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FINAL EDITION TODAY'S WEATHER CINCINNATI AND VICINITY: Partly cloudy and cool. Predicted high, 65. Copyright, 1946, the Cincinnati Enquirer rr? A Tf tff- nrv Entered econd-els matter Aug. l7. MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 3, 1946 26 PAGES PYYITT? PPWTQ Hamilton Oentj ana) KI.SEWHEKB WX11 X3 Campben Mat Kentua CoaMlea FIVB CENTS AUUlll J.

Hi IV HU. OJUiUljl at the Post Office, ClncinnaU, Ohio. Act ot 1S7B. rwi JV UVl Ml THE CINCINNATI ENWIRER OTPS EH SSBP IS 1 11 1 ir Hi AO COAL BARGE HANGS ON FALLS IN RIVER RIGHTVINGERS Italians Crowd Voting Places To Decide Future Of King; SUDS DRINKERS Face Gloomy Day PRESENT FORCE Is Near 6,000,000 After 10,000,000 Leave Service In A Year. Nuns, Priests Go To Polls ll "'L 1 JIIIUWU Mill A spokesman for the royal house declined to disclose the whereabouts of King Umberto, who received the crown of Italy from his father, Vittorio Emmanuele, less than a month ago.

As far as could be learned, the sovereign, who campaigned right up to the last minute in an effort to keep his throne, had not voted at 6 p.m. Like other residents of towns and cities of more than 500 population, Rome, June 2 (AP) Italians in great numbers, among them nuns and priests, flocked to the polls today to register their decision between a monarchy and a republic. Women, voting for the first time in this first free nationwide election since the advent of Mussolini, turned out in large numbers. Catholic priests and nuns, heeding instructions from the Vatican to vote, were out en masse, bearing in mind the words of Pope Pius yesterday that this election, like the one in France today, meant the "choice between the champions and wreckers of christian civilization." A Vatican communique this afternoon excluded members of the Curia cardinals resident in Rome from voting. Everywhere voting was heavy, and in virtually all Italy it was quiet, as Italians cast their ballots for or against King Uumberto, anl for members of a national assembly to frame Italy's new constitution.

There was no indication of the trend. Associated Press Wirephoto. The Schuylkill River was raised past flood stage yesterday in several counties in Eastern Pennsylvania after 24 hours of rainfall. The coal barge hangs on falls in the river after being swept from its moorings near Philadelphia. River May Hit 45 Feet Here; Near Floods Seen Upstream; Five-Inch Rain At Huntington Foreign Workers Are Urged To Support Maritime Strike; flood stage at Huntington, Point Pleasant, Ashland and Greenup.

Creeks which washed out their banks within the 100-mile area between Point Pleasant and Greenup had subsided last night after temporarily disrupting traffic in many places, but the rising river will inundate highways of the valley at several places Leroy Stone, meteorologist of the Chesapeake, Ohio, Weather Bureau, reported. Marth asserted that even if a flood or near-flood materializes in the Huntington area it would be no Indication that Cincinnati would have a flood. He explained that Ahead In France With 152 Seats To 135 Won By Communists. Bidault Party Credited With Providing Definite Rebuke To Leftists. Paris, June 3 (Monday) (UP) The right-wing Popular Republican Party of Georges Bidault, Foreign Minister, and its supporters were making heavy inroads into the left-wing Communist and Socialist majority that dominated France's previous Constituent Assembly, in complete returns from Sunday's national elections showed today.

The vote was considered a defi nite rebuke to the two left-wing parties which, under a coalition that has since been severed, wrote the constitution that the French people rejected less than one month ago. At 3 a. m. the Ministry of Interior announced that the Popular Repub licans, the party that supported the policies of Gen. Charles de Gaulle, has won 152 of the 522 scats from metropolitan France.

