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Ark-La-Tex's Greatest Newspaper More Than 1,000,000 People Live Within 100 Miles of Shreveport Shopping Center of Ark-La-Texl To Reach This Market. Us The Shreveport Times first in News, Features, Circulation. Advertising "Serving A Rich Tri-State Region Every Morning of the Year" VOL. LXXVIII NO. 349 Owner of KWKH, 50,000 Watt CBS Outlet SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1952 Full Associated Press Full United Press PRICE FIVE CENTS PER COPY Kennon Sworn In A Stole's '51 st Governor U.

S. Weather Report Shreveport and Vicinity Sunny and warm May with a high in the upper 80s. Louisiana Clear to partly cloudy and mild today. Arkansas Clear to partly cloudy and mild tooVaw. East Texas Clear to partly cloudy and mild today.

One Dead, 7 Missing in Calif. Crash jssr" jtm Pledges Rule Of Economy, Impartiality 15,000 Witness Ceremony on Steps Of State Capitol By F. K. SHEPHERD Member of The Times Staff Baton Rouge, May 13 llobert Floyd Kennon, 49-year-old Minden court of appeals judge, took the oath as Louisiana's 51st governor at noon today in simple inauguration ceremonies on the steps of the state capitol building here. Kennon's 30-minute inaugural address was heard by approximately 15,000 persons sitting on the steps and leaning from windows of the State capitol built some 17 years ago by the late Huey P.

Long, founder of the Long dy-nastv which Kennon soundly trounced on Feb. 19 to gain the Marine Plane, AF B-29 Bomber Collide During Maneuvers Of Pacific Coast Is Angeles, May 13 (JP) One man was killed and seven others were feared dead today as an air force B-20 and a marine fighter pUne collided during a maneuver over the Pacific ocean near Santa Catalina island. Six men parachuted to safety and were picked up from the water. At least a dozen planes and several dozen boats both naval and civilian pressed the search for possible survivors. The two planes smashed together at about 15,000 feet, reports indicated, with the fighter ripping the wing off the bomber which Immediately burst into flames and plummeted into the Pacific.

Roth planes were part of a Joint air force-marine exercise, with the fighters believed to be making interception passes at a bomber formation when the accident occurred. An unidentified airman said it was a miracle that any men escaped from the spinning, smoking bomber. Possibility that any of the seven missing men would be found alive dimmed as only seven parachutes were seen on the water immediately after the crash. THE COUNTRY JUDGE from Minden takes oath as the 51st governor of the state of Louisiana. Administering the oath to Gov.

Robert F. Kennon is state supreme court Chief Justice John B. Fournet, right. This scene on the steps of the state capitol at Baton Rouge yesterday was the high point in the day-long inaugural ceremonies. (See other Photos on Page 12).

THE NEW GOVERNOR and first lady of Louisiana, Gov. and Mrs. Robert F. Kennon, sit in their sleek convertible as the inaugural parade starts for the state capitol. In the front seat are S.

S. Arrighi, the driver, chief criminal deputy sheriff, and Sheriff Bryan Clemmons, East Baton Rouge parisn. (Times Photos by Langston McEachern). Democratic nomination for Governor. Today's inaugural ceremony was a direct contrast to the one In 194S From 'Boy Mayor' to Chief Executive WSB Authority Slashed at which outgoing Gov.

Earl K. Senator Taft Takes Lead in Long took the oath of office. Ab- Barksdalc Construction Fund Okayed (TEXT OF KEXXOVS ADDRESS Gov. Kennon Culminates Long Trek to Mansion OX PAGE 13) W. Va.

Voting sent today was the speech making. Senate Committee Votes For Continued Controls Washington, May 13 Uf) The Senate Banking committee voted tonight to continue wage-price controls to next March 1 but to strip the wage stabilization board of dispute-settling authority. The committee also voted to extend rent control and buttermilk, soft drinks ana not dogs which turned the 1948 inau By AL HEWITT City Editor of The Times guration into a mamoutn picmc. five survivors and the body of Ahead in Popular, Delegate Balloting Charleston, W. May 13 W) Sen.

Robert A. Taft's candidates were leading tonight in 13 of the 16 West Virginia primary contests for seats in the Republican presidential nominating convention. Candidates Baton May 13. Minden's one-time "boy mayor" took oath today as the state's chief executive amid ceremonies that somewhat resembled a glorified state fair. And it was at the Bossier-Webster parish fair four years one air force man were picked up bv the navy's heavy cruiser Toledo.

