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MAY 15, 1947 16 PASES PRICE 5 CENTS Seething Germans Slate Food Strike FRANKFURT, Germany, May 14 (AP)--StuttgarHactory labor leaders, in the first major strike action in the American joccupation zone, voted angrily today to call a general walkout May 22 unless the German food crisis is solved immediately. The strike threat came a few hours after Gen. Lucius D. Clay, American military governor, predicted at a news conference here that the "desperate" crisis would be alleviated in a few weeks, and warned that any "political agitator" who stirred up trouble would be jailed. The Stutfgart shop chairman also demanded a 40-hour work week, asserting that factory employes had been so weak- J947, The Ohlcnso Dully Nevs.

(The Daily News today reprints the cartoon which won the Pulitzer Prize for. 1946. By Vaughn Shoemaker of The Chicago Daily News, it originally appeared in the Amarillo Daily News in September of 1946.) For Foreign Aid WASHINGTON, May 14 Senate voted resound-; ingly today, 79 to 4, to grant the full 350 million dollars a to relieve suffering abroad. It rejected a' House plan to hold the sum to 200 million dollars and likewise left out House- voted restrictions on aid to Communist-dominated countries. The Senate bill does carry, how- Bill To Prohibit Portal Claims WASHINGTON, May 14 (IP)--President Truman today signed a bill to erase most portal-to-povtal claims, I past and and pleaded anew that the minimum wage be increased from 40 to 65 cents an hour: In a to Congress announcing he had approved the bill "in the interest of the economic stability ot the nation," Mr.

Truman also: 1. Asked that the wage-hour law be extended to "many persons not now protected" by it. 2. Announced that the portal act will require a bigger sum for enforcement of the wage-hour law. He will ask for it later.

3. Declared the new act should end pay uncertainties that will smooth out current wage negotiations and help business to plan full production and price reductions. 4. Asked Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach to keep an eye on the effects of the portal act. He announced he will ask Congress to take prompt action if it proves detrimental to fair la.bor standards.

The'law sprang from a six-billion- Uie United States were licrrns. Bushlield of South Dakota dollar deluge of suits in courts all ever, a requirement that the food' passage, the Senate turned down by and medicine be clearly, shown to! a. 64 to 19 roll call vote an amendment by Senator Kern of Missouri which would have cut the amount to 200 million dollars. Senator Vandcnbcrg of Michigan, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, told his colleagues the smaller amount would not be sufficient to meet the urgent needs even in Greece, Italy ajid -Austria, "It would be the same as throw- Ing a 10-foot rope to a man drown-1 have come from the USA. The legislation now goes to a Senate-House conference committee for adjustment of the differences.

Besides the money differences, there is the House requirement that 'no aid to any Communist-dominated countries unless they agree to rigid US supervision of the distribution of the relief. Countries to be aided are not named in the Senate bill, but. Secretary of State Marshall has said that main bulk of relief will go to Austria, Greece, Hungary, Italy. Poland. China and Trieste.

He said not more than 15 million dollars should be available to meet emergencies elsewhere. In undertaking the ing 15 leel offshore," he said. The ranking Democrat on the committee, Senator Connally of Texas pleaded, "If we are going to do this job at all let's do it. Let's not half do it." Turned down on a voice vote was proposal by Senator McClcllan of relief, the United Slates will bcj A a a which would have denied taking up where the United Nations! nn of trj Russia or any Belief.and Rehabilitation Admmis-icountry "under the economic or tratioa is leaving off. Under UNRRA, I political domination" of the Soviet, there were many complaints that! On final passage, only McClcllan was used for political purposes! and one other Democrat, Senator and that the heavy contributions ofjO'Daniel of Texas, and two Rcjpub-; Soldier Qrilled in Dahlia Case After Admitting Illinois Death RANTOUL, May 14 UP) The body of an attractive blonde who had been stabbed, beaten and strangled to death was in an alley today.

