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Cold War Phony Peace
Over, Diplomats Decide
Chrysler, CIO to
Reopen Confab on
13-Day Old Strike
Remember When Joe
Palooka Was About To
Marry Ann Howe?
Follow this much-discussed
episode in the comic section of
United Nations Security Council Informed
Jews Will Stop Fighting If Arabs Will, But
Truce Deadline Passes Without Definite Action
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HEROES OR HAIRBRUSH—The law didn’t know quite what
to do with these two fifth-grade aviators who swiped a plane, flew
it 120 miles, and made a perfect landing with only comic books for
instructions. The little Wrong-Way Corrigans react differently to
acclaim. Camera-shy Jimmy Bodard, 11, ducks behind his mother,
while 12-year-old Ronnie Peterson makes with the Wild Blue Yonder
book. Jimmy did most of the flying, with Ronnie sort of holding
down the co-pilot seat. (AP Wirephoto).______________________
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Bradley because “he was not a
Texas Regular—he was off at
the war during that time.”
ACCIDENTS KILL 117
AUSTIN, May 24 (AP) — Traffic
accidents killed 117 persons in
Texas last month. That raised the
1948 death toll to 569. The month-
ly report of the Texas Depart-
ment Safety showed 587 persons
had been killed by the end of
April a year ago.
WASHINGTON, May 24 (A)—
An unfair labor practice com-
plaint was issued today against
John L. Lewis and the United
Mine Workers for alleged re-
fusal to bargain with the South-
ern Coal Producers association.
The action was taken by Robert
N; Denham, general counsel of the
National Labor Relations board,
as the result of charges filed by
Joseph E. Moody, president of the
Southern association.
Lewis and the UMW objected
last week to letting Moody take
part in the talks on a new coft
coal contract.
Bill Morris can tell you about
Gid Morgan. Bill is a highly
truthful man and he has been a
driller for maybe close to forty
years. He does not claim that he
personally knew Morgan but Bill
did have an uncle who knew the
marvelous driller.
In fact, Gid once told Bill’s
uncle about his plan for making
a million dollars.
“Everybody,” Gid said, “wants
a front room in a hotel—so I’m
gonna build a hotel on a railroad
turntable.”
He did, too, and give each guest
a front room but cranked the
hotel around during the night and
the ones who had gone to bed
early were astonished next morn-
ing to find themselves looking out
into the back alley.
TASS EMPLOYE—Miss Euph-
emia (Mickey) Virden, 22, poses
outside the Washington office of
Tass, official Soviet News agency,
where she is employed as a tele-
typist. Her father, John C. Virden,
Cleveland industrialist, has ten-
dered his resignation as head of
the Commerce department’s office
of industry coeperation. He terms
himself “almost violently anti-
athiest-Marxist" and considers his
daughter as “simply being ex-
ploited.” Miss Virden is a grad-
uate of two exclusive women’s
schools. (AP Wirephoto).
down to the point where we
won’t go bankrupt,” the Geor-
gia senator declared.
“Unless we change the trend
we are in now,” George said,
“we are heading for expendi-
tures that may reach 48 or 50
billion dollars in calendar year
1949. We are heading for a def-
icit and increased taxes and I
don’t think the country can
stand it.”
George said he hasn’t decided
yet who the one-term candidate
should be.
The Georgian indicated he may
not go along with one proposed
southern move to put the name of
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower be-
fore the Democratic convention.
Some southerners still think
they can nominate Eisenhower at
the democratic convention.
This possibility—remote as it
seems to most politicians — was
reported to have been given se-
rious study by some of the back-
ers of Senator Robert A. Taft in
his bid for the Republican presi-
dential nomination.
In this connection, the Taft
camp was credited with spurring
the latest move to get Gen. Doug-
las MacArthur home to testify be-
fore the Senate Appropriations
committee on far eastern condi-
tions before the June 21 Repub-
lican convention.
Hope of Taft Backers
The Taft backers apparently
think that MacArthur—with eight
delegates backing him in Wiscon-
sin, two in Illinois, and scattered
strength elsewhere—might be in-
duced to support Taft publicly if
the general concludes he can not
win the nomination himself.
