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Show -rrrr PAGE 8 ; SUNDAY HERALD c France Ms 1). S., ; Britain For Ideas On Franco Spain J.V LONDON," Dec. 15 U.B France announced today that she has tasked the United States and Britain to exchange ideas with - e-h- on relations with the Spanish regime of Generalissimo Fran-Incise'" Fran-Incise'" Franco, but best informed sources doubted that any diplo- matlc break -with Spain was in prospect. f The . French foreign ministry - ""announced in Paris that the note .had been sent. A British foreign 'office spokesman said it was delivered de-livered here Thursday night and asked for a mutual discussion of a Views on. Franco, whose country is not a member of the United "Nations. The Briton said that vFrance, the United States and g Britain are in the position of disliking the Franco regime and ; not knowing quite what to do q; about it r : Text of the note .was not . ' niade - public. Various . Parts ' dispatches In the ' past few days said France planned to ask London and Washington about the possibilities of a diplomatic break with Franco. The spokesman said France offered no such suggestion in her note. It was recalled that the Big Three Potsdam Declaration ac cused the Franco regime of owing "its existence to Axis support. A responsible diplomatic source .close to the foreign office. Said that the three powers hope to see the fall of the Franco regime but do not want to do anything to strengthen Franco's position. A diplomatic break might have this effect by enabling Franco to teT the people of Spain that he wanted their support in resistance to foreign "pressure." CIO Appeal (Continued from Page One) An Explorer Scout unit of boys aided in a tree-thinning program 'under supervision of forest rangers rang-ers in the Buffalo, Wyo., district. pared for resumption of negotiations negoti-ations Monday both with General Motors end Ford- Motor company, and also with a newcomer to the savagely competitive automotive field the' Kaiser-Frazer Corp.. Both sides were organizing for appearances in Washington Wednesday Wed-nesday when President Truman's first fact-finding board, organizes to examine the GM dispute.. Top officials for both side, led by GM President C. E. Wilson, and Thomas for the union, will meet with the board which has only White House backing. Senate consideration -of empowering legislation leg-islation for the board was dropped drop-ped Friday until after the holidays. holi-days. UAW talks with Ford will be resumed Monday in a flurry of rumors that the traditionally Independent In-dependent Ford was ready to make the union a satisfactory wage offer. Wage talks were postponed post-poned Friday at the company's request so that it could study "certain matters" their ; .nature undisclosed pertaining to the UAW's 30 per cent demands. ARRAIGNMENT OF IIOMMA POSTPONED MANILA. Dec. 15 (U.R) The arraignment before a war crimes' court of Lt. Gen., Masaham Hom-ma, Hom-ma, Japanese commander in the Philippines in 1041 and 1942 who is charged with responsibility for the infamous Bataan "Death March." has been postponed uom Tuesday to Wednesday, it was Announced today. An earlier announcement said he would be arrainged Tuesday. FLU EPIDEMIC CLOSES SCHOOLS MARYVILLE. Tenn.. Dec. 15 (U.R) An influenza epidemic today to-day forced closing of all Blount county schools. School Superintendent L. M. Ross announced that 3,000 stu dents and 35 teachers were ill with influenza. The schools will not re-open until Dec. 31. I!ess;?eace' Plan Turned Out To Be An Ultimatum (Continued from Page"One) Sound Planning L A f fV'iN fairs Means BETTER HOME Your Plumbing and Heating Arc a Lifetime Investment. ... Sound Planning Means Security Secur-ity for These Years. P. L. LARSEN Plumbing - Heating - Air Conditioning said Hess explained the object of his visit to the Duke of Hamilton and the foreign off ice representative representa-tive in three interviews on May 13. 14 and 15. 1941,' immediately after the parachute landing' in; which he' injured his leg. ., informed, the BriUsh,ihAwr ever, that, his pjan must be con sidered by some other govern ment, than Winston ChurchuTs. Iltss listed Churchill's removal as one of the essential. pbinU of me. ojier. , "Churchill, who . planned. ' war since;1936, and his coleagues wha leni themselves to his war policy. art no; persons -"wimwnom ue fuehrer, yrould, negotiate," v H&s sald'- V'rr AT :., ' -f:; Then he submitted his six-point offer: ' 1 Germany to have a free hand in all Europe. - 2 England to retain her empire, em-pire, with the exception of all former German, colonies, which were to be returned 'to Germany. 