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I 3 A NclKiii a at gfaurn al BE SMART Drive Carefully TWELW PAGES TODAY RENO NEVADA TUESDAY MORNING JULY 27 1948 SEVENTH EIGHTH NO 212 a a 8 Largest Morni ng and Sunday Newspaper Onefttate TRUMAN REVEALS POINT PROGRAM Race Western Powers Halt Russ Trains Quick Adjournment MORE TROUBLE IN PALESTINE not and Tito Stronger the the High Data Spry at 92 New Cabinet appears the on In (UR) ft spoke with Tito yesterday in the in Belgrade He tanks and armored cars Sheltons once bombed headquarters from an RAUD CHARGED IN KOREA VOTE AVIV Israel July 26 'R) Nations Mediator Count Bernadotte had scarcely CIVIL RIGHTS DECREE ISSUED BY PRESIDENT mem SEMENYIH Malaya July 26 (UR) Hundreds of British soldiers in full battle dress and strafing bombing Spitfires completed a two day operation in Salangor state today but army headquar ters indicated that guerrilla forces had escaped the trap set for them Only one was killed and one armed Chinese was taken prisoner ive hundred other per sons were taken into custody yes terday and today in the Semenyih area but all except 18 were re leased after questioning campaign appears to have been a wild goose said one disgusted officer President of rance Meets Members SEOUL Korea Tuesday July 27 Lt Gen John Hodge American occupation commander in southern Korea charged today that the elections to be held in the Soviet occupied zone Aug 25 will be fraud and a In a 1000 word statement to the Korean people Hodge said the people of North Korea will be forced against their will to participate in a common in the Communist style election 7 will have the of dropping a ballot in a white or black box as a vote for or against a single slate of obedient stooge candidates who have been care fully selected by the Communist party the American com mander said Hodge declared the northern Koreans would have no chance to select their own candidates in the Soviet conducted election Koreans in South Korea this Communist type of fraudu lent election is he said know what free elections are and then know the election of Aug 25 will be a George Bernard Shaw Enjoys Birthday WASHINGTON July 26 (UP) The Republican con trolled 80th Congress reopened for business today and Presi dent Truman promptly issued the politically explosive 11 legislative program he wants enacted His list was headed by and There was no further explanation but White House sources have said the President will demand 1 Power to control prices of basic commodities and Rocket Riding Radio Developed GAMBLER DIES IN GANG WAR WEST ADOPTS LONG RANGE RUSS POLICY Election Is Rigged General Says Action Is Taken Over Strong Russ Protests WASHINGTON July 26 The United States is winning the cold war in Korea an American occupation official said today He is James Stewart army information chief in Korea Stew art is here for a 10 day series of conferences with state department information officials and will start back tonight are winning the cold war in Stewart said would not have said so eight months ago but I will He said American style democ racy is making real progress' de spite ruthless and unethical tac tics of Communist propagandists He attributed this to the organ ization of a Korean democratic republic under United Nations su pervision and a land reform pro gram Stewart said the United States army has organized a south Korean constabulary of 26000 men But he said it could not cope with the north Korean Communist army of 125000 if the American army withdrew SUIT ILED LOS ANGELES July 26 Nine Negroes today filed a $180 000 damage suit in federal court charging two railroads transferred them to inferior accommodations at El Paso Tex on a train trip from 'Los Angeles July 24 1947 The suit named the Southern Pa cific and Texas and Pacifjcrail roadv Cold War Successful Official Says ifi a 36 Super forts Make amiliarity light In British Isles PEORIA Ill July 26 Bernard (Bernie) Shelton ber of the fabulous Shelton gang that waged war on prohibition era rivals with tanks and air planes was ambushed and killed Police said he generally had been regarded as head of organ ized slot machine operations in Peoria county Bernie second Shelton brother to be slain was cut down by a single bullet as he stood in front of his tavern near here He died shortly afterward in a hospital His brother Carl leader of the gang that terrorized southern Il linois in bootlegging wars of the roaring was slain in ambush last Oct 23 near his farm at air field Ill Two other lesser lights of the gang were machine gunned to death in 1943 The Shelton gang fought a movieland war with a rival boot legging ring dominated by the no torious Charles Birger Both sides employed and the airplane The fight