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Outlet SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1946 Full Associated Press Full United Press PRICE FIVE CENTS PER COPY rMi C3 L7 mm mm No Trace of 32 on PRESIDENT TO KEEP CONTROL Weiss Calls for Civic Courage To Lead City Forward in Future ROCKEFELLER OFFERS SITE IN N. Y. TO UN REBELLION OF 12 HOURS ENDS, LEADERS FLEE Lost Marine Plane Wilkinson Named C. of C. President Searchers Fear Major Aviation Disaster As Weather, Terrain Baffles Hunt for Transport Leadership 'From Heart' Is Needed, Says Head of Chamber Seattle, Dec.

11 (IP). One of the country's worst aviation disasters was feared today as searchers, baffled by foirsrv weathers, difficult terrain and several "leads" to track down, strove to locate a missing San Diego-Seattle marine corps transport plane with 32 men aboard. i ORGANIZATION HAS 30 days to acckit Girr Donation Six Square Block in Central Lake Success. N. Dec.

11 IIP John Rockefeller. today backed home town. New Tork City, with an 500 000 gift offer In the battle ri American ciuea or vnm un.ieu Uanoea permanent aite. Hockefeiler offered to donate some 0 The ground search was concentrated at first south of Toledo, on the edge of the western Cascadea. about 120 miles south of here, on reports of a farm family that a loud crash was heard about 6 o'clock last night, nearly two hours after the pUn ma.

Ust rtilo poeltlon (report. Moat aearchlng planes from west- ing a non-stop flight from San Diego a. i square blocks of Manhattan's ex- em Washington bases were "weathered pnie real estate for a "chy-wlthin- In" nearly all day handicapping a-clty headquarters of towering sky-' serial search efforts. scrapers His offer was conditioned on The state patrol, however, got Kr Tork City a contributing adJa-Rround partiea together to work rent streets and East river frontage throughout the heavily wooded coun- land valued at 13 0O0.0O0 and on Tenlno. near where two CN accepting within 80 daya.

Mu- rm bombera crashed In 1945. taking rjcipal officiale announced their co- 11 llVM- Tha plane was one of six attempt Whey Give 'To Those Who Officers for 1947 of tha Shreveport Chamber of Commerce are pictured at last night's annual dinner meeting of the Chamber at which the elections were announced. Left to right, are: W. Soott Wilkinson, president; R. T.

Andres, first vice-president, and J. O. O'ltrien, second vlce-presldenl. (Times Photo) Text of Weiss Report At C. of C.

Meeting Following is the text of E. fJernard Weiss' address at the annual banquet of the Chamber of Commerce last night: "Throughout the years of global conflict, we of Shreveport met every call for w'omarkpower, money and service, doing even more than our assigned part on every sector of the home front of World War II. north with a marine detachment. Only one got through to the Sand Point station here In the heavy weather late yesterday. Four turned back and landed at Portland.

The names of the men on the i pUne wlI, not b- announcecl until approved by the commanding general of the marine corps. Mlramar, officers aaid. In tha last radio message from the missing plane, the pilot told the Toledo range atation ha was about 30 miles south of there and under nor mal circumstances, Comdr. F. Duke.

Sand Point naval air atation operations officer, said he would have messaged again about eight minutes later when ha passed over tha sta- jtion 1 More Than YESTERDAY'S GIFTS BALANCE 61,142 65 W. C. Marshall 5.00 3.00 Rose Kavanaugh', In Memory of J. E. Ball Mr.

and Mrs. A. Wyatt Jonaa C. A. Klady Carolyn Morris Northside Church of tha Nazarene 10.00 35.00 15.00 1.00 5.00 00 5.00 5.00 5.00 35.00 3.00 3.00 35 00 10.00 50.00 30.00 10.00 10.00 5.00 a.

oo 1.00 Sidney Herold Lazard Sidney Kirk Herald Ann Elisabeth Herold Eleanor Herold Liddell Candy company Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous In Memory of W. J. Thoman Anonymous Mahlon H. Grant Oenevieve E. Melvin F.

