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WEATHER ■■■ mrm Ml ■ m ■ rn n m M P Served By Leased Wires 1 =^f= THE SUNDAY "NEWS sz ■ 1---t^TClId (^©ffiT (gQITV ©If AMB) {?>a,(gAg(yi.ElS^ state and National News y0L.jjL--NO. -----: WILMINGTON, N. C., SUNDAY, MARCH 16, 1947 " price TEN CENTS SECTION-A Ganey Sentenced To Serve 30 Years In Penitentiary SECOND degree murder charged Jury Returns Early Ver dict; Judge Gives Maxi mum Sentence quy Ganey was sentenced to 30 vears in the state penitentiary, the maximum sentence for murder in ,)ie second degree, after a 12-man jurv arrived at that verdict follow n„‘ a deliberation of a little more (hjK two hours yesterday after ”°Ganey had been charged by the slate with the first degree slaying 0f Frank Henderson. 24, of Jack sonville. N. C„ at a Seagate filling station October 29, but on the fourth day of the trial the jury voted that he was guilty of murder in the second degree. The jury filed out of the court room at 1:03 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and taking a recess for lunch, returned its verdict shortly after 4 p. m. In sentencing Ganey, Judge Clawson L. Williams imposed the maximum sentence under the second degree charge for which the minimum is two years. Murder in the first degree was foe verdict asked by District Soli citor Clifton Moore in his final argument in the crowded court room yesterday morning. Moore told the jury that it was facing a crossroads, and that at this inter section there were four possible ways to choose. "The roads,” Moore said, “are first degree murder, second degree murder, manslaughter and not guilty. At the end of one road is truth and justice. The state con lends that this man is guilty of murder in the first degree.” Moore explained at length the definition of first degree murder which states that there must be malice, premeditation and deliber ation. In a summary of the case as pre sented during the previous two day's hearings, Moore attempted to break down the arguments ot! the defense. In upholding his argument for the first degree verdict, Moore j used as an illustration of “pre- j meditation' the testimony of the | arresting officers. Deputy Sherifl j Ernest Priest said that shortly aft er the shooting Ganey said to him "If this had been last " night it would have happened in Onslow county.” The solicitor also reviewed the grounds for second degree murder! which is malice and use of a I deadly weapon. Moore said that: Aaron Goldberg, the defense at- j torney, used a story about self- j defense which was actually man- j slaughter. Moore explained that statement by defining rranslaugh ter as ''killing in the heat of pas sion.” He repeated Ganey's own testi mony -egarding the shooting. “Where's my girl?” Ganey said, he asked Henderson just after the 24-year-old man had driven up in front of his station. "I don't know, I haven't seen her.” was Henderson's reply ac cording tothe defendant's version. “You’re a d-liar.” Ganey said (Continued on Page Two, Col. 7) The Weather FORECAST For North Carolina: Sunday, partly cloudy and mild. Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. yesterday. TEMPERATURES „ 1:30 a.m. 55; 7:30 a.m. 47; 1:30 p.m. 61; ?:30 p.m. 52. Maximum 61. Minimum 46; Mean 54; Normal 53. HUMIDITY p 1:30 a.m. 66; 7:30 a.m. 90; 1:30 p.m. 54; *1:30 p.m. 80. PRECIPITATION Toial lor 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. — 0-00 inches. Total since the first of the month — *37 inches. TIDES FOR TODAY 'From the Tide Tables published by U. Cosst and Geodetic Survey) High Low Wilmington _ 4:54 a.m. 12:15 a.m. _ 5:18 p.m. - P™. Masonboro Inlet 2:43 a.m. 9:15 a.m. 2:58 p.m. 9:18 p.m. Sunrise 6:20: Sunset 6:20; Moonrise 2:49 a 'W: Moonset 12:35 p.m. Ri’-er stage at Fayetteville, N. C., at 8 a,m-< Saturday. 21.2 feet. WASHINGTON. March 15.— UPi — "eather Bureau report of temperature and rainfall for the 24 hours ending 8 Pm in the principal cotton growing areas elsewhere: "!ati°n High Low Prec. "ILMIXGTOX _ (Jl 4l> -4fi A'P<?na ......_ 35 15 .00 Asheville 57 27 -00 Atlanta _11111111 — 35 -00 Atlantic City 48 39 -00 Birmingham _ 54 31 -00 BoBston __ 57 39 .00 Buffalo _ 23 .Of Burlington 43 34 -00 ]} Chattanooga _ — 27 .00 J?!Cag0 _ 28 18 -01 ^ncinnati __ _ — .00 ?*yeland _Z.“‘ 28 20 .09 2a!las - 49 GO -00 uenver _ 35 5 .02 ?,Ul“h - 2! 8 .12 ? ,PaM - 64 30 . -00 7; Worth . 47 29 .00 “f'evston _ ' 62 50 -00 ^scksonville _ 55 53 1-22 g®*; cHs 3o 25 .on •V West _ 61 73 .00 T»fiXV1,le -.- 50 29 •°° , ,r Rock . 