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SUNDAY, DEC: 16; 1951 : Washington Calling—,
Truce in
Korea
By Christmas Fading Out. Fast
By’ Scripps-Howard Newspapers WASHINGTON, Dec. 15—Korean truce by Christmas seems next to impossible. Only 12 days remain ‘before Dec. 27 deadline for settling three toughest points on five-point agenda. Stalling of Communist negotiators continues.
It took 16 days just to work out agenda.
Point 2—
fixing ceasefire line—took a month when talks started up again after two-month break-off. Now talks are deadlocked on Points 3 and 4 before touching on 5, which could be toughest hurdle of all.
- Point 3 concerns inspections and supervision of an armis--tice. Point 4 is prisoner exchange.
Allies think there's
something sinister in Communists’ refusal to produce
any lists.
Fifth point covers recommendations to be made to
governments on both sides.
This gets into political field,
could blow the lid off once more. | It would take a near-miracle to cover that ground
in 12 days. Meanwhiie, there's bogey of Red air force build-up, plus Allied fears Russians themselves will get into air war. Though patience {is wearing thin among our field commanders gna negotiators, Washington shows no sign of stiffening.
This plays into hands of hag-
gling Communists.
GOP ‘Loaded’
TWO CABINET members, instead of one, may be gone before current wave of scans dals subsides. Republicans hope not. They'll be loaded with ammunition when Congress returns in January. For one thing, they'll try to impeach at least one judge, perhaps others. Scandal may touch a former Senator, said to have taken a big “loan.” Probe of Alien Property Office, if it gets under way, may show that at least one man linked with Capone gang has been put in charge of corporations under custodian control. Tt also may show an alien property appointee promising to reduce taxes for movie colony members, in return for Democratic contributions. Guess is that spotlight will be turned on special prosecuting machinery to be set up by White House; that vulnerable members of administration will be eased out quietly. President Truman personal-
Jy approved FBI decision this-
week to arrest Alabama banker and’ lumbermadn, involved with Rep. Frank Boykin (D. Ala.). Mr. Truman is said to have been aware for-some time of Boykin activities at Revenue Bureau and Reconstruction Finance Corp. in behalf of friends, relatives and business associates.
Boston Next?
BOSTON’S top Democrats are holding their breaths, hoping bigger scandal there—astill under cover—will not make headlines. Trial next month of Denis W. Delaney, ousted Boston tax collector, won't reveal much, according to ‘present indications. King committee has had to postpone plan to take another look at Boston, because of fast-breaking Caudle investigation. 1f Boston story does break, Demecrats in high congressional and executive posts in Washington may be involved. Some party members, urging ‘clean-up from within, say there’s been no improvement since Delaney indictment; that same persons still run the show, Some hlame House [eader John McCormack, dispenser of federal patronage for the state, for failure to go ahead with clean-up. State administration scandal, involving Attorney General Francis E. Kelly and an
alleged bribe, is producing headlines. making Democrats [oubly. fearful of another probe.
Meanwhile Gov. Paul A. Dever, Democrat, hasn't said whether he'll run for re-elec-tion or will try for Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge's seat. Reports are he's asked Rep, John Ken-nedy-—who aspires to Senate—not to announce until he makes up his mind. Kennedy hasn't announced but is campaigning vigorously. -
"Question of Ethics
TREASURY’s three - man committee on practice, which licenses attorneys and accountants to represent taxpayers before Internal Revenue Bureau, is having a running fight with Treasury's legal division. Issue Js whether attorneys and accountants caught redhanded in sort of shenanigans ‘King committee is uncovering should be permitted to resign without prejudice. Committee says crooked tax practitioners are getting off without deserved punishment. Treasury legal staff says
‘nothing should be done to . “placken anyone's reputation.”
Argument came to a head when accountant, who admitted taking money from a ‘delinquent taxpayer for the purpose of bribing revenue ofcer, submitted his resignation and added a postscript: “Please take steps to re-enroll me immediately.”
Loyalty Board
STATE DEPARTMENT won't change membership of fs loyalty board, despite re-
“versal in John Stewart. Serv-
ice case by Civil Service Com-
. mission’s loyalty review board.