Johnson Mrs. Thomas R. Gilchrist Cash A Friend TOTAL 1.398.84 REBELS HALT CIVIL STRIFE IN NORTH IRAN Russia Sees Threat Troop Operations in Azerbaijan in Tehran. Dec. 11 The pro- Soviet Azerbaijan regime at Tabriz suddenly abandoned Its defiance of Premier Ahmed Qavam In the sec-end day of Iran's "civil war" today and announced It would allow central government troops to enter the province as a security force during the forthcoming national elections.

With four columns of government troops advancing Into Azerbaijan, the Tabriz radio said Dr. Sallamol-lah Javid. the Communist governor-general of the province, had mes saged the premier that tha provin cial council had agreed to receive the troopa. Thla waa the same council which previously had informed Qavam that any attempt to send government troops Into Azerbaijan for tha elec tions would bring on a desperate fight. Whether this message would be followed by actual orders to the OVER HOUSING WYATT'S SUCCESSOR WILL BE NAMED SOON Rent Curbs, Construction Materials et-up -Continues WashingtonDec; 11 (ff).

Presl dent Truman, "with his Missouri dander up," was pictured today as apparently determined to keep a measure of control over housing materials to continue rent curbs, although perhaps with revisions. After a White House visit. Com mander-in-Chief Louis E. Starr of tha Veterans of Foreign Ware told reporters ha found "very much awara of the need of housing for. veterans, determined to correct the shortage" and to name a successor shortly to Housing Expediter Wilson Wyatt.

resigned. Starr reported that although Truman said he had not made up his mind on a man to run tha vast program, he was "looking for a builder thoroughly familiar with the problems." Starr aaid he gained the Impression that rent controls might be revised upward In some cases. On Capitol Hill, congressmen heard Insistent demands from Nashville. bualnaaa man for abandon-mept of all controls on conatruction. Starr, who spent 15 minutes with tha president along with two other VFW officials.

Omar 8. Ketchum. leg. lslatlve director, and Bonner Fellers, (Caatlaata Oa Pass Twcatjr-fasr) NO RESPONSE TO BARGAINING BID BY LEVIS Nobody, in Hurry; to Sit Down, Negotiate, Say Spokesmen Washington. Dec.

11 John Lewis' offer to negotiate a soft coal contract with "such parties as may demonstrate their authority" to bar gain with blm has brought no re sponse yet from tha government, or the coal operators. Tha return to work of nearly all tha 400.000 soft coal miners, ending their 17-day strike this week, re moved most of the public pressure for a quick agreement between Lewis and either tha government or the operators. Leading spokesman for the three parMes Involved tha government union and the mine owners were agreed today on one thing In talks with a reporter: "Nobody now appeara to be In a hurry to ait down and negotiate a contract." Lewis himself virtually ruled out any settlement with the operators before the supreme court decides his contempt fine case, to be heard Jan. 14. a.

The miners' chief has told his miners "During the working period thus defined (until March 31) the negoti atlng committee of the United Mine Workers of America la willing to ne got! ate a new wage agreement for tha bituminous Industry with such Dartles as may demonstrate their authority ao to do. Your renre sentatlves will act in full protection tCsntlaaea Oa Pass Twenty-far TWA PLANE BEATS PAST RECORD FOR ATLANTIC FLIGHT Shannon Airport. Eire, Dec 11 (1ft. Ey a margin of four minutes the "Star of Cairo" in a trans-Atlantic run from Boston to Shannon today. The.

"Star of Hollywood" completed the trip In nine hours and 10 minutes, against the "Star of Cairo's" nine hours and 14 minutes. The Cairo carried 10 passengers, and the Hollywood 22. Tha average speed of the winner waa 320 miles an hour. Capt. Edward Edwards of Chicago, pilot of the "Star of Hollywood." said, "I found tha machine at tlmea Icing up, but the equipment was adequate to' counteract the" weather without risk to the passengers.

I pushed the plane on and through. I might have clipped an hour off the time. We think the average speed of 320 miles per hour not too bad." Youngsters Sentenced to Learn Commandments Hlllsboro, Texas, Dec. 11. (IP).

Two teen-age Hlllsboro boys were studying the Bible today with all the fervor of divinity students. Their reason was excellent. The boys were found guilty of stealing fireworks from a store. Justice of the Peace T. G.

