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Friday, April 8, 1949 THK AUSTIN AMHUCAN, AUSTIN, TEXAS 27. ARMY SHOWS tanks clatter past General Lucius D. Clay and his staff at Grafenwoehr, Germany, as the US Army shows its might on Army Day. Other tanks in background wait turn to join at the former training grounds of the once mighty macht. In the display were 5,000 soldiers, 200 tanks, 3,000 armored vehicles and many planes overhead.

Addressing his troops, Gen. Clay said the US Army pledged to keep the peace by force if necessary. US Turns Down Short Wave Plan MEXICO CITY, April The United States refused Thursday to sign the world short wave broadcasting agreement The 85-nation plan was rejected as not or Under It the International Radio Conference gives Soviet Russia 680 hours on the air daily and the United States 202. George E. Sterling, head of the US delegation, warned the conference Wednesday that government and the people of my country are not accustomed to seeing the USA 10th removed from the top of the list in matters of world He said then that even if instructed to sign the plan he would reserve the right of the United States to step up the power of its stations to compensate partially for the small allotment of hours.

The 202 hours in the plan are nearly half what the Voice of America now uses daily. After announcing the refusal to sign. Sterling told the conference Thursday United States is prepared to participate in any further work the conference may decide to undertake or Many of the 450 delegates here commented Wednesday that there could be no real air control plan without the United States. The conference, which assembled Oct. 22, had the job of distributing available short wave channels in the eight bands from 6 to 26 mega cycles.

Difficulties arose early because the Soviets asked for so much time supporting their demands with ar guments on the vastness of Russia the general use of wireless instead of telegraph and the need to use 16 languages within the Soviets Secret British Test Will See Ship Exposed to Atomic Rays LONDON, April 7 -The Admiralty prepared Thursday for a top secret experiment in which a warship will dc bombarded wtih destructive atomic gamma rays. A complete hush-hush atmospiere surrounded the test which will be made on the Cruiser Arethusa. presently in Falmouth Harbor. Unlike the Bikini atomic tests, the i.ress will be barred and the experiment conducted under the strictest security. An Admiralty spokesman said the atomic ray which would be fired at the ship was nut a But he would give no further details.

(Gamma radiation is the Most penetrating of the rays released by atomic energy. It can pierce many feet of solid lead. (Scientific sources in New Vork said the British may be planning to use a small, portable atomic energy pile as its source of gamma radiation, which results in a c'lain reaction.) The Admiralty announcement said: the summer of 1949. a source of radio-activity will be directed I Solent, between the South England at a warship so the effects ui ra- Coast nnd the nearby Isle of Wight, dioactive waves into the vitals may! some time in June. be estimated and the effectj on crew ascertained.

trial will not cause any inconvenience to the public. The 'rial will be off the South Coast. In due course, the Admiralty will notify shipping in the area. "The source of radioactivity will be directed against the ship fiom pontoons moored nearby. No members and animals will be aVard the ship during the The announcement was prompted by a one-sentence statement in the House of Commons by John Dugdale parliamentary and financial secretary to the Ad miralty, when he introduced Navy estimates on March 8.

Dugdale said: are planning a radiological survey to investigate penetration of gamma rays into a ship under attack by atomic weapons, and these testa will begin this An Admiralty spokesman said the Arethusa will go from Falmauth to Portsmouth and remain a -nort time a variety of things will be put aboard and small alterations He said the experiment probably would be conducted in the nairow Clark To Attend Frat Dinner Here Attorney General Tom Clark will be in Austin Sunday as honor guest at a dinner and reception of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity. The attorney general and Mrs Clark will be in Houston Saturday night for a Day Banquet of Delta Tau Delta. Before returning to Washington, they will stop here to visit the capter of which Clark was once president and of which his son, Ramsey, is now a member. Also attending the banquet, which will be held at the new Shamrock Hotel in Houston, will be the Delta Tau Delta national president, Paul Hoffman, director of ECA. Hoffman will not be able to attend the re ception of the Austin chapter Sun.

