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Il fi First In Ntwi, Advertising, And For Ovtr 35 Years. olume 36 (Tailor fms Williamson Only Dolly Newspaper Sorrlng 60,000. TAYLOR, TEXAS, TAYLOR DAILY PRESS, MONDAY. APRIL 18, 1949 NUMBER 100 Senate Investigates War Massacre Episode New Plane Carries Record Load The XC-99, experimental transport version of the B-3G superbomber, takes off at Fort Worth, carrying a heaviest believed ever lifted by an airplane. The decked, six-engined transport was loaded with zinc alloy bars, used in aircraft tooling.

The 30,000 cubic foot interior of the fuselage was only partially filled with the heavy metal bars. The plane will be delivered to the Air Force later this year, after further tests. (NEA TELEPHOTO) U. S. Officials Discount Soviet Rumors To Lift Berlin Blockade By Associated Press American authorities in many are heavily discounting all of new Soviet overtures to lift the Berlin blockade.

For weeks the rumors have been circulating that the Soviets are seeking a face-saving way out to maintain their prestige with the German people and the diplomatic world. 1 There is no doubt that the' huge success of the Allied airlift is a heavy economic blow to the Soviet occupied jone and to I rfttiny Soviet satellite nations which need basic materials barred by the Allied counter-blockade. The latest story of Russian efforts comes from Berlin-dated stories in London newspapers. They say that one General Malinin, a former Russian Deputy 21 Deaths Reported In Texas Over Weekend By Associated Press It was a tragic Easter weekend for a number of Texans. The latest compilation by the Associated Press shows at least 21 persons dead as a result of accidents and other forms of violence.

Easter outings' accounted directly for some of the deaths. A San Antonio priest took five girls on a boat ride. The boat upset. The priest drowned attempting to rescue his young charges. One of the girls also drowned.

But, as usual, automobile accidents took the heaviest toll over the weekend. Radio station K-S-E-T in El Paso reports one of the latest fatalities. She was Norma Holguin, six months old, killed in north of El Paso. Her mother, Irma, 24, received a fractured left leg, and her aunt, Andrea Gomez, 20, received two broken legs. At San Antonio, an inquest is underway into the death of Victor Canta, 60.

He was found dead in his room at the rear of a tavern after fire destroyed the structure Sunday. Chief of Staff in Germany, is on his way to Washington with a proposal to turn Berlin over to the United Nations as a neutral city. Along with evidence that Russian zone Germans are using what pressure they can for resumption of trade with Western Germany, it would seem that Harold Stassen WantsTo Set Record Straight PHILADELPHIA, April 18. Stassen wants to set the record straight. Stassen said today he wants to clear up any misinterpretation of his Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nonolgy speech a few weeks ago.

That speech was about aid for the Far East. He said today that he had urged aid for all Asia and not only for China. He now suggests a kind of Marshall plan for the Far East. He would call it the Stassen, who is now president of the University of Pennsylvania, declared that this failure to have a coordinated approach toward Asia has been our most tragic failure since the end of the war. Stassen said he thinks a plan for Asia should have the name of MacArthur to use as a label to carry America to the many peoples of that vast section of the world.

The short-eared owl contradicts about every popular concept of owl traits and habits. It frequently hunts its prey in broad daylight, almost never perches in a tree, and prefers open fields and marshlands to the woods. Wins Book Award The WEATHER Local Woothor If Patterns Broo. Toxoo Wootbor by Anctotoi Prooo TAYLOR AND VICINITY Partly cloudy to cloudy. Little change in temperatures this afternoon, tonight and Tuesday.

Lowest tonight near 55. High, 77; Low, 48. EAST TEXAS Fair in the north and partly cloudy in the south with a few showers in the extreme south this afternoon and tonight. Tuesday partly cloudy, warmer in the west and north portions. A few showers in the southeast.

Moderate east to southeast winds on the coast. WEST Partly cloudy this afternoon, tonight and Tuesday. A little warmer in the Panhandle, South Plains and Upper Pecos Valley tonight. Robert E. Sherwood received the $1000 Gutenberg Award for his book, and judged the book which progressively influenced American thought in The award was inaugurated this year by the Book Institute in New York.

