Bakersfield Californian (Newspaper) - January 4, 1949, Bakersfield, California i r f P STATE LIBRARY PERI 30 THE High Yesterday Low Forecast Continued clear skies day time temperatures arid cold New t rv Jooms on 5 CENTS PER COPY TWO SECTIONS JANUARY 20 PAGES 5 CENTS COPY if 134 Badger Denies Forces Leaving Canton Unit Closes By Associated Press Government warplanes joined the peace of f They dropped leaflets over Communist urging Red troops io stop fighting peace An informed source said these leaflets were only part of the governments peace offen The Chinese press quoted other sources close to official circles as saying the government ite contemplating inviting the Big Four powers to The news paper Mei Jih Wan Pao said the Big Rus sia and be asked to step in only if the Communists do favorably to peace No Reply Made So far the Communists hae made no response to the rising for Vice Admiral Oscar that American forces were withdrawn commander of the western Pacific said the based on reports terminated their lease jn the Shantung University campus where they maintained their bar Badger made his denial in a cabled statement from his Tsingtao base to the Associated Press in The naval advisory unit at Canton folded up Its com left Canton by naval plane for Withdrawal of this small local unit had been Resistance Promised Associated Press Correspondent Spencer Moosa reported from Peip ing that well informed quarters said Communists were pressing North China Nationalist General Fu through devious channels to make his own peace with Fu said the Communists have men around He said he wants to safeguard the city as a cultural but that if the Beds attack he will Chinese leaders who are calling for an end of the civil war say they expect to get it Privately they admit peace is more to through collapse of Chiang Kai sheks government than from nego with the plea was described In Shanghai Shao Li his former ambassador to as too much like telling the Com to China to Buy Oil of Arabia Eco nomic Cooperation Administration today gave China to buy petroleum products tinder the Mar plan from said the petroleum would be delivered before March The Chinese authorization was among tour others approved today by the They were for sisal or from Latin America Brit for cotton waste from the United States for cotton linters from the United and for macila or abaca from the Philip Todays money increased total authorizations to Britain Signs Trade Pact With Poland LONDON INS The British board of trade announced today that Britain probably will sign a trade pact with Poland this week involv ing an exchange of goods worth about 400 million The agreement will put bacon and eggs back on some British breakfast tebles for the first time since For eggs and other the British are expected to supply the Poles with farm in chemicals and Twister Ruins 20 REPRESENTATIVES TAKE of the House of Representatives take the oath of office at the opening of the Representative Sam Bayburn D on rostrum at new speaker of administers the Stafe of Union Message to Outline Truman Deal OIE Presi dent Truman will send to Congress his pro trusting to Speaker JSem Say mrn to see The program will be in he Presidents on the state of the union he deliver personally before a joint ses sion of the House and The proposals Truman will to Congress in his message tomorrow will be around the four domestic is sues which fixed the New Deal char of his successful presidential They are labor economic measures and civil Military Help He also may advise the law makers that he soon will request authority to send to certain ncn Communist nations Such a program would be intended to back up administration plans to link this country with western Europe in a North Atlantic security The Presidents spending program 1950 will be submitted fy Congress Be is to offer a budget totaling or f On the domestic Tru man has backed away from his position of when he wanted lim wage ceilings as part of his His advisers disagree now he should NEW YORK President Trumans state of the union ad dress to Congress tomorrow will be carried by the four major radio networks beginning at 10 tomorrow for restoration of the ex cess profits tax on business ashe when Congress was summoned in special session last But with those Trumans message is expected to go along with his previous requests to most of which were ig and his campaign For Clearance 3 At one or the Presi dent asked for limited price and wage standby authority to ration commodities affecting the public health and power to compel allocation and inventory of scarce subsidized hous ing and slum authority to regulate speculative trading on com more and better rent When he called Congress in spe cial session during the campaign last the President Many profit margins have been adequate to Absorb wage Increases without the price increases that have Noninflationary wage and should con Many other measures Truman recently considered urgent and which figured largely in Continued on Page 2 3 Aps Smuggling Dutch court sentenced three United to prison terms today for allegedly flying arms and ammunition to the Indonesian The meeting in Tanjong pinang in the Rhio de clared that the Republicans did not constitute an independent govern and that the fliers violated Dutch law in ferrying the It a of four years in prison on Albert Yuba three years on Connie and 18 months on William Port The accused fliers had been held for four while the charges were pending and court ruled that the tune will be deducted from their The three Americans were ar rested last September 14 as they were unloading 40 cases of muni tions from a Catalina flying into a motor launch off the island of Aer Abu in Daring their which ended December one of the Americans charged they all had been kept in an dirty and fed two slices Defense lawyers claimed the arms were being sent from the Philippines to Malaya for use by Military Exemption From Tax Planned WASHINGTON Secretary James Forrestal said to day that he probably will recom mend a permanent income tax ex emption for enlisted military per He already has recommended tem extension of the ex for both officers and en listed Chairman Carl Vinson of the House armed services yesterday in a to extend it until July Group Wants to Buy B Farm Labor Camps pove to get the government te either sell federally camps at lease to