The Daily Sun News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 80, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 12, 1952 Page: 1 of 6
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Wmt Texas: Fair, locally
warmer tonight. Mild Thum-
North Central Texas:
Mr tonight; mild Thu
derate southerly wind*.
East Texas and South Cea-
tral Texas: Warmer In the In-
terior tonight. Mild Thursday.
Lew humidity. Gentle to mod-
erate variable winds.
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up H-Bomb Reports
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CENTS
PRICE
FIVE
BER
15
Four 'Eyewitness |
Versions of 'Blast'
sitions northeast of Sniper Ridge.
They forged ahead also on the
western flank.
But Chinese reinforcements
spewed out of the maze of tunnels
and caves at the northern end of
Sniper and came to the aid of their
embattled forces on Pinpoint Hill.
The South Koreans immediately
threw in more reinforcements.
Two hours later some 3, 0 0 0
troops were locked lnfurious com-
bat for the crest.
k About 1,500 Chinese Reds drove
r the ROKs from Pinpoint Tuesday
night, attacking behind a terrific
artillery and mortar barrage.
It was the same sort of headlong
attack that had virtually wrecked
two Chinese armies — numbering
up to 80,000 men — on the Central
Front within a month.
But the Allies had lost the last
gain they had made in a limited
offensive they launched Oct. 14 for
control of theridges towering north
of Kumhwa.
Last week the Reds recaptured
neighboring Triangle Hill. Jane
Russell Hill and Little Sandy.
Then late Tuesday the fury of
the Red counteroffensive was di-
rected at South Korean defenders
of Pinpoint — the highest point on
Sniper Ridge. The attack shoved
the Allies back to their bases on
the lower spurs of Sniper Ridge.
The battle was fought in pitch
lowering clouds around the height
doused Allied flares and hampered
air and artillery support.
The Reds opened ,the attack at 4
p.m. with a mighty barrage. One*
U. S. military adviser called it
“the heaviest artillery concentra-
tion I have ever seen.”
Before 5 p. m. two battalions of
Chinese slammed into the ridge
from the north, east and west.
By 9 p. m. Republic of Korea
forces began withdrawing from the
hill to positions on the outlying
spurs of the ridge. In 12 previous
withdrawals from Pinpoint, the
South Koreans always have man-
aged to cling to the spur positions.
Meanwhile. American Br29
Superforts bombed a Red railroad
town deep in Northwest Korea to-
day fan a raid that brought them
within 25 miles of the Manchurian
border.
Nine of the big four-engine bom-
bers hit the town of«Ch'aryongwan
in a predawn strike. Charyongwan
is on the Yongui main railroad
’ leading to Sinuiju which lies on the
alu River border between North
a and Manchuria.
The Air Force said Communist
searchlights gave "stronger than
usual” interference to the B-29s.
lif other battles along the 155-
mile front, Allied troops inflicted
an estimated 1.244 casualties in
heavy fighting from midnight Sun-
day until early Tuesday.
The U. S. Eighth Army announ-
ced two strong Chinese assaults
qn the Porkchop Hill sector of the
Western Front were repulsed with
an estimated 500 killed and wound-
ed. /
On the Eastern Front, South Kor-
ean Fifth Division troops holding
Anchor Hill killed or wounded 744
attacking North Koreans — includ-
ing 215 counted dead 124 estimated
killed and 404 wounded.
Rain and clouds covered most of
Korea Tuesday, hampering Fifth
Air Force operations. Light bom-
bers, boring through soupy weath-
er, Masted Red front line positions.
U. S. Thunderjcts stabbed along
the Western Front at Communist
buildup areas.
The Weather
READYING CHRISTMAS SEALS . . . These five women are shown as they pre-
pared 1952 Christmas Seals for mailing Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs.
A. F. Mathis, seal campaign chairman. Letters containing blocks of the seals are
to be mailed Monday in the Hocklfey County Tuberculosis Association’s fight
against TB. In the picture, left t& right, are”: Mrs. Abbie Paxton, Mrs. W. M.
Pickard, Mrs. Jerome J. George, -Mrs. W. H. Brown and Mrs. Mathis.
(/ (Staff Photo).
