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63 RD YEAR NO. 247 ASSOCIATED PRESS BILLINGS, MONTANA, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 4, 1949 UNITED PRESS PRICE FIVE CENTS Girl Going Back to Munich Meet Congress, Legislature 4 31 37 Killed, Hundreds Injured When Tornadoes Sweep Over Arkansas, Louisiana Areas tfashinaton and Helena i KA r4- A 97 jj "Vf 9 At Least 400 Hurt In One Town Alone; Fires Follow Storm New, Reelected State Officers Are Given Oath Bonner and Entire Democratic Slate Take Over Control Bf Takes Office Governor John W. Bonner Monday was sworn into office by Chief Justice Hugh Adair in the governor's reception room. Standing at Bonner's side during the ceremony were Governor Sam C. Ford and Supreme Court Clerk Frank Murray.

Airplane Crash Claims 14 Lives Seattle, Jan. 3. VP) The boys came home for Christmas but 11 of them will never see Yale again. They and three crewmen died Sunday night when a chartered 'ili 1 k.Al;j.......il Mrs. Elisabeth Albinus, 25, of Munich, Germany, smiles in the apartment of her fiance's brother in New York as she tells of calling off her plans for marriage to Frederick Neatrous of Johnstown, Pa.

The German girl arrived December 29 by air from Germany but decided she would return to her own country after absence of over three years had left the sweethearts strangers. Marines Announce Withdrawa From China; Claim Government Has Decided to Sue for Peace transport plane carrying 30 can be crashed and burned at Boeing field, King county's airport at Seattle. Twenty-seven of those aboard were Yale students from the Pacific northwest, home for the holidays. Sixteen survived. Sweethearts, friends and relatives, who had just said good-by to the New Haven-bound students, watched in anguish as the DC-3 went up In flames.

Witnesses said the plane had hardly risen from the ground when a wing dipped and touched the concrete runway. Then the ship fell the other way, dragged its left wing, sped Into a Boeing Airplane company experimental hangar at 80 to 100 miles an hour and burst into flames cforforf hroatincr thrnneh Assembly Names 10 Committees, Hears Notice of First Bill Helena, Jan. 3. (JP) Montana's Thirty-first legislative assembly Monday completed preliminary organization, named 10 standing committees, and heard notice of the first piece of contemplated legislation. The 56 senators and 90 representatives were called to order Monday.

Lieutenant Governor Paul Cannon brought down the gavel in the Republican senate. Secretary of State Sam W. Mitchell called the Democratic house to order. The senate and house held unusual afternoon sessions after recesses following their noon meetings. Both houses then adjourned until 11 a.m.

Tuesday. The senate climaxed its day by naming members of the important finance and claims committee. That group passes on all legislation calling for appropriation of state funds. Meanwhile, the house employment committee headed by H. H.

Hess, Democrat, Hill gave notice of the first contemplated legislation. It would retain the salaries of officials and attaches at the rate paid by the 1947 legislative session. Pay scales are from $1 to $2 a day higher than the scale of previous years. It makes no increases for employes such as the house chief clerk, secretary of the senate, the two law clerks and the two sergeant at arms. They now receive $10 daily, the same as the legislators.

Employes to receive $9 per day are the senate assistant secretary, house assistant chief clerk, journal clerk, enrolling and assistant enrolling clerks, engrossing and assistant engrossing clerks, bill clerks, chief printing clerks, assistant ser- (Continued on Page 5, Column 5.) Court Upholds Closed Shop Ban Washington, Jan. 3. The supreme court ruled Monday that states can ban the closed shop. It upheld enactments by three states which forbid employers, acting alone or in cooperation with unions, to restrict employment to union members. The practice is generally known as the closed shop.

Sixteen states have closed shop prohibitions or regulations. At issue were an act passed bv the North Carolina legislature in 1947 and constitutional amendments adopted by Nebraska and Arizona in 1946. The anti-closed shop section of the Taft-Hartley law was not directly involved. The court's opinion, however, is expocted to be widely quoted in the impending debates in congress on repeal of that act. The closed shop ban has been generally regarded a.s likely to be dropped or substantially modified when congress considers President Truman's demand for Taft-Hartley repeal.

