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On the Inside Obituary Radio-TV 6 Comics 10 Sports .12, 13 Classified Editorial 4 Theaters 14 Shows The Capital City Newspaper Since 1871 AUSTINTEXAS, MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1953 82nTYear 214 18 PAGES 5 CENTS i.iy. oxer 'the Uric nan uf J'r n.itvxt wi-rf iora into capital stock structure oi the ccmpaay i'urr3rt managerial hich wv fuel, Told -v wtvn. jw tcrcvjU JonM-qucrnl itiiiitry wa w- -toK-W. fX I I I LAME DUCK SESSION A belie Tffysr vi i- -mj) M.J 7i a JLil I iT i ri 1 ytr A I jET1 Council Holds Meeting For Canvass of Votes The mostly "lame duck" City Council had a special session scheduled at 3 p.m. Monday for an official canvass of Saturday's election results.

Under the almost totally new City Charter the council must complete canvassing of the vote within 48 hours after the polls close. UN Offers To Return 500 Daily PANMUNJOM, April 6 UP The United Nations told Communist negotiators Monday they were ready to return 500 ailing Red soldiers daily within a week after agreement was reached on a swap of sick and wounded prisoners. The UN offer was in a nine-point program put before the Reds at Monday's 48-minute opening talk on the exchange of ailing prisoners. The UN negotiators said the first Allied Communist talks in six months made "distinct progress." Both aides agreed to meet again at J5 tmc feds I roan i aim, iraJ in thf ttctrh- Jn-. that am here prrrm.

yiactr iT cmmtantly bcm camwirmanv other railroad faewttic I Austin Man DiesFighting Korean War will see plenty of Jaguars, like the one in the picture, plus many other famous sports car models such as MG, OSCA, Jupiter, Ferrari, Invicta, Cad-illac-Allard and so on. including a beautiful Richmond Heights, consultant from a dozen states have for the National, which will be run on track at Bergstrom Air Force Base. Fans COMING AT YOU Like this sleek and speedy Jaguar, the National Championship Sports Car Races are coming at Austin next Sunday. Top RAIN AND NORTHER DROP TEMPERATURE Cool Nights US Weather Bureau Forecast for Austin and Central Texas: Mild days and cool nights with partly cloudy skies through Tuesday, not so windy Tuesday. Tuesday's temperature range 54-80.

More data on Page 6. Jaycee Teams Carrying Message of Auto Races Teams of Jaycees set out across Austin Monday, carrying a message about the National Championship Sports Car Races. This particular message is contained on small green cards, which the Jaycees planned to put on every cafe menu in the city. Under Junior Chamber of Commerce President Bill White and Bob Collins the volunteer teams Cooled by an Easter rain measuring .13 inch and a norther arriving at 1 a.m. Monday, temperatures were unseasonably low for Austin and Central Texas Monday.

The mercury ranged only 72 Monday afternoon. prevail through Tuesday. A low City Pay Raise Option Bill Meantime, three members of the new council have suggested a pre-inauguration meeting to go over first problems expected to face them and to talk about choice of a mayor for the next two years. The first job for the new council to be inaugurated May 15 will be election of a mayor. The first name to go into the pot is Wesley Pearson, the young businessman who polled the highest vote in Saturday's record turnout of almost 20,000 voters.

Councilman-elect Ted Thompson said Sunday he believes Pearson would make a "very good" mayor. He called him a very popular man and entirely capable for the job. But Thompson said he was not yet ready to say definitely who he would back. Pearson told a reporter he was honored at being mentioned as a prospect for the mayor's office but was not a candidate for the job. He said he feels there are others more qualified who would have more time.

Asked if he would turn down the mayorship if it is offered, Pearson said he would certainly argue against it. He then proposed an early in formal meeting of the new council to discuss election of a mayor with the aim of reaching a unanimous agreement. Councilwoman Emma Long, re elected to a third full term, said later Sunday she would favor such a meeting And Monday C. A. McAden, the third new councilman backed by the Charter Protective Association along with Pearson and Thompson, joined in the call for a soon-as-possible informal get together.

