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I PYf NEWS INDEX' Sporti Page 4 Editorials 6 Women's News 7 Chousin' Around 9 mm MORNING WITHOUT OR ITU OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES' WE SKE1CU OUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT COES Byron gulfed Press flP) PRICE FIVE CENTS VOL LXV NO 203 A TEXAS SmUf NEWSPAPER ABILENE TEXAS THURSDAY MORNING JANUARY 10 1946 -TWELVE PAGES Associated Press (AP) Telephone Strike Moves Into Texas Army Relates Demobilization Idle Men to Come Home Delegation Ready For strike being voted upon throughout Texas by the Southwestern Bell Telephone workers Bell members are voting on whether they will support Western Electric employes in their strike No Relief For Walkout Opening of UNO Parley bassador to Washington would head the delegation The opening session of the assembly will come on the 26th anniversary of the founding of the League of Nalioni at Versailles Edurdo Zulela Angel of Colombia president of the preparatory commission will open the assembly- officially and British Prime Minister Attlee then will speak The next order of business will be election of a president and it was reported that Paul Henri Spaak Belgium's socialist foreign minister would be chosen HUNTING CLUES City garbage crewmen shovel through rubbish in the rear of the Dcg-nan home in Chicago Jan 8 looking for a clue in the Suzanne Dcgnan kidnap-dismember-ment case (AP Wirephoto) ECidinap Case Area Veteran Guide Center Hill Mystery LONDON Jan 9 The United States delegation to the United Nations assembly closed ranks iq harmonious accord today after a two-hour conference with Secretary of State Byrnes who made it clear that any plan dealing with atomic energy secrets must receive congressional approval Fears were eliminated that the American delegation might enter in disagreement the first session of the assembly which opens tomorrow at 8 a (CST) Byrnca said his views on safeguards were entirely acceptable to all American delegates Minutes later Senator Arthur Vandenberg (R-Mich) critic of atomic energy policy up to this point issued a statement saying he now was reassured" Vandenberg had sought assurance from Byrnes on two points that adequate security arrangements must precede disclosures concerning atomic matters and that plan recommended by the atomic commission must receive congressional approval in the United States" In assuring the American delegation Byrnea recalled the Mot-cow Big Three foreign ministers conference where he said it was agreed that the United States would retain the atomic enegy secrets until suitable UNO machinery was set up for its control Russia the only one of the five larger powers not to send her foreign minister to the assembly meeting probably will not even be represented at the opening session by her chief delegate Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs Andrei Vis-hinsky A delegation spokesman said Andrei Gromyko Soviet am BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Army reacted yesterday to swelling protests from soldiers overseas against its demobilization policies by directing that any men needed may be sent home no matter what their point score Gen Dwight Eisenhower chief of staff cabled the order to all theater commanders He said uneeded men with highest scores and longest service should be given preference The war department announced that it was reviewing its entire demobilization program as soldiers overseas kept on growling about delay in getting home Acting Secretary Kenneth Royall said in a statement in Washington that detailed future program of the War Department will be forthcoming shortly" From Germany to Japan and at points between I's chafed at the slowing of discharges and a Erovost marshal in Yokohama rokc up what he called a mutiny" The War Department Indicated however that demonstrating protesting troops would not be punished unless there were violence or disorder The nearest thing to that apparently was at headquarters of forces in the European theater at Frankfurt Germany More than 4000 soldiers and WACS assembled to chant want to go Angry shouts arose but soon subsided when a military policeman pushed a demonstrator Military police arrested one of two soldiers who came to blows The whooping crowd called in vain for the appearance of Gem Joseph McNarney In Washington Senators Rfcver-comb (R-WVa) and Edwin Johnson (D-Colo) celled for an A to congressional investigation of demobilization A third senator chairman Elbert Thomas (D-Utah) of the military committee said he saw no need for an inquiry President Truman has said that demobilization is moving as fast as possible snd that the Army had to slow it down because of a critical need for occupation forces overseas The acting commander of the Eighth army in Japan Lt Gen Charles Hall warned his troops in a message that subversive elements quickly would sense dissension among occupation forces and their cue for sabotage plans from our future actions The Manila area scene of protest meetings Monday and Tuesday was relative quiet The commanding general in the Philippines Lt Gen William Stvcr informed Gen Dwight Eisenhower in Washington there was no need of disciplinary action because there had been acts of violence or disorder" Eisenhower Army chief of staff approved that decision and so reported to President Truman Eisenhower said in his report released by the White House that Gen Douglas MacArthur agreed with Stycr that