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THE WEATHER
WEST TEXAS: Fair, cooler in Ftnhundlv
and South PUini Sunday, Monday lair.
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★ THE CARBON BLACK CENTER OF THE WORLD 1/.
Associated Press Borger, Texas, Sunday, March 10, 1946
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MUKDEN BURNS AS LOOTING RUSSIANS LEAV
Time For Big-3
To Meet and Put
Cards On Table
By ALEX H. SINGLETON
WASHINGTON, March 9 - (AP)—A dark cloud of sus-
picion hung depressingly over international affairs today
with a strong possibility that it will brinq a new meeting
soon of the Big Three to clear the air.
Immediate interest was focused upon whether the al-
lies will attempt an over-all settlement of their controver-
sies or continue to try for piecemeal solutions.
Legion Schedules
Gala Celebration
Of Anniversary
In some diplomatic quarters
here, thi stand has been taken
that the situation now is so serious
that tile present policy of tackling
one problem at a time will serve
only to aggravate the irritations.
But the question of another Brit-
Southern Demos
And Republicans
Bid For Control
By CLAIR JOHNSON
WASHINGTON, March 9—(/Pi
—A large group of Southern Dem-
ocrats and Republicans teamed up
today in an organized bid for con-
trol of Congress.
Their leaders disclosed forma-
tion in the House of an informal
ish-Russian-American conference ten-member committee to recom-
appeared to hinge immediately a course of action. They
upon who will take the initiative
*>’
In commemoration with the 2KRi
anniversary celebration of the
founding of the American Legion,
a gala celebration is planned by
Hutchinson County P ,st Number
412 next Friday, March 15, accord-
ing to Commander J. Q Nelson.
Veterans of both wars, whether i
they are members of the po. t or i
not. are invited to bring their
wives, sweethearts, or mothers to j
the Legion Hall in Borger where
the Auxiliary, the ladies of the Le-
gion, will begin serving refresh- !
HMtit# and eats at 4 p m. Friday.,
Tf, climax UV g. ionic A- -to-
gether, a dance ha.* b» ,i eh* i-
uled foi the evening program, nml
the entire party is five of charge and Great Britain took the posi-
to veterans and their guests. tion last full that thev should be
“Amusement*, such as ping- placed under the United Nations
pong, checkers, and other p. me., trusteeship for a limited period,
will be available to those wishing Russia held out for a system of
to play and bingo games have al- individual trusteeships, and man-
so been planned.” said Command-1 euvered tor control of Tripolitan-
w Nelson. > ja
He pointed out that a dance or- ■> Iran—Moth in,. anH
chestru has been booked for the1- tun—Both Ran and
evening and that committees have-
been appointed in the local Legion
Post to make the party enjoyable
for all attendant.*!.
said a similar organization
planned in the Senate.
Their immediate goal is to whit-
tle down the powers of OPA, but
the political and legislative po-
tentialities are much broader.
The committee has been instruc-
ted to draft a substitute for pend-
ing legislation continuing the
agency beyond its June 50 ex-
piration date. if the OPA drive
A number of disputes current tUcce*<1-»* manv ot the group plan
at this time would produce a lon« to then* joint activities to
agenda for such a meeting, among r c #radual].y assume
tpeni drivers seat on nearly uR im-
1. Italy-The difficulty ccqtej,** • Ariu*l)y GOP-Southurr Demo-
uoi colonies. The United States
for calling the conclave.
President Truman acknow-
ledged that he was not dis-
counting the possibility of such
a meeting, but indicated strong
ly his feeling that il should be
in Washington when and if if is
held.
UNRRA Seeks To
Apportion Short
Supply of Food
WASHINGTON, March 9—</V>
—The 47 nations which are mem-
bers of the United Nations Re-
lief and Rehabilitation Admini-
.ration will gather at Atlantic
I 'ty March 15 to seek means to
iportiun the world’s shortest food
I supply as fairly as possible.
