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Egyptians
Fire on, Hit
UN Plane
TEL AVIV, Israel, June 25 ()-
A United Nations spokesman said
today the Egyptians had fired up-
on a clearly-marked white UN
truce plane piloted by an Amer-
ican.
The spokesman said also that
the Egyptians had refused to per-
mit a UN-approved Jewish supply
convoy to pass to settlements in
the Negeb, and both incidents were
©regarded by the UN commission
"here as violations of the truce.
The case was not regarded, how-
ever as invalidating the general
cease-fire which has held general-
ly for two of its four weeks
The Israeli government also ac-
cused the Egyptians of violating
the truce. A communique said the
Egyptians not only refused pass-
age to the Jewish convoy, but
bombed the settlements of Beer
Tuyva and Kefar Warbug, mid-
Away between tel Aviv and Gaza.
Y The UN spokesman said Egyp-
tian Spitfires pursued the white
truce plane, until it was about to
land near Kefar Warburg. He said
the plane was attacked with gun-
fire as it was about to touch the
ground. Fifteen shots were fired,
some of them striking the plane
from the rear and hitting the in-
strument panel. The American pil-
ot, a colonel named Martin, was
alone in the plane and escaped in-
ajury, the spokesman added.
• Meanwhile the Mizrachi Party
declared that both its resigned
ministers were returning to the
government. They had resigned in
the crisis caused by the govern-
ment's dispatch of Israeli troops
to oppose Irgun Zvai Leumi at-
tempts to land an arms ship.
The government, bolstered by a
vote of confidence, was standing
firm in its opposition to the chal-
lenge from Irgun. Unofficial ad-
a vices said three Irgun fighters and
• pernaps some Israeli troops were
killed in clashes that developed as
Irgunists withdrew from Israeli
front lines.
Warrer
Nominat
Utah Honors 4 Brothers
Killed in Separate Battles
TREMONTON, Utah, June 25. (A)
—The four Borgstrom brothers,
who gave their lives in separate
battles from the islands of the Pa-
cific to Germany, are together
again.
The sons of Mr. and Mrs. Alben
Borgstrom separated Oct. 12, 1940,
when the oldest enlisted in the
Marine Corps.
Today their bodies, home after
honored escort from their tempor-
ary graves overseas, lay side by
side in flag-draped caskets.
And tomorrow Gen. Mark Clark,
Sixth Army commander, Gov. Her-
bert B. Maw of Utah, President
George Albert Smith of the Lat-
ter-Day Saints (Mormon) Church
and other dignitaries will honor
them in full military funeral serv-
ices.
The four brothers were killed
within less than six months period
in 1944.
Pfc Clyde E Borgstrom fell with
the Marines March 17 in the Sol-
omons.
Pfc Elmer Leroy Borgstrom was
killed in Italy with the 91st In-
fantry Division on June 22.
Sgt Rolon Borgstrom’s bomber
limped back to England from a
raid over Germany Aug. 8 with
his body in its riddled fuselage
Pfc. Rulon Borgstrom, Rolon’s
twin brother, died 17 days later
of wounds he received while the
38th Infantry, Second Division, was
attacking Le Dreff. France.
The bodies were brought to the
funeral home this morning with
master sergeants of the brothers’
respective services as escorts.
They will lie in state here until
this evening. Sentries will guard
the caskets through the night.
Burial will be tomorrow in
Tremonton Cemetery.
Reds Cut O
Berlin Food
Yugoslavia Holds 5
U. S. Soldiers 11
. Days; Protest Made
WASHINGTON, June 25. (PP)—The
United States is protesting to Yugo-
slavia against the 11-day detention
of five American soldiers who went
swimming in the Yugoslav zone of
Trieste, and is demanding their
early release.
The State Department said that
the protest and demand are being
presented to the government at
Belgrade by Ambassador Caven-
dish Cannon The five American
• soldiers who were arrested by
Yugoslav military authorities June
15 were named by the State De-
partment as:
T-4 George C. Wilson, T-S Au-
gustine Santana, T-S Jarvis L.