Body of Missing F Is
Discovered Tuesday Near Guthrie
The body of Bti-yearold Robert
Lee Ardry of Floydada, 'who dis-
appeared five months ago after
leaving Floydada for a visit with
his daughter, Mrs. K. E. Gilbreath
of the Opdyke Community, east of
Levelland, was found Tuesday in
a pasture near Guthrie.
Ardry, definitely identified by
papers in his billfold, crooked lin-
gers on his left hand and his watch,
was probably not the victim of
foul play, Floyd County Sheriff Le-
land Hart and Texas Rangers W. E.
"Razz” Renfrew and Capt. Ray-
mond Waters said.
The three officers went to iden-
tify the body after it was discov-
ered by a cowboy.
Ardry was found approximately
two and one-half miles east of
Guthrie and abqut 350 yards south
of Highway 82 in a pasture.
115,000 Bales
Cotton Ginned
With approximately 115,000 bales
ginned, the peak of Hockley Coun-
ty's cotton harvest has been pass-
ed, but output within the next few
weeks is expected to see the total
go well over the 150,000 bales it
was earlier predicted the county
would produce from this year's
crop.
George E. Taylor, Texas Em-
ployment Commission labor man
for Hockley County, said today that
all labor needs are well-filled,
with obtaining living quarters for
crews still the main problem.
With the use of mechanical har-
vesters increasing, many migrant
crews are leaving the county, most
of them being directed from here
to Arizona for cotton pulling, Tay-
lor said.
The crews remaining in the coun-
ty are being “switched around"
from one farm to another as the
harvest progresses.
Taylor predicted that the next
two weeks would see the cotton
harvest “ahput over" in the area.
Porents and Teachers
To Hear Health Nurse
The East Elementary Parent-
Teacher Association will hold its
regular meeting Thursday, Nov. 13,
at 3:00 to 3:45 p. m.
Mrs. Madelyn Woodard. Hockley
County health nurse, will be the
guest speaker.
Ail members are urged to attend
and visitors are welcome.
GOES TO CALIFORNIA
. H. A. Brown, 305 Ave. M, has
gone to California, for a short vis-
it with relatives.
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The badly decomposed body was
taken to a funeral home in Padu-
cah for a close examination to
discover if Ardry had suffered foul
play and then to a Floydada funer-
al home where services are pend-
ing. — i
Ardry, who disappeared from a
boarding home in Floydada June
12, had been the object of a state-
wide search. Officers were called
into the case by the man's daugh-
ter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Gilbreath, after he failed to arrive
for a scheduled visit. •
Texas Rangers joined the search
on July 1 and the Floyd County
Sheriff's Posse scoured Blanco
Canyon on July 14 but were driven
out by rain.
Authorities, fearing foul play,
took two Lubbock taxicab drivers
to Austin for lie detector tests. The
tests showed negative.
A suitcase which Andry was car-
rying when he left Floydada was
found June 22 in Memphis, Tex.
Other than the papers found on
the body, Ardry was identified by
his fingers and marks which a
Floydada jeweler had scratched in
his watch.
Ardry was found by Porter
Myers, wagon boss of the 6666
Ranch, on ranch property.
Still in his billfold was *71 and
about *2.50 was found in a coin
purse on the body.
The Gilbreaths left for Floydada
immediately upon learning of the
finding of the body. Also at Floy-
dada is a son, Ira, of South Dakota,
and arrival of other relatives was
being awaited.
A chance lead, discounted by of-
ficers at the time because it sound-
ed "a little far fetched" may
have been the closest area officers
ever came to solving the disap-
pearance of Floydada farmer R. L.
Ardry, until the recovery of the
body yesterday. \
The lead, announced only a few
days after the investtgation start-
ed, came from an unidentified
man who knew Ardry well enough
to think he spotted him “standing
beside the road looking out into
West on Committee
For Shrine Meeting
Mayor L. G. West of Levelland
is on the membership committee
for the full-form fall ceremonial
of Khiva Shrine Temple of Amar-
illo to be held in Lubbock next
Monday- /
One of the largest classes pf
novices in recent years has been
signed up? according to W. L. (Bill)
Brown, Khiva recorder.
