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-Pate The Weather Austin and vicinity: Partly cloudy skies with no irhportant temperature change through Monday. East Texas: Partly cloudy Sunday and Monday, not much change in temperatures. mum West Texas: Fair Sunday and Monday, warmer in Panhandle I and South Plains Sunday. Volume 33" Price 10 Cents 3 SECTIONS 60 PAGES AUSTIN, TEXAS, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1946 Number 144 ur-s i Meat Control Is Declared Off for Good Action Not 'On And Off Deal Anderson Tells Livestock Folk Capitol Roundup Dobie's Blast Gets Coke Rise By WELDON HART Anvricn-Stetmas Capitol Staff Professor J. Frank Dobie, a maverick in the JLTT herd, broke loose again and raised some sand around here last week.

Prof. Dobie's name had been spoken before in the capital's tnusty corridors and legislative chambers. He had been insulted by experts like Lieutenant Governor John Lee Smith administrations have just rid themselves of Dr. Homer Price Rainey as a symbol of opposition. They may not be eager to elevate Prof.

Dobie to a position of such admitted, if temporary, eminence. Then there is the thought that as long as the regents continue to endure Pamho's barbed whiplashes in dignified silence, they are in some measure disproving the Dobie-Rainey contention that "freedom of expression" does not exist on the University of Texas campus. There have been some signs, how- and Senator Weaver Moore, butt this time Prof. Dobie hit the jackpot He got a rise out of Governor Coke R- Stevenson. The Governor is usually pretty close-mouthed controversial matters, such as Prof.

Dobie. but his time came right out and said he thought the Board of Regents ought to fire Dobie. What J. Frank had done this time was work over President Theophilus S. Painter, the Board of Regents snd.

inferentially. Gov. Stevenson administration in a piece in the Texas Spectator. Prof. Dobie had been similarly outspoken on many previous This time Gov.

Stevei.son had Just come back from a hard hunting trip to Colorado on which he failed to kill an elk, so it may have been that he just wasn't in any mood to put up with Prof. Dobie. It wasn't the first time, either, that Prof. Dobie had checked the play to the regents. The redoubtable gray-haired, craggy-chinned, pipe-smoking "Pancho" has made a hobby of daring the regents to fire him.

The only reason they haven't, some people think, is that they are afraid that is what Prof. Dobie wants them to do. With the alacritous assistance of some two-thirds of the Texas electorate, the State and University I Photo by Johnny Cuneo PAY-DIRT DRIVE Rapid Ralph Ellsworth sets up a first quarter touchdown with a right end sweep from the Porker eight-yard line down to the two-yard line. Hog back Aubrey Fowler has been partially blocked by Bobby Layne. Two undentified Arkansas players back of Fowler grasp for Ellsworth.

Raymond Jones carried over for the touchdown on the fourth down, three plays later. Cotton Exchanges Halt Trade Amid Charges of Manipulation NEW. YORK. Oct. Cotton futures trading was suspended on the' New York, New Orleans and Texas and Chicago Exchanges Saturday following three days of sharp price breaks, a federal inquiry into the market's position and sena Regents Ignore Dobie Blast At Administration Board Concerns Self With Housing And Building Locations By Arrwrimn-Stntwimm) Capitol Staff The Board of Regents of the University of Texas in one of its briefest sessions Saturday morning took no cognizance of Professor J.

Frank Dobie's latest outburst gainst the University adminislra- firm. The board concerned itself mainly with housing matters, designating locations for the proposed band hall and NROTC building and awarding contracts for construction of temporary housing for 500 men. Erection of a marine laboratory at Port Aransas was once again assured as the Civilian Production Administration 'reversed its former ruling and authorized the construction. Regent Chairman Dudley K. Woodward announced that1 this authority had been received Friday.