This is one more seat than the Communist party controlled in the first Con stituent Assembly, when it was the strongest single party. The Communists had won 135, the Socialists 109, the Republican Union 34, the Republican Party of Liberty 34, and other rightist par ties 30. Altogether, in France and its empire, 586 seats are at stake. SUN COMES OUT. Unsettled weather slowed the elections early in the day when heavy rains fell and voting booths virtually were deserted.

Reappear ance of the sun in the afternoon brought voters out in large numbers. Leon Blum, Socialist leader, who had declared that a wrong decision in this election would facilitate the division of the world into rival blocs, cast his ballot early in Paris. Blum's negotiation of the American loan has been regarded as a factor in the election which might tend to wean France away from Leftist tendencies. Approximately 20,000,000 voters had been expected to go to the polls throughout the empire, to choose from 3,000 candidates the 586 members of a constituent assembly which will make a new at tempt to frame the constitution for France's fourth republic. Heermann Will Sien As Symphony Artist; Contract Due Today Emil Heermann, former concert master of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, will sign a contract today to play with the orchestra during its 1946-47 season, he announced last night.

Heermann said he had been unable to contact J. Mortimer O'Kane, manager of the orchestra, yesterday but would make an appointment with him this morning to sign the contract this afternoon. "I hope everything will be settled agreeably," Heermann said. Asked whether there was anything which might prevent his signing the con tract, the violinist chuckled, "Only lack of a fountain pen." Heermann, who as concert master was head of the violin section of the orchestra, was demoted from that position at the close of the 1945-46 season after serving the orchestra in that capacity for 30 years. Last Friday the College of of Music announced that it had re quested and received Heermann's resignation from the college lac-ulty, of which he had been a member for 30 years.

Truman Is Washington, June 2 (AP) Congress of, Industrial Organizations' maritime leaders, criticizing President Truman anew, tonight appealed to foreign workers to support their June 15 strike by considering as "scab ships" any ves sels operated by U. S. armed forces Joseph Curran and Harry BridgeST made the appeal in a cablegram to the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) at Paris. If a vessel were considered a "scab ship" dock workers in Britain, France and Russia probably would refuse to load and unload it. A spokesman for Curran and Bridges told a reporter that the Executive Council of the WFTU would meet in Moscow June 16-18 and might discuss the CIO appeal at that time.

Curran and Bridges, in their cablegram, repeated their criticism of President Truman for saying that he would use the armed forces, if necessary, to keep the ships running. "In event negotiations fail," they Despite heavy rains in upper por tions of the Ohio River that will bring near-flood stages along a 100-mile stretch of the stream between Point Pleasant, W.Va., and Greenup, Greater Cincinnatians need have no fear of a flood in this area, George R. Marth, river forecaster for the Cincinnati District, said last night. Marth said that "although things didn't look so good Sunday morning," because it began to appear "we were going to get quite a bit of water," the situation as far as the Cincinnati District was concerned showed improvement last night based on reports the water was "flattening out." Marth said the river here would go over 40 feet by tomorrow and may possibly reach 45 feet, "but it certainly won't go to 52 feet, the flood stage at Cincinnati." At Cincinnati the Ohio measured 37.8 feet at 10 p. m.

yesterday, as compared with 36.5 at 7 a. and was rising at a rate of one-tenth of a foot an hour, Marth said. From Huntington, W. came reports of a heavy downpour measuring nearly five inches in a 24-1 hour period, ending at 7:30 a. m.l yesterday and bringing with it forecasts that the Ohio was near he had until noon tomorrow, the hour when the polls close.

"'he Ministry of the Interior prepared to guard vigilantly the secrecy of the ballot count. No trustworthy information on the result couli: be expected until the official announcement of1 the outcome of the plebiscite and that announcement was not expected until after June 7. Jmberto appealed to Italy's eligible voters at. the last minute to let him keep his crown, promising a new plebiscite immediately after the constituent assembly has completed its draft of a constitution. Criticized Anew said in the message, "we ask maximum support in strike by refusal to work ships manned by government and declared scab ships with the exception of troop and relief ships as we determine them." For three hours today, Congress of Industrial Organization mari time leaders argued that their de- Jjriand for a 40-hour week ror mer- seamen was not "impossible1 as ship operators had stated.