Sanders gave them until Saturday to learn the Ten Commandments by heart or else. PRESIDENTS PALACE ALMOST HIT BY BOMB rinsiirgcnts Held Airport Near Capital; Planned to Kidnap Cabinet Caracas, Venezuela, (By Telephone to New York), Dec. 11 (P). President Ro-mulo Betancourt announced tonight that his forces had put down a 12-hour revolt after the insurgents had held possession for a time of the large Maracay airport, 50 miles west of Caracas and dropped a bomb which narrowly missed the presidential palace. The insurgents apparently had Intended to capture Betancourt and his cabinet and overthrow his year- old revolutionary regime.

Meeting with a group of viaiting newsmen from the United Ststes. the president smiled broadly and said that Vail Is O. now In Ven ezuela. The revolt ended without fatalities. Betancourt said the In stigators either had been captured or had fled tha country.

Many of the Insurgents, seeing that their revolt had failed, took planes at the Maracay airport and attempted to fly. out of the country, the president said. Subsequently two pilots and 14 mechanics surrendered to authorities in the neighboring South Ameri ca coun try Colombia aitsc making good their get-away In two planes. MaJ. Carlos Maldonado Pena.

described as one of the leaders of revolt, was In ona of those planes. President Betancourt declared the revolt was led by following of Gen. Isaias Medina Angarita, atrong man of Venezuela who was overthrown by the revolutionary Junta in October. 1945. Caracas, although patrolled by Jeeps, was quiet after the bombing.

Government communiques declared the situation under control and that the insurgents had abandoned the runways and hangars at Maracay and were "fleeing to the west." A "small core of resisting rebel forces" was reported still fighting at Boca Del Rio, site of the Maracay airport 60 miles west of Ue capital, however. A large number of persons waa reported arrested. Despite army ssurances that the rebellion had been put down, the Valencia broadcast waa Interpreted by some sources to mean that that city, 75 miles west of Caracaa, might be In the hands of tha Insurgents. Communist party spokesman, as serting that the revolt had "re actionary tendencies," pledged Xhts support to the government. (Unofficial reports from Panama said trouble also was rumored in central Venezuela.

(The Venezuelan minister of the interior, MaJ. Mario Varga, and the governor of Caracas, Ganzaleo Bar-rloas, started an emergency flight from Miami. for their homeland after hearing of the revolt.) The insurgents dispatched two planes after capturing Maracay airport, but apparently only one of them released any bombs. One missile, believed to be a 25-pounder, Just missed a corner of the presidential palace. Another struck within 300 yards of the Jardln hotel in Maracay, where American women and children were staying and where group of U.

S. newspapermen in ducting this correspondent and members of the U. S. militsry mission were breakfaatlng. A third bomb leil near the bar racks of the Military Aviation achool near Marcay.

The only casualty reported waa chambermaid In the hotel, struck by stray bullet as government soldiers fired rifles and machine guns at tha plane. ASKS HOISLHORK WAGES Noblesvllle. Dec. 11 OR. Mrs.

W. L. Rlgdon filed ault for divorce In circuit court today, charging that her husband had demanded that ahe pay him 1.50 an hour for "working around the house." NOT USING IT? SELL IT BEFORE CHRISTMAS! Public demand for usable u.sed goods was never greater than right now. Help meet It by selling things you dont need to someone who does through fast acting. Inexpensive Times Want Ads, and have extra Xmas cash in their place.

Ask for the reduced 3 or 7-time rate with the cancellation privilege when resulta are obtained. Phone the wording of your Want Ad before 6 P. M. to 3-7131 The "Result Number" Ask for Mrs. Stewart Shreveport must develop leadership "springing from the heart" if it is to throw off the public inertia of past years, E.

Bernard Weiss, retiring president of the Chamber of Commerce, told 500 members and guests at the annual banquet of the Chamber last night. Warning that "If we fall, we're headed for the sunset," Weiss declared no challenge of the past has been as great as the one now facing all of Shreveport. and that "never before has there been greater need for leadership, or for leadership greater In scope." Weiss and William K. Jackson, president of the U. S.

chamber of commerce, were the principal speak-, ers at the banquet, held at the Washington-Youree. Jackson outlined basic requirements to achieve the "greatest productive period In the history of this or any other coun try," calling for Industrial peace, a balanced federal budget, revised tax structure and release of harmful government controls as the principal means of insuring production. New officers of the Chamberwere introduced at the meeting W. Scott Wilkinson, president; R. T.