A hours. few hours later Army officers said a 17-year-old soldier had confessed he i her' last! A succession or German speakers night after a quarrel. sharply criticized American food The body of Edna Lucille Kietzman was found by a high school janitor en route that into work, blie was unclad Ironi the waist and had been stabbed in the Ride, i i i i were receiving 1.700 in the face, and a clothesline' was wrapped around her neck. Bus Mechanics Reject 5c Hike DALLAS, May 14 machinists for the Southwestern Greyhound Bus Lines have voted unanimously to reject the company's proposed wage increase offer, L. G.

Fenn, grand lodge representative of the International Association of Machinists said today. Fcr.n said that all votes have been tabulated. The company's latest offer was for a pay raise of five cents per hour for mechanics having at least five years' service. Under the expired contract, the mechanics received $1.30 per hour. Approximately 600 machinists walked off their jobs in the nine- state Southwestern Greyhound area April 4.

Crash Victim From Arizona CANYON, May 14 (Special) -Positive identification of the flier killed in the crasii of airplane near Ceta Glen Canyon, discovered Tuesday, was made today. Two Arizona men who flew to Canyon from Arizona identified the body found in the charred wreckage as that of Starling Hall 0 be en The body of Elizabeth Short. His testimony preceded.that of beauty operator! a they could Lt. A. J.

Lynn, public relations cffioer at the Army Air Forces Training Command Post at Chanute i lories of food day. while many free Germans were "Betting only 600 to 700 calories." Germans are supposed to get 1.550 calorics, which is considered by nutritionists to be minimum need an extended period. AUSTIN, May 34 (XP)--Racial segregation in itself prevents equality Briton Sishts No Relief Separate Schools for Negroes Harmful, Sweatt Tells Court Field here, said Socorro of education, Heman Marion Sweatt testified here today in his court. threatened strike pointed up i report here by American official ve that, with segrega-(investigators, who said that Ger- of San Pedro Cal confessed thel 11 for admission to the University of Texas. i "I don't believe in segregation.

I don't, belie' killing after several hours of ques-; Honing. He was formally charged with murder in a warrant issued by Poiice Magistrate Earl Mecnach of nearby Urbana. Lynn said Villagran denied he i lion, you can give equal training," the Houston Negro letter carrier said. welv an "ugly mood He had been called to the witness stand by the slate, which is socking nuni iu toward the in 126th District Court- to prove that Texas has provided equal educa- ut SL: tlon for Negroes and. that segreDa- 1 11 st 1 9', terda raped the girl.

ordered by Dr. Champaign County coroner. Sheriff Joseph Clancy said at Ur- An autopsy was W. F. Lampkin, Negroes and.

that segregation does not violate the US constitution. Sweatt was asked by Att. Gen. Price if he would attend a separate law school if he considered it equal to the university. "You build your assumption upon bana that Villagran would be questioned also about the "Black something that I can't agree with," Dahlia" slaying in Los Angeles replied.

cause of the brutality of both the', "Well, assume it. You still wouldn't the crimes. San Pedro, which VII--attend it, would you?" Daniel per- lagran gave as his home, is near sisted. Los Angeles. "I would not," Sweatt said.

identified by papers belatedly found the "Black Dahlia," was found in the wrecked plane. It was believed the Piper Super Cruiser mutilated and severed in a vacant 1947 model! lot in Los Angeles Jan. 15. plane was! Clancy said Villagran had been burning when it crashed. It skidded in the Army for five and a half approximately 100 feet after 'hitting, months, but that he had not learned the ground.

where Villagran had been stationed Hall a World War II veteran, he came to Chanute Field a Snowflake Thursday afternoon. May, and a halr ago 8 6:15 'o'clock and it' was believed he crashed Thursday night. He was flying to Plain Dealing, to return his wife and two children to Snowflake. He had flown them to Plain Dealing a week earlier to visit Mrs. Hall's mother, Mrs.