He made repeal of the act an election issue. The court was unanimous in the North Carolina and Nebraska eases. The Arizona decision was 8 to 1 iwith Justice Murphy dissenting. It. was treated in a separate opinion because of different language in the Arizona amendment.

Justice Black wrote the court's opinion rejecting arguments by the American Federation of Labor and others that the closed shop ban violates the rights of union members. "Just as we have held that the due process clause erects no obstacles to block legislative protection of union members, we now hold that legislative protection can be afforded nonunion members," Black snld. This whs a reference to I he section of the Constitution which says no one shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law. The court nlso refected contentions that the dosed shop ban tnkes away union members' constitutional rights to speak, assemble and petition. Those rlrhts.

Black declared, "ninnnt be construed a.s a constitutional mmnuitce that none shall get and hold Jobs except those who will (Continued on Page ft, Column 4 Broadus Man Killed In Auto Accident Broadus, Jan. 3.P) H. B. Ma-honey, about. 28, of Brondus was killed Mondny 13 miles from Broadus on the Brnndils-Blridle rond, the Powder River county sheriff, Claude Anderson, reported.

His denth marked the first Mon tana traffic fntnllty in mil). Anderson snld the Jeep In which Mnhoney nnd his wife were riding turned over, Muhouey wns thrown Into a dtlcli nnd his wife landed on the highway, unconscious. When she regained coimeloiisness, she tried for two hours to revive Mnhonev nnd npplv first aid, Then she walked three miles to his fa ther's lunch for help, but on their el urn, Mnhoney wns dead. Anderson snld Mrs, Mnhoney suf fered severe frostbite but has not been hoKpltnllzed, Survivors me the widow, a 7-yenr- oltl daughter and his father, Funeral services for Mr. Mnhoney mo scheduled for Wednesday at 2 p.m.

Burial will be in the Broadus cemetery. Truman Wins Move To Smash House Rules Group Power Washington, Jan 3. (IP) Presl- Truman won a big victory on the first day of the Eighty-first congress when the house smashed Monday the power of its rules com mittee to block the "Truman deal." A 275-to-142 vote curbed the authority of this "traffic cop" committee, which historically has determined which bills shall go to the house for a vote and which shall languish In pigeonholes. The effect of the vote was to remove a big potential obstacle to the Truman program of social and labor legislation. This was one of two major developments as the Democrats took command of congress after two years of Republican rule.

The other development occurred in the Republican camp, where the senate G.O.P. beat down a rebellion of "young Turks" seeking to unseat Senator Taft of Ohio as Republican policy committee chairman, and put Senator Lodge of Massachusetts in his place. In the house, Republican leaders sought in vain to build a Republican-Democrat coalition big enough to block the change in the rules committee's powers. Some Democrats, notably from the south, did line up against the change; but some Republicans voted for It. The net result was that 225 Democrats, 49 Republicans and one American-Laborite favored the change.

Against it were 111 Republicans and 31 Democrats. Up to now, the rules committee could sit, on a bill and the only way to pry it loose was a cumbersome procedure Involving the signatures of 218 members of the house, a majority of the whole chamber. The new rule provides that if the committee fails to act on a measure within 21 calendar days, a mailing put Speaker Sam Rayburn, who went down the line for the Roosevelt new deal, can recognize the chairman of the legislative committee which handled the bill originally. That chairman can move to bring the bill to the floor for a vote. Then the house, by a simple majority of those present, would decide whether to approve the motion or not.

The chairmen of most legislative committees are expected to be pretty much in tune with the White House. But the administration was not so sure about the memberships of the rules committee. Due to seniority, southerners are expected to be powerful on that commmee ana, in coaution witn came a step closer, since most members of the house rules committee, Democrats and Republicans alike, had voted for that law over President Truman's bitter opposition. (2) Many Republicans broke sharply away from the old party-line tradition In the official vote, possibly auguring a new trend in legislation. told newsmen the "lib- orals" were voted down, 29 to 13, paving the way for Taft's reelection to the powerful policy-shaping post.

