"is a a DO NOT Destroy This Paper All paper is needed in our Government Drive to salvage all waste paper. Wichita Falls VOL. NO. 285 (AP) Means Associated Press WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS, MONDAY, MAY 26, 1947 EIGHT PAGES Price 5c Per Copy Record WEATHER: Partly cloudy, warmer Clark Charges Russia Is Looting Austria Soviet Launching 'Mineral Drive, Senator Reports Search Said Greatest World Has Ever Seen WASHINGTON, May 25. (AP) Senator Brewster, Republican, Maine, said today he has a "reliable, authentic report" from Russia disclosing the Soviets are organizing the "greatest mineral drive ever conceived by the government and peoples of a single nation." It is a "grand quest for minerals," he declared, but whether it is concerned with uranium or other fissionable materials was not specified.
Atomic Knowledge Brewster related in an inter- view, however, that a German army doctor who was a prisoner in Russia had been brought to the United. States to testify in a treason trial at Boston told him the Russians have "fairly complete knowledge" about atomic energy. The former prisoner said the have many Germany scientists on an island in the Black Sea. He added that his opinion about, Russia's atomic knowledge shared by other Germans with whom he has talked since his release. Brewster turned over details of his report from Russia to Senator Malone, Republican, Nevada, chairman of a senate public lands subcommittee natural resources, that the committee, federal agencies and industry may know the project for "whatever relation it may have to our American picture." Brewster made public a letter to Malone saying that the mineral hunt embraces 16 Soviet republics an area of 385,000 square Future Protection "The program," he added, "is designed not only for the present five-year program now under way, but to prepare the nation for all future eventualities.
"It may come to us in this country with striking force that this program is being launched just at this time and came into full force or organization at the close of the war. "There are involved more than 800 expeditions incorporating a host of some 60.000 scientists, engineers, technicians and workers. fitted out with the most up-todate equipment, some of which is well in advance of anything now in use in any other country." Texas Balled Up On Its Governors AUSTIN, Texas, May 25. (AP)The state capitol was in a dizzy whirl today trying to keep up with who was governor. Tomorrow, the comptroller, will inherit the headache deciding how to daily stipend among the three individuals who served a few hours each as chief executive.
They were Lieut. Gov. Allan Shivers, President Pro Tem of the Ben Ramsey, and Gov. Beauford H. Jester.
Shivers became governor yesterday afternoon when Jester crossed the state line en route to a Jefferson Day dinner speech at Oklahoma That was at 2:30 p.m. This morning at 8, Shivers crossed into Mexico from Mission, en route to spend the day at Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico, and Ramsey was formally notified that he was acting governor. On Jester's he return by plane this afternoon, assumed the office again. Ramsey signed 10 bills and resolutions, including bill extending county boundaries seaward an average of 65 miles. This was a companion measure to another bill, signed Saturday by Jester, extending state boundary similarly to the continental shelf.
Girl, 7, Found Locked In Filthy Chicken Coop CHARLESTON, W. May 25. (P)-Charges of felonious assault and neglecting a dependent child were lodged by state police today against Domingo and Mary Diaz. whose seven-year-old daughter they said they found locked in a filthy chicken coop. State Police Cpl.
R. T. Cummings, announcing the arrests, said the child's mother told him the little had been locked up and frequently bound with ropes "to keep from running away," and that her wrists and legs were tied together "every night." Domingo Diaz refused discuss the matter the officers said. Both Mr. and Mrs.
Diaz were News Texas Physician Charged In Deaths Of Four In Family NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas, May 25. (P)-Dr. Lloyd I. Ross, San Antonio physician, was charged here in justice court today with murder in the deaths of Willard H. York, 36, prominent San Antonio investment company head, and three of his family and with assault to murder in the wounding.
of a fifth member of the family. The shooting took place this morning on a country road, 22 miles west of New Braunfels. Justice of the Peace H. R. Voges said as, told York and his family were their way to church from their ranch home at the time of the shooting.
In addition to York the dead are his wife, Mrs. Gertrude O. York, 43, their son, John, 9. and Yorke's mother, Mrs. Mary York.
