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GENERALLY FAIR
NOT- QUITE
SO WARM
VOL. LXVIII NO. 30
The Abilene Reporter-32ems
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EVENING
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ABILENE. TEXAS, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1948 —TWELVE PAGES
German Rioters
lit U. S. Newsmen
By RICHARD KASISCHKE-
BERLIN, Sept. 6. W—Commun-
ist-led demonstrators smashed into
Berlin’s city hall today, using bat-
tering rams and breaking windows
Two American correspondents
were injured to fist fights during
rioting inside the building. The
camera of a third American was
. O mashed.
The disorder, the third of its
kind to 10 days, was apparently
intended to force the anti-Commun-
ist government from power.
Soviet-controlled police made no
to meet a mile or two away in an
attempt to solve the crisis brought
on by the Soviet blockade of the
city since late June.
A shock unit of 50 to 60 youths
smashed the outer gate to spear-
chead the demonstrators. They
broke windows to the inner build-
ing and poured through to over-
come resistance by unarmed city
hall guards.
Although the demonstrators as-
serted they wanted only "to be
________—__________heard.” their apparent alm was
attempt to halt the Communist as to ■ keep the anti-Communist city
government from meeting.
The rioters, staging the ''Inter-
nationale" and shouting Commun-
ist slogans, took over the city hall
assembly room.
Deputy Mayor Ferdinand Fried-
ensburg Isler announced the city
governing body would hold sn
emergency session in the British
sector of the city. Whether the
Communist would use this as an
* excuse to seize control of the city
hall and its msehinery remained
to be seen.
The Americans manhandled were
Associated Press Photographer
Henry Burroughs, whose camera
was smashed, and Ernest Letser,
ent, who was slugged. The demon-
strators yanked a telephone out of
my own hands and ripped out the
telephone plugs.
The demonstrators beat up Leis-
er, who went to Burrough's aid.
Joseph Evans, Wall Street Journal
correspondent, who went to Leiser’s
aid. was thrown down a flight of
stairs snd knocked unconscious.
Evens said he wss attscked by the
Soviet-controlled police.
The demonstrators were quickly
engaged by the small force of civil-
ian guards when they first entered
the building but quickly subdued
these unarmed city employes in a
flurry of fistfights.
Leaders of the demonstrators
sault. There were indications the
riots were a prelude to a Commun-
ist attempt to set up an "action
committee" government over the
dissention-torn and blockaded city.
The rioting took place as the
four military governors prepared
Elect Demos
Or Face Fear,
Truman Says
DETROIT. Sept. 0. (—President
Truman declared today that the
American working man must elect
a Democratic administration and
Congress or face a new "era of
fear" at the hands of “reactionary
Republicans.”
Speaking to cheering thousands
under CIO and AFL auspices, the
President said that organized la-
bor, "our best bulwark against
communism,” had suffered "body
“blows” from Republican adminis-
trations.
Anything short of "an all-out''
labor vote for a "friendly adminis-
tration and a friendly congress,”
he declared, "would be a betrayal
by labor of its own interests.”
The President held out hope of
an eventual merger of the CIO.
the AFL and other branches of or-
ganized labor, asserting it would
be "a great day for labor" and
“ a great day for the country."
• The Republicans in the 80th Con-
gress, he said, "voted themselves
a cut to taxes and voted you a cut
In freedom.” He added:
"They failed to crack down on
prices. but they racked down on
labor.”
He said a “reactionary Repub-
Please see TRUMAN, Pg. 11, Col. 4
Johnson to Tell
'All' Tonight
DALLAS. Sept 6. UFi—Lyndon
Johnson, who claims victory in the
V. S. senatorial race, promised to
tell the people "what has been go-
ing on" in his 7:30 p. m. broad-
cast tonight.
■ Johnson led his opponent Coke
Stevenson by 112 votes in the latest
Texas Election Bureau report. The
last tabulation by the unofficial
vote reporting agency was made
Saturday at 1 p. m. Bob Johnson,
bureau manager, said no further
reports would be made unless
there was an unusual change to
the vote.
At the test report, the election
_ bureau reported on 163 counties
avhich had made certified reports
“of the vote and 91 counties where
the certified vote had been re-
ported to the bureau.
The count Saturday was John
son 494,158 and Stevenson 493,996.
Johnson, in announcing tonight’s
broadcast, refused *to elaborate
further on whst he would say.
