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THL WEATHER El IHso an, vicinit: fair and li.htl racier Wednesday 'afternoon. Prohibit it mpr r.turr range, to Aft degreei. GOOD MORNING! SOMETIMES "cms" poor telephone r- in but even poor telephone service if belter than none at all. I ndoubt-edly the people of Odessa have found that oat because of the atrike of telephone eroploei. When terviee reaaea when we realiie how much we depend on the 'phonr.

SI fkt) IS I PER COPY Hest Partly cloudy Wrdnridu. vm t9 Widely- sea iter ed showers east of Petad liver and coaler in Panhandle. New Ma ilea partlr dead WedneUar wita showers ar anew Iiurriaa la aorta- em mountain EL PASO. TEXAS. WEDNESDAY.

MARCH 12. 1947 Full Leased Wirs Report of The Auocuted Pre.t Unitad Pre. Newt Service 'INSi 16 PAGES 67th YEAR No. 71 General State Telephone Strike Looms 1 Track Plan Delav Irks Gtv Council Marshall Wins Issue On China Larger Cities In Texas Back Odessa Walkout Odessa. Teas (AP).

A telephone union district official in Waco said Tuesday night that workers In 34 northeast Texas towns have voted to back up the Odessa local Id a personnel dispute that has resulted in disruption of service in nine West Texas cities. Th. ltl W.OU IJ -u- i-j INS uuuiai, sua, manic uju ivi i ys auiu MIC exptxirll "momentarily to order a walkout in the northeast district, extending from Waco north to the Oklahoma line and east to Louisiana. Mrs. Mays said Waco members ofd City Council will meet at 10 a.

m. Wednesday to schedule a date, probably next week, for a windup meeting with Southern Pacific Railroad officials for formal signature of the contract for the $5,000,000 track depression program. Mayor Dan Duke said Tuesday. Duke said the council will map its plans for future action at Wednesday's meeting, taking into consideration recurring delays in the contract completion. Sentiment is growing among council members that valuable time is being lost and that the contract should be signed without additional delay.

The unfavorable bond market, entailing a rising interest rate, tends to cost the city more service charge on its maximum $2,000 OcKi track depression bond issue approved last Jan. 4. Duke said. No action has been taken to market the bonds until the contract is signed, but an anticipated unfavorable bond market may prove costly if the'issue sale is held up, Duke said. Ranking engineers of the Pacific svstem of the P.

will be asked the union voted 316 to 18 Tuesday night for a walkout The order for a district-wide walkout, she said, awaited the outcome of a vote of Dallas orkers Dallas will vote on Nation Waits For Tiiiman Moscow (AP). Secretary of State George C. Marshall won his first diplomatic triumph in the Foreign Ministers Council Tuesday night whenj the United States. Britain and France put up a solid front and blocked a Russian proposal to place the complex China question on the agenda. A conference official said the thre western representatives, opposing a suggestion by Soviet Foreign Minister V.

Molotov, in-! stated that China be present if Chinese affairs were discussed in the council, and Molotov finally withdrew hit proposal. The four foreign ministers then split wide open when they tackled the first and least controversial i-lem of Germany, the question if demilitarization, informants disci, ed. Molotov hurled a broadside of accusations that the western nations had failed to demilitarize their occupation zones, and were keeping German troop in military forma--, contrary to th Potsdam igreement. Repeating many accusations which have appeared In the Rut-sian press during the last few months, Molotov asserted that except in obvious cases the elimination of the war potential in the west has hardly started." Ernest Bevin, British foreign secretary, answered Molotov bluntly ALL SMILES Dartd f. Lilienthal, at his desk in Washington, smiles after Senate Atomic Energy Committee voted eight to one for his confirmation as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission.

