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A lJJ UJ vw UJ lUliUAi-V 69th Yeai Volume 280 Number 63 Price 5 Cents Entered as second class matter Albuquerque post office under act of Congress i7S Friday Morning, June 3, 1949 Published Every Morning 30 Pages in Two Sections Framid. Off ispect ncnali as MC Tells Court Hiss Chambers Acheson Proposes New Government Rule Ail Berlin Proposal Scheduled Reds Lost Chicago Uranium Found in Dump WASHINGTON, June 2 (AP) Senator McMahon Corn.) disclosed tonight that the long-missing bottle fn the Chicago uranium-235 mystery has been recovered U. N. Plan to Aid Under-Developed Nations Outlined Program Is Answer To Truman's Plea For Bold New World LAKE SUCCESS, June 2 (AP) The United Nations today outlined a multi-million-dollar international plan for aiding the under-developed areas of the world. tiny portion of the atomic I Misuse of U.

S. Property Alleged In FBI Report Atomic Projects Chief Of Motor Transport Under $5000 Bond An official of the Atomic Energy Commission at Sandia Base was arrested by the FBI Thursday afternoon on charges of fraud and misuse of government property and equipment. John Wesley Miller, 51. super intendent of motor transportation for the AEC at the base, was taken into custody by agents of the FBI and U. S.

Deputy Marshal Ernest R. Salazar at his Sandia quarters. Wording of the formal charges against Miller mentioned "other government employes" and would indicate that further invest! cation will be conducted at Xh9 AEC installation here. Immediately following his arrest. Miller was arraigned before U.

Commissioner Owen J. Mowrey. Through his attorney, Joe Roehl. Miller pleaded innocent to the charges. Commissioner Mowrey set an interim bond at $5000 and scheduled a preliminary hearing for June 7 at 10 a.

m. The hearing date was set at the request of Miller who said he will be 1 troduced to Hiss in 1934. He said the defendant was counsel for the Nye committee, a Senate group probing the munitions industry. "Mr. Hiss was to procure documents from the State Department using his position with the Nye committee," Chambers said.

Chambers testified that at a furtive rendezvous in a Brooklyn theater he introduced Hiss to Colonel Bykov, described by the House Un-American Activities committee as a member of the Soviet spy ring. In the same year, 1937, Chambers said he gave Hiss a red oriental rug after telling him "it was a present from the Russian Continued on Pai Thirteen China War Lags; Both Sides Boast CANTON, China, June 2 (JP) Nationalist China's military spokesman today predicted a "major campaign" soon in the vicinity ofChangsha, rail junction 400 miles north of Canton. Communist forces that participated in the capture of Shanghai last week are reported heading southwest towards that front, but the civil war meanwhile continued in a lull. The Nationalist spokesman, Gen. Teng" Wen-Yi, said that "maybe more, than 75,000" government troops escaped Shanghai and reached "various points, including Formosa." (Neutral observers in Shanghai have guessed that possibly 25,000 Nationalists got away.

Tha Communists say they captured Chinese newspapers in this Nationalist provisional capital asserted the government had scored a "big victory" over the Reds on the outskirts of the northern port of Tsingtao. However, they said gunfire was audible in Tsingtao Wednesday. (Seymour Topping, AP corres pondent in Communist Nanking quoted semiofficial sources that the Chinese Army and Navy were leaving Tsingtao and that the Reds would be able to walk in soon. The U. S.

Navy left that naval base last week.) Nationalist political maneuvering eased off somewhat as acting President Li Tsung-Jen nominated Marshal Yen Hsi-Shan for premier. State Attentive To Polio Rise In Three Counties SANTA FE. June 2. (-T) Six new cases 6f poliomyelitis reported in Eddy, Chaves and Lea counties drew State Department of Health attention today. Previously, the deoartment had received word of only three cases in New Mexico this year, two of them from Chaves county last month and one in February from Lea county.

Peak polio incidence occurred in 1929 with 200 cases in the state. The total last year was 79 cases. Dealt NEW YORK, June 2 (JP) Whittaker Chambe pointed at Alger Hiss today and said the former State Department official fed government secrets through him to a prewar Soviet spy ring. The deal to funnel secrets from the State Department to the spy ring was made acre z. a table in a dimly lit restaurant in New York's Chinatown, Chambers said.

