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PAGE EIGHT THE' AMARILLO DAILY N'BWS, AMARILLO.JTEXAS THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 27. 184J Envoy Asks Place at Peace Table for Smaller Nations Big 5 Parley Hearing Close LON'DOX, Sept. 2o (fl 5 )--Australia's foreign minister, Herbert Vere Evatt, demanded loniRht that all nations which fought acainst the Axis--and not merely the B'lR Five--be given a voice in makin? the final peace settlements. Evatt spoke at a news conference as foreign ministers of the Biy Five powers nearcd the end of their discussions on peace treaties for Italy and the Balkan countries, as well as r-ther questions referred to them by the Bijr Three at Potsdam or introduced since the talks began three weeks ajro. The Australian foreisrr.

minister! ureed that the "Big Five" either i Hutchinson, for three days before expand to include all nations whose! the fugitive arrived. He was taken armed forces contributed to "victoryj into custody at 9 o'clocK by Sheriff make FBI Seizure of Canadian Man Ends 12-Year Search Twelve years of searching ended for the FBI Tuesday night at Canadian with the arrest of Wiley Wharton, 45 years old, an escaped federal prisoner under sentence for- interstate theft of an automobile. FBI agents had been waiting at Canadian watching the home of sister Mn et CAPTURED ever tyrannv" or else make clear I E. R. Cloyd of Canadian, a deputy, that in'- present conference is mere- Clark Reagan, FBI Agent James lv advisory and a prelude to a full i Collins and J.

E. Scruggs, special scale peace conference. agent for the Santa Fe. the and "This meeting should be what Dumbarton Oaks was to San Francisco," he declared, referring to the talks that preceded the World Security Conference. a i he thought the Versailles Conference after World War I fairer and more democratic than the present procedure.

Asks Place Beside Reds Australia. Evatt said, is "entitled to be consulted. Nobody recognizes United States leadership in the Pacific more than we United States and Australian forces bore the brunt of the Pacific war. If that kind of cooperation is necessary and desirable in war. it is necessary and desirable in arrangements to enforce the armistice and write the peace." He added that.

Australia's right to participate in making policies for the occupation of Japan "is equal to the Soviet Union. 's" At the foreign minister's conference. meanwhile. France was re- i ported pressing for consideration of! her proposal that the Rhineland and the Ruhr's heavy industries be permanently internationalized so as to prevent any nation's using them to wage war, Molotov Has Protest Discussions were to be proceeding on s. more cordial basis than in the past few day: despite a tiff between Soviet and French delegates over the wording of last nighi's communique, which referred to France's request for "repatriation of nationals in Soviet hands." Soviet Foreign Commissar V.

M. Molow. a conference source said, Wharton was brought to Potter County jail yesterday placed in custody of the deputy marshal for Amarillo. Hunt Started in 1932 Wharton's criminal record goes back to 1921 and lists numerous arrests on charges of burglary, grand larceny, house breaking, receiving and concealing stolen property. He became object of the extended FBI hunt in 1932 in Danville, III.

i federal building to the jail. Wharton had been arrested there Lo cat ed in Arkansas for transporting a stolen car across Wharton's 12-year freedom began Labor Policy Awaited WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 OP)-Belief that the government lacks enforcement machinery to back up any new wacc policy of its he knew when he was fingerprinted own pro mpteel labor department that records would go to Washing- ulivcs today to look to the ton and he would be identified. He Chicago oil strike conference for left Arkansas after making bond a pos twar pay pattern. and Started for Texas.

0 w. Gibson, assistant to Wharton is listed under 20 dif- Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach ferent names in fugitive posters expressed the view to newsmen sent out by. federal authorities law enforcement officers. During most of the past 12 years, Wharton had been hiding in the woods of Arkansas on the White River. He spent his' time hunting and fishing near Pine Bluff.

