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231 NASHVILLE, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DEC. 28, 1949 24 PAGES i 1 1 Indonesia Stephens, Get New Scott PostS; Jewish Agent; Blocked by Reds Holland Bond In New Freedom XK k77 fok-H C7 Jcx Jacobson Delayed On Vienna Trip As Pass Expires VIENNA (INS) Israel Jacobson American joint distribution com mittee director in Hungary, said last night he had been released by the Hungarian Communist government which arrested him 12 days ago on "suspected espionage" charges. But Jacobson, who telephoned In Boner Promoted Compromise Reached in Selection Of Top Spots; Appointments Go To Civil Service Group for Approval By LOIS LAYCOOK Mayor Thomas L. CummiKS last night anounced the appointment of Ed chief of detectives, as the city's new chief of police succeeding the late Eugene Diilard. At the same time the mayor announced the promotion of three other high officials in the police department.

Stephens Made Chief of Detective They are Martin Stephens, assistant chief of police, who was promoted to chief of detectives; G. L. Scott, inspector, who was named assistant chief succeeding Stephens; and Oly T. Boner, promoted from lieutenant to inspector. Shouting Thousands Line Streets On First Free Day in 347 Years; Dutch Remain Partner Under Crown BATAVIA, Java (AP) The 77,000,000 people of Indonesia snapped their colonial bond with Holland yesterday and took their place as a new nation in Communist-threatened Southeast Asia.

Throughout the chain of islands stretching nearly 3000 miles between the Pacific and Indian oceans, Indonesians last night peacefully celebrated their first hours of freedom after 317 years of Dutch rule. ternational News Service in Vienna from the Austro-Hungarian frontier, said he now is having trouble with the Russians in their eastern occupation zone in Austria Jacobson. a Chicagoan who formerly lived in Buffalo, N. drove his own Buick car unaccompanied to the Austrian frontier after his release. Staff Photo by Bill Preston A handclasp of co-operation was this friendly gesture extended by four of the city's top police officials after being assured of promotions, (From left): Martin Stephens, chief of detectives; Ed Burgess, chief of police; Oly Boner, inspector, and G- L.

Scott, assistant police chief. Wife It Thrilled (In Chicago Jacobson's wife em an mxwm iwhiihh. i in iniwi.miMi inni i. nun m. i in m.ai.

inn.m in mm rr tionally exclaimed "are you sure? I am thrilled." Mrs. Jacobson, Flags Drape Buildings Thousands of the red and white banners of the new United States of Indonesia draped the Dutch brick buildings and Chinese shops of Batavia's streets, thronged by crowds shouting "Merdeka" (freedom) Street cars clanging along the canal-lined streets were jammed with cheering youngsters, and every street corner was clamorous with Javanese gong and tomtom music from loudspeakers. The one tie that remains betweeni All four promotions are subject a social worker at the Jewish family community service in Chicago, also is a native of Buffalo, N. Jacobson told the International fr News Service Vienna bureau by iChurch Burglars Push Activities teiepnone: I was released a short time ago. "I am being prevented by the Russians from traveling to Vienna Dickson Soldier jiouana ana Indonesia is me uutcn crown.

They are partners in a union under that crown, but each is free to go her own way. The arrange because my grey pass has expired." (The grey pass is the permit needed ment resembles that of the British to travel through the Soviet occu commonwealth nations. 7th New Nation pation zone). Gendarmes Questioned Candy Only Loot Taken as McKendree, Belmont Entered Nashville's church burglars con to approval by the city civil service commission. The men will take over their new positions today, however, on a temporary basis.

Followed Conference Announcement of the promotions followed a conference in the mayor's office at which a compromise agreement was reached resulting in the withdrawal of five of the six police officials eligible to take civil service examinations for the chief's position. This left only Burgess as applicant for the top job in the department. Only a Formality The civil service examination for the chief's position now will be only a formality. In addition to Burgess, others eligible to take the examination were Stephens, Scott, and Inspectors R. Willard Jett, John Milliron, and Douglas Hosse.

Cummings said the other five officials eligible for the examinations When the telephone conversation The USI is the seventh new and independent nation to be formed since the war. Others are the Phil was cut off International News Killed in Holdup Bandit Thought Victim Knew His Nickname When Called 'Buddy' A man nicknamed "Buddy" yes Service telephoned the gendarmerie ippines, India, Pakistan, Ceylon post at Nikolsdorf and officials tinued their activities without let Burma and Israel. In addition, Ko there confirmed that Jacobson had just crossed the frontier into up yesterday morning, adding the McKendree Methodist church and the Belmont Baptist church to their list of victims. Austria. The gendarmerie guard said that Jacobson has decided to spend the Two boxes of candy from one of the churches comprised the only 1 rea pained independence from the Japanese, then split into sections along lines of the Russian and American occupation zones.