67. Ann York, the York's 13-yearold daughter, is in a New Braunfels hospital for treatment of a flesh wound in right hip. Voges said that the girl, suffering from loss of blood and shock, ran into a brush covered area after the shooting and made her way to the home of Otto Voges to summon aid. than three hours later Dr. Ross, who had been the family physician of the York's, walked into San Antonio police headquarters and told Detective Joe Hester that a gun which had been discharged could be found in his car.
Later he was turned over to Sheriff A. School. York was charged in U. S. District Court in San Antonio on March 19.
1947, in a complaint filed by the securities and ex(Continued on Page 2, Col. 3) Negro Eludes A Abductors, Surrenders To FBI Men RALEIGH, N. May 25. gambled his life on a desperate lynch mob, made good his escape than two days before giving custody of the FBI. Truman's Mother Growing Weaker President Said To Be Resigned GRANDVIEW, May 25.
(AP) -President Truman reported tonight that his mother is growing steadily weaker. The gray-haired, bespectacled chief executive, apparently resigned to the inevitable said to reporters after another trying day at the bedside of his 94-year-old mother, "she is just about the same--no perceptible change, except that, if anything, she is just a little weaker." For the third straight day President Truman told reporters upon his return to Kansas City from his mother's home that she was growing steadily weaker. Earlier, he sent word from the sick room that Mrs. Martha E. Truman was "holding her own" at the time--but no one could say tonight when her tired heart will give away." It was 7:07 (CST) when the president drove up to Kansas City's Muehlebach Hotel with his wife, Mrs.
Bess Truman. The crowds, larger every night, applauded him vigorously as he made way to the elevator. "She slept most of the day." the president informed the reporters. "I talked to her on several occasions. She would go right back to sleep.
That's about all I can say." Waking from her sleep again and again, Mrs. Martha E. Truman called often for "Harry." the farm boy she always said "plowed the straightest furrow" of any lad in Missouri. And "Harry," trying to find time to attend to presidential duties as well, responded to her every call. Simply, with matter-of-fact language, he explained to reporters "She's sat up with me many times when I needed her.
I want to reciprocate when she needs me." Busy Congress Sees Labor Strike Shadow In Its Own Backyard WASHINGTON, May 25. (AP)Congress, busy trying to solve other people's labor problems, faces a strike of its own. The District of Columbia Shorthand Reporters Federation, new unaffiliated union, announced today that its members will walk out June 1 unless they get higher pay. They seek an increase of about 33 per cent. These are the shorthand and stenotype reporters who, take down the testimony and other proceedings before congressional committees.
Without the reporters to make the record, the committees might have to suspend work and this, in turn, could gum up the whole congressional machinery. The union members planning the strike are reporters employed by commercial reporting firms which are do the congressional committees' work. All the reporters who take down the debates on the senate and house floors. and a few committee reporters, are employed directly by congress itself and are not involved in the proposed strike. City Edition GOP Warns Cut In USDA Funds To Ruin Party Senators Ally With Democrats Against Slash WASHINGTON, May 25.
(AP)-Senator Aiken, Republican, Vermont, asserted today that the 32 per cent cut in agriculture department funds voted by the house appropriations committee would "blast the Republican party off the map" if finally passed by congress. Aiken, who often votes counter to the majority of his party colleagues, told a reporter he thinks there is "political dynamite" in to cut farm program exefforts penditures. Blast GOP "I think that a 20 per cent reduction in administrative expenses can be made without hurting he said, "but if the anything," of the house committee in action scuttling some of these government programs stands, it's going to blast the Republican party off the map." Senator Young. Republican, North Dakota, a member of the appropriations committee, senate he feels the Republicans alsaid ready have lost political in midwest because of sentiment the among many farmers that some of the party are atmembers to make agriculture bear tempting, of economy moves. The $569,141,000 agriculture apbill comes up in the propriations house this week.
It is cut 427.000 below President Truman's estimates, but some of the funds whacked off by the committee, particularly those for the school lunch program, are expected to be restored. Senate Support Aiken and Young served notice that if the house fails to restore these and some other cuts, there will be Republican as well as Democratic support in the senate for increases. Senator Lucas of Illinois, the Democratic whip, told a reporter he has little doubt that the senate will vote to spend a substantially larger amount of the farm program than the house committee has allowed. Senator Elmer Thomas. Democrat.