Saulnier, Pvt. Gordon J. Foster
and Pvt. Archie M. Van Why.
(Home addresses unavailable.
BERLIN, June 25. (—The Rus-
sians ordered today that no more
food from their zone be sent into
the Western-occupied sectors of
Berlin.
They stopped traffic yesterday on
the single railroad line supplying
those sectors with food from the
Western occupation zones
The blockade left air the only
way to get food in to the two
million inhabitants of the Ameri-
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COMING SUNDAY-
What inroads have candidates
like Roger Q. Evans and Caso
March made into Governor
Beauford Jester's popularity
as a candidate for re-election?
What are the chances that Jes-
ter will be forced into a runoff
election?
How many Texas voters want
to elect a new governor
this year?
Sunday's Reporter-News, will
carry the results of the Texas
Poll which reports voter opin-
ion based on the scientific
samplings of the Belden Poll.
can. British and French sec-
tors. Allied experts said that would
prove unworkable in the long run.
American and British authorities
said a month's food stocks are on
and in the Western sectors and
nobody will starve.
The people remained outwardly
calm in the face of efforts of the
Soviet-controlled press to spread
fear of hunger and unemployment
and a Russian threat to keep the
rail freight tieup on indefinitely.
By their action the Russians
withdrew from the four-power food
pool which for nearly three years
has been feeding Berlin.
Each occupying power has been
contributing to this pool.
The Russians can feed the one
million Germans in their sector
from their surrounding occupation
zone.
„The Western supplies have to
come in from the Western, occupa-
tion zones. They can't come in so
long as the rail line is blocked
in the American, British and
French sectors, Germans began
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All-Night Parley Follows
Dewey's 3d Ballot Victory
CONVENTION HALL, Philadel-
phia, June 25. (PP)— The Republicans
made it a Thomas E Dewey—Earl
Warren ticket today \ and closed
coast-to-coast victory hope in No-
vember’s presidential elections.
California’s Gov. Warren got the
vice-presidential nomination by ac-
clamation once New York's Gov.
Dewey, unanimously nominated
last night for the presidency, point-
ed him out as the man he wanted
for a running mate
The gavel ending the 24th na-
tional Republican convention bang-
ed down at 11:30 a m. CST.
Chairman Joe Martin ended it
on the same note hit on Monday
when it opened victory. Just be-
See page 18 for more pic-
tures and stories on GOP con-
vention.
HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS—Old Ike Harvey fondles
two of his kittens as he sits on a bed in front of the blackened
ruins of his home, destroyed by fire early Wednesday. He
doesn't plan to move away. He lived in the little one-room
house 17 years, and sees no reason why he can't rebuild and
live there another 17. (Staff Photo.)
HOME DESTROYED
Abilenian, 72, Saves Bed
And Kittens From Blaze
fore ghe session’s end, he intro-
duced Warren as the "next vice-
president of the United States."
The cheering delegates left no
doubt they believed him- that this
is the year the GOP can end 16
years of Democratic rule
Warren in an acceptance speech
pledged "every bit of loyalty in
my make-up."
No other name than Warren’s
was presented for the vice-presi-
deny
Arizona'gave notice of nominat-
ing Harold E. Stassen but a few
minutes later withdrew it.
Gov. WARREN
... Dewey’s choice
trading their money for the new
Deutsche mark, which was put in
competition here with the Eastern
German money the Russians in-
troduced yesterday.
The official Russian press said it
is "difficult to predict” when re-
pairs could be made on the rail
line from Western Germany.
By JAN DICKERSON
Disaster struck at 72 - year - old
Ike Harvey Wednesday morning,
but Ike didn't let it bother him
His home, a one-room building
by the rallroad tracks on the east
end of South Second, burned to
the ground.
All he saved was his bed and
three kittens.
