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No. 17 FACTS in QUOTES HE WIDENING of Broadway, and accompanying ills would be only an IMMEDIATE solution to Calves ton's traffic problem. The following quotes are from the state highway de partment's official, written report on its suggested plan for widening the thoroughfare: Quote "congestion on Broadway, together with the time required to secure right of way for an expressway, leads to the recommendation that the IMMEDIATE solution is widen Broadway." End Quote. Quote "It is estimated that this IMMEDIATE plan would accommodate traffic without undue congestion for i period of from eight to 15 years" End Quote. Quote "preliminary studies leading to the development of au expressway facility should be initiated WITHOUT DELAY End Quote.

Quote "If and when in the. future the state local governments agree upon an expressway facility which will diverge from existing United States 75 somewhere near the west city limit and follow generally along the east shore of Offat's Bayou, the city will be able to make connections to the beach area End Quote. Quote "The adoption of routes for access to the beach must perforce await the selection of the expressway route. As an interim solution, 61st street could be temporarily incorporated in the secondary highway system End Quote. It can be said AGAIN that Galveston is not a one-horse town and should not continue a one-street city, and that Broadway should NOT be torn up just as an "IMMEDIATE step.

If an expressway will be needed in the not too far-distant future, why not sooner? MAP TELLS STORY Clayton Says Stalin Winning Cold War There Is no doubt that Stalin is winning the present cold war, Will Clayton, former undersecretary of state, told an audience of 230 Wednesday night in Stephen F. Austin Junior High School. Clayton, founder of Anderson, Clayton Co. of Houston, and vice president of the Atlantic Union, at the first meeting of th Galveiton chapter at tbt Atlantic Union at present in the process of organization. "Just look at a world map and see how much territory soviet Russia controls and how much we control," Clayton said, "and one can easily see we are losing the cold war." Democracies are handicapped la dealings with communist Russia, the speaker said.

MUST WHIP FEAR "To defeat the Russians." he said, "we must overcome political handicaps, economic handicaps and fear." And there Is no doubt that we are already at war with Russia, he said. Even though It Is not a shoot- Ing war, It Is the most "momentous struggle" ever witnessed, Clayton added. "This cold war," he eald, "Is a struggla of democracy versus dic- tatorship, paganism versus Chrl tlanity, freedom versus slavery." T-ie United States and othe democratic countries are the on obstacles to communism, he aai Stmlin is even abler moi shrewd than Hitler, Clayton sal since boring In against mocracy more effectively. UN INEFFECTIVE "The United Nations organize Uon," Clayton said, "Is no bulwar against BtaJm. It Is set up to dea with external pressures leading war, but not with Internal pre sura, strikes and dissention, whic Stalin is using." The former United States officla said that Russia now has 15 mi lion square miles of territory an 750 million people under Its dom tnation.

'All of this Is united with on set of laws, Ideals and govern ment," Clayton said. "Against th united force, we can throw 12 16 democracies, each operatin separately, each used to delay an disagreement." The Atlantic pact is not th nswer to this disunity, he said. "It Is still just a blueprint, an probably will remain as sucb fo Turn to Page 5. See TWO Flood Area Estimate $50 Million Damaget GRAND FORKS, N. April congressman estimate property damages of $50,000,000 in the North Dakota-Minnesota flood lones today as residents fough high water over large areas of the states.

Rep. Harold c. Hagen at Minneapolis gnve a grim picture of the flood's ravages after return- ning from an Inspection of the states. He estimated damage to public and private property at MO.OOO.OOO in northern Minnesota and $20.000.000 in northeastern North Da koto. CULVERTS CONE Thousands of culverts are gonf," Hagen reported.

"Several hundred bridges are either washed away FAIR Forecast for Galveston and vicinity: Partly cloudy with moderate Houthcaitcrly and umitherly winds. HUN. MOON A TIDRB for April 37 lM: un moon- p. mrtonict, 3-49 a high Ilrtf 1:29 p. low 8755 n.

m. and p. m. TEMPETRATL'HKS reported from JUUoni for thr ptriod tndinR tt OKI rtmrlDo truimnnt Chrlill sm tn 77 S3 70 76 A.I SO 7,1 Low Prtc. or need costly repairs.

