Cleburne Times-Review (Cleburne, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 38, Ed. 1 Monday, December 21, 1953 Page: 1 of 8
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Fred Hooker wax fined $300 and
costs in distriet court Saturday for
also given a* 30-day jail sentence
irrote,
armed robbery.
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Dec. 11—UP—
troops moved in to disperse them.
rested.
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Heavily-armed
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BURNE
practical way to carry It to men of the
1st Marine Division is with the aid of
the ancient Korean contraption. (NEA
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First Christian Church
Patricia Whisenant ..........
Wesleyan Service Guild.
used tor
toys for
Gorious."
People in the streets
sporadic demonstrations.
the pos-
U.S. gov
City. Thomas Arthur August, 55,
was killed at Houston when he was
struck by a car and thrown into
the path of a wrecker, which ran
over him.
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of U.S. communism."
Working closely with J. Peters —
tn Uaitee Fen Telephet• Pieture
icP Central Preas vetutes
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would stum-
wayside.
judges and called a recess to con-
sider it
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By UNiTED PRESS
Winter launched two blows at
Texas Monday — the first day of
under a "disaster loan” program
to farmers in drouth • stricken
states, officially designated as dis-
aster areas.
sibility of
ermnneen$
ead-Lines
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it was not in
the Umited Mal
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mittee staffs; and Victor Perlo,
later with the V “ *
oewrernS Search Continues Fo
atures as low as 20 degrees in the.
Panhandle and South Plains Mon'
day night.
statt Maoto by Jim west
BED JACKET for Christ-
mas, makes a fine gift,
says Mrs. Sam Holland,
saleslady at Burrs.
i e
Demonstrations
in Iran Are For
Ousted Premier
TEHRAN, Iran, Dec. 21 —UP-
Demonstrations in favor of ousted
Premier Mohammed Mossadegh
broke out in Tehran Monday as a
military court considered its ver-
dict in his trial for treason.
The (ourt had declared a recess
after receiving a letter from young
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi,
announcing that be forgave any of-
fense committed against him in
view of Mossadegh’s previous good
service to the country.
xplanation Monday but
greed tojoin.the United
tutes ta confidential diplo-
atie negotiations on it.
lescue Planes
leturnToGuam
GUAM. Dee. » “up: Twelve
scue planes returped to Guam
londay after a trultless day-long
earch for 19 men aiwiag aboard
re Navy planes. T - p
The United Bt
the attention of
At the start, I
tivity in this co
and not very 1
For the most
rings were led
breaking
Lane, 27,
men and man, seem to slip away
into nothingness and w*are actual-
by at peace wih ourselves and our
Weekend Accidents
By UITAp PRESS Ralph C. Hartman, IB, of Alamo.
Texas had A preview of holiday Tex, was killed Sunday nisht while
tragedy Monday as a United Proas rhe was crossing .U.S. 83 between
survey showed at
two centuries age Josus Christ was
born and lived on this earth tong
pnough to teach us e few lessons
in deeling with our fellowmen.
Somehow, when we think of the
pirih of Christ, Ms life and the
bhings he stood fot, petty differ-
uncos between neighbors becemse
For
More mi
pay for articles-purchased by the
King's Daughters.
'■e -g-- •• ed"‘m •meplh . -hn An
BINED FOR DWI
died violently, 19
accidents, on the
Rivera, performs for agents in-
vited to view her dancing tal•
enta in n London. England,
music hall. Untl her husband
the temperature didn't get below state for the 24 hours ending at
57, 1 4 - 6:30 a.m. Monday wu 14 inch at
Other low temperatures included Texarkana.
Weather
sumzanpivicun
■ is2'422!
_ . — — -ist aples
started infiltreting the U.S. gev-
ernment. '
a P'Y
pemred
to say and cam *
an Ms acribe finds
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Communist activity almost since
the Red movement started in the
latter days of World War I.
Been before the founding of the
Soviet military intelligence organ-
izatio in iftll and the OGPU
(later the NKVD) in 1922. Soviet
to work in the party underground.
Into his secretapparatus, he re-
ceived Alger Hiss. Chambers has
liam A. Wegwert, was killed Sun-
day when his car went out of con-
trol near Fort Worth. Ralph A.