The possibility of Eisenhower’s
being picked by the Democrats al-
ready is being used against them,
Taft’s backers say. Hence they
would like to have MacArthur in
their corner as a security hedge
in the delegate’s minds.
The Taft people said their fear
of a convention blitz by Harold E.
Stassen was eased by the victory
of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey in last
week’s Oregon primary.
But what they gained there,
they lost in new worry about the
New York governor’s regained
strength.
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WAR LESS LIKELY
BALTIMORE, May 24 (AP) —
“War between Russia and the
Democratic countries seems less
likely today than it did six
months ago,” Senator Tydings
(D-Md) said yesterday.
where from an hour to an hour
and a half.
The nine leaders—three repre-
sentatives from each group—em-
phasized they could not bind their
factions. The final decision on
many points will not be worked
out until tonight’s caucuses.
Attending the conference for
the party organization were Cal-
vert, Committee Secretary Vann
M. Kennedy of Corpus Christi,
Neville Penrose of Fort Worth.
For the Truman-wing: Rogers,
Gordon Griffin of Brownwood,
George Sergeant of Dallas. For
the state’s righters: Roy Sander-
ford of Belton, Palmer Bradley of
WASHINGTON, May 24 (AP)—
American diplomats decided to-
day that the “phony peace” in the
cold war is over — that this is
where we came in.
The east-west bickering appar-
ently goes on unchecked after 20
days of crazyquilt diplomacy that
sometimes gave rise to hopes that
a letup was in sight.
Soviet Russia had the last word:
“Clearly the attitude of the
government of the United States
is not conducive to progress in
international affairs.”
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BOYCE HOUSF
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Arab Nations Asked to
Comply With UN Order
WASHINGTON, May 24 (TP) — The United States has appealed
directly to the seven Arab nations to comply with the United Na-
tions security council’s cease fire order for Palestine.
The State department announced today that American repre-
sentatives were directed by telegraph to inform the Arab govern-
ments that the United States is “gravely disturbed” at the course
of the developments in Palestine.
The instructions, dispatched yesterday, expressed hope the
Arabs would cooperate with the U. N.’s efforts to end the fighting.
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Dies Will Speak at
Saint Jo Barbecue
LUFKIN, May 24 (TP)—Martin
Dies said today he had accepted
an invitation to speak at a bar-
becue at Saint Jo in Montague
county next Monday.
Dies said friends of his in Saint
Jo, who filed his name for the
U. S. senate along with the $100
fee, were arranging to serve as
many as 5,000 persons.
PEDDY TO TALK
HOUSTON, May 24 (AP)—Geo.
Peddy, candidate for U. S. sena-
tor, will make his third statewide
radio address May 28 between
8 and 8:30 p. m. over 22 stations,
his headquarters has announced.
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WASHINGTON, May 24 (A) —
Senator George, (D-Ga) said to-
day the voters ought to elect in
November “a strong, one-term
president who can set this coun-
try on the right course.”
George, who has been men-
tioned as Georgia’s favorite son
candidate in the Dixie civil rights
battle against President Truman’s
nomination, told a reporter he
doesn’t think Mr. Truman “is the
answer to the country’s prayer
for leadership.”
“We need a strong, one-term
president who will forget poli-
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PALESTINE MEDIATOR—
Count Folke Bernadotte, chief of
the Swedish Red Cross, an-
nounced at a press conference in
Stockholm, Sweden, that he has
accepted the post of U. N. Media-
tor in Palestine for six months.
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Then she disappeared after an
airplane crash. After a year’s
search Joe has found a clue to
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now, or would begin shortly, at
Amman, Trans-Jordan.
He said he was instructed to
inform the council the cease-fire
appeal was received too late to
enable the Arab countries to con-
sult before the deadline.
Shortly before the deadline a
high Arab representative here
said the Arab countries would not
agree to an unconditional cease-
fire. UN officials, however, said
they had received no communi-
cations from the Arabs.
Arabs to As
said he yielded to
settle at from eight to 12 cents,
probably about 10.
In the Chrysler situation, Gov.
Sigler capped a dramatic night-
long hotel session with both sides
by meeting the press for break-
fast. He told them the union and
Chrysler had agreed to sit down
Wednesday and try.to settle the
strike.
His announcement said only
that the two sides had agreed to
go back to the barganing table
together for the first time since
the walkout of 75,000 employes
May 12.