The conference brings UNRRA
back to the city where it was or-
ganized three years ago.
It expects desperate pleas for
more food from delegates of the
nations where malnutrition is
wide-spread and starvation threai-
< n Poland, U/cchoslo V a k i a.
Greece, Byelo-Russia, tile Ukraine,
Italy. Albania. China, India, and
the Philippines.
The answers must come from th**
°niv nations with iood surpluses:
the United States, Canada, Au-
tralia. Canada, New Zealand, ami
Brazil.
The conference also faces the
knotty problem of the fate of
seme 900,000 refugees—mostly
from Poland, Czechoslovakia,
\ ugoslavia. and Russia—who are
still in the occupation zones of the
U. S.. the United Kingdom and
France.
UNRRA has aided the military
in their care, but its authority to
oo so expires shortly. It will seek
extension, These people's home
nations in some eases have ob-
jected to UNRRA’s aid for them,
and are demanding their return
home.
UNRRA has been upset by
worries from the start. First, it
lacked ships to move supplies to
the war /ones as they were ijb-
.rated—Yugoslavia, then Europe,
low China.
Its initial fund of $1,850,000.-
J00 run out recently. That money
was accumulated through contii-
jution.s from member nations of
-unis equal to one percent of
their annual income in
ending June, 1943.
Pick-Pocket Works
Unobserved by 100 _
Police Around Him _
T-0 Atomic
Named Champ
Of Baby Beef
AUSTIN, Tex., March 9 — </P>
—Two Texas law enforcement of-
ficers last night became pick-
pocket victims while surrounded
by nearly 100 criminal invextiga-
FORT WORTH, March 9—UP)—
An 810-pound Hereford steer, "T-
O Atomic,” shown bv Start Hen-
tors attending a one-weekTexas 15-year-old 4-H Club mem-
ber from Colorado City, was
Chinese Communists
Set To Take Over As
Soviet Armies Move On
police academy school here.
David M. Padgitt, chief of po-
lice at McKinney, had a waliet
picked as the grand champion of ]
the hoys' baby beef show today in 1
taken and Jcse Avinger, chief of atr Jbe Southwestern Ex-j
n,.11, *. ,1 ivi:„i....... I,.., ........I,„. position <.nf| hut Stock Show.
The reserve champion was I
‘‘Mustang Special” 880-pound Ah- I
erdeen Angus, shown bv Howard |
U Preslar, 15, a San Angelo 4-11
Club boy Preslar for the third
year hus shown the champion Ab-
trdeen-Angus in the baby beef
show here.
• Doss,” ll-month old 810-pound
Shorthorn steer shown bv Billy j
Quinn Cliett of Whitney, had been i
named the champion in the Short- j
horn division of the babv beef
contest. 7 he steer was bred by
Doss Miller. De Leon rancher,
and previously Saturday had won
police at Edinburg, lost a pocket
watch and wallet.
Tin losses were not discovered
until late in last night’s banquet
program when Willard 0«*vinar
Highland Park chief of police and
amateur magician, disputed a
watch i.( was offering us reward
to anyone explaining one of his
trickr.
The watch was identified as
Avinger's property. Likewise two
wallets which Gardner displayed
proved to be property of Avinger
anti Padgitt respectively. Magic-
returned the valu-
lun Gardner
ables.
Son Found Dead
As Dreamed By
His Mother
SARASOTA Fla., March*9—UP)
erdeen Angus classification went
to “Tommy ', 920 pounds, shown
o.y Ernest Gibben Jr., of Alpine,
id-year-old 4-H Club boy
A coroner's jury investigation
into the deaths of two fishermen
aboard a pilotless craft in the Gulf
of Mexico developed a story of
strange coincidence.
Mrs. Nellie Lanius of St. Peters-
burg told the jury she was awak-
ened by a powerful, predawn
dream that her 50-year-old son,
Ray, was in trouble.
Impelled by the dream, Mrs.
