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Palestine’s
Future up le
4. S., Soviet
LAKE SUCCESS, March 6. —
Solving the Palestine problem
seemed today to have been left
mainly to the United States and
Russia.
After two weeks of cautious de-
bate, the United Nations Security
Council late yesterday called on
the five major powers to find a
method of carrying out partition
Gf the Holy Land into Jewish and
Arab nations, recommended by the
assembly Nov. 29.
Britain announced off the floor
that she would not take part in
the consultations China has ab-
stained from much of the U. N.
voting on Palestine. France has
been reluctant to take a stand.
MEETING MONDAY
This prompted the general view
that the future of the Holy Land
rested on the doorsteps of Wash-
ehgton and Moscow.
The first big-power meeting was
set for Monday morning in the
New York offices of Soviet Dele-
gate Andrei A. Gromyko. A 10-day
limit was put on the sessions.
American Delegate Warren R.
Austin immediately dispatched his
top Palestine adviser, Dean Rusk,
to Washington for conferences.
Rusk was due back with any in-
structions from Secretary of State
George C. Marshall in time to
“oin Austin at the first session.
U. S. Delegation conferences
also were scheduled in New York
over the weekend.
It still was not clear whether
Britain would boycott the meetings
entirely or would refuse officially
to take part but send an observer
A spokesman, emphasized that his
government, as mandatory power
In Palestine was prepared to sup-
ply any information requested
E The "British stand was in line
“with London's policy of not partic-
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MISSISSIPPI RIVER BOAT SINKS—Eleven crewmen from the river boat Natchez were still
being sought today after the treacherous Mississippi River swept it against a bridge piilng
at Greenville, Miss., Friday. This photo shows the Natchez in a happier day when it was
working barges at Memphis. (NEA Telephoto)
Man Shot
On Oil Rig
V C. Porter, about 35, oil field
worker, is in Hendrick Memorial
Hospital with a bullet wound re-
ceived in a mystery shooting last
night near Merkel.
A small caliber bullet stuck him
in the back of the head, just be-
low the base of the skull and
penetrated the brain His attend-
ing physician described his condi-
tion this morning as serious but
not critical. The bullet traveled
through two folds of a cap he was
wearing.
Sheriff H. T. Fleming. County
Porter was a member of a crew
working on a rig for the Herring
Drilling Co. of Abilene on the Bird
lease just east of Merkel across
the highway from the Merkel cem-
etery.
City Marshal Fulton told the
sheriff's department this morning
that Porter was working there
about 12:45 a m today when he
was struck He had leaned over
and was working with some chemi-
cals when the bullet hit him.
Porter told his physician that
he did not hear the shot fired and
Atty. Theo Ash and Dist Atty,
watns -------- - ,---------- Esco Walter were called from Abi-
ipating in any move to enforce lene by Merkel City Marshall A.D ______
,_______—- - ‘ Fulton this morning to investigate said they heard the shot but did
acceptable to both Jews and the incident. Fulton said it was not know who fired it.
Working with Porter were
Charlie Coffee, D. M Bethune and
Dan Tucker, foreman
Porter lives in Abilene at the
partition or any other solution not
Arabs The Arabs oppose parti- not known who fired the shot,
tion: the Zionists support it. ---------------------------------
IEWS TR
MORTARS ON
ARABS IN HAIFA, KILL 5
JERUSALEM. March 6. —
Jews In Haifa killed five persons
and damaged three buildings sev-
erely by firing three-inch mortar
shells at Arabs in the harbor area
today, police said
The police report said the fire
came from Hadar Hacarmel. all-
Jewish business and residential
osection halfway up the Carmel
a mountainside. It ripped into the
Arab business district near the en-
trance to Haifa port
Gen Sir Alan Gordon Cunning-
ham, British high commissioner, I
appealed for the safety of United
Nations personnel in Palestine But
the Arab Higher Committee re-
plied only that they soon may need
more protection
Six members of the U.N. sec-
retariat arrived here Wednesday
as an advance party of the Pal-
Ritine Partition Commission. They
have been closely guarded in a
"rone within a zone."
