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THE WEATHER
COLEMAN-BROWNWOOD —
Partly cloudy to cloudy this
afternoon, tonight and Sunday
'with scattered thundershowers
this afterhoon and tonight. Not ^.......
much change in temperatures.
Lowest tonight near 66.
Yesterday’s high, 95; low 70.
VOLUMT 1, NUMBER 183
Coleman Daily Democrat-Voice
United Press Leased Wire
NEA Feature Service
Counter Railway
Blockade Plannee!
In West Germany
COLEMAN, COLEMAN COUNTY, TEXAS, SUNDAY, JUNE 26, 1949
■WEEKLY VOL 67
NUMBER 48
BY JOHN B. MCDERMOTT
U. I*. Staff Correspondent
BERLIN June 25 —(UP)—Am
ican abandoned for the time be-
ing their efforts' to get Russia
to resume train traffic between
Beflin and western Germany.
At the same time, west Ger-
man railwaymen threatened to
impose a counter railway block-
ade on the Soviet zone .of Ger-
many.
U. S Army and Military go-
vernment officials said they
planned no new overtures t o
the Russians to end their “little
German railway line.
The army requested clearnace
for a passenger train from Ber-
. lilt to western Germany last
night after west Berlin’s non-
agreed to handle it and any o-
ther trains on the line. •
The Russians ignored the re-
quest and the Soviet-controlled
railway administration in effect
rejected it. After first agreeing
to accept the train, the railway
officials changed their minds
and s; id thfy could not clear
a train operated by strikers.
Request Ignored
“We plan to make no new
requests to the .Russians,'’ said
Cap". Harry Youngren, army
public information officer. “The
matter i; out of our hands for
the time being."
The Russians apparently were
taking the stand that they will
not move any trains across their
zone from western Germany to
Berlin until all 16,(MW) west Ber-
lin strikers go "back to their
jobs.
Although tev have agreed to
handle trains toand from west-
ern Germany, the strikers re-
fuse to work on Berlin’s elevat-
ed railway system until their
demands for pay in western
marks and a Russian guarantee
of no. reprisals are met.
In an effort to force the issue,
the west Berlin strikers yester-
da;. asked their fellow railway
workers in western Germany to
refuse to. handle trains to and
frm the Soviet zone.
Action On Truman’s Plan To
Aid Underdeveloped Countries
Unlikely Now, Say Leaders
.......
; “TwST .
Coleman's Rodeo News To Farmers Former Japanese Congressmen
Brings 'Em From
Faraway Places
THREE DIE IN REFINERY FIRE—A spectacular fire followed by explosions af the Perth
Arnboy, Nsw Jeisev, California Refinerv Co., claimed the lives of three workmen. Blasts and
flames did over half million dollars damage to the asnhall plant. (NEA)
Weekend Weather
Unsettled, Says
Weather Bureau
Social Security
Representative To
Be Here Tuesday
ABILENE. June 25—(Spl) —
Ralph T. Fisher, manager of the
Abilene office of the Social Se-
curity Administration. will be
at the Department of Public
Welfare office in Coleman at 1-
00 p.m. on Tuesday, June 28.
Anti-Masking
Bill May Go In
Effect Tuesday
150,000 To Be Picked
At Random For Income
Tax Verification
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Juno 25— ;
William Beck, speaker!
of the state house of represen-1
tatives, today predicted that the |
WASHINGTON, June 24(UP)
—Some 150,000 taxpayers will be
visited this year by investiga-
tors of the Bureau of Internal
Revenue who want to “verify"
their income tax returns.’
p.m. on Tuesday, June zb. j ua,\vu‘717'T These personal visits arc a
Persons wishing assistance with ; anti-masking bill will be a state new wrinkle. They are in addi-
retirement claims under the So- ;l"' D' no?" Tuesday. • tion to the bureau's usual pfac-
cial Security Act should call at | h, B*^k tice of looking into the details
and information.
i°osa ana passed by tne senate, | returns whlch appear to cont'ain
will be called up as special or-1
der of business as soon as the
.assembly reconvenes Tuesday.
