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Subscribers! If you do not receive your News- Star by 6 p. telephone 4800. The circulation department maintains a special delivery service until 7 p. rn. SENATE VIRTUALLY KILLS FEPC MEASURE Iffionroe ftftos-Star The Weather LOUISIANA: Partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers this afternoon, tonight and Saturday.

Cooler in northwest portion Saturday. Moderate southerly winds on the coast. MONROE, LOUISIANA, FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1950 Threat Of Strike Is Railroad Group Calls It 'Reckless Drive For Prestige' CHICAGO, May in threatened strike Tuesday of A. F. L.

switchmen against IO railroads, the Western Association of Railways said today, wholly strike the association said in a statement, a reckless drive for attempt by one small union to outsmart and outdo a big rival Only government intervention could avert the scheduled for 6 a.m. (local time) against the IO midwestern and western lines. Although no word came from the white house in Washington after the strike call Wednesday night, the national (railway) mediation board was expected to he called in and attempt to settle the wage-hour dispute. The board earlier this week mediated the agreement that ended the six-day strike of 18,000 locomotive firemen against five major rail systems. That tieup disrupted much of the nation's rail transportation.

A walkout, although directed against smaller lines, would delay service on the affected lines, a rail spokesman said. The A. F. L. Union of North America said the strike would involve 6,000 members.

A rail spokesman said 4.000 would be affected. The principal OFFICERS REVIEW ARMED FORCES DAY PARADE HERE (Continued on Second STRIFE RIDDEN UNION TO MEET Revolt Against Adminis- tration Expected To Come To Head TOLEDO. May Strife-torn Local 12 of the C. I. O.

United Automobile Workers holds Its monthly general membership meeing tonight. The meeting is expected to bring to a head a revolt against the administration of the big local which includes 65 units and from 30,000 to 35,000 members. The rebellion is a gains alleged domination of the local by Richard T. Gosser, U. A.

W. international vice-president here. Lined up against Gosser are seven units representing about 6,000 of the local's members. Secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey and Edward Knoe, west Detroit regional director of the U. A.

came here yesterday to try to iron out the difficulties. They held closed hearings all day yesterday and were to hold more today. will be here all day and will be available to anyone who feels he can throw light on the Mazey and Rote said. They said they to make a report on their indication tha such findings would not be announced locally. Dissension in the union flared into the open Tuesday when 12 women working in the union's dues collecting office went on strike.

A committee of them announced they walked out in protest of Viomination of Richard in union affairs and because they were not allowed to vote on strike assessments levied on them. Mazey and Koto said they would meet with representatives of the striking women this morning; but anti-administration sources reported the women would refuse to talk with the investigators unil other workers assigned to their jobs were dismissed. The striking clerical employes declared Gosser and his staff put in their jobs. Administration sources said no personnel hired to replace the strikers, but that other union clerical help had been assigned to do their work, hey were considered by the administration to have their jobs. FLENIKEN TO ACT AS U.

S. ATTORNEY ACHESON IS ONWAYHOME Ends IO Days Of Conferences To Tighten West's Defense WILL FORM COUNCIL LONDON, May (AV-U. S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson leaves for home today after IO days of conferences which tightened the strategy in the cold w'ar against communism. Acheson w'as in large measure personally responsible for the approval yesterday by the foreign ministers of the 12 north Atlantic pact countries of new measures to repel both military and economic threats to the west.

He has been the chief proponent of the strategy of knitting the western nations into a tighter, more cohesive group, rather than the loosely organized alliance which has functioned in the past. He left Washington May 7 with a plan for a permanent council to oversee the military and economic progress of the pact members. At the meeting ending yesterday the foreign ministers adopted that plan. The council will come into being as soon as the member nations name their representatives. While it probably will be weeks before the first meeting of the new I group, American informants say Acheson is convinced the west is at last on the right road.

