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Show i i . v f if li 1 I;, ITURES CLEAR . today and Wednesday with X . . . II II jPertlani r, t Bntt . . . . . l Dtnvar . . . M 5 St. LU . IS Ckk-M . . . IS Nw Yrk 4 WahtB(ten r TI Miami j... f T BeUa .i... '! lilt: S 7T. !(... A. M Ml U Onii . M 1 la Viu. tl hntx 1 1 Vt Angel fa IS Saa ma. , M M IS, lw tonlfht 50'U 55. .- t 1 -SDCTYrFOURTH YEAH, NO: 4 Solons Vof RcMToCutL Foreign Aifcnrs 6kehs$M5O,0OO,(M)Ofp Secmestbv 145 Voief By IEX CHANEY United Preat Staff Correspondent if WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (U.R) Four prominent mem fiers of the house foreign af fairs ' committee, today threw . their sypport behind a plan to '; ilash the administration's $1,-' $1,-' .00,600,000 arms aid program V by about 40 per cent. " JC t The four two Democrat? and C two Republicans- disclosed their Intentions after the foreign af- fViri committee had approved, by '14 to 5 vote last night, the full idminlstration request for mill- , tary assistance funds. it Before approving the bill, the committee wrote Into ir a pro-iion pro-iion barring the payment or acceptance of any j lee or commission com-mission to anyone In connection - with contracts under me program. 'Its action was designed to block ' iny effort of "five per centers ta profit from the arms plan, Ask Blf Cuf The four men are Reps. James 'Richards, D., S.C., John M. Vorys, Rh O Omar Bruleson, D , . Tex., and Walter H. Juda, Minn, They said hey wfll team ur to trv to oersuade the house to make a substantfal cut In the eommittee-aDDroved legislation. ' 'Richards Is the second -ranking Democrat on the foreign' affairs committee, and Vorys is generally regarded as the top-ranking GOP foreign policy spokesman in the house. Both usually support the administration In foreign policy matters. m, '' ''-.- " Tha four are behyfl a proposal orlcinally advanced by Richards. Under Jt, the i,lo0,000,000 which tha administration has earmarked for' wt stern European ' natlonsi would be reduced by $380,499,000, or 50 nee cent. V y The Richards-Vorya ig r o up would leava intact the $211,370,- 000 which the administration wtiktd and the. committee approvedfor ap-provedfor Greek-Turkish mili tary aid, and he $27,640,000 for , (Continued on Pare Two) porker Falls Plant Stack 4 A 33-year-old St. Louis, Mo., Construction foreman was critically crit-ically injured today when he fell 70 feet from the new Provo municipal mu-nicipal power plant stack how 'under construction, y The man, Wade E. Cooley, ; whose Provo address is the River Bridge trailer camp, slipped from scaffolding on the chimney and fell inside the stack. Ten construction construc-tion men and ambulance attend ants worked for one half hourf peiore iney were aoie 10 exiraci faim from the stack. v I At press time today, Utah Val- ley hospital attaches said he was In "fair" condition, suffering from two broken legs, a possible broken brok-en arm, lacerations of the face and legs, and possible internal Injuries..-. ' , ' He was pulled out through a 24 by 22 inch hole in the side of the stack near its base. The accident occurred shortly after 11 a. m. this morning. . In a semi-conscious condition, Cooley told ambulance, attendants "that he' didn't know just. exactly ' What caused the fall, but he be lieved he slipped., oh 'some article . on the scaffold.,. He is employed as foreman Tb'y the John V..rB.oland' construe-tion: construe-tion: company of St. Louis, Mo. ' Workmen ; entered the- stak through the hole near its base and splinted ' both i legs before ' he - could be moved.- Navy Colls Off Antarctic Trip ' . Washington,' Aug. ie, (u.r) The. navy today "postponed" the expe'dition to the Antarctic which It had scheduled for this fall Navy Undersecretary Dan A. Kimball said the expedition is being 1 postponed . for "compelling reasons 6f economy " He did not say the expedition would be revived re-vived at any time, in the future. Veto Deity Report Of Giving; Up Service Center Home Sent Board Publicity Policy 8fll Undecided, . . . . Irtve Airport Case Starts On 2nd Trip To Hich Court Kews Highlights In Central Utah 52 Reca of Russian Eriv6y Action Aq Bj EDWARD M. K0RRY . United Preu SUff Corresponde BELGRADE. .Yugoslavia, Aug: 16 (UJ!)Russia has recallecKher ambassador to Yugoslavia, it Was announced an-nounced today, leading veteran observers to speculate that the Soviet Union was preparing for "graver action ac-tion against excommunicated Marshal Tito. . The mbassador; Antolf Lavrentiev, a 