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MOBERLY MONITOR-INDEX AND MOBERLY EVENING DEMOCRAT VOLUME 28 ASSOCIATED PRESS I FCLL LEASED WIRE SERVICE Troop Census Fight Sent to Security Council U. N. Committee Vote Approves World-Wide Arms Reduction Plan MOBERLY. MISSOURI FRIDAY, DEC. 13, 1946 U.

N. Calls for Diplomatic 'Break' With Franco Spain NEW YORK, Dec. 13. (JP)--The United Nations General Assembly today tossed one of its hottest issues into the laps of its 54 memoers by recommending withdrawal of ambassadors and ministers from Franco Spam and a British spokesman immediately announced his country would "very shortly" recall its ambassador from Madrid. A government source in Lon-1 don said Sir Victor Mallet, Brit- i ish ambassador to Spain, would! be recalled iix accordance with the U.

N. resolution declaring the Franco government to be a Nlrw vfYDK i "Fascist regime," The inform-! NEW YORK Dec 13 (JP) -ant said Howard would be The powerful Umted Nations po- designated British charge d'af- Irtical and security committee faires in Madrid and that the WIG gSnclTSA prill 1 TM TiTAVnlilv Hr TO 1 1 1 dlUJCLASty L7J. UUa UJ. WUU.JU UvJ ciples of a world-wide arms re- ducted to the st duction program and at the same time rejected proposals for an immediate census. international troop Madrid Delays Comment Shortly after the 54-nation committee had agreed unanimously on a resolution for setting up arms reductin machinery, it decided to -toss the troop inventory question into the hands of the Security Council along win the arms limitation program for deteiled consideratin.

Soviet Russia had initiated the troop census debate by proposing that all nations report immediately on the number of troops they had in alien non- enemy countries. The question later was broadened to include forces in enemy countries and, finally domestic troops as -well, d'affaires some of whom have In Madrid a Spanish foreign! ministry spokesman said it was) "too early" for comment on U. N. Assembly vote. No offic-1 ial Spanish comment on the U.

N. vote was expected until after the regular- cabinet meeting, scheduled for 5 p. m. today. Diplomats in Madrid who would be affected by the U.

N. ministers Republic resolution include from the Dominican and El Salvador, which 'voted against the-'U. N. resolution, a the Netherlands and Turkey, which abstained from voting. All other U.

N. diplomatic missions in Spain are headed by charges War Contractor Tells of Checks To Sen. Bilbo Probe Continues As FBI Searches for 'Missing' Witness WASHINGTON, DSC. is. --Felix T.

Newton, Mississippi war today that he gave 525,000 to SerT- atpr Theodore G. Bilbo (D- Miss) to pay campaign expenses for another Senate candidate, former Sen. Walt Docey, four years ago. WASHINGTON Dec 13 (jp)-- Felix Thomas Newton, Hatties- CVDEX. EST.

1918 MOBI3KY DEMOCRAT. EST. JS73 MOBERI.Y MOXITOR. ESTABLISHED ISfiS Number 140 15 Known Dead, 50 Injured In Pile-Up of Three Trains It became so complicated by amendments, including a British proposal for a verification and inspecton agency, that the com- the personal rank of ministers but not of ministers plenipotentiary. The United States has had no program, the committee itself snarled in a long procedural w.rangle which ended in adoption of the Spaak resolution.

The compromise resolution rejecting the troop question for the time" being was approved by a vote of 29 to 4. with Russia among those against it. There were six abstentions. The political committee thus had included such controversial questions as the Spanish and veto issues. Both the arms reduction plan and the troop census -resolution now go to the" Assembly and may come up for action tonight.

Final O. K. Assured The arms reduction resolution was assured of final Assembly approval when it was adopted by the political commit- tee without a dissenting vote. The resolution recommended that the Security Council formulate plans for armaments limitations and set up inspection and control machinery to detect and prevent violations. The machinery will be free of the big power veto.

