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THE WKATIIKR Temperature HiRh yesterday 35 Low today 43 Rainfall Season 3.4" Last year Forecast Ho- tly tonicht ami Sai- urtfay higher temperalures. FACES if Loan Solons Urge End to Navy Oil See Page 9 Vol. 59 TWO SECTIONS BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1947 18 PAGES No. 158 MacARTHUR HALTS JAP GENERAL STRIKE Order Raps Leaders of Walkout Bind, Gag Officials Soft-Spoken Robbers Force Loan Company Chief to Open Safe with cool efficiency, a pair of calm, soft- spoken bandits early last evening held up the manager and assistant manager of the Sea- jiboard Company, Chester avenue, and Tiiiade theii; getaway with $2060 in cash and checks after leaving the two oflicials hound and gagged on tlie office- floor. gunmen" left tlic seme of the robbery in a car driven by a third man.

The car, which had waited block: away and then eased to a near the loan firm's office CALLED PLUMED Tom Clark today (lie object of an attack by Union Attorney Edward Lamb. KOBBERS GET rilOBXIX, Ariz. Jan. 31. (U.P.) Two armed robbers early today staiied a daring daylight holdup of the Valley National Bank in Hie heart of downtown Phoenix and escajied with'more The sticknp pair entered the wa'r bond redemption department of the bank shortly after it opened brandishing .45 automatic pistols.

They held four girl clerks and several customers at bay with threats of their lives while they grouped up all in rush. while, the robbery was in progress, ai traded little After the holdup, the escape car was swallowed up in: the stream" of after- work traffic. According to a report, made to Detective Henry Lostaunaft, the holdup occurred about 5:47 p. in. Acvosled by.

Pair As Manager J. R. AVoltz and Assistant Manager F. G. Chapman were locking the rear door they were accosted by two tall young incn with pistols, in their hands.

go back inside," one of the bandits said. Continued or Fiipe Ktcht 200-Year-Old House Reverts to Harvard CAMBRIDGE, si. A house which served ns ihe home of the surgeon for George Washington's Continental Army has been returned to Harvard University after nearly .140 y'ears. The "JVi-story frame dwelling was conveyed to the university by deed of gift; from its present owners. Mrs.

Mary T. Sampson and Mrs. Margaret T. Lancaster. Attorney Lashes Clark on Portal Pay Battle DETROIT, Jan.

(r.D—Kail- tire of opposing attorneys to agree on how fast a n'mii can walk delayed indefinitely today a decision in a test case that may determine the future of labor's drive to collect in portal-to- portal pay. Joint Strike Committee Told of Emergency Condition of Country TOKYO, Jan. 31. Bowing to a blunt order by General Douglas Mac-Arthur in what he called a dire enier- jgency, the Japanese today called off a general strike of 12,600,000 government office i and utility workers scheduled for midnight (8 a.m.. PST).

Yashira lyi, chairman of the joint strike committee, gave in after considerable hedging and broadcast to the nation that the walkout was railed off under pressure of the Allied supreme command. "It is Mat-Arthur's order. We cannot do anything else but vail off i the strike." I Accepting the challenge to his authority, MacArthur issued a i statement saying that he would not I "permit, the of so deadly a (social weapon in the present irnpov- erished, emaciated condition of pan." i st a lenient followed a strike at which speakers idemi-! fied as Communists urged commit leemen to "strike blows 1 against American colonial impcrial- i-m." They said they were ready to challenge supreme headquarters to start a "racial conflict." MacAnhur said those involved in Hie strike plans were a minority: of the people which might i plunge the masses into a disaster comparable to that of a minority, leading into war. lyi. after seeing a translation of' i MacArlhur's statement, complained that it was not binding since it did not Jiear his signa- tnre." An hour later he was sum- moiled to Allied headquarters He' was understood to have received mi- eq-iivocal verbal orders to call off the strike.

Soon thereafter he went to the studio 10 broadcast, his cancellation Continued on Paye Two Telei'liof6 SNOW BLOWS DKKP IN MII.WAI'KKK Worst snowstorm in recent midwest hisiory leaves si reels and traffic in Milwaukee. clogged with the deep drifts. Scene in downtown section of city paths shoveled in snow for pedestrians. shows cars half buried in Draft Prospects Milwaukee Digs Out DETROIT, Jan. 31.

ney Kdward Lamb charged in Fedi eral today the wage-hour administration, despite a "lerrific struggle," has refused to join the Stales attorney-general's fight against porlal-to-portal pay. i Lamb, who has led the precedent setting Mount Clemens Pottery Com-' piiny fight since its inception, told Federal Judge Frank A. Picard the government's brief in opposition to portal pay "was filed solely by (attorney-general) Tom Clark." He defined Clark as "a plumed knight" on "vendetta'' for Ihe (pottery) company. Lamb's statements came as-Judge Picard recessed the hearing until Monday in a third attempt to get opposing counsel to agree to ihe amount of portal time at issue in the pottery case. Failing in such an agreement, LONC TKKMS Picard said he would begin lesii-i Ml'MCH.