Laskoski, 19. of Houston, received
m: ' U.
Alger Utes. later
epartment offieial
later secretary of the
■
Ie said, “Love your enemies."
when you get. to thinking about
tow much you depend upon your
ellowman
To the person $o, praises, the
1--who criticizes and the per-
Marine Pfc. Loy W. Conley agrees with
his Korean farmer friend that the cen- «
turies-old "A"-frame makes a dandy
carrying device. Although the Christ-
mas mail is arriving by the planeload
Last POW Appeal
PANMUNJOM, Doc. 21 -UP-
The United Nations will ask per-
mission Tuesday to make s last-
minute broadcast appeal to the 22
American war prisoners who have
refused to return home, it was
teamed Monday.
Any hope of delivering a 22,000-
word "come home” letter to the
balky GIs apparently has been
killed, quulified sources said.
As a last resort, American offi-
cers win ask the Neutral Nations
Wepatriaton Comiinslonikocutho-
rixs an. emotional tape recorded
message to the GIs Wednesday,
final day for explanations to unre-
patriated POWs.
American officers have kept a
strict secrecy on the contents of
the taped messages, but it was
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By James F. Denevan
WASHINGTON, Dee. 21 -UP -
years later that some of the Cham-
bers' microfilms, not passed along
to Bykov, could not be safely made
public.
The Chambers - Bykov appratus
disiniegratedeaatlenatelemperaril-
moin1958 h Willi Eo2 1
Two perso s died in flaming ve-
bieles, Tarbett Pierce. 33, of Lam-
pasas, died when his truck loaded
Yov see, words just won't qvite
the trick, but this effort is sin-
ns end a heertfelt message to
a. Pfoeeo accent It as cming
eight from this heart to y®u,
humility and yratefuiness for
ur help tn hrine'-- -9 meny blos.
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began to ex-
# operations in
36 Te^ns Die In
man, later CIO general counsel;
John J. Abt, later a'special assist-
ant to the attorney general; Henry
H. Collins Jr., of various govern-
ment agencies; Charles Kramer,
who served later on Senate com-
dispatches on Soviet espienege in
the United States. The follwing
story tells how Comimumi -
cu.de
Ick, 43, serving a life term for
ing a Detroit police detective
tag X Holdup; David R. Bousha
serving a five to 10car kid
big sentence: Robert Dowling,
and entering, and V
tauen, Friday
Sheriff Killed;
Struck By Jeep
DENTON, Ten., Dec. 21 -UP-
Ones Hodges, Denton's famed blind
sheriff who got a seeing eye dog
only 10 days ago, was killed Mon-
day when he was struck by a jeep
as he walked down a street with
no sidewalk.
The dog also was killed.
Hodges was blinded by a shot-
gun blast in January, 1940. when
he was shot by a Crum, Tex.,
farmer.
Hodges returned Dec. 10 from
New York, where he had been
training for a month at a school
for seeing eye dogs and their mas-
ters.
JJuwdu
Hemas
After the holiday a complete re.
1 will be published of the num-
ofrfamiue helpedarticles
purchnsed, and the amount of
raskaat <________________
mm ft was moving so lest it will
reach into the Texas Panhandle by
shortly after noon.
Snow Flurries in Dalhtt
something.. .they seem wl
make almost any
achieve it” he said.
The first cold front, moving in
from the Pacific, stood at mid-
morning on a line from Ponca
City, Okla., acros western Okla-
homa, and across the South Plains
co Carlsbad, N.M, Forecasters said
broken messages from families,
Mm of Publiel Pedro «*»• 31, of La W- Ammmricaibsonggderr 1850,
100 persons would I Tex.. was killed Sunday in a col- the year most GIs left for Korea.
" du"in" "he " lision four miles east of Rio Grande if the five-nation commission ap-
British" and "Mossadegh is vic-
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SEASON'S GREETINGS FROM THE PRESIDENT —
President and Mrs. Eisenhower are conveying their
holiday wishes to friends with the card pictured above
Folded top to bottom, the card measures 5% by 6%
inches. Face of the card bears the presidential seal,
embossed In white, and the Inscription, "Season's
Greetings," in gold. The message Inside Is engraved in
black. (NEA Telephoto) •
More Money Still Needed
believed they contained heart
bringing
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the southern edge of Neb.
daybreak, but forecasters
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L ta e a
ghn
II. Forrest ol Mobile, Ala., and
bamuek Hawkins, Dullas Negro.
