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NEWS INDEX
Editorials .......Page 4
Sports........5,,6, 7
Comics ..........
Women’s News . ... * 9
VOL. LXV. NO. 228
The Abilene Reporter ~2ews
"WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FR/ENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES." - Byron ______
EVENING
A TEXAS Duals, NEWSPAPER
ABILENE, TEXAS MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4, 1946—TWELVE PAGES
Associated Press IAP)
United Press (UP) PRICE FIVE CENTS
ruman Calls Lat
Heads to Steel Talk
WASHINGTON, Feb 4.—(P) — at 3:30 this afternoon
President Truman held a hurried-
ly-called conference with Secretary
of Labor Schwellenbach and CIO
The president is reported to be
President Philip Murray today in
a renewed White House effort to
end the steel strike deadlock
— Neither Schwellenbach nor Mur-
ray would comment as they emer-
ged from the half hour session,
which began at the unusually ear-
ly hour of 9:30 a. m., but the la-
bor secretary said:
"We came out smiling." '
sticking by his proposal that the
750.000 striking steel workers be
given an 18 1-2 cents an hour in-
crease. Current conferences ap-
parently have to do with a deci-
sion on how much an increase
should be granted manufacturers
in the price of steel.
Schwellenbach said he did not
know whether the president had
any plans to summon Benjamin F.
Murray, wav assy .... .. ..... Fairless, president of United States
CIO United Steel Workers, said Steel, for a White House talk,
only to reporters: After the departure of the union
"The president asked me to come leader and Schwellenbach, the
over to talk with him about the president's congressional leaders
steel situation.”
* "Whatever is said has got to
come from him.” Murray added.
Administration sources appeared
to be becoming more cheerful
again about prospects for a break
fn the deadlock between Murray's
union and the steel companies.
Immediately after the confer clared.
once White House aides announ The meeting took place as the
ced that OPA Administrator Ches- steel strike entered its third and
ter Bowles would see the president I perhaps climatic week.
Murray, who also is head of the
went in for a weekly conference
with him. __
At CIO headquarters, a spokes-
man said Murray was called late
yesterday and asked to come to
the White House this morning.
Schwellenbach had even less no-
tice. a labor department official de-
.TRIAL WAS LAWFUL
Supreme Court Willing
To Let Yamashita Hang
: U. S. Moves to Block
‘ ‘Plot’ to Spring Nazis
DEATH SCENE—Robert H. Clark, 11-year-old Sweetwater
boy, was killed instantly Sunday afternoon in the cellar
pictured here, when a bazooka shell dropped through a venti-
lation pipe exploded by the head of the bed, near the far
wall. The boy was struck dow n near the foot of the bed in the
bottom of the picture. Note broken fruit jars and other debris
on the floor. The cellar was near the home of Joe B. Tatum,
2818 Russell ave. (Staff photo by Don Hutcheson).
Draft Officials Boy Killed When
To Get Awards Shell Explodes
Several Abilene residents have
phoned police, eager to dispose
of souvenir war weapons, since a
bazooka shell exploded in a cellar
at 2818 Russell avenue Sunday air
ernoon at 1:50 o'clock and killed
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -(P) — tioner (Yamashita) was charged
the supreme court refused today with violation of the law of war
v and that the commission had au-
to save Japanese General Yama- thority to proceed with the trial,] Members of Taylor county’s two
shita from death on the gallows, and in doing so did not violate any draft boards will be among Selec.
Chief Justice Stone deliveredthe military, statutory or constitution- draft boards WIL beamons
: i command” live Service personnel from 12
supreme court s 6-2 decision. Jus- al command. .
tice Jackson, now acting as chief Yamashita was convicted by the counties who will be awarded certi-
U. S. Prosecutor in the Nazi trials American military commission in ficates and medals in a ceremony at
Manila of condoning uncounted the city hall Tuesday afternoon.
atrocities by his invading troops in Lt. Comdr. Harold C. Benedict
the Philippines. of State Selective Service head.