With less than two weeks re maining before a scheduled June 1" strike of CIO seamen and dock workers, there was no indication that wage and hour negotiations had moved any closer to a settlement. Negotiations were recessed until 11 a. m. tomorrow. Edgar Warren, director of the U.

S. Conciliation Service, told reporters that the National Maritime Union (CIO) had submitted a specific and detailed proposal dealing with question of hours. He said it was not a new demand, but a proposal designed to show how a 40-hour week could be adapted to the shipping industry. Warren also said the Atlantic and Gulf ship operators have not yet made any counter-proposals. Galbraith and Meldon declared that they became suspicious of the place several weeks ago when they detected the odor of cooking paregoric.

They said that four bottles which had contained paregoric were found in a back room. The opium is said to have been obtained by boiling the drug. suspect, registered as Duck Lung Yee, 57, 117 W. Ninth fled, but was caught at his home Yee Gim Gaw, 52, owner of the laundry, and Yee Wen Tang, 42, also of the Ormond Avenue address were the others held. Roy Sam Yee admitted that he was on five years' probation for possessing n.

hypodermic needle In 1943, and Duck Lung Yee is on Federal probation on a narcotic charge, the officers said. All were held for investigation. With No Beer Delivery By Nine Concerns. Work Is Halted By Unions Asking Increased Pay And New Contract. BY FRANK ROLANDELLI.

Greater Cincinnati beer drinkers who, because of Federal Government regulations, have found beer difficult to obtain on many occasions in recent weeks, will learn today what it means to really be without beer. Approximately 2,200 beer workers voted by an estimated three-fourths majority at a meeting in Central Turner Hall yesterday to go on strike, effective immediately. This means, it was explained by George C. Stalf," spokesman for the workers, that the nine brewing companies in Hamilton County and Northern Ke. Lucky will not be able to operate this morning and that retailers, with many already out of beer and others with not more than a day or so supply, will be unable to serve any of the amber fluid, except, perhaps, for a small amount of out-of-town heer.

THREE LOCALS AFFECTED. The workers who voted to leave their jobs because of unmet wage demands, thereby resulting in Cincinnati's first brewery workers' strike since 1902, are members of three locals affiliated with the International Union of Brewery, Flour, Cereal and Soft Drink Workers of America, an independent organization. The locals involved are Local 12, Brewers Union; Local 199, Bottlers and Bottle Beer Drivers, and Local 175, Draft Beer Brivers. Stalf, who is Secretary of the Brewery Workers Joint Local Exec- utiye Board, said that picketing of breweries will begin this morning. He explained that the old contract covering the employees expired last March 15 and that negotiations had been going on since then with representatives of the Greater Cincinnati Brewers, Inc.

"During the negotiations we compromised on numerous things that the men had demanded, but this strike will throw things wide open again," Stalf asserted. He said wage increases of varying amounts for the different types of workers were the principal things sought in a new contract. ASK 20 TO SO CENTS. Current wage rates for various jobs among the workers range from 74 cents to $1 an hour. Stalf said, adding thai; the hourly increases being sought run from 20 cents to 30 cents.

James W. Wilson, U.S. Concilia tion Commissioner, who had been presiding over efforts to bring union and management representatives together on their differences, commented that neither side was "far apart," but that all efforts to iron out the difficulties had failed up to this time. He has Continued' On Page 2, Column 4. Girl Is Found Dead In German Quarters Of American Officer Frankfurt, Germany, June 2-(AP) A 19-year-old German girl was found shot to death in the quarters of an American Lieutenant at Litzingen May 30, the U.