Most of the Indonesian islands were under martial law, a hangover from the turbulent years of guerrilla warfare. Lt. Col. Daan Jahja, military governor of Batavia, warned that "ir night at a nearby inn while nego tiating with the Russians to get terday was arrested in Norfolk county, and charged with the Monday night slaying of Second Lt. Willis T.

Allman, former Nashville army recruiter and a native of Dickson county. loot reported taken, however. Dr. King Vivion, pastor of McKendree Methodist church on permission to go to Vienna. Before the telephone connection was broken Jacobson asked Inter- Church st.

between Fifth and Sixth national TCpwa Rorvifo tolnnhnno aves. told detectives thieves broke out a window leading to the church iwucuiu.uimi.au, i tsuu ia rn rt TrnhP chef nf thn lew Uh responsible elements" would be dealt with severely. Officials had feared Communists might seek to relief organization in Vienna, and office after entering the building in an unknown manner. at his home in Ocean View, near Norfolk, after Allnian's companion in the robbery slaying said the relay the information that he was The boxes of candy were taken make trouble. Become Custodian! killer had apparently thought he (Continued on Page 2, Column 2) was recognized.

Second Lt. Louis Robert Buchan-f from the office, he said. Nothing ele was reported missing. The Belmont Baptist church on were in full agreement on his appointments. Difficult To Select "It was very difficult for me to select the men for the three top positions In view of the fart there were so many eligible men," Cummings said.

"However, all assured me that they wanted whoever I desired to pick. "As a result, I believe a better Indonesians became custodians ef Attending the meeting at which the new heads were named were: (ieated, from left) Stephens, Scott. Burgess, and Boner; (standing, from left) Seth J. Mays, commissioner of police and fire; Inspectors John 1 1 hron, Douglas Hosse and Willard Jett. all eligible contenders for the promotions and Mayor Thomas L.

Cummings. their riches of oil, tin, rubber and an said the bandit had apparently ljfQ Saver '(Centinued on Page 2, Column 5) spices even as British commonwealth foreign ministers and U. drive a nut HIICIIUCU IU llui, Llin flail Tiir-u he robbed them in a lonely field, until Buchanan called out: Make every safety drive. state department officials prepared to study strategy for preventing the spread of communism from China "Don't shoot us, buddy." Betty Lou Loses Hand Today to Save Life spirit of co-operation will exist in the police department than has ex Too Bad for You' southward. An achievement of four and isted in a long time.

I believe any "Too bad for you," he quoted the bandit as saying, "because you half years of intermittent guerrilla warfare and tedious negotiation, one of the six men eligible would have made a good chief. It was a difficult choice to make." know my name. Allman, at that, suddenly lunged freedom came in brief, colorful ceremonies held almost simultane Mayor Cummings called a con and grappled with the gunman Safety Council Fears Another Holiday Horror CHICAGO (111 The National ference of the six men together Buchanan said he ran for help, and heard two shots behind him. The ously in the marble civic hall (bur-gherzaal) on Dam square in Am bandit fled in the car the three had driven to the scene. Buchanan said he returned to find Allman fatally wounded in the chest.

Green was arrested later, when sterdam and in the glistening white palace of Dutch governors in Batavia. At 10:15 a.m. in Amsterdam (3:15 a.m.. CST) Queen Juliana of the Netherlands soberly signed the deed relinquishing sovereignty over the greater part of her rich colonies. In five more documents she trans- with Seth J.

Mays, police and fire commissioner, and Sheriff Garner Robinson at his office early last night. Burgess becomes the 36th man to head the Nashville police depart- (Continued on Page 2, Column 3) 'Miss Weds Safety council warned yesterday that the Christmas holiday toll of he was found asleep with a .22 caliber rifle by his side, Police 611 accidental deaths would be re peated during the New Year holi Chief Ivan D. Mapp of Norfolk said. Allman, 31, stationed at rort day unless "people have sickened of making horror days out of their holidays." Story, was shot to death in the plowed field on the outskirts of erred sovereignty to the new United States of Indonesia and became head of the new Netherlands-Indonesian union that was armroved The council said the Christmas Norfolk after the bandit had robbed the two officers of $4 85, according holiday carnage should horrify the nation as much as the Texas City disaster two years ago. at The Hague round table con-to Buchanan, who is Fort Story's ference Nov.

