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EMI AM' Good Morning TODAY'S SMILE PORTLAND. April 8 (API To Fort land Council of Churches came out acaint Sunday marrlaite. The rfon: Sympathy for Ilori.t. who complained they now mutt work seven da a week. Minister, however, are not hound to re All Me Can Hope Is That The Boys Jm Washington Aren't As Confused About Our Outlook For Peace Or War With Russia As They Keep Is.

Volume 280 Entered as second class matter Albuquerque, njjtn 'mKpr N. post office under act of Congress 1879 Saturday Morning, April 9, 1949 Published Every Morning fuse Sunday eddinc. Price 5 Cents i i VNEWS PA PE estero Powers Pledge Semite Aid ID Ml To Abolish Military Coetrol Over Hew German Republic United States, Russia Back Israeli Petition For UN Membership LAKE SUCCESS, April 8 (AP) The United States and Soviet Russia joined today in a winning campaign to bring Israel into the United Nations membership soon. Then a few hours later they split in the Security Council over the Republic of Korea and Russia vetoed Five and Half Billion Fund for Europe Gets Nod After Debate, 70-7 WASHINGTON, April 8 (AP) A new program to spur European recovery over the next 15 months was approved by the Senate today. The vote was 70 to 7.

In an eleventh-hour burst of speed, the Senate wound up 13 days of debate to WASHINGTON, April 8 (AP) The United States, Britain and France ended their long wrangle over Germany today with a historic decision to abolish military rule of the Western zones and retain only limited controls over the proposed new German Federal Republic. Military governors will be re a Korean membership applica tion, backed by the U. S. It was Russia's 30th veto since the U. N.

began. The Republic of Korea, in the American-occupied southern zone, got nine votes to two opposed but one of the two negative votes was that of Russia the veto. The council chairman, Mah-moud Bey Fawzi, of Egypt announced the Russian vote killed the application. The other oppos ing vote was cast by the Soviet i Ukraine. Russia's Jacob A.

Ma-jlik charged the Seoul regime is an American puppet. Predict Approval Israel's bid for United Nations membership was put up to the General Assembly by its 14-member steering committee. Israeli backers predicted earl approval, perhaps next week. Arab opponents called for delay until Israel makes clear what she will do about U. N.

plans for internationalizing Jerusalem and about Arab refugees. The committee voted 9 to 3 to send the Israel application to the Assembly. Lebanon, Iran and Britain opposed the move. Belgium and Australia abstained. Bypass Committee The commitee usually tacks on a recommendation that the item it is sending up goes to one of the assembly's six 58-member committee but Luis Padilla Mervo, Mexico, proposed that the Israeli application go to the Assembly for its action without being sidetracked.

The United States, Russia and several others backed him and that was approved. This is the only item so far in the Assembly on which the United States and Russia have agreed. Charles Malik, Lebanon, told the steering committee Israeli leaders have openly stated they would not bow to UN decisions for in- Proposal to Give Home Rule Hailed In Allied Zones BONN, Germany. April 8(F) Most of the 45,000,000 Germans outside the Russian zone appeared ready tonight to seize the chance offered them by the three "Western occupying powers to become a nation in their own right. Under the terms of the agreement reached by the United Stats, Britain and France and announced in Washington, the Wester Germans will have almost complete control of their own government and the right to "participate as a full member in the Organization for European Economic Co-operation" (OEEC).

Gen. Lucius D. Clay, U. S. military governor in Germany, hailed the Washington agreement as a settlement cf all Germany's major outstanding problems." The only thing the Western Germans need to do to attain a strong role in Wesrern Europe is to form a democratic government.

And it looks as if their leaders. who have been working on a draft constitution here, will make a big effort to get that government go ing soon, possibly by July 1. A wave of optimism swept over the parliametnary council (consti tutional assembly) here, which has been deadlocked over the proposed constitution. Little Falls Deep Girl Down Pipe SAN MARINO. Arjril 8 OP) Rescue squads dug desperately tonight to reach three and a half year old Kathy Fiscus, trapped underground somewhere along the length of a 120-foot vertical 14-inch pipe.