A coast guard PBM plane picked up a sixth air force survivor and flew him to the San Diego Naval hospital. Armed forces public information officers identified the survivors as: First Lt. Emmett E. Muterspaw, SO, radar bombardier, Middletown, Ohio. authority to allocate scarce ago that Robert Kennon describing himself as just a First Lady supporting Gen.

Dwight D. Eisenhower held bare leads in two races. In the popularity voting, Taft 177 Acres Sought For Base Projects Washington, May 13 (Special) Approval of an authorization for another $3,356,000 construction program at Barksdale Air Force base was granted today by the house armed services committee as it began work on the three billion dollar defense public works authorization bill submitted to congress recently. Rep. Overton Brooks, ranking Democratic member of the committee, said that the Barksdale item was one of the initial projects approved by the committee.

The authorization will permit start of work on another eleven million dollar expansion program for the base, the balance to be authorized home-town boy, vowed he would some day be governor of his home state. Two New Gas Zones Tapped At Barksdale Cotton Valley, Travis Peak Finds Are Hailed essential materials through June 30, 1953. President Truman had asked that all controls wage, price, rent and allocation restrictions be extended through June 30, 1954. The present low expires June 30 this year. The action on WSB power to step into disputes is an outgrowth of the steel crisis.

There has been strong criticism in congress of the amount Mrs. Kennon Brings Poise To Mansion was running away from Harold E. Stassen bv a margin of five to one. In 211 "of the State's 2,822 pre-cints taft had a vote of 8,990 and Stassen 2,062. Scattered early returns showed Taft candidates ahead in all four of the delegates-at-larg'e races.

In the congressional districts, taft was shutting out Eisenhower in the Conspiciously absent from the pre-ceremony parade and inauguration was Gov. Long, who vacated the Governor's Mansion last night. He is believed to have gone to his hom at WInnfield, prior to beginning an extended vacation. The inauguration got under way at 11:45 A.M. while some of the bands and groups were still waiting to pass before the reviewing stand on the Capitol steps.

The last band in the parade was the high school band from WInnfield, home town of Earl Long. Kennon was administered his oath by Chief Justice John B. Four-net of the Louisiana Supreme court. The new Governor recited the oath in solemn, measured tones, his voice coming near the breaking point as he ended the oath with "so help me God." Lt. Gov.

C. E. "Cap" Barham, of Ruston received his oath from Associate Supreme Court Justice Frank Hawthorne. Kennon's inaugural message, for the most part, was a reiteration of It was that same "Bob" Kennon Avho today became Louisiana's 51st governor a little grayer at the temples, but that same broad-smiling, hand-waving and hand-shaking "country judge." Just as he did in Minden four SSgt. Lawrence li.

McLaughlin, 22, flight engineer, Dayton, Ohio. Airman 2nd Class Gene B. Ross, 23, Gunner, Regina, Canada. Airman First Class William L. McDonald, 23, Laurent, Montreal, Que.

Airman Third Class Clarke H. Boesen, 24, student gunner, Boelus, Neb. Airman First Class Richard C. Casbeer, 23, waist gunner, Victoria, Texas. By MARGARET McPOXALD Member of The Times Staff Two unexpected new formations have been tapped by Natural Gas of the pay raises the board recommended in that situation and also of its recommendation for the later.

Last year, congress authorized and appropriated funds for Baton Rouge, May 13 Eugenia vears ago, he nauea nis trienas and Oil corporation, of Shreveport, an eighteen million dollar improve union shop. Sentell Kennon became Louisiana's this time from the governor's re second, fourth and fifth districts. He had one candidate ahead in each of the first, third and sixth districts (two dele- gates are to be named from each district.) Eisenhower candidates held first lady today. viewing stand rather than a can and Murphy corporation, of iui on their Barksdale Air Force base lease, it was revealed yesterday. didate's platform by their first She brought charm and poise to the role.

Furthermore, she obvi- names: "Hello. Frank. Hi, Kutn. How's the cattle, John?" ouslv enjoyed the events which The presence of gas production launched her on her new career ment program for the base. Meanwhile, Brooks announced, the air force has authorized condemnation of 17714 acres of land west of the present base behind the hangar line, which will be utilized for new housing for the base (Continued an Face Two) And they were all here from shaky margins in two races in the first and sixth districts.