Robert’s. Clark, Jr., 11, of Sweet-
water.
The boy died instantly when the
shell, thought to be a dud. went
The enemy general was the first ul state peigcuve service ucaus off. It had been pushed through
Pacific war leader to be tried as quarters, will be in charge the the cellar ventilation pipe by
I a war criminal. In appealing to the program, which is to be open to theVenson Hays, 13, a playmate. It
supreme court he contended that public. It is scheduled from 1:30 to I fell approximately 10 feet to the
4 the military, com nissiouf did not 3:30 p. m. John Womble, manager concrete floor.
have authority to try him.of the Abilene chamber of com-
Stone said: merce, will preside
"We have considered but find it Fifty-one awards are to be given'
unnecessary to discuss other con- and it is hoped that a citizen from
tentions (by Yamashita) which we each ef the 12 counties to be repre-
find to be w ithout merit.” sented will be included on the day s
Last December 7—on the fourth program.
anniversary of Pearl Harbor—the __________________________.
military commission in Manila de- be honored are. from board No '
As a precaution to prevent
similar tragedies, Capt. C. Z.
Hallmark of the police depart-
ment urged that all persons
who have souvenir weapons
Bevin Bitter
In Denial of
Soviet Charge
LONDON, Feb. 4.—(AP) -
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., pro-
posed today that the security
council dismiss Russia’s
charges that British troops in
Greece constituted a threat to
peace.
LONDON, Feb. 4.-P—Foreign
Secretary Ernest Bevin of Britain
cried "lie" today in the United Na-
tions security counsel to a charge
by Russian Foreign Vice Commis
sar Andrei Vishinsky that British
troops in Greece were protecting
the rightiest forces there.
—In a hot and heavy argument over
Russia's demand for the “immed-
iate withdrawal” of the troops on
the ground that they endangered
international peace. Bevin asserted.
"Mr. Vishinsky says that our
troops in Greece are protecting
the right—1 give the lie to that."
He spoke after Vishinsky, in a 90-
minute statement had challenged
Bevin s friendliness toward Russia
in telling the Security council last
Friday that the "real danger' ’to
world peace was Moscow propa-
ganda against the British.
"I’m not unfriendly toward Rus-
sia." Bevin said in his detailed
rebuttal, delivered fort he most
patr in a calm, slow voice. "I just
want equal treatment ”
He did not say what equality he
had in mind.
Bevin declared that in the
charge brought against Britain
by Russia “the boner of my
country and the British com-
monwealth is involved.”
Officer 'Hints' Stark,
Marshall Broke Law
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-
(AP)—Capt. L. F. Safford re-
versed his testimony regarding
his suspicion General Marshall
and Admiral has violated laws
against destruction of public
records. First he said he did
suspect them, but then he
changed his testimony and said
he did not.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4—(P) —
Naval captain L. F. Safford testi-
fied today that “in my own mind”
a suspicion exists that General
George C. Marshall and Admiral
Harold R. Stark violated laws
against destroying public records.
Safford made the statement in
reply to this question by Rep.
Clark (D-NC) of the senate-house
committee investigating the Pearl
Harbor disaster:
"Do you mean even to create
the suspicion in the minds of
this committee or the public
that either General Marshall
or Admiral Stark violated the
law of this nation by destroys
CAPT. LAWRENCE SAFFORD
of staff and Stark was the 1941
ing public records to cover up
a mistake?"
“In my own mind that sus-
picion exists,” Safford replied.
Safford has testified that an in-
tercepted Japanese message was
received by the Navy three days
before the December 7, 1941, at-
tack and has now vanished from
the files. He said there was “an
appearance of a conspiracy” and
that it "is human to try to cover
up a mistake ”
Marshall was the wartime chief
chief of naval operations.
Clark developed in questioning
Safford that no one in the Navy
below the rank of Admiral Stark
would have been responsible for
sending a war warning message
based on the information he said
came in on December 4
'•Therefore,” Clark said, "no one
below him would have any motive
for covering up a mistake. There
wouldn’t be any neglect of duty
below to send out that message?
