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■About
NNI
With Weldon
TODAY S SQUIB: Don’t call
the world dirty because you have
forgotten to clean your glasses.
THE ENNIS DAILY NEWS
PER COPY
IN FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR
ENNIS, ELLIS, COUNTY, TEXAS SATURDAY EVENING, DEC. 7, 1946
No. 290
SB
A meeting of several merchants
of Ennis was called this morning
at the Chamber of Commerce of-
fice to dicusss plans for the Christ-
mas Season. Several of the mer-
chants want to give free merch-
andise to the visitors to their
stores when Santa comes to town
on December 14th. They have a
good plan and need the support of
several more merchants. They de-
cided to make a survey of the
merchants on Monday and deter-
mine whether or not enough want
it to *>ut it over. The gifts to be
given will be displayed in each
merchant’s window and it will be
necessary to look in each window
to receive the merchandise.
Mayor R. F. Brumback plans to
iend out questionairres next week
tc the merchants to determine how
they feel over the proposition of
installing parking meters for a 6 }
months trial period. ‘Re asks that j
each one receiving a card mail it !
back as soon as possible.
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We enjoyed a trip to Dallas last
right with Coaches Jim Moorman
aijid Frank Blair to see the North-
side (Ft. Worth! and Adamson
(Dallas) football game. Northside
won the bi-district game—in fact
they just had too much speed for
the Dallas boys. We did learn a
lot about football sitting between
the two coaches and listening to
them comment on the plays.
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GAS FLOWS INTO LITTLE BIG INCH—Tom Evans,
left, of the Tennesse Gas and Transmission Co. and R.
M. Hawkins, right, turn the valve that sent gas pouring
at a rate of 50,000,000 cubic feet daily into the Little
Big Inch pipe line near Natchitoches, La. First gas de-
livery to the Ohio Ruel Gas Co. is expected within a
week. Cincinnati, Columbus, and Akron are among the
cities to be served.
Search Ends as
Suspect Found
Aboard Vessel
Dallas, Tex., Dec.? 7. (UP)—An
international search for a suspect
in the pistol slaying of Marlin
Camp, Dallas News distributor, had
ended in Brazil today with the ar-
rest of Irving Goodspeed, 26, year
old merchant seaman and ex-con-
vict.
Chief Deputy Sheriff Bill Decker
said Goodspeed will be returned
immediately to face a murder
charge in conection with the Oct.
31 death of Camp in North Texas.
The suspect was arrested aboard
the merchant oiler SS Dennison
Victory in Brazil’s Santos Harbor.
Goodspeed had been traced to the
ship by FBI agents. The Dennison
already had left Philadelphia when
the blond suspect was located.
Pre-Dawn Fire in Atlanta Hotel
Claims Lives of 86; Scores Hurt
The fire alarm this morning was j
a small barn on Rushing Street j
belonging to a negro. Little damage
was done as the blaze was quick-
ly extinguished with the booster
truck.
U. S. Railroads-Water
Carriers to Receive
Freight Rate Increases
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Coal Strike Off
Washington, D. }V.—John L.
Lewis Ras called off the National
Coal Strike. Lewis suddenly ord-
ered all union workers to return
to Work Monday. He directed
union men to work until March
31 und xr the terms of the union
contract with the government,
the contract that Lewis had tried
to terminate. This action affects
all soft coal men who have been
on strike for 17 days.
_, _
Washington, Dec. 7. (UP) —
Freight rate increases amounting
___ to $1,000,000,000 a year have been
* mt jtv J 11 granted the nation’s railroad and
I0ng | |U|0 ]^|00Ci0Cl! water carrier^, effective Jan. 1.
j The increases, averaging 17.6 per
IIlfljiVKim I cent countrywide, were authorized
juJiT niliensin by the interstate Commerce Com-
Za* # i-, mission to offset higher labor and
Die m Germany !—“;me, «* ICC
- i r.ounced that a four year old tern-
El Paso, Tex., Dec. 7. (UP)_ | porary increase in rail passenger
Fifteen or 20 years is not long ^
enough for Hitlerism and the Na- j Passenger fares v ere boosted iu
zi-type of thinking to die out in. P« «nt m 942 with the stipula-
Gerinany, German scientists sta- tion ongmalljr that this increase
honed a, nearby Fo~t Bins be-
lieved today.
The freight increases supersede
emergency boosts granted by ICC
last June which amounted to a-
bout 'll per cent in the East and
six per cent elsewhere.
The new order thus means a net
increase of about six percent in
the East and 11 per cent in other
districts over present freight rates.