Ike woke up about 4 a. m Wed-
nesday to the smell of smoke and
heat of flames He didn't know how
the fire started, and he didn't try
to find out.
Things like that just can’t be
helped," he said later.
He dragged his bed clear of the
blazing house, and saw that his
three mewing kittens were safe.
The place was almost destroyed
before the Fire Department could
be notified
Ike has a little food in a box by
his bed. He has a garden too,
which he proudly says will « be
"ripe" before long.
His philosophy is calm and un-
worried
"I’ll make out all right." he
tells visitors "It’s good weather
to sleep outside I am going to
build another house.”
Chairman Joseph Martin put
Warren’s name before the conven-
tion and declared him nominat-
ed by acclamation.
New York's Dewey, getting his
second chance at the presidency,
made it an East-West all-governor
ticket after an all-night series of
conferences.
The word quickly spread to Con-
vention Hall and the delegates
didn’t take long to whoop through
Warren’s name
Leaders of camps of other dis-
appointed presidential hopefuls
were quick to line up behind the
Dewey-Warren combination
The ticket which Republicans
hope will end 16 years of Demo-
cratic rule in Washington was com-
pleted at a series of conferences
that went on most of the night and
continued through the morning.
There was tense waiting through
out the downtown political camps
as Dewey, unanimously given a
second chance at the presidency.
kept the convention waiting for his
choice of a running mate.
NOBODY PRESENT
At 8 30 a m CST. the hour
DEWEY ACCEPTING NOMINATION—Showing a slight trace
of a beard, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York extends his
left arm during his address before the GOP convention in
Philadelphia accepting its presidential nomination.
ANGRY AT SIGLER
Dewey's Molher Excited
As Radio Reveals Victory
Council Passes Ordinance to . ,
Create Planning Commission Recruiting Halted
Rio Grande Flood - for 4his convention to somuder
Isolates Del Rio
An ordinance creating a City
Planning Commission of 13 mem-
bers. which shall act as an advi-
sory board to the Board of Com-
missioners. Board of Adjustment,
Public Parks and Recreation
Board, or any other board or
department of the city govern-
ment. was passed on first reading
by the Board of City Commission-
ers Friday morning.
The proposed ordinance speci-
fies that six of the 13 members
first appointed under the ordinance
shall serve for one year, the other
seven for two years, and thereafter
appointees shall serve for
years.
It further specified that
two
each
• shall be a real property taxpayer
of the ‘city and shall be a resi-
dent within the corporate limits
of the city, who has attained the
age of 25 years.
The planning commission is to
be composed of one member from
each of the following organizations,
all of which are strictly civic or-
ganizations: Abilene Independent
School Board, Abilene City Fed-
eration of Women’s Clubs. Park
@ snd Public Recreation Board, Jun-
ior Chamber of Commerce, Cham-
The Board of Commissioners may WASHINGTON, June 25. (—
adopt the method recommended by Army Secretary Royall telegraph-
the planing commission, or any oth-ed all state adjutants general to-
er plan or method which may be day: to stop recruiting National
deemed most advisable: provided, Guardsmen immediately; .,
however, than any public improve- He told them congressional lead-
ment. undertaken hereunder, or ers will not favor extra appropria-
otherwise, by the Board of Com- "On’ to pay more Guardsmen than
missioners shall never be deemed
invalid because the City Planning
Commission was not consulted
The Planning Commission would,
under the ordinance, be vested with
power and authority to approve or
reject any proposed plant, plat or
replat, subdivision or resubdivision,
of any land lying within the cor-
porate limits of the city and with-
out the corporate limits.
the regular budget provides.
The budget for the next fiscal
year provides for a total National
Guard strength of 341 000 The rush
of enlistments by men who other-
wise would be eligible for the draft
is believed to have pushed the
strength near to 375,000 Under
provisions of the draft act. men
who were not in the Guard by last
midnight are subject to draft. (See
story on page 17.)