Oklahoma, already has protested the cuts would put the Agricultural Adjustment Administration out of business 1948. But Senator Thye, Republican, Minnesoa, said he does not think the soil conservation program will be lost when the bill finally gets through congress. The has yet to vote on any appropriations. measure except labor department and federal security agency. The voted $1.676,000,000 which menates, $8,300,000 less than the house had approved.
Compromise Delay A compromise has been delayed by a dispute, over an individual, rather the funds. The senate struck out language which would eliminate the employment of Edgar Warren, conciliation service director. The house committee contended he had associated with Communist front organizations but the senate, in effect, dismissed these charges. The senate appropriations committee is to begin hearings tomorrow on the $538.976.000 statejustice-commerce-judiciary bill and later on the $3.202.000,000 treasury-postoffice measure. Panel To OK Services Merger WASHINGTON.
May 25. (P)- Senator E. V. Robertson, Republican. Wyoming, conceded today he has lost his fight in the senate armed services committee to hold up President Truman's proposal to combine the armed forces under a single head.
In the face of a statement by Chairman Gurney, Republican, South Dakota, that the committee will approve a unification bill this week, Robertson told a reporter apparently have enough votes to railroad it through." are going to try by brushing aside without any consideration at all a number of my he said. Robertson is the author of a substitute for the president's plan to set up the army, navy and air forces under a single cabinet secretary. He contends that the plan threatens the existence of the marines and of naval aviation. He acknowledged that a provision designed to protest the marines and the naval air arm, tentatively written into the bill last Friday, better nothing," but he said "I don't think it covers the situation." Perry's Grandson Dies In Rhode Island NEWPORT. R.
May 25. (AP) -Perry Belmont, 95. former U. S. minister plenipotentiary to Spain, and member of an historic Newport naval family, died today at the Newport Hospital.
The last of his immediate family, he was the grandson of Commodore Mathew C. Perry, who opened the ports of Japan. A grand-uncle. Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, was the hero of the Battle of Lake Erie. He was born in New York City, was graduated from Harvard in 1872, and received a law degree from Columbia in 1876.
4: GERMAN WOMAN GUIDES PLOW--A woman on a farm near Bad Sodon, Germany, guides a plow while a man leads a team made up of a horse and a cow as spring planting in the American-occupied section of the country gets under way. (AP Wirephoto). Seniors Hold Baccalaureate Services Hardin College To Graduate 85 Dr. Landes Speaks For Double Class Candidates for diplomas from both junior and senior divisions of Hardin College heard Dr. James H.
Landes Sunday morning in a plea for adoption of great objectives as the first requisite to fruitful living. Eighty- collegians attended made bacca- up the which laureate services at the First Baptist Church, of which Dr. Landes is pastor. Meyerbeer's "Coronation March" was provided from the as processional music. The choir, with Miss Ann Smith as soloist, sang Scott's "Voice in the Wilderness" immediately preceding presentation of the class by Dr.
James B. Boren, president of Hardin College. Dr. Landes, using John as his text, emphasized the portance of using both one's time and his energy to the attainment of worth while live objectiverse. the speaker said, "in which everything moves from cause to effect by perfect law.
Under such a system, there must be a plan for the life man, God's chief creation. There are far too many people with no real objectives in life, whirling dizzily in a ceaseless eddy of meaningless activities. "Serene and victorious living awaits those who search out A plan and pursue it, in compliance (Continued on Page 2, Col. 7) Wrecked U. S.
Tanker Towed Into Thames MARGATE, England, May, 25. (P)-The American tanker Newhall Hills, wrecked by a collision and exprosions that killed one seaman, was towed into the Thames Estuary today after a dramatic 24-hour battle by her crew to save the vessel from sinking. Five fishermen were missing from an unidentified trawler that was in collision with the ton tanker off Margate yesterday. Seaman Edward Bolehala, 23, Bridgeport, died from concussion when the collision with the trawler set off a series of blasts which ripped off the tanker's bow in the fog-shrouded English Channel. Meanwhile a search continued off Margate for three missing crewmen of a Belgian fishing boat which crashed with the American liberty ship John La Farge yesterday.
