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i The Weather Austin and vicinity: Warm and rather windy with partly cloudy skies Sunday and Monday. East Texas: Partly cloudy Sunday and Monday, widely scat- swum I tered showers Monday. West Texas: Partly cloudy to cloudy with scattered showers 1 Sunday and Monday, cooler Monday. Volume 33 Price 10 Cents 3 SECTIONS--60 PAGES AUSTIN, TEXAS, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1946 Number 151 mm d. In) tamer 51 DO oaS' Lint Held In Price "9 Wallop Steers vot-Ii -r.

-jri Student Killed Going To Game Earl II. Smart, 21, a University of Texas student en route to the Texas-Rice game Saturday, was killed instantly on the outskirts of Houston at 2:30 p. m. when he was struck by a board hanging from a passing truck as he was fixing a tire on his car, according to an Associated Press dispatch to the American- Rice Zooms To New High With Victory Biblemen Give Their Navy Day Rise Hope Farmers' Retaining Of Cotton Drops Flow to Market NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 26.

(ff) The flow of cotton to market has subsided to a mere trickle in most parts of the South since the drastic price break of last week, with farmers holding onto the staple in hopes of a rebound on the exchange boards. The withholding movement is apparent everywhere in the belt, a survey showed Saturday, although the degree of the selling slack varies somewhat Sales were down to 10 per cent of normal in a number of areas. In some places only farmers in need of immediate cash were reported disposing of their product. Difference of Opinion There was a difference of opinion as to whether present withholding of cotton by farmers would itself be a major factor ir forcing prices back to the point from which they started the ot jj2a to $30 per bale. Some brokers pointed out that most of the crop was already sold in the greater part of the belt The break last week toppled futures $25 a bale in three days, and caused the unprecedented closing of cotton exchanges for a day.

It was attributed mostly to the liquidation of a large New Orleans holding. No barometer was available to indicate widespread hardship or loss among farmers because of the price drop. The Federal Land xiank of New Orleans indicated this might be reflected to some extent in next week's figures on loan repayments. No Losses Suffered One authority, who did not wish to be quoted by name, pointed out that farmers had planted their crop in "general expectation of prices of about 25 cents a pound. Statesman.

The accident occurred south of the Main Street underpass, and the truck did not stop. Deputy sheriff Johnny Rockwell of Houston said it was possible that the driver was unaware of the accident. Mrs. Mae Cunningham, who operates the Shady Grove Tourist Camp, 3811 Guadalupe Street, said Smart and his wife lived there in a trailer house. She could give little information about him except that he had previously lived in Fort Worth.

His wife and three other people were believed to be with him on the trip. Gay Mood Turns to Blue For UT Fans y4a Today fleet to protect the young nation. The day also marks the birthday of President Theodore Roosevelt who during his administration did much to insure the United States a powerful Navy. The Navy League, "the civilian arm of the Navy," each year sponsors the celebrations honoring the service.During the rest of the year the league endeavors to inform the public of the progress and activities of the Navy. This year Navy Day is on Sunday.

Keynoting the religious observance of the day in Austin will be a broadcast of a sermon delivered by Dr. Stewart Newman of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary at the First Baptist Church here. The 11:30 a. m. service will be carried over KVET.

Other Austin pastors will devote part of their services to observance of the day. Armory Shown Navy Day was officially launched Saturday with an open house at the headquarters of the University NROTC. Naval officers there piloted guests through the armory demonstrating training equipment. Movies of naval action during the war were shown. A special Navy Day program, tracing the historic sea battles fought during World War II, will be broadcast over KVET at 4 p.

Sunday. In narrative form, the entire course of the naval war from Pearl Harbor until the surrender will be reviewed. Over the same station at 6:30 p. m. Robert Montgomery, a PT-boat skipper during the war, will emcee a national broadcast honoring the Navy.

USS Texas Flag Presentation Of special inf-est to Austinitcs will be presentation to the Texas Memorial Museum by Colond Lewis B. Puller, USMC, of battle flags of the USS Texas. The battleship bearing the name of the Lone Star State has gallantly served through two world wars. The ceremonies will be held at (Continued on page 6, col. 4) Sea Fuss Ends In East, Gulf NEW YORK, Oct.

