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(AP)—Meani Associated Press(NEA)—Means Newsoaoer Enterorise Ass'n.PRICE 5c COPY!oaliep-leelpernorlo-loResidents Near Panicas Texarkana Has 5th.1 /.Murder in Six Weeksabi-itis-rlcalinebe105-:on*olid n a re-e is use ins-heood ! in to tas-NationalistsRout Reds in© Texarkana, May 4—(UP)—ResI*® dents of this vicinity lived in £ear today of a “phantom killer” believed by police to have commit-! ted his fifth murder last night in .the slaying of a farmer and the wounding of his wife.Chinese BattleVirgil Starks, 36, was shot to death last night in his farm home at Homan, Ark., and his murder threw residents of this area into near-panic. Meanwhile, TexasRangers were leading state analocal-law enforcement officers in the biggest manhunt of recentt of con-intsthisightd.lackeerstail-cen-eve-eat-rore con-i byof-nge-De-to:oal-Maytherpingiighllood.oun-al.nilar:ago,resi-ayorocla-thead.alsoShip-.saidlentscon-thirdMcr-laek-arnalcials”om-cus*runty/ouldcliveationBy the Associated PressChinese Army headquarters in Mukden said today government forces have routed 60,000 Communist troops in a two-day batle for Penhsihou, main Communist stronghold southeast of Mukden.It said National troops inflicted 5,* 000 to 7,000 casualties.Gentu Li - Ming, government commander at Mukden, said the battle began Wednesday and that occupation of Penhsihou was completed y-esterday. He said the National forces had thrust northward from Liaoyang.Meanwhile, Gen, Chou En-Lai, number two Chinese Communist, reported in Nanking that the Russians had withdrawn their diplomatic and railroad representatives from Manchuria, recognizing the futility of atempling to operate the Changchun railroad jointly with China while the civil war was raging.A Communist spokesman at An^ericn executive he ad quart ears in Peipir'« reported that five American news correspondents, including Tom. Masterson of the Associated Press, were scheduled to be evacuated from Changchun tomorrow.The spokesman said that Gen. Yeh Chien-Yin, Communist commissioner, had been advised . that the Changchun airport could not be put into condition to land a rescue plane earlier. The correspondents have been held in protective custody since Communists captured Changchun April 16,Chou today held his first press conference in Nanking, where he will resume peace conferences with General Marshall. American envoy, and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek. He said the withdrawal of the Russian representatives from Manchuria “worsem relations” between the Soviet? .and Chinese; .. “Diplomatically, it i3 • deplorable,” he said, although the Russians had promised to attempt to implement their treaty with China “at another time.''“In the matter of foreign relations,” Chou said, “we (National China and the Communists) are not agreed that Manchuria should be turned into an anti-Russian base, nor should there be discrimination against the United States, All we Communists want is international cooperation.”,-o-Arabs May AskUN to IronOut Problemser’sNew Cleaning,s Pressing PlantNeed n the egion busl-Dis-M. jster-was ig ofg the said egin-prod-Opens Mondayanillident men! 1,000 been theouslygableollowjelow;utoffL'ic tOplan .. It White it via Whitee for is in id by nsult-ursent dead-Opening of a new cleaning pressing plant, termed one of the “most modem” in southwest Arkansas was announced today. The new organization operates under the name of James Moore Cleaners, and will be open for business on Monday, May 6.Mr. W. Fay James has been connected with the cleaning business for 25 years, 35 of them here in Hope.Mr. Lyle Moore, in business here for 20 years, served as a captain in the U. S. Army and spent 27 months overseas.Managers af the new firm extended an invitation to local citizens to visit their plant at 504 S. Walnut Street.-o-Construction Co. Files Articles of IncorporationLittle Rock, May 4 — (/Pi —Articles of incorporation were filed today for the P. F. ConstructionCompany. Inc., with headquarters at Carlisle, Lonoke county.Authorized capital was set at $25,000. Incorporators are P. . Peterson, Ellv Peterson, Frank J. Wills and Natalie M. Wills, all of Little Rock.The Tinsman Manufacturing Company, Inc.. of Tinsman, Calhoun county, filed notice of dissolution signed by Garland Atbony and Edwin Anthony, both of Bear-years m ims area.Starks was shot twice in the head while listening to the radio in his living room. His wife entered the room seconds later, and as.she reached for an old-fashioned ■wall telephone to call police she, too, was shot twice in the head. All four shots were fired through a window.As Mrs. Starks left lha house by the front door, the couple’s assailant entered the kitchen by a back.screen door, walked into the room where Starks lay dead, and left bloody footprints in the room officers reported.Nothing was molested in the house.Bloodhounds picked up the kill-trail at the front door, but lost it at the highway where officers believe the man drove away in a car.Mrs. Starks told officers that she did not hear the shots that killed her husband, but her attention was attracted by the noise of breaking glass.Mrs. Stark was brought to a hospital here by neighbors, and was reported in critical condition with wounds in the cheek and jaw.For the rest of the night, rural families huddled in a single rom for self-protection, and many took turns standing guard while other members of the family slept fitfully. Both townsmen and farmers wore sidearms today or kept guns in their automobiles in easy reach.Starks was the fifth murder victim in six weeks. His home is only eight miles from the spot where Richard Griffin, 29, and his companion, Polly Ann Moore, 17, were shot to death March$24, The double slaying was followed by another April 14, when a h\ih school couple, Paul Martin, 17, and Betty Jo Booker, 15, were killed.Capt. Gonzuallas, of theTexas Rangers, said the series of murders was .