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1 1 5 i M) Lziw ML LriLru Acts oard. teFial9 Vet iiil A Picture to Cheer Prober Charges to Socialize Soviet Gives In On Veto Question Small Nations Win Fight lo Send Argument lo General Assembly KEW YORK (AP) Soviet Russia, displaying a new spirit of jigrecment, abandoned a bitter battle to prevent a complete airing df the veto question in the United Nations General Assembly. Shortly afterward, the United Kingdom attacked Russia for )ier "reckless use" of the veto in the Security Council. Developments in the UN day a "i-v tot I -vT Ill V-'Sy V- A i I i i i 1 I i i II 1.1 it if i i I if I warn hum ntttn 1 1 ii Win DrfW mati itf vn iiiiw.vwteft- Free Press Photo Cpl. Keith Sampso'n, a wounded para- a nearly life-size photo of his boy.

The trooper at Oliver General Hospital, Augusta, enlargement was made from a picture taken has never seen his son, Danny. On by Tony Spina, Free Press photographer. Danny's first birthday, however, he will get Carol Williams enjoys the enlargement. Surgeon Slays Spouse, Mother and Self over Son Doctor Shoots Neurotic Youth Unable to -Finish Medical Studies Lumber Duty Is Suspended Wyatt Asks Loans to Speed 'Prefabs' WASHINGTON AP) In twin moves to relieve the housing shortage, President Truman authorized importation of lumber duty-free and Wilson Wyatt mmended $54,000,000 in Federal loans for makers of prefabricated homes. The actions came as it became clear that Housing Expediter Wyatt would fall slightly short of his 1946 goal of 1,200,000 new dwellings started.

Officials said, however a major effort would be made to get a flying start on the 1947 target of 1,500,000. WYATT ANNOUNCED a "premium payment" subsidy of 520 a ton for extra production of nails, a prime building bottleneck. Nail producers had pledged, he said, to boost their output nearly 25 per cent by December. The President issued a proclamation declaring an emergency. He authorized Secretary of the Treasury John W.

Snyder to permit temporarily the importation of scarce timber, lumber and lumber products duty-free for housing construction. The waiver will apply to any such products certified by Wyatt. The duty-free privilege will affect mainly imports from Canada. The flow of Canadian lumber was jeopardized in July by the revaluation of the Canadian dollar. THIS ACTION cut the revenue of the Dominion lumbermen by 10 per cent on sales to the United States, and made it likely that much of the 1,000,000,000 board feet imported by this country an nually would go elsewhere.

Wyatt ran into a brickwall of opposition, however, from the War Assets Administration in his effort to get the huge, Government-owned Dodge plant in Chicago turned over as surplus to the Lustron Corp. for the manufacture of assembly-line homes. The WAA which agreed to lease the plant to the Tucker a new automobile firm last month, refused to set aside that lease. The issue seemed headed for Attorney General Tom C. Clark for decision.

An acrimonious meeting between housing and WAA officials ended without agreement. WYATT ALSO has asked the Reconstruction Finance Corp. to Turn to Page 3, Column 3 Trusty Bolts State Prison JACKSON Erwin Kaprosy, 30, trusty inmate of Cell Block 16, walked away from Jackson Prison Friday night. He was seen at 8:30 m. but was missing at the 10 p.

m. roll call. Kaprosy was sentenced from Wayne County April 14, 1936, to 72 to 15 years for breaking and entering. Once paroled, he was returned as a violator to serve his maximum term, which would have expired July 29, 1948. PINCH TASTED HALF Plan Legionnaire Finds Caches Reports on Tour of Midwest States Federal Government agencies were charged with "stockpiling" of scarce building materials in anticipation of a socialized building program.

Arthur R. Marcus, of the National Veteran's Housing Committee, made the accusation. "My investigations indicate that vast stores of building material are being hoarded by Government officials in an effort to prove that private industry is incapable of providing housing for veterans," Marcus said. THE AMERICAN Legion na- representatives of Government and private builders, suppliers and Legion members at the Hotel Book-Cadillac. Marcus is a member of a seven-man committee appointed at the American Legion national convention to conduct a nationwide investigation Into the veteran housing situation.

His remarks highlighted a three-hour discussion in which representatives of Federal, State and local groups presented "their view on the backwardness of Detroit', housing program for veterans. His Detroit findings, correlated with those of the other si members of the Legion committee, will be presented to President Truman and to Congress. He is empowered by the Wai Assets Administration office in Chicago to go into any Government warehouse and check available supplies. MARCUS, WHOSE investigations cover seven Midwestern states, said that his findings would be made the subject of an American Legion hearing in Washington, Nov. 4 to 8.