3 Russia was to be considered sn Asiatic country, although Hitler Hit-ler had "certain demands" to make on the Soviet Union "which would have to be settled either by negotiations or as a result of war." Hess amplified that point with the assertion that there was no truth to the rumors that Germany contemplated an early attack on Russia. Actually, the Nazi Invasion In-vasion of Russia began little more than a month later. 4 Britain was to evacuate her triops from Iraq, in effect giving Germany a free hand in the Middle Mid-dle East and access to. the Persian gulf. . 5 Reciprocal indemnification of British and German nationals whose property had been expro priated as a result of the war. 6 Churchill's government to be replaced by another before any ot the peace proposals were considered. FUEL SHORTAGE HAMPERS THEATERS ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Dec. 15 (U.R) Albuquerque's theaters, laundries, bakeries and other large natural gas consumers may be asked to close if the current cold wave continues to force down the pressure in gas lines feeding the city, local officials warned tonight. The cold weather has caused a sharp drop in the pressure in lines feeding both Albuquerque and Santa Fe. officials of the Albuquerque Al-buquerque Gas and Electric Co. said. TUE TMLOA ISALWAtS &IAO ID HEAR THAT YOU HAD A RIPPING TIME. I : YOU'LL BE GLAD to hear of MORAINS, wiiere it is the added quality - assurance of our merchandise that makes our prices so important. ftesig ns l From f Pc a irl H a rbor I n ves tig a Hon V r t -Or '5 ' . i ' it i Doolittle Boys Forget War and Prison WfthiPartVi . MIAMI BEACH, Fla.,"Dec? lS.York tJity stttl BUfferfiif from the Prttettinr -against the course and length vhich the Pearl Btrbqr investigation hearings have already taken. CfCtoinnttee Counsel William p. MiU along with three others on the counsel (left to right), Jule Hanneford John Z. Masten, Gerhard A. GeselL Produce Matinee .: Planned at S. F, SPANISH FORK-Jaycees of Spanish Fork will once more sponsor as a feature of the Christmas Christ-mas activities, a produce matinee, to be held'this year on December 20 at the Angelus theater, it is announced by Mark Hanson, chairman of this activity. Each year at Christmas time the Jay- cees. arrange for a matinee to be shown all the children of the city. The price of admission to the show is some produce such as potatoes, or other vegetables or fruits, either canned or bottled. The food items received as admission ad-mission to the matinee are then turned over to the church welfare storehouse of Palmyra stake for distribution to all those families who may be In need of food at Christmas time or thereafter. In past years hundreds of pounds of produce and canned goods have been received. Chinese Factions (Continued from Page One) ive representation In the Chinese National government." The president stated and re stated that this government is opposed to interference in the internal in-ternal affairs of other countries. He specifically promised that: "United States support will not extend to United States military intervention to influence .the course of any Chinese internal strife." But the modern world knows, he added, that "a breach of the peace anywhere in the world threatens the peace of the entire world." The president said this country wouia leave details of steps toward to-ward internal unity up to "the Chinese themselves." He said intervention in-tervention by this or any other foreign country "would be inappropriate." inap-propriate." But he made it clear that China -W neWTKMr expect U. S. economic help in her reconstruction ordeal unless she "moves toward peace and unity along the lines" he suggested. The Franklin Delano Roosevelt I stamp collection, valued at $100,-000, $100,-000, soon to be offered at public auction,, does not . include gifts ;trom tne. rulers of foreign countries. coun-tries. Such contributions have i been sent to the Roosevelt library iat Hyde Park, N. Y., where they ; became the property of the gov ernment and are on public exhi- Clirie Charged With Murder (Continued from Page One) against Cline of any city so far." In San Francisco, District At torney Brown anounced that chief criminal investigator Hard ing McGuire would fly to each of the cities involved in "Cline s transcontinental trail of tragedy" to assemble evidence