Irish Celebrate Birth Of Republic Of Ireland DUBLIN, April 18, was signing and crying for the Irish celebrated the birth of the Republic of Ireland today. It is estimated that more than 100,000 persons watched the parade in Dublin of the first legal Irish army since the English invasion 780 years ago. President Sean T. and Premier John A. Costello were flanked by Ambassadors and Ministers of the nations as they reviewed the parade marking the formal change for Ireland from a British dominion to the sovereign and Independent nation it declared itself to be in 1916.

Among the marchers were many members of the old Irish Republican army which carried on a furtive and bitter war for years against the British. But one famous de missing from the parade scene. The former Premier, a veteran of the Easter Monday uprising against British rule, now leads a minority political group in Ireland. He and his followers refused to take part in celebration on the ground that no celebration should be held until all of Ireland is in the Republic. The six counties in northeastern Ulster have voted to remain in the United Kingdom.

Drug Discovered To Stop Growing Cancer In Mice DETROIT, April 18 (JP)-An associate professor of biology at Amherst College, Dr. George W. Kidder, has announced the discovery of a new drug which is credited with stopping the growth of cancer in mice. It is not known yet whether it will work in humans. It is not ready to be tried now.

The drug is named Guanazolo. Dr. Kidder reported on the drug in Detroit before the American Association for Cancer Research. Navy Lays Keel Of World Largest Aircraft Carrier there was something to the rumors. Official sources in Berlin, however, brand all such stories of Russian conciliation as American intelligence officers say the supposed Soviet Emissary to Washington, General Malinin, has not been active in German affairs for months.

And a top official source says quite flatly: have been no Soviet overtures here to the Americans or anyone This source comments that while German Communists squeezed by the counter-blockade would like to end the crisis, the Russians still are running Eastern Germany, not the Germans. All the rumor stories, this official says, are just German wishful thinking. NEWPORT NEWS, Va. April 18 (VP) The Navy laid a keel today at Newport News, Virginia, ending a lot of Washington speculation concerning our high military strategy. The keel of carrier, the U.

States, was swung into place without ceremony as work started on what will be the largest sea weapon. Because the huge flat-top can launch long-range bombers, keel-laying indicates an end to present conflict between the navy and the air force over st rategic bombing. What set the speculation going in Washington was the secrecy over the laying of the carrier keel, set for April 18th ago, but recently shrouded in silence. Defense Secretary Louis Johnso invoked a ban on news about the carrier keel-laying although all pertinent details had been announced long ago. Even President Truman kept mum, and at the shipyard itself, there was silence day alter day.

Meanwhile, the argument raged. The air force had been given assurance at the highest have prime responsibility for strategic bombings in event of war. And airmen not bound to Silence spoke out against the1 the new super huge carrier. In congress, the S. S.

United arguments were offered that 186-million dollars was a huge investment in one ship which might prove ne rabie But, to be a very vul- vvar weapon, od ay critics got heir answer when overallcd shipyard workers swung the first keel plates into position to build this, the newest giant of the sea the U-S-S United States, named by President, Truman himself. Texas Law-Makers Still Looking For Way Out Of Woods AUSTIN, April 18, Tills is the 15th week of the 51st session of the Texas legislature. And the law-makers are still looking for a way out of the woods. If the legislature follows the constitutional suggestion of 120 days for duration, this means it has a long way to go in just a little more than 20 days. The Senate was called back into session from its Easter recess this morning.

The House members, however, have voted not to resume work until 2 clock this afternoon. Causing the log-jam in the legislature are the problems of what to do about public school legislation and what to do about spending and taxation. Despite the back-log of bills, some leaders in both the House and Senate remain confident the session can work itself clear before or soon after the expiration of the 120-day period. Perry Pettersen Dies In Taylor Hospital Sunday Perry Pettersen, a residents of Taylor for the past thirty-three years, died at a local hospital Sunday at 11:40 p. m.

following a long illness. Mr. Pettersen was born in Round Rock January 14, 1904 and was in the tire business in Taylor for twenty-seven years. He served with the army during World War II. Survivors are five sisters, Mrs.