cost some 40' lives including those of two Illinois mayors before Birger was hanged in 1928 Bernie 50 was shot in front of his tavern on the armington Road just outside of Peoria Police searching the dense un derbrush of the co i quickly found an empty cartridge from a high powered 351 caliber rifle on a hillside in back of the tavern They said the killer ap parently waited on a hillside path under perfect cover for Shelton to come out of the tavern LINCOLN Eng July 26 (UR) Thirtj' six of the 60 American superfortresses which arrived re cently in Britain made their first mass flight to day Twenty 29's from the Scamp ton RA station and 16 from Wadington and Marham air dromes met jn the air cathedral city and flew to Scotland and back without incident flight was the first in a series to familiarize American pilots and crews with British air planes techniques and tije location of RA bases for 55 arrived tour of PRAGUE Czechoslovakia July 26 (UR) Marshal Tito's position in Yugoslavia has been strength ened as a result of the Cominform attack on him former GovCul bert Olson of California said today Olson minutes here today on his private Europe The Yugoslav dictator not to have a worry in the world Olson said position apparently has been strengthened with new sup port of his he continued outward appearances it may not be necessary for Tito to use police methods to maintain Informed quarters in Belgrade told Olson that position is getting stronger all the Tito predicted Yugoslavia would come out on top in its fight with the information bureau know we are right and time will prove Olson quoted him Californian Confers With Marshal Measure Will Affect All ederal Agencies i Germans Act In addition to this blow to the Russians German leaders here and in the western occupation zones defied them The Berlin city administration suspended the Russian appointed police president for greater Berlin and his deputy In rankfurt leaders of the 11 German states in the American British and rench occupation zones agreed to set up a western regime by Sept 1 as pro vided in a six nation agreement concluded recently in London Maj Gen Charles Gross deputy chief of transportation for the American and British zones im posed the rail ban in the follow ing order to all transport officers: to technical difficulties bi zonal authorities cannot in August accept for movement across the United States and United King dom zones railway traffic exclu sive of mail originating or term inating in the Soviet International traffic which orig inates outside the Russian zone and is bound for a point beyond it may continue to cross the Allied zones for transit through the Soviet zone The official explanation of the cited is that the Russians are holding 15449 railroad freight cars which had been sent loaded into their zone and which belongs to British and rench zones Powers Plan to Send Another Note to Moscow Emergency Landing Made in Washington YAKIMA Wash July 26 (UR) A Northwest Airlines Martin 202 en route from Portland Ore to Spokane Wash with 25 pas sengers aboard made a one en gine emergency landing here today Pilot George Smith said one of the two engines went out over Mt Simcoe 50 miles south west of Yakima He flew on one' engine for 15 minutes and landed here at 9:30 a LONDON July 26 The United States Great Britain and rance neared agreement tonight both on long range Russian policy and on the wording of an imme diate note to Moscow on the Ber lin crisis The final text of the new note may be ready tomorrow well in formed sources said as the result the most important three na tion talks since the Big our for eign ministers conference broke up in a row last December Informants warned however that the western world must be prepared for a long series of dip lomatic exchanges between the western allies and Russia before' a solution of either the Berlin blockade crisis or the German problem as a whole can be ex pected New Meeting Likely They implied strongly that though these exchanges may re sult ultimately in a new Big our meeting none is likely soon be cause the United States will agree to one Ace American rench diplomats were in almost continuous conference all day fol lowing dramatic America team conference in Berlin American British and rench' representatives met this morning The Americans met for 214 hours this afternoon with oreign Sec retary Ernest Bevin and his ad visers i There was then another three nation meeting after which theAmericans met among themselves tonight Delegates Named The chief delegates for the con ferences which start a new phase in relations with Russia were: United States Charles Boh len state department counselor and No 1 expert on Russia Gen Walter Bedell Smith ambassador