There was no report of damage to the ban Farge, which stood by while two men on the sinking fishing boat were rescued. Capt. R. E. Lenahan, Long Beach, 53-year-old master ere crewmen the for Newhall "sheer Hills, guts" praised in vol- his unteering to man hoses and stand by the engines while raging fire threatened a center tank.
Explosion of that. he said, would have demolished the ship. The captain said the tanker was moving half speed in a dense fog at the time of the collision. Effective Date Set On Union Dues Bill AUSTIN, May 25. (P)-A bill prohibiting deductions of union dues without written permission of the employe will become effective 90 days after the close of the 50 legislature's session.
The measure became the sixth labor bill of the session to be approved by Gov. Beauford H. Jester. Already signed were the SOcalled open shop or right to work bill, the anti-mass picketing measure, a bill prohibiting public employes from entering into labor contracts or striking against the state, another making union sponsible for damage from picketing, and a bill prohibiting the picketing of public utilities with intention of disrupting service to the public. General Urges Firm U.S.
Hand To Stop Soviet Food, Livestock, Being Confiscated From Stricken People Senate Vote On Tax Stand Slated Today WASHINGTON, May 25. (UP) -Senate Republican leaders apparently succeeded today in lining up enough votes to put the polit-hot income tax cut issue squarely up to President Truman before July 1. That is the date of the beginning of the next fiscal year, and the day on which GOP senators hope to turn loose a $4,000,000,000 windfall for the taxpayers in the form of percentage cuts already house. overwhelmingly approved by the The senate votes at 4 p.m., (2 p. CST) tomorrow on whether to act now, or agree to Democratic demands to shelve the tax bill until June 10.
The Democrats claim that until then, congress will have no way of knowing whether the (Continued on Page 2, Col. 2) Dewey 'Boom' Expected Tonight Politicians Eye Party Dinners NEW YORK, May 25. (A)-Apparently by coincidence, New York Republicans and Democrats both have chosen tomorrow night to spotlight favorite sons at dinners heralded as significant milestones in long-term drives to elevate the honor guests to higher political office. The two are Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey, considered a leading contender for the GOP presidential nomination next year, and Mayor William O'Dwyer, boosted by friends as top-ranking possibility for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 1950. The dinners, to be held at prominent New York hotels only seven blocks. apart, will attract blueribbon personalities in each party, with some guests coming from Washington. Both banquets are fund-raising affairs. The Democrats are charging $100 a plate for their dinner at the Hotel Commodore and have announced sale of 1,500 tickets, insuring a capacity crowd.
The Republicans expect 1,000 persons to fill the Waldorf- Astoria ballroom at their $50 a plate banquet. Dewey will be principal speaker at the GOP dinner while Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal will deliver the main address at the Democrats' function. Both Dewey and O'Dwyer have (Continued on Page 2, Col. 1) Halsey's Mother Dies In Delaware WILMINGTON, May 25.
(AP)-Mrs. Anna Masters Brewster Halsey, 88, mother of Fleet Admiral William S. Halsey, died today in Delaware hospital. Admiral Halsey, frequent visitor at the hospital where his mother had been a patient since last July when she fractured her hip in a fall, was at his mother's bedside when death occurred. Street Car Kills Woman Who Attempted To Shoo Dog Off Track KANSAS CITY, May 25.1 (UP)-A dog sat almost defiantly on a track today as a street car approached.
Mrs. Nelle Bly Andrews, 53. and her husband took in the situation at a glance. Both tried to "shoo" the dog off the track, but got on it themselves. The street car struck them.
Mrs. Andrews was killed; her husband injured seriously and hospitalized. Streetcar Motorman Burral Waggoner said he didn't see what was happening until "too late." No one knows what happened to the dog except that it wasn't struck. Students Hear Dr. Joe Tower High School Group Rites Inspiring Not the measured amount of information or learning one may have, but the degree and manner in which this knowledge is applied to satisfaction of human needs makes life a success, Dr.
