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China Now In
Soviet Orbit
Of Operation
Treaty Makes Vast
Country Satellite
Communistic State
By VICTOR KKNDKH K
HONG KONG. Feb. If. (UP)
Communist China has liecome
A, just another Russian satellite by
the 30-year treaty of alliance an-
nounced today in Moscow, ob
servers believed.
Moscow announced early today
that the treaty had been signed
after two months of direct nego-
tiations between Chinese Com-
munist leader Moa Tse-Tung and
Soviet Premier Josef Stalin.
The pact was divided into three
parts:
1. A 30-year treaty of alliance
% pledging each country to render
full military aiil to the other
should either country find itself
at war with Japan ''or any other
state which directly or indirectly
would unite with Japan in acts of
aggression." The phrase "any oth
er state" obviously referred to
the United States and Britain,
which with Nationalist China'
and Russia are the only occupy-
ing powers in Japan.
<>i't Naval Hum*
QJ 2. Agreement by Russia to re
turn the naval base of Port Ar-
thur and the jointy-controlled
Manehurian railroad to Commu-
nist China by 1952 or sooner if
a peace treaty in concluded with
Japan earlier.
:t. a commercial agreement
under which Russia would loan
China $300,000,000 over a five-
year period, at one per cent in-
terest, for the purchase of rail-
way and industrial equipment.
0 Observers said that China defi-
nitely came out second best in
the treaty despite the fact Mao
spent two months in Moscow, ap-
parently resif'ing Soviet de-
mands.
I/OM- Independence
These sources saiii that by
joining in a military pact with
Russia the Chinese Commit"'* ' ■
surrendered their highly impor
tant right to act Independently
in foreign policy.
a As a result Communist China
•Viill het ine anuuiei ruemlih-
controlled Soviet satellite, vot-
ing with the Soviet bloc in the
United Nations and forced to con-
sult Russia before making any
move in the field of foreign af
fairs.
Russian agreement to surren-
der Soviet rights In Port Arthur
and the Munchurian railway
merely is giving back something
which Russia obtained in 1045
See CHINA—Page 8
Series For
Cage Title
BRONTE — Sweetwater Mus-
tangs won everything they want-
ed Wednesday afternoon but the
district title.
3 By flip of the coin. Sweet-
water won its contention for a
three game series to determine
the district basketball honors.
Ken (Lucky) Newton flipped
and San Angelo Coach John
Kiiek called wrong.
On flip for choice of games,
the same thing happened again.
The first game will be in San
Angelo Thursday night and the
final two games in Sweetwater
at 7:30 p. m. Friday and Satur-
v day nights.
Sweetwater was represented
by Newton and Supt. C. \V. Tar-
ter; San Angelo by Supt. Bryan
Dickson, Principal John Bishop,
Business Manager Urcell Brooks
and Coach Kiicks.
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lll(.II WATERS FOLLOW TORN A DOES—Residents of (he
Kenwood Addition of Houston, Texas, move their household
possessions to higher grounds as flood waters of Greene
Itayou spilled over the Houston suburb. (NEA Tclephoto).
Emergency Raise
In Taxes Debated
AUSTIN, Tex., Feb. 15 (UP)—Members of the House
today gave final approval, !07-:$2, to a proposed 10 per cent
boost in the omiiLhus tax to finance operation of the state
hospital system for the next 18 months. The measure now
goes to (he senate.
Austin, Feb. 15 (UP)—Administration supporters held
unbroken ranks today against a hard-fighting minority as
the keystone measure of Gov. Allan Shivers' emergency tax
program edged toward final enactment in the House of Rep-
resentatives.
SkunkShipped
As Valentine
HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 15 (UP)
—A movie gossip columnist said
today it was "very amusing" of j Doyie wiin.s"of ForFworth"r^
Inon Wnnnrttt ♦ r\ canri nar ; . .
Members of the lower cham-
ber resumed their second day of
debate o*> the controversial om-
nibus tax bill', the foundation
legislation in financing the gov-
ernor's multi-million dollar state
hospital improvement program.
As floor action opened, Rep.
Joan Bennett to send her
skunk as a Valentine.
The glamorous star mailed
the skunk yesterday and said it
was "as good a time as any to
answer back."
"For years I've been the vic-
tim of her nasty remarks," she
said.
Miss Bennett also took $800
worth of heart-shaped ads in
two movie trade papers to hint
the columnist is a "frustrated
and jobless actress."
"I didn't know she had that
much money," the columnist
trilled.