Four hours after the child slipped into the pipe at play, police and fire department workers reported they were down nearly 40 feet. They believed from the child's feeble eries earlier that she was down about the 90 or 100 foot mark. A fire department squad pumped air into the pipe, hoping to keep it clear for the child to breathe. Bataan Veterans Ask Preparedness HOLLYWOOD, April 8 Many of the men who made the infamous Bataan death march in the Philippines marched again tonight, but this time under the bright lights of Hollywood Blvd. The survivors are in a three-day convention, to further fellowship and provide aid for relatives of the comrades who did not come back from Bataan.

"It is our aim, also, to see to it that a second such death march is obviated by fostering prepard-ness," said Dick Malone of Albuquerque, N. M. He is National secretary of the Bataan Veteran Organization. Virgil O. McCol-lum is national comander.

The organization has a membership of 4000 men and women. El Paso and Seattle have asked for next year's convention. Chavez Pleads With Committee For Full Rio Fund From the Journal's Washington Bureau WASHINGTON. D. April 8 Senator Dennis Chavez spent his 61st birthday anniversary today pleading with fellow members of the powerful Senate appropriations committee for $3 million to start "dirt flying" on the rong awaited Middle Rio Grande project this year.

Last month the lower House approved $212,000 which experts say would only cover paper sur veys of the flood control and ir rigation project which may ul- timately cost S70 million. Chavez seeks to have this $212,000 appropriation raised to the hoped for $3'2 million. Full Report "We have an authorization for $3' million under the Flood Control Act of 1948 and it was the opinion of the public works committee of which I was a member that work should be started on the Middle Rio Grande project immediately," Chavez told the Senators. This is the first time the veteran New Mexico solon has had an opportunity to present a full and compresensive plan of the Rio Grande development to the committee which has virtual life and death control over its prospects during this session of Congress. Aiding Chavez in his testimony was assistant ttate John R.

Erickson who flew to Washington for the committee hearings. Expert Testimony "New Mexico is gravely concerned with the delays in in- Continued on Page Nine 11 Die as Gale Sweeps Germany BERLIN, April 8 () Eleven Germans were killed today in a gale which whipped across Berlin and northwestern Germany, topping many bomb-gutted buildings. Scores of Germans quit their war battered homes until the gate died down. The wind reached a velocity of 75 miles an hour. The Russians took potatoes and brown coal off ration in Eastern Berlin today, and Germans with enough money flocked to special stores to stock up- American officials said the move was part of a Russian attempt to win over the Germans by putting up a show of giving them something.

Santa Rosa Rancher's Funeral at Santa Fe SANTA FE, April 8 Funeral services will be held here tomorrow for Albert R. Branch, 51-year-old Santa Rosa rancher. Branch died here late yesterday after an illness of several weeks. A former sheriff in Guadalupe County, Branch had also served on the Guadalupe board of county commissioners. He was a veteran of World War I Surviors include his widow, of Santa Rosa.

Bankers Hear Brannan's Farm Program Criticised The banker's kinship to government, farming and ranching problems was stressed Friday as the New Mexico Bankers Assn. opened its o3th annual convention at the Hilton. Breaking all previous attendance records, this year's session that continues through today has drawn some 350 persons. Bankers Officers Question Four Men Held In Bar Robbery Investigator Says One Suspect Admits Stickup; Weapons Identified Four men thought to be involved in an armed robbery at Dave's Bar, 106 East Trumbull, were being questioned by sheriff's deputies and the district attorney's investigator Friday, after one of the group reportedly admitted the holdup to officers. Sheriff John Flaska said it appeared doubtful that a fifth man had participated in the holdup, as was first reported by Dave Gonzales, bartender at the place, but that investigation into that possibility was being continued.