. board found ‘‘reasonable oubt” of Service's loyal-
vin
ty, after State had cleared him of charges growing out of Amerasia case. There's no appeal. State Department fired Service, State Department officials say their loyalty board is. “one
of: the best,” has never{been .
reversed before, though many agencies. have been reversed about 50 per cent of the time. State's board is headed by Brig. Gen. Conrad Snow, retired. New Hampshire Republican.
Roads Must Wait
GOVERNORS here this week failed in attempts to get more steel for highway construction. Defense Mobilizer Wilson told them to forget about new four-lane highways, best they could hope for was steel for repairs if any major highways break up. Maniy Fleischmann, NPA administrator, told them they'd have to take less steel for schools and hospitals if they wanted more for roads. They turned that down, Governors say they're only getting 50 or 55 per cent of steel they'd been promised for this quarter.
Nickel Crisis
NICKEL'S the tightest spot in defense materials picture. It’s vital in jet engine produc: tion “and elsewhere. Govern-
ment will face tough decision .
soon on whether—and where to eut civilian output in favor of arms program.
More ‘Little Gifts’
GIFTS to military and civilfan workers at Air Force procurement headquarters, Wright - Patterson Field, Dayton, will keep congressional investigation pot boiling in January. Odds are that preliminary investigation by Sen. Lyndon Johnson’s Armed Services Preparedness Subcommittee will turn up enough evidence to warrant full-scale hearings. Some business representatives seeking fat contracts at Dayton make “little” gifts to key Air Force procurement. men, investigators say. Gifts include household appliances, liquor, entertainment. It helps business representatives get advance information about upcoming Air Force contracts.
AEC Expansion
ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION talks about further expansion, but hasn't made up its mind. If it asks Congress for still more facilities to make fisgionable materials it's going to have to fonvince House Appropriations Committee which shows signs of being troubled by vast AEC spending.
Spot Check
BUDGET BUREAU, at re quest of Congressmen who junketed overseas, has agreed to set up sub-offices in Europe for on-the-spot check of our military and economic expenditures,
About Face
LIKELIHOOD of clash: between wage control policies and demands of CIO steelworkers is increasing. And apparent change of stance by Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson complicates situation. On Oct. 30, Wilson said steel strike was “unthinkable,” that if steel wages were raised, steel prices would have to be raised too. This week, Wilson said there'd be no scrapping of wage-controls to avert strikes in key industries. Stabilizer Roger Putnam has told Big Steel he won't permit it to in-
up. Steel union's top steering committee meets in Pittsburgh tomorrow, is expected to ‘give CIO President. Philip Murray final authority to call a strike when present contract expires Dec, 31.
Scrap Crisis
GOVERNMENT threatens drastic action to get iron and steel scrap moving if industry doesn’t get better results. Shipments are down 30 to 50 per cent from last month. Edward W. Greb, director of NPA’s salvage division says a Spot check of inventories at 78 large mills showed: 11 ‘mills with one week or less of scrap supply; 20 with 8 to 15 day supply; 38 with 15 day supply or more. Weather, labor shortceilings all make
ages, ; I critical.
World Roport—
Czechs Reported Believing 1952 Is the Year
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Red Satellites Face Hard Times
Compiled From the Wire Services
The Soviet satellite countries in eastern Europe are facing their worst winter, David M. Nichol, Times Special correspondent, writes from Munich, Germany.« Not only is the weather bad, but a major economic and political crisis is growing with astonishing speed, he says. Moscow's own pressures have produced the crisis, and Moscow's internal problems have been complicated immeasurably as a result, None of this, or very little would have occurred if the West had not called a halt to Soviet aggression in 1947, had not backed its determination with the Berlin airlift in 1948, and with the force of arms in Korea in 1950. The Kremlin has been seized by, something akin to panic. The crisis is reflected in bewildering switches in high government, army, and Communist Party offices. . The picture emerges from a wide variety of sources, statistical tables, official pronouncements, talks with countless refugees, and the growing archives of “Radio Europe” in Munich.