Thousand of miles of roads are destroyed." He aaid private property damag was "huge" and flood crests wen still to come. The Red Cross estimated thn 28,383 persons have been affectei In the two states, either by being driven out of their homes or property damage and hardship. BIVERS ROLL Today surging rivers rolled on by snow from a near-blizzarc swept the area yesterday. Six boata were flown to thi! hard-hit town to be used in evacu atlng livestock from flooded areas jetween Drayton and Pemblm on the rampaging Re River. Three coast guard landing craft were en route to Attkin, Minn on the Mississippi River to tak supplies to Isolated farms and hau milk and other perishable farm products to market.

Residents along the surging Mia souri River in Nebraska am owa were cheered by the new hat a flood threat from Sioux City, Iowa, to Rulo, was sub- idlng. The Missouri River dropped nearly flva feet at Sioux City and than a foot in the last Rulo. CRASH LEVEES Nevertheless, the Missouri al- eady had poured flood waters Other High Low 78 SO 87 33 38 6: 14 Atlanta Boi'nn 44 4fl York Caribou, 63 33 North ctilciFo 35 Oklahoma Cliy 76 44 "-imr 87 32 r-llUhnrkh 1 44 fl Holnu 47 29 Unit Cllr .17 City 74 43 FrnncKco 42 Huron fU. 37 33 flcnttlc 48 3S fl.1 HhertJnn. Vfy.

30 Us Aiirrlci Aft WfldtilnBlon 7 49 74 41 VVIIMitlnn N.D. 3d 30 U. I. Wi.thir Bureau Kiport) sarly fi 4 hours at other polnta southward vcr 47,000 acres of unprotected lottomland between Sioux Citv and Rulo and had crashed through prl- ate levees to flood another 22,800 cres. The storm that hit the northern ood zone moved over the Lake uperlor are, today with a 60-mile- n-hour nnd driving snow that rove lake craft to cover.

Two oata were reported locked In ice Lake Huron. Weather forecasters at Detroit aid Ice and bad weather may roduco one of history's latest pcningg for shipping on the orWicm Great Lakes, They unid Lake Superior ports may not open for another two weeks. The latest opening on record is May 16. i House Panel Halves Excise Admission Tax One Billion Dollars Per Year Cut Seen in Future Action WASHINGTON. April 26.

(INS) A SO per cent clash in the general admission on and aportc was voted today by tha house tax legislators who boosted 'piecemeal" luxury revenue cuts to 575 million dollars a. year. The house ways and means committee, admittedly on an excise tax reduction rampage, added 240 million dollar- to the 335 million dollars in cuts which it had approved previously. HALVE LEVIES Aside from theater and admissions, the committee voted to cut in half the levies on luggage, matches and business machines, and to repeal the 10 per cent tax on electric space heaters It also agreed to exemption from taxation photographic apparatus used by the motion picture Industry and Conferees Okay Seawall Bill West Will Stand Ground in Berlin Sec. Acheson the press.

Committee members predicted that, at the present momentum, they will approve excise tax cuta well over one billion dollan year. But they emphasized that the present action Is tentative and that the cuta will be subject to reconsideration later. INTENTION LOST One committeeman, who did not wish to be quoted, said "log-rolling" has appeared in the group's deliberations and that the ordinal intention of limiting excise tax cuts to those believed essential as business stimulants baa been abandoned. He commented: "The way thing are going, the bill is definitely beaded for a presi dential veto. That would mean no tax bill at all, since an excise tax- reduction bill could not be passed over a veto." NO EXCESS TAX Members declared the committee i In no temper now to vote increases in corporation, estate and gift or other taxes to replace reve nue loss by excise cuts.

They predicted defeat for the excess profits ax proposed by Rep. Eberharter The committee voted to cut the general admissions tax from 1 cent on each 9 cents for admission price or thertof to 1 on 10 cents on admission price or 'ractlon. In effect, this is a reduc- of from 20 to 10 per cent. Thi estimated revenue lose is 181 mil- ion dollars a year. The 20 per cent tax would be retained, on leases of boxes or seats and on ticket sales by scalpers In excess of the regular price.