45-yearold Soviet career diplomat; was, released of his duties in Belgrade and promoted to a deputy foreign minister in -Moscow under Soviet Foreign Minister Andrew Vish- insky. ' - ; ; ' Veteran diplomatic observers said it was doubtful doubt-ful if Lavrentiev would be replaced. Some, thought that -Lavrentiev'-s. withdrawal was a roundabout way of breaking relations with Yugoslavia. ' ; Lavrentiev was credited by western observers with paying influenced Soviet policy in the comin form's battle with Marshal Tito. These' observers said Lavrentiev thought Tito could be forced to recant hist nationalist theories if he was threatened with or actually actu-ally expelled from the cominform. This belief, western observers said, was Russia s biggest postwar blunder. It forced Tito td withdraw comdetelv from the Soviet campi' breakidg open Russia's entire southernv- atrehgUiehing the labor de-t de-t k-tk.,c.,5 .,. v,X artment and flscal measures to iMiiA. t uie iicikuv y u.c vwp.st.prn nnwprs. . Although western observers consider Laventriev to have, a dull mincl, Communists say he is considered" one bf the Kremlin's top troubleshooters in southeastern Europe. v:- ThexSoviet ambassadors last public appearance was July 4, when he attended the U. S. embassy's. In- dependence Day party. Vaitt Tried To Itors; By WAfeREN DfJFFEE United Preu Staff Correspondent! WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (UfJ - Maj.. Gen. Alden H. Waitt, sus pended chief of the army chemical chemi-cal corps, testified today that he Death Mourne Margaret r Mitchell, famed au thor, succumbs to accident in juries. Famed Author 10 Autolnjuries ATLANTA. Aug. 16 (U.R) Mar garet Mitchell, a shy Georgia wo man whose Civil War history les sons at her father's knee inspired her to write "Gone With The Wind," died today. V , s Death came five dayaafte'r she was struck down by a drinking taxicab driver's private car on Peachtree street, in tne heartland of the most vivid action of her fa bulous novel about the south's iost Cause." . . XI Gbv. Herman Talmadge imme diately ordered a period of statewide state-wide mourning until her funeral is oven The governor asked that all flags be flown at half mast (Continued on Page Two) Compel r oucciimDS Women Accelerate First Phase of Swim Pool Pledge Drive With Deadline Set For Weekend The deadline f6r the first phase of the current Provo swimming pool 'pledge campaign has been extended a week, E. D. Firmage. chairman of the $85,000 fund-raising fund-raising campaign, announced Tuesday. Housewives working under' the Wirection of Mrs. Fay Buttle will complete their house-to-house canvass first phase of the overall over-all swimming, pool finance programby pro-gramby the end lot this week, Mif. . Firmage stated. ' "In the first visit made by the women," the chairman said, "many people were not at home, due to vacations and other trios. Therefore, hundreds of families' have not been contacted as yet." PROYO, UTAH Hints Soviet I ainst nde , Tito ouv.ci, vum-Yvm vy.ui mc Stabilize 'the spotty unemploy nur.i .wU.:,ij u- Blackball Job memorandum belit- tTing the qualities of possible sue 80" " J "r reqw of"Maj. GerL Harry H. Vaughan, President Truman's military aide. Waitt has been accused of writ Ing the derogatory memo in an effort to make sure he atayed In command of the chemical corps. He prepared the memotin the of- bf James v Hunt, Washing "five per center." tt admitted thai he had hope) Hunt could "expedite" senate confirmation of his first appointment in 1945 as chief of the chemical corps.. Memo Discussed ' Sen. Herbert R. O'Conor, D Md., then questioned him about the memo made public last week which Waitt dictated at Hunt's office this spring. It included Waitt a appraisal of eight possible candidates for his job in terms less favorable than he had used In his official , report on them. Waitt said he had met Vaughan at a social gatheringperhaps cocktail party" and that the White .House aide had "suggested that I give him my estimate o the officers." Waitt gave that account to the senate subcommittee which is in vestigating the so-called "five per centers" agents , w'ho collect! commissions for getting . their clients government contracts. The slightly-built general; with four rows of ribbons on his chest, took the witness chair accom panied by his counsel, Lt.f Col. William G. Eaton. Q'Conor, as acting chairman, quickly turned the questioning to Waitt's first appointment in 1945 and his quest for reappointment this year. Under' quest ionin g, Waitt quoted Vaughan a. expressing tne belief- that he ( waitt) was '.'best qualified" and should be reappointed to the chemical com mand StalihReceives U.. S. Ambassador LONDON, Aug. 16 (U.R) The American Ambassador to Russia, by Generalissimo Josef Stalin yesterday t Radio Moscow report ed.X The broadcast said..- Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishin sky also was present. x A preliminary examination of pledge sheets turned in indicates "vefry -favorable" results, ' with people ofnhe community backing up their desire for aVpool with cash or pledges. "However," Mr. Firmage re minded, "we have a long haul ahead before we can proceed, wfch the project. We must haveVthe backing of every family lnhe community, Actually, ur driVe has oiuy just begun. i Pledge sheets carried by the women workers give each family opportunity to make a voluntary contributioiiof $1 a month on their utility bill, for 13 months, thereby gaining the first year's memoersmp. He Tells Hearing COUNTY, UTAH, TUESDAY AUGUST. 16, AH Urged To Support 'Fair Deal' Thred Utah pemoqraiic . Congresmen Praised By Gjsvernment Labor Aide LOGAN, Utah,iig. 16 (U.R) he assistant Secretary of labor Ralph Wright of . Washington, Wash-ington, today surged the 45th Utah AFL Convention to k President Truman's "fair deal.' Wright also heaped- lavish praiseupon Utah's three-Democratic congressmen; devoting more than' one-fifth of the address ad-dress to lauding Sen. Elbert D. Thomas, I D Utah. He made no mention of Sen. Arthur V. Wat-kins, Wat-kins, R.; Utah. He said "in Senator Thomas the state ofvUtah has an outstanding representative at the nation's capital. cap-ital. You should also be proud of Rep. Walter K. Granger, D., Utah, and Rep. R. B. Bosone; D., tJtah." The assistant secretary of labor la-bor said Mr. Tnaman'sjrogram of a 75-cents-per-hour minimum ment picture across. should be put Wright . spoke" today on the heels of charges at the conven tion yesterday that a political spoils system in Utah was displacing dis-placing competent workers in the state government. ..The. claim was made by James L. McCormack of Sacramento, Cel., the AFL's re-? gional iirectof"of county and municipal workers. Colleges in Utah came in for fcharp criticism yesterday from Professor Evan B. Murray of Utah State Agricultural college. He charged that while the prob lems of agriculture had , been taken up carefully, particularly at USAC, labor-management re lations and other problems in volvlng industry had been slighted: OSTS Fpr Potato rt WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (U.RW It cost .the government $64,000,-000 $64,000,-000 in one county alone to buy port program on the 1948 crop, an Jag r 1 Culture, department spokesman revealed today. He said the government spent that amount buying up potatoes produced' in Aroostook county. Me., one bf the nation's principal potato-producing areas. That was nearly one-third of - the total $199,000,000 which the govern ment) spent buying up surpluses in the .1948 potato crop. ctually it cost the govern ment and the taxpayers more than that; When the cost of disposing dis-posing of! the potatoes f was added n, a spokesman said,; the total cost of the 194$ potato crop sup port program was boosted to $224,000,000. . - J CHILD WALKS AT AGE.OF THREE WEEKS ' i "... v ! -x MURRAY, Utah, Aug. 16 (U.R) A tiny baby today had dumbfounded her parents and physician by walking at the age of three weeks. , Mr. and Mrs. Layerl en-son en-son of Murray Utah, said the tot first; tookjjseveral steps in water. Mrsv Benson turned away'fojr a second as she was bathing the bab.y in the bathi-'rtette. bathi-'rtette. . ' The family physician, who declines to let his name be used, said he doubted the report re-port at first But he later saw-the saw-the tot take four or five steps "while Mrs.: Benson partially ' supported it." . j . "As far as I can determine, this is the youngest any baby has attempted to wjilk," he said. Mrs. Benson was advised ad-vised not to let the baby try it again until she Is stronger. As an alternate to this plan, $15 may be contributed -outright. entitling the family to one year's membership, $2S for, two year's membership, or $50 fof five years. Mr. Flrmige said it has come to his attention that thr u some misuifderstaridlng regarding me metnoa.oi paying the $25 or $50 memberships. These may be paid in one payment or on an In stallment basis, just So the .com plete amount is paid within 15 months, he emphasized. . ' ! Families , who for any reason are noi contacted at their homes mayxleave their contributions or sign pledge, sheets at the offices Price Suppo of The Daily Herald. E.. : ID): J , CONGRESSMAN CLEARED OF FRAUD COUNT KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 16(U.R) Rep. 