He declared that glaring evidences of hoarding scarce materials had been discovered at Federal agency warehouses in Gary, Milwaukee; CarroII-ville, and at Fort Snelling, Minn. Eight hundred kegs of nails were discovered in a Federal Housing Administration warehouse at Milwaukee, he Other items hidden in quantities included insulation, roofing and plywood, he said. AT GARY, he found gypsum board and nails as well as toilets and other plumbing supplies. Quantities material were discovered at Carrollville, he asserted. Scarce wire screening amounting to 113,000 lineal feet was found in a warehouse at Fort Snelling, he said.

Detroit, as a whole was found to be comparatively free of hoarding. At the Kaiser-Frazer plant at Willow Run, however, "eight or nine" piles of superior white pine lumber were being used for crates, he said. Weather Bureau Devising System for Pollen Alarm WASHINGTON (JP) The Weather Bureau is hard at work on a warning system for hay fever and asthma sufferers. If all goes as planned, the Bureau said, it will be able to forecast 24 to 48 hours in advance when a mass of air with a high ragweed pollen count will reach a given area. This will give the sneezers time to (1) get out or (2) lay in a supply of handkerchiefs and tissues.

Pay Raises Found Less Than Prices WASHINGTON (Jp) The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that weekly earnings of workers in manufacturing industries have risen approximately 10 per cent since V-J Day while consumer prices have gone up 13 per cent. Building Price Drops Fail to Lure MeatBuyers Beef Off 5 to 8 Cents with Stocks Piling Up Once-scarce meat is piling up and prices are slipping off at Detroit meat markets as housewives stick to their guns in a "price revolt." However, a spot check showed that despite price cuts ranging from 5 to 8 cents a pound on beef, it would take 30 days to bring prices to a semblance of normal. "The consumers reaction after i decontrol just wasn't what it was expected to be," commented Alec Bell, president of the Detroit Retail Meat Merchants Association. PORTERHOUSE steaks, retailing at 97 cents a pound a week ago, were down to 89 cents, on the average. Round and sirloin cuts had dropped from 71 cents a pound to 60 cents a pound, with a scarcity of buyers.

Pork chops, also less in demand than had been expected, dropped from 75 cents to 61 cents a pound. Bell said many meat retailers had been stuck with -large beef stocks when consumers failed to respond tafter decontrol. MEAT PRICES in those cases are naturally higher yet, since the dealers want, to get their money out of inventory," he declared. He emphasized, however, that most consumers were unaware that a subsidy of 5 to 13 cents a pound was being paid directly by them since the Government called it off. "It doesn't make any difference how it's paid, directly or indi- Don't Buy, Bowles Tells Housewives CHICAGO (JP) Chester Bowles, former OPA administrator, terms present Government price policies "very screwy indeed." His advice to housewives: "Don't buy." rectly it's still there," he asserted.

BELL SAID the Association had been urging consumers to buy as little as possible and dealers to reduce prices to effect a general "leveling off" for the benefit of all. Produce prices, although not so greatly affected by decontrol, were reported gradually dropping. Only oranges, now in between-season demand, were maintaining higher price levels. Time Out! WIGAN, England (JP) The usually proper town clock above the parish church clanged the customary dozen strokes" at midnight, kept on striking up to 600, stopped and hasn't sounded a single clang since. HOUR been filed, he said.

THE NEWLY discovered substance, a benzene derivative, is "by far" the sweetest known to man, he said. By comparison, saccharine, a coal-tar derivative, is 200 to 700 times as sweet as cane sugar and dulcine only 70 to 250 times as sweet. Prof. Verkade predicted the substance would bring ar-reaching economies in the food, candy and beverage i were: 1 Soviet Russia withdrew all opposition in the Steering Committee to five items proposed for the agenda. Three of them affect the veto right of the Big Five.

2 The United backed down from its demand that the eto question be given top priority in the Assembly debate. 3 The United Kingdom warned that if the "reckless use" of the veto is continued, the Security Council 'very soon will be discredited. 4 -Argentina demanded that the veto be discarded: India spoke for the unity of the great powers, and Venezuela urged restriction of the veto power. THE POWERFUL fourteen-man Steering Committee obviously was cheered by the attitude of conciliation taken by Russia and the United States. It quickly voted to recommend that the Assembly place the items affecting the veto on the agenda.