Contracts for the laboratory were awarded at the board's September meeting. Buildings Located Architectural plans for a proposed science building, health center, band hall and NROTC building re in various steps of process with a dormitory to house 500 men students the most nearly complete, Woodward reported. Location for the band hall was designated north of Memorial Stadium and across West 23rd Street. The NROTC armory was placed just north of Gregory Gymnasium on West 22nd Street. FPHA emerpency dormitories to accommodate 500 men are hoped to be ready for occupancy by the beginning of the spring semester.

Comptroller C. D. Simmons said. Construction is already under way. Last of the building items was an order to open bids Nov.

6 for Continued on page 6, col. 1) ever, that the two administrations arcnt mucn concernea any longer with the public's reaction to cries of martyrdom from the Forty Acres. Gov. Stevenson and others have interpreted Dr. Rainey's defeat as a vote of confidence in the present University administration.

And Dr. Painter's annual report to the faculty contained a warning that the continued activities of "troubemak-ers" would not go unnoticed. 1 A word-wrangler of Prof. Dobie's temperament could not let that admonition pass unchallenged, and his reply was what opened the corral gate this time. In substance the English professor (currently on leave without pay) charged that (Continued on page 23, col.

3) Pay Boosted, Disabled Vet Faces Ouster Recent raise in his total and permanent, disability compensation by the Veterans' Administration made the financial outlook for Leslie Cunningham, 32-year-old World War II veteran and that of his wife Bnd two sons more secure, but it brought with It a problem of having to find a new home for his family. Cunningham was discharged last Jan. 25 after having served as an Infantryman in the European Theater of operations where he was wounded. He and his family have been living in a Chalmers Court apartment foi the past 10 months. Notice Sent W.

W. Stewart, manager of the Austin Housing Authority, which operates the Chalmers Court unit, said that under rental regulations he sent Cunningham notice that his recently raised income exceeded the maximum $1,620 annual income permitted a tenant to be eligible for renting one of the low rental units. Stewart said his record show-. ed that Cunningham had been receiving a disability income of $1,320 a year and that this was raised recently to $2,400 under Cui-riingham's statement to the authority. Due to the increased Income, rental on the apartment occupied by Cunningham and his family was advanced from $22 a month to $32 a month effective Nov.

1 in accordance with the rental regulations. Baby Lost Recently Cunningham was advised Thursday, Stewart said, that un- der regulations he would be required to vacate the apartment but was given 10 days in which to locate other accommodations. He also was advised that if at the end of the 10-day period he could present affidavits from at least two real estate men that no other accommodations are available that he and his family would be permitted to continue occupancy of the apartment until liveable accommodations became available. Mrs. Cunningham is 33 and the boys are four and one respectively.

The couple lost an infant daughter by death about one month" ago. Arm, Leg Disabled The disabled veteran is drawing total and permanent disability compensation from the government on a disabled arm and leg and is unable to work, according to J. Howze, local administrator of the Veterans' Administration. The family is occupying a living unit consisting of two bedrooms, bath room, living room and a combination kitchen and dining room and are furnished water, gas and light service without extra cost, Stewart said. KANSAS CITY, Oct.

19. WP) Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson stated flatly Saturday that the government had no inten tion of restoring price ceilings to livestock and meat at any time in the future. "As far as the livestock industry is concerned, we have reached the end of the control period, and controls are off permanently," Anderson told a press conference. No Reference to GOP Anderson did not refer to statements made frequently by Republican campaign speakers suggesting that controls might be reimposed after the November elections, but stated "this is no on and off proposition. The chief purpose in removing livestock and meat ceilings was to promote the earliest practicable balance between supply and demand." At the same time, the secretary, who is in Kansas City to attend the American Royal Livestock Show.

appealed to livestock men to follow an orderly procedure in marketing their animals. Checking Agencies Urged Pointing out that there had been so many hogs shipped to stockyards that some markets had been unable to handle them. Anderson said this added to marketing costs to the producer. "It most assuredly will be to the producers' interest if they will check with their market agencies to make sure hogs can be handled at the marketing center before they are sent to market. "It will be to the interest of either the producers tf consumers for livestock to go to market when it is not in slaughter condition.