43 29 -01 p'.Anneles ' 77 45 .00 _:: -39 27 .01 •'JoiviDhis . 47 32 .00 yia" ss 35 .00 ”■ 73 .on Poul ... ... 28 17 .10 V 1 .69 46 .03 .“mgomn-j .... 63 37 .00 v y ,?rl|-an- __ nr, 48 .00 | .\Vtfr,:k - 54 41 .00 Phn Jk - _ - 40 -00 .. adelphij, _ 36 38 .00 Pit,?1* - 84 4C .00 Polfch - 36 26 .06 iC^nd. Me- -.-_ 53 38 -00 -“■Mond _ 62 33 -00 Sa„L.ouis _ 33 22 .00 S*. phlnnio- 48 36 .00 SavJra5cisco - 08 46 -00 S"att?nah - 58 48 0! :- f, * 4 '''ShhiL? ------- 53 32 .00 h'oglon _ 60 37 .00 Assembly Show-Down | On *Gag-Rule’ Looms BY NOEL YANCEY | RALEIGH, March, 15. — _ As the General Assembly headed into its closing weeks today, many legislators looked forward to the possibility of a final show-down next week on the much discussed “gag-rule.” The legislator made giant strides toward sine die adjournment—now expected early in April—by pass ing a record-breaking $311,593,086 bennial appropriation bill this week and clearing the way for final passage next week of the revenue bill. The gag rule, which requires that a bill must receive a two-thirds vote after it has been reported unfavorably by a committee before the House can consider it and its opponents say was designed to block liquor legislation, came up in the house twice this week. Rep. Odus Mull of Cleveland, who was speaker when the rule was adopted in 1941, circumvented the rule Tuesday when he attached to the biennial revenue measure, an amendment to prohibit the sale of wine and regulate beer sales in Cleveland. Mull has introduced the first day of the session a bill to dry up Cleveland, but he told the House that he had been unable to get the finance committee to act on it. Under a compromise plan an nounced Wednesday, Mull agreed to with-draw his amendment, but secured approval by the Finance Committee of an amended version of his original bill. Some 13 counties were added to the measure. Rep. Rex Gass of Forsyth, chair man of the House Rules Committee, told the House Friday that the Finance Committee had voted down his bill to ban wine and beer in Forsyth’s Bethania township. Asserting that the gag rule was adopted as the result of a “trade” between Mull and legislator’s in the state’s wet eastern counties when the Cleveland legislator was cam paigning for the speakership, Gass told the House that he planned to introduce another bill to dry up Bethania. If the resolution does not bring results, Gass served notice that he would then introduce the ‘strongest (Continued on Page Two, Col. 3) Three Found Dead Aboard Yacht In Inland Waterway By STAFF CORRESPONDENT SOUTHPORT, March 15.—No inquest will be held into the death of three men found dead aboard an inland water way craft near Little River, yesterday morning, Coroner W. E. Bell, of Brunswick county, said last night. The dead are: i Banks H. Funderburk, oil dis tributor, of Fayetteville and Char lotte. Johnson A. Keesler, of Charlotte. Oscar T. Sewell, party boat operator of Swansboro. According to the coroner, the three men were found by two fish ermen after the craft, a yacht the Roseland II. had nosed into the bank of the waterway with tire mo tor running. The cabin was filled with smoke and artificial resperalion was given the men for two hours, the coroner said. He judged the death of ‘he men came between 7 and 8 a- rn. A shrimper, of Calbash, S. C., said the motor was running and a stove burning when he boarded the craft. Funderburk -was report ed lying in his bung as was Kee sler. Captain Sewell was lying over the steering wheel, it was irarned. Ralph Riggs, operator of the Wrightsville Terminal, from which place the craft left Friday morn ing at 11 o’clock, said that Fun derburg was the owner of the craft. Riggs, who will return the craft to Wrightsville Beach, said he had talked to the South Carolina shrimper and that he had said the cabin was “blacked out” when he tried to enter and that he was, forced to wait for the “smoke to clear” before he could give as sistance to the men. The terminal operator quoted the shrimper as saying that a rub ber hose connection line on the ex haust was broken. He also told Riggs, it was learned, that he thought Sewell was breathing and tried artificial respiration for two hours. Riggs said that the craft's tog showed an 8 a. m. entry in Fun derburk’s handwriting, the last such entry. A waterside gasoline station here reported that the boat had refuel (Continued on Page Two, Col. 4)^ EXPLOSION R I P S YACHT MAYFLOWER One Sailor Dies As Former Presidential Pleasure Craft