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NUMBER 88
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oldest and cold-
weather prevailed over the en-
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colder south and
central portions
22-24 northeast.
24-30 southwest
tonight;
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Nazis Urged Japan to Get Into War
But Did Not Know of Attack Plans
W. B. Kinne, 79, Civic
Leader and Merchant
Cold Dry Norther
Fans Out Over
Most of Texas
the war cannot be prevented.”
In a court session marked by
By Hurley
Charged With Policy
Wrecking Practices
in the Middle East
That Keitel was reluctant at ves accused in their own words
that time to fight America was of launching the invasion of So-
seen in his warning that Japan- viet Russia in 1941 with the cold-
extreme
Lowest
tinued cold this afternoon and
tonight. lowest temperatures 12-
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SHOPPINGDAYS
LEFT BEFORE ’
CHRISTMAS!
that the dislocated cervical had
been pushed back into place.
Patton was described as ration-
al and was said to have spent a
Tuesday, fair, not so cold pan-
a handle and south plains.
tacked the British in Asia the
United States would become in-
volved.
Saw War for U. S.
“Then if war came to one
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Government Will Not
Seize GM Plants
that surplus territory.”
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documents, was the director of
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BOMBER STARTS RECORD FLIGHT—The Army’s experimen-
tal bomber, the XB-42, made by Douglas, folds up its landing gear
after it took off from Long Beach, Cahf., on a record-breaking flight
to Washington, D. C., Dec. 8. The plane made the trip in five hours,
17 minutes, 34 seconds, cutting 46 minutes off the previous West-
East record.— (AP Wirephoto).
go beyond its rivals in the way of
wage offers.
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Odd Glimpses of Life
in Town and Country
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LUCKY NUMBER
CARLSBAD, N. M., Dec. 10
For 18 years Charles White hauled
water to his camp at the entrance
to Carlsbad Caverns—up to 25,000
gallons daily at a cost of half a
cent a gallon. Without success, he
drilled 12 wells.
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it’s all over. On his 13th try he
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To Support Truman Proposal
Schwellenbach said he would
testify in congress in support of
President Truman’s proposal for
the naming of fact-finding bodies
to act in major labor disputes.
. The Ford Motor company’s role
in the auto industry wage dispute
shared the labor spotlight as the
CIO United Automobile Workers
pressed their demands against the
strike-bound General Motors
Corp.
The UAW-CIO, seeking a flat
30 per cent pay increase from all
the major car manufacturers, has
drawn up what it termed an “un-
precedented” company security
guarantee for presentation to
Ford negotiators this afternoon.
Negotiations between Ford and
the union have been in progress
since Nov. 21, but discussion of
wages has been delayed by the
company’s demand for protection
against unauthorized work stop-
pages and slowdowns.
Praises Labor Plan
Richard T. Leonard, national
UAW Ford director, said the
union feels its plan for penaliz-
ing “wildcat” strikes was “so
good it will be readily accept-
able to the company."
Leonard turned down a Ford
proposal to assess the union $5
for each day a member engages
in an unauthorized walkout but
declined to divulge details of his
counter-proposal. It was given
the final touches by union lead-
ers yesterday.
Ford, the industry’s most inde-
pendent producer and now has-
The accident occurred when an
army truck reportedly turned off
a side road into the Autobahn
(super highway) and crashed with
Patton’s sedan. Patton and his
chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Hobart
R. Gay, had left U. S. 15th army
headquarters at Bad Nauheim yes-
terday morning to go pheasant
hunting near Mannheim.
Legumes crops and fertility to
the soil.
being closely observed, because of
the very serious nature of the in-
jury, although an X-ray showed
Antwerp, George B. McClellan
from Marseilles, Asa Gray from
Marseilles, Robert Randall from
Marseilles, Lynn Boyd from Ant-
werp.
At Newport News:
Exc h a n g e from Marseilles,
190th, 252nd and 932nd Field Art.
Bns.; 27th Evac. hospital.
gineer, Monday.
