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WEATHER FORECAST 1 Home JIAULADEQA AIQLY fULL24-H0U SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND OUR MOUNTAIN HOME 77TH YEAR. NO. 211. TALLADEGA FRIDAY, MARCH Eight Angry Russians Give Up And Stomp Out Of Franlifort Residence Gesitey Ordered To Tuscaloosa For 'Period Of Observation FIRST-NON-STOP GLOBAL BOMBER AND ITS Filibuster Ties Senate Into Hard Knot Administration Is Said Locking Votes To Win Decision WASHINGTON (AP) -The senate is still tied in -a legislative knot by the filibuster to save the filibuster. Administration chiefs in congress admit privately that they may not have the necessary votes to shut off unlimited debate.

A survey conducted by the Associated Press that shows at least 38 senators will vote against an expected ruling aimed at ending the Dixie talkathon. The test is scheduled for sometime nest week when Democratic l.eadr.r Scott Lucas of Illinois plans to submit a stop-talk petition for decision. The next step will be the judgment Partly clbudy this afternoon, tonight ami Saturday. Warmer. $6.00 THE YEAR.

Doctors See Grounds To Doubt Sanity Judge Acts Friday After Report from Physicians Here A court-appointed commission of three Talladega physicians Friday had expressed the opinion that there are reasonable grounds for believing that Herbert Hoover Gentry was insane at the time of the commission of the offenses with which he is chargedmurder of his wife and her girl friend. The physicians, Dr. J. A. Sims, Dr.

C. Salter and Dr. S. D. Davis, told the Court that in their opinion Gentry should be committed to the superintendent of the Alabama State Hospital for further observation and examination with reference to his lun acy.

Circuit Judge W. D. DeBardeleben received the physicians' report here Friday morning and immediately instructed Circuit Solicitor J. J. Cock-rell to prepare the necessary orders committing Gentry to the State Hospital for observation.

Arraignment was not conducted Friday and court processes in the cases will be suspended until a iinal report is received from the state hospital Judge DeBardeleben said. Gentry is under indictments charging him with first degree murder in the deaths by shooting of Mrs, Gentry and Mrs. Louise Peal, Rome, Geor gia, wnose. ooaies were recovered from a cesspool at the rear of the Gentry home on 17lh Vf Phenix City Man Killed Officer's fire Men Described As Rocketeer Is Shot Down In Gunfight PHENIX CITY (AP) A man described by Russell County Sheriff Ralph Mathews as a racketeer since prohibition days has been shot and killed at Phenix City, Alabama. Sheriff Mathews said Chief Deputy Albert Fuller shot Guy Hargett, at Hareett's home- where officers found stackg of money and oU ticke(s T1)e sheriff sajd shot Har.

gett five tjmes duri a exchang. cunfir The shootine occurred after Harge(t hjs broher Pete and gam A Beck a New York chased fpdera, and Georgia tax agents from the house Federal agents and Georgia alcohol unit acents said the arsett bro. thers pued guns on them when lhey tnem about liquor traIfic Four Killed In Collision On Highway Forked Truck Is Struck By Sedan; Two Are Injured By.AssociatedPrestl: Four persons have been killed and two others injured in an automobile- truck collision near St. Elmo, Ala. The dead are Charles Ralph Barring, 37, and his Sam, M.

Kit chens, 50; Ethel Mae Harrell, 49, all of Mobile. The injured have been identified as Clifton Marshall Green- 29, and his wife Lodene Green, both of Mobile. A large sedan, in which all the dead and injured were riding, struck a truck which had been parked on the side of the highway after the tiuck's lights went out. Air Force Is found Guilty MONTGOMERY (AP)- A thirty year-old Air Force sergeant was found guilty of second degree murder yesterday and sentenced to ten years imprisonment for the death of his brother. The verdict against the defendant Moses Tate was returned by a Circuit Court jury that included one Negro among its members.

Court officials said that it was possibly the first time that a Negro had been on! the jury in a Capitol case in Montgomery. Iran now produces more than 000 barrels of crude oil daily. SUPERIMPOSED ON A MAP of the course It followed in Its historic first non-stop globe-circling flight is the U. S. Air Force 8-50 bomber.