day. John Fry, president of the Aus tin chapter of the fraternity, said that invitations to the reception have been sent to Governor Jester, Lieutenant Governor Shivers, Speaker of the House Durwood Manford, Mayor Tom Miller, University President T. S. Painter, members of the University Law School faculty, and other Austin men who are prominent in the legal profession. A dinner, preceeding the reception at the fraternity house, 2801 San Jacinto, will begin at 6 p.

m. County To Consider Opening of Road A request for opening a road through the old Venable Place on North Bull Creek will be considered by the Travis County Commissioners Court on April 13. A petition signed by a number of residents in that area was received this week by the court. They wrote Mrs. Dorothy Duval and other property owners to appear before the court next Wednesday when a decision will be made on the matter.

Bridges Urges Dismissal Of NLRB Man SAN FRANCISCO. April (JPy- Harry CIO Longshoremen Union Thursday demanded dismissal of Robert Denham as general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, and repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act. A convention voted resolution said that Denham and the act itself out to destroy the West Coast longshore that has publicly announced he plana to kill the hiring hall and is hoping to do this with all The hiring hall is the union-supervised agency where workers are registered and from which they dispatched to dock jobs. Employers have contended that under Taft- Hartley the setup is illegal. union, by its stand, opposes mere changes in Taft-Hartley in favor of its complete repeal and replacement by the old Wagner Act.

The convention continued attacks on national CIO policies. It approved the union report criticizng CIO moves toward wth drawal from the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU). Harry Bridges, president of the union, the international and is strongly critical of national CIO actions. The delegates have voted to support him in his blasts against what he termed national CIO infringement on ILWU autonomy. But there was some opposition and it showed up Thursday in one phase of the WFTU question.

One resolution in effect instructed ILWU officers to take steps to remain affiliated with the WFTU, if and when the CIO severs connections with the world organization. The hot arguments pro and con resulted in sending it back to committee for possible changes. CIO national representatives to the WFTU have recommended that the CIO withdraw from the world federation, charging it is dominated by Communist nations. Philip Murray, national CIO president, has announced the recommendation will be considered at the next national executive board meeting. Vickers Heads Optimist Club F.

W. VicKers was ins'alled TTiursday night as president of the Optimist Club for 1949-50 at the 15th annual banquet in the Capital Ballroom of the Austin HoieL Midget 90-Pound Cow Only 3 Feet Long and 2 Feet High EVERETT, Wash, April A midget cow was claimed by its owner Thursday as the full grown cow in the She is three feet long and two fet high. A veterinarian said the 90-pound cow is between two and three years old. The dwarf is so small that several cattlemen claim she They declared they believed she is a cross between a cow and one of the midget deer that abound on nearby Whidbey Island. Roy Tower spotted the dwarf at cattle auction yards in Snohomish and made a private deal to buy her.

the cutest little runt I ever he said. nothing like her in the Tower is a veteran smckman with many years experience in stock shows and carnivals. He said the animal will be extremely valuable 1 shows. Although it could not be definitely established, it was believed the midget came to the stock yards with a load of cattle from Whidbey Island. Her odd eating habits, shaggy coat and flightiness indicate that she ran wild for a long time.

Tower said. When Tower first obtained her a few days ago she nibbled at buds off trees and bushes instead of grazing on the lush grass in the vacant lot where he is keeping her. guess she got used to eating buds during the hard winter," Tower declared. first she also was afraid to be touched by anybody and would try to get The dwarf, named by Tower, has a fawn-colored coat with deeD brown and black on the head. The veterinarian who examined her said she is in normal as a curiosity at fairs and stock health.

Mrs. Faye Shelton was installed as president of the Opti-Mrs. flub. Louis Sein, lieutenant governor of Optimist sixth district, was in charge of ceremonies. Other Optimist officers installed were E.

J. Davis, Coy Doboins, Charlie Howell and J. B. Moreland, vice presidents; Verner Magnuson, secretary-treasurer; Henry Ramsey, sergeant-at-arms; and the Rev. J.