Preliminary activities of the cer-
emental will open Sunday with re-
gistration of visiting Nobles am*
som pasture land near Bei^amin
a few days after his disappear-
ance,” The man who sew Ardry
was riding in the back of 'a pick-
up truck, near dusk. He stated
at the time he was sure it was
Ardry but authorities said it
seemed hardly likely it could have
been the missing man since the
point at which he was believed
seen was far from the direction
in which he was headed. They also
expressed the belief that it would
have been almost impossible for
the man to identify Ardry while
traveling at an average rate of
speed late in the afternoon.
Yet the spot where Ardry's body
was recovered yesterday is just
some 30 miles from Benjamin, in
a pasture. It could, in fact, have
been the same pasture he was
gazing at when he was seen that
afternoon.
Ike Hay Be in
Korea Nov. 27
(By The Associated Press)
Though nobody will be pinned
down, the impression is growing
in Washington that General Eisen-
hower probably will be making his
trip to' Korea late this month, may
spend Thanksgiving there.
But first, according to some of his
associates the President-elect will
have a round of conferences with
Republican leaders. These will be
held in New York, with the confer-
ees likely to include Senator Robert
Taft of Ohio and Sen. Alexander
Wiley of Wisconsin. Wiley will be
chairman of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee in the New
Senate. Taft is head of the Senate
GOP Policy Committee.
The General will be having a
talk with President Truman Early
next week. It’s not clear at the
moment whether Elsenhower will
talk with the Republcan leaders
before, or after, he sees the Pres-
ident.
As for Eisenhower's coming Ko-
rean trip, it’s obvious that the
most extreme precautions will be
taken to guard him against the
enemy-while he’s there, while he’s
on the way, and while he's return-
ing. It's probable that no announ-
cement will be made of the exact
moment when he arrives in Korea.
And his news secretary^ James
Hagerty, says that even If a date
had already been picked for the
departure of the Generral, he,
Hagerty, quite likely wouldn’t be
able to make it public. . r
TO ROSWELL. N. M.
Sam Hameed, local merchant,
spent Wednesday in Roswell, N. M.
attending to business and visiting
with friends. The Levelland bust
ness man formerly operated a
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Armistice Day
Talk Is Heard
Fourteen men from Hockley
County’s population of 127 served
in World War I, G. A. (George)
Stallworth, manager of Southwes-
tern Public Service Company here,
told Levelland Rotarians Tuesday
In an Armistice Day address at
the club’s regular weekly luncheon.
Stallworth, himself a World War
I veteran, told of some of his ex-
periences In France and of the
battle front quiet which followed
announcement of the armistice. He
also told of the celebrations over-
seas and at home following the
cessation of hostilities.
The speaker related that Presi-
dent Woodrow Wilson proclaimed
Nov. 11 a national holiday in 1919.
In 1920, there were observances
of unknown soldier burials in
France and England, and the fol-
lowing year Arlington National
Cemetery, the tomb of this nation’s
unknown soldier, was dedicated by
President Harding.
Stallworth said the intervention
of World War II and the current
Korean conflict have tended to de-
emphasize observance of the World
War I armistice date anniversary
during the past few years.-
Mrs. Tom Sappington presented
six Junior High school girls and
also a quartet from the six in a
series of songs appropriate to the
occasion. These included “Over
There,”’ “When You Wore a Tu-
lip.” "Beautiful Katie,” "Madamo-
selle From Armentieres,” and a
number of other songs made fa-
mous overseas and at home during
the first world war.
The young singers were Ann
Dupre, Marilyn Marcom, Janclle
Westmoreland, Janice Grant, Mary
P lings ten and Carol Cox.
Bufiu. Levelland High
senior and president of the
locational Industrial Class, was
introduced by high school Princi-
pal G. C. Clapp as Junior Rolarian
week. i
G. Nipper was a guest of O.
arcom and Jim Harris was
a guest of Percy Cole. Brewer
Neal of Stamford was the only
visiting Rotartan.
Auto Mishaps
Rise to 116
Three auto accidents investigated
within the city Sunday and Mon-
day upped the year's total of city
police-investigated wrecks to 116.
With approximately 45 days to
go, It seems likely that the city
may cut down their accident total
tn 1952. More than 150 were in-
vestigated by city police in 1951.
The latest three accidents totaled
ved in a collision at 5:30 p. m
Sunday at Houston St. and Ave.