Haldor Nielson of Austin, Miss Olga Pettersen of Taylor, Mrs. Martin Bruce of Lubbock, Mrs. Roy Anderson of Hutto, and Mrs. Charles Svadlenak of Taylor, and two brothers, Richard H. Pettersen of Brackenridge and Rudolph Pettersen of Round Rock.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at three at the Condra Funeral home. The Rev. H. C. Ziehe, pastor of the St.

Paul Lutheran Church, and the Rev. W. N. Ander of Thrall will officiate. Graveside services at the Palm Valley cemetery near Round Rock will be in charge of the Graham D.

Luhn Post of the American Legion. Four Negroes Injured In Waco WACO, April 18, (JP) The new Browning building under construction at Baylor University in Waco was the scene of a near fatal accident today. Four negroes were severely injured when a cable used to hold up an elevator on the side of a tower snapped just before noon. The four workmen fell about 20 feet to the ground and were carried to a Waco hospital in two ambulances. Maybank Expects Short Debate On Housing Bill aP By Associated Press The administration floor man- I ager of the Truman Housing Program, Senator Burnet May- bank of South Carolina, says lie expects short debate on the bill and final passage some time to- morrow.

But no such hope is held by Republican leaders. Son- I at or Kenneth Wherry hasj sounded the go-slow signal although he thinks the program i is desirable. Wherry says be reluctant to vote in favor it the program promises to put the! government in the red. Another Republican. Ralph Flanders of Vermont, ex- I pressed a differing opinion.

Flanders says he thinks the cost of slum clearance and some' 810,000 public housing units is reasonable and entirely worthy of Republican support. Flanders says it is sound social legislation of the kind that Bob Taft has made clear the Republican Party should What other Republicans think American Troops Start Maneuvers By Associated Press Germans are getting a strong reminder today that the cold war and the Atlantic Pact are being backed by United States Arms. Seventy thousand American troops started April maneuvers in all sections of the American zone in what army officials insist is normal military training. But with long lines of tanks and trucks thundering over the roads and air force planes roaring through the skies, the display of military might serves to remind all Europe that United States roops still are in front-line positions in the cold war. abou! it will be evident when I debate opens tlii.s noon.

But one of the Democratic sponsors, Sen! ator Allen Eilender, predicts it will survive any GOP economy drive. House Indian Starts Hearings WASHINGTON. April 18, There is talk about Indians in Washington today. A House Indian Affairs Subcommittee lias started hearings on a 90-million- dollar program aimed at making Navajo Indians self supporting. The Navajos and a few Hopis occupy a reservation stretching from southeastern Utah into Arizona and New Mexico.

Senator Arthur Watkins of Utah has declared that the land is so submarginal it is impossible for them to achieve any reasonable economic standard. One phase of the ten-year plan for the Indians is an educational program. Other proposals include a full use of the reservation's natural resources, development oi cooperative ventures and completion of irrigation projects. The chairman of the House Subcommittee, Toby Morris of Oklahoma, plans to hold the group in session all day today and tomorrow with hone of completing testimony in two days. An enraged elephant will fell a man with his trunk, gore him with his tusks, trample on him, then fling the body 75 feet or more away.

Royall, Ellis Called To Testify; Trials Cause Arguments, Propaganda WASHINGTON, April 18, One of the most shocking' episodes of the last massacre by Germans of some ltio captured American soldiers near Mal- mody, Boltfiiun comes before a Senate investigating group today. Secretary of Army Kenneth Uoyall and Lt. Col. Burton Kills, the chief prosecutor of Germans for the massacre, have bee'n called to testify about the army trials that grew out of the massacre. These trials have caused international arguments and propaganda.

The results of the Congres- sional hearing may have some influence upon death sentences imposed but not yet carried out. against six former Nazi Storm Troopers convicted of the outrage. Senator Raymond Baldwin of Connecticut will preside at the Armed Services sub-Commtttec inquiry. Ho said it is tho first time that army prosecutors have had a chance to explain and defend their actions. The story reaches back to December.