HOUSTON, June 25. (P— |
Southern Pacific’s . division
headquarters here said its
transcontinental passenger
trsin. the Argonaut, is "ma-
rooned” st Del Rio following
heavy rains in that area.
Spokesmen for the railroad
said passengers are being
cared for at Del Rio until they
can be sent to San Antonio.
EAGLE PASS. June 25. (UP)-
A near-record flood crest roared
down the Rio Grande Valley to-
day after two days of torrential
rainfall, isolating the city of Del
Rio. spilling over into part of this
border town and causing tremen-
dous property damage
The river created at 44 feet. 6
inches at Eagle Pass at 10 a m
That was 28 feet shove its flood
stage and was only three feet un-
der the record for high water at
Eagle Pass set when the Rio
Grande went on its historic ram-
age of 1932.
One man was reported drowned
at Del Rio Main-line traffic of the
Southern Pacific Railway was cut
when the water washed out
a
nominations for vice president
there was scarcely a major poli
tician in the hall
Chairman Joe Martin had not
put in an appearance The GOP
bigwigs who sit on the platform
were absent.
They were waiting downtown for
the word from the New York gov-
ernor, now quarterbacking the Re-
publican drive to gain full control
of the national government.
Most of the delegates were in
their places.
In a hotel suite downtown. Dew-
ey still was pondering the recom-
mendations he got for a running
mate after he bowled over all op-
By JAMES A. O. CROWE
OWOSSO. Mich . June 25. —
This complacent little city—the
birthplace of Thomas E Dewey-
had only one really excited inhabi-
tant today.
That was Mrs. Anne Thomas
Dewey, 69-year-old mother of the
Republican presidential nominee
The climax of a day of mounting
tension came for Mrs Dewey last
night when radio reports of the
third balloting at the convention
left no doubt that her son had
been nominated.
She twisted a handkerchief and
tears welled behind her spectacles
In response to the reporter's
time-honored question "How do
you feel?" Mrs Dewey responded
a bit sharply:
"How else would I feel at a time
like this? I’m proud."
The radio was blaring, both the
ber of Commerce, Rotary Club.
Lions Club. Optimist Club. Kiwan-
is Club. Business and Professional
Women’s Club, Exchange Club.
Parent-Teacher Association, and
Board of Adjustment.
Under provisions of the ordi-
nance, members may be removed
from the Planning Commission for
"reuse,” but the member has a
right to e public hearing
The Planning Commission would
be vested with power to submit to
the Board of Commissioners plans,
together with recommendatins, gov-
erning
Public improvements: establish-
ment and location of additional
streets, alleys, and by-ways schools,
parks, snd playgrounds; residential
centers: public amusements, out-
door theaters, swimming pools;
crestion of new zones, or changing
Of present, existing zones.
bridge over Devil’s River in the position last night and became the
first defeated Republican presiden-
Del Rio area. .
The Civil Aeronautics Authority
at San Antonio said a search was
underway for a small plane with
two men aboard, believed to have
been lost in a thundrstorm late
yesterday.
The plane was last seen at 6
tial candidate ever to win renom-
ination.
For sentimental and other rea-
sons, many delegates had wanted
| him to pick Sen John W. Bricker
of Ohio
Bricker ran with Dewey in the
City Orders Over-All Survey
On Water Resources and Needs
A survey and report on the pres-
ent end future water needs and
water resources of the City of Abi-
lene was authorized at a meeting
of the City Commission this morn-
ing when the board approved a
resolution to employe Freeze and
Nichlos, water engineers, to make
the study and present its findings
to the boards
included la the proposal of the
engineering firm, which recently
completed a similar study for the
City of Sweetwater, the survey will
cover the past and future use of
water resources; determine the
safe yield of the city’s present re
servoirs during an extended
drouth: surveys of available water-
sheds and determine their pos-
sibilities as water-supply sources;
check other possible supplies,
such as underground water; and a
general and complete picture of
the water situation as it applies
to Abilene
The water engineering firm pro-
posed to make these studies, along
with a full and complete report
of its findings, at a cost of $3,500.