Stevenson said he had no state
ment to make yesterday. But last
week he said he would not accept
as final any unofficial tabulation of
votes. The official count will
be made when the state Demo-
cratic executive subcommittee ap-
pointed to convass the vote meets
in Fort Worth Sept 11
Johnson's broadcast will orig-
inate from KTBC at Austin and
will be carried by KRLD, Dallas;
KPRC, Houston, and KRBC, Abi-
lene.
Gov. Beauford Jester said last
night that both candidates and
Geveral other persons had talked
T him about an investigation of
the U. 8. senatorial race.
stood on the balcony of the as
sembly ball and shouted to the
milling crowd below to clear the
lower floor so the .city parli-
ment cannot blame us for prevent
ing their meeting."
Three Russian liaison officers sit-
ting in the balcony watched im-
passively as the crowd churned
shout One of the Soviet-controlled
policemen, asked why he did not
stop the demonstrators, said:
"We have no authority here. The
city government wanted its own
guards in the building." The
police, like several other city gov-
ernment agencies, are split be-
tween West and East control be-
cause Russia refused to recognize
city orders.
After the rioting. Deputy Mayor
Ferdinand Friendensburg told s
news conference the Soviet-con-
trolled police had arrested "a con-
siderable number" of city employ-
es who had tried to stop the demon-
strators.
United Press (UP) - A TEXAS 2 4 NEWSPAPER
DEATHLESS DAYS
IN ABILENE TRAFFIC
1 Yr., 85 Days
no attempt to interfere, adding
caustically: "If you still can call
them police.” He said he did not
Know whether the city government
would attempt again to meet in the
Soviet sector but that he would not
advise it.
IS HIS FIRST
NAME DAGWOOD?
BALTIMORE, Sept. 6. —
Adam Collins, 41, came off sec-
ond best early today in a bout
with mosquitoes.
Police found Mm lying on
the sidewalk in front of his
home with a broken leg and
possible internal Injuries.
Collins said he was postered
by mosquitos, pel up about
2:30 to put a screen in his
second floor bedroom window,
and fell out
LONG LIVE THE QUEEN—After abdicating her throne in
favor of her daughter, former Queen Wilhelmina leads the
cheers from the balcony overlooking jammed Darn Square in
Amsterdam. Watching are Juliana and her, consort, Prince
Bernhard. Wilhelmina told nearly 100,000 subjects, “I am
proud to cry with you, ‘Long live the queen’.”
TALKS NERVOUSLY________________
Juliana Takes Oath,
Takes Dutch Throne
AMSTERDAM, Sept. 6. —
Juilana Van Orange-Nassau form-
ally ascended the throne of The
Netherlands today by taking an
oath of fidelity to the constitution
The new queen, who replaced
her 68-year-old mother, Wilhel-
mina, on Saturday when the weary
ruler of the Dutch empire abdica-
ted. was ceremoniously inaugurat-
ed in Nieuwe Kirk, (New Church),
historic church of worship for
Dutch royalty.
A crowd which packed the
square after the ceremony, des-
pite a gentle rain, gave Juliana a
tremendous ovation. She waved
from a balcony where she stood
with her daughters and husband.
_____A nurse hand-
18-months-old Princess Maryke
The police threw a cordon
around the building and started
checking all passes. They were re-
ported looking for M members of
the Western sector police who, in
plain clothes, had been brought in-
to the building to protect the as-
sembly form demonstrators
. Friendensburg said that before
the meeting he hed received speci-
Be assurances from the Soviet-con-
torlled police they Would protect
the assembly from demonstrators....... .... .........
The deputy mayor said that when Prince Bernhard,
the rioting started the police made Led
ED STEWART NAMED TO HEAD
1949 TEXAS MARCH OF DIMES
Ed S. Stewart, Abilene candy
manufacturer and civic leader, has
been appointed Texas State chair-
man of the 1949 March of Dimes.
Basil O’Connor, president of the
National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis, announced today.
Stewart, who has been ac ive in
ED •. STEWART
community fund raising will have
charge of the 1949 fund drive in
Texas, which will be held during
the month of January.
“The March of Dimes is the sole
support of the National Founda-
tion and its 2,800 local county chap-
ters." Stewart said today "Funds
contributed to the annual drive pay
coeta of medical care and treat-
ment for polio victims and finance
the scientific research and profes-
sional education programs spon-
sored by the National Foundation "
O’Connor, in announcing Stew-
art's acceptance of the March of
Dimes chairmanship, revealed that
when complete incidence figures
for this year are tabulated the toll
of infantile paralysis Jn the United
States for 1948 may well exceed
100,000 cases.