Lady Luck II, as it took off from Carswell Air Force Base at Ft Worth, Texas. About 94 hours afiet It had pointed its nose eastward 00 its 23,452 mile flight, the hpmbex was back, at its base, it was refueled tout times In Its flight by B-20 "Flying Tankers." The points, as indicated on the map, were over the Azores, Saudi Arabia, the Philippines and Hawaii. The flight demonstrated the ability of the U. S. to carry an atomic bomb to any spot on the face of the earth if necessary.

(International) Circuit Judge W. D. DeBardeleben 11 4, 1949. foreign Legion, and threw me in a military jail." Ryan told how she was given a how he was given a uni-rican Desert. There was no chance of escape, he said, because "after a week in the desert you'd be done for.

If the heat didn't get you the Arabs would. The Arabs got $5 and a new overcoat for handing you over to the foreign legion." Ryan said he was beaten when he tried to smuggle letters out. After training in the desert, his outfit was taken half way around the world, to French Indo-China to fight the rebel rr Church (tested By Flames BIRMINGHAM (AP) In Birm-ngham early Thursday, "Our Lady of Sorrows" CathoUc was gutted by a fire which raged several hours. No official estimate of the damage was immediately available, but the church was renovated only last year at a cost of $15,000. Fire Chief Hoyt Ayres said that the fire was discovered 'early, this norning but that it had gained too nuch headway by the time firemen rrived.

Seven fire companies' fought he blaze for hours but were unable ti save the church. Cabinet Is Reported TEL AVIV AP) A new Israeli cabinet of 12 members is said to be ell set for presidential and parliamen tary approval. The government picked by Prime Minister DavM Ben-Gerion is understood to represent only the four central parties. Ben-Gurion's socialist labor party has the most representation. The prime minister also is taking the defense post.

Moshe Shertok is to remaiti as foreign minister. And Mrs Golda Myerson, who now is Is rael's envoy to Russia, is to be the labor minister. Shuiuiiaied Info Sealed In When They Refused To Leave The City; FHANKFORT (AP) Eight Russian soldiers have left the building in which, they had been blocked by American MP's 'or two days. The Russians were grim and angry as they stomped out of the big yellow I house. One Russian truck driver spat at an American girl bystander as ha left the headquarters of the repatriation mission.

Soviet authorities in Berlin were quick to retalite. They ordered a United States graves registration teanY to" leave the Soviet zone of Germany at once A grave seaich unit of four American soldiers arrived in Berlin from the Soviet zone last night under escort of a Russian officer. The eight Russians had been sealed u- iku r.anKiu.,. iur lVvu days after they failed to heed an or- der to leave the United States zomj by March first. They did not leavq until they received orders from Soviet headquarters in Berlin.

The Russians left Frankfurt in three automobiles and two" trucks piled high with their belongings. The truck, were crammea with worn out spare tires, battered gasoline, drums and trunks. Newsmen said the Soviet soldiers left the building in a stale of disorder. Overloaded ash trays had spilled onto tables and floors. Several chess boards hid been overturned, scattering the figures about the floor, Communist literature was stacked high on the book shelves.

Bath tubs in the 21-room house were almost full of water. This was taken to indicate that the Russians had expected the water to be turned off wnen they overstayed the deadline. It was shut off, as were the gas and electricity llalion ExpcciJ PerfedVcslfcr ForThsVeeiEnd By Associated Press Spring-like weather appears in prospect over the weekend for most of the nation. The mild weather extends Into central and western Canada and the U. Weather Bureau says no cold air is headed from the provinces.

Temperatures are mild and generally above normal over the central and western part of the country and around normal in the eastern states. There were only a few wet: spots. Showers were reported in central California and western Nevada and light drizzle over most of the Upper Great Lakes Commiflco Vole On Labor Msasure Is Seen As Likely WASHINGTON (AP) Action may be forthcoming today when the Senate Labor Committee meets to take up President Truman's administration labor bill. The chairman of the committee, Senator Elbert Thomas of Utah, told reporters he could make no predictions, but that the bill might be acted upon. He said the democratic majority in the committee might decide this is the time for a vote.