“It will be passed in 15. min-1
utes,” Beck said, “and will be
signed by the governor within
another five minatesY the nation, the bureau is picking
1 he proposal would outlaw the |;, ronrecont;,H,.„ „r
Wearing masks by the Ku Klux
groups.
Cole man’s Annual Rodeo
rounds ’em up from far and
near: As proof of it, the follow-
ing request has been received by
Sam Cobb Sr., president of the
association:
June 22, 1949
Sirs:
I would be pleased to know the
date of opening and closing of
your rodeo this year.
We attended the first night's
show last year and enjoyed it
very much.
, Please give price of reserved
seats.
Very truly yours,
C. G. Baker.
4520 Springdale St.
Port Arthur, Texas
EDITOR'S NOTE: Mr. Baker,
the dates of Coleman's 12th an
nual rode (that's this yearl are
July 13, 14, 15, and 16!!! Be sure
to head in this direction about
that time and collect a few peo-
ple along the way!
Rains Again Delay
Harvest In Panhandle
AMARILLO, June 25—(UP
Panhandle wheat farmers sgair
were watching the skies today
as additional rain caused a hai
in harvest operations in som<
sections yesterday.
The rains came as the supp!
of labor and equipment appear
ed to be adequate for almost
first time since an earlie: a . •
of rain had caused serious ck
lays in the harvest and raisei
the threat of shattering.
Randall county, which report
ed a need for some 20 combines
and Potter county, where ma
chines were needed to harvi
small tracts were needed, wen
the only counties re p o rtirif
shortages of equipment.
Officer Receives
Life Sentence
Approve Plan
YOKC
-(UP i
t:e:
■ Jai
Spe
WASHINGTON, June 25—(U-
P)—House leaders said today
there is little prospect of act-
ing on President Truman’s pro-
gram to aid undeerdeveloped
areas of the world at this ses-
■ on of congress.
.Although the plan received
tentative support from many
congressmen, the leaders point-
■ ' out th..t it was sent to the
capitol at a time when congress,
already is behind in its work.
House leaders said the legis-
lative schedule is so tight that
action on the president's propo-
sal is “rather improbable’’ at
thi . session They thought i t
likely, however, that committee
bearings on the issues might be
American Law Student
Fined For Drunkenness
CAMBRIDGE, Eng., aune 25—
(UP) An American law student
at Cambridge was fined $40 and
assessed $26 court costs today
on charges of trying to drive his
car while drunk.
Victor R. Miller of Miltonvale,
Kan., was arrested earlier this
| month. Police who arrested him
said he was abusive when they
ordered him our of his car.
other-
(. A. B. To Hold
Airlines Crash
Public Hearing
And Fori Worth
Grain Markets
De
COLEMAN COUNTY- Jane
25. 1949—GRAIN
There were slight increases in j
prices of grain in Coleman Coun-
I ty today, with the exception of
1 No. 2 barley, which remained
unchanged at $.85
Price of No. 1 wheat rose
! from $1.75 Friday to $1 76 t-jria;
i No. 1 oats was selling at .63
today .compared with Friday's ’ ^1C'’
will
Named 'Pastor of Year'
16 Lutheran Ministers
Reported Disappeared
BY UNITED PRESS
Unsettled weekend weather
was forecast today for much of
Texas. The officia* 1 weather bur-
eau forecast said partly cloudy
to cloudy skies and uhtdner-
ers would dominate the weather
menu.
Thunderstorms brought fairly
heavy rains to central Texas
and some border areas Friday.
' Laredo.. on the Mexican bor-
der, had the heaviest downpours,
totaling 2.38 inches in the 24
hours ending Saturday morning.
