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Gaineshille Hailn Regisker
57TH YEAR
GAINESVILLE, COOKE COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 30, 1947
NUMBER 132
(EIGHT PAGES)
Legislature Receives Negro University Bill
Fair Trade
British Widen Search
Bill Gets
1941
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By Stevenson, Jester
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News Briefs
and legislators, who filled
Tel Aviv,
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The Weather :
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persmile or $1,25 a day increase
retroactive to Dec. 16.
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For Jewish Kidnapers
After Banker Released
95 Pounds Sugar
Per Person Asked
Bus Driver Strike
Averted by Raise
telephone
none the
campaign.
WICHITA FALLS, Jan. 30 (P) i
ANNUAL
AVERAGE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (P)—-
President Truman will make a
radio address to the nation at
For Food & Drink,
Americans Spend
MORE and MORE
11:45 o'clock (EST) tor
behalf of the “March of
mends division of export supplies
of foods in short supply among
importing nations.
In a report issued today, the
council estimated the 1947 world
sugar supply at 30,100,000 short
tons, raw value. This compares
with a world consumption of 26,-
700,000 last year and with a pre-
war average consumption of 32,-
500,000 tons.
Sheppard army air field, com-
pleted in late 1941 at a cost of
$83,000,000 and through which 2,-
000,000 members of the army air
forces passed, will be offered for
sale.
velt, founder of the
foundation.
During the past
area marched to breakfast
lunch formations.
Other student companies
not march to meals.
the south side of the tracks on
the west side of Morris street, the
vehicle landing on its top.
There are no obstructions to
te view for a distance of several
day on the
niversary-
Marshall Tells of Overseas Sales
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (P)— Secretary of State Marshall told
congress today the United States has realized $1,590,000,000 from the
sale of overseas property which cost originally $6,800,000,000.
Still left for disposal at the end of 1946 was property with an orig-
inal cost of $1,365,000,000 which already has been declared surplus
and an estimated $2,000,000,000 which will be freed by the armed
forces later.
Marshall forwarded the information in a letter to congress trans-
mitting the fourth quarterly report of the foreign liquidation com-
missioner.
Temperatures: High yesterday,
71; low last night, 31; noon today,
41: high for the year, 78; low
mm for —
WVI barometric pres-
DAY YOUR
LL TAX
granted more voice in issuing or-
ders to f
Trainmen, which represented the
drivers, agreed in direct negotia-
tions to a wage increase which
will pay the drivers 5 1-8 cents
Argentina is second only to the
United States in the amount of
corn grown.
treme northwest. Moderate north-
erly winds on coast, diminishing.
West Texas: Fair and colder
this afternoon and tonight; Fri-
day partly cloudy, warmer in aft-
ernoon.
e m e r g
$146,806
zht in
imes”
Local Men
Are Hurt
Seriously
A. B. Murphy, 43, and
Henry Daniels, 54, in
Auto-Train Collision
Two Gainesville men were
seriously injured when the au-
tomobile in which they were
65TH BIRTHDAY
The 1947 March of Dimes of
the Rational Foundation for
Of All Things,
Democrats Called
GOPs in Roll Call
ican people. The
dollars you con tri
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win the victors ' I
p nine years March of
Dimes fund* have written an
AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 30
(AP).—A bill providing $2,-
850,000 for establishment of a
first class state university for
Negroes at Houston was in-
troduced in the senate today.
The measure was offered by
Sen. Lacy Stewart of Houston,
who said that the University of
Houston has offered to donate 53
acres for use of the school.
It was the first proposed legis-
lation looking toward improve-
ment of state-supported facilities
for higher education for Negroes
Such legislation had been recom-
mended by Gov. Beauford H
Jester and Retiring Gov. Coke
Stevenson.
The so-called “fair trades bill"
Between 1795 and 1818, the
American flag had 15 stripes.