Negotiations broke off a few
hours before the strike began and
had not since been resumed.
Sigler’s announcement came on
the heels of an announcement that
the biggest General Motors cor-
poration local in the UAW-CIO
had turned thumbs down on a
strike against that firm.
Vote Against Strike
The big Buick local 599 of Flint,
Mich., heart of GM’s huge factory
system, voted against strike, re-
jecting a plea from Emil Mazey,
the International UAW’s secre-
tary-treasurer and acting presi-
dent.
Local 599 is the UAW’s larg-
est in GM, claiming 15,000 mem-
bers. It has been influential in
union policies.
The UAW said Saturday, how-
ever, that 80 per cent of the vote
in locals -so far has favored a
walkout. At that time about 50
locals had voted, a union spokes-
man said.
Truman Probably
Will Make Five
Speeches on Trip
WASHINGTON, May 24 (P)_
The White House said today
President Truman probably will
make major speeches on foreign
policy, conservation and displaced
persons on his cross country train
trip in June.
Five major addresses are sched-
uled. The probable subjects for
the other two speeches were not
announced. One of them is to be
before the 35th Division reunion
at Omaha June 5. The setting
suggests the possibility that it may
deal with defense.
The major speeches will be at
Chicago, Omaha, Seattle, Berke-
ley, Calif., and Los Angeles. Mr.
Truman also plans many extem-
poraneous talks, mostly from the
platform of his special train.
The president will leave Wash-
ington the night of June 3. He
will speak in the Chicago Stadium
June 4.
This and other major speeches
will be from prepared manscripts.
All will run from 15 to 20 minutes.
crats, led by Woodville Rogers
of San Antonio. They want the
delegation instructed for Tru-
man.
3. The state’s rights Demo-
crats, headed by Merritt H.
Gibson of Longview. They fa-
vor the southern revolt and
want Texas Democrats to indi-
cate in a referendum at the
July primary whether their
electors shall be bound to vote
for the national party’s nomi-
nees.
Loud talk, angry tones and
some laughter were audible
through the locked door to the
room in which the conference
was held. The conferees agreed
only that they would make the
fight as short as possible, limit-
ing convention roll calls to a max-
imum of six. Roll calls take any-
Tass, the Soviet news agency,
put out this “authorized” verdict
Saturday night in a broadside de-
claring the U. S. wrong on every
issue dividing this country and
Russia.
The firm Soviet stand held out
no hope that Russia would do
what Secretary of State Marshall
proposed—show by her actions
that she really is willing to settle
some of the east-west disputes.
American diplomats did not ap-
pear surprised by the Russian
blast.
“We are now right back where
we started,” said one official.
He meant that the Moscow
“olive branch” had been with-
drawn in favor of the familiar
tar brush.
For the charges newly hurled in
one salvo were the ones fired
piece meal almost daily by Mos-
sow radio up to the time that
“peace talks” first were mention-
ed nearly three weeks ago. They
find fault with American actions
from Greece to Korea, from the
time of Potsdam to the present.
So ends, apparently, the strange
period of Ambassador Walter Be-
dell Smith’s two interviews with
Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov;
of Molotov’s “peace talks” pro-
posal; of Marshall’s “show us” re-
ply; of Henry Wallace’s letter to
Premier Stalin; of Stalin’s answer.
The U. S. now has listed 11 ma-
jor points of difference with Rus-
sia—points on which agreement,
in the American view, has been
blocked by the Soviets. Russia
has replied that the Americans
and the Americans only are at
fault for the stalemate.
Wave of Selling
Opens New York
Cotton Exchange
NEW YORK, May 24 (PP) — A
break of as much as $5.05 a bale
struck the New York cotton mar-
ket today as the federal govern-
ment temporarily halted exports
under the Marshall plan, but the
lower prices attracted domestic
buying and cotton started a re-
bound.
At the bottom of the break,
futures at New Orleans were off
$3.80 to $7.50 a bale.
Prices for delivery of old crop
cotton in July suffered the big-
gest decline and pulled other de-
livery months downward. When
the recovery set in, July was still
the big loser. Prices around noon
were $1.50 to $4.40 a bale below
Saturday.