discontent among soldiers in the Philippines was due to home-sirkness aggravated hy the termination of Commission Opens Japan Investigation TOKYO Thursday Jan 10 The far eastern commission agreed upon at Moscow as a policymaking group held its first meeting in Japan today Delegates opened consultation with General Maq-Arthur's economic and scientific chief The delegates met with Maj Gen Marquat in the new offices at general headquarters Subject of the discussion was not disclosed After lunch with MacArthur delegates resumed talks with Marquat Maj Gen Frank McCoy commission chairman disclosed yesterday he had notified Russia that her participation in the work of the commission would be welcomed Meanwhile the McKinley wartime communications ship which brought the commission and staff to Japan moved from Yokohama to a Tokyo dock where it will be used as headquarters and residence by the commission While the commission was launching its work after first-dav sight-seeing the Japanese remained nrc-occupied with problems of gearing their economy to peace The Tokyo newspaper Shimbun suggested the Japanese are more interested in eating than establishing a democratic government JILTED? Mrs Lucv Mai- The majority of Nipponese the colmson 30 of Reno Xev is newspaper said arc not so con- tii corned about who gets into power divorcing Steward Malcolm- Jt the forthcoming elections as son General Motors produc- which party has a concrete plan to tion manager in Australia and feed the hungry nation announced this week that shej But Japanese women who have would wed Lt Col Gregory had a chance -to vote before (Pappy) Boyineton Today Lhe would fsht £or revealed that he is feminist meeting under the di-already married to Mrs'rection of Lieut Fthel Weed Frances Baker 32 actress 'Pappy' Boyington Reveals Marriage LOS ANGELES Jan 9-iPt-Marine Ace Boyington dis- 'nJ lDrmnR 1TT closed today he was secretly mar- individuals and bomb-damaged cit- ried to a striking blonde film ac- former director of the Cleveland women's city club and now with the Army's education section issued a statement urging women to vote for candidates who will strive for removal of all feud alastic remainders from our society and thinking" Another older MacArthur directive was bringing relief to needy ies The eleventh corps By The Associated Press Texas telephone workers voted heavily in favor of strike action Wednesday Ray Hackney of Dallas president of the Texas plant division Southwestern Telephone Workers Union reported last night Tly national communications moved into Texas yesterday with 450 members of the Association of Communications Equipment Workers (Independent) going out on strike Hackney said a strong vole In favor of strike action had been received from 30 of the 48 Southwestern Telephone Workers Union locals throughout the slate The Telephone workers voted on staging a sympathy walkout in support of the Western Electric tiployes association strike over wage issues The telephone strike vote was so taken that the locals commit themselves to support a walkout if one is called by the National Federation of Telephone Workers Hackney said that of 30 reports received 20 indicated full support for the action Six Texas locals including two in Dallas voted against a sympathy strike and three locals said they would favor limited sup-Vrt One local had a tic vote Hackney announced The labor official stated he had been informed by Mrs Cora Miller state president of the traffic division of the union that her locals were giving nearly unanimous endorsement to a sympathy strike The Association of Communications Equipment Workers strike threatened to interrupt telephone service before any regularly voted sympathy strike for Western Elec-jic employes could be brought about Wallis of Fort Worth vis president of the ACEW said his workers would begin picketing telephone exchanges in Dallas and other major Texas cities Friday Hackney said he did not believe telephone workers would cross the lines In that case Hackney adut-d operator-assistance calls might be curtailed Dial systems would not be m- Clyde Stewart Dallas manager the Southwestern Bell Telephone t'e company would all in our power to provide the necessary Hackney predicted press and radio connections on a permanently established basis would not be interrupted by a strike Members of the ACEW are striking for a wage increase Their action is not related to the sympathy Meat Conciliation Meeting Opens CHICAGO Jan 9 The government today outlined to two of the nation's largest meat packers Swift and Armour its proposal to avert the planned meat strike Jin 16 and conciliation chief Edgar Warren said he not get a definite answer from cither of the companies" Warren following separate conferences with company representatives told newsmen he had outlined the government would be willing to do in effort to assist the companies in a settlement of the packers' dispute with the CIO United Packinghouse Workers un-'on The conciliation head said he had no definite answer but the two companies would have an answer when he meets again with each tomorrow He declined to say whether the government had promised the packers an increase in meat prices to enable them to negotiate higher wages with the union Following the opening session earlier today of company and union officials and government con-Jliators Iwis Clark union president said Swift and Armour both were "standing pat" on their offers of a 7 1-2 cent