Requests
Burdenless Treaty
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Dust Storm Sweeps on to Gulf Area
WESLACO, Tex., Jan. 30 (A)—
Judge S. E. Wells of Raymond-
ville, who conducted the first
court ever held in Willacy coun-
ty, died yesterday at the age of
83. He was elected Willacy coun-
ty’s first justice of the peace in
Earlier yesterday the senate fi-
committee recommended
The men, A. B. Murphy, 43, and
Henry Daniels, 54, of 1001 South
Morris street, were undergoing
x-ray examinations at Gainesville
sanitarium at noon, and the ex-
tent of their injuries had not been
made public by the attending
physician.
Murphy and Daniels were rid-
ing in a 1936 model four-door
Chevrolet sedan, and were less
than 100 yards from their home
when the accident occurred. The
car was demolished.
The impact tore the entire left
side from the car and shunted it
into the right-of-way ditch on
honorary degree which stirred up a controversy when it was first
offered in the fall of 1945. 6------------------------------------
cProsdentiakrSecrrarwihares ecutive in this country during at
search and in the production of
pig iron.
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McALLEN, Jan. 30 (P)— Citrus
fruit provided by a number of
shipping firms in the Rio Grande
valley is being loaded aboard the
first of four vessels at Brownsville
this week for Texas’ first post-
war sale of'fruit to England.
SHANGHAI, Jan. 30 (/P)—All
Chinese commercial passenger
flights were suspended today by
the ministry of communications
pending an investigation into the
mid-air explosion of an airliner
near Hankow Tuesday, with 25
reported killed, and the disap-
pearance of a second plane.
LONDON, Jan. 30 (A—Austtia
asked the four-power conference
of deputy foreign ministers today
which could become a “Magna
Carta" for Austrians rather than
a burden.
Italy also presented an appeal
to the deputies, asking for a share
in the writing of the German
treaty in view of Italy’s co-be-
liggerency late in the war.
flight.
At the time of the Baptist con-
troversy, the district Baptist con- iperxnie or >1,23 a aay increase
ference in Washington took issue for a regular bus run. Formerly
with their Texas colleagues and jthe drivers were paido41 cents a
adopted a resolution assuring the mile. The new pay schedule is
president of their “earnest and—*----*-- *- T — "C
continuous prayers.”
Ross would not say whether Mr.
Truman will vacation aboard the
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Tornado Strikes
Montgomery, Ala.;
‘Several’ Injured
Sudden Twister Just
Misses Gunter Field,
Telephone Operator Says
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Jan. 30
(A)—A tornado struck the north-
ern edge of Mongomery today,
and the state highway patrol re-
ported “several persons”1 injured.
Another report, unverified, said
“three or four” white persons and
“several” Negroes had been killed
but the highway patrol said it
had no confirmation.
All ambulances, highway pa-
trol cars and police cars were
rushed to the scene just beyond
the army’s Gunther field on state
highway No. 11.
The storm missed the army
post, a telephone operator at
Gunter said, passing “just on the
edge of us.”
The twister struck only a short
distance east of the Chisholm
suburb which bore the brunt of
a tornado which killed 26 persons
in Montgomery on Feb. 12, 1945.
A telephone operator at Gunter
field, who would not give his
name, said some of the injured
had been taken to the dispensary
there, but that hospital attend-
ants were “too busy” at the time
to answer the telephone and the
condition of the storm victims was
not known.
sence, since Secretary of State
George C. Marshall is due in Mos-
cow March 10 for the four-power
foreign ministers conference.
The weather was colder today
and crisp and dry. Tomorrow it
will get even colder.
Winds that reached 70 to 105
miles per hour over the Panhan-
dle and west Texas yesterday had
subsided. “It’s a beautiful day,”
said a report from Amarillo. “No
dust. West-northwest sephyrs sev-
en miles per hour. Temperature
20 degrees. Visibility unlimited.”
Visibility was reduced from
three to five miles today along
COPENHAGEN, Jan. 30 UP)—
The Swedish warship Oscar II left
Copenhagen harbor early today
carrying the body of Prince Gus-
taf Adolf, grandson of Sweden’s
king, to his homeland for burial.
