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[Swank Mena. House, Famed H ofel i in Sons of Pyramids.

- Was Scene of Historic Parley of ‘I

By RICHARD MOWRER 134.37 the In

Times

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morning, in the second week of

Tri- Power Asgard. November, an indignant Britisn

‘| major stamped into the office of the manager of the swank Mena House hotel, famous tourist establishment within an easy walk or camel ride

At Mena things began hot move fast. Twenty British and Transfer Troops officers, assisted by between 200 and As Hf to point up the ga 300 enlisted men, started the job of Br Dal ay are shies converting Mens house and 43-pri-the Quebec meeting, Radio Mos-|ygate villas near there into a strongI's. a ume, pul. ly-protected, spy-proof, enemy Shat “the Germans still are trans- where great oe — FN rl could ferring reserves to the east front, taking advantage of the fact that confer and live in the utmost conthere still is no real second front|venience and safety. tn the west.” Residents of Mena House having : been dismissed, all the hotel staff

If Marshall is to be the leader, here see him as possessed {was fired. Having been fired, each servant was checked by

sources of a joint staff of Bein and Amer- .| officers and in most cases rehired.

REET LIL HAS PARLEY “AS AID TO STRENGTH

F “far advanced and the group], of young, vigorous officers he could WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (U. P): —Secretary of State Cordell -Hull

command would make Alexander or any of the other great generals of history green with envy. It is not believed that any Ruswill become members of the t staff but they probably will ve observers. ‘Ranged 3 fe today hailed the Roosevelt-Church-officers will be millions of men, the . deadliest and most powerful air 1-Stalin agreement as promising _ fisets the world ever has seen and |t0 make the fighting strength of 8 naval force capable of blackening|the united nations effective “to the jo. the other, Hull, who helped lay the ground- : work for the Tehran conference at lin Moscow a month ago, made the ~gtatement: i -response $0 questions of reporters: , “The conferences of the chiefs of ~&t-Calto-and Tehran have naturally attracted keen universal attention because of the

under these battle-tested e meeting of foreign ministers

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“At both of these conferences ‘|military plans were concerted for the destruction of axis forces on all fronts. It should be welcome news

“The following table shows the tempera- ~ Sure and precipitation in other tien:

the scope and timing of the operations to be undertaken from the east, west and south.’ = “These concerted plans will undoubtedly result in making effective to the fullest extent the fighting strength of all the united na-

MET ON NOV. 28

Other for First Time in

Russ Embassy.

TEHRAN, Dec. 6 (U. P) =-The moment which President Roosevelt had said would be the realization of

FOR AND STALIN

For Details of ‘Big 3

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Stall Correspondent Ce WASHINGTON, Dec. 68 (U. P.=The brief and the Tehran declaration published today left uhrevenlod all ing the “problems of the future” surveyed by President ri Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Josef Stalin in their histori December conference,

Congressional requests for mite explanation of conference discus~

sions, agreements and cc ments—if any-are inevitable, the face of the declaration, it would

Stalin's ‘Journey to Tehran

.|ers-of the western world. He may

-|ing to power.

officers, declared that he was damned if he would move out of his own home for anybody. . The officers mentioned compensation. The obdurate subject, to impress upon the officers that he meant what he said, laughed and remarked jokingly, “make it 1500 pounds, Egyptian.” The. officers were not joking. One| ‘of them pulled out & checkbook and wrote out a check for that sum, They got the villa. On the other hand, some villa

The inside of Mena House, meanwhile, was revamped, bedrooms cn the first, second and third floors being converted into 80 offices, while various halls and salops on the ground floor became conference rooms. The dining room Temained ‘the dining room, Throughout the conference, only five-or-six- persons actually slept in Mena House. Acquiring the needed villas was not easy. They were not requisitioned and at times getting them involved painful.negotiations. owners were most gracious about Owners were offered monetary the business. An Egyptian lady, compensation in return for imme-|when told the reason why her house diate evacuation for a one- -month| was wanted for a month, refused to period, that is, from Nov. 18 to Dec. take any compensation whatever, 18. declaring she was glad thus to con-