Concealed Their Cards
In Czechoslovakia there is widespread feeling that 1952 will be the year of decision, when the West can insist without fighting, that the Soviets “relax their strangling grip on the 85 millions. At the end of War II all the satellites were within the physical area occupied, or “liberated” by the Soviet army. For some time the Communists kept their hole cards disguised. In one country after another, however, the coalition governments were undermined and destroyed. The West watched with disbelief, and then with a sense of outraged betrayal. When the Soviets blockaded Berlin the West led by the U. S., shouted “No.” The airlift not only broke the blockade. It shook the Kremlin. Five-year-plans . (6year, in Poland) were introduced. They were supervised by a vicious instrument called Comecon (Communist Economic Council), established in Moscow to ride herd.
Greatest Wrench
Czechoslovakia suffered the greatest wrench of all, Already highly industrialized, the country was compelled, to meet Soviet plans, to dismantle much of its famed light industry in favor of heavy, to tear down and to build at the same time. Then the Communists made their grab for Korea. Once again they guessed appallingly wrong. For the first time the Kremlin saw the possibility that it might lose its European empire. Comecon sent down blunt orders in the fall of 1950, Five-pear-planz were stepped up an additional 65 to 85 per cent
in 1951. A process that re--
quired 15 years in the Soviet Union was to. be completed in 2 or 3. Little men everywhere who had hoped for something better at the end of the war gave way to disillusion and then to bitter hatred. “We thought there could be nothing worse than the Nazis.” one of them said. “Now we know there can.” ‘Lathered and Ready’ Prague's cemetery walls blossomed recently with only slightly cryptic painted slogans, “Barbers of the city arise!” they urged. “The Communists are lathered and ready.” . At one period this year Polish officers were deprived of their side-arms except on duty after an attempt on the life of Soviet-Polish Field Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky. A Polish colonel, waiting for a train, was badgered by an ac-
quaintance about his empty holster. “Is this the new style?”
asked the jesting friend. “Yes,” said the colonel, “but not for long.” Neither had any doubt about the colonel's meaning.
Soviet Bloc
THE United States is drafting a series of sharp notes to Russia, Romania and Hungary rejecting Red: charges against this country and demanding quick freedom for four American fliers imprisoned in Hungary, it was learned. Three of the four notes will
Free:
OFF THEY GO—U. S. and British Marines struck behind Red Korean lines in a commando attack launched from the USS Tingey, shown here* bound on the harassing raid under air escort.
The commandos landed near Tanchen,
casualties.
fire back at Communist charges that the United States is dropping spies behind the Iron Curtain. The fourth —to Hungary— will have President Truman's anger behind it. Christian N Ravndal, new American minister to Hungary who talked to the President before leaving for his post, said Mr. Truman wanted everything done “at the earliest possible moment” to win freedom for the fliers. This note already has been transmitted for delivery in Budapest.
Hungary PREMIER ISTVAN DOBI said in parliament that the flight of a United States Air Force plane over Hungary Nov. 19 was an act of “direct military interference.” The plane was forced down by Soviet Russian fighter planes. Mr. Dobi made no mention of the four crewmen on the plane.
United Nations THE United States rejected a Syrian move ‘to drop the American-sponsored Baruch atomic control plan as a basis for disarmament talks by the newly created United Nations Commission. The U. S. also turned down another Syrian proposal for a second round of secret disarmament discussions by the United States, Britain, France and Russia. »
LONDON. Dec. 15 (UP)— The United Press correspondent in Aden mailed the following dispatch: “His highness, the Sultan of Lahez, has contracted .Some more marriages. “Last week the sultan discovered that his latest bride was the wrong girl. He had arranged to marry the youngest daughter of his controller of civil supplies. After a marriage carried out at midnight, he discovered he had been married to an older sister. “Now he has married the younger girl”
NATO
GEN. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER gave his wavering NATO team a ‘locker - room pep talk” in Paris, He told them their Russian opponent is “not invincible” and promised them they sbon can make Europe so strong the Soviets will recognize it would be ‘‘foolish” to attack. But to do it, he warned, they will have to get into the play with the men and funds to
build the defenses he has blue- °
printed. The NATO commander said he is “tertain and confident” that a position of “equilibrium can be reached, if the Atlantic Pact partners meet their military commitments. “Already confidence is replacing fear as we go along,” he said.