John Scott. Identification Thomas Burton owner of the wrecked plane, and Normnn Smith of Snowflake. a a Hatch of Taylor, UNUSUAL INSTRUCTION OKLAHOMA CITY, May 14 version the tilling OJE Miss Kietzman, who came here from nearby Bnnkln and was described by her landlady as quiet, neat, and a good roomer who did not run around with men, Villagran met the girl on a street corner last night after making a date with her three weeks ago. They walked around a while, and then quarreled in a yard near her home. She walked between two houses and "concerted program to boycott" np f'iirid there would be an out- temporary Negro law school here, break of strikes and demonstrations "If we can prove thrft It's their fault that we don't have anv stu- becnusc of food shortages.

(In London, a British Foreign Of- NAMED EDITOR OF TEXAN been named editor in chi Daily Texan, student newspaper. jsidi-ring the diversion to Germany of I grain supplies destined for the United Jvmgdoin. Foreign Secretary the sit Ger- a a two-hour meeting, will a 1 statement Thursday in AUSTIN, May 14 LoydJ United Kingdom. Foreign So University of Texas senior our Ernest Bcvin. who discussed nnlism student from Gilmer, 110 lth LO 3 advisers fTMr Dr.

Robert Redfield, University of Chicago anthropologist and socia- logist and first witness to be called by Sweatt's attorneys. Redfield said he believed that there were no inherent intellectual differences between Negroes a whites and that educational segregation by race was harmful to student, the school and the com-' muriity. Earlier, the state put-three witnesses on the stand. It was the third day of the retrial In which Sweatt seeks a writ of mandamus forcing his admission to the university law school. The state, which has previously trained its sights on proving educational equality exists, moved on to its attempt to pin responsibility for Sweatt's fight on the National Association for the Advancement Fastest Move Yet Villagran followed her and Colored People.

credited elsewhere. Just, before the and Williams of finallacainst the bill. Delaware, voted Juvenile Bride Qets Cowboy in a Jam DALLAS, May A'i A (17- return to a three-room home at year-old Panhandle cowhand toltl i Oxbow, which Stephens said was officers here today he didn't know near Turkey. But officers arrested them in Dallas, and arc holding them lor Hall County officials who are en route here to return the couple to Turkey. Stephens, slim and wiry, has been married twice befcjre and has 11 his bride 15 years got me in this jackpot, dcrn it." William T.

Stephens of Turkey, said he thought Palsy Lou Eudy was 18. He said lie- still loved her, anyway, and told officers she still loved him and wanted to live with him. But Palsy Lou's mother. Mrs. Buforrt P.

Eudy, objected tn the marriatc because of Stephens' and asked officers to arrest the couple. They were married four days ago in the middle of near Turkey. Hull Baptist preacher. children. Both former wives arc dead.

Patsy Lou is slender, pretty, and freckle-faced. Today she was Their romance began three years "Loved her first lime I saw her," over the country claiming portal back pay under the wage-hour law, This law sets a 40-cent minimum wage in interstate industry and requires payment of time and a half after 40 hours a week. An employer risks heavy damages if he violates the law. The portal suits were based on a Supreme Court decision that an employer may be liable for non-i productive activities performed diir-j ing time under his control. These, Scout car officers were ponderin these instructions from the chief j.

Villagran then today: "In case you're involved in! and decided to an accident, call a policeman." 'Lynn said the soldier told him. I Daniel said that he would show became panicky the NAACP was "financially more "finish the job," in control" of the case than Sweatt and that the NAACP backed a the House of Commons. Authoritative -sources Bevin was expected to report that substantial relief not be expected in the British occupation zone until the harvest i in mid-summer, I Metis Stirring Trouble? AUSTIN, May 14 House I Clny told his nows conference he of Representatives had a 30-secoml expected strikes in the Amen- scssion tonight. can zonr, but he hoped there would Scheduled to consider a calcn- be no major demonstrations, such as dar of 52 local and nnconlcslcd a occurred in the British zone. measures ajtlcr a- three-hour re- Hc however, that "all cess, only a few members were in their scats when Speaker W.

