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19 Judge N. B. Johnson, a part Cherokee from Oklahoma, has beerr offered the job of Commissioner of Indian Affairs, The Journal learned tonight. The jurist, who has been president of the National M- Baruch. 77-year-old financier coupled his proposal with a call for a two-year production drive "to work for peace as we worked for war" here at home and for "a bold, resolute, concerted attack against the clawing fears of inflation and another war." He recommended a rollback of farm prices, postponement of wage increase demands, continuation of rent control, no cuts in individual income taxes for two years and a return to the war.

time tax on excess profits of corporations. And he told the Senate foreign relations committee, in outlining an 11 -point "peace-waging program and endorsing "substantial" aid to that this country should offer to buy all the world's raw material surplus for the next five years. Recovery Program Baruch aproved in general the $6,800,000,000 European recovery program sponsored by President Most of Nation Hit by Worst Mercury Drop East Coast States Coldest; 5-Inch Snow Hits Ft. Worth Area By the Associated Press The most intense cold wave of the season brought temperatures as low as 40 degrees below zero to parts the Northeast and chilled the southern part of the nation Monday, causing at least 36 deaths. The weather bureau predicted a second night of sub-zero cold for the Northeast, but not as extreme as the deep-freeze atmosphere of Sunday night and Monday morning.

Tuesday morning temperatures in the Southeast were expected to be somewhat higher. 40 Below The unofficial 40 below was reported at Orson, and Lyndon-ville. early Monday. Lopez and Starrucca in northern Penn Three Oklahoma Starts Separate Negro School of Law OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 19 (ff) The Oklahoma State regents for Higher Education today established a Negro school of law in Oklahoma City as a branch of T-aneston Neero University, but a Negro leader said immediately that there would be "no acceptance of a Jim Crow law school." The school was established after the supreme court of the United States ordered Oklahoma to pro-si law school facilities for Negroes.

Oklahoma's constitution- requires separate schools. Mrs. Ada Lois" Sipuel Fisher sought for two years in the courts a decision to permit her to enter Crathta Tg tw Charges School Teaches Religion Charges that "a definite religious program was still being carried on" in the public school at Dixon, N. were reiterated Monday night by Mrs. Leta Zel-ler.

secretary of the Dixon Free School Committee. Mrs. Zeller's statement followed a denial by State School Supt. Charles Rose, earlier Monday, of charges that a directive issued by the State Board of Education and the Archbishop prohibiting religious teaching during school hours in public schools was not being complied with. The charges were originally made at a mass meeting in the First Baptist Church here Sunday attended by about 500 people, including approximately 20 ministers from Albuquerque and nearby communities.

Citizens from the Dixon community told the meeting that "catechisms and crucifixes are insisted on" in St. Joseph's Public School and that non-Catholic school children had a choice of standing out in the cold or attending Catholic services prior to school hours. The Dixon resi dents said the school bus arrived at the school an hour before classes began and that Catholic services were held while the other children had to wait in the cold. Rose said that he believed that all the teachers in St. Joseph's, which is now' a high school, were Catholic nuns but doubted that charges of religious interference were true.

The school superintendent said that he had not been in Dixon for two months, but he believed that St. Joseph's was complying with the directive issued in September prohibiting religious teaching in public schools Mrs. Zeller said Monday night that the Dixon residents would continue to demand a state investigation into the mater. Albuquerque Man Killed In California Accident A. E.

Coleman. 49. of Albu querque, Santa Fe railway section crew member, was killed near Corona, Monday when a culvert caved in, burying him, the Asociated Press reported. Three other workers were in jured. No further details were reported.

STOCK HEARING TODAY SANTA FE. Jan. 19 VP) The State Public Service Commission tomorrow will hold a hearing on an application by the Southwest Public Servce Co. to sell a num ber of shares of common and preferred stock. GOP Rent Control Meat Ration Bills Split Capitol Hill Truman Plan CaEing For Similar Controls Denounced by Taft WASHINGTON, Jan.

19 (AP) Republican proposals to ration meat, if necessary in a time of shortage, and to extend rent controls for more than a year hit Capitol Hill today. These argument-laden developments on the economic front coincided with a new attack on President Truman's anti-inflation plans by Senator Taft Taft told a downtown audience that Mr. Truman's ideas on rationing controls actually would raise prices, rather than lower them. Taking one thing at a time: 1. Senator Flanders Vt.) and Representative Javits N.

introduced a bill to give he Agriculture Department to print ration books and otherwise prepare 4o ration meat "when the crisis comes upon us. If it comes." Meat Crisis Flanders used the term "crisis" Jn referring to the acute shortage of meat forecast by the Agriculture Department for this spring. The bill provides there would be a Pafa Tkraa Special School Surveys Set SANTA FE. Jan. 19 (Jf) Five New Mexico counties in which special studies will be made as a part of the current state school survey have been named by the board directing the educational inquiry.