to Moscow and Lewis Doug las ambassador to Britain They attended Berlin con ference with Gen Lucius Clay Britain oreign Secretary Bevin oreign Undersecretary Sir William Strang Patrick Dea chief of the German section of the foreign office political depart ment and Sir Maurice Peterson ambassador to Moscow rance A mbassador Rene Massigli PARIS Tuesday July 27 (UR) Premier Andre Marie formally presented his new cabinet to Pres ident Vincent Auriol early today despite a split in the Socialist party which appeared to threaten his regime A majority of the Socialist lead ership gave the green light to government late last night by agreeing to participate and by approving the appointment of for mer Premier Paul Reynaud as fi nance minister A minority led by Socialist elder Statesman Leon Blum a vice pre mier in the new cabinet de nounced the majority decision as "contrary to the interests of de mocracy and of the $1000000 ESTATE HOLLYWOOD July 26 (UR) With Mrs Jessie I Schuyler 59 chief beneficiary attending the hearing Superior Judge Harold Jeffery today admitted to probate the will of Showman Earl Carroll whose estate is valued unofficially at $1000000 Mrs Schuyler for merly associate of Carroll in some of his entertainment enterprises was given half of his stocks and bonds German Leaders in Occupation Zones Suspend Chief of Police TEL United olke started back to Rhodes today be fore the Jewish government re jected Arab claims to Jerusalem by' declaring it to be "Israeli oc cupied A special announcement said Israel state laws will apply to the Holy City and an Israeli gov ernor will be appointed for it shortly The Israeli government also will attempt to control ac tivities of Irgun Zvai Leumi and the Stern gang in Jerusalem In effect the Israeli announce ment also seemed to reject the Arab League agreement to de militarize Palestine made public yesterday in Beirut by Abdul Rah man Azzam Pasha the secretary general Azzam Pasha however had attached conditions asking that the Jews halt immi gration allow Arab refugees to return and refrain from import ing arms In Cairo the Palestine higher Arab committee apparently act ing independently of the league rejected outright the proposal to disarm the' fighting forces in Jerusalem Grand Mufti Haj Amin El Husseini charged such action would result only in loss ot the city by the Arabs to Jews Anti Inflation and Housing Measures Listed as Chief Needs PHOENIX Ariz July 26 Anna Roosevelt Boettiger sold the Arizona Times today to a group of Phoenix businessmen headed by Columbus Giragi who took over as editor and publisher Giragi veteran Arizona pub lisher and editor and New York public relations expert red A Eldean tried to buy the paper re cently but deal was called off because a minority stockholder refused to sell The Times was founded May 2 1947 by the daughter of the late President ranklin Roosevelt and her husband John Boettiger who withdrewas an active partner several months ago to travel and write Giragi in a front page an nouncement in editions Phoenix group bought the paper because they recognized the for the Times as denoted by its rapid He said it would be expanded ire Truck ails Trolley ills July 26 When the truck of fire company No 6 broke down today en route to a fire its crew knew just what to do They hailed a' passing trolley car let off the passengers and took on whatever equipment they could and with bells clang ing sped to th fire WASHINGTON July 26 The Senate armed services com mittee today summoned Draft Director Lewis Hershey to at tend a closed meeting tomorrow to iron out differences of opinion over how men should be called up for peacetime draft service A committee spokesman said many members feel draftees should be chosen by lottery in stead of by age groups as tenta tively proposed by Hershey Chairman Chan Gurney of the Senate committee wired an immediate protest when he heard of intention Gurney held that the final form of the bill agreed on bythe House and Senate did not authorize calling men by age groups When Congress was considering the 19 through 25 draft the House bill contained a provision for men to be registered and in ducted by age groups for ex ample all eligible men 25 years of age would be called first LOST ON PEAK COLORADO SPRINGS Colo July 26 (UR) A 20 year old Muskogee youth was the object of an extensive search on the steep slopes of famous Peak today El Paso county sheriff I Bruce said that James Slack disappeared Saturday after he said he was going to climb the 14000 foot peak alone LAKE SUCCESS July 26 (UR) The United Nations today brushed aside strong Russian ob jections and in effect shelved its attempt to obtain world disarma ment A UN committee sounded the death knell of 16 