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STILL RACING HIS SHADOW MAGE DEMANDS cost Copyright, 1947, The Chicago Dally News, (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.) Vote 350 Million President Signs Bill 1 To Prohibit For Foreign Aid Portal Claims WASHINGTON, May 14 ingly today, 79 to 4, to grant the to relieve suffering abroad. It the sum to 200 million dollars voted restrictions on aid to The Senate bill. does carry, however, 2 requirement the food and medicine be clearly. shown have come from the USA.

The legislation now goes to a -House conference committee for adjustment of the differences. Besides the money differences, there 15 the House requirement that no aid go to any countries unless they agree dominated US supervision of the of the relief. Countries to be aided are not named in the Senate bill, butting Secretary of State Marshall has said that the main bulk of relief will go to Austria, Greece, Hungary, Italy. Poland. China and Trieste.

He said not more than 15 million dollars should available La meet emergencies elsewhere. In undertaking the lone-handed relief. the United States will be taking up where the United Nations Pelief. and Rehabilitation tration 15 leaving off. Under there were many complaints that; relief was used for political purposesiand and that the beavy contributions of the United States were sometimes credited elsewhere.

Just before the vole 031 final; (AP)-The Senate voted resoundfull 350 million dollars askedi rejected a House plan to hold and likewise out House. Communist-dominated countries. 64 to 19 roll cull vole an amendpassage, the Senate turned down by ment by Senator Kem of Missouri which would have cut the amount to 200 million dollars, Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, chairman of the Foreign Relations Commitlee, told his colleagues the smaller amount would not be sufficient to meet the urgent needs in Greece, Italy and "It would be the same as throwIng A 10-foot rope to man drown15 feet offshore," he said. The ranking Democrat 011 the Senator Connally of Texas pleaded, "If we are going tol do job at all let's do it. Let's not hall do it." Turned down on a voice vote was a proposal by Senator McClellan of Arkansas which would have denied any of the ald to Russia or any country "under the economic or political domination" ol the Soviet.

On1 final passage, only McClellan ouc other. Democrat, Senator: O'Daniel of Texus, and two Republicans. Bushlicid of South Dakota And Williams ol Delaware, voted against the bill. Juvenile Bride Gets Cowboy in a Jam DALLAS, May 14 12'-A 67- -old Panhandle cowband told officers here today he didn't know his bride was 15 years what got me in this jackpot, dern it." William T. Stephens Turkey, said he thought Patsy Lou Eudy was 18.

He said he still loved her, anyway, and she told officers she still loved him and wanted to live with him. Burl Patsy Lou's mother. Mrs. Buford P. Eudy, objected to the marriage because of Stephens' age and asked officers to arrest the couple.

They were married four days in the middle of it country road near Turkey. Ill County. by Baptist preacher. Stephens bought her some newi ciothes and they traveled to Tuhn. Lubbock and Dullas.

They planned: later to visit McKinney and then! to 1 -room home al Oxbow, which Stephens said was near Turkey. But officers arrested them En Dallas, and 21'C holding them 10r Hall County officials who arc en route here to return the couple to! Turkey. Stephens, slim and wiry. has been married twice before and has 11 children. Boll: former wives are dead, Palsy Lou slender, pretty, and freckle-faced.

Today she W18 wearing pale green slacks and a red and white shirt wrist. Their romance began three years ago when Stephens saw the girl at EL neighbor's place. "Loved her time I saw her," he said, 'The courtship moved slowly until they begun going to movies and church together. 19. fiddler and banjo player, and said he had been look-: ing forward to "learning little ole Patsy how to play 'cm." Bob Hope Broadcast a Sellout; Auditorium Show Ducats Ready The Paramount Thenter Is sold out for the Bob radio broadcast next Tuesday night.

Tickets go on adle this morning show at. the Municipal Auditorium. parquet and boxes, $2.40 for the back balcony. Mail orders must be sent in quickly, dicated the auditorium will be sold may be mailed to the Bob Hope! Show al The Amarillo News-Globe. The Hone troupe will arrive Tuesday afternoon between 1:30 and 2:30 o'clock in a chartered TWA Con-: stellation.