Germany UNITED STATES officials demanded information from
Czechoslovakia regarding an American Constabulary troop-
Horselaughs Along the Party Line—
Bronze Goddess of Love Fouls Up Wife's Wrath
By DAVID M. NICHOL
BERLIN, Dec. 15 (CDN) An East Berliner recently celebrated his 53d birthday, with far reaching consequences. Among his presents was one from a bachelor with whom the man often spent evenings to the suspicious annoyance of his wife. The present was a brorize “Venus” in her bath and nothing else. As the story unfolded subsequently in court, wife studied the undraped beauty briefly
* and called friend an unfriendly
name which the dictionary
. translates cautiously as “de-
bauchee." » ” ” FRIEND countered strongly. To Husband he said:
“I'm giving you this goddess
so you can forget the shriveled cooking apple you were so unfortunate as to marry.”
What wife replied immediately isn’t recorded. For six
weeks she at
every glimpse and thought of the ‘ she made a break a
voluptuous nude and then determined on action. She wrapped the statue in paper and set out for the home of her sister td park the offending bundle in a dark closet. It was at this point, however, that her personal problems crossed with those of the mighty forces which are dividing the world. n ” » SISTER'S. home is in West Berlin, Bronze is desperately short in the souped-up economy of Eastern Germany's fiveyear plan. Its export in any form to the the West is a criminal offense, which wife had forgotten or never knew. Near the boundary that bi= sects the city a “people's po-
. liceman” spotted the wife and
her ungainly package as she
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er, missing since Dec. 12 and believed kidnaped by the Communists. Army authorities withheld the name of the trooper. Meanwhile, Dr. Hans Heinrich Lammers, head of Adolf Hitler's chancellery, and eight
lesser Nazi war criminals were
released from Landsberg prison under a Christmas amnesty. An official United States high commission report showed that 1847 Soviet Zone German policeman have deserted and sought political asylum in West Berlin in the last 18 months. Thagrate of Communist police desertions has increased by 50 per cent in the last six months.
Great Britain | THE first, $135§,536,000 installment due on Britain's $4,352,899,000 war and postwar debts to the United States will be paid in full this year, the treasury announced. The payment, representing 119,336,000 in principal and interest on the $3,750,000,000 U. 8. post-war loan and $19 million of Britain's $602,899,000 wartime lend-lease obligations, falls due Dec. 31. Interest on the two debts, totalling $87 million, could have been waived, but the Treasury announcement said Prime «Minister Winston,
Churchill’s government has decided to pay in full. Big Four
THE Western Big Three advised the United Nations tofay that they will take part in no further “secret” Big Four talks on disarmament at pres-
The Westetn statement replied to a Syrian “suggestion” that the United States, Britain,
France and Russia undertake
A new series of private arms talks this time abandoning
130 miles from the Siberian border.
. the enterprise
They suffered few
the United Nations-indorsed Baruch plan as a blueprint for atomic control. Philip C. Jessup formally advised the United Nations Political Committee that any private conference based on
abandonment of the Baruch plan would be “dishonest.” France
THE government invited women between 23 and 40 to volunteer for service with the French army in Indo-China. Preference will be given to nurses, stenographers and telephone operators.
Fiume THE U. 8. cruiser Des Moined will arrive at the
adriatic port of Rijeka (Fiume) tomorrow {to become the first American warship to visit Yugoslavia since the war, it was announced. Marshal Tito probably will not visit the cruiser since he is taking a three-week rest and declining all public appearances.
Guatemala THE draft of a contract which the Guatemalan government will sign with Texas industrialist Glenn McCarthy for construction of a large hotel and gambling casino here was published. The contract said the government would amend existing legislation in order to allow games of chance and to exempt from certain taxes, including income and corporation levies. The contract will run for 20 years.
. Tibet THE Communist-sponsored Panchen Lama is returning to once independent Tibet to “cooperate” with his rival the Dalai Lama, in the Communist “liberation” of the country, Peiping Radio said today.