The Russian ring also sounded out the possibility of getting documents from Hiss' brother, Donald, the witness said, but Hiss was not sure he could be used. Self-styled former courier for the Communis' spy ring, Chambers said iss was connected ith the same Russian undergrounc "apparatus' that he was. The witness was vague as- to Junior High Boy Killed in Bus Crash A bicycle-bus 'collision about 8:05 a. m. Thursday fatally injured Abelino Lucero, 14-year-old student at Ernie Pyle Junior High School.

The youth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Abelino Lucero of 1644 La Vega Road, died about a hour later at St. Joseph's Hospital. The collision of the bicycle and the Armijo Bus occurred on Goff Road a half block north of St.

Anne Church in Armijo. Another boy riding the bicycle, George Wilson, 16, of 1606 La Vega Road, escaped reported sheriff's deputies John Gonzales and Esperidion Sanchez, chez. The officers quoted the bus driver, Richard C. Marchbanks, 26, of 314 East Candelarias Road, (Continued on Page Four) Osuna Says Bond No Longer Fine For Drunk Driving Police Judge Ben Osuna elaborated Thursday on his newly-established police court policy announcing that jail "sentences would be meted out hereafter in gambling cases. He also served warning that bond forfeitures no -longer would be allowed to stand as fines in drunk-driving "and other cases of serious nature." Osuna clarified a statement he made to The Journal last Tuesday.

At that time he was asked why he hadn't issued bench warrants in a gambling case Satur-dav and Osuna replied: "I would want to know if the citv commission wants that done." Thursday Osuna stated: "That's what I said, but not what I meant. What I intended to say was that (Continued on Fare Four) Search for 8 Who Jumped From B-29 SPOKANE, June 2 CP) Eight men were forced to bail out of a B-29 plane into rugged country along the Idaho-Montana border today, the Spokane Air Force base said. A search for the men was begun immediately. The plane, part of the 325th bomb squadron of the 92nd group, was returning from a bombing mission to Salina, Kansas. It developed engine trouble 60 miles south of Superior, Montana, officers said.

When sparks began flying from the number 4 engine and its cowling blew off, eight men bailed out. Five men who remained with the plane ran into more trouble when engine number 3 was knocked out, but were able to make a "perfect two-engine landing" at the Spokane base. A C-47 plane carrying a dozen 275-lb. emergency kits was being sent from the Spokane base to drop supplies to the men if necessary. The Air Rescue Service at McChord air force base was sending search planes over the area.

A B-26 from the Moses Lake Air Force base also joined the search. King of Beasts Kills Feline Challenger NEW BEDFORD, June The lion is still king. When the Biiler Brothers circus moved on to its next stop today it left behind the of a 1000 pound tiger. The tiger was killed last night in a savage, battle with a lion. Readily With what secrets Hiss allegedly passed on to him.

"They bore on munitions but I cannot be more explicit," he told Federal Judge Sa lei H. Kaufman and a jury of 10 men and two women. Chambers said he photographed documents Hiss gave him and gave the pictures to J. Peters, whom he called the prewar head of the Soviet underground in the United States. The government claims Hiss lied -when he told a grand jury here last December that he never turned State Department secrets over to Chambers.

He also is charged with lying when he said he had not seen Chambers since Jan. 1, 1937. Chambers said he first was in Little Girl Drowns In Ditch From the murky waters of the Gun Club lateral drain was taken the. body of five-year-old Eva Otero' about 5:23 p. m.

Thursday, more than six hours after she disappeared in the waters near her home on Arenal Road. The body was found at the Pajarito cut-off gate, some two miles downstream from the child's home, said Undersheriff Frank Mann. The little girl's parents are Mr. and Mrs. Mel-quiades Otero, Rt.

3, Box 888-A. Mann said Lalo Romero, Rt. 1, Box 344, and a neighbor, Ismael Saavedra, discovered the body, ending a search that had engaged dozens of men all afternoon. Hat Found The search began shortly after 10:30 a. m.