by a couple of British negotiator- nations. She was Mme. Takla, the

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Shatters 31-Yedr Tradition

LONDON, Dee. 6 (U. P.).—Premier rope in luxury while a young man, Joseph Stalin's 325-mile trip beyond | visited the battlefronts of France the borders of Russia to Tehran |while assistant secretary of the navy may not have represented much!in world war I, and has made many mileage compared with the thou-|swings around- the United States sands traveled by his fellow-confer: since becoming president. ees, President Roosevelt and Prime| Churchill, likewise “able to visit Minister Churchill, but it shattered widely because of his family fortune, a tradition of 31 years. madé an adventuresome trip to Not since 1912 had Russia’s “man | South Africa as a war correspondof steel” left his country, He trav- ent, was captured and escaped dusrsled in that year to-Crakow, then al Boer war; he-has been gli part. of Austria, to meet Nicolai | most a trans-Atlantic commuter Lenin, the Russian .revolutionacy since the United States entered the The “dispatches from “Tehran aid not- teil how Stalin traveled to his historic meeting with the two lead-

Exiled in First Trip

Stalin began his travels when he was 24-—behind the bars of a cattle

Here is Mena House, famed Egyption hotel as viewed from the top of a nearby pyran, Here gathered the “Big Three” and their staffs amid the greatest military precautions ever taken.

One villa owner, when called upon tribute to the cause of the united |

THT, tite perimetst’s

train carrying him from Batum to his first exile east of the Urals for revolutionary activity. In the next 10 years he escaped and was returned—each time a little deeper into Siberia--six times, Freed by the 1917 revolution, he: returned to Moscow, Little is known of his travels since the outbreak of war with Germany except that the has been to the front once or twice in an armored train. One trip that he did not make was that which carried diplomats and government officials to Kuibyshey when the Nazis threat-

have made his journey in a special .car carrying no identifying marks and containing two guard rooms as well as kitchen, double bedroom and study. He has used such a car a great deal since com-

Also ‘Widely Traveled’ Despite the infrequence of his departures from the country, Stalin is very nearly as much of a “widely traveled man” as either of his two

confereees—but his travels contrast widely with theirs. Roosevelt, the

{ tions.”

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IN INDIANAPOLIS— VITAL STATISTICS

Indisns University 2, luncheon meet-

BERE IS THE TRAFFIC RECORD ink b Duiwtaly P. Robson

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inner Fo Central Christia

church, 6:30 86:5. Vincent's

CARB AARNRR Ean bn renesseses 3 Women's Auxiliary of the Athenaeum i dinner meeting, Athenaeum In dianapolls Panhellenic ‘association, Christmas meeting, home gd

of N. Pennsylv Indianapolis cus Chapter, | Nivea) Council of baum center, don 30 ot

Sheen, KirshScienteeh Club of Indianapolis, meeting,

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der destroyer Borie, World War memorial, 1 p. of the state organization will be hosts to John D. M. former G. O. P. national} luncheon meeting, Columbia b. oa neil Women, ada meeting, Senator Pll bo pol Bx rium, * club, dinner meettor . Ball, Columbia

Hamilton, chairman,

a Pin Postiwar Counell of India Reeaker, ‘Senator

Columbia clu RANpAS, Nou Net fest, North "Methodist chureh,

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poo 133, American Legion, honored at| n

Fospital Guild, meeting, Rotary” olub, lunch

, 1:45 p. Women's Reg Republican ub, 7th ward, meet. of! ing, Miss Hattie Benefiel, 2356

din- | Women’

| Henry Lous Miles

son of wealthy parents, toured Eu-!ened Moscow in 1941.

Captured enemy equipment on display, World War memorial. Indians Manufacturers and Dairy Products inne. Tite conference, Claypool hotel.

Hotel Lincoln

ridge, Ky.; Lena M. George, 25, of 224 E. Merr e Rea, 28, of 31168 College,

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BIRTHS Girls Paul, Mary Fuller, at St. Francis. Thomas, Viola Nelson, at St. Francis, Edward, Eleanor Schultz, at 8t. Francis. Robert, Ruthella Alexander, at City. Raymond, Betty Allen, at City. James. Crystal Pittman, at City, Russell, dy Stith, at City, James, Helen Wilson, ‘at City. Charles, Mary Grau, at St. Vincent's. Vernon, Camille Hervey, at St, Vincent's. Joseph, Dorothy Moody, at St. Vincefit’s. Jeph, eine o Brien, at: at Coleman: am, Elizabeth Runyon, eman. Robert, Mary Schilling, at Coleman. Ford, Hazel | at thodist. Thomas, Doris Moore, at Methodist. Eimer. Grace Parker, at Methodist. Butaraon, oy (Methodist,

nch Botting, ron er, Dr. Krishnalal Shridharant dian au“ier and lecturer, Claypool hotel, 12:05