1. jathletic officer. Buchanan, 28, of The stifling heat of a tropical: Grove City, told this story of MEMPHIS 111') Betty Lou Marbury, the 10-year-old Brownsville, girl with nn amazing faith, last night told the United Press that her diseased right hand will be amputated at Baptist hospital here this morning. Hospital authorities could not. be reached to confirm or deny that the amputation will take place, but the United Press learned through Betty Lou and her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Clay Marbury, that the operation will take place this morning. Will Amputate Hand "They're going to take off the entire hand," her father snid. "That board of specialists at the Children's hospital in Boston agreed with our doctor here that is necessary." An attache at the hospital said la.st night the operation will take place "before 8:30 tomorrow with the hand being taken off somewhere between the wrist and the elbow." Tbe Lord's Will The bright-eyed, brown-haired farm youngster who asked the nation to pray that she not lose her hand said her doctor informed her of the impending operation yesterday. She was admitted to Baptist hospital at 1:30 p.m.

and preliminary blood tests preliminary to surgery were unanimous in their response, and praver services were held the world over. The modest Marbury farm home was flooded with calls and letters of sympathetic encouragement. Gifts and money, though unsolicited, poured in. Betty Lou wrote that her faith in prayer and the ability of God to cure her ailment was well founded. She said her brother Earl had a ruptured appendix not long ago and the doctor said he wouldn't live.

We All Prayed' "I prayed, we all prayed," she wrote, "and Earl got well." However, in their response, ministers and their congregations explained to Betty Lou that her faith could restore her "if it were the Lord's will." They sought to encourage her continued belief in the power of prayer and at the same time to prepare her for an eventuality in which "the answer might be no." Betty Lou's Memphis doctor had said on Dec. 2 that the long finger of her left hand was afflicted with "an unusual neoplasm I of the finger which probably will not get well without amputation." jWealher Men Slate Meeting on Smog Marbury, of the verdict. However Betty Lou did not hear of it until yesterday. "I was playing dolls with my cousin when tho phone rang," she said. "Daddy took the phone on the front porch and I couldn't hear.

But I kinda expected what the answer was, because Daddy looked sad when he came back in. But he asked me if I wouldn't like to go to the movies and we did." Betty Lou said her suspicious of an unfavorable decision were virtually confirmed the next, morning when her parents bundled her up and set out, here. The doctor told her the news yesterday afternoon after a conference with Mr. and Mrs. Marbury.

Keeps Her Faith "He was very nice," Betty Lou said of the doctor, "he told me that, the Lord would look after a little gill like me and that it was his will that my hand be taken off." "I'm praying that my little girl will come through it all right," Mrs. Marbury said. And there was an open Bible, one like those placed in every hospital room, on the table. Betty I-iOU was taken to the nation's heart earlier this month, when, on Dec. 1, she wrote her touching appeal for prayer.

The response was tumultuous. Clergymen of all creeds weie Mrs. Marbury, who was in the room with Betty Lou, confirmed the decision to amputate. She obviously was worried, but Betty Lou was cheerful and read comic books and Dickens' Christmas Carol from her hospital bed. "I kinda expected she said, "and, of course, it's the Lord's will.

I'm sure an operation now will help me get completely well." Went to Boston Betty Lou went to Boston week for the nation's most eminent tumor specialists to examine the "highly-malignant le-, sion" which has infected the long finger of her right hand. She. was sent by an unidentified New York benefactor and with the blessings of her physician here. However, Betty Lou's Memphis doctor told United Press at the time that the trip was made "simply to confirm my diagnosis." He had recommended immediate radical surgery to prevent the hone disease from spreading to the remainder of her body. May Yet be Fatal "Even then, there is a possibility that the disease may eventually be fatal." Mrs.

