Nevada State Journal (Newspaper) - January 26, 1949, Reno, Nevada ESTABLISHED NOVEMBER 1870 Largest Morning and Sunday Newspaper Drive Carefully SEVENTY-NINTH 56 WEDNESDAY JANUARY 1949 FOURTEEN PAGES TODAY Scott Hits At Reaction Republican Party Showdown Count Strength Jan. 25. Chairman Hugh D. of the Republican national charged day that the forces of reaction were trying to seize control of the party and promised they would fail here in this week's GOP Republican party is not going back to any forces of Scott told questioners is going forward to battle and any body who doesn't believe that can just look at me. The party is entitled to have its say through a fighting Promises Fight Referring to U. S. BUSINESS OUTLOOK GOOD Years of Prosperity Seen by Sawyer Jan. 23. Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer said today business has nothing to fear from the new man administration unless afraid of four more years of The philosophy behind President Truman's Sawyer said in nn exclusive is to achieve a cooperation between government and business that will insure maintenance of a healthy economic he can't expect that in a common effort various segments won't be asked to make some We have to have taxes to pay our A certain amount of controls arc due in order to protect the economy and there should be a tion of the voluntary agreements Sawyer was scheduled to before the Senate banking committee later today on ing the government's authority to out voluntary allocation agreements with The secretary wants this authority continued as nn interim measure until Congress passes legislation giving the Proficient power to locate scarce The present which is due to expire February mits Industries to agree among themselves on allocating scarce and grants them immunity from tho As for Sawyer said the President will leave it up to Con- gross to decide how additional revenue is to be But in any he is sure Mr. Truman has no idea of punitive taxation in What soft spots are showing Sawyer tainly there's no to believe a decline is in There is a continuing Perhaps some letdown in tempo is desirable rather than a cause for Business he pears lo oe in a of levelling off Sawyer been driving ahead hard since the end of the war and sometimes we get a little farther ahead than we Sawyer said he had heard that business is because of dissatisfaction with the lie that he has seen such Fortune in Gold Found by Woman In Garden Plot about the business out- elements who seek to oust him from the chairmanship as Scott said the issue was the party shall go back to Garfield or forward to James A. Garfield was a 19th tury Republican they want a fight they can have Scott Arizona Committee Member Clarence Budington Kelland called for Scott's ouster as a symbol of misrule of the can Committee elements friendly to Sen. Robert A. of spearhead the campaign against But there was no ment yet on who should succeed riim as Srott Controls Scott and some of his opponents were inclined to that the chairman had an ample majority of committee votes with which to defend Among those who had been discussed to succeed Scott were Carroll Reece of a former national Rep. Everett of Illinois and former Gov. Ralph F. Gates of Scott is a picked for the committee manship last June by Gov. Thomas E. Scott welcomed the fight and said he would not Either Gates or a former national committee would be acceptable to Sen. Robert A. Taft of it was understood The weakness of the anti- Scott movement is that it has not so far come up with anyone upon whom all could agree to succeed 8-Day Session Gates said he was not a date for the chairmanship was interested in getting new tration of the party Republican national executive committee and finance committee members are on deck today for a three-day series of meetings which promise plenty of But Scott supporters claim he has the votes to defend Some of his opponents concede that the advantages lie with the chairman as of DEBATE CURBS FACE THREAT OF Morse Charges U. S. Once Endangered By Talkathon Jan. 25. Sen. Wayne charged today that a filibuster by Sen. Glen last year our national de- at a time when in- tends to take ending his testimony be- fore the Senate rules committee on his proposal to curb Senate did not mention lor by But he told reporters later that he referred to 1948 Progressive party vice presidential the peacetime draft the measure was proved and became Planned to Use Force said approval of the shall Plan and legislation for strong defenses had changed Russian strategy that she stopped moving happen to Morse last spring there was vidence that Russia intended to ake Italy by ballot or by nd yet we were threatened by a that would have ned national Taylor's filibuster lasted one It was ended by a when it was charged trial IB had made reflections upon an- ither Senate a breach of he rules that cost him the Abuse Termed Threat Morse's proposal would permit a majority vote to nd Senate debate on any matter sefore that it be a motion to bring measure jr a Under present te there is no limit on de- rate