K. Beery, chaplain. Directors installed included Fonald Weaver, Dr. James J. Fwley Neville Johnson, Jack mukes.

Travis LaRue end S. E. My- lun. Bertie Heard was installed as pianist Other Opti-Mrs. officers instilled were Nelda Gat in, vice president; Leona Woods, secretary; Bernice Dobbins, treasurer; and Mittie Lewis, parliamentarian.

Opti-Mrs. directors included Mesdames Ruth Howell, Hazel Davis, Joyce Gustafson, Ruth Coleman and Alice King. Five new Optimists were installed by Pat Adelman, who presented them lapel pins and the Optimist creed. Ten charter members of the Optimist Club received a copy of the first program. Charlie Howell served as of ccremonies at the banquet.

Mel Sandlin and his Orchestra and University of Texas students en tertained during the program and dance, which followed. Outgoing Optimist Club officers are Winifred O. Gustafson, president; Conrad Fath, M. H. Miller, J.

B. Moreland and Aubrey Moyer, vice presidents; Verner Magnuson, secretary-treasurer; R. W. Viewers, sergeant-at-arms; the Rev. J.

K. Beery, chaplain; and Bertie Heard, pianist. Former Opti-Mrs. Club officers are Mesdames Viola Lee. president; Ruth Howell, vice president; Rapp, secretary; Mildred Manor, treasurer; and Shudde Bess Fath.

parliamentarian. Lost Twins' Father Gives Hospital $100 EFFINGHAM, 111., April A Farina, 111., farmer and his Jvife, whose third set of twins perished in lire at St. Hospital. Thursday donated $lCii to help rebuild the hospital think the hospital is entitled to something for its said Raymond Sigrist the father of the twin girls, Eileen and he told reporters, want to show we have no hard At the time of the cirth March 19, the American Medical Association saiJ birth of three consecutive sets of twins in a scientific rarity but not unprecederted. They were bom at home but were taken later to the hospital for care.

Sigrist and his wife, Loretta, have been married 10 years. One set of twins died shortly after their premature 1947 birth. They have eight living children. Pioneer Burnet Rites Slated Today MARBLE FALLS, April Funeral services will be held at p. m.

for John Wealey Yett, 89, who died at his home here Thursday. Tett was a pioneer of Burnet County, coming there at the age of eight with his parents from Ten- neasee. His father, the late Dr. James H. Yett, was a physician in the county.

He made his home in Burnet County most of the time but lived for a short time in West Texau where he had ranch interests. Be sides ranching, Yett was a mer chant and civic leader. Funeral services will be held al Central Christian Church, where Yett has been a member for many years. The Rev. II.

Daniel Morgan, pastor of Central Christian Church of Brownwood, will officiate. Assisting him will bo Dr. T. Richard Carthright, pastor of the First Baptist Church and the Rev. M.

Preston Manley, pastor of the Methodist Church of Marble Falls. Survivors art his widow, Mrs. Maude Wilson Yett; a daughter, Alleen Yett and a sister, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Deniston of Fort Wortn. Pallbearers will be G.

L. Jonev. Mack Callhan, Virgil A. Dorbandt, H. B.

Prather, John T. Taylor. Emette C. Alexander, Dr. H.

O. Lewis and R. O. Smith. Honorary pallbearers are H.

E. Faubion, R. T. Badger and Dr. A.

Nanny of Ausun; Dr. I. M. Franks of Lampasas; Judge N. T.

Stubbs and Tom Jonnson of Johnson City; Granville Knox, McLean Knox, Dr. T. D. Vaughan, Arthur Littleton Bertram, II H. Galloway and Walter Wallace of Bertram and all pioneers of Burnet County.

5 Men Needed To Give Hair Cut to Be Bee Diagram above shows the 14 European nations, plus Western Germany and Trieste, participating in the European Recovery Program and how much each has drawn in dollar-credits since the program went into effect one year ago. Two eligible countries, Switzerland and Portugal have not yet asked for direct help. Figures, from latest ECA statistics available, are cumulative through 16. SALT LAKE CITY. April UP) Pint-sized Hiram Be Bee had his long hair cut Thursday.