at the expense' ex-pense' of the estate of Mrs. Delora Krebs Cline. Cline married the wealthy Chicago Chi-cago widow in May, 1944, and po lice here believe she died and was cremated by Cline in Dallas in October of that year under the name ef Mrs. Alice W. Carpenter. Brown indicated police here still are considering the advis ability of filing formal forgery charges against Cline "to mrke sure this merciless killer doesn't get away tnrougn some legal loop hole." Cline previously had been held on a forgery complaing involving securities ox tne $Z30,uuu K.reos Cline estate. Mystery Sliip (Continued from Pace One) Short. Hawaiian army command er when the Japanese hit Pearl Harbor. Gerow has testified that he accepted any war department responsibility for failure to in terpret properly Short's reply to a Nov. 27. 1941, war warning. Short had replied merely that his command was alerted against sabotage and that there was liai son with the navy. Gfcrow has contended that the reply did not indicate that Hawaii was alerted against sabotage only. Short's counsel asked how the message might have been worded to indicate the' command was alerted against sabotage alone. "If the message had read 'alerted against sabotage only,' I think it would have been per fectly clear," Gerow said. He insisted that the Nov. 27 warning from Washington was worded so that it gave Short au thority "to do anything in his discretion to safeguard the island of Oahu and carry out his mission." mis-sion." He told Ferguson he thought American losses "would have been much less if the (Hawaiian) command had been properly alerted." Konoye (Continued from Page One) 0J.PJ Lt .Gen. Jimmy Doolittle gave his boys their heads today, and reporters and . photographers fo-nd that the tightly-disciplined crew that bombed Tokyo could be controlled by no other man. "It the boys' party,- Doolittle 'said, turning 40 of those who struck the first blow at the enemy's" homeland loose in the 1 rambling MacFadder Deauville notel, Tney can do wnav tney want 'to do." What the boys wanted to do, apparently, was to forget all about the Tokyo raid of April 18, 1 ivv , xne war or prison camp years since then, and concentrate on having themselves a good time. They were willing enough to say they were glad to be together to-gether again, and would pose briefly when photographers caught them sitting down. But that was about all. Capt. George Barr, of New effects of Japanese tortures, was flown here from Schick General hospital ' at' : Clinton, "'Iowa.' He was accompanied by a night sur geon. Doolittle Informed Barr of his promotion to captain a little over a month ago when .he visited the' Iowa hospital. Tonight he planned to award him the distinguished flying cross. To each other, they did lot of talking and a lot of yelling. There was also a good bit ot tell ing the bartender and the cabana boys to make it another of the same. This was the ' party the general promised to give them in, Chungking, but there .had never before been enough of them in one place to make it worth while Doolittle summoned the group, hoping to get aU 61 still alive, from all parts of the country for the reunion and jamboree. receiving the imperial com mand. Largely because of his high birth but partly because he al ways scrupulously avoided any disreputable political connections Konoye was one of the most popular men in Japan. He was born in October, 1891 the eldest son of Prince Atsumaro Konoye, who died when the prince was a boy. The father was an intimate friend of Prince Saionji, the Genro. and the latter lat-ter was asked to look after the young Konoye. He was a graduate of the Kyoto Ky-oto Imperial university in 1917 and attended the Versailles peace conference as "a secretary to Saionji. His eldest son, Fumitaka, wasj a student at Princeton university and captain of the school golf team during the prince's visit to the United States in 1934. Never robust, Konoye was troubled with insomnia but often converted his bed into an office, holding conferences there. He has three other children, two girls and one boy. AWARD WINNERS NAMED Winners of the grand prize awards in the Provo retail merchants merch-ants treasure hunt, conducted in connection with the Victory loan drive were announced Saturday by Clyde James chairman as follows: fol-lows: Richard J. Rowley, vac- cuum cleaner; platform rocker,' ur. vasco M. Tanner and automatic auto-matic gas water heater, D. M Keeler. 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