The economic cooperation ad-
ministration asked foreign gov-
ernments to cease purchasing cot-
ton under the Marshall plan until
financing arrangements could be
perfected. Since most of these
shipments would come from the
old crop, traders sold and bought
into the new crop.
It has not been determined
when ECA financing arrange-
ments will be completed, but cot-*
ton market traders believe the
delay will increase the old crop
carry-over into the new crop
months. Some also felt the feder-
al government wished to cut down
the premium price being paid for
July cotton as compared with
later months.
BROWNWOOD, May 24 (A)—
The rules of war for a fight to
determine how the Texas Demo-
cratic convention will vote on
three major points were ready
for submission to factional cau-
cuses today.
They were threshed out at an
hour-long secret session last night
of leaders of the three groups
seeking to dominate tomorrow’s
state convention. These three
groups are:
1, The party organization
headed by Gov. Beauford H.
Jester and Executive Commit-
tee Chairman Robert W. Cal-
vert. They want the Texas dele-
gation uninstructed as to can-
didates, instructed against Pres-
ident Truman’s civil rights pro-
gram.
2. The pro-Truman Demo-
DETROIT, May 24 (A*)—General
Motors Corp, today offered the
CIO United Auto workers a wage
increase in excess of six cents an
hour according to reliable sources.
The first break in the General
Motors deadlock came a few hours
after Gov. Kim Sigler stepped
into the 13-day-old Chrysler strike
and brought both sides back to
the bargaining table.
The UAW-CIO confirmed that
a General Motors wage offer had
been made. They did not say
how much it was or whether it
was acceptable. The corporation
kept silent. The UAW-CIO had
threatened to strike GM Friday.
Speculation in the industry has
been that GM might be willing to
Dermott noted that the United
States made the appeal on its
own initiative, and that the ac-
.tion followed representations on
the Palestine issue to both the
Arab state and the Jewish lead-
ers.
McDermott confirmed that Am-
bassador Lewis Douglas con-
ferred over the weekend in Lon-
don on the Palestine question
with British Foreign Secretary
Bevin. The spokesman added it
was “quite possible” they con-
ferred again today.
Asked about published reports
that the US and Britain may take
joint action regarding Palestine,
McDermott said the State depart-
ment knows of no such sugges-
tion.
He said this government’s study
of a possible repeal of the em-
bargo on shipment of American
arms to the near east is still in
progress.
The appeal to the Arab states
went directly to American rep-
resentatives in Egypt, Iraq, Sy-
ria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and
Yemen. It was sent to William
C. Burdett, American consul gen-
eral in Jerusalem for transmittal
to Trans-Jordan.
Three Major Points to Be Decided at Conclaves
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Price-Supporting
Wheat Loans Will
Average $1.96 Bii.
WASHINGTON, May 24 (/P) —
The Agriculture department will
offer price-supporting loans on
early harvested wheat at rates av-
eraging $1.96 a bushel, farm basis.
The rates for last year’s crop av-
eraged $1.63.
Officials said today these rates
will be called “interim” rates and
will be in effect until the de-
partment announces regular rates
for the crop year beginning July
1.
The regular rates will be deter-
mined by the parity price of the
grain as of July 1. Farm law re-
quires that they be not less than
90 per cent of parity.
Officials said that should the
regular rates be different from
the $1.96 average for the interim
rates, adjustments would be made
on any loans made in the mean-
time.
The department also is setting
up a loan rate of 70 cents a bushel,
as the national average for oats.
Last year the average was 63
cents.
An average barley loan rate of
$1.15 will be set up compared with
$1.03 last year.
An average rye loan rate of
.$1.29 will be provided. There was
no loan program for rye last year.
This year’s average loan rate for
grain sorghums will be $2.31 a 100
pounds compared with $2.12 last
year.
Mankel
FORT WORTH LIVESTOCK
FORT WORTH, May 24 (P)—
Cattle, 5,400; calves, 1,700; me-
dium and good choice cattle
steady to strong, the low grades
dull and weak; medium and good
slaughter steers and yearlings $25
to $30, choice to $32.50? one load
1,059 steers $32; good cows $21.50
to $23; common to medium $16.50
to $21; bulls $16 to $23; good and
choice fat calves $25 to $30; com-
mon calves $17 to $25; stocker
calves, yearlings and steers $18
to $27.50; few calves and year-
lings to $28; stocker cows $15
to $19.50.