But the toll was built up primar-
ily by many slagle - death acci-
dents, JBW.
roads made i
It isn't difficult to understand winter — ano iorcca.it era saia mei
hat Christ was talking about when twin cold frnts will drop temper-
Spying For Russia in U.S.Has Been Vital Activity For Commies
n - - itesdid,not escape I rated Communist, he was the son
he Red bpy chiefs, of Eil Reeve Bloor, the "mother
•viet ex pie n age ac-
Miry was sporadic
CLEBURNE TIMES-REVIEW
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proves, U.S. officers will roll a coss in nistrin court puzurauy ier
high powered mobile sound ays- driving wiil intoxicated. He was
replying to
Eisenhowers pro-
Board.
- purpose of Che "Ware group"
and its "elite corps” wax nut ex
pionagc. But its roster proved in-
yaluable to Jay Whittaker Cham-
hers when he was ordered to
Mlleeeek
embH
During the recess, a group of Laskosk, is, or
about 60 students surged through critical injuries,
-he streets shouting “death to the ni. «
Court Chairman Nzrollah Mogh- was Kataily
eli read the Shah's letter to the
rtnan
--ex-ia
5s * “ 2
a functionary high in the Commu-
nist underground — Ware recruit-
ed about 75 Communist. mostly
govermment employes, into a set ret
underground cell in Washington.
The overatt “Ware group’- was
ruled by a directing committee of
some seven leaders mostly bright
young men in the Agriculture De
partment. According to subsequent
testimony before congressional
committees, this "elite corps" in-
eluded such prominent indiyiduals
Russia Strives
To Best V. S. A.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 -UP-
Gen. Nathan F. Twining, Air Fore
chief of staff, Monday warned that
Soviet Russia is making a "tremen-
dous effort” to overcome this coun-
try's superiority in attack planes.
However, be said the United J
States now has a "pretty good mar-
gin" of air "offensive" supremacy
over Russia
in a copyrighted interview in U. H
S. News and World Report, Twin- I
■ng said Russia has "top-notch sci- 3
entists" and “we know they are ’
working very hard on both their G
air defense and offense." 21242
When the Russians "went to do7
money spent in filling the Good-
fellow boxes. . ।
Previovaly ocknewiedgod
SrupdaMra: Finis 32812,00
J. W. Dehoney ............ 5.00
Jane Kathryn Creek ................
Jerry Creek' . 1.00
Christian Men's Fellowship
it will reach the Dalia* - Fort
The second et
colder air from
very unimportant. The
the misunderstanding.
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said that the espionage activities
of his ring extended from the fall
of 1936 until the spring of 1938.
a vicwr rerw. He has testified, he received
War Preduetton hundrada--ol—secret—govern
ment documents during that
time from HIM, Julian Wadleigh of
the Agriculture Department, and
-through Abraham George Silver- 01
the Treasury Department. al
heaviest toll
night and Sa,
Among tho Sunday deaths was
that of Airman Virs Class Donald
Garcia, 23, who wax kilted when
to the Russians. But State Depart-, --amasa
ment officials testified about 10 calltoe dari
lem to within .a few feet of the - ——.-2.
barbed wire "Communist" camp, but was placed on probation.
U. S. explainers earlier had de- --------"*r..............
Texas On First Day Of WinteruN WRequest
up until they pass through, (orc- Lubbock 36, El Paso 40, Midland' Parmiecinn FAr
casters said, and clouds over Cen- and Abilene 41, Wichita Falls 43.1 ■ Vuuudduvu I Vs
_______. _ J tral and East Texas will break up Del Rio 44. Amarillo and Tyler
winter — and forecasters said' the 1 as the fronts approach. 45. Mineral Wells, Dallas, Fort
31 Degrees at Presidio Worth. Lufkin and Texarkana 46.
The coldest places in the state Waco 4B, Austin, San Antonio, ban
early Monday wore Presidio and > Angelo and Houston 49 and Corpus
Dalhart with lows of 31 degrees.' Christi 56.