Of equal importance in the American view is the general approval of a plan to have each of the 12 nations specialize in certain forms of military organization rather than to separate force equipped for all types of warfare. Elimination of wasteful duplication, the Americans believe, should help in keeping new defense efforts from being too great a burden on the economies of western Europe. The western nations do not want their constantly improving economic rehabilitation to suffer from military expenditures. Only one official announcement (Continued on Second Pagei LAFARGUE TO BE LONG FOE Resigns As U. S.

Attorney To Qualify For Senate Race TRAVELS TO ORLEANS NEW ORLEANS, May Malcolm LaFargue, former U. S. district attorney from Shreveport, WASHINGTON, May 19 senate urtually is contesting the re-election of U. the fair employment practices (FEPC) bill for the ses- Senator Russell Long (D. I refusing to block filibustering by southern LaFargue, 42, resigned as dis- 1 3 trict attorney yesterday, qualified opponents.

on a as a candidate in the senatorial The test came on an attempt to choke off debate on a and then flew to New Or- motion to bring before the senate for consideration this Solons Refuse To Block Filibuster Tesf Comes On Attempt To Choke Off Debate On Motion To Bring Key Bill Up For Consideration Reviewing Monroe and West Monroe's parade celebrating Armed Forces Day this morning were (left to right): Admiral Hugh Goodwin, Col. H. Frissell, Cong. Otto Passman, Col. G.

W. Trousdale, Mayor John Coon, Mayor C. C. Bell, Lt. Col.

Gaston Eikel and Raleigh A. Poulos. Mayor son, C. C. Bell, III, is also shown in the above photograph.

The reviewing stand was erected in front of the Palace department store. (Staff Photo by Marvin DuBos.) AXIS SALLY TO GO TO PRISON Court Of Appeals Rules She Must Serve IO To 30 Years WASHINGTON, May 19. WI The U. S. circuit court of appeals ruled today that Mildred E.

(Axis Sally) Gillars must serve IO to 30 years in prison for broadcasting Nazi propaganda during World War II. The white-haired 49 year old former actress was convicted more Parade Highlight Here Of Armed Services Observance Address By Col. H. Frissell Is Feature At Noon Observance of Armed Forces Day in the Twin Cities this morning was highlighted by a three- block-long parade through downtown Monroe and West Monroe and an address by Col. H.

Frissell at a noon luncheon at the Virginia hotel. The parade, which began at ll a.m. in West Monroe, was re- END OF RENT CONTROL SEEN Rep. Wolcott Asserts Regulation No Longer Necessary WASHINGTON, May Representative expressed doubt today that con- let each build a than a year ago in federal district viewed by Admiral Hugh Goodwin continue federal Frissell. Congressman Otto reaerai rent Passman.

Col. George saylng are no rourt here. The verdict was handed down by a jury which deliberated 17 hours and 20 minutes. In addition to the sentence of from IO to .30 years, she also was fined $10,000. She would be elig- ible for parole after serving ten notables observed the paraders years in prison.

The three judges who heardI her DeSiard street in dcwntown Mon appeal were unanimous in uphold er necessary. Wolcott, top-ranking Republican on the house banking committee, is a longtime foe of federal rent ceilings. He said a rent bill ap- from stand'erected'in Tr'ontTf the Palace department store on Mayors John Coon and C. C. Bell, Lt.

Col. Gaston Eikel and Raleigh A. Poulos, chairman of the armed forces committee. The EX-INTERDICT HELD AS ROBBER Man Who Held Up Bank And Was Found Insane Is Arrested Again SHREVEPORT, May Judge Ben C. Dawkins says William J.

Fleniken will pending permanent appointment of serve as acting U. S. attorney someone to succeeed Malcolm Le- Fargue. LaFargue resigned yesterday to enter the race for the U. S.

senate in the July 25 Democratic primary. Judge Dawkins said a temporary appointment is not made unless an emergency exists in the office of district attorney. He said the first assistant, which is Fleniken, will serve until such time as the attorney general acts to fill the vacancy on a permanent basis. LITTLE ROCK, May Officers investigating an $18,370 bank robbery at Jonesboro, were holding today the man who stuck up another Arkansas bank last fall and later was found insane. Lt.