The situation today calls for all of the meat we can obtain from hogs sold at normal weights." In the same manner, he added, the situation now calls for heavy marketing of cattle now on the range and pasture lands. Level High "The number of beef cattle on farms and ranches now is at a dangerously high level, and the situation is now extremely favorable for moving large numbers of grass fed cattle." Removal of controls, Anderson said, has "given the livestock industryfrom the producer on through the distributive system the opportunity to give the consumers of the nation an ample, well balanced supply of meat. The industry can do this by prpceeding on an orderly, sound basis. To do otnerwise would fair the opportunity the industry now has in its own hands." Living Costs Up 10 Per Cent WASHINGTON. Oct.

1. (UP) The government's cost of living index rose about 10 per cent during the three months ended in mid-September, the bureau of labor statistics reported Saturday night. Preliminary estimates based on the BLS survey of consumer price? put the Sept. 15 index at 146 per cent of the 1935-39 average, a 1 1-2 per cent increase over the figure for Aug. 15.

The bureau reported that the September index was up 13 per cent from that of a year earlier and 10 pec cent from the June 15 figure. "Prices for all major groups of items in the family budget increased during the month with clothing and house furnishing prices advancing most," the bureau said. Average food prices, excluding meet, rose about two per cent between mid-August and mid-September. For fish and poultry, the jump averaged five per cent. The bureau used its Aug.

15 prices for meat because meat was too scarce on Sept. 15 to obtain an accurate measure of price changes. British Railroad Orders Jet Locomotive LONDON. Oct. 19.

(INS) The British Great Western Railroad was disclosed Saturday to have placed the first order for a "jet locomotive" with the Brown-Boveri Company. The new locomotive is said to be able to develop 2,500 horsepower and permit a speed of 90 miles per hour. When it is put into service some time in the future, the locomotive will be used for express-passenger travel. gates played hookey and attended the Longhorn-Razorback session in Memorial Stadium. When the CIO meeting closed late Saturday afternoon, only partial reports had been received from the credentials committee and no delegates had been officially seated.

The council will roll up its sleeves Sunday at 9 a. m. and go to work in a business session at the Driskill Hotel. Akin told the" delegates that efforts of PAC, the bogey man in Texas politics this summer, had been disappointing. Slightly more (Continued on page 24, col.

5) Longhorns Lusterless After Half Loop Opener Closer Than Score Indicates By WILBUR EVAN'S American-Statesman Sport Editor Humidity and humility stalkH hand in hand across the Memorial Stadium turf Saturday afternooB as the University of Texas Long-horns kept their unbeaten record intact through an unimpressive 20-0 conquest of the University of Arkansas before a sweltering crowd of 40.000 fans. It was the fifth straight triumph of the season for the touted Texauj and the first setback of the campaign for John Barnhill's red-shirt-ed Razorbacks that carried a record of three victories and one tie into the fray. By winning, the Longhorns opened a successful defense of their third Southwest Conference champion- ship in four years, but that wai about the only favorable factor in their performance of Saturday. Close Game It was really a closer ball gam than the score indicates, but hardly more interesting, for the terrific humidity made it a bad day for players and fans alike. Both teams appeared to be used up at half-time, neither being able to stir up any sustained drive in the final two periods.

As usual, the Steers took command early, striking for two touchdowns in the first quarter, marching 76 yards for their initial score the first time they went on the attack. First One Easy The first score came ridiculously easy, the Porkers helping almost as much as they hindered. The Long-horns needed but 10 plays to cover the distance as 41 of the 76 yards were donated to them by Arkansas through penalties. Texas picked up 26 yards when Aubrey Fowler was indicted with pass interference on the Hogs' 40, and a 15-yard roughing penalty after Jimmy Canady's run to the 23 pushed the Long-horns up to the 8-yard line. Four plays later and only five and a half minutes of play the Steers had scored.