Railroad Strike Top Goal For Mediators By The AuocUted Preii With the general telephone valkout off indefinitely, settlement if the threatened railroad strike ias become a top goal of government mediators. The national (railway) mediation ioard will meet In Chicago Thurs- lay In an effort to avert a walk- ut of railroad firemen against our major rail systems May 10. The Brotherhood of Locomotive lremen and Englnemen and rep- esentatlves of the four rail eys- ems have agreed to attend the eace talks. The union originally called the 'rltte to atart Wednesday, April 6. to support its demands for an xtra fireman of big Diesel loco- lotlves, but agreed to a two weeks while the board ittlement.

"A strike would affect all or part these rail systems: Santa Fe, outhcrn, Pennsylvania and New ork Central, Other labor developments: Automotive: Bargaining was re- umed in Detroit as the costly hryaler strike entered its 14th eek. The CIO United Auto Work- rs Union executive board sent cals a request for continuation emergency Btrlke assessments eyond Msy 3. Underscores U. S. Warning East German Youth March Set for May To Be Resisted WASHINGTON, April 26.

(UP)-Sec. of State Dean Acheson declared today that the wester: powers will stand their ground Berlin nezt month despite an trouble that may result from planned communist youth march. Underscoring previous top-leve a i i that United State troops will use machlnegun fir necessary to halt thi red at tempt to overrun the German 1UI, Acheson bluntly told a ne 1 conference-: When all the commotion dies way, we will still be in Berlin. STAND F1KM He took that firm' stand as th state department struck a cold wa retaliatory blow at Russia's communist satellite, Romania, by (taring It to cloes its "commercial office" In New Tork within tw weeks. In a formal note to Romania, the department charged that th office is In effect an unauthorizei consulate.

Diplomatic a agreed privately that the actio was prompted Romania's closing of the United States informa Uon service office in Bucharest Acheson's statement was a new demonstration that the hlghes United States, British and Prenc officials are determined to go th limit in resisting communist plan to march 500,000 east German youths Into the western sectors Berlin in a powder keg "unit, demonstration" fo" Whitsuntide, the last weekend May. TO USE FERE Last weekend a very high gov ernment official, who would no et his be used, aald western occupation forces in Berlin have orders to resist the invasion with ire hoses and tear gas if possible. But if necessary, this official said the troops will use rifle and ma chlnegun fire. Acheson commented today tha has been made quite clear tha the western powers intend to stant very firm. Asked to comment on reports at a United States British French note may be sent to Rus sla in an attempt to head off th lemonstration, Acheson 11 the western powers are toing to reveal in advance all their plans for meeting the threat DISCOVER PLANS We are just going ahead in our way, he said, and the communists will discover our plans when they are carried out.

Informed quarters have reported that substantial United a troop reinforcements, i i tanks, are being moved into western rones of Berlin. The occupation forces are receiving special training in riot control and street fighting tactics. The United States note to Romania, delivered to the Romanian legation here, said "it is not acceptable" for the Balkan country continue operating facilities in New York City known as "the office of the Romanian commercial attache" and an affiliated agency known as "Packages for Ro- TOOTHBEDSH OVERWORKED DALLAS, April 26. S--An 83- 'ear-old practicing dentist declared lere today that "toothbrushes have been overworked." "You take those old Tennesseans and Alabamans vho used a su-eetgum twig for a oothbrush and dipped snuff," said )r. John E.

Storey of Beaumont. they had the cleanest, whlt- st teeth you ever saw." fIRE MENACES CYCLOTRON Final Omnibus Figure Cut Without Hitting State Items The westward extension of Gal- of for Improvement of veston's seawall lor three miles be- Intra-coastal canal In south Galves- yond 61st street moved a step ton bay. nearer realisation Wednesday, with The proposed expenditure tot the announcement from Washing- extension of the seawall, never- ton that a joint senate-house theless, was the largest single conference committee had approved a struction project on the agenda compromise version of the multi- for Texas STOCKHOLM. April 26. INS- Unltcd States embassy spokes- nn said tonight that a plane heel found In tha Baltic Sea be- nfied to a United states navy ivnteer craft of the same type ilch the Russians are accused of noting down in an unprovoked "ack April 8.