Cunningham asked Palestinians
to accord the secretariat the Im-
munity which civilised nations
must "show to members of this
Huks Outlawed
in Philippines
thought he had come in contact
with a “hot” wire when he was
struck. Other crewmen, however.
Little Hotel.
‘Terrible Situation'
Churchill Declares
Crash Kills
:x-Abilenian
Roy W White Jr., San Antonio
drug salesman and former Abi-
lenian, was instantly killed, and a
Corpus Christi youth was critically
injured, when White lost control
of his automobile one mile north
of San Marcos Friday night, the
Associated Press reported this
morning.
According to Sheriff Jack Gary
of San Marcos, White was driving
toward San Antonio on U S. High-
way 81. when his automobile went
out of control. The vehicle report-
edly plunged into an oncoming
bus belonging to the Continental
Trailways, which was loaded with
33 Lackland Airbase soldiers bound
for St. Louis.
Louis Allen Dodson, about 19, of
Corpus Christi, a passenger in
White's car, was near death in a
San Marcos hospital The driver
of the bus, Tom L Hutchison, 32,
of San Antonio, suffered a broken
hand. None of the soldiers was
injured, Gray reported.
The funeral will be held in San
Antonio.
White, 27, graduated at Hardin-
Simmons University in the summer
of 1947. ....
Survivor* are his wife, the former.
Francis Stoker of Abilene, whom he
world organization ” | LONDON. March 6. Winston I married Feb 23, 1947: his parents,
The Arabs who took on Palestine Churchill said today: ,|Mr. and Mr Roy W White Sr. 15-
partition as invasion of their coun-1 "Any thinking man can see that 05 North 21st; one brother, Richard
try, have stated they cannot guar-1 wr are all moving into a terrible | of Abilene, a sophomore at HSU:
antee safety to commission mem- situation at home and abroad. Not his grandmother, Mrs. Lige Cat-
hers who come here only bankruptcy and privation ap- birth of Sweetwater; and an aunt.
Meanwhile communal strife con- proach us in this island, but the Mrs. Jeff Haynie of Abilene,
tinued in the Holy Land Uncon- menace of a third world war
firmed reports were heard in rolls toward us with every act of
Arab quarters that a reconnais- Russian imperialist aggression and
sance-type airplane flown from communist violence and intrigue.”
Jewish quarters had been shot The former prime minister gave
3 Powers Okay Ruhr
International Rule
Robber Pair
Cornered;2
Officers Shot
PITTSBURGH. March 6. -
Two house robbers sought in a
night long search by a small army
of police were captured today still
handcuffed together some 10 miles
from the scene where they shot
down two radio patrolmen
The robbers had made their way
overland through the hamlet of
McMurrey where they hired a
taxicab. The driver noting they
were handcuffed became auspici-
ous and drove into an open gaso-
line station where two state po-
licemen were checking cars in a
widespread search for the gun-
men.
One of the robbers was wounded
in the right shoulder. Chief of
Allegheny County Detectives C. 8.
Johnston identified the men as
John Wilson, about 26, and Edward
D Pofi, who was wounded
Chief of Police John V. Mis-
kunas, of Bethel township, two of
whose officers fell victim to the
robbers bullets, directed the
search.
CONDITION CRITICAL
Officers Joseph Chymslinski, 26.
and George Kercher, 46, were the
victims of surprise gunfire from
two men they had captured loot-
ing a home.
The robbers were shackled to-
gether and were being herded in
patrol cars when one whipped out
a revolver and cried:
“Don't move I've got you cover-
ed.”
The robber began blazing away
as the officers grabbed for their
own’ weapons. Chymslinski fell,
wounded In the back and abdo-
men A shot in the side dropped
Kercher. Both were token to
Mercer Hospital where Chymslin-
ski was said to be in critical condi-
tion
•Tm sure I shot one of the
men." Kercher said
"I heard him squeal.”
down over Jaffa It had strafed these views in a letter to Frank m . , a.