The work, according to the firms
estimate, will require about eight
months to complete.
Commissioner C. E Adams, in
making the motion that" the en-
gineering firm be employed, said:
"We ought not to let up on our
search for a water supply."
RETIREMENT PLAN FAVORED
The Board of Commissioners al-
so acted favorably on a letter
from a committee representing
city employes exclusive of the
members of the Fire Department,
requesting the city to adopt a
state approved retirement plan
for municipal employes, whereby
the city would match, up to a max
imum of 7% per cent, a 4 per cent
fund withheld from the employe’s
annual salary.
City Manager Boyd McDaniel
estimated that the initial cost to
the city would be approximately
$30,000, based upon a 6 per cent
subsidy of the salaries of the em-
ployes involved
Under the state-approved, but
not state-controlled, retirement
program, the plan would be ad-
ministered by a board of trustees
of five persons, three of whom,
would be chief executive officers,
other officers, or department heads
and the other two would be named
from amors the list of municipal
employes.
The city’s apportionment to the
retirement plan would be deter-
mined at the beginning of the year
The fire department, it was
pointed out, did not request inclu-
sion. because that department now
has its own retirement plan.
The commissioners authorized
City Attorney (E. M. Overshiner
to draw up an ordinance to put
the retirement plan into operation
It was pointed out that the pro-
p m. 30 miles north of Del Rio,
flying in a heavy thunderstorm.
Flying out of San Antonio, the
plane’s destination was not known.
There were no known fatalities
in the Eagle Pass area, where
some streets were reported under
four feet of water shortly before
noon. Floodwaters seeped into the
municipal water system leaving
the city without drinking water.
Del Rio was out of power most
of the night, with two hydro-elec-
trie power plants and a steam
plant of C entral Power and Light
Co. on Devil’s River, nrth of Del
Rio forced to shut down because
of high water.
The Hill Country in Central Tex-
as. the South Plains of West Texas
and the Big Bend country of
Southwest Texas were drenched.
Crops benefitted. Livestock pros-
1944 Republican debacle in which
Franklin D. Roosevelt won his
fourth term. '“♦
There were other considerations
and other candidates than Bricker.
One of these was Harold E. Stas-
en. Minnesota's yr ng former
governor who tried hard but fail-
ed to* top the ticket Stassen’s best
friends said, however, he didn't
want the job
THE WEATHER
pects brightened as the
soaked the ranges Lakes
streams were replenished
back of the drouth was broken
Please see COUNCIL, P. 2, col. * bock.
rain
and
The
Some details of the storm dam-
age, transmitted by amateur ra-
dio. were received in Corpus
Christi One message said the Rio
Crande was rising.
One man was drow ned in Devil’s
River. As much as 11 inches of
rain was reported Heavy rains
fell in the entire area A passen-
ger train was ‘delayed because of
a washout
In the South Plains the streets
of Littlefield were flooded. Water
running-board deep blocked high-
ways between Littlefield and Lub-
r s DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
WEATHER Hi REAU
A BILENE AND VICINITY Party cloudy
this afternoon tonight and Saturday Tie-
ing temperature with high today of 95
degrees low tonight of 75 and high Satur-
day of 98
EAST TEXAS Partly cloudy with seat
tered thundershowers in west and north
portion this afternoon tonight and Satur-
day Not much change tn temperatures
Moderate to fresh southerly winds on 1
coast
WEST TEXAS Partly cloudy with scat-
tered thundershowers this a fternoon to-
night and Saturday. Not much change in
Dewey's Goal
Is ’Freedom'
PHILADELPHIA, June 25 (P —
Thomas E Dewey solemnly set a
goal of freedom for men every-
where in accepting the Republican
presidential nomination last night.