G. Damages were estimated at
1200 to both cars.
Leslie T./ Burleson and D. L.
Vais In were the drivers involved
In the first Monday collision at
1:09 p. nr. at Houston and Ave.
L. Estimates showed *350 damages
in
Bonnie E. Baker and Stayton E.
Muschalek of Lubbock were the
di
accident Monday at Eighth and
A
cording to estimates.
Police records show ll accidents,
investigated in October, 14 in each
of September and August and 15 in
July, the worst record for any
month of this year.
(By The Associated Press)
The Atomic Energy Commission
will make an announcement, af-
ahraU tks' p
Of reports that American scientists
have exploded a hydrogen bomb at
the atomic testing grounds in mid-
Pacific.
The reports, claiming to be eye-
witness amounts, have come from
servicemen on duty in the proving
grounds. Apparently there was no
censorship of their letters home,
though otherwise the government
has taken the greatest pains to
withhold information about the
tests.
A spokesman for the AEC says
there will be an announcement
when the present series of tests
are concluded. And there is evi-
dence that the tests may be fin-
which. left Pearl
Harbor unannounced two or three
months ago have returned to Pearl
Harbor.
The eyewitness letters agree on
most of the significant details —
that the blast was far greater than
even atomic blasts, that the pur-
ported H-bomb blast came at 7:15
a. m.. Central Pacific Time at
Eniwetok. One letter put the date
as Oct. 1, two others as Nov. 1.
One sailor wrote horn; the blast
was so powerful that he saw an
entire hunk of Eniwetok Atoll just
seem to melt away, in a fire
which burned for six hours after
the blast.
The newest eyewitness report
has been described by an Amer-
ican sailor in a letter published
by the Michigan City, Ind., News
Dispatch.
The report said the giant bomb
was exploded Nov. 1 on Eniwetok.
in the Marshall islands, at 745
a. m. <4:15 CST Oct. 31), and "It
blew the top off a building 18
miles away.”
Delivery of the reported bomb
to the Pacific atoll was carried
cautions. The section of the Navy
vessel in which the bomb was
placed was welded shut and FBI
men mounted constant guard.
and: by
IX
xsJVTJSW'EWl
Headquarters In • Austin
Fire Chief H. B. Johnson of
land, city coordinator under
yor Lamar West.
- . ^ ' £*£EEflM
Johnson announced Tuesday that
actual formation plans of a Civil
the .sailor — who was nc* idea- unit have finally started
■ rolling after more than two years
of preparation. The plan eventua-
lly will be coordinated as a natidtt-
The Atomic Energy Commission
refused comment on the story,
which was based on a letter from
Homecoming
To Be Friday
It'll be homecoming at Levelland
High School Friday, with the cli-
maxing event the non-conference
football game at 8 p. m. between
the Lobos and the Sudan Hornets.
In a bejween-halves ceremony,
Lequeta Martin, senior student and
editor of the El Lobo, high school
yearbook, will be crowned 1952
Football Queen.
The day's activities will open in
the high school gymnasium at
11:30 a. m. with a pep rally, in
which last year’s LHS cheerlead-
ers have been asked to take part.
The Levelland High School’s Ex-
Students Association will hold a
business meeting in the high
School auditorium at 7 p. m.. and
will go from there to the football
game.
Although an exes’ supper won’t
be held -a for the first time in
the past few years — there will
be a dance1 following the football
game.
Miss Martin, the football queen.
_ will be escorted onto the field by
*635 in damages. Eugene Bentley K*nley Fortner and Bob Odell, co-
and Finis T. Whitsett were invoi- captains for Friday night’s game.
The queen's attendants and their
escorts wifi be: Patsy French and
Ronnie Leatherman, seniors; Polly
Ann Kennedy and George Branch,
juniors, and Sue Quiett and Leroy
Williamson, sophomores.
tlfied — to his parents.
The News Dispatch quoted the
sailor as writing:
“We were anchored in the bay
just off Kwajolein. The bomb went
off at 7:15 a. m. our time Nov. 1.
That's 4:16 (CST) your time. We
were cruising out 35 miles from
the test island.
"I didn’t get to see the actual
blast. I was standing there with
my eyes shut and my face pushed
into my arms. And still I saw
the flash.