Lennart Bcrkenstan. a Swedish force staff member, and an- her Swedish navigation expert, duced from the location of the lecl and other evidence that the United States a ashed Into the sea about 40 miles the coast of Lithuania. The Russians have admitted one their fighters fired on an icrlcan plane but said this oc- rred over the Latvian coast, is assertion has been pronounced se by the American government, A Swedish reporter who nlflo ex- Ined the wheel picked up In edish fishermen's nets said lt Inltely Is from the missing ni. was made by let. The embassy spokesman said the letters PB4Y2 and other marks made identification certain.

The wheel has been sent to United States air force officers in Copenhagen for relay to the navy. Experts were said to believe that one hole in the fork of the wheel a machinegun bul Usually reliable informants said meanwhile that fast Russian warships have bsgun a search of their own foi wreckage of the unarmed American plane which carried ten men now listed as presumed dead. All ten airmen have been posthumously awarded Distinguished flying Crosses by the United States. Stellnn Hermelln, chief of the Swedish ice-breaker organization nnd the 'beat export on Baltic Sea currents In Sweden, snld the plane wheel probably Is from the missing Privntcer patrol bomber. He figures the plane crashed nto the sea at a point 55 miles southwest of tho Latvian port of This daylight air rtew shows the building razed by fire (arrow) Hi proximity to the University of California cyclotron In Berkley, CaL, In left background.

The new atom smasher now under construction is not shown but would be toward the foreground of the picture, names were confined to the one building. Uf Wlrephoto). DELAY FOR SPEED i Delivery of Mails To Get Later Start Residential mall carriers will depart from the local poctoffice approximately one to one hour and 15 minutes later than at the present time, beginning May 27, Post master Raymond A. Stewart an nounced Wednesday. This revised schedule Is being alarmed in the hope that patron Sacred Heart Church Gets New Statue An eight-foot copy of the famoui Christ of the Andes statue wa.

swung into place atop the Moorish style dome of Sacred Heart Church Wednesday afternoon. Workmen had been, preparing tc wing the 4000-pound duplicate he Western Hemisphere's mos amous statue into place atop the at 14th and Broadway for past two days. Rt Rev. Msgr. Marius S.

Cha aignon, pastor of the church, said hat the formal dedication of the tatue would take place nexl lonth There are still a few finishing etails which must be care before the dedication can take lace, he said. One of these will the installation of floodlights to lumlnate the statue at night. The statue was moved into place a giant crane which reached aore than 100 feet into the air. In resting place atop the church, ie marble statue replaces a statue hich was destroyed by lightning "ring a hurricane on Aug. 5, 1948.

The original statue had rested two Sacred Heart Churches the same location since 1884. "The new statue," said Msgr. hataignon, "just as its larger riglnal in the Andes symbolizes ie peace and brotherhood of en." will receive better delivery servic under the new governmental ecort omy measure which restricts ma deliveries to one a day in res dential areas throughout the Uni ed States, the postmaster stated. Patrons, under the new delivery system, will receive on one-tri routes the mall heretofore deliverer on afternoons of two-trip service Stewart added. While this service will bring th carriers to the homes approximately one hour later than under th present schedule, It Is believed tha it will- afford a better service ant will more nearly meet needs patrons than is possible under th present schedule, Stewart said.

Under present star route an train schedules, approximately 1 per cent of letter mail that wa formerly delivered on afternoo trips reaches the postoffice vi star route from Houston at a. m. each day, he explained. The letter mail carried on thi trip includes mail originating a such cities as Austin, Dallas, For Worth and San Antonio from 9:4 to 11 p. m.

the night before, as we as mail from more distant north erly points. The one-a-day delivery has drawn some criticism here but the ma iority accepted the reduction in service as a needed step towan economy, the postmaster added. "We are endeavoring to ad minister the order In such a man icr as to cause as little inconven- ence as possible," he said. ilm Morals Measure In Hopper by Mistake WASHINGTON, April 26. (UP-Chairman Edwin C.