■Fort Worth got a 2.67 inch
dousing, and Waco, with 1.32 in-
ches. and Dallas, with 1,29 were
also.in the upper bracket.
San Antonio reported .82 inch
and Junction .70.
The F r i d a y temperature
range itaS from 109 at Laredo
to 79 at Dallas. During the duy-
light hours, the Dallas maxi-
mum was 78, but it climbed up
to 79 shortly before midnight
and that was written down of-
ficially a\s the day’s top.
Miller served in the U. S. Na- 25— (UP}—’The Hamburg church
vy during the war and in the council reported today that 16
embassy here afterward. He is Lutheran ministers in the Rus-
a second year law student, is sian zone of Germany had dis-
married and the father of twin appeared.
girls. ■ The council gave no details.
---- ; Its statement said the informa-
turns by serial numbers. The
name of the taxpayer and the
amount of his earnings have
nothing to do with the selection.
mistakes, intentional or
wise.
Returns from the 150,000 who
will b evisited are being selected
at random here. From each of MEMPHIS, Tenn.. June 25
the 63 collection districts across (UP)- The Civil Aeronauts $.62.
Board indicated today it will! No. 2 oats rose from
a representative number of re-[conduct a public hearing “with- $.62.
in two weeks” on the crash of i
an American airlines convair
near the Municipal Airport Wed-
nesday. Thirty seven persons
were injured when the plane
crash-landed shortly after tak-
ing off.
A panel of experts in various
phases of aeronautics will hear
'OLLEGE
UP)—Rev
of the .
thi
of the
Awai
$.60 to
Truman Planning
Quiet Fourth
testimony from crew members,
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Wilcox, of
Eagle Lake, visited Wednesday
and thursday with her uncle and
aunt, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Dur-
ham.
WASHINGTON, June 25—(U-
P)—President Truman will not
attend the July 4 celebration in
tion was based on “reliable” re- Piggott, Ark., in honor of Senate
ports from the Soviet zone. j Secretary Leslie Biffle.
■ Charles G. Ross announced to-
technical experts, passengers
eyewitnesses and others.
A printed report of the hear-
ing will be published following
its completion.
Meanwhile, C. A. B. and civil
FORT WORTH cash gram, c-
timated receipts today include 2-
68 cars wheat, 9 corn, 17 oats,
no barley, 1 sorghums. Total 2-
95. Demand fair.
No. 1 hard wheat with ordin-
ary protein sold around 2.03-2
11 per bu., bulk, in carlots,
freight and tax paid to Tex
common* points.
No. 2 white corn closed at l.74-
1.75, No. 2 yellow cor n!.61 3-4-
1.62 1-2 No. 2 barley 1.00-1.05.
No. 2 yellow mRo realized 2 -
15-2.30 per hundred lbs. No. 2
arded the
i' c furmc
eceive a :
rural pa.-tors’
lanta. Ga
Mrs. W O.
view visitet
and Mrs W
Garland W-
TATION. June 25
A J Mohr, pas-
lerican Lutheran
lie. was proudly
tie rural pastor
Texas” today
title by the pro-
r magazine, Mohr
scholarship’- to the
conference at At-
of Plain-
with Mr.
and Mrs
Rep Mike Mansfield, D.,
Mont., a key member of the
house foreign affairs committee,
praised the president s proposal.
Though he had not studied the
ui-tflils, he said “the idea i s
sound.”
Mr Truman unexpectdly sent
the plan s blueprint to congress
' 'ate yesterday with a warning
that action is needed now to car-
ry out the U. S. promise of a
better economic future for De-
mocratic countries.
Two Recommendations
He listed two specific recom-
mendations to carry out the pro-
posal which he outlined origin-
ally in the “point four” section
of his Jan. 20 inaugural address.
