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A Newspaper For the Home Information and Enjoyment For Every Member of THE FAMILY YEMNG GAZETTE WEATHER Rain Tonight. Tuesday Slightly Colder Gusty Winds, Tuesday Temperature at Noon 50 A I VV Nevada's Greatest Newspaper PHONE 3-3161 PHONE 3 3161 SEVENTY-NINTH YEAR NO. 255 RENO. NEVADA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1955 eason's Heaviest Downpour Dumps. 86 Inches nn mm JUVJ icks, Jones License Mountain Packs Gain Snow As More Storm Is Forecast 4 Is Reverse Strong Winds Strike in Gusts Measured at 64 Miles Per Hour Reno got its heaviest storm of the season in a downpour beginning at 2:45 p.

m. Sunday and con- 4 tmumg inrougn most, oi today, ine storm was accom Tax Commission Held Loser As Opinion Filed by Judge Marion B. Hicks and Clifford A. Jones stood today as winners in their months-long battle with the Nevada Tax Commission, which last April suspended the gambling license of the Thunderbird Hotel Co. until it could be shown that Hicks and Jones had disposed of their entire partnership interest in the hotel.

In a decision filed in Clark county district court this morning, Judge Merwyn H. Brown of Winnemucca found panied by gusts of wind up to 54 miles per hour Sunday, and reaching 64 miles per hours at noon today. Intermittent rain tonight is expected to add to the present total of .86 of an inch in the last 24 hours. The weather station at Reno airport predicts more showers ANSWERS QUESTIONS Dr. Paul Dudley White, noted Boston heart specialist, leans forward to answer newsmen's questions at Gettysburg, after he examined President Eisenhower at the chief executive's farm home.

Others at table are Maj. Gen. Hugh Snyder, right, Eisenhower's personal physician; Col. Thomas Mattingly, chief heart specialist at Walter Reed hospital, behind Dr. White, and Maj.

Walter Tkach, Gen. Snyder's assistant. (AP Wirephoto) BINDING ARBITRATION ASKED IN LONG STRIKE Pennsylvania Governor Urges Both Sides To Seek End to Walkout at Westinghouse PITTSBURGH, Dec. 19. UP) Pennsylvania's Gov.

George M. Leader, appealing to "men of house Electric Corp. and two striking unions to agree to binding arbitration of their contract dispute. 24 PAGES 10 CENTS of Rain nrsw? Vinson Charges Defense Buying Omits Bidding WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.

CP) Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) of the house armed services committee said the "traditional system of free advertised bidding" has been virtually scrapped in the awarding of defense contracts. Vinson said last night the services have adopted "shocking" practices of awarding contracts through direct negotiation. And he said these practices may have needlessly resulted in an unbal anced budget. PENTAGON IS SILENT There was no immediate com ment from the Pentagon. Of nearly billion dollars in contracts awarded between Jan.

1, 1953, and June 30, 1935, enly two billion dollars were contracted for by advertised com petitive bidding, Vinson said in a statement. A 10 per cent reduction in these contracts would have balanced the federal budget, he said, adding: "I venture to say that advertised competition among skilled producers would have gotten that result, as a minimum." Vinson said an investigation by a subcommittee headed by Kep. Iiebert (D-La) has convinced him he should ask congress "to do some first class overhauling" of-the defense procurement act. INCEPTION IS RULE Direct negotiation of defense contracts is permitted under a presidential proclamation issued in 1930 following the entry of Chinese Communists into the Korean war. The proclamation, Vinson said, was designed to authorize emergency exceptions to the practice of competitive bidding.

"But," he added, "the exceptions have become the rule." In its report on the situation, the subcommittee said congress and the public cannot "learn with any certainty or speed whether it is gettui the best price from the best potential of American Jndustry" because negotiated contracts are "shrouded in bu reaucratic secrecy." The report termed air Joree procurement policies shocking." It said less than one-half of one per cent of air force dollar purchases during the 30- month period -were by competi tive bidding. Couple Expected From Red China HONG KONG. Dec. 19. UP) V.

S. Red Cross officials say they ex pect Dr. and Mrs. Homer V. Brad- shaw, American missionaries being released by the Chinese Communists, to cross the Hong Kong border tomorrow.