'Leonard Irving, D., Mo., of President Truman's Tru-man's home district, was cleared today of charges that he misused union funds. Circuit Judge John Cook yesterday threw out a suit filed aganist Irving by members mem-bers of the AFL Hod ' Car, riers' Building and Common . Laborer's union. ! The petition said that since July 16 Irving, president of the local, had "engaged in aJ : combination and conspiracy" with other union officers to "divert the funds of the local union to their elwn use," . ' Irving flew recently to Kansas City to deny the charge at a union meetingT The meeting ended in a free-for-all fight, but Irving escaped es-caped without injury. Spring Recession Sidetracked' Says Bank Official By UNITED PRESS The secretary bf the American Bankers 1 Association said in Salt Lake City today that a threaten ed early spring recession has' been sidetracked and in its place has came a period of readjustment readjust-ment to a buyer's market. . Merle E. Selecman of New York arrived in Salt Lake City to make plana for the three-day 23rd west era regional trust conference which opens tomorrow. Selecman also criticized "A trend to a wel fare state." . " He declared there'was no danger dan-ger raTTearly depression.. "There are Indications of a slowdown as ndustry catches up with supply n many lines. Many industries are learning the need for vies manship," said Selecman, The first meeting of .the con ference since 1940 will bring to -I gether more than 300 delegates from 18 western states To Mile Depth BULLETIN ABOARD VELERO IV, OFF SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Aug. 16 (U.R) Undersea Explorer Ex-plorer Otis Barton passed the 3500 foot mark at 12:35 p. m. today for a new record and continued his descent in a third attempt to descend $,000 Jeet Into the pitch blackness of the Pacific. " . ABOARD VELERO IV. OFF SANTA CRUZ ISLAND, Calif., Aug. 16 (U.R) A smashed floodlight flood-light today forced submarine ex plorer Dr. ous Barton to can time out on his second " attempt to plunge a record 6,000 feet in his benthoscope diving bell. The surge of a choppy"- sa cracked one of the diving sphere's two 1,000-watt floodlights after Barton had descended 400 feet, The break shorted out all power to the benthoscope anq the scientist scien-tist immediately ordered the steel ball hauled back up fpr repairs. Barton said he would try to make another drop as. soon, as the light, was repaired. . A changing wind brought ; a calmer surface as the bell was returned to the mother barge and it appeared that better conditions would prevail for a third attempt later today. Barton's first try ended at 2,300 feet yesterday morning when a broken power line left him with out lights. . I The bell was lowered away at 10:15 a. m. on today's first attempt, at-tempt, and was returned to the surface-at 10:36 a. mi Western Allies OkehjNew Budget. BERLIN. Aug. ie! (U.R) The western allied commandants have approved a new balanced budget of 1,719,789,440 Deutsche marks ($573,000,000) . for fhe -.sagging economy of western .Berlin, it was learned today. X The new budget failed to ,clude the 252,000,000 Deutsche mark ($83,000,000) deficit in the city's current finances. : The commandants outlined several sev-eral provisions with : which the city fathers must comply to insure in-sure v keeping the budget In line. Among these was.-, one restricting expenditures per month to one twelfth of the total budget. Diver Begins Third Trip 1949 W Arthur Declines Rett Stays : Nam Rl A tr Pf... In Record For China Hearing A W FlareuP WASHINGTON, Aug; 16 Arthur today declined' the second senate invitation to feturti homeo testify on China because he believed he could "best serve tthe national interest by Japan; i MacArthur said it was ."difficult" for him to turn down "heart-warming and friendly overtures" to return home b'ut that "an impelinir sense of duty in a position of hicrhlv critical respohsibiKty" fprcedl mm to decide against it. Repeats Statement Defense Secretary Louis John son yesterday forwardedj without! recommendation, an invitation of' the combined senate foreign re-' lations and armed services committees com-mittees to MacArthur for hinv to teatifjr here oh China policy.; In