Raymond Jones dived over from the one-yard line after Ralph Ellsworth had set it up with a sprint to the two. Totent Scoring Device Texas' favorite and most potent scoring device Bobby Layne pitching to exceptional receivers accounted for other two touchdowns. The first, counted late in the first quarter, was a 50-yard play, with all-America end Hub Bechtol on the receiving end. It was a typical Layne pass, sharp and hard, but Big Beck took the toss on the Arkansas 40-yard line, then cut loose with a ball carrying job that was not matched during the afternoon, not by Porker Ken Holland, the league's leading lugger, not by Texas Byron Gillory who spiced the dull third period with some nifty running. The Longhorn end had some interference on the play, but he didn't need much, for he literally bulled his way past most of (Continued on page 17, coL 7) Methvin Taken To Safer Jail SHREVEPORT, Oct.

19. The Bossier Parish sheriffs office disclosed Saturday that Henry Methvin, paroled convict who was arrested Friday on two charges of highway robbery, has been removed from the Bossier city jail to another undisclosed jail for safekeeping. Methvin, 35, was once sentenced to death in Oklahoma for the killing of a police officer. He and Joe E. Aycock, 41, of Minden were arrested Friday by State Trooper J.

M. Thomas at the intersection of two highways. They were charged with the theft of the automobiles of a Minden taxicab driver and J. A. Mclntyre of West Monroe.

Aycock was released on a $2,000 bond Saturday. Methvin, when he was serving a 10-year sentence, was freed from a Texas prison by Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, notorious desperado pair, in a spectacular raid in the early 1930's. While Methvin was roaming the country with the couple, Officer Cal Campbell of Commerce, Okla was killed by a burst of gunfire from a car he attempted to stop. Methvin was arrested and charged with the slaying shortly after Bonnie and Clyde were killed May 23, 1934, near Sailes, La. Methvin was sentenced to death, but later the sentence was commuted to life.

He was paroled in 1942. Soviet Aid To End Fear Urged By Vandenberg "'Live-and-Let-Live' Spirit in Communism, Democracy Stressed WASHINGTON, Oct 19. (UP) Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg (R-Mich) warned Saturday night that peace cannot be found on a one-way street and called on Russia to "fully reciprocate" this country's efforts to allay mutual fear, suspicion and distrust. He said the United States is doing "everything consistent with her honor, her security and her ideals" to bring about a "live-and-let-live" spirit between communism and democracy on which he asserted true peace depends.

Hits Home Confusion "But the Soviet Union must fully reciprocate in kind," he said. "They are far from doing so today." It was Vandenberg's first formal statement since he returned this week from the 79-day Paris peace conference with Secretary of State James F. Byrnes. Without mentioning names, the Michigan senator uttered several barbed remarks about "missionaries of confusion" at home whose attacks on US foreign policy muddle the peace negotiations. Vandenberg also said that: Russia and the United States are both "in the United Nations to prevent war I hear much more war talk over here than I did in Paris." Policy Peace US policy toward Russia is a policy of peace, not war, and will succeed "unless it is scuttled here at home." It is a policy of "friendly firmness" instead of "get tough." To "prevent misunderstanding, we (Continued on page 13, col.

4) Birmingham Blaze Destroys Planes BIRMINGHAM, Oct. 19. (INS) A 1.500 foot hangar at Birmingham's municipal airport was swept Saturday by flames that destroyed twenty light planes and caused damage estimated at Official Note May Tell Fatal Goering Clue NUERNBERG, Germany, Oct. 19. (UP) An official account of Hermann Goering's mysterious suicide will be made Tuesday, it was reported Saturday, and observers believed It may disclose in Goering's own words exactly where and how he obtained the poison with which he cheated the gallows.

The report was scheduled to have been made Saturday after a meeting between a three-man board' of inquiry and Allied Control Council representatives, but it was delayed by failure to receive a final report on the analysis of an undisclosed specimen submitted to the US Army laboratory. Prison authorities refused to disclose the subject of the analysis and said it probably would not be ready before Tuesday. The delay was attributed to a mysterious trip to Paris on "important work" which laboratory experts were forced to make. Observers speculated that the report concerned the type of poison identified as potassium cyanide at the time which Goering took to end his life. The great mystery of the poison, however, is not its type but how Goering obtained It despite the extremely close guard maintained over all the condemned men.