It must be approved finally by a special session of the General Assembly and then be ratified by individual states. The program includes provis- for increased living costs. ions for the outlawing of atomic All teachers regularly employ- return of Norman Armour. Calls for Report To strengthen its recommendation for action, the Assembly included a clause asking all 1 i i i mio neiiki mittee became hopelessly dead- ambassador at Madrid since the locked. Compromise Resolution The final action was on a compromise resolution offered by Assembly President Paul-Henri Spaak.

of Belgium, who proposed that the assembly call on the Security Council to determine as soon as possible what information member state may be invited to give." In contrast with the unanimity on the broader arms limitation found burg. contractor, today identified four checks totaling 825,000 that he said he made out to Senator Theodore (D-Miss) on September Bilbo 1942 Newton testified at the' Bilbo war contracts inquiry that the checks--three for So.000 and one for S10.000--had been endorsed by "Theodore G. Bilbo and Robert Candy." members to report what action Gandy, from Jackson. they had taken. It was the As-1 was not otherwise identified as the Senate war investigating committee took a noon recess but earlier Senator Bilbo told a reporter that Gandy was a "deacon of the First Baptist church and in the insurance business," Prior to identifying 'the four checks, Newton had testified that he had made "about a million dollars" in fees from war con- WRITES LETTER TO SANTA---Blind Cpl.

Chester R. Perkins, former Indianapolis, high school athlete who lost his eyesight in a German mine explosion, asks Santa Claus for "two bright, shiny blue eyes" beneath his Christmas tree. A patient at Valley Forge General Hospital at Phoenixv'Ue. Perkins sent a copy of his "Dear Santa" letter to the editor of the Indianapolis News, who sent a staff photographer to Phoenixville to make the above picture. The corporal, who'has undergone 28 operations, is seated at the type writes where he wrote the letter and where he pursues his ambition to be a writer.

(JP) Wirephoto). sembly's first concrete action against the Falangist regime during its long and bitter debates over what to do with a man who once aligned himself with Hitler and Mussolini. The final resolution, a compromise gleaned from a series of proposals ranging from outright economic sanctions to a direct appeal to Generalissimo Francisco Franco to get out, also made these specific recommendations: 1. That the Franco government be barred from membership in any organization affiliated with the U. N.

The present VTadrid government already has been banned from the U. N. itself. The God of Creation', Sound Movies, at Two Churches Here Vivid full-color scenes from astronomy and natural science are featured in "The God of a sound motion picture to be shown in twq'Moberly churches Tuesday and Thursday nights. Tuesday night's presentation will be in Carpenter Street Baptist church and on Thursday night it will be in Coates Street Presbyterian church.

Both showings will begin at 7:30 o'clock. The the Franco regime till remains in power after "a reasonable time" the Security 'ouncil consider "adequate measures" to remedy the situ- tion. tracts since 1940. Senator Ferguson Carpenter Street pastor, the Rev. Ralph E.

Williams, and the! Coates Street pastor. Dr. Allen Duncan, invite the public to see: the picture. There will be no ad- mission charge. Produced by the Moody Insti-1 tute of Science by Irwin Moon.

Sc. "The God of Cre- ation" is the second in a series; 33 Are Dead In Tenement House Disaster Trolley, Bus Tie-Up Hits Oklahoma City Union Insists It Is Not a Strike; Workers Stay Away in Protest OKLAHOMA CITY. Dec. 13 fP)--Street car and bus service i this city of 250.000 was at a standstill today as the local of the AFL Amalgamated Street Electrical Railway and Motor Coach Employes of America announced it did not sanction members' action in refusing to work. Burreli Michealis.

president of the local, said a decision on what union officers would do about the situation awaited a conference with an international officer. C. L. Aber, who arrived from Kansas City. Michealis said he called a 2 a.

m. meeting today to read to the members the report of an arbitration board which recommended a 5-cent an hour increase, rather than the 20-cent hike the union asked. "After the men heard the report, they were dissatisfied with the award, thought it was not fair and voted to continue meeting." said Michealis. Insist "Not On Strike" Union merroers emphasized they were not on strike. V.

R. Mellott, committee I spokesman, said: "For six months we had hoped to avert this action because of the hope the arbitration board would give the men a decent Teachers Get Cost-of-Living Bonus, $100 The Board of Education in a meeting yesterday afternoon voted a cost-of-living adjustment in teachers' salaries to compensate N. contractor, to talk with who was pressing the witness for details about his connection with contractors and with Senator Bilbo, asked if Senator Bilbo had helped Newton obtain the contracts. Bilbo Chuckles. "I don't know whether he (Bilbo 1 helped xis 'get any but I tried to get him to help," Newton replied.