Joe Tower, pastor of the First Methodist Church, declared before Wichita Falls High School seniors at the Memorial Auditorium Sunday night in the annual baccalaureate service. Inspiring music for the occasion was provided by the high school music department under direction of Miss Sara Dunn Sistrunk. After the prospective graduates had entered to the strains of "Pomp and Chivalry" by Roberts, played by the high school orchestra, Henry L. Rugeley read the scripture lesson. The high school a cappella choir then sang "Lift Your Hearts, Sing Ye." by Gretchaninoff.
and "To Thee We Sing," by Tkach. Fine musical quality and fervent spirit in both numbers imparted a thrill to both the senior group and the audience which filled the auditorium almost to capacity. The invocation was offered by Katie Moore, and the pledge of allegiance to the national colors by Norma Lesley with William Morris Arnold as standard bearer. Following the sermon, Peggy Thomas pronounced the benediction. The orchestra played the "Festival March" by von Weber as a reces(Continued on Page 2, Col.
2) Helicopter Teams Search For Airmen WEST PALM BEACH, 25. -Two army air force Helicopter, to air rescue Managua, teams Nicaragua, are being today to aid in the search for seven Americans airmen in the missing crash since B-17 Flying Fortress. Morrison army air field officers said the helicopters and rescue teams were being transported, in C-84 packet The seven missing airmen were part of the 15-man crew aboard a flying fortress that crashed about 75 miles northeast of Managua while enroute from the canal zone to Kelly Field, Texas, eight aboard were reported to have parachuted to safety and were uninjured. Car Orders Double Year's Possible Output WASHINGTON, May 25. (AP)The National Automobile Dealers Association today reported that dealers have more new car orders on hand than ever--twice as many as they can fill this year.
Cancellations since Jan. 1 have been "negligible," an association statement said. It based its study on a nationwide survey of orders since 31, 1945, when production resumed. Dealers have received only enough new cars to fill 30 per cent, of said. their Customers orders, the demand statere- mains at double the number of expected this year from the factories, providing output remains at the level of the first 1947 quarter, it estimated.
NEW YORK, May 25. (AP)-Gen. Mark W. Clark, urging a "firm and definite" policy toward Russia, said tonight that Soviet Union was nullifying efforts of other allied occupation seeking to re-establish Ausforces, an independent state. The former commander of the American forces in Austrial said the Russians, despite his "personal, repeated" protests, not only had taken Austrian industries and foodstuffs--thereby increasing the UNRRAbut has seized the "very lifeline of the nation." the Danube River.
Lone Nation In a radio speech on the program. "We The People." Clark said Russia was the lone nation among the four occupying powers which had not followed agreedupon objectives designed to rehabilitate the stricken country. Soviet forces. Clark declared, have seized farm products and livestock, sorely needed -by the Austrians, and exported surpluses above their own "These increased the burden of UNRRA, and indirectly the burden of the American taxpayer who was the principal contributor to UNRRA," he said. Discussing the "attitude" of the Austrians.
Clark said free elections resulted in "an overwhelming vote against Soviet influence," and added: Communist Rewards "But since the first election in the Soviet zone, extra food, higher wages, and better rations have been given to Austrian workers who joined the Communist party. He proposed a firm policy in American relations with Russia, saying that it would not "increase the chances of war, but on the contrary," reduce them. Clark arrived here from Europe Friday to assume his new post as sixth army commander. (AP)-A terrified young negro, who breakaway from an armed, white and eluded all searchers for more himself up tonight to the protective Solicitor Ernest Tyler said Goodwin (Buddy) Bush, 24, had surrendered to two FBI agents and himself and had been brought here to North Carolina's central prison. The negro had been sized from the Northampton County jail at Jackson early Friday morning by the mob.
He made his break in front of the jail and escaped in the darkness as his would-be captors fired A single shot which missed. Tyler said a negro preacher called him late today and said Bush surrender if the solicitor would guarantee that he would not be harmed. Tyler said he and the FBI agents went to an appointed place and found Bush. The solicitor would give no further details of, the surrender, tonight, but said "we're trying to find those people who got him out of there." Bush was held in the Northampton being, the attempted rape of a young married white woman at Rich Square, a village 12 miles from Jackson. Tyler said Bush would remain at the prison here under the attempted rape charge.