There would be no reason to cover
up?”
“That question.” Safford replied,
“goes beyond anything I want to
answer.”
Underground
'Rescue' Plan
advise with the police.
"We in turn are asking the as-
The men from Taylor county to sistance of Camp Barkeley officers
military commission in Mania oe- be honored are, from board No. 1. in advising what disposal shall be
creed death by hanging for Yama- B. R Blankenship, Clvde Fulwiler made of the weapons if they still
shita. Edmund C. Yates, Dallas Scarbor are dangerous, Hallmark said.
The Japanese protested that “my ough. government appeal agent:
conscience is clear He was lock and, from hoard No. 2. R T Gray,
ed in a Manila prison while three A. A. Heathington. Fred A Ruck
of the U. S Army attorneys who er: T j McMahon government ap-
defended him before the commis peal agent 8
sion were flown to Washington to Board members and appeal agents
also will be honored from Baylor.
shita.
The shell which killed the Clark
He denied emphatically that Brit-
ain was in any way endangering the
peace of the world and declared
that if Vishinsky really believed it
was, then Bevin should not be in
the security council.
"This charge has caused bitter
ness in the hearts of the British |
people.” he said, "because it is not
true.”
AMENDMENTS ON SPOT
House Voting on Radi
GENERAL YAMASHITA
In Europe, had no part in Yama argue his appeals
shita’s case. Justices Murphy and arudiPP
Rutledge dissented.
The court overruled Yamashita LI..L
on all points. t or End
Stones 7,000 word opinion de LIIVIl LIEU
* la red
"It appears that the order con-
vening the commission (of five
generals who tried Yamashita) was
a lawful order, that the commission
was lawfully constituted, that peti-
-------------------------------------I—An effort to end the southern
I Democratic filibuster against anti- HOUSTON. Feb 4.—(UP)—The
OVER WEEKEND discrimination legislation failed to- land and royalty owners of Texas
- day when acting Senate President want all types of gas wastage pre-
7A: 111 1 • Kenneth D McKellar, (D.Tenn) vented. R C Kay. of Amarillo, who
J Die, 4 Hurt in -
Brown, Callahan. Coleman. Fisher.
Haskell. Jones. Nolan. Shackelford.
1 Stonewall and Throckmorton coun-
ties.
boy had been found on the Camp
Berkeley firing range about a year
ago and children in the neighbor-
hood had played with it since. Joe
B Tatum, at whose residence the
tragedy occurred, told police.
Captain Hallmark said Lester
Williams. 2807 Russell, who lives,
across the street from Tatum, re-
Strike Conf
ill Begins 1
Fair Date Set
"Y The House begins tentative nose agement: outlaw violence in pick
counting today on sweeping new eting or organized boycotts, and
1 CaulL strike control legislation provide for civil suits against
In nAmDATI Up for decision is a series of either side breaking a contract
I JUPIVINUS amendments designed to tone down Members said the preliminary
the bill by Rep. Case (R SD) who tests on amendments to eliminate
The West Texas Fair will be proposes to set up a national me- one or more of those provisions
WASHINGTON, Feb
4—C)— tions against either labor or man-
Filibuster Fails
WASHINGTON, Feb 4—(UP
Owners Side Told
At FPC Hearing
ported he has two bazooka shells The West Texas Fair will be proposes to set up a national me- one or more of those provisions
which he had believed heretofore held in September, if the board diation board with power to step will indicate clearly how the house
were duds.
Joe Jay. 1150 Vine, delivered a ,.
heavy metal-piercing shell to po- Friday and Saturday at the con
lice today, but it is effective only
i when fired from a gun.
Young Clark, police reported,
was visiting with his parents. Mr
and Mrs Robert H Clark, in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hayes,
134 Portland He and Venson
Texas Mishaps
By the Associated Press
Seven persons were killed in Tex-
as and four others injured in acci-
dents and a fire Saturday night
and Sunday.