month old dis armament talks adopting a Brit ish resolution that disarmament was impossible until international confidence has been restored Technically several formalities remain before today's action is final and it was not certain that the work of the 11 nation disarm ament commission would be for mally suspended But for all practical purposes action in the commission's working committee wrote finis to UN disarmament talks until there is a radical change in the inter national picture Vote 9 to 2 The vote in the working com mittee which has the same com position as the security council was 9 to 2 with the Soviet Ukraine joining Russia in voting The adopted British proposal in effect said further disarmament talks were useless as long as the big powers were deadlocked on control of atomic energy creation of an international police force and terms of the German and Japa nese peace treaties Just a few weeks ago the atomic energy commission voted again over Russian to suspend its work until the Soviet relaxed its adamant stand against the majority supported American atomic control plan 1 The military staff commit tee hasa record of parallel frus tration with the big powers at loggerheads over how an interna tional police force should be con stituted Uproar Cited As for the treaty situation UN observers pointed to the uproar over the Berlin blockade as evi dence of how far away the big powers were from agreement on an overall peace settlement The disarmament wprking com acted at a closed meeting presided over by new chief UN delegate Dr Roberto Urdaneta Arbelaez It was a part of an UN clean up drive to com plete reports of various UN organs so they can be debated at the forthcoming Paris meeting of the general assembly I Phoenix Newspaper Sale Is Announced By Mrs Boettiger PLAN TO BAN ARMAMENTS IS POT ON SHEL BERLIN July 26 The United States and Great Britain today banned all railroad traffic between western Europe and the Russian occupation zone The western Allies based their ban officially on cal as the Russians did in isolating Berlin but the new measure was regarded as direct Allied retaliation for the Soviet blockade of Berlin An official directive banning the Soviet zone traffic said the order would be effective dur ing August Authoritative sources said tonight however that it would go into force immediately It was believed it would remain in effect during a new phase of negotiations with Russia on the basis of American conferences here yesterday and American British rench talks in London to day Congressmen avor Israel Rejects Arab Claims ourth Brother Shot In Illionis WASHINGTON July 26 The navy has developed a tiny rocket riding radio transmitter that sends stratospheric data back to the earth from an altitude of more than 71 miles The miniature telemetering sys tem hatf been tested successfully at White Sands where it was sent aloft in the sound ing rocket the aerobee The rocket has attained a speed of 2830 miles an hour During two flights the trans mitter radioed to ground receiving instruments data on cosmic rays the performance and in formation on sunlight and magnetic field transmitter operates frequency modulation and uses six basic radio channels It sends 24 different kinds of information British Campaign In Malaya Termed Wild Goose Chase AYOT ST LAWRENCE Eng land July 26 (UR) George Ber nard Shaw peered cautiously through the curtained windows of his Victorian mansion here then crammed a floppv hat on his head and strode spryly off to his garden to spend his 92nd birthday at work As far as fleeting glance could tell the ageless genius looks the same or better this year than he did last He walked with the aid of one stick but he used it more as a decorative cane than for support Shaw hates birthdays a man on1 getting old he asks his friends He also detests or pretends to the flock of admirers who trek to' this lonely little village in Hertford shire to stand outside his house with the freshly painted which says This year Shaw gave his house hold strict orders that newsmen were not to be admitted beyond the front gate and especially were not to disturb him in his garden Train Hits Engine 13 People Injured NEWCASTLE New Brunswick July 26 (UR) Thirteen persons were slightly injured today when a Montreal to Halifax express train collided with a shunter engine near hee Both engines and the 15 cars of the Canadian National Railways Maritime Express stayed on1 the rails The express later continued to Halifax Railroad officials de scribed the collision a Equality in Armed orces Ordered WASHINGTON July 26 President Truman tonight issued a sweeping civil rights decree re quiring equality of treatment of all men in the armed services and the enforcement of fairness