His beard came off, too. But the operation accomplished easily, for the philosopher, eccentric, handman. and murderer, lived up to his reputation as the in the Utah State by objecting in his usual voluable style. Be Bee is about 65 years old but claims he never and says he remembers events which happened in the Civil War. His death penalty for the spying of a town marshal was communted to life imprisonment in a last-minute action last year.

cut my hair. a crime against Be Bee shouted. Warden Mason Hill, who suggested the trim in the interests of sanitation and Rot Board Corrections approval before carrying out the barbering job, was unperturbed. hair is my own personal said Be Bee. had this hair for was given to me by mother Be Bee said the clipping was just another attempt to regiment me into pattern.

every constitutional right to wear his hair the way he wants He tried another tack. need long hair to protect myself against sinus trouble. I need my hair to keep me Hill was unmoved. The barber paid no attention. do Be Bee repeated, with a trace of a tear his eye.

do But they did it just the same. It took the warden and three guards to hold the 92-pound Be Bee in an improvised barber chair. But Hiram has a regimented look now. Former Austin Couple Report Birth of Son Yank Merchant Queen Approved 'WEIRDEST PHENOMENON' CLEVELAND, April WASHINGTON, April The maritime Commission an- nounced Thursday a decision to Numerous West Side Clevelanders build a new $70 million queen of Thursday reported seeing a the American merchant fleet. The 48.000 ton, 980-feet super Clevelanders Cite 'Strange, Glowing Red Light' in Sky in the liner will be the largest passenger ship ever built in the United States.

The Maritime Commission, in glowing red sky Wednesday night They said the light at times moved with great speed, then seemed to hover in one spot. Chester Sobzyk, control tower operator announcing the action, said United I Cleveland Airport, said it States Lines. Incorporated, has prenomenon agreed to pay $28,087,000 of the construction costs. The remaining Dr. J.

J. Nassau of the Warner 8c $42.200.000 will come from federal Swasey Observatory at Case subsidy funds. Jstitute of Technology, said he re- Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B.

Baldwin of Iowa City, Iowa, have announced the birth of a son, Joseph Lamar Baldwin, last Saturday. Mrs. Baldwin, the former Mollie Mossman of Denver, formerly taught in the Austin public schools. Her husband, the son of Dr. and Mrs.

J. W. Baldwin, attended public schools here and received his BA and MA degrees from the University of Texas. He is currently working on his doctor's degree in drama at the University of Iowa. The vessel will be constructed by Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Newport News, Va.

It will carry 2.000 passengers in luxury accommodations and will be used as the American flag vessel in trans-Atlantic trade. The craft, which compares in size and passenger-cargo facilities with Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary, will take three years to construct. Top speed was not announced for security reasons but is unofficially stated at about 30 knots. lady Hier Plans To Seek Record HOUSTON. April iff) Houston woman pilot plans to attempt to break the world's three- kilometer air record here July 3 and 4.

Dates for the record attempt were announced Thursday by Dot Lemon who plans to use a modified P51 plane in the National Aeronautics Association approved flights. Exact time of the record attempt will depend upon weather conditions. Mrs. Lemon, who moved here recently from New York, says she is determined to bring the three-kilometer speed record back to America. The current record of 469 miles per hour is held by Fritz Wendel.

a German, who set the mark about 10 years ago. The record has not been held by an American in more than 25 years. Mrs. Lemon said a permanent three-kilometer course will be built here under NAA supervision. ceived a flurry of telephone calls between 11 and 11:20 Wednesday night all from west siders.

went out twice and looked, but could see he said. look for it Sobczyk and his partner. Richard Linehan. said they watched the light through binoculars but could not make out what it was. It was to the northeast from their tower, they said.

times it sped along at high speed. At times it hovered almost to a Sobczyk said. They said there were no jet planes or blimps in the area last night Search Ends As Lost Tot Found Safe FATHER JUMPS, CATCHES Alonzo, 27- year-old war veteran, is shown with his two children, Louis, 4, (left) and Carmen, ten months, in hospital in New York after all had escaped from a fire which wrecked the four- story apartment house in which they lived. When fire started, Alonzo jumped 45 feet to the yard from the third floor apartment, landed unhurt and then stood with arms outstretched to catch the two youngsters dropped from a window by his wife, Esther, 28. The children escaped unharmed, but Alonzo was unable to hold his wife and she sustained a fractured ankle.