-(AP Wirephoto) the question Wednesda). Meanwhile, Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. official arrived here 'iijrKKKkl'wi9fk aawPrfaPtk lo undertake a settlement af the Talk Todav dispute which lids snowballed into a major threat to blackout Texas' entire telephone service. George K. Myer, Jr general em VISITING ENGINEERS- Four civil engineers on a two-day visit in El Paso touring rec-lamation projects, are (left to right) Jacques Salbaing from Gascogne.

France; Arturo Alackenna from Santiago, Chile: lndar Kapila of Punjab, India, and Emmanuel de la Sayette from Paris. The group uill leave for Phoenix, Aril Thursday. (Photo by Gerlach) ployment supervisor from Dallas. Jaycees Sell 815,476 Rodeo 1 I li'Ll'l. Ill I I'll as aw I'll' id New Orleans railroad nego House Qkehs Pav Hike a Amrmlmciit -aid he would "make a survey of possibilities" for ending the dispute which began last October and reached a gitmaa Friday.

March 7. when the Odessa workers called their "continuous meeting." The Odessa employes demanded the demotion of an evening chief operator. They said they could not work under her. listing various charges. The company said it found no basis for a discharge or demotion, and the "meeting" began.

Foreign Engineers Visit City. alley tiators, who have represented the line in past discussions with the Washington (AP). President Truman will address a joint session of Congress Wednesday and the nation In a policy statement which may set far-reaching new standards for American diplomacy around the world. The Issue Is: What the United States should do to rtem the tide of communism abioad. The President's speech, starting at 12 noon Ul a.

ra. El Paso time) will be broadcast by the major networks and also televised. Described in advance by Senator Vandenberg R-Mich.) as transcending party politic in importance, the chief executives talk is expected to center chiefly on the situation in Greece and the Near council. EI Paso and wives, dressed in colorful range costumes no ned out Tuesday and sold $1S Duke said the council felt (hat Barms. Houston, vice-pi csi- dent of the and N.

O. had full that th charges were "unjustified," nd said they reminded him of a 1 1 an old lady watching a parade in 476 worth of tickets for the professional rodeo to be iged March 25-30 in El Paso Coli (APi Constitutional to give mem-ature minimum authority to handle negotiations until ranking S. P. engineers raised The I' Rei lama! ion Bureau office in FJ national a Tnesdav with the visit of our youn took on an engineers from Valley and checked seum The rodeo will finance the bers of which one man was out of step and then observed they arc all out i France. Chile and India, who made a tour of tr additonal contract questions re salaries 1M7 Southwestern Livestock Show on the same dates.

ocal telephone service In Kl I'axo not expected to lie nil paired during the spreading 'continuous meetings'' of phonr leclamatiun work. of step except Johnnie." of (22V) a year and pro-fur annual sessions moved Senate Tuesday after win viding Revin then let loose a diplomatic Results of the one-day selling The engineers, whose ages range from 23 lo It. were Jacoues Salbaing from Gascogne. France; Emmanuel de la Saette. whoie home 1 i MM aavitlS thatitO cimpaign, iarked by Dick Miller ning the necessary two-thirds vote in the House.

'jeneral foreman, totaled S254K) more is in the suburbs of Paris; Arturo Mackenna, from Santiago, Chile The proposed amendments must than a similar one put on last by service clubs. and lndar Kapila of Punjab. India Speaking perfect English learned lllJIIiUAllvll Ul ii, wjii'k while th ministers were on the subject of demilitarization 'it might bt useful" to know the number of prisoners of war held uut-side Germany." the informant said. Russia never has revealed how (Continued on Page Column I) likewise receive approval of two- thirds of the membership of the cently. "Some of the questions raised by P.

engineers were adjusted with Barne in earlier meetings," Duke said. "Now if we have to go all through the contract again with Pacific sytsem representatives, that is going to cause aerious delay from a city viewpoint Duke said the patience of the council waa "growing short at apparent delaying tactics on the part ef rail representative" The council wants to ind tip the contract ar know some good leason for not doing so," Duke said. Senate before they are submitted in their native countries, the group haa had no trouble in adjusting themselves to the Americsn way of The livestock committee of th Chamber of Commerce, which sponsors the rodeo and stock show, voted to have reserved seats this There's Renter In The Wail 01 Siren IV, ii, nil Ore. irl). Three life It is no wonder that Mackenna East.

