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NUMBER 192
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Dean Rejects Red
Bid For New Talks
Judo Specialist
Breaks Up Gang
American POWs
Spurn New Plea
For Repatriation
Mayors Get Nixon
Report Tuesday
On Far East Tour
Noted Authoress
Dies in Florida
IKE WELCOMES NIXONS BACK- Pr ident Eisenhower is
shown greeting Vice President and Mrs. Ki: hard Nixon Monday
on their return from a 42,000 mile tour of Asia and the Middle
DARDANELLE, Ark., Dec. 15
(P — Two Texas Negro soldiers,
Harold Bard of Houston and Er-
veil Perry of Dallas, were killed
Sunday when their car overturn-
ed on a curve near here.
U. S. officials told the envoys
Dean suspended the talks, but did
not break them off entirely, until
the Reds withdraw the perfidy
charges and show a willingness
to negotiate in good faith.
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nations for the goods shipped.
C. The passing of bad checks on
the purchase of gift merchan-
dise far in excess of the purchase
price.
7. Shipment of unordered mer-
chandise to merchants in the hope
they will accept it in error during
the Christmas rush.
8. The mailing of “claim stubs”
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AUTO-TRAIN (RASH KILLS SIX—In the foregcound is shown all that remained of the automobile
of Vitor Saufley of Dallas. Tex.. after it collided with a passenger train at Rovse Ui tv. Texas, kill-
ing Saufley. his wife and three children and the family maid. Several cars of the train were derailed
C. Of C. And B.B.B. Point Out Schemes
To Trick Gullible At Christmas Time
With the approach of the holi-1 ganizations with requests for do-
Boost In NATO Strength
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and some 30 passengers in the train, suffered minor injuries.
Parking Meter
Keys Stolen
SYRACUSE, N. Y., Dec. 15 (m
—When the Syracuse Police De-
partment’s bureau of traffic and
lighting workshop was broken
into, among the articles taken
were two keys which open every
one of the city’s 2,400 parking
meters.
Police say they don’t contem-
plate changing the locks, which
would cost approximately $1.50
each—about $3,600.
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said he made the same points do
the council.
In the strongest language yet
heard at an NATO meeting, the
secretary of state warned:
1. Unless the European Defense
Community Treaty is ratified
quickly, the United States will
have to “re-study” how to im-
plement its obligations to NATO,
and the disposition of U. S. troops
“would, of course, be a factor in
the agonizing reappraisal.”
2. If tile Western nations, “es-
pecially France and Germany,”
decide to commit suicide by fail-
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Mt. Pleasant, Texas, Daily Times, Tuesday Evening, December 15, 1953
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Dec.
15 IP) — Clouds of crickets set-
tled on this Cambodian capital
last night, sending the happy
citizens scurring about to collect
them in jars and pans. Today the
Cambodians were eating one of
their favorites delicacies—crick-
ets fried in palm oil.
WINNIEPEG, Man., Dec. 15
(P) — Fears were expressed today
for Canada’s famed arctic priest,
Father Joseph Billiard, who has
been unreported in. the northern
wastes for more than a year.
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divisions to 107 by the end of the
year.
The delegate said the report
ran into no opposition.
French officials were reported
' furious over Dulles’ blunt re-
marks, which implied that any
ieappraisal might involve a shift
of U. S. troops and aid from the
European continent. Paris news-
papers termed his statement a
“brutal ultimatum.”
In London, British newspapers
of varying political shades also
sharply criticized the remarks as
“folly” and “best left unsaid.”
Dulles spoke yesterday to a
news conference after addressing
the opening meeting of the NATO
Council gathering. Informants
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Most Texas Areas
Hit By Freezing
Weather Tuesday
(BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Freezing weather covered much
of Texas Tuesday morning.
Some of the coldest was in the
East Texas piney woods around
Lufkin where at 4:30 a.m. the
mercury dipped to 24.
Only along the coast and in the
interior of South Texas were
temperatures generally above
freezing.
Temperatures at dawn included
Fort Worth 32, Houston 33, San
Antonio 30, Austin 30, Waco 32,
College Station 31, Brownsville
42, Corpus Christi 37, Longview
29, Mt. Pleasant 28, El Paso 23
and Wink 22. ।
There was no report of rain and
none was predicted.