The Committee is expected to submit the agenda next week. Philip Noel-Baker, British air secretary and chief delegate, delivered a broad policy declaration in his address. SEVERAL small nations already have pleaded for modification of that authority and some have demanded its outright abolition. Declaring that changes to the charter on the veto now would he "premature," Xoe 1-B a said: "We must first try to work the charter, if only to discover, by experience, what is really But if it is not useful to discuss amendment, it is useful to discuss why there is already such 'widespread anxiety about the Council, why already there are such insistent demands that amendments shall be made." THE UNITED STATES also has pressed for a full discussion. It is known, however, that this nation backs the veto with the hope that it be used moderately.

Jose Arce, Argentine delegate, told the delegates that the voting system given the Big Five had failed to promote compromise and should be eliminated. The delegate from India. Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, said that the unity of the great powers was imperative to help the UN establish itself. She added that India would protest as sharply as any other country against abuse of the veto power.

RUSSIA CARRIED the compromise idea still further by backing down on her opposition to South Africa's request for advice on the proposed annexation of the Picture on Page 3 Southwest African mandated territory and her objection to a Canadian proposal to limit debate in the Assembly. Even though the good will was remarkably manifest, it was generally agreed that there is slight chance that the veto system will be even modified in this Assembly. Russia is firmly opposed to any change and Russia's consent must be obtained to any revision of the charter. First Cottle Cross Line from Mexico EL PASO, Tex. (JP) The first shipment of Mexican cattle to be imported into the United States since the lifting of a Federal quarantine Oct.

18 crossed the border. The Bailey -Mora Co. here bought for resale 194 head of mixed cattle from the Charles Miller Ranch at Jimenez, Chihuahua. Imports from Mexico, even when they get into full swing, are not expected to have an immediate effect on supplies of beef in American markets. Fav Control End Is Asked I)v Rcuther lie Declares Wages Have Fallen 16.3 Pet.

Declaring that industrial wages actually have declined per cent from the wartime high. Walter P. Reuther, UAW (CIO) president, called on President Truman to abolish wage controls. "i am asking that you act at t.iuv to carry out the promise you made in your Oct. 14 speech." Reu-Itier wrote.

He added that with price controls virtually nonexistent, continuation of wage controls "intolerable." JIF.UTIIF.U SAID he was making his demand in compliance with unanimous action by the UAW 4 CIO) executive board. Meanwhile, George T. Christopher, president of rarkard Motor Cur announced that wage negotiations with the union would begin soon. The union's request for wage talks, filed in August, asked for a -cost of living wage" increase, according to Christopher. Preliminary wage discussions in progress at Hudson Motor Cnr Co.

and the big UAW wage drive at Chrysler Corp. will open Wednesday. Quads Born in New York; One Boy Dies NEW YORK Quadruplets three bovs and a girl were born lo Mrs. Lillian Hauptman, 29. One the bovs died an hour and a half after birth.

The mother and other three children were reported doing well. Tr Coovpp rierson. who de livered the babies, said they were born five weeks prematurely. The doctor said each weighed ji bout three pounds. The Hauptmans have one other hild, a boy three and one-half years old.

i Striking Pilots Reject U.S. Bid WASHINGTON' Striking pilots of Trans World Airline rejected a suggestion by Chairman I'rank Douglass of the National Mediation Hoard that they return to their cockpits while negotiating their demand for higher pay. Concluding a three-and-one-half-hour conference with David L. Hehncke, president of the Air Line Pilots Association (AFL), Douglass greeted newsmen with "I can report no progress." Jack Benny Left Estate by Falher WAUKEGAN, 111. (JP) The will of Mayer Kubelsky, father of Jack Benny, radio and screen comic, left a $35,000 estate to Kenny and Kubelsky's daughter, Mrs.

Florence Fenchel of Chicago. Kubelsky, a clothier in Waukegan. died in Chicago Oct. 15 at the age of 77. On Inside Paes Amusem't r.inpay Church Massif ied Crossword Kditorials l-'ashioiis ('lnatuial luost I loroscopa 14- 15 6 5 15- 16 6 9 10 6 17' 12 Merry-Go-R'd 6 Racing Chart 15 Radio 17 Riley 8 Sports 12-14 Stokes Theaters Town Crier Walker Women's 6 14 18 18 I 8-9 I I Bread Loaf to Stay at 20 Ounces Detroit Bakers Cite Increased Costs The Government revoked the order which had cut bread loaves 10 per cent.

But don't start looking for bigger loaves in Detroit immediately. The bakers said that they probably would continue with the present fourteen-cent price and twenty-ounce loaves because of increased costs. WHAT'S MORE, they revealed, prices of many pastries are going up. Elton Awrey, of Awrey Bakeries, said that his company was making price changes on sweet goods because of increased costs. "For instance," Awrey said, "shortening has gone from 18 to 50 cents a pound and sugar costs are up slightly." DETROIT BAKERS said that they didn't know whether they would return to the twenty-two-ounce loaf.