Senator Wherry of Nebraska was elected Republican floor leader, de-leuting Senator Knowland of California, the insurgents' choice. Savoring the fruits of their Mo me Democrats swniiipcn me utt.uw- lu'iills, iw to ltii), in anouier run-cull test in electing s.tm Rayburn. (Continued on face 5, Column 5.) Glasgow Attorney Is Named Judge Helena, Jan. 3. Wl-Oovcrnnr John W.

Bonner Monday announced the appointment of James T. Shea of Glasgow to the Judgeship of the Seventeenth Judicial district, succeeding Judge John Hurlv, retired. The Seventeenth district embraces Phillips ana vai-lev counties. Shea wns born at Anaconda and nt tended public schools of Anaconda nnd Butte. He studuxt in mine law offices and wns admit ted to the Montana bnr In 1914.

Until 1D13. ho maintained law offices in nutte and Madison county nnd published the Madison County Monitor at Twin Bridges. He moved to OlnsRow in 1319 to practice law with the lute xnomas uignnn te opened his own offices upon Dig-nan's death, Hurlv retired from the bench be-cause of poor health, after serving continuously for 23 years. A 4 mm-M was to the effect that the reds were concentrating on Tsingtao's perimeter for a large-scale attack and that the marines were avoiding any possibility of involvement. The communists hold all of the Shantung peninsula, except the area around Tsingtao.

The announcement said headquarters of Vice Admiral Oscar C. Badger will remain here. Nearly 5,000 marines are in China. The leatherneck force was augmented November 29 by arrival of 1.250 from Guam. On December 16, 700 marines of the Ninth regiment were sent from Tsingtao to Shang- (Continued on Page 8, Column 4.) Burke to Head Finance Group Helena, Jan.

3. State Senator Tom Burke, Yellowstone county, Monday was chosen as chairman of the important senate committee on finance and claims by the Thirty-first legislative assembly. Senator Burke, a veteran member of the upper chamber of the Montana legislature, also has been selected as vice chairman of the com- SENATOR TOM BURKE mil Ice on eoinmit ees In the upper house. In that rapacity, he. has a hand in the selection of membership of all other standing committees in the senate.

Senator Burke, in private life a Billings Is serving his sixth (Continued on Page 5, Column 4.) not so much condemnation as sympathy. The child Is nn innocent victim nnd is as capable of wlinessmg a contrnct as Charlie McCarthy." California lnw states that any ordained minister enn officiate nt a marriage. Two Jurists who declined use of their names snld they doubted the legality of the marriage, one said that marriage is a contract and that the child minister, ns a minor, ennnot, make contracts. Another called attention to the fact that after a marriage ceremony the person officiating must rend, sign nnd mall the certificate to I he county cletk, He snld ho doubted if the Juvenile minister could rend( the contract. Young Marjor "rend" the brief service with serenity and dignity.

He hnd memorized the ritual. He wore a Lnrd Fnuntleroy suit Ills pnrents brushed aside a suggestion that the marriage ceremony was a publicity stunt lor the mar-rinse chapel. H. 1 the cabin door which had burst open Republicans, stood a good chance with the crash. Some made blocking part of the Truman wav through windows or squeezed through a break in the fuselage.

Canito1 hln strategists saw two A civil aeronautics administration salient facts emerge from the Dem-offieinl said the takeoff on an icyjocratic action: (1 Repeal of the Taft-Hartley act Slightly Warmer Weather Seen For This Area High of 10 Above Zero Is Forecast; Storm Sweeps Plains Slightly warmer weather with partly cloudy skies was forecast for the Billings area for Tuesday, with a high of 10 above, observers of the United States weather department at the municipal airport said Monday night. The rising temperatures were expected to provide slight relief to Billings citizens who braved the near-zero weather all day Monday. Forecasters predicted that the cold wave would continue through Tuesday and that temperatures would start a slow climb upward Wednesday. The temperature at 11 p.m. Monday was 3 above zero.

