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Senate Defeats Taft, Wherry Tries To Cut ERP Funds THE WEAFHER CENTRAL TEXAS: Mild Occasional showers and thunderstorms. EAST TEXAS: Cloudy. Thundershowers in- northeast portions and along the upper WEST TEXAS: Cloudy. Not quite to cold in the Panhandle and South Plains. (STORY IN COLUMN THREE) The Austin American Vol.

35, No. 305 Austin, Texas, Saturday, April 2, 1949 16 Pages Five Cents INSIDEREADING CAPITOL ...,12 RADIO 1 CENTEX 2 CHURCHES 3.5.« EDITORIAL CLASSIFIED12-15 MARKETS 5PORTS UT Parade Kids Reds, Students University of Texas students kidded campus Communists, the Texas tidelands, the pyramid clubs, and especially themselves Friday in the most elaborate Round-Up parade in history. The mile-long took more than an hour to wind down a chilly, windswept route starting at 24th and ending at Sixth and Congress. Thousands lined the streets well; in advance of the parade. Winners in the float contest will be announced during the review and ball Saturday at 7:15 p.

m. Awards will be presented by Wales Madden and Martha Hodson, cochairmen of the parade committee. It was the Pre-Law Society that poked fun at Forty Acre Reds, and particularly Wendell Addington, self-styled Communist who was target of a recent legislative resolution. A slim blonde youth, looking remarkably like Addington, stood in a row boat, labeled Vulgar clutching a hammer and sickle flag. He wore a sign identifying him as and on his back a placard reading: Have Universities in Russia Behind the boat marched piekets carryinc signs: Vimen and Get A Job, the Party Needs to Work be a reception for ex-students of the home economics department in the Home Economics Building.

A number of reunions are also scheduled Saturday and Sunday for the honoree classes of 1889 and 1924, and the classes of 1889, 1904, 1914, 1919, 1929, 1934, 1939, and 1944. BOLSTER CHINA Stassen Calls For Plan for There were two tidelands floats. One elaborate display started with marching students carrying a sign the Lord Giveth, the Federal Government Taketh Next came Uncle Sam leading an oil derrick labeled California, followed by nine black-robed Supreme BOSTON, April E. Stassen Friday night called for a billion dollar-a-year to fight communism in Asia the same way the Marshal Plan is checking the Reds in Europe. The president of the University of Pennsylvania told a distinguished group of scientists and here: should move, and move promptly, to holster the southern' half of Bulwark of Peace' ss Stassen offered his plan just 24 hours after Winston Churchill called the of under Communist attack the disaster since our World War II But the Republican ho Court justices tugging at a Texas lost a bid for the GOP presidential oil derrick from beneath the nomination in clear he shadow of the Capitol.

was speaking for himself alone and Dollars were flung from the for whom Stassen was of a golden pyramid on one float; substituting, was responsible ATOMIC BOMB SAVED Winston Churchill gestures with his arms as he told his MIT Convocation audience at Boston that only the atomic bomb in the hands of the United States had stopped Communists from overrunning Europe and bombing London. Treaty Leaders Reject Red 'Aggression' Howl WASHINGTON. April The US State Department de- ed attacks, the treaty can not harm' ficials still are considering whether American and British spokesmen clared it is strictly a defensive he said. to make a formal reply to Moscow, coldly rejected Friday Russia's agreement and if the men in the The State reaction Bevin did not discuss the protest charge that the Atlantic treaty is Kremlin want to avoid trouble with to the protest which the Soviet note directly, but in a speech at aggressive. 'Hiey hailed it instead the projected alliance all they need Union delivered late Thursday was the National Press Club here did as a bulwark of peace.

do is refrain from attacking any of made known through a spokesman addresa himself to the general British Foreign Secretary Ernest the member nations. who declined use of his name. He charge of aggression. Bevin said of the pact: its wise Chairman Connally (D-Texas) of made clear that the department use it can be the greatest contribut- the Senate foreign relations com- considers the Soviet protest as ing fartor to world peace ever mittee took that stand, too. being largely a propaganda move Russia does not meditate arm- against the treaty.