S. Provost Marshall's office announced today. The girl. Jagerug Portenreuther, of Munich, passed the night at the Litzingen Airbase with 2nd Lt. Robert Hawk, whose address was not disclosed, it was announced.

She had accompanied him from Munich last April. Hawk was about to be redeployed to th United States. The girl was fatally wounded by a bullet from a pistol, the standard Army caliber, the announcement said. Officers in Hawk's quarters told reporters the girl shot herself while Hawk was away. They said Hawk was not in custody.

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This was done although the Russian Government was at odds with Western powers over many inter-i national questions. The Red Army at present has a strength of 4,500,000, while an additional 1.500,000 are in the air force, Navy and N. K. V. D.

(In ternal Police), the source declared, adding that the Red Army, on a long-term basis, is expected to have a standing strength of 3,000,000, excluding reservists. ATOMIC ENERGY FIRST. The highest priority in Russia at present is not given to arma ments or key heavy industries, but to atomic development, he said, and the scientific knowledge and technical resources of the Soviet Union have been placed under tre mendous pressure in an attempt to catch up with the U. Britain atomic combine. The source continued: Allied emissaries in Moscow do not doubt that Russian scientists know the essentials of atomic-bomb manufacture.

They do not expect, however, that Soviet plants will be making a finished product before 1948,. or later. The Red Army, although drastically pared down in the last year, Is rated as the most powerful ground force in the world. It can expand more quickly than Western armies in an emergency. It has offered special inducements to vet eran noncommissioned officers to reenlist and thereby assured the basic coordination of the army despite large-scale demobilization.

PLANNING IS SEPARATE. The Soviet high command has separated strategic planning from purely command functions. Marshal Alexander M. Vasilevsky, the top of the professional military hierarchy, heads the planning. Marshal Alexei Antonov is responsible for the combined command of the three services.

Marshal Georgi Zhukov is in direct command of the Red Army. There is no sign of a "Marshals' clique" in the upper crust of the Communist Party. Between army and nonarmy men, as such, there is no split But divergencies are wide between civilian "nationalists" and "cooperationists." Maxim Litvinov and Ivan Maisky, versed for years in Western diplomacy, were the most vocal "cooperationists," pleading last year after the Potsdam conference for more confidence in relations with Washington, if not with London. Their voices have been muffled. The "nationalists" are led by Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M.

Molotov. FRIENDSHIP HAS PALED. Anti-British propaganda is open in Russia. Anti-American propaganda is neither so sharp nor so continuous. But the vast outpouring of friendship that Americans felt when Moscow celebrated V-Day in Europe a year ago has largely disappeared.

The Russians now produce what they call the "Villis" the jeep to us. They make the biggest tank in the world the Super-Stalin, with a 130-millimeter gun. The explosive crack of jet-propelled planes taking off can be heard outside the guarded area of Moscow's principal airport. Lt. Gen.

Walter Bedell Smith's appointment as American Ambassador, contained military implications that were not lost on the Soviet Government to which he was accredited. THE WEATHER: Washington, June 2 (AP) Ohio and Kentucky: Monday fair, slightly warmer in afternoon. Indiana: Monday clearing and a little warmer. Cincinnati Weather Bureau record for June 2, 1946: Tenp. Hum.

Prec. 7:30 a. 55 SO J.1 7:30 p. 68 71 0 1946 M5 '44 N. Highest Temperature 70 78 92 78 Lowest temperature.

53 59 67 58 Precipitation 16 .21 0 Today Sunrise 5:14 a. m. Sunset p. m. Police Raid Chinese Laundry As Den Of Opium Addicts; Woman Angle Enters Case On Tip By Former Convict; Two Suspects Prove Alibis Four Men Are Under Arrest NEW FLOODS Take Lives Of Two.

East Pennsylvania Valley Swept By Rampaging Schuylkill Cub Scout Trapped. Philadelphia, June 2 (AP) At least two persons drowned today as rivers and streams in this area, swollen by 20 hours of continuous rain, swept over their banks and flooded scores of homes. At 5 p. m. the U.