26. (UP) The paralyzing nationwide maritime strike virtually ended for the East and Gulf Coasts Saturday when representatives of 44 shipping companies signed an agreement with the Masters, Mates, and Pilots Union (AFL). The agreement must be ratified by union members in ports from Portland, Maine, to Houston, Texas, but that was regarded as a formality and the long-jam of 1,200 idle ships was expected to start breaking by Monday. Severe have been the economic effects of the long strike. A sugar famine now gripping the East was one.

More than 100,000,000 pounds of raw sugar are on ships in New York harbor but because the strike prevented their unloading, practically all sugar refining mills in the area have closed and sugar has all but disappeared. ivalry Has Austin Double Observance of Navy Day in Austin has double significance this year. Memories of Austin boys lost in naval operations are still fresh as the community" and the University of Texas gear for action in training men for a strong naval reserve. "A strong Navy through the medium of a ready fleet reserve must be trained during peacetime if the nation is to meet its re- Truman Hopes Navy Never Fights Again President Says Men-of-War Must Safeguard Peace WASHINGTON, Oct 26. (INS) President Truman saluted the Navy Saturday with a prayer that American men-of-war will never again be called upon to battle in defense of the United States.

The President's statement highlighted Navy Day, marking the 171st anniversary of the birth of the American fleet a day observed across the nation with of United States sea-power, dedicated to the cause of peace. Tribute to Dead Truman paid tribute to the Navy's heroic dead. The President declared: "In remembering the sacrifices cf the men who went down to the sea in ships, let us pray God to imhue us with something of their unconquerable spirit, that we may better contribute to the realization of that day when all nations -ill live in brotherhood in the assurance of lasting peace." The Executive pointed out that victory has been attained, "but the Navy's mission is not completed. The -peace must be safeguarded. Our sacrifices in past wars must not have been in vain." Navy Holds Open House Truman's thoughts were echoed throughout the nation by top officers, and in every Navy installation and seaport large enough to hold an LST.

In addition to speeches and celebrations, the Navy was holding open house. Crowds started swarming aboard Navy ships from Maine to Hawaii Friday as the celebration got off to a weekend start. Because of the present reduced, budget, the Navy did not send vessels through inland waterways but it assigned 151 ships to East and Gulf Coast ports, and sent 115 to west CoaM and Hawaiian cities. Canning Sugar Time Extended WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.

VPh-Housewives will have another 30 days to use their canning sugar stamps, the OPA announced Saturday night Instead of expiring at the end of this month, spare stamps No. 9 and 10 will continue valid through Nov. 30. Each is good for five pounds. The action completes a series of moves designed to offset local and regional sugar shortages resulting from the maritime strike.

Earlier this week arrangements were made to ship western beat sugar to the East The OPA announcement said it had agreed to movement of west era beet sugar into the eastern deficit areas in order "to permit housewives to receive their fair share of sugar." It added that extension of the valid date of the stamps "will permit housewives who have been unable to obtain canning sugar to finish putting up the last fruits of the canning season." The regular table sugar stamp, spare No. 51 in ration books, remains good for five pounds until the end of this year. Telephone Executive Dies in Corpus Christi CORPUS CHRISTI. Oct. 26 George Rankin Tait, 53, district manager for the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company here, died Saturday of a heart attack.

Texans Face Constitution Patching-Up Four Amendments To Be Voted On In Two Elections By WELDOX HART American-Statesman Capitol Correspondent Quickening tempos in four Constitutional amendment campaigns served this week to remind Texans that in less than a fortnight they will indulge in their chronic extracurricular activity deciding whether to patch up their Constitution again (and again, and again). This fall's set-to will be a dou-blcheader. Three amendments will be on the general election ballot Nov. 5: a fourth one, the Veterans' Land Board Amendment, will have its own special hearing two days later. A clerical error is to blame for' this situation, of which more anon.