Lanius said she boarded a bus for
Sarasota, arriving two hours be-
fore Ray and Frank Nisher, 52,
< ommercial fishermen of Nokomis, champion,
the year a nearby village, were found dead. First blue ribbon of the show
The boat, without guide, chug- went to “Double Muleshoc.’’ 1,050-
• in the lightweight divisional’the 1 •s‘rjcU,<1 to « limited section of the j
breed. i city and actual control had been
The reserve Shorthorn chum- in,.!,u '! in haMtl
pion was “Snooky" bred by Tom !, rraL, , , 1,1 I!us-S“in troops
Denman of Stephenville and from Mukden already have arriv- 1
shown bv Spencer Spruill of Co- j 111 Changchun, the Munchup in
manche, a calf which scaled 1,100 I l'aPltal* .the Central News said. ,
pounds and previously had won f : i,*i: , , Soviet withdrawal!
the blue ribbon in the heavy- Mukden ,besan Thursday
weight division a . . VVtls completed yesterday,;
“T-O Atomic” was shown to the | of the lro°Ps rnov'
grand championship of the baby
beef show in competition with
“Mustang Special” and “Doss.
(By The Associated Press)
SHANGHAI, Sunday. March 10—Russian troops have
withdrawn completely from Mukden but the situation there
is tense, with fires of undetermined origin raging and &
Communist uprisinq feared, the Chinese Central news
agency reported today.
The agency dispatch said alleged Chinese Communist
forces wore active in the suourbs and it was feared they
might attempt to seize control of the hungry, sprawlina
city of 2,000,000. - ’
Before evacuating the city the
Russians turned over their garri -!
son duties to the Chinese. A Chi- 1
nese Central government force of
some 14,000 men has been in j
Mukden for some weeks, but until
the Russian evacuation
Loot
Moves
North
ing northward.
Hifeh Chinese quarters in Chung-
_________^ „1JU isuan king said they did not regard the
The"fiTst'pHze In the heavy Ab- ' " - ’ " . ncce ar.lj
indicating a general Russian with-
drawal from Manchuria. These
sources, declining to be quoted by
name, said they had not received
Editor's Note: Spencer Davis
Associated Press correspondent,
has returned to Peiping after
visits to Mukden and Chang-
chun, Manchuria's capital,
where he and eight other cor-
respondents were held incom-
municado for a timed
To
win top Hereford honors any inhumation t», far suggesting
a « , ____•• * . . . lil.lt : i : t11 it * 1 .. Wit! 11 t , vt . i 1 u;: i . tin.
"T-O Atomic” nosed out the sec-
ond place winner in the bgm-
that a general withdrawal was un-
der way, and that until they did
the
:ng for* nine years and frequent-
ly it has been the deciding factor
on major issues.
Many of the group teamed up
in recent passage bv the House
of tiie strike control bill by Rep.
Case 'R-SDi and in diluting the
administration’s emergency hous-
ing measure.
But in the past the coalition al-
ways lias been a loosely-knit group
Now a Second purse, nfrwwt nv/ged aronfid the gulf for nn hour
arye. has been pledged by see-, early . sterday bt .'ore running
nd donations from the U. i>., the aground on the beach at Treasure
weight division, shown by Frank ,so they wuuId rU)t be t0° optimis
Morris, Van Horn. Morris’ rail UCL ,, , .. ...
was chosen reserve Hereford • •Nevertheless tl,e new, that Man-
chunas largest city was in Chi-
nese hands again after almost
14 1-2 years of foreign, occupn-
" ‘ 1ft
pound steer shown bv Hugh Fite* . ’ ,UL 1 e,*%r
Chinese report
United States have lodged protests with no specific leaders . __ u(u m
at Moscow against Russia's fail- ganization Largely, the metnbers I shortages'" lies* in “the widespread
I l I'/i T , . io i 1 li, ,i If.1 A , , . t ■ • v « . . 4 ,, i.i L.. ii. i ,
United Kingdom, Canada, Austral-
ia. New Zealand, and the Domin-
can Republic. More donations
are expected to bring the second
;um up to the first.
