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Says Colombia Revolt
Pattern Is Due in U. S,
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UNSCHEDULED JOURNEY—Ronnie Weetier, 10, (seated) and
Jerry Nall, 8, of Des Moines, Iowa, were very tired and hungry lads
when brought to the police station in Rock Island, Ill., after being
found in a gondola-type railroad car. The lads had gone to sleep
in the car and during the night a Rock* Island lines train attached
the car and the lads woke up next day on a siding in Rock Island.
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STATUTE MILES
TWO PERISHED IN FLAMING WRECKAGE OF TRAIN —
Sgt. Earl Hoover, of the Enid, Okla., police force, inspects the inside
of one of two passenger cars which burned when the Rock Island’s
Rocket jumped the track near Enid. Two persons died in this car.
Forty-two persons were injured. (AP Wirephoto).
LUBBOCK, April 16 (A)—Cur-
tailed farming operations in a
large area near Lubbock is threat-
ened by a shortage of tractor and
irriguation pump fuel, two Texas
legislators declared.
State Senator Sterling J. Par-
rish and State Rep. Preston E.
Smith yesterday wired the at-
torney general’s office and the
state railroad commission asking
aid in the situation.
They said an area of 30.000
acres of land cultivated in the last
three months in the Ropesville
area has been hardest hit.
The two legislators made a sur-
vey of the area and said it showed
farmers have been having diffi-
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BOYCE HOUSE
US Funds Assured
By JOSEPH E. DYMAN
PARIS, April 16 (AP)—Sixteen nations and Germany’s western
zones unanimously adopted today a convention binding themselves
into a permanent European organization of economic cooperation.
The nations are those taking part in the European Recovery pro-
gram (ERP), or Marshall plan. The organization is to assure effi-
cient use of the $5,300,000,000 the United States has pledged in the
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background of the destructive Bo-
gota uprising — particularly to
learn whether this country’s Cen-
tral Intelligence agency (CIA)
had warned Marshall there might
be trouble in the Colombian cap-
ital.
Yesterday’s hearing brought
evidence of a number of such
warnings. Afterwards the State
department volunteered that it
had been fully aware of the situa-
tion itself and that Marshall had
commented "saltily" the Ameri-
can republics were not going to
be intimidated by Communists or
anybody else.
Trouble Ahead Admitted
But the thing that stood out in
sharpest focus was the double
admonition in congress that trou-
ble may be ahead in this coun-
try.
First Rear Adm. R. H. Hillen-
koetter, head of the CIA, told
Brown’s committee that “condi-
tions in Colombia are similar to
those in the United States except
that they are advanced a couple
of years.”
Hillenkoetter said Jorge Gaitan,
the Colombian liberal leader
whose assassination touched off
■the revolution, was a figure “like
Henry Wallace in our country”—
a man who played along “with
the extreme left and the Commu-
nists.”
Centennial-1948
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whether Lewis and the UMW are
guilty of failing to heed a court
order of April 5 to end the 29-day
soft coal walkout.
Tried on similar charges in
1946, Lewis was fined $10,000 and
the UMW paid $700,000.
250,000 Return to Pits
The walkout, by which miners
enforced their demands for $100-
a-month pensions, ended last
Monday. An estimated 250,000
miners have returned to the pits,
the number growing from day to
day.
On the fourth day after the set-
tlement, however, more than one-
third of the UMW members still
refused to return to their jobs.
Thousands of these were in the
old-strike-hardened Pennsylvania
soft coal region, where the UMW
has fought many of its bitterest
battles.
Only about 44,000 of Pennsyl-
vania’s 96,000 soft coal diggers
were at work. Most of the others
had gone to their union meetings
and voted to postpone their re-
turn “until after we learn what
the court does about Uncle John.”
Fuel Need Acute
A large portion of the “cap-
tive” mines, on which big and lit-
tle steel lean heavily, remained
idle despite the industry’s desper-
ate need of fuel.
None of Utah’s more than 4,300
miners re-entered the pits.
Ohio has 16,000 soft coal diggers
but Adolph Pacifico, UMW dis-
trict president, said his latest in-
formation was that only 700 to
800 of them had returned.
In West Virginia, only one
union local reported voting
against the return but 20,000 of
the 120,000 miners failed to show
up at their mines.