Named were Eddy. Luna, Quay, Sandoval and San Miguel. They were selected has having been "found to represent the varying conditions" in all counties of the state. Members of the survey staff educational specialists in various fields will collect information in all counties and districts, with some member of the survey staff observing conditions in each county. The over-all study of conditions as a whole will be supplemented bv a closer study of conditions and the gathering of de tailed information In each of the five special counties.

Members of the survey staff will begin activities immediately. Preliminary studies are to be completed by May 7. More Stock Fed In New Mexico DENVER. Jan. 19 CP More cattle and sheep are estimated to be on feed in New Mexico this year than last--a reversal of the national trend, the Agriculture Department said today, The national figures showed a 12 per cent decline.

The estimates showed 44,000 sheep and lambs on feed compared with 26,000 a year ago; and 22,000 cattle compared with 11,000 a year ago in New Mexico. Colorado cattle and calves on feed rose from 146.000 In 1947 to a new high of 180,000 this year. i Kashmir Dispute Settlement Seen LAKE SUCCESS, Jan. 19 0W Hints of "some agreement the Kashmir dispute emerged today from a secret conference between Indian and Pakistani arguing the case here before the Security Council. There was speculation in informed quarters that the two dominions had agreed on the principle of United Nations good offices to end the conflict in the princely state.

This would take care of one phase of the dispute. It would follow the precedent set by the council last summer in creating a committee of good offices which last week obtained a truce in the long fight ng between Dutch and Indonesian forces in the East Indies. A for Fernand Van Langenhove of Belgium, Council chairman for January who presided over the inter-dominion negotations, said he would report to the Council here tomorrow. Van Laflgenhove, who started the talks last Saturday, pledged the delegates to secrecy until tomorrow. India has charged that Pakistan aided tribal invaders who have penetrated a considerable distance into the princely state in northern-most India.

Pakistan counter-charged that India wag carrying on acts of aggression against Pakistan requested that the Council appoint a commission or commissions to investigate charges of "mass destruction of Moslems in the areas now included in the Indian un Check on Ex-GI's In Palestine 7ar JERUSALEM, Jan. 19 (Jewish attacks on Arab villages killed five Arabs today as mass burial rites were held for 35 members of Hagana, including one American student, who were slain in an Arab ambush last Friday. In the port city of Haifa Jewish and Arab workers clashed on the crowded docks and military sources said one Jew was stabbed to death. The unofficial death toll since the Nov. 29 United Nations decision to partition Palestine -counted to 901.

Meanwhile an informant at Jhe American consulate said the U. S. consul general in Jerusalem was keeping the State Department "fully informed" on activities of Cantinaaa an Paa Vive Would Pave Way For a Heavy Cut In Income Taxes Republican Chiefs Vould Find Means to Cut Sharply Truman Budget WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (INS) Republican leaders in Congress considered today a slash of 2.8 to three billion dollars in the appropriation for the European aid program to pave the way for 15 billion dollar cut in taxes. Plans for a huge budget cut were discussed at a meeting of House and Senate GOP leaders.

A sharp cut in the Marshall Plan appropriation was proposed as a major factor in chopping three to four billion dollars from President Truman's 39.7 billion dollar budget for the next fiscal year. Meanwhile, a tax cut was op posed at congressional hearings by Commerce Secretary Hani- man, Bernard M. Baruch, veteran financier, and the American Farm Bureau Federation. Although still determined to jam a tax reduction bill through Congress, Republican leaders are swinging toward a lower reduc tion than is proposed in the Knut-son Bill, pending before the House ways and means commit tee. Would Modify Representative Knutson (R-, ways and means chair man, estimates tnat nis Din would total 6.3 billions.

Republicans are talking about a cut of about 4.3 billions through a modification of the Knutson bill Representative Ha Heck (R, House majority leader, said some GOP leaders "are disturb ed" over the size of the tax cut proposed by Knutson and want to tone it down. The whole tax and budget problem was reviewed by Republican leaders at their closed-doer meeting. They said afterwards, however, that no decisions were reached on the size of cuts in the Marshall Plan, the budget or taxes. It was agreed that the joint CaatiaacS aa Faf Taraa Roswell Field Redesignated Walker Air Base FORT WORTH. Jan.

IB Roswell Army Air Base today was redesignated Walker Air Force Base in honor of Brig. Gen. Kenneth N. Walker, shot down in the South Pacific in 1942. The order changing the name of the Roswell Field was received from Air Force headquarters in.