group or to renew present leases fora longer period of time will be made at a meeting Wednesday in The meeting was announced by Ralph manager of the agri cultural The camps in the including the ones at Arvin and are now operated by the Farmers As sociation on revocable use A representative of the group pointed out that they have make necessary and major repairs to the camps because of the shortness of present that while physical de of the camps had not reached the point where the health the occupants was major repairs were badly The same spokesman said many major repairs had been but major overall reconditioning of the camps have hot been made since be the In the face of continued delays on the part of the federal govern ment to sell the the as sociation will disposal arrangements either a sale to the association or long term leases that would enable the group to place many camps first class he Jack manager of the Shatter Labor said today the association had been major repairs tothe 40odd cabins and sundry at the but that lOther major repair tasks are neces f He to a spent in main the and that an exten sive program of painting and gen eral improvements has been carried Mr Manweiller said the present lease on the camp expires June 30 and the chief topics at the Fresno meeting will be renewal or of the Solon of Fights WASHINGTON Labor troubles like the American tion of Labors fight in Hollywood should never happen Representative Kearns said He urged Congress to make sure they never that the dispute should have been settled long before Kearns called on the to even at this late himself a member of the American on 18months investigation of an argument be tween carpenters and painters over several hundred jobs on movie He recommendations Should Make Amends The American Federation of La bor owes a duty to its of which I am and to our to continue its voluntary program of settlement of its con which it has initiated in the past The American Federation of La should try to make amends in the motion picture industry dis even at this late United States should take all steps within its power to insure that this sort of thing should never happen The report also was signed by former Representative Landis R who assisted Kearns in some hearings on the one of a long arose in over the jurisdiction of the International Al liance of Stage Employes Contained on Page 2 Property Damage Put at More Bodies Sought By Associated Press weeping and torn timber town today counted 46 dead and nearly 300 injured in the wake of a tornado which hit with a thundering roar Two other tornadoes killed four and injured more than 60 in Louisiana and near El All through the night dazed survivors at Warren popula tion 7500 stumbled through the ruins of a 20block in and residential Ifo k 4 many others in 15 HO search of Warren wa is 100 miles of Little Doctors and nurses from nearby from Hot Springs and Little Rock rallied on the stricken They worked through the rain and hail by lamp and candlelight to treat the of The gathered at a single overflowed the small morgue into a More Victims Sought 4A daybreak 450 National Guards policemen began the of prying through the wreckage in search of additional expressed fear that other bodies would be recovered and predicted the death toll would reach with picks and shovels aided in clearing the said dam conservatively would reach f Identification of the dead was de into Many of the bodies were cut to ribbons by falling oir flying timbers and other Storm Short The storm lasted only 15 but its arrival as most of the town prepared for supper was heralded by an ominous Packer watchman at the Bradley Lumber said saved themselves by refuge around a locomotive in one of the The engine cov ered with timber said he saw one man wrapped around a utility line like a gas and water lines were adding an eerie glow to the Thet Bed Cross and armed forces sent in mobile kitchens and first aid Navy Helps The a center to maintain con tact its ordnance plant and provide assistance to wornout but heroic telephone opera tors who stuck by their Ay worker at the Bradley which employs about 1800 said the storm hurled huge timbers through the air like so many tooth So great was the force of the blow that it picked np a heavy bus and bent it around a power The Louisiana disaster sped down the Cotton scene of a similar disaster last killing a farmer and an After leaving Warren the storm skipped to the vicinity of El killing two others and injuring more than a Warrens Mayor Hurley estimated the storm cut a swath a wide and wrecked 15 to 20 per cent of the homes and buildings in the southern and eastern sections of the OUR fore casters warned today that the rag ing the northern plains could cause more tornadoes in such as disastrous twister that struck The Chicago weather bureau said that generally the same conditions exist as yesterday except that the blizzard hap moved any that might occur probably would spring np In But tim that it could Theres simply no way to pre dict where tor nado will a forecaster Winds Hit The blizzard was sweeping Into Minnesota and Iowa carrying up to two feet of snow on winds that blew steadily at 40 to 60 miles an Some gusts were recorded 80 The storm was showing a ten dency to turn northward so that states might escape its the experts But they were making no prom They warned that if it swept clear to it might meet another storm coming north and duplicate conditions which dumped a major snowfall on New York City iii Cold Phots A severe cold wave was using the tornado storm center as a pivot for a merrygoround sweep of the From the far northwest the cold tore down coast swept over the south around into Dixie from which it was scheduled to bear north to ward New Early the mercury fell to 23 below at Would Put on Profit Tax ative Dingell today in legislation in the House to reimpose the excess profits tax and repeal wartime excise The legislation also would rescind the action of the Eightieth Congress on reciprocal trade and social secu rity bills were referred to the House ways and means commit of which he Is a The Michigan congressman has long been aa opponent of excise taxes and his would provide for or at least of the wartime levies on luxury First Victim Leaps From Bridge SAN Sara toga man the first to commit suicide in 1949 from the Golden Gate The man was