At least 7,000 were idle in Ala-
bama, 2,000 in Southwest Vir-
ginia, 1,500 to 2,000 in Indiana,
and 1,100 in Colorado.
mers, Ed Seiwell, J. W. Clack,
Claude Roach and Dr. Blagg.
The meeting will continue
through Sunday and plans will
be discussed for the coming na-
tional legion convention.
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American Legion post plan to at-
tend the district American Legion
meeting in Denton Saturday and
Sunday, Dr. Robert O. Blagg, post
commander, announced. Those
planning to attend the meeting
from Gainesville are Dan Chal-
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By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL
WASHINGTON, April 16 (AP)—
An open warning and a guarded
hint that Colombia’s blood-spat-
tered revolt pattern may be used
in the United States spurred a
congressional committee today to
dig deeper for facts.
For one thing, the lawmakers
want a complete explanation of
why the State department went
ahead with the Pan American
conference at Bogota despite defi-
nite word that the Communists
were plotting trouble there.
The department itself said Sec-
r e t a r y Marshall scornfully re-
jected any notion that “a hand-
ful of Communists” could intimi-
date the American republics.
Brown Asks Questions
But Rep. Clarence J. Brown,
(R-Ohio) saw the situation in a
different light.
“Why,” he asked, “did they
(department officials) go blindly
into this conference knowing
there might be trouble? Why did
they permit themselves and the
country to be put in a ticklish
position?”
Brown said he wants the ans-
we'sheefmase questions and will
try tOget them at hearings to be
set later.
He is the chairman of a house
committee set up to look into the
Wife of James
Roosevelt Made
III by Tablets
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., April
16 (AP)—Mrs. James Roosevelt was
taken from her home to Beverly
Hills emergency hospital today
suffering from an overdose of
sleeping tablets, the Beverly Hills
police reported.
Sgt. Byron Kilgore said Roose-
velt, Democratic state chairman
of California and elder son of the
late President Franklin D. Roose-
velt, called the police and accom-
panied his wife to the emergency
hospital.
Mrs. Roosevelt, 32, was given
emergency treatment, then was
removed to St. John’s hospital in
nearby Santa Monica. •
The police said Roosevelt told
them his wife, the former Ro-
melle Theresa Schneider, a native
of Independence, Wis., had been
suffering from insomnia since the
birth of their third child three
months ago.
The baby, a daughter named
Anna Eleanor, was born Jan. 10.
The Roosevelts also have two
sons, James, two and Michael, 16
months. Mrs. Roosevelt, who was
a nurse, cared for Roosevelt when
he was- ill at the Mayo clinic,
Rochester, Minn., then came to
California with him during his
convalescence. They were mar-
ried in 1941.
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Make Life Dangerous
For Sooner ’Loggers
OKLAHOMA CITY, April 16
(AP)—Bootleggers in this pro-
hibition state of Oklahoma have
have their little tiffs with the
law—but for real thrills you
must study their home life.
Wednesday deputy sheriffs
said one was shot in the mid-
riff by his wife-—who explained
she was aiming at a blonde who
had her arms around him.
Last night police reported
another bootlegger was winged
in the leg by his sister. She
told officers she fired for ef-
fect when brother raised a fuss
at home.
Both women used .22’s for the
work, and doctors said the men-
folk will be on their feet again
soon as the wounds were slight.
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By MAX HARRELSON
NEW YORK, April 16 (A)— The
second special Palestine session
of the United Nations assembly
was opened today with a renewed
appeal for a Jewish-Arab truce
in the Holy Land.
An immediate cease-fire was
demanded by Joao Carlos Muniz
of Brazil, who presided, over the
57-nation assembly in the absence
of its Brazilian retiring president,
Dr. Oswaldo Aranha.
In a somber speech recognizing
a possibility of U. N. failure to
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Completed in Week
TULSA, Okla., April 16 (P)—
Forty-one wells were completed
in Oklahoma last week for an
initial flow of 5,672 barrels a day.
One gas well was brought in.
Its initial flow was 7,000,000 cubic
feet of gasdaily.
Twenty-eight wells were found
dry' and abandoned. Total foot-
age drilled on both oil and gas
wells was 230,458 feet.
The Tulsa Daily World will re-
port on its editions tomorrow
that 77 new wells were started
over the state during the week.