The group spent the morning
poring over maps of the proposed
route and will report on their _
findings at an adjourned session ese attacks be extended to bases ly calculated
of the court to be held Friday. "ef Amerinen novel hourer onlv etorve the Rn
and the fact that many other lead-
ers were not present gave those
statements weight.
Rainey Is Supported
One group in the party leader-
ship has for’months been talking
Dr. Homer P. Rainey, deposed
president of the University of
Texas, as a possible choice. Other
groups are advocating Former
Gov. James V. Allred, others Rep.
Lyndon B. Johnson. The name of
Attorney General Grover Sellers
has been mentioned by some as a
possible middle-of-the-roader who
might be acceptable.
The Waco group, which in-
cluded a big representation from
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knowledge Acheson did not un- horn,
der-cut the administration’s policy
in Iran. Acheson was called to
Marshall said there was no
doubt in his own mind at the
had not yet reached the lower
if ntry of the United States into the Germans themselves might
Reuther Is III
UAW Vice President Walter P.
Reuther was ill today, missing a
negotiation session with General
Motors for the first time in the
series of meetings extending back
over a period of many weeks.
Associates in the union said
HORSE HOLIDAY
CHICAGO, Dec. 10 (P)—-Christ-
mas cheer is coming to old Dob-
bin.
On Christmas morning each of
the city’s 1,000 neediest nags will
receive a present from the Anti
Cruelty society—a six-pound bag5
of oats, bran, apples, carrots, corn
the historic trial opened three
inquiry that the Pearl Harbor at-
tack was “a slash but not a pro-
posed invasion at all."
He added that the main Jap-
anese offensive was aimed to
the south, just as the intelli-
gence division had estimated.
Earlier the five-star former
chief of staff had testified that
he had held the opinion in No-
vember, 1941, that a movement
by the Japanese into Thailand
and the Gulf of Siam area would
involve the United States and
Great Britain in war.
Sen. Ferguson (R-Mich) noted
that Marshall and Admiral Har-
old R. Stark, then chief of naval
operations, had sent a memoran-
dum to the late President Roose-
velt on Nov. 5, 1941, saying fur-
ther Japanese aggressive moves
should bring retaliation if ‘the
Japs moved west of 100 degrees
east, or south of 10 degrees north
in Thailand.
The Michigan senator brought
out that on Nov. 6 Ambassador
John G. Winant had messaged
Washington from London that
the Japanese were on the move.
“That message that they were
on the move meant war, didn’t
it?” Ferguson asked.
“I was of the opinion at that
time that the government would
be forced to accept a condition of
hostilities,” the witness replied.
He said he thought that Ad-
miral Stark concurred with him
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prosecutors turned to evidence of made hy Alfred. Rosenbergeon
M1 2 _ . June 22, 1941—two days before
collaboration between Japan and the invasion—in which the nazi
Germany in spreading aggression leader declared: “We see abso-
throughout the world. i lutely no reason for any obliga-
Kaltenbrunner, recovering from tion on our part to feed also the
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the ruthless economic policy
which called for seizing raw
materials and taking over all
important concerns.
The nazi plans, Assistant U. S.
Prosecutor Sidney S. Aiderman
charged, were callously designed
to force the Russians in occupied
areas to starvation by stripping
the country of food supplies and
all raw materials.
.eat.
Disclosing the detailed Ger-
man plans to strip captured Rus-
the plea of innoncence by Ernst sian territory of food, industries
Kaltenbrunner, nce-dreaded No. and raw materials, prosecutors
in the belief that to permit the
Japanese to enter the Gulf of
Siam would put them on the
“back door of Singapore.”
and 26-34 southeast except 34-40
lower Rio'Grande valley tonight;
Tuesday fair. not so cold extreme
north portion. Fresh to strong
northerly winds diminishing to-
comfortable night.
Mrs. Patton was expected to ening I gai a cuipeulive au-
arrive in Paris tomorrow morning. | vantage in the 1946 car market,
An official army bulletin issued frequently has been reported to
at the hospital said the fiery gen- -en hevend ite rivele in the w3V of
eral had passed a restful night,
sleeping five hours.
determination to
Temperature Drops to
Eight Degrees Early
Today in Panhandle
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A cold dry norther—the second
in two davs — fanned out over
most of Texas today, dropping
temperatures to eight degrees at
Dalhart in the panhandle.