Arab lines, the reports said Harris, Conservative candidate in Rael IatA
a byelection at North Croydon. DdCh III DIdiv
Amarilloan Killed Abilene welcomed a return of
2m S the sunshine today and was prom-
AMARILLO, March 4. Ob-Joto ised somewhat warmer weather
Laymon, 87, was burned to death during the week-end, sithough the
in his small frame home early this mercury’s low for tonight was ex-
pected to be 28. The highest tern
Inch Topping
For 5 Projects
One-inch cold mix topping for
morning The charred body wa
found in bed.
proposed paving in five projects
was approved by the City Com-
mission Friday afternoon as the
result of informal discussions
among themselves
The decision followed a lengthy
airing of the paving question at
the morning commission session,
when about 15 citizens—including
realtors, paving contractors, pave-
I ment materials salesmen and a
Chamber of Commerce official-
protested against the city's tenta-
tively planned requirement of inch
and a half topping
Projects where the inch topping
was approved are the veterans ad-
MANILA, March 6 (P—The
colorful Hukbalahap guerrillas to-
day were formally outlawed by
President Manuel Roxas
The president told a special Elmwood Estate Subdivision, Hoi-
press conference the government lis Subdivision and Henson Sub-
has evidence linking the Commu- division •
nist party with the Central Luzon By the time bids are received
urmed peasant organization, which for the city's, planned 100-block
thas formed to resist Japanese oc- program a definite minimum pav-
dition near South Junior High
School, Elmwood Went Addition.
Ing requirements ordinance will be
cupation. ing requirements ordinance will be
Roxas cited 95 encounters be- passed City Manager Boyd J Mc-
tween the Huks and units of the Daniel said Friday
Philippine army since April 26, ,------.—-.
1946- —shortly after his election as Chennault Flying
president of the Philippine com- — w L:
monwealth Roxas automatically IO Washington
became president of the republic SHANGHAI, March 6, on Claire
on Philippine Independence day, L Chennault left by plane today
' July 4 1946). for Washington, where the wartime
He asserted that there had been leader of the Flying Tigers will
a plot against his life at the time testify on American aid to China.
of the election and that evidence Chennault is operating a com-
in possession of the Department, mercial airline in China He is
of Justice showed the Hunks aimed aboard a Northwest Airlines plane
at the forcible overthrow of the flying to Minneapolis via Tokyo
government.”
The Hukbalahap, led by Luis
SHANGHAI, March 6, un. Claire
for Washington, where the wartime
Agreement
Is Mum on
A ... 8/ N
TELL OF RUSSIAN COUP—Mr. and Mrs. Jim Smith, Hous-
ton, who tell of the Russian coup in Czechoslovakia in a copy-
right story which is being released by United Press. Smith
was acting vice president of the International Union of Stu-
dents and resigned because he said the Communist Czech
government prohibited free speech and assembly. (NEA Tele-
photo) /
GEORGIA’S GOVERNOR ASKS
LAWS TO STAMP OUT KLAN
ATLANTA, March 6. (P)—Gov. M
E. Thompson in a stong stand
against the Ku Klux Klan today
called for laws to end its "meet-
ings of intimidation."
The Georgia governor accused
the Klan of delivering the South
" into the hands of our enemies,”
and accused the hooded secret or-
der of aiding Communists and
— "race baiters "
His denunciation of the Klan was
coupled with a restatement of his
opposition to proposed federal anti-
lynch laws.
The governor referred to recent
election-eve demonstrations by the
Klan in two east-central Georgia
counties where Negroes were re-
gistered to vote, and declared
"While our senators and con-
gressmen tell the world that we
have enough laws and will enforce
them, the Ku Klux Klan by such
meetings cut the ground from be-
neath their feet."