While at Brownsville and Laredo | The only rainfall reported in the
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255
The Texas Department of Public'
Safety predicted N. .
die on the highways during the 10-
day Christmas and New Year’s
holiday period. Many more will be
injured, some to be maimed for
life.
The past weekend's deaths came'
in a variety of traffic mishaps,
shootings, farm accidents and
fires. -
the Goodfelipw Fund, which la port
• food, clothing and bar
MmillH at Christ- pure
we are most
es man a
AteeCriticism
leh be needs
ditterence la
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I least 39 persons j
astoeementee killed when his ear plowd into
fore the usuully I bloody Christmas the rear of a truck east of Rich
and New Years weekends.
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—l The livestock and "operating”
rented the hall,eshehad trouble ioans in the drouth emergency leg- .
Landing a job. isiation passed earlier this year.
struck by a car in the Lackland-
Kelly Field area- of San Antonio.
Garcia was stationed at Kelly.
A Houston youth, 19-year-old Wil-
8.- 0Te
—-a-"Kdec
448 y. ia o« 4,322
he ekemwmamnsewimmeerehAesnnm
A few snow flurries fell in Dal-
hart ss the first front came
through early Monday, and more
were predicted for Monday night
an the Panhandle.
The cold fronts may bring some
widely - scattered thundershowers
over East and South Central Tex-
as, forecasters said, but there will
be no great amount of bad weather.
Scattered driulc continued over
East Texas Monday and heavy fog
was reported over South Texas.
Lighter fog was reported in North
Central Texas.
1 Those parts of the state ahead
of the two cold fronts will warm
Corp, or other
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far Russja has been a vital a cover for dh
while traettog Typhoon boris, and
b e-4z wiOb M meg, fan rod down
in the sea north of Guam Sunday
while ter fat P4Y.
o -- • " — ■ ■ v- -
mastimes LMt- year $1500 was
ralaed, but tresidenta are going to
have to dig av little deeper this
year to evn come close to that
total. The boxes are nearly all
filled, but the money la neoded to
of here. Saturday night. The fugi- j
uves started their flight by using
a blowtorch to cut through a sieel
grating covering the entrance to a .
sewer tunnel
Crawled Under Walla
Than they crawled under the
walls through the tunnel, into
which scalding steam is pumped at
certain intervale to flush out sw4 d
age: A 122
All 13 convicts were occupantu of
notorlous Cellblock IS, a disciplin- ’
ary barracks housing the prison's 2
toughest criminals. It was there a
where inmates started a bloody
four-day riot In pril, 1952. Opfl
convict was killed by state police
bullets and a dozen others were
wounded or Injured before the up-
rising was quelled.
Six of the fugitives were captor* >
ed shortly after the break when
their stolen car ovprturned during I
a police chase. One of the two who J
fled on foot usi nleknd an a khart J
"9V• ”ss •V*% " ‘ Vowww* "y • weNwITN
lime later. His companion, Harold l
Bum. M. surrender ad Bunday night !
after hiding nearly M hours in a ■
coal bin at a Jackson hotel not far
from the prison.
Took Two Hostayes
Watts at Jackson. They took Mrs.
Watts, 28, and a visiting neighbor 2
Mbs Helen Gilbert, 31, as hostages
and sped away in, a new Cadillac
awno by aliolhor ■ neighbor who
sailed at the Watts nome while
the convicts ware dransacking it.
The women, -terrifieq but un- j
molsted, were freed in Detroit '
Sunday morning when the oar ran
out of gas. Mrs. Watts said the K
convicts were "perfect gentlemen”
during the wild ride.
Police Capt. Welter Jaros of sub- 9
urban Hamtramck, where one of I
the fugitives, Romen Usiondek, 37. M
hes a police record, Mid he be-
lieved all five were armed by now.
Usiondek was sentencd to life A
in 1943 lor the robbery-slaying of a I
Hamtramck tavern owner. At lalge .
with him were Edward J. Emer- S
Mk. a pet an thebaek, a amile.
Leh prepesitiem do • tel mere
Mm any number el words.
The situation k not tew. It is
hrays hard when a person is gen-
iely grsteful. tu express that
ratitude in words. They seem so
utile.
No Christmas card quite does
he trick of expressing our feelings,
vhen we get to thinking about you
vho mske this effort a success or
ailure.