The temperature dropped to 4 below at the Lewis avenue weather station in Billings Sunday night and the reading at the airport at 1:30 p.m. Monday was 1 above. Cloudy skies kept the bottom from falling out of the thermometers Sunday night. The extreme eastern portion of the state was affected Sunday and early Monday by a blizzard that is raging in the great plains states, with, drifting snow and strong winds reported. Lowest temperature in the state and nation was logged at Belgrade early Monday with 30 below reported.

STORM STALLS TRAFFIC Denver, Jan. 3. fP Bitter cold trailed a paralyzing blizzard which (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) Guerrillas Stage Raids on Dutch Batavia, Java, Jan. 3. VP) Indonesian republican guerrillas were said Monday to have launched a series of harassing attacks against the Dutch in east Java areas adjacent to Batavia.

The fugitive underground republican radio said raids of this type are increasing. The broadcast referred particularly to operations against Dutch military convoys. The Dutch themselves reported a guerrilla attack on a rubber plantation near Buitenzorg, 22 miles south of Batavia. According to the Dutch account, 500 republicans launched the raid but were thrown back by five Europeans and 11 Indonesians. Five of the guerrillas were killed.

Another estate in the same area was attacked later. The republican broadcast told of a guerrilla strike on the rail city of Soekaboemi, 21 miles southeast of Buitenzorg. Other republican units were said to have struck at Goret, SO miles southwest of Cheribon, and the Bantam harbor area in extreme ported on the east Java towns of (Continued on Page 5, Column 4.) The Weather FORECASTS BILLINGS Partly cloudy Tuesday, Po-elbly a few snow flurries. Mostly cloudy Tuesday nlcht and Wednesday. Occasional -i Wednesday.

Hlr.h Tuesday 10; low Tuesday nlcht hteh Wednesday 17. Or DIVIDE Partly cloudy Tuesday. Occasional IlKlit snow east and south-central. Htnh 5 to 15. except near zero extreme east.

Wednesday mostly cloudy, light snow and warmer. WYOMING Llssht snow east cndlnu before noon Tuesday. clearlnB In afternoon. DlminishliiB winds southeast Tuesday with blowing snow endinc before noon. F'air Tuesday nlRht and Wednosrinv and northwest portion Tuesday.

Warmer northeast Tuesday Hdernoon. Warmer Wednesday. Hlch Tuesday 5 to 15. AIRPORT WEATIIKR DATA From United States weather bureau for 24 hours ending at 5:30 m. yesterday: Maximum 9' Sunrise 7:55 a.m.

Minimum (Sunset 4:43 p.m. Preclnltntlnn: Trace; so far this month. total for same period of January a year aeo, trace; total since January 1, .28: total for same period a year auo. trace; normal for January. .38: normal for January 1 to February 1, .38.

MONTANA AND OIT-OF-STAIE DATA Max Broadua 2 But to 2 Olascow 9 Oreat, Falls 9 Havre 4 Helena 1 Lewlstown 2 Livingston 8 Miles City 4 Min i Max. Mln. Mlssnuln 2 25! Cheyenne 13 Clilrniio 7 Kansas City 9 New Orleans 13; New York 141 Salt, Lake in Spokane Q'KI T.nul 7 33 35 65 32 -2 11 38 Precipitation! Broadua .02, Vital Statistics BIRTHS Bay Mrs Alfonso J. Bueno, 402 South Twenty-third street. Glrl Mrs.

James A. Ussln. Roundup. Mrs. Kenneth Marlon Nybo, 2214 Maple street.

DEATH Mrs, Ada Kltw Becker, 88, 529 Park lane. MARRIAGE LICENSES Chester LeRov Dnnnels, 2d. and Dorenee Lucille Hamilton, 29. both of Sheridan" wyo. EiiBPtio Lawler, 40, and Hazel Bennlon, 41, both of McclPftse.

Wyo. Mil i Palmer, Llvlnitston, and Mary Klnvorit. 30. Washoe. Mm'cus L.

nice. 20, and Mnry Elisabeth Hrynolds, 38, both of Billings. DIVORCES ASKED Lo.J!f''e Bnfrn ''rm Bernhardt Theodore Hemeson. Zettn Pauline Bonnett from Benjamin N. 13 Oil II Cm ba FIRE CAM, United at 3:50 n.m.