Wharton told FBI agents he had operated a fishing dock. He also toured the country gambling, he said, Has Long Record A native of Paris, the prisoner had formerly worked as a lineman, mechanic and produce peddler. He had been arrested on several minor charges when in 1922 he was arrested and convicted of that the government could not set the formula--as it did in the "Little Steel" decision early in the war--because its enforcement powers were scant. Nevertheless, the government still holds the power to seize gasoline and oil refineries and may do so if the Chicago conference to produce a settlement of the seven- state strike. The conference was told today that the ClO-Oil Workers' Executive Council had authorized a nation-wide strike if the labor-management negotiations on the union's 30 per cent wage demands collapse.

Schwellenbach said, after absorb- Ration Is Called on Ike's Carpet To Report on Nazis FRANKFORT ON THE MAIN, Sept. 2(5 Eijenhbwer ordered Gen. George Patton, today to report to him personally early next week on the rooting out of Nazis in Bavaria. Eisenhower's action followed a statement by the Third Army commander that he believed it was necessary to keep some Nazi Party members in responsible positions for a while to "insure ourselves that women, children and old men will not perish from hunger or cold this winter." Lt. Gen.

Walter Bedel! Smith, Eisenhower's chle of staff, said the U. S. occupation chief would permit no modification of his order that Nazis be removed "ru thlessly from public office, regardless of general efficiency." "Anyone who thinks there can be any modification of this, regardless of rank, is wild," Smith told a news conference. In Berlin, Lt. Gen.

Lucius D. Clay. military government head under Eisenhower, disclosed that between 60,000 and 70,000 Nazis already were under arrest in the American zone and he said that the number was likely to rise soon to 100,000. Calling attention to a new regulation, effective today, prohibiting employment of a Nazi in private business as anything but a common laborer, Clay declared: "Our policy is complete denazifi- his first felony at Tuscon, Ariz. the War Labor Board in of Germany.

We shall carry reorganized department, that rfe out our program as quickly as pos- WILEY WHARTON charge was burglary and Wharton was sentenced to serve from a year to 18 months. At Phoenix in December, 1924, he was sentenced to 30 days in prison on a narcotics charge. The charge was grand larceny in 1926 when Wharton was arrested at Santa Fe, N. M. He was given a two to' three year sentence there.

Minor the state line. In federal court drawing to a ciose two weeks ago I charges followed until 1931, when he was convicted and ordered to serve one to three years for receiv- 9, 1932, he pleaded guilty, but the i when was arrested lor drunken- federal judge deferred sentence ness by officers at Pine -til two associates in the theft could i Be ore ne made bond on that I ing and concealing stolen property, be apprehended. He escaped while'a deputy marshal was escorting him from the would exercise the wartime authority to recommend seizure only in critical situations. A nationwide shutdown of refineries would create acute transportation problems for civilians, the Army and Navy. The conference is being conducted under the observation of Schwellenbach's new conciliation director, Edgar L.

Warren, who was repre- sible with the means at hand and is ruthlessly as necessary to accomplish our purpose." U.S. lo Reduce Berlin Force BERLIN, Sept. 26 OT The American zonal government of Germany--the i States Group Control Council in Berlin --will cut its military strength 50 i day Revolt Spreads In Indo-China SAIGON, IXDO-CHIXA. Sept. 26 UP)--Rebellious Anamite natives foujM with fire and jpuu in Saifjon today as the open revolt against the return of French colonial rule went into its third per cent to 750 officers and 2,000 enlisted men by next Feb.

1, it was announced today. "Military personnel of the U. S.j GCC is being replaced ns quickly as practicable by qualified civilian per- sonnel arriving from the United' States," an official statement said, adding that the organization would Patton, who said yesterday he was be almost completely civilian by carrying out Eisenhower's denazi-jncxt July. flcatlon edict with "vigor and loyalty," explained that the Nazis he thought might have to be retained temporarily were those who had given "lip service only" to the National Socialist cause. mated four-day supply foodstuffs was destroyed sented here as being optimistic of I Smith invited correspondents to the outcome.

charge, he was fingerprinted. Wharton is a brother of Clark! In an interview with FBI men at Wharton of Canadian and Mrs. Canadian yesterday, Wharton said Hutchinson. White Colonial Rulers -r i i A Texas Tour race I rouble in Asia BY JAMES D. WHITE (Associated Press Staff Writer.) SAN FRANCISCO, Sept.