They pointed out that before the war they baked twenty-ounce loaves. During the war the OPA ordered them to the twenty-two-ounce size and permitted a two-cent price increase. In normal times the minimum size of loaves of bread is regulated by a City ordinance. WHEN THE Agriculture Department ordered the reduction of bread this year to save wheat, bakers were allowed to continue with the two-cent increase. The Agriculture Department also removed the ban on consignment selling of bakery products and on bakery acceptance of products which stores fail to sell.

Veterans Fight for Rent Laws WASHINGTON () The American Veterans Committee denounced rental strikes by landlords as a blow against veterans by interests seeking "bigger and bigger profits." A statement by Charles Bolte, national chairman of the World War II veterans organization, predicted a determined drive in the next Congress for abolition of all rent controls. It said AVC is mobilizing its 750 chapters to press for municipal and state rent-control legislation as a "second line of defense." ear division, and for more than 20 years a member of the staff of Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital. GEHRIG SAID the doctor, using a silence-equipped rifle belonging to his son Douglas, 21, had shot the youth in the chest, mortally wounded his wife Gladys, 50, and her mother, Mrs. Emma Bryan. 75, and then pumped four bullets into his own mouth.

The shooting took place at the Lashers' home in an exclusive residential section of Long Island. Surgeons labored to save Lasher's life at Meadowbrook Hospital, in Hempstead. But he succumbed less than eight hours after the shooting without having regained consciousness. Douglas was treated at Nassau Hospital, in Mineola. He is expected to recover.

Gehrig described Douglas as a youth who seldom left his home and spent much of his time in bed. He said Douglas had been discharged from the Navy in 1944 because of a nervous disorder. He was a medical student at Cornell University at the time. Chicago Hotel Hit by Fire CHICAGO (U.R) A fire broke out in an elevator shaft of the Sherman- Hotel in the "Loop" District. Firemen put it out within 15 minutes without evacuating any of the guests.

The fire started at the fourteenth floor and swept up the shaft to the nineteenth floor. Fire Chief Michael Mullany said the fire put two elevators out of operation and caused about damage. Envoy to Rest ROCHESTER, Minn. (JP) William D. Pawley, United States ambassador to Brazil, said he would take an extended leave from his post on recommendation of Mayo Clinic physicians.

More Meat for Detroit There's one answer to the meat problem and it's in the Michigan woods. Jack Van Coevering, Free Press conservation writer, tells the amazing facts about the hunters' "bonus" in an exclusive article in the SUNDAY MAGAZINE. Don't miss the SUNDAY FREE PRESS GARDEN CITY, N. Y. fP) Dr.

Frank H. Lasher, 63, nationally famed as a surgeon, was concerned over a neurological illness which had cut frg short his son's medical studies. i 4 So he killed his wife and mother-in- law and shot his son before committing suicide, authorities said. District Attorney James N. Gehrig at tributed the 5 snooting 10 Lasher, a nrac- ticing surgeon Douglas Lasher for 40 years.

Lasher was head of Brooklyn Hospital's nose-throat- Chinese Reds Hold Marines PEIPING (JP) United States Marine Headquarters said it had established that Chinese Communists were holding two Marines who were kidnaped last Sunday while duck hunting near Tangku, east of Tientsin. Headquarters added that the Communists belonged to the same unit which attacked a United States ammunition depot in the same vicinity Oct. 4. The two Marines were taken prisoner with two other Leathernecks and five civilians. The others were released, headquarters reported.

Army to Ask More Funds WASHINGTON () Assistant Secretary Howard C. Petersen said the War Department proposes to ask Congress for $350,000,000 additional for overseas occupation expenses. He told reporters the main reasons why more funds are needed are increased food costs, the shift of displaced persons' care in Austria from UNRRA to the Army, and "insufficient appropriations" made at the last session. For the current fiscal year, Congress voted 5425,000,000 for military government and relief. The War Department estimated would be required.

Yanks' Last Stand SOUTHAMPTON-) American military personnel in the United Kingdom will be down to about 30 men within the next two weeks, it was reported. Xi -1 Sweetest Sweet Is Found CHICAGO (AP) A substance called l-N-Propoxy-2-Amino 4 Nitrobenzene soon may be satisfying America's sweet tooth in a colossal way. It's 4,000 times as sweet as cane sugar and so potent that a tiny pinch on the tongue can be tasted for a half hour. Prof. Pieter Eduard Verkade, of Delft Technical University, Holland, told the Chicago section of the American Chemical Society that the substance was being manufactured in The Netherlands.

An application for an American patent has.