Three of the four weapons seized by officers when they arrested the men in the early morning hours Friday have been identified by James C. Pack, 613 East Iron as those stolen from his house by burglars last Wednesday night. Weapons Stolen Pack told Undersheriff Frank Mann that he had returned from Santa Fe Thursday to find that the weapons had been stolen from the house along with some radios, cameras and watches. Mann said that Pack had satisfactorily described the three weapons, a shotgun, a rifle and a German Luger pistol. The bartender told officers the group walked into the bar just before 1 a.m.

and one man ordered him to turn over money from the cash register. He said he gave the man about $325, and that the man then came around the bar and took his billfold, while other bandits lined customers against the wall and took their wallets and money. Some of the wallets were re covered by deputies, but only $159.91 in cash was found all on one of the suspects. Quick Arrests The four men were arrested within three hours after the holdup. Orlando Brodnax, 23, Washington, D.

and Joe Mason, 21, 401 North Arno. were arrested at 1512 Barelas Road. The three weapons identified by Pack were also found there Deputy Bill Kelly, one of the arresting officers, reported. Isaiah Knight, 29, was arrested as he walked along West Pacific, deputies reported and was carrying a .38 caliber revolver and the money when picked up. Fred Sherman, 22, 406 East Manuel, was picked up on East Trumbull, a short distance from i the bar.

Gives Details I Raymond Padilla, district attorney's investigator, said Brod-Jnax had told him details of the holdup, saying they had "cased 'the place the night before and thought it was all right for a holdup." Participating in investigations arrests were Padilla, Chief Deputy Arthur Zamora, and Deputies Kelly, Esperidion Sanchez, Lelo Jaramillo and Emiliano Gutierrez. Burma's Civil War Flares Up Anew; Karens Join Fight RAGOON, Burma, April 8 Burma's civil war flared up with new fury tonight on the approaches to Rangoon after Karen rebels in Insein failed to surrender as scheduled. For nine hours after the surrender deadline Burmese commanders waited in vain for some word from the Karens. Then government planes and artillery opened up again against the insurgents' lines in Insein, 10 miles north of Rangoon. The fighting ended a three-day cease-fire there.

Reds Win City While the government's attention was directed on Insein, a combined force of Karens and Communists seized Twante, a canal town 15 miles southwest of Rangoon. A Burmese communique announced the loss of Twante. The bulletin said government forces scored a victory 70 miles orthwest of Rangoon. In that sector Burmese units and members of the White Band of the People's Volunteer Organization (PVO), fighting in this case on the side of the government, gained control of Henzada. The town is an important rice center on the Irra-waddy river.

Civilians Killed The communique also reported that 70 civilians were killed in a clash between the PVO and the Communists in the Sagaing district near Mandalay. Thirty Communists were declared slain in that engagement. It was announced that Bo Sein Hman, special commissioner of the Tharrawaddy district, was killed by rifle fire from the ground while he was flying to Rangoon. The plane was undamaged and reached its destination with the dead official aboard. Buyer Resistance Brings Production Cut Back Flurry Buyers' Market Called 'Helpful' by Snyder; Phillips Halts Refinery NEW YORK, April 8 (AP) A flurry of cut backs in production developed today, reflecting buver resistance and lack of orders.

One large producer has post-powed a $10,000,000 expansion program because of high labor costs. Secretary of the Treasury Snyder painted a promising picture of the general economic situation in a speech at Chicago and he termed the current shift from a seller's to a buyer's market "both helpful and healthy." "With the return to normal buyers' market," he said, "I believe that we may look forward to on of the greatest priods of business development in our industry." As he was speaking, there were number of cutback announcements. It wasn't wholly a story of mill closings and curtailed production, however. There were a few bits of good news a shift being recalled, or sales which slumped last summer and fall picking a little. General Electric said it will curtail production of its conventional type washing machine by approximately 50 per cent beginning Monday.

The move is necessary, the company says, because this type is not moving. In addition, GE says, many manufacturers of conventional washers are liquidating inventories and these machines are retailing at prices General Electric can't meet. Valencia County Sheriff Given Holdup Suspects The pair of suspects arrested here in connection with the attempted holdup Wednesday night of an Adelino grocery store were turned over to Valencia County Sheriff Elfego Baca Friday afternoon. Sheriff Flaska said they were Timothy Myers, 20, Fostoria, Ohio, and Bobby B. Clark, former resident of Belen, who gave his age as 17.