The weather bureau said a cold
wave warning for Oklahoma did
not hold for Texas Tuesday and
a spokesman said it might be
Wednesday before Texas felt the
new norther.
Wintry weather hit wide areas
of the eastern third of the na-
tion.
Snow or rain fell from Lake
Michigan to the East Coast with
heavy falls of snow over the Ohio
Valley.
The coldest weather of the sea-
son chilled the central part of
the country. It was 5 below zero
in International Falls Minn., on
the (Canadian border. Tempera-
tures were in the 20s in Kentucky
and Tennessee. Colder weather
appeared in prospect for the mid-
continent Tuesday night.
The mid-December snowstorm
extended as far as southern Ken-
tucky. Akron, Ohio, had 5 inches.
The snow extended into New
Hampshire, Maine and New York.
Rain ended along the eastern
seaboard after heavy falls from
North Carolina to southern New
England. New York City's rain-
fall measured nearly 2 inches.
More snow and cold air head-
ed for the Midwest with falls
early Tuesday in the Dakotas and
Minnesota. Most readings in the
Mississippi Valley as far south
as St. Louis were in the teens and
lower. Ouluth, Minn., reported, 2.
Chicago had 8.
Temperatures along the East
Coast were in the 30s and 40s as
far south as north Florida and
westward over the Gulf States.
Readings in the Rockies were
erratic, ranging from 50 at Den-
ver to 14 at Zuni, in northern
New Mexico. Mild weather con-
tinued over most of the Far
Southwest. It was 86 in Los An-
geles.
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., Dec. 15
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, 57,
Pulitzer prize winning novelist,
died at a hospital here last night.
Over the weekend she com-
plained of indigestion and was
taken to a hospital here.
The native of Washington, D.C.,
won the Pulitzer prize in 1939
with her novel, “the Yearling.”
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INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 15 IP-
wh an eye on frequent traffic
accident deaths, Joseph L. Lingo,
state traffic director, sent letters
to ministers of all Indiana church-
es yesterday asking them to
preach highway safety in their
pulpits.
“The only solution to this prob-
lemP”lies in the minds of men,”
he said.
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advising addressees that the
shipper is holding a “Christmas
package” which will be sent upon
return of the stub and $1.98 or
some such amount. If funds are
sent, a pen and pencil set, or some
such unordered mlerchandies is
shipped.
9. Distribution of courtesy cards
for purchasing gifts at discounts
from fictitious prices designed to
trap the gullible.”
In furtherance of his commun-
ity protection service, Mullenix
urged the public to exercise the
same prudence at Christmas time
that it des at other times in giv-
ing its charity dollar. He also
urged local residents to give the
bulk of their charity to establish-
ed local agencies of proved merit
and to avoid the wasteful giving
which results from contributing
to unknown organizations or in-
dividuals, however needy they
may claim to be. Merchants are
asked to be alert to Christmas
tricksters and to report any at-
tempted sohemes promptly for
the protection of the communi-
ty.
Texas Farmers
Vote Tuesday On
Marketing Plan
(BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Texas farmers voted Tuesday in
a national referendum to decide
whether marketing quotas would
be applied to crops of next year.
Approval seemed certain.
About 30,000 cotton and 20,000
peanut planters were eligible to
vote in the quotas. Polling places
were in all cotton and peanut pro-
ducing counties in Texas.
If two-thirds of the producers
who vote approve marketing quo-
tas, price supports at 90 per cent
of parity will. be available to
those who plant within allotted
acreages.
Growers who exceed their acre-
age allotments will be subject to
penalties of 50 per cent of parity
on excess production.
Regardless of the votes, acre-
age allotments will be in effect
on the 1954 crops.
Cotton growers have received
individual acreage allotments
based in a national acreage of 17,-
910,448. That is about 24 per cent
under the 24,500,000 acres planted
this year.
Texas’ allotment for 1954 is
7,376,856 acres.
If marketing quotas are not ap-
proved in Tuesday's balloting by
at least two-thirds of those vot-
ing, supports to co-operators will
be at 50 per cent of parity.
Set because of an estimated
four million bale 1953 surplus,
the national acreage allotment is
expected to produce the national
marketing quota of 10 million
bales, the minimum permitted by
law.
Agriculture Secretary Benson
has said the quota required by
law is too low. He will ask Con-
gress to increase the allowable.