Gainesville experienced the
coldest weather of the winter
Monday morning at 9:00 o’clock
when the mercury tobogganed
to 19 degrees, three below the
previous minimum. The cold
wave hit Gainesville Sunday
morning, borne on a norther,
with an overcast sky prevail-
ing. Monday was clear and the
mercury rose to 31 degrees at
noon.
The U. S. weather bureau at
Love Field, Dallas, said fair
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Gen. Patton is
Critical Today
Fractured Vertebra
Suffered in Auto
Accident Sunday
By JAMES F. KING
MANNHEIM, Germany, Dec. 10
(A)—The condition of Gen. George
S. Patton, partly paralyzed from a
fractured vertebra in the neck,
was officially described as critical
todav by army medical officers.
An official bulletin released at
Frankfurt, recording Patton’s con-
dition as of 3:30 p. m. (8:30 a. m.
Central Standard time), used the
word “critical” for the first time.
The general’s condition previously
had been termed serious.
Patton, commander of the U. S.
15th army, is a patient at a Heidel-
berg hospital as a result of the
injuries suffered yesterday in an
automobile accident near here.
A previous bulletin said Patton
was completely paralyzed below
the fractured third cervica} ver-
tebra in the neck and was suffer-
ing from a dislocation of the
fourth cervical.
The latest bulletin said: “Dislo-
cation of vertebra is responding
satisfactorily to extension. Neuro-
logical signs are unchanged. His
condition remains critical."
General is Conscious
The official announcement also
indicated that Patton still was
conscious.
Brig. Hugh Carnes, neuro sur-
gical consultant to the British
army, arrived here and was in
consolation with Lt. Col. Gilbert
Phillips, commanding the surgical
division treating head injuries at
British military hospitals.
Mrs. Patton and a neuro-surg-
ery specialist, Col. R. G. Spurling
of Louisville, Ky., were hurrying
to the general’s side by trans-At-
lantic plane.
The earlier bulletin said the dis-
location of the fourtheervical was
So goes the topsoil, so goes the
people.
Endorse Calvert
For Governor at
Demo Gathering
Rainey, Allred and
Johnson Advocatedby
Other Party Groups
By DAVE CHEAVENS
AUSTIN, Dec. 10 (P)—One fac-
tion of the present leadership of
the Democratic party in Texas has
made up its mind on a candidate
for governor in 1946, but whether
most of the leaders would go
along remains to be seen.
Robert W. Calvert of Hillsboro,
former speaker of the house. Hill
county district attorney and key-
noter of the 1944 state convention
when the pro-Roosevelt or Liberal
forces took control, was endorsed
at a private dinner in Waco Sat-
urday attended by numerous state
committeemen and women, and
others ner or at the top in the
party organization.
All of them insisted what they
characterized as the “draft Cal-
means of “forcing England to
the ground quickly and thereby
keeping the United States out
of thelwar."
Hq. Det., 210th QM Bn.
Marshall Victory from Le
Havre, 481st Anti-Aircraft Art.-
Auto. Weapons; 41st Eng. Dump
Truck Co.; 713th MP Bn. Det.;
170th Gen. hospital.
Jonathan Trumbull from Mar-
seilles, 241st Field Art. Bn. ele-
ments.
Lawrence Brengle from Mar-
seilles. 481st Anti-Aircraft Art.
Auto. Weapons Bn.
George Ade from Leghorn, mis-
cellanous troops.
At Boston:
Zebulon Pike from LeHavre,
130th Field Art. Bn.
Henry Lindsley from Barry,
Wales, miscellaneous troops.
At San Francisco:
Gen. William C. Langfitt from
Leyte, elements of the 100th
Bomb. Sq; Companies A and B,
475th Sig. Air Warning Bn.
Other arrivals; USAHS Cha-
teau Thierry from Manila, John
S. Bassett from Nagoya, Rice Vic-
tory from Yokahama, Samalness
from Leyte, USS Edgar P.