S. Weather Bureau said waters of the Schuylkill River, most' unruly of the rampag ing streams, had reached 13 feet, two feet 'above flood stage. The Weather Bureau predicted the Schuylkill would crest at about 15 feet at 10 p. m. The second flood conditions In this area within a week followed a heavy tlownpour of rain which felled telephone and electric wires, sent trees crashing upon parked automobiles and backed up countless sewers.

Floodwaters overran virtually every street in towns in the Schuylkill Valley. Hundreds Eastern Pennsylvania residents in Norristown, Bridgeport and Conshohocken were forced to flee their homes. Drives in Philadelphia's huge Fairmount Park were overrun, frieght trains halted, and the Baltimore Ohio Railroad was forced to detour trains from its man in line to Washington. Hardest hit of the Eastern Pennsylvania communities was the "Valley Of Bungalows on Ferkio- men Creek, a tributary of the Schuylkill River. At Collegeville, Robert Montgomery, an 11-year-old Boy Scout swept to death as firemen were rescuing 33 Scouts trapped overnight on an island in the Perkiomen.

Red Cross officials in Philadelphia said 40 families, most of them cottage dwellers, were being cared for in the Collegeville High School. The other victim of the flood was an unidentified man wnose body was sighted in the Schuylkill River by police on a bridge in Philadelphia. TRUMAN'S CRUISE ENDS. Washington, June 2 (INS) President Truman returned to the White House at 5:30 p.m. today, Eastern Standard Time, after a week-end cruise on the Powmac River aboard the Yacht Williams-j burg.

The President was accom panied Dy tne. itbi uaay; his ter. Margaret, Mrs. Truman's mother, Mrs. D.

W. Wallace; his sister. Miss Mary Truman, and other relatives from Missouri. cocted by the "antilabor junta" in' Congress which, with "the same chant of hate session after session carry on their vendetta against labor." Contending that the bill "presents exceedingly grave danger to the public welfare," Murray said that none of its provisions would reduce strikes or shorten their duration and would increase rather than minimize industrial strife. These proposals are merely servings from a warmed-over antilabor stew which has been kept brewing for the past 10 years," he wrote.

"This attack must be smashed because a free labor movement is a vital part of a free Mr. Truman has until June 12 to approve or veto the bill. If he fails to act, it becomes law automatically. Lewis B. Schwellenbach.

Secretary of Labor, is expected to urge a veto. An analysis by his experts concludes that its unfavorable as pects outweigh its advantages, and Schwellenbach has said he would recommend that it be killed in such an event. Rep. Francis Case, Republican, South Dakota, author of the the excess water from the area will pass Cincinnati before the water from heavy rains along the Mo-nongahela River at Pittsburgh can reach here five days hence. Local tributaries of the Ohio, al though getting rain, did not get great amounts, Marth explained.

He added, however, that an unduly heavy rain In the Licking River could cause a change in the outlook here, but that with fair and warmer weather indicated for the next day or so such a rain was not expected. In the Huntington area Stone predicted these river stages, with the flood stage in parentheses: Pt. Pleasant, between 39 and 40 feet Continued On Page 2, Column' 3. ditlon'to the original supposition which has not been changed that robbery was the motive. The woman angle was injected yesterday when a former convict told Maj.

Elmer D. O'Neil and Lt. Otto W. Eschenbach and Patrolmen John Carroll and Stanley Carle that he had overheard a man make a remark in a cale. The remark, which caused the interrogation of two men, one living in Corryville, a few blocks from where Koeninger's body was found in the rear of his cab, was to the effect that "He got what he deserved.