At both rallies, Klan leaders
spoke against President Truman's
proposed civil right program and
declared themselves for "white
supremacy."
Thompson characterized the klan
“type of mind" as anti-southern
and said the Klan itself was giving
"aid to the Communists, the race
baiters and the radical organiza-
tions which are pushing the leg-
islation we deem unwise and un-
necessary"
He appealed to "the ministers
and good people of our state to
see to it that the legislature gives
us laws which will permit our
courts to prevent such harmful
actions and deeds.”
In support of his contention that
a federal anti-lynch legislation is
unnecessary, Thompson last night
ordered four prisoners transferred
Reds' Role
LONDON, March 6. (P)—The Unit-
ed States, Britain and France
have agreed upon international
control of the Ruhr and close co-
operation to enlist western Ger-
many's assets in the Marshall plan. '
In conferences here the western
powers also agreed that western
Germany should have a federal
form of government, providing
adequate central authority but pro-
tecting the rights of the various
states
A communique was issued to-
night after the conferences ended.
FRENCH MERGER DUE
No hard agreement was reached
upon merger of the French zone
with the United States-British zones
of occupation, but responsible of-
ficials said decisions reached here
will lead to that objective
The three powers decided Ger-
many will be represented in the In-
ternational control of the Ruhr No
indication was given whether Rus-
sia will be invited to participate.
The Ruhr agreement was in gen-
eral terms. The specific recom-
mendations were not disclosed.
They will be submitted first to the
governments concerned
The three powers adjourned un-
til next month their talks on the
rote Germany will play in the eco-
nomic recovery program. .
Sun Welcomed FARLEY PREDICTS WALLACE
TO POLL 5 MILLION VOTES
perature for Sunday is predicted
to be in the low 50s, the U. S.
Weather Bureau said.
The mercury stayed below freez-
ing Friday and last night, the
maximum being 30 degrees and
the minimum 24
Temperatures hovered around
zero in the Panhandle again last
night-it was 4 below at Dalhart-
but a bright sun promised to rout
the extreme cold quickly. Nearly
five inches of snow was reported
last night at Wichita Falls
The solid cloud blanket that cov-
ered the state for days had re-
treated this morning to along the
Gulf Coast Partly cloudy weath-
er hung on in East Texas and the
south central part
from the state penitentiary to local
authorities.
He said he made the move to
forestall possible criticism that
Georgia was unable to protect its
prisoners unless they were kept
In the state stronghold.
Wheat Export
Ceiling at $2 -
WASHINGTON, March I (P—A
36-nation wheat agreement putting
a $2 a bushel ceiling price on
wheat exported by the United
States, Canada and Australia was
announced today.
The International Wheat Council
made public the five-year pact it
is subject to approval by the U. S.
Congress and to ratification by
the other governments concerned.
NEW YORK, March 6. (AP)— Former Postmaster Gen-
eral James A. Farley predicts that Henry A. Wallace's
third party bid for the White House will poll some 5,000,-
000 (M) votes next November. And. he says, "from half
a million to a million" of them will come from New York.
Wallace, the one-time national Democratic chairman ,
said last night, “Is more of a threat to the Democratic
party than the Democratic leaders realize "
... . He was interviewed on the "Meet the Press" radio pro-. .
gram during which he said flatly that he was not a candi-
date for office in 1948, “neither the presidency, nor the
vice-presidency "
“In my judgment. President Truman will be the nomi-
nee of his party," Farley declared
New Mexico Woman Hits
$35,000 Radio Jackpot
$10,000 Bond Set
For Clift Clary
BALLINGER, March O-Bond of
$10,000 has been set for Cliff
Clary. 47-year-old ranch foreman
indicted Thursday, on a murder
charge In connection with his
Mrs Parrett's name wss drawn
from smong 3,000,000 submitted in
HOLLYWOOD, March 5. (P -
Mrs. Edgar Parrett—a one in 3,-
000 000 mother-in-law—says she the contest by radio listerners all
over the country. She was nominat-
___“really didn't expect to win" 1
She referred to the (35.000 bon ed by her son-in-law's sister, Mrs.
