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June 12, 1946

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ROYALISTS BATTLE POLICE IN NAPLES; HUMBERT REMAINS; REPUBLICANS DEMAND EXILE OF KING HUMBERT Stone Consulted by Both Sides Cabinet Meets Four Times ROYALISTS BATTLE POLICE IN NAPLES Shooting in Naples Police Use Machine Guns

By Arnaldo Cortesi By Wireless To the New York Times

receives Premier Gasperi; repeats refusal to leave until Ct of Cassation has ruled

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Mikhailovitch Denies Guilt, Admits Contact With Enemy; Mikhailovitch Denies He Is Guilty, But Admits Contact With Germans Hoped to Woo Forces Away Defense Materials Seized Chetniks Only a Small Part Time to Prepare Final Speech" COL. M'DOWELL REPLIES U.S. Officer Defends Mikhailovitch in Washington-Approved Statement No Further U.S. Aid Planned

By Sam Pope Brewer By Cable To the New York Times

Mikhailovitch takes stand; admits various points of charges but insists intentions were patriotic; testifies he was well treated in prison; prosecution stresses voluntary refusal of US attys aid; denies defense attys request for trial delay; Col McDowell, in statement issued through Com for Fair Trial, denies collaboration with Gers was mentioned at confs cited in indictment; defends Mikhailovitch as anti-Nazi; Sec Byrnes says US plans no further aid to Mikhailovitch

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CABINET UNIT SET UP TO STUDY PALESTINE; Truman Picks Byrnes, Snyder, Patterson--U.S. to Discuss Troops to Aid Jews' Entry CABINET UNIT SETUP TO STUDY PALESTINE Grady Named Byrnes' Alternate

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Is making preliminary inquiries on sending 100,000 Jewish DPs to Palestine

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SHIP PEACE IN VIEW WITH GOVERNMENT ENTERING PARLEY; WSA, Acting Through Operators, Reported Ready to Set Terms to Avert Strike BRIDGES FOR DIRECT STEP Asserts Unions Will Arrange Settlement if Federal Representatives Sit In Government Takes Over Pact to Avert Ship Strike in View As the Government Takes a Hand Charges Use of "False Front" Main Issue Concerns Hours

By Louis Stark Special To the New York Times

WASHINGTON, June 11--The Government, through the War Shipping Administration, is reported ready to specify terms for settlement of the dispute which threatens a strike of more than 200,000 maritime workers June 15.

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Notable Births

1946Michel Bergeron, Canadian ice hockey player and coach^[†]

Michel Bergeron is a Canadian former ice hockey coach.

1946Bobby Gould, English footballer and manager^[†]

Robert Alfred Gould is an English former footballer and manager.

1946Catherine Bréchignac, French physicist and academic^[†]

Catherine Bréchignac is a French physicist. She is a commander of the Légion d'honneur, "secrétaire perpétuel honoraire" of the Académie des sciences and former president of the CNRS. The Times says she has "a formidable reputation for determination, decisiveness and an aptitude for analysing and clarifying complex matters." As a president of the CNRS, she was responsible for 25,000 employees, 12,000 of whom are researchers, and a budget of 2.42 billion Euros.

Notable Deaths

1946Médéric Martin, Canadian politician, mayor of Montreal (born 1869)^[†]

Médéric Martin was a Canadian politician and long-time Mayor of Montreal.