Now, also, UNRRA lias plenty
of ships and crews, but railroad
equipment is short in two nations
with surplus wheat: the United
States and the Argentine.
But the real reason for the food
Island, about 18 miles south of
Sarasota,
The coroner’s jury returned a
finding last night of death from
• unknown causes, but concluded
the most likely was carbon monox-
ide from the open'engine pit.
Oil Operators Oppose
urc to withdraw Red Arrnv forces voted alike because they thought
from Iiari bv an agreed-upon dead-#alike.
line of March 2. Rep. Hartley iR-NJ). chairman 1
3. Turkey—Russia informally o' the newly named House Com-
has sought territorial Concessions - mittee. said the decision to organ-i
from Turkey with the likelihood i >ze was reached because "the j
%__I » • rp - *h« will press for joint Turkish- whole question of successful re-!
Anglo-American lroaly -soviet control Of the Strategic conver ion depends on the OPA'
* 1 Dardanelles. : legislation."
4. Manchuria—The United!, He told a reporter that at least j
States has entered a protest to 150 legislators are united behind
Moscow br. ed upon an official bu committee. Approximately 100
Chinese report that Russia was ,,f the ”‘l,uP met last Wednesday
claiming as war booty Japanese- "lld authorized formation of the
owned Industrial equipment in i committee, but no immediate dis-
Manchuria' closure was made of its plans.
r ,, . , . Hartley told a reporter that
V*1 Stalls is responsible <»r wbal; tontemplale a similar' coalition
X?°aW.h™ ?,o"'!er'rSU,:o„‘r t. ........
broadening the base of the Bui- * • a L J T
garian government. Earlier in the Agencies ASKed lO
week this country made public Help Draft Legislation
a note ciilliny upon tin* Bulgarian ^ . || c J va/ II
government arid opposition group Legally end War II
in that country to get together on ----
the question of naming to the I WASHINGTON. March 9
cabinet two members “who would | —House Judiciary
was | really represent the opposition
parties.”
crop failures of last autumn, most-
ly due to drought in Southern
Europe, North Africa, and in the
rice fields of Burma. The fail-
ures have meant greatly increased
demands on UNRRA, and on the
supplying nations.
Secreh of Aiom
Must Be Guarded
Warns Patterson
HOUSTON. March D-MV-Tcx-
as oil operators opposed to the
Anglo-American oil treaty today
charged that Ralph K. Davis, act-
ing Petroleum Administrator, is
the spokesman for “the small,
select group of oil companies
which own vast connections in Un-
Middle East.”
The accusation was made in a
statement bv D. W. Hovey, chair-
man, and G. Sanderford. co-
chairman of the statewide com-
mittee of oil operators opposed to
Seriate ratification of the Anglo-
American petroleum treaty.
It was issued in reply to one
made in Washington yesterday by
Davies in which he charged that
opposition to the oil pact
'organized and none too scrupu
Jous.”
The Texans said that “Davict
has taken up the fight where
Harold Ickes, ousted Secretary of
the Interior, way forced to leave
off.
Short-Term Wage
Contracts Called
'Mere Stopgaps'
Marine Corps Lowers
Discharge Score To 40
-(/V)
Committee
aides said tixluy that federal agen-
cies have been asked to submit
data which will help in drafting
legislation to declare a legal end
WASHINGTON, March 9 i.-P)
—Secretary of War Patterson as-
serted tonight the nation would
bt put in "direst peri!” if new
atomic control legislation failed
to safeguard adequately the se-
crets of the bomb's manufacture.
Disclaiming that the war de-
partment “wants to remain in
control of atomic energy,” Patter-
son said in an address prepared
for broadcast over CBS that in-
WASHINGTON, March 9—(/Pi stead it wholeheartedly supports
—The Department of Labor today President Truman's recommenda-
assailed short-term wage con- tion for a civilian agency,
tracts between building trades un- But as a “minimum conside' ; -
ions and contractors a.s “mere tion” he urged provision for “di-
stopgaps” to push wages and hotus- rect participation by the war and
ing costs higher.