Stewart said this morning plans
are now underway for the 1949
campaign to Texas. "Abilene and
Taylor Countty went above the 1948
quota last year, and I am in hopes
the whole state can do as well dur
ing the next campaign," he said.
"When you see these children in
the hospitals from petto, it just
makes you feel like the least you
can do for them to give a little
to help ease their suffering,” he
sold.
to the queen, who waved again to
the throng which cheered mightly.
Princess Armgsrd. Beatrix and
Irene stood near her
Princess Margaret of Britain
and other royalty stood st the open
windows.
Juliana appeared unusually ner-
vous in the church. She glanced
frequently to the right of her dais,
as if seeking confidence from her
mother, now the Dowager Princess
Wilhelmina, who aat in the first
row of the wing reserved for royal
guests
In taking her oath, Juliana's
votes resounded through the
church ss if she summoned sll her
power for It She trained her eyes
on her mother while making her
address, spooking with deep emo-
tion.
The oath was administered by
Dr R Kraneberg. president of the
States-General, the Dutch con-
gress, before the greatest, gather-
ing of European royalty since the
wedding of Princess Elizabeth of
Great Britain last year.
“1 swear to The Netherlands
people that I will always observe
and uphold the constitution 1
swear that I will defend and pre-
serve with all my power the inde-
pendence and territory of the
state.” ‘
Juliana wore a blue sapphire
gown under the same robes which
Wilhelmina wore when she as-
cended the throne as a girl of 14
fifty years ago. *
T
California Tops
Nation in Fatalities
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
California and North Carolina led
the fatality Mat Monday at the na-
tion's death toll for the Labor Day
week end swelled to 227.
Of the total, 171 deaths were
caused by traffic as record crowds
took to the highways, 30 by drown-
ing, and 26 by miscellaneous caus-
es connected with the holiday
California reported 20 traffic fa-
talities and one drowning North
Carolina togged a total of IT deaths
three traffic, six drowning, and
eight miscellaneous.
Navy Prisoner He
After Fleeing Train
Russia's Hurry
On Colonies
Is Propaganda
PLANS ABANDONED
Timing Cameras Thwart
Air Force Speed Record
CLEVELAND. Sept 5. W—The
Air Force abandoned today its at-
tempt to set a new world speed
record here, after beating the pre-
sent record unofficially Sunday with
69.480 miles an hour.
WASHINGTON, Sept 6. (P)U.
S. officials said todsy Russia’s bid
for new four-power talks on han-
dling Italy’s captured colonies rep-1 port, omeeut, . turbulent
resented a propaganda, maneuver,. Air Force officers said turbulent
intended only to embarrass the fair made it impracticable to fly
western powers.
These officials told reporters
this was the government’s rese-
tion to a Soviet note requesting s
Big Four conference beofre Sept.
15 on the disposition of the colo-
nies.
The date proposed for the dis-
-cussion la six days before the la-
cue It to be referred to the United
Nations assembly meeting in Par-
This is in line with a provision of
the Italian pesce treaty that the
UN would settle the mstter if Rue-
sis. the United States, Britain snd
France failed to agree by the
Sept 15 deadline
* The hostile resetion by American
official! made it appear likely the
three Western powers would reject
the Russian suggestion for s meet-
ing of foreign ministers'.
Thurmond Due
In Abilene
HOUSTON, Sept. 6. Gov. 3.
Strom Thurmond of South Caro-
lina, candidate for president on
the States' Rights Democratic tic-
ket. will make a three-day whirl-
wind campaign tour into Texas this
week, Robert W. Milner, Jr. of
Houston announced today.
Mr. Milner is in ehsrge of ar-
rangements for the quick cam-
paign thrust Into Texas, where the
States' Righters sre making s
strong bid for the 23 electororal
votes of this stste.
Gov Thurmond will first speak
at 8 p. m Wednesday to the Fslr
Park bandshell in Dallas. The
States' Rights Democrats will meet
earlier in the day to perfect a new
The Reporter-News was un-
able today to contact anyone
who has any connection with
the proposed breakfast. N. in-
formation was available as to
the location of the event.
party to the state and name a alate
of electors, in order to get on the
ballot of the general election on
Nov. 2.
A big West Texas rally will be
held for Gov Thur mond in Lub-
bock Thursday night Milner said
In addition to these two ma-
jor speeches, Gov Thurmond will
speak at a luncheon at Big Spring
Thursday noon and will be guest
of honor at a reception at I p. m.
Thursday in the Scarborough Ho-
tel in Midland.