Cotton county led the list with 12
and Stephens county was second
with 10. Six were begun in Ok-
mulgee county and five in Okla-
homa county.
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.PITTSBURGH, April (P)—One-third of the nation’s 400,000
soft coal miners today grimly maintained their protest strike pend,
mg the federal court’s verdict on John L. Lewis.
‘ The trial of the United Mine Workers chieftain on charges of
contempt ended yesterday, except for the final judgment.
• Monday morning Judge Alan T.
Goldborough will announce
Wainwright Heads
MacArthur Campaign
SAN ANTONIO, April 16 (A)—
Supporters here today launched
a campaign for Gen. Douglas
MacArthur for president, with
organization of a San Antonio
club.
Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright,
U. S. A., returned, yesterday ac-
cepted Texas chairmanship of the
veterans-for-MacArthun division
of the MacArthur for president
clubs.
The movement was christened
with a dinner addressed by War-
ren E. Wright, Chicago, national
coordinator of the MacArthur
clubs, and by J. E. McDonald,
veteran Texas commissioner of
agriculture, here last night.
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Traffic Safety
AUSTIN, Tex., April 16 (AP) —
Second-place honors in the
southern group of the National
Traffic Safety contest for 1947
went to Texas, the National Safe-
ty council informed Gov. Beau-
ford H. Jester yesterday.
Texas competed with 14 other
states. It was first in 1942, 1945,
and 1946, second in 1938 and 1941,
and third in 1939.
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of such fuel available was con-
sidered negligible in comparison
with needs as the main planting
season arrived.
The newspaper said a survey of
major dealers in Lubbock and the
immediate area substantiated
complaints by farmers that "no
new customers” were being
added. It said most dealers said
there was no cause for undue
alarm.
Practically all major dealers as
well as independents agreed their
present supplies were now being
taken by old customers and that
new customers were added usual-
ly when an old buyer dropped off
the list.
Residents Leaving
River Flood Areas
CINCINNATI, April 16 (A)—
Hundreds of Ohio, Kentucky and
Indiana residents scrambled to
higher ground today as the crest
of the flooded Ohio river rolled
past West Virginia on its way to
the Mississippi.
Damage fears faded. Drier
weather—drizzles in place of
downpours and sunny skies in-
stead of showers—apparently had
robbed the swollen stream of the
record depth and destruction
feared by rivermen.
No more than nominal damage
was recorded at cities already be-
hind. the peak of the flood.
Farther downstream, where the
muddy flood waters crept into
lowlands, the bustle of evacuation
hit peaks. More than 1,000 per-
sons in the Louisville, Ky., area,
including New Albany and Jeffer-
sonville, Ind., across the river,
sought temporary quarters. City
crews worked throughout the
night in Louisville.
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Extension of Farm
Price Supports Voted
WASHINGTON, April 16 (A)_
The house agriculture committee
voted unanimiously today to ex-
tend government farm price sup-
ports to June 30, 1950. The leg-
islation now goes to the house
floor for action.
Generally, farm commodities
now are selling at prices above
support levels.
The bill would reduce the sup-
port of cotton from 92.5 per cent
of parity to 90 per cent of parity.
(Parity is an artificial price base
designed to give farmers a pur-
chasing power equay to that in
some previous favorable period,
•usually 1909-1914.)
There is such a thing as over-
selling, being entirely too per-
suasive. Like Jenks, the sign-
painter. A man was opening up
a fish market and he asked Jenks
to paint a sign reading, “Fresh
Fish For .Sale Today.” The paint-
er said. “Don’t you think that
folks would figure it was today
and not yesterday?” The man
agreed, so “Today” was struck off
the slip. Jenks continued, “Any-
body would figure it was here
and not somewhere else, wouldn’t
they?” So “Here” was eliminated.
“Nobody would think you were
going to give fish awav, would
they?” he persisted, so “For Sale”
was deleted. “Everybody would
assume that the fish was fresh,
wouldn’t - they?” he asked. So
“Fresh” was stricken off—leav-
ing the single Word, “Fish” to be
painted on the sign. Then the
owner said, “they can smell the
fish so I don’t believe I need a
sign at all.”
