Aid Flan Not A
Blank U. S. Check
WASHNGTON, </P) — Secretary
of treasury Snyder made plain to
day that he does not view the
Marshall plan for European recov
ery as giving foreign countries a
blank check on the United States
for what they need.
Snyder told a news conference
that secretary of state Marshall
was not extended an implied invi
tation to other countries to tell
this nation “what they need or
want.”
•My interpretation is that he is
asking them to make a self-inven
tory and see what they can do for
themselves,” Snyder told report
ers.
Meanwhile, Marshall said at an
other news conference that he
does not plan to have a represent
ative attend the talks of British,
French and Russian foreign min
isters concerning his European re
covery program. Tlie.se discus
sions are scheduled to begin in
Paris Friday.
As’-ed whether he plans to have
an observer there, Marshall said
-he does not.
He flatly declined to give out
any more information now about
these proposals. When a ques
tioner referred to the program as
“your proposal” Marshall inter
rupted quickly to say the reporter
meant the American government
proposal.
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Pravda Says Aid
Plan Doomed
! To Failure
LONDON, bP) — Pravda, the
Communist party organ in Rus
j sia, dashecj cold water today on
i the warm, friendly feeling which
has encompassed Europe since the
! Soviet Union accepted last Sun-'
; day a British-French invitation to
(talk about the Marshall A:d-Eu-‘
i rope plan.
With Soviet foreign minister V.
M. -Molotov reportedly scheduled
to leave tomorrow for Paris,
i where the three-power talks will
; get under way Friday. Pravda
1 said no self-respecting European
nation could accept the Marshall
proposals if acceptance meant
American interference in the in
ternal affairs of those nations.
It said the business world of the
United States was trying, through
the Marshall program, “to weaken
the ripening economic recovery
1 of Europe and that the “Greek
Turkish aid program was doomed
to failure.
U. S. under secretary of state
William L. Clayton continued his
| conferences on world economic
affairs with Prime Minister Att
! lee, British foreign seertary Er
nest Bevin, and Sir Stafford
Cripps, president of the board of
trade. U. S. ambassador Lewis W.
Douglas also attended the talks
, today.
One high British government
source said Britain would defer
final decision on cutting her buy
ing program in the United States
“at least until the full scope pos
sibilities of the Marshall aid-Eu
rope plan emerge.”
This apparently was in answer
to previous reports that Washing
ton was expressing “concern’ that
Missouri River
Near Record Hi«*h
OMAHA i/P)—The swollen Mis
souri river neared a record level
in southeast Nebraska yesterday
as it attempted to abso* b the over
flow from tributaries still spread
ing tacit destruction upstream.
At Rulo in southeast Nebraska
‘‘Big Muddy” reached 20.to at
H a.m. Tuesday, only .31 of a foot
below the all-time record 20.90
level set June lo. New cres's on
tributaries were expected to boost
the figure to a new record.
In Iowa, towns along the lower
Roccaan and Des Moiner rivers—
including Des Moines, Ottumka,
and Van Meter — braced them
selves for higher water yesterday.
Fort Dodge, la., lost its power
and wated supply as the upper
Des Moines river inundated the
power plant.
In northeast Nebraska, a crest
on the Elkhorn river was expected
to reach Norfolk last night. Yes
terday it was flooding thousands
of acres and tearing a^’ay rail
road and highway lines near
Ewing and Neligh. At Columbus,
Neb., where a fourth of the city
was under water, emergency cen
ters were set up at the city hall
and hospitals to handle hundreds
'of' evacuees. The Loup river at
Columbus was three miles wide.
Rail and highway traffic in Ne
braska, Iowa and Missouri was
shipped completely in many areas
by huge gaps in pavements and
track beds, but torn telephone and
telegraphic lines were being re
stored .
such curtailment might amount to
discrimination against American
goods, which is prohibited under
the terms of the loan agreemen'
of 1946.
Russia Confirms
Fall Of Meteorite
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. iTFl—Dr. H.
H. Nininger, director of the Amer
ican meteorite museum near here,
sajd today he had received offi
cial verification from the meteor
ite committee of the Russian
academy of sciences, Moscow, that
a meteorite of great size fell near
Vladivostok, Siberia, Feb- 12.
The communication was the
first official scientific verification
Dr. Mininger said.
Dr. Nininger said he was advised
that the size of the meteorite was
estimated at several tons; 30 cra
ters, the largest HO feet in diam
eter and 28 feet deep, were form
Seattle Auto
Mechanics Strike
SEATTLE, oP)—A strike of 300
mechanics closed 40 automobile
dealers’ repair shops here today
Members of the automotive ma
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chinists’ union lodge 230 *Ind.» re
jected a 15-cent-an-hour wage in
crease offer by the Seattle auto
motive dealers association. The
union asked a 25-cent increase, or
$1.75 an hour.
Not affected by the str'ke arc
approximately 300 independent
repair shops in Seattle.
ed. and a “considerable” forest
was burned.
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