Andress, first vice-president; J. G. O'Brien, i second vice-president; Odell O. Rog ers, treasurer, and L. A.

Mailhes, W. Yancey and Louie E. Throgmor-ton, members at large of the board of directors. Weiss becomes member at large of the executive committee. All were elected at a meeting of the board yesterday.

At the banquet lt was announced that Harold J. Bryant had been reelected general manager of the Chamber. He succeeded Ed C. Burris last March. Weiss disclosed that lt had been tne unamoer nope to announce (Continued On Pact Twenty-four) RAILWAY MAN IS KILLED IN TRACK CRASH Roadmaster for K.C.S.

on Handcar in Collision With Freight Albert B. Hancock, 41. of 403 Olive street, road master for the Kansas City Southern railroad, was killed instantly yesterday afternoon when his motorized handcar collided head-on with a freight train alx miles north of Ashdown, some 120 miles north of Shreveport. Railroad officials said full details of the tragedy had not been received here, but lt was reported that the light railroad handcar was hurled from the track. They said Hancock was badly manglea.

The accident occurred about 2:30 p.m. Members of the family said Han cock left Shreveport about 8 o'ciock yesterday morning for on a routine Inspection of the track. He was scheduled to have returned home last night. Railroad officials said the handcar collided with a long freight train which was headed toward Shreveport They aaid an Investigation into the fatal accident was being conducted Hancock, a native of Webb City, had been employed by the company for approximately 35 yesrs. He had lived in Shreveport about 20 years, coming here from the Missouri town.

He was a member of Caddo Masonic lodge. Survivors Include the widow, Mrs. Francis Hancock of Shreveport; one son, Albert B. two daughters. Mary Francis and Mrs.

Alice Maycux of Shreveport; one granddaughter, Paula Alice Mayeux; his mother. Mrs. J. O. Hancock of Pittsburg, two brothers, C.

R. Hancock of Car-tersvllle, and Don Hancock of Caldwell, Idaho; two sisters, Mrs. Chlora Burk of Colorado Springs. and Mrs. T.

J. Wiley of Pittsburg. Kans. missing for the past 13 days In the mountains of Central Greece, The press section of the foreign ministry issued a statement saying the Jeep in which the correspondents were traveling had been found abandoned at Longosto, In the Ka-lambaka area. The two left after telling Intimates they planned to visit "Communist-controlled vlllugea" and regions reported held by guerrillas.

Greek war relief oftlclals said efforts to contact Vermillion and Philips through the British military mission were unavailing. Greek au- a a Need It Far $2.6 Contributed Wednesday, But Appeals Are Mounting, Too letters containing Joy Fund checks "for those who need it far worae than I'' brought tha total amount In tha Fund to 1.398 84 yesterday. Stacks of other letters, many of them written by children, aay, "There ian't enough money for all of tn." Amount contributed yesterday was 356. A little boy writes that his father is ill and "mother says we don't have enough money for everything." A mother says her children have so few clothes that they "wear out quicker. having to wah them so often." A woman writes that she and her hus band are both old and In 111 health "We get ao little from the welfare that most of It Is spent for medicine Money arrives dally from more fortunate residents of Shreveport who realize that prices are higher this year, for the poor as well as tha rich, and small pensions do not cover the coat of living.

With 13 days until Christmas, Shreveporters are urged to mall their donations today to the Joy Fund In care of The Tlmea office. Tha Lake and Glen wood theatres under Don Oaorge and Darrell George, (Continue' On Pass FilUtn) Sees Kilroy Kilroy was In Shreveport Saturday night, says RAY CLARK of Natchitoches. After looking for the elusive GI all over the South Pacific for two CLARK says he finally caught up with him on a bua between Kilgore. Texas, and here. He had to ahow his Identification card to luake CLARK believe he really was ROY KILROY.

KILROY la from Lo Angeles. Calif and was Just doing some of hla extensive traveling this weekend. But don't be alarmed. He didn't atay In Shreveport He went back to Kilgore and Is working with CLARK there, tha Texan aays. Here and There Although FRED MORAN, a deputy sheriff, has been a peace officer seven yeara.