Explodes CEDAR POINT, Md., March 15. — OR)—Scarred by fire for the third time in her 50-year colorful his tory, the former presidential yacht Mayflower lay at anchor tonight in Chesapeake Bay awaiting re pairs before being towed back to Baltimore. The Coast Guard reported lack of steam aboard the once sleek vessel prevented hoisting of the i anchor. A tug brought parts to the stricken ship preparatory to | bringing it back to Baltimore. The former presidential yacht Mayflower, which burst into 'flames late Friday night killing ! one crewman, laid up in Wilming i ton for two years prior to the ! outbreak of World War II. The dead man was identified as Robert Telloquin, a Canadian seaman. The Mayflower was saved from destruction by a nervy crew of Navy fire-fighters, and the yacht was being towed back to Baltimore last night. While docked here at tnc Broad foot Iron Works pier, the May flower had a great amount of re pair work done on her. and then put to sea in service of the United States. Prior to her arrival in Wilming ton the Mayflower had been ra vaged by flames in Philadelphia, while the craft was the presi dential yacht of Herbert Hoover. Calvin Coolidge sailed on the May (Continued on Page Two, Col. 4) ' $50,000 Market Building Planned By Clinton Club CLINTON, March 15.—The Junior Chamber of Com merce took over the management of the Clinton Produce Market yesterday and announced plans for the construction of a new $50,000 market building. --------—+ With a view o'f expanding the GOP’S AT HOME BECOME RESTLESS Senators Agree That Rec ord Of Congress Would Affect ’48 Votes WASHINGTON. March 15.—— Chairman Carroll Reece of the Republican National Committee agreed tonight with Senator Bald win fR-Conn) that “the republicans back home are impatient” for ac tion by Congress on important is sues and renewed his call for “party unity and team-play.” It was this “party unity” plea by Reece in an editorial in the Re publican News that aroused the ire of Senator Morse (R-Ore). Morse in a Senate speech called the edi torial 'a “brazen demand for re actionary control of the Republican oarty.” ,, Reece did not mention the Morse attack in replying to a letter fron Baldwin in which the Senator ex pressed “deep concern about the party’s obligations. But Reece wrote: “As chairman of the Republican National Committee, allow me to ,-nake it clear that the committee recognizes full well that the pri |mary responsibility for the formu ! (Continued on Page Two, Col. 8) community fruit and vegetable market, which last year grossed $594,000 in the sale of over half a million packages, the Jaycees are planning a wide program for improving marketing con ditions, H. H. Hubbard, city at torney, told the Star-News. A delegation from here will travel to Florida shortly to obtain a professional manager for the market. The members will confer with William L. Wilson, State Director of Markets. The new market building will be located on the new truek lane, at the intersection of the old Wilmington road and the old War saw road. Until the building is completed, the market will be operated in one of the local tcbacco warehouses. Another feature will be the sponsorship by the Jayces of an educational program for the farmers to encourage better pack aging. “We know that much money is being lost now.” i Hubbard said, “because fruits land vegetables are poorly packed and subject to excess deterio riation.” “In general we hope to increase sales by attracting more buyers and sellers with better marketing conditions and facilities, ’ Hub bard said. The committee which will be in charge of the market manage ment will include Cary Robinson. Marshal Williams. Everett Feter son, T. S. Cornwall and B. W Carter. WSCS President MRS. GURNEY P. HOOD WSCS TO MEET IN WILMINGTON Seventh Annual State Con ference To Be Held In City For Three Days Conference and district officers, zone leaders and representatives of 520 local Woman’s Societies of Christian Service and 64 Wesleyan Service Guilds, with a combined total membership of 24,000 women, will gather at the Grace Methodist church in Wilmington Wednesday, Thursday and Friday for the seventh annual meeting of the North Carolina Conference WSCS. Presiding at the sessions will be Mrs. Gurney P. Hood, of Ral eigh, president of the conference, which is composed of local societ ies in the eastern half of the state. A meeting of conference execu tive committee, district presidents and zone leaders at 11:30 Wednes day morning will precede