Inside World Affairs
THE POLISH LUXURY LINER Sobleski, built in Newcastle, England in 1939, has been ceded to Russia. It has been renamed Gruzia. » ” ” RETAIL prices continue to go down in Holland. Textile sales were: 50 per cent lower than in” September 1950, shoe sales 44 per cent lower, ” ” »
PORK FAT, which is very scarce in Hungary, is handed out on a sliding scale to heavy industry workers and miners to force them to work harder. If a miner has not heen absent a single day during the month he gets 700 grams (about a pound and a half). If he nas been absent he gets only 300 grams. If he realizes 100 per cent of the production
quota (working norms) _his ration is increased to 1000 grams.
~ » LJ
"BLOOD tests carried out on 100 people killed in motoring accidents in the Paris area showed 60 were under the influence of drink.
sult: One night in an East Berlin jail, which. ain't no palace, and a court appearance on a charge of attempted smuggling and damaging the ‘people's economy.” ” ” n A SKEPTICAL judge heard wife, friend, and husband, then finally dismissed the case. Husband reached for the statue to take it home but wife was quicker. She swatted him with her umbrella. “No you don’t,” she said. “Your honor, will you. accept this as a donation for the goverhiment’s scrap metal drive?” “Certainly, madam.” The started with the statue in the direction of his chambers. Wife couldn't resist one final word. Shaking her finger, she shouted after him: “But don’t keep it yourself. I know you men. You're all alike.”
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ABOUT 2000 of the inhabitants of the United. Nations zone in paris are accredited juornalists, * » ~ ~ HUNGARY has replaced Christmas day feast by anStalin's birthday which falls oan Dec, 21. The sale of Christmas cards and fir trees
has been forbidden as ‘reactionary.” Lis ” ” POLISH workers in Lodz
factories and in the coal mines of upper Silesia downed tools because of new food restrictions. The number of arrests fs unknown. Authorities are trying to keep the matter secret.
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LETTERS received by Russian women in France from female relatives in the Soviet Union have a new complaint. The writers who live mostly in the country, say that there are no young men in the rural districts of Russia these days. They're all in the army or working in factories in neighboring towns.
family in Budapest was burgled. On the door was pinned a piece of cardboard on: which the following notes were pinned: “T came from the factory at 6:30. Am now going to the Marx-Lenin School. Will be back at 10 o'clock. Long live the Party. Papa.” “I came back from the factory at a quarter to seven. Am going to the meeting of democratic women. Will be back at 9:30. Long live the Party. Mother.” “I returned from the factory
‘at 7. Am going to the girls
brigade for ‘assistance to democratic Korea. Will be back at 11. Long live the Pary. Anna.” “1 came from the factory at 7:15. Am to the meeting of Communist youth. Will return at 11:15. Joseph.” “I came at 8 o'clock. Will not return again. Long live the Party. The Burglar:
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Our Fair City— regi Welfare Dept. e Policy Fight May Oust King
LATEST OUTBREAK of friction in Marion Coutity Welfare Department appears to be forerunner in pressure
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move to oust newly appointed director, Carl F. King." Four of six Welfare staff workers who resigned ast week said they quit in protest against “policies and ‘actions” of new director who was named to job last October and is serving on “probationary” basis. At least two members of Welfare Board have expressed doubts privately that Mr. King will "work out
satisfactorily as director.”
Rumor of several other impending resignations in the department (key workers) may snowball into wideopen break between two factions at odds over Welfare
policy.
. Present director formerly was on staff of State Welfare Department and has been at odds with administration in state department office for some time,
More to Come LOOK FOR Indiana bureau of federal income tax department to continue heavy “crackdown” on collections with renewed vigor in next few weeks, especially on gamblers and racketeers. Filing of len for whopping $173,900 back taxes against Sea H. Ferguson, top ranking
» Indiana Ave. operator, and call
of Tuffy Mitchel, Indiana Ave. kingpin, for “conference on taxes,” are only beginning. Extra investigations of past few weeks and those forthcoming are result of far-reach-ing repercussions from expose of tax scandals in. Washington.
Once Bitten . . . PROSECUTOR Fairchild is becoming a cautious man. * Asked why he didn't personally lead his investigators on gambling raids along Indiana Ave. last week, Mr, Fairchild quipped: “Last time I went on raid (Walter “Big Tom” Thompson case) they accused me of stealing $3800.” He was referring to claim made in court by Thompson for return of $3800 he said wag missing from his establishment after raid.