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PALESTINE—This map locates
Mishmar Haemak (a) in northern
Palestine where Arab league
headquarters in Cairo said an
Arab army was reported sur-
rounded by 12,000 Jewish fight-
ers. Jews have been fighting an
Arab force there for more than a
week. Haganah, Jewish militia,
announced it had captured the Tel
Litwinsky camp near Tel Aviv
after a house-to-house battle.
(AP Wirephoto map)
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Committeemen
Not Democrats
AUSTIN, April 16 (A) — The
majority of the state democratic
executive committee are not
Democrats, says Joe T. Stead-
ham, state representative of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Train-
man.
The Fort Worth barbecue spon-
sored by the committee April 20
will be attended largely by
“white-washed Republicans” who
want to obstruct the nomination
of a “real Democrat” for presi-
dent, Steadham said.
In a prepared statement issued
here yesterday, the labor leader
added:
“The ‘Armadillo Democrats’
want an uninstructed delega-
tion in order that, they may be
in a position for a hand-picked
steering committee at Philadel-
phia to peddle the 46 votes
from Texas to the highest bid-
der.”
Failure of the executive com-
mittee to stage a Jackson day din-
ner to raise funds for the National
Democratic party, “demonstrated
beyond any reasonable doubt that
the majoritv of the state commit-
tee are not Democrats,” Steadham
wrote.
Backers of the Fort Worth bar-
becue have announced program
plans for the $5,top eat and talk
The speakers will be Gover-
nor Beauford H. Jester, executive
committee chairman Robert W.
Calvert of Hillsboro, vice-chair-
man Mrs. R. A. Thompson of .Gol-
iad, young Democratic president
Jimmie Brinkley of Houston.
The show starts with a band
concert at 5:30 p. m. Jester will
speak at 9:30 p. m. His talk will,
be broadcast over a statewide net-
work.
Funds raised will be divided
between the executive committee,
the Young Democrats, and the
state organization of County
Chairmen.
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By SPENCER, DAVIS
MANILA, April 16 (AP) — The
flag draped body of Manuel Roxas
was brought back today to this
sorrowing capital of the young
Philippines republic he served as
president.
The capital, stunned by the 56
year old Roxas’ unexpected death
from a heart attack at Clark field
last night, awaited the arrival of
his successor, Vice President El-
pidio Quirino, 57.
Quirino, himself ailing and un-
der a physician’s care for high
blood pressure, was expected to
return by tomorrow morning after
breaking off a tour of the central
Philippines.
Quirino by radio called a ses-
sion of the council of state, which
consists of cabinet members, for-
mer President Sergio Osmena and
former Justice Jose Yulo. He
asked it meet as soon as he ar-
rives.
Thousands of Filipinos thronged
the depot when the funeral train
arrived from Clark field, U. S. air
base 50 miles northwest of Manila.
The crowd gasped at the
sight of the train—a locomotive
pulling several empty freight
cars,' a gasoline tank car, two
third-class carriages containing
the presidential guards, and
Roxas’ air conditioned first
class coach.
The body lay in state at Mala-
canan palace, which was closed
Izmit, Turkey, was formerly
I known as Nicomedia.
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FORT WORTH, April 16 (P)—
Cattle, 400; calves, 100; ready
clearance at fully steady prices;
few lots medium to good beef
steers and yearlings $23 to $28;
one choice yearling heifer $30.50;
beef cows $17.50 to $22.50; most
canners and cutters $12 to $17;
sausage bulls $16 to $22; good
and choice fat calves $25 to $29;
plain and medium calves $18 to
$25; culls $17.99 down; scattered
lots of stockers yearlings and
calves $22 to$ 27; few stocker
coWS $17 to $20.
Hogs, 400; butchers steady to
weak; sows and pigs unchanged;
top $21.50; good and choice 180
to 260 pounds $21.15 to mostly
>21.50; good around 275-pound
butchers downward to $17; sows
mostly $15 to $15.50; few to $16;
good 100 to 135-pound stocker
pios $15.50 to $17.
Sheep, 2,200; killing classes
steady; feeders scarce; . medium
to choice shorn lambs with No 2
pelts $21.50 to $22; cull shorn
lambs downardto $11; good shorn
ewes $12; cull and common shorn
ewes $6 to $8.
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young republic heart attack vic-
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to all but members of the family,
the cabinet and close friends.