replying, MacArthur repeated repeat-ed a statement he nutde last Thursday. He said then he was "deeply appreciative" of the hon or reflected In the Invitation. But he said that "during this moment of critical events in the Far East the interests of the American people peo-ple are better served , by my remaining re-maining at my post here." MacArthur also pointed out that American military forcer in (China were under the direct jur isdiction of the joint-, chiefs of staff acting through a naval' com mander and never had - been without : his command responsi bility orjBUthorlty Views On File . The general ialdjhat on Marrh 3,1948, -fteliad forwarded hU general views on China to the chairman of the house foreign af fairs committee. He added that his 'specific" views on the strategic potentialities of the area in Ms Far East command were "fully". on file with the army. . He said there was little that he could add to either. . . MacArthur said it was his un dersUnding that both President Truman and Johnson had made clear that ,his return was entirely up to h4m. MacArthur concluded: 'Needless to say It is. difficult for me to ignore heartwarming and friendly overtures to return to my native land for which it is or.lyiatural for me to long just as would anyone else in my circumstances. cir-cumstances. But an impelling ona nf dutv in a nosition of highly critical responsibilltyl leaves me wiw no otner re course. Johnson also forwarded a sen ate invitation 4o testify on China to Vice Adm. Oscar C. Badger, who has been commander of naval nav-al force in the Far East. Badger already, was enroute home on a routine change of jassignment DA Hits Police In Cohen Case LOS ANGELES, Aug. 16' (U.R) Dist ' Atty. William E. Simpson todav denounced, the police de partment , for keeping secret its recordings of a nationwide crime syndicate taken from microphones hidden in, gangster Mickey co hen's home. The reported underworld ser erets were published for the first time yesterday after detectiyes, for almost a year, listened m on conversations over Cohen a-teie phone and in .his suburban Brent wood home. - Simpson went to the office of Interim Police Chief William A. Worton to nrotest. Worton re centty took over as police chief after C. B. Horrall retired during a grand jury investigation which resultedOn the indictment of Horrall Hor-rall and four other police officers on perjury, charges. Two of the officers were indicted on charges of taking bribes from callhouse madam. Brenda Allen. JAPANESE GIRL'S DYING IS GRANTED BY U Sa GENERAL TOKYO, Aug. 16 (U.R) Gen.' Douglas ; MacArihur responded to a dying girl's plea today and allowed1 her father to leave Sygamo prison to' pay. her a final visit. " A Japanese ;policeman escorted . Tadayoshi , Miya- , moto, who is serving a life, sentence for war; crimes, tcf'1 histionie where his daughter, Yoshiko, 25, lav critically ill.-. : - . x; . ' ..' V ' In a letter to MacArthur, Miss Miyamoto said she , "had been suffering from 'tuberculosis and arthritis since; :' 1937 and was unable to turn over m her bed. , . , v v "j summon my courage to Write ;you my last.let- ter?w she said"My doctor says 1 am going to die. Please v give me a chance to see and talk with my father." ' MacArthur granted her request after Japanese po- f lice and a doctor confirmed U.R) Gen, Douzlas Mac remaining t my post," 4n ! v ! General Regrets 11 I nmiii 'r r tlin' f ' i' '1 - 1 J-- kCen. ' Douglas' MacArthur, who - declined bid to return rttome and testify on China policy.: Bridges Citec) For Contempt By Hawaiians HONOLULU, T. H., Aug, 16 (U.R) The Hawaiian government planned today to seek a contempt citation against CIO Longshore President Harry Bridges who per sonally defied, ax court order: against picketing yesterday. Bridges 4and AFL Teamster Arthur Rutledge took up posts as pickets before the Matson ship Hawaiian Merchant, shortly after a circuit -Judge 4iad issued an an ti-picketing order. I Territorial Attorney General Walter Ackerman" said he would ask Judge. ..Edward -A. Towse ..to cite Bridges. for contempt, Bridges action denied a new law forbidding Interference with government . stevedoring operations. opera-tions. The law -went through the territorial . legislature when the union threatened to upset . the government's stevedoring opera tions by throwing picket lines around vessels being "worked by government stevedores. This would have the effect of keeping crew members off the vessels ,on rounds that they would have to cross picket lines. "The