Rent Official
To be in Ennis
Each Tuesday
“There are too many old timers
who always want to go back to
what they believe were the good
old days,” one scientist who de-
clined the use of his name said.
“When Hitler came into power,
Germany was united. It was a
prosperous period. Unemployment
was decreased, Hitler was the cen-
tral power and internal strife was
no more.” !
The 118 scientists were brought
Mo the United States immediately
after the German capitulation
hnd put to work*under contract to
the United States Army Ordnance
Ijfcpartment on assembling and fir-
ing the German V-2 bomb—the
weapon that almost brought Great
Britain to the breaking point late
in World War II.
For more than a year, the ac- tc Miss Laura Tabitha Jane Russ-
tivities of the scientists were hush-
ed up by military security regula-
tions. Recently, however, the ar-
my has allowed supervised inter-
views of the men.
The scientists described internal
strife in Germany before Hitler
came to power.
“There were about 25 parties
seeking control of the government,”
he said. “One party would promise
public works. Another party would
promise public works. Another
party would promise something
else, while in the meantime un-
employment rose. There were many
strikes ana much unrest and no
stabilizing power.
Jaken Home
Cam Johnson was taken in the
Keever ambulance from the Mu-
nicipal Hospital to his home in
Bardweil Friday.
The Markets
Cotton closed 1 down today.
Closed Closed
New York Friday Sat.
March _________- 30.37 30.75
May ____________ 30.13 30.10-12
ter the legal end of the war. This
stipulation is now removed.
• The freight rate increases ulti-
mately will mean higher consumer
prices.
Palmer People
Attending Family
Reunion in Lubbock
Henry Huffaker and daughter,
Maurine, of Palmer, left by plane
Friday morning for Lubbock to
attend a birthday celebration and
family reunion honoring Mr. Huf-
faker’s father, J H. Huffaker, on
his eighty-fifth birthday, Decem-
ber 7.
J. H. Huffaker was born in
Russeville, Ark. He was married
A representative from the Office
of Price Administration of the
Corsica ra. Defense Rental Area Of-
fice, will be in Ennis each Tuesday
for the purpose of registering and
giving information concerning ren-
tal units, according to an an-
nouncement made by J. S. Murchi-
son, area rent director. The rep-
resentative will be at the City Hall.
St. John’s School
Sophomore Class
Met Wednesday
Sophomore Class' of St. John’s
School met Wednesday afternoon
ell of the same place. , She passed
away in February, 1942.
Mr. and Mrs. Huffaker moved
to Palmer, Texas around 1900 and
lived in and around Palmer for a
number of years He was one of
the organizers and charter mem-
bers of the First Methodist Church
of Palmer.
Children who will attend the re-
union are W. C. Huffaker of Wil-
son, Henry Huffaker of Palmer,
Clyde Huffaker, Avoca; Russell
Huffaker, Avoca; Mrs. Alice Dav-
is Wilson; Mrs. Charles Campbell,
Wilso; Mrs. R. S. Youngblood, Fer-
ris; Mrs. Travis Hicks, Robert Lee;
Mrs. Jim Johnson, Lubbock; and
a number of grandchildren.
at 1 o’clock in the home room. The
minutes were ready by the secre-
tary; Mildred Liska, and approved
by the class members; The meet-
ing was turned over to the presi-
dent, Sara Connolly. The main
purpose of the meeting was to plan
a Christmas party. Names were
drawn, and it was decided to have
a class Christmas tree. The dues
were collected by the treasurer,
Lloyd Harrison.
The meeting was closed with a
prayer. The next meeting will be
held January 2 The Christmas
party will be held December 19.
Great Segments
Of Industry
Remain Idle
Pittsburgh, Dec. 7. (UP)—Great
segments of American industry
were idled today by the 17 day
coal strike and the crippling gov-
ernment embargo on freight ship-
ments which shut down or threat- J
ened to close thousands of plants j
across the nation. ■
Thousands of workers in nearly
every section ox the country were
forced off their jobs. Industry had
no means of shipping raw mater-
ials in or finished products out be-
cause of the virtual railroad shut-
down. The jobless figure neared
the million mark and Sen. Homer
Capehart, R., Ind., predicted in
New York that “millions” would
be thrown out of work if the coal
strike lasts 30 days. He urged
President Truman and United Mine
Workers Chief John L. Lewis to
“sit down immediately” in an ef-
fort to settle the strike.
In Washington, the Department
of Commerce said if the strike
goes on for 60 to 90 days “‘irrep-
arable damage will be done to the
national welfare,” and the office
of foreign agricultural relations of
the Agriculture Department said
hungry Europeans would suffer
more because of the shutdown.