the opening session at 2:30 p. m. The Wednesday night meeting will feature an address by Dr. Gloria Wysner, of the Foreign Missions conference, New York, and a si- j lent communion service at which ■ time free will offerings will be | made for the children of Poland, j Miss Bettie Brittingham of New York, editor of The Methodist Woman, will deliver an address at the Thursday morning program. Dr. Wysner will speak again at, the afternoon service, while “Look ing Ahead in Home Missions” will be the subject of Miss Britting ham’s address that night. The meeting will be e-oncb'ded i Friday morning after Miss Brit tingham speaks with a meditation conducted by Miss Lucy Steele, j professor of Bible at Peace col lege. Other persons who will have part in the conference program .nclude Mrs. B. B. Slaughter, secretary of Spiritual Life in N. C. conference; Mrs. James C. Murdock; Mrs. Kenneth Davis; Mrs. J. Frank Collier, president of the Grace Methodist church’s WSCS; Mrs. Darden Eure, More head City; Mrs. S. S. Holt, record ing secretary, Graham; Mrs. H. I. Glass, vice-president, Kinston; Mrs. W. P. Moore, secretary oi Student Work, Greenville; Mrs. H. O. Lineberger, secretary of Pro motion, Raleigh: Mrs. A. H. Bor land, Durham; Mrs. C. V. Cross, Gates; Mrs. H. L. McLeod, Johns; Mrs. R. L. Cox, Mount Olive; Mrs. H. A. Davis, Raleigh; Mrs. Fred L. Johnson, Conway; Mrs. J. T. Doughtie, Clinton; Dr. John C. Glenn, Wilmington; Mrs. (Continued on Page Two, Col. 1) Star-Newsreel Honors Onslow County Today Onslow county will be honored today by the St'ar-Newsreel broad castover WMFD at 1:30 p. m. The program, written and directed by Ben McDonald, Star-News "Round the Town Reporter’’ is a continua tion of salutes to southeastern North Carolina counties. On the program from Jackson ville will be a representative of the mayor. Ranmon Askuw; Miss Barbara Bird, student of Miss Helen McGraw’s school of music and. Charles C. Clark, Miss Helen Henderson, Parson Brown, D. C. Tripp and Lester Gould, manager of WJNC. TAFT SEEKS RED POSITION; GERMAN EXODUS PROPOSED; A PRA VDA LASHES GREEK AID 'if & rs _ v Ay A** : w - french Push Plan To End War Threat Marshall Says Measure Strikes At Heart Of The German Problem RUSSIAN OPPOSES Soviets Claim Proposal Would Pave The Way For Federalization By WES GALLAGHER MOSCOW, March 15 — </P) — France preposed tonight a start ling modern day exodus of Ger mans from their defeated father land in order to lower the Ger man war potential, and Secretary Marshall said the plan struck at the heart of the German problem. Foreign Minister Georges Bidauit told the Foreign Ministers Council that the Allies should undertake an organized reduction of the population through emigration from a thickly-settled reich and said France was prepared to take the revolutionary step of absorb ing Germans into her own popula tion. Veteran Moscow observers ex pected that Marshall and the other foreign ministers would be call ed to the Kremlin shortly to see Prime Minister Stalin. These re ports coincided with word that re publican Senators in the United States were urging that Marshall explain America’s policies in the Mediterranean to the Soviet lead er. Russia struck the first blow against plans of the western allies for a "'federalized” Germany with criticism of western land reor ganization policies uNaich the Rus | sians viewed as paving the way for federalization. At the opening of today’s meet ing, the longest conference, Brit ish Foreign Secretary Bevin repri manded Deputy Soviet Ministei Andrei Vishinsky for his insistence that Albanian be permitted to par I ticipate in drawing up of the Ger man peace pact. Earlier Vishinsky had deadlock ed the Deputy Foreign Ministers by demanding that the question be tossed into the laps of the min isters. Bevin said he thought it was entirely improper for one deputy to break up the work ol the three others “just because he did not get his way” on one point. Bidault made his sweeping pro posal for Germany by explain ing that with the return of ex pellees from former parts of the Reich Germany would have a density of population of 196 per square kilometer to 75 per square kilometer for France and 62 for Poland. He said this would be 40 more per square kilometer than when Adolf Hitler raised his cry for “living space.” This overpopulation, he contend ed, was laying the seeds of a new war and giving the Germans the strength to conduct it. Marshall declared that Bidault s proposals, which included three other points, had gone to the heart of the matter in a very realistic fashion. The Frenchman’s other points were: 1. No new transfer of German minorities from other countries into Germany would be permitted. (Continued on Page Two, Col. 2) - -- i Financial Workers File 30-Day Strike Notices NEW YORK, March 15.