Department of- House Passes Bill Repealing US Oleo Tax TOTAL OF JOBLESS SHOWS FIRST DROP IN 5 MONTHS WASHINGTON. April 1 3.1«7.00a The employment problem took a brighter turn Friday as the i Government officials were sur- government reported the jobless the upturn total fell off 54.000 in March for the the work picture. Secretary of Is a fitndajnental. principle this be said, we will never indulge in afgressian Bat to tile woald be acrreMor we say: think twice, think tJbrice. WHERRY PLAN LOSES three scantily-clad lasses did hulas around a sailor on another; mermaids fished into the crowd from a third.

Austin police got a jab in the hibs with a giant-sized pinball machine float, marked amusement and surrounded with money bags. The parade was not all on the for anything I say this Churchill was on the platform as Stassen spoke. the Marshall Plan in Europe has been the most significant single right thing we have done since the end of the Stassen said. is high time that we have a parallel MacArthur plan in Asia. in a major way, it light side.

Some floats carried a should be long-term in its vision, message, others were designed for continuous in its execution, carry- sheer beauty. All told there were ing the same flexibility of detailed more than 60 in the line of march. Jhe same concept ted off by Governor Beauford H. and of Jester the Southwest ItiJlck Lt at the idea sweethearts and University of thinking should begin and end Texas sweetheart nominees. i upon this question of the preven- The Newman Club had a religious third world tableau of the Ave Maria.

The Men- he said, tends shackle tal Hygiene Association had a minds at the very moment in serious float, urging adequate treat-, history when it is most essential ment for mentally ill and that they be asking Texas Climb Out of I amendment, the Senate recessed at 11:03 p. EST until 11 a. m. Saturday. Wherry told the Senate that the Taft-Russell amendment merely a the Snake And, he ridiculed the Idea an- per cent.

A iet plane with a realistic jet other war would mean thp end of After the vote on the Taft-Russell take-off. was on the Air an atomic war. ROTC float. There was a float with scientists who helped de- a revolving orange and white hat. one with a pretty girl beneath a audience as Stassen shouted: water fall; two giant crepe paper devastation and steamboats; a float with a corral; gtruction and suffering can be ad- and a live, frightened calf: a float ministered, but.

in my judgment, with gold-gilded statues; one of a man can never fashion the means champagne glass with real bubbles, of destroying all man: man can never wipe out entirely through Toward the end of the line the world that curious combination the Clawed de Van Botts progress called tion to Africa with a score of cork- Sounding a theme was blackened natives clad In G-Strings meant to be Stassen lumped and carrying assorted alcohols. i Stalin and communism in the TT 11 philosophic as Hitler and Saturday the Round-Up will philosophy of swing into an almost 24-hour-long terialism and round of festivities, starting with attitudes in both instances the Cowboy breakfast and ending; toward the nature of man and his with the long-awaited presentation rights are Stas- i G'Hoff" Of the University of Texas Sweet- i sen said. the war between rJinv A I man told newsmen tnat the recov- heart at Gregory Gym. them from their proximity to nroeram would be virtually The Sweetheart will be chosen each other as major mutually sus- of Saturday niizht li from five finalists: Frances Dixon, i picious powers rather than from to authoriw new Joanne Johnson, and Margaret any fundamental ideological dif- Pickett, all of Houston; Rosemary ference. meant was that the Eco- Allen of Amarillo and Martha Cart- saw hopes of taking nomic Cooperation Administration wright of Breckenridge.

steps for the of; (ECA) would have obligated most Visiting sweethearts from six through commissions of its present funds by then and other Southwest Conference schools the United Nations. i would lack authority to go ahead and 60 Bluebonnet Belle nominees further buying contracts. How- wili also be presented. The visiting While calling the UN in- ever, actual shipments would c-on- sweethearts are Joy Freeman of in its present form, he i tinue on a large scale, undpr con- Hot Springs. University of cautioned against tracts previously made.

Arkansas; Patricia Ann Parker of' ing its I Facing Taft, who sat nearby, Van- Idenberg told the Senate he was lVllk6 April rOOl to diiagree rk my good friend from Ohio Joke Irritates Pop But Vandenberg said, the PARIS, April 1 equity, all the logic and all pru- Senate Defeats Try To Cut $814 Million Out of ERP WASHINGTON. April lations committee has agreed to The Senate beat down Friday night "some readjustment in the U'taLs a proposal by Senators Taft later when Congress gets Ohio) and Russell to slash around to voting actual appropria- 10 per cent off the new tions. 000 fund for the next 15 months of Earlier in the debate Britain's the European Program. budget and her loan to The vote was 54 to Russia came in for heated The vote, regarded as the major sion. test of efforts to whittle fofeign Senator C.