Hogs, 1,600; hogs fell from the
$1 higher opening to 50 cents and
higher later on; sows were mostly
50b higher; pigs steady to $1 up;
good and choice 180 to 260-pound
hogs $24.50 to $25; good and
choice hogs aboce and below ran
$21 to $24.50; sows $17.50 to
$18.50; pigs $16 to $21.00
Sheep, $25; medium and good
spring lambs and shorn old-crop
lambs $21 to $23, a few to $25;
medium and low graders $15 to
$21; slaughter ewes $8 to $12.50;
stocker and feeder lambs $16 to
$20; old bucks $8.50 to $9.50.
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By MAX HARRELSON
LAKE SUCCESS, May 24 (AP).—Faris El Khoury of
Syria said today the Arabs would ask the United Nations for
a 36-hour extension on the Security council’s Palestine cease-
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Party in Valley
View Farm House
County authorities were inves-
tigating Monday afternoon the
slaying of Clifford Blackmond,
alias Clifford Fears, 26, Negro,
whose address is listed in the city
directory at 415 Preston street.
A 36-year-old Negro tenant
farmer of the Lois community,
was arrested in connection with
the shooting.
County Attorney John Atchison
indicated the possibility of a mur-
der charge being filed against the
accused man, but no complaint
had been prepared, pending the
completion of an investigation.
His chest filled with pellets
from a 12 gauge shotgun shell,
Blackmond was brought to Medi-
cal & Surgical hospital at 4:50
Sunday morning by four Negroes
—two men and two women. The
nurse in charge said the man was
dead upon arrival there and she
notified Gainesville police.
Investigation developed that
Blackmond had been shot an hour
earlier, at the home of Willie
Pogue, Negro, who resides on the
farm of a white man, two and
one-half miles east of Valley
View. A Negro woman who ad-
mitted being, at the party at the
shooting, was jailed on a charge
of drunkenness several hours
later, and the man who allegedly
fired the fatal shot, was said by
sheriff’s officers to have been in-
toxicated when brought tn the
county jail, about 8 a. m.
The accused explained to of-
ficers that he had been to Gaines-
ville and stopped at Pogue’s house
on the way home. Reason for hav-
ing the 12 gauge single-barrel
Essex shotgun with him, was
that he had “been hunting.”
Blackmond appeared to have
been known to Gainesville Ne-
groes as Clifford Fears and Clif-
ford Myers. He has lived in the
city a number of years. Records
at the sheriff’s office indicated
that, under the name of Clifford
Fears, he had been indicted in
1942 and in 1943, on charges of
theft over $50 and that he had
served time in the Texas peniten-
tiary.
His mother, Mary Moore, lives
in Kansas City, Mo.
The body was prepared for bur-
ial by the Citizens Undertaking
company (colored).
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The UN was informed official-
ly by Aubrey Eban, Israel rep-
resentative here, that the Jews
would stop fighting if the Arabs
would.
El Khoury disclosed the Arab
plans shortly after the noon
(EST) deadline for the truce
passed without any acceptance or
rejection from the Arab countries.
He said he had received in-
structions a few minutes after the
deadline to ask for more time.
El Khoury said consultations
on the truce were in progress
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Minor of Denton as temporary
chairman because of his clean rec-
ord of party loyalty, but Rogers
said last night he could not an-
swer a question as to whether
this was true.
“I want to wait and see what
the executive committee will
recommend as to the conven-
tion’s order of business,” he
said.
“Our only agreement was to
make it a convention and not
an endurance contest.”
The test could come on the elec-
tion of a permanent chairman, on
the question of accepting district
caucus recommendations for com-
mittee appointments, or on a vote
nominating the national commit-
tee man or woman for Texas.
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Weather: Cloudy
Temperatures: High Saturday,
94; low Saturday, 66; high yester-
day, 93; low last night, 65; noon
today, 86; high for year, 95; low
for year, 9. barometric pressure
29.98.
East Texas.: Partly cloudy;
widely scattered thundershowers
in west portion this afternoon and
tonight and in north and west-
portions Tuesday. Not much
change in temperatures. Moderate
southerly winds on coast.