With the comedian will be Vera Vague, Jerry Colonna, Wendell Niles and two guest singers, Clark Dennis and Jerri Sullivan. They will be met by tWO new: Texas-New Mexico busses which will be mainder at their of their disposal visit during here. the real. The National Broadcasting Company will carry the regular Tuesday night Hope broadcast at from the Paramount Theater through facilities of KGNC. It.

is benefit for Boss Ranch, with all procoeds from the Paramount going to: the ranch. Auditorium profits will Kin Drird Granny Lumber. Olver Wiggins Lumber 1209 W. Gin, TRI-STATE MORNING NEWSPAPER FINAL CITY EDITION AMARILLO DAILY NEWS LEASED WIRES: THREE ASSOCIATED PRESS. UNITED PRESS NEA, ACME, PICTURE SERVICE, WASHINGTON STAFP SERVICE VOL.

XXXVIII. NO. 165 AMARILLO, TEXAS, THURSDAY -MORNING, MAY 15, 1947 16 PAGES PRICE 5 CENTS Seething Germans Slate Food Strike FRANKFURT, Germany, May 14 (AP) -Stuttgart factory labor leaders, in the first major strike action in the American occupation zone, voted angrily today to call a general walkout May 22 unless the German food crisis is solved immedilately. strike threat came a few hours after Gen. Lucius D.

Clay, American military governor, predicted at The a news conference here that the "desperate" crisis would be alleviated in a few weeks, and warned that any "political agitator" Bus Mechanics Reject 5c Hike DALLAS, May 14 -Striking 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 toclay. Fenn 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 ninestare Southwestern Greyhound area April 4. Crash Victim From Arizona CANYON, May 14 (Special)Positive identification of the flier killed In the crash of an airplane near Cela 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 of Snowflake, Ariz. The identified victim by had papers been belatedly tentatively! in the wrecked plane.

It WAS believed the 1947 model Piper Super Cruiser plane WAS burning when it crashed. It approximately 100 feet after hitting the ground. Hall. a World War IL veteran, left Snowflake Thursday afternoon, May 8, planning to spend hath night in Amarillo. His watch stopped at 6:15 o'clock and it was believed he crashed Thursday night.

He WES flying to Plain Dealing, to reLurn 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 was mad by Thomas Burton Hatch of Taylor, owner of the wrecked plane, and Norman Smith of Snowflake.

UNUSUAL INSTRUCTION OKLAHOMA CITY, May 14 (A)- Scout car officers were pondering these instructions from the chief today: "In case you're involved an accident, call a policeman." Soldier Grilled in Dahlia Case After Admitting Illinois Death RANTOUL, May 14 who had been stabbed, beaten few hours later Army officers night after a quarrel. The body of Edna Lucille to work. She was unclad from in the face, and a was wrapped around her neck. Lt. A.

J. Lynn, public relations cfficer at the Army Air Forces Training Command Post at Chanutei Field here, said Socorro Villugran, of San Pedro, confessed the killing after several hours of questioning. He WAS formally charged with murder in a warrant issued by Police Magistrate Earl Meenach of nearby Urbana. Lynn said Villagran denied he raped the girl. An autopsy was ordered by Dr.

W. F. Lampkin, Champaign County coroner. Sheriff Joseph Clancy sold at UrDane that Villagran would be questioned niso about the "Black Dahlia" slaying in Los Angeles because of the brutality of both the: the crimics. San Pedro, which lagran gave his home, is near Los Angeles.

The body of Elizabeth Short, 22.: the "Black Dahlia," waS found mutilated and severed in vacant lot in Los Angelos Jan. 15. Clancy said Villagran had been the Army for five and a a hall months, but that he nad not learned whore Villagran had been stationed before he came to Chanute Field a month and a half ago. Lynn said Villagran gave his version of the killing of Miss Kietzman, who came here from ncarby Renkin and was described by her landlady us 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 Villagran followed her and stabbed her. Villagran Cher. became panicky inland decided to "finish the job," Lynn said the soldier told him.

(7P)-The body of an attractive blonde beauty operator and strangled to death was found in an alley today. A said a 17-year-old soldier had confessed he killed her last; Kietzman, 21, was found by a high school janitor en route: the waist; down and had been stabbed in the side, beaten Separate Schools for Negroes Harmful, Sweatt Tells Court AUSTIN, May 14 -Racial segregation In itself prevents equality of education, Heman Marion Sweatt testified here today in his court. light for admission to the University of Texas. don't believe in segregation. I don't believe that.

with segregation, you can give equal training," the Houston Negro letter carrier suid. He had been called to the witness stand by the state, which is seeking in 126th District Court to prove that Texas has provided equal tion for Negroes and that segrega-1 tion does not violate the US con- program to boycott" the stitution. temporary Negro law school here. Sweatt WAS asked by Att. Gen.