Proposed by 49th Session The quartet of amendments coming up in November will be the last of eight proposed by the 49th Legislature. The others were voted on at a. special election last year and all were adopted except the one that proposed to put the legislators on year-round pay. (The others: to put a $35,000,000 ceiling on Texas' annual public welfare contributions; to increase the Supreme Court from three to nine members; to let veterans vote without paying a poll tax.) Constitutional amendments may briginate in either house of the Legislature and must be approved by two-thirds of the membership of both House and Senate before they are submitted to the people. Since 1876, when the present Texas Constitution went into effect, so (Continued on page 6, col.

2) Bulgaria Goes To Polls Today SOFIA, Oct. 26 (INS) Bulgaria, former Nazi disciple whose Communist dominated regime now is championed by Russia, will choose the first democratic assembly in her history Sunday in an election carefully scrutinized by both the Eastern and Western blocs. On the eve of the polling the controversy still raged over demands by the United States for guarantees of fair voting, an action rejected by the Russian member of the Allied Control Council as "rude interference in Bulgaria's internal affairs." Premier Kimon Georgiev declared in a speech that such guarantees already are provided and attacked what he called the "evil interpretation" put on the provisional constitution. the sheriff said. "It's obvious that Grosse and Campbell were jealous because they weren't going and they decided to do something about it." Fire Chief M.

Grant Duncan, 80, died of a heart attack while directing the fight on the blaze. Two pledges, Henry C. Straub, 19, Webster Groves, and Thomas S. Mead, 18, Slater, were seriously burned. Grosse was the first to confess, the sheriff said.

He was picked up after police found an empty five-gallon gasoline can. A filling station attendant, Crowson said, identified the can as one in which he had sold gasoline to Grosse and Campbell at 5 a. m. Sat-urday, about an hour before the blaze broke out. Crowson quoted Campbell as saying the two youths had stopped at a filling station in Fulton shortly before dawn and bought a five gallon can of gasoline.

The pair then took a cab to the fraternity house, poured the gasoline about the place, touched it off with a match and fled, the sheriff quoted Campbell. Blamed Fire 26 Killed In Hindu-Moslem Wild Rioting Police Forced To Fire Several Times On Calcutta Mobs CALCUTTA, Oct. 26. (JP) Additional British troops were moved into the Calcutta area Saturday nitrht and others were nlaced on the alert as continued rioting in the city between Hindus and Moslems brought death to at least 26 persons and injuries to at least 50. A Bengal government press note said that police had opened fire on at least six occasions Saturday.

Gunshots echoed through various sections of the city Saturday night and there were continual movements of military police and fire brigade trucks, and ambulances. In addition to stabbings, assaults and acid-throwings. there were reports of arson and looting in north Calcutta, including the burning of several small houses and boats along the Hooghly River. The Indian National Ambulance Corps and fire brigade personnel rescued nearly 200 persons from "dangerous" areas. The transportation in Calcutta remained near a standstill as taxi-cab, bus and streetcar drivers refused to work until the government provided sufficient protection against hooliganism.

Lieutenant General F. R. Bucher, commander of British Eastern Command Headquarters in Calcutta, told a press conference that "four battalions and a regiment have been stationed in Calcutta to deal with any situation that may arise here." Bucher added that he had expressed to the Bengal government willingness to provide military protection for public vehicles on the road and to arrange convoys in dangerous sections of the city. ANTI-BRITISH RIOT FLARES IN HONGKONG HONGKONG, Oct 26. (UP) Violent anti-British rioting flared suddenly among Hongkong's Chinese population Saturday and continued for seven hours, during which police and Chinese exchanged gunfire.

First reports said seven persons were injured and 20 arrested. British civil and military police patrolled the streets armed with rifles and submachine guns after the rioting subsided. New Orleans Picked For Oil Scout Conclave DALLAS, Oct. 26. Directors of the National Oil Scouts and Landman's Association, meeting here Saturday, selected New Orleans as the convention city for their 1947 meeting.