Senator Bilbo, sitting a few. feet away, chuckled. Newton was not asked to explain the in checks as the committee recessed to resume later this afternoon. The committee ordered J. M.

Quinn, a Jackson, banker summoned to Washington for testimony which may throw some light on the disappearance of Edward Terry, former secretary for Senator Bilbo, Newton told about coming to Washington with B. L. Knost, another Mississippi contractor, and Edwin Jones, a Charlotte, of evangelistic films. The first, NEW YORK (R-Mich). "They Live had a large, Weary orkers ho raise.

It is ridiculous they have offered us. what showing in all parts of the coun-1 bodic of 23 persons fr dug the rom the wreckage of a collapsed tene- 13 A meeting of union members i ser con cert f. nationally due tb7 continued at the municipal audi- an recognized dug the i artists of concert opera, radio According to persons in Mo-1 ment house in a slow grim pro- berly who have seen the film, it cession of death gave up hope is outstandin today for the lives of 10 others In the opening section of believed buried under tons of God of the audience i rubble. takes a trip to the stars by means! Police said they planned to of solar isjten 'et Ihree steam shovels-to work through giant 100-iricn telescope I on the ruins of the building in of Mt. Wilson Conservatory in bombs and other weapons of mass destruction and the control of atomic energy used for peaceful purposes.

The Assembly drove toward adjournment, which originally had been set for tonight but apparently would have to be postponed. Delegates considered adoption by the sub-committee of the arms reduction proposal a monumental step toward world peace and security, expressing confidence of its approval unanimously by the Assembly. General Provisions The resolution provides generally: 1. Early world-wide arms' limitation forces. ed and on the payroll September 1 will receive S100 adjustment, to be paid in two equal payments.

The first half will be paid December 31 and the second half will be paid in January. Hope Fades for 32 Marines on Missing Plane SEATTLE, Dec. 13. (ff)--Hope waned today for the safety of 32 and' Marines aboard a transport plane missing for three days as the 2. Outlawing of atomic weap-! worst storm conditions in a de- Bilbo and Army officials about obtaining the contract to construct Keesler field at Biloxi, Miss.

This job cost the government nearly $14.000,000 with a $265.000 "fixed fee" for the contractors. Newton told the committee he frequently had come to Washington to talk with Bilbo about getting war contracts and had obtained about 15 of them. Hunt "Missing" Man. which more than 30 were injured. Workers had previously carefully dug by hand because they feared heavy machinery would cause more crashes.

The building at 2515 Amsterdam avenue in upper Manhat- tan. which housed 22 families, I was smashed early yesterday by a two-foot thick wall of an adjoining ice house which, toppled 011 it after a five-alarm fire in the ice house. Rescue workers toiled all night in the glare of huge searchlights which played over the six-story structure's gaunt remains. torium. City Manager William Gill, ordered 15 detective cars and all available police cruisers and fire department passenger cars onto the streets to pick up passengers at bus and trolley car stops.

He said he felt the city's duty was to "see that transportation is provided for public." C-ill also broadcast pleas to private motorists up pedestrians. Many Victims Are Soldiers From Fort Dix Pennsylvania's Crack 'Golden Triangle' Rams Wreckage of 2 Freights MANSFIELD. Dec. 13 (JP) --A oilp up of the Railroad's crack "Golden Tri--I angle" and two freight, trains killed at least 15 persons today and caused injuries to an esti- mated 50 or more. Nine hours after the wreck at Coulter, 12 miles'southeast of here, seven of the dead had been dentified and seven more bodies had been found in the wreckage Rescue crews with torches still were cutting through the mass of twisted steel and splintered wood in search of other victims.

Approximately 150 of the passengers were soldiers from Fort Dix. N. to their homes by way of Chicago for a Christmas furloughs. The 13-car train ploughed into the wreckage of two east- bound freight trains which had derailed just a few before at about 1:45 a. m.