O. Reed called the House to order at 8 o'clock. Five members were playing dominoes at the press table. Rep. Paul S.

Wilson of San Augustine moved that the House stand adjourned until JO o'clock tomorrow. Reed put the question on a voice vote and declared the session adjourned at 3(1 seconds after 8. domino game was resumed. the elements of unrest that may lead to such demonstrations are present." Tlii 1 i i a governor said he had hoard reports, but had seen "no definite 1 the Communist Party was attempting to stir up protest in the American zone. "If any political agitator attempts to capitalize upon the serious food siination, if he is caught, he will be put.

behind bars." Clay said. Clay snid hi: would not use troops except pnssibly in the event of strikes HKiiinst the US Military Gov- ornmont. but that this would de- pond upnn the circumstances. clc Call Baby Shift 'Clerical Error' NEW YORK, May 14 MT 1 )-- A Bronx couple, today accused a municipal hospital of substituting boy for a girl following their child's birth commissioner there, but hospital Kdward 1. Bcr- nekcr termed the matter a "clerical error." The couple, Mr.

and Mrs. Lcan- ard Sosa, Puerto Bicans, made the Downpour Floods Stores, Traffic; Tornado Wrecks Farm Home Near Vega A heavy thunderstorm, accompanied by high wind, struck Amarillo and vicinity early last night, unloosing rain esti- mated at to 5 Inches in San Jacinto, and 1.05 inches at the Weather Bureau station at English Field. Preliminary reports indicated considerable damage by the high wind and rain, particularly in the San Jacinto section. Light thundershowers were reported from nearby areas, west and south of Amarillo, with some hail and wind reported. Two iles west tornadoes, 15 or 20 Hereford and north of of Vega, charge in a claim for dam- a country l.

The courtship moved slowly County, by i they begun going to moviesiagrs filed against the city with juncl church togi'thi'r, corporation counsel and the city I Stephens bought hs'r new' Stephens is fiddler and ban jo! comptroller. clothes, and they traveled to player, and he had been look-; They charged the shirt was made; Lubbock and Dallas. They a i forward to "learninf! little olcj 1 Lincoln Hospital subsequent to later visit MeKinney and then: Patsy how tn play i March 15 after they had been is- sued a birth certificate for a fe- imalc child. They said the certificate I was signed by the physician officiating at the birth. Berneker said the clerical error occurred in filling out an application fo'rm for a birth certificate and that nurses and physicians concerned with the delivery agreed the Sosa baby was a male.

The couple took the boy home from the hospital. Mrs. Sosa said "We like him, but he is not ours. We can give him no name. Hc is sickly, not like my strong girl." Mrs.

Sosa said a girl was brought to her p.t the hospital for seven days after the birth March 13, but that on March 21 a nurse were reported seen about 5:30 o'clock- yesterday afternoon by a motorist driving into Amarillo. He said the largest of the two dipped to the earth while he watched-and had the appearance of a giant explosions when it struck the wrecking a barn and chicken-house. ground. It drew the dirt and field stubble into the seething cloud. Hereford reported the tornado was traveling in a northeasterly direction.

Farm Home Hit seriously The tornado was traveling west to northeast. Winds a top velocity of but at midnight it had regal.hered. Cash Grocery, a liquor store and a its forces a.nd was registering in the I barber shop were Hooded several 60 to 65 miles an hour range. I inches deep. Telegraph lines of the Rock Island! All a i was stalled at the in- Lines in Amarillo were put out ler.scction and drowned out motors night, the Weather Bureau at English Field reported.

