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Show BARRING OF AMERICAN PORTS TO SUBS LEFT TO EACH NATION PANAMA CITY, Oct S (UP) The neutrality committee of the Fan-American conference wai understood to hava agreed today to permit each of the 21 republic! to decide whether It would refute entry of belligerent lubmarinee to American porta. 1 ne cummuiee was unari bujuu to have agreed on a resolution for presentation to a plenary session scheduled to clear up all loose ends of the conference and to make ready for the final session. The committee on preservation of peace worked on a final draft of proposals for a safety sone to keep the western hemisphere, excluding Canada, neutral. - Subcommittees of the neutrality conference submitted final drafts of proposals to their full committees. commit-tees. These Included the "safety belt" plan Intended to keep belligerent bellig-erent warships out of American waters. The neutrality projects win be submitted to the conference's final plenary session tomorrow and will show the world. It was predicted, that the republics and their 264,-000,000 264,-000,000 Inhabitants form a solid front for the defense of American Ideals, institutions and rights. The delegates, reporting complete com-plete harmony, decided to adopt a resolution protesting the Inclusion In warring nations' contraband lists of foodstuffs and clothing destined for civil populations only. This declaration, which was not expected to have any Immediate material effect was expected to prelude any effort to revise International In-ternational law regarding contraband. contra-band. Delegatee agreed to aet tip a permanent per-manent economic committee In Washington to study effects of the contraband control of belligerents. The safety sone wss expected to be mapped so as to extend 300 miles from the Atlantic and Pacific Pa-cific coasts, as urged by United States Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles. The question of closing ports to submarines probably prob-ably will be left to each country. |