(CST) One freight train had stopped oecause of a broken air hose and was rammed by a second freight. "Ignored" Sig-nal A spokesman for the Pennwl- vania Railroad said at Pittsburgh niat L. Petoskey. engineer of the second freight, failed to Civic leaders and music lov-1 need an "approach signal" two ers of Moberly have organized miles west of the accident and a new Civic Music Association thus was unable to apolv-' his which will permit an annual brakes in time when a "al showed 600 feet The Pennsylvania spokesman saia the "approach signal" meant die of the second freight should slow down to 30 NAMED PRESIDENT of a new Civic Music Association is Charles F. Collier, who will head a membership campaign in Apri! to bring nationally known artists to Moberly for a concert series in the 1947-48 season.

Civic Music Association Formed Here Memberships Will Be Sought in April to Bring Concert Series artists of concert opera, radio and motion pictures. According to J. C. Patterson. Chamber of Commerce secretary, a "large and representative miles and be prepared to 2rntin of intprpstprf nprsnns of interested persons, working with Harlowe F.

Dean, special of Civic Concert Service. Citv. of All of the checks, he said, were solar stem DR. IRVIN A. MOON California and views complex gyrations of the earth's ons and other major means of war, 3.

International conventions setting up organizations regulating arms controls. 4. Inspection and control under these organizations free of the big power veto. 5. A balanced reduction of forces by the nations.

6. The expeditious creation of an international police force for the United Nations Security Council. 7. A. special session of the General Assembly to act on conventions on treaties on arms limitation which then would be submitted to the nations for ratification.

The Unted States fought hard and successfully to insert a paragraph in the resolution specifically providing that nothin in the arms control respluton would change the resolution of Jan. 24. 1946. creating the N. atomic energy commission.

cade stymied searching parties. The plane disappeared while en route here from San Diego, Calif. made out by him on the account of Newton and Glenn, contractors, but he had not consulted Glenn about these matters. Meanwhile FBI agents were searching for Terry, who asked in a letter to the committee to be Lapse-time photography is utilized to demonstrate the beauties of natural science. The illusion of flower buds developing into full-blown blossoms in a few seconds is created through this time-compressing photo excused from testifying because technique.

The metamorphosis nf a rt Pr i rlpafh thrpats'aMinst pf a caterpillar through die yar- of asserted death threats against him and his family. Terry, longtime political as- Dr. Rowlette President of Medical Group Dr. Avery P. Rowlette, chief surgeon and co-owner of Woodland Hospital, was elected president the Randolph-Monroe- Chariton-Macon County Medical Society last night at a Christmas party and re-organization meeting of the society, held in the Merchants Hotel.

He succeeds Dr. J. Will Other officers Fleming, elected last night are: Vice-president, Dr. Donald Eggleston, Macon and sociate of Theodore G. ious stages from worm to butterfly and pollination flowers the screen in full told the Senate war 1 investigating committee in a letter made public yesterday that anonymous Steel Standards Arrive Here For Parking Meters The steel standards for Moberly's parking meters--four tons of them--were delivered to the city today.

However, the meters proper have not arrived, and it will probably be the first of the year before the meters are installed. Today's Scripture Luke (Mary). Official sources were silent but! ca ii had threatened to kill searchers, based on Mount Ram- him his i and his daughter if ler, expressed fears there can be he spo out in any way against no survivors of the missing his forrner boss, plane. i The plane last reported her- self south of Toledo, a 4 fl 7:13 p. m.

(EST) Tuesday. I i Rumor for State Employment Staff 7:13 p. m. (EST) Tuesday. Search turned to Mt.

Rainier after Park Supt. John C. Preston reported hearing a plane overhead about 7:15 p. Tuesday during a heavy downpour, and a ranger at Paradise Valley. near the glacier, also told of hearing the plane.

Preston said that if the plane struck the mountain, it would have been buried in the deep secretary treasurer, Dr. F. A. Barnett, Paris, re-elected. Dr.

J. Will Fleming was chosen delegate to the Missouri Medical Society with Dr. T. S. Fleming alternate from Rari- Believed to be the first of their dalph County.

Dr. Barnett was kind are the natural color pic-! selected as Monroe County's tures of photosynthesis, the my-! delegate with Dr. G. M. Rsgs- sterious food-manufacturing pro-1 dale.

Paris, as alternate. Macon cess resulting from the action of! County's and Chanton County Bilbo, i ar seen on color. sunlight on green leaves. delegates are not yet announced. i 11 J-ft-lJ i i i i Through photomicrography the I Thirty-six persons, physician audience peers into the micro-1 members, wives of some rnem- scopic world of a drop of water! bers end three special guests at- and observes the complexity of tiny organisms, enlarged more than a million times.