.26 (IP)--That magic phrase, "an Asiatic Federation" made its first public post-war appearance the other day at Bombay, India. It came from the mouth of an Indian politiciaan, Sarat Chandra Bose. whose family is strongly tainted with Japanese collaboration. Bose had just been released after four years imprisonment. He spoke just as the All-India Congress' working committee had branded British proposals for gradual ----evolution toward dominion status, and independence as "vague, inadequate and unsatisfactory." The 'same committee earlier had contended that this gave the im- the demand that not only In; i i but Burmai Ma i aya French Indo China and the Netherlands Indies be freed from "imperial domination." Indo China is but one example.

ression the Russians had captured idia, rench nationals illegally. Actually, jnd French the nationals referred to are citizens of Alsace and Lorraine who were impressed into the German armyi The Indians, still not united and later captured, by the Russians, among themselves, are hardly in The French insisted that the word- in? of quate. th? communique was ade- There still was no indication when the conference would adjourn, although the prevailing belief was that it would be tomorrow or Friday. Russia's proposal that an inter- Allied commission be set up to guide position to organize an effective movement to throw off Asia's centuries of control by remote European rulers. It cannot be denied, however, emain that just now there is througnout Asia, as a direct corollary of Japan's A transportation shortage which prevents the quick return of French forces has allowed Indo Chinese natives to rise in an independence ganized as it is Japanese-inspired, The Dutch are having trouble in Java for the same reason.

The British have got back much more successfully into Burma, Malaya and British Borneo. Even in Siam--a nation which managed through the past century free by playing British imperialism against each other--there is trouble today, disturbances are reported be- Iwo Injured in Crash on Road Two persons were in a hospital late last night as a result of an automobile-truck collision on North Mirror Street. Injured were Mrs. Mary Lois Allen, wife of John E. Allen, Route 3, Box 45-A, who suffered leg and arm injuries and a scalp laceration, her son, Lonnie, who was not seriously injured.

The two were hurt when the 1940 Ford automobile driven by Mr. Allen struck the rear of a city truck driven, by Willie R. Kim'ble, 901 Adams. Highway patrolmen investigating I the accident, which occurred outside Nimitz will leave here by plane the citv llmits that two city Thursday night, Oct. 11.

He will lrash ructo had Deen stopped on spend most of the following day i i t) le highway, one headed north, one bouse on North In the state capital he will ad- a week and see what happens' I about removing Nazis still holding office in Bavaria. Off WASHINGTON, sept. 25 Admiral Chester W. Njmitz will make an automobile tour Oct. 13 of the South Central Texas area where he grew up, Secretary of the Navy Forrestal said today.

Forrestal informed Rep. Lyndon B. Johnson o' Texas that Nimitz, on his forthcoming visit to the United States, would visit his native city, Fredericksburg, and also where he lived and went to school until appointed to the Navafl Academy. jHansford Gilt Set for Dec. 15 jShow Saturday WASHINGTON, Sept.

26 War Labor Board today tentatively set its deadline for quitting the national scene sit Dec. 15. The board was created immediately following the Pearl Har- bor attack to settle wartime industrial A national labor-management conference beginning Nov. 15 is expected to set up new machinery to handle peacetime problems. Chairman George W.

Taylor and Vice Chairman Lloyd K. Garrison today with Secretary ot Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach, who now presides over the board's UQT to I Nine Frenchmen and English 'officer, of 41 Europeans idd- jiaped Tuesday, -were still missinf at nightfall. British military authorities expressed (ear they had been killed. Tte Annamites, waging an uarently Jeaderless, disorganized campaign, burned the Saigon mar- Kct place last night and seized con- ti'ol of ihi Saigon slaughterhouse.