S. S. Stinson of Midland, association president, said that convention dates would be selected later. oering Meaning sponsibilities to the world in peace as in war," Captain H. Y.

Mc-Cown, University of Texas NROTC commandant, said Saturday. Navy Day, dedicated to the nation's first line of defense, was first observed on Oct. 27, 1922, commemorating the day in 1775 when the Continental Congress received a bill providing for the establishment and maintenance of a Flowers Go On Gulf For Texas Dead By the Associated Free Flowers will float on the waters of the Gulf Sunday in memory of Navy dead buried at sea in all parts of the world. A seaplane will take off from the Corpus Christi Navy Base Sunday afternoon, bearing thousands of flowers sent by relatives of the Navy men from all over the state. Throughout the state high-ranking officers will speak, naval stations will open their gates to townsmen and pickets will disperse their lines to let civilians board Navy vessels docked for inspection at coastal points.

Newest Carrier at Houston 1 At Austin the battle flag of the USS Texas, veteran battleship of two World Wars, will be presented to the State of Texas. The flag was obtained for the state and the Texas Memorial Museum through the efforts of United States Senator Tom Con-nally and A. Garland Adair, commissioner of the Centennial of Statehood Commission. The battle flag will be permanently exhibited in the Texas Memorial Museum. At Houston, where the retired Texas may some day come to rest as a memorial and museum, the Navy's newest aircraft carrier, the USS Saipan, is docked for inspection during the Navy Day weekend, rickets Withdrawn Pickets have been withdrawn from the dock in order that the Navy Day crowd may inspect the ship without crossing picket lines.

The destroyed J. C. Owens, submarine Sea Leopard arid LSM (R) 5, rocket ship docked at Galveston Saturday for two days of public inspection. Several thousand persons are expected to attend the memorial services and open house at Dallas and the Navy air station there. Navy planes will fly in review.

Rear Admiral C. A. F. Sprague, chief of naval air basic training command at Corpus Christi, is in Wichita Falls for participation in the first Navy Day that inland city has ever celebrated. He will broadcast an address at noon Tuesday.

Boys Take Over Sprague was replaced at his desk in Corpus Christi by a 16-year-old high school boy, Benny Cummings, who along with 27 other students sat in on key jobs at the station as part of the two-day celebration there Saturday. The submarine Irex arrived from Key West, to take part in the Corpus Christi celebra- tions. joining LSM (R) 510, a rocket landing craft. End Seen for OPA Utility Intervention WASHINGTON, Oct 26. WV- The end of OPA's intervention in electric, gas, telephone, streetcar and other utility rate cases was foreshadowed Saturday night in the resignation of Harry R.

Booth, OPA utilities counsel and chief of the public utilities branch. Booth told a reporter that "with OPA decontrolling 90 per cent of all foods, it is impossible to contend seriously that a stabilization problem now exists in the utilities industries." Existing agencies can handle the job of holding utility rate in creases to reasonable levels Booth said, especially since the "Price level in the utility industry Is now Below what it was in 1941." to he All But It Fails To Stop Institute By WILBUR EVANS American-Statesman Sport Editor HOUSTON, Oct. 26. Dana Bible's orange-shirted University of Texas Longhorns hung their heads in regret as they trudged from the Ric Institute field here Saturday afternoon. But when the disappointment of defeat sJbsides, those heads should be held high and those chins up, for they never stopped fighting as they went down befor Jee Neely's Owls, 18-13.

Press and radio throughout the land will hail the outcome as tremendous upset, because Bible's boys went into the contest unbeaten and untied through their first five games and a two-touchdown favorite. But the 30,000 fans who jammed the stadium here Saturday will argue that point Rice Underrated They will tell you that the rugged Rice team has been underrated and that it deserved to win this 33rd meeting of a rivalry that dates back to 1914. And they'll tell you that the Longhorns gave their ail to avenge two other surprise setbacks. But all that dogged determination and awesome air power was r.ot enough, proving inadequate for the first time since a late October date in 1945, when another Rice team put them down, 7-6. Since that defeat a year ago, the Longhorns had won 10 straight contests, including a Cotton Bowl decision, and at one time this season they had been the nation's No.