A Red Cross spokesman in Washington said last night the Chinese Red Cross had advised it would deliver the couple to U. S. authorities today but this appar ently was due to a confusion in the time difference between Hong Kong and the United States. Both Dr. and Mrs.

Bradshaw, natives of Pittsburgh, Pa, have been reported in ill health. The Red Cross asked for a U. S. Air Force hospital plane to fly the couple to Manila for treatment after an overnight checkup at a hospital here. Officials added that because of their health, they might not be able to talk to newsmen on RAIN BLAMED IN DERAILMENT NEAR PORTOLA' PORTOLA, Dec.

19. LT) Eighteen cars and four dh'sel units of the 90-car Pacific Coaster freight were de-, railed when the Oakland-bound train hit a rock near Blairsden, 11 miles west of here at 4:30 a. m. No one was injured. A Western Pacific spokesman said two of the diesel units and one car of livestock overturned.

The train crew released the livestock Into the countryside. The rock was thought to have been loosened by tbe rain and rolled onto the tracks. The train, from Salt Lake City, was due In Oakland about 5 p. m. Derricks and crews were on their way from Oroville and Portola, but there was no estimate as to when the track could be cleared.

Dulles Reports To President GETTYSBURG, Dec. 19. UP) President Eisenhower talked by telephone today with Secretary of State Dulles on the results of the Paris NATO conference, and arranged fto have a further discussion with him at the White House on Wednesday. Murray Snyder, assistant presidential news secretary, told of the telephone consultation in announcing that Eisenhower will leave Gettysburg at 9 a. m.

Wed- nseday to go to Washington for the Christmas holidays. He said the time of the Wednesday Eisenhower-Dulles conference will be set later. At his Gettysburg farm, the president talked for an hour and 45 minutes with Chairman Lewis Strauss of the Aotmic Energy Commission. The White House said this was mostly "a social visit." but that Strauss took up a number of AEC items" before flvine back to the capital. Encouraged by new medical re ports from his doctor, Eisenhower maintained an easy-going schedule as his final 1955 visit to Gettysburg drew toward a close.

lomorrow. he will confer with Dillon Anderson, his special assistant for national security matters. After Christmas, the president will fly south, probably to Augusta, Saturday for his further convalescence. Lottery Planned In U. N.

Deadlock UNITED NATIONS, N. Dec. 19. UP) U. N.

diplomats were generally agreed today that the deadlock over a' security council seat will be settled tomorrow by a lottery plan. This is the last issue holding up adjournment of the 1955 sreneral assembly. Thirty five ballots have been taken in the marathon contest between Yugoslavia and the Philippines. The lottery plan failed Friday in its first test when Yugoslavia fell six votes short of the number needed for election. The Yugo slav delegation had won a draw.

A gentlemen's agreement called for the draw winner to serve the first year of the term. Action Soviet Leaders Offer Aid Loan To Afghanistan Nations Agree To Extend Peace Pact 10 Years KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 19. UP) Premier Bulganin and Ni- kita Khrushchev left by plane for Moscow today, leaving behind the promise of a 100-million-dollar long-term loan, chiefly for agriculture and electric power developments. The loan and accompanying technical assistance for development projects is more than twice the 42-million-dollar U.

S. technical and economic aid program now being carried out in the landlocked kingdom1 on the southern border of Soviet Asia. EXTEND PEACE PACT The Soviets also announced that Prussia" Afghanistan had agreed during the four-day Bul-ganin-Khrushchev visit to Kabul to extend for 10 years the neutrality and nonaggression treaty they signed in 1931. After 1965, the treaty will be extended automatically each year unless either nation denounces it. Before the Russians' departure, Bulganin and Premier Mahmoud Daud signed a joint statement similar to those the Soviet premier signed with Indian Prime Minister Nehru and Burmese Premier Nu during the Soviet leaders' visit in their past month of Asian touring.

Bulganin and Daud 1. Said they would "expand the friendly political, economic and cultural links" between their two countries. 2. Called for universal disarmament and a ban on atomic weapons; 3. Called for self-determination "without pressure and stress from abroad for peoples "still deprived of freedom and national sovereignty." BACK FIVE POINTS 4.