One un of the state's foremost hostess. from the Cotton Valley "Dee" sand and the Travis Peak, though the discoverv was made in January, Her husband won the governors pledged candidate was ahead in the third district. north Louisiana, as well as from the rest of the state, to salute the man who 26 years ago became the mayor of Minden at 23, the his campaign pledges and postelection addresses to various groups through the state. Returns trickled in slowlv. Poll Kennon pledged himself to an youngest in the nation.

They came ing places were jammed with a late rush of voters. Some precincts has just been made public for the first time in a letter mailed to Natural Gas and Oil stockholders by William G. Marbury, president, and Raymond V. Terry, vice-president and manager. There are variable forms of the union ship but generally all workers have to join a union within a specified time after they go on the payroll.

The steel industry has bitterly contested that part of the WSB proposal. It has also claimed it would have to have up to $12 a ton price increase to cover the proposed pay raises totaling 17 cents an hour by next January plus some 8V2 cents an hour In such items as holiday pay and shift differentials. The vote on extension of wage-price controls to next March 1 was 8 to 4. The vote on stripping the WSB of disputes-settling powers was 7 Airman Casbeer was the man flown to the hospital. His condition was not immediately learned.

The other survivors were reported in good shape. The B-29. from the lOfith bomb wing at March Air Force base, Riverside, carried a crew of 13 men, the base reported. The marine plane carried only the pilot. Onlv seven parachutes were observed by Marine Lt.

Col. Arthur M. Morah of El Toro Marine Air station. Moran was flying near the F4U Corsair involved in the crash. Details of his report were not immediately available.

U. S. Jets Down 5 Russian MIGs still had them in line two hours to watch him reap tne rewards of a long but determined trek towards the governor's mansion in which he after the official closing time of administration of economy and impartiality, reforms at Louisiana's hospital, mental and penal institutions, and made a plea for state wide understanding of his need for bond issue funds for capital im Stroller 7:30 p.m., EST, and a near-record seat and the hearts of Louisianians under the label of "homespun country lawyer." There is nothing home-; spun about Mrs. Kennon. Her social presence was evidenced clearly as she waved a practiced hand at the thousands who lined the streets of the state capital for a glimpse of the new governor and his family.

The ease of her manner recalled the fact that she has spent many- and Mrs. Kennon and their three sons ate lunch today. vote of some 500,000 was in sight. Indications were that a trend in He beamed through every min the delegate voting would not be provements at these Institutions. ute of it.

That smile constantly on his tanned face and that out firmly established perhaps for hours. The Taft people were con stretched hand ever ready to greet The lease, which was obtained on June 6 of last year from the government by a high bid of Natural and Murphy, is spotted on the southern and southeastern edges of Barksdale. Lying in sections 10-17-12, 11-17-12, 12-17-12, 6-17-11, 7-17-11, and 31-18-11, it is considered as an extension of Bossier parish's old Sligo field. every well-wisher the character Writer- THOMAS K. FINLETTER, secretary of the air force who will speak here on Armed Forces day Satur fident of sweeping all 16 delegate seats while the Eisenhower forces fought to crack the Taft strength istics that have brought many to describe him as a "natural poli The new governor, who rose from mayor of his home town to the state's top political position, told the inaugural audience that "extravagence in government is second only to corruption as a danger to our welfare." He said that the state must be to 3.

The approved plan also calls and name at least two. years in providing a pleasant background for the small-town attorney tician. There Mas utter confusion at for reorganization of the board day, is a writer with published works to his credit. His wife, MARGARET, also contributes to peri There were thousands here in who proved earlv in his career that Seoul, Korea, Wednesday. May 14 Among other things, it would be some polling places throughout the he was destined for greater tmngs UP) The u.

S. Fifth air force to set up as all-public body. the capital city today to hail the new chief. But one, the deposed ex- odicals and is the daughter of state. A long and complicated ballot slowed the count to the point that election officials were not able to On the present board, the public The Plain Dealing native who watched her husband rise to the kept "clear and clean" from both Until the discovery of the two new formations, gas production in the area has been mainly from the labor and industry are equally rep resented with six members each handle the rush of voters.

Jeter and Pettlt. The presence of In one Wayne county precinct, the harassed election board simply the Paluxy gas sand also was Today's Chuckle dumped the counting job into the known. day credited its Sabre jet pilots with destroying five Russian-built jets one without firing a shot in ix dogfights Tuesday. Two other MIGs were listed as probably shot down and six damaged. Capt.