Both McAden and Mrs. Long said they had not decided on a choice for the mayor's office. Councilman Ben White, reelected to his second full term, said Sunday he had nothing to say on the subject If the pattern of the past holds true, Monday's official canvass could be expected to make little change in the unofficial but com plete returns which showed these results: Place 1 Mrs. Long 10.278; Evans Swan 9.207. Place 2 White 10,540, Gary Morrison 8.942.

Place 3 Thompson 10,932, A. B. Campbell 8.336. Place 4 McAden 9,906, Travis Howard 9,512. Place 5 Pearson 764, Charles Birdwell 7,603.

Pearson was never threatened in piling up the biggest vote. Next in line were Thompson, White, Mrs. Long and McAden. It appeared Monday that the hard-fought campaign had split the city as it had never been divided before. This was most evident in (Continued on Page 9, Col.

2) Immigration Act Hearings Delayed WASHINGTON UP Sen. Watkins (R-Utah) says he is waiting for the Eisenhower administration to propose changes in the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act before he holds hearings on it. The measure was passed last year over former President Tru man veto. President Eisenhower has said the law is discriminatory and needs changing. Watkins is chairman of a Senate-House committee keeping tabs on the act.

POSSE WORN OUT from a low of 54 to a high of The cooler temperatures will Senate Vote Flovd Bradshaw's bill for a teacher pay increase estimated at $19 million a year, starting, as do the Aikin and Zivley bill, with a base raise from $2,400 to $3,000 a year; and a third bill, granting about one-half the proposed $600 across the-board raise. The committee cannot act on the pay bills until the general two-year appropriation measure is completed. Conferees worked through the weekend recess on adjustments between the $160,500,000 House figure and the $166 million voted by the Senate. Spokesmen for oil, gas and other natural resources and the new chemical industries will come in Wednesday afternoon for hearings on the Berry omnibus tax bill, and possible hearing on the Gabe Garrett 2 per cent merchandise tax bill. Merchants will flock in Wednesday night for hearings on the Zivley "clean competition" price-fixing bill, to prohibit sale of merchandise below cost.

All House committee hearings that had been scheduled for Monday afternoon and night were set over a week when the members decided to reconvene Tuesday. The new rule freezing all single appropriation bills until the gen eral budget supply measure is cleared to Governor Allan Shivers' desk will cause the teacher pay sponsors and proponents of other money bills to join the appropria tions committee in urging quicK action on the conference report. The conferees have not indicated how quickly the big measure can be laid before the House and Senate. They have been working in closed session, a policy always fol lowed by conlerence groups Dotn in the Legislature and in Congress, in writing the final draft. Members of both branches were confident the conference agree ment will be close to the total voted by the Senate, which in cludes a 10 per cent pay increase for state workers on the first $3,000 of annual salary.

Advocates of a similar increase, in line with Gov. Shivers' recommendations, fell only barely short of a majority in the House when the biennial supply bill was passed there without any pay increase. LEGISLATURE IN BRIEF By Associated Press SENATE Amended and advanced fireman-policeman pay raise bill providing for local option elections on such raises. Measure transferring State School for Blind from Hospital Board to State Education Agency sent to governor. HOUSE In recess until Tuesday.

spt- Thrrc Arti several Monday joined scores of other Aus Unites who are cooperate with Bergstrom Air Force Base to make the Sunday races the greatest sports event in Texas history. Words of the races, which will feature many drivers whose names stand far out front on Sports Car Club of America rolls, has been spread all over Texas and to many states beyond. Early response from a dozen states indicates more strongly every day that Bergstrom's predictions of a 100,000 strong crowd might be none too high. In preparation for that greatest of all Texas sports throngs, Bergstrom and safety officials met Monday morning to go over final traffic plans. In the meeting were Bergstrom Lieutenant Ralph Levenberg, project officer for traffic and security and crowd control; Lieutenant George Carlson and Lieutenant Burch Biggerstaff of the city police; E.

K. Browning, Sergeant A. L. Jones and Sergeant W. L.

White of the Texas Department of Public Safety; Sheriff T. O. Lang and Deputy George Pope; and Garland Williams of the American Automobile Association. Traffic check points are to be established miles away from the base to assure sports car fans of taking the easiest route to the base. Inside the field, where an expected 35,000 cars will be parked near the track, further controls will be established so that the traffic will flow smoothly and quickly.