This left the city meatless and it was believed that much of the esti- fresii in ths n.arketplace There was an ampla supply of rice, however. Electric power, which had disrupted oy the Annamites, vras restored Tuesday night. The city waa utill without water service. American Army air personnel were helpu.g to.guard hotels, whers European civilians crowded lor overnight protection. There was some suspicion thai Japanese wore tolerating, if not enJ couraging, the disorder, Maj, Gen.

Douglas Gracey, I SPEARMAN, Sept. 26 Zack i aiander of the British Saigon con- Jag-gers, county agent of Hansfordj County, today said the Sears GUt vi ed nim that retu of men tq Show would be held here Saturday Japan would be prejudiced if Under plans confirmed today by Lt. Gen. Lucius D. Clay, deputy military governor, American Military Governments detachments' throughout the zone will be withdrawn as soon as competent German officials are elected by democratic ballot and a relatively small number of Americans will be employed afterward to supervise German affairs on state and zonal levels.

afternoon 1:30 o'clock. Earl Breeding, Miami county agent, will the show. Boys who will exhibit pigs are I arry Overton, Harley Kern, J. Kenney, and Wesley Lackey, all from Spearman; and R. S.

Thomas, Pat and Coy Miles Holt, all f''rm Gruver. L. M. Patterson, Sraearman, will exnibit a boar. lid not maintain order.

The British were attempting tq control the situation until sufficierri French forces could arrive. Numerous Complaints Causes Rush To Pick Up Stray Dogs Police officers yesterday said be- a of numerous complaints ITT-VTFOII rr mtSHFYi against loose dogs, the Amarffla PFARLHARBOR sent 26 opi pound raan was EOtoB to 5tart dr3S PEARL HARBOR, Sept. 26 tic action against all dogs not on 1 MacArthur's occupation this emptiness "sprout many forms policies in Japan continued to political movements today, but comment in individual delegations. U. S.

Weather Observations IT. S. Wenther Bureau observations Klvlne the precipitation for 24 hours enaiEK at 7:30 n. yesterday nnd rnlrumum and maximum temperatures to 7:30 p. Centra! War Hiirh Low Preclp Amnrlllo -Albuquerque Atlnntk Boston Chlcaco defeat, a relative but vast empti-M siamcse natlona i lscs and the ness of authority in many areas In Cninese serve officer students of the University of Texas and Southwestern University, Georgetown, at the state universitj 1 The admiral and his staff will leave Austin Saturday, Oct.

13, for Guam. who served under Nimitz' command in the early part -of the war, will accompany the admiral to Texas. Mrs. Nimitz will be with him on the motor tour. 'I Ni le They announced no decisions and rover missing Allied military per- drove his car into the! i rr vieartnuartort city limteorove ms car iriu, i headquarters rf TM tali I Principal problems at the mo-1 announced today.

he claims had no tail-lignt. The accident happened about! ment are to do about wage- three-fourths of a mile north of reductions to run loose. Dogs license and vaccination are not exempt. tbe Panhandle highway on Mirror. all having in common a demand for freedom.

Asiatics themselves realized that Japana's slogan, "Asia for the Asiatics" meant only "Asia for Japan," but the fact remains that they watched the Japanese drive out or imprison the white colonial rulers of pre-waf years. PI 8G 80 87 .10 90 Detroit Fort Houston Kansas City 76 -Los Anceles 85 New Orleans 8fl York 82 Oklahoma City fa Omaha Phoenix 95 San Antonio 94 59 71 44 41 41 56 67 72 Cl 51 74 43 76 (13 58 55 75 'Enter .07 Iii this sense, China is playing a double role--as a past victim of colonial exploitation and as herself a colonizer and potential leader of Asiatic nations where her large commercial communities in all the big Southeast Asia cities might j. Jii AcAtia leiiiiei prove highly important in the i to spread Wednesday Pipe Line Proration Caused by Strikes POKT WORTH, Sept. 26 W)--Pipe line proration, resulting from the strikes in Texas coastal refineries, ture. U.S.