Johnson Daid spending, seemingly cleared Colo) tiie issue as the Sen- the way for Senate approval of the ate continued its scven-day-old dc- full amount requested by President' bate administration for Western Europe. is facing dciicH and yet is pro- However, many amendments still posing to take money ont of a were pending. If all were formally to help England, offered, they could delay a final vote on the bill, perhaps for days. But Senator Robertson (D-Va) retorted: -I believe the United Kmg- rame after the Senate cinitnr has in reality the kind of sur- Whirrv MoM rut fnnH the senator is talking nbout. Wherry (R-Neb) to cut the fund 15 British may be long on nounds 287-89 Vote Sends Measure to Senate WASHINGTON.

April The House passed and sent to the Senate Friday a bill repealing the 63-year old federal taxes on oleomargarine. first decline in five months. At the same time the Census Bureau said the number of people having Jobs last month increased 480.000 over the February estimates. increase in the number of persons having jobs was greater than the decrease in unemployment because there was a rise in the The labor force. Commerce Sawyer told reporters after a White House cabinet meeting that he thinks the upward trend in unemployment has been The Census Bureau Itself spoke of the development as showing that the rising jobless trend has been halted least Despite the decline last month It said the total still was higher than in March 194S.

totalitarianism we say. you have your system but think it has to affect other lives. We have to share the Bevin made two other points about the pact and the general ject underway here to consolidate the unity of the non-Commumst Western world: 1. He declared settlement of future peace, permanent peace, has to be determined this next 2. He said that the treaty will create common of manpower.

military assistance and economic aid and the question for each country is what it can put into the pool. The British Cabinet officer, to join in signing the 12 -nation, 20-year alliance next Monday, predicted history will say that pact humanity took its great step to as defined by the government, con-. The House vote passing the bill sists of people having work, or it explained the apparently fa- great freedoms of the was 287 to 89. looking for work. The in this force rose from 60,388.000 in Before passage, it rejected 242 February to 60.814.000 in March to 137 a proposal to repeal the Ux jhese are the new totals of un- hut outlaw the interstate shipment employed and employed: and sale of yellow oleomargarine.

The House took instead the so- called Poage bill that lays no restrictions on interstate shipments. This measure was accepted 162 to 141 on a teller vote and retained on the roll call. The vote was for a bill by Representative Poage that Johnson said the United Slates kills the tax on oleomargarine, but requires that each serving of the product in a public eating place must be triangular in shape and identified as oleomargarine. The measure would not disturb the lau-s of 18 states that now prohibit the sale of yellow oleomargarine. bill was accepted as a substitute for one by Representa- (sterling), but are short on The implication behind Robertson's statement was that PrJtain still needs US dollars order to buy needed American supplies.

This is because the United Siates will not accept British feel almost certain Soviet Russia will consider signing of the North Atlantic pact invalidates her 20- tive Granger and August year mutual aid treaties with Br't- H. Andresen (R-Minn) that would France. vorable showing in these words: seasonal expansion in employment in agriculture and some other industries apparently counteracted the effects of further lay-offs in other sectors of the The Bureau of Emplojonent Security, meanwhile, reported a drop in the number of workers drawing unemployment compensation. It said that in the week ending March 26, the number of workers drawing jobless pay totaled 1.949,700—a drop of 6.000 below the figure for the previous week. The number of those filing their first claims for the insurance benefits decreased even more 200 to bring the total down to 313,200 MOSCOW, April in- C.

Goodwin, director of formed diplomats said Friday they the security bureau, said this Alliance May Kill East-West Pact Russians Expected To Claim Invalidation marked the first weekly since last November. decline But Taft obiected to this Ian- sterling in exchange for Am 3 in very limited goods, except amounts. Britain came in for criticism when Senators Taft have repealed the tax but at the same time would have outlawed the interstate transportation and sale of yellow oleomargarine. The Poage bill contains no restrictions on interstate sale of oleomargarine. The present federal taxes on oleomargarine are 10 cents a pound on yellow and 1-4 cent guage.