Vandenberg said, however, that the problems involved "may prove to be symbolic of a general policy which may have to be pursued around the world." On Capitol Hill, the general belief was that Mr. Truman will recommend a loan of $2'(i (too ono for Greece and for Turkey both as a means of bolstering their On Page S. Column 41 year. Purchasers of tickets Tues a blue-eyed Chilean, tells with day were assured of getting seats ind seeing the show. amusement of how he was mist iken far native New Metican on a re-gee tsh to Turumran.

and that to aote of the people A House resolution directing an investigation of" the Lower Colorado River Authority was. sent to the ommittee on rules. Another proposing an investigation of public school problems to chart a long-rang program was sent to she committee on education. The LCRA resolution, by Rep Salbaing like sports jackets and crew haircuts. ipila the youngest of the group.

is studying year-eld Jwrphinr Rose was plating at home when hrr head gut caught in the legs af an Id -fashioned foldin table I nablr to free ker. her frantic mother railed the fire department smm the sirens wailed around the corner aad little Rase, even as sny ether child, realda't resist the so end She foriol she Tom Martin of Fredericksburg, gree In civil engineering in the Uni charged that many persons believe versity of Minnesota on a two-year Well-Know Attorney Dies a On Git? Street management of the power and flood Total (fifts To Hospital Now S621a80S scholarship, but has token time out to tour the United States "to sup Control agency 'provoked" the worker in other section of the slate II I'aso telephone 'exchange Is a part of the Mountain hlste Telephone and Telegraph Co. which is not Involved in the current trouhles being experienced hy the toulhweslcrn llrll Telephone Co. which oners Since then employe in tight other West Texas town hav begun similar "meetings" and votes throughout Texas were held. The eight towns already holding meetings are Midland.

Big Spring, Kermit, Wink, Marfa. Fort Stock ton, Pecos and Monahans Only emergency calls are being made in those areas Executives and nonunion workers are doing what they ran to keep service going Wichita Falls and Abilene voted favorably to back the Odessa workers in elections Monday night. Elections Tuesday W'ere held in Brownsville. San Antonio. Houston Beaumont.

Vernon, Corsicana. Waco. Atlanta. Paris, Denison. Jefferson and Marshall.

Fort Worth and Dallas will cast their ballot Wednesday Myers said here that he hoped "to have the co-operation of the union" in his effort to unsnarl the local difficult. The evening operator was identified by the Odessa American as Mrs. Elisabeth Allen. M. mother of (Cealtnaed en rg t.

Cel. ti plement mv 1845 strike of operating employes that left many central Texas towns with practical experience was stark. Jerked her ithout power for several das free and rathed to the The Senate passed by a voice vote Jaycees launched their one-day city ticket selling program after a breakfast at 7:30 a. m. in Hotel L'orter One hundred Jaycee and the wives of 25 attended Joe M.

Evans, veteran cowboy and cowman, was the principal speaker Radio Station KROD broadcast the program. "Ninety per cent of the merchants visited co-operated with Us and bought tickets," Judson Williams, club-president said "We sure appreciated It. too, as everyone in El Paso should be behind the rodeo and stock show." Rex MrMorri. executive secretary of th United States Junior Chamber of Commerce and a former secretary of the local organization, was the speaker at the Tuesday noon luncheon in Hotel Cortex. Miss Eva Mae Wilken.