HOUSTON, Jan. 30 (A)-"The
port of Houston today claimed the
title of the nation’s largest cotton -
exporting center during 1946. The
Houston port and traffic bureau’s
office of information said the port ,
during 1946 exported 1,020,610
bales of cotton. 9 .
‘f-
birth of th
Franklin D.
pandent, Charles Burton, said
today the officers voted “to re-
turn to their unite and to ask
for the resignation of the school
head.”
The News said "the decision
to ask for Gilchrist’s resigna-
tion came in the form of a mo-
tion reported to have been
passed by a large majority in
the closed session."
Such a resolution was not men-
tioned in the statement the sen-
iors issued after the meeting. Of-
ficials of the school declined-last
night to comment on the report.
In their statement the seniors
said that they had drafted 12 pro-
posals which they felt would give
them more voice in student gov-
COLLEGE STATION, Jan. 30
(A*)—The situation created at Tex-
as A&M college by the mass res-
ignation of approximately 200 of-
ficers of the Cadet Corps appeared
headed toward clarification today.
Senior officers of the corps
voted last night to return to their
military organizations and said
they hoped to reassure their posi-
tions of authority. I
in a statement issued after a
closed meeting of the senior class
they said they would ask that
their commissions. be restored
"because we feel we owe a duty
to constituted authority to carry
out our duties as representatives
of the U. S. army. We.will carry
out the orders of the military au-
thorities of the college.”
They also expressed their ap-
preciation for the cooperation of
the military department of the
school.
By The Associated Press (
Texas’ dust storm, pushed by a
strong northwesterly wind,
drifted to the coast and out over
the Gulf of Mexico today and
some of it wound up over Missis-
sippi and Tennessee.
Skies over north and west Tex-
as were clear in sharp contrast to
the dust fogged conditions yes-
terday when visibility was re-
duced in some areas to a city
block or less.
Baylor to Get Degree
Despite Texas Baptists
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (A*)—The White House said today Pres-
ident Truman will visit Baylor university in March to receive an
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (A)’
Rep. Wright Patman (D-Tex), has
asked the navy department to co-
operate with the Lone Star_____
company in working out a plan
for joint use of the Daingerfield,
Tex., blast furnace in naval re-
ever-growing volume of service
to infantile paralysis victims.
Seientific research into
of curing or preventing infan-
I tile paralysis has been placed
on a: continuous and produc-
I tive basis.
The March of Dimes baa
made all this possible—thanks
riding, was struck by west-
bound Missouri-Kansas-Texas
passenger train No. 31 at the
South Morris street crossing
Thursday at 8:57 a. m.
Dazed Victim Says He
Was Badly Treated and
Fought Hit Way Out
JERUSALEM, Jan. 30
(AP). — British troops
swooped down on the Monte-
fiore quarter of Jerusalem
early this morning and began
a house to house search for
the kidnapers of a British
banker who stumbled into a
. clinic dazed and bleeding last
night after being held pris-
! oner for 48 hours.
, The section—an ancient Jewish
quarter outside the old city walls
—was cordoned off and several
• hundred persons were herded
into hastily i erected screening
pens for questioning. At mid-
morning, it was announced that
. six had been detained for further
i examination.
Police also cordoned off and
searched the Jewish industrial
suburb of Giva Shaul.
Details as to how the kidnaped
banker, H. A. I. .Collins, a retired
army major, regained his free-
’ dom, were not immediately dis-
, closed. Taken ; to a hospital,
where his condition was described
, this morning as “serious,” the
dazed Collins told police:
"I was badly treated and had
to fight my way out”
Reliable informants said British
orders clamping martial law on
ate passage were bills calling for
e n c y appropriations of
._______ Adjutant Gener-
al’s department; $140,423 for the
National Guard armory board; $3.-
140,000 for the blind assistance
fund, children’s assistance fund,
and the old age assistance fund,
and $75,000 from the state high-
way fund for the state highway
leges for freshmen and two weeks
advance notice of impending
changes in major regulations.