Masonic Lodge
Open House On
Friday Evening
An outstanding program is be-
ing arranged for the Sweet-
water Masonic order's- annual
o|x'ii house program on Friday
evening, committees announced
Wednesday.
Details of the program will be
concluded Thursday morning
and announced finally, it was
stated.
Big Spring Shooting To Be
® Probed By Texas Rangers
BIG SPRING, Feb. 15 (UP)—
Texas rangers have been asked
to make an independent investi-
gation of the fatal shooting here
last Wednesday night of Ron-
ald Williams, 10. a former Wal-
ters, Okla., football player.
Kirby Cook, a Howard County
deputy sheriff, was charged with
murder without malice in the
slaying and Is free on $2,000 bond.
Cook since has resigned from the
sheriff's force.
District Attorney Elton Gilli-
land said it was routine to call in
the rangers in a case involving
a public official. He said their
findings would lie presented to a
grand jury, possibly next week.
Williams' father, Boyd, and an
uncle, Herbert Williams, and
Cotton County (Oklahoma)
sheriff Boyd Vantime came here
today and conferred with Gilli-
land regarding the case.
The district attorney said Wil-
liams was arrested after a fight.
He was taken to the county jail
where he broke and ran, Gllll-
land said he had been Informed.
Several blocks from the Jail, Gil-
llland said, a deputy saw Wil-
liam and a fight followed, with
Williams again breaking away.
The shooting followed, Gilliiand
said.
Williams had been working in
Snyder, Tex. He came here with
another man last Wednesday to
check a title to a used car Gil-
liiand said.
Wilson Cautions
About Inflation
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 15 —
(UP)—Industry can reach Presi-
dent Truman's goal of a $300-bii-
lion annual production in five
years, but "we must take care
we are still dealing in dollars at
the end of five years, and not In
cigar coupons," General Electric
Co. President Charles E. Wilson
said last night.
Wilson told the Philadelphia
Chambel" of Commerce that a
$300-billion production would not
necessarily improve living stan-
dards if taxes and federal expen
dfltures continue as high as they
are now and if the total debt con-
tinues to rise.
newed unsuccessful opposition
attempts to slash tax increases
on insurance companies.
Rep. Callan Graham of Junc-
tion, hurling back the adminis-
tration answer, called upon the
House to stand firm in level-
ing an across-the-board in-
crease.
Insurance companies, he said,
were no more entitled than any
other business to be exempted
from the tax levy.
On a record vote, Willis saw
his motion fail by a vote of 76-
58.
On the Senate side of the leg-
islature, members approved
their own version of a $20,000,-
)00 operating budget for the
state hospital system. Both
House and Senate have voted
similar bills.
Administration supporters
won first round victories yes-
terday when they held the pro-
posed tax increase at flat 10 per
cent, beating down opposition
attempts to trim the hike to
eight per cent.
The measure, based on the
framework of the state's pres-
ent omnibus tax law, levies
against a score of commodities
ranging from raw materials such
as crude oil and sulphur to lux-
ury items such as jewelry and
playing cards.
Another proposed tax will be
given a public hearing at a Sen-
ate affairs committee session to-
night at 7:30. It would tax each
pack of cigarettes sold in Texas
an additional one-cent.
Sen. Fred Harris requested
the public hearing because he
said several persons wanted to
voice their opinion.
The additional cigarette tax,
which would boost the assess-
ment to four cents a pack, was
expected to yield the state at
least $7,500,(XH) yearly until it
expires in 1957.
A proposed graduated tax on
the gathering of gas, offered by
Rep. Jimmy P. Horany of Arch-
er City, became a casualty
when House Speaker Durwood
Man,ford sustained a point of or-
der which ruled it would substi-
tute a gathering tax for an oc-
cupation tax.
Short Supply
Of Coal Cuts
0. S. Industry
Mine Workers And
Operators Open Up
New Contract Talk
John L. Lewis' United Mine
Workers opened new contract
i talks with the nation's soft coal
operators in Washington today
against a backdrop of snowball-
ing industrial layoffs.
A coal shortage caused by the
UMW walkout has forced many
industries in most sections of the
county to reduce production.
International Harvester Co.
] warned its 70,000 employes in
i seven states that widespread
j layoffs could be expected "at any
1 time" beense of low fuel supplies.
Kail Stalemate
On another front, the railway
(mediation board reported that it
j failed to settle a contract dispute
between the major railroads and
I 250,000 conductors and trainmen.