hourly wage increase Clark said the union still is asking 25 rents an hour more pay hut is willing to accept 17 1-2 rents now and on the rest" HITLER WILL WITNESS FOUND 4 HER FORD Germany Jan Grrman Air For-re Gen Nicolaus Von ltrlow adjutant to Adolf Hitler sinre 1937 and reputedly one of the last persons to see the Feuh-rer slive has bren srrC ted In Bad vdesliurg British Intelligence officers said tonight Von Below believed In he (he only living witness to last will and testament was taken intn custody lie was enrolled under the assumed name of Klaus Nrgrl as a law student at Bonn university As one of three signers of the private will Von Below Is believed to have had intimate knowledge of Immediate entourage and to know in partlrular of the last fateful days In the Relrhrhanrellery bunker before Berlin fell lo the NEW YORK Jan 9 MV-Joscph Selly president of the American Communications Association (CIO) said today Western Union could "wait until hell freezes over" before 7000 striking members of his union would accept a war labor board wage award which led to the walkout Selly made the statement at news conference where he was told Ralph II Kimball Western Union vice president in charge of labor relations had said the company was waiting for the union to accept the award and that the company did not contemplate any immediate meeting with union leaders he said that he can wait until hell freezes over" Selly said Kimball had no comment on Selly's declaration Western Union resorted to the telephone and the mails to deliver messages and more than 1000 pickets marched in rain outside the main office in the second day of the walkout The strike virtually severed New York City and Hudson County New Jersey from telegraphic communication with the rest of the nation Earlier in the day Kimball said that with AFL supervisors on the job conditions were a shade better" than yesterday's company-reported 15 per cent of normal business Selly on the other hand asserted the 15 per cent of normal business report was exaggerated No disorders were reported during the days as a result of the walkout 0 Local Telegraph Service 'Normal' Telegraph traffic from Abilene moved at normal speed Wednesday to all points in the nation except greater New York City where CIO union telegraph workers were on strike Concrly local Western Union manager reported Telegrams to and from New York were subject to and cable and radio traffic to Europe and South American points normally channeled through New York was interrupted as a result of the strike Kaiser-Frazer Contract Signed DETROIT Jan 9 MV- The Kaiser-Frazer corporation contract with the CIO United Automobile Workers union containing provisions unprecedented in the motor car industry's labor relations was signed today by the heads of the newly-formed corporation and union officials In a brief ceremony in the 25th floor suite of a downtown hotel Henry Kaiser corporate chairman and Joseph Frazer president signed for the company Signing for the union were Wil Iiam McAuley regional director and member of the UAW-CIO executive board and William Stevenson director of the union's competitive shops department The Kaiser-Frazer contract among other things calls for creation of a pool of $5 a car produced and at the end of a production year this will be divided among the workers On the basis of estimated production of 300000 cars annually this will give Kaisrr-Frazcr'a prospective 8000 to 11000 workers a ly" of $1500000 Under the cor ract any wildcat strikers would sulfcr limitations on the extent to which they can participate in the pool The contract also provides for the union shop checkoff and a wage scale based on the rates paid by the Ford Motor company reported highest in the industry Kaiser-Frazer also is reported to have promised to pay any wage increase romniensijratc with what the union may gain in its strike ngainst the General Motors corporation for a 30 prr cent wage boost New Zealand Brides Await ransportation AUCKLAND New Zealand Jan i4W Of 1022 New Zealand hrides of American servicemen 350 have left with their 128 children for new homes in the United States Awaiting transport in the Auckland area are 658 wivea and 322 children Forty-seven wives have indicated the possibility of divorce Prosper! lor transport to the United Statps remain dim Opens Here With supervision over 53 West Texas counties a Veterans Administration Vocation Guidance Center has been opened in Abilene with temporary headquarters in the Chamber of Commerce 0 Carleton formerly with the re' gional headquarters in Waco is in charge as chief The staff will be built up as the needs require Carleton said Walker training officer with 18 counties in charge is already traveling out of Abilene in the placement of veterans Veterans of the war will be called in for training advisement by appointment Carleton said Applications for draining and rehabilitation are first sent lo the Waco office cleared through there to the Abilene office for the 53-county area Then Carleton calls in the veterans interrogates them gives information needed and makes arrangements for the placement for training of disabled veterans in occupations to which they would be fitted The local office not only advises but helps the vets in selecting their occupational objective Carleton said Walker training officer is a sort of middleman between veteran and the training center and keeps a dose observation over every case referred to him Several