—UP)— The AFL United Financial Em ployes said today 30-day notices of contract termination would be sent to the New York stock, curb and cotton exchanges as the pre liminary move to a strike by 5,000 union members which would “paralyze” the financial district’s busy trade marts. M. David Keefe, president of the union, announced the decision aft er a conference with Emil Schram, president of the New York Stock Exchange. "We expect that the resulting strike will paralyze the industry,” Keefe said. The threatened strike is an out growth of a dispute between the union and a Wall Street broke age firm, A. M. Kidder and Com pany. Union spokesmen announced last night its members had voted 1.444 to 114 to cancel contracts with th» three exchanges. Schram said after his conference with Keefe that “the union wanted me to bring pressure” on the Kid der Company to effect a settle ment. “The New York stock exchange has no authority to do that,” Schram said. “I cannot force a firm to agree to terms. I cannot dictate. Maybe the terms would bankrupt the firm. I don’t know.” The union won a Labor Board election at the Kidder firm last October. It has demanded from the company a 25 per cent wage increase, saying the average union member there earned less than $40 weekly. Company officials countered by saving union representatives twice had walked cut of mediation con ferences. If a strike comes, Schram said, “we will have to get along the best way we can.” He said the members “did their own work” during a two-hour strike by the union last August and would do so again. The stock exchange head de clared it would be “impossible" to estimate losses which might re sult from a strike. The union strategy board con ferred this afternoon on when cancellation notices would be sent and whether they would be sent to all exchanges and member firms simultaneously or at different times. However, board members de i dined comment on their delibera tions beyond saying that the can Icellation notices would not be sent 'out today. Communist Organ Launches Attack By EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW, March 15.—(AP)— Pravda, Communist Party organ, made a bitter second Soviet attack on Presi dent Truman’s Greek-Turkish policy today, declaring it did not serve the cause of pe- ■« and security and “renders valueless” United States d tions of faithfulness to the United Nations. — Echoing tire same arguments those advanced yesterday Izvestia, the government newspac hut even sharper in some of it. conciusions, Pravda declared the proposed economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey' was “im perialist expansion under the guise of charity.” Now that the two chief newspap ers in Soviet Russia have lashed out in two-column long editorials, it remained for official Soviet leaders to give their reaction. None has yet said a public word. But it was expected that Joseph Stalin would receive United Slates Secretary of State George C. Marshall any time now, and that when he did he would speak his mind with utter frankness. It could be stated with some i tainty that if Stalin starts on the eject of President Truman he • ill say plenty. But Secretary Marshall, it is known, can be blunt, too, and such a meeting may turn into a lively evening. Pravda made an apparent refer ence to Marshall when it said “the leaders of American policy could do worse than ponder over the fact that under contemporary condi tions attempts to realize any plans for world domination are inevitable doomed to failure.” It was evident that the Russions believed that the secretary of state helped formulate the Truman policy, and there were many ob servers here who believed" tha1 Marshall’s definition of American democracy, which was laid before (Continued on Page Two,, Col. 4) I Fear Of Red Pressure Is Evident In Appeals LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., March 15.—(AP)—Fear of new Russian pressure appeared tonight to be back of the Greek and Turkish appeals for financial aid from the United *i States. PRESIDENT MAY EXTEND VACATION ■ Truman Apparently Is En couraged Over Reports On Foreign Crisis KEY WEST, Fla.. March 15.