Intention of the department’s application of atomic energy until
wage adjustment board to turn we can be sure that no atomic
down requests for pay increases bombs will be dropped on us.”
under such contracts was an- As another consideration th e
nounced bv Arthur D. Hill, Jr., the war secretary said any new
board's chairman. agency that may be set up by
At the same time. National congress should have unquestion-
Housing Expediter Wilson W. Wy- ed power to guard any informa-
att battled anew to restore the tion which it decides is vital to the
mmons San Antonio.. The animal
nested C6 other entries in the op-
ening lightweight division of tlic
Heieford division.
“T-O Atomic” was bred by the
T-O Ranch of Raton. N. M.. and
ted under the supervision of
county agent T. H. Roenseh of
Mitchell County.
Frank Sims. Stamford, and
Joe Gallego Jr., Alpine, placed
second and third respectively, in
the lightweight Hereford class,
Mack Reusing, Haskell, placed £ . “d
third and Kenneth Roark, Walnut
Springs, fourth.
■Judge Aiex McDonald of the Un-
iversity of California, Davis, Cal-
ifornia picked the winners to th*
applause of a large crowd gath
cred in the arena and seated in
the stands of the Will Rogers Me-
morial Coliseum.
Grand champion steer of the
< ntire 1948 show will be picked
Monday upon completion of judg-
ing of all classes.
By SPENCER DAVIS
CHANGCHUN. Manchuria,
March 5—(Delayed!—UPi—A high
< liinc-.c official said today that the
Ru.s-ians feared to stay in Man-
churia because of world opinion
and would pull out after that giant
industrial area was picked clean
down to its steel ribs.
•* Chirr** assart
Sovie! stripping has extended to
great power dams and coal
mines, leaving a grave fuel
shoriage in one of the world’s
richest coal regions.
The official, who declined to
permit the use of his name, de-
id that 580
Central government officials as-
signed to take over administration
of the vast territory would be at
their posts by Monday. They are
being flown into Manchuria in
chartered planes.
movements had been restricted to i y
a small section of the city, and
actual control was m Russian
American correspondents who
recently visited Mukden found
its hundreds of Japanese-built
factories stripped of their ma-
chinery. They were told bv the
Russian commander that Japa-
nese treops captured in Man-
churia had been shipped to Si-
beria and that the Russians had
no repatriation program in mine.
Mr
Builon Leads
Irish Girl
To Texas
Wc
Lt. Gen. Aider
it- here today that
appropriate steps, a
mmander, to ascerta
ability in Manchuria
cineyer said if the R
it been advised of the
my
to World War II.
Committee aides told newsmen '$600,000,000 materials subsidy fund | national security.
Viclory Class To
Sponsor Dance For
Borgans Thursday
Borg a ns have been invited to at-
tend a dance, arranged by the Vic-
tory Class of the local American
I-egion post, Thursday night at
9:30 p m. in the Legion Hall,
Jack Roberts, president, has an-
nounced.
Five-piece orchestra, the Blue
Ribbon Boys from Pampa, has
been secured for the occasion
Tickets, which will be sold at the
door, are 60 cents per person.
Tins dance, the president said,
is one of many piograms and en-
tertainments to lie sponsored l»:
the Victory class dr
that action on resolutions to set ' cld by the House from the admin-
a date for the war's official end | istration’s housing bill,
is being delayed pending receipt Building trades unions and con-
WASH1NGTON. March 9— OT*!
—The Marine Corps will drop the
critical score for all men from
42 to 40 points on Monday.
Another two-point reduction
will become effective April 1 and
at the same time the score for
women Marines will be cut from
16 to 13 points.
Announcing details of its future
plans for progressive reduction
in point scores, the Corps said
present estimates -indicate tha‘
virtually all personnel with com-
bat service who are not regulars
will be mustered out bv mid-
ummei.