I team. All It Needed But never in its early season success did Texas look more terrific than Rice did here this autumn afternoon. Jess Neely's ball club had everything it needed, and it used it wisely and adroitiy. The Owls took command in the first quarter and were never headed although at times it looked as though the magic arm of Bobby Layne might more than match Rice's better balanced attack. But the Birds took care of the Texas threats by keeping the ball most of the final half after they had taken a two-touchdown lead.

Rice rode to glory and to the front of the Southwest Conference race on a stout line and one of the soundest ground games Neely has come up with in his seven-year stay at the South Main school. But it was not a typically conservative Neely out there Saturday. In Air as Well as Ground The 1946 Owls can go in the anas well as on the ground, and they were shooting the works here Saturday, gambling on occasions where their predecessors would have taken no chances. Caution was thrown to the wind as they went for the big plum their third straight triumph over Texas and a verdict that likely will gain them their first league championship in 10 years. The difference for the Owls was Virgil Eikenberg, a pre-war operative who had never played the when he returned to Rice this faiL The statistics will not make a hero of him, but he was the magician in the Rice backfield who made the deceptive attack click and it was he who chunked a couple of touchdown passes to End Windell Williams when the battling Biblemen threatened to check goalward advances.

Three days ago this Williams lad was injured in practice and was not expected to play against Texas. He didn't start and he did not play long at a time, but he certainly delivered when the blue chips were on the board. He scored both of the (Continued on page 17, coL 7) Said have carried the poison secreted in the cavity of his umbilical. There is evidence to prove conclusively it was not there throughout his imprisonment and at some stage it was in his alimentary tract" The commission completely absolved American soldier guards of any "dereHction of duty." Still withheld were the three letters Goering left in his celL and the commission said they would have to be released by the Allied Control Council in Berlin. By HELENE WILKE American-Statesman Staff HOUSTON, Oct.

26. Despite the usual Austin football heat at Rice Stadium Saturday afternoon an early "gay" mood turned into the "blue" for thousands of Texas students and fans. And those same fans were swearing that the Owls had superseded the Aggies as the Longhorn jinx. Feathers on fall hats wilted and suit coats were shed as the heat was turned on soon after the kick-off. The weekend started out as the University of Texas' gayest since 1941 when the first postwar special train left Austin Friday noon.

Orange and white decorated cars jammed the Austin-Houston highway Saturday immediately after the game as roomless rooters, who lost out to the Knights Templars 10, 000 national convention attendants, started on the blue road back. Longhorn fans held their pre-game rally Saturday morning at the Rice Hotel. Even the Longhorn Band disappointed fans when they marched onto Rice field clad in now-familiar white coveralls. Director George E. Hurt explained that earlier hopes of marching Saturday in new cowboy style uniforms was stopped in the hop-ing-stage.

He now predicts Texas uniforms for the Baylor game. Half time features included a RICE formation by Texas and a large and playing of the Navy Hymn commemorating Navy Day. Blue and gray uniformed Rice (Continued on page 8, col. 6) Shivers Warns Of Teacher Organizing CORPUS CHRISTI, Oct. 26 (JT) Allan Shivers, lieutenant-governor nominate, told members of the Texas Canners Association here Saturday that unless the next legislature makes provisions for better salaries for school teachers, educators would be a fertile field for labor organizers.

Shivers said that he favored using part of the $35,000,000 surplus in the general fund to in-crease salaries of teachers. He was the principal speaker at the noon-day luncheon given for the 300 members of the Texas canners' two-day annual meeting in session here. Negligent Homicide Filed in Child's Death DALLAS, Oct 26. T) C. A.

Jones, 57, of Henderson was released from the county jail Saturday on $3,000 bail on a negligent homicide charge arising from the death Friday of Larry Wayne Wei-mer, 6, crushed by a truck. The boy, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. W.