JEFFERSON CITY. Dec. 13. (JP)--Payday proved to be only a rumor for some 700 employes of the state employment service now winding up their first month under state control. Yank's Marriage to --Uf7 HAYS, Dec.

13. snow, and it may be some time! They received no pa. checks marriage of an Ameri' ter the weather clears. Pvt. Joe E.

Bainter. Canton, banquet and meeting. Last night was Macon County's first meeting as a member of the organization. Table decorations included a musical sled with simulated reindeer, two modernistic Christmas I trees and other Christmas ap- pointments. The meal was served by candlelight.

The three special guests last night were Dr. W. F. Franka, Hannibal, counsellor for the northeast district of Missouri, composed of 17 counties: Dr. Ploward Goodrich.

Hannibal, nrl up inratpd even af- vesterday, as they had oeiore IT can oe locaiea ai. th I -mnrp there- was nn I can soldier to a girl member of a A tunneimore tncre was no i 01 president of the state society; savage Igorot tribe in the Philip- 1 M-mtvTM st T.nni* was the only Missourian listed aboard the plane. Weather CENTRAL MISSOURI: Partly cloudy and cold tonight, with inimum near 25. Saturday cloudy and slightly warmer. MISSOURI--Partly cloudy tonight, Saturday and Sunday.

Little change in temperatures tonight, lowest middle north to lower 30's south. Warmer Sundav and west portion Saturday. Temperatures: 8 this morning. 26. Maximum yesterday, 51.

Minimum yesterday, 22. word as to when they would. State and federal officials have been deadlocked for nearly a month over whether the em- ployes should receive the some salary as they did under federal control or the lower scale under state control. The state has contended that the higher pay scheduled to employment service personnel would be unfair to some 12,000 other state employes who fill similar positions at from S20 to SI 00 a month less. Mclntyre, St.

Louis. pine islands was annulled yester- se re tarv for the state so- after the veteran testified he ptv i j. 4-1TM I L. wed under threat of death. Dr.

Francka stressed impor- Virgil C. Lehnus in tance of doctors organizing into district court the marriage was large groups so that finer sci- performed in November of 1942' after he had escaped Japanese but then had been captured by the Igorots. He became ill and was nursed by an Igorot girl chosen by the tribe's chief. He said that after regaining his health he learned tribal law required that he and the girl be married. At first, he entific meetings may be held with outstanding medical men over the states as speakers.

Dr. Goodrich also urged such organ- that the state medical association is conferring with veterans' bureaus so that doctors in Missouri can care for its veterans in such a way as to give satisfaction to The council, he pointed out said, he refused but finally com-, moved order to phed under threat of death. berje fjt both mistakes and Lehnus escaped shortly after good points in setups in other Traffic Drive in Kansas City KANSAS CITY. Dec. 13.

Police today reinforced the week-end traffic squad in an ef- the wedding, "out was recaptured I states, whose machinehy has fort to curb speeding and reck- i by the Japanese and held prison- been carefully studied by the One Day Left for Christmas Gifts to Yanks Fifty dollars in cash was on hand last night at store closing lime to buy gifts for the Yanks Win Gave project, sponsored by the Bazan-Bailey Post of American Legion and its Auxiliary. The drive for gifts for hospital- zed veterans will close tomorrow afternoon and all those who intend to give a gift should buy and wrap it immediateely. Besides the money, "several gifts have been- left at the Lovell Veterinary Supply Store on North Williams Street, headquarters of the project. But not enough gifts have been given for the county and Moberly to make the -worthy showing of former Urging generous giving. Bert Crumrine.

Legion chairman of the project, and Mrs. Albert M. Lovell. Auxiliary chairman, point out that there are thousands of servicemen and women in hospitals who will be made happy at receiving remembrances from persons they have never seen or heard of but who ar thinking of them at Christmas time. There has been no personal solicitation for gifts or cash.

The Legion prefers that the gifts be entirely voluntary. The project is national, the original idea of Eddie Cantor, and Legion posts all over the United States are sponsoring the gift donations. It is suggested that parents shopping for gifts for their own sons and daughters buy just one more for someone else's son or daughter in an Army or veterans hospital in this area. injured. PGt Skey WaS not The "Golden Triansle," tra- in Moberly to pror-iote the association, have organized themselves to join the national family of civic music associations and will conduct a campaign for.

memberships in early April next year. Officers Chosen Association officers are an- as follows: C. F. Collier, president: Carl Henderson. Mrs.