Frozen Circle WORST downtown traffic jam in City's history developed on Monument Circle last two Saturdays at 5 p. m. rush hour. Christmas shoppers apparently rushed into traffic all at once, causing standstill deadlock as cars poured into Circle from all directions. Traffic officers were unable to untangle mess. They finally blocked swing of cars around Circle, forced them off to other streets whether drivers wanted to go that way or not. Some drivers were forced onto one-way streets that took them out of their way six or eight blocks before they could get back on Circle to pick up passengers waiting in rain more than half an hour.
Man Behind the Man
POLITICAL circles are buzzing with reports that the man behind Gov. Schricker’'s appointment of Scott A. McDonald as judge of Municipal Court 4 is David Lewis, local attorney, The story is that ILewis and law partner, Henry Goett, are moving into control of local Democratic Party with the aid of Gov. Schricker. McDonald, close friend and. former law partner of Lewis, was recommended by Lewis and Goett for appointment. According to political prophets, Lewis soon will assume reins of party in Marion County in big drive to rid party of the Frank McHale, Frank McKinney influence which has heen termed “ton bipartisan” for “regular Democrats.”
First Things First WIFE OF one of new City Hall - officials appointed by Mayor-elect Alex Clark for beginning of term Jan. 1 appeared at City Controller's office last week and asked two questions about her husband's prospective job:
ONE: How much will his job
pay? TWO: paid?
Lookie, a Bookie
NOT ALL bookies here went out of business when new federal gambling tax stamp law went into effect. Times city desk received urgent call last week from woman who wanted to xnow if race results would appear in papers. She talked like she had her money on winner.
New Slant JUDGE BAYT, avowed foe of drunken drivers, is having difficulty imposing stiff penalties on them. He finda some defendants
When will he get
have children, some of them six or seven, and if he sent father to jail, family will suffer. . “lI can't penalize innocent children for something their dad did,” commented judge.
Stabilization GOOD NEWS for golfers: Despite fact that six muniecipally owned golf courses went in red to tune of $15,000 to $17,000 last season, fees won't be increased next season. They'll stay at 65 cents a day and $20 for season tickets for adults and $7.50 for juniors. In 1950, City's golf courses lost $17,000 but Golf Superintendent James Brandt hopes it will be less this year when all
> bills are checked.
Why, Aunt Sue ELDERLY, dignified woman stopped in downtown store to buy book. -
Clerk interpreted customer's precise appearance and behavfor to mean she wanted conservative book. After clerk dug out big stack of volumes dealing with stories of religious nature and background, customer waved them all aside with impatient protest: “No, no, I don’t want any of those books . . . they're dull . . . I want something risque . . . something daring,’ 44 she said. Clerk obliged and tombe promptly bought book dealing with racy romantic SAvEmures,
Oops ro wand
on in fancy convertible car stopped abruptly in front of Claypool Hotel. Taxi cab driver behind couldn't ‘get stopped quickly enough, crashed into rear of convertible, Driver, about 5 feet 5 inches tall, weighing about 145 pounds jumped out of convertible in rage, strode back to taxi belligerently. &® Cah driver silently opened door, stepped out and stretched up to 6 feet 3 inches, 230 pounds. ‘ Convertible driver turned away without a word, got back into his car and drove away,
Police Prospects
LOOK FOR new faces in new places when newly appointed Police Chief John Ambuhl takes over department on Jan. 1 under Mayor-elect Alex Clark. His prediction that “there’ll be some changes” means pretty general shakeup all along line. But demotions and promotions are expected to follow closely recent merit system listings of ranks established from series of examinations last summer. However, many officers listed as eligible for promotion in rank won't make it . . . there are more eligible for promotion than there are ranks available. This gives new chief plenty of room to handpick men in top ranks.
They're Big, and Everywhere
One of new hazards on one-way streets is trafic flow first three right-side lanes by weaving
trackless trolleys.
Busses on Capitol Ave. and Tilinols St, have been st ® Zrst two lanes. forcing pileup of case 18 dushle 1eeze.
and third lanes.
unnecessarily stalling traffic flow si and unloading tpn at in