Pledged support of the "five principles" of coexistence and noninterference into internal affairs first sponsored by Chinese Communist Premier Chou En-lai and Nehru; 5. Said the Geneva conference this year "gave positive results" and called for more such parleys; 6. Demanded a U. N. seat for Communist China.

Prior to the publication of the various agreements, Afghan Foreign Minister Mahmoud Niam Khan had told a news conference the Russian visit would not change his country's policy of neutrality in.the cold Six Persons Die In House Fire SPRINGFIELD. Ohio. Dec. 19. (JPi Six young people burned to death early today when fire swept through a four-room frame bungalow three miles southwest of here.

Firemen, who thought an ex ploding coil oil stove may have triggered the pre-dawn blaze, said the bodies of the six had been removed from the. charred remains. Robert McDaniel. 44. who was living in the house with his chil dren and some other relatives, escaped the blaze and managed to save his 6-year-old son, Wayne Richard.

Tuesday with a possibility of light snow town early Tuesday morning. The current storm is something of a deluge, bringing the seasonal total to 2.09 inches. Only 21 inches was recorded here during the entire month of November. XO DAMAGE REPORTS City engineer, Elliott Cann, said this morning that no storm damage was reported here. A sharp eye was being kept on the Truckee River, but no flood danger is in sight.

The river recorded 460 cubic feet of water per second at Farad this morning, Cann said, but can take from 8000 to before flood conditions would be reached. Rains were slow and steady so that most of the downpour soaked into the ground, cutting the runoff to a minimum. Truckee reported eight inches of snow and Donner Lake, eleven. Dormer Summit got another 22 inches over its previous total of 60. Eight inches fell at Emigrant Gap, 18 at Cisco and 22 at Soda Springs.

The summit was reported open this morning but chains were required from Donner Lake gate to Kingvale. ROAD DATA MISSING Little was known about Highway 50 this morning. All phone circuits were out and the highway station at Tallac could not be reached. Eastbound traffic was known to be using chains from Placerville on. No house-trailers or trucks were being allowed over Highway 50 and chains were required on Clear Creek grade to six miles west of Cedar Lodge and from Twin Bridges to Meyers.

Highway 395 south was open with chains advised from State-line to Coleville. Dead Man's Summit reported 16 inches of new snow, Devil's Gate Summit, 18, Conway Summit 18 and Sonora Junction, eight inches. Rain was heavy on Highway 395 north with 2.33 inches at Su-sanville. Highway 36 has chains enforced on Fredonya and Mor- (Turn to Page 14, Col. 6) Arabs Attack Turk Consulate JERUSALEM, Israeli Sector, Dec.

19. UP) A crowd of 200 to 300 angered Arabs stormed the Turkish consulate in the Jordan-administered part of Jerusalem today in anti-Baghdad pact riots. A consular source in the Israeli sector of Jerusalem said 4 Arabs were killed and 27 injured in a subsequent clash between the rioters and Arab Legionnaires rushed to Jerusalem from the northern part of the Jordan-ad-hiinistered section of Palestine. A 4 p. m.

to 6 a. m. curfew was proclaimed in Bethlehem, six miles south of here, as Christmas week opened. The crowd storming the consulate in Jerusalem tore down and burned the Turkish flag and wounded Turkish Consulate General Hakki Kentili, who later escaped into the Israeli section of the city. Earlier, observers said the consulate had been burned.

for the Thunderbird company in its court action against the tax commission, reversed the April 25 tax commission order and issued a permanent order enjoining the commission from enforcing its license suspension edict. APPEAL PLANNED Tax commission officials announced some time ago that if the ruling was adverse they would carry an appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court. Judge Brown held that the findings of facts and conclusions of law of the Nevada Tax Commission upon which the order of April 25, 1955 is based, are not supported by any substantial evidence and that the order must be reversed and the Nevada Tax Commission permanently enjoin ed from enforcing its order be cause the order is arbitrary and capricious. Judge Brown said: 'The legislature of the State of Nevada in 1931 made gambling a legal enterprise in this state. Further, it has seen fit to tax the industry to such an extent that it is a very vital part of the economy of the state.