Germany. nioiiy next week in the Orman denazification courts today case. sentenced Hans former He (old newsmen thai he was broadcaster, and Heinrich Hof- "hopel'iir' such an agreement can man, personal photographer to be reached so thai he may beg'in Adolph Hitler, lo long terms at hard Coniimipci on paKr Two labor for aiding the Miller regime. WINTER HARVEST IDAHO FALLS, Idaho. midwinter and southern Idaho is covered with snow, but Farmer Oscar Johnson is threshing.

caught him with 'JT acres of wheat and barley cut but un- thresbed. whenever a favorable day arrives, he'eft Us out the ing crew and hauls a war a few hundred bushels. RUSSIAN GIRLS HATE TO SEE MARINES LEAVE CHINA BASES TIENTSIN, Jan. States -Marines today generally jubilant, at the prospect of leaving China, but some -pf their Russian girl friends weren't happy about the loss of boy friends. jHnjorrGeneral Samuel Howard, commandant in north 'H China, declined, to comment on the date of the probable some weeks but most leatherneck's were happy.

Admiral Byrd Gets Planes Ready for Flight Across South Pole Dim as Congress Renews Battle WASIllNCTo.V. I'rospcds arc- stronger than ever today that the armed services will have to rely on volunteers alone for a while after March when Hie drafi expires. Kxtendeil While hearings on compulsory universal tr.iining and undiiniuished congressional op- posil ion to con I inning' seleol i ve service are combining to create tlii- situation. Actually, however. have been no draft calls sim-e I )c toher.

Report in April Officials c.f prcMilcni advisory commission mi universal training said it now appears ihal their report will not he ready until some Lime in April. The commission was created Tip- cemher lit, and has been meeting twice a week. Its chairman. Karl T. Complon, president of Massachusetts Institute of T' nology.

fin-1 saiil he believed rcc mendalions could be made by the end of March. Kven if this schedule were met. however, there is considerable iloiil.t among Mouse leaders thai a compulsory iraining bill could he en acled for several immlhs afier Ihal. if at all. An informal poll of House armed service subcommittee shows a majority again-.) such a program.

Sena I opponents have called it of-daie "goose-Mopping" and loruei- ful the lessons of mechanix.ed warfare. 1'n sjrlent Trnnian. Imuevir. ile-emphasixed the mililary phase. He stresses thai it would provide "physical as well menial and moral development.

Army, uavv r-n '1 Ozark Game Happy as Fur Demand Drops STKLI.A. coon- LITTLE AMERICA. Jan. HI. (f.ni Admiral Richard E.

Byrd made his jet-assisted skiplanes ready today for a flight across the South Pole which he said may make "the most important geographical discovery remaining in the "We don't want to lose any time starting out on our new flights," Byrd said. Mechanics removed the wheels from the dual wheel-ski landing apparatus used when the six converted as Navy R-4-D to' the cap base yesterday from the carrier Philippine Sea. Exuding enthusiasm about the discovery possibilities. Byrd traced a line with his finger across a map of the vast ice fastness ou whose edge the Little America base stands. like somebody to get into that vast unknown area on the other, side of the pole," he said.

"What a reward it would be if. for instance, they found a big volcanic area there with boiling water coming out of the ground. That would be of tremendous importance Opl biologically, geologically and 1 lie emphasized his belief that the antarctic is an "untouched reservoir of natural resources." The explorer, greying and ruddy faced, did not say whether he planned to fly across the South Pole himself. He is ihe only man ever to cross both the North and South Poles by air. He is di- recling his fourth antarctic expedition.

There was a possibility that under proper conditions Ihe ski-equipped planes might land at the South Pole. Byrd said he hopes by aerial reconnaissance to discover whether Antarctica is one gigantic land 'mass, or two, separated by a body of water. He said he plans to work a sea- borne task force into the south- eastern part of the Billinghausen i sea. From there, patrol planes will scout the unexplored territory be- tween Ross and Weddell seas. The search might prove, he said, that the I two seas are actually joined, thus i forming a waterway across the' 1 mink and even rabbits arc roaming happily in Ihe (ixark country virtually unmolested by aml hunters Because of a buy 'T-' rikc high fur prices tl my wholesale prices dropped half of what they a vear a no.