Both were picked up by Bernalillo county sheriff's deputies Thursday afternoon as they were trying to hitchhike a ride east of town. Flaska said that Alvarado Torres, grocery store owner, who shot it out with two bandits, killing one of them, had identified Myers as the man he had grappled with before the shooting started. Earlier, Flaska said, Myers admitted being involved in the holdup. He said 'Clark still denied any participation in the holdup, although he admitted being with M3ers and Thomas Jewels, 28, the slain man, a short time before. Myers received a slight bullet wound in the shooting, then escaped in a car which later overturned about four miles north of Adelino.

Arrests of Clark and Myers came after a tip from a tourist court operator who said they had checked in Wednesday with Jewels and then returned, without Jewels, Thursday afternoon. Clark told officers he was an Army parachute infantryman, and Myers said he had been discharged from the Army last Feb. 21. Papers found on Jewels indicated he had belonged to the same regiment as Clark. City Will Open San Jose Water Main Bids Tuesday The city will open bids next Tuesday on construction of a water main from San Jose waterworks unit to Burton Park Reservoir, City Manager Charles E.

Wells said Friday. Material for the project, which calls for 17,800 feet of 20-inci pipe, had been slated for delivery between April 1 and April 19, but none has yet arrived. Wells said. The pipeline, together with the San Jose waterworks unit, will add 5,000,000 gallons of water to the city's distribution system when completed. The waterworks unit a duplicate of that constructor5 on Candelarias Road is nearing completion.

placed by civilian high commissioners, though the occupation armies will remain for an indefinite period. The agreement concluded a momentous week in the history of the cold war and ended the last great split among the Western Powers on a major international policy question. Bid For German Aid It set a goal for Germany's full fledged return to the family of nations. As a tactical move in the struggle with Russia, this appeared likely to count as a major achievement toward persuading the German people that their best chances for the future lie with the Western nations rather than with the Soviet bloc. Secretary of State Acheson expressed belief that the German agreement and other recent events had provided grounds for increased hope of an eventual settlement with Russia.

He explained his belief this way: There had been a vacuum of weakness in Western Europe, but now the vacuum was being filled with strength by reason of the German accord, the progress of European recovery and the development of the North Atlantic defense treaty. Way Open for Russia Asked by newsmen whether Russia could join in the German settlement, he said he saw no reason why not, if Russia desired to. Actually, however, it seemed to many experts that the immediate effect is to harden the split between the Eastern and Western sections of Germany, whatever the long-range effects may be. It was British Foreign Minister Bevin, holding a hasty news conference at the State department, who declared that the agreement marked the end of a "most mo mentous week." The week open ed Monday when the United States. Britain and France joined with nine smaller nations to sign the North Atlantic defense treaty.

Military Aid Moreover, there was another major event today the first dis closure of arrangements between the United States and Western European governments for the proposed military assistance program which President Truman intends to present to Congress soon. Eight of the European signers of the Atlantic treaty formally notified the State department that they would need American arms to strengthen their forces and Continued on Pace Nine Man, Held in Jail, Found Dead in Cell Vann L. Henderson, 58, Paja-rito, was found dead in his cell at county jail Friday morning. Cellmates said he had apparently died in his sleep. An inquest held by Peace Justice George Wetzel found Henderson had died of natural causes.

Henderson was arrested Wednesday night on a complaint of being drunk and disturbing the peace and reckless driving after he had been involved in an auto accident. Funeral arrangements are being made by Crollett Mortuary. Deming Teacher's Game With Words Accepted DEMING, April 8 VP) Now grammar can be fun! Language Institute, has notified Mrs. Frances Gahagan, Deming high school English instructor, that it will publish her "Fun with Words." The game involves prefixes and suffixes. The gain for the quarter amounted to 17.5 per cent over the same 90-day period last year, according to figures released today by the Bureau of Revenue.