Robert W. McKittrich of Edwardsville, 111., reported he got his first Red jet in a pursuit over Pyongyang, the Korean Red capital. He said he streaked In close of those evils. "I pledge that benefits to selfish interests and special privileges will neither be permitted nor tolerated under this Kennon said. Kennon warned that the public must not be lulled into a sense of highest position in the state pre-! sented an attractive picture Her smilling expression betrayed nothing of any feeling she may have had at the failure of outgoing governor and Mrs.

Earl K. Long to appear at the ceremonies. Another former governor and his wife, however, stepped to the edge the late WALTER DAMROSCH, noted symphony conductor. Happy Birthday Mrs. E.

J. PARISH celebrates her 81st birthday today at the home of her daughter, Mrs. CLIFFORD R. HAWN, 820 Winter Garden Drive. Her daughters says MRS.

PARISH really is 81 years young today and much more spry "than women 15 lap of the county clerk. They com Oil production was and still is plained there should have been an- "Old Smith is going to retire from the Herold sand. Gov. Earl Long, was all too conspicuous by his absence. Even the auto in which he was to ride in the inaugural procession sore-thumbed an empty seat.

And that seat was beside the out-going Lt.Gov. WTilliam J. (Bill) Dodd in (Caatinaci mm Fm Thirteen) Tunis Bomb Blast Kills 4, Hurts 12 Tunis, Tunisia, May 13 (IF) A other five members to handle the from business. According to the stockholders' voting. "Oh, I heard him say that many letter, Natural and Murphy's U.S.A.

easv come, easy go" insofar as the times before. No. 2 was drilled through the Cot In some places, voters had the doors of polling places shut in their state's finances are concerned. "Yes, but this time the judge ton Valley series in January to a He said, "We must be careful faces at the official closing time said it." (Conllnncd Par Tw) of the reviewing stand this morning to extend their good wishes to Governor and Mrs. Kennon.

Jimmie Davis of Shreveport, who headed (Cnntlnard Tw) of 7:30 p.m. Other precincts per mitted voting as long as there was that we do not fall into the customary error of assuming that because we enjoy prosperous times there is no limit to the resources Revenue Outpaced by Rising Expenses anyone in line. Scattered showers across the and before he could fire the Communist plane banked violently to avoid him. "The MIG snapped over into a apin." McKittrich added. "The pilot tried to bring It out of the spin two or three times but apparently was unable to regain control.

He finally elected to bail out." state failed to halt heavy voting in some sections. Heavier-than-usual which are available for governmental expenditures. bomb exploded just inside a door of Tunis' main post office today, killing four persons and injuring 12. Four Arabs were arrested. Police said the bomb apparently High Production Costs Put Squeeze "The official family and the ci-(Contlnned en Pace Thirteen) voting was reported in Charleston, Huntington, Weirton, Wheeling (Continued en Face Eleren) MISSIXG STUDEXTS DROWX Lawrence, May 13 (IP) The bodies of two University of Kansas students, missing five days, were found in a lake 17 miles from here today.

James E. Delphia, 20, of Norton, Kan. and Bernard E. Rick-ers, 20, of Plains, had not been seen since last Thursday when they left a fraternity picnic in Delphia's automobile. Bluefield and other sections of the Sunny and Warm On Publishers of U.

S. Daily Papers had been placed in a basket and left behind one of the swinging doors at the main entrance. Sections of the wall were torn away and the windows in the main hall were broken by the explosion. coal-rich state. The record vote of 575,000 was cast in the 1940 primary and some believed today's vote might reach 500,000 despite the bad weather.

Sunny skies and warm tempera tures have been forecast for Shreve voting ran from 6:30 A.M. EST, to port and vicinity today by the local weather station. By JOSEPH M. GUILFOIL and JOSEPH POTTER In Tuesday's Edition of the Wall Street Journal New York. Above the din of clinking linotype machines publisher of The Long Beach Press-Telegram, chimes in: 7:30 P.M.