Thursday, when Do-mitileo Otero, a brother, reported the little girl's hat was found on the ditch bank at a point near Coors Road, about two miles south of, West Central. Mann said he was told a girl who saw the child in the water (Continued on Pace Four) San Angelo Public Places Close: Polio SAN ANGELO, June 2 (JP) Polio laid its dread hand heavily on Texas today. Schools, movies, churches and swimming pools were closed here. The city health director there has declared polio is in the epidemic stage. Four deaths and 61 cases have been reported.

Waco and Austin reported additional polio deaths. Dr. George W. Cox, state health officer at Austin, warned that half-way measures won't stop polio that clean-up campaigns must be thorough. A C-47 from Goodfellow Air Force base at San Angelo made a quick round trip to Charlotte, N.

last night. It brought back 24 hospital cribs and five hot pack machines so a new polio ward could be set up at a San Angelo hospital. San Antonio has had 51 cases and six deaths this year. Austin has had ten cases and five deaths. Abilene is treating 19 cases.

Wichita Falls has had eight cases, Port Arthur one? Big Spring one and Plainview two. Anti-Franchisers Seek 5000 Names On Bus Petitions Joel V. Barrett, head of a group that is seeking to submit the recently-passed bus franchise to a vote of the people, addressed members of the carpenter's union on the measure Thursday night. Barrett described the petition procedure being followed by his group in rounding up signatures to force an election on the franchise. Under state law about 3545 names are needed to bring about an election, but Barrett's group is seeking a minimum of 5000 names.

The campaign leader declared: "The democratic way is to let the people decide whether or not they want the franchise, and he pointed out that the election would be held "at no cost to the taxpayers." Under state law utilities seeking a franchise must bear the costs of printing franchise ordinances and the costs of the elec tion, too, if a vote is brought aoout by petition. The Weather ALBrQirRQlE A.VT VTCrNITT? Tatr today and Saturday. Hieh today near R2. low tonirht 42 in tfca valley, 52 at tie airport. NEW MEXICO: Txlr Friday.

Saturday partly cloudy, scattered afternoon thunderstorms north; hieh temperatures Fri-ajr 76 4 north. 5 south. For Secret Meeting Of Foreign Ministers PARIS, June 2 (AP) The United States asked the foreign ministers conference today to give the whole of Berlin a new government. It would operate with greater freedom from interference by the Allied occupation powers after being set up in free city-wide elections under fourrpower supervision. The proposal was made in a simple document on a single sheet of paper and was coupled with a demand for discussion in secret session.

Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky agreed to the secret meeting, along with the others. While the proposal was made independently by Secretary of State Dean Acheson for the United StatesFrench sources indicated earlier it had approval of Britain and France. It agreed on one point asked earlier by Vishinsky: reestablish-ment of the Kommanda-tura which administered Berlin until the Russians boycotted it early in 1948. But the great change asked and this was certain to bring some heavy scuffling-was the proposal to trim the power of the Kommandatura and leave more administering powers in the hands of German officials.

The extent of proposed trimming in Allied authority over the city was not definitely indicated. But the whole debate in past sessions has been over the question of single-power veto1 or unanimity, as Vishinsky calls it. By a secret session the foreign ministers mean the number of lesser delegates attending will be reduced and details will be divulged to reporters only if the ministers decide" to- issue a communique. All the sessions are closed to the press, but briefing officers of the four powers have given their versions of what happened after each meeting in the past. Berlin is split into two sectors.

The three Western powers are in charge of one and under them operate an elected city council and mayor. The other sector, the East, is run by a group of Germans under direct control of Russian officials. Sandoval County School Fund Up SANTA FE, June 2 W) A 1949-50 budget of $417,951 has been approved by educational budget auditor R. H. Grissom for Sandoval County.

The total is $9257 more than for the preceding year. Grissom's office said the 1949-50 budget will include $342,510 for maintenance, for administration, and $15,000 for emergency use. To that total of $390,328 has been added jb. direct charge budget of $27,623. Comparable figures for the preceding school year were $340,398 for maintenance, $32,818 for administration, and S15.000 for emergencj' use.