Two persons died and two were
seriously burned in a fire Satur
day night. Traffic accidents took a
toll of two killed and two injured
Police said one man was killed
when hit by a train. A plane crash
took the life of one man and the
explosion of an Army bazooka shell
killed an 11-year-old boy.
James Hart. 4. and Shirley Mae
Collins, 18 months old, were burn-
ed fatally when their home at Ter-
rell. was swept by fire Saturday
night Gladys Hart, mother of
James, was severely burned when
‘he attempted to rescue them.
Charlotte Ann Hart, 11 months old.
was also severely burned
Kenneth A. Maxwell, 21, Ver
ruled that a motion to limit debate said he spoke for 150,000 land
was out of order owners, told Federal Power com
I Senate Democratic Leader Alben missioners today
W Barkley, Ky. filed a cloture 1 At the opening session of the
petition signed by 48 senators, second week of the FPC hearing
Then he appealed McKellar's de in the state's natural gas industry
cision that the petition was out of Kay president of the Panhandle
order A simple senate majority Producers and Royalty association,
could overrule McKellar s decision explained that the land and royalty
However. Sen Tom Stewart owner reasons that any gas wast-
(D.Tenn) who held the floor, im- age is loss of his own property
mediately asked whether Barkley’s "In Texas,” Kay Mid. he wants
appeal was subject to debate the conservation regulation left
McKellar ruled that it was entirely in the hands of the rail
Stewart, picking up a large sheaf road commission, an elective body;
of papers, started debating it to of Texans accountable to the citi-
keep the filibuster rolling zens of Texas
BETTER HUNT AN ARK
Floods Are Due Every 400 Years
And This One Is It, Wizard Warns
By ARTHUR EDSON
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 ) -
The stories you,hear in this rumor
non. Tex. was killed, and J A hatchery called Washington!
Kaiser, 25, Vernon? was injured For instance:
when their automobile overturned The scholarly looking man said
near Electra, Saturday night that floods come in cycles Yes,
Frank Arrasmith, 25, Pampa, he said, figures prove that every
was killed yesterday and James C. 400 years there’s a real whooper-
Dollard, Pampa, was injured, when dooper.
their automobile was in collision Then he whispered that this
with s truck near Panhandle (run for the ark, folks') is the big
9 The body of Ignac Tomasek. 68. year . . .
was found inside a cattleguard near Grabbing a pair of water wings.
Adhsll yesterday. Sheriff Carl l your reporter scurried today
Blsck. Cameron, said he had been such.assorted institutions as the
hit by a train, probably Saturday
night.
J. D. Holland, 35, Woodward,
was killed yesterday when his
plane crashed north of Woodward.
Robert H Clark Jr., 11, Sweet
wafer, was killed yesterday at Abi-
lene, in an explosion of an Army
Ezooka shell in a cellar where he
was playing.
weather bureau and the geological
survey to pop the 400-year ques-
tion.
Their answer, briefly translated
from the academic, is non sense."
You, too, probably have heard
that weather runs in cycles. You've
heard that every so many years
it’s dry, or wet. Or that if It rains
on this or that day. it’ll rain for
the next 40 days.
V
Is Rumored
NUERNBERG, Feb. 4—(UP)— .
The United States Army placed a
strong guard of tanks and riflemen
around the Nuernberg courthouse
and prison today on a tip that the
Nazi underground planned an at-
tempt to free Hermann Goering,
Rudolf Hess and other top war
criminals.
Machine guns were mounted in-
side the courthouse and the jail.
Heavy tanks rumbled into position
at strategic points commanding all
entrances to the buildings where
the top criminals of the Nazi re-
gime are on trial for their lives.
Authorities said they {also* had
posted "airplane spotters” on the
prison roof, apparently fearing an
attempted paratroop rescue sim-
ilar to that which snatched Benito
Mussolini from an Italian prison
more than a year ago.
An unconfirmed rumor cir-
culated that Nazi Elite guards
and regular Germany army
troops interned in camps with-
in 20 miles of Nuernberg had
planned a mass escape with
the intention of attacking the
prison and rescuing their
former leaders.