He pointed out that 10 per ccnt cut would knock off more than $500.000.000, and he added The vote came after Senator and John.son attacked a a pound on the uncolored product denbcrg urged the Senate to authorize the full S5.58C.- 000.000 to carry out the second in- military English goods. stallment of the Marshall Plan. He ---------------------------------said the plan has in halting the advance of communism in Europe. Just before the voting, Marshall 000.000 British loan to Russia for Moscow to us? in purchasing non- In addition there are special taxes on manufacturers and sellers of oleomargarine. Corpus Christi.

Texas College; Elsie Ann Gayer of San Angelo, Baylor University; Mary Joe Goodearle of Dallas. Southern Methodist University; Martha Ann Moore of Houston. Rice Institute; and Nancy Tally of Justin, Texas i Christian University. The Longhorn Band concert, preceding the revue, will start at 7:15 i p.m. Another high point Saturday will Texas Endures Weather The v.eather.

on an April fool Epree. powdered the Panhandle and 'Couth Plains v'ith snow. sprmKled sleet over the Pig Spring area, and turned loose thundershowers in Central and South Texas Friday. Hail and a heavy caused a 30 -minute power Murt at the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station and a 17-minute failure in part of Corpus A 1.48-inch rain that fell in a 15-minute bur'st drenched ville. Clouds covered the state, uid BRIEFLY TOLD Michael Anderson, 2 1-2.

thought dence and I underline the word it was a huge April fool joke to are against the cut in lock his dad out of the family the authorization for the sc.ond auto. installment of the ECA After apples and candy failed to; We are dealing with our own day ended. More light snow was wheedle Mike into opening the national anH sponsors of the Atlantic alliance, Britain and France among them, that the alliance was aimed against her. She said it violates the Brit- i ish-Soviet and the French-Soviet treaties and the Yalta and Potsdam agreements and undermines the United Nations. (Both French and British spokes-1 men denied the Soviet charge of treaty violation British officials commented that Russia's reaffirmation of loyalty to the Yalta and Potsdam agreements silly against the background of the Ber- i lin (A British Foreign Office spokesman said text of the Atlantic pact was drafted with every ron- sciousness of the United Nations charter and in such a way as not to contravene its He said the pact was directed not against Russia, but against aggression.) The British-Soviet treaty, signed in London in 1942.

says of the high contracting parties undertakes not to conclude any alliance and not to take part in any coali- uTider the measure approved By tion again.t the other high the Weather Bureau said Texas the Senate executive expenditures contracting parly. A uas in for a rainy, unsettled week- committee. Reorganization end. for the President have been re- trMty. signrf in Moscow in The Atlantic alliance, linking the Bulgaria Catches Spies, Slavs Say BELGRADE.

Yugoslavia. April 1 wfficial news agency. Tajug said Friday Bulgaria has down uii a large ThurSay 'tT'the i witn espionage ac- Those treaties, written in the war years, pledged partnership in the war against Germany complete and joint measures to safeguard Europe from new aggression after the war Each treaty stipulated that neither nation should join a coalition directed against the other. Russia charged in a tart note Panel Passes Bill for Bureau Streamlining Compiled from Rooorto WASHINGTON A bill giving President Truman broad powers to revamp the government, but also making it easier for Congress to nullify his reorganization plans, was approved Friday by a Senate committee. If either branch of Congress disapproved a reorganization proposal it would be dead.

measure approved by world." After the press club Ulk. Bevia went to the State Department building In where he Jeined Secretary Acheson and French Ferelgn Blfai- bter Sebert Schoman. They talked over eutstanding German problems, and Schuman reporters they goed Acheson. mean while, had met Schumao in an earlier conference Friday to discuss the Atlantic treaty and Germany. At other times the American secretary waa conferring with Belgian Forets Minister Paul-Henri Spaak; Joseph Bech.

foreign minister of Luxembourg; and Jose Caeiro Da Mata, foreign minister of Portugal. Bevin told 600 newspapermen and guests at the press club that he agreed with Winston ChurchiU'i estimate that the men who rule Russia fear the friendship of West more than they fear its hostility. Churchill said in a speech in Boston Thursday night that rulers are determined to keep their people cut off from the outside world. But when he was asked about the idea once expressed by President Truman that Josef Stalin is a prisoner of the Kremlin, Bevin laughingly replied mysteries (of Russia) are as dark to me as they are to the alert American In response tti another question, Bevin indicated he believes East- West trade may promote post-war recovery. feel that abaelnte and exchi- slve cutting off trade would net be a way te recevery." be said.

