Disagreement on Economic Plan For Europe Threatens Breakup of Conference of Ministers in Pairs

Pairs, June 30--The British French, and Russian conference on the United States proposal for financial aid to war impoverished Europe bogged down in complete disagreement today, and French sources said tonight the meeting would end tomorrow with the two western powers accepting the plan without Russian participation.

One French official quoted British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin as saying "the case is hopeless," at the conclusion of his third session with George Bidault of France and Russian Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov.

Bevin had indicated previously Great Britain would proceed with U. S. Secretary George C. Marshall's plan without Russian cooperation if necessary, and the decision by France to join Britain would mean the formation of a western bloc.

Despite the gloomy predictions of an adjournment at tomorrow's meeting, one remote possibility existed that the conference would continue. Both Bidault and Bevin agreed to consider further Molotov's proposed method of qualifying for American economic aid and to reply tomorrow.

The chief point of disagreement appeared to be Molotov's contention that the three-power conference should determine only how much help should be asked from the United States, while Bidault and Bevin believed that a comprehensive program for use of such help should first be presented.

WASHINGTON, June 30--The House voted today to make the Hawaiian Islands a state and add a 49th star to the flag.

It passed on a roll call vote, 196 to 133, and sent to the Senate a bill by Delegate Joseph R. Farrington (R-Hawaii) to enable the people of Hawaii to form a constitution and state government and to be admitted to the Union on an equal footing with the other 48 states.

During the debate, spirited objections were voiced because of Hawaii's largely oriental population, about a third of Japanese extraction.

Rep. Preston (D-Ga.) termed them "descendants of the Emperor of Japan."

An immediate protest came from Rep. Johnson (R-Calif) and other House members who praised the loyalty of Japanese-Americans in Hawaii during the war.

Johnson said he had once considered Hawaii an "outpost of Japan," but after a personal investigation is convinced "the Hawaiian Islands are an outpost of the United States."

During the war, he said, the Japanese in Hawaii were "more loyal, more devoted and gave better service to the United States than the Japanese of California."

Farrington appealed to the House in the name of "fair play" to pass his bill.

He said the people of Hawaii have been led to believe since 1900, when the island republic became a territory of the United States, that territorial government is a stepping stone to the full citizenship of statehood.

The first Hawaiian statehood bill was introduced in Congress in 1920, but never before reached a vote in either the House or Senate.

Scattered opposition to the bill on other than racial grounds came today from both the Democratic and Republican sides of the aisle.

Rep. Coudert (R-NY) said "self-determination" for dependent peoples is all right, but this will give Hawaii the opportunity "to exercise two senators worth of self-determination on us."

"We are confronted here with some thing that will change the character of our country," he declared.

Coudert described Hawaii as "eight tiny volcanic islands 2,000 miles off in the wastes of the Pacific," and said he opposed giving Hawaii one senator for each 35,000 voters compared with one senator for each 2,000,000 voters in New York.

Rep. Sabath (D-Ill) objected to statehood on the grounds that Hawaii's economy is controlled by the "big five" sugar factors.

"Five organizations working jointly control that island, including the production of sugar and pineapples," Sabath asserted. "I think it is a dangerous thing to give the big five control of the state."

The so-called big five are five companies acting as agents for the Hawaiian sugar plantations in the transportation and marketing of sugar, procurement of supplies and machinery and other matters. They are American Factors, C. Brower & Co., Alexander & Baldwin, Castle & Cooke, and Theo, H. Davis, Ltd