There was no confirmation of
that report. But the sudden pre-
cautions indicated that the Amer-
ican authorities were taking no
chances.
Maj. Gen. Ernest N. Harmon,
commander of the U. S. Third Ar
my’s trouble-shooting special po-
lice force, took charge of security
measures. Sandbag barricades were
erected around the prison building.
Observers pointed out that the
Third Army area, of which Nuern-
berg is the center, contains 64
prisoner-of-war camps holding 170,,
438 prisoners Among them are an
estimated 80,000 tough SS troop-
ers.
A strict security blackout was
clamped on details of the purpor-
ted plot, but it was learned that
American counter-intelligence
agents had obtained a tip on a
planned jail break over the week-
end
Officials refused to comment on
how the information was obtained
or how complete it was. No one
would explain the necessity for
posting airplane spotters, which
appeared to indicate that somehow
the Nazi underground might be
able to obtain one or more planes.
The action followed by only 24
hours the first practice alert in
the courthouse area during which
radio cars and sentries with fixed
bayonets patrolled the district.
of directors meeting Wednesday into major labor disputes and for- will go when the bill itself comes
approves tentative dates arranged bid strikes or lockouts for 30 days, to a showdown vote tomorrow or
- 24 n - To help the board. Case would Wednesday.
vention of Texas Association of permit wider use of court injunc Leaders insist privately they still
Fair Managers at Dallas. , 7-------.-----.------------expect the measure to emerge lit-
Grover Nelson, manager, said Grocer Arraigned tle changed from its present form
today he and President Merle A a 2 AL: Foes of the Case bill have two
Gruver had scheduled dates and for Attack OH Child | main hopes of defeating it. One is
made a tentative contract for mid- that the Republicans might fail to
way attractions which will be sub- DETROIT. Feb 4 — (UP) — support it in a bloc as some party cunnnanuca va ™ ,„.,.,..«—
mitted to the board for approval Frank Lobaido. 19 Detroit grocer, members have indicated they will, military tribunal command, said
Meanwhile a committee worked I named by seven year old Rosalie The other is for the opponents to
Brig. Gen. Leroy H. Watson,
commander of the international
Hayes, 13. had gone to the Joe Ta-
turn home to ask a playmate, Doug- Meanwhile, a committee worked | named by seven year old Rosalie The other is for the opponents to "we are not looking for any trou-
lass Tatum, to go to Elm creek all morning at the chamber of | Giganti as the man who raped her get together solidly behind a com- ble but to be on the safe side we
are increasing our fire power.”
for and cut her throat. Jan 27. stood promise So far they haven’t.
The labor leader contended the
with them to play The Clark boy, commerce canvassing ballots for and cut her throat. Jan 27. stood promise So far they haven't,
while waiting for Douglas, ran directors, but had not finished the mute today at his arraignment. The labor leader contended the
down into a cellar near the house job at noon adjournment The Recovered sufficiently from her bill was not studied in committee
Children in the neighborhood counting was to be resumed this throat wounds to talk, little Rosa- but was "jammed through a pack-
had been playing with the shell for afternoon, lie pointed out Lobardio as her at- ed group in the rules committee"
some time, and believed it was a The full board of 21 directors tacker. and the grocer was charged as a substitute for President Tru-
dud Tatum told police will be named from the balloting formally with statutory rape and
The Clarks, who moved to Sweet which was conducted by mail assault with intent to commit mur-
water from Vernon a year and a among the 446 sustaining members der
half ago, had lived in Abilene 12 of the association The new di - .