H. R. Peterson, head of the Arkansas state police criminal in- I vestigation division, said Jack Charles Walden, 27, of Little Rock was being questioned at Jonesboro this morning. No charges had been filed. Peterson said Walden was being confronted by employes of the Peo- her treason conviction and sentence.

find no reversible error and the judgment accordingly is the 12,000 word opinion said. Today's development marked another scene in one of the postwar longest treason dramas. Miss Gillars first was arrested nearly five years ago when American troops entered Berlin. Before the downfall of the Nazis, her smooth-voiced radio shows became known to millions of GI s. She was the supposedly glamorous radio siren who taught them the haunting strains of roe.

Included in the parade groups of uniformed members of local veteral organizations, Northeast Junior College R. O. T. C. cadets, the Neville High School and colored high school bands and student nurses from the St.

Francis School of Nursing. Members of Boy Scout troops lined both sides of the streets. is a political face-saving compromise and might cause By a 13 to 4 vote, the committee approved a one-year continuation were 0j the provision that ceilings would be lifted automatically December 31 in all localities where the governing body or the citizens did not vote to continue them until June 30, 1951. The present law covers 11,000,000 dwelling units throughout the nation. By June 30 local decontrol actions are expected to reduce the race, leans to confer u'ith Mayor de Lesseps Morrison, who is opposing the re-election of Long.

The Democratic nomination in the July 25 primary is tantamount to election in Louisiana. Deadline on qualification of candidates is 5 p.m. (CST) today. Fargue was the third candidate to qualify in the race against Long. The others are J.

Y. Fauntleroy, of New Orleans, a member of the Louisiana State University board oi supervisors, and Newt Mills, former congressman from the Louisiana fifth district. Senator Long, 31, is the son of the late governor and senator from Louisiana, Huey P. Long, He is a nephew of the present governor of Louisiana, Earl K. Long.

On his arrival here, LaFargue told newsmen have been fighting the Longs for 14 years. This something LaFargue gained notice when he prosecuted the public scandals cases in Louisiana beginning in 1939. He obtained convictions against Former Gov, Richard Leche, Leon Weiss, George Caldwell, L. P. Abernathy, W.

G. Rankin, B. W. Cason and many others. After meeting Mayor Morrison, LaFargue read to newsmen a statement which said: I believe that the people of Louisiana are entitled to a candidate of their choice for the U.

S. senate vacancy in our state. I believe the people a change. I am satisfied that the vast majority of the people are convinced their best interests are not being served by the present junior senator from Louisiana, the present incumbent is a symbol of the Long administration which has heaped taxes on the pocketbooks of consumers and industry and has given relatively little in return. Baton Rouge they preach private enterprise but practice a kind of semi-socialism of which the people have had their fill.

people of this state want and are entitled to a full time representative in the senate who will Ii KILLED IN (RASH NAMED John K. Bryan, Whose Brother Lives Here, Among Victims measure of President Truman civil rights program. A cloture (debate limiting) petition fell short by 12 votes of getting the required 64 for adoption. A roll call showed 52 and 32 votes. It was a victory for southern Democrats and dealt a heavy blow to chances of getting action on any of the president's civil rights program at this session.

The southern triumph had been anticipated, but Democratic Leader Lucas of Illinois said in advance that nother attempt to force con- While the parade was traveling number to 8,000,000. At the peak through the Twin Cities, six low- flying B-26 bombers, piloted by National Guardsmen, passed over the two cities. The paraders marched from Pine street to Trenton street, south on Trenton to Coleman street which became the world war I in West Monroe, and across the old marching fighting song of the American infantry. Since Federal Judge Edward M. Curran pronounced sentence on March 24, 1949, Miss Gillars had been held in the District of Colum- of controls in 1946, there were 16,000,000 dwelling units under rent ceilings.