' “Ten seconds later we turned
around. I can’t begin to describe
it. Orange-red clouds shot about
half way up the mushroom. It was
just like someone putting a hot
iron on your back for a split sec-
ond.
“It blew the top off a building
18 miles away. There was such
an updraft that it took about two
minutes for the sound of the ex-
plosion to reach us. There were
three distinct blasts.”
The sailor’s letter said the bomb
apparently was exploded at Eni-
wetok, an otpli near Kwajalein.
In earlier letters quoted by The
News-Dispatch, the sailor told his
parents the bomb was loaded a-
board the ship in San Francisco
and the compartment in which it
was placed was welded shut, with
huge chains stretched across the
door.
The letter said small boats cir-
cled the ship constantly before it
sailed with a huge complement of
civilian and security personnel
aboard.
FBI men were on guard at the
door of the bomb room at all
times, the letter added.
The newspaper said the tetters
told of Navy radarsnen sighting Mi
unidentified submarine during the
trip to the Marshall islands, but
no further incidents were reported. -
If American scientists have in-
deed built and exploded a hydro-
gen bomb, they've managed to
do it in 34 months. For it was on
Jan. 31, 1950, that President Tru-
man ordered scientists to go ahead
and see whether an H-bomb could
be made.
Some scientists have estimated
that a hydrogen bomb would be
up to 1,000 times as powerful as
the atomic bomb which devasted
the Japanese cities of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki during the last gen-
eral war.
Civil Defense
Set-up in Ply
Is Emphasized
A statewide plea for member-
shm
City Laundry
Is Entered
One small break-in was reported
to city police today by Mr. and
Mrs. John Randel, owners and op-
erators of the City Laundry, lo-
cated across the street from the
City Hall.
The break-in, through a window,
occurred sometime last night.
Only known missing articles was
wide protection against any dinut-
?r or emergency. But the effect-
iveness, according to Johnson,, is
ilrectly in accordance with the ef-
fectiveness of the units operating
at a local level. ' -ST '
Gov. Allan Shivers has issued
an official proclamation designat-
ing Nov. 11 (Armistice Day) to
Nov. 27 (Thanksgiving) as regia-
(ration period.
Johnson has issued a call for
everyone • in Levelland who
would like to spearhead the local
Civil Defense unit to register wtth
him at the fire station during this
period.
“Registration now does not nec-
essarily mean you must start your
(raining now,” Johnson said. "Wa
want to stress this is strictly Jh
voluntary plan and that
tiveness could Ve shown
tomorrow in any type of
«uch as drought, explosion, fire,
or even an enemy bombing attael^
It is imperative that we get some,
sort of plan rolling.”
At present, 81 organizations with
40,000,000 members have pledged
(heir support to the nationwide
drive. At least IS of those
izations are represented^
land. They include the firm ______
eau, the American Red Cress. Th^"“
American Legion and its Women**'-
Auxiliary, the DeMolays.-thc Jay-
cees, the Lions Intematftnal. the
Foreign Wars and its; Auxiliary,
the Federation of
(he Business and
men’s Clubs, the
Scouts of America, the:
Teacher Associations, Ole
Demonstration Council, and
Diocesan Council of Catholic Wom-
en. affiliated with the National
Council of Catholic Women. ■»
Chief Johnson pointed out that
the first phase of training -
make sure every member has
ed a standard, 22-hoqr^ first
course.’ Any who wouM Met „
enroll in tfag course immediately
after volunteering their services
in Civil Defense may do so is
soon as classes can- be formed.
Others can delay this training un-
til a suitable time.
Application to aid in the Civil
Defense plan should be made at
the fire chief’s office any tlrtie
during the daylight hours between
now and Thanksgiving.
The Civil Defense and Disaster
Plan, as set up in Levelland many *
months ago, lists Mayor West as
commander and his deputy com-
mander is L. E. Mabe. city-seci
(ary. Homer Johnson is assist
deputy commander. '-fMfa
Coordinator Johnson is in charge
of putting the organization oo
smooth working basis. Eight
of importance in case of any
aster have been set up. Heads of
each of these units were named
War-
Thursday,
to mo-
ll the U. 8. plan to build an
atomic submarine is successful, no
buiine.js in (lie New Mexico city.
First Concert Set
For December Date
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