For example, la-I mink pells bringing compared to J-'lN at pre-ent. Thai hardly leaves the hniiler enou-h for a hot- lie of "mountain dew" afitr he ha- lief rayed expenses. Simpson Selects Wright as Deputy I SACRAMENTO. Roy E. Simpson, state superintendent, of public instruction, today an-' nouncecl the appointment of Frank M.

Wright of El Mome as associate superintendent. Wright has been district school superintendent at El Monte for I'd years. The position he is taking is one of four created by passage of Proposition No. 9 at recent dec- tion aK.I pays a month. of 19 Inches of Snow British Families Ordered to Leave as Crisis Deepens Churchill Flays Bevin Government for "Weakness" in Holy Land; Martial Law Believed Imminent in Bitter Struggle JERUSALEM, Jan.

31. British women and children in Palestine will be evacuated by February 4 "so military operations in Palestine will not be hampered," it was announced officially today. The decision to send dependents of ranking Britons in Palestine back to England was believed preliminary to the imposition of statutory martial law in Palestine. The order also advised British civilians not connected with the government or military to leave unless they held essential jobs. If they remain, their movements 'will be controlled.

Richard Stubhs, public information, officer, disclosed the plans for the repatriation -in a matter of 1 It came in the wake of a Holy Laud crisis which brought reports martial law. Heavy properly losses wore recorded today in Ilio wake of tornadoes, winds, rain, slcel. snow and hail which lushed one-half the nation and left the city of Milwaukee snowbound. The storms and twisters accounted for at least 28 deaths, 'evacuation was contemplated ou closed schools, disrupted transportation and virtually iso-i th 1 1 1 1 He urged withdrawal of tlm cski- Tax Cuts, Road Program in Race for Passage SACRAM.EXTO, Jan. 31.

Senator linndolph Collier, (R- Yreka) after a conference with Governor said today ho would attempt, to get a. Sena(e vote of impendin Stubbs said the repatriation would on highway tax and allocation bills be compulsory, but would uot affect before the Legislature recesses. American citizens. American ait- Earlier, it. was believed Collier thorities in Palestine said no siK'h laled communities of south-, ern Wisconsin and northern Iowa and Illinois.

The weatherman offered scant hope for relief today. Although Ihe heavy snows, and Monii-; for the part had i slopped. near-zero temperatures' were hearing down on the stricken! areas from Canada. Schools Closed city of til It Ml person- -began digging mil from under inches of snow. Railroad traffic lo and from the city was resumed sioulv.

Ciiy offices and factories remained School officials announced thai parochial shin doVn yesterday, would reopen until Monday. here, a gale reaching 70 miles limir hit the waterfront ai a ii'-oiiV'-r. 11. hlovving ihe liu'hi -hip Thomas from its moorings, sinking a lug and driving four navy corveiles aground. The coldest weather ever re- cordeil on the North American con- liiietil was yeMerilay at Snag Airport in the Yukon Territory, where the mercury dropped to 7' .7 helow Ke-hlenis of U'a-hiimton.

TV meanwhile, sht-d their oven-oais in a teniperaiure of decrees, ihe I'- OTC Chief Takes Rap for Order an other backers of the program would agree to a recess when all the bills have been processed by the -committee, The triinsjiortation committee chairman, Senator- Thomas McCormick, (R-Itto Vista) also participated in the conference. Earlier, bills sponsored by the governor lo continue innjor state taxes at their present jatgs joined the highway legislation in a race WASHINGTON. Jan. 31. T.R>— Major C.eneral Philip M.

Fleming. iliredor of the Office of 'J'eniporary Controls testified today that he was Ihe official who directed that rents i he increased. I Fleming told the Senate banking commit tee that President Truman lkpr itl Commons to debate on blocked the per cent boost at the (j nf i last, moment because it would havei He iu)o iu gr(VCrumt nt applied to every landlord in lt i( 1( becM country regardless of his financial (IW( (1 he condition. Turned Down underground in Palestine, and admonished the cabinet to "at least bear yourselves Fleming said that last week he like men." dim-led his deputy director, The only alternative to his Follin. to put into effect "a posal.

he said, would be for the cur- general raise in rent ceilings." rent London conference on Palestine He said he then left town, and to produce a solution which Britain when Follin sought Mr. Truman's could enforce single-handed, approval, he was turned down. 'i Wants U. S. Fleming said later that he did not.

know President Truman's attitude mi flat rent increases when he ordered Follin to go ahead. "1 thought was fully in going ahead with the 1(1 per cent 1 he said. "I did not know mated lOD.OOO British troops in Palestine, even if it should result in civil war between the Arabs and He said he thought civil war would be "very likely, very likely, indeed. But is that any reason why we should stay?" Churchill Demands Ad ion In London, Winston Churchill de- for action before the legislative recess. The tax reduction bill, which continues the three main state taxes at the reduced rates set in 1943 for another year, were recommended for passage by the Assembly revenue and tax committee.