They also asked for a change
in the system of selecting faculty
panels to try students charged
with major infractions of college
rules and a senior court to try
cases of a minor nature, and that
no military officer be housed in
student dormitories. .
Other Requests Made
Other requests were for the
privilege of keeping the present
uniform if desired by a majority
vote, that seniors be given the
right to ratify cadet officers nom-
inated by college authorities, re-
moval of threats to deprive cadet
officers of advanced ROTC con-
tracts, that extra military drill
be permitted if company com-
manders deem it necessary and
early removal of all freshmen
students from the A&M college
annex at Bryan Army Air field to
the main campus.
tives reached an agreement late-
last night which averted a strike
of Texas Motor Coach drivers set
for 4 a. m. today.
The owners of the bus company
and the negotiating committee of
the Brotherhood of Railroad
at Waco, site of the Baptist uni-
versity, on his return flight from
Mexico City where he will visit
President Miguel Aleman early in
March.
Ross said the exact date for the
ceremony at Waco, where the
president is to receive the Doctor
of Laws degree, has not been de-
cided on.
Arrangements for the visit were
completed this morning when Mr.
Truman received a telegram from
Pat Neff, University president,
and former Texas governor.
Late in 1945 the Baptist general
conference of Texas adopted a
resolution urging Baylor to with-
hold the degree because of what
the resolution described as Mr.
Truman’s “reported attitude” to-
ward “gambling and drinking.”
The Rev. W. L. Shuttleworth of
Houston, Tex., chairman of the
Civic Righteousness committee,
said from the conference floor “no
Baptist school should confer a
degree” on any man who “liked”
poker and drank bourbon.
Shuttleworth said at the time
that not even the president of the
United States “could be a good
Baptist and drink his liquor. ’
The president never made any
comment, but Baylor university
announced it would confer the
degree regardless of the confer-
ence action.
sure, 30.02.
East Texas:
Partly cloudy
and colder this
afternoon and
tonight; Friday
partly cloudy,
warmer in north
and west in aft-
Government Steps
In Portal Suit,
Asks ‘Balancing’
DETROIT, Jan. 30 (A) — The
United States government, inter-
vening in the Mt. Clemens Pot-
tery Co. case, urged today that
portal pay time spent by labor be
balanced against periods of time
that employes devote to personal
pursuits during working hours.
The government’s position was
outlined a short time after at-
torneys for the CIO filed briefs
declaring the outpouring of more
than $4,000,000 in portal pay suits
resulted from a colossal gamble to
evade the wage-hour act.
John F. Sonnett, assistant at-
torney-general, told Federal
Judge Frank A. Picard, who has
been directed by the supreme
court to assess damages against
the Mt.* Clements Pottery Co.:
“Plainly, an employer is not en-
titled to deduct trifling personal-
pursuit periods during working
hours in computing the work
week under the (fair labor stand-
ards) act, and, by the same token,
the employe should not be en-
titled to the addition of trifling
periods of preliminary activy ty.”
Fire Destroys Big
Tacoma Flour Mill
TACOMA, Was., Jan. 30 (P—
A spectacular fire destroyed the
$1,000,000 Centennial flour* mill
plant on Tacoma’s waterfront to-
day, and threatened to spread to
the big Sperry flour mill nearby.
Centennial’s 225 employes left
the plant safely shortly after the
blaze started about 7:30 a. m. Two
hours later firemen gave up hope
of saving the plant, and devoted
efforts to keeping the blaze from
the Sperry mill, situated just
north Centennial.
to the generosity of the Amer-
dimes and
rate to the
er noon; lowest
—— temper a t u r e s
COLDER tonight 24-32 in
west portions, except 18-24 in ex-
Infantile Paralysis
draws to a close to-
• 65th an
of the
Subsequently Mr. Truman can-
celled a scheduled trip to Waco
because of labor-management con-
troversies which plagued the na-
tion at the time.1
Ross told reporters today that
Mr. Truman plans to go to the
Caribbean, shortly after his return
from Mexico City and Texas, to
witness Atlantic fleet maneuvers.
