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1947' FEBRUARY 1 1947 M. Mas. Ten. WS. Thnrt.

fri. Stt 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 (27 28 rflirmr FIFTY-THIRD YEAR TWENTY-EIGHT PASES (AP) Associated Press (PP) United Press Entered at Postotflce. San Bernardino. California, as Sscond Clssa Matter 6e a oopy l.th month THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 27, 1947 Weather, Forecast Southern Considerable high eloudlneu today with few scat' tered light ahowers over weat slopes of mountains; cloudy tomorrow with 1 likelihood of occasional light rains In west portion; little temperature ehange. San Bernardino range yesterday; 6248.

Central and Northern California-Cloudy with few sprinkles today and light to moderate rain tonight or tomorrow. I 11.11 .2213 ire mm 3 aw School's Oui Because of Lack of Coal Truman Galls 'Misleading' Bevin's Claim He Upset Negotiations on Palestine Buyers Break Upward Spiral In Hog Prices Wholesale Food Index Reported At Ail-Time High 51 -33 Vote Snips 4.5 Billions Off Truman Budget Compromise With House Expected To Be 5 Billions WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (UP) The senate today rejected a house approved plan to slash $6,000,000,000 from President Truman's 1948 fiscal budget, and voted to hold the cut to The rollcall vote was 51 to 33., Twenty-one Republicans, in 5 U.S.-SOVIET 'BATTLE' REPORTED Korean Version Called Highly Exaggerated i I four Soviet fighter planes appeared briefly over the area. The Intelligence version said U. S.

border patrol troops were dispatched to Paekchon, about two miles inside the demarcation line, to investigate a report that seven Russians were firing rifles into the town. The Americans reported they saw two Russians hurriedly leaving the town as the patrol approached but no Russians were found in Paekchon. SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Thursday) Korean sources reported today that United States and Russian troops exchanged shots for 14 hours without casualties Tuesday along their demarcation line in central Korea, but American intelligence authorities called the account "highly exaggerated." The Korean version said 28 Russians and 11 Americans fired at each other frorVi 10 a. to midnight, during which These students turned up yesterday at Lafayette High school, one of two remaining open in Buffalo despite a teachers' strike, only to find the doors were closed because of an inadequate fuel supply.

Union truck drivers refused to deliver coal because of pickets. (AP wirephoto) TRUMAN SENDS CONGRESS HIS PLAN TO UNIFY ARMED FORCES Act Provides Naval Aviation as Well trs "Marine Corps Will Be Under Nayy Control WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (AP) President Truman laid before congress today his plan for unification of the nation's armed forces, calling for' the creation of a national defense establishment headed by a civilian secretary with cabinet rank. COMES TO LIFE Sicily's Mt. Etna, which yesterday was sending a massive flow of lava from Its crater, is shown during its 1928 eruption when it destroyed the village of Mascati.

(AP wirephoto) WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (UP) The White House tonight re jected as "unfortunate and mis leading" British Foreign Secre tary Ernest Bevin's charge that President Truman wrecked the Palestine negotiations last Oc tober by politically inspired statements on the Jewish question. "The impression that has arisen from yesterday's debate in the British parliament that America's interest in Palestine and the settlement of Jews there is motivated by partisan and local politics is most unfortunate and misleading," a White House statement said. Bevin had asserted that Truman, by speaking out on the eve of Yom Kippur, a Jewish religious holiday, for the immediate admission of 100,000 Jews to Palestine, had caused the collapse of British-Arab-Jewish negotiations last October. MERELY REAFFIRMATION To that, the White House retorted bluntly that Truman was merely reaffirming the attitude toward Jewish immigration into Palestine which this government has maintained publicly since the summer of 1945.

"This attitude was and is based upon the desire of the president to advance a just solution of the Palestine problem," the White House said. As for Bevin's assertion that Truman raised the Jewish immi gration question at that particular time to' win Jewish votes for the Democratic party in the November elections, the White House said: "America's interest in Palestine is of long and continuing standing. It is a deep and abiding interest shared by our people without regard to their political affiliations." SUPPORT IN CONGRESS Even more emphatic denunciation of Bevin's attack on the president came from Democratic and Republican leaders in Congress. Senate Democratic Leader Bark-ley, Kentucky, said that in view of the British Labor party's own campaign record, it was "almost astonishing" that Bevin should have accused Truman of playing politics with the Holy Land crisis. Chairman Taft of the senate G.O.