Johnson of the ntroduced-- and later withdrew-- a own morals problem. The Colorado democrat intro- uced the bill shortly after the sen- te session began. He sent it to ie desk with a number of routine nils. Later he explained that its urouucuon Tvas a mistake. MYSTERY: ie Is Privateer Type bau, where the Russians admit ey "fired on" a four-englned nited States plane which they larged invaded Latvia.

The wheel picked up by Swedish Bhermen at a point about 82 lies southeast of the Swedish and of Gotland (50 to 73 miles the Latvian coast) was flown Stockholm tonight. It Is en ute to United States authorities Port Lyautey, Morocco, home rll A Dagens Nyheter reporter who amlned the wheel said he found letters and numbers PB4T2 on proving that It was from the Issing plane. (A third United States naval strict spokesman In New Tork Id that the navy's B-24 Privateer ss designated PB4Y, The figure added to It designates a mediation figure.) The oil system In the wheel ows that the part wai produced Buffalo, N. Y. Swedish experts who have seen the wheel said It was mounted with a Firestone tire and could not have been In the water a long time because its metal parts are not rusty.

The English text says the wbeel, apparently a nose- wheel, last was Inspected March 23, 1949. Other numbers on the mechanism are 3500 and 7300. The expert on currents, Herme- In, told International News Serv- ce that from examination of evidence of a rubber life raft also picked up, and the wheel, the plane probably plunged into the tea about 50 miles west of the Lithuanian Baltic port of Palan- ger, or about 70 miles north of soviet-held East Prussia. Hermelin said that winds in the ast few weeks in the Baltic have been from the southwest and southeast, producing north currents whereby wreckage would drift about one mila a day north- war d. naroors and flood control bill.

The conference committee set the final figure at $1,730,251,825, after slashinc approximately $110,000,000 from the bill approved In the senate on April 17. NO SEAWALL CUT However, the slashes from the senate version of the bill do no affect Galveston's seawall, nor an; other project proposed In Texas The cuts agreed on by the conferees were on projects slated for Arkan sas, Georgia and the Columbia River Basin in the Pacific North west. As measure now stands, i must be approved in form by botl the senate and house before i goes to the White House for tb signature of the president. No appropriations are authorlzec simply authorizes the projects llsl ed and congress must provide th cash by individual appropriation bills, laUr. ROBINSON IN CAPITAL Announcement of the agreemen between senate and house con ferees, came at a timt when Coun ty Judge Theodore R.

Robinson Galveston County was in Washing ton to confer with United State Rep. Clark W. Thompson, Sens Tom Connally and Lyndon Johnson and United States arm; engineers. The judge left by plant sarly Sunday and met with Thompson and the engineers Monday for the first of a series of meetings out ol which he hopes to get an agreed inent whereby start of the seawall he made -with equn- 1 loiai cost ol the seawall extension is estimated at $8,500.000, of which the federal government will provide $5,500,000, the county to up the additional $3,000,000. The county's share, would 'include acquisition of right-of-way for the seawall, estimated to cost $200,000.

FLOAT LOAN Actually, no county money Is available at the present time. However, by authorization voted in August, 1947, the county may float in seawall bonds at any chooses to act. The original authorization was for $4,500,000, a sum that included for the Texas City seawall, leaving the balance of for extension of Galvston's seawall. Robinson stated before his departure to Washington that he Believed the county could sell its 53,000,000 bond issue within 60 to M) days, and that he anticipated ittle delay in acquisition of right- of-way for the extension. The action agreed on In the senate-house conference committee also indicated approval of another Galveston project, the expenditure Mexico Fines 5 Shrimpers Seizure Protested i TT 1 DY UJtllClfUS TAMPICO, Mexico, April M.