- anza of 42 prizes she was awarded | Paul Lunsford
Of Electoral College yesterday in a mother-in-law con-
WASHINGTON, March 6. (UP) test on "Queen For a Day" radio
—A proposed constitutional amend-program.
ment, introduced by Rep Ed dos- Mrs. Parrett, 52. and a grand-
sett, D. Tex, under which the mother, lives In the tiny Navajo
president and vice president would Indiam reservation community of
be elected by popular vote was Shiprock, N. M., where: her bus-
approved by a House judiciary band is in charge of an Indian
subcommittee yesterday. I service farm
The proposed amendment would -
divide a state , electoral vote in which her name was picked from
direct proportion to its popular • bowl from among 24 finalist,
vote, abolishing the present elec- Her daughter, Mrs Jack Leonard,
torial college system.
Gossett Asks Junking
She didn't hesr the program on
11. who lives 30 miles away, re
of Montebello,
Calif., who was in the studio audi-
ence when the winner was an-
nounced and let go with a shriek
of delight
Mutual Broadcasting Company
officials said the prizes surpassed
any radio Jackpot to date
The included an automobile and
trailer, a $1,000 Persian lamb
coat, a diamond ring and watch,
a home full of electric and gas-
operated appliances, and a turn-
week trip to New York City, Ver-
mont and Bermuda
wife’s death
Clary had not made bond up
to this morning
The agreement fixes a minimum
price as well as the $2 maximum
The minimum will be $1.50 a bush-
el in the first year. 1948-49. It will
drop TO cents a bushel annually
until 1952 when the minimum will
be $1.10 a bushel.
Between the top and bottom
prices, the agreement provides,
transactions will be "freely con-
cluded and prices moved in ac-
cordance with market conditions "
The 33 countries Importing wheat
are pledged to buy not less than
500,000,000 bushels from the
three exporting countries Canadawould ship . ___________
A special venire is to be called Dotted States 185,000,000,00 and
In the murder case Judge O L. Australia, 85,000,0
Parish has set the week of April ---------------
12 for the other criminal cases,
and the special venire may be call-
ed during the week, he said
. Clary is represented by Sen.
Dorsey B Hardeman of Runge &
Hardeman
Clyde Vinson is representing
Mrs Mildred Blackstone. San
Angelo beauty operator, who was
indicted for perjury in connection
with her testimony before the
grand jury in regard to the Clary
case.
CIO Fires Bridges
SAN FRANCISCO. March 6. on
—The CIO ousted Harrry Bridges
as northern California regional di-
rector yesterday
And. newspapers reported, a
third attempt is to be made to
deport the Australian born long-
shore labor leader
In Washington however, aides
of Attorney General Tom Clark
said the Bridges case has not
been reopened
Permian Basin API
Hits Hesleton Bill
ODESSA March « (UP)—The
Permian Basin chapter of the
American Petroleum Institute was
told last night that the Hesleton
bill to create a federal petroleum
control commission is supported
by enemies of progress and civil-
ization."
Gerald Cullinan of Dallas, pres-
ident of the Public Relations In-
stitute of Texas, told the group
that an informed public would th-
wart any legislative attempt to re-
strict or control free enterprise is
the oil industry.
Tame of Pampanga province,
grew out of the leftwing Demo-
cratic Alliance Party, which was
formed shortly before the war
When the Japanese took over the
islands, the Central Luzon pea-
Mints armed themselves with wea-
pons from Bataan's battlefields
and, Inter, with those from am-
busbed Japanese patrols
2 Die in Collision
FRIONA March 4 try-Two men
were killed instantly here late yes-
terday in a collision between their 1
automobile and a Santa Fe passen- |
ger train
Killed were George Stow ers, SS. |
ormer, and C A. Crow, 58, filling
station operator. i
In Abilene—
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Dealer.