Perhaps you as a reader never
bought of it from this angle, but
ou decide the fsle of a columnist,
arge or small. It is not the scribe's
ability to write. It depends upon
ust how you as a reader accept
he effort.
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| Mulling ft all over, if we coyle
give to you the gift we would
like to give at this Christmas time,
it would be “Peace that passeth all
understanding.’ We would present
you with that gift, because that is
he gift we would like most to re-
ceive.
Pesce on earth and good will to-
war men. If we ahad that, what
else would there be to desire?
I Not heaven, because we would
have beaven.
rooming houses Monday in
search of five dangerous
-111h I 'i Michigan prison
escapees who fled to De-
Colne said there was II possijil-
it) the tugitines. two of them mur- E
derers and one u kidnaper, hud m
invaded privute homes and threat-
ened residents with their lives un- m
less they provided concealment
during the intensive manhunt. g
The five were the last of 13 con-
vlets who broke’out of the huge
prison at Jackson, 60 miles west
"lelmes
••ML Dem nm aesu
with manufactured gas collided
-___- - - ; -—- With another truck at Goldthwaite
Six. persons were reported ar- and burned. Near DeKalb, a Negro
—Easter, SB.
—gg.gcn the pick-
up truck in whih he was riding
struck a culvert and burst into
flames. ,6, '
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Washington in r the mid 1930s to
organise an ultra - secret appa:
ralus.
. Chambers, a native of Pbiladel-
already was a veteran Com-
osrauce,, '
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EN. nAj i
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deflate the ego,
Ke it is all bpiled down
are bcholdenioutntiend
I Ar
I This scribe, fo thinking back
Bvsr the lest 13 months, bec«m«t
Bery humble when he thinks of
New you have stuck by Mm. Maybe
Beu praised, maybe vou criticised.
m either instance y°u supported
Phe effort. Many times the critic-
ism was more important then the
Seme might shink of critics as
memies. Nothing could be farther
r«m the truth. The only enemy •
olumnist could have k the person
rhe never roods Ms column,
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Crashed Plane
A REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Doc. 31
—(P— Throe lonely bands of
searchers drove forward azainst a
-t blizaard Monday in a desperate of
fort to find nine American fliers
missing on an isolated glacier p k.
Their goal was the wreckage of
, ■ Navy P 3V plane which crashed
atop 6.400 foot Myrdalsjokall Olar
ier Thursday—a sqowdritted tangle
of metal sheltering chilled surviv.
ors, frozen bodies, or both.
There was no way to tell if there
were survivors, for snow and fog
shroudod the summit (ram aerial
observation and there was no com
munication here with the search
ing parties.
| Hope faltered Sunday when a
plane sighted the wreckage and
laconically reported: “No sign of
life.-’
1 Survivors were reported sighted
the day after the crash. But the
fierce weather and the "no life"
report caused rescue leaders to
fear the worst
Helicopter* and parachutes
were uselesa in the fog and wind
Sunday, although forecasts called
for less wind and better weather
Monday .
The search was becoming an epic
i us groundbound U. S. Air Force
rescuors buttled the cold, knowing
I tout the downed fliers had little
chance of survival after 90 hours
A great newapperman, the toH
iswrisi Runyen, ence satd, "The
evhls wit columnbats is thet sot
hen they bare nething to say and
Twa - Car Crash
The heaviest life - taker of the
accidents was a two-car crash near
Richmond Saturday in which three
persons died. The victims were Jim
Ed Jones of Rosenherg, Richard
Main St. Methodist Church .. 5.50
A Friend ................. 20.00
Westminister Followship
Anglin It. Presby. Church 2,00
Gertrude Whitehouse ‘ ....... 15.00
Gib Sheffer ......................... 5.00
J. Tom Walker 10,00
Olive Lodge No. 31 of
K. of P. ........•»ifSsss^f v .Bym. • A • 10.00
A frM .......• 52,00
Circie No. 2 W. S. C. A • -
Main St. Methodist Church . 1.60
Employeos of Walls Mp. Co 2S.N
In memory of Grandmother
Bowden Virginia Kay,
Bill and Vlaki ........ .......... 3.60
Aco Cafe..................... 15.00
Total...... $732,00
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