Monday to peter J. Krmiliolii rrsmVnre, ao Jjfwl where boiler of JuriufP exploded. No tire resulted. Cause of explosion undetermined, hut probably due to hick of water or itotva pipe, I'urnttci badly dumagul Warren, Jan. 3.

UP) Tornadoes ranging in force from brief twisters to storms of catastrophic fury hedge-hopped through Arkansas and Louisiana late Monday and Monday night, causing casualties estimated in the hundreds. Red Cross officials at Monticello, 18 miles east of here reported 37 known dead and at least 400 injured at Warren, alone. The death toll in other storms that struck scattered areas in northwest Louisiana and southern Arkansas stood at four. Scores were injured. Fires broke out here after a tornado battered Warren for 15 minutes, starting at 4:45 p.m.

(M.S.T.). Power was gone, water lines were broken and telephone lines were down. Doctors and nurses worked by torchlight in treating the injured. Ambulances were rushing the overflow of injured from here to Monticello and Pine Bluff, 40 miles north of here. (Warren is 90 miles south of Little Rock.) The storm was accompanied by heavy rain and hail.

They helped quench the fires, but a fire in the Southern Lumber company yard still was burning at 9:30 p.m. (M.S.T.). AR. J. Rhinehart, Pine Bluff, an official for the Arkansas Power and Light company, reported to his Little Rock office that the scene at Warren was the "worst I've ever seen." Rhinehart survived a tornado that killed some 30 persons near Pine Bluff in 1947.

Another utility official, L. C. Stephens, Monticello, reported he saw seven bodies lying on the lawn of a Warren hospital. Louisiana state police said two persons were killed near Haynesville, Monday afternoon. More than a score was injured.

Shortly afterward, the same storm, apparently, swept north into Arkansas, and struck twice near El Dorado, killing two more persons and injuring about a score. Gathering fury as it moved northeastwardly, the storm next blasted Warren. It struck Dark Corner, northeast of here, about an hour later. No storms have been reported since 6 p.m. (M.S.T.).

A number of other communities in the two southern states reported damaging windstorms. The tentatively identified dead: At Warren: Mr. and Mrs. H. E.

Green, a Mrs. Hamilton, a Mr. Bradley and a Mrs. Harding. Near El Dorado: Mr.

and Mrs. Luther Owens. Near Haynesville (north of (Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) Capital Gains Bubble Deflated Washington, Jan. 8. The capital gains tax saving bubble which caused so much excitement among radio's big money stars was deflated officially Monday.

Commissioner George J. Sehoene-man of the internal revenue bureau served public notice that the stars will not be allowed to get by at the flat 25 per cent capital gains tax rate on deals involving personal services. Income tax rates, which range up to 77 per cent on sums above will be imposed where the facts show a "personal services" sale, he said. The bureau will look into the "realities" of each case. The comparatively low capital gams rate applies, under the law only to the sale of "capital which means property.

The bureau has silently been sub jecting cases to tough testing, in sisting that the circumstances show a property sale, at a price in line with the value of the property In question, before it would O.K. any transaction for the capital gains rate. Schoeneman said in his statement "The tax effect of any business transaction is determined by Its realities. "Accordingly, proposals of radio artists and others to obtain com pensatlon for personal services un der the guise of sales of property cannot be regarded as coming with in the capital gains provisions of the internal revenue code. "Such compensation is taxable at ordinary income tax rates." Woman Robs Bank In San Francisco San Francisco, Jan.

3. VP) A woman robbed a Market street bank Monday. Teller John L. Zobel at the Bank of America's 7R3 Market street branch said she escaped with about $2,000 in currency. The stout woman, about, 5 feet tall and 40 years old, slid a note to Zobcl.

It said "Three men with guns. $15,000." The note was composed of words clipped from a newspaper and pasted on yellow paper. She shoved the currency In a green paper bag and escaped into cne crowds on Market street. She displayed no weapon. As she passed the note to Zobel she ordered: "Give me hundreds or large bills or I'll take It all." Tsingtao, China, Jan.