! The two Brotherhoods said they
| would announce a strike date Fri-
day but the national railway la-
bor act probably will delay a
walkout for st-veal months while
' a presidential emergency fact-
finding board studies the prob-
! lem.
The soft coal operators met
with UMW officials today and
Federal Mediation Director Cy-
rus S. Ching said he probably
would sit in on the sessions. He
said David L. Cole, chairman of
President Truman's fact-finding
board, also would listen to the
wage talks.
' 400,000 Idle
About 400,000 UMW members
were out of the pits despite a
federal injunction barring their
strike. Mine spokesmen said
any back-to-work movement
would hinge on the outcome of
the coal talks in Washington.
Gov. John Battle of Virginia,
meanwhile, contemplated seizing
the idles mines in his state and
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New
York signed an emergency bill
empowering him to ratioii coal
and limit its uses for 90 days.
CIO Hacks Miners
CIO President Philip Murray
threw the support of his power-
ful organization behind the strik-
ing coal miners as other labor or-
ganizations lined up in back of
the UMW in its fight against a
Taft-Hartley injunction.
Meanwhile, the CIO United
Auto Workers' strike against the
Chrysler Corporation remained
static. Daily contract talks con-
tinued although there was no in-
dication that they were any
near agreement than when the
125,000 workers walked out. Set-
tlement has been stymied by a
pension issue.
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SEARCH IS ON FOR
"DITCHED" B-86—This map
shows where an Air Force
B-80, based at Carswell Air
Force Base, Ft. Worth, Tex-
as, with three engines report-
ed on fire radioed that it wax
"setting down" in Queen
Charlotte Sound (1) off Brit-
ish Columbia. Canadian ma-
rine station at Prince Ru-
pert, B. C. (2) asked all
points to watch for lla<es and
wreckage. Plane, with 16
aboard, was on flight from
r Elelson Air Base (3) to Fort
Worth, Tex. (NEA Tele-
photo).
The Weather
Temperature, high Tuesday,
5'1; low this morning, 30: bar-
ometer, 30.30, steady. Slightly
cloudy, continued fair, not
much change in temperature.
Relative fiunttdlty, 33 per cent.
Truman Calls
For Rebirth
Of Morality
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (UP)
President Truman today urged
a rebirth of morality in this coun-
try as a bulwark against totali-
tarianism. i
The President addressed a con-
fernce of federal, state, and lo-
cal officials called by Attorney
General J. Howard McGrath to
plan a unified fight against or-
ganized crime.
i* r. Truman pledged his
"wholehearted support" of the
conference and added:
"If you don't have the proper,
fundamental moral background,
you finally wind up with a total-
itarian form of government."
The President said there has
been a "substantial increase in
crime—particularly in crimes of
violence" since war. He said it
was similar to the upserges of
crime that have followed all wars.
The underworld criminal, he
added, has "corrupted some of
our citizens and commuinties."
See TRUMAN On Page Eight
Michigan Teachers Resign
When Affairs Get Muddled
DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 15, —
(UP)— A suburban high school
teacher denied charges today
coeds "sweetie," swore in class,
Attlee Considers
Big Three Parley
As Possibility
LONDON, Feb. 15. (UP) —
Prime Minister Clement R.
Attlee said today that "1 do not
rule out the suggestion" of
Winston Churchill that another
Big Three meeting he held with
Russia to seek a truce on atomic
armaments.
Attlee sprang his supreme
statement regarding the possi-
bility of a new meeting with
Premier Josef Stalin during the
last stage of an election cam-
paign tour in Lincoln.
Churchill proposed last night
in Edinburgh that the Big Three
get together again and see what
could lie done about ending the
cold war and atomic weapons
race. Asked about it today, At-
tlee said:
"Whether there would be any
use in making another approach
(to Stalin) is a matter for con-
sideration. 1 do not rule out the
suggestion which has been
made by Mr. Churchill, but at
the present moment it rests with
the United Nations."
Less that) a month ago Attlee,
through the foreign office, reject-
ed the Idea of another confer-
ence with Stalin.
that male instructors called
and left classes to smoke.
Thirteen of the 17 instructors
at Madison High School in Roy-
al Oak township resigned yes-
terday after 100 students staged
a one-day protest strike against
the alleged misconduct.
A parents committee demand-
ed that the state board of edu-
cation investigate the charges.
Robert Peters, music teacher
and spokesman for the resign-
ing group said: "We are quitting,
effective in 30 days, in protest
against the community's grant-
ing this investgation," "the
whole thing is unthinkable."