He tried to make a pass at my girl and I fixed him." The man to whom the remark was attributed denied making such a statement however. A check of his whereabouts Tuesday night at the time Koeninger left the Peoples Cafe at Spring Grove and Harrison showed that he was at work. A similar alibi was proved by the other man. However, on the basis of the in formation, police said they would check thoroughly to determine if the unidentified man who hired the cab, and still is the main suspect in the case, was accompanied by a woman. A woman angle was injected into the slaying of Albert Koeninger, 52-year-old Yellow Cab Co.

driver, yesterday-when police investigated a tip given by a former convict. The tip, which resulted in the interrogation of two men, was to the effect that Koeninger was slain because of a fight over a woman. Although declaring the angle was purely theoretical, after sifting the han(1 Ret. William Burks and Thomas Faragher of the homicide squad told Detective Chief Clem W. Merz that they wou'd pursue the case from that view in ad- Four Chinese were arrested yes- terday afternoon when Detectives George Galbraith and Robert Mel-don raided a laundry near the Clifton-Ludlow Corner, breaking up what they said was an opium! smoking den.

Galbraith and Meldon reported that five Chinese were in a room in the rear of the Sam Wah Laundrj, 3408 Ormond cooking and using opium. Two of the men fie'', at th- time of the raid but one was arrested later. One of suspects! Roy Sam Yee, 44, 1154 Harrison had a hypodermic needle jabbed in his1 leg when they rushed into the room and he tried to dispose of it in a washroom, the police said. The needle and approximately an ounce of raw opium were seized as evidence, the officers said. Truman On Spot Over Antistrike Bill? GOP To Let Him "Stew In Own Juice" INSIDE THE ENQUIRER: Intraparty fights to mark six state primaries this week.

Fa ire Veterans' organizations marshal Veterans' Emergency Housing Campaign. Page 7 Washington, June 2 (UP) Congressional Republicans said tonight that the drastic Case anti-strike bill has put President Truman on a spot and that they intend to let him "stew in his own juice." They contend that if he signs the bill, or lets it become law without his signature, he will cost the administration the powerful labor vote in next fall's congressional elections and in the 1948 presidential race. On the other hand, they argue, a veto on the heels of his request for emergency powers to prevent strikes would cause the public to "lose faith in his sincerity." GOP strategy is to let the President stand or fall by his decision and prevent Republicans from being classed as antilabor. As a le-sult, there will be no organized effort by Republicans to override a veto if one is forthcoming Philip Murray, President of the Congress of Industrial Organiza-j tions, meanwhile brought pressure on Mr. Truman to veto the bill.

In a long letter to the President, he denounced the measure as con- ure, said it was "inconceivable" that the President would veto it. He held that it follows Mr. Truman's recommendations for permanent labor legislation "almost to the letter" and is far less drastic than the emergency powers he asked to prevent strikes against the government. There are strong indications that supporters of the Case bill will try to stall further action on the President's emergency labor measure beyond the June 12 deadline to force M. Truman's approval.

Both houses have approved the emergency bill, but the Senate killed off some of its most drastic provisions, including the "work-or-be-drafted" clause and authority to seize profits of government-seized properties. Held up in the Senate for a week of furious debate, the measure faces a further delay of at least five days. The House must now decide' whether to approve the Senate changes or send the hill to conference. But it has a gentlemen's agreement to take up no controversial matters until Thursday because of primary elections being held la several states. Soviet publications denounce U.

S.l policies. rage 2 1 General Marshall reported offering Manchurian armistice proposals. Tage 3 Spain to ignore any possible rupture of diplomatic relations by United Nations. rage 5 General Eisenhower attacks Armv critics. 'as "American wife," in Germany, lam-basts U.

S. officers. Tage 7 Traffic crash victim dies, bringing city's total to 25. Tage 15 Returned veterans honored at St. Xavier University home-coming.

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Be sure hinges, latches and door-seal are tight. Locate refrigerator out of direct rays of sun. Check fuses, plug, before calling your busy serviceman. The Cincinnati Enquirer WiklHIA OBSERVATIONS ON SAGS IS'.