(EST). Touched Off by Ice Cream Vendors "We bought a new press a few Air Secretary years ago that set us back $555,000. and whirring presses, the men who publish the nation's newspapers detect some discordant notes. To Speak Here Yale Students Stage Riot Although circulation newspapers rarely make money from their paper sales is holding at peak levels, publishers A high In the upper 80s and a low of near 60 degrees is high was 85 and the low was 55 degrees. It's Easy TO SOLVE Weighty PROBLEMS! Read, Use Times Want Ads! Today's Highlights KWKH TVENDY WARREN AND THE NEWS 11:00 A.

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KWKH The Shreveport Times Station It replaces one that cost $125,000. On the wage front, our mechanical workers are getting $98 for a 37-hour week. Before Korea they got $93. And they're asking for another hike now. Salaries of our editorial employes are np, too." Secretary of the Air Force are disturbed by two develop Thomas K.

Finletter will speak here on Armed Forces day Satur ments has jumped $10 a ton in the past year and publishers fear it may go up again. Wage rates are still day at the American Legion club on Cross lake. As a result of these mounting costs, plus the dip in advertising volume, many publishers now find climbing. Replacing worn out equipment costs more, too. But let Both Finletter and his wife are writers with published works to their credit.

He has written several books and many magazine articles W. K. Hoyt, publisher of The Win ston-Salem Journal (morning), Sen their profit margins shrinking. William P. Steven, an executive tinel (evening) and The Sunday of The Minneapolis Star and Trib Journal and Sentinel, tell It.

on war and government, one of which was "Can Representative une, owned by the Cowles family "We're paying $120 a ton for Government Do the Job?" President A. Whitney Gris-wold of Yale issued a statement apologizing to the community. He said he wa: "deeply distressed at the public nuisance for which the undergraduates of Yale were responsible." Mayor William Celentano and Police Chief Howard O. Young declined to comment. Before the outburst was quelled, students blocked streets, set a fire in the middle of the street, shot off firecrackers, and littered the area with paper and pillow stuffing.

It all started during an argument between the drivers of two ice cream trucks, disputing over a favored location near the Yale campus. Police arrested both drivers. New Haven, May 13 (JP) A dispute between two ice cream vendors here today touched off a riot involving several hundred Yale students which ended only when firemen turned hoses on the shouting, jostling crowd. Many residents of the city, attracteu to the scene in downtown New Haven, also got a dousing. Eyewitnesses said police clubs as well as fire hoses were used to push the students back into a campus enclosure.

There were no reports of any serious injuries. Four students were arrested. Night shift policemen augmented the day force at the scene. which also publishes The Des Moines Register (morning) and One is a dip in advertising. In March, advertising linage, according to a 52-city survey, slipped 2.3 per cent below a year ago.

This was the first time this year ad linage fell below 1951 levels. If it hadn't been for a spectacular 7.3 jump in classified linage, the March total would have been off even more. And apparently the trend Is continuing, says Harold S. Barnes, director. Bureau of Advertising, American Newspaper Publishers association.

"Report from individual papers for the first part of April don't give any cause for rejoicing." Causing concern, too, are steadily mounting costs. Newsprint the His wife writes under the name of Gretchen Finletter and is a fre Tribune (evening) and the magazines Look and Quick, notes: "Our GOT A HEFTY PROBLEM that needs solving? An economical little want ad in The Times may help you lift the burden from your shoulders. The "classifieds' carry a lot of weight when it comes to making sales, securing "help" of any nature, finding renters, arranging mutually profitable trades, locating lost articles and performing a thousand and one other tasks. No problem is too big or too small for the want ads to handle. You can sell a baby bassinet or buy a steam shovel by placing an inexpensive want advertisement in The Times classified columns, TRY ONE TODAY! quent contributor to periodicals Index She also is the author of a three- profits this year are not as good act play, "Passing Present." as they were last year.

Our circula' tion is gaming but national adver newsprint, $10 more than we paid a year ago. Pressmen, linotype operators and other mechanical employes have received $3 weekly rakes in the past year. Similar boosts were obtained by editorial and other white-collar workers. And our employes surely will be asking and we'll be giving further pay boosts if the Steelworkers get a hike." laments Mr. Hoyt.

Harold M. Hines, assistant to the The Saturday event here will begin at 6 p.m. with a barbecue. tising, the most profitable segment of the business, is off. It is the highlight of Armed Forces Classified 26-31 Oil 32 Comics 24 Radio 9 Dav bv Dav 20 Society 22-23 Deaths" 11 Sports 14-16 Editorials 6 Theatres 25 Hopper 25 Weather 19 Market 19 More of the same comes from week observances.

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