Former principal J. Russel
Roe said lie quit last week after
11 years at the school because
"ethics and discipline" were
bad, and because he didn't have
school board support to "remedy
the situation." The parents de-
manded his reinstatement.
They charged that superinten-
dent F. Foster Wilkinson failed
to support Roe although he had
been told that instructors greet-
ed coeds with a. "Hi, Sweetie!"
Wilkinson said that charges
were "exaggerated considerab-
ly."
"Roe mentioned the matter
to me," Wilkinson said. "The
teachers involved denied the
charges. There was nothing I
could do about it.
"Most schools have smoking
rooms for teachers," he said.
"We've just got the boiler room,
and when they go there to
smoke, 1 guess it makes things
look bad."
Fomed Wings Over Jordan Choir
To Be Presented Here March 3
The world-famous "Wings
Over Jordan" Negro choir will
be presented at Sweetwater
Municipal auditorium on March
3, under auspices of the Minis-
terial Association, it was an-
nounced Wednesday.
There will be two performance
es—matinee at 3:30 p. m. and
evening at 8 p. m.
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This renowned musical or-
ganization appeared here last
year on its tour of the Nation
and proved one of the most
popular entertainments and
musical programs ever brought
here. There have been repeated
requests that a return engage-
ment be scheduled for the peo-
ple of this part of Texas.
B-29, Joining
For Plane
Many Planes Comb
Sea Looking For
Trace Of Missing
B-36, 17 Aboard
SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 15, —
(IP) — Eight crewmen were
reported killed today when an
Air Force B-29 crashed and
burned as it left the Great Falls
Air Base in Montana to join a
two-nation search for a B-36
Super-bomber lost with 17 men
oti the British Columbia coast.
Great Falls firemen and Air
Force officials said seven of the
fi-2!i's 15-mah crew escaped in-
jury.
"1 he ship, based at Spokane,
Wash., was the command plane
ol 12 B-2!i s taking part in the
search for the B-3G, missing
since late Monday night on a
tlight from AlasKa to Texas.
The B-29 crashed as the van-
guard of more ihan 70 planes
roared into rain-heavy skies to
search for the super-bomber in
Queen Charlotte Sound, B. C.
Starch Coastline
The search planes took off
from runways in Seattle, Ta-
coma, Vancouver and Great
Falls. They fanned out over a
search corridor 50 miles wide
and 100-miles long, extending
troni the craggy British Colum-
bia coast.
The B-29 crashed near an ar-
terial highway.at Great Falls,
slid across the road and stopped
m a pit. It burst into flames.
Great Kalis firemen and Air
Base crews put out the flames.
Meanwhile, air-sea search co-
ordinators checked a "multitude
of reports" that a low-flying
plane had been seen by resi-
dents of an area from the Queen
Charlotte islands to southern
Vancouver Island.
Royal Canadian Air Force
spokesmen said the reports in-
dicated the plane was further
south than had been believed.
Port Hardy, remote station
on the northeastern tip of Van-
couver Island, has been made
the advance search base. Two
Canadian high speed naval
launches were operating out of
the station.
Four U. S. Coast Guard Cut-
ters searched the waters of
Queen Charlotte Sound, where
the pilot of the U. S. bomber
last radioed he thought lie would
have to "ditch" the giant six-
engine craft.
Signals Heard
A continuous radio signal
heard last night in the Interna-
tional distress frequency spur-
red the search. Its origin was
plotted to be from the general
search area -100 miles northwest
of Seattle.
One report from Tofino, B. C.,
midway down Vancouver Island,
said residents of the town were
awakened around midnight by
a low-flying plane which seemed
to circle the town three times.
The report generally jibed with
the time the B-36 "last radioed
it was in trouble.
The postmaster at West Bay
near Point Sontula, B. C., re-
layed a report from a woman
resident that she had heard a
plane back-firing over West
Bay early yesterday.
Residents of Nimpkish Lake,
B. C., in the northern portion of
Vancouver Island, also reported
having heard a plane overhead.
Four U. S. Navy P-2-V's took
off from Seattle in a heavy
drizzle today. Twelve B-29's
from Spokane, Wash., AFB; Ra-
pid City', S. D., AFB: and Mc-
Clelland Field, Sacramento,
Calif., left Great Falls, Mont., to
join the search.
Six surface craft of the two
countries patrolled storm-lash-
ed Queen Charlotte Sound
throughout the night for clues
for the missing superbomber.