"If we can prove that it's their Price Daniel it he would attend a fault Chat we don't have any stu-! separate law school if he considered cents the Negro school) it is: equal to the university. material to this case." Daniel said. "You build your assumption upon: something that I can't agree replied. "Well, assume it, You still wouldn't it; would you?" Daniel sisted. "I would not." Sweatt said, His testimony preceded that of Dr.

Robert Redfield. University of Chicago anthropologist and socia-: logist and first witness to be called by Sweatt's attorneys. Redfield said he belleved that there were no inherent differences between Negroes andi whites and that educational segre-: galion by race was harmful to the student, the school and the community. Enrlier; the. state put three witnesses on the stand.

It was the third of the retrial in which Swentt secks A writ of mandamus forcing his admission to the university law school. The state, which has previously trained sights 03) proving educational equality exists, moved 011 to its attempt to pin responsibility for Sweat's fight on the National Associntion for the Advancement of Colored People. Daniel mild that ho would show the NAACP was "financially mare in control" of the case than Sweatt! land that the NAACP Decked stirred up trouble would be jailed. The Stuttgart shop chairman alsa demanded a 40-hour work week, asserting that factory amployes had been $0 weak. ened by reduced food rations that they could not work 48 hours.

A succession of German speakers sharply criticized American food policies, chairman asserted that terned Nazis were receiving 1,700 colors: of food it day. while many Tree Germans were "getting only 600 10 700 calories." Germans are supposed to get 1.550 calories, which is considered by nutritionists to be minimum need for an extended period. Briton Sights No Relief The threatened strike pointed up la report here by American official who said that Germans were showing an "ugly mood of biter toward the United Slates. The investigators said jesterday they feared there would be an outbreak of strikes and demonstrations because food shortages. (In London, a British Foreign Office spokesman described Germany's food outlook as "gloomy and difft'cult." bus said Britain was not conisidoring the diversion to Germany of grain supplies destined for the United Kingdom.

Foreign Secretary Bevin. who discussed the with top advisers from Ger010123 at 2 two-hour mecting. will a full statement Thursday in House of Commons. Authoritative sources said Bevin was expected Lo report that. substantial relief could not be expected in the British Inccupation zone until the harvest in mid-summer.

Reds Stirring Trouble? Cluy told his news conference he 'expected some strikes in the Amencan zone, but he hoped there would be no major demonstrations, such 35 have occurred in the British zone. He concoded. however, that "all 1.he elements of unrest that may lead to such demonstrations are present." The military governor said he had hoard reports, but had seen "no det. inite evidence. that the Communist Party was attempting to stir up proLest strikes in the American zone.

"IC any polltical agitator attempts to copitolize upon the serious food sat and! if be is caught. he will Clay be put said he behind would bars." not use Clay said. troops except pussibly in the event ot strikes agninat the US Military Govbut that this would depend upon the circumstances. WASILINGTON, May 14 -President Truman today signed a bill to erase most portal-to-portal claims. past and future, and pleaded anew that the minimum wage be increased from 40 to 65 cents an hour.

In a to anpouncing bill Congress. "in the interest of the economic stabilily ol the nation," Mr. Truman also: 1. Asked that the wage-hour law be extended to "many persons not protected" by 1t. 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 now net should end pay uncertainties that will smooth out current wage negotiations and help business to plan full- production and price reduetions. 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 labor standards. The law sprang from a six-billiondollar deluge suits in courts all over the country calming portal! back pay under the wage-bour Jaw. This law sets 40-cent minimum wage in interstate industry and requires payment of time and a half after 40 hours 8 weck. An employer risks heavy damages if he violates the law.

The portal suits were based 013 3 Supreme Court decision that, an employer may be liable for non-! productive activities performed during time under his control. These include such things as walking the work bench, sharpening etc. Call Baby Shift 'Clerical Error' NEW YORK, May 14 Bronx couple today accused EL municipal hospital of substituting 31 boy for a girl following their child's birth there, but hospital commissioner Edward M. Bernoker termed the matter a "clerical error." The couple, Mr. And Mrs.

Leanard Sosa, Puerto Ricans, made the charge in a claim for $100,000 dam-i ages filed against the city with the; counsel and the city comptroller, They charged the shift. was made in Lincoln Hospital, subsequent LO March 15 had been issued a birth certificate for A female child. They said the certificate wAs signed by the physician officiating n.L the birth. Beroeker said the clerical error occurred in filling out an application form for 2L birth cortificate and that nurses and physicians concerned with the delivery agreed the! Sosa baby was a male. The couple boy home from the hospital.