1944, when desperate Germans were making their last frantic drive to stave off defeat in the Battle of the Bulge. One German group surrounded a group of United States soldiers who surrendered their a rms. This American prisoner group then was lined up in the snow at a crossroads near Mahnedy and literally mowed down with machine guns. Germans then walked among the dead and wounded to shoot again any appearing alive. The atrocity caused a storm of protests and after the German collapse nearly 700 men who had served in the German task force were rounded up.

Army officials say that eventually confessions were obtained and more than 70 responsible leaders convicted some two years later. An unsuccessful appeal for the convicted Germans was carried to the United States Supreme Court charging that army investigating and ting teams had used beatings, threats and other improper methods to obtain the confessions. Meanwhile Communist groups in Russia, Germany and elsewhere have given publicity and criticism to the American tactics and justice in the Malmedy ca ses. Infantry Res. Company To Be Organized An armored infantry reserve company will be organized at the City Hall Wednesday evening, April 20 at 7:30 p.

m. All veterans of World War II and company grade officers are invited to attend the organization meeting at which Captain Miller of the United States Army will explain the program in detail. When the company is organized all personnel will be paid for each meet ing and each member may acquire points toward ret I remen t. For further information John Brackenridge or Sgt. Norman Uhr at the post office may be contacted.

George Polk's Murderer Tried Waiting for Mom Six-year-old Jimmy Ybarbo goes shopping in New Bedford, with his grandmother, Mrs. Charles Bailey, as he waits for the return of his mother, Mrs. William Ybarbo, from Frankfurt, Germany, where she was freed from a five-year prison sentence for killing her army sergeant husband. The child was told nothing of the prison sentence, believing his mother to be in Germany. (NEA TELEPHOTO) SALONIKA, Greece, April 18, A defendant being tried for the murder of an American radio newsman has told the court in Salonika that Moscow and the Greek Communist Party were responsible.

The defendant is Gregory Staktopoulos, a former Communist journalist. Cried he: accuse the Communist Party in Greece, the Cominform and Moscow for the murder of George was a said he, "and I know the government of Greece has been unjustly accused of the murder of Staktopoulos and his mother, Anna, are being tried on charges of complicity in the slaying of the Columbia Broadcasting System correspondent. Two other defendants are being tried in absentia although the Greek Communist radio insists they died before the crime was committed. Mystery has surrounded the circumstances in which Polks body was left bullet-riddled and bound in Salonika Harbor last May. The Communists charge it was the work of government agents.

The government, on the other hand, is presenting evidence intended to prove Com munists committed the act to embarrass the Athens regime. BIBLE VERSE If any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat let him have thy cloke also. Matt. 5:40. Texan Found Strangled To Death At Tulsa TULSA.

April 18. A South Texan was found strangled to death at Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Easter Sunday. Police identify him as Bailey Gordon, 43, of Donna, in Hidalgo County of the Lower Rio Grande Valley. His body was found in an alley behind the First Baptist Church in Tulsa. Detective A.

M. Smith says Gordon was a pharmacist and had worked recently in Okmulgee, Oklahoma. Doolittle fliers Reunion Ends GALVESTON, April 18, The Doolittle raiders are getting old. For some of them, this is more frightening than their epochal raid over Tokyo during I the war. Seven years to the day after their famous raid, the Doolittle fliers are winding up their an! nual reunion at Galveston to; day.

It's been a grand reunion, ending this morning with a pa- i rade. The famed raiders spent most of yesterday deep sea fishing, arid chatting about this and that. Jimmy Doolittle himself, now a businessman, is attending the Galveston reunion. He says the United States and Russia would be at war today if Russia had a stockpile of atom bombs. But the formal program is just a side-light to the small groups of gossiping fliers.

Yes, gossiping. About such things as wives and children and jobs. what scares the raiders. Admits Major Ted Lawson, co-author of the book Seconds Over guess it means getting old. We would never have talked about children seven years Sheriff Makes Bet With Sheriff I SILVER CITY, New Mexico, April 18, Silver City, New Mexico, Sheriff Bartley McDonald says his horse can beat a Texas new-fangled motorcycle any old day.

To prove it, McDonald has challenged Sheriff Allen Falby of El Paso County, Texas, to bring his McDonald calls try for a sombrero..