Sens. Eastland (D-Miss) and
Anderson (D-NM) have asked
that the quota be increased to 21
million acres nationally with an
extra 315,000 acres for adjustment
of “hardship cases.” Under the
proposal, Texas’ acreage allot-
ments would be increased to 8,-
651,000.
Farmers have never rejected
cotton quotas.
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•NEW YORK, Dec. 15 OF — Sen.
Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis), in
a new blast at Harvard Univer-
sity, says the college apparently
is a sanctuary "for Fifth Amend-
ment cases.”
President Nathan M. Pusey of
Harvard said in Cambridge,
Mass., last night that he had no
comment. He has said previously
there are no Communists on the
Hai vard faculty and that use of
the Fifth Amendment is not “a
confession of guilt.”
The senator’s slap at the uni-
versity came yesterday during
hearings here by the Senate per-
manent investigations subcom-
mittee, which he heads.
Last night Wendell H. Furry, a
Harvard professor, said at his
home in Belmont, Mass., that he
has been called to appeal' before
the subcommittee tomorrow.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 15 (At —
One of Los Angeles’ roving “Rat
Packs” tried to rob the wrong
man last night.
Bobert Bristol, 38, told police
he was set upon by four youths,
one armed with a knife. He of-
fered to buy them food, but re-
fused to give them any money.
One of the boys pricked his back
with the knife.
Bristol whirled and broke the
boy’s wrist. The others closed in.
Bristol kicked one in the knee
and heard the bone break.
All four flei, and Bristol went
on his way to the Bickey Finn
Youth Club, where he teaches
judo and self-defense.
“I was sorry to have to hurt
these boys," said Bristol, "b I
had no alternative.”
envoy Arthur H. Dean arrived
today en route to Washington af-
ter bluntly rejecting a Commu-
nist proposal for immediate re-
sumption of negotiations to set
up a Korean peace conference.
The State Department envoy ।
who for seven weeks wrangled
with the Red diplomats at Pan-
munjom said he won't return to
the conference table unless the
Communists retract charges that
the United States connived with
South Korea to release 27,000
anti-Red war prisoners last June.
Dean broke off the talks Sal
urday.
A Communist note delivered
early Tuesday suggested immedi-
ate resumption of negotiations.
But an Allied spokesman said the
note also repeated “the Red
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Signal Lights On
Crossing Asked
At Royse City
ROYSE CITY, Dec. 15 (AY —
Mayor R. M. James says the town
will ask the M-K-T Railroad to
install flashing-light danger sig-
nals at crossings here. A train-
car crash killed six persons Sun-
day night and wrecked the Texas
Special.
James said yesterday there
have been at least three fatal ac-
cidents at the four Katy cross-
ings here in recent years.
Those killed in the Sunday
night crash were Victor Saufley,
47, Dallas real estate man; his
wife, three sons and a maid.
James said Royse City had an
ordinance which could prohibit
trains from traveling faster than
15 miles per hour through the
city limits. He quoted a train-
man as saying the Katy’s Texas
Special was making 60 miles an
hour.
“They do this all the time,” the
mayor said. “While we have had
good relations with the railroad,
we may have to do something
about enforcing a speed ordinance
unless they agree to install bet-
ter warning signals.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (P —
U. S. mayors, putting aside civil
defense studies for the moment,
heard Vice President Nixon re-
port today on his world tour and
said he presented a generally
optimistic picture of conditions
in the Far East.
Nixon spoke at an off-the-rec-
ord session but several of the
mayors quoted him as saying
communism, seems to be on the
wane in some areas of Asia.
They said Nixon also told them
there is dissatisfaction among
those Chinese living under Com-
munist rule who—in the area near
Hongkong, for example—are able
to compare their lives with those
of the free Chinese.
The mayors are to wind up late
today a White House, sponsored
conference which has developed
sharp divisions of opinion on de-
fense secrecy and federal-local
responsibilities for protecting
communities against the pos-
sibility of atomic bombing.
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charge of perfidy ”
It drew a prompt rejection.
“I shall not be with you ... at
any time until you make an ap-
propriate retraction or correction
of this insult in a manner satis-
i factory to my government,” Dean
wrote in his reply.
He will leave Wednesday for
Washington to report to the State
Department and officials of 15
other United Nations which
fought in Korea.