West Texas: Partly cloudy;
widely scattered thundershowers
this afternoon, tonight and Tues-
day; no important temperature
changes.
Auto Collision in
Oklahoma Sunday
Injures 6 Persons
A head-on collision of a new
model Chevrolet sedan bearing
three oil men en route to Fort
Worth, with an older model Ply-
mouth coupe containing a man
and his wife and two grandchil-
dren, resulted Sunday afternoon
in injuries to six of the seven per-
sons, two of them seriously.
The accident occurred on U. S.
highway 77 north of Red River
bridge, in Oklahoma, about 3:30
p. m. Both cars were badly dam-
aged.
Mrs. C. E. Brown, 50, of St. Jo,
was in Medical & Surgical hos-
pital Monday, suffering from a
gash beneath the right eye, severe
bruises over her entire body, and
shock. Earlier reports that her
right jaw and some of her ribs
were broken, were not born out
by later x-ray examination.
C. E. Brown, 63, her husband,
was hospitalized Sunday night for
examination of his injuries today.
His lower lip was cut, his lower
artificial teeth were broken in
two, both knees were injured and
he has a severe bruise on his right
side.
Brown is night watchman at St.
Jo and the family has resided
there a number of years. They
were enroute to Oklahoma and
Brown stated that as he signaled
to turn off the highway to the
left, watching two cars behind
him, the other car coming south,
collided with his car. Brown as-
serted that he had not seen the
car approaching him.
Donna Jean Edwards, 5, grand-
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Brown,
was horribly cut on the head and
face, suffering one gash about
four inches long on the right side
of the forehead and cheek, and
lesser cuts elsewhere on the fore-
head and nose. The child lost a
great amount of blood before be-
ing brought to the hospital.
Jaynie Grace Edwards, 3, es-
caped without apparent bodily in-
juries but she cried from fright
for some time after arriving at
the hospital.
The little girls are children of
Sgt. and Mrs. Don Edwards of
Howzeville. Their father is with
the air corps at Fort Worth. He
was fishing on Red river, near the
scene of the accident, at the time
it occurred.
John Adcock of Corpus Christi.
Lloyd Hill of Torrance, Calif., and
Roy Bell of Fort Worth, were
treated at Gainesville sanitarium
and were dismissed Sunday night
Hill is sales manager for the Na-
tional Oil Supply, company and
Adcock and Bell are employes of
the company. They had been in
Tulsa attending the oil equipment
show and convention and were
returning to Fort Worth.
Adcock’s right knee has a deep
gash that bled profusely; he had
lacerations on his left forehead
and was bruised considerably.
X-ray examination revealed
that Hill suffered a broken rib on
the left side and cuts and bruises.
Bell’s left elbow and lower lip
were cut and he has numerous
bruises.
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Brannan Selected
As Successor for
Secy. Anderson
WASHINGTON, May 24 (P)—
Charles Franklin Brannan was
nominated today to be secretary
of agriculture. He now is assist-
ant secretary.
The president sent Brannan’s
name to the senate shortly before
it convened at 10 a. m. (CST).
Brannan, a native of Colorado,
succeeds Clinton P. Anderson,
who resigned May 10 to run for
the senate in New Mexico.
The president also nominated
Frieda B. Hennock, a New York
City lawyer to membership in the
federal communications commis-
sion. Miss Hennock was named to
succeed Clifford J. Durr, who said
sometime ago he did not want a
new term.
Court to Review
Contempt Finding
Against Attorney
WASHINGTON, May 24 (A)—
The supreme court today agreed
to review a contempt of court
finding by District Judge F. P.
Adams of Jasper county, Texas,
against Attorney Joe J. Fisher.
Fisher was fined $100 and sen-
tenced to three days’ imprison-
ment while arguing before Judge
Adams on behalf of an injured
Negro laborer who had filed a
suit for compensation.
Fisher said he was adjudged in
contempt after he took an ex-
ception to a statement by the
judge before the trial jury. He
quoted the judge as stating:
“I will declare a mistrial if you
mess with me two minutes and a
half, and fine you besides.”
The attorney was held in the
county jail from 9:30 a. m. to
4:50 p. m. on the day of the in-
cident, June 17, 1947. He was re-
leased under $500 bail pending
outcome of his appeal.
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