P. policy committee said Bevin and the British government appeared to have "repudiated the whole basis on which they were negotiating with the Jewish Agency." Senator Brewster, Maine Re publican, charged that Bevin was "seeking a sacrificial goat" in America to take the blame for the failure of British policy in Pales tine. Navy Fires German V-1 Rocket From Deck of Submarine WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 UP) The Navy has successfully fired a German V-1 rocket from the deck of a submarine, unofficial reports said today. The navy department refused to answer quest inns concerning the experiment which is understood to have b.on conducted at Point Mogu, California, the Navy's Rocket testing station.

Spectators on shore witnessed the flight of the Nazi "buzz bomb" along the coast last week, according to the reports which reached here. Army, Navy Planes Hunt B-29 Missing in Alaska KLMKNDORF FIELD, Alaska. Feb. 26 (P) Search planes fanned westward from this Anchorage Army air base today, combing the Alaska peninsula wilderness for an Alaskan Air command B-29 Superfortress missing since Monday wilh a crew of 11. No Irace of the missing ship was reported late today by the 26 planes.

CHICAGO, Feb. 26 (UP) Buyers resistance forced down hog prices and dimmed the possibility of $l-a-pound pork chops today as Dun Bradstreet reported wholesale food prices at an all-time high. The upward spiral in hog prices was halted, at least temporarily, as livestock buyers at the large midwesfern stockyards rejected the record price farmers asked. As a result, prices dropped as much as $1 per hundred pounds from the record tops of yesterday. Farmers, encouraged by news of the record Drices Da id vester- shipped 90,000 hogs fo mid- western markets and packers, compared to 52,000 head yesterday.

The increased shipments were a contributing factor in the price drop. TOP PRICES The top prices today ranged from $28.50 to $29 as compared Wilh the record highs of $29 1o $30.50 reached yesterday. The soaring market of recent days had brought predictions from livestock men that housewives soon might have to pay as much as $1 per pound for pork chops. If today's trend continues, the threat would be ended. Dun Bradstreet reported that the recent sharp advances in hogs and wheat bad brought wholesale food prices to a new record high.

The agency's index of 31 basic foods in general use reached $6.62 yesterday, as compared with $6.47 in the preceding week, and was 33 cents above the previous high of $6.49 established on Nov. 39, 1946. A year ago the index was $4.16. ONLY RAISINS DOWN Price increases during the week were registered in flour, wheat, corn, rye, oats, barley, hams, bellies, lard, butter, cottonseed oil, cocoa, steers, hogs, sheep and lambs. Only raisins and currants of the 31 foods on which the index is based showed declines.

Parents of Actress Peggy Ann Garner Divorced in L. A. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 26 UPl Peggy Ann Garner's mother and father were divorced today and under a court-approved property settlement Die 15-year-old actress will continue to reside with her mother, Mrs. Virginia Craig Garner.

However the set (lenient provides thai, the fallrer, William G. IT. Garner, former Army captain now employed by the U. S. department of agriculiure in New York City, will retain the right lo superintend his daughter's "education, spiritual upbringing and career as an actress." The father will receive per cent of Peggy Ann's gross earnings currently- $1,250 a weekend ho' may use this share for her welfare but it will bo considered his separate property.

Mrs. Garner, who charged cruelty in winning an interlocutory decree from Gainer, will have control of the balance of the earnings. Mrs. Garner answered reporters' questions with "No comment," when asked about her marriage to Lt. Comdr.

Theodore Trautwein at Tijuana, Mexico, Jan. 6, 1946. She divorced Trautwein in Mexico last July 23 after learning that Garner had not gone through with divorce proceedings he started against her in Ohio in 1939. Ben Webster, Leading Actor, Dies at 82 LOS ANGELES, Feb. 26 UP) Ben Webster, 82, for more than 50 years a leading actor of the London and New York stages, pi oneer film star and husband of Dame May Whitty, stage and screen actress, died today.

Dame May, with whom he celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1941, was at his Buffalo School System Closed Strike Forces 19c Holdouts to Shut BUFFALO, N. Feb. 26 education system staggered to a complete shutdown tonight from the effects of a salary strike of 2,400 of its 2,960 teachers. The board of education, in its third stormy session wilhin 36 hours, declared a state of emergency and School Supt. Robert T.

Bapst immediately announced that the 19 schools still open today would not reopen. The Ihree-day-old strike, largest in U. S. history, already had closed 79 schools. The board's action followed a renewed appeal by Mayor Bernard J.