CHICAGO, April 7 search of near North Side sewers and basements for three-year-old Patricia Anne Bogseth was called off Thursday. She turned up. snug in a strange bed about a mile from her home. Irene Wall, 28, a nurse attendant, had taken charge of Patricia Anne about 5 p. m.

Wednesday after the child apparently lost her bearings in a park. was crying, and her nose had been bleeding, so I took her home, fed her, tucked her in. and washed her Miss Wall told police. Then, late Thursday morning, she notified the police. Patricia father.

Frank, who has nine other children, reported the little girl missing at 7 p. m. Wednesday night Nearly 100 policemen and volunteers began to comb the neighborhood for her after her mittens were found beride a garbage can in an alley. My, How You've Grown, Tabby Cat! SAN MATEO. Calif, April The lion hunters of San Mateo County made their first kill Thursday.

Mountain lions have been seen prowling the coastal hills. This morning someone sighted a tawny form slinking along a slope. Six men, including Al Mayne and his neighbor, Dave Capurio, formed a hunting party. rifle was fitted with telescopic sights. When the party sighted the animal, Mayne dropped to one knee, took careful aim and fired.

The animal dropped. Capuro identified the as hsi big yellow Persian cat WASHINGTON. April About those flying Air Force said Thursday it still just explain some of them. It found any reason, the Air Force said, to attribute them activity of a foreign On the other hand, it categorically such a For a number of years, now, people have been reporting flights of queer-shaped, fast-moving shiny little objects dubbed by the first observers. Practically every section of the country has contributed its chapter to the flying saucer story.

Because the saucers were usually reported by people in airplanes, the Air Force decided about two years ago to make an investigation. of a published report that the saucers might be guided missiles fired by the Air Force announced: date, there has been no tangible evidence which would support a theory that any (flying saucer) incidents are attributable to activity of a foreign nation. On the other hand, there is no evidence to deny categorically such a possibility. Many of the reported incidents have been definitely determined to be meteorological balloons or natural celestrial prenomena. there arc some incidents reported by reliable and competent observers which are still Chinese Reservists Reported in Mutiny SHANGHAI, Friday, April The newspaper Shun Pao said Friday 1,000 men in the Chinese army reserve corps mutinied at Kashing, railway city only 60 miles southwest of Shanghai.

The newspaper said the soldiers looted shops and homes. Then they split into two columns. One headed for the sea to the east. The other headed west toward the mountains. No reason was given for the revolt.

(The usual cause of such incidents, is either Communist agitation or failure to. receive regular pay). Death Claims Retired Merchant Of Georgetown GEORGETOWN. April Ray Purl, retired merchant died at his home Thursday morning, following an extended illness. Funeral services will be held at the First Baptist Church Friday at 4 p.

m. with the Revs. Aubrey C. Russel, P. Williams, and A.

Gettis officiating. Burial will be in the Odd Cemetery at Georgetown. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Dovie Purl; and his daughters. Miss Gloria Masters, and Mrs.

Helen McDonald, all of Georgetown, and Miss Maxina Purl of Margos. There are five sisters, Miss Annie Purl, Mrs. H. W. Haefner, Mrs.

R. N. Van Horn, Mrs. T. P.

Robinson, all of Dallas, and Mrs. Joe Barnes of Taylor. Hospital Fire Dead, Missing Now Total 74 EFFINGHAM. 111.. April Officials of fire-ravaged St Hospital Thursday night set the list of dead and missing at 74 as diggers in the ruins neared the end of their grim search.

Msgr. Jesse Gatton, Diocesan hospital superintendent announced there are 70 known dead and four reported missing. Ten of the 70 recovered bodies were unidentified, chiefly because of their charred condition. The sororwing city, meanwhile, turned from its funerals and stepped op a drive for money to baild a new I2JM.NI hospital. A father who buried 2-weeks-old twin daughters, both fire donated $100.