Committee Democrats voted solidly for the compromise bill. While it is weaker than the administration wants, Chairman Spence described it as best we traffic bridge onto DeSiard street. can One Republican voted The parade disbanded at Five There was no immediate statement concerning whether she would appeal decision to the United States supreme court. Miss Gillars was convicted of participating in a broadcast en- ples National Bank of Jonesboro, I titled of a mel- Points. Armed Forces Day was greeted at 7 a.m.

with flag-raising ceremonies by the Northeast Junior College R. O. T. C. cadets at the Monroe City Hall and the West City Hall by National Guardsmen.

Col. Frissell, speaker at the Optimist luncheon at noon, is a survivor of the Bataan Death March. Guests for the luncheon were which was robbed by a lone gun- I odramatic show beamed to Ameri- Rear Admiral Goodwin, Passman, man Wednesday. Walden, at the time on leave from an army airborne unit in Germany, held up the Planters Bank and Trust Company at Devalls Bluff last Oct. 13.

He got away with $1,848.75, all pf which was recovered when he was captured near Stuttgart about 45 minutes later. Walden told authorities he needed money to bring his German wife to this country. He was never tried on the bank robbery charges placed against him. The Arkansas State Hospital declared Walden insane and he was turned over to army authorities. Arkansas state police said Walden had been taken to the Brooke General Hospital at San Antonio, Texas, but that they did not know why he was released.

Sgt. W. T. Bowling and Investigator Paul McDonald of the state police picked up Walden in Little Rock last night after they said ployes of the Jonesboro bank had identified him from a photograph. The officers said Walden then denied any knowledge of the Jonesboro robbery but offered no objection when they told him they were taking him to Jonesboro for further investigation.

The Peoples Bank holdup was staged during the noon hour Wednesday. The bandit, brandishing a pistol, ordered two tellers to fill a paper bag with cash. He took the money, walked out of the bank, ran down an alley and sped away in a black automobile which bore no license plate. can troops poised in England to invade the continent in May, 1944. The Maine born woman, who once appeared in minor broadway acting roles, admitted broadcasting for the Germ a nb.

But she contended throughout her trial that she always loved the United States. COMMANDER DIES IN BANSHEE CRASH ATLANTIC CITY, N. May 19. he crash of an F2H2 Banshee jet fighter took the life of Commander Lemuel D. Cooke, 34, of Hernando, according to a navy announcement.

The plane broke into small pieces when it plummeted into a marsh at more than 400 miles an hour Wednesday. The navy said Cooke, a veteran of World War II, was executive officer of air development squadron No. 3 and had been on a routine training flight with another jet fighter at the time of the crash. Cooke is survived by his widow, Mrs. Joan Claire Cooke, formerly of New Bedford, three children.

Lemuel, Christopher and Carole, his mother, Mrs. Ethel Cooke of Hernando, and two brothers, Robert of Hernando and E. B. of Woodbridge, N. J.

Memorial services were scheduled for 2 p.m. (EST) at the Atlantic City naval air station Sunday followed by a military funeral Tuesday at Arlington Military Cemetery. and Mayors Coon and Bell. Displays of weapons and equipment of a modern infantry soldier and navy radar equipment will be shown from I p.m. to 4 p.m.

at an open house at the National Guard Armory on South Grand St. Free coffee and donuts will be served those observing the displays. National Guardsmen will be on hand to explain uses of the various weapons and equipment. At 5 p.m., retreat (the lowering (Continued on Second for the measure; four voted against it. House Democratic Leader McCormack (Mass.) said he expects a vote on the bill within two weeks.

The senate banking committee has yet to report a rent bill on the other side of the Capitol. The house bill would continue the present authority of city governments to remove federal controls at any time and the power of legislatures to decontrol whole states. Once a locality voted against federal controls they could not be reimposed. Spence emphasized that the bill, which he introduced, would have no effect whatever on state rent laws already in in New on any rent controls a state may enact in the future. It deals only with federal controls.

Spokesmen for the C. I. O. and A. F.

L. told the house banking committee Tuesday that if the federal controls are not renewed labor will ask for a new round of wage increases. SHREVEPORT, May Uf air force base last night identified the 16 persons who I sideration of the FEPC bill would be made, possibly next week. His principal hope was to pick up additional votes from senators who were absent. An absent senator, in effect, voted against the cloture (debate-limitation) move.

