in New York, also is under
indictment for contempt of Con
gress. That charge was brought
last February when he refused to
* *
testify under oath before the House
CHICAGO, (/P) — The thieves
who broke into Peter Skizas’ wtn
side restaurant, he told police,
were completely thorough in thci'
job of stealing.
They took $50 from the cash
register, cigars and cigarettes,
typewriter, a radio, silverware,
cutlery, and raided the kitchen
taking 20 pounds of butter. Their \
final act was breaking open the
telephone coin box and taking all
; the coins.
ANDY OTTERSON
UNDER OBSERVATION
Friends of Andy Otterson, will
be 'orry to learn that he has been
ill for some time and has been
taken under observation.
aul. iiND MRS. MiLTON ADAMS
HERE FOP FAIR
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Adams of
Solomon have arrived from Solo
mon for the Fair. Mr. Adams is a
former racer in the Fairs.
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