other training officers will be assigned to the area including one at Lubbock office is just opening and I cannot at this time say anything further about the plans" Carleton said are only temporarily located in the chamber of commerce building but will make arrangements for permanent headquarters somewhere in the city "Our job is to help the returned veteran in particular those who need rehabilitation by change of occupation Some men went off knowing a good trade for which they now are unqualified because of wounds and other reasons and these cases we study and try to fit bv training for a vocation in life which will make them self-supporting We have to know the veteran's background and his educational capacities After we have his background we then know what to and how to help him" Five other offices similar to the one now being established in ahilcnc have been designated They are at Houston San Antonio Waco Dallas and Texas college The 53 county area supervised by the loral office extends as far west as Winkler north to include Bailcv Halo Floyd Cottle Knox and Throckmorton counties On the south Brown McCulloch Concho Torn Green Iron Reagan Upton Crane are included A detached part is Wichita county The Veterans' Administration office in the Alexander building has to do with contacting veterans Carleton explained and the vocational guidance center to start the veteran toward rehabilitation in occupational lines Bids Due Today on Scurry Road Job Rids will he tabulated today hy the slate highway department in Austin on a Scurry county farm to market paving project Trcadaway Abilene district engineer aid last night The project designated farm to market road 612 is 55 miles long and will conned Fluvanna with highway 84 Grnding structures and surfacing will be included in the improvement Two other Abilene district projects are scheduled for bids Jan 29 at Austin One is for 328 miles of paving on 183 in Shackelford and Callahan counties and the other for const ruet ion of a bridge across the Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos on highway 24 five nulca west of Rule burgh has not undergone a test they said Suzanne golden-haired daughter of James Degnan Chicago OPA executive was snatched from her bed Monday morning by an abductor who left a $20000 ransom note killed her dismembered her body and dumped the parts into nearby sewers The coroner's office safd there also were indications she had been sexually mistreated Vcrburgh denied any knowledge of the abduction asserting he was asleep in his apartment He contended the basement windows were unlocked and said someone might have broken in to do the grisly dissecting job Funeral services will be Friday in St Gertrude's Catholic church Floods Continue Damage in South BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Violent floods continued to race throughout the south yesterday leaving thousands tempora i 1 homeless and causing tremendous property damage Twenty two deaths attributed to the high water were counted in Kentucky Tennessee Arkansas and Georgia Tennessee and Kentucky rivers swelled by torrential rains began receding in the upper regions but the upper Ohio was rising and more water was expected later in the week In Tennessee where eight persons died in the murky waters the Tennessee river crested at Chattanooga at 2582 feet nearly six feet above flood stage The Cumberland river began falling at Harlan and Fincvillc Ky and citizens began digging mud out of lowland homes The Big Sandy and Kentucky river also began receding The death list in Kentucky remained at six Arkansas counted six deaths and Georgia two Alabama and Mississippi rivers were rising with some of the streams expected to go above the danger mark AP Editors Meet Opens in Miami MIAMI Fla Jan Problems of fully covering and interpreting news events and trends of the postwar world will he discussed tomorrow at meeting of the Associated Tress Managing Editors association Fleet Admiral Chester Nim-itz who led the most powerful Navy in world history to victory over Japan will address some 300 managing editors Tomorrow night they are gathering for a three-day convention first full meeting of the association since 1943 Approximately 100 delegates nnd their wives hae registered Others were arriving hourly by train plane and bus Lt Gen lawton Collins War Department director of information will address the group at Friday morning businrss session Guest speakrr at the Friday luncheon meeting will be Smith chairman of the board of American Airlines and a general officer of the Air Transport Com' mand during the war Printing Machine Prices Increase WASHINGTON Jan The OPA today announced an immediate increase of 12 percent in ceiling prices for printing trade machinery and equipment CHICAGO Jan The search for the kidnap-killer of six-year-old Suzanne Dcgnan was described tonight by Detective Sgt Jack Hanrahan as "getting hotter and hotter" with a solution possible 24 hours" A man identified by Hanrahan only as a janitor on a drinking spree was being sought for questioning the detective said am satisfied now that there were two men in the job" he added The hint that a possible major break in the kidnap-dismember-ment case might come soon was given by Hanrahan in a criminal court habeas corpus hearing at which the judge ordered two north side building janitors freed within 24 hours or charged with an offense They are being held for questioning and so so-called lie detector tests