Marbury said Betty Lou's doctor called their Brownsville, farm home Monday nic.ht and told her father, Henry Clay A final tabulation bv United ithe slaying: Press showed that 611 persons died (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) in accidents across the country between 6 p.m. Friday and midnight Monday. Traffic accidents ac Thought Himself Recognized After playing shufflebqard with the pair earlier in the evening, the man, whose name they did not (Continued on Page 2, Column 6) counted for 420 of the deaths. Mis Fair, Cooler TENNESSEE Fair and cooler twlar WHS riiKhnt tn dearer. Tomorrow fair with moderate temperature.

cellaneous accidents took 124 lives, 63 persons died in fires and four were killed in plane crashes. During the holiday period, eight persons died acidentally every hour, or one in less than every seven minutes. Safety council President Ned H. Dearborn said that "once again the nation finds itself counting its dead not after a battle against an enemy but after an American holiday dedicated to peace on earth and good will toward men." Tough One for Vandy A last second shot by the Oklahoma Aggie3 snatched victory from a courageous Vanderbilt five last night 62 to 61 in the All-College tourney. See details in John Bibb's on-the-scene story in the sports section.

TEMPERATURES n.m. 2 m. 4 .4 4 p.m. 48 li a.m. p.m.

4,1 a.m. a4 ft p.m. 411 10 a.m. p.m. KM hi Midnlsht XH Hich at 9:30 a.m.

Low 38 at mid-niKht. ftfran 4ft. Nnrmar MittriKe a.m. Sunset 4:41 p.m. Weather table on page 2 WASHINGTON (HI Weather men from all over the United Slates will tackle the problem of smog, deadly industrial threat to Struck by Train, Trapped in Car Woman Driver Rescued by Officer cities, at the 30th annual meeting of the American Meteorological so 9 ciety in St.

Louis next week. til- IV The meeting, from Jan. 4-b, wi bring together more than 500 weather experts to review the me -4 Jacque Mercer Cook "Miss" no more LITCHFIELD PARK, Ariz. IP Jacque Mercer, Miss America of married her high school sweetheart, handsome curly-haired Doug Cook late yesterday, in a spur of the moment ceremony that may jeopardize her national beauty queen title. 'il -S -h i teorological achievements of the past 30 years and delve into future problems facing the weather man.

Howard T. Orville, society president and navy meteorologist, said the problem of smog, or air pollu 1 7u, i mn 1 1 4-3 tion bv industrial waste, will be a "subject of immediate concern." "The, sensational fact that 20 died last year at Donora, from a smog that also made one-half of the town population sick has alerted specialists in many fields to this kind of hazard, he said. I -V JT" I ri 1 i 1 VVS Yti-' ihd The 18-year-old beauty said she "couldn't bear the thought" of having her 20-year-old fiance return to school, so she said "we just decided to get married." But in Atlantic City, Chairman Park W. Haverstick of the Miss America pageant committee called the surprise ceremony "unprecedented." "This is the first time a Miss America has married before completing the obligations that go with the title," Haverstick said. Haverstick said her contract with the pageant committee definitely states she cannot marry before the pact expires next June.

Today's Tennessean Blankety-Blank Kiss SAN When Milton W. Gill kissed his girl goodnight, everything went blank. The cops say Gill's 'car rolled 400 leet down a hilly street and bumped into the rear of a parked car while the lingering goodnight kiss was being delivered. "Were your brakes set?" Patrolman Joseph Anzinl asked tha 18-vearold Gill. "I don't remember," Gill told him.

"Were your wheels turned In to the curb?" "I don't remember." "Well," said Anzinl, "what do you tcrmniber?" "I remember kissing my girl goodnight," Gill told the cop. "Here is something else to remember," Anzinl told the youth, handing him a ticket for illegal parking on a grade. Sn 1 rrti.iMiiiiw jt, 1 Ujnfi'ii i 11 In iiiiiiaini mmmmmimmmmmmmmumm 3 I fff- 4 mmi, iJ Amusements Classified Ads Comics Crossword Puzzle Death Notices Kdltorials, Features Fashion Horoscope Horoscope Market News Fags Pattern Radio Society Page 14 Pages 21-23 Page 19 Page 14 Page 21 Pages 8, 9 Page 11 Page 24 Page 20 Page 10 Page 18 Pnjfes 10, 11 Pages Page 2 LOS ANGELES Mn. Thelma Latham, 35, of Lo Angeles calmly awaits assistance as she lies in her auto shortly after it was struck by the Santa Fa's Grand Canyon Limited at a crossing hers. She received evsral cuts on th facs and a shoulder injury.

The train tossed the car bout 30 feet. Mrs. Latham is lifted from the wrecked automobils a few minutes later. Police said her auto appeared to sputter and stall on tho tracks as the Jrain, moving at about 20 miles an hour, approached and struck tht machine. AP Wlrephotos Sports Weather Table.