Nye from Shanghai, Fremont.
At Seattle, Wash.:
Miscellaneous on Torrence from
Korea, George Ross from Hono-
lulu.
At Portland, Ore.:
Miscellaneous on LST 851, Oc-
onto.
LAST LAUGHS FOR NAZI LEADERS—Top 1 azis on trial at Nuernberg managed these laughs at
one session oi the international tribunal considering ineir casts. Lett to right, front row: Hermann
Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel. Rear row: Karl Doenitz, Erich Rae-
der, Baldur von Schriach and Fritz Sauckel.—(AP Wirephoto).
streets before Mr. Kinne pur-
chased the present location of
W. B. Kinne & Sons on East
California street in 1913.
Active in Civic Affairs
’ Mr. Kinne had always been ac-
tive in civic endeavors. In his
youth, he organized a band of
which he was drum major and
manager in 1890, and planned a
celebration in 1896 which re-
sulted in the opening of Kaneteso
park at the south end of Lindsav
street
He served as chief of the vol-
unteer fire department, was a
charter member of the Elks
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Reuther was suffering from a
cold and slight fever.
Jean Baptiste Lully (1633-1687)
was the author of “Au Claire de
la Lune”.
Rio Grande valley but forecasts
were for 34 to 40 degrees there
tonight. Brownsville’s 50 was
the state’s maximum.
Pampa with 10 degrees mini-
mum and Amarillo with 11 fol-
lowed Dalhart’s low reading.
Indications were for another
cold night tonight, the weather
bureau reported.
Corsicana’s 26 was the lowest
of the season there and Denison
reported its 21 degrees was the
coldest this year. Paris had a
minimum of 23.
Austin’s reading dropped to 30
from . yesterday’s 53. A killing
freeze for all but the hardiest
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ralph McClendon dead
WACO, Dec. 10 (A*)—Funeral
services were planned today for
Ralph McClendon, retired hard-
ware dealer and real estate mah
of Waco. He died at his home
here yesterday following an ill-
ness of several weeks.
William B. Kinne, Sr., 79,
prominent in Gainesville busi-
ness, fraternal and civic circles
for more than half a century,
passed away in a local hospital
Sunday at 7:15 p. m. following an
extended illness.
Funeral services will be held
Tuesday at 10:30 a. m. at the
family residence, 505 South
Grand avenue, Rev. Rawlins
Cherryhomes, pastor of Dixon
Street Christian church, officiat-
ing, with buriak " in Fairview
cemetery under the direction of
George J. Carroll and Son Fu-
neral home.
Bearers will be B. A. Dillard,
Roy Blanton, William C. Simp-
son, Jimmy Nichols, F. C. Beat-
tie, J. B. Saylors, Lindsay Em-
bry and G. G. Holman.
Mr. Kinne is survived by two
sons, Harry O. Kinne, and Wil-
liam B. Kinne, Jr., who have,
long been associated with him in
business.
Born in Wisconsin
Mr. Kinne was born April 28,
1866 in Vienna, Wisconsin, a son
of the late Mr. and Mrs. George
H. Kinne, and came to Gaines-
ville with his parents when he
was 10 years of age, two years
before the M. K. T. railroad was
built to this city from Denison.
He was married to Miss Abbie
Jo Moody 56 years ago in Ard-
more, Okla., and he established
his jewelry store in this city in
the late Ben Brooks’ drug store
on North Dixon street, November
28, 1889. He had previously
worked at the trade of watch-
maker for seven years.
The store occupied several lo-
cations on Dixon and California
20,500 Service
Men Scheduled to
Reach U. S. Today
Troop Carriers Due at
Elast and West Coast
Ports From Abroad
By The Associated Press
Upwards of 13,500 servicemen
are scheduled to arrive on 15
troop carrying ships docking at
three East coast ports.
West coast arrivals are ex-
pected to include more than 7,-
000 veterans.
Ships and units arriving:
At New York:
, John Ericksson from Mar-
seilles, nurse detachments of the
51st, 91st, 95th, 116th Evac. hos-
pitals; Hq. and Hq. Co. and Hq.
special troops, 79th Infantry
division; 315th Infantry regiment;
304th Eng. Com. Bn; 312th Field
Art. Bn; 79th Cav. Recon, troop.