Considering Continued Training of Chinese Army WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 Gen. A. C. Wedemeyer said today the United States is considering the continuance ot its program of training and equipping Chinese troops.

The commander of U. S. forces in the China theater arrived at the national airport from China this afternoon and was welcomed Francisco 81 4ti by Maj. Gen. Claire L.

Chennault, former commander of- the 14th Air i flppon Force in China, and Dr, Wei Tao- wing. Chinese ambassador to this country. Wedemeyer came to the capital Trace Chinese army, a program carried on extensively during the war, Wedemeyer said: "I don't think any commitment has been made on that yet but you can say it is under consideration." Mrs. Wedemeyer welcomed husband at the airport along with Lt. Gen.

Stanley D. Embick, retired, Wedemeyer's father-in-law. West Texas. Reductions by pipe line and purchasing companies in the allowable as the result of the strike now amount to approximately 65.000 barrels dally, with indications a it. will be Increased substantially! should the strikes continue several more days.

Latest to Join in the pipe line proration are the Atlantic Pipe Line Company and Stanolind Pipe Line Company, with Manolia Pipe Line Company expanding its curtailment of purchases. Three Divisions Head Homeward PARIS, Sept. 26 redeployment timetable of U. S. Army Divisions: 99th, 63rd and 106th Infantry: On high seas.

5th Armored: In Le Havre staging area, will ship direct to U. S. beginning Sept. 28. 7th Armored: In Le Havre staging 10 area; first elements scheduled to! the btiard is gone? depart Sept.

30. 70th Infantry: Now moving from Le' Havre to United Kingdom for shipment home. 10th Armored: Moving into Marseille staging nrea. 16th Armored: In Le Havre and enforcement WLB orders. The wage reductions question is a new one.

The board had authority during the war to grant reductions to correct inequities, taut nobody asked for them then. Employers had enough trouble getting manpower to turn out their products, and wages were going upward, not downward. applications for re- coming into the re- Now some ductlons are gional war labor boards. Some- tiling must be done about fixing a policy. If the board sets a pol- it over when Members are asking themselves that.

Charges Filed in Estelline Shooting CUTICURA SOAP and OINTMENT For PROMPT RELIEF pf exttmally caused PIMPLES RASHES BLACKHEADS Tips softened for fafy removal Cuticura helps clear up externally caused skin blrmishrs. Buy tod.Ty only a few hours after Maj. Gen. Patrick Hurley, ambassador to China, arrived from the Par East. Wedemeyer said they came to talk over the Chinese situation.

Two Amarillo At Monlicello College Among the 25 students from Texas enrolled at Monticello College, Alton, 111., are Miss Jane Breece and Miss Lucy Ann Williams 'of Amarillo. At the opening of its 108th yeai Norma Gale Bookoul Riles Are Conducted at Kress 9th sailed from Marseille today. 8th Armored: At Camp Oklahoma City in assembly area command. 36th, 66th, 15th, 79th Infantry, 12th Armored and 16th Corps: Alerted for homeward movement. MEMPHIS.

Sept. 26 (Special)--! elements Franklin of Estelline is a Amarillo Man Due Home Staff Sgt, Harold D. Gill, Amarillo, is listed as a passenger aboard the Stnnton Victory, due to dock PLAINVIEW, Sept. 26 (Special)--I today in Boston, the Associated Funeral services for Norma Gale I Press reported last night. Bookout, 15 years old, daughter Mr.

nnd Mrs. Carl Bookout of Kress, were held Tuesday afternoon at the Kvess i church. Miss was born Nov. 27, 1930, at Kress and attended grade and high school there. She was The question of continuing the Sept.