Dowd for intervention by New York slate officials. Many principals of the 38 elementary schools that had remained open testified before the board that pickets had instilled fear in the children and had encouraged them to slay away or to make conditions difficult for-woik- ing teachers. Meanwhile, the Teamsters joint council of Buffalo and vicinity (A.F.L.) voled unanimously to re spect picket lines should they be reestablished by striking members of the Buffalo Teachers federation (independent TEACHERS PROTEST DOVER, Del. Feb. 26 UP) Delaware teachers swarmed into he stale capilol today to protest a wage increase bill they consider inadequate.

The one-day demonstration of approximately half of Delaware's 1,500 teachers closed 25 public schools, including four high schools in Wilmington, the slate's largest cily. Sicilians Flee as cluding Senate President Vanden-berg of Michigan, voted with 30 Democrats for the smaller cut. Twenty-four Republicans and nine Democrats supported the house. By slamming the brakes on the Republican-sponsored house economy drive, a bipartisan senate majority forced the budget issue into conference between the two chambers. General opinion was that a compromise would be worked out fixing the proposed reduction at $5,000,000,000.

KNOWLAND PLAN BACKED After voting, the senate began debaling several proposals to earmark all or part of any budget savings for payment on the public debt. Chief support developed behind a plan by-Senator Knowland, California Re publican, to set aside for debt retirement. Knowland said that even at the rate of $3,000,000,000 a year, it would require 86 years to liquidate the whole debt. G.O.P. leaders moved, however, to amend his plan so that no more than a billion dollars could be earmarked.

The senate then recessed until Friday without deciding the issue. Senator Knowland voted for the cut rather than the .56,000,000,000, and Senator Downey, California Democrat, did not vote but announced he favored the lower figure. WHERRY LOSES FIGHT Republican Whip Wherry of Nebraska led a last-minute effort to persuade the senate to accept the house action. He charged that supporters of the smaller cut wanted to set aside a "cushion" for a contemplated foreign 16an. But he declined to say where he got his information or what country he had in mind.

The decision to fix a ceiling of $33,000,000,000 on federal spending during fiscal 1948 came after a week of lively debate. The house voted, 239 to 159, to set the ceiling at $31,500,000,000. The president had requested pertnission to spend $37,500,000,000. Senate Republicans ignored warnings by Chairman Knutson, Minnesota Republican, of the tax-writing house ways and means committee that a budget slash of less than $6,000,000,000 would force the G.O.P. to abandon efforts to cut personal income taxes this year by 20 per cent.

Senator Taft, Ohio Republican, insisted that the senate-backed smaller reduction would not interfere with the tax program. He proposed to put tax cuts ahead of debt retirement. Knutson is author of a bill to (Continued on Page -2, Column 2) American Tanker Burns Oil Ecuador; Crew of 42 Safe PANAMA, Panama, Feb. 26 (IP) The American tanker Royal Oak, loaded with 50,000 barrels of gasoline and oil, was reported to have sunk in the ocean off Gallera point, Ecuador, today, apparently after striking a reef and catching fire. A radio message received from the S.

S. Lookout said that she had picked up all of tin Royal Oak's crew of 42, who abandoned ship in three small boats 35 minutes after the accident. Rescue planes were sent out from here by the Army-Navy joint air-sea rescue headquarters to patrol the sea and make certain jthat all crew members wr vp 'counted for. Streams Roll Toward Villages ROME Feb. 26 UP) A fiery and a half of Passo Pisciaro, first stream of lava, bubbling from a new crater broken in the side of Mt.

Etna, was reported in press dispatches from Sicily today to have branched into separate forks which rolled threateningly lowardlwide at a rate of about 70 yards several communities. Jan hour, and that when it reached wniie villagers ilea in Italian authorities rushed motor vehicles to Cisterna and Passo Pis ciaro to assist in the exodus if the flow continued, the dispatches said. They added that the molten All three branches of the armed forces Army, Navy and Air-would come under the secretary of national defense. All would be administered as individual units, however, although their respective secretaries would not hold cabinet rank. The proposed act specifically provides that 1he navy department shall comprise "the entire operating forces of 1he United States Navy.

including naval avia-lioii," as well as the U. S. Marine corps. NAVY WINS DISPUTE Thus the president proposed to settle the bitter dispute over disposition of the Navy's air support, which Navy advocates have vigorously insisted should remain in the Navy. The chairmen of the two senate committees which hope to obtain jurisdiction over the bill promised speedy hearings.