Miscellaneous troops on:
USAHS Algonquin from Leg-
There are 156,000 miles of num
bered U. S. highways.
Ilet^s geta move on before
Early End
Of Strike
Called For
Declares Government
Could Settle Dispute
By Fair Price Allowance
DETROIT, Dec. 10 (AP).
Secretary of Labor Schwel-
lenbach, declaring the gov-
ernment has the power to
seize the struck plants of
the General Motors Corpora-
tion, but would not ex-
ercise it, called on both sides
today to settle their dispute
“as soon as possible.”
The secretary told a press con-
ference that it was “extremely
important” to the “economic life”
of the nation that an early set-
tlement be achieved‘in the walk-
out which has idled 213,000 Gen-
eral Motors workers since Novem-
ber 21.
Schwellenbach, in Detroit for
a speech tonight, included in his
comments on the CIO United
Auto Workers strike at GM a de-
fense of President Truman’s legis-
lative proposals to help labor
peace in general.
Asserting there was no desire
on the part of the president to
“destroy” labor unions, Schwel-
lenbach defended his chief
against the attack on Mr. Truman
by CIO President Philip Mur-
ray. The secretary pointed to
Mr. Truman’s “long record of
friendship for labor.”
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 10
(AP).—John L. Lewis deliv-
ered a triple blast today
against the government, the
General Motors company and ,
the CIO - United Automobile
Workers in connection with
the current automobile strike.
The United Mine Workers’ chief
told the House Labor committee
that the government could settle
the strike in 10 days if it would
allow the manufacturers a price
which would permit a fair profit.
He termed the company’s position
in the dispute “dishonest” and
characterized the UAW’s explan-
ation of its strike as "etupid."
Lewis voiced his criticism while
testifying against legislation pro-
posed by President Truman to set
up fact-finding boards to recom-
mend solution of major industrial
disputes.
He referred to the president’s
proposal as an “evil, vile-smell-
ing mess • • • full of dozens of
loopholes that would make it
unworkable,” and said it was
designed only to “appease and
protect a few millionaires who
find themselves frightened by
the growing strength of labor."
Then turning to the General
Motors strike, ne declared:
“The world knows and congress
ought to know it would be settled
in 10 days if the government
would give to General Motors a
price for cars where they can
make - and sell them for a fair
profit.
“They are making more money
now not making cars than if they
were producing them full blast,
because of the present tax laws.
“And the poor blundering lead-
ers of the UAW picked this time
of all times to shut down General
Motors, when it would make more
money not operating than produc-
ing.
“This dishonesty on one side by
the company is equal only to the
stupidity on the other side for
that labor organization.
"I hope congress won’t equal
that stupidity by enacting this
proposed legislation for fact-find-
ing boards.
“I don’t think congress wants
to bring about the turmoil that
this bill would produce.
Fights for Liberty
“If you take away my liberty.
I fight you, I care not who you
are. I say that for myself and I
say that for labor.”
Mr. Truman’s plan is incorpor-
ated in a bill which would employ
fact-finding boards to recommend
solutions of major industrial dis-
putes. The measure would author-
izc 30-day bans on strikes while
the board functioned.
Attacking several sections of the
suggested legislation, Lewis as-
serted:
"Why should the 50,000,000
gainfully employed persons of this
nation be placed in statutory irons
by this legislation?”
“This measure would restrict
the privilege of free labor. It
would neutralize labor’s strength.”
he said.
“When industry and finance
make such proposals they are
guilty of taking the first step to
create a corporate or absolute
state which in the end would reg-
ulate the activities of all citizens ”
President Truman proposed this
fact finding approach to the cur-
rent labor problem last week and
immediately stirred up a wave of
labor protest.
country, it would come to
both?” Ferguson asked.
“That was my impression at
the time,” Marshall replied.
The former staff chief said he
didn’t recall a Churchill state-
ment on August 24, 1941 that if
the United States went to war
with Japan, the British would be
fighting in a matter of hours.