Industry appeared to be waiting
for some final word from Lewis
or the immediate effect of Presi-
dent Truman’s Sunday night radio
appeal to the miners to go back
to work before ordering a full shut
down of activities. Nevertheless,
industrialists had plans for parti-
al curtailment of production and
perhaps closure later on.
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REFUSES $100,000 FOR PRIZE BULL—Texas Spitzer
shows the Grand Champion Aberedeen Angus Bull at the
Internatoinal Live Stock Exposition in Chicago. The
owner of the bull, J. Garrett of Tolan Farms, Pleasant
Plains, 111., is said to have refused a $100,000 for the
prize winner.
Quick Review of Lewis
Case May Be Granted
By U. S. Supreme Court
Bronze Bust
Of Nimitz Goes
In Hall of State
Dallas, Tex., Dec. 7. (UP)—Fleet
Aamiral Chester A. Nimitz today
will berime the first living Texan
to be enshrined in the Texas Hall
of State when a bronze bust of the
61 year old grandson of a former
Fredericksburg ship captain will be
unveiled here.
Nimitz was expected to fly into
the Dallas Naval Air Station at
11 a.m. to join the city in observ-
ing the fifth anniversary of the
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
The statue will be unveiled by
Scottie Gayle Stevenson, grand-
daughter of Gov. Coke R. Steven-
son, at 3:30 p.m. The bust is the
work of Felix W. Deweldon, sculp-
tor of the famous Iwo Jima flag-
raising scene.
Atlanta,' Ga., Dec. 7. (UP)—At
least 86 persons were killed and
scores were injured early today
when a pre-dawn fire swept
through the 15 story Winecoff ‘Ho-
tel that was packed with 280 week
end guests.
At least 29 bodies were counted
by 6:30 a.m.—two hours and a
half after the fire was first re-
ported—but police officials esti-
mated that the death toll would
approximate 50.
The list of injured mounted by
the minute as ambulances from
hospitals screamed through the
streets.
A number of guests in the hotel
were children who were here for
a convention which adjournd last
night. They had planned to spend
today on an exciting shopping tour
of th city’s galy decorated depart-
ment s'ores.
Corridors and rooms of the fifth
floor—first to be examined—were
blackened ruins with plaster and
wallpaper littering the floors. A
child’s doll, lay in the ruins.
After three hours of pouring
tons of water into the flames, fire-
men began bringing the fire un-
der partial control.
The hotel lobby was a foot deep
in dirty water that cascaded down
walls, stairways and elevator shafts
from the upper floors.
Several firemen were overcome
by sfnoke and carried to the hos-
pital.
Texas A&M Made
Official Teacher
Examining Center
Lions Club
Collects for
Stocking Fund
Gerald Tolleson, finance chair-
man of the Lions Club empty stock-
ing fund is making an appeal for
fund for this campaign. Mrs. Joe
Witty, Girl Scout leader of the
Lions .Troop, has placed contain-
ers in all cafes, drug stores, utili-
ties, Plaza Theatres and Southern
Pacific ticket office.
Harry Harp
Fatally Injured
Friday Morning
Harry Harp, World War I vet-
eran, was fatally injured shortly
before noon Friday at the Valley
Farms, located in the extreme
Northeast of Navarro county. Harp
it was reported, was operating a
tractor repairing a break in a levee
along the Trinity River when the
-accident occurred. The tractor
turned over on him, it was stated.
Surviving are his wife, Valley
Farms; a married daughter in Hou-
ston, and a single daughter at the
Valley Farms.
Harp had been employed at the
Valley Farms several years.
Funeral arrangements have not
been completed.
College Station, Tex., Dec. 7.—
Texas A&M College has been made
an official teacher examining cen-
ter for the National Committee on
Teacher examinations of the Am-
erican Council of Education, ac-
rording to G. B. Wilcox h^ad of
! the A&M Education-Psychology?
j department and director of tne
J A&M center.
j Designed to provide an objective
l measurement of a teacher’s knowl-
] edge and ability the tests provide
| a centralized list of qualified tea-
chers from which school officials
in all educational levels can con-
tact prospects for teaching jobs.
The examinations will be given
at A&M on February 8 and Feb-
ruary 15, and all applications must
be in by January 8, Wilcox said.