tivities of countries. The dispatch denied the group was linked to Yugoslavia. (Communists use the woro in references to Western Powers, particularly the United States and BriUin). account continued: About 100 persons, including many in high government positions. were picked up by Bulgarian authoritiesi Traicne Rostov, vice premier in charge of Bulgarian economic affairs, was to be He nas been expelled from the Communist Politburo in Bulgaria and is under house arrest Tantug said the anti-Yugoslav policies of the Cominform (Communist International Information Bureau) only serve tc make spying activities easier the mask of friendship toward The Cominform has accused Pre- An all-Ume record in mier Marshal car registrations was set the regime in Yugoslavia of deviating deadline was reached Friday ght from true Marxism and of follow- No exact were available ing a hateful policy toward the midm-ht decline but (Yugoslavia is on poor County Tax Collector Steve Helwith Bulgaria and other countries the of in the sphere.

There has FriS'ai been no report from Bulgaria about are millions of pe -pie in first Czechoslovakia and elsewhere whc are only waiting for the curtain to be rent in order to have their freedom Car Registration Record Reported be the University of Texas Ex- Papa Anderson had to use continued and referred to the FCA Students Association luncheon In screwdriver. He think it outlay as an of Snow continued to fall the i United States and Canada roundup referred to in this tabulated. Travis Coun fi Commission. Western Europe, is to be signed in durpatch. I in prospect in the Panhandle and WASHING the US is Washington Monday.

South Plains Friday night, the US avoid any future war, Gen- Soviet memorandum was Weather Bureau said. the Texas Union. Outstanding University students will be honored at a Hogg Audi- i torium program Saturday at 10 a.m. as the University observes the first! annual Honors Day. Principal speaker will be Dr.

C. M. Thompson, dean emeritus of the University of Illinois Commerce and Business Administration College. TTie honor students will be guests was very funny. Vandenberg said the foreign re- Austin Voters Will Elect Two School Board Members Today show an increase of bet iveen Diplomatic here 2,500 5 enger that most of the ambassadors of Henceforth.

penalty will He estimated that when all ilated. Travis increase of bet i cars. Two Austin School Board mem- I over Texas. The City bers will be elected Saturday to election is set by charter. Council of Dr.

Painter at 10:45 a.m. at a re-' help set policy in the education of ception in the Texas Union. The traditional Cowboy breakfast will be held at 8:30 a.m. at the Austin Hotel. Saturday at 10:30 a.m., there will Small Craft Warned Of Strong Gulf Winds 17.000 public school students.

Voters will go to the polls between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. to ballot on the three candidates in the race. The School Board is made up of seven members, part of whom are elected each year. Two were elected last year, two more will be Amarillo and Clarendon reported both light snow and fog.

A heavy afternoon snow fall at Lubbock, in the South Plains, cut visibility to six blocks for more than an hour. Earlier there had been intermittent snow and a drizzle there, and more of such weather was expected during the night. Dalhart, in the Panhandle, reported two inches of snow on the ground. Childress, in the southeast corner of the Panhandle, had light selected Saturday, and three places 3-B: Pease School. Ward 3-D.

Ward 4-A. Ward 4-B. and Ward 4-C: Wooldridge School. Ward 4-D. Ward 4-E.

and Ward 4-F: Baker Schtx)l. Ward 4-G: Ridgetop School. Polling places are: w. West First. East First, and West drizzle mixed with iight Wards: South Austin grains.

Pampa and Plainview .1 rcportcd snow. St. Elmo District: St. Elmo the south and iir cool, misting rain fell dur- Ward I thp afternoon. Showers and a iight hail had spattered Abilene Ward 2-A.

Ward 3-A. and Ward during the morning. eral Hoyt S. testified to the United States. Canada.

Cominform counties are charged for lafe registrations, but Friday the Air Forces must be ablCj Britain. France, Belgium, the Neth- from Belgrade. Theic appeared lo highway patrolmen werj not to complete basic in; erlands and Luxembourg. In addi- be nothing to support a theory that expected to stopping cars a hurry. The triple job.

he tion. Norway. Italy. Denmark. Por- the ambassadors had been with- 1943 license plates i few is to hit back hard at an aggressor, tugal and Iceland are joining up.

drawn. days defend this country, and other US forces. The general told a Senate armed services subcom-j WEST TEXAS-TO-6ULF mittee the air arm can do it Congress approves the so-called 70- group Air Force bill already passed by the House. Llano To Ask Through Highway Completion NEW espionage trial gy dave SHANKS of Valentin A. Gubitchev, suspend- Amtm Armncan Agricultural Iditor ed Soviet of the UN.

and A O. April Will asK the Texas Highway Llano to Marble Falls in Burnet employe, was delayed two weeics County which will connect with The Llano delegation also will of the Austin Chamber of ask the Highway Commission for a designation of a highway from Friday. The Russian insisted the Commission to build a road major segment of the West Ttxas- three miles of Marble Falls. will be filled next year. The three candidates in this race arc W.

I. Kocurek. Mrs. Lora M. Lee.

and Mrs. O. D. Weeks. NETW ORLEANS.

April 1 Kocurek and Mrs. Weeks are run- TTie US Weather Bureau announc-' ning for reelection. ed Friday night it had ordered i Answering criticism that the small craft warnings hoisted 10:30 School Board and City Council and 5-D: John B. Winn School, p. m.

(EST) from Port Arthur, election, which will be held Mon-I Ward 6 -B. Ward 6 -C. and Ward Texas, to New Orleans for strong; day, were t(X) close together, school fi-D: Bickler Administration Build- Ward 4-H: Rosedale School. Ward 5-A. Ward 5-B, and5-C.

easterly winds occasionally reaching miles per hour in thun- dersqualli late Friday night or Saturday. officials Friday explained that the date of their election is set by state law. Statute sets the first Saturday in April for School Board elections At the other end of the the Corpus Christi Naval Air power was cut off for a half 1 several poles were down during the rain and hail storm there. .72 inches. Hailstones as large as quarters fell in Corpus Christ! and area.v to-Gulf highway.

the highway committee of the inc. Ward 6 -A: Govalle School. Ward 7-A and Ward 7-B: Palm SchooL trial begin at once, saying am But his and Miss lawyers asked for postponement. NEW 0 pouring in by mail to banks and friends of a missing banker reached more than $100,000 Friday. But the banker Llano Chamber of Commerce, said and nearly $300.000 more still are Friday night at a quarterly mem- missing.

Personable Richard H. bership meeting of the chamber The brief but heavy rain toUled Crowe. 41. disappeared Sunday, the that a county delegation will appear day before the discovesy of the before the Highway Commission biggest theft from a bank in the within the nea- future to ask for He ap- 11 miles of paving west of the city parently is making an effort to pay of Llano. TThis, together with 9.1 off a huge pile of debts without.

miles already allocated, will giving police any clue to his where- plete a road the city of Llano aboutj I west to the Mason County line. a road fiom Marble Falls to merce acted ss moderator of panel discussion on plans for pleting the highway. During the discussion. Senator Carlos Ashley reported to the the county that will complete a' tin. already completed within chamber members that the State Highway Department to The King Kanch reported light hail from Sanu to Nonas in Kenedy County.

On the extreme western end of build this highway because of pToject. McCulloch County Significance to all Tcxas Dr. H. J. Hoerster, chairman of Knight said, that construc-1 Other speakers included W.

H. tion was to begin immediately Dodgen of the Game. Fish and from Brady to the Mason County; Oyster Commission; Sam AUred, line. This construction, plus that Travis County commissKHTier; already finished or allocated, and! Travis County Judge Tom to be requested by the Llano son: Llano County Judge P. Me- gation will comnlete a Brady-LIano-, Williams: Joe Carrington, presideni Marble Falls-Austin highway of the Austin Chamber of Corn- sought by these Central merce; W.

D. Dockery of Austin, cities. District 14 highway engineer: and T. D. Swenson, president of the 1 Tom Collier of the engineering and Llano chamber presided at the design section of the Highway De- meeting.

Walter Loof, aecre.ary partment..