Mrs. Sosa said "We like not ours. We can give him 110 name. He is sickly, not like my strong girl." Mrs. Sosa said EL girl was brought to her 29 the hospital for seven days after the birth March 13, but that on March 21 a nurse the boy instead.

Dobbin Has AdvantagesAt Least for Parking CHICO, May 14. (AP)-Bill Jones of the Durham community gels to park free in front of a meter every time he rides into! Chico, The city put the meter in Iront, of hitching post and Jones asked for a rulir.g on whether he has to where he has been tying his years. Not as as it's A horse out A buGgy, City Manager Harry H. Hume ruled. The parking meter specifics "chicles." NAMED EDITOR OF TEXAN May 14 (P) -Faye Loyd, Univorsity of Texas senior jourstudent from Gilmer, has been named editor in chief of The Daily Texan, student newspaper, State House Makes Fastest Move Yet AUSTIN, May 14 The House of Itepresentatives had a 30-second session tonight.

Scheduled to consider a calendar of 52 local and uncontested measures after a three -hour recess, only 16 few members were fu their seats when Speaker W. 0. Reert called the House to order at 8 o'clock. Five members were playing dominoes at the press table. Rep.

Paul S. Wilson of Sun Augustine moved that the House stand adjourned until 10 o'clock tomorrow. Reed put the question on a voice vote and declared the session adjourned at 30 seconds after 8. The domino game was resumed. A heavy thunderstorm, accompanied by high wind, struck Amarillo and vicinity early last night, unloosing rain estimated at up 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 re- Downpour Floods Stores, Stalls Traffic; Tornado Wrecks Farm Home Near Vega ported. Two tornadoes, 15 20 miles north of Hereford and west of Vega, 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 earth while he watched-and had the appearance of a when it struck the wrecking a barn and It drew No one Wis reported seriously hurt. ground.

the dirt and; The tornado was southfield stubble into the seething west to northeast. traveling cloud. Winds reached top velocity of Hereford reported the tornado was 78 miles an hour at the height of tion. night, Weather Bureau at Engtraveling in a northeasterly direc-, rainstorm. in Amarillo early last Farm Home lit lish Field reported.

The Bureau mid A tornado struck the form gusts may have reached 0.11 even of V. T. Glenn, 10 miles south of! bigher speed. Vega, blowing away the porch, andi Later in the evening, the wind off part of roof. and subsided to 40 to 45 miles an hour, at Maxor Drug Store for the later Prices will be $3.60 for the front parquet and loges and $1.20 for the as the advance demand has in011L in two 01' three davs.

A check also go to the ranch after the expenses are taken out. The Paramount show will start at with a warm-up for the broadcast, and last 15 minutes after broadcast ends. Then the Hope to move to the auditorum, troupe will take about 30 minutes an hour And a half program will start at 9:15 o'clock Those who attend the audilorium show may gO at 3 o'clock and hear the radio brondeast on a special loud speaker hook From 8:30 until the audience will be entertained by 55 mar.bers of the Amaalrillo High School orchestra the direction of Miss Louise Paul Ellis will also lead a community! sing. Musle students of Folsom D. Juckson at Amarillo College will be ushers.

Phillips Rules Out New Talks As Union Votes on Settlement BORGER, May 14 Operating Engineers, began posal made by Phillips Petroleum A mass meeting began at union membership. All at-' tending were to vote before! leaving the hall. For others of the striking union, balloting will be conducted from o'clock tomorrow morning until o'clock tomorrow night. Leaders of the local said a count will avail. able 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 atfected by the walkout. will return to their Jobs, In event of union rejection, no more negotiations will be heid. A statement issued by the 12-man strategy committee acting for Local 351 said the company had been requested to resume negotiations if; the settlement is rejected. But K. S.

Adams. president or the company, said yesterday than; Phillips "sces n10 further 450 for neentialions." "The union commillec was ad (Special) -Members of Local 351, International Union of voting at o'clock tonight on a strike settlement proCompany. 8 o'clock and terms of the proposal were explained to the no vised purpose that in the negotiating company could further see in did length not of the contract. the But the offer mention engineers' deevent the election Inils to end the mand for "preferentia) strike." Adams said. central difference between the barwish to confirm that the com- guining parties.