The Bureau said A tornado struck the farm home Rusts may have reached an even of V. T. Glenn, 10 miles south of! higher speed. Vega, blowing away the porch, andi Later in the evening, the wind ripping off part of the roof, and I subsided to 40 to 45 miles an hour, 78 miles an hour at the height commission for several hours early: blocked the highway at that point the rainstorm in Amarillo early last lilst night lightning which a i stalled automobiles. The Otis Bob Hope Broadcast a Sellout; Auditorium Show Ducats Ready The Paramount Theater IF, sold out for the Bob Hope radio broadcast next Tuesday night.

Tickets go on sale this morring at Maxor Drug Store for the later show at the Municipal Auditorium. Prices will be $3.60 for the front parquet and boxes. S2.40 for the back parquet and IORCS mid 51.20 for the balcony. Mail orders must be set 1 in 'quickly, as the advance demand has indicated the auditorium will be sold out in or three days. A check be mav be mailed to the Bob Hope! Show at The Amarillo News-Globe.

a So to the ranch after the ex- The Hope troupe will arrive Tucs-, penxes are taken out day afternoon between and The Paramount show will start at boy "instead o'clock in a chartered TWA Con-j 7:45 with a warm-up for the broad- stfliation. With the comedian will be; cast, and last 15 minutes after the Vera Vague. Jerry Colonna. ends. Then the Hope and two guest singers, Clark i troupe will take about 30 minutes Dennis and Jerri Sullivan.

i to move to the auditorum. There They will be met by two new: an hour and a half program will Texas-New Mexico busses which will start at 9:15 o'clock. be at their disposal during the re-j Those who attenr; the auditorium visit here. show may go at o'clock and hear Broadcasting Com- the radio broadcast on a special loud mamder of their visit here. The pany carry the regular Tuesday I speaker hook-up.

From Right Hope broadcast at 8 o'clockjgns, audience will 8:30 be enter- from the Paramount a tained by 55 members of the Ama- Dobbin Has Advantages- At Least for Parking CHICO, May 14 Jones of the Durham community gets to park free in front of a meter every time he rides into Chico. The city put the meter In front of a hitching post and Jones asked to Phillips Rules Out New Talks As Union Votes on Settlement BORGER, May 14 (Special)--Members of Local 351, International Union of Operating Engineers, began voting: at 9:10 o'clock tonight on a strike settlement proposal made by Phillips Petroleum Company. A mass meeting began at 8 o'clock and terms of the proposal were explained to the tinion membership. All were to vote leaving the hall. For others of the striking union, balloting will be conducted from 0 o'clock tomorrow morning until o'clock tomorrow night.

Leaders of the local said a cour.t will be available about a half hour after the balloting ends. According to Borger newsmen, the veto will end the two weeks strike "one way or another." If the Phillips offer is accepted by the union, plants will be reopened and some 4,000 workers affected by the walkout, will return to their jobs. In event of union rejection, no more negotiations will be held. A statement issued by the 12-man strategy committee acting for Loca.l 351 said the company had been rc- i vised that the company could see i length of the contract. But the offer purpose in negotiating further-in i did not mention the engineers' de' event to end the-mand for "preferential seniority," central difference between the bargaining parties.

The term Is defined as a "hiring and firing" preference for union men. There appeared to be little opti- strike." Adams said. "I wish to confirm that the company has no further olfer to maki5 with respects, to issues involved in the strike." Union spokesmen said they had asked company representatives to participate in the mass meeting tonight and to assist in the balloting. The request was refused, they added. Adams, in commenting on the refusal, termed the voting "strictly a union matter." Both he and union men refused to divulge details of the proposal on which an estimated 1,500 men will vote.