Government and commercial
radio stations were asked to elimi-
nate dance music. Business
houses opened. So did the stock
exchange, but there was little
trading. Everyone awaited an-
nouncement of the mourning pe-
riod.
Quirino is strongly pro-Ameri-
can, as was Roxas.
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Weather: Fair
Temperatures: High yesterday,
78; low last night, 50; noon today,
77; high for year, 94; low for
year, 9; barometric pressure,
30.02.
East Texas: Fair this afternoon,
tonight and Saturday. Warmer in
east and south portions tonight.
Moderate southeast winds on
coast.
West Texas: Fair this afternoon,
tonight and Saturday. Not much
change in temperatures.
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eulty getting gasoline for the past
several weeks. They said there
was an even more critical short-
age of fuel in prospect.
Smith and Parrish said part of
the difficulty was allocation or-
ders to bulk dealers and what
they were told as a “no new cus-
tomers rule” by major companies
over the south plains.
The legislators said some
fanners had voiced the possi-
bility of having to buy “gray
market” gasoline.
“Gray market” gasoline was
described as retailing at higher
prices than prevailing market
quotations. The Lubbock Ava-
lanche Journal said the amount
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Picnic Weather Is
Hanging on in Texas
By The Associated Press
Perfect - for - picnics weather
hung on in Texas today.
Skies were clear throughout the
state and the mercury continued
a slow climb which the forecast
said would produce weekend tem-
peratures six to eight degrees
above normal.
Big Spring had the state’s cool-
est weather overnight, with a low
of 41. Presidio, the hottest spot
yesterday with a top of 96, kept
its place overnight with a min-
imum of 61.
The cool wave lingered on the
coast. Galveston had a high of 71
yesterday.
No rain fell in the state from
6:30 a. m. yesterday to the same
hour this morning.
program.
The 28-article, 3,000-word con-
vention was adopted and signed
at a conference of foreign minis-
ters and others in the French for-
eign misitry.
“A strong and prosperous
European economy," says the
preamble, “will contribute to
the maintenance of peace.”
The chairman, British Foreign
Secretary Ernest Bevin, put the
charter to the delegates at 12:25
p. m. there were no objectives;
so he declared it adopted official-
ly.
Thanks to America
Before the morning meeting
adjourned, the conference unan-
imously adopted a resolution to
send thanks to the U. S. for its
“generous response in assisting
Europe in its present critical
state.” This was proposed by Irish
Foreign Minister Sean MacBride.
The delegates approved Bevin’s
suggestion that they reassemble
in a closed meeting at 5 p. m.
(10 a. m. CST). Their deputies
are to meet 45 minutes earlier to
prepare this afternoon’s agenda.
This will include choosing a
secretary* general, two assistant-
ants and other officers and select-
ing a permanent headquarters for
the organization.
The document names these
contracting powers: Austria, Bel-
gium, Britain, Denmark, France,
Greece, Eire, Iceland, Italy, Lux-
embourg, Norway, The Nether-
lands, Portugal, Sweden, Switzer-
land, Turkey and the French,
British and American zones of
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Ships Show Up at
Cristobal Harbor
BALBOA, C. Z., April 16 (A)—
Lt. Gen. Willis Crittenberger,
commander of U. S. armed forces
in the Caribbean, said today five
small Russian ships had arrived
unannounced at Cristobal harbor
in need of repairs.
The vessels, described as fish-
ing craft, were believed en route
from Leningrad to Vladivostok.
The repair work will be done
outside the port and the ships
will not come alongside the docks.
Crittenberger said this would
prevent them from cluttering up
harbor facilities. Usually, ships
which put in at Cristobal for re-
pairs are berthed at the docks.
When asked whether this was
the first instance wherein such
precautions were taken, Critten-
berger replied:
“We take precautions always.”
The vessels arrived Wednesday
morning. Well-informed sources
said Panama canal authorities
and an intelligence official
boarded them that afternoon.
They have been under' surveil-
lance from launches, these sources
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on1 their economic feet as quick-
ly as possible in order to be able
eventually to dispense “with any
foreign aid of an exceptional
character.”
They promise to “augment
their production, develop and
modernize their industrial and
agricultural equipment, increase
their exchanges, reduce progres-
sively barriers to mutual trade,
encourage full employment of
their manpower.”