l4t champion cowgirl and hostess for to aee what all the exrit and sent to the House a much-amended bill providing minimum Mackenna. the "veteran" of the roup, first earn to this country October. IMS. to buy equipment for hydroelectric phnt In hht native country aad staved to stiasto the methods of operation In plsnts IKINtHMfV WORK was about The fire laddies tamed their equipment areand and hraded hours and wages, under local op tion, for city firemen and police back to the men. It would apply-to cities 10.000 population except China Resents issue Injeeted By Molotov Masking 'API China' government grappling with Formotan unrest Hid a mouldering' civil war, r-rved notice Tueiday that inss- uch a Chin, was not Invited to the Moscow conference sh want her problem left alone Foreign Minister Wang Shih-chieh issued statement referring to the "Moscow conference of four foreign ministers." He said that my extension of the Moscow agenda bevond Austria and Germany to take in China must be preceded by consultation and agreement 'between th five foreign ministers Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov made the propotial at Moscow te Include China's problems In the agenda.

Wang (aid China's condition for any such extension of the agenda has received the support of Great Britain, France and the United States and in a reply from the Soviet government no objection was raised" Sounding similar note in Washington, the Chinese ambassador to the United States, Dr K. Wellington Koo said Molotov's move was "strange and that China "fails to understand why sh was not Invited to Moscow." which now have a minimum wage jrts arm IA asanas wouia or mommy wnn aai mm iiinvik "in. Admitting that he is quite homesick for Chile, he hopes to eo back to Santiago anon. The two Frenchmen are her rl Thirty chairmen and team captains meeting at a luncheon in Hotel Paso del Norte Tuesday re-ported that additional pledge of $43,405 had been contributed sine Monday to the fund for the new Providence Memorial Hospital, bringing total subscriptions to $621,801. Campaign directors expressed great enthusiasm over the reports and were confident that with continued effort on the part of campaign workers the tftSOOOO local goal and the service area goal af 250 UOO will soon be achieved.

Reports from the Lower Valley committee led all other with new tions for longevity. The Senate also approved Make Trip sent to the House a bill setting of the Culture of the Frew To Las Cruces which is sending gja)M a state board of plumbing examiners to license plumbers. Plumbing is now under municipal control. Sen. A.

M. Aikin Jr of Parts introduced a bill in the Senate to allocate one cent of the present to foreign Thirty-five El Pasoana returned tries to study. late Tuesday from The Chamber of Both gradu-'i-s of the Trover- WiB Trip 'o -as gasoline Us to the building Red Envoy asssha srJ I tached to the Bureau of ruces much impressed with the gifts totoling lls.000 The big gifts section reported new pledget total- aVi growth of Laa Cruce and Mewlla Valley. in A 1 touch To S. Called medical group, new gifts contestants entered in the 1947 event, waa a guest Wilson, general manager of the rodeo and stock show, also spoke.

Miss Judy Peterson gave a reading Jaycee. who have been selling lodeo tickets In the Southwest territory, are going on a flying trip to advertise the rodeo. They will drop leaflets on neighboring communities from an airplane. Wayne and William Champ-ney. who operate Champ' flying Service, will furnish and fly the ship.

Both ar member of Paso Junior Chamber of Commerce They were taken an igl.t-see- and aj and business and co'rmer- farm-to-market roads. Member of the House were seeking to work out a proposed self-pay raise amendment which would meet with the approval of the voters One recent amendment to raise pay to 110 a day was defeated by the voters. ing trip of the area by William A II oa Page t. af the McMiia To Moscow cial committee. Sa7M.

Other committees reported substantial amounts. Valley Chamber of Commerce, and Clint Smith, secretary. Las races I Methodists Chief of Police Bill Harris drove General Chairman Allen Gramb- AP- Russian Am-j ling announced that a meeting of Legislators now receive 110 a day for the 120-day constitutionally sug Rkitmms miih Breedlov Smith. M. ISM Upson Avenue, whoat body was found the car which piloted -he of Paso visitor Oppose Horse gested biennial session.