Woman's Rotary club, annual! Christmas party, D. A. R. chapter house, 6:30

m, Universal club, annual election of officers, dinner meeting, Columbia club, cel ) oy 3% luncheon Meeting, ay poo. National Women Servier dianapolis - Rapier, Athenaeum,

* League, Ina party,

. Pennsylvanis st. an Dylerian charg, CArStISt: Toneon oi 20! gg p.m hy

MARRIAGE LICENSES (Thess liste are from official records in’ fo house. The Times, faa m -

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a at Methodist. Bre Frances Amato, at 733 E

William, “Finnie Russ, at 2047 Ralston, . Boys Mildred Clark, at St. Prancs. uline . Prancis -* Prancis. Fy pean pets.

. 8. J Jane Duncan, 1 o 103 N, Rural 41, o N. Senate: , of 380 W, Wash- | Chester, Rose Pearso

Ji Pt. George G. Meade, | Ci Mabel White, 19, of 103 N.

wi 20, Mien Wood, Jo. or or amin Reeley, 31, Pi Harrison: Marth, » of ot 18 cee rawiond Bull » of 3300

Betty 1da or

E. Blue, 19, 3 Evelyn

Ernest, Hortense Silver, at St. Vincent's: Nancy Worner, at St. Vincent's, Paul, Pern Blake, at Methodist, pa mR, & Willena Bostic, st Methodist, i _- x t Methodist,

Williams, 21, of 1110 N. - E. Robertson, yom

;| Luella Wright, 8, at 1004 College, multiple m, 37, at 2308 N. Central,

11, Carl ri Henry “Towles, 36, of 2310 Park; Ruth i

Mary E. Gill, 60, at 1614 Pinley, carci-|

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widow of Takla Pasha, former owner owner of the newspaper Al Ahram The conference perimeter was enclosed and Mena House and 43 villas

his fondest hope—the meeting face | appear that the conferees were

* BALAN DRIVE

to face with Josef Stalin—occurred at about 3:15 p. m. on Sunday, Nov. 28. Mr. Roosevelt, who had driven on nis arrival Saturday to the Amer- | ican legation; had just moved over,

|to the handsome Russian embassy,

a former palace located in a com-| pound guarded by Russian secret Service men, Russian officers bear- | ing tommy guns, British army sikhs! and tommies, , Stalin strode up the gravel path! from his villa within the grounds] wearing the dark blue uniform of a soviet marshal-and a long coat to match. Behind him a few steps, came V. M. Molotov, Soviet foreign minister Behind: Molotov were! several generals.

Striking Emblem

They vanished from view through | the handsome portal, surmounted by a striking Russian emblem—a |

were all emptied and made ready | blue globe surmounted by hammer | viet union, and well-informed ob-| {to play {and sickle, stacked all around with servers here had not expected that

Each villa was surrounded by | golden sheafs of wheat and tied such questions would be dealt with] [her

for the conference delegates.

barbed . wire entanglements. Air | rald shelters and slit trenches were | dug: ow

fitted with two pumps and kept filed with water in case of fire. Numerous anti-aircraft were set up; searchlight emplace- | ments were prepared. There were several British army camps within the perimeter. An American camp to house 1080 | American drivers, MP's, guards and! other personnel had to be built.

zones: All were inside’ the fortified perimeter, closely guarded by the | royal marines and American sol-| diers. One hundred sixty Walters | were distributed among the villas; 250 waiters and flunkies manned | Mena House. The loeation of the various offices in Mena House was posted in the hall. In the hotel garden, near the cage of a desert gazelle, an emergency. Inedical officer, a dentist and a nurse were permanently on duty. The conference perimeter had its cwn telephone network and its own telephone book listing names and villa numbers of the delegates. On Sunday night, Nov. 21, after thearrival of - Mme = Kade

shek and the generalissimo and bes |

fore the arrival of President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Church searchlights swept the skies for half an hour while a plane droned overhead. Everything was all set for the conerence.

[in the building was a Soviet secret 18" © batteries service man. They were described |

[together with a red ribbon. Eyewitnesses to the historic hand- |

| guards. Almost every few feet witht

as standing for hours without mov-| ing, never exchanging greetings] among themselves.