over a Debate on a measure can be limited by a loture petition which requires a vote for Sen. Claude appearing in support of his own to end think that the abuse of the rawer of unlimited debate in the Senate is a threat to our ions of democracy and we must do everything we can to make it vork His measure would require a vote to end but cloture petition could be filed only after 10 days of Meanwhile it appeared that to curb filibusters on civil rights bills and other legislation appeared headed for an all-out on the Senate Asks for Funds State Aid Allotment Given Congress Jan. 23. President Truman today asked for in mental appropriations for the 1949 fiscal year which ends June 30. The estimates covered some 60 largest of which was lor grants to as part of the increased federal share of public He requested nearly for the veterans including for national service life Jan. 25. Sheriff W a r d hoped today that Hancock ty doesn't have a as result of the in gold pieces that Mrs. Clyde Shrier dug up in her back The money already has caused Shrier's a lot of He was arrested in for disturbing the peace when he tried to buy a drink at a bar with a shiny new gold But even when he piled 5595 in gold on the the owner wouldn't serve Shner told Steinberger that she dug up a metal er of and gold pieces in the back yard of her farm home near here last month while filling flower German Pianist Flies to Europe NEW Jan. 25. Competitive Mart Seen by Dealers SAN Jan. 25. A highly competitive in automobiles was pre dieted today before to the National Automobile Deal Association have come to the end o easy veteran automobile salesmen told the delegates es th convention got underway with i car designed to re mind dealers of the day when they sold two or three used cars for every new Stocks Decline On N. Y. Marke NEW Jan. 25. Stocks were lower today as ing kept to a pace of around a mil lion shares for a full man pianist Walter j Steel a strong spot fo whose projected concert tour of a while were down frac the United States and Canada was canceled because of charges he had f. left for Europe today 43 minutes before the 11 a.m. deadline set by Immigration one of the top left on an Air France plane for RUSSIAN BLOC OF 6 NATIONS Alliance Designed To Offset West Europe Union Red Armies Near Communist Heads Agree To Conduct Peace Parley Extend Truce New Treaty Signed For Palestine N. Jan Egypt have LAKE 25. and signed a new cease-fire agreement to make their earlier truce plete and acting tine Dr. Ralph Bunche informed United Nations quarters Bunche cabled security counci president A. G. L. McNaughton ol Canada that negotiators on Rhodes had formally agreed that no troops would advance beyond current front He said that negotiations to crown the cease-fire with a anent armistice were progressing severe divergencies in in the past few days He is still hoped tha Jan. 25. announced today the formation of a tight military and eco- nomic alliance of six Slav an eastern union designed to offset the union of western the Marshall and the proposed Atlantic defense The eastern union was made up of Romania and the chastised Peck's Bad Boy of the was left dangling between the east and the Allego The new union was announced in identical announcements re- leased in the capitals of the ber They said that tual economic action had been forced on the casl of the j by the western nations operating under Marshall Primarily the eastern union was formed to take the cold war against the west into the field of Observers in Prague said it might be referred to as Molotov an obvious parallel to the Marshal Plan for western Details of the eastern alliance were worked out at a meeting in Moscow some time in the formal statement Given Duty Under tho broad outlines of the economic according to a Prague Czechoslovakia was reported tabbed to trate on Other countries were concentrated on other such as agriculture and at the same time trying to increase their industrial A council for mutual economic aid was set It presumably will bind eastern Europe as closely in trade and agriculture as it already was bound The creation of tho eastern union gave impetus to a western drive to form an economic and military The ment in the east came only two days before the prime ministers of five western union countries were scheduled to meet West Speeds Pact Tho delegates will discuss de- tailed plans for defending western Europe against any Communist The plans were pre- liminary to the formation of a North Atlantic defense They will try to show that their alliance could work on the battle field as well as on They contemplated placing a striking force under a single com The prime ministers will discuss a tentative plan for an in- striking force of 23 which would grow to more than 60 divisions if war France would provide 15 Great Britain and Holland and Luxembourg three in time of American and Canadian contributions would be set only after those countries had joined the western union in the Track Gunman 100-Man Posse Joins In Search PEACE DELEGATION Israel sent to