identified as Earl a construction fore man who formerly lived in He left this note to his wife forgive I am losing and of Dearest you will be much without Yon have wife and God bless you I am a co ward no s guard was searching for the REPRIEVE GRANTED CARSON ard scheduled to in gas chamber the week of March was granted an indefinite reprieve Mon convicted of slaying Richard near October Wife Slayer Called Insane CE Obviously in sane was the district attorneys opinion today on William who beat his wife to death near here yesterday after a family quarrel gave himself ap to Tu after notified the sheriff of his confession and officers found the body of Marshalls locked in a at their She had been beaten on the head with a heavy iron Assistant District Attorney Al lan Mason said today al though murder charges must be filed against if he is found criminally insane he will be sent to pital for the mentally Tel Is War Ability WASHINGTON INS The Far Eastern Commission reported today that it has adopted 13 policy in the past months designed eliminate Ja pans future war The report was issued by Nel son of the 11power body which is au to set forth allied policy on past 18 months work of the noted that the commissions decisions were based primarily on the ob of the Potsdam declara the democ the development of a economy for In the field of Nelson the had issued policy directives on Japans new educational reform and the development of trade union On the economic it also issued directives on reparations designated the 1930 1934 period as a yardstick to determine Japans peacetime standard of and policies looking to the revival of Japans foreign Kern Posits to Entertain Chief Lyall of the Veterans of Foreign will be saluted here by representatives of the ninth and local officers and members Wednesday Arranged by Edward the ninth dis festivities will begin with a dinner at 7 at Hotel El Tejon for the national commander and his wife and other members of his Escorting the national commander here will be Alben San Fran California department com mander San Fran deputy adjutant quarter master and William San department senior vice president Will Participate In addition to Sewell and who is secretary of the ninth district Norma president of the Kern County Council of and Nellie ninth district president of the post com and past commanders and officers of the posts and auxiliaries will attend the The national commander Is ex to arrive at Wed and will be greeted Infor mally by local officials upon ar headed by Sewell and Glen commander of Bakersfield Post Other post commanders who win greet the national commander are Jack Taft Post 1998 Roy Delano Post 2390 William Post 6601 Howard Kernville Post 7685 Lemore Post and Phillip Lind say Post Desert Leaders Commanders of Ridge Boron and Muroc Posts of the tenth district are also according to Dale tant of the local post Following at Hotel El Tejon for the the group will adjourn to the Bakersfield Womans Club 2030 Eighteenth street where Comman der Beggs will speak on the legis lative program of the and outline the program for the golden anniversary of the which was chartered in During the evening 100 neophytes will be initiated Commander Sewell of the ninth district in City county officials have been invited to participate in the 19 Candidates candidates from Camp Barrows Motor Company will be particularly honored in the initia wiH include Charles of the company and Bis Scott and Don general Committee members in charge of the arrangements under the tion of Sewell are past department comman der of California and twelfth dis national councilman department judge advocate past national Ameri chairman William Gam commander of Oildale post Commander Post and Adjutant Note Charges 1947 Repatriation Agreement Broken WASHINGTON The United States has accused Russia of a breach of faith for failing to repatriate all of her remaining German pris of the state de announced The department said the American embassy in Moscow delivered a formal note to the Kremlin Monday accusing the So viets violating a repatriation agreement reached by the Big Four powers in The agreement specified that the United Britain and Russia would complete the tion of all German prisoners of by the end of 1948 at the The American which was du plicated by the British and French Russia has failed to supply promised information on the steps she is taking to send home her remaining Toss Denies Ironclad Agreement on Germans admitted today she still was holding a num ber of German war prisoners but said that all would be released thig The Russian carried by the official Tass Agency and distributed hefe by the Soviet moni was made in answer to a joint protest The protest demanded to know how many prisoners Russia still held and asked why they had not been released on December as agreed by the council of foreign ministers in Moscow in At that time Russia admitted holding The statement denied that there ever had been an Ironclad agreement to release all German prisoners by the end of The Russians said the agreement was to refer the matter to the Allied control council for There he agreement was killed by the British and the statement American military government of in Berlin estimate at very lowest that Russia still holds some German Ger man sources say at least prisoners captured by the Russians lave not been probably because many of them died in Rus sian slave labor Uncle Sam Hits High Gas Bil SAN UPl Uncle Sam says his gas In California s too high and he doesnt want lie Pacific Gas Electric Company to make It any So the government filed a petition with the state Public Utilities Com mission Monday asking permission o Intervene in request tor higher The petition said that as a the govern ments gas In 1947 from was and was last has increased zatura as rates five times since the petition adding that the United States would be ad ersely affected by further increases to armed services Firm Official Gets Prison Term LOS Flora Long secre of the Halifax Mining Is 3 to SO years prison sentence for conspiracy and grand theft ng and lumber She was convicted Her attorney the case probably wiU be Deputy District Attorney Arterberry said 75 investors out the state lost more than f 000 a result of Carters Now she faces trial in Oakland on eight coants grand theft f connection operations of said Arterberry i