—MP - President Truman, apparently .encouraged by reports received from Secretary of State George C. Marshall, may prolong his vaca tion here until Wednesday. The President it was learned on highest authority, received two de coded messages during the day from his top-ranking cabinet of ficer at Moscow. It also was made known by cem petent. but unquotable sources, that General Marshall was fully ad vised in advance of Mr. Truman’s message to Congress Wednesday. In this speech, the President, ad-! vocating financial; economic and j other aid to Greece and Turkey.1 challenged the onward world march : of communism and pledged United States support to all “free peoples’’ resisting totalitarian aggression. It may be said without fear ol official contradiction that General; Marshall was fully informed in ad vance of the contents of that speech, which the President de livered in person, before flying here Wednesday afternoon. While Marshall, now attending the four-power foreign ministers conference in Moscow, has not been in telephonic communication with President Truman since the speech. Mr. Truman is getting regular re ports from the secretary. These are sent to the State Department, and decoded there, for transmis sion to the President at this sub marine base here. 6,775 Register For Levy Election Addison Hewlett, chairman of the board of New Hanover county com missioners, announced that 3,397 voters had registered for the bond issue to build a tuberculosis sana torium here and 3,378 have regis tered for the Junior College bond issue when registeration closed yesterday at 6:20 p. m., sundown. Before yesterday, registeration was exceedingly light, but approxi mately 2,300 signed up before the deadline to vote, Tuesday, March 25. j Spokesmen for both countries contend they must have immediate assistance if thgy are to remain bulwarks in the Mediterranean against the spread of communism. In a message to President Tru man, Greek Premier Maximos thanked him for asking Congress to ; aid Greece and declared that Greece is “now facing a subversive movement of a military minority i \ hich is supported from abroad and is seeking to impose its will upon the majority of the people by force A government spokesman in Istanbul said that a weak Turk ey could invite trouble and added “it would be more farsighted and much less costly in the long run to help her today than have to try to rescue her on some later day.” This is the situation as Congress prepares to act on President Tru man’s proposals to aid Greece and Turkey: Greece is a sick country, torn by j civil strife, unable to rebuild and ; become a self-supporting nation. Her leaders say she cannot survive as a democracy unless she has out side aid immediately. Turkey, afraid of possible Rus sian expansion southward, is spend ing more than 60 per cent of her ; national income to maintain her j armed forces on a war-time fool ing. This output has drained her j (Continued on Page Two, Col. 1) ( Possibility Of Another War Cited Senator Seeks Official Size Up On Whether Reds May Declare War NEW LOANS SEEN Hungary, Four Middle East States, Expected To Ask American Aid By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, March 15—(IP)—• Senator Taft (R-Ohio) called to day for an official size-up on whether Russia may declare war if the United States gives fi nancial and military aid to Greec* and Turkey. ‘1 want to know what our top military peqple think of the pos sibility that Russia will go to war if we carry out this program,’' he said, “just as we might ba prompted to go to war if Russia tried to force a communist gov ernment on Cuba.” He raised the question amid these fresh developments: 1. President Truman made pub lic messages of thanks from spokesmen for all Greek parties j except the communists. T h • President said they show that all will “cooperate unreservedly with (he United States government in its desire to assist Greece” and that they pledge the aid will b* devoted to “constructive rehabili tation and the cause of peace and freedom.” 2. Key congressmen predicted that Hungary and four Middle ; East states—Iran, Syria, Lebanon a'id Palestine—may seek Ameri can aid under the administration program of curbing the advance of communism These legislator* estimated the ultimate cost of the program may top $1,000,000,000. 