Stocks Propped
NEW YORK. March t (TV-
Timid bidding continued to prop
individual stock, today although
many market leaders were neg-
lected
| layed the news a few minutes
| later over Shiprock’s one tele-
: phone
Dixie Senators Demand Equal Radio Time to
Man Identified..6
SPREE As Abilene Net Answer Dramatization of Civil Rights Plan
cloudy and warmer today tonight and Sun A youth who stepped into a fill- =
day High temperature today probably 45, ... "DPP X ■ 4 4
low tonight 28 high Sunday in the low sos. ing station at Carthage Thursday WASHINGTON, March 6. — mittee on Civil Rights “as are
EAST TEXAS Pam clouds in norm-evening and slumped into _uncon- Twenty-one Dixie senators today millions of American people whom
* demanded equal radio time to an- we represent."
swer a broadcast dramatizing I Mutual’s offices in New York
THE WEATHER
THIS IS "STORMY" Stormy
Laurence, 21-year-old New Or-
leans night club dancer, goes
through her strip-tease routine___..-
on the campus of Louisiana unaalmn
State University at Baton 1- - -
Rouge, in support of her can-
didate. Pat McIntyre, running
for president of the student
body. The act ended in a riot
shortly after this picture was
made, when students raided
the truck on which she was
dancing demolished the musi-
cal instruments and tossed
, Stormy" into a nearby cam-
I pus lake (NEA Telephoto) ,
ment"asasunany “Warmer Sumang "mod sciousness has been identified as
erate northerly winds on coast. G W Thompson whose mother
WEST TEXAS Generally fair with rising ~ , Inompson, whose mower.
temperatures this afternoon, tonight and Mrs. L D Crumpler, liven on
- um temperature 24 hour period end Route 2, Anson, and whose sister,
ing at 7:30 a is today 30 a Mrs. Bill Johnson, resides in
mnmm Nou period end-Abilene, Sheriff H. T. Fleming said
TEMPERATURES Saturday.
’ Thompson was reported to have
been a discharged veteran from
World War II, who had served in
the Navy. Fleming said
The youth 25. was taken to a
Shreveport hospital Hia condition
waa not known here this morning
s.2. r.
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2829
Hour
r-^
27—35
17-35
27—36
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... 27—34
20 Fleming instructed hospital author-
101 ities to place the youth in the care
- - . . of the Veterans Administration at
Barometer reading at 9:30 a. m 2834
Relative humidity at 6 a m.: 95 per cent i Shreveport.
id 1
President Truman's civil rights reported that Kobak was on vaca-
kroup, representing 11 tion "touring the South." ,J his
■ absence Robert Swezey, vice pres-
ident and general manager, issued
this statement:
"In the true American spirit we
southern states, made the request
in a telegram to Edgar Korak,
president of the Mutual Broadcast-
ing Co Noting that the mutual
system is broadcasting a series of
programs, "To secure these
rights,” the senators asked Kobak
to grant them equal time to ex-
plain their stand on the civil rights
proposals
The Southerners said they are
opposed to the measures recom-
mended by the President’s Com-
naturally want the subject matter
of our broadcasts to receive the
fullest possible treatment in the
public Interest We will be very
glad to consider the request of
this group to comment on the
President's committee report,
which is the basis for these brood-
caste.” I
Senators who signed the tele-
gram included many of the South-
erners who organized a Senate
guard set to filibuster at r mo-
ment’s notice against any civil
rights bill . _
Other senators who signed were:
Russell and George of Georgia.
McKellar and Stewart of Tennes-
see, Connally and O’Daniel of
Texas. Byrd and Robertson of
Virginia, Overton and Ellender of
Louisiana, Hill and Sparkman of
Alabama Maybank and Johnsen
of South Carolina, Eastland and
Stennis of Mississippi, McClellan
and Fulbright of Arkansas, Hoey
and Umstead of North Carolina.
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