This may be revealed, it was thought, in one of the three notes found clutched loosely in Goering's hand when he was discovered dying on his prison cot two hours before he was scheduled to hang. 174 MORE NAZIS HELD FOR TRIAL NUERNBERG, Oct. 19. (INS) Colonel Burton Andrus, Nuernberg prison commandant, disclosed Saturday that 174 alleged Nazi war criminals are being held in the jail for another big trial expected within a few months. Insurance Official Dies CHICAGO, Oct.

19. (INS) Robert H. Morse, 58, of Windsor. secretary of the Hartford Fire Insurance Company, was found dead, apparently of a heart attack, in his room here Saturday. AIR MAIL WEEK SET WASHINGTON, Oct.

19. (INS) President Truman issued a proclamation designating the week of Oct. 27 as National Air Mail Week. Mexican "mainland" by a narrow bridge over the Rio Grande. Workmen for the Chihuahua Cattlemen's Association, Union Ganadera Regional de Chihuahua.

Saturday began construction of fences and chutes on the American side leading to their yards. Jo.se F. Gandara of the Chihuahua Cattlemen's Union said the Cordova Island bridge improvements will be completed within two weeks, when the first heavy shipments of cattle are expected to begin. US Bureau of Animal Husbandry inspectors said the first inspections for ticks will be made Monday when several hundred head are expected to cross- torial charges of a "Bar Heavy liquidation had sliced about $25 a bale from futures contracts since last Tuesday. Resumption of trading was expected Monday.

Rumors in New Orleans trade circles that a large New Orleans operator had been unable to meet heavy margin requirements in New York were without confirmation here. But the Agriculture Department's Commodity Exchange Authority, requesting details of accounts be tween the close of business Oct. 15 and the close Oct. 18. said these reports would show the identity of an persons active in the markets and the nature and volume of their trading.

Chairman Elmer Thomas (D-Okla) of the Senate agriculture committee, announced in Washington that a subcommittee will open an investigation Thursday into the price break. Agriculture Department officials will be aked to explain the scope of their inquiry, he said, and officials of farm organizations also will be invited to testify. Managers of the New York Exchange said only that the closing "would best serve the interests of the public and the exchange." A spokesman described it as a "breathing spell to analyze the situation." At New Orleans, Exchange President D. T. Manget in a statement referring to the "confusion and uncertainty" of recent days, said, "The rumor afloat that certain people are in financial difficulties is, to our mind, greatly exaggerated.

All contracts in our clearing house are margined up to our full requirements." Senator Thomas describing the markets drop as a "bear raid," charged that the exchanges, "their branch houses, customers' men and clients" had planned "to drive cotton prices down to the lowest possible point." New York Exchange managers denied any such involvement and said should Thomas present "'any tangible evidence" it would investigate and take any remedial action required. Gl Likes Welcome But Not To Point Of Breaking Arm FORT SAM HOUSTON, Oct. 19. (UP) Clovis Kirby of Dallas, a 19-year-old Army veteran, hopes the rest of his war chums will be less glad to see him than was Billy F. Dyer of Chapel Hill.

Kirby and Dyer were buddies in Hawaii. They met at Fort Sam Houston where each reported this week for separation. Pyer threw his arms around Kirby and the two greeted each other with a bear hug. As a result. Private First Class Kirby was in the hospital Saturday with a broken arm.

Wichita Falls Hens Win Fair Contest DALLAS, Oct. 19. (P) A pen of hens owned by Orval C. Groves of Wichita Falls Saturday won the egg-laying contest at the State Fair of Texas, which closes Sunday. Texan Found Dead on Train Man Accompanying Race Horses Slain EL PASO, Oct.

19. 6T) Earl D. Thompson, 24, former Navy enlist ed man found stabbed to death Sat- uraay in a oox car, was seen auve at a stop 40 miles before reaching El Paso, a Bee County official said. The official. Sheriff Vail Ennis said at Beeville, a train crew 40 miles from El Paso reported seeing Thompson in the box car in which he was accompanying four race horses being shipped from Skid-more to Phoenix, Ariz.