The President probably will be
with the fleet a couple of days,
Ross said, although plans have
not been completely worked out.
“He’s going if circumstances
permit,” Ross said. ‘There is a
tentative trip—to the Caribbean—
in view.” Ross had no information
when a reporter asked if the pres-
ident would stop at New Orleans
on his way down to Mexico City.
The secretary was inclined to be-
lieve this trip may be a non-stop
Gilchrist May Be Asked by Cadets to Resign
President Gibb Gilchrist, who
the upper coast with such cities
as Galveston, Houston and Beau-
mont reporting a dust haze. There
was a copperish tinge to the at-
mosphere as far south as Corpus
Christi.
Low temperatures of 21 degrees
were reported today at Pampa,
Amarillo and Lubbock.
In extreme west Texas, Gauda-
lupe Pass, through which wind
whipped at 105 miles per hour
yesterday, reported a low of 25
degrees.
Throughout most of Texas, the
dust storm was merely a discom-
fort—tough of the eyes, nose and
throat—but on a one-mile stretch
of the Plainview-Tulia highway
it waS a hazard that wrecked at
least 10 automobiles and injured
at least three persons. A 60-mile
wind, blowing off a freshly
ploughed wheat field, reduced
visibility in this area to zero. A
highway patrolman said he
couldn’t see the hand in front of
hislface. He got out of his car, he
said, and could not see the
ground.
Visibility at Fort Worth was
cut to one and one-half miles
during the 12-hour storm but a
report from that city today said
“only the dusty odor remains.”
Dust was still visible at Austin.
Low temperatures over the
state today included: El Paso, 32
degrees; Gainesville, 32; Wichita
Falls, 30; Abilene, 36; Big Spring
34; San Angelo, 38; Wink. 33;
Waco, 46; Austin 51; San Antonio,
51; Corpus Christi, 61; Browns-
ville, 66; Galveston, 61; Beau-
mont, 61; Houston, 57; Laredo,
59; Tyler, 43, and Texarkana, 44.
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mat Gan had been rescinded early
today. The British had issued an
ultimatum that martial law would
be invoked if Collins were not
released by 5 p. m. yesterday. He
did not gain his freedom until
some five hours later.
Police banned all interviews
with Collins and even limited of-
ficial interrogations to brief pe-
riods.
Both Britons Released
Hewas the second abducted
Briton to regain his freedom in
24 hours. Judge Ralph Windham,
seized from his courtroom in Tel
Aviv Monday, ■< was freed un-
harmed Tuesday night.
Both men apparently were kid-
naped to guarantee the safety of
Dov Bela Gruner, a 33-year-old
Jew, convicted for his part in the
attack on a Palestine police sta-
tion and sentenced to hang. The
sentence has been stayed to per-
mit an appeal to the privy coun-
cil, Britain’s suprere court.
Collins was chloroformed and
batted on the head with an axe
handle Sunday night when under-
ground members spirited him
away from his home. His head
still was bandaged when he re-
gained his freedom lat night.
FORT WORTH LIVESTOCK
FORT WORTH, Jan. 30 (A)—
Cattle, 1,300; calves, 700; steady
on most classes; cows slow and
steady to weak; Good red steers
and yearlings $18 to $22; common
to medium kinds $12. to $17; me-
dium to good fatcows $11 to $13;
cutter and common cows $9.50 to
$11; bulls $9 to $13.50; good and
choice fat calves $16 to $18; com-
mon to medium $10.50 to $16;
stocker and feeder calves and
yearlings $13 to $17; stocker cows
$9 to $10.50.
Hogs, x 1,100; fairly active;
butcher hogs steady to 25 cents
higher- sowseand pigs steady; top
$24 paid for good and choice 180-
300-pound butchers; good and
choice 325-450 pounds $22.50 to
$23.75; good and choice 150-175
pounds $22-to $23.75; sows $19
to $20; stocker pigs $13 to $18.