Meanwhile, the over-all in crease of the 11 units of the bureau was 19.7 per cent over the comparable total of a year earlier. This aggregate gain served to emphasize that no recession was yet evident here on a a state-wide basis. The total collections of the bureau during this same three-month period were $11,605,000 up almost two million dollars from the year before. Highest month of the three was March, when the total state excise revenue amounted to $4,723,000. clear the measure without a single major change from the legislation requested by President Truman.

The bill now goes to the House, where a similar measure has already been approved by the House foreign affairs committee. Later, the actui money to tide the 16 Marshall plan nations over until June 30, 1950, will have to be considered by the Appropriations committees and voted by both chambers. Money Authorized The measure the Senate passc-l today is an "authorization i.i, setting a limit on the fund, but not actually appropriating the money. House administration leaders immediately called the House into an unusual Saturday session at noon tomorrow to speed that chamber's action on tht auihcr- ization. The Administration's over whelming victory in the final vote for passage in the Senate sur passed even the most optimise forecasts of Democratic leaders.

Only one Democrat, Senator Ellender of Louisiana, voted against it. Beat Off Major Changes Six Republicans also voted "no." They were Senators Butler Capehart Jen-ner Kem Langer (N. and Wherry Administration forces successfully beat off every attempt to make a major change in the bilL' starting with thumping defeats of Republican-led efforts to slash as much as $2,500,000,000 off the measure. As passed, not a cent was whittled off the amount asked by President Truman. However, economy minded senators have made it clear they will seek new cuts when the actual money bill comes up.

Driving at the fastest clip they have set since the debate opened March 23, the lawmakers cleared away 10 amendments in five hours to reach the final vote. They had been warned by administration lieutenants that the Senate would be kept in session all night until the vote was taken. In the 12 previous days, punctuated by bitter wrangling and Republican cries that the administration was trying to "steamroller" the bill through the chamber, the Senate had acted on only 16 amendments. Altogether, nine amendments were accepted almost all with the consent of Democratic lead ers. The others were all rejected.

Formhals Takes Out Second Station Permit Permit for a Standard Oil Co. of Texas service station at the corner of Coal and Yale was issued Friday by the city building department. The station will be built by T. A. Formhals who is erecting another station for the same firm at the corner of West Central and Park Avenue.

Friday's permit was for $5000. Permit for the station at Central and Park was for $15,000. The Weather AI.BCQt'ERCJl'E AVI) VTCINITV: Partly cloudy and somewhat windy Saturday. Slightly cooler with a hlch near 64. Freezing temperatures Saturday night with a low of 26 in the Valley and 30 frt tha Heights.

EW MEXICO: Partly cloudy Saturday and Sunday, widely scattered showers Saturday, mostly north, coofer northeast Saturday: hlsrh temperatures Saturday 55-65 north, 65-75 south. SHIPPERS' FORECAST: south and west. 25. North, east. capacity would be about 2800 acre-feet.

In 1888, the Maxwell Irrigation system was organized to provide water for 24,000 acres of land. However, only 15,300 acres were irrigated. Reservoir sediment and general deterioration of the system in recent years have decreased the area that could be furnished a full water supply. The money would be distributed as follows: Fish and Wildlife, $718,590: recreation, flood $95,450. Those costs wor':" supplied by the Federrl overr-ment.

The remaining $2,011,007) would be repaid by irrigation water users oTer a 76-year period PAPER DOLL OF 1949 of the University of New Mexico Press Club is Miss Donna Peterson, candidate of Kappa Alpha, chosen from Chi Omego sorority. She was crowned by Governor T. J. Mabry Fridav night at the first News Print Ball, held at La Loma Ballroom. About 1200 persons, many of them UNM alumni, witnessed the coronation which took place against a backdrop made of the front pages of every newspaper in the state.

Donna's home is in Virginia, Minn. She was selected by popular vote from among 12 candidates, each sponsored by one of the campus men's organizations. ternationalizing Jerusalem. He said the UN also should know what would be done about Arab refugees. are here from 25 New Mexico towns.