He recommended that;
I. Congress appropriate up to
$45,000,000 so the United States,
acting both on its own and in
cooperation with such interna-
tional agencies as the United
( See ACTION ON” P 4)
42 Known Dead, Hundreds Missing
After Hail Storm And Flash Flood
Ravage Mexican Mining Town
Mac Snodgrass was in George- [day that presidential assistant Aer )nautic Administration In-1 white oats brought .84 1-2-.85 per
town Friday on business.
57-Day Waterfront Strike Is
V
Unsettled After Negotiations
John R. Steelman will attend as search of the Planc wreckage in
the President’s representative an. attempt to find what caused:
for “Les Biffle Day.” He will
message from Mr. j
BY SILLARD I). EBER1IART
V. F. Staff Correspondent
HONOLULU,. June 25—(UP.)—
The first direct negotiations in
five weeks between manage-
ment and the international long-
the committee open to the
charge of pre-judging the case.”
he said.
(Wood made the statement in
response to requests for com-
ment on a report by Sen. Hugh
Neb., who charged
deliver a
Truman.
Ross said the president does j
not plan to go far from the ;
capital over the Independence j
Day holiday weekend.
“No large trip is involved,” he
said.
thp a'^few6seconds after'ukcoff0f®rain Sorghums Storage
fail
natives of Arkansas.
Loans Are Approved
COLLEGE STATION, June .25
—(UP)—Farm storage loans on
grain sorghums for counties in
South and East Texas had the
(UP) — j approval of the state co m-
■ Tiie first carload of new crop | mittee of the Production and
Marketing Admin is trat.iopr''''
i. V;
Wheat For Overseas
Relief Is Shipoed
CANADIAN, June 25-
Biffle and Steelman both program
tling Hawaii’s crippling
waterfront strike. ,
Both sidds, hoWever, .agreed to
meet again Monday.
A statqment from the seven
Frohi mkiniglit' tVtihis morn-1 Stevedoring Companies involv-
ing. the low was 58 at Lubbock led lnuthe dispute said there was
and Guadalupe' Pass.- no change in the position . of
In south and extreme west ! <!,ther *!de’ wlth the union still
Texas, but especially along the demanding a wage increase of
RI Grande, Friday was one of!3? Per “Tor arbitration
the war's hottest" days. Alice !of‘ts demands. The employers
had 106, Del Rio 104, Big Spring re ufe to submlt the d,»Pute to
103, Ozona 102, San Angela 101, urb,
a he CIO union guve a some-
shoremen’s and warehousemen’s I Biltler, R., _____, _____ ____
union broke up last night' with “Thursday that communism is a
out tangible .progress toward sey ] powerful force in Hawaii-and is
57-day | spread .there by longshore presi-
dent Harry Bridges. At least1 one
■Republican senator, Irving lW;s,
and Wink, Midland and Junction
100. ,
N. Y.,; said subsequently h e
had changed his mind-unfavorab-
ly on the question of statehood
for Hawaii after reading the
report.) . .. ,
Meanwhile, life in the islands
went along pretty much as us
ual, altough few Hawaiian busi-
nessmen remain untouched by
economic effects of the strike.
Effects of Strike
Nearly everybody in the is- 1
lands feels the strife one way or
what dfferent version of. yester-
day's negotiations It said it had I another. Stockholders suffered
Major apd Mrs. Charles Glenn j oVfereiy. to retreat if employers sharp cuts in second quarter I
of Toksp. Japan, visited from I wwu!d u'* t.,!el1' «»rcv'ous. I2"t'cnl" .dividend* of Hawaiian corpora-)
rural overseas
j.was enroute to Galveston early
' today for shipment,
Hemphill .county in West Tex-
jas produced the first wheat for
] the overseas'relief program.; It
j was shipoed from here last night
Elmore R. Torn, the program's facilities for
I state director, pointed out the
; shipment was made despite ex-
cessive rainfall Which (handicap-.
| ped harvesting.
j The-1,460 bushels in the eqr-
| load were donated by 17 far-
! rtters * of-this region! :
BY FHILIP QlERiliO
l P. Staff Correspondent
FACHUCA. Mexico. June 25—
'(UP)- At least 42 persons died
. here last night when a cloud-
burst. hail storm and 'flash
food ravaged this centuries-old
■: siivt-i mining town, authorities
said today
Nineteen women, fifteen men
and eight children were counted
among the victims of the 20-
minute-long. storm.