The direct charge item was $20,478. He refused to pass judgment on Congress now. Wait until the session has completed its work, he said. Will stav arnnnd U'ach in cr. ton as lone as Coneresc does? Yes, said Mr.

Truman. And he got a laugh when he added, perhaps longer. In reply to other questions, Mr. Truman said that he: Onnnsci: anv PTnnri.imnnrt bank loan to Spain. (It has askedj iui ui a pan 01 me 000,000 it says it needs to buy cotton and wheat).

Has no comment on Britain's release of Communist Gerhart Eisler. Believes the Question of wheth er Curtis Calder, utilities execu tive, wui become secretary of the Army is still open. Has several women under consideration for diplomatic postsi But, no, not ready to make his choices yet. Won't make any decision on a compromise bill for control of the oil-bearing tidelands until it reaches him. Will be unable to attend a Democratic farm conference at Des Moines June 12-13.

The whole thing was over in five minutes, one of the shortest such conferences on record. from a buried box, but a material itself has not yet McMahon said the loss of the material appeared to be due to "carelessness and negligence." The announcement was made at the end of a day studded with developments in the congressional investigation of the Energy Commission, headed by David E. Lilienthal. Other developments: 1. Senator Bourse Hicken-looper (R-Iowa) acused Lilien tnal of violating the law on atomic secrecy with "brazen effrontery" and of permitting persons to take part in the 1948 niwetok A-bomb tests without a full loyalty checkup.

2. Testimony was received that a guard at the Chicago Atomic Laboratory where the uranium is missing had a police record. Carroll L. Wilson, general manager of the Atomic Energy Commission, said the guard's record showed a charge of grand larceny, but no conviction. He expressed confidence the guard had nothing to do with the loss.

3. Atomic Chief Lilienthal coldly and emphatically denied Hickenlooper's charge of law violation in -clearing some AEC employees without a full loyalty checkup immediately. This was necessary, he said, to speed vital atomic work. Found in Box Senator chairman of the joint Senate-House committee investigating Hickenl charges of "incredible manage ment" by Lilienthal, said the missing vial was turned up in a box used to bury "hot" radioactive materials from the AEC'c Aronne laboratories in Chicago Thfe loss was discovered last Feb. 8 but was not reported to the FBI until seven weeks later.

McMahon said three boxes were dug up before the bottle which originally held more than an ounce of U-235 was discovered. The AEC had reported that seven-eighths of the lost uranium has been round in a laborious combing over of waste material, but has never explained how it got out of the bottle into the waste. Wear Masks McMahon said men wearing gas masks, armed with Geiger Contlaaea oo race Thlrtrra Petition-Buying By Pre-Primary Pushers Claimed Charges that proponents of the pre-primary convention system "have called the boys in and instructed them to pick up referendum petitions at any cost," were made Thursday by Dennis Chavez in Carlsbad. Chavez, who has been spearheading a campaign seeking to refer the pre-primary convention law, said he had received his in formation from Santa Fe, and added: "This illustrates the viciousness of what they are attempting to do in ramming the pre-primary convention system down the throats of the people of New Mexico. The son of New Mexico's senior Senator said he was suggesting to W.

C. Oestreich, state chairman of the campaign, "that he place the signed petitions he has on hand in a bank vault until ready for filing." Chavez reiterated' that "fortunately, we have sufficient signers from enough counties to suspend operation of the law and submit the question to a vote of the people." He added that "we will continue our efforts to secure so convincing a number of signed petitions that they (pre-primary proponents) will know New Mexico does not approve of their tactics." To suspend operation of the law about 50,000 signatures are needed. This figure must include 25 per cent of the total vote cast at the last general election in 25 counties. School Supt. Chavez Mending After Surgery County School Superintendent Adolfo P.

Chavez was reported recovering following surgery at Presbyterian hospital earlier this week. A member of the family said, however, that visitors would not be received for several more davs. Chavez has been hospitalized for two weeks and has undergone surgery twice in that time. been found. ARRESTED OFFICIAL: John W.

Miller (above) stalks from the office of U. S. Commissioner Owen J. Mowrey following his arrest and arraignment on charges of fraud against the government. Miller was superintendent of motor transportation for the Atomic Energy Commission at Sandia Base.