Dean, on his arrival in Tokyo,
said the Communists “are deli-
berately stalling” the negotiations
“because they do not dare to have
the subject of the nonrepatriated
prisoners aired" at the long-de-
layed peace conference.
He was referring to the 22,000
anti-Communist North Korean
Chinese prisoners who over-
whelmingly have rejected oppor-
tunities to return home during
explanations.
The Reds, he said, “knowingly
and intentionally wrecked” the
explanation program because “so
few of their soldiers came home.”
The U. S. State Department
called in ambassadors represent-
ing its Korean War allies yester-
day for a briefing on why the
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WILLOUGHBY, Ohio, Dec. 15
IP — Willoughby’s lonely “girl
in blue” will be remembered by
a cemetery visit this Christmas
eve, just as she has been for 20
years.
On Dec. 24, 1933, the girl, who
was never identified, threw her-
self in front of an express train.
This year, as they have every
year since, townspeople will
spread flowers on her grave.
Wearing a dark blue topcoat, a
navy blue skirt a light blue
sweater and a dark blue turban
hat, the girl got off a bus from
Cleveland that depression year
and took a room at the home of
Mrs. Mary Judd.
Later, she went to the door,
and wished Mrs. Judd a "Merry
Christmas." Those were the last
words anybody reported hearing
her say. Then she walked to the
tracks, along the sidewalks
sparkling with Christmas tree
lights, and jumped in front of
the train.
Residents, failing to learn her
identity despite widespread re-
ports of the tragedy, buried her
and marked the grave with a
three-foot granite headstone, it
read:
“In memory of the girl in blue,
killed by train, unknown but not
forgotten, December 24, 1933.”
there woud come a time when
American patience would end."
Approval of increased force for
the alliance was reported by an
American delegate.
The delegate said the approved
figures were those submitted by
the military committee yesterday.
A highly informed American
military officer said these recom-
mendations included:
1. An increase in the NATO air
force of more than 1,300 war-
planes, boosting the alliance’s air
power to 5,700 planes by the end
of 1954.
2. An eight per cent increase
in ground forces, bringing
NATO’S frontline and reserve
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PARIS, Dec. 15 (P) — On the
heels of a sharp warning from
U. S. .Secretary of State Dulles,
of a possible American "reap-
praisal” of its European policies,
the NATO Council of Ministers
today voted to boost its warplane
and troop strength in 1954.
The council, governing body
of the 14-nation Atlantic Pact,
met as French officials were re-
ported furious over Dulles’ state-
ment that a shift in American
policies could follow any French
failure to ratify the European
army pact soon. Paris newspapers
termed it a “blunt ultimatum.”
In London, British newspapers
of varying political complexions
also blasted Dulles.
In Bonn, however. Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer's Christian
Democratic party hailed his warn-
ing as “logical and natural." A
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McCarthy is holding public
hearings into alleged Communist
espionage at Ft. Monmouth, N. J.,
the Army Signal Corps head-
quarters of America's top secret
radar defense.
The senator’s comment on Har-
vard came as he wound up ques-
tioning of the last of four wit-
nesses called yesterday in the Ft.
Monmouth probe.
Mrs. Sylvia Berke, a Bronx
public school clerk, was summon-
ed to testify about a job she held
at Ft. Monmouth between 1942
and 1943.
Mrs. Berke denied she was a
Communist at that time or last
September when she testified at
a closed hearing. However, she
refused to say whether she ever
had been a Communist, citing the
Fifth Amendment.
The amendment is a guarantee
to witnesses against possible self-
incrimination.
McCarthy suggested that Mrs.
Berke, if the Board of Education
fires her, “might apply for a job
over at Harvard.”
“It seems to be a sanctuary
over there for Fifth Amendment
cases,” said McCarthy. “You can
get a letter of recommendation
from your Communist cell and
get a job from Mr. Pusey.”'
McCarthy and Pusey are old
foes from Wisconsin, where Pusey
opposed McCarthy’s re-election
when he was president of Law-
rence College in the senator d
home town, Appleton.
After yesterday’s public hear-
ing, McCarthy went into closed
sessions to hear some Griffiss Air
Force Base employes.
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ing to unite, “they may have to
commit it alone.”
Dulles’ threats were aimed
mainly at the French, who first
proposed the EDC and' then
turned sour on the idea. They
fear the pact, which would bring
12 West German divisions into
a six-nation European army
would give German troops a new
chance to invade France.