But Jack Williamson of Phillips, mism among members of the local as the mass meeting ended tonight. They indicated disappointment the offer made by Phillips. The walkout, which began on May Day with the orderly shutdown of six Phillips plants in the Borger, Phillips, and Bunavista areas, has idled an estimated 4,000 workers and caused curtailed activity in score of Panhandle industries depending on Phillips products. companted the thunderstorm. Apartments wore reported sate with Hereford reported a thunderstorm i li-ndniK to tin- which began falling about 5 lending to floor K-vvls provid- and was "still falling at 8 o'clock.

protection. with the rainfall at that. time. I The acrompanylng wind which amounting to about 3 inches. A In-ached 40 miles por hour forced small a.mount of hail accompaniedUvater into many business houses the rainfall, some of the downtown merchants measuring four and thro.o-quivrter torrod 1o u.si* broom brigades to keep Inches nround, It wns reported.

water out of stores. Art Brnlley, Poll.fr County Windows Take Bcnllng said he doubts that crops were! Sinus were blown from their noticeably hurt by the storm. moorings at ninny points downtown. "I doubt if crops in this area a i Traffic difficulties also developed far enough along to have suffered' lho Santa Po underpass on East from the wind." he said. Hail, the! Tenth Avenue.

Water was reported feet deep at that point and automobiles blocked the stalled street. A display window glass at the county said, was apparently too light to damage the grain. Report High Wind Adrian had a light thundershowor about the same time, with rainfall Sears Roebuck store at Tenth and estimated at .02 or .03 of an Polk was blown out at the peak of and winds, ranging from 25 to 35 tile storm. Furniture in the window miles an hour, gradually subsiding was drenched and tumbled into the to 20 miles. Vega reported about i street.

Display shelves and other one-half inch of rain about articles in the window were sent o'cloclf. with some hail and some wind, which soon ceased. The Burlington Lines reported skies cloudy, accompanied by light tumblin east down Tenth Avenue. Windows also were reported blown Continued on Pace 121 rrcsh southeasterly winds over ini area served by them, with light! rain at Hartley and Dalhart, and Irain and hail at Texline. The downpour to 5 in The WEATHER if a member of the local, said: "The During the negotiations, both proposal.offered was about the and company officials main.

for a ruling on whether he has to Due stfd to resume neootiatioiii through facilities of KGNC. It is a illo High School orchestra a where he has been tying his 4uiemcnt is "lYou can quote me on a hejtude. opnofit for Boys Ranch, with all pro- direction of Miss Louise Dickon. I horse for years. But Adims President oH added ceeds from the Paramount going to pnul Ellis will also lend a community! Not as long as it's a horse with-1 the company ol thp ranch.

Auditorium profits wlir.sinp. Music students of Folsom D.iout a buggy. City Manaeor a i i npour was estimated up cl oudy cloudy scattered in i lim.ilr, or thunderstorms In the afte ifanii Jacinto. One evcnms Thursday and resident of the Otis Apartments 0:1 West Sixth Avenue said the intersection at Rusk and Sixth flooded deeper than it had been years. The water backed up om! lhil south Plain; curb to curb more than a block in! oa Riv Thurac AMARILLO AND VICINITY: Partly show- tern oon Partly cloudy Fridas'.

Little change tn tein- perjiture expected. WEST TEXAS: Partly cloudy, little was. In temperature Thursday and scattered in is and cast each direction. High terraces at: 7 AM TVmpontUirc.s Dy hours yesterday: before we took our strike vote, -tained a tight "no comment" atti-j North west Texas Hospital and the Kiln Drim Lumber. OIW.T 'i i Jackson at Amarillo College will Hume ruled.

The parking meter negotiations." Lumber 1200 w. cm. i ushers. i ordinance specifics "vehicles." "The union committee said yesterday that 1 The former offer by Phillips PKESS CONFERENCE no father use for! eluded a wage increase, co WASHINGTON, Mav 14 uu i timiation of the $20 bonus Truman will hold news was ad-'month end and union option on the'conference at 2 o'clock tomorrow. adjoining nurses home serious flooding there.

Stores Flooded Business houses a block 8 AM prevented 0 i A yesl. were not so fortunate. The Oliver! Drug at Rusk and Sixth, the 05 Noon 79 C8 1 PM 81 71 PM 81 75 3 PM El) 77 4 PM 75 82 Mm. VCM 59 '-'it as i Mfi 5f) AM Sunset 7.43 PM.