among employes of fed eral government regardless of race His proclamation however did not call specifically for an end to racial segregation in the armed forces It simply declared it to be his policy that shall be equality of opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race color religion or national To Name Committee Mr Truman ordered creation of a special committee within the military establishment to look into current racial rules and practices The committee will recommend to him what it thinks should be done to carry out the policy laid down in the proclamation The President prohibited5 racial or 'religious discrimination in the of all federal civil agencies He directed that a fair employ ment officer be named in each de partment to see that this policy is carried out subject to the final decision of the department head An overall fair employment board is to be set up within the civil service commission to lay down blanket anti discrimination rules and to review decisions made by department heads Mr directives came as 19 southern Democratic senators planned a to the limit of our against passage of any civil rights measures at the spe cial session of Congress which con vened today Will Draw ire The orders appeared certain to further anger the already rebell ious southern wing of the Demo cratic party and to draw fiery charges of from Dixie Democrats and some Republicans Negro and many liberal and left wing groups long have de manded an end to segregation of troops on a racial basis now practiced chiefly by the army Secretary of Army Kenneth Royall has consistently refused to end segregation on the premise that mixing of races could destroy discipline Mr Truman said he laid down the "equality of rule because it is that highest standards of be maintained in the armed forces Leaders of Draft Meeting Today to Discuss Protests Winning Church Bells Called Threat To Man's Saul HOLSWORTHY Eng July 26 UR) A doctor today sum moned the rector of a local church to court for ringing church hells at the of 6:30 am Dr Stuart Craddock asked the court to stop Rev Royles from ringing the bells on grounds it was ruining his health and doing his soul even less good bell ringing at this frightful hour produces such choler that my physical health is in danger and such wicked thoughts that my soul is in even greater Dr Crad dock said authority to ration meat 2 A program of subsidized low cost housing and slum clearance Republican leaders are ready to say on both There was substantial sentiment among Republicans for a quick ad journment on the theory that it would be impossible to legislate as one leader put it an at mosphere loaded with campaign Many dissident southern Demo crats would welcome and support the move as the best way to stop Mr program of racial rights Salt on Wounds The President poured salt in the wounds issuing a sweeping executive order barring racial discrimination in the armed forces and setting up a fair era ployment program for all govern ment workers The program out lined only in skeleton form in a White House memorandum will be unfolded in detail tomorrow when Mr Truman presents it in person to a joint Senate House session at 12:30 EDT In addition to the infla and proposals it includes: 3 ederal aid to education 4 An increased national mini mum wage 5 Social security expansion 6 ederal pay raises 7 Civil rights legislation 8 of the displaced persons law 9 A $65000000 loan for a per manent United Nations headquar ters 10 Ratification of the interna tional wheat agreement 11 Restoration of $56000000 in funds for power and reclamation projects The memorandum was handed newsmen following a White House conference between Mr Truman and his top aides in the House and Senate rigid Reception Most if not all of the Presi dent's proposals are expected to get a frigid reception from GOP leaders on Capitol Hill They are anxious to adjourn the special ses sion at the earliest jxissible mo ment and get back home for the election year campaigning The legislators reconvened promptly at noon in an atmos phere of bitterness that promises some of the' sharpest political wrangling in years Mr Truman considers the Congress one of worst in and GOP lead ers in turn have accused him of playing in calling them back for a mid summer ses sion in an election year The White House huddle coin cided with a strategy conference by Senate Republican leaders their second of the day Chairman A Robert A Taft of the power ful GOP policy committee said the group decided to wait until the President formally presents his program before mapping out a definite plan He said there was a of sentiment for an immediate ad journment as proposed by some Republicans and at least one Dem ocrat.