Elsewhere, another big step in the extensive information program surrounding the race was under way. Under direction of Mrs. Clem Fain, Austin district chief operator for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, telephone teams were beginning the big job of calling every telephone subscriber in the Central Texas area to tell them about the races. And at strategic points in the downtown and shopping center areas across the city, special ticket booths Monday were staffed by Bergstrom airmen and by girls from the USO. All the rest of 'he week these booths will be in operaton along with a dozen or more regular ticket places.

Those $2 tickets they are selling mean a whole lot more than a day's entertainment, by the way. They mean better living quarters for Bergstrom's enlisted men and a donation to help Austin's charities. Bigger Bus Needed In Wetback Trade LAREDO. April 6 UP John W. Holland, district chief of the U.

Immigration Service, said Monday it might be necessary to use larger buses to transport "wetbacks" from the Lower Rio Grande Valley back to Mexico. Holland snn ui hoinff rKtnrnPrt to Mexico each day through Laredo. START By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE AP Science Reporter CHICAGO Wl Seeing the physical start ol new human life was described today to the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. 4 This start is the merging of the male germ cell, the sperm, with the female germ cell, the ovum or egg.

And the merging seems to occur by chance, this study finds. The sperm must swim into the tit, actually touch it in order to drivers fashion signed up a special of it I I 11 a.m. Tuesday (8 p.m. est Mon- day) For their part, the Reds cam up with a ptoposal to repatriate not only seriously sick and wounded prisoners but those less severely disabled. Trie latter would be sent to some neutral country from which, they might return to their homelands.

It was possible that this was a device by which the Reds hoped to get back most, if not all, of their prisoners. Communist correspondent Wilfird Burchett pointedly told Allied newsmen that the Reds "want a speedy peace and are making concessions which shoulo be mutual." But he added that agreement is far off if the UN insists on volun tary repatriation allowing prisoners to decide for themselves it they wish to return to communism. If the Allies and the Communists agree on the exchange machinery, the talks may lead to resumption oi armistice negotiations. Chief UN negotiator Rear Adm. John Datiie' said he told thb Reds Monday: "We are prepared to repatriats directly through Panmunjom all sick and wounded captured personnel specified in Article 109 of th Geneva Convention.

We have not divided them into categories. Ws have total figures by nationalities which we are prepared to exchange." On the Western Front, Allied soldiers threw back 40 Chtnese Reds who attacked a U. N. outpost east of T-Bone Hill. The Allies killed an estimated 19 Reds.

On the Eastern Front Sunday night, counterattacking troops of the 3rd Republic of Korea Division failed to recapture an outpost east of the Pukhan River which tha Reds had captured Saturday night. The ROKs were forced to fall back after a thundering, four-hour battle. In aerial action Sunday night, 14 Okinawa-based B29 Superforts dumped 140 tons of bombs on two Red suppl areas, one 18 miles southeast of Pyongyang, North Korean capital, and the other 10 miles north of Sariwon on the Korean west coast. Armed Theft Charges Filed Charges of armed robbery wera filed Monday against eight men in connection with the looting of the East Austin post office a few weeks ago. The charges, which were filed in Justice of the Peace Robin Forrester's court, named Elisha Perkins, 1509 Hackberry; Benny Olfiveros, 2601 East Seventh; Manuel Pena, 628 Northwestern; Atanacio Acosta, 2514 East Ninth; Julio Betancourt, 2506 East 10th; Henry Montez Rodri-quez, 2200 Santa Maria Drive; Albert Acosta, 2514 East Ninth; and Ernesto Garcia.

Six of the eight men are now under arrest in California. City detectives Merle Wells and Jim Flow were scheduled to leave for California Monday afternoon to bring the sextet back here. The post office was ransacked several weeks ago. Postal inspectors, in an unofficial estimate, said that about $300 was stolen. A large number of letters were also torn open.

Mrs. R. Graham Buried Monday Private funeral services for Mrs. R. Niles Graham, lifelong resident of Austin, who died Sunday at her home, have been set for 4 p.

m. Monday. The Rev. Charles A. Sumners, rector of St.