Washington, Dec. 7. (UP)1-—The
supreme court may reach a . de-
cision today on the government
request for a quick review of John
L. Lewis contempt case.
The court was scheduled to meet
in closed session at noon for its
regular Saturday conference. An
immediate decision on the govern-
ment request might be announced
today, although it appeared more
likely that the ruling would be
aiscolsed Monday,
Moving to by-^ass the court of
appeals, Attorney General Tom C.
Clark asked the high court yester-
day to take the contempt case.
The government wanted speed be-
cause drastic coal-saving controls
were forcing deep industrial cut-
backs and President Truman was
determined to carry on the court
war against Lewis.
Lewis v/as fined $10,000 in Fed-
eral District Court Wednesday and
the UMW $3,500,000 for refusing
to call of fthe strike. Bond in
these amounts was poster yester-
day.
The administration was using no
weapons other than the court
fight in its efforts to break the
17 day old strike of Lewis’ 400,000
United Mine Workers (AFL) in the
government-operated soft coal
mines.
But almost daily it was adding
tc the list of controls intended to
stretch he coal supply in case of
a prolonged strike.
The dimout of non-essential
lighting and power use, already in
effect in .21 states, will be extend-
ed Monday to all areas dependent
on coal-consuming utilities. The
Civilian Production Administration
last night also ordered deliveries
of bituminous coke restricted to
essential consumers.
Ennis Merchants Are
Planning Gifts For
Christmas Shoppers
Shopping Doys
To Christmas
As plans are being made in En-
nis for the arrival of Santa Claus
on Saturday, December 14, many
Ennis merchants are discussing the
plan to give free merchandise to
the visitors.
A meeting of several merchants
; was held Saturday morning at the
Chamber of Commerce office and
the plan was discussed. A survey
of the merchants will be made
Monday to determine whether or
not they want to carry out outlin-
ed program with each one display-
ing a prize to be given in their
show window.
Further detail.- of the plan will
be announced jus i as soon as the
survey can be complete.
Mrs. Cheek Brooks
Injured When Hit
By Car Friday
Mrs. Cheek Eoorks was taken in
the Keever ambulance to the Mu-
nicipal Hospital Friday night for
treatment for injuries received
when she was struck by a motor-
ist as she crossed the highway..
Mrs. Cheek had left her home
and was going to the home oHMrs.
Fannie Goodwin to take a paper.
"When she had not returned in a
reasonable length of time, her
family inquired about her. When
they couldn’t find her, they called
the hospital, and she had been
taken there for treatment.
The extent of her injuries have
not been determined.
Latest Book of
Alice Lent Covert
Recently Published
“All That’s Mine,” by Alice
Lent Covert, is just off the press.
This is Mrs. Covert’s latest book,
and deals with the grandeur of
the mountainous country around
Tres Padres, a sleepy Indian vil-
lage.
Mrs. Covert, a former resident of
Bristol but who now resides in Ok-
lahoma, writes of the life of a
school teacher in the Indian ter-
ritory and a returned soldier, who
fell in love despite a misunder-
standing at their first meeting.
Mrs. Covert, widely known both
for her novels and her stories in
many national magazines, was
born in Kansas, the daughter of a
Methodist minister. She studied
first to become a concert pianist,
but. romance intervened and she
was married during her freshman
year in college.
In addition to her first success-
ful boon, “Return to Dust,” -Mrs.
Covert’s novels include “And An-
swer None,”' “The Months of
Rain,” “End of Reckoning” and
“Eternal Mountain.” Her stories
have appeared in several magazines
and she is especially well known
for her “Old Judge” series in the
Saturday Evening Post.
CIO Takes Step
To Clear Self
Of Communism
New York, Dec. 7. (UP)—The
CIO has taken a decisive step to-
ward clearing itself of the taint
of communism, the Scripps-Howard
newspapers learned today.
In a letter to its 267 industrial
union councils, the CIO ordered
them to drop all. association with
the national negro congress,
a communist front organization.
John Brophy, OIO director of in-
dustrial union councils, pointed out
that violations of policy may lead
to “proceedings instituted by the
president of the CIO,” Philip Mur-
ray.
• He addressed letters to the Los
Angeles and the California councils,
but copies were sent to all other
councils.
In his letter to the Los Angeles
council, Mr.. Brophy said he under-
stood the council was soliciting
funds and memberships for the na-
tional negro congress, despite the
fact that the organization has nev-
er been endorsed by the CIO.
Explosion
Occurs in
Shanghai
Shanghai, Dee. 7. —Thunderous
explosions rocked all of Shanghai
today as fire of undetermined or-
igin roared through a large Chi-
nese ammunition dump in the 100,-
000 seat athletic stadium less than
a mile from the U. S. Army Trans-
port Command airfield at Kiang-
wan.