The rev enue to the state from gambling runs into millions of dollars each year. Gambling is a large, lawful and signifTcant business." As such the licensees are certainly entitled to some consideration and as such licensees should not be subject to being brushed out of existence by the mere him of the Nevada Tax Commission. "So long as the legislature has adopted this policy for this state, and gambling remains a lawful business, ven though it is one for which licenses are required, the Nevada Tax Commission must as a matter of law base its orders on substantial evidence in fact and not upon mere suspicions and suppositions. POLICY NEEDED "Further, it is the opinion of this court that the Nevada Tax Commission should adopt, publish and make known its definite, pos itive. and unequivocal rulrs and regulations which are applicable to all licensees cn an equal basis and which are actually applied to all licenses equally, so that each licensee may know what is ex pected of nim, and thus have an opportunity to faithfully abide by such rules and regulations.

Such is not the case now. At the trial, the secretary of the com mission could not tell the court what rules and regulations are now in effect. How could the licensees be expected to abide by them? "The gambling business is too big an institution to be loosely controlled by the Nevada Tax Commission. True, it is such a business that must be strictly and very carefully regulated under license. But, the licensee is sure ly entitled to know what is ex pected of him under the license obtained, and not be subject to annihilation upon an order of the commission based upon no substantial evidence in support of an alleged violation." The tax commission for more than a year has tried to revoke (Turn to Page 14, Col.

4) Art Riordan, public relations of Electrical Workers, promptly Saar Vote Backs Pro-Germans SAARBRUECKEN, Saar, Dec. 19. UP) Voters of the strategic Saar Valley took another long stride yesterday toward reunion with West Germany. The German-speaking Saar-landers 90.4 per cent of those eligible to vote turned out to elect a parliament dominated by three big pro-German parties. The three groups, The Christian Democrats, The Democratic party and The German Socialist party, are pledged as a coalition to make this 991-square-mile frontier industrial basin the 10th state in the Bonn republic.

The three parties got 63.9 per cent of the total vote. Party leaders promptly vowed they will now "unerringly pursue the goal of returning Saarlanders to the fatherland." Their jubilation was tempered however, by their failure to win 75 per cent of the vote required to permit them to scrap the Saar's autonomous constitution immediately. They won 33 of the 50 seats, five short of their goal. Trade Unaffected COLOMBO. Ceylon, Dec.

19. (JP) Prime Minister Sir John Kotelawala was reported today to have told his cabinet that Ceylon's new membership in the United Nations will not affect the island's sale of rubber to Com-munist China. 13 A i 1111 nit nri good will," today urged Westing- chief of the International Union told a reporter his union will accept the proposal. A company spokesman said he had no immediate comment. Available leaders of the Inde pendent United Electrical Work ers referred a question about that unions position to the union's Westinghouse conference board.

The governor stepped into the taut labor struggle with a statement from his Harrisburg office just as Westinghouse was bring ing into motion machinery to pay a $100 Christmas loan to striking or strike-idled workers. Several hundred persons showed up at Sharon, and Columbus, Ohio, to accept the offer. Noting that he had been advised of a contract deadlock "despite many weeks of discussions," the governor said "evidence is accumulating that the strike is getting to the stage of bitterness where serious vio lence may result." During the arbitration, the governor said, "employes would be back at work "We appeal to the leaders on both sides as men of good will to accept our proposal," he added. The IUE reply was emphatic. "We accept," said Riordan.

The big electric appliance firm said any employe affected by the strike and out of work for 30 days can qualify for a $100 loan which can be paid back in small payments after the strike and without interest. The company made the first loans at the Sharon plant where about 4300 International Union of Electrical Workers are on strike. About 120 persons re ceived loans in the first 20 min utes. rang through the gathering dusk. For Eisenhower in Gettysburg, Nixon described the scene and then introduced the president to the thousands gathered in the park.

Nixon said it was particularly appropriate that "the man who will open this pageant is one who is loved and respected by peoples throughout the world as a great leader in the cause of peace." Eisenhower said this Christmas is "brighter in its background and in its promise for the future than any we have known In recent years, and he continued: "I think it is even better than last year and you will remember that Christmas was the first one in many years that was not marred by the tragic incidents of war." People of the earth hungry for peace, the president said, "so we can be sure that tonight in the fulness of our hearts and in the spirit of the season that as we utter a simple prayer for peace wt will be joined by the uulti-l Russia Opens Drive to Woo U. S. Friends WASHINGTON, Dec. 19. UP) It is becoming increasingly clear that a major aim of Russia's new cold war strategy is wherever possible to put on the spot nations friendly to the United States.