4. (JPi The United States marines announced Tuesday they were withdrawing from China "since the Chinese government has decided to negotiate for a peace settlement with the reds." It was the first official announcement that the hard-pressed Chinese government is suing for peace with the dominant Chinese communists although China has been rife with rumors of peace for nearly two weeks. The announcement said some 3,000 marines would be put aboard naval vessels in Tsingtao harbor to await further orders for movement-expected prior to January 25. Officials of Shantung university were notified officially that the marines were vacating buildings on the campus which had been used for barracks since Japan's surrender in 1945. The reason officially given for the surprise move that "since the Chinese government has now decided to negotiate for a peace settlement with the reds and there is good prospect for peace being restored, the presence of marines is no longer needed." Nevertheless, the announcement touched off wild rumors in Tsingtao which is the north China anchorage for the United States western Pacific fleet.

One rumor totally unconfirmed Bank Clearings Set New Record Checks cleared and accounts settled among the four Billings banks in 1948 totaled $197,755,422.85, the highest in the history of the Billings Clearing House association, A. F. Engle, association secretary, said Monday. This figure is $29,832,727.44 higher than the previous record set in 1947 when the total amount of checks cleared and accounts settled in the clearing house was $167,922,695.41. In December the clearings soared to $1,143,643.80 higher than they had in the same month a year ago for the monthlv grand total of $17,981,123.54.

The 1947 December clearings amounted to $16,837,479.74. A hint of the record-breaking amount of clearing hou.e business for the year was given in November when the 44 clearings for the month exceeded by three million the. 1947 November high of $17,597,758.87. This brought the tolal In the first 11 months of the year to $151,085,215,67 for an increase of $28,689,083 over the first 11 months in 1947. (Continued on Page 5, column s.i Israel Given U.S.

Warning Helena, Jan. 3. Governor John W. Bonner and six other new state officials, all Democrats, were sworn in Monday while two reelected Democrats took oaths to continue their duties in state offices. Bonner and Lieutenant Governor Paul Cannon of Butte received their oaths from Chief Justice Hugh Adair of the state supreme court in the crowded governor's reception room.

Standing at Bonner's side during the four-minute ceremony were retiring Governor Sam C. Ford and Supreme Court Clerk Frank Murray. Near him in the crowd were Mrs. Bonner and other members of his immediate family. Included in the crowd were virtually all state officers and employes, many state senators and representatives and leaders of both parties.

Earlier, retiring Attorney General R. V. Bottomly took his oath as supreme court associate justice from Adair. Replacing Bottomly is Attorney General Arnold Olsen of Butte, who also took his oath from Adair. Associate Justice H.

J. Freebourn received the oath last month. After he was sworn Secretary of State Sam W. Mitchell administered the oath to Auditor John J. Holmes.

These two officials were (Continued on Page 5, Column 4.) Soviet Prisoner Data Demanded Washlnrton, Jan. S. VP) The western powers demanded Monday night that Moscow say how many German war prisoners Russia still holds and whether she plans to release them as pledged. The United States said that Russia has failed to reveal the number. It implied that Moscow has violated a four-power agreement to release all by the end of 1948.

The American demand for "specific information," including the number of Germans who have died in Soviet captivity, was contained in a note delivered Monday by the embassy in Moscow to the Soviet foreign office, the state department announced. Similar notes were presented by Britain and France. The Soviet news agency Tass quickly asserted that Russia had sent home an "overwhelming majority" of its Germans. In a dispatch from Moscow, it said: "The repatriation of the remainder is proceeding according to the plan adopted by the Soviet government and is to be completed during 1949." The American note said it has been 10 months since Moscow reported officially on its German war captives. Russia was told that the westernpowers have carried out their part of a 1947 agreement to return all the prisoners to their homeland by the close of 1948.

(Continued on Page 5, Column 7.) Holiday Fatalities Include 43 Children By Associated Press The nation's New Year holiday death toll of 309 listed 43 children. At least 22 youngsters between the age of three and the mid-teens were among the nation's over-all total of 207 traffic victims. The other 21 were killed in a variety of mishaps. Four of the traffic deaths resulted from collisions sleds and automobiles. Another sled death occurred when a Rockford, 111., boy, 11.

was thown from his sled which hit a rock while he was coasting in a park. Two small children were killed by motor vehicles driven off of regular thoroughfares, in Chicago, a coal truck crushed a 4-year-old boy playing in a vncant; lot. Fires took the lives of six. Three small children died in a single blaze which destroyed their Chicago home, Three children were crushed under falling objects. Two boys, 6 and 7, died in a single mishap in Miller county, when a piece of farm machinery toppled over on them.