The term defined panty has n0 further offer to make as a "hiring and firing" preference respects to issues involved in for union unen. the strike." Union said There appeared to be little optispokesmen they had mism among members of the local asked company representatives to participate in the mass meeting to- as They mass meeting ended in i the The night request and to assist in the balloting. the offer made by Phillips. indicated disappointment was refused, they added. Adams.

in commenting on the re- The walkout, which 1 began on May fusal, termed the voting "strictly a Day with the orderly shutdown of union matter." six Phillips plants in the Borger, Both he and union men refused Phillips, and Bunavista areas, has to divulge details of the proposal idled an estimated 4.000 workers and on which an estimated 1,500 caused curtailed activity in a score men will vote. of Panhandle industries depending But Jack Willlamson of Phillips, on Phillips products. A member of the local, said: "The During the negotiations, both proposal offered was about the same union and company officials mainAs before we took our strike vote. tained a tight "no comment" atti-: You can quote me on that," he tude. added.

The former offer by Phillips in- CALLS PRESS CONFERENCE cluded a 5-cent wage incrense. con-! WASHINGTON, MAy 14 (AP) tinuation of the $20 each! President Truman will hold 8. now's month end and union option on the conference at 2 o'clock tomorrow. but at midnight it had its forces and was registering regathered, 60 to 65 miles an hour range. Telegraph lines of the Rock Island Lines in Amarillo were put out of commission for severnl bours early: last night by lightning which companted the thunderstorm.

Hereford reported a thunderstorm which began fulling about 5 and was still fulling at 8 o'clock, with the rainfall nt amounting to about 3 Inches. small amount, of hail accompanied the rainfall, sonic of the stones monsuring four and three -quarter inches around, it was reported. Arb Bralley, Polter County ngent, said he doubls that crops wore! noticeably hurt by the storin, "I doubt if crops in this area arel enough along to have suffered! from the wind," he said. Heil. the county said, was apparently 400 light to damage the grain.

Report High Wind Adrian had a light thundershower about the same time, with rainfall! estimated nt .02 or .03 of an and" winds, ranging from 25 to miles an hour, gredually subsiding LO 20 miles. Vega reported about lone-half inch of rain about 5:30 o'clock, with some hail and some wind, which soon ceased. The Burlington Lines reported skies cloudy, accompanied by light to fresh southeasterly winds over i the area served by them, with light rein at Hartley and Dalhart, and! train and hall at Texline. The downpour was estimated up: to 5 inches. In San Jacinto.

One resident of the Otis Apartments on West Sixth: Avenue said the intersection at Rusk and was flooded deeper than it had been in: yen is, The water backed up from curb to curb more than R. block in! each direction. Higl: terraces nt: Northwest Texas Hospital and the adjoining nurses home prevented serious flooding there. Stores Flooded Business houses a block west were not so fortunale. The Oliver; Drug at Rusk and Sixth, uhe Pay Cash Grocery, a liquor store and a barber shop were flooded several inches deep.

All traffic was stalled at the Intersection and drowned out motors blocked the highway at that point with stalled automobiles, The Otis Aparuments sale with a ramp loading In the garage and steps loading 10 fivor Irels providing protection. The accompanying wind which reached 40 miles per hour forced water into many business houses and downtown merchants were forred 10 use broom brigades to keep the water out of stores. Windows 'Take Beating SIgHS Were blown from their fmnorings at many points downtown. Traffic difficulties also developed ot the Santa Fo underpass 011 East Tenth Avenue. Water was reported up to 3 feet deep at that point and stalled automobiles blocked the street.

A display window glass at the Scars Roebuck store at Tenth and Polk was blown out at the peak of the storm. Furniture in the window was drenched and tumbled into the street. Display shelves and other articics in the window were sent tumblin cast down Tenth Avenue. Windows also were reported blown Continued 011 Page 121 The WEATHER 8. Weather Bureau AMARILLO AND VICINITY: Partiz cloudy cloudy with scattered ers or thunderstorms In the Afternoon evening Thursday and partis cloudy Friday.

Little change in LEE perature expected. WEST TEXAS: Partly cloudy, little chance In temperature Thursday and Friday; scattered thundershowers in Panhandle. River South Plains and c25L Thursany. Temperatures by hours yesterday: 7 AM 65 Noon 13 8 68 PM 81 AM PM 81 10 75 3 PM 50 11 AM 4 PM 55 Max. rest.

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