Sheep, 2,200; trade slow; bids
and sales on shorn lambs 50 cents
to $1 lower; feeder lambs weak:
other classes scarce; medium ana
good wooled lambs $19 to $21;
good shorn lambs with No. 1 pelts
$19; common and medium year-
lings $13 to $15.50; medium and
good feeder lambs $15 td $18.
Escaped Convict
Caught at Sandia
VICTORIA, Tex., Jan. 30 (P--
Sheriff W. F. Crawford an-
nounced last night that Tiburcio
Dean da, 26, who fled from a hos-
pital here Sunday five days after
{a major abdominal operation to
escape transfer to the state peni-
tentiary was captured at Sandia,
Jim Wells county.
Deanda, under a two-year sen-
tence on a conviction of passing
worthless checks, was rearrested
by Victoria Deputy Sheriff Loren-
zo Garcia.
This quantity would be divided
among individual consumers and
industrial users. Last year indi- nance ---r--------- -----—
viduals got ration allowances of the emergency state pay raise bill
25 pounds. The rest went to in- for senate passage after cutting
dustrial users, such as candy mak- proposed pay boosts from w per.
ers, soft drink bottlers and bak- cent 15 percent for portions of
ers. state salaries up to $3,600, cutting
The American request has been proposed 15 percent rajses to
laid before the international food percent .onsalary eportions
emergency council, an inter-gov- . tween 23,600 and 0-ig
ernmental agency which recom- Salaries, whichwould.be..a-
■ ■ fected include those of the Judi-
c i a r y, educational institution*,
eleemosynary institution* and de-
partments of the state for the re-
maider of the fiscal year.
Also getting the finance com-
mittee’s recommendations for sen-
returned late» yesterday from a
trip to Houston, conferred with
a group df seniors, including Bill
McCormick, president of the class;
Cadet Col. Ed Brandt of Houston,
and his executive officer, Allen
Self of San Antonio.
President Gilchrist made no
comment after the conference.
The committee made a report at
the closed meeting.
Attendance at classes was nor-
mal yesterday.
Officers of three military com-
panies made up of war veterans
did not resign. One of these com-
panies is made up of married
veterans who do not live in dor-
mitories. The two veterans’ com-
panies quartered in the military
the disputed governorship --of
Georgia. 1
The bill would strip Georgia ‛s
attorney general of his power to
inquire into activities of public
officials, and would force him to
accept assistants named by the
governor and confirmed by the
senate.
The target is Attorney General
Eugene Cook, who has refused to
recognize Talmadge as governor,
and who is representing Tal-
madge’s rival, Lieut-Gov. M. E.
Thompson, in court action R> un-
seat him. Cook recently rejected
two assistants nominated by Tal-
madge, and accepted four others
nominated by Thompson.
Atomic Agreement
is Believed Ready
LAKE SUCCESS, N Y., Jan 30
UP)—The United States was be-
lieved ready today to agree condi-
tionally that the United Nations
Security council consider simul-
taneously international -atom i c
control and world disarmament. .
This appeared to be the deciston
reached by Warren R. Austin, the
American representative to the
United Nations, in talks with Sec-
retary of State George C. Mar-
shall.
Fresh from the Washington
talks, Austin began private con-
sultations today with members of
the security council in an effort
to break the deadlock on priori-
ties in the international disarma-
ment discussions, which wili be
resumed next Tuesday by the 11-
nation peace-keeping body.
ernment and hoped college offi-
cials would act favorably on
them. 1 . 2
£ The proposals included a re-
quest that cadet officers be
FORT WORTH? Jan. 30 (P) — patrol.