He entered an innocent plea to the charges and a preliminary hearing was set for June 7. Miller is free on $5000 bond. (Redman photo) Santa Fe R. R. To Kill 'Hoppers Plans of the Santa Fe railroad to spray its rights-of-way in four counties spurred the anti-grasshopper campaign here Thursday.

F. C. Groman. engineer for the railroad, announced the plans after he and County Agent Cecil Pragnell inspected land along the tracks from near the station north to the county line. Railway officials are laying plans to spray to kill the 'hoppers on all infested rights-of-way in Bernalillo, Sandoval, Valencia and Socorro counties, Groman said.

Praenell said they found 'hopper infestation just as bad in areas along the tracks as in other areas of the county. Evidences of infestation were found within one-fourth mile of the city station, he said. Meanwhile, plans of the Chamber of Commerce committee on grasshopper control to hire a full-time employe to aid Prag-nell in the fight will be carried out soon, said W. D. Chiles, chairman.

Chiles said he had two prospects in mind for the job. "We are urging an tarmers who can do so to start spraying at once," Chiles said. Spraying operations have already started in some areas, he said, and plans to move spraying and dusting equipment to farms lacking such facilities are moving forward. Ralph Keleher, Administration End Their Feud Ralph J. Keleher, formerly at odds with the state administration, isn't mad at the statehouse incumbents any more he's on the Bureau of Revenue payroll at $250 a month.

Keleher actually has been on the state payroll since May 16, but Revenue Commissioner Victor Salazar didn't get around to announcing it until Thurs the Associated Press reported in Santa Fe. Keleher is a former Bernalillo County Democratic chairman. Salazar declined comment on a report that Keleher was working against forces which seek to refer the 1949 pre-primary convention law. The revenue commissioner said Keleher would maintain headquarters in Albuquerque and "he is an investigator for the bureau on a statewide basis." Keleher's son, David Keleher who is an employe in U. S.

Senator Dennis Chavez Washington office, has been assisting Dennis Chavez Jr. here in a campaign seeking a referendum on the pre-primary law. i rr 1 I 'J I It calls for an outlay of nearly 586 million in two years. The plan is the UN's answer to President Truman's plea for a bold new program designed to spread technical know-how throughout the world. The key to the whole UN proposal, however, is" that the major initiative and the largest part of the capital and labor required must come from the countries receiving assistance.

Report by Lie The plan, set forth in a 328-page report by Secretary-General Trygye Lie, is based on the theory that "too great and too long-continued dependence on foreign capital and technicians may impede rather than accelerate development along sound lines." The UN plan would cost for its first year of operation and $50,079,807 for the second year. Cost estimates beyond a two-year period were not outlined, but UN experts said any broad economic program must be figured in decades to be effective. No Assessments Capital to finance the program would be raised through voluntary contributions from governments taking part in the plan. No assessments would be levied and no country would enter into any phase of the program unless it so desired. lie whole plan must first be a roved by the UN Economic ar cl Social council and by the 59-nation General Assembly.

UN planners don't expect the program to get under way until e-'y in 1950. Farm Organization Hits New Gas Tax New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau reaffirmed its stand against the pending two-cent gas tax hike Thursday at a board of directors meeting at the Hilton and voted unanimously to hold its' annual convention in Albuquerque Nov. 28 and 29. John Augestine, Las Cruces, secretary-treasurer of the Bureau, reported that 63,000 signatures had been affixed to referendum petitions to bring the increased gas tax to a vote of the people of New Mexico. The 19 officers and directors present for the meeting, representing 5000 farm families of the state, also voted to lend increased support to the State Fair.

They directed Augestine to apply to Leon Harms, state fair manager, for a "Farm Bureau Day" at the Ffir and for a booth in the agricultural building. In conjunction with stepping Continued Pace Two Ernie Pyle Beach Will Open Today Ernie Pyle Beach opens at noon today for its 19th season, Citv Manager Charles E. Wells announced Thursday. The weatherman promised clear skies aild a warm day for the opening. Prices will be the same as last year 25 cents for children, 50 cents for adults.