Washington, D. C. Also renamed on the same order Fort Worth Army Air Field which is now known as Griffis Air Force Base. The new -name honors one of the first Air Force men killed in World War II. Lt.

Col. Townsend Griffis, Buffalo, N. who was shot down in England Feb. IS, 1942. Two other bases were slightly redesignated, Davis-M onthan Air Field at Tucson, Arit, was renamed Davis-Monthan Air Force Base and Kearney Air Field, Kearney, was changed to Kearney Air Force Base.

night and another held over from last week's cancelled meetinx. In addition, Charles E. Wells, manager and chief engineer of the water department, plans to submit a recommendation concerning 12 and 16-inch pipe on which bids were opened two weks ago. Wells hadn't decided Monday what his recommendations would be. Bids from the Thompson Pipe Steel Co.

of Denver on 42,000 feet of 12 and 16 inch pipe totalled about $173,000, and Wells had asked the commission to defer action on the bids pending his trip to "laquemine, La. last week-Wells inspected and subsequently rejected about 10,000 feet of second-hand cast-iron pipe at Plaquemine which had been offered to the city for $1.75 a foot, plus transportation and cleaning. The commission also will consider several requests for sewer and water extensions. Ralph Jones Gets Top C. of C.

Post; Succeeds Broome Berger, Galles Move Up To Fill Vacancies As Vice-Presidents Ralph Jones, Albuquerque automobile dealer who has been first vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce, was elevated to the presidency of that organization by its board of directors Monday night. Walter Berger, who has been second vice-president, was elect ed first vice-president. Herbert L. Galles a new director, was named second vrce-president. John P.

Murphy, long-time Chamber manager, was continued in that post. Committees Pending Standing committees will be appointed by Jones at the next directors meeting, next month. Directors also voted to 'hold regular meetings on the second and fourth Mondays of each month in the future, instead of attempting to hold them weekly as in the past. Difficulty oftOb taining quorums for the weekly sessions was given as the reason for the change. Broome Didn't Run Jones succeeds as president, Charles C.

Broome, of the Broome Furniture who has been president the past two years, but who did- not seek re-election as a director this year. Jones, head of the Jones Motor has been actve on committees of the Chamber for several years, particularly those dealing with highways and highway travel. He was active in organi zation of both the New Mexico and National Highway 66 serving as president of the state organization until he was elected national president last fall. The meeting was the first for the directors after the election last week which saw four new directors named: Galles, George Doolittle, Tom L. Popejoy and Arthur Re-elected was E.

O. Hemenway. Terms of ten other directors held over one or two years. Car Wash Owner Sues Landlord in Driveway Dispute Charging that A. J.

Giannini and Marint, Giannini intended to force hm to sell the Minut Man car washing establishment at Third and Tijeras, Charles H. Clay, proprietor, has filed District Court suit to force the Gian. ninis to allow his customers to use a driveway behind the building. Clay stated he sub-leased the corner site from the Gianninis last summer and installed the mechanical car-washing device at a cost of $30,000. He stated the lease provided he was to use a driveway behind the building for cars of customers to enter.

The Gianninis permitted such use for several months, he stated, but on Jan. 12 gave notice that Clay's customers could no longer use the driveway. He charged the Gianninis intended to "permit plaintiff to build up a lucrative business and then deny him right of ingress and egress and force the plaintiff eventually to surrender said business to the defendants on their own terms." Clay asked the court either declare he is entitled to use the driveway, or award him Judge ment $75,000. The court or dered the Gianninis to show cause Jan. 26 why a temporary injunction should not be granted to give Clay the right to use the drive.

Carload Man KHed; Car Companion Hurt CARLSBAD. Jan. 19 JT) James Samples, 31. of Carlsbad was killed last night three miles north of Orla, in an auto accident, and Lon Watkins, Carlsbad attorney and president of the Eddy County Young Democrats, was injured. Their auto overturned.

Wat-kins received fractures of both arms. His condition is "fair." of American Indians since 1945, has not given Interior Secretary Krug final answer. The position was vacated last week by William A. Brophy, of Albuquerque, who resigned because of ill health. New Mexico Representative Fernandez tonight the judge as "a very fine man." The congressman said he had no intimate knowledge of Johnson's qualifications for the post but had met and like him.

"It would be very favorable if we could get a person of Indian or part-Indian extraction in that job," he declared. "It would assist greatly in the advancement and assimilation of Indians generally." Johnson has served several term's as a state district judge in Northeastern Oklahoma. i home is Claremore. If he takes the job he would be the second person with Indian blood to hold it in history. Johnson presided over a meeting of the Congress in Santa Fe Dec.