DOLLAR PER DAY FOR PRISON SOJOURN—Frank H.
Bigelow, 29, of Rockvllle, Mo., a Navy veteran, rejoices with
his wife and daughter Lennie Marie, 2, after he received a
check for $1,198—the first to be presented by the War Claims
Commission in Washington persons imprisoned by the Japs
in World War II. This represented one dollar for each day he
spent in prison. (NEA Telephoto).
School Expansions
Studied By Board
Trustee Election
For District Will
Be Held On April 1
Confirmation of purchase
agreemehts>for a new two-block
school campus on East 12th
street near East Ridge addition
is expected within the next few
days, committees reported at
the Sweetwater Independent
School District board meeting
Tuesday night.
The new site is needed for an
additional elementary school, or
possibly an elementary school
and junior high.
The board is continuing its
study of school expansion needs
and a proposed bond issue to be
presented to the district later
this year. No final decision has
been reached upon the develop-
ment program to be undertak-
en this year. Pressing needs for
additional school facilities make
a large program imperative but
the trustees are going into all
angles before reaching a decis-
ion.
Committees have recently
visited Snyder, Seminole, La-
mesa, Andrews, Midland, Mer-
kel and Anderson to study new
school facility developments
there. It is also planned to study
the new Roscoe school project
Mrs. P. C. Moore
Found Critically
III At Her Home
Mrs. P. C. Moore of 505 East
Fourth was reported early Wed-
nesday afternoon to be "in a
very serious condition" at
Sweetwater Hospital after hav-
ing been found unconscious on
the floor of her home about
11:30 Wednesday morning.
It is believed that Mrs. Moore
suffered a stroke "several
lours" before she was found.
She was lying by her kitchen
rtove, on which one burner was
lighted.
Circumstances indicated that
she might have fallen there
some time Tuesday afternoon,
since none of her neighbors had
seen her since that time, but at-
tending physicians expressed
doubt that she had been there
quite that long. They did set the
See MRS. MOORE On 1-age 8
'Knife And Fork'
Club Meeting Is
Called Thursday
Plans have been completed
for the organization meeting of
the Knife and Fork club Thurs-
day at noon at the Blue Bonnet
Hotel, according to E. M. Avery.
A board of directors and a
corps of officers will be elected
Thursday and plans set for the
inaugural meeting which in all
probability will be held Feb.
28.
At present 114 member coup-
les have already accepted mem-
bership and the tentative quota
of 125 will easily be reached,
leaders say. However the mem-
bership limit will be set by the
board of directors after to-
morrow's meeting.
Thursday's luncheon will be
complimentary.
Health Cards For
Handlers Of Food
The Sweetwated-Nolan Coun-
ty Health Unit is in position
again to provide health exami-
nations and issue health cards
as required under state law, Dr.
Fred Dinkier, director, said
Wednesday.
While the unit was without
a doctor, examinations were
made by private doctors with
cards issued on their
tion. Those who wish
obtain examination at
unit .offices
Wednesday
as soon as the building has pro-
gressed sufficiently. ,■*"!&$
Supt. c. W. Tarter report##;
on the school budget and other 0
routine matters. . .. /
Election of three trustees was
called for -thft figtt Satyrda
April, April f. At that timfe
terms of three members Of the
board expire Those'are Hudson
Lincoln, Wade Forester and
Jack Lambert.
61 Tickets
On Parking
Parking meters officially
came into effect in' Sweetwaftnr
Tuesday and a total of 61 tick-
ets for violations were handed
out by police officers. '
Nine of the parking violators
paid their fines Tuesday, and 12
had "paid off" in police court
by noon Wednesday.
The parking meter violation
fine is 50 cents, provided the fine
is paid at the police station with-
in 24 hours.
If it is not paid within that
time, the fine will be $2. The
city commission made this stip-
ulation at its Monday meeting.
Circling The Square
Rumors have it that Bill Han-
na in the Longworth commun-
ity has become age conscious
since the arrival of a grand-
daughter last Sunday,
youngster, Brenda Kay, is the I
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ir*."
Hale Jr.
* * *
Overheard in a local cafe
yesterday: "I still have f
casket I've been holding
you for 20 years'*^
taker . . . "might aa
go ahead and use It .
self, I've decdled that
going to live longer
you"—Sweetwater
(Unable to me names
this one).
* *
Advice to newt? Wedded
bands: It's okay to leave
with lipstick on your face, I
better not try returning in
same condition.
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ment shoald pn
method of ''
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