MRS. MORAN had never been In a courtroom until ahe attended a nlgnt session during ona of the trials last week. "When It was over," FRED said, "she decided she'd rathr listen to the trials enacted on the radio." We're glad to see that S. P. HAMILTON Is oack on his feet, after a recent illness.

Army life hasn't changed Pvt. (Continued Oa Pace Two) Stroller offer brought an endorsement f'cm the American members of the eeuon and caused the UN headquartera committee to send aub-commltte to Inspect the pro posed aite th.a afternoon. It will report tomorrow. Rockefeller revewled that he had taken 30-day options of the largely alum section between 3nd and 48th trawta along the Bait river, which eontains a number of eipanalve apartment buildings. He aaid he would buy it for en estimated price of .500 .000 and donate If the VTt wanted It.

Mayor William OTJwyer announced Js would recommend that the city the UN the street areas and the city-owned waterfront to round out the tract. Warren Auatln, Chief U. S. delegate, vauad thesa propoaed municipal gifts at 2 000.000, New Tork City's chancea erf landing the headquartera aeemed to soar following Rockefellers princely offer. Austin told reporters that tha Bast river sit waa "auperlor to any of With almost boyish anthu-anaam.

he praised Its "slae, dignity and avmoaphera of power." Oaorge Saksin, Soviet delegate, greeted the offer "with great satisfaction." Lev Medved of the Ukraine ha would be "very nappy to treatise Oa Pass Nln COMPROMISE HOPES DIM ON UN ARMS CUT Ruian Rebuff Snarls Disarmament, Troop Census Reports New Tork. Dec. 11 (P)- Soviet Rue-a-a was reported authoritatively to-Bight to have rejected completely an attempt to untangle by compromise the snarled world troop cenaua and arme reduction questions. This apparently ended hopes of Cnltad Nstions delegations that aome concrete action on disarming would he taken at this eesslon of the assembly, now nearlng final adjournment. An informant who would not permit identification aaid that Andrei T.

Vishlnsky, Russian deputy foreign minister, told a eecret meeting of a drafting committee disarming that nle delegation could not accept tha compromlee offered earlier today by Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium, prealdent of the assembly. Disarmament and troop cenaua thus were completely bogged down. The aeeembly In plenary aesslon at Flushing Meadow park turned to the less controversial question of cereals.wlth a long elate remaining to be cleared a variety of questions. In a sudden burst of speed, the assembly rsced through unsntmous approval of 15 itema and approached consideration of the oldest and per-fcaps most controversial issue of all the veto. Resolutions paased dealt a variety ef non-controversial aubjecta Including food, civil rlghta and International law.

At this point Vishlnsky asked for clay on the veto debate until tomorrow and Spaak agreed on condition that the speaker list be limited CaUaaa Oa rasa Tw J'7 WEATHER TEMPERATt RES YESTERDAY ja a il on :3 p.m 0 Minimum 61 Rainfall (Hi Kuntet today 5:10 unrte tomorrow 7ih Barnnieter 6:13 p.m r.K lEsTEKDYY Miiimnm temperature Minimum temperature 31 Highest nf record, this date 77 Laaest of record, this dale 20 "With the fighting ended, we of Shreveport, like all Americana, entered the year of 1946 with high hopes for rapid reconversion from the strain and sacrifice of war to the happiness and prosperity of peace. "We had anticipated problems of the first year of reconversion. We planned well to meet them. We found, like all other American com munities, that problems never anticl pated were spreading across our horizon. These-problems were not of our making nor could we solve them by ourselves, but they stood before us They were simply the inevitable back wash of national indecision, uncer tainty, and often of inertia where there should have been leadership This was true nationally in govern ment, in labor relations, in Industry, In the whole economy of the country On the paths of return to prosperity, red lights glowed where green lights had been expected.

Necessarily, un expected national obstacles brought unexpected local obstacles. All of this has presented a great challenge to Shreveport, as lt haa to the whole nation. It has made the gaining of the full fruits of jjeace and the recovery of a balanced national and local economy as challenging as (Continurd On Pare FiMren) "MOST DECORATED SOLDIER" SCORES WIN OVER ROBBER Dallas, Dec. 11 (P). Little Audie Murphy, who was World War II's most decorated soldier, won another battle single-handed this afternoon when he subdued a six-foot, two- inch 190-pounder who apparently was attempting to steal his automobile.