4-6. At the time he commended the citizens of New Mexico for aiding needy Navajo tribesmen. Oklahoma Representative William Stigler, also a part Cherokee, has urged Johnson to take the job "for the good of our people." Strong congressional opposition has thwarted hopes of Acting Commissioner William Zimmerman to succeed to Brophy's job. County Files Brief in Hospital Bond Issue SANTA FE, Jan. 19 (Legality of Bernalillo County's hospital bond issue has "resolved itself into a proper construction of the constitutional limitation" covering such issues, assert attorneys for the county.

In their brief in the Bernalillo County commission's mandamus action seeking to force State 'Attorney General C. C. McCulloh to 'approve purchase by the state treasurer of the bond issue. District Attorney M. Ralph Brown and his assistant, Harry D.

Robins, contend the state constitution "should not be construed as prohibiting the borrowing of money for equipping of a hospital." The Supreme Court has set Feb. 2 as the date on which Mc Culloh is to show why he should not approve the issue. The attorney general has held he believes the bonds in violation of the constitution, which pro- vid that no county shall borrow Cantlaacd aa Paaa FWa tel rooms. Particularly active were those supporting Gov. Thomas E.

Dewey of New York, Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, Earl Warren of California, and former Gov. Harold E. Stas-sen of Minnesota, all avowed aspirants. Eisenhower In Mind Few were, willing to talk for quotation about Generals Dwight D.

Eisenhower or Douglas Mac-Arthur. But Eisenhower at least apparently was in the minds of many when talk veered to a possible convention deadlock over a nominee. One Midwestern committeeman said he believed Eisenhower is sincere in saying he wants no part of politics, but should say unequivocally whether he is in or out of the race. The Dewey triumvirate of J. Russell Sprague, national committeeman; Herbert Brownell, former national chairman, and Ed Jaeckle, former New York state chairman, were much in evidence, apparently following the same strategy they did in 1944, with one difference.

Four years ago Dewey was an un-announced candidate. Now he's out in the open. So the trio held their private discussions today on a little different footing. Congress Truman and Secretary of State Marshall but differed with the Administration and Congress' Republican i leadership alike in several tax and other questions. The tall, silver-haired "elder statesman" urged that "the countries of Europe as many as are willing band themselves into a political economic and defense union under the United Nations." The U.

S. "and such others as will join us," he said, should "mutually guarantee the nations entering this union" against aggression." "By guarantee," Baruch said vigorously, "I mean a firm promise to go to war in joint defense if any of them are attacked." Questioned by senators. Baruch said he thought the U. S. might well ask strategic bases "for mutual protection" from countries getting help from us.

Similarly, he said, we would be wise to seek strategic raw materials from them. Dominant Fear Dollars alone will not save Europe or win the peace," said the longtime "advisor to presidents." He did not mention the Soviet bloc as a specific threat to Western European countries, but commented: "You've got to remove their dominant fear being broken one by one. If you don't get that Caatiaaei aa Paga Pia Snows Moderate In New Mexico By the Associated Press Skies cleared over northern New Mexico Monday afternoon in the wake of a storm that left up to six inches of snow in New Mexico and West Texas. Storm clouds hovered over most of southern New Mexico during the day, but the weather bureau forecast clearing conditions for Tuesday. New Mexico state police cautioned that highways in some sections probably would be icy Monday night, but all were open to travel.

The heaviest snow was. reported at Mountainair with 6 inches. At Acomita the wind whipped up drifts to the west of Albuquerque, and four inches of snow lay over the area near Buford. 30 miles east of the city. Temperatures of zero to 10 below in the mountains Monday night and 5 to 25 degrees elsewhere were expected to moder ate Tuesday in J'ew Mexico.

The Weather ALBCQlEKQre AND VICINITY: Pair today and Wednesday with slowly rising temperatures. High today near 40: low tonlf ht. 13 in the valley, 20 in the heights. NEW MEXICO: Pair In north. Dartlv cloudy In the south with rising temperatures.