Immediately after the vote, Lucas told the senate: shall carry on the fight and get another vote when more senators are present. I am sure another vote will bear greater fruit in the But by mustering 32 votes FEPC Jr radar opponents indicated they have only to hold their lines intact to defeat Everett, anY further move to take up the measure. It was announced that rip rv one of the 12 Cleary, withers would have voted died in a Barksdale based B-29 which crashed on landing at Lagens air base in the Azores Wednesday. The air force base listed as and their next of kin the following: Lt. James F.

Garrington. air craft commander, 33, wife Lois Elaine, living at Bossier City, La. Lt. Gordon Doughty, pilot, 35, wife Louise living in Shreveport. (Brother Rolland F.

Doughty, Hopkins, Minn.) Lt. Dexter Easton, observer, 26, parents Mr. and Mrs. William C. Hoffman, Penn.

James Robert (Continued on Ninth Page) BLANKVRitES SET ON SUNDAY Funeral For Prominent Former Welfare Worker To Be Held Killing Of Bills To Cut Gas, Cigarette Taxes Seen BATON ROUGE, May 19. administration spokesman sa bills to cut gasoline and cigarette taxes will be killed and a proponent of the gas tax cut says unless it is reduced the people will kill the bond issue proposal at the polls. Rep. John McKeithen, administration whip and chairman of the house appropriations committee told newsmen yesterday, predict those tax repeal measures will fail for want of a sufficient number of the people of Louisiana get some relief from the nine cent gas tax, I predict they will defeat at the polls the bond The bond issue, as a constitutional proposal must be submitted to a vote of the people. And, Brown said, a compromise can be reached on trimming the gasoline he would fight the $140,000,000 highways and bridge bond issue.

The lawmakers, in recess until Monday, have before them I proposals to cut off two cents of But Rep. Algic Brown of Caddo the nine cent gasoline tax and parish, who proposed the gas tax I ----------Clit, countered with this: (Continued MI Second Page) Mrs. Josephine McNally Blanks, 70, formerly a well known public health nurse and civic worker, died in St. tome, Thursday night. There will be a Rosary service conducted at the Mulhearn Funeral chapel Friday at 8 p.m.

Mso all Catholic Daughters of America are urged to meet at 7:45 a.m. Saturday for a requiem mass, at the church. The funeral will be held in St. Sunday at 2 p.m. with Msgr.

J. C. Marsh officiating. Interment will be in Riverview Burial park. Mrs.

Blanks, native of Philadelphia, some years ago served as secretary of the Monroe Welfare Association, composed of a group of public spirited men and women who personally donated for its maintenance. This long before public welfare had been established by the government. She had a welfare office on the second floor of the Monroe City Hall. Mrs. Blanks also was active in her support of the Red Cross chapter here.

Upon her marriage to Faulkner Blanks, she retired from active public office. Her husband died some years ago and during the past few months she has lived in St. Home. Surviving are a brother and sister who are Frank McNally and Mrs. Mamie Glenner, both of Philadelphia, and the following stepchildren: Jack Blanks, Monroe; S-Sgt.

Faulkner Blanks, Hampton, Mrs. Annie McCaleb, New Orleans; Mrs. Alma Landis, Albuquerque, N. and Mrs. Harriet Herrick, Monroe.

Mrs. Blanks was an active member of the St. Catholic Church until illness prevented attendance there. She also was a member of the C.D.A. and other atholic organizations.

Pallbearers will be as follows: Dick Bruno, Bill Herrick, Jack Herrick, Ronald Lee Davis and Tom Dupree. flight engineer, 27, mother Mrs. present Lottie Cleary, no lf "aci 0hio On the roll call vote, six Republicans joined 26 Democrats, mostly from the south, in voting against Sgt. Eugene Burnell, radio op erator, 21, parents Mr. and Mrs.

Wilford Burnell, Dannimara, N. Y. John K. Bryan, gunner, 24, father Robert B. Bryan, Rt.