Rhodes to settle Palestine war with the tians smiles confidently on taking plane from Tel Major Major Mr. Mr. E. Col. Dr. Walter delegation Mr. E. agreement can be Suspect Whittles Leg Says U.S. Stockpiles Vital Material Troubled World Situation Causes Washington to Speed Program Jan. 25. The nation's stockpile of strategic war materials has been expanded rapidly in re- cent months and is now 39 per the munitions board revealed Pressure was turned on the program last March when the cold war with Russia was at high At that time President Truman went before Congress to call for revival of the a bigger air force and other preparedness Chairman Donald F. penter of the munitions board reported the stockpile now contains worth of Some are surplus stocks left over from World War but a large amount has been sought since the war The program was started in 1946. It calls for accumulation of a At the present rate of spending that goal may be reached around January 1953. A board spokesman said that the troubled international situation made it necessary to step up even though the buying has taken a sizeable hunk out of ian supplies of and LOS Jan. A man identified through prints as John J. De La for- mer Colorado was blasted to death today by police gunfire as 100 officers tracked him down in the Silver Lake Three policemen were wounded by the lone gunman before he was i Officers said they found a It 8 His Property set of tools ing equipment De La Loot found in his car connected him with a series of safe ings in Pasadena over the police tions to a point in After today's market di rectors of U. S. Corp. met to net on the dividend and report preliminary earnings for 1948. Some of strength in iteel shares reflected belief that remits for last year of U. S. Steel and Bethlehem would be Jan. 25. Comanche county officers today were unable to explain the tion of a 33-year-old prisoner who cut off his own that is. The a man held on an embezzlement hacked the artificial limb to bits with a razor Questioned by he asked isn't Railway Strike In Fourth Month SALT LAKE Jan. 25. A strike against the Utah division of Kennecott per Corporation went into its fourth month today with no im- mediate settlement yet in Corporation executives uled another meeting late today with officials of the striking of Locomotive Firemen and About 300 brotherhood members struck for higher pay October forcing the company to suspend operations in mines and mills that ordinarily produce third of the nation's copper This threw about other employes out of Webb Appointment Granted Approval Jan. 25. The Senate foreign relations com- today unanimously proved the nomination of James E. Webb to be undersecretary of now budget will succeed retiring undersecretary Robert A. Shrine Hospital Bids Considered Jan. 25. board of trustees of the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children day considered bids from ors for the building of their new the new Mountain unit at Salt Lake but reached no The award of the contract will be made after John B. vice chairman of the con- fers with the local board of governors at Salt Lake City GOP PROTESTS Labor Act Hearings Start Friday Jan. 25. Administration pressure for a speedup in plans for of the labor today brought roars of protest from Re- time is much too said Sen. Robert A. author of the He was referring to the decision of the Senate labor to shut off hearings by February 10 on a tc repeal the present law and to enact an amended Wagner act. The committee made de- cision last night by an 8-5 party line Chairman Elbert expressed hope that he could introduce legislation Thursday to carry out Truman's proposals for amending the Wagner and that hearings could get under way Despite Republican the plan was certain to win some favor from organized labor although it fell short of the wishes of labor Trey have wanted the Wagner act restored in one with proposed ments to be handled in a second Tobin Supported For Cabinet Post Jan. 25. The Senate labor committee has recommended that the Senate ratify President Truman's appointment of Maurice Tobin to be secretary of Tobin has held the post since last under a recess Confirmation by the Senate is expected to be a mere and may come on Thursday when the body next The Senate also proved Mr. Truman's nomination of Ralph Wright of New York as assistant secretary of and the reappointments of John M. Houston to a five-year term on the national labor relations and Frank P. Douglass as chairman of the national mediation board until Feb. 1952. general the ISRAEL HOLDS 1ST ELECTION Labor Party Members Battle TEL Jan. 25. than Israeli men men have voled in the first elections of the new Jewish unofficial observers as midnight hour n More than were eligible to officials believed it appeared that more than 715 per cent of them would exercise their All business except essential utilities was at a The spokesman that piling should be given greater im- portance even though it meant a severe impact on the civilian voting will continue until To be elected are 120 members