Weimer, was struck on Fort Worth Pike. H. W. True, special traffic deputy, said ho was escorting the child across the highway and was waving a signal flag, after an intersection light had changed to red. Poison glass poison capsule, which was found in Goering's cell after he committed suicide less than two hours before he was to have faced the hangman Oct 16, was about two inches long and half an inch thick.

Still leaving hazy many details as to how Goering cheated the gallows to which he had been condemned by the international military tribunal, the report said: "There is evidence to support the view that at one time Goering could The to around 40 cents gave them unexpected profits, he said, and the drop did not mean they would suffer losses. Others, however, noted an in crease in farmers' operating ex penses and living costs. Moreover, they said, the price rise in cotton had probably" caused many to change their plans and to make expenditures which they had not previously calculated. Veto Remains Top UN Issue NEW YORK, Oct. 26.

(P) The United Nations Assembly wound up its first week of debate Satur day with the explosive issue of the veto still the No. 1 question and with increasing signs that pressure might force a sharp definition of the uses of the voting power. It was apparent after addresses by the first 13 nations and several tense committee sessions that there was little possibility at this time for a charter revision to eliminate the veto. Rather the drive appeared aimed at forcing Russia, which has used the veto nine times in the Security Council, to agree to some modifications on its use. No Time To Revise Norway, Chile and Turkey Sat urday joined in the campaign for a limitation of some sort Previous speakers have deplored "excessive" and reckless uses of the veto.

Halvard M. Lange of Norway said the time was not ripe to revise the charter, but he called on the big powers to reach agreement among themselves and to exercise the veto as it was planned to be a safeguard to be used only in the last resort. No Reason for Exception Turkish delegate Huseyin Ragip Baydur said the will of the ma jority always has prevailed for man kind and there was no reason to make the veto an exception, but added: "Nevertheless, if, for a period ot transition, it may not be found possible entirely to eliminate the veto, we should at least consider means of limiting the field of its application." Norway meanwhile thrust the Spanish question back into the spotlight with a proposal for a complete discussion of the controversial question before the 51-nation body. Hawaiian Relief Ship Allowed To Sail PORTLAND, Oct 26. (INS The Matson Steamship Com- pany freighter, the SS Maliko, sail ed Saturday afternoon for Honolulu bearing relief supplies for Hawaii.

Through agreement with the striking maritime union, the Maliko was manned and loaded with a miscellaneous cargo of food, including meat, butter, fresh eggs, cheese, fruits and feed, to be speed ed to the islands. $20,715 Paid For 31 Prize Palominos BIG SPRING, Oct. 26 (Buyers from five states paid $20,715 for 31 prize Palominos at the Davis Golden Don Palomino horse sale here Saturday. Bids on 29 quarter horses, saddle horses and brook mares pushed receipts to $25,035. Mrs.

R. H. Eurich of Melville, paid $2,000, top price of the sale, for Bonita Del Sur lipe Palomino mare. or Frat Likely Hidden in Body FULTON, Oct. 26.

(UP) Rivalry between two campus social groups Saturday night was blamed for the blaze that swept the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house at West minster College, causing one death and injury to two students. Two members of a rival group. the Highlanders, were held in the Callaway County jail charged with arson warrants issued by Prosecuting Attorney Hugh Williamson. Their bond was set at $10,000 each. The accused students were Otto Grosse, 22, of Granite City, 111., and Tom Campbell, 23, of Ironton, Mo.

Sheriff Hartley Crowson said both youths readily admitted setting fire the Beta Theta Pi house but would not give any reason for their action other than to say they had been drinking heavily. Sheriff Crowson said, however, believed Grosse and Campbell set fire to the house, in a fit of jealousy, to keep the rival group from staging a barn dance that had been scheduled for Saturday night. "The Beta boys had their house all fixed up for a big celebration," NUERNBERG, Oct. 26. (JP) Hermann Goering had the vial of poison with which he committed suicide from the time he was captured, and may have hidden it in his navel, a report by the four-power commission investigating his death said Saturday.

At some time the vial was in his alimentary tract, and it could have been hidden for a time in the toilet of his cell, the report added. Prison authorities have said the cartridge-like container for the.