40 Small Wounds Thompson left Skidmore about 3 a. m. Thursday, Ennis said. At El Paso, detectives said there were 40 small wounds in Thompson's chest which they theorized may have been made by a pitch fork or hay hook. The death instrument was not found.

The man had been dead about six hours, officers said. The car arrived here at 12:05 a. m. Believed Alone Ennis reported Thompson was be lieved to have been alone on the trip. He received his discharge from the Beeville Navy Flying Field about four months ago.

Robbery may have been the mo tive, Ennis added, but he was unable to say how much money the youth had with him. G. C. Benson of Refugio, rancher and race horse breeder, was owner of the horses which were being shipped to J. P.

Armstrong of Phoe nix. AAF General Dies In Jet Plane Crash WRIGHT FIELD, DAYTON, Ohio. Oct. 19. (INS) Army Air Force officials announced Saturday that Brigadier General Mervin E.

Gross, 46, commandant of the AAF Technology Institute at Wright Field, was killed Friday night when his P80 crashed near Brooksville, Ky. Gen. Gross' jet plane was said to have crashed and exploded on a ridge near the Kentucky town after roaring low at about 400 miles per hour over the district. Army Says Flu Vaccine Successful WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.

(JF) The Army's new influenze vaccine was so successful when used upon 6,000,000 troops last year that it will be administered again this winter if an epidemic threatens, the War Department announced Saturday. Some Army health authorities say influenza occurs in cycles and there is evidence one may be due this winter. But they added there is little likelihood it will be severe. Plane Crash Kills 4 Texas Fans MEREDIAN. Oct.

19. (if) The bodies of four men found in the wreckage of a plane near Key Field here Saturday were identified by Sheriff W. Y. Brame as residents of Victoria, Texas. He said a telephone call to Victoria disclosed they were enroute to the Alabama-Tennessee football game in Knoxville.

and apparently lost their direction. He listed the victims as Howard Cecil Odell Grimes, 34, owner and pilot of the plane; Cecil Leon Bachus. 22. Dr. Earl Barton Keith, 31.

and William Walter Granberry, 36. The wreckage was discovered in a swamp area within a mile of Key Field by H. Skinner of Arundel Community who was going fishing. Sheriff Brame said attendants at Key Field reported a plane circling the airport about 7 p. m.

Friday and field lichts were turned on. The sheriff said the plane, a two-engine Cessna, apparently struck a tree while attempting to make a turn. Coroner Louis Boj'd conducted sn inquest and pronounced the Seaths due to accidental causes. Paris Postmaster Dies PARIS. Oct.

19. T. W. Rus-eil. 69.

Paris postmaster and father of Jack Russell, former pitcher of the Washington Senators, died here Saturday. Funeral services will be held in Paris Monday. Island of Bloody Prohibition Fights To Be Cattle Station CIO Session Here Lashes At Forces Opposing Its Work EL PASO, Oct. 19. (P) "Cor dova Island," a bit of Mexican land jutting into the United States and scene of bloody battles between smugglers and border patrolmen in prohibition days, within two weeks will become one of the major points in the United States for importation of Mexican cattle.

A four month ban on livestock importation, caused by fears Mex ican cattle were infected with hoof and mouth disease, was lifted Fri day but no cattle have crossed here yet. Ranchers estimate that between 250,000 and 300,000 head will cross' this year. The "island," on the outskirts of El Paso, is connected with the Anti-labor' forces, the national administration and the AFL took tongue-lashings from the Texas CIO here Saturday at the opening session of the State Industrial Council Convention. The convention got off to a fast start Saturday morning when Morris Akin, state secretary, revealed the allegedly powerful CIO-PAC collected only $3,500 for Texas elections this year and charged anti-labor groups have $3,400,000 to spend for the destruction of organized labor in the state. Things slowed down in the afternoon meeting, when many dele.