Hawaiian - government entered en-tered the stevedoring business in an effort to reopen the docks which have been strikebound since May 1. , - Government stevedores have started to unload 11,000 tons of fertilizer from the Panamanian freighter Nortuna. The government intended to. nut the stevedores on the Hawai tan Merchant, too. But Acker- man explained that crew mem bers aboard the Merchant had told him they probably would quit the ship if government stevedores steve-dores boarded it. f". Bridges strolled jauntily across the entrance to pier nine and; started picketing as a deputy sheriff . read to him the order making picketing illegal. X Af one point he turned to Hono lulu Police Li. Joe Kam and jok ingly remarked: she was near death. I .'At -V PRICE FIVE CENTS Bethlehem Steel Head Involved In Brush v .'-. - With Judige Rosenmcth ,' By a D. QUIGG ':. ;X: ' :i United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Aug. 16 XU.P) A member of President Truman's steel fact-finding board asWd the president xf . Bethlehem Steel corporation today to. apologize for an assertion as-sertion that the board was sej up" "merely as a vehicle for . forcing ' jlpon us important-cbiP" cessions to the unions." ? - i' ' The apology demand ivas made by ' Samdel I. Rosenman, former New York supreme court' justice ana comiaentiai adviser . to tfte late President Roosevelt. - i The brush between Rosenman and Bethlehem President Arthur. . B. Homer occurred as Homer opened the case of the nation second-largest steel prod ucer-against ucer-against the demands of the United Steel Workers of America (CIO) for a 30-cent hourly fourth-round wage increase. V UlnnM 'mmlA k HV.J l.J' ed to cast any reflection on this board." He said he only meant to convey V 'what our fears are s based on experlencea in the past With; sucn boards. f X Objection , . . ' ' liSSJAX Kfe1 Rosenrrtan had objected to the ' "It is tasy to Understand why Bethlehem was reluctant on the basis of past experience to giva Its. approval to an .irregular pro cedurfe-which appear! to be de slfnefrmerely as a vehicle for forcing upon us important con cessions to the unions." , Rosenman asked Homer what he meant by that Remark. "Did you mean, that - in some way we were -set up for that purpose?', pur-pose?', Rosenman asked, referring to the "vehicle" phrase. Homer .explained that Bethle- hem had 'been "subjected to the same .conditions before'? in 1946, when an 18Va-cent increase -was granted, to steel workers, setting the first-round pattern for Amer- ican inaustriai wage increases. Rosenman said Homer . seemed to be inferring that, because of what other boards had recommended recom-mended "we were set up for rec ommending'aoraething similar. . Asks Apology 'What would vou think if we based ouc facts in our report on that kind of evidence?" Rosen man asked, f'l think that statement state-ment ought to be withdrawn and some apology made to this board." Bethlehem attorney John Morse, told 'the board that Homer's re? mark intended "tta reflection 'on the personnel of this board. . - Homer contended that the eco- . nomic position of the t7,000 em ployes of Bethlehem, which haf (Continued on Page Two) -,, Hoodlums Blamed For Beating Of HOUSTON, Tex., Aug. 16 (UR ' Three-r men who brutally beat neWscaster Burt Mason son of slain crusading broadcaster,' apparently ap-parently were "smart aleck hood lums" intent on molesting his ghrl companion, police said today. . ' Mason, 22, agreed with police that the attack apparently was not - ' connected with the recent killing of his father, William (BUI) Mason Ma-son nor with the anti-vice cami paign he has carried on since hia Iffather was l killed. ' ' -, Mason was - discharged yester- day from .' a , . Houston hospital where he received, treatment for; a slisht skull fracture, a broken left ankle, a severe cut, onhla . f . chin, and multiple abrasions. r , . Police escorted him tojnt home at Alice, Tex where'Jhw has conducted con-ducted his father's .radio crusad via remote-; control broadcasts. over a Corpus Christl station. . ' ,The three men attacked Mason Saturday night as he land a girl ' companion -were returning to Allce af ter visiting here. V As he stoped at a signal light,. . tWamen pulled alongside in an othercar Jerked, him from his automobile, , and beat him with? , their fists. He fought back, he . said, and knocked one man down,-then down,-then leaped back -into his car and ,X drove away.. t . f J 7 7 V-r . '. -. ' ; - X .X x. ., :.' .::xpx,: 4L T |