Chairman Gurney, South Dakota Republican, of the senate armed services committee lold re-puiiers i hat "a quick reading indicates tlmt the bill carries out the voluntary agreements reached by the Army, Navy and Air forces leaders." SWEEPING REVISIONS Senator Edwin C. Johnson. Colorado Democrat, informed newsmen he favored the president's proposal but "would prefer three cabinet officers, one each (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) call home," White said. "I don't think they ever would have caught me. "I'd been averaging 14 hours work, a day, without a vacation, for years and I felt I couldn't go on.

I wanted to go to sea or work in a lumber camp." Detective Pease said White told how he carefully planned his disappearance, at the start of which he cut his finger with a razor blade, spattered blood over his car, and smashed a window to give the appearance of foul play. He had made up a story of receiving "gangland threats." He bought a railroad ticket under the name of Edward H. War Police Bullets Halt Escape Youth Who Wounded L.A. Off iqer Slain LOS ANGELES, Feb. 26 (IP) Punic-stricken John Green, 21-year-old transient, tonight was shot and killed as he broke from officers taking him to jail for the wounding of a policeman in a downtown gun fight.

The fatal shooting occurred outside Georgia street receiving hospital where he and his victim, Patrolman Arthur Fraide, were taken for treatment. Fraide was reported near death from a chest wound police said was inflicted by Green when 1he officer approached him at an intersection after the youth allegedly stole a car from a nearby parking lot. THREE KILLED IN BATTLE VANCOUVER, B. Feb. 26 CIM Two policemen and a suspected bank robber were killed and two other persons wounded today in a furious gun along the right of way of the Great Noilhern railroad here.

The fight resulted when three patrolmen attempted to take into custody three men suspected of planning a holdup of a local bank. ren, to keep the same initials as on his baggage, and took $81 in cash. He went lo San Francisco by bus, grew a moustache and had a crew haircut, and later came to Portland Wilh $3 remaining, he bought-a $2.88 bus ticket here. An assistant superintendent of a plant manufacturing aircraft hydraulic controls, While had held responsible engineering jobs and served on a war production board commission, Detective Pease reported. He had told his wife nothing as he wanted her reaction "to be as nearly normal as possible." They have two children.

Police said ha would not be held. mass had surged to within a mileVsts have been destroyed. Mf. Etna Lava village lis path. The eruption of the volcano, relatively quiet since 1928 when it destroyed the village of Mascati, was said to have begun advancing in a stream 300 yards the plain or Damusi.

at an a I tude of about. 1,600 yards, it broke into the three forks. The incandescent mass was said to have built up to a depth of 200 'yards in some ravines. Rich for- 50,000 Brussels Marchers Riot BRUSSELS, Feb. 26 A .1 ueiiiuii.Mrauon oy lormer prisoners ot war demanding payment of bonuses turned into a riotous battle today in which 50,000 marchers broke through police lines, trampled and crushed each other and only were stopped by machine gun and rifle fire.

A day-long condition of siege of the parliament building was not broken until tonight when a ring of armored cars, machine guns, gendarmes and troops finally restored order in the angry throng and the cabinet members were able to emerge from behind their locked doors. Unconfirmed reports said a dozen people were killed but an official of the ministry of the interior said only one person was dead as the result of a heart attack. Unofficial estimates said 100 were injured, but the ministry placed the list at 40. Businessman Who Faked Own Murder, Vanished To 'Escape Routine' of Life Found in Seattle New Blizzard Hits England LONDON, Feb. 26 (IP) A roaring blizzard hit northeastern England today, paralyzing coal transport and isolating towns and vil lages, as the government announced a drastic plan 1o put one-third of Britain's industrial work ers on night shifts to stagger i strain on electric power.

In a long-range fuel-saving measure, the government ordered an extension of daylight saving ume, ana ine threat ot a heavy cut in gas supplies became immi nent. Sir Stafford Cripps, president of the board of trade, announced in commons that one-third about 2,000,000 of Britain's industrial workers must.be put on night shifts. He warned that it "quile certain" there would have lo be some form of electric nower and gas rationing for domestic consumers for perhaps two to three years. SEATTLE, Feb. 26 UP) The strange story of a young Southern California businessman who said he faked his own murder and disappeared to "escape the routine" of life was told today by Eugene II.

White, 31, Woodland Hills (Los Angeles county), California, Police Detective M. C. Pease reported. Detectives located him at the home of Jay Stevens, a friend, after he had been persuaded to telephone his wife, Elizabeth. She in turn notified Los Angeles police, lie disappeared St.

Valentine's day. He reported voluntarily to police and was not booked. "Mrs. Stevens argued with me for four hours before I agreed to.