Second Young Negro Whisked To Safety DARLING, S. May 25. (P)- A negro arrested on a charge of raping a 67-year-old white woman here today was whished away to the state penitentiary tonight for "safekeeping against possible mob action." Sheriff Wiley Grantham of Darlington said. He was listed as Willie Pooler, 20, who Grantham said confessed at the penitentiary to raping the woman early this afternoon on the outskirts of Darlington. Poller's quick transfer to the state prison, unusual except in rare case, came on the heels of last week's acquittal at Greenville of 28 men accused of lynching negro Willie Earle, accused slayer of a taxi driver.
The sheriff said the woman was given medical treatment but was not in a serious condition. Inventor Claims Gearless Auto FRANKFURT. Germany, May 25. (AP)- Messerschmitt, who designed and built Germany's best war planes, now claims to have invented an automobile without gears and a watch with only three moving parts, the U. S.
Army newspaper Stars and Stripes said id today. A light motor and prefabricated skyscrapers are other innovations the 49-year-old German engineers says he has designed in his spare time while waiting probable denazification trial and serving as occasional witness in American war crimes trials. But he is not revealing details of his inventions because he sees no early opportunity to exploit them in Germany, he told a Stars and Stripes reporter interviewing him in his comfortable room at Nuernberg. Messerschmitt says both United States and Russia are trying to hire him. He already has turned down the Russian offer, he said, but indicated he still was considering an indefinite, super-secret but highly paid job in the United States.
AFL Machinists' Vote To Effect Labor Peace WASHINGTON, May 25. (P)- The machinists union, suspended by the AFL for non-payment of dues in a dramatic backstage fight for labor power, will vote next month on whether to capitulate or make the breach permanent. The decision of the 59-year-old International Association of Machinists is certain to have farreaching effects on future labor peace. The jurisdiction it claims runs smack into that of the carpenters, the operating engineers, and the streetcar and motor coach employes all vigorous AFL unions. The proposed settlement on which the machinists will vote provides a compromise on jurisdictional questions involving those unions.
The machinists once formed the AFL's largest union, with more than 700.000 members, chiefly in the war-swelled airframe industry. Its membership now is back to prewar levels, on a par with the 600.000 of John L. Lewis'. United Mine Workers, William L. Hutcheson's carpenters and Daniel J.
Tobin's teamsters. The teamsters union pays slightly more in per capita taxes to the AFL and thus retains nominal title as the biggest. Harvey W. Brown, president of the machinists, is fighting the return of his union to the AFL. He was not on the committee which negotiated for reaffiliation and which now is completing the final settlement proposal for the referendum in June.
in the county jail to await preliminary hearings on the charges, probably tomorrow, mings added. The arrests were made 24 hours after Cummings and State Trooper L. E. Hampton broke a strong hasp and padlock to remove the -old Delores from the trash-filled chicken coop while the parents were away from home. Dirty and half-naked, the child was found to be suffering from serious malnutrition, and a placed under care of social workers.
Cummings, said other children of the family were well-fed and well-clothed. The WEATHER WICHITA FALLS AND VICINITY: Partly cloudy and slightly warmer Monday and Tuesday, with high afternoon temperatures Monday near 80. Low Monday night temperature near 36. EAST TEXAS: Partly cloudy, widely scattered showers in west portion Monday and Tuesday; slightly warmer Tuesday and in west portion Monday: moderate northeast winds on the coast becoming southeasterly by Tuesday. WEST TEXAS: Partly cloudy Monday and Tuesday: few widely scattered afternoon showers; slightly warmer in the Big Bend country and El Paso area.
OKLAHOMA: Fair and warmer in east hall Monday. Weather conditions in Wichita Fallen and vicinity during the 24- hour period ending 7:30 p.m. day were reported by the Wichita Falls Government Weather Bureau Station as follows Maximum temperature 76 Minimum temperature 48 Temperature, 7:30 p.m. 71 Precipitation, none. Total precipitation for 1947: 12.62 inches.
Barometric pressure. 28.89. HOURS OF SUN AND MOON Monday: Sunrise, 5:26 a.m.; sunset, 7:36 p.m, Tuesday: Sunrise, 5:26 a sunset, 7:07 p.m..