Pachuca, which grew up
arolind the oldest mine in the
western hemisphere, the real
.Del Monte, is about 60 mites
north of Mexico City and about
-.450 miles south, of Laredo. Tex.
[The Indian* were working the
real Del Monte uhen* Hernan
'Cortes arrived a, 15|;i.
Mas! of ti:victims died in
crowded Juarez mdrket
State chairman B. Y'. Vance
said the following conditions
must be met by farmers quali-'j
tying for thp loans: »
Grain shorghum must contain |
not more than 11.5 per ecu’
moisture; farmers must provide :
facilities for turning the grain ith(
and must have, access to drying |®rea- Erood waters atteip'cl down
facilities for use when and , if "m\ "- 'o the ir;..ri-'c'.. and fa-
needed to recondition, the g'raiit;. e'i ■’ to a
and graip’ sorghum must; be r1’1'*'
stored in structures that will pro- .<
friends or relatives.
One woman of the humble
; class kept repeating “my son is
lost, my son is lost.” She could
not remember her son's name or
give authorities any description
'of him.
Baby Swept From Arms
Another woman told this re-
porter that, trapped on the
street by ■ the furious waters,
she wrapped hr baby in her re-
bozo (shawl) and cimbed a tele-
[ phone pole with him. The waters
rose so fast, she said, the the
baby was torn from her arms
i before she could reach safety:
One child was frozen to death
under a wind-driven pile of large
hail stones, just out of the sight
of his frantic mother who could '
I not force ■ open the ice-jammed
ooor that separated them. -
Hail 4 Feet De^p
Hail was still .piled up in ma-
ny places'' throughout the devas-*
hour ten j luted area ‘this morning. It was
about " four feet high on some-
it was like dumping a.pail of desks in the .ruined police* sta-
vjde adequate protection
animals and weather.
Tuesday through Thursday with i
an- hour offer.
I lions. Owners of all
Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Cavanagh.
this
kinds of t
businesses here have watched
Management's reply
was "wh.*t 12 cn-’s'.'” They j their profits dwindle, and there
j pointed out that they had with- j have been instances of small
[drawn all previous wage offers [businessmen having to close
before Gov. Ingram Steinback’s ■ down.
fact-finding board began its j Employes of a dozen larger
hearings June 17.
Want Settlement
hi
i
208 Citizens Sign Petitions
Asking For ‘Home Rule
Plan Of Citv Government V'
. ^ ■
Names, of 208 Coleman citi- John Norman. .
frorh wafer into a dish,” said
’■ Mrfrepd, a volunteer worker
u___ “The waters smashed down the
two streets that channel into the chers will
market and just filled it up. The
people who had jammed t h c
place to get out of the ruin
drowned Without q chance.".
The raging waters scattered
heavy reirigerat >rs. tore ,away
'kto*> mi huililings. .ine-i.’ at
of the brief tempest,
in two-feet thick brick
Luis tion near the Juarez market.
Police chief Raul'Godinez Ru-
bio said th'at he believes sear-
“ dozer • —
find
with daylight to aid
ft ;
/
j zens were signed to the peti-
,; tions which were circulated Wcd-
‘ nesday, asking that the city
! I commission appoint a commit-
\ -J
Sunday and Monday
June 26-27
Walt Disney's
"So Dear To My Heart"
Burl Ives,
Bobby Driscoll,
Beaulah Bondi
Admission 35c and 9c
Show Starts at 8 P. M.