Dallas Stamp
Collector Has
Valuable Album
City to Conduct Survey
On Trial Installation
Of Parking Meters Here
(NEA Telephoto)
MURRAY NAMED TO RAILROAD
COMMISSION—'Wrn. J. Murray,
32, of Houston, Tex., has been
named by Gov-elect Beauford Jes-
ter to succeed him; on the Texas
Railroad Commission.
The City of Ennis will make a
survey of the merchants of Ennis
next week to determine whether
they favor the installation of
parking meters in the business
district, according to Mayor R. F.
Brumback.
The meters would be installed
for a trial period of six months
at no cost to the city according to.
the plan If, at the end of trial
period, the meters were not satis-
tory they would be romevd. In case
of the revenue derived from the
Proposed Revision
Pardons-Paroles
Discussed Today
Dallas, Tex., Dec. 7. (UP)—Pro-
posed revision of Texas’ pardons
and paroles system was discussed
at a conference today in Dallas,
State Representative George Park-
Louse, chairman of the House
Committee on Penitentiaries, an-
nounced today.
Among judges, penal workers,
welfare leaders and law enforce-
ment officers who will study Park-
house’s bill for revisions will be
Fred Ward Southwestern manager
of the National Probation Associa-
tion; Reed Coza.rt, director of the
Federal Reformatory at fieagoville;
Carl Basland classification director
of the Texas Prison System and E.
Gordon Perry of the Texas Wel-
fare Association.
Last Rites for
Kelly Baby Held
4 P. M. Friday
Funeral services were held Friday
afternoon at 4 o’clock in the Keev-
er Chapel for Frederick Graham
Kelly, infant son of Lt. and Mrs.
F. W. Kelly, who passed away at
meters would go to the company the home of his grandparents, Mr.
installing them and the other 25
per cent to the city. In case they
are removed afler the trial period
the company will bear this expense.
Cne cent dposited in a parking
meter would give 24 minutes of
**
parking time for a nickel would
buy two full hours. Post card
questionaires will be mailed out
next week and Mayor Brumback
urges that they be returned
Dallas, Tex., Dec. 7. (UP)—Meet
a Dallas stamp collector .whose
hobbby began when he bought a
$1.50 stamp album for his son. 16
years ago and is valued at more
than $50,000.
Meet Elmer M. Wood, whose son
left him holding an album which
has now grown to more than 60,-
000 major varieties of stamps.
Wood supplied the $1.50 album
with 10 cents worth of stampe as
a gift to his boy in 1930. But the
son soon “outgrew” the idea, leav-
ing his father to continue the hob-
by of philately.
He has—and now his collection
of United States stamps is regard-
ed as one of the best in the South
west. Catalogue prices stake his
accumulation at higher than $50,-
000.
Wood has specialized in air mail
stamps. His stack of more than
a dozen albums contains every ma-
jor variety of air mail stamp is-
sued by nations all over the world
up until the beginning of the war.
But he intends to bring the
collection up to date as soon aa
conditions permit.
His prize stamp-issuing nation
is Guatemala. Wood has in his
collection every one of 600 major
varieties printed by the Central
American Government.
Besides legitimately-issued stamps
Wood also has some counterfeits
and envelopes stamped on histor-
ic occasions.
Wood’s group of South American
stamps is outstanding. And among
Mexican issues is a rare university
stamp prized by philatelists.
He also has a copy of the uni-
versity air mail stamp, which orig-
inally cost 20 pesos or about $4,
and now is valued in most cata-
logues near $350.
It was only a small gift to a
child that started Wood collecting
tl e world in stamps—but his prize
collection is anything but acciden-
tal.
the meters are installed 75 per cent j promptly.
and Mrs. A. G. Williams, at 9:15
o’clock Tuesday night. The baby
was born November 24, at the Mu-
nicipal Hospital. The Rev. Robert
C Fling, pastor of the Tabernacle
Baptist Church, officiated.
Miss Adell Sonka sang “O, Gen-
tle Presence.”
Surviving are the baby’s parents
and grandparents.
Mrs. Kelly is the former Alice
Williams.
Waxahachie Man
To Receive Two
Naval Decorations
Ed (Bodie) McElroy, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Ed McElroy of Waxaha-
chie, who was among those bomb-
ing Tokyo, Japan, when the war
ended has been notified by
Nav£ that he will be awarded
decorations at Dallas cererri
soon. The date is t<^ be set
probably during the school r
for the Christmas holidays
he' is in his:,final year .a
Tech, Lubbock.
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