The democrats all favor the bill, which would replace the Taft-Hartley law with a modiied version of the Wagner ad. However, several have indicated they would like to see minor changes in the bill The GOP has five members on the committee, all of whom are opposed to the measure. But with the eight democratic members likely to vote in favor, the republicans admit they haven't much chance to haft the measure. Four of the five republicans want to keep the basic provisions of the controversial Taft-Hartley law. The other Wayne Morse of Oregon, has different ideas.

One major point of controversy is to what extend the president has pow-Contlnued on Page 3 CANTON China. (AP) A 24- English," Ryan said. "So we talked in year-old sailor in the United States German Which I picked up during the Navy; said today that he had been war. That was my mistake. They re-shanghaied into the French foreign fused to believe I was an American appointed the physicians to make, the saimy cnecic in a court oraer aaiea February 28.

Thpir ronnrt urae filar) in' ftia nffina? 1 1 V1UVV of Circuit Clerk Arthur Wood Thursday. I- We the undersigned physicians and practitioners in accordance with the order of the Circuit Court of said County, wherein we were, by the Court, appointed as a board to exa mine Herbert Hoover Gentry, alias Eugene Gentry, as to his mental con dition and make report of same to Your Honor, beg leave to make our report to Your Honor as follows: "After examination of said defen of Vice President Alben Daikiey on whether a two-thirds senate vote can limit debate. If Barkiey rules In favor of a so- called "gag the issue will then face a showdown by the senate itself. And it is the senste action in which administration leaders lacK confidence. For the present, however, the filibuster drones through its fifth day.

with all othtr legislative business blocked temportnly. President Truman predicted yesterday that the filibuster will soon run its course. But the Southern legislators, objecting to. what they call "White House pressure," are more determined than ever to maintain the filibuster ns accepted senate procedure. Wiring Defect In Electric Chair Delays xccc: MONTGOMERY (APJ Convicted tJegro slayer, PhiUip Cobb, has beat the electric chair for the second time.

But it't tonly for a weex. Last nhjht Governor Fotsom granted a postponement until next Thursday night the request of Prison Director Frank Boswefl. Defective wiring leading to the electric chair prompted th stay of execution. The stay tor execu tion came only a few hour, before Cobb was to dis. Cobb was sentenced to the thair for killing another Nejio prisoner while serving a life sentence 'at Kilby Prison.

SchocI Is Cumsd to Cosily firs BIRMINGHAM (AP A costly fire struck the Birmingham area last night for the second time in 24 hours as the Hueytown Grammar' school urned down, 5 Yesterday flames swept thtAugA our Lady of sorrow catnoitc cnurcn in Birmingham. School officials estimated damage the school a one-story frame buil-ding-at WM.OOO. Damage to the church was estimat ed at $60,000 by Fire Chief Hoyt Ay- ers. Psychology hi America, John Dewey and William James, and took a degree from Harvard. Dr.

Angell was one. of the brilliant younger members of the Acuity which William Raibey Harper assembled for a i a. 11.. ati.l ine surt 8" tie served me university ox wuciagu for 25 years and was acting president in 1918 and 1919. He left Chicago In 1920 to become president of the Carnegie Foundation.

But he was destined to hold that responsible post less than a year. In 1921, he hecstte president of Yale. Dr. Angell retired as president of Yale In 1937. Dr.

Angell subsequently became educational advisor for the National Broadcasting Company. He spent his first year with NBC studying foreign and American systems of broadcasting to determine the relationship between radio and education. 1 dant, Herbert Hoover Gentry, alias F.ugene Gentry, and due considera- tion of the symptoms obtained therefrom, it is our opinion that there are reasonable grounds to believe that aid defendant was insane at the time of the commission of the offenses with which he is charged: 1 "It is further our opinion tnat we said defendant should be committed to the Superintendent of tne Aiaoama i Yank Says viet-namese. "We were every night by the Siamese," he of us planned to escape. Finally on October 10th, 1948, I was put on night guard.