The purpose presumably is to try to demonstrate that for countries vulnerable power an alliance United States is a association. NATO MEET ENDS to Soviet with the hazardous This strategy is one of the problems of cold war planning with which Secretary of State Dulles and other U. S. leaders must deal in the months ahead. Dulles late yesterday returned to Washington from Paris where for four days he had conferred with leaders of the North Atlan tic Alliance about major new cold war fronts which, he said, Russia's rulers have opened in the Middle East and Asia.

Sec retary of Defense Wilson and Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey returned together a few hours earlier. FEEL MORE SECURE Dulles said the NATO session has led the free nations of Europe to feel "more than ever secure." He did not explain why he thought that was true, but the Paris meeting reaffirmed western unity and made plans for a more effective West Europe radar warning network. Dulles had no comment on the disclosure Saturday that the administration has developed a new five billion dollar foreign aid program to present to congress next month for the year beginning July 1. Dulles said he did not know what the "final budget decisions were." The five-billion-dollar figure is more than two billion dollars greater than the amount congress voted for foreign aid this year, and is certain to face rough going. One reason for the increase undoubtedly is that the Soviet government, despite hopeful hints at the summit conference in July, now gives every evidence cf carrying on unrelentingly the cold war.

Tax Fix Charge Hearing Delayed ST. LOUIS, Dec. 19. UP) Arraignment of two former members of the Truman administration, charged with conspiring to fix the $118,000 Irving Sachs tax case, was postponed today in federal court to give them more time to prepare their case. Matthew J.

Connelly, who was former President Truman's appointments secretary, and T. Lamar Caudle, former head of the justice department's tax division, appeared in the court of U. S. District Judge Rubey M. Hulen.

Also appearing was Harry I. Schwimmer, former Kansas City attorney and now a Puerto Rico business man. Judge Hulen gave the defendants in the federal tax-fix indictment until Jan. 20 to file pre-trial motions and set arguments on them for Jan. 27, the same date he rescheduled their arraignment.

REBEL ATTACKS ALGIERS, Algeria, Dec. 19. UP) French authorities reported today that Algerian guerrillas jumped another military convoy, killing five soldiers and wounding another. The rebels also burned two military vehicles. White House Tree Lighted World Peace Is Theme Of Presidents Message WASHINGTON, Dec.

19. UP) expressing hope that infinite peace may "live with us and be ours forever," President Eisen hower sent his Christmas mes sage last night to his countrymen and the world. "To each of you, wherever you may be, from Mrs. Eisenhower and me, a very merry Christ mas," Eisenhower said. Then from Gettysburg College near his country home in Pennsylvania, the president pressed a key, and 8000 vari-colored lights on a giant Christmas tree in Washington burst into brilliance.

"WelL it the president said as he saw the lights go on via television. Mrs. Eisenhower sat beside him. The tree, a 65-foot sDruee from the Black Hills of South Dakota, stands just south of the White House grounds. Vice President and Mrs.

Nixon. with their two young daughters, sat on the stage while carols from a 150-voice choir and th At 87, Jimmy Cronin Fails To Do His Bit as Booster SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 19. UP) Eighty-seven-year-old Jimmy Cronin didn't make the Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club's 63rd annual run and dip yesterday. It was the first one he's missed but he was on hand for the ham and egg breakfast that followed.

"I've been a little tired lately," apologized Jimmy. Some 40 other members ran the six miles from the clubhouse to the beach in the stormiest weather in memory of the oldest Dolphin. After the run through a cloudburst they plunged into the 54-degree, wind-whipped surf for a 15-minute frolic. The event, oldest of its kind west of the Mississippi, was started in 1892 to call the nation's attention to San Francisco's climate. Wife Follows Mates Order, But He Is Absent From Post BELL GARDENS, Dec 19.

UP) Mrs. Alton Eullock does just what her husband tells her to do. When he phoned her last night that his pickup truck had stalled and asked her to bring the family car and push it, she compiled. It was only after the truck veered toward the curb and smacked a parked car that Mrs. Bullock discovered her husband wasn't in the cab.

He was in a nearby house phoning to sec why she hadn't arrived. music of the U. S. Marine Band tades of the earth.".