case is getting hotter and hotter all the Hanrahan told chief Justice Harold Ward "we are looking for another man 24 hours we will know the answer one way or The detective expressed the opinion later to newsmen that the pretty golden-haired Dcgnan child was handed out hed bedroom window by a kidnaper to an accomplice The man sought is a resident of a neighborhood flat and has been reported drinking heavily the detective said He reported that a search of the flat produced no clues of our men are looking for him" Hanrahan said and depend on our apprehending him" The court issued its ruling after counsel for the janitors Hector Vcrburgh 65 and Desere Smet 35 and Vcrburgh's wife Mar' 64 asked their immediate release James Cunningham assistant attorney requested the 24 hour continuance until 4 (CST) tomorrow because of seriousness of this crime" hint of important developments capped a day marked principally by the collapse of several dues originally considered important State's Attorney William Tuohy told reporters that a chemical analysis showed bones found in an apartment furnace just off the room where they believe the victim's body was dismembered were not human Earlier Chief of Detective Walter Storms said he agreed with a coroner's office report that a hack saw found in a locker in the basement room" could not have been used to dismember the body Both Storms and the coroner discredited a theory that an ax found in an apartment had figured in the both holding that the entire job had been done with a knife Eleven persons held for questioning have hern given lic-dc-tector tests so far police said and seven of them released Vcr- Bowles Protests Butter Price Hike WASHINGTON Jan 9- An agriculture department proposal to raise the price of butter churned up opposition today from the OPA Stabilization director John Collett now will have to referee the dispute There appeared to be no pat solution Secretary of Agriculture Anderson confirmrd in Chicago that he was recommended a six-ccnt a pound increase to stimulate production Removal of subsidies Anderson said would boost the price another 12 cents for a total in-crense of 18 cents hy May 1 OPA Director Chester ltowleg thereupon issued this statement: is vigorously opposed to any pricp increase for butter You ran make (hot as strong as you like Lower Air Mail Rates Proposed WASHINGTON Jan dPI Reduction of the air mail rate to five cents an ounce was advocated by the air transport industry today Spokesmen also expressed hope that the gap betwren air and first class mail rates eventually will be eliminated The present rate for air mail is right cents an ounce but this is to revert by law to six cents upon formal termination of the war THE WEATHER nmiiTMtA'T or commerce WKATIII HI Rnr AVUMAF AND VKISITVs rarllf HnOi not mncR rhattga In tamper tsrr ldsv tonight and Friday HMT TKXAK Partly rloudv ran llnaad rool Panhandla and mhIH plm dandy and radar tamalndrr occasional light rain Paras Vsllrv Hit Han enun Iry and Dal Hlo-Faglr Pa araa Th'jra da: Friday partly cloudy rnnllnard cod FART Tt IB: Modi rlnady rnnlar aaaili portioa iwcitia! rain attrama aaaitt pardon Ihartdat Inilar rlourfr ronliaaad rod ram snalli and ronlral porMona Mndaral aorlhaal ta rani winds on rood IFMPI Tors AM Mad IIOI Ism PM Wad announced that in its area civilians have received millions of blankets and articles of clothing and 882 (TOO tons of coal all formerly be-longing to the Japanese army Great stores of imperial army building materials were distributed for reconstruction 7 Stitches Required To Close Knife Wound Attendants at St Ann hospital Wednesday night took seven stit rhea in the hand of Eddie Hodges 13-year-old son of Mr and Mrs II Hodges 1201 Cypress alter he cut it with a knife Mrs Hedges said that Eddie had bren rarving at home when the knife slipped and cut a gash in his hand Local Vets to Hear Legion Commander Several Abilene legionnaires are exported to go to San Angelo today to hear a luncheon address by the national commander of the Amrriran Legion Blankenship commander of Tarramore post said last night The national commander is John Stelle of MeLeonsinorc 111 Blankenship said he is scheduled to speak at a luncheon at the Cactus hotel in San Angelo tress at about the same time the attractive brunette trustee for his three children was making public endearing telegrams she saidmcant wedding bells for her The famous holder of the congressional medal of Lt Col Gregory revealed that he and Mri Frances Baker 32 were married yesterday in Las Vegas Ncv Boyington' marriage culminating a romance that began last November was a bombshell of surprise to Mrs Lury Malcnlmsnn who announced in Reno Sunday that she planned to marry the 35-year-old flier yesterday Boyington said Mrs Malcolm-son's announcement that they planned to be married was all a mistake Belgian Parliament Splits on Strikes BRUSSELS Jan D-Mv-A cabinet rift between communist and socialist ministers led Premier Achiltc Van Aekrr to dissolve the Belgian parliament today an action which calls for the first general elections in the nation since 1939 A usually reliable informant said the communists and socialists could not agree on the attitude the government should take toward a strike of street-ear operators in Liege where motorinen anil romluetori arc asking for wage lllcli and low tamparataraa la 4'! and IS High and lonr asm a dala lad aan ft? snd flunsat lad alghl1 Pannr this morning IJ Baat Unlfthl: ftft? i.