Fergusor said that when the
president returned from the At-
lantic conference Aug. 17 he
called in the Japanese ambassa-
dor and told him that the United
States would have to take steps
to protect its security if there
were further aggressive moves
bv Japan.
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T By WES GALLAGHER
NUERNBERG, Dec. 10 (/Pl-
German military leaders were
urging Japan to get into the war
in the spring of 1941 but had no
idea the Japanese might strike an
opening blow at Pearl Harbor,
. according to a hitherto secret
German command order - dis-
closed today at the Nuernberg
war crimes trial.
American prosecutors laid be-
fore the four-power tribunal
a directive signed March 5,
1941, by Field Marshal Wil-
helm Keitel, chief of the high
command, proposing a Japan-
ese attack on Singapore as a
Marshall Upholds
Accuracy of Army’s
Jap Attack Forecast
By J. W. DAVIS ’
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (A)—General George C. Marshall today
upheld the accuracy of the forecasts the Army’s intelligence division
made regarding Japan’s major military attack plans in the critical
pre-war days before December 7, 1941.
--------------------------------• Marshall told a senate-house
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south portion tonight.
Fair and much
est wil get blankets.
Even the "underprivileged" an-
imals’ owners will be remembered
—with the society’s 10 command-
ments on the care of. horses.
The Weather’
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Temperatures: High yesterday,
46; low last night, 19; noon to-
day, 31; high for the year, 101.7;
low for the year, 19; barometric
pressure, 30.41.
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Expect Right-of
Way Cost Friday
A committee appointed by the
commissioners court to make an
estimate of the cost of right-of-
way for U. S. highway 77 through
Cooke county, is expected to re-
port Friday on its findings, Coun-
ty Judge Carroll F. Sullivant
said Monday.
Members of the committee,
Julius Bell, Auda Bugg and Jack
Latham, met with the commis-
stoners court and Jack Simpson,
resident highway department en-
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Attacks
Bv The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10
Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley
today charged Undersecre-
tary of State Dean Acheson
with wrecking a policy ap-
proved by the late President
Roosevelt for fighting for-
eign monopolies, particularly
British, in Iran and the Mid-
dle East.
Hurley, former ambassador to
China, returned to the witness
stand of the Senate Foreign Re-|
lations committee immediately
after Acheson had told of a meet-
ing in his office in which partici-
pants almost came to blows over
a charge made by Hurley that a
young assistant of Acheson had
not had military service and
should be in the army.
Acheson denied an earlier as-
sertion by Hurley that he had
wrecked American policy in Iran.
Acheson said he had disagreed
with some recommendations by
Hurley and it was for that reason
that the meeting was held in his
office.
heads Letters Into Record
Hurley read into the record to-
day two letters from Former Sec-
retary of State Stettinius and one
from the late President Roosevelt
to prove, he said, that his pro-
posals had been approved and
were in fact American policy for
Iran and the Middle East. For this,
he argued that Acheson had
wrecked the policy.
“I did nothing to wreck the
United States policy in Iran,"
Acheson told the committee. He
then related this story:
Early in 1944 Hurley wrote to
President Roosevelt outlining a
set of ideas and suggestions for
policy in the Middle East. The
president sent it to the State de-
partment which found “practical
difficulties” in the proposal.
The chief difference of opinion
arose over iend-lease arrange-
ments with the British. Hurley
wanted to discontinue the use of
a British corporation for distribu-
tion of lend-lease goods.
“My views were in part criti-
cal.” Acheson said.
Views of Congressmen
Majority members of the com-
mittee were reported over the
weekend to be taking this view:
The Oklahoma soldier-diplomat
has laid his charges that under-
lings double crossed him in China
and that Acheson “defeated”
American policy in Iran. But Sec-
retary of State Byrnes denied the
former and termed the latter news
to him.
fh addition. President Truman
has assured newsmen that to his
weeks ago, was brought before
the four-power tribunal and de-
clared: “I do not believe that I
have made myself guilty.”
The tall, scarfaced gestapo man
joined his co-defendants as the
Hitlerite leaders heard themsel-
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