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On Side of Round Table V Canvass Town Tcfnight for Funds to Combat Mental Illness Averairc IMUy Net Prewi Run riie^cather x Fer j ^ \Vee» Radpd day eth. less Farm at 8. Waatim Qdflaaa Warm, mnra humid taoiAt aiid 12,920 Taaaday. iduinra at »<*tteiw whit* •ra and thundarabanara thia dVa*- Mamber of tha Audit nlng and famorrnn'inttcninati. Law Ihiraau at Clmilatien. tnnieht 5n>ao. Tnaaday nMW Ml ManchsKter— 4 City o f Villag^Ck arm z. LXXVIII, NO. 188 (KOUKTEEN PAGES) MANCHESTER, CONN., MONDAtyMAY 11, 19S# (Ctnaairicd Advarttainf an Pa|a IS) PRICE PIVE CENT'S Britain to Ship / Jobs Total Up Planes, Tanks Over Million To Iraqi Army f LoTuion, May 11 (A*)—Brit­ ain announced today it will Washington, May 11 (IP)—'■ In the first.,fotir months of this furnish timks and. planes to! The numl^r of Americans at year unemployment has dropped the Iraqi government orBrig. by'over one million. Gen. Abdel Karim Kas.sem. work rose by over a million in The Commerce-Labor monthly All on Side of Round Table John Pi'ofumo, minister of state April to a total of 65 million, job report attributed the April im­ for foreign affairs, told the House a record for the month. Un­ provements to an unusually large of Commons the British grant is In employment declined by 735,- pickup in construction and brisk an.swer to a request from tj>e Kas- 000, hiring in hard good manufacturing sem regime earlier thia year. ’ The Improvement In' both em­ together with the spring expanr Behind the reapo.nse waa a belief Sion in agriculUire. in, Britain tirat draatlc movea are ployment and \memployment were The seasonally adjusted rate of East,„West Germans double what la aeaaonally. expected necessary to atem the Communist In April. tide in Iraq. The employment total la the (Continued un Page Pour) (In Washin^on, the State,De­ hlfheat recorded for iny-Aprll and partment saifl Britain had'Sp- compares with peak employment formed the United States in ad'* Get Separate Tab] Of 61,221,000 in July 1957. .30,000 Idle to Get vance of its derision to send the Secretary of Commerce ‘ LAwis weapons to Iraq.' Strauia and Secretary of Labor Officials’ said the department By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER U.S. Food Baskets made no objection even though it James P, Mitchell said in a joint Geneva, May 11 (/p)—’Phe Big Four statement the figures, demonstrate was recognized the move Is a ’’cal­ eign minifiters a. rapidly accelerating Jpb recovery. Cleveland, May 11 — For the culated risk.” opened tlieir conference on Cold. War pr9 lemfi tonight, 2V^ Employment rose to. 65,012.000, first time since the late 1930s. (If Britain rejected Iraq’s re­ lioiirs late, after running aground for jy* on the question an increase of 1,184:000 over populous Cuyahoga County will quest. U.S, officials said. Kassem ' «f how the Ka.st German governmepf should participate. hand out fedeTal food surpluses to would have turned to Ruasia. thus I March. Thia is 2,105,000 more Jobs r.S. Secretary of State Christi^A. Hertcr, British For- than in April last year. persons on relief tomorrow. About increasirik Soviet influence in the i Unemployment declined.to 3.627,- 30,000 persons are eligible. country.) > (*ign Secrelaiy Selwyn Uo.uU Trencli Foreign Minister Poor relief rolls now are near Profumo said Iraq traditionally .Maurice t'ouve de Mui ville amf^Soviet Foreign Minister An­ 000. dipping by 7.15.000 from has looked to Britain for amis. March. This is a decline of 1.493.7 the recession peak here in this drei A. Gi’onSyko filed into a ronferenefe room in the Palace c/junty of 1,700,000 persons. Two ■’Earlier this year.’ he said. "Gen. 000 from the recession conditions Kassem asked 'vhcther the Britl.sh of .N’atioii.s. The r(M)m c(^ained a round table for the Big, In April of last year, distribution centers 'will be open four days a week. Each client Is government would- he willing to Four and .■separate t a l^ for the East and West German . The 1957 figures in April were authorize further arms sales, in­ 64.261,000 employed and 2,690,000 repi’esenlativeK. / (Continued on Page Nine) cluding some aircraft and tanks. I In a (lay of pnVate consultation.s, the we.stern powers unemployed. MORE ’’The British governrnent has | j headed off (iron ^ o’.s attempt to get full participation Tights ' agreed, to issue the necessary ex-i I for (.!onimuni.st^/East Gei-many. 1'nt‘il late, afternoon it seemed Spiesf Leak or Broken Code port lifensea to the English EleC-1 iial opening would have to be put off until to- trie Co., for the supply of a limit­ \ nionow. I* ed number of aircraft. The Iraqi Then aiUinformal ae.ssion of the government has been informed that j stei's finally came with we would be willing to authorize - dement giving (he. ErWt'and Britain Backs Na^zis Knew Content delivery of ,a reasonable quantity! Germans limited speaking of other srms, including tanks.” | s in the oonfeience but not British and Iraqi officials are t.s at the main table. They also Ike’s Plea for discussing details of the arms decided' on the conference room ,Of Secret U.S. Notes grant, he added. U.S. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, left, shakes hands with Soviet Foreign Minister fiiinlture . and argument lied in There were objections from N-Tesls Limits G(‘oniyko at pre-conference luncheon In Geneva today. Second from right is'Swiss Foieign MiiiJ. er with the German participation dis- Aneurin Bevan. foreign affairs j piite. Max Petitpierre, luncheon -hoat. Other man is not identified. (AP Pholofax via Radl^'fi'otn spokesman for the Labor party. Ke 1 Washington, May 11 Nasi<^the Nazis had broken this State De-1 Geneva).' The first ses.sion of the confer­ London, May 11 (*>)—Prime Min­ partment code. But. Miirphy told I said Soviet Premier Nikita Kh'rush- j ence wa.s scheduled for the Palace ister Macmillan haa' aenl Premier.' <»ermany read secret U.S. State chev once suggested a general em-1 Department messages in 1941. Washington' his informants said of Nations at 3:30 p.ih. instead, Khfiuihchev another letter appar­ thia Was not so. bargo. on arms shipment to the Herter and--his Soviet, Brltitih and ently aupporting President Eisen­ Diplomatic papers discus^ a Ger­ Middle East. ' , Adieu De Witt Clinton Allie.s Ht^or Men man claim that sple* mcked up And yesterday, after publication ■i French1 counterparts got' together hower’s latest call for agreement Uie messages. / of the papers. Murphy sent w ord, . !Tf that idea had been followed infoimally at a British villa. oil (# limited, nuclear teat ban. The possibility was revealed yes­ toi a newsman that he still was, up,” Bevan said, "the government TT O J. '7'’ ^Froin Bdrlin Airlift From this meeting Gromyko A Bpokesmtn said Macmillan's terday when the State Department convinced the Nazis had not de-' would not have to make this em­ j emerged with, the announcement letter ‘’links up very much with published a 1,011-page book of ciphered the code. But he was vin-' barrassing statement now.” (J.S. Cuts lax Stamp BorluyAay Ji Allied ie*d- the formsl session was set for 6 the Washington announcement.'* Profumo replied' that the gov­ diplomatic papers, concerning able to sgy-Jiow. the German* did era ggwered h«-e today to honor ! p m Congressional aources said in j^iyi^can relatiom with Europe in get the nwssages. ( ernment . believed Its decision was the Wien and women who beat the . “There has been a complete Washington Saturday that Elaeh- The suggestion of a broken code | good, adding: "The Russians (ham- On Liquor, Tobacco Sl^et blockade of West Berlin I agreement on all procedural and hower had made the point that tbs The messages read by the Ger­ came up again in a Dec. 1. 19411 selves have been extremely busy, M years ago. ; administrative matters,’’ he said; Russians should ba willing to agree mans Involved American attempts message from ■ the AmeVlcan i since the (Iraqi) revolution, ex-' Riuosian harriers on the' high- ; adding thql this included the ques- to a-llm'ited ban on readily detect­ to keep French North Africa oUt way-iail corridor to West Ger- : Uon of German participation, ed 'teats in the atmosphe-e even -If charge at Tangier to Washington 1 Washington, May llN jP;—The*-ment. ’’This will be no-loneer be of the Nasi camp. After .^-'the He quoted a high foreign official, (CoBtlnned on Page Nine) - rnahy came-down at one minute they w'dre, unwilling to accept an' govelnment today abandon'fcd Us necesaai-y,’’ Grom.vko left the informal par­ inspection agreement. Nazis read the messages, Gen.| «h o was »<ot named, as concerned' . ,, . „ . P.iohard.s indicated, however, affer midnight May 12. 1949. West ley first. He was followed by Her- Maxima Weygand lost hUt job as vulnerability of Am erl-' histone policy of collecting Itqttq.r mdustrv isn't entlrelv «al- Pei'linei'S planned solemn cere­ It was the econd aet of lettera ler, Couve de Mun-ille and Lloyd. the two western leadera had written commander o f North Africa for codes > ' and cigarette excise taxes"}-ipfico with th. hew sysUfm. He said monies tomorrow to rdcali the Lloyd, designated to preside at the IHchy government of unoccu-.| disputed this, I Churchill End^ moment. Khru.shchev in an effort to break through the sale of lax stamps.
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