Future reductions in point scores
I or this information.
Many of the war powers given
the President and the executive
agencies will expire automatically
when the war is declared over.
Trial Of Jap
Shifted To Site
Of War Crime
MANILA, March 9-
trial of an accused Japanese wai
criminal was shifted today to Fort
Santiago, onetime Japanese
“thought police” torture center,
i determine how far awav the
louts of doomed prisoners could
ive been heard.
Coun-cl foj Nagahama con tend-
■ gahama s office 4fli
w U S Artm military t
tractors are signing short-time
bargaining contracts in increas-
ing numbers, Hill said in a state-
ment.
"The initiation of the present
unprecedented system of bar-
gaining is considered by me as
chairman of the wage adjustment
board to constitute a grave threat once of
to stabilization and serious im-
liediment to the progress of tile
I housing program.’’
Wyatt declared in a statement
failure to use premium payments
to expand production of materials
“will mean either a cost of hun-
dreds of millions of dollars to
yers—chiefly veterans— or
DENTON. Tex.. March 9—Oh
-Because a button popped off th**
navy departments in the military *<rt 1,1 9^ Fiank Giovialc,
Beaumont, in an Irish cafe during
a match shortage, an Irish bride
and her year old daughter arc on
•heir way to make their home in
Vet Village on the North Texa
State C ollege campus.
When Giovlale, now a senior
music major at NTSC, started t'»
unbutton his jacket before the
fireplace in a bus station cafe
in Belfast, North Ireland, about
two years ago, a highly polisher!
button popped off his jacket.
A few minutes later, when a
nurse at a nearby table asked
him for a light, he inquired
whethei she had a needle and
thread. She. admiring his high-
ly polished button, wanted A for
a souvenir.
The Irish nurse, then Miss TiUie
Charlton of Cookatown, North
Ireland, is now Mrs F
viale. soon of Vet Villag.
Texas.
tale says that 7’
rurm t<
in Mr
Japanese
m the vt
to defim
tv regar
rep
it *
certain
future
iwn r
all Ja
to Jr
The war department-supported
May-Johnson bill now locked In
the house rule, committee was
drafted, he said, after months of
study by a civilian group which
advised former Secretary Stirn-
son.
“We must all hope and strive
for the establishment of an effec-
tive, enforceable system of inter-
national controls and the emerg-
Ame
weak while Soviet
maritime provinces in the Pacific
1 I’- e a chance to take the machin-
ery and buiid up strategic indus-
: tries.
He aid the Russians definitely
e.'urded Manchuria as a threat to
‘heir s* ■ *urity end were ready to
'•sc I ><e now to obtain conces-
.sions.
To* official pointed out that the
* • had learned that they
: so maintain a large army in
' ' ,i to watch the Japanese in
In j . . in in and they wanted to
avoid this hereafter.
As lo what Russia may ask cf
China in the way of further eco-
non-ir concessions in the rich
territory, the official shrugged
and said:
T don’t know exactly what
they want. We only know they
sci?rn to take what they want
when they want it."
(>m. al Chinese sources estimet-
,v! would take at least three
> re tore Manchuria to
like the industrial ca-
boasted under the Jap-
v‘i., built a productive em-
pire there in 14 years.
Since Japan collapsed and the
i moved in. the Chinese
.*• watched trainloads of vital
'iic tools in endless proees-
• n n il toward Siberia, and par-
ai irly the great Russian base of
Under the Chinese-Russian
treaty cf last August, it was
agreed that factories established
in Manchuria attar 1905 belong-
ed fc China and those antedat
ing that year would be jointly
within the
United Nat
“But u
achieved. -
navy depa
crippled
peace reon
Manly stro
stable peaceful world
framework of the
' the secretary said,
ntil this is
top by step, thi
itments must
Our resporiMb
ires that we rei
Poif VFW Commander*
Meet Tomorrow Night
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VI W ate l*>qi
VFW kail tut
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