O. O. Ash, Mrs. Edmund Burke. Mrs.

R. S. Eckles. Mrs. Hartley Estill.

A. J. Mrs. Kenneth Lowe and J. K.

Van Cleve, vice presidents J. C. Patterson, executive secretary: Mrs. Homer Green, membership secretary; and Ambrose Rucker. treasurer.

A board of directors, including 40 representative persons from Moberly and the immediate surrounding communities will be announced later. The newly formed group will have as its goal the creation of a capacity audience for the Municipal Auditorium and, through accumulated annual membership dues of $5 plus tax for adults and $2.50 plus tax for students, the creation of an budget of sufficient size to make possible the engaging of a series of at least four Concerts by outstanding performers. Only artists of national and international reputation will be considered by the local talent committee, who will select the artists to be engaged after the conclusion of the membership campaign. "We are proud to join the ranks of approximately 400 cities throughout the nation which are presenting concerts on a sound financial basis without the necessity of guarantors and underwriters, said President Col- ability of pur excellent auditor- urn facilities plus a considerable ncrease in interest the per- waraUel point at miles hour, railroad officials said. As the Triangles' two locomotives crashed into the wreck- the second, coach -back' in the middle and fell over a 30-foot embankment The dead were pinned beneath four overturned a Eight coaches remained upright on the Terrible Havoc H.

R. Williams. Pennsylvania Railroad agent here, said at least 70 of the 150 troops on the passenger train escaped injury and were placed aboard a special tram and moved into Chicago Two coaches of the passenger train carrying soldiers overturned and some of the passengers were trapped in the wreckage. Rescue crews with blow torches cut through twisted steel to reach the victims. "The seats were twisted and turned everv which way." Sheriff Frank Robinson of Richland county said of the overturned coaches.

Physicians and nurses from surrounding communities climbed into the wrecked cars to administer aid to the injured. The scene was one of terrible havoc. Sheriff Robinson reported. "The rails were badly twisted," he added, "cross ties were splintered and torn from the road bed." Paraguory Quells 'Anarchist 7 Effort To Stage Revolt ASUNCION, Dec. 13.

(JP)--The Paraguayan government announced today the suppression of what it described as an attempt by "groups of anarchist ele- 'prmance of legitimate attrac- ions during the past few years, a great many of us feel that the ime has come to make more of this type of entertainment available to residents of Mob(Continued on Page 6) Blind Veteran 'Flaberaasted' By Reaction to Santa Letter less driving. I er until the war ended. Missouri society. PHOENIXVILLE, Dec. 13 attention attracted by a blind army corporal's plea for Santa Claus to bring him "two bright, shiny blue eyes" left him "completely flabergasted" today.

Corporal Chester R. Perkins became the center of attraction at Valley Forge army hospital after publication of the Santa Claus letter sent his hometown newspaper, the Indianapolis News which copyrighted it. "If God chooses," wrote the GI whose sight was destroyed by a land mine in Germany, "let me find beneath my Christmas tree two shiny blue eyes ---so that the memory of the last Christmas I saw may be blotteed forever from my mind." Immediately an unidentified Philadelphia woman offered to I donate her sight. But hospital ments" to seize control of police headquarters, a military school and the national prison. A demonstration organized by students to support the army's recent call on political parties in Paraguay's government to cease their quarreling was broken up by gunfire here last night.

Some persons were wounded. A communique said it was not possible to identify the persons responsible nor the motives for the trouble, but that the injured were the victims of knives or re- been removed the left probably is a retinal detachment and secondary act. The 21-year-old soldier, a Valley Forge patient for 21 months. modestly admitted at best he only "expected the letter might appear in the 'Letters to the Editor' column or be dropped into SHOPPING DAYS LEFT file 13 (waste Perkins said the Christmas" gave him the for the letter which he dictated to a rwspital worker. "I was thinking of my buddies.

I guess, when I wrote it." Shortly after the publication. his wife. Janet, telephoned him from Indianapolis and said radio stations were carrying it and dedicating songs and programs to him..