Four of my friends backed out of the escape plan. They knew if they were caught by either side it meant they would be beheaded." With two other legionnaires, Ryan made a dash through the jungle. After various narrow escapes and getting lost several times, they finally made their way to the Chinese border. Ryan will be turned over to the United States Navy commander in the Philippines. During his absence he was listed as a deserter 1 MaAMMMMMMyWMMMMMIM Jobless Total Up; To Highest Level Since War's End 1 WASHINGTON (AP) Government figures show that 3,200,000 Americans are jobless.

Thats the highest unemployment total since the war. The Census Bureau said today that the unemployment figure jumped 550,000 in February to a total of 3,200,000. According to the Census Bureau, the rise in unemployment during February can be attributed partly to bad weather in some part of the country and partly to non-seasonal layoffs in industry. Not since March, 1942 have so many Americans who wanted job5 failed (o find them. In the early part of the war, unemployment totaled 3,580.000.

Contrasting the current period with the pre-war period, the Census Bureau said: "In spite of substantial increases in recent months, unemployment in February was still low relative to prewar levels." At present, the most important oil region in the Middle East lies in a great geologic trough extending down through Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and the sheikdoms of Kuwait, Bahrein, and Qatar legion. The sailor, James Patrick Ryan of Huntingdon, had 'been missing from his ship in the Mediterranean for 19 months. He turned up at the American consulate in Shanghai, China. He said he was a seaman aboard the United States Navy ship Dickson, and missed the ship at San Remo, taly, tn My, 1947. He hoped to catch he ship at Nice, France, but when he got there he was picked up by MP's of the foreign legion.

1 spoke no French and they no tti iWvinrimnM-Mwyiri-- kciyvbnll CcosToPrcfcing Of Taxpayers HARTFORD, Conn (AP) An income tax collector says that he tries be tactful when the question of age comet up with certain tasnayers. Ik is John Fitzpatrick, collector of internal revenue for the state. He explains that the problem has taken a new turn because people over 455 are now granted an additional exemption of Fit7prtrick says ho doesn't like to ask personal questions and for this reason has urged collectors in th tate to try a different approach with the clients. He advises his men not to be too blunt. He says that he heard uc Of one tax collector who said, 'admit your age, it's cheaper.

Fitzpatrick says that other collectors were not quite so outspoken but that he stll feels that their approach could be improved. For example, he doesn't Wee question of this sort, "have you any grandchildren in college?" Fitzpatrick has advised tax collectors to lead up to the question. He suggests that they first hint that the client couldn't be old enough to claim the ex emption. He s-ays that this puts the client in a happier frame of mind and that he then becomes perfectly willing to admit his age. President Emeritus 01 Yalo UnVenfly Taken By Death; Yas Vorld-Fcmcd Elector State Hospital for further observation nd examination with reference to ms lunacy." Police Physician Didn't Know Crime When lb Saw One CHICAGO (AP) A police phy-ician concedes today that he is bet-er as a doctor than as a policeman.

Dr. J. E. Kelley on, the scene hen two thieves made off with Jewe- ry valued at $85,000. The doctor did ot realize that a robbery was in pro gress.

He had gone to a newsstand 0 buy a paper and he noticed men transferring cases from one car to Just as the car drove off, the own ers emerged from a store, glanced into their car and found that the cases were missing. The owners, Isa dora Levitansky and his brother, ouis. said the cases contained more han 1.000 diamond rings and diamond brooches. Dr. Kelley made this comment about himself "A Fine Policeman I The sport of 'skating is at leasi.

a' thousand yean old. NEW HAVEN Conn. (AP)-Yale! University's President Emeritus, Jam es Rowland Angell, died today at his home in Hamden after a long illness The noted educator and psychologist as 79. Angell had a notable career as' psychologist, acting president of the University of Chicago and president of, the Carnegie Foundation behind him when he became Vale); 14th president in 1921. Yale broke a 200-i vear tradition in namtae Aneell as its head.

Not since Its varliest days had the New Haven school been headed by one who was not an alumnus. Angell was born May 8, 1869 in Burlington, Vermont and was graduated from the University of Michiganof which his father was presidentin 1890. He took his master's degree the following year. Then Angell studied uider the Founders of.

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