A. W. (Pop). Horton, has been managing the beach since it first ppened in will be on the iob again this season. There will be five lifeguards on duty.

Total water area has been reduced by means of a new xlike this year, to simplify water purification and supervision of swimmers. The water supply comes from two deep wells drilled last year. Fire Destroys 30 Tons Of Hay on Simms Ranch Fire destroyed about 30 tons of hav and a hay-loader Thursday at Los Poblanos Ranch, owned by Albert G. Simms, on Rio Grande Boulevard, it wasreported by- Assistant Fire Chief Simon Selig-man. The blaze swept into a 120-ton hav sHck apparently after" the hayloartlns conveyor's gasoline motor ignited spilled gasoline, Sel igmari yaid.

Firemen p-rped two streams of water into the blaze for more than four hours and managed to save the bulk of the haystack, Eeliigman added. represented by attorney John Simms at that time. Simms was out of town Thursday. After nrraimment. Miller was taken to the county jail but was released at 8:20 p.

m. wnen r. MirViar-ls- 4610 Idlewild Lane. and O. W.

Walton. Tijeras Can- von. posted a S5000 property bond apiece for Miller's appearance before Commissioner Mow-rev on June 7. Denies Chartes Asked to comment on the charges against him. Miller declined to make any lengthy statement other than denying the allegations.

-This is a pretty mixed up affair," he said. The small chunky suspect seemed unperturbed by his arrest. Dressed in a crey stockman's suit and sporting a "10-gallon" Stetson. Miller calmly puiiea a cigar throughout the entire proceedings at his arraignment. Miller is charred with usinff heavy vehicular equipment, belonging both to the AEC and to the arirv air force, and eov- crnmcnt purchased building materials to develop two ranch sites in the Sandia mountains.

He later Continued oa Tmt Two Ask Five to Probe Teacher Hire Here SANTA FE, June 2 Appointment of a committee to probe alleged discrimination in hiring of teachers for Albuquerque schools was disclosed today by Chairman Dan Valdes of the Mexico Council on Human RiEhts. Valdes said he had received reports three Spanish-speaking teachers with degrees in education have applied for jobs in Albuquerque schools but have not been considered." He said also that Spanish-speaking janitors in the school system were paid SI 60 a month compared with $200 monthly for Anglo janitors. Valdes first leveled the charge of discrimination in hiring Albuquerque teachers at a state meeting of the council here last weekend. The council is composed of representatives of about 20 organizations. He said he has asked five men to serve on the committee and report to the council.

None has yet accepted appointment, however, he added. The five are Dr. Victor Kleven, Fr. Robert Wilken. Rev.

William B. O'Neill. The Rev. Eli-as Atencio and Carpio Chavez, all of Albuquerque. Los Alamos Backs AECs Lilienthal LOS ALAMOS, N.

June 2 (INS) The town council of Los Alamos today declared it3 support of A.E.C. Chairman David Lilienthal. The council wired Sentor McMahon the following message: "Lilienthal and his staff have consistently encouraged and stimulated democratic government by residents of such communities as Los Alamos. "The Atomic Energy Commission's far-seeing policy has permitted the passage of bills which will result in the formation of a new Los Alamos county June 10, and which will provide legal means for Los Alamos to become a The message concluded: "Let this not be omitted from the record when th final score ij Truman Drops Plan To Tour Country WASHINGTON, Jun 2 (JP) President Truman said today he may not need to take that cross country trip to carry his legislative program to the people after all. It was in February that Mr.

Truman threatened if Congress failed to pass bills he wanted to tour the country in behalf of his program. But he told a news conference today that plans for such a trip have been1 put on the shelf for the time being. Could it be possible that the trip might not be necessary? A reporter asked. Very possible," said the President. Maybe he would take it next year? That's looking too far into the future, said Mr.

Truman. Actually, his plans for such a trip never have been very definite. For his exact words on Feb. 24 were: "I may even get on the train again and make another tour around the country to tell the people how their government is getting on." Even though Congress has thus far passed very few of his bills, the President stuck to his guns: He still thinks the whole program is on the "must" list and should become law..