of a constituent assembly who will create a permanent Provisional Premier David Ren leader of the predominant labor appealed to nil elis in an election eve broadcast to accept the results of the voting without Despite the fighting broke out in Jaffa between former members of the Irgun Xvii and a group of Ben labor party Tho attacked labor party headquarters and live down posters opposing former leader of the Several labor party members were the Rhodes tice conference between Israel nnd Egypt was recessed after the Carpenter said the board has now completely filled stockpiling quotas for 34 of the 68 items on the Another 14 items are anywhere from half filled to 99 per he while the re- maining 20 are from half with some as low as eight per of the He did not specify which items fell into which The critical list includes tungsten and j eli elections were temporarily of Idaho Lawmakers Reject Proposed Limit Jan. 25. Idaho today became the first state in the United States to reject the constitutional ment which would limit dents to two terms in On a straight 24 to the senate rejected the constitutional The rejection came after an hour of windy with Re- publicans pleading to man off partisanship and vote your ASKS TRANSFER Jan. 25. Jesse wsr assets today asked the Senate ex- committee to approve legislation transferring the nell General Brigham to the bureau of In- dian affairs for a Navajo Iron Curtain Plane Crash Probe Blocked by Russ Jan. 25. The viet iron curtain today blocked an inquiry into crash of a British plane on the Beilm supply run which was reported to have killed eight including ailing men and children being evacuated the blockaded Soviet reports said the C-47 transport crashed in a forest near the village of about three and a half miles inside the sian zone and some 10 miles east of Luebeck in the British Most of the 19 survivors aboard the transport were many suffering burns in the flames which swept the according to the available Injuries Prove Fatal to Youth NEW Jan. 25. 12th coast guardsman died last night of burns and injuries re- in the collision last week between the coast guard er Eastwind and the oil tanker He was apprentice seaman San Tex. Eleven men aboard the wind were killed almost instantly when the collided in a fog early last off the New Jersey TO BE NAMED AS CRIMINALS Nationalists Fiee From Besieged Capital 25. Communists accepted today the Nationalist government s pica are while Red lolled to within five of KIP opposite Thousands of troops refugees find the capital in panic as it came within range of Communist Remnants of the Nationalist government were expected momentarily to flee to An official Communist speaking over ilie north said they wore ready to negotiations in to end China's civil HP it clear that the ations would to be based on Communist leader Mao peace program which amounted to a total Nationalist Denounce 5th Member The spokesman added the Com- were willing to negotiate with four of the five members of I IIP peace mission appointed by the The Peng was denounced as an war and the Com- won't deal with he The broadcast marie it clear that in Communist eyes the days of the Nationalist ty which has ruled China for two decades under Chiang arc loaders will bp added to the war criminal it Tho broadcast was in reply to a request by Premier Sun cabinet for peace The Chinese press said without that the government issue a fire to its troops three Communists re- fused to issue a ceasefire until peace arc accepted by Bar The Communist broadcast tossed three bombshells into tho alist camp by 1. The will barred from the tion which is to take over the signing of Tho is to be formed by 55 liberal Chinese now holding a consultative conference at miles below 2 Nationalist leaders bo branded war when the Communists com- plete their list They said a list of published docs not include many Kuomintang bers who started the civil war and murdered .hr 3. The Communists do not the present Nanking as representative of the people but will deal with it cause still has some remnants of military The broadcast that government feels it has lost the trust of the people and its remaining reactionary military power is unable to stand against the people's liberation army and it is willing to accept the eight con- ditions laid down by the Chinese Communist party and settle problem by negotiation and ato the suffering of the then that certainly would bo a good thing and would be to the liberation of the The broadcast said the alist government had still not made it clear whether it was ing to accept Mao's eight government in i's re- ply to Mao's demand attached no act President Ll he would be willing to consider Mao's as a basis for The spokesman invited the to note the effected in as 8 demonstration of the advantages to bo gained by capitulation and said peace talks would bo hold there when the Red army completes its task of the The Communists wore reported to have captured miles up the way from the from where they could shell Li wai reported to have called up personal to defend the