Despite the lack of progress
j yesterday, both sides indicated
! a desire to reach a “goodwill”
| agreement. It was believed they
would like to settle the strike
themselves prior to Wednesday’s
deadline for the report of the |
governor's board. J
John S. Wood of the house un-1 reports that mainlanders are
American activities committee wondering if they should send
said he would nfrt propose any ) food" parcels to relatives and
investigation ot alleged commun- ! friends in the islands. The fact is
ist influence in Hawaii while the Hawaiians, like everybody else,
strike continues. “I would not jure living just as well us their
take any action that would leave I incomes permit. »
RO-
DELAYED ACTION
MANCE— Her romance broken
up by the war. Lilly Friscia. 34
companies have-had their wages
slashed 10 to 20 per cent, and
2,500 prsons have been laid off
in addition to the 1,705 longstore
strikers. Even those whose in-
comes remained intact have
watched their grocery bills sky-Jcuardia from New York. She
rocket in payment for air-fre- ■ is dcstinfd for ,u„ whore she
ightetl butter and eggs. rjilans to marry a former captain
But Hawaii universally regrets | in Mussolini’s army. She has
year-old Tampa, Florida, school j 140 in number-were required
teacher, sails aboard the SS La- for action, but 208 persons en-
Wc, the undersigned citizens
The petition read as follows.
of the City of Coleman, Texas
Resident Citizens of the town of
tee to study and draw a “home j for submissio nto the voters a
rule” type of government f o l CHARTER under the provision
Coleman. of the HOME RI LE AMEND-
Signatures of only 10 per cent MENT to the Constitution of
of those qualified to vote -ab >ut j Texas.”
Names of the s.gners followed
bodies”
them.
He expressed fears that near-
by farming areas, may have suf-
fered serious damage.
As dav broke, rescue squads,
workers from as far away as
Mexico City, police and civilian
volunteers resumed their grisly
task of poking through mud and
wreckage in search of more
thusiusticall.v went on record as
approving the measure,
A favorable response to the
petit .on was anticipated after
the meeting Tuesday night ir
the district courtroom, wlipn 50
ucsted
carried her romance by mail
since 1935. The captain, Pietro
Midulla, was born in Tampa but citizens unanimously
lost his U. S. citizenship when | *l de circlteu.
he joined the Italian Army in Petition committee members
1940. (NEA Telephoto) !were Johl1 B- Howell, Frank
Stevens, Clyde McClellan, uud
Waters Rise to 6 Feet
The waters spread out over bodies,
business and residential districts' No Looting Reported
for a distance of almost a mile There have been no reports of §L
arziimtt the flooded market, looting or any disorder Since the
They reached a depth of about armv ,ook over last .night, mov- a
6 feet fro a time but receded in lnK In 16 truckioads of soliders. 'I,
r few hodrs. The rain began to fall at ’ '-<®
In addition to the 42 known {lbout 5 p.ro. (CST), as it al-'
;icuti, 40 persons were injured wavs does during the currtwt
be serious), and from 200 to 400" rttinv season, ttnd'in the amaz- m
had been reported missing. higly-short space of 15 to 20 min-
hough authorities believed l)tcs hooded the market area,
ue death toll will grow , Townsfolk and rescue workers
semt-h continues, they were m-|.aike seem dazetl by the ltl.
canet! tu feel that the number <_-rectibIy short time in which the
of missing persons would drop havoc was wrought.
as confusion passes. : There have been no authorita-
^an> the Persons 'icing tjVe estimates of the damage as
Coleman, as nearly as was pos- treated in the hospital civil for yct but jt js expected to run in-
sible, so that the vote would be their injuries were almost crazy ^ yle [nlijjons & dollars
entiraly representative. , with grief over the loss of
The list of names will'
submitted to Mayor F E Mur- ,
phey and the three city com-
missioners on the first Tuesday
in July—July 5.
Frank Stevens, of the commit-
tee circulating the petition, em-
phasized that commtitee mem-
bers covered the entire city of
I
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