“the .most baffling ca^se we’ve ever, had.” All five slayings, he said, were similar.The two double-mui‘ders were eommited with a .38 caliber pistol, but the results of a ballistics test to determine if the bullets were fifed from the same'gun were not announced,A mobile ballistics laboratory kept at Austin, Tex., was enroute here to conduct new tests in the latest murder.Besides the Rangers, Texas and Arkansas state patrols, Texarkana police and sheriffs from both Texas and Arkansas were hunting for the killer. The Federal Bureau of Investigation had entered the case after the second double-slaying, and it was believed FBI agents would re-enter the investigation.,Authorities pointed to the obvious similarities—all three shootings involved - couples: all lookplace in isolated spots; and all were committed at night. Police believed the killer to be a good marksman. Most of bis victims were shot in Inc head.There was no apparent motive for any of the murders, and authorities believed the killer might be “a sadist who likes to prey on couples all alone.”The first victims, Griffin and Miss Moore, were found dead in Moore’s aulomobile, parked in a lonely wooded locality. Both worked in the Red River Arsenal, a shell loading plant.Young Martin and Miss Booker were snot and killed after attending a high school dance, where the girl nlayed in the band.They last were seen drivingfrom the dance in the youth’s car. Martin’s body was found lying in a dead-end country lane. He had been shot in the back of the head. The girl’s body was discovered in bushes along a rural road, some distance away. The car was near neither body.In last night’s shooting, Mrs. Stark was wounded to seriously lo give police many details. After she was shot, she staggered across the road to the homo of a neighbor. The neighbor tried to telephone police, but the rural party line was tied up. Mrs. Stark was driven the nine miles into Texarkana and the police were notified about an hour and a half after the shooting.Authorities said that since theBy R. H. SHACKFORDWashington, May 4 — (UP)The fledgling United Nations security council seemed . destined to- .. day to be confronted soon with the-explosive Palestine problem -—one that has defied solution, since Moses led the Jews out of Egypt in the 13th century B.iC. in search of a promised land,Arab state spokesmen confirmed that they were considering an appeal to the U. N, t council while each side in the controversy accused the other of violating the U, N. charter by threatening the- . use of force.The Arabs, continuing their bitter denunciation of the proposed plan to let 100,000 Jews enter Palestine this year, coupled . their threats of force with an implied : threat to the western democracies: to seek support from the Soviet' Union.There appeared to be agreement in general on only one point1—that the situation in Palestine probably is a ‘thi'cat to world peace now and most certainly will become one if the recommendations of the Anglo-American inquiry committee are., put into* effect.But the British seem cool to the plan, especially unless the'United , States offers financial and military : ■ support, and they probably will be even cooler if the Arabs seek and obtain Soviet support for their po- ■ sition.The Russian reaction' to the current crisis in the Middle East is a-question mark which overshadows:, all other difficultres on th's tck-';: Ish problem. And although the;] Russans might look favorably on-,: the plan to nut Palestine under U.JJ. trusteeship eventually, they : alSo-f might, weigh carefully, .the ■fi'v.eS Arab state votes in U, N., one -'of-: whiciu^^;oy,pt;t.~ sits on curity-counecij, ■ -?The Russian reaction to the'durS rent crisisin the Middle'East is-a auestion -mark which overshadows■ all other difficulties on this ticklish problem.. And although ' the' Russians might look favorably bn the plan to put Palestine under U. N.. trusteeship eventually, they also might'weigh carefully the five Arab state votes in U. N., one' of. which —r Egypt — sits on the security council.The Russians have been seeking to promote favor with the Arab states within the United Nations for some time. Last winter in London at the U. N. preparatory commission, the Russians and the - Arab slates time after time beat down the Anglo-American combine in efforts to liberalize the rules and plans for the U. N. trusteeship council.The Arabs do not hide the fact that they expect Russia# support for their violent opposition to the new Anglo-American recommendations, especially if both the American and British governments endorse them.Some diplomats here were concerned by the Arab threat of force to prevent either the U. S. or Britain, or both, from implementing any of the recommendations on immediate Jewish ini-migration to Palestine. They pointed out section four of article 2 of the U. N. Charter which reads: “AU member's shall refrain.--in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence'of any: state, or in any other manner- inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations.”One of the purposes of the U.N. is to get members to settle their disuules by peaceful means.” But when tnis was pointed out to K. Khairy, director of the Arab office in Washington, he replied that it was the Anglo-American inquiry committee which first recommended the threat of force., He pointed to the committee's 10threcommendation that it be madeclear to both Jews and Arabs “that any attempts by either side, by threats of violence, by terrorism, or by the organization or use of illegal armies to prevent its tthe report’s) execution • (if adopted! will be resolutely suppressed,”Khairy also issued another Arab statement assertim* that it is “un-vni si hi v eteav ihn1 these
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