25, 355 students were a memDEr of the Kress Methodist i use of American troops to man gar- rolled. This is the largest enroll-1 churcn she had been ill several I risons in China is one matter to be discussed, Wedemeyer said. He told reporters he could not give any details until he reports to Gen. George C. Marshall, Army chief'of Asked whether this nation would continue to train and equip the ment in the college's history.

Miss Breece is the daughter of Mrs. Charles O. Breece, 1320 Fillmore, and Miss Williams is the daughter of Mr. nnd Mrs. Cecil O.

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AUTHORIZED McCORMICK-DEERING FARTS--SERVICE FORMERLY CREEKMORE IMPLEMENT CO. weeks and died Sunday in an Ama- SIT-DOWN STRIKE Bui Knocks Boy From Bicycle Knocked off his bicycle by a pass- Ing city bus, Joe Msicrander, 2101 West Seventh, was taken to Northwest Texas Hospital but immediately 1 a with cr.ly minor scratches. ilicerty on $2,000 bond pending the, Urtion of the Holl County grand jury a.s a result of gunshot wounds! suffered recently by Tom Tiner, also' of Estelline. Charges of attempted murder have been filed against Franklin by Sheriff W. C.

Anderson. Tiner was treated in a Memphis hospital for a gunshot wound in the side oi his face and Sheriff Anderson reported he found a 410- gauge shotyun in Franklin's home after the two men were alleged to have had nn encounter. Franklin lived alon? Tiner lived about Irock away. The grand jury meets Friday. rillo hospital.

CAMDEN, N. Sept. 26 Eesides her parents, survivors a 14,000 idle employes of sister. Miss Iris Carlcne Book-' tne strikebound New York Shlp- a sister, Miss Iris Carlcne Book out. and her grandmother, Mrs.

Will Bookout and Mrs, D. P. Singleton, all of Kress. Bill Introduced To Exempt Servicemen From Tax WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 yp--A bill introduced by Kep.

I.yle of Texas proposed that the $1,500 income tax exemption now "allowed servicemen be granted them after their discharge from the armed forces, for a period equivalent to the time they, as individuals, served after Sept. 15, 1940 and before Sept. 3, 1945. Automatic News Boy Does Everything Except Yell NEW YORK, Sept. 26 (I?) A "robot news boy" will have its first r-ublic test next week in a subway Elation.

The robot, 'a machine, dispenses up tj 200 papers and change for a nickle. Designed bv Samuel'Leschin, it is said to be virtually foolproof scrupulous in its rejection of wrong coins and sljgs. building Corp. were ordered by their union to report to the yards today to put on a "real sit-down strike." Want Ads Are Star Salesmen Want Ads Will Get Workers CHEMISTRY POINTS THE WAY! Don't suffer needlessly! Tired, aching back muscles and burning pains from fault; kidney elminia- tion nrc quickly banished by CIT- ROS the Chcmicnl Method that brings normal balance to your body pH. Ask for at your druggist.

For sale by: CRETNEY DRUG CO. ATTEND CEREMONIES AUSTIN, Sept. 26 yp)--Gov. Coke i Stevenson said today he would attend the ceremonies in Wichita Falls, Oct. 29 honoring the 131st! 'Field Artillery, the Lost Battalion.

JANE'S ICE CREAM When you can't get the usual variety of flavors in our ice cream, remember the millions of men still in our armed forces, and they are still getting most of our ice cream and we know that's the way you want it to be. IF IT'S GOOD, IT'S ALWAYS 'AMARILLO MADE' ICE CREAM LIVING ROOM VALUES 60 a a graceful damasks, spot patterns, self-tones, fabric backgrounds, colonial scenics, leaf tapestries, and lacy stripes. A Luscious chintz, floral sprays, occasional rose patterns and rambling flowers on soft colored grounds of many shades. I A 50 Scattered blocks, glass brick, i colored squares, and rectangular tiles wi th vivid colorspots Lovely a bottles for ivy. Wrought iron a attached.

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