The Dallas Morning News reported that the freckled kid from Farmers-vllle. Texas, knocked out the 25-year-old man in a filling station Just south of the Collins county line on Highway 75 after a furious 10-mln-ute battle. Murphy weighs 130 pounds and stands five feet, seven inches when at attention. State highway patrolmen Everett Brandon and F. H.

Jensen, who talked with the Dallas Morning News by telephone, said they arrested the man and lodged him In the McKlnney jail. No complaint was filed Immediately, CHAPEL GIVEN CENTENARYBY LOCAL DONOR Will Cost Over Stewarts Give Organ in Memory of Son Dr. Joe J. Mickle, president of Centenary college, last night revealed a gift of a chapel haa been made to the Greater Centenary college program. Announcement of the first large contribution to; the program fund was made by the college president at the annual banquet of the Shreveport Chamber of Commerce.

The donor's name and the amount he gave, at his own request, were not announced by college authorities. The chapel Is estimated to coat between 100,000 and $130,000 and the entire amount is expected to be available to centenary within three years. The Greater Centenary college program is a long-range fund-raising campaign planned to last five years. Dr. Mickle also announced the gift of the chapel organ by Mr.

and Mrs. Elmer E. Stewart and their daughter, Norma. The organ will be given as a memorial to Russell E. Stewart, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Stewart, who was killed in action ton Okinawa. Tha new chapel will be an integral part of the expansion and plant Im provement plans of the college. It will be built Just north of the pres- (CantlnoeJ On Pasa Five) ROCKET DESCENDS 100 MILES FROM LAUNCHING SITE Las Cruces, N. Dec.

11 (JP). The Impact point of a German V-2 rocket fired at White Sands Proving Ground last Thursday has been sighted from the air "about 100 miles north" of the launching aite. Lt. Col. Harold R.

Turner, com manding officer, announced today. Ground parties have not been able to reach the site of Impact, Turner said. It was the greatest lateral distance attained by any of the rocket tests. which have concentrated on height rather than distance. Last week's tocket reached an altitude of 95 miles.

The record, la 104 miles. Azerbaijan militia to lay down arms TWA Constellation "Star of Holly-and cease resistance remained to be wood" beat the same company's Sing Sing Santa Offers Apartment to Veteran 2 U.S. Newsmen Missing 13 Days in Greek Rebel Zone seen. Qavam's order to his troops to advance Into Azerbaijan yesterday was reported by the rightist news paper Atash to have brought a new protest from the Russian ambassador who was said to have declared the (Centlnaed On Pas Fifteen) wood-burning fireplace. 54,000 worth of furniture, a completely stocked pantry and refrigerator and a month's free rent, worth 680.

Even a decorated Christmas tree. Tha only thing lacking la an occupant. And for Mont that's the hard part. He wants to be certain that the veteran Is really deserving. First, he Insists that the selection be made on a completely Impersonal basis.

He has two nephews who need apartments. "But." he said, "you can do things for lelatlvea anytime." Secondly, Mont Insists on a veteran who has seen action. Tonight, Mont Is studying lists and he'll announce his choice aome time before Christmas. (n shopping UU PAYS LEFT New York. Dec.

11 (If). A former Sing Sing convict who "knows what it's like to live in cramped spaces tonight offered a fully furnished si artment to a deserving veteran. The Sing Sing Stint a Claus is De signer James Mont, 46, convicted on chsrge of second degiee assault, who got out of the New York State prison a year ago with 30 cents in his pocket. In the intervening year Mont went Into partnership tth the man who "sent him up," hired his parole officer and opened a swank furniture factory which has netted him a sizeable fortune. Mont has offered a one and a half room apartment complete with everything.

The apartment, featurea a Athens, Cireece, Dec. 11 (IP). Two American rorreKpondents Mho had been reported seized by guerrillas In northern ireee, were reported tonight to have reached the town of Trlkalla safely. They are Robert Vermillion the I'niteri Press and John Phillips of Time and Life magnetites. Athens, Dec.

11 (JV). Two Ameri can correspondents, Robert Vermil lion of the United Press and John Philips of Time and Life, were of ficially reported tonight to have been (Continued On Pate Twenty-four).