3. Willard Thorp, assistant Secretary of State, declared that the United Stales is underwriting Greece because its people are democratic but that this country’* responsibility will cease if they "take some other line.” Mr. Truman has asked $400,000, 000 for Greece and Turkey rthi* year. In reaching the $1,000,000, 000 estimate, the Congressmen counted in $350,000,000 already re quested for relief in liberated countries and the sums budgeted ’’or relief in occupied lands, •• ■■ell as an undetermined amount 'f expected new requests. The messages from the Greek 'eaders were released by the White House along with a state iContinucd On Page 10; Column t) Price Drops Expected By Commerce Officials WASHINGTON. March 15.—(AP)—Commerce De partment officials expect price drops by next fall on the products which have soared highest in the post-OPA rise —like cotton goods and foods. The forecast is made in a cau tions report on commodity prices, soon to be published. On the basis of the official report, commerce department economists gave these unofficial conclusions today in in terviews: 1. The downtrend will be mild, not approaching the depth of a true “recession.” 2. It will start around midyear with drops in a few lines, then gain speed as more items come into a balance with demand. 3. It w’ill be uneven. Some prices may still be rising while those fartherest out of line come down. The study lists these items as priced “far in excess” of their France Cuts Bulgaria Commercial Rela tions PARIS, March 15.— (VP) —France severed commercial relations with Bulgaria today in the most serious breach with another power since the liberation and gave two Bui garian newspapermen 48 hours no tice to leave the country. The action was taken in retalia tion for the expulsion of a woman reporter for the French press agency in Sofia, after incidents stemming from the recent action of the Bulgarian government in re converting its currency. Tw# newsmen expelled were Amy Bakalov, chief of a Bulgarian bureau of information here and cor respondent for two Sofia weeklies and Lovan Strelkov, correspondent for a Sofia daily newspaper. In addition, the French cancelled special privileges granted to all foreign journalists for eight other Bulgarian newspapermen. They will be permitted to file stories to their newspapers, however. A French foreign office spokes man said that the French had ask ed for an explanation when Mme. Milke Genadiev *Boeuf. the French agency reporter, was expelled from Bulgaria. The spokesman said the French had received no official reply but “a sort of diplomatic answer" which accused the reporter of mix ing in Bulgarian internal affairs and at the same time raised the question of the amount of money held by the French when the Bul garian government ordered all its currency turned in. “The Bulgarian note said the French had 106,000,000 leva in Sofia but the United States legiation had only 35.000.000 and the British only 25.000,000.” the" spokesman added ‘This is easily explained by th< ifact that the French have a num ber of cultural, religious and edu cational missions in Bulgaria re quiring extra money." I usual place in the wholesale price structure and therefore highly likely to decline: Food, cotton goods, shoes, lura i ber, paint, drugs, leather, fats and oils. Small declines, if any, are fore seen this year for automobile*, consumer durable goods general ly, woolens and worsteds, furni ture and house furnishings, iron and steel products, paper, pulp, grains and livestock. The report is an item-by-ite§][ study of the 675 products which, make the government’s whole sale price index. Prepared by Louis J. Paradiso, chief of the business structure division, and Lois H. Rodriguez, economist, it will appear in the March issue of the monthly “survey of current business,” to be published in early April. Profits can be maintained at a good level, the report holds, de spite the prospective decline m prices. This will be true even in the “soft” lines like food and | clothing, which will see a decline ! in demand as bigger supplies of “hard goods” take an increasing• share of the consumer’s dollar. ‘‘The fact that many of the** commodities—notably those in the farm category—are yielding un usually large margins means that ! there is leeway for adjustment* without destroying the profitabili ty of the trade,” the study say*. ‘‘Furthermore, we may e*P**t improvement in the efficiency I production and distribution a* out I put in some industries is better | organized on a high and substained | evel—an improvement that «fc I viously should be shared with the 1 consumer in term* etf reduced | price*.'’
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