Twenty-two out-of-state cities over the nation are also represented. Opposition to Agriculture Secretary Brannon's proposal to subsidize farmers was expressed by G. W. Evans, president of the iNew 'Assn Mexico Cattle Growers sound rule," Evans told the group Friday afternoon, "would be that as prices of livestock go up, the loan margin should be widened in proportion. "I have seen times when cattle were so low that it was almost impossible to get a cattle loan.

Should such a time of extreme low prices return it would be much better to know that adequate credit could be had for agriculture, than to be subsidized as suggested by Secretary Bran non in his recent farm program." Evans said the current loan value on a good cow is more than the average price paid for cows in 1935 to 1945. "This doe not appear to me to be sound," he commented. Responsibility of bankers to safeguard the nation's economy was emphasized by both the keynote speaker, Evans Woollen Continued on Pae Thirteen ing their hopes. Petitions which were carried a week 'ago in a newspaper advertisement are being returnd daily from very part of the state, they reported. Going along on schedule is a separate referendum movement to place the wo-cent-a-gallon increase in the gasoline tax on the ballot for a referendum, accord ing to Fred Linn, secretary of the sponsoring New Mexico Petroleum Industries Committee.

He said requests for additional petitions are being received daily from all parts of the state. This movement faces court action before the tax increase can be placed on the ballot. The attorney general has ruled it is not subject to referen- dum. Notes of State Bankers9 Meeting The Dallas district of the Fed eral Reserve Bank increased de posits percentagewise more dur ing the war years than any ofj the nation's other eleven Federal Reserve districts, according To R. R.

Gilbert, the bank's president. Gilbert said he was speaking merely of percentages not of money deposited. His distr.ct handles banking affairs for the southern half of New Mexico. Gilbert is attending the banker's convention here. H.

G. Leedy, president of the Federal' Reserve Bank at Kansas City, looks on the present price adjustment as a healthy thing for the nation. The downward price trend, he said, is nothing remotely resembling that of the early '20s and '30s. He calls it a stabilizing thing for our economy. Leedy is here for the bankers' session.

The district he heads covers New Mexico, Kansas, Colo- Contlnued on Par Thirteen Johnson Mum on Former Direct Primary Support State Democratic Chairman Bryan G. Johnson Friday declined comment when asked concerning his answers to a 1946 questionnaire on the direct primary law. Johnson is credited with having had much to do with passage by the last legislature of the law setting up the convention-primary State Sales Tax Collections Up Despite Reported Slump in Nation Interior Department Approves Plan For Maxwell Irrigation System Work From The Journal's Santa Fe Bureau SANTA FE, April 8 A marked business recession has been reported over much of this nation. But on the basis of recent school (sales) tax collections, no such trend has yet developed in New Mexico. The total collected on this transactions levy during the first three months of this year was 54.

123,000. This compared to only three and a half million collected In the same period a year earlier. Payments this past January reflecting December business amounted to slightly over one and a half million dollars. The collections in February dropped to only a little more than a million, but those in March bounced back up to nominating system, in which a candidate must get 25 per cent of the vote at a convention before his name can be placed on the ballot. He has defended the law since its passage.

In answering a questionaire in 1946. he stated "I oppose any scheme that will deprive the peo ple of their power to select the nominees. Asked Friday about his answer cn the questionaire, Johnson said: "I renew my offer to debate with the Journal's owner or editor on the radio on any subject. But until then I have no comment." Meanwhile, backers cf the move to place the new nominating law on the general election ballot in 1950 for a popnlar referendum reported the response is exceed- WASHINGTON. April 8 UP) A Federal rehabilitation and improvement plan for the Maxwell Irrigation Co.

system on the Ver-mejo river in northeastern New Mexico was approved today by the Interior Department. The plan, which has been submitted to New Mexico, Oklaho-' ma and Texas and the Army engineers for their comment is estimated to cost $2,959,000. It requires authorization. The Reclamation Bureau proposes under the plan to enlarge three reservoirs, rebuild four others and build a new oit; to hp known as th Stnhhlpfielrl Ar. royo Detention rese voir.

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