Friday morning Gov Thurmond
will be guest at a breakfast at 8
a. m., at Abilene He will speak
at a luncheon at San Angelo Fri-
day noon and then return to South
Carolina. Milner said.
the newly installed course today
and it was decided not to wait for
better weather conditions
The national air races program
got off today with a consolation
heat in the Goodyear trophy event
for midget planes won by K. R.
Townsend ot Tulsa, Okla. He aver-
aged 142.447 mph. W F. Falck of
Warwick, N. Y., finished second
with 141.499 mph.
Presumably the next official shot
at the 650,796 MPH mark held by
a Navy research plane will be
made at the Muroc. Calif., desert
course where the record was
reached three times last year
It looked like all the touch luck
to the world had intervened on the
Sailor Takes
Car, Wrecks
yesterday: one because the timing
cameras were turned on for the
wrong airplane, one because John-
son flew off course, and one be-
cause a camera jammed.
Four passes in matching upwind
and downwind pairs are needed.
Johnson, his flying suit sweat-
marked after the 30 minutes of
rough flying, said there to no doubt
about the North American F-86
awept-wing fighter being able to
better the 650.796 MPH record. Or
for that matter, going faster than
it was clocked unofficially yester-
day. ,
The speed run was scheduled for
the third time as a feature of the
national air races, which wind up
today with the Thompson free-for-
all classic, a 300-mile dash around
the 15-mile course.
The fastest racing planes ever
assembled in any racing were
on the line for the $40,000 race.
The top qualifying speed was 418
miles an hour, with the second best
qualifier barely a mile behind.
Racing experts looked for a win-
ning average speed of more than
400 miles an hour.
first big try, when Maj Richard L.
Johnson buzzed the course six
times at an average of around <70
miles an hour yesterday.
Three of the six passes over the _ _______
1M miles course were disqualified 1 trophy race, with $25,000 in prizes.
On the ligher side, midget racers
were keyed to go in the Good-year
Back-door Garbage
Pickups Ordered *
The city will resume back-door
garbage pickups in areas without
alleys Tuesday morning. Mayor
B. R. Blankenship announced to.
day. ,
Collection of garbage on the al-
leys where they exist will con-
tinue.
Blankenship said the City Com-
mission is bowing to the will of
the people in-going back to the
rear pickups. Numerous com-
THE WEATHER
U. s. DEPARTMENT or COMMERCE
WEATHER BUREAU
ABILENE AND VICINITY Generally
fair today, tonight and Tuesday Not quite
so warm tonight and tomorrow Low to-
might 73, high tomorrow. 91.
EAST TEXAS Fair this afternoon to-
night and Tuesday; not quite so warm in
extreme northwest portion tonight Mod-
erate southerly winds on the coast
WEST TEXAS Generally fair this after-
moon, tonight and Tuesday; not quite so
warm in the Panhandle this afternoon,
and to Panhandle and South Plains to-
“ereue tmprature tor M hours end.
"Konimum Smpersture tor M hours end.
ing at 6:30 a.m 78.
TEMPERATURES
A. M.__P. M.
Mes. Sum. HOVE Sun. Sat.
cent
85 N
........
11 30........as so
6:87.
75 M m 7,
plaints have been made by eiti-
zens about the requirement recent-
ly made.that garbage be placed
on the front of premises where
there are no alleys.
The front collection had been
instituted because of the addition-
al time and expense required for
crews to make walk - outs at
homes.
The mayor said this morning
that the city may not be able to
stay within its budget for the San-
itary Department by resuming the
back door pickups.
Collection of garbage at fronts
in alley-less areas began about a
month ago.
Child Safety Month
AUSTIN. Sept. 6. (UP)LGov.
Beauford Jester today issued a
proclamation designating the month
of September as “Child Safety
Month."
II Hear Clyde
A Navy man six feet two inches
tall and weighing 200 pounds,,caus-
ed Navy medical attendants and
area peace officers a wild chase ear-
ly today in which he commandeered
an automobile from two Clyde men
aad wrecked it, before he was cap-
tured and confined to the Abilene
City Jail Somewhere during the -
fracas he Buffered a flesh wound,
not considered serious, in one arm.
A doctor who examined him be-
lieved the wound was caused to the
car wreck
The man, who police were inform-
ed was a mental patient whom the
Navy attendants were carrying east- -
ward in transit aboard a train,
broke his straps and leaped from
the train while it was stopped in
Clyde about 2:15 am today.