They recognize “the generous
intentions of the American peo-
ple” in supplying the dollars with
which they hope to meet their
goals.
In article one, the nations “as-
sign themselves as their immedi-
ate task the setting up and ex-
ecution of a common recovery
program.” To this end they "here-
py institute a European organi-
zation of economic cooperation.”
They pledge themselves to bet-
ter use of “the resources at their
disposal in their homelands and
in their overseas territories.”
They will set up within the
framework of the organization
“programs of production and of
the exchanage of goods and serv-
ices,” the charter says.
They will seek, it adds, to abol-
ish restrictions “on their ex-
changes and on their reciprocal
payments.”
The charter specifies they
“shall be able to call upon the
manpower available in the terri-
tory of every other contracting
party,” since, for example, Italy
has a labor surplus and France
a shortage.
They provide for “organs of
inspection and supervision” to be
sure American aid and their own
resources are used efficiently.
They agree to “furnish the
United States government ap-
propriate assistance and informa-
tion relative to the European re-
covery program, and to make rec-
ommendations to it.”
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solve the Palestine problem,
! Muniz said:
“Only the total suspension of
hostilities can create the fa-
vorable atmosphere which will
enable the assembly to find a
solution capable of conciliating
the existing antagonism
through a broad formula of co-
operation.”
The session opened in what
Muniz called “a disheartening at-
mosphere” caused in part by the
fading chances for a Jewish-Arab
acceptance of the truce formula
now awaiting action in the secur-
ity council.
As the assembly opened the
flags of the 57 nations were fly-
ing outside at half-staff in mourn-
ing for President Manuel A. Rox-
as of the Philippines, who died
yesterday.
The security council continued
its labors on the truce problem as
assembly delegations moved on to
the meeting at Flushing Meadow
park.
The council meets at 9 o’clock
tonight at Lake Success to act on
an American-sponsored cease-
fire program which also called for
a political standstill in Palestine.
The special assembly was called
to re-consider the partition plan
adopted at the regular assembly
session last Nov. 29. No alternate
plan has yet been submitted for
consideration, but the United
States has announced it will press
for a temporary U. N. trusteeship.
Today’s program is expected to
be devoted entirely to the elec-
tion of officers and organization
of committees. This would open
I the way for the start of general
debate either Saturday or Mon-
day. The only formal document
before the delegates as the ses-
sion opened was a special report
of the five-member U. N. Pales-
tine partition commission. This
called on the assembly to consid-
er a number of urgent measures,
including sending troops to the
Holy Land to restore order.
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Economic Cooperation
Pledged by 17 Nations
Efficient Use of
, Army Building
Up Garrison in
Alaskan Outpost
By ELTON C. FAY
WASHINGTON, April 16 (TP)—
The army, without a single com-
bat foot soldier in Alaska today,
is borrowing from its mobile re-
serve to build up the garrison in
that northern outpost next door
to Russia.
Anti-aircraft and other ground
combat units from the west coast
and Hawaii will leave for Alaska
shortly “to undergo summer
training in conjunction with air
units,” the army said.
The effect of this “summer
training” will be to bolster the
present 7,000-man force now there
pending action in congress on the
. * proposal of Gen. Omar Bradley,
army chief of staff, to expand the
permanent garrison to 15,000.
The number of troops to be
■ , borrowed from the Hawaiian
command and from the 2nd Di-
vision at Ft. Lewis, Wash., was
not disclosed. The army an-
nouncement last night said only
that they would establish a “bal-
ance” between air and ground
forces in Alaska.
Not Combat Troops
In announcing the training as-
signment, the army statement
commented that “at present about
60 per cent of the garrison is air
and the remainder army service
troops.” Service troops are per-
sonnel whose job is to maintain
installations, handle supplies,
load and unload cargo at ports—
but not to fight.
Meanwhile, both the air force
and the Alaskan army command
- denied reports of strange doings
in the territory. These reports in-
cluded an assertion by Rep. Mar-
garet Chase Smith (R-Me) that
Russain planes had “violated”
, Alaska by fiving across the bor-
ders and a Ketchikan newspaper
story that a B-29 which crashed
near Nome last December had
been hit by a Russian shell before
it crashed.
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