David's Episcopal Church, will officiate at the rites at the Graham residence, fi Niles Road. Burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Paul C. Crusemann, Joe doeth. C.

D. Von Merz, Walter Von Merz, George c-i i tn 1 1 I 1 oL'iiuiie, ana r. nai reii ivicr ariana. Mrs. Graham survived by her husband, R.

Niles Graham; on daughter, Mrs. Julie Graham Har man; two sons. Marshall P. Graham of Corpus Christi and Tom Graham of Austin; one sister, Mrs. Carri Etnyre and oe brother, Ralph Goeth of Austin.

Charles "Swede" L. Lundquist, 1501 Cherrv Lane, has been killed in action in Korea, the Department of Defense announced Monday. Lundquist, 27 years old, was a brother of Mrs. Leon Austin, 510 Bowie Street, and had made his home with her intermittently since his boyhood days. Born in El Cam-po, he came to Austin in 1932 and enrolled in the public schools here.

He attended Austin High until 1943, when he enrolled in Schreiner Institute. The following year he en listed as a Marine and served a two-year "hitch," most of which was in China. Honorably discharged, he returned to the United States and for a brief time attended Tarleton State College at Stephenville. Civilian life palled on him and he returned to service, tnis lime wun me unnea States Army. He served for three years in the Panama Canal Zone, then applied for special engineering training at Fort Belvoir, Va.

He finished the special course in September of that year of a combat engineering unit. According to his sister he wearied of overseas assignment and wanted to come home. He asked a transfer to the front lines of the infantry in order to shorten his days in Korea. He received it. He was attached to the 32nd Infantry Division.

Other survivors are four sisters, Mrs. Roland Blackmore of Galveston, Mrs. Irvin Edlund of El Campo, Mrs. R. A.

Miller of Corpus Chris-ti and Mrs. Harry Graser of Moscow, Idaho, and two brothers, Alfred and Raymond Lundquist of Garwood. FIERCE FIGHT RAGES NEAR NEUTRAL SITE SEOUL -U. S. Marines slugged it out with 175 Chinese Reds today just east of Panmunjom, where United Nations and Allied liaison officers opened talks on an exchange of sick and wounded prisoners ef war.

The bloony skirmish erupted a scant half mile from the neutral corridor the route which Allied armistice officers took to Panmunjom a few hours later. The Marine patrol which encountered the Red company called immediately for Marine tank, rocket and artillery fire. The blazing Hi-hour Dattle left 19 Chinese counted dead, 16 estimated killed and 28 estimated wounded. The Reds pulled back after fresh Marines rushed forward to join the original patrol. Fiery patrol actions flared elsewhere on the Western and Central 30,000 Votes Forecast DALLAS, April 6 UP Officials estimated nearly 30,000 voters will turn out Tuesday for the biennial municipal election.

Most of the campaign has revolved around the Dallas water shortage. No members of the city council are running for re-election. the youth, whom they identified inmate of the Gatesville, Texas, correctional farm for boys. He is charged in a series of burglaries at nearby ranches. The fugitive killed three trailing bloodhounds with four pistol shots Saturday night.

One dog was hit twice, and a fourth refused to follow the trail farther. He is wanted in a series of 40 burglaries that have alarmed ranchers here for nearly a week. Some of the men moved their wives and families to town rather than leave them in lonely ranch houses. Kerr-ville radio stations warned citizens to stay in their homes at night and lock their cars. Notes were left in many summer homes challenging officers to find "the See More Kid." One note, addressed to Texas Ranger L.

H. Purvis, read: "The See More Kid sees more and does less. 1 hear the Rangers coming (Continued on Page 9, Col. 1) of 54 aegrees is expected luesaay morning and a high of 80 Tuesday afternoon. Partly cloudy skies are due to prevail along with the mild, cooler weather.

Buchanan Aam received .05 inch of rain Sunday. Lake Travis reported .03 and Smithville .08. While the fall was light in this area, West Texas, which has suffered from drouth for three years, was soaked witn timely taster rains. Mineral Wells reported 1.15 inches, Wichita Falls 1.10, Big Snrine .71. Lubbock .35.