A child was killed In Tennessee by a fnlllng tree. Two youngsters crashed through thin Ire and were drowned. A 6-yenr-old boy's sled went Into a hole in the Minnesota river lee at Mnnkato, a 10-yenr-old girl plunged into water through a thin Ice crust while, skating near Pontine, Mich. Three children suffocated, one In Colorado. Two youngsters were fntnlly shot while playing with firearms.

One boy, 12, died in the crash of a small plane near Brnlnercl, the 25-year-old pilot also was killed. I On the senate side, meanwhile. London, Jan. respon- Rppubllran Bimrrt- rode sible source said Mondav the United 0VPr "liberal-States has told Israel she aces theaop who hnd smlght to loss of American diplomatic recog- nit ion if Jewish troops invade neigh- 8Ubstitute with young Senator boring Arab states. LoflRe 8 thfi party.

polly leader. The informant, who declined to Th dld tnis bv aDrogating a be identified, said the surmise wnic)l pre'Vcnted any man American move came after British holding the policy chairman-officials warned that Britain might than fmr (Tatt had the Jb IOr fUr the Arab states. Senator Tobev. Republican, New A United Stales embassy spokes man said he could not comment i officially on the report. The state department In Washington declined to plve either confirmation or.

denial, I An Israeli foreign office spokes-i man in Tel Aviv said the British MniiiMMiniiilW niMMinl-c tn niiinnil. KHM 1 Mil 11 tit II i IO 1" Ml WH11I' ti- I toward nctual war. Winston Church-1 vemuer euruo. wcu.i. u.

coined the phrnse "sulky boycott" eot chance to flex their when he demanded on December 10 muscles and display their new-won that Britain accord recognition to strength several times during the he vnung Jewish state. Ilirst-day session. The British ambassador In Vnsh- With voting on strict party lines. Child Ministers Marriage Ceremony Brings Criticism iiir.toii, Sir Oliver Franks, made nnd then canceled nn appointment, wn ri president. Triimnn Mondis There wns no explanation from the While House for the envoy's net pin No new appointment wns nifirie.

The informant here gave this i Continued on Pnge a. Column tu 39. Perish When Storms Hit Europe London, Jan. 3. Storms lushed, western Europe Mondny, killing 3ft persons and disrupting shipping nt sen.

Kleven sailors drowned off the French const, where 70-mile-iin- hour winds pounded shipping and kept tunny vessels In port. Seventeen soccer players drowned nt. Mnrtiunp'Fcrchntid near Rennes, France, when their bus slid into a pond. Nine were killed and 25 Injured at Trento in northern Itnly when a bus currying skiing party skidded nun plunged nno teet into a ravine A woiunn wns killed by a chimney which crumbled before henvy winds nt Lytn, France, nut! a French mountain climber was found frozen to denth. Long Bench, Cal Jan.

3, (TP) Five-year-old Marjoe dormer's piggy bank jingled Monday with the fee for performing his first marriage but repercussions were sounding about the propriety and legality of the child minister's ceremony, Assisted by his 2-yenr-old brother, Patrick, the Rev. Onrtner, who wnR ordained last year by I he Old-Time Faith church, Sunday married Rny-mond Miller, 23-yenr-old sailor, and red-haired Alma Brown, 21, The ceremony look place In a wedding chapel. Among Hie witnesses were the boy evangelist's parents, the Rev. and Mrs. Vernon O.

Gortncr, nondnnomlnntlonal minis ters accredited by the International Ministerial federation. The Right Rev. Monslgnor Bernard J. Dolnn, Roman Catholic pastor, commented: "The conduct of churches such as this make a fiasco of religion mid of marriage, not to mention the legal aspect of a mnr- rlnga contract. The fiasco deserved.

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