a day after the 120 days is up The pay In the evening, a banquet held in the Tortugas Gnil in La is tlO a day for the special sessioi limited to 30 days each lying on the ground alongside his parked ear in the 0 black of SchuU Street at a Tuesday, died from natural cause, accord Wheat Price Hits New Hijich Hare Betting Cruce Waunch preluded over the) basxador Nikolai Novikoff has all campaign workers will be held bean recalled to Moscow for can- at 4 p. Friday in the Gold Room sulfations and will fly from New of Hotef Paso del Norte He urged York Thursday. every chairman to see that all his Notice of the trip was delivered worker are present, to the State Department Tuesday in "If humanly possible," Said note from the embassy. GramMiag, "every worker should No details were given in the iCawtsnaed ass Pag Cel. communication beyond th fact thatl The measure by Rep Vernon Mc- neetir.g welrorro-d 'he aBH Chase To Preside At Of icer, Trial Continued On Fsge I Mimin 4 Hooten, vice-prederrt af Ei Chlrage APi The price of cash I ing to a ruling by Justice of Peace Richard Ciawteti Physicians who performed the BOt AP.

Major Gen hest. the article from which bread A i i mm rcury Kisea William Ovas commander of autop reported to Judte Craw the Journey is for consultations an rations and To 71 Degree Here of Commerce re- Paso Chamber of tommerc. re- Minister and lay oelefate repre-phed to th welcoming address, am ting Methodic churches in Guests were isrtrodaced by Chris West Texas and New Mexico passed Fox geTralinr.aer of El Paso a resolution here Tuesdsv after-Talks were giver, by DeaaJTJ- saatsjsl awtthvg aa hers racing la ford that death waa caiuad by a heart attack. is nunc, imnit irumra bushel, the highest in 27 years, as dealers questioned th nation's ability to deliver enough wheat to the First Cavalry Division. Tuesday waa named to preside at th courtmartial of Col Edward Mur that the embassy will i a arm i IIh charge Fair and slightly cooler weather of Kin T.wap p.

Mr. Smith, a former assistant dis vi d'affaires, during Novikoffs ah- meet the need af war ray af Palo Al'o. Calif. of trict cinity Wednesday The mercury To Request Wallace Perry. Carter smack.

faark a hi home since p. Mon- nations. Grain future, dealt In at the was expected to range from to the United Amer.ran officials said aaf degree they could only presume hi Murray formerly wu all af Us Cruce, and asor-j lature, sad dlllgslll to th d.rtrict had been dead from four to eight Chicago Board of Trad to Ish orderly marketing of hence Money A low of It and high of 71 de- of the Itonk of Japan in at th start his advice ta con-1 of Tuesday's trading, but Jewels' bullion" and other wealth neetion with the Foreign M.n Conference in th Soviet Capi It cer.f a bushel in back nearly It cent a bushel ana ew aaorew. WO 0ai a uuts.a a. J.psneae earn last ass era before the Weather observers predicted show- rv.

ras si aw rr 1 1 am. dose, when a wave of profit era ar snow flumes in northern avta? in SIBItc wrmaa rLV. I eaahtog entered the trading pit l-ountoias af New klenya Qgaj jf New Drug Blamed Fit fh aw For Children's Death ollooers (ft Itisnute Wont Foot-Mouth Outbreak la I I Heritable. Dr. Fladness Says ttM M.

I IMHiN Tassn SmSIwIm PssSSKSsaSdSSS mshtssgtMi. Officials of th In-rrnstiaoal Boundary and Water 'rssimissian from El Pasa are exerted to appear before the Houee ipproprtat.ons Committee within a rw days to ask for funds ta carry several special pi an is. Commissioner wish. rant Clayton, counsel and epidemsr in Mexico a the United aWM To Sec imilin onhrnu chief of the Bureau ef Ar. mi! Tuesday.

in Mexjcr. Dr Cattle Growers Asto isrerth. eng-neer. pcied here the project Is She con-tior is undertaken, will be H. tLuu.l at srCfw ''i''W p.

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