Abilene .94. Fort Worth .44 and" Dallas .35. The rain at Abilene and Big Spring was accompanied by hail stones measur ing one-fourth inch. The squall in West Texas moved northeastward with precipitation concentrated in a line extending from Shreveport and Texarkana north to St. Louis.

Texarkana had a rainfall of 1.72 inches. Little Rock 1.96, Oklahoma City .52. Shreveport 71 and St. Louis .24. New Orleans on the Gulf reported .23 inch and Lufkin in East Texas .32.

Ex-UT Grid Star Dies In Brownwood BROWNWOOD, April 6 UP Arnold L. Kirkpatrick, 66, Brownwooa lawyer who won fame as a Univeisity of Texas football star, died in a hospital here Sunday night after a heart attack. Funeral services were scheduled In BrownwooB Monday afternoon. Kirkpatrick was a star halfback and quarterback for Texas from 1907 to 1911 and was regarded by many football fans as one of the greatest Lcnghorn backs of all time. Later, he coached the Howard Payne Yellow Jackets from 1919 to 1925 and his 1922 team upset the Texas Aggies, handing them their first loss on Kyle Field.

Kirkpatrick was a native of Coleman county and had lived in Brownwood since 1892. He served in the Army during World War 1. Survivors include his wife, four sisters, anc. a brother, Ernest E. Kirkpatrick, prominent Brownwood and Tulsa oil man.

Three Cents Pared From Pay Checks WASHINGTON, April 6 Fall ing retail prices Monday clipped three cents an hour from the pay checks of 1,300.000 rail workers. The government announced that on Feb. 15 its old-style consumer price index stood at 188.6 per cent of the 1935-39 average, enough of a drop in the cost of living from last November to assure the three-cent hourly wage deduction. Rail wages are adjusted each three months to correspond to rising or falling liv ing costs. core of the egg.

(In these experiments, anv fertilized egg would not, of course, be able to live on outside the body and keep develo-ing into a baby Another mystery of nature light from fireflies was explained by three John Hopkins University scientists Di. William D. McEl-roy, Dr. J. Woodland Hastings and Jane Coulombre.

The strange cold light apparently comes trom the sudden reaction of five chemicals which are bound up in the bug's tail by a potent enzyme or chemical controller. Nothing happens while the five chemicals adenosine triphosphate, Vs wnuenas No Comment On Future City Councilman Ben White Monday said he has "no comment at this time" on his choice between a new term on the City Council and his long-time Job as plant superintendent of Walker's Austex Chill Company. He was re-elected Saturday, after the company last Dec. 10 announced a policy that no officer or employe could take on civic or political activities taking them away from their regular duties. He reiterated Monday his same "no comment" of Sunday.

President Tred W. Catterall Jr. of the company said Monday he had not made a comment, ascribed to him Sunday that if Supt. White takes the oath of office for another council term he will lose his job. "When 1 was asked about the matter Sunday," Pres.

Catterall said, "I replied that there was nothing new, and that I had no comment." "I assume Mr. White made his decision when he entered the council race, in the light of the policy our firm had adopted, affecting myself and every official and employe alike." he added. "I have not, during the campaign or since the election, discussed with Mr. White his status with the company. I have told him that when I was asked about the matter Sunday 1 replied, 'there is nothing new.

I have no comment'." The memorandum, issued last Dec. 10, said that growth of the company and competition prevented any of its personnel taking on civic or political activities requiring absence from work during regular hours. The same memorandum said it was agreeable to take part in civic drives or committee work, not in terfering with company duties. Riles Scheduled For Mrs. Simms Private funeral services for the family only will be held Tuesday at 10 a.

m. at the Cook Funeral Home for Mrs. Kathryn Tobin Simms. who died unexpectedly in New York City while on a business trip with her husband, Earl E. Simms, former Austin real estate dealer.

Mrs. Clara Aldred will read the Christian Science service. Burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery. Mrs. Simms was prominent in Austin social circles.

She was a membes of PEO and a golfing enthusiast. She died at the home of a sister, Mrs. Rex Hopper of New York City, also a former resident of Austin. Simms is a lecturer in the Christian Science Church. In addition to her husband, she is survived by a son, Earl E.