Secret Service on Job There also were many American

pare the president's meals. Stalin was closeted with the pres- | ident for 90 minutes while Molotov waited In an adjacent room

and the initial plenary session be- | gan. Four such meetings were ad, | one each day. The “Big Three" dined together each night. Meanwhile, the. military men of | the three nations met almost continuously, referring each military | problem ,which involved polities or| higher strategy to the. three top|

men lor decision,

T 2 SALEM. MAYOR. DIES = 5 "SALEM, Ind, Dec. 6 (U’ P).— | Funeral eservices were arranged to- | day for Ollie W. Bowers, 68, Balem | mayor elected on the Republican ticket in November, 1942, and a member of the town board for 10

more concerned

| post-war polities,

jcordial tenor {indicated

| their joint enterprises.

with immediate military than future political questions. But from the standpoint of | observers found most significance in the formal] commitment of the three conferees to world democracy. Relations Developed “The Roosevelt - Churchiil - Stalin meeting is regarded as a triumph of {Anglo - American diplomacy. - The | president and prime minister have theen attempting for menths to meet the Russian leader and his failures to accept urgent invitations - have, from -time to time, caused some {anxiety here. Although the declaration proved to be wholly general, its the three men had found common ground for

IS HELD LIKELY

Turkey May Grant Allies Use of Air Bases to Pound Nazis,

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst

The probability of an allied blow at Germany through the Balkans this winter appears stronger -than ever in the light of developments coincidental with the Cairo and Tehran conferences. . If this is part of the gesieral as tsault on the German “fortress of | Europe” from all directions agreed {upon by the British, American and ’~ | Russian conferees, Turkey is likely an important role, Whether Turkey will abandon neutral status appears to de{pend - almost entirely on whether {the nature of the allied campaign for her" services. Probably Turkey already has agreed Lo join {when the signal is given.

Have Air Bascs

There was no reference in the declaration to post-war territorial | boundaries, notably those of the S86

[in any major way at the conference. | There was some surprise here that |

| graphic future a defeated Germany | {might expect at the hands of the] semli-official Soviet unjon proposal of last summer invited the if, as the. {German people to repudiate thelr |, political masters.

Germans report, Turkand military chiefs are not conferring with President Nazi Party Doomed Roosevelt and Prime Minister This “Moscow manifesto” called Churchill, it would only be to for. {upon German peasants, craftsmen! Imalize a decision made in previous

| secret service men. In the kitch- and ‘workers—the people—to over- | talks ‘with Anthony Eden, British ~The villas were. divided into seven: en were. 1. Samy. £ooks 10. pie. [ioe Hitler and; under a “demo. 10IRIEH. senrelary. * |oratic”

regiine oblain more lenient] Turkey's most obvious Yorn Ipeace terms. Mr. Roosevelt's own Assistance would be the granting of [ideas for post-war Germany begin Air buses. They would be neces[with sufficient dismemberment of sary to knock the Germans out of

{Churchill arrived about 4:45 p. m. the Reich to separate the warrior the Aegean and clear the southern

race of Prussians from the re- S¢a route to the Balkans. Turkey

{mainder of Germany. Prussia and could also provide passage of the

her Junkers stand charged with Dardanelles for any naval or amhaving fomented most of the inter- Phibious operations planned in con?

national uproar of the past 70 years. |/unction witli Russia in the Black

But the president, prime minister sea. : /and premier all are on record for| It Is extremely improbable that [the annihilation of Nazilsm and the Turkey would be asked to use her {elimination of its leaders from the Army for an invasion of the Ballife of Europe. There was in the kans through Bulgafia or eastern [Tehran declaration no appeal to Greece. That does not mean the

{the German masses to shorter thisty Furkish-army woul mdt Be cafled

torment_ by. chucking. their leaders. | into action, Cerierl satisoton here with the. IH the wir Yuses are. granted declaration’s military commitments the “allies start using the straits seemed assured, Congress and the | tor passage to the Black sea, the people evidently are reconciled to Germans might move into Europe~ a hard fight to subdue Germany. |an- Turkey to extend their air bases There is general realization that the| Irom Bulgarian fields and make the opening of a land front in western | Dardanelles an eXtromely difficult Europe is part of that hard bargain. passage.

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