Yet many French leaders agree
a European army including West
Germans is necessary to defend
Western Europe against Soviet
attack.
day season, Louis W. Mullenix,
manager of the Chamber of Com-
merce, has issued a warning to
remind both merchants and con-
sumers against the schemesters
who exploit the spirit of Christ-
mas. Mullenix warned that the
benevolence of the public at
Christmas invariably gives rise
to seasonal rackets and, in co-
operation with the National Bet-
ter Business Bureau, he warned
particularly against a nation-wide
hoax whereby thousands of early
Christmas shoppers already have
been persuaded that they are
buying high-priced perfumes at
bargain prices.
“The first step in the carefully
planned scheme,” Mullenix states,
"is the insertion in a prominent
national magazine of a dignified
advertisement which will include
the statement that the perfume
is available at better stores every-
where at a price approximately
$20.00 per ounce or half-ounce.
Actually the perfume may have
little, if any, established retail
distribution nationally a; thia of
any other. The next step is to in-
duce two or three well-known
stores in a given community to
accept a few bottles of perfume
on consignment, an arrangement
whereby the merchant does not
have to pay for the product until
it is sold.
“The stage having been set, an
army of fast-talking salesmen,
who have purchased the perfume
for approximately $1.00 per bot-
tle, descends upon the communi-
ty. In bars, business offices, fac-
tories and even on the sidewalks,
they hawk the ‘nationally adver-
tised $20.00 perfume, at from
$2.00 to $5.00 per bottle or what-
ever price the traffic will bear.
Display of the magazine adver-
tisement is usually sufficient to
convince the intended victim that
he is being offered a great bar-
gain. More reluctant purchasers
are invited to telephone one of
the reputable stores where the
product has been planted and de-
termine for themselves that it is
on sale at the advertised price.
Merchants who are thereby made
unsuspecting participants in the
scheme, are bewildered when the
many telephone inquiries do not
subsequently materialize at the
store as eager buyers of the per-
fume.
The National Better Business
Bureau states that it already has
reports from more than a dozen
cities where this perfume hoax
is being successfully perpetrated.
Other schemes which are apt to
flourish during the Christmas
season include the following:
1. Personal appeals by mail
from self described needy indi-
viduals seeking clothing, food
fuel and funds.
2. Solicitation of funds by tele-
phone for Christmas baskets by
high pressure promoters who
pocket all or most of the funds
collected.
3. Collection of C.O.D. charges
from neighbors of gift packages
containing unordered merchan-
dise, on the pretense that the ad-
dressee is not at home now.
4. Mail appeals for donations
from unknown charitable organ-
izations.
5. Unordered merchandise ap-
peals by unknown charitable or-
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DALLAS, Dec. 15 Z — The
director of the Dallas Crime
Commission says Dallas has the
highest crime rate of any city in
the United State. “Dallas needs
twice as many law enforcement
agents as are currently employ-
ed," Dan Reynolds said yesterday.
PANMUNJJOM, Dec. 15 (PP
Allied efforts to win back Ameri-
can war prisoners who stayed
with the Communists remained
stalled today as the POWs spurn-
ed a personal appeal from the
chairman of the Korean repatria-
tion commission to attend inter-
views.
There was mounting specula-
tion that none of the 22 Ameri-
cans and 1 Briton would appeal
for explanations before the 90-
day period for interviews expires
Dec. 23.
Lt. Gen. K. S. Thimayya talked
for 90 minutes with two prisoners
identified as leaders in the com-
pound, U. S. Sgt. R. G. Corden of
East Providence, R. I., and British
Marine Andrew Cundron.
An Indian spokesman said the
two leaders were unmoved after
their private conference with Thi-
mayya in a Korean hut outside
the banbed wire compound where
they are held by the repatriation
commission.
The POW spokesmen said the
Americans and Briton would not
come out for face-to-face talks
with American explainers until
the Neutral Nations Repatriation
Commission" settled a dispute
with pro-Commhnist South Ko-
rean prisoners who also refuse to
‘attend explanations.
Thimayya said earlier he per-
sonally felt the Americans simply
did not want to attend the expla-
nations. He called some of theit
reasons for stalling the interviews
absund.
Thimayya speculated that the
new turn of events might end all
chance that the Americans would
attend any explanations.
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