Company and union represents- ------------
Talmadge Leaders
Seek Legislation
ATLANTA, Jan. 30 (A—Tal-
madge leaders istroduced in the
Georgia legislature today -their
first punitive legislation aimed at
quelling official opposition to
claims of Herman Talmadge to
Injured Father
Saves Two Persons
BAYCITY, Tex., Jan. 30 (P)—
An injured father whose heroic
efforts probably saved the lives of
two persons today mourned the
loss of his only child after a pleas-
ure ride Tuesday night ended in
tragedy
The father was P. V. Dueros,
whose two and-one-hlf-year-old
son. Earnest, died early yesterday
of burns and injuries received in
the autpmobile accident.
Injured in the crash and fire
that followed were in addition to
Dueros were his wife and Orville
Lea Crayor of Trinity, both of
whom he pulled from the flaming
wreckage.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (A—-
A pair of stalwart southern
Democrats found themselves
listed as Republicans today on
the official roll call forms of
the new house of representa-
tives. ;
They are Tom Pickett of Tex-
as and John S. Wood of Geor-
gia, whose names appear in
Roman type—reserved for the
majority party. Democrats now
get italic type.
The error was discovered
during yesterday’s roll call on
the excise tax freeze.
presidential yacht Williamsburg
after witnessing the fleet maneu-
vers.
A possibility arose that Secre-
tary of the Treasury John W.
Snyder would be the ranking ex-
Up to Landlord
To Prove Need of
High Rent—Tobey
No Explanation Made
In Wednesday Mixup
Quashing OPA Order
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (A)_
Senator Tobey (R-N.H.) today
opened a senate inquiry into rents
with an assertion that it “rests
squarely upon the landlord” to
prove any need for higher rent
ceilings.
Tobey is chairman of the senate
banking committee making the
investigation There was no im-
mediate explanation of yester-
day’s mixup in which an OPA
order proposing to boost ceilings
1 per cent was quashed by the
White House before it could be
issued.
The committee originally was
scheduled to hear government
witnesses today but Tobey said
none would be present. This post-
poned the appearance of James
W Follin. deputy administrator
of the Office of Temporary Con-
trols. who had been expected to
explain the mystery of the short-
lived rent increase order.
“We believe the average
.American wants to play fairly,”
Tobey said in a statement.
“If the landlord is being dis-
eriminated against, if he Is not
getting a fair return on his in-
vestment, the American people
will want to do something about
it, but the American people
want to be shown.
"The burden of proving that
rent control should be abolished
is • placed squarely upon the
landiord."
One high official meanwhile
explained* yesterday’s snarl over
the proposed rent order as sim-
ply a government agency "mix-
up ” .
ihundred yards east: from the
crossing along the tracks, and
Chief of Police Lewis Theobald
theorized the driver may have
been blinded by the sun at the
time of the accident. He was
driving south.
The passenger train was stopped
before it reached the Taylor street
crossing and backed up to the
scene of the collision. W. C. Kel-
ley was conductor. The name of
the engineer was not available.
i
when it received a 6-0 favorable
vote of the senate committee on
commerce and manufacturing rec-
ommending it for senate passage.
n IT 0 ' TIL * 17 The one-sided vote followed a
nV I N I hK YAAr spirited public hearing in which
HJ •• •• 11110 1 --- name-calling, charges and coun-
WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (P_ ter-charges werefired.for.three
The United States has asked for hours bylargemerchantshpuse
sufficient sugar from this year’s wives and legislators,
world supply to allow an average the senate chamber.
of 95.1 pounds per person Con- The bill would make it unlaw-
sumption last year averaged about ful for retailers to selr for prices
73 pounds. below minimum prices fixed by
the seller.
CIUDAD TRUJILLO, Domini-
can Republic, Jan. 30 (P) — The
University of Santo Domingo, the
western hemisphere’s oldest uni-
versity, conferred an honorary
doctor of laws degree yesterday
upon Trygve Lie, general secre-
tary of the United Nations.
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1947 TRAFFIC TOLL
IN COOKE COUNTY
Deaths ____________ 0
Injured_____ ____________ 3
Number of Accidents .... 10
Damage Inflicted_____$1,765
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