High SS-4S. SHIPPERS' FORECAST! North east S. south IS. wett 0. it sible.

re-fighting of a battle between Mr. Truman and the Republican-controlled Congress. G. O. P.

leaders fought the employment service shift last year as an effort to "make permanent a lot of wartime juggling" of agencies, as Representative Hoffman Mich.) put it. Mr. Truman argued in a message to Congress today: "The provision of a nation-wide system of public employment offices, which assists workers to get jobs and employers to obtain labor, belongs under the leadership of the Secretary of Labor. The results achieved by the employment service after more than two years of operation within the Departmetn Labor strongly justify the decision to place these functions permanently within that department." sylvania had unofficial readings of ,38. Residents of Westchester County, N.

reported 34. And readings oi 20 below or under were common in Pennsylvania, New York and New England. Virtually as severe as the extreme sub-zero siege in the northeast were the frigid Monday morning temperatures in the usually mild southern Ohio Valley where snowy ground and cloud cover brought lows of 7 to Bowling Green, 6 at Huntington, W. zero to Nashville, and 3 above to Memphis, Tenn. Snow in Dallas A snowstorm brought hardship to northeastern Texas and northern Louisiana, with up to five inches falling in some areas.

The Dallas-Fort Worth" area received two inches of snow, and the temperature at Pampa, dipped to 19 degrees. Schools closed at Marshall, because of the snowstorm, and central Texas had freezing rain and sleet. Temperatures Monday morning were below freezing throughout CanMnaa aa Page SeTra Break in Frigid Weather in City The Weatherman nromised a respite from Monday's chill winds and icv temperatures with a forecast of "fair and rising temperatures for today and Wednesday." "There is a verv remote Dossi- hilitv that stnrm now raeinir in Canada may bring a return of the SCHOOL. HEATING FAILURE GIVES PUPILS HOLIDAY Failure of heating- units at La Mesa School gave pupils an unexpected holiday Monday afternoon When teachers decided the resultinr low temperatures endangered the pupils' health. School authorities said that classes would be resumed today following a fast repair job.

cold blasts within the next few days should atmospheric conditions change suddenly," the forecaster added, "but at the moment it is an outside possibility." Sunday night and Monday mornings low temperatures were aggravated by a 40 mile-an-hour wind which plagued the city for hours. Snow flurries were reported in some sections with the area west of the city witnessing a half-inch snowfall early Monday. Overcast skies late Sunday and Monday turned to bright sunshine in the afternoon driving the thermometer to the day's high of 36 at 3:30 p.m. Monday's light snow was the firs precipitation here of 1948. The Weather Bureau recorded the amount as a "trace," adding that high winds at the airport weather station prevented a more accur ate measurement.

Dr. Forbis New Head Of St Joseph's Staff Dr. R. E. Forbis was elected president of the doctors staff of St.

Joseph's Hospital at the annual meeting of staff members at the hospital Monday night. Dr. Forbis succeeds retiring President Dr. H. L.

January, who becomes a member of the board of directors. Elected with Dr. Forbis were Drs. Wes Connor vice-president; Myron Rosenbaum, secretary; and M. K.

Wylder, member of the board of directors. The officers and directors serve as the executive committee of the staff member GOP Victory That Russia Can't Be Happy About, Urged by Knowland Comkission Considers City Bills, Budget Report, Pipe Bids Tonight New Truman Attempt to Reassign USES to Labor Department Control WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 () Senator Knowland Cal. called on the Republican party tonight to adopt programs that will prevent Russia from gaining "an atom of satisfaction" from a GOP presidential victory in November. Firmly opposing isolationism, Knowland said Republican success at the polls should strengthen "the system of collective se curity.

"As a nation," he said, "we can no more return to isolation than an adult can return to childhood." To National Committee Knowland's remarks were in an address to a Republican national committee dinner. Che committee will meet tomorrow to approve a 1948 campaign budget and apportion delegates to the party's national convention in June. While the national finance committee met in closed session today to discuss state quotas for a possible $3,000,000 money-raising drive, national committee members and legislators were in delegate-hunting huddles. The names of all the announced and unannounced candidates for the GOP presidential nomination were heard in the lobbies and ho CHy Manager W. Rankin's report on the budget and more bids on nine will considered at to night's meeting of the city commission.

It will be the first commission session since Jan. 6: last week's meetine was cancelled because three of the five commissioners were unable to attend. Rankin's report on the budget will deal with a $32,955 "over draft" which bobbed up on a bud get statement showing general fund disbursements from July through November last year. While he hasn't vet made a for mal report to the commission, Rankin already has issued statements to the press showing the overdraft to be the result of 'bookkeeping techniques" plus an error or two. There will be two batches of hids on Dine presented to the oommission one batch due to WASHINGTON, Jan.

J9 President Truman tried again to day to assign the United States Employment Service to the Labor Department permanently. Congress killed his first try last June. The service is now in the department temporarily under an executive orfer but is due to go back to the Federal Security Agency when the President's wartime powers expire. That would be six months after World War II is declared ended officially or sooner if the President or Congress so orders. Today's reorganization plan of fee President go into effect within 60 days unless both branches of Congress reject It as they did a similar one nearly seven months ago.

Thus the stage was set for pos.