“As long as the world is half
free, we must peacefully labor to
help men everywhere achieve lib-
erty." he told cheering GOP na-
tional convention delegates who
had just nominated him unani-
mously
"Above all other purposes.” he
said "we must labor by every
peaceful means to build a world
order founded upon justice and
righteousness That kind of a world
will have peace That kind of peace
will be worth having ”
World freedom and an appeal for
unity to help achieve it were the
I two central themes of the New
' York governor’s 15-minute accept-
ance speech.
"We are a united party," he told
the Republicans, but our nation
•lands tragically in need of that
same unity."
The unity to be sought is “most
of all spiritual.” he said
temperatures.
Maximum temperature for 24 hours end-
ing at a 30 a ai 87
Minimum temperature for 24 hours end-
ing at 6.30 a m 71
TEMPERATURES
HOUR PM
A M
Fr» Thurs
T5 76
TO 74
79-76
82—77 .....
84 78
81—82 .....
1 30
3.30 ..
130 :
8.30
Thurs Wed
84—92
... 85 95
1:30
2 30 .....
9
Sunrise today 5 33
Sunset tonight 7 50
Barometer reading at 12 30-p.m 28.14
Relative humidity at 12:30 p.m: 38
percent
telephone and the doorbell were
ringing, and no one in the modest
white house had had time for
supper
Asked if she thought Michigan’s
delegation, which had been voting
for Michigan Sen Arthur H. Van-
denberg. would support her son on
the third ballot, Mrs. Dewey snap-
ped
"Sigler (Gov. Kim Sigler of Mil
chigan) might as well take his
delegation and go home ”
She said she didn’t plan to go to
Philadelphia, but she indicated
that her son might visit his home
town during the campaign.
The rest of 18,000 inhabitants of
Owosso, though sharing Mrs.
Dewey’s dislike of the Michigan
delegation’s tactics, were far less
moved by the presidential nomina-
tion of a townsman.
That does not mean they lacked
pride in him but after all, they
pointed out, Dewey’s political emi-
nence was an old story to them.
Their attitude was typical in •
quiet scene at the Elks Club bar.
"That Sigler almost cost us a
good president,” growled Bill Mills,
the bar keep.
The patrons nodded.
Owosso residents, who have
known the nominee since he pedal-
led papers worked in his father’s
weekly newspaper print shop and
elerked in a drug store, were con-
fident he will be the next president.
They just were making no fuss
over it.
Escapee Hunted
In Abilene Area
holier in Abilene and surround-
ing areas were on the alert, this
morning for Cecil Chester ‘Davis.
26 - year - old Darrington Prison
Farm convict who sawed his way
out of Scurry County jail at Sny-
der Tuesday.
. Hr was thought to be in the
Abilene area yesterday.
DEATHLESS DAYS
IN ABILENE TRAFFIC
1Year,13Days
Lewis Wins
Coal Conlracl
WASHINGTON, June 25 (—
John L. Lewis snd most of the
soft-coal operators today signed •
new coal castract providing a $1-
a-day wage increase snd twice ss
much money for the miners' wel.
fare-pension fund
An official of the steel industry-
owned coal mines had announced
earlier he would not sign the
agreement
A joint announcement by Lewis
and the operators who signed said
the new contract—except for
the increased wages snd pension
fund kept ‘all other terms and
conditions of the previous wage
agreement.” 7
This includes sn outright con-
tinuation of s union shop provis-
ion. despite s Taft Hartley labor
act ban against the union shop
unless it is authorized by the Na-
tional Labor Relations Board. f
This union shop clause caused
Harry M Moses to belt st signing
for the steel industry-owned "cap-
tive’’ coal mines. . 2
The new contract is effective
July 1 and will replace one ex-
piring June 30..
The miners, however, begin their
annual 10-day vacation tomorrow
snd will not return to work until
July 6.
“I’m not in accord with the con-
tract snd I’m not signing it,” Mos-
es told newsmen.
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