years prior to that time Robert rectors will meet Wednesday to Esquire Wins
was born here Jan 31. 1935 His pass on the fair dates and attrac-
father is employed by the Depart- tions, and to draw lots for one. two use OT MOUs
ment of Public» Safety at Sweet- and three-year terms Hereafter WASHINGTON, Feb 4 - UP
water seven directors will be elected an- The supreme court ruled today that' Committee clerks said that Mur-
Funeral was scheduled at Sun nually for three years to provide a Esquire magazine. Varga Girl and ray and Lee Pressman, CIO gen-
| set Baptist church at 3 p m today rotating board Gruver Mid all, can be sent through the U. S leral counsel, were buss with strike
The Res J P McBeth, pastor Members of the committee can mails. negotiations.
| of the Lamar Street Baptist church, vassing the ballots are Walter Jar-------------
was to officiate assisted by the rett. chairman I, W Davis, JoeT 0
Borden and Frank Pruitt f d
Please see BLAST. p 3. Col 3-----L . s
man s fact-finding plan.
A Senate labor committee hear-
ing on fact-finding legislation was
postponed when CIO President |
Philip Murray and Andrew J Hig- 1
| gins New Orleans, La. industrial-
ist, the scheduled witnesses, failed
to appear.
VETERANS’ JOBS
(Apply to War Manpower
Commission, 1141 North 2d)
Veterans placed since
Sept.1 ......2183
Veterans placed, Saturday
Interviewed Saturday ...
Referred Saturday ....
Routed to other agencies
Saturday...........
Jobs listed .......
3
24
3
. 10
30
I R Tannehill of the weather
bureau says it’s easy to figure out
any kind of a cycle by studying
charts But invariably any at-
tempt to turn thu cycle into a pre
dietion brings disaster.
"Your 400-year story reminds me
of a similar one we heard several
veers ago,” he said. "Somebody
figured out that everv 155th year
would he dry When the 155th
year finally came, It was one of
the wettest we’d ever had"
Glenn Parker, geological sur-
vey: "I don't know anything about
400 year cycles. But 1 do know in
the last few years we’ve been
having worse floods on the Mis-
souri. No, nobody knows why.”
Dr. Charles G. Abbot, noted au-
thority on the sun for the Smith
sonian institutions: "I don’t be
lieve we have enough records vet |
to draw any conclusions Why
don't you drop back, say, in about |
300 years?”
It's a date. I
Police Free Susped
r. DETAATMENT or coMMENcE In San Angelo Death
WEATHER BUREAU
ABILENE AND VICINITY Cloudy S
with humidity today and tonight being SAN ANGELO, Feb 4 —Police I
EASE ERAS Mode cToud, "and not authorities released a suspect Sun- f
much change in temperatures this af day after questioning him in an
---* '---— occasional rain effort to solve the death of Oscar
, colder norinwest Ralph Routh, 54, Ballinger stock
Moderate southeast farmer, who was found dead be-
side the Ballinger highway early
Saturday morning
The suspect was a 36-year-old
ex-sailor who lives near Ballin-
ger. Questioning failed to reveal
the persons or persons who alleg-
edly pushed the body of Routh
out of an automibile on the road
THE WEATHER
west central porti
Tuesday mostly clot
portion in afternoot
winds on the coast
WEST TEXAS Mostly cloudy this af
ternoon tonight and Tuesday colder
Panhandle late tonight and In Panhandle
South Plains and upper Pecos valley
westward Tuesday Strong southwest and
west winds Panhandle and South Plains
Maximum temperature for 24 hours
ending at 6 a th 64
Minimum temperature for 24 hours
ending at 6 a. m #′ T €
Sun Mon Sun-Sat
5
THREATENING Sunder A 12
side.
Authorities also reported find-
ing a shoe tentatively identified as
belonging to Routh The shoe was 1
found in a tree near the spot
where the body was discovered.
Routh's shoes and hat were miss-
ing.
Funeral services were to have
have been held this morning at
the Newby-Davis chapel in Ballin
ger.
A
TWELVE DIE IN FIRE AT HOME FOR AGED-Firemen search ruins of Jennings Hall,
Catholic home for the aged in Garfield Heights, Ohio, after a fire had followed an explo.
sion. completely destroying the building, and killing 13 of the 62 occupants. Investigation
of the tragedy is underway. (NEA Telephoto)
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