! Three miles west of Clyde some
hours later the escapee, a dark com- -
plexioned man described to police
as Mexican-Indian, commandeered
a Ford two-door automobile belong-
ter. and occupied by Hutcheson and
Joe Hallett of Clyde, who were
traveling toward Abilene on High-
way 80. Immediately before doing
thia, he had wrested himself from
the three Navy men and Constable
Jack Vaughn of Clyde a short dis-
tance sway.
Hutcheson related to a reporter
how the car was taken He said the
automobile was ruined when the
fugitive wrecked it about a mile or
a mile and a half farther down:
Highway 80 toward Abilene. .
A detachment from the Navy
Medical Station at Fort Worth was
enroute here to take custody of the.
man. Police Chief Raymond Eak- .
ins said the Navy attendants with c -
their prisoner were enroute from
Arizona to Fort Worth.
After the fugitive wrecked the
automobile the Navy pursuers and J
the constable overtook him and took
him in custody. *
Navy men and the constable
fired their weapons in the chase. * -4
ROAD BLOCKED
Hutcheson said he and Hallett ■ .
stopped their car on Highway 80 be-
cause the road was blocked by the
Please see FUGITIVE, Pg. 11. Col 2 1 -
Meeting No. 6
BERLIN. Sept. g. on—The four ,
military governors of Germany met
for the sixth time today on the
Berlin blockade and related pro.
blems The session at the Allied
Control Authority building started -
at 2. p. m. (8 a. m CST).
Tip on Athlete Who Bested
Polio Wins News Contest
Roy Marshall. 1518 North 18th
Street, won $5 first prise money for
last week's best news up to the
Reporter-News, while second mon-
ey of $2.50 went to Mrs. C. C. Cow-
den, 1101 South 14th St
Marshall's tip produced a page
1 story Sunday. He told of Phil
McGahey, Il-year-old Hardin-Sim-
mons University freshman football
FAR EAST NEEDS SUFFLIES'
Army Threatens to Take Over
Strikers' Jobs on West Coast
■ SAN FRANCISCO Sept. 6. —
Waterfront activity along the Pa.
rifle Coast was at a standstill to-
day but a showdown between strik-
ing longshoremen and the Army
is due tomorrow. The Army said
its supplies must move, strike or
no strike.
An Army transportation officer
said the longshoremen would be
asked If they will load commercial
ships with Army supplies
“If they refuse, we will have to
find some other way," he declared.
“The supplies are vitally needed
to the Far East and they must
and will be kept moving."
The unions' joint action commit-
tee indicated Saturday that the
Army would have to do its own
loading if military cargoes are to
move.%
This was the fifth day of the
strike, to which more than 28,000
men were made idle and approxi-
in a Progressive Party speech at
Detroit yesterday. Longshore Lead
er Harry Bridges said the Army
and Navy are “training men to Employers have withdrawn all
take over ships on the West Coast."
He called this another “Truman
administration-sanctioned move "
mately MO ships were docked.
Bridges explained his appearance
in Detroit by saying that "nego-
tiations with management are at a
standstill at the moment.” He pre
viously had declared the strike
might last four to six months.
Shipping was tied up from Puget
Sound to Son Diego Some esti-
mates placed the loss to West
Coast waterborne commerce at M
million daily.
compromise offers concerning the
operation of hiring halls sad have
announced they will not negotiate
further with the union until top
CIO officials sign non-Communist
affidavits as required under the
Taft-Hartley law
Bridges contended the employers
were not bargaining to ‘‘good
faith” sad, as negotiations broke
down, said they would not be re-
sumed until employers exhibit what
he called ‘‘earnest evidence’ of
such good faith.
recovery from a polio attack MT :
1937 when he was unconscious sev»
eral weeks at Headrick Memorial
Hospital. -
Mrs. C. C Cowden gave the str M
of her son, Calvin, an AmeriT
graves official in Europe, who with
hia companion was arrested by Ar
Russian soldiers while on a tour -
of Germany. They won their re-
leave with a bribe This story ap-
pears in this afternoon’s edition. .
Honorable mention for other good
news story and picture tips of the .
week goes to Mrs Virginia Pope,
1834 South 7th St., Abilene: Garland
Block, Mil Sandefer, Abilene:
Wayne B Smith. MM South 4th. -
News tips should be telephoned
to the editorial office of the Re-
porter-News by Abilenians. Out-of- J
town entries should be mailed to -
the newspaper 1
104-Degree High
Forecast Today
Abilenians were due to be sweat-
ing it out agata this afternoo
temperatures ranging near 104
weatherman said this me
The highest temperature 1
was 102 at 4 p. m
And to make it h
! small portion of "West
ar it noon m went
said no full-fledged sand
was anticipated.
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