UP) Captaing of five United shrimp fishing will be fined 5578 each for "fishing In Mexican territorial waters without a per- Joaquln Cinta Gomel, head of thi navy ministry's fishery office, nr rived here today from Mexico Citj and said he was Instructed to levi the fines-- 5000 pesos In Mexlcu BOATS SEIZED Five shrimp boats were seized and brought into Tampico by i Mexican gunboat Sunday. Th United States state department hai protested the seizures. Gomez as soon as the fines are paid, th five boats will be released. Tha Mexican navy apparently accepted the report of the gunboat'i captain, Beltrain Lara, tha the shrimping vessels were fishini within Mexico's nine-mile llml when he seized them. Captains 01 the boats testified before the port captain here yesterday they though! were outside that limit STOBY PROBED There was some question whether one of the boati-- the Alamo of Brownsville, would be allowed sail immediately.

Tampico po. ice authorities were itlll investigating the story of a customs guard sailors aboard the Alamo threw ilm off the boat 'Into the water Monday night The crewmen denied the accusation saying guard fell into the water. Owners and captains of the boats were notified of the fines today by Cinta Gomez. They told him amount appeared high and said later they would ask the navy department to reduce the amount The lormal request was not made to he fishery official because his office closed before it could be draft- PBOBE BEGINS The investigation of what happened to Cleofas Ramirez, customa guard abroad the boat Alamo, be- ean today before Port Captain Jorge Aguire Ortiz. John Carinhas and Will Conlej of the Alamo crew testified they Lid not see any attack on the guard and did not eee him go overboard.

United States Consul Elvin Seibert as interpreter for the men during the hearing, which will con. imie tomorrow. Ramirez testl- ied a sailor pushed him off. Informer Huber Set To Go Away a Month WASHINGTON, April 26. (IP)-he missing witness in the senate iquiry on alleged communism in he state department, after turn- ng up in New York, telephoned wife tonight that he is going way for a month.

John J. Huber, described as a ormer FBI informer, turned up In ew York after a 20-hour search hich started when he failed to nawer a senate subcommittee ubpena here last night. MADK CALLS He made a number of calls to ersons In New York and Wash- ngton reporting that he had suf- red a "blackout." But he did not ntact the senate foreign rela- ons subcommittee which wants as a witness. Huber was called to tell what he mows about the charges by Sen. rlcCarthy (R-Wls.) that Owen Lattimore, Johns Hopkins Univer- professor and sometime state ipartmeni adviser, was a member a communist cell.

Huber has been identified to the bcommlttee as a former FBI in- ormrr-- that is, a person from horn the FBI obtained informa- on although he was not a regu- employe or agent. PHONES WIFE Huber telephoned his wife to- ght that he planned to go away a month "to get away from it 1" His wife, Veronica, said the ill was made from New York. either she nor anyone else was louts. She said he did not say whether planned to appear late? before senate Investigators, While awaiting word from Huber, is senate committee turned to mmuniit nartv in thU Browder wili be questioned at an open session tomorrow. There were these other developments: 1.

Browder said in a copyrighted story in the New Tork Daily Compass that Louis F. Budenz 1 statement that Browder told him Lattimore was a communist agent "is false as a whole and in detail." BUDENZ TESTIFIES BudenK, a former communist, had that testimony to the senators last week. "The simple fact," Browder wrote, "is that I never had any connection with Prof. Lattimore, direct or indirect, never discussed lim or his writings in communist larty meetings, and never men- his name in the presence of Louis Budenz." 2. Browder accepted a subpena, also in New York, and the hearing vas hurriedly set to question him.

that cession the committee will close its doors and hear from ''rank BielaskI, former agent for he office of strategic services, on he 1945 case of alleged leakage of tate department secret papers to rVmerasia magazine. GETS REPORT S. The committee received a report that Jack Stachel, communisi official whom it also wanted to luestion about Lattimore, Is suffer- ng from a severe heart ailment ind will not be available for sbt 4. But it served a subpena 'to rederick Vanderbill Field, de- cribed by witnesses in the ion as an avowed communist, nd arranged to hear from hit Turn to S. Sea ONE.