Simms Jr. of Los Angeles, and another sister, Mrs. Ida Johnson of Illinois. It has been asked that flowers be omitted. Truman Tricked By Isle 'Cabinet' COCONUT ISLAND, T.

April 6 UP Former President Harry S. Truman, on a vacation here, said Monday that he was "shortsheet-ed" by his "Coconut Island cabinet." Mr. Truman's "cabinet," which consists of his host Edwin Pauley's three children and four other youngsters, doubled up the sheets on the former chief executive's bed "before leaving for the mainland Advanced by By Associated Press A bill providing for local option elections on fireman and policeman pay raises in cities advanced in the Senate Monday. As amended by the Senate, it requires such elections can be called only upon petition of 25 per cent the qualified voters. Its author, Senator Dovle Fort Worth, called it a "crippling amendment." The measure was passed on second reading but still faces third and final reading.

The Senate concurred in House amendments to a bill transferring control of the State Blind School from the Hospital Board to the State Education Agency. That sent to the governor. TEACHER PAY ISSUE CONFRONTING HOUSE By The Capitol Staff The House will resume after the Easter holiday Tuesday, with a big teacher-industry-merchant lobby ex pected on salary and tax bills. Numerous teachers were expected for a House appropriations committee hearing Tuesday afternoon, scheduled after Rep. Zivley vainly tried for two weeks to take his bill from this economy-minded group and put it before the public lands and buildings committee.

Also to be heard Tuesday will be Rep, Pravda Names Red Scapegoats MOSCOW, April 6 UP Pravda, the newspaper of the Russian Com munist Party, put major responsibility foi the "wrongful" arrest of 15 Moscow doctors on two high Soviet officials Monday. Pravda announced in a first-page editorial the arrest of a man identified only as Ryumin the assistant minister of state security for falsifying documents which "accused Soviet citizens unjustly." Semyon Deisovich Ignatiev, former ministti of state security who was elected a secretary of the Central committee of the Communist Party after Josef Stalin's death, was "blasted for "political blindness and gullibility." The 15 doctors, six of them Jews, were arrested in January and accused of plotting against the lives of Soviet leaders. It was announced Saturday that they had been accused falsely and had been freed. Death Takes Official EASTLAND, April 6 (fl An Eastland County commissioner, T. E.

(Ed) Castleberry, 69, died here Sunday after a brief Illness. OF LIFE fertilize it and start the union which begins new life. Sperm cells may swim very near, but miss touching. This chance encounter could have much to no with why you look and act exactly like you do, and not like your brother or sister. For individual sperm cells presumably differ in their genes or hereditary units which they can carry to tre egg with its hereditary jnits.

The merging is described by Dr. Landium Shettles, department of obstetrics and gynecology, College of Physicians and Surgeons. Columbia University, in a report Boy Fugitive Escapes In Hill Country Canyon KERRVILLE, April 6 (AP) A worn-out posse turned in to sleep today after a half-Indian fugitive who calls himself "the see more kid" iodged them in a brush-choked canyon. VIEWED IN TEST TUBE Officers hunted all night for as Charles Brogdon, 19, former luciferin, oxygen, magnesium and luciferase are held together. But nerve stimulations set free another chemical, inorganic? pyrophosphate which breaks the bond holding the five chemicals and they then can react to produce the flash of firefly light.

At almost the same time, another chemical tegins to destroy the pyrophosphate, to separate the five chemirals again and put out the light. In a few seconds, the light is produced, and extinguished. The firefly study is part of efforts to It am how signals from nerves make muscles and organs in other animals, including humans, do their marvelous work. to the fedeiation, opening a five-day meeting here today. He observed human eggs obtained during necessary operations upon women.

Male sperm cells were added later to fluids containing the egg and observed under a microscope. Once having touched the egg, the majority ol sperm remained in contact it. under these test-tube conditions Hundreds could attach, at right angles, to- one egg. The motion of their tails often made the egg rotate in clockwise fashion. Dr.

Shettles told of seeing the heads of the sperm penetrating inside the egg, toward the nucleus or Friday night. i.