Assemblyman Albert C. Wollen, berg (it-San Francisco), author of the bill, said he would attempt to get it through both houses before the recess "to let every citizen in California know what his tax rate is going 1 to be." Meantime, the Assembly voted to ma tided in Commons today that Britain surrender the Palestine mandate to the United Nations unless the United States agreed to share equally in responsibility for the Holy Laud. Chtm'irill. the government opposition, was the first major FLASHES STuCKT'lN. Jan.

A warrant has heen i-sited for the of jam K. (Jilcs us the kidnaper of 17-year-old Alice I ii I.odi. ami bail of i.nni) in the event of his capture I'i-liici Allorney Chester said today. won.i) KIRK i.noo.iioii INI ITilN. Jan.

Kii-ing of 1. linn. nun of thp L-OV- eriiinenr- I.I Hill civilian cm- at an annual saving of propo-ed formally by Koprcseiilalive Tabi-r N. Y. today In the Senaic- Ib-'i-e buduef colnmillce.

MAY OPKRATK Jan. 'ersiaie Commerce recommended today i he approve an applica- by -PI railroads to operate I'ullman sleeping car si-rx ice. ATOM WEAPONS Jan. Tiie Federal Atomic Knergy Coni- today informed Congress that it is pushing development work mi "improved' 1 atomic weapon-. BARS LEAVKS Jan.

Secretary of Patterson today clisappmvei' the applications of Poim. Athletes Blauchani, Davis and Puoie for leave of senc-e to play professional football. had expressed against flat Ihar Ihe President himself three times increa-e." Fleming thus explained Ihe ad- f'nniinupd on Pape Two "I'nloss Ihe Palestine conference produces a solution which it is in our power to enforce effectively," Churchill said, "we ought to give notice that unless the United States would come in with us on a fifty- fifty basis of bearing all expense, odium and worry on an agreed policy, we will lay our mandate at the of the I'uited 1 Churchill spoke of the kidnaping on Hasp Thre? recess today but seemed resigned to Continued on Page Eight NEGLECT RAPPED LOS ANGELES, Jan. 31. Neglect and indifference are greater perils to American industrial freedom than Walter S.

Hallanan, chairman of National Petroleum Council, Declared today at a luncheon given'by the California oil man for directors of the Jn- deiM-ndent Petroleum Association of America. Police Take New Theory in Search for Slayer of "Black Dahlia" Jan. checked all recent reports of rape and attempted attack today in search of a new lead in the torture- slaying of Ihe Black Dahlia. They were convinced that L'l-'-year- old Elizabeth Short was killed by one pickup loo many, and feared that her savage killer might strike again. "ne man accused of an attack following the "Black Dahlia" pattern had already been questioned and released.

He was Donald Potn- f-roy. JO. who Mrs-. Thelma Thompson, pretty waitress, said picked her up in a bar. drove her to an isolated lovers' lane, then tried to tear her clothes off.

threatening: "I'll do you like I did the Black "I must have been awful drunk." Pomeroy said. He was released after Mrs. Thompson decided not to sign a complaint. After eliminating every known acquaintance of Miss Short as a suspect, police decided she must I have been tortured, mutilated and murdered by a stranger. They knew she was not averse to pickups.

"The man we want probably did not even know the girl's name until after her death," Homicide Captain Jack Donahue told his men. "Check every attempted attack with a view- that it is linked to the Short case." Police abandoned all hope of trying to reach the slayer through letters and appeals. Letters from the "Black Dahlia Avenger" were flooding police and newspaper desks, some from as far away as El Paso, Texas, and the Bronx. One newspaper received half a dozen in one mail delivery, one with postage due. All the letters were too obviously the work of pranksters to warrant fingerprinting.

Seers, mediums, fortune tellers, even clergymen wrote in with solutions to the mystery. One letter purported to come from the victim herself. Police hoped to leaun something about an army sergeant with whom Miss Short reportedly lived as man and wife in when WAC Sergeant Mary Straders arrives here. She has not been heard from since she boarded an army plane in Montgomery, Saturday. Donahoe hoped she would be able to identify the sergeant, who reportedly once threatened Miss Short with death.

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ARVINZT. 10 RIVERVJEW HATCHERY Y4 ROWLAND. WILLIAM 5 SAN JOAQUTN GRAIN 3 SEARS -ROEBUCK 11 SHAY'S 3 SHERRYg. LIQUOR. STORE 13 S.

P. 6 STANCLIFF. C. 13 VIRGINIA THEATER 10 WEILL'S 8 WITHAM'S VVOODY'S 10.