2, Winnsboro, La. (Brother James C. Bryan, Monroe, La.) Sgt. Enrique Granja, gunner, 24, parents Mr. and Mrs.

Enrique Granja, Bronx, N. Y. Elmer Fry, crew chief, wife, Mildred, living at Shreveport. Home in Reading, Pa. Sgt.

Morris E. Wewe, mechanic, 22, parents Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wewe, Dallas, Tex. Cpl.

Elwood Cooper, mechanic, parents Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Cooper, Philadelphia, Pa. Cpl. Sidney Gordon, mechanic, 20, mother, Mrs.

Jay Duncan Longview, N. C. shutting off debate. For cloture were 33 of the 42 Republican senators and 19 of the 54 Democratic members. Twelve senators did not vote.

If they had been present, all of them would have had to vote for cloture to put it over. Senate Republican Leader Wherry (Neb.) told the senate the vote on cloture very definitely that the Democratic party cannot keep it He shouted that the party is split wide open. Wherry obviously was referring to the plank in the Democratic platform pledging the party to enactment of civil rights legislation. The vote was the first tryout for the new rule, adopted Sgt. Edward J.

Martinez, last year, under which debate on chanic, 21, parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gabriel Martinez, Pueblo, Colo. Sgt. Chester Ballow, mechanic, 26, parents, Mr.

and Mrs. M. Ballow, Cherryville, Kas. Pvt. David Verbo, mechanic, 18, mother, Mrs.

Evelyn Mae Verbo, Bay City, Mich. a motion to take up a bill can be shut oft by a two-thirds majority of the entire senate. Previously such a motion was not subject to cloture, but under the old rule, once a bill was before the senate, debate could be halted by two-thirds of the senators pres- Pfc. Leslie Miranda, mechanic, ent and voting. 20.

parents Mr. and Mrs. Roberto Miranda, New York City. AIRMEN GIVEN BIG WELCOME Emotional Moment Comes As Smith Meets Wife After 22 Months LONG BEACH, May 19. UPI U.

S. airmen held captive 18 months in Communist China received a tumultuous welcome as they arrived home today. Marine Sgt. Elmer C. Bender, 27, Cincinnati, and Navy Chief Electrician's Mate William C.

It was the first time a civil rights issue had reached a showdown vote of any kind, in the senate since July, 1946, when senators rejected a petition to close debate on an anti-poll tax bill. A similar anti-poll tax bill was brought up in the Republican 80th congress, but died when the senate failed to reach a vote on a cloture petition in August, 1948. No action was taken on FEPC in the 80th congress. In the present session, the house (Continued on Ninth Page) MASS PARACHUTE JUMP SCHEDULED BILOXI. May mass paratroop jump, an armada of air force and navy planes of Smith.

32, Long Beach, who indi-1 all sizes and a parade of some cated they admitted a Red charge 10,00) Keesler air force base of spying in order to be released. troops will mark the first Armed landed at nearby Los Alamitos Forces Day program here tomor- naval air station in a special ma- Tine plane. I Planes which will be In the armada which will pass overhead will include a B-36, the world's The two men looked trim as they stepped down from the plane onto American soil. largest bomber. F-84 thunderjeis from Albany, B-29's from the Mrs.

Rubyq Smith, had S(rateajc air command, B-25's not seen her husband for 22 months, was eagerly waiting as the plane taxied to a stop. There was an emotional moment when Smith descended the stairs and they went into a silent embrace. Neither spoke. Smith was carrying in his hand two yellow teddy bears, for his sons, Michael, three, and Patrick, 17 months, who were with their mother and dressed in the Sunday best. It was first meeting with Patrick, who was born while he was a prisoner of the Chinese Communists.

from Keesler field. F-82's, F-51's from the Tennessee National Air Guard at Memphis and the world war two training plane. The mass jump is to be made by men of the 82nd airborne division at 4:30 p.m. The navy will put on aerial demonstrations at 2:50 p.m. (CST' making simulated carrier landings and other exhibitions.

The navy will also have dive and patrol bombers. The principal address Is to be made by Maj. Gen. Lewis Pick of Washington, chief oi army engineers..