Chicago's Mayor Martin H. Kennelly called on citizens everywhere to donate to the fund. He said: cause is so worthy that I think it will The cause of the fire continued obscure. Pat Kelly, state fire marshal, said: may never know the He said investigation is hampered by total destruction." Inspectors are trying to learn whether fresh paint or other building materials was responsible for the speed of the fire. Frank Wilkins.

Effingham lira chief, said the search for bodies is He expected the hunt wil be ended Friday. Fire Marshal Kelly said questioning of persons in the hospital during the fire has been delayed until town's hysteria has died The seventieth known victim died Thursday. She was Mrs. Elisabeth Schuetten of ILL Earlier Thursday, the known dead and missing was set officially at 73 but hospital officials decided not to list an infant which they said was stillborn to a woman who escaped from the fire. Msgr.

Gatton said 128 persons were in the hospital during the fire. Family of 4 Charged Killing Father WHITESBURG, April 7. Sheriffs men searched the nillt and creeks around nearby Kingdom Come Thursday for trace of a missing storekeeper whose wife and three sons are charged with murdering him. Mrs. Amanda Ison, 48, Insisted: wrong.

just gone away for a She made the statement from her cell in Letcher jaiL Her sons, Ruben, 18, Bruce. 16, and Luther. 14. are lodged in sepaxate cells in other parts of the weathered prison. They were arrested Wednesday, Sheriff Herman Combs said, after a younger son told of an argument at the family store which he said ended in the slaying of 50-yeir-okl Herman Ison about last March 5.

The sheriff quoted the boy as saying that afterwards the mother and his brothers buried the tody in a shallow grave, then dug it up the next night put it in a box and moved it somewhere else. He didn't know where they the boy said. The sheriffs deputies were Just as much in the dark as the ooy. Combs said, however, that the family members are booked on murder charges until the tion is completed. Kingdom Come is a small settlement along a creek eight miles southwest of here.

EDUCATION EXPERIMENT British Court Closes Co-ed 'Natural' School ECCLESHALL, England, April 7. Hall, a boarding school for teen-aged boys and girls, was described in magistrate's court Thursday as an in education in which children were allowed to do anything which came to them naturally. Robert Copping. 29. the headmaster, and Edward Charles Reynolds.

31, his partner, were found to have been negligent They were charged with being unfit to take care of children. The magistrates gave Copping and Reynolds until May 5 to return their pupils to their parents which in effect would close the school Copping admitted his charges smoked, used four letter Anglo-Saxon words, and visited cach others bedrooms at night Mrs. Mary Stephens, a former teacher at the school, refused to take the oath when she testified. speak the truth because 1 choose she said. Asked what she thought about girl and boy pupils being attached to each other, she replied: approve of anything which comes to the children Mrs.

Marjorie Van a matron. said a 15-year-old girl student with apparent for one cf the male pupils asked her for a contraceptive. gave her Mrs. Van said. Copping defended the charges about his experimental as the Country asserting that the students had an to freedom of expression.

boys and girls go into each others bedrooms, but I see nothing wrong in he said. I do not agree they had sexual relations with each other. If there was any lack of discipline, it was the result of the traditional method of Copping admitted spending the weekend at Putney, London, with a 16-year-old girl from the school, but he said she was a secretary, not a pupil, and that he intended ot marry her. Prosecutor J. F.

Bourke told of one alleged incident where one boy dared another, in front of Reynolds, to seruce one of the girl pupils. Reginald Stapleton, formerly on the school staff; said Reynolds of- ten had a girl in his room with tha door locked. He said one morning he found two girls and one boy lying together on the floor where they had apparently spent the night Prosecutor Bourke. who charged that the school provided contraceptives case there might be also declared: children are under an influence which is baleful and destroying to their white souls. You have an educational establishment with no education.

You have a place of training where there is no views on child education first came to public notice lata last year when his students attacked a man who was lecturing them on the advantages of caning and other forms of corporal punishment Copping